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| 505s | welcome to the 2023 OverWatch World Cup |
| 508s | online qualifiers for emec I'm your host |
| 510s | Jim Basco for the second half of the day |
| 512s | I'll be joined by CP CB and epitomees |
| 514s | but for the first half we've got the |
| 516s | Legends in zp and hexagrams gentlemen |
| 519s | how are y'all doing today I am doing |
| 522s | great it is always good to be back here |
| 524s | in the OverWatch World Cup a new year |
| 526s | after a bit of a break since our last |
| 528s | OverWatch World Cup and you know we get |
| 530s | to see all the stories unfold here some |
| 532s | old some new it's gonna be a great time |
| 535s | I I've always loved World Cup I mean |
| 536s | there's there's something great about |
| 537s | just representing a country and having |
| 539s | everyone root for you in that regard and |
| 541s | yeah I mean a little bit of a break |
| 543s | might be a bit of an understatement it's |
| 545s | been some years but uh hey whatever |
| 547s | we're here now all right and we're here |
| 549s | now that's all that matters and I'm so |
| 550s | happy to bring you all the action of |
| 552s | course zeping hex will be bringing you |
| 553s | the action uh from the games themselves |
| 555s | but before we hop into that game plate |
| 557s | let's talk about the format for today |
| 559s | right the emec online qualifier |
| 561s | challenge showcases two groups competing |
| 564s | in a round robin tournament so it's |
| 565s | gonna be first to two over two weeks |
| 568s | it's a single stage tournament in the |
| 570s | top three teams from group a and the top |
| 572s | two teams from Group B will be moving on |
| 574s | and with that said let's head on over |
| 576s | and take a look at our schedule and take |
| 579s | a look at the matches that we have in |
| 580s | store for you all today zp what do we |
| 582s | got going on well you take a look at |
| 583s | this and the one matchup that has to pop |
| 585s | out at you is the Finland versus Saudi |
| 588s | Arabia match later today where you talk |
| 590s | about old versus New Finland a team that |
| 593s | has always performed well in the |
| 594s | OverWatch world cup always been a threat |
| 596s | versus Saudi Arabia you know a country |
| 598s | that's really coming to its own in the |
| 600s | last uh you know years in OverWatch |
| 603s | competition you know I didn't see in the |
| 604s | first few years the OverWatch World Cup |
| 605s | but a lot of talent has been coming out |
| 607s | of Saudi Arabia so that match looks |
| 609s | great and uh yeah I mean also Sweden |
| 612s | Norway it could be good hacks |
| 613s | yeah I mean I I would definitely agree |
| 616s | with you Finland Saudi Arabia I have a |
| 617s | lot to say about that match but you're |
| 618s | gonna have to stay tuned and stick |
| 620s | around for that because we'll be |
| 621s | bringing you that match as our second |
| 622s | match of the day I want to burn through |
| 624s | all my lines right away |
| 625s | um I mean Norway Sweden could be really |
| 627s | good obviously countries uh close |
| 629s | regionally always have a little bit of a |
| 631s | rivalry to that extent Italy and France |
| 634s | you know there's there's some great |
| 635s | matches here |
| 637s | um I think you know you just might end |
| 638s | up seeing upsets and just going back to |
| 640s | the format I think you made a great |
| 641s | Point Jamie like only three teams out of |
| 643s | a and two teams on a b so every one of |
| 646s | these matches is so critically important |
| 648s | and also the fact that we're only |
| 650s | playing first to two and we're gonna |
| 651s | kick it off in control like every time |
| 653s | so like control can be wonky you never |
| 655s | know the meta who who knows what the |
| 657s | meta is going to be we're going to be |
| 659s | playing a live patch so right a lot of |
| 661s | changes coming in there so you drop a |
| 663s | control then loser picks map and you |
| 665s | lose your pick that's just it now you're |
| 668s | down you're down a map and like you're |
| 669s | down a set and that can be brutal so I |
| 671s | think these teams have to be at the top |
| 672s | of their game no matter what because if |
| 674s | you look at both of these groups there's |
| 676s | going to be teams that we expect to get |
| 678s | out that just mathematically cannot yeah |
| 680s | it is a brutal format but I think it's |
| 682s | because the competition is so Cutthroat |
| 685s | right so talk to us Poland versus Turkey |
| 686s | right let's set the stage before we hop |
| 688s | into this match what are things some |
| 690s | things that we're watching out for in |
| 691s | terms of players in terms of meta you |
| 693s | mentioned the new patch of CP let's |
| 694s | start with you yeah I mean when I look |
| 696s | at Poland versus Turkey I mean you know |
| 698s | as you mentioned you about a new patch |
| 699s | that's a great thing to bring up is that |
| 701s | you know we're on a different patch than |
| 702s | what the OverWatch league has been |
| 704s | playing on which means that we're going |
| 706s | to see different looks of the meta but |
| 707s | also the OverWatch World Cup in general |
| 709s | as a tournament is something where teams |
| 712s | gravitate towards Comfort picks you're |
| 714s | not always going to see adherence to The |
| 716s | Meta Even when it's you know very locked |
| 718s | in because teams have to play to their |
| 720s | strengths not every team necessarily has |
| 722s | the player pull or pull to pull from |
| 724s | like a South Korea sometimes you just |
| 726s | gotta go with your strongest hand which |
| 727s | could be very off meta but also makes |
| 729s | for some very entertaining story lines |
| 731s | as the OverWatch World Cup grosses I |
| 734s | mean you think the teams like United |
| 736s | Kingdom in past years where you know |
| 738s | even if Rush wasn't the meta Rush was |
| 740s | definitely what they were bringing so |
| 741s | stuff like that is really cool yeah |
| 743s | we're not going to see a hard locked |
| 744s | meta excuse me and we we really haven't |
| 747s | seen a hard hard lock medicine it's like |
| 748s | goats and even then a couple teams would |
| 751s | go that but like I think you know teams |
| 753s | like uh you know turkey and Poland who I |
| 756s | mean let's be honest that you know that |
| 757s | no one really expects them to win groups |
| 759s | or anything you could definitely see |
| 760s | some off meta picks and what I love |
| 762s | about the World Cup is you almost never |
| 764s | know where the next hero in Underdog is |
| 766s | Gonna Come From right like it's it |
| 768s | happens every time that we we have a |
| 770s | World Cup I think you know Poland |
| 771s | especially I think they they try to do |
| 773s | World Cup in 2019 and couldn't raise the |
| 775s | fun so now like they're just back in it |
| 777s | so they're thrilled just to be back in |
| 779s | it turkey's got some good players I |
| 781s | think like these could be Underdog |
| 782s | stories and maybe like you know Dark |
| 784s | Horses to pull upsets on people I don't |
| 786s | know how this particular matchup is |
| 788s | going to go against them head to head |
| 789s | but I'm interested to see I'm interested |
| 791s | to learn about some of these players |
| 792s | because to be dead honest like there's |
| 793s | not a ton of info on some of these |
| 795s | players out there we do our best due |
| 797s | diligence to look them up and see like |
| 799s | where they played and whatnot and yeah I |
| 801s | mean turkey has some players Poland |
| 802s | especially though not a whole lot of |
| 804s | competitive experience so I'm just |
| 806s | willing to learn like how are they going |
| 807s | to play and who do I need to look out |
| 809s | for for this team yeah hex I think you |
| 811s | hit it right on the head right |
| 812s | storylines are abounding for both these |
| 814s | teams Poland like you mentioned in 2019 |
| 816s | put together a routine but couldn't |
| 817s | actually make it out to the World Cup so |
| 819s | they have one member of that 2019 roster |
| 822s | actually here for the 2023 online |
| 824s | qualifiers so you know there's a lot of |
| 826s | story building for Poland and for the |
| 828s | Turkish side of things like you |
| 829s | mentioned new faces new players maybe |
| 831s | there'll be a dark horse in the |
| 833s | contention here |
| 834s | um to make a name for themselves right |
| 835s | story lines |
| 837s | can start from just these small moments |
| 840s | so with that said zp and hex it looks |
| 842s | like the matches are ready to get |
| 843s | underway so I'm Gonna Leave You All to |
| 845s | it and we'll see you guys at the end of |
| 846s | this one |
| 847s | thank you and hex ran into it and yeah |
| 850s | we're talking a little bit about this |
| 851s | before uh we start the broadcast and you |
| 854s | know I think it was you brought up is |
| 855s | that you look at a turkey you know one |
| 857s | of the things we've seen in OverWatch |
| 858s | World Cup is the idea of hey if you have |
| 860s | a star player on your team a player |
| 862s | that's played at the highest levels |
| 863s | maybe you just support them maybe you |
| 865s | just throw everything behind them and in |
| 867s | this case you look at lethal I feel like |
| 869s | lethal is probably gonna be the linchpin |
| 871s | of whatever turkey ends up running here |
| 873s | and you know you're saying uh it also |
| 875s | could be Cass |
| 877s | yeah I mean I think lethal's got a |
| 879s | really good hit scan lethal of course |
| 881s | plays for London Spitfire and uh has had |
| 883s | moments and it looked really really |
| 885s | strong also I mean lethal's resume just |
| 887s | goes way way back like there's every |
| 888s | content of a scene that's ever done |
| 890s | anything of note lethal has been a part |
| 892s | of it seems like and so that could be |
| 894s | really interesting but also I mean the |
| 895s | strategy of have your best player go |
| 898s | kill the rest of the team that's not |
| 899s | like new to World Cup like when I see |
| 901s | that like the San Francisco shock have |
| 903s | implemented this strategy for for it |
| 905s | seems like many years has been their |
| 907s | strategy uh perhaps not working out so |
| 909s | well this year so it can definitely |
| 910s | happen |
| 911s | um there's a couple players of note on |
| 913s | on this Turkish team as or the turkey |
| 915s | team as well so |
| 916s | um but I mean I think you definitely |
| 917s | have to look at lethal and someone that |
| 919s | I think a lot of the other players could |
| 920s | be looking forward to for leadership |
| 922s | shot calling someone who's been in these |
| 924s | team environments |
| 926s | um and I think a lot of a lot of that |
| 928s | structure and just being around a team |
| 929s | and knowing like how a team is supposed |
| 931s | to work can really help carry a squad |
| 933s | through it so I think early on if you |
| 935s | look at just on paper then turkey would |
| 937s | just be would be the the favorites early |
| 940s | here but as you know I just it's way too |
| 943s | early to call anything and let's get |
| 944s | into like the first match and see like |
| 946s | maybe Poland as a player that we've just |
| 947s | never heard of and just goes nuts on on |
| 950s | a hero so well speaking |
| 951s | um yeah go hey do you have the Chipotle |
| 953s | team roster ready to go and you know |
| 955s | talk a little bit more I always |
| 957s | mentioned we don't have the most |
| 958s | information on some of these players |
| 959s | here but that is where stories get made |
| 962s | and uh you know take a look at it it is |
| 964s | fake Jake not just to be clear not |
| 967s | actually Jake and it said in the name |
| 970s | yeah uh fakie Jakey uh not to be |
| 972s | confused naked Jakey |
| 974s | um but yeah so this this Polish team |
| 976s | like I said we've looked at him um and |
| 978s | there's just not a whole lot of |
| 979s | information or competitive experience on |
| 982s | the back end of this the only player |
| 984s | returning from the previous roster that |
| 986s | got put together in 2019 |
| 988s | um that was unable to compete |
| 990s | unfortunately is a player called uh |
| 992s | Fillion obviously not going to be |
| 994s | starting for now |
| 995s | um so we'll we'll see I'm willing to |
| 998s | learn about these players and as we go |
| 1000s | forward I think you know fake Jake |
| 1001s | obviously great name so I'm already |
| 1003s | invested in that so |
| 1005s | um as long as I can pronounce the names |
| 1006s | we'll get to know this team as as we go |
| 1008s | forward but as I said uh as much |
| 1010s | information as we try to dwell up that |
| 1012s | not a whole lot of contenders experience |
| 1014s | obviously not any pro experience either |
| 1016s | so uh it's a team that we're gonna learn |
| 1018s | along with you yeah I'll say too uh you |
| 1021s | know funny thing when it comes to |
| 1022s | Casting is that uh anytime uh you can |
| 1025s | make a name that's like you know kind of |
| 1026s | Snappy for casters you will get |
| 1028s | mentioned a little bit more just because |
| 1029s | it's fun to make tons of jokes about it |
| 1031s | but uh speaking of teams we do have |
| 1033s | turkey ready to go here so let's take a |
| 1036s | look at the roster that team turkey is |
| 1037s | bringing out here and you know we |
| 1039s | mentioned before uh lethal's on there |
| 1041s | but uh you know Romani we didn't see him |
| 1043s | in the rehearsal world but it looks like |
| 1045s | he will be on the starting lineup this |
| 1046s | time around yeah another interesting |
| 1048s | player actually dual citizenship uh both |
| 1050s | the United States citizenship and uh |
| 1052s | turkey citizenship uh a US player with |
| 1054s | some Collegiate Experience has played a |
| 1056s | little bit at UC Irvine |
| 1058s | um and so yeah that's another player |
| 1060s | that it's it comes from a team |
| 1062s | environment obviously in the Collegiate |
| 1064s | era as well a very structured |
| 1065s | environments and you know it's going to |
| 1067s | be really helpful but you know you just |
| 1069s | look at the dead center there and I |
| 1071s | think what we really have to talk about |
| 1072s | is is lethal |
| 1074s | um it's just uh I think if Cass becomes |
| 1076s | meta it can be absolutely crazy for |
| 1078s | lethal um and I think it ends up being |
| 1081s | just that kind of carry potential on the |
| 1083s | other side of things of your bowl and it |
| 1085s | it it kind of becomes like let's make |
| 1087s | sure we deal with lethal first |
| 1088s | everything else is going to have to |
| 1089s | follow so I'm just really excited to see |
| 1091s | what this meta ends up being I don't |
| 1093s | think we're gonna have like a grasp on |
| 1094s | it even after the first like match or |
| 1096s | two |
| 1097s | um maybe after our second or third match |
| 1100s | of the day but |
| 1101s | um yeah it's just gonna be really |
| 1103s | interesting to see but I think on paper |
| 1104s | it's just like the one or two players |
| 1106s | that turkey has the advantage on of just |
| 1108s | just the straight up competitive |
| 1109s | experience in OverWatch yeah and I mean |
| 1112s | you know I'm glad you said that in terms |
| 1114s | of how things develop because you know |
| 1116s | until we see more match time and stuff |
| 1118s | especially in this current patch you're |
| 1120s | not really gonna know where things are |
| 1122s | at because it's like are we seeing the |
| 1123s | meta or are we just seeing what a team |
| 1126s | particularly likes like there's going to |
| 1128s | be a lot of ups and downs but you know |
| 1129s | kind of a note here from the real Jake |
| 1131s | or original Jake how everyone said uh |
| 1133s | Jake OverWatch was tweeting uh recently |
| 1136s | about the fact that hey uh Cassie is |
| 1139s | gonna be good thank Cassie is going to |
| 1140s | be meta and used non-stop we'll see if |
| 1143s | that ends up being the case but there's |
| 1145s | definitely voices out there saying it's |
| 1146s | like yeah it's gonna be Cassie because |
| 1148s | of course you know Cassie has been |
| 1149s | buffed |
| 1150s | yeah I mean when you take all the CC out |
| 1153s | of a game uh crowd control and stuns and |
| 1155s | then you put some of it back a little |
| 1157s | bit and you put it on like an unlimited |
| 1159s | range grenade that heat seeks I think |
| 1162s | you're gonna see some of it you know I |
| 1164s | think it's just it just seems pretty |
| 1165s | obvious and also you know some some of |
| 1168s | the sniper Nerfs that came in on both |
| 1169s | Hanzo and Widowmaker makes mccree's uh |
| 1172s | excuse me that's one let's keep it tally |
| 1174s | uh sorry I don't mean any disrespect by |
| 1177s | it it's just I've been playing this |
| 1178s | games in 2015 so it took me a while to |
| 1181s | uh get the name change down but uh so so |
| 1183s | Cass is effective effective range is |
| 1186s | just a little bit better not always |
| 1187s | going to be completely out shown by a |
| 1188s | widow sitting in spawn across the map |
| 1191s | um a couple of these teams really like |
| 1193s | running Farah's so yeah like uh Cass |
| 1196s | almost did it again a cast could be |
| 1198s | really good for that so I think we will |
| 1200s | see it I think you could also see some |
| 1202s | teams run a May Rush still because that |
| 1204s | is kind of been The Meta that teams |
| 1206s | might have been practicing and going in |
| 1208s | before the live patch came and then may |
| 1210s | also got a a little bit of a buff but |
| 1212s | we're not really gonna know I think the |
| 1214s | one thing we will find out is what the |
| 1215s | control meta is because we're going to |
| 1216s | kick off each of these matches on |
| 1218s | control and I think lijong in specific |
| 1220s | so we'll get it we'll get a good feel of |
| 1222s | that as far as like as the maps go |
| 1224s | forward it's going to be the not winner |
| 1226s | picking second |
| 1227s | yeah and you know sometimes uh Comfort |
| 1230s | maps are also a thing in the OverWatch |
| 1232s | World Cup where like you have teams |
| 1233s | where you know for one reason or another |
| 1234s | they just really really perform well on |
| 1237s | one particular map but yeah we'll see |
| 1239s | those stories evolve as time goes on but |
| 1241s | lijong is always uh you know I feel like |
| 1242s | it's a good skill test to begin with |
| 1244s | they just you know you're not really |
| 1246s | going to test as much in terms of teams |
| 1247s | coordination where you might see a |
| 1249s | little bit more on escort or hybrid but |
| 1251s | you get into control and you just sort |
| 1252s | of see okay what mechanical level are |
| 1255s | these teams at you know are they similar |
| 1256s | is it going to be a blowout because you |
| 1258s | know if you get totally blown out of |
| 1259s | control on a mechanical level it's |
| 1261s | sometimes hard to see how you're gonna |
| 1262s | bring it back on other Maps so it is a |
| 1265s | good way to set the tone on a series |
| 1268s | yeah absolutely and but as I mentioned |
| 1271s | earlier it can be a bit of a wild card I |
| 1272s | think everyone at the pro level as well |
| 1275s | says control can just be kind of weird |
| 1277s | and a lot of it can be RNG which stagey |
| 1280s | gonna get uh so we're gonna be heading |
| 1282s | into Night Market here uh at the |
| 1285s | OverWatch League level maybe some of it |
| 1287s | will lead over into the OverWatch World |
| 1288s | Cup you see a lot of symmetra here just |
| 1290s | because the rollout is so good if you |
| 1292s | can get your team onto the point quickly |
| 1294s | set up some turrets uh then you're gonna |
| 1296s | be in a good spot so we shall see how it |
| 1300s | all shakes out |
| 1302s | right now I'm taking a look at both |
| 1304s | teams and a little bit similar on both |
| 1306s | sides here hexa okay so yeah it looks |
| 1308s | like Mecca base instead sorry |
| 1312s | no no we're I got confused by the fly |
| 1314s | through |
| 1315s | yeah yeah but we are here in lijong and |
| 1319s | see both teams hang up and we'll get a |
| 1322s | look at the rosters here again in a |
| 1323s | second but it looks like the only |
| 1325s | difference was that you had Poland |
| 1327s | coming out the sojourn and turkey coming |
| 1328s | out with the Hanzo and looks at it |
| 1332s | and yeah there it is okay |
| 1334s | um yeah it looks like some early Rush |
| 1336s | here with ramachar Lucio Macho Lucio Bap |
| 1339s | and some maze yeah and like you said the |
| 1341s | only difference being Hanzo and sojourn |
| 1343s | and effective range is not all that |
| 1346s | different from either a little more |
| 1347s | consistent damage but you don't need |
| 1350s | consistence when you're hitting logs |
| 1351s | like lethal yeah already lethal kicks |
| 1353s | off where he hyped them out to start |
| 1355s | things up gets the first pick on Hanzo |
| 1356s | and that just sets the tone for the rest |
| 1358s | of the team fight here where you know |
| 1360s | it's turkey's loose fruit gets a little |
| 1361s | bit low lethal Taps another head and 99 |
| 1364s | hitscan as we hyped up just on Hanzo |
| 1367s | Landing good shots and already turkey |
| 1369s | very quick capture of your ex well I |
| 1372s | mean Hanzo projectile speeds it's not |
| 1374s | hitstand but it's not exactly it's not |
| 1376s | exactly junkrat either right so uh it's |
| 1379s | kind of that weird in-between hybrid and |
| 1381s | I mean the just the the pick potential |
| 1383s | of a Hanzo is so brutal and now only |
| 1385s | gonna have to struggle to get in here |
| 1388s | all right it's open oh Armani a little |
| 1390s | bit over extension Paul unable to pick |
| 1392s | off two and turkey's immediately gonna |
| 1393s | have to disengage off your hex and up we |
| 1395s | have a pause |
| 1398s | I wonder if there's a DC in the middle |
| 1400s | of that or something happened uh we |
| 1401s | don't know which team paused but you |
| 1403s | know what look you wouldn't be kicking |
| 1405s | things off here okay that probably |
| 1406s | explains why Armani was uh it will |
| 1410s | seemingly opposition you know yeah that |
| 1412s | tracks I mean just kind of |
| 1414s | standing there as ramatro we all know |
| 1416s | vermontra's greatest skill especially |
| 1418s | with ultimates is walking so when you're |
| 1420s | just standing still with your Mantra |
| 1422s | something has gone wrong uh so actually |
| 1425s | interesting Romanian rumatra that's kind |
| 1427s | of fun uh but yes you know it's kind of |
| 1429s | the game is tracking so far as we |
| 1431s | expected that like lethal's just got the |
| 1433s | potential to just go off and get picks |
| 1435s | and especially with Hanzo I mean the |
| 1438s | team can just peel for him you can't |
| 1440s | ever really dive on they can just sit |
| 1442s | back and eventually eventually one of |
| 1444s | those logs is gonna get a fine brain |
| 1446s | mass yeah and I mean also when you deal |
| 1450s | a more closed into areas well it's one |
| 1452s | of those things where I mean look Hanzo |
| 1454s | in any situation we can kind of feast or |
| 1455s | famine but you know on lijon things are |
| 1458s | closed in and you know there's only so |
| 1460s | much Space Heroes can be in it's like |
| 1463s | you just have to find an area where a |
| 1464s | current head is and uh shoot down the |
| 1466s | hallway hope for the best and uh lethal |
| 1468s | was definitely well it's the beginning |
| 1471s | it's one of the reasons he used to see |
| 1472s | junkrat on this map so often too is just |
| 1475s | just fire and forget it down hallways |
| 1477s | pharah has been played on this map |
| 1479s | before so I I wonder if you know maybe |
| 1481s | maybe Poland is that in their pocket to |
| 1483s | maybe deal with the Hanzo although far |
| 1485s | used to be much better against Hanzo |
| 1486s | which is that Hanzo hit scan-ish kind of |
| 1489s | feel he like does deal with bar a little |
| 1491s | bit so right now is I mean it's way too |
| 1493s | early to tell uh you know if there's |
| 1495s | going to be adjustments or something |
| 1497s | like that so I think the sojourn pick |
| 1499s | isn't is not terrible like I said it's a |
| 1501s | little more consistent than the Hanzo |
| 1502s | damage you're going to be able to just |
| 1503s | kind of fire uh get the area of effect |
| 1506s | damage in as well and the slows and then |
| 1508s | just on occasion you're just gonna hit |
| 1510s | the rails like Hanzo is effectively |
| 1512s | firing rails every time so even though |
| 1515s | it's real gunshots have to come up so |
| 1517s | yeah it makes sense and you know right |
| 1519s | now if you're just tuning in wondering |
| 1520s | it's like wait why are we over here the |
| 1522s | map isn't uh over yet it's like well |
| 1524s | Romani had a disconnect right now we're |
| 1526s | weighing to see how that gets settled so |
| 1528s | but you know coming back in it does give |
| 1529s | Poland a free team fight going in where |
| 1531s | you know there's no way of reversing |
| 1532s | that even though it was a quick |
| 1534s | disconnect so you know Poland kind of |
| 1536s | gets a gimme there and we'll see if |
| 1537s | they're able to take advantage momentum |
| 1539s | wise but you know the number one thing |
| 1541s | they're gonna have to do here x going |
| 1542s | forward is find a way to neutralize |
| 1544s | lethal or at the very least not get hit |
| 1547s | in the head by his arrows because that |
| 1549s | was the uh number one factor and the |
| 1551s | little bit that we've seen here so far |
| 1553s | it's just so difficult to isolate a |
| 1555s | Hanzo in the in these mere compositions |
| 1558s | too because you're you're kind of |
| 1559s | running Rush right you want to lose your |
| 1560s | speed in your Mantra you want to get a |
| 1562s | May wall up but I mean if you get a |
| 1564s | maywall up behind a Hanzo he just climbs |
| 1566s | over it because you know all the |
| 1569s | characters from that country have the |
| 1570s | buff of wall climbing |
| 1572s | um so gonna be able to go over top it it |
| 1574s | just can be very difficult and I think |
| 1576s | obviously if you're |
| 1578s | if you're turkey you know that the other |
| 1579s | team's game plan is we gotta deal with |
| 1582s | lethal like because why wouldn't it be |
| 1583s | that has to be the plan uh make somebody |
| 1586s | else beat you right we always talk about |
| 1587s | that you you and I are old Sports heads |
| 1589s | uh make somebody else who's not their |
| 1592s | best player beat you and and that's got |
| 1593s | to be the gameplay all right well we are |
| 1596s | back on in pulling continuing to clean |
| 1598s | up after that team fight where you know |
| 1600s | again it's pretty difficult to back up |
| 1601s | as a tank X when you're not in the game |
| 1603s | as it turns out who knew yeah |
| 1606s | um and you know the the tough part is I |
| 1608s | don't know if they ended up I don't |
| 1609s | think they used it before but now |
| 1611s | Annihilation is completely reset from |
| 1613s | Romani too uh that that's tough so |
| 1615s | Poland can actually push this Advantage |
| 1617s | here with forever 774. well step one the |
| 1620s | pushing Advantage don't get caught by |
| 1621s | hanza lethal here on the side again drop |
| 1623s | the dragon early looking over really |
| 1625s | nice flank positioning here mortality |
| 1628s | field up gonna stop any instant |
| 1629s | pick-offs Poland right now just staying |
| 1632s | on the point but here we go well it is |
| 1633s | gonna try and push the advantage as he |
| 1634s | said Annihilation coming on out lethal |
| 1637s | goes down and look Poland's working with |
| 1639s | what they got his icaf picks off some on |
| 1640s | the side |
| 1641s | hey you can't apologize for somebody |
| 1643s | else DC and you just gotta you know play |
| 1645s | the cards as they lie or you know as it |
| 1648s | were so yeah really really nice their |
| 1650s | understanding that they were going to |
| 1651s | have an enormous advantage on the other |
| 1653s | side turkey will you know be flipping |
| 1655s | that back but this is a nice cleanup uh |
| 1657s | not playing passively going all the way |
| 1659s | through toward the end and a nice first |
| 1662s | fight uh for Poland to take that over |
| 1664s | and yeah I think next is you're going to |
| 1667s | see the the ballet of the Lucio May both |
| 1669s | with the ultimates up so the blizzard uh |
| 1672s | the sound barrier to try to counter it |
| 1673s | and vice versa on both sides the timings |
| 1676s | are just too perfect had the ice ballet |
| 1678s | uh OverWatch on ice as it were you know |
| 1680s | there's some old old promotions here we |
| 1682s | go lethal again coming in on the plank |
| 1683s | and here come the blizzards out Armani |
| 1685s | though gets caught early and the |
| 1687s | blizzard pulling far more successful |
| 1689s | Texel just cleaning up right after and I |
| 1692s | gotta tell you a disconnect or no Poland |
| 1693s | on the verge of taking this first round |
| 1697s | yeah it's really nice for them both |
| 1698s | Lucio was able to hold on to their |
| 1700s | alternates going forward too but Texel |
| 1701s | with a really nice cleanup |
| 1704s | um and now yeah it's we're gonna see if |
| 1707s | if this sojourn can hit some rails here |
| 1709s | because overcharge is gonna be ready |
| 1710s | just want to make sure that you're in |
| 1711s | the right area to not get picked off it |
| 1713s | wouldn't be terrible to be squatted up |
| 1715s | with your Mantra get a shield up there a |
| 1717s | lot of pressure coming from up top |
| 1718s | lethal that's huge lethal able to shut |
| 1721s | down ikev get rid of the overclock |
| 1723s | turkey not one give up this round here |
| 1725s | just yet money here on the point both |
| 1728s | teams flying back broke money looking |
| 1730s | for his counterpart on the other side |
| 1731s | lethal still poking on the flank that |
| 1734s | track able to take down his counterpart |
| 1735s | and turkey slowly but surely back into |
| 1738s | the fight should be able to get control |
| 1740s | here hex |
| 1741s | they're going to get control and |
| 1742s | importantly romani's gonna have his |
| 1743s | ultimate up quickly again too so now the |
| 1746s | the romantras have equalized here in |
| 1748s | their Annihilation |
| 1750s | um are uh yeah ultimates |
| 1752s | um so |
| 1754s | yeah uh they're gonna be able to hold |
| 1756s | forward here Romani does have to be a |
| 1758s | little bit careful to not get caught out |
| 1760s | early yes he de-seed early but getting |
| 1761s | caught out up front was one of the |
| 1763s | problems yeah that was objectively one |
| 1766s | of the issues even if there was a you |
| 1767s | know controller malfunction so to speak |
| 1769s | but turkey not a situation they cannot |
| 1771s | lose another fight money can be looking |
| 1773s | annihilate here sooner rather than later |
| 1776s | you had to think here under a little bit |
| 1778s | pressure wall right behind him |
| 1779s | Annihilation Guy come out meanwhile |
| 1780s | lethal's Dragon Gets Texel super early |
| 1782s | into the fight and the rest of that |
| 1784s | cleanup gonna be there for turkey |
| 1787s | yeah I mean getting Texel super early |
| 1789s | into the fight is pretty much all of the |
| 1791s | healing in this composition uh Lucio was |
| 1793s | there for utility for the most part yes |
| 1794s | obviously you can win every |
| 1797s | what did we get we got oh a Sombra yeah |
| 1800s | okay |
| 1802s | yeah I mean it kind of makes sense |
| 1803s | because what's Poland's win conditions |
| 1805s | right now is probably getting in an |
| 1807s | ultimate going on from uh fake Jake if |
| 1809s | they're if they're tracking it right uh |
| 1811s | so maybe just trying to shut down one |
| 1813s | person but I come in yeah losing the bay |
| 1816s | that early is huge pulling now could be |
| 1818s | a lot more aggressive they don't have to |
| 1819s | worry about the wall I mean well fake |
| 1820s | Jake dropping the blizzard looking for |
| 1822s | the isolation here on the Romani but |
| 1824s | textile gets caught early and as you |
| 1825s | mentioned that's all the healing go on |
| 1827s | if you get rid of it as lethal it's just |
| 1829s | ripping things up in the back line is |
| 1831s | Sombra and you know we mentioned going |
| 1832s | into this hey turkey be playing around |
| 1834s | lethal Leaf would be huge and so far |
| 1836s | that narrative is stuck to scripted here |
| 1838s | we go I can't over clock out gets one |
| 1840s | caught by Romani and turkey just |
| 1842s | overwhelming presence on the point about |
| 1845s | ready to flip this to their favor and |
| 1847s | they do |
| 1848s | yeah I mean also lethal just taking kind |
| 1850s | of control of that as well by taking |
| 1853s | over the Sombra I mean I think turkey uh |
| 1856s | has to just be relying on lethal to make |
| 1857s | calls I I can't imagine that anyone else |
| 1860s | is the in-game caller for this squad I |
| 1862s | mean obviously you're gonna have input |
| 1863s | from your tank players Etc but with your |
| 1865s | being the in-game caller for Sombra |
| 1866s | you're just picking up targets and I |
| 1868s | think they also realize too one that |
| 1870s | their only lost condition was Poland |
| 1872s | coming out with big alts and hitting it |
| 1874s | so they they probably go to somber to |
| 1875s | try to negate some of that but also when |
| 1877s | they took out Texel the previous fight |
| 1879s | they realized just how quickly |
| 1880s | everything else melted around them so |
| 1882s | that was obviously a target for lethal |
| 1884s | coming in to take out the Batiste uh |
| 1886s | Tech soul is playing I was able to pull |
| 1888s | that off and turkey despite it early |
| 1890s | disconnect will take a 1-0 stage lead |
| 1894s | yeah now taking a look here turkey on |
| 1897s | the way out lethal gonna be sticking on |
| 1898s | the Sombra and we got Farrah Mercy |
| 1900s | coming out here from Turkey Cassidy on |
| 1902s | the other side so for me I'm interested |
| 1904s | in this icav versus my track battle |
| 1906s | that's going to be going on here |
| 1908s | yeah this has always been such a good |
| 1910s | stage for Barnes because of this Tower |
| 1913s | it almost seems unfair especially in the |
| 1915s | hands of a pro who they can get so much |
| 1917s | good height |
| 1919s | um so we'll see how it works early on |
| 1921s | though uh music Falls and with the far |
| 1924s | Mercy that's like all your ground |
| 1926s | healing down too so that's a rough spot |
| 1928s | for turkey but they're able to weather |
| 1930s | the storm so far yeah I mean they don't |
| 1932s | get team white but they do give up first |
| 1934s | control the point something out here too |
| 1935s | is that you know we expect to see a lot |
| 1937s | more junker Queen on this patch we're |
| 1938s | seeing it here and now both teams |
| 1940s | running it |
| 1943s | slightly nerfed in the most recent patch |
| 1946s | but got super buffed in the previous |
| 1947s | patch so overall that's a net up yeah |
| 1951s | not up versus what the hell wrong thing |
| 1953s | has been playing on but the track back |
| 1955s | in Action here looking for Rockets Texel |
| 1957s | though fines for money and you know you |
| 1959s | lose your junker Queen head there is |
| 1962s | the Revenger hex uh after the end of the |
| 1964s | last round feels like yeah Texas had |
| 1966s | some really nice moments as kind of uh |
| 1968s | the DPS Flex uh with both the Baptist |
| 1971s | and the kiriko getting a lot of work |
| 1973s | done and you know the thing about the |
| 1974s | the far mercy and I I love this |
| 1976s | composition it's super fun to watch but |
| 1978s | you lose so much ground control here you |
| 1981s | have pretty much team wipe to be able to |
| 1983s | pull a point off press Q to die some |
| 1985s | things never change from 2015 |
| 1987s | to |
| 1990s | uh and that is still still I think |
| 1991s | turkey though still making |
| 1993s | money goes in after they get the res |
| 1995s | onto the track and you know still a |
| 1997s | decent fight from turkey or so far able |
| 1999s | to wipe out the rest but first control |
| 2001s | for them the question is can they |
| 2003s | maintain it where you know overall |
| 2005s | firewise it's been a little bit rough |
| 2007s | yeah |
| 2008s | um I mean turkey should be in a good |
| 2010s | spot here mostly because lethal is gonna |
| 2013s | have the Ed EMP uh so they're gonna be |
| 2015s | able to pull that off and EMP barrage |
| 2018s | would have been nice maybe you would |
| 2019s | have been able to hear the what the |
| 2020s | voice line actually is I don't think |
| 2021s | I've heard it in seven years of |
| 2022s | OverWatch |
| 2023s | you think I come off here from lethal |
| 2026s | muso immediately in the fall through and |
| 2028s | yep EMP into the white room into depth |
| 2031s | that also has not changed regardless of |
| 2033s | what iteration of sumpra you might be |
| 2036s | watching uh so yeah that was the free |
| 2038s | fight from Turkey here hex but now the |
| 2040s | hard part begins especially when you |
| 2042s | look at what Poland has on Deck yeah the |
| 2043s | only thing less than ideal from Turkey |
| 2045s | there is that they ended up using the |
| 2046s | junker Queen ultimate too and I don't |
| 2047s | think they necessarily had to usually |
| 2049s | you want the the Sombra to gain you |
| 2051s | economy because a an EMP is usually just |
| 2054s | a single white like a single fight |
| 2056s | winning ultimate so not a problem using |
| 2058s | that but they did throw in more ultimate |
| 2060s | Poland's I mean on paper they should be |
| 2062s | their fight oh Romani got picked super |
| 2065s | super early Poland might not even have |
| 2067s | to invest as much as they want to they |
| 2068s | do use both support ultimately but could |
| 2070s | be able to hold on to the rest as |
| 2072s | immediately get the point flipping yeah |
| 2074s | you see people jump into the mode that's |
| 2076s | also just like yeah it's over time to I |
| 2078s | want to reset go again I wonder if this |
| 2079s | is going to be a hard reset it's gonna |
| 2082s | be harder to convince Mac track to get |
| 2083s | off of or with 98 on barrage even though |
| 2086s | we know barrage is well barrage is what |
| 2088s | it is |
| 2089s | um but they do full-on reset Poland is |
| 2092s | only one fight away I want to see I mean |
| 2095s | ikev has been pretty quiet here so far |
| 2098s | let's see who dc'd this time yeah like |
| 2102s | we'll see if we get the swap before it's |
| 2104s | okay our camera before we see in game |
| 2107s | but I mean look if I was betting I would |
| 2110s | say remind me just because that's the |
| 2111s | person that you see before which oh man |
| 2114s | that has to be tough if it was ramani |
| 2116s | again just because you know I can think |
| 2118s | of nothing more frustrating when you're |
| 2120s | hyped up you know for an important match |
| 2122s | you've been looking forward to this and |
| 2124s | you're a key part of your team on top of |
| 2126s | it and you just keep disconnecting you |
| 2128s | know you just get smited by the internet |
| 2131s | Gods uh it's not great yeah I mean I |
| 2134s | don't want to speculate but we're in a |
| 2135s | pause so we're kind of gonna have to |
| 2137s | speculate I wonder where romani's |
| 2139s | playing from so as we mentioned it is a |
| 2140s | dual citizen uh ship player so perhaps |
| 2143s | maybe not with the rest of his team |
| 2145s | regionally maybe playing on some long |
| 2147s | ping and playing something like that |
| 2149s | again that's just baseless speculation |
| 2151s | but we're gonna pause you're gonna get |
| 2153s | baseless speculation yeah that's right |
| 2155s | that's pretty much all we got right now |
| 2157s | we got uh you know one round gameplay |
| 2159s | the go here I mean the one thing we can |
| 2160s | bring up is that it's not that it can't |
| 2162s | work it's not that it hasn't been |
| 2163s | effective but hex I feel like every game |
| 2166s | we've casted this year where we've seen |
| 2168s | afara on mijang it just hasn't worked |
| 2171s | out like it has been cursed uh on the |
| 2173s | whole uh just in the sense that you know |
| 2175s | you play the pharah you hope that you |
| 2177s | get really good suppression and pickups |
| 2179s | with the pharah but the dark side to it |
| 2181s | always is that the other team just you |
| 2182s | know uses terrain against it and the |
| 2184s | Fire doesn't land you know the |
| 2186s | back-to-back Rockets it can feel |
| 2188s | ineffectual at times while pharah hasn't |
| 2190s | really changed much since the game |
| 2192s | debuted like not that much right they're |
| 2195s | not a whole lot more damage whereas it |
| 2197s | feels like there's been so much more put |
| 2199s | into sustain in OverWatch especially |
| 2201s | with some of the healing that comes out |
| 2202s | and some of the tanks that are just not |
| 2205s | as effective you're gonna have to almost |
| 2206s | three tap people with a damage boost to |
| 2208s | get anything done forever immediately |
| 2210s | gonna Rampage on through |
| 2212s | turkey well they lose muzo really early |
| 2215s | on map track goes for the bras trying to |
| 2218s | equalize doesn't get anyone from it I |
| 2219s | can have looking to pick up the pieces |
| 2221s | and lethals down so really it's just up |
| 2223s | the Mad track to somehow bring this back |
| 2225s | but that is not happening the Dead Eye |
| 2227s | you gotta seal the deal |
| 2228s | and this is going to around three |
| 2230s | already Hecks a little bit closer than |
| 2232s | anticipated |
| 2233s | yeah um I didn't see why that I don't |
| 2236s | know that why that ended up pausing um |
| 2239s | but regardless |
| 2241s | um Poland yeah we'll bring it back so I |
| 2244s | mean already more of a victory for |
| 2246s | Poland than I expected and I mean |
| 2248s | you know we're doing our best to just |
| 2250s | build early narratives here and some |
| 2251s | players that have kind of impressed us |
| 2253s | so far right now for Poland I like what |
| 2256s | texel's doing mostly just says like |
| 2257s | being this extra source of damage |
| 2259s | um you saw it on stage one with the |
| 2261s | Baptiste being able to clean something |
| 2262s | up and also the Counterpoint to that is |
| 2265s | when texol is dead Poland doesn't win |
| 2267s | fights and honestly that's part of being |
| 2269s | a flex support right you just like it |
| 2271s | kind of just tracks that way but |
| 2274s | um so far been very interested in their |
| 2276s | play and okay so when we were first |
| 2279s | loading into this map I thought we were |
| 2281s | gonna see Sim |
| 2283s | but it doesn't seem like either team is |
| 2285s | running Sim now |
| 2286s | we might have another pause coming and |
| 2288s | yeah and that isn't me being psychic |
| 2291s | here uh production actually called that |
| 2293s | a little bit before it happened uh you |
| 2296s | know as much as I'd love to take credit |
| 2297s | for it uh steal Jack's Glory uh our |
| 2299s | producer uh you know that that was |
| 2302s | called out so once again we are back to |
| 2304s | speculation and one thing I'll say here |
| 2305s | I do like the change of lethal over to |
| 2308s | the ash not that lethal isn't good at |
| 2310s | Sombra but when you feel like you're |
| 2312s | going you're going to imagine you might |
| 2314s | have a skill differential like over the |
| 2316s | lobby playing a hero like ash that can |
| 2319s | just straight up hard carry under the |
| 2321s | right circumstances I think is a good |
| 2322s | move here especially in control |
| 2325s | yeah and at this stage in particular |
| 2327s | there's some really nice sight lines and |
| 2329s | you can actually take over the little |
| 2330s | alcove especially for these opening team |
| 2332s | fights and there's really almost no |
| 2334s | where to where to dodge it and if the |
| 2336s | other team's not going to run a shield |
| 2337s | tank and obviously the options for |
| 2339s | shield tank are much more limited |
| 2341s | nowadays then you can just sit back and |
| 2342s | even when they're on point you can shoot |
| 2344s | into them so yeah I definitely would |
| 2346s | agree with you that the ash is the right |
| 2347s | call here uh summer can be really good |
| 2349s | but I think Poland's been playing pretty |
| 2350s | well around it to be able to kind of |
| 2352s | stick together especially when you're |
| 2354s | playing these uh these Queen |
| 2355s | compositions you're not really going to |
| 2357s | be super spread out anyway so Summers |
| 2359s | going to have less of a chance to pick |
| 2361s | off stray targets yeah but we are back |
| 2365s | in the third pause in the bucket and as |
| 2367s | we say that lead pull immediately takes |
| 2369s | that icon gets rid of the opposing hit |
| 2371s | scan threader one of the two looking for |
| 2374s | fake Jake forces out the recall and |
| 2375s | right now sitting pretty comfortably on |
| 2378s | the point now changes his Target to the |
| 2381s | junker Queen gets rid of that and lethal |
| 2383s | again the raid boss that Poland must |
| 2385s | defeat |
| 2386s | it was a nice little collapse there |
| 2389s | um oh good job by Tracer that's not |
| 2391s | always like |
| 2393s | Tracer seems like she's a really good |
| 2395s | duelist but then you realize 150 HP and |
| 2398s | uh you know every every duel that you |
| 2400s | could win as Tracer is yeah one that's |
| 2403s | important and just kind of outskilled so |
| 2405s | really big there and they're gonna take |
| 2406s | advantage yeah Turkey right now they |
| 2408s | don't have lethal back here just yet |
| 2410s | it's a moment where Poland can get one |
| 2411s | more pick off and should be all they |
| 2413s | need to get the fight fake Jake though |
| 2414s | under pressure from Lucia gets a health |
| 2417s | pack coming around the side icat was |
| 2418s | able to get Romani down in the interim |
| 2420s | so unless lethal comes back in just hard |
| 2422s | carries you know I think this fight |
| 2424s | should be Poland's and it does look like |
| 2426s | turkey is backing up a bit they're |
| 2427s | willing to stay in the area but I don't |
| 2429s | think they're gonna hard commit until |
| 2431s | ramani gets back into the fight yeah |
| 2432s | Jake's gonna be a little careful here |
| 2434s | but also it's a nice spot to be able to |
| 2436s | just kind of uh yeah lacing a pulse bomb |
| 2440s | at this the team enters not a whole lot |
| 2442s | of negation for turkey |
| 2444s | a little late so he's going to come |
| 2445s | behind on the prowl has the pulse bomb |
| 2448s | needs to be big the equalized looks |
| 2449s | really tall and that one was a little |
| 2451s | bit off to say the least lethal takes |
| 2454s | down Texan turkey a much better engage |
| 2457s | the pulse bomb doesn't connect in right |
| 2459s | away turkey gonna be retaking the point |
| 2462s | uh re-taking the points a nice little |
| 2464s | stall there but turkey will end up |
| 2466s | taking the lead here uh also they're |
| 2468s | gonna have a bob and a blade and that |
| 2470s | Bob can be so good on the point uh just |
| 2472s | kind of launch them into a corner |
| 2474s | I have |
| 2476s | is gonna try to match the ash that is a |
| 2479s | Monumental task |
| 2481s | you know what though I like the energy |
| 2482s | from there saying oh you think you're |
| 2484s | good at Ash I think I'm good at Ash |
| 2485s | let's do this beat gonna be uh on the |
| 2488s | table for both teams here at Texas opens |
| 2491s | early |
| 2492s | with the Kitsune turkey able to just |
| 2496s | hold back for now and wow out from |
| 2498s | lethal but track down early so ramani |
| 2500s | gets hit and down icab immediately on |
| 2503s | the finisher and just like that I mean |
| 2505s | turkey they don't have anything really |
| 2507s | left in reserve here this is gonna be a |
| 2508s | quick retake by Poland |
| 2510s | yeah I mean they're gonna get a little |
| 2511s | bit of stall here but uh turkey is about |
| 2514s | one fight away but that's probably the |
| 2515s | biggest moment for my cat we've seen so |
| 2517s | far in the match today uh kind of quiet |
| 2519s | especially on the very first stage |
| 2522s | um hands full on the second stage but a |
| 2524s | nice big play there kind of puts lethal |
| 2526s | on notice |
| 2528s | now they really just have to dodge |
| 2529s | getting bladed to Oblivion but it's |
| 2531s | gonna be a naked blade |
| 2534s | um see what the targets end up being |
| 2535s | here there's not a great Target for it I |
| 2537s | guess Bob that is enormously quick bog |
| 2540s | build into the frame the track drops the |
| 2543s | blade and unarma track is right now but |
| 2544s | no he's back in spawn doesn't quite get |
| 2547s | as much he wants fake Jake lands the |
| 2548s | bomb from the back and Poland not |
| 2551s | letting this go quietly at all one more |
| 2554s | team fight away from taking this first |
| 2557s | map away from Turkey |
| 2558s | well metric is going to change here too |
| 2560s | to the May so maybe to let them get a |
| 2563s | little bit better entrance or maybe they |
| 2564s | want to try to rush somebody down with |
| 2566s | the Kitsune rush if they can do some |
| 2568s | sustained ramani should be able to get |
| 2569s | there on their own ultimate Pullman did |
| 2571s | burn the bank |
| 2572s | um in their last fight so it is all down |
| 2575s | to this one last fight don't die before |
| 2578s | the katsune that's number one here from |
| 2579s | Turkey Janae Rush going out Poland just |
| 2582s | gets run over right after katsune goes |
| 2585s | down but track and lethal start hitting |
| 2587s | their shots and the May swap looking |
| 2589s | pretty good turkey gonna get the recap |
| 2591s | but Poland has enough room here hex for |
| 2594s | a recontestant they're very very closest |
| 2596s | appeal ultimates yeah just barely I mean |
| 2599s | they have 20 seconds left when it's |
| 2600s | gonna hit 80 but they should be able to |
| 2602s | rush in and again this is just about |
| 2604s | staying alive if you can get both these |
| 2606s | support ultimates going down here |
| 2608s | um but they do have to be very careful |
| 2610s | of getting junker Queen altered and |
| 2612s | getting anti-healed here yeah Romani |
| 2615s | getting poked down pretty low to start |
| 2616s | with he'll back up Armani's still under |
| 2618s | heavy pressure not all on screen but |
| 2620s | both dunker Queen's gang oh I can't be |
| 2621s | able to find the track early that's huge |
| 2623s | turkey drops a beat in response they get |
| 2625s | rid of forever and now turkey trying to |
| 2628s | stabilize here Rampage coming out for |
| 2630s | Romani lethal Bob built in the middle to |
| 2632s | fight Big Jake trying to make anything |
| 2633s | happen here gets muzo down there's not |
| 2635s | gonna be enough lethal the bomb just |
| 2637s | starts cleaning up against two and |
| 2639s | lethal's not done yet |
| 2641s | oh no |
| 2643s | turkey |
| 2644s | finishes it out pulling Cove contested |
| 2646s | for a little bit longer and you know |
| 2648s | Point awareness gets you all sometimes |
| 2651s | yeah a little bit longer maybe |
| 2654s | um so we're watching uh Jake's fake |
| 2657s | Jake's uh POV there and eventually was |
| 2661s | able to take down Mazo but if you |
| 2663s | watched it it was like kind of this |
| 2664s | weird Target acquisition because |
| 2667s | kiriko was was beaded and then kiriko |
| 2669s | can always jump away from you then |
| 2671s | kiriko's sitting in her own alt and it's |
| 2672s | just like Ah that's a brutal Target to |
| 2675s | try to take down as a tracer and it just |
| 2677s | end up taking a ton of time uh then |
| 2678s | chasing down lethal almost gets lethal |
| 2680s | but has to Blink off the point because |
| 2682s | of the Bob pressure unable to Blink back |
| 2684s | but this was a lot closer than I thought |
| 2687s | it would be having really not heard of |
| 2689s | like any of these players on Poland at |
| 2691s | all like I'm I'm very impressed with how |
| 2693s | how they were able to pull this off or |
| 2695s | almost pull it off yeah and I mean |
| 2697s | that's what makes this tournament |
| 2698s | particular so fun to watch is that you |
| 2701s | might think you have favorites going in |
| 2702s | and some teams may be stronger than the |
| 2704s | others on paper but really anything can |
| 2706s | happen at any level of play I mean heck |
| 2709s | I I think back to you know years where |
| 2711s | you know Team USA thought that they had |
| 2713s | in the bag and then they run into just a |
| 2715s | completely energized uh you know at the |
| 2717s | time team UK now A Team Great Britain |
| 2719s | you know runs into them and runs them |
| 2721s | over a sort of deal right so you know |
| 2723s | there's always these story lines that go |
| 2725s | on and it's just cool to see |
| 2727s | yeah it's always fun to like watch new |
| 2728s | players and start developing new |
| 2730s | storylines like I mean part part of it |
| 2732s | is coming into it like yeah we you know |
| 2734s | a little bit about these teams but |
| 2735s | you're kind of coming into a blind which |
| 2737s | is always my favorite thing about like |
| 2738s | sports and competition is I get to be |
| 2740s | surprised and I get to learn things and |
| 2742s | I can see exactly what's going to shake |
| 2744s | down here and it was just really |
| 2746s | impressive competition I think lethal |
| 2748s | did well but if we hadn't just hyped him |
| 2750s | up as this raid God I mean you could |
| 2753s | have looked at some of the other players |
| 2754s | and some of the plays that you know that |
| 2756s | uh not that fake Jake made and that IC |
| 2759s | made so there there were some definite |
| 2761s | plays there and I think um yeah some |
| 2763s | interesting compositions I have no idea |
| 2766s | what this mud is going to look like |
| 2767s | because Lee Jean can be weird on its own |
| 2769s | so we're just learning and glad |
| 2770s | everyone's here learning with us yeah |
| 2773s | and you know I'm glad you brought that |
| 2774s | up too because you know you think about |
| 2776s | it control again you could kind of see |
| 2778s | the mechanical end but it is a wild card |
| 2780s | it has always been a wild card in |
| 2781s | OverWatch and you know sometimes that's |
| 2783s | where teams goes like oh man you know we |
| 2785s | were better we just lost two f three uh |
| 2787s | control maps of the series yeah that |
| 2789s | side of it sometimes but you know we |
| 2791s | will see a little bit more depth to what |
| 2793s | the teams have as we go into our next |
| 2797s | map where it is going to be uh Poland's |
| 2800s | pick here going in so you know if they |
| 2802s | have something up their sleeve you know |
| 2804s | it could be something where they even up |
| 2805s | the series and you know bring it 2011 |
| 2808s | where you know again if you haven't |
| 2809s | looked at the format for this tournament |
| 2811s | every match every map really matters |
| 2814s | these are first to two series and you |
| 2817s | know it doesn't take a whole lot to get |
| 2819s | eliminated from the tournament you |
| 2821s | really have to go through and be nearly |
| 2822s | perfect you know to make it to BlizzCon |
| 2825s | later here yeah absolutely |
| 2827s | um so we're just watching some of the |
| 2828s | replays now and so some some nice plays |
| 2830s | from both sides I don't necessarily know |
| 2832s | if I have like a player of the map or |
| 2835s | anything I don't think anyone really |
| 2836s | stood out which was kind of surprising |
| 2838s | um the Romani had some good plays but |
| 2840s | it's gonna be a little bit marred by the |
| 2842s | disconnect |
| 2843s | um can't have that be happening |
| 2846s | um I have I think was really good after |
| 2849s | the first stage the first stage I just |
| 2851s | didn't see much of them |
| 2853s | um but as the second and third stage |
| 2854s | went on they I mean just the the guts to |
| 2857s | go Ash and just match lethal on the Ash |
| 2860s | and then have like a really nice Ash |
| 2862s | life where you get the Bob going but |
| 2864s | also I want to give some credit to |
| 2865s | turkey's play calling here with just the |
| 2867s | switch to May at the end I mean because |
| 2869s | you know you're gonna Rush In And so may |
| 2871s | gives you that map editor ability to |
| 2873s | kind of create a wall and then you know |
| 2876s | obviously May is has the the new slow |
| 2879s | ability and when you take all of the the |
| 2881s | crowd control and stuns out of the game |
| 2883s | and only a couple characters have it it |
| 2885s | becomes even that much more valuable so |
| 2887s | I really like that it was it was a nice |
| 2888s | call at the end of we're gonna Rush In |
| 2890s | what helps us get the most value out of |
| 2892s | Kitsune Rush the most and then they make |
| 2895s | the May pick and then like that's the |
| 2896s | one fight that they needed to actually |
| 2898s | win the map yeah I think the main swap |
| 2900s | was pretty good too because you look at |
| 2902s | the overall uh tempo of the match as we |
| 2904s | saw it and yeah the Genji it was a |
| 2906s | little bit of a rough time but that |
| 2908s | being said we're going to be taking a |
| 2910s | quick break when we come back we'll see |
| 2911s | if Poland can keep up the pressure and |
| 2913s | make the series one to one |
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| 3119s | let's go |
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| 3149s | taking turkey to the limit in our first |
| 3151s | map of the day here in the OverWatch |
| 3153s | World Cup turkey barely coming out on |
| 3155s | top but hex if that is a harbinger of |
| 3158s | what the rest of the day is about to |
| 3159s | bring it's gonna be a great day of |
| 3160s | OverWatch yeah I hope so too because |
| 3163s | like you know some of the some of the |
| 3165s | matches in in our wild card |
| 3167s | um tournaments |
| 3168s | I I think we only saw one map three the |
| 3171s | entire the entire tournament and you |
| 3173s | know good for those teams that won but |
| 3175s | I'm not a big fan of uh three OverWatch |
| 3177s | or in this case two OverWatch |
| 3179s | um I think the format of it will help |
| 3182s | negate some of that because these teams |
| 3183s | do get to map pick |
| 3185s | um and obviously like it's so important |
| 3187s | to like take notes now like oh Poland is |
| 3189s | gonna pick this map is this their |
| 3190s | favorite map um so how it works is our |
| 3192s | second map is going to be chosen by the |
| 3194s | team that did not win call them losers |
| 3196s | if you want I won't do it I refuse to do |
| 3198s | it uh the not winners will pick the |
| 3200s | second map and it's going to be either |
| 3202s | escorts or uh excuse me |
| 3206s | why am I blanking it's either |
| 3208s | hybrid yeah so that's going to be a |
| 3211s | choice of uh six different Maps three |
| 3213s | escorts or three hybrids we can go |
| 3215s | through them if you want but all you |
| 3216s | really need to know is that Poland is |
| 3217s | taking circuit Royale |
| 3219s | yeah and you know we can speculate a |
| 3222s | whole lot as to the whys and has but for |
| 3225s | now we're in the fact-finding part of |
| 3226s | the tournament where it is a new patch |
| 3229s | we gotta see what the teams have in |
| 3231s | store all you gotta know is it's |
| 3232s | Poland's map pick so we'll see if they |
| 3234s | have something special prep for turkey |
| 3237s | the first map was very close so hey |
| 3239s | there's a possibility that this could be |
| 3241s | opening the day with a third map which |
| 3244s | would be something because of course it |
| 3245s | is first of two you're not guaranteed |
| 3246s | the third map but this one could be it |
| 3249s | well you know what's interesting about |
| 3250s | sugar Royale too is oftentimes it's it's |
| 3252s | been viewed as a Widowmaker map or at |
| 3254s | the very least a sniper map but I wonder |
| 3257s | if some of those sight lines have |
| 3258s | changed a little bit because of the the |
| 3260s | changes that have gone to Widowmaker um |
| 3262s | that you you're maybe not going to be |
| 3264s | able to utilize as much as you'd like to |
| 3267s | get done so again this is Poland's pick |
| 3270s | we'll see if they what kind of meta they |
| 3271s | have here |
| 3272s | um also used to just kind of always be a |
| 3274s | dead-on sigma map like Sigma Widowmaker |
| 3277s | was The Meta on this map for a very long |
| 3279s | time so I'm really interested to see and |
| 3281s | as you mentioned this is more of a |
| 3283s | fact-finding Expedition as we go |
| 3284s | throughout these days we have eight days |
| 3286s | of uh online qualifiers so first match |
| 3288s | first day |
| 3290s | um we'll figure out what's going on my |
| 3292s | gut feeling Widow is that would always |
| 3294s | goes through these things we're like |
| 3295s | we'd all get nerfed or something bad |
| 3296s | will happen the Widow and everyone will |
| 3298s | stop playing Widow for a long while and |
| 3300s | then people realize like but it's still |
| 3302s | good it's good character that hits this |
| 3304s | hard is still really good hold on a |
| 3306s | second and then Widow starts getting |
| 3308s | played again although it's kind of thing |
| 3309s | that happens in like every patch like |
| 3311s | people don't really try it out they're |
| 3313s | just like oh numbers changed bad I'm not |
| 3315s | playing it anymore right so |
| 3317s | yeah we'll see how it shakes down |
| 3322s | interesting uh interesting setup here |
| 3325s | you know sometimes the enemy team just |
| 3327s | gets on top of the roof of your building |
| 3329s | is uh what we're seeing here Poland |
| 3332s | looking to be |
| 3333s | pretty quick to head on in Turkey |
| 3335s | meanwhile heading on out they're running |
| 3338s | with that Techo sojourn and fake Jake |
| 3339s | takes out enough for an early |
| 3342s | yeah |
| 3347s | just the the headers are a little bit |
| 3349s | wrong turkey's on the the orange squad |
| 3351s | or red Squad right now |
| 3353s | and it is Poland uh coming out really |
| 3355s | really strong to kick things off on |
| 3357s | their attack |
| 3358s | yeah I mean it's kind of an interesting |
| 3360s | Gambit to be able to run that defense |
| 3361s | that close so we've seen teams try to |
| 3363s | get it done and |
| 3364s | um often you see it like done on Havana |
| 3366s | because it doesn't lose you anything |
| 3367s | right so like if you lose that first |
| 3370s | fight it's like fine we can just sit up |
| 3371s | at the corner it doesn't seem to be the |
| 3373s | case in circuit Royale that if you set |
| 3375s | up that close you don't lose anything |
| 3376s | because you're losing first Corner uh |
| 3378s | obviously you can play second corner now |
| 3380s | and we'll see |
| 3382s | um how turkey wants to set up |
| 3384s | all right so three minutes turkey one |
| 3387s | good fight under their belts speaking |
| 3389s | under under the bridge right after a lot |
| 3392s | of fights take place forever right now |
| 3394s | just blocking away on the ram |
| 3396s | neither team hard committing here just |
| 3399s | yet |
| 3401s | people don't yeah able to find icav |
| 3403s | early and now you've lost a lot of range |
| 3405s | Power for Poland and turkey there's just |
| 3407s | gonna be way way more Acron you see |
| 3410s | turkey just rolling on in with the Rhine |
| 3412s | and really pushing pulling back yeah |
| 3414s | forever is going to try to get out and |
| 3415s | generally like Ram against Brian is is a |
| 3417s | pretty good |
| 3419s | um duel that you can take but when the |
| 3421s | other team is going to rush you down |
| 3422s | with the SIM in the May uh it doesn't |
| 3425s | really matter what tank you're on you |
| 3426s | eventually are going to get rocked there |
| 3428s | pulling with an echo here fake Jake Echo |
| 3431s | and Soldier and so really different |
| 3433s | styles here as turkey is going uh pure |
| 3436s | Rush |
| 3437s | so I think turkey is just gonna sit back |
| 3439s | and wait because they're out ranged |
| 3441s | um and then as soon as they find a |
| 3443s | Target that rounds the corner they will |
| 3445s | just rush in I mean and sense the name |
| 3447s | of the car it does make sense of those |
| 3449s | sometimes your Ryan just kicks things |
| 3451s | off finds Lucy with the fire strike and |
| 3454s | The Rush begins you walk on in after |
| 3456s | that first pick-off because what are |
| 3457s | they gonna do stop you it's not like |
| 3460s | well also it was a really good job I |
| 3462s | took it to negate the range by just |
| 3463s | teleporting in I mean effort and lethal |
| 3465s | just went to the back line just straight |
| 3467s | up teleporter right down Main Street |
| 3468s | like it wasn't in a hidden spot or |
| 3471s | anything it was right in the dead center |
| 3472s | of the street they just go and get |
| 3474s | worked on that means the other team |
| 3475s | turns around and tries to peel and the |
| 3477s | moment that they peel then they they |
| 3480s | just get their Reinhardt in and start |
| 3482s | swinging away so very well played and |
| 3484s | you know for a friend's pick they're in |
| 3487s | trouble |
| 3487s | enough for a nearly got head tapped |
| 3489s | there I think it was ikev I know the |
| 3493s | telephone |
| 3494s | just brings forever honor for a ride |
| 3496s | immortality field comes out early |
| 3498s | forever gonna counter with the |
| 3500s | annihilation |
| 3501s | multimortality Fields out of the fight |
| 3503s | Poland able to stabilize after what |
| 3504s | could have been a really really rough |
| 3506s | beginning big jig Vines lethal and by |
| 3508s | the four now for Poland as uh turkey's |
| 3510s | ambitious play does not quite pay off |
| 3513s | nephron gets caught and the odds of |
| 3516s | first point hold decreasing rapidly here |
| 3519s | next |
| 3520s | yeah I really like to switch to the |
| 3521s | zenyana too um it really puts Ryan in it |
| 3524s | in a terrible terrible spot if you're |
| 3525s | able to get that orb of Discord on them |
| 3527s | and I have with it with some of the |
| 3528s | moments here |
| 3530s | um really nice I mean maybe you didn't |
| 3532s | want to use the alt there but yeah style |
| 3534s | points yeah I also think that's one of |
| 3536s | those cases that look let's be sure we |
| 3538s | don't want to get first point held like |
| 3539s | we're gonna over commit a little bit |
| 3541s | here so we're not the team that you know |
| 3543s | lost the game with alt still on the |
| 3545s | board |
| 3546s | uh absolutely and especially you know |
| 3548s | with 5v5 you never know if like Orion's |
| 3550s | just going to charge in and take one of |
| 3551s | you out then all of a sudden you're in |
| 3552s | trouble uh so I agree maybe not an over |
| 3555s | commitment |
| 3556s | yeah |
| 3557s | blizzard really early here from Turkey |
| 3559s | as they come in from the back and again |
| 3561s | just catching pulling off guard and this |
| 3564s | is a hyper aggro rush comp that right |
| 3566s | now living up to its name |
| 3569s | yeah revenant's uh just kind of getting |
| 3571s | to swing away up front and this looks |
| 3574s | like a gonna be a really difficult |
| 3576s | position to breach now too I mean |
| 3578s | there's always been a defender's |
| 3579s | advantage on this map like especially |
| 3581s | right here with this High Ground that |
| 3582s | just allows you to poke and poke away so |
| 3585s | even though turkey's like not running |
| 3586s | these super long range Heroes like a May |
| 3588s | and a Hanzo can do enough to dissuade |
| 3590s | you and I think Poland is gonna have to |
| 3593s | rely on I mean just how is forever gonna |
| 3595s | get in position |
| 3597s | right now does not care walks forward |
| 3600s | swings the hammer Ash in his sights and |
| 3603s | oh man turkey is just doing whatever |
| 3606s | they want to do right now and uh you |
| 3609s | know one thing we really touch on the |
| 3611s | whole was like you know Turkey did have |
| 3612s | substitutions coming on in here where |
| 3613s | you know Romani was out and it was in uh |
| 3616s | the track out Nephron in so uh you know |
| 3619s | Turkey had a game plan for this and so |
| 3621s | far being executed to Perfection yeah |
| 3623s | the rush is looks really strong and I |
| 3625s | just you know Poland is just gonna have |
| 3627s | a really hard time getting in position |
| 3628s | here I think Poland is going to give it |
| 3630s | a shot with whatever alts they have uh |
| 3633s | cues them if you got them I guess and |
| 3635s | then maybe they'll switch up at the end |
| 3636s | so it's just been very difficult for |
| 3638s | Poland to get in position without just |
| 3640s | getting Ryan dropped on essentially well |
| 3643s | speaking of Ryan drops uh he's on the |
| 3645s | top rope right now coming on down Shadow |
| 3648s | not used instead uh just dropped instead |
| 3650s | uh you know that's where you go for the |
| 3652s | elbow drop and you just hit nothing but |
| 3654s | Matt as a Poland punishes and goes |
| 3657s | forward |
| 3658s | I I mean so it was an interesting drop |
| 3661s | because Revenant didn't get far enough |
| 3663s | out in front of his team to be able to |
| 3665s | get healed by the Baptiste |
| 3667s | um and then it was kind of just like all |
| 3668s | alone literally all alone people |
| 3670s | questioning the the validity of |
| 3673s | uh Hanzo arrows |
| 3675s | yeah they've all been there |
| 3677s | I think anyone that's played any game |
| 3678s | against sanzo has been there but is that |
| 3682s | just a really clever way of calling him |
| 3684s | lucky |
| 3695s | still gonna try and flip it lizard down |
| 3698s | from lethal in the back |
| 3700s | I kept though able to punish Revenant |
| 3702s | and Poland getting pushed back I can't |
| 3704s | get to the other end they can stay in |
| 3706s | this yeah yeah just to stay in this |
| 3708s | there's only 10 seconds left |
| 3710s | it's lethal and this is really nice come |
| 3713s | on it should be enough to extend the map |
| 3715s | we'll see if this dragon is able to do |
| 3717s | anything we do have Remnant back on in |
| 3720s | hold on though just needs to get a last |
| 3722s | little bit of cleanup |
| 3723s | but can they do it the longer this goes |
| 3725s | the more turkey's gang respawns back |
| 3727s | onto the point the more chance to turn |
| 3729s | this around and stop it here |
| 3731s | don't go down lethal's back in on the |
| 3732s | legs finds forever and turkey starting |
| 3735s | to flip this back around they lose |
| 3737s | Reddit they lose muso they still have |
| 3739s | the DPS lethal picks up another two is |
| 3741s | that gonna be enough it's coming down to |
| 3743s | the wire fake Jake though puts an end to |
| 3744s | the legs and that is gonna be the second |
| 3745s | point for Poland yeah I think Jake with |
| 3748s | a nice cleanup at the end we'll get two |
| 3749s | kills and look at the kill feed but |
| 3750s | there was a moment where flipper was |
| 3752s | just about dead for his team and about |
| 3754s | one HP was able to dodge an arrow at the |
| 3757s | end and him staying alive and on the |
| 3759s | cards providing the healing providing |
| 3761s | some nuisance and some cart presence was |
| 3763s | probably the clutch play right there |
| 3765s | that Poland needed |
| 3767s | um so now as the map gets a little bit |
| 3769s | smaller and there's these Corners then |
| 3771s | Poland's composition starts to look a |
| 3774s | little bit better |
| 3775s | um they could still get rushed down but |
| 3777s | now just taking it corner by corner and |
| 3780s | then you're gonna have this really long |
| 3781s | hallway and maybe icap can start getting |
| 3783s | some value out of it dragon come down |
| 3785s | early here from Poland trying to push |
| 3787s | Revenant back mortality field gone |
| 3789s | nephron though finds ikev early fake |
| 3791s | Jake back in return both teams down to |
| 3793s | DPS 4v4 Revenant getting real real close |
| 3796s | to the shadow right now 85 percent |
| 3797s | hiding around the corner looking forward |
| 3800s | being like please let me smack you at |
| 3801s | the hammer once I just need a smidgen of |
| 3803s | all charge fake Jake goes down on the |
| 3805s | turkey starts walking forward |
| 3808s | they don't need it turkey can set up for |
| 3809s | this final fight and I mean what a great |
| 3811s | position to be and if you're on the |
| 3813s | defense they're gonna have a blizzard |
| 3814s | and a shatter and a beats um Pauline is |
| 3816s | gonna have to find a way to engage |
| 3819s | with their support ultimates perhaps you |
| 3821s | want to take this High ground and set up |
| 3822s | a window from Texel and be able to push |
| 3825s | turkey back a little bit |
| 3828s | there's the window not on high ground |
| 3829s | though |
| 3831s | I say respective no respect |
| 3839s | in the back the beat protecting for a |
| 3841s | while but nephron getting some cleanup |
| 3843s | on the other end Revenant is down but |
| 3844s | his sacrifice sets the tone turkey |
| 3847s | should be able to finish this out |
| 3849s | Annihilation though still on the point |
| 3850s | pulling not gone just yet but the |
| 3853s | numbers game in turkey's favor just a |
| 3856s | few more of the cleanup and the cart |
| 3858s | stops here |
| 3860s | pretty clutch though from pole and |
| 3862s | throughout that match because they were |
| 3864s | about 30 seconds away from getting full |
| 3866s | held on first second point was a little |
| 3869s | bit dodgy as well so able to like win |
| 3872s | those final final fights |
| 3874s | um kind of bodes really well for for |
| 3876s | Poland and this was their map pick |
| 3879s | um and turkey just had a really good |
| 3881s | idea of how to play The Rush in certain |
| 3883s | positions but this map changes at a lot |
| 3885s | of different places so like Rush isn't |
| 3888s | always going to be the best thing and I |
| 3889s | think also Poland did a really good job |
| 3891s | of |
| 3892s | starting to catch the aggression from |
| 3895s | Revenant because Revenant was going nuts |
| 3897s | right and had some had some kind of |
| 3899s | crazy big plays and yeah that's good |
| 3902s | that's gonna happen on Orion but they |
| 3903s | started doing a really good job of |
| 3904s | catching that aggression falling back |
| 3906s | peeling using the alts when they had to |
| 3908s | and punishing that Ryan for being so far |
| 3909s | forward yeah I mean rather than points |
| 3911s | there |
| 3912s | are absolute ultimate example of there |
| 3914s | is a point where we should have stopped |
| 3916s | but let's keep going anyways and see |
| 3918s | what happens and hey at the end worked |
| 3920s | out pretty well who expects a ride to |
| 3922s | just go that deep and go I'm gonna say |
| 3923s | hello to your uh DPS in the back well |
| 3926s | he's not a coward don't give him that no |
| 3930s | you know so Poland's um kind of running |
| 3933s | yeah this this I don't know I don't want |
| 3935s | to call it old school but this |
| 3936s | traditional composition |
| 3939s | um |
| 3940s | on circuit Royale anyway double sniper |
| 3943s | uh Sigma and the the tanks can be can be |
| 3947s | really good so I think that this was |
| 3950s | their plan very likely |
| 3951s | um but with I think with their map pick |
| 3953s | it was turkey's side pick very likely so |
| 3955s | Poland didn't get to play the defense |
| 3956s | that they wanted to first but this is |
| 3959s | this is what we expect from circuit |
| 3960s | we'll see if Poland can make it work it |
| 3962s | took all of one match for Widow that he |
| 3964s | played again |
| 3965s | are you sure they nerfed her what's |
| 3967s | going on man |
| 3970s | but I mean I think I've seen some some |
| 3973s | tests on this map where the sight lines |
| 3975s | don't really you know the the damage |
| 3978s | fall off and the range Nerf doesn't |
| 3980s | really affect this map that badly uh |
| 3982s | we're you know it affects things like |
| 3984s | ilios where you're just installed oh |
| 3986s | geez well speaking of snipers uh you |
| 3988s | know sometimes the icicles uh can |
| 3990s | function in that capacity fake Jake |
| 3993s | catching one to the Dome is turkey just |
| 3995s | casually keeping things moving forward |
| 3998s | and you know at some point Poland's |
| 3999s | gonna have to commit onto the car but |
| 4001s | they really want to get pick off first |
| 4002s | here next |
| 4003s | yeah I mean but what they want is kind |
| 4006s | of irrelevant because they just keep |
| 4007s | Walling off forever and trying to rush |
| 4010s | down fake Jake will take down that |
| 4012s | that's the kill they need that is why |
| 4014s | you're running the Widow but both tanks |
| 4015s | trade it out is it gonna be enough well |
| 4017s | when both tanks are down that's why that |
| 4019s | Vapor snipers is fake Jake immediately |
| 4022s | takes advantage Cav with the cherry on |
| 4024s | top but yeah I mean once you lose your |
| 4027s | ride in that situation it's like uh-oh |
| 4029s | you know what's standing between us and |
| 4031s | the Widow and the Hanzo it's not a lot |
| 4035s | yeah so a reset here and |
| 4038s | I wonder if I can see turkey just |
| 4040s | teleporting onto the snipers like that |
| 4042s | is kind of how they've been playing it |
| 4043s | but they'll just put the wall up you |
| 4045s | know we talk about like how there's no |
| 4046s | double shield anymore May kind of fills |
| 4048s | that Gap in a lot of places yeah I mean |
| 4050s | the wall is Shield s because it turns |
| 4053s | out right now looking for the shots has |
| 4054s | the opportunity doesn't quite find the |
| 4056s | heads here thus far A little bit of |
| 4059s | damage onto the Rhine looking for the |
| 4062s | May finds the May |
| 4063s | not the cleanest pick-off but it'll do |
| 4067s | it's okay to be a body shot Bandit it's |
| 4069s | all right |
| 4071s | yeah |
| 4074s | yeah yeah that's true |
| 4077s | but turkey not making any changes here |
| 4080s | they're gonna run the same thing again |
| 4081s | I'm just wondering if they're gonna find |
| 4083s | some teleporter value there it is |
| 4084s | teleporter value goes down through the |
| 4086s | bottom and it closes the distance really |
| 4087s | well |
| 4088s | all right turkey now again up close and |
| 4091s | personal Dragon strike by Poland in |
| 4092s | response and transcend so Poland's |
| 4094s | burning the bank |
| 4096s | takes the opposing tank on a ride |
| 4098s | forever down in the corner now goes all |
| 4101s | right everything's all clear I'm gonna |
| 4102s | walk forward with my shield let's do |
| 4104s | this and now if you're pulling uh you |
| 4107s | can't really do much but back away you |
| 4109s | have to wait for reinforcements here and |
| 4111s | you have to give up the space |
| 4112s | yeah and even the teleporter out there |
| 4114s | comes as as just a Minor Threat but that |
| 4116s | was just a really great play by Revenant |
| 4118s | he gets even shoulder wise |
| 4120s | um and once you get past the other tank |
| 4122s | to be able to pull them away from their |
| 4123s | team like charging into the team doesn't |
| 4126s | help you at all but I shot yeah you get |
| 4128s | rid of that early flux coming in the |
| 4131s | play Remnant gonna get slammed down rub |
| 4132s | it though I think still looking for the |
| 4134s | shadow here I have the symmetra alt in |
| 4136s | play turkey thick still again trying |
| 4138s | contestants 4v5 |
| 4141s | is a little bit rough feeling wise but |
| 4144s | now we're sitting here low HP does not |
| 4147s | care still has shatter Ray the go losing |
| 4149s | lethal though now you start the question |
| 4151s | do you want to do this you're three |
| 4153s | meters away but you're under a lot of |
| 4156s | pressure right now Turkey right now just |
| 4158s | waiting and they go for the shatter |
| 4159s | knocks down flipper in the back but is |
| 4161s | that gonna be enough teleporter comes in |
| 4163s | that friend finds icavin turkey being |
| 4165s | Scrappy staying in this fight here hex |
| 4167s | we'll see if it pans out as well come |
| 4171s | back in yeah lethals can be able to come |
| 4172s | back in Jake went a little bit too far |
| 4174s | out and the moment they step past this |
| 4175s | threshold there are Sim turrets |
| 4177s | everywhere and it's brutal so turkey |
| 4180s | just plays the sustained game even |
| 4182s | though like they they got the shadow in |
| 4184s | they didn't commit to the shatter |
| 4185s | necessarily there wasn't a big charge |
| 4186s | into it they just played the sustain |
| 4189s | game up front Poland's gonna pick up a |
| 4190s | couple kills late but that is the second |
| 4192s | point for turkey remember first to two |
| 4196s | in these online qualifiers Turkey |
| 4198s | already up 1-0 they can close out the |
| 4201s | map they will close up the series yeah I |
| 4203s | mean it's not always the easiest to get |
| 4204s | to the end of this map but you know |
| 4206s | nearly four minutes is a lot of time a |
| 4209s | good position to be in to say the least |
| 4211s | yeah it's a tough map to close out |
| 4213s | especially when the other team is |
| 4214s | running long range uh damage dealers |
| 4217s | because all this High ground but they've |
| 4219s | done such a good job of just teleporting |
| 4221s | onto things |
| 4228s | front but uh you know Turkey didn't |
| 4230s | necessarily have a whole lot going into |
| 4231s | that fight anyways so you know three |
| 4234s | minutes left to go and you know this is |
| 4235s | those things where if you're all |
| 4236s | tracking well you can just kind of go |
| 4238s | for that one good fight which is really |
| 4240s | all turkey needs |
| 4242s | yeah I mean we'll see by the time that |
| 4245s | they get to the payload if they just |
| 4247s | need one more fight because you are |
| 4248s | going to have respawns here they at the |
| 4250s | end so we'll see what that distance is |
| 4251s | but |
| 4252s | I think turkey if they're going to |
| 4254s | teleport onto a Target they need to full |
| 4256s | commit because what happened there is |
| 4257s | they teleport up with a couple people |
| 4259s | and then it's Poland just responds by |
| 4261s | taking whoever's left on the ground |
| 4263s | here we go they're getting into it once |
| 4265s | more symmetra oh gonna open things up |
| 4266s | here from that friend |
| 4268s | turkey |
| 4269s | rolls on Ford no Shadow Reserve Revenant |
| 4272s | though does not care in the front line |
| 4274s | fake Jake laying in the damage from the |
| 4276s | back gets pretty low right now trying to |
| 4279s | get healed back up before poking once |
| 4281s | more lethal though blizzard ready to go |
| 4283s | drops the wall holding on to Blizzard |
| 4285s | for now annihilation in from Poland for |
| 4288s | his able to find remnants so down the |
| 4289s | tank and you know again if your turkey |
| 4292s | they did spend the beat there I think |
| 4294s | they're gonna hold on to Blizzard but |
| 4295s | this is really good time delay from |
| 4297s | Poland |
| 4298s | yeah it's nice there that they're able |
| 4301s | to hold on as you said but Poland did |
| 4303s | burn a lot of the bank uh Poland's doing |
| 4306s | a pretty good job of rotating their |
| 4307s | ultimates between damage up front and |
| 4309s | then the tank will take a turn and now |
| 4311s | next rotation Poland should have both of |
| 4313s | their support ultimates so this battle |
| 4314s | is just gonna be can the blizzard get |
| 4317s | value can flipper stay alive during it |
| 4319s | to transcendence's team and keep them |
| 4321s | alive during it as well number one thing |
| 4323s | pulling can get another rotation flipper |
| 4325s | cannot get shattered before using |
| 4327s | Transcendence here that would be the |
| 4328s | worst case scenario if that somehow went |
| 4331s | into play Remnant under a little bit |
| 4332s | pressure Luzon nearly got picked off had |
| 4334s | the immortality field early there I |
| 4336s | think fake Jake had a good angle on him |
| 4338s | Turkey right now gonna slow down a bit |
| 4340s | heel back up blizzard and shatter still |
| 4342s | in reserve and again I just look at this |
| 4344s | next fight flipper safely get the |
| 4347s | Transcendence off fake Jake looking for |
| 4349s | pokins on the side Shadow again come |
| 4351s | down it's forever Transcendence is there |
| 4352s | but fake Jake got picked off fake Jake |
| 4354s | was with the rest of his team five |
| 4356s | before opportunity for turkey now |
| 4357s | blizzard |
| 4363s | so many members this is escalating fast |
| 4366s | and it's gonna be turkey taking the map |
| 4368s | and match |
| 4370s | a lot closer than I had expected though |
| 4372s | too and you can see why that was |
| 4373s | Poland's map Choice especially towards |
| 4375s | the end on that defense I mean fake Jake |
| 4377s | going down really hurt them because what |
| 4378s | was happening is every time that that |
| 4381s | turkey tried to set up or go in it get |
| 4383s | hit by like three arrows and then the |
| 4385s | ash putting in so much damage too it was |
| 4387s | just this murderous row of high grounds |
| 4390s | and even like they had tried it a couple |
| 4392s | times remember there was a Teleport up |
| 4393s | top earlier they're trying to take away |
| 4395s | that high ground and and uh Poland did a |
| 4398s | really good job of Defending that High |
| 4399s | Ground which is another strategy there |
| 4401s | but eventually overwhelmed |
| 4404s | um Jake not Jake once the well one too |
| 4406s | many times he was hitting all these |
| 4407s | great shots on on the reinhardt's then |
| 4409s | went back there and just got storm |
| 4411s | arrowed got really low and then it was |
| 4413s | really nice cleanup from the support |
| 4415s | line of turkey to come up and the Lucio |
| 4418s | eventually got the killed and then that |
| 4420s | was the Go Button there then they commit |
| 4421s | the blizzard they commit the wall they |
| 4422s | commit the shatter everything goes down |
| 4424s | there because they're not getting rained |
| 4426s | down by the these the sh the arrows of |
| 4428s | death from above so uh really nice play |
| 4431s | I I see what Poland was trying to get |
| 4433s | done |
| 4434s | um they're just kind of relying on their |
| 4435s | damage dealers to play their best heroes |
| 4437s | it looks like and it was it was really |
| 4439s | close yeah as we go to the replays here |
| 4441s | definitely gonna see uh a bit more from |
| 4443s | Revenant I'd say uh definitely one of |
| 4445s | the fun players to watch over the course |
| 4447s | of the match I mean look lethal and Ike |
| 4450s | have dps1 for both teams very effective |
| 4452s | in the pack but you know anytime you go |
| 4454s | around doing stuff like this it's a |
| 4456s | story it's very entertaining |
| 4458s | well I mean that last shatter though is |
| 4460s | like that was when you saw Poland |
| 4462s | starting to adjust right they then |
| 4464s | abusing a support ultimate there and |
| 4465s | they collapse on that shatter so it's |
| 4466s | like okay you want to do that this was |
| 4468s | like one of my favorite plays this just |
| 4470s | gets really aggressive and when you get |
| 4471s | even with the other tank like that then |
| 4473s | you're ahead so pulling uh forever away |
| 4476s | from the team and then this fight ended |
| 4478s | up just being a sustained battle up |
| 4479s | front and they were able to pull it off |
| 4481s | so a clash of styles I still don't know |
| 4483s | what the meta is I don't think we're |
| 4485s | gonna see a defined meta just based on |
| 4486s | like how map picks work and how kind of |
| 4488s | crazy uh the format is |
| 4491s | but um yeah I mean obviously you could |
| 4494s | see what Poland was trying to pull off |
| 4495s | there on their defense I think |
| 4498s | icav is most comfortable on the long |
| 4499s | range hit scans we saw it early on in |
| 4501s | Lee Jeong Tower the switch over to the |
| 4502s | ash uh turned to like a turning point |
| 4505s | for them and then you know you saw that |
| 4507s | the Hanzo play come out really well too |
| 4509s | so |
| 4510s | yeah turkey wins they win 2-0 but if you |
| 4513s | didn't watch the match like yeah that |
| 4515s | was way closer way closer than I |
| 4517s | expected on paper and I think Poland put |
| 4519s | some people on notice yeah I mean it was |
| 4520s | definitely |
| 4521s | because like well it was a 2-0 but you |
| 4524s | know it was it wasn't the score doesn't |
| 4525s | tell you everything you know Poland put |
| 4527s | up a very good fight couldn't ask for a |
| 4529s | better start to the day and you know hex |
| 4532s | it's probably just going to be getting |
| 4533s | on better when you look at what's on the |
| 4535s | horizon oh yeah yeah so yeah I was gonna |
| 4539s | say that said we will get to that in |
| 4541s | just a few minutes after our break I |
| 4542s | wasn't sure if you're ready for breaking |
| 4543s | up but we are ready coming up next is |
| 4545s | gonna be Finland taking on Saudi Arabia |
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| 4769s | welcome back to the 2023 OverWatch World |
| 4772s | Cup online qualifiers for emec I'm your |
| 4774s | host Jim Basco zp and hex just brought |
| 4776s | you the action between Poland vs Turkey |
| 4778s | which was way closer than we could have |
| 4781s | expected but the score ended up being |
| 4783s | 2-0 in favor of turkey with that said |
| 4786s | we've got stacked matches all day long |
| 4788s | just around the corner the next one up |
| 4790s | is Finland versus the Kingdom of Saudi |
| 4793s | Arabia and with that let's take a look |
| 4794s | at the schedule hex CP talk to us about |
| 4797s | that last game talk to us about this |
| 4799s | upcoming game obviously expectations |
| 4801s | definitely blown out of the water right |
| 4803s | that polish team put up a fight here |
| 4805s | yeah I mean what we saw from Poland was |
| 4807s | beyond expectations where you know again |
| 4809s | when you don't have a lot of you know |
| 4811s | knowledge on the players or you know how |
| 4812s | good they may be you're looking to go |
| 4814s | well you know we're gonna go with the |
| 4815s | team that has you know OverWatch League |
| 4817s | Talent on you know go from there but you |
| 4819s | know Poland was surprising but this next |
| 4821s | match up here is truly I feel like you |
| 4824s | know gonna be the most interesting match |
| 4826s | of the day because you know hex as you |
| 4827s | said it's old versus new and a lot of |
| 4829s | ways yeah I mean I will get to that in a |
| 4832s | second but like Poland in Turkey was |
| 4834s | kind of crazy like each one of those |
| 4835s | Maps went down to the last fight like |
| 4837s | the May pick the the single kill like |
| 4839s | absolutely Bonkers way closer than 2-0 |
| 4842s | would indicate but Finland Saudi Arabia |
| 4844s | I mean we really have to talk about this |
| 4846s | because both these teams are in group b |
| 4848s | and Group B only gets two teams that |
| 4850s | qualify out of it so like I lost early |
| 4852s | on here is absolutely brutal because in |
| 4855s | this brag in group b as well you've got |
| 4857s | some other teams that could be wild |
| 4859s | cards like like a Sweden Sweden could |
| 4861s | get carried just by the fact that they |
| 4863s | have two of the best DPS in the entire |
| 4865s | uh game of OverWatch like Iceland could |
| 4868s | be really good like you've got Norway |
| 4869s | like you've got some other teams out |
| 4871s | here that could sneak in so I think |
| 4873s | early on you look at um you look at |
| 4875s | Group B and you'd expect Saudi Arabia |
| 4877s | you expect Finland but you Sweden could |
| 4880s | sneak it like there's some teams that |
| 4882s | could sneak in and like I said only two |
| 4883s | teams out of this group so somebody who |
| 4885s | we think deserves to get in will be left |
| 4888s | out and I think like early on it's it's |
| 4890s | going to be really really interesting to |
| 4892s | see and like you said zp is old school |
| 4894s | new school like this Saudi Arabia team |
| 4897s | if you're not familiar the core of them |
| 4899s | are twisted mines uh who beat nyxl on |
| 4903s | the Pro-Am maybe not the biggest beat |
| 4905s | ever but it was a contender scene made |
| 4907s | an OverWatch League team right um and |
| 4909s | then like this this Finland team it's |
| 4911s | it's so it's Masa LH cloudy vestola uh |
| 4915s | the experience an owl Sana plays on |
| 4918s | Florida Mayhem doesn't really play a ton |
| 4920s | because Florida mayhem's kind of stacked |
| 4921s | but he's an owl player and then you know |
| 4923s | you add in a couple people on Saudi |
| 4926s | Arabia like you can't even talk about |
| 4927s | this is team a second he got surmajed |
| 4929s | who I think is one of one of the best |
| 4930s | players from Florida last year now on |
| 4933s | this squad and and uh also like streamer |
| 4935s | extraordinaire the only person ever be |
| 4937s | rank one and all the OverWatch servers |
| 4939s | ever in yazan |
| 4941s | um |
| 4941s | granted pharah is a weird spot but we'll |
| 4944s | see like it's just they're they're |
| 4946s | stacked across the board on both sides |
| 4948s | and you bring up a good point right |
| 4949s | Meadows are still yet to be decided we |
| 4951s | saw very different team comps coming |
| 4953s | into this last match and of course saw |
| 4954s | lots of picks right the May was popular |
| 4956s | the ash was super popular the Cassidy as |
| 4958s | well so coming into this next set |
| 4960s | obviously there's a lot of expectations |
| 4962s | I hope to see some Pharaoh myself I've |
| 4964s | been a yazan fan since however long ago |
| 4966s | like you mentioned just accolades for |
| 4968s | this guy and for the team overall really |
| 4970s | for both these squads but obviously the |
| 4972s | action doesn't stop there we know it's |
| 4974s | bright and early for y'all on the |
| 4975s | Pacific coast but the action will |
| 4977s | continue on throughout the day today and |
| 4980s | for the next couple of days we're gonna |
| 4981s | be doing two weeks of World Cup |
| 4983s | qualifying action for the Eastern uh the |
| 4985s | emec conference rather so with that said |
| 4988s | let's head on into Finland versus the |
| 4989s | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia heading on into |
| 4991s | map one Li Zhang Tower casters go on |
| 4993s | ahead and take it away thank you Jim and |
| 4995s | yeah you know you take a look at going |
| 4997s | into so we're gonna be going the roster |
| 4999s | soon and there's just a lot to talk |
| 5001s | about here you know you can kind of you |
| 5003s | know again talk about Finland you know |
| 5004s | the storied history of a lot of the |
| 5005s | players where yeah one of the |
| 5006s | interesting things about Finland yo |
| 5007s | going back and refreshing my memory here |
| 5009s | I thought for a second that this would |
| 5011s | be the first year that you didn't have |
| 5012s | links are in play and I links are |
| 5014s | actually didn't play in 2019 I forgot |
| 5015s | about that the one rock of Finland that |
| 5018s | was there in every single sync for them |
| 5020s | and every year the OverWatch World Cup |
| 5021s | that no longer is a Zappos so I didn't |
| 5023s | realize that Zapped this was just you |
| 5025s | know the rock for that longer period of |
| 5027s | time first uh finish team though not to |
| 5029s | have him around because I believe he |
| 5031s | retired some years ago yeah so some of |
| 5033s | the the really early strong parts of |
| 5036s | OverWatch uh maybe a little bit before |
| 5038s | the OverWatch League where some of these |
| 5040s | Finnish players I mean I think we used |
| 5042s | to call linkster uh finland's gift to |
| 5043s | Esports uh I believe so |
| 5045s | um yeah I mean a Strong pedigree of |
| 5048s | Esports overall uh from Finland and you |
| 5050s | know they they play a lot of different |
| 5052s | Esports but I've always had pretty |
| 5053s | strong showings in OverWatch League Etc |
| 5057s | um so yeah I think it's it's kind of |
| 5059s | like vets versus I don't want to say |
| 5061s | like a bunch of new people because |
| 5063s | there's a lot of talent and experience |
| 5064s | on Saudi Arabia but like maybe names |
| 5066s | that you're not like super familiar with |
| 5069s | um but also like if you just started |
| 5070s | watching OverWatch League like this year |
| 5073s | or last year you might not be familiar |
| 5074s | with some of the Finnish players either |
| 5076s | because some of them have been kind of |
| 5077s | out of the league for a couple of years |
| 5078s | so um and kind of retired and coming |
| 5081s | back but that's a lot of experience so I |
| 5084s | this one could go either way |
| 5086s | um I know a lot of people just kind of |
| 5088s | reading the Tea Leaves of you know the |
| 5090s | Reddit and some more co-casters as well |
| 5092s | really banking on this Saudi Arabia team |
| 5095s | like they they just look super super |
| 5097s | strong in all aspects and we talked |
| 5099s | about like you know sir Majed and yazan |
| 5101s | but like the core of this team the |
| 5103s | Twisted Minds like I think those are |
| 5105s | probably their best players we'll talk |
| 5107s | about that when we when we get to that |
| 5108s | roster |
| 5109s | yeah I mean once we get to them uh |
| 5112s | there's a lot to talk about and you know |
| 5113s | you know you look at Finland though here |
| 5115s | too is that you know I just think about |
| 5117s | the peaks of some of these players well |
| 5119s | I guess one interesting thing I thought |
| 5120s | LH cloudy would be uh in here at the |
| 5123s | start instead it's gonna be Vastola but |
| 5124s | yeah I guess it makes sense it'll be |
| 5125s | going back and forth I want to talk |
| 5127s | about uh the good old days of LH cloudy |
| 5129s | and some of the you know his come up |
| 5131s | through EU contenders but you know |
| 5132s | that'll be another time but I always |
| 5134s | love seeing Masa playing masa's always |
| 5135s | been you know a very aggressive uh |
| 5137s | support that you know often makes big |
| 5139s | plays yeah Masa uh formerly I want to |
| 5143s | say Atlanta |
| 5144s | um I don't know why that's coming to my |
| 5145s | Atlanta and then uh Vancouver uh so |
| 5147s | obviously has experience at the |
| 5149s | OverWatch League level as does Sauna um |
| 5151s | I'm kind of glad that cloudy is not in |
| 5153s | the lineup right now because Cloud will |
| 5155s | be playing their TPS so that's just a |
| 5158s | selfish thing for me to not want to cast |
| 5160s | it but I mean obviously the the tank |
| 5162s | disparity is going to be vestola I think |
| 5164s | is his best heroes are kind of the flex |
| 5166s | tanks and obviously I think a festival I |
| 5168s | usually think of Diva media when I think |
| 5170s | of Cloudy I think of the Reinhardt |
| 5172s | immediately so it might just be map |
| 5174s | dependent and depending on what they |
| 5175s | want to play on either side of that so |
| 5178s | uh yeah it's it's a very strong team I |
| 5180s | think cloud is very good Sonic can be a |
| 5182s | carry |
| 5183s | like I said it plays on the floor to |
| 5185s | Mayhem but it's just that Florida's |
| 5186s | roster is so strong right now that |
| 5188s | hasn't had a use for him I think it's |
| 5191s | only played a couple of maps so |
| 5193s | um interesting to see where for this |
| 5194s | Finland team and like I said |
| 5196s | it's so important for Group B to be |
| 5198s | winning all your matches only two teams |
| 5200s | out of this and like I said you've got |
| 5202s | Sweden and Norway like you've got a lot |
| 5204s | of other teams still in in this group |
| 5206s | with with some talent that could upset |
| 5208s | people so somebody is going to be upset |
| 5210s | out of group b somebody who who one team |
| 5212s | that we think should get through will |
| 5214s | not qualify yeah and when you're up |
| 5216s | against one of the other teams you know |
| 5217s | that's strong in the group it |
| 5218s | essentially puts in the must-win |
| 5220s | territory already because if you don't |
| 5222s | then you basically have to go perfect |
| 5224s | the rest of the way through it's a whole |
| 5225s | lot of extra pressure whereas if you win |
| 5227s | here now then you can just be a little |
| 5229s | bit more relaxed on things but we do |
| 5231s | have the Saudi Arabia roster ready let's |
| 5233s | take a look at Deep dive just a little |
| 5236s | bit more and uh you know obviously |
| 5238s | you're gonna see the pharah in play |
| 5240s | front and center heck so there's good |
| 5241s | reason why |
| 5243s | yeah so I mean KSA obviously is a name |
| 5246s | that you should know as well you be in |
| 5247s | there a little surprise we're not going |
| 5248s | to see uh quartz who I thought was |
| 5250s | actually very very good players so we're |
| 5252s | good we're gonna see the the fire of |
| 5254s | Mercy uh sir magad I mean uh some of |
| 5256s | some of the the things I hear about him |
| 5258s | is that he's he's one of the most |
| 5260s | mechanically gifted crazy shooters ever |
| 5262s | sometimes not the best at knowing where |
| 5265s | to be uh so that might be something to |
| 5267s | look at but like sir magette has been |
| 5268s | able to make a living on |
| 5271s | um just being that mechanically better |
| 5272s | than most people so if he's out of |
| 5274s | position it doesn't matter because just |
| 5276s | shoots people it's just that's how |
| 5279s | sadness always worked so it's going to |
| 5281s | be interesting obviously Azan that we |
| 5283s | saw in there too so |
| 5285s | um I don't know if there's something our |
| 5286s | starting starting lineup but yeah Fair |
| 5288s | Mercy hasn't worked out the best we'll |
| 5292s | see |
| 5293s | um but yeah I mean there's still a lot |
| 5294s | of talent just waiting to play uh on the |
| 5297s | on the bench here for Saudi Arabia and I |
| 5299s | I cannot overstate enough how important |
| 5301s | this first match is and um yeah I'm just |
| 5304s | excited to get into it yeah I mean it's |
| 5306s | it's kind of nosy mentioned that because |
| 5307s | you know there is a disparity where some |
| 5309s | teams you know really don't have a lot |
| 5311s | of bench depth in the OverWatch World |
| 5312s | Cup and then other teams you know just |
| 5314s | have an abundance of talent that they |
| 5316s | could pull from uh for it so you know |
| 5319s | seeing those differences between the |
| 5320s | teams interesting but Saudi Arabia |
| 5321s | definitely coming in with a deep bench |
| 5323s | but once again we will be kicking things |
| 5325s | off with lijiang Tower getting a feel |
| 5327s | for where these teams are at |
| 5329s | mechanically and you know to me I feel |
| 5332s | like going into this you know Saudi |
| 5333s | Arabia is likely going to have a high |
| 5336s | degree of performance Finland to me is |
| 5338s | more the wild card where if Finland |
| 5340s | comes in and they do poorly I'm not |
| 5343s | gonna be surprised if Finley comes in |
| 5344s | and they beat Saudi Arabia I'm also not |
| 5346s | gonna be surprised I feel like there's a |
| 5348s | very wide range of performance here that |
| 5350s | my brain would just be okay with and be |
| 5353s | like yeah that makes sense like I can |
| 5354s | logically support anything because I |
| 5357s | think my feel is that like Saudi |
| 5360s | Arabia's flashier kind of like the next |
| 5363s | thing right you know we got some of |
| 5365s | these players that have like played |
| 5366s | really well in the Pro-Am |
| 5369s | and uh Finland is kind of like you know |
| 5372s | it's it's the old guard and you know |
| 5375s | it's it's dark there like 18 hours a day |
| 5377s | so it like I think I was I want to say |
| 5379s | it was Masa or maybe links around like |
| 5381s | why are there so many players from from |
| 5383s | Nordic countries that that end up in the |
| 5385s | OverWatch that he's like it's dark 18 |
| 5386s | hours a day there's nothing else to do |
| 5388s | that sounds like links that really |
| 5390s | really sounds like sir even when link |
| 5393s | sir was in LA I gotta tell you like I |
| 5395s | know links are reasonably well he was |
| 5397s | not going outside a whole lot like that |
| 5399s | was just like what what is this burning |
| 5401s | ball of Fire in the Sky like I'm staying |
| 5404s | in |
| 5405s | yeah so uh how many is that pauses so |
| 5408s | far for us today four it's four yeah |
| 5410s | it's actually a good thing where uh for |
| 5413s | whatever reason people following are |
| 5414s | very interested in the amount of bosses |
| 5416s | so it's like you know there's a running |
| 5418s | counter where it's like hey this is |
| 5419s | gonna happen you have a big |
| 5420s | International competition especially |
| 5422s | with players that aren't always uh |
| 5424s | competing normally you know the internet |
| 5426s | gods are gonna strike and uh right now |
| 5428s | you know four at the start of the day |
| 5430s | it's on the higher end but we've seen |
| 5432s | worse but it's fine as long as that |
| 5434s | number is higher than the amount of |
| 5435s | times I I misnamed Cassidy uh so right |
| 5440s | now we have more pauses then that's |
| 5442s | happened so that's all right as long as |
| 5443s | your internet guys don't strike us |
| 5445s | knock on wood right there |
| 5448s | um we should be good so yeah I think |
| 5450s | this is all part of the plan to just |
| 5453s | create even more tension and hype for |
| 5455s | what I think is going to be uh the |
| 5457s | strongest match of the day I think |
| 5459s | whoever wins this I'm going to go out on |
| 5460s | a limb and say whoever wins this is out |
| 5462s | of group b like already already I will |
| 5465s | have them qualified as Group B because I |
| 5466s | don't see them losing |
| 5468s | um two more matches throughout the rest |
| 5470s | of it you know yeah I mean Sweden is |
| 5472s | probably the one where like I wouldn't |
| 5473s | be surprised if Sweden goes through and |
| 5475s | it's undefeated just because I mean look |
| 5477s | you have players like Kev star and |
| 5478s | sparker that's uh yeah to say Sweden has |
| 5481s | upgraded their DPS from previous years |
| 5483s | as an understatement where it's like you |
| 5485s | know 2016 they're pretty good because I |
| 5486s | was kind of like the great year to Vic |
| 5488s | but then you know they fell off in the |
| 5491s | preceding years in terms of DPS power |
| 5493s | relatively those stuff and now Sweden's |
| 5494s | like Hey we're back we got great DPS |
| 5497s | again so you know you look at swing |
| 5499s | you're like uh it seems a little bit |
| 5500s | Yeah Sweden used to be the kind of like |
| 5502s | their their tanks were their strong |
| 5504s | point with um ellieval |
| 5506s | but uh do you remember who was their |
| 5508s | last DPS I just love this trivia they |
| 5512s | remember the last year I know they had |
| 5514s | snow on one |
| 5516s | yeah |
| 5517s | I love Stilo excellent yeah I forget |
| 5521s | where we left off and talking about snow |
| 5522s | I think like the the popular memes is |
| 5524s | off uh in the countryside you know |
| 5527s | hunting mushrooms it's like how do you |
| 5528s | remember where the mushrooms yeah well |
| 5530s | because it was true |
| 5532s | mushrooms with his grandmother yeah oh |
| 5534s | okay I I honestly at some point it |
| 5536s | becomes hard to tell facts from the mean |
| 5538s | and like where it begins yeah and then |
| 5540s | back in 2018 reinforce was on the squad |
| 5543s | yeah well reinforced like had a he was |
| 5546s | also on the squad like 2017 as well but |
| 5548s | it was like Wikipedia actually is like a |
| 5550s | specific notation for reinforce I barely |
| 5552s | remember at this point because the |
| 5553s | pencil I said like he played in the |
| 5555s | qualifiers and then like the team |
| 5556s | revolted and replaced him for the |
| 5558s | qualifiers placed him with snow yeah |
| 5559s | yeah and then like Johnny therefore was |
| 5561s | like talent but I seen the very like |
| 5563s | Johnny being upset at being talent but I |
| 5565s | was also like the legendary you know |
| 5568s | desk that had like Golden Boys side show |
| 5570s | Brandon like reinforce so like it would |
| 5572s | have been a different desk if that |
| 5574s | didn't happen because reinforcement had |
| 5576s | been playing I don't know it was an |
| 5577s | entire thing like deep |
| 5580s | yeah well this is what pauses do to you |
| 5582s | you know |
| 5583s | just wait till we get to like the sixth |
| 5586s | pause we'll be talking about like our |
| 5587s | our favorite foods and favorite Ninja |
| 5589s | Turtles uh stuff like that well and then |
| 5592s | the tenth level of uh hell when it comes |
| 5594s | to that is when we start going deep in |
| 5595s | the midwest lore and we start going into |
| 5598s | oh yeah you know you know we talk about |
| 5599s | that you can know about Minnesota and |
| 5601s | Wisconsin the subtle differences between |
| 5603s | Minnesota and Wisconsin accents yeah |
| 5605s | that'll be coming out so hopefully we |
| 5607s | get into gameplay momentarily there it |
| 5608s | is we are back in the game and we will |
| 5610s | start the long-awaited Finland versus |
| 5613s | Saudi Arabia in group b Banger of a |
| 5615s | match |
| 5616s | I'm excited this is again I don't know |
| 5620s | what to expect I'm coming in with a |
| 5621s | slight bias towards Saudi Arabia and |
| 5623s | that you know if you had to tell me who |
| 5624s | wins I think it's that but I want to see |
| 5627s | what Finland has in store and ah please |
| 5629s | do it |
| 5631s | just do it Finland |
| 5634s | make it happen you know what I'm talking |
| 5635s | about hex as junkrat that's life Weaver |
| 5639s | yeah no the junk rat it was the junkrat |
| 5641s | I don't care about life Weaver but it's |
| 5643s | not the junkrat it's Reaper and my |
| 5646s | spirit's already broken |
| 5648s | all right we're on Mecca base here so |
| 5650s | we're gonna see some rushdowns for both |
| 5652s | teams difference being there's going to |
| 5654s | be uh the Moira on one side and a Reaper |
| 5657s | so way more aggressive way more |
| 5660s | consistent damage from the side of |
| 5662s | Finland yeah and already sermajed picked |
| 5665s | on off the old DPS |
| 5669s | but overall the pressure of running May |
| 5672s | Reaper I mean look it's not flashy but |
| 5676s | you run into people and if they don't |
| 5677s | immediately get pick off or run away |
| 5679s | they're gonna die |
| 5681s | yeah and it's I mean it's just tough for |
| 5684s | uh yazan right there on on the Hanzo |
| 5686s | because they it's just got super rushed |
| 5688s | down and yep it was only a matter of |
| 5690s | time it was a matter of one team fight |
| 5692s | of going I've run out of options it's |
| 5695s | time to play the pharah but hey you can |
| 5697s | play far on this map but it is not |
| 5698s | terrible yeah yeah on the same note |
| 5700s | though it is gonna be a little bit hard |
| 5702s | there's a lot of ways to avoid the fire |
| 5703s | with what Finland is running but if |
| 5706s | anyone can make it work would be him so |
| 5709s | we'll see right now just poke coming in |
| 5710s | from the top a lot pressure on the |
| 5711s | festival the skull and nearly down |
| 5713s | vistola means a lifeline |
| 5716s | is the still gonna get the help he needs |
| 5717s | right now the stola On Life's edge here |
| 5720s | gets taken down and so far the far will |
| 5723s | change up working out well for Saudi |
| 5725s | Arabia well here's the thing is no one |
| 5727s | really can shoot farm right now if you |
| 5729s | just stay like even a little bit safe |
| 5730s | like May icicles maybe do something |
| 5733s | actually like the Moira is one of the |
| 5734s | biggest threats uh you can get in the |
| 5737s | suck and then obviously the the coal so |
| 5739s | they're just gonna stall it out is |
| 5742s | um Saudi or is Finland and Saudi Arabia |
| 5745s | go into the the bread and butter right |
| 5746s | here and we got swaps we got a lot of |
| 5749s | swaps in fact we have to you have you |
| 5751s | can't run May Reaper and expect to do |
| 5753s | anything against the pharah I mean I I'm |
| 5756s | not even sure I love the Sombra Tracer |
| 5758s | but this might be one of those uh the |
| 5760s | good old strata of uh let's kill |
| 5762s | everything except the the Pharaoh Mercy |
| 5763s | yeah well so |
| 5766s | the pharmacy is don't get hit by the |
| 5768s | pulse bomb from beauty here but |
| 5769s | currently is getting planned for if |
| 5772s | you're not going off to the side |
| 5773s | something a little bit of recruit |
| 5775s | because there's a lot of pressure going |
| 5776s | yeah we don't want to get hit by that |
| 5777s | meanwhile yazan or the top |
| 5780s | Mirage finds one that's all you need |
| 5782s | that's a high value barrage you get that |
| 5783s | often don't die at the same time you |
| 5785s | take those yeah in almost the biggest |
| 5788s | threat to the far Mercy is usually the |
| 5790s | the diva uh we're gonna kind of swallow |
| 5792s | up and deal with it but so far |
| 5795s | um Finland has had no answer for this it |
| 5797s | just just absolutely none it looks like |
| 5800s | we might be getting a pause maybe |
| 5801s | that'll give us some |
| 5807s | to get our overlay fixed up here uh be |
| 5810s | all set there so yeah I mean |
| 5814s | the the idea is for this you |
| 5817s | you rush down with the Sombra and Tracer |
| 5820s | and you pick off somebody who's not fair |
| 5822s | or Mercy right and you hopefully you |
| 5823s | have the diva in there too to maybe like |
| 5825s | kind of negate some of that damage up |
| 5826s | top and try to do something with it but |
| 5829s | obviously you can't run like the May |
| 5830s | Reaper I mean I guess you could if you |
| 5832s | want to do the same strategy of ignore |
| 5834s | them both but it also becomes difficult |
| 5836s | on this map to even run like a Cassidy |
| 5838s | into it because Cassidy is just trying |
| 5840s | to find an angle if you go on that |
| 5842s | platform you're gonna get knocked off if |
| 5843s | you try to come around the corner you're |
| 5844s | going to get knocked off like there's |
| 5846s | it's very difficult to answer this |
| 5849s | composition |
| 5850s | um also because teams don't play this |
| 5852s | teams don't practice against pharah in |
| 5854s | Mecca base you know yeah I mean you kind |
| 5857s | of get the old like Chengdu Hunters uh |
| 5859s | Paradox where you know sometimes teams |
| 5861s | would like play worse against them than |
| 5863s | OverWatch league history because this is |
| 5865s | like how do you prep for them no no one |
| 5867s | runs if they're running like what's |
| 5868s | going on here |
| 5869s | they did have an edge but we are back in |
| 5872s | game our fifth pause of the day is over |
| 5874s | uh in the same breath though like you |
| 5876s | have to expect Saudi Arabia to at least |
| 5878s | try this like once or twice right like |
| 5880s | you you would expect that uh yazan is |
| 5883s | going to play some gonna play some Far |
| 5884s | like probably the most prolific ladder |
| 5886s | fire player ever in OverWatch |
| 5889s | from Masa |
| 5890s | again hit support V supports the kick |
| 5892s | things off Saudi Arabia looking healthy |
| 5893s | the skull though takes that service yet |
| 5896s | so but as it goes on we just got to the |
| 5898s | back there just ending things before it |
| 5900s | could become a more even fight and you |
| 5903s | know it's easy to forget that Finland |
| 5904s | started off with the advantage here hex |
| 5906s | because Saudi Arabia about to take the |
| 5908s | round away and I don't even know if |
| 5909s | Finland has enough time for a good push |
| 5912s | here but they do have EMP we'll see if |
| 5914s | they can make anything happen 98 there |
| 5917s | will be a push the Diva's gonna be able |
| 5918s | to get onto the point and touch but I |
| 5920s | mean also that EMP is you kind of want |
| 5923s | to hit this |
| 5926s | yeah meanwhile is in hanging on to the |
| 5929s | bras saying do I need to use this right |
| 5931s | now |
| 5932s | just comes on in vacuums up the mercy in |
| 5936s | Finland you know it wasn't the cleanest |
| 5939s | opening but they make it work still in |
| 5941s | it 52 to 99 but no more margin for error |
| 5945s | and you know is on still hang on to that |
| 5947s | barrage was able to preserve it at the |
| 5949s | very least it feels so in character for |
| 5951s | festola like I remember in in the |
| 5952s | OverWatch League it always seemed like |
| 5954s | vestola was like quiet quiet than 4K it |
| 5957s | was just these huge Peaks and valleys so |
| 5959s | really nice play there and I think you |
| 5961s | know it's the right play they were able |
| 5963s | to segment off the mercy and without the |
| 5965s | mercy the pharah is is just I mean the |
| 5968s | power level goes down so immensely |
| 5978s | again well timed and that should be the |
| 5982s | round for Saudi Arabia here barring some |
| 5984s | just Untold Miracle performance |
| 5987s | is gonna try to make him work for it has |
| 5990s | to yeah I mean you gotta drop the beat |
| 5991s | there there's no uh you don't have |
| 5993s | agency there uh the queue is almost |
| 5995s | pressed for you the Sola alive stalling |
| 5998s | on the point Saudi Arabia right now just |
| 6000s | play clean |
| 6001s | flex your number Advantage lhasa goes |
| 6004s | down Saudi Arabia though getting a |
| 6006s | little bit low from Pokemon making this |
| 6007s | way closer than expected sermon gen goes |
| 6009s | down Finland back onto the point Zen |
| 6011s | though able to get Mickey the stolen |
| 6013s | bomb gets KSA |
| 6014s | but no not enough to stay on the point |
| 6017s | that was you know with the camera going |
| 6019s | back and forth that was close to the end |
| 6020s | but uh good effort from Finland but |
| 6023s | Saudi Arabia though uh key moment there |
| 6026s | hex the forest swap |
| 6028s | well absolutely and I mean I think you |
| 6030s | you kind of had to bank on it but then |
| 6032s | also I mean feeling coming out the the |
| 6033s | ultra rush and just getting the better |
| 6035s | of it like it's you know Saudi Arabia's |
| 6038s | just like oh okay then let's just do |
| 6040s | what the thing with that we really want |
| 6041s | to do |
| 6042s | um so it makes a ton of sense uh also |
| 6044s | Ubi had a really nice uh play there |
| 6047s | let's go also it seems like there's some |
| 6049s | server issues gonna be another pause |
| 6055s | are you |
| 6057s | doing because it sounds like a low |
| 6059s | budget streaming service I mean yeah it |
| 6062s | kind of does there was like a period of |
| 6063s | time there was like a lot of just random |
| 6066s | uh streaming services check out the new |
| 6069s | show on UB |
| 6071s | ER there is like one really overfunded |
| 6073s | Hollywood production that like died in |
| 6076s | like three months yeah we're talking |
| 6078s | about but let's not promote things that |
| 6079s | actually exist I was just making a fun |
| 6081s | pause joke no anyway |
| 6084s | uh so we do have the far Mercy again |
| 6087s | interesting UB is gonna run the |
| 6090s | form here |
| 6092s | Finland is going to try to have an |
| 6094s | answer for this I mean putting sauna on |
| 6096s | the cast seems like the best option |
| 6097s | maybe if this doesn't work out you maybe |
| 6099s | go for an ash as well |
| 6101s | um but also the cast can be really good |
| 6103s | too if if uh yazan overplays it the new |
| 6106s | nade can be really good at just knocking |
| 6108s | pharah Mercy out of the sky |
| 6110s | yeah I mean also going into is like you |
| 6112s | have to look at the store right anytime |
| 6113s | you're running aphara like diva is a |
| 6116s | huge part of the equation trying to |
| 6117s | neutralize it both teams right now just |
| 6119s | trading out poke they're still getting |
| 6121s | very very low immortality field has to |
| 6123s | come out and still know if the soul is |
| 6125s | gonna go away but as I say that's |
| 6126s | to find you |
| 6128s | being down the back you'd be |
| 6130s | you've been up and his hand takes down |
| 6132s | Sana on the other end Saudi Arabia well |
| 6135s | on their way to getting this first time |
| 6137s | you love it even though your sand goes |
| 6139s | down I still love the Drex |
| 6141s | yeah you be with the Tactical getting |
| 6143s | head shot there too like just kind of |
| 6146s | took that bullet so that your son could |
| 6147s | live behind him I mean the torb just |
| 6150s | using his head as a shield I've just |
| 6152s | always said it with torb against like a |
| 6153s | cast you're you're just a head on on |
| 6155s | legs like it's just such a giant hitbox |
| 6158s | finland's gonna come back in here |
| 6159s | they're going to be able to have an |
| 6161s | amplification Matrix so they can get a |
| 6163s | good position they can kind of set it up |
| 6164s | and that should push back the pharah so |
| 6167s | yeah actually really no fight on the |
| 6169s | point even and I'm just gonna walk on |
| 6171s | and I'll finally contest now they drop |
| 6174s | the window and this is Rosanna it just |
| 6175s | kind of looks around like Laura I dare |
| 6177s | you to you you know change sight lines |
| 6179s | there UB goes down you might be resident |
| 6181s | here though depending on how this goes |
| 6184s | out roses back up KSA under a lot of |
| 6186s | pressure Finland is able to get the flip |
| 6188s | no matter how this goes but yeah you'd |
| 6189s | be able to get Rez back on up they |
| 6191s | weren't going for the rest beat comes in |
| 6193s | from Finland here Sana back on over |
| 6195s | Bob's not able to poop you be off the |
| 6198s | ledge even if press wasn't cool down not |
| 6200s | coming back after that one and Finland |
| 6202s | nothing flashy here actually just a good |
| 6204s | play but as I say that they take one |
| 6206s | step out of line they walk into the |
| 6208s | barrage and the pharah has turned up the |
| 6210s | pressure once more Saudi Arabia now |
| 6212s | going for the kill moving Honda Suzanne |
| 6215s | and you know you give the far just one |
| 6217s | moment and it'll rip you apart yeah just |
| 6220s | such great movement that's what |
| 6221s | separates these on from pretty much |
| 6223s | every other far the movement is so |
| 6225s | exceptional |
| 6226s | um because on his way out is gonna go |
| 6228s | grab that the DMACC Diva and just some |
| 6231s | of this little stuff is insanity to me |
| 6234s | um just really well played obviously |
| 6236s | Saudi Arabia is never really gonna have |
| 6237s | a presence on the point because you |
| 6239s | don't want to cage the bird that is fair |
| 6241s | Mercy inside there so you want to be |
| 6242s | sitting outside of it |
| 6244s | um so yeah finland's gonna be able to |
| 6246s | get some and they're going to be able to |
| 6247s | get percentage and then it's really up |
| 6249s | to Saudi Arabia response and find the |
| 6251s | fights tips from X play 23 do not cage |
| 6254s | the bird but here he goes doesn't like |
| 6257s | the read of things again back on out to |
| 6259s | EMP not quite coming out yet KSA still |
| 6261s | continually under pressure has Rampage |
| 6263s | in reserve but KSA is going to live |
| 6265s | solo EMP comes out it's Haku this end |
| 6269s | though and this is offsana KSA Falls 4v4 |
| 6272s | here still winnable here from Finland |
| 6273s | but still a very very healthy on point |
| 6276s | definitely a presence Advantage one tank |
| 6278s | versus none is Finland able to recap and |
| 6281s | at least for now Force Saudi Arabia out |
| 6283s | but you know hex be careful when you |
| 6285s | walk outside the point while the fire is |
| 6287s | still around |
| 6288s | yeah it can be really tricky Saudi |
| 6290s | Arabia maybe go back to this tour I |
| 6293s | don't think the torb has gotten much |
| 6294s | done it's been kind of a distraction I |
| 6296s | guess more than anything else |
| 6298s | um but a little bit interesting no |
| 6300s | ultimates on either side here sir |
| 6302s | magette gets hacked out early |
| 6304s | yeah |
| 6306s | that had to be Cloud just coming in from |
| 6309s | a good angle but you know even stuff |
| 6311s | like that not only builds for clouds |
| 6312s | delays Saudi Arabia a little bit here it |
| 6314s | goes down onto the point looking for |
| 6316s | Vastola rocket after rocket here so far |
| 6318s | going around the side boy we're in a |
| 6319s | size oh gets the boyra on top of it gets |
| 6323s | sauna |
| 6324s | this is ridiculous Fire play makes it a |
| 6328s | three piece at the very end and that's |
| 6330s | exactly what Saudi Arabia needed to get |
| 6332s | back onto the point |
| 6333s | yeah gonna be some stall here from Masa |
| 6337s | um so it's gonna be one fight away from |
| 6338s | Finland but it's gonna be final fight |
| 6339s | and before we move on too much and give |
| 6342s | yazam too much credit let's give Haku |
| 6344s | some credit to here and it really like |
| 6345s | the thing that stood out to me is |
| 6347s | surmajet should have been dead there |
| 6348s | they get hacked and a lot of mercies |
| 6350s | will have this tunnel vision just on on |
| 6352s | their far and on their own movement but |
| 6354s | to be able to peel and heal up Sir |
| 6356s | Michelle is so incredibly critical so |
| 6358s | some uh |
| 6359s | glory to the mercy doesn't get a lot of |
| 6362s | it in these compositions |
| 6363s | I'm not coming in from the flank deals |
| 6365s | with the turret first pulse bomb ready |
| 6367s | to go could be the Difference Maker |
| 6369s | meanwhile he's on holding on to the |
| 6370s | barrage Under Pressure here on the back |
| 6372s | looking for five forces out the recall |
| 6374s | barrage still in Missouri call spawn |
| 6376s | comes out nothing but turret not quite |
| 6378s | what he's looking for one to get the |
| 6379s | torp instead meanwhile Rock after rock |
| 6381s | at the stall gonna get demet here has to |
| 6383s | use bomb but still gone Kazan makes sure |
| 6386s | it is permanent |
| 6388s | empx4 is helping to be their mods |
| 6390s | against two Inland making the most out |
| 6393s | of that EMP Masa going bloodthirsty but |
| 6396s | here's the brush at the end because on |
| 6398s | trying to finish things out gets rid of |
| 6400s | Moira it's getting real Scrappy here on |
| 6403s | the point here x 91-99 Saudi Arabia |
| 6405s | desperately trying to finish off case |
| 6407s | ain't gonna fall reinforce him from |
| 6408s | Finland coming in strong Masa killing |
| 6411s | the mercy there is absolutely enormous |
| 6412s | it is critical and now Saudi Arabia has |
| 6415s | their backs up against it they did |
| 6417s | switch briefly to the Moira now they go |
| 6419s | back to the mercy but you have to wonder |
| 6421s | if the moyer would have been better |
| 6422s | there just in this desperation mode |
| 6423s | looks like finland's gonna pick this up |
| 6426s | yeah I mean Saudi Arabia needs a miracle |
| 6428s | to bring this back already down to as |
| 6430s | reinforcers come back in this stall |
| 6432s | coming in here from KSA they're still |
| 6433s | having none of it Eva versus Eva gonna |
| 6436s | be forcing KSA out Aku goes down and |
| 6440s | this is all finland's to lose in the |
| 6442s | round they take it and they force around |
| 6444s | three our second round three in a row on |
| 6448s | control and you know we knew today could |
| 6450s | have the potential for some close games |
| 6452s | here hex and we're getting it |
| 6457s | too but also I I remember looking back |
| 6461s | an hour Masa was just this Quiet Storm |
| 6463s | where where's Masa what's Masa doing |
| 6465s | because he Lucio right if you're not |
| 6467s | saying Moss's name you're fine you're |
| 6468s | like okay good that's good but then all |
| 6470s | of a sudden just like three kills out of |
| 6472s | nowhere it's crazy because he's one of |
| 6473s | the most unassuming people I've ever met |
| 6475s | in my life one of the nicest guys and |
| 6477s | then just the the bloodthirsty Lucio is |
| 6479s | absolute Insanity uh good play there it |
| 6482s | was able to get the mercy and I think |
| 6483s | you know obviously it's a valid Strat |
| 6485s | that finland's you know everyone knows |
| 6487s | but the focus on getting the mercy |
| 6490s | um out of position and then following up |
| 6492s | on it has been the difference in the |
| 6494s | last couple of fights |
| 6496s | well here we go final Point here on |
| 6498s | lijong arguably the strongest for pharah |
| 6501s | a lot of options for yazan here in the |
| 6504s | sky turt can go down immediately uh Sana |
| 6506s | just feels like on Turk Duty half the |
| 6509s | time and again Masa just catches a |
| 6511s | rocket the hardest type of rain possible |
| 6514s | definitely not hail |
| 6516s | and just like that hex it's gonna be a |
| 6519s | very quick capture by Saudi Arabia you |
| 6520s | can't come back from the pickoff that |
| 6522s | early |
| 6522s | no and this should be a cleanup on to |
| 6525s | the on the cast over here actually some |
| 6527s | nice peel to keep Sana alive uh but only |
| 6530s | for the moment only for the moment |
| 6533s | this |
| 6534s | this right now this is yazan's |
| 6536s | playground |
| 6537s | so much room to work with the best |
| 6540s | advantage of far could hope for in terms |
| 6541s | of like sight lines to area mobility in |
| 6544s | Finland I mean they need an answer hex |
| 6547s | I mean the answer is to keep like both |
| 6549s | sauna and Vista Wall Live at the same |
| 6551s | time so that you can live in The Matrix |
| 6553s | and maybe hit some shots but even just |
| 6555s | just wear |
| 6556s | uh yazan's able to play is just unfair |
| 6560s | because the the damage Falls |
| 6564s | watch your feet oh boy that was close |
| 6568s | closer than Finland would have liked uh |
| 6571s | you do have the window coming down here |
| 6572s | from Finland immortality field used |
| 6575s | is on right now looking for Masa takes |
| 6577s | him down the window incredibly unsafe |
| 6581s | just not missing though Sana though gets |
| 6583s | The Equalizer however he's talking about |
| 6585s | that's the number of things like you |
| 6587s | kill the fire number two deny the |
| 6589s | resurrection deal with the tour toward |
| 6591s | game his life so far could live again |
| 6592s | but the Dead Eye comes in from the back |
| 6594s | finds the kiriko and Finland and all the |
| 6597s | chaos X does get control of the point |
| 6598s | yeah I've been telling you that was just |
| 6600s | using using the head as the shields it's |
| 6602s | happened twice now |
| 6603s | hmm I mean KSA they they got a Kill from |
| 6608s | that but that that old I think was a |
| 6610s | little bit questionable even more I |
| 6612s | wonder if there's gonna be a switch no |
| 6614s | not gonna happen it is one of the alts |
| 6616s | that you can clutch back a fight |
| 6617s | enormously that's brutal though double |
| 6619s | EMP oh again you saw it comes over gets |
| 6624s | two before the bras the bras adds on |
| 6626s | pressure that leads up the stall whoa a |
| 6627s | gift from the death uh it's only Haku |
| 6630s | though Taco in a turret I'm not quite as |
| 6632s | big as uh nothing's really left the deal |
| 6634s | too far right now |
| 6637s | yeah and that will mean Saudi Arabia is |
| 6639s | going to take the lead percentage-wise |
| 6642s | uh Finland can come back into this with |
| 6644s | a with a beat whenever they want mom |
| 6646s | core is |
| 6649s | that time the Boop gonna get the back no |
| 6651s | uh yeah last minute footwork saving it |
| 6654s | son of them |
| 6660s | it's worse |
| 6662s | 70 for Saudi Arabia right now Finland |
| 6664s | they need to reset or this is going to |
| 6667s | get away from the fast they have really |
| 6668s | just one good fight left here hex and uh |
| 6671s | yo again operation number one don't tie |
| 6674s | the Zen and trying to get to the point |
| 6676s | yeah I mean the problem with this |
| 6678s | pressure too is it just puts so much |
| 6680s | onus on like right now Finland has to |
| 6683s | worry about like how do we even get in |
| 6685s | how do we get in without losing people |
| 6686s | right now so everyone's got to stay in |
| 6688s | the defense Matrix and now you're in but |
| 6690s | now you know Saudi Arabia knows exactly |
| 6692s | where you are actually spy checking |
| 6694s | right there and now you gotta walk into |
| 6695s | a white room just taking damage boosted |
| 6698s | Rockets well it's All or Nothing window |
| 6700s | comes down Finland cannot lose this |
| 6701s | fight or the map is over Zen working on |
| 6705s | the outskirts and looks like they did |
| 6707s | put more bodies on the point they got |
| 6708s | control but Saudi Arabia has percentage |
| 6710s | the bird here like this is okay they |
| 6712s | just need to win the fight they can give |
| 6715s | up a little bit on the point |
| 6717s | solo right now focusing on the point |
| 6719s | he's taking shelter from as far as sauna |
| 6722s | was able to get Yumi you me again |
| 6723s | getting picked off early in a lot of |
| 6725s | these fights now it's once more up to |
| 6727s | the far the try and bring things back |
| 6728s | but you don't have the other DPS thread |
| 6730s | there so a lot more pressure on yazan in |
| 6732s | these situations where the torb is out |
| 6734s | of the fight |
| 6735s | yeah I mean I I'm pretty sure they're |
| 6736s | running the tour just to throw more |
| 6738s | angles at it right so the carry is |
| 6740s | obviously this this far Mercy combo and |
| 6742s | so torb can throw two different angles |
| 6744s | be a distraction just put down a little |
| 6747s | extra damage here and there so a team |
| 6749s | can't just pull focus on this because |
| 6751s | the garage could be enormous by Saudi |
| 6753s | Arabia this is their time to make |
| 6754s | something happen because then looking |
| 6756s | for shots not quite hitting here just |
| 6757s | yet going high risk High reward flank |
| 6759s | here into the building ground far I'm |
| 6761s | trying to get the bath no Haku ends up |
| 6763s | dying Sana able to get rid of the |
| 6765s | grenade here comes on to the back uses |
| 6767s | the barrage pays for it with his life |
| 6769s | and Finland has just about brought this |
| 6771s | back Nissan wasn't able to find anything |
| 6773s | for such a long time to stole a cleaning |
| 6775s | house on the point bomb in reserve if |
| 6777s | needed 99-99 and Saudi Arabia may be |
| 6781s | falling here on map one it's been close |
| 6783s | but they lost control and the fins are |
| 6786s | nearly there they lost control and it |
| 6788s | seemed like uh yazan just got a little |
| 6791s | bit impatient going for that that flank |
| 6793s | on the right hand side was never able to |
| 6795s | get value and what it ended up doing was |
| 6797s | leaving Haku in a really really bad spot |
| 6799s | and they picked off Haku over there so |
| 6802s | yeah the high risk High reward of coming |
| 6804s | down over the top of the shelter into |
| 6806s | that room I think if he saw you know I |
| 6810s | don't know a barrage there maybe get |
| 6812s | something done but they had just beat it |
| 6813s | there was an immortality feel there's |
| 6815s | there's a cast there and the new nade |
| 6818s | was able to get able to get the pharah |
| 6820s | the nade with Limitless range which |
| 6823s | tracks none of me for one second and |
| 6824s | within 1.5 meters totally fine everyone |
| 6827s | loves it |
| 6828s | um but yeah they were able to get Haku |
| 6830s | there and every time Haku goes down I |
| 6832s | mean it's just you know yazana is going |
| 6834s | to follow really entertaining though |
| 6836s | yeah I mean also AKO is just a like a |
| 6839s | tough position there because like he's |
| 6840s | on staid on that side for so long that |
| 6842s | like the only angle Haku had to like fly |
| 6845s | over the Azad was like in an area that |
| 6847s | like made it very likely that Haku would |
| 6849s | just like get hit and yeah you know it's |
| 6852s | hard to say like oh man you know I can't |
| 6853s | believe it happened at the very end |
| 6854s | because like is John was on point for |
| 6857s | every fight except that one but Saudi |
| 6860s | Arabia was relying on good fireplace so |
| 6862s | much in their strategy you know as you |
| 6863s | say the torb was like just kind of a |
| 6865s | distraction that anything less than far |
| 6868s | Perfection over the entirety of the map |
| 6870s | meant that Saudi Arabia was going to |
| 6871s | lose with how they were playing yeah and |
| 6873s | honestly more than once tour did you |
| 6876s | know maybe not willingly but like gave |
| 6878s | gave their life so that they could res |
| 6880s | or they could get in a better position |
| 6882s | right so like they were going all in on |
| 6885s | this the Pharaoh Mercy strategy which |
| 6887s | look it looked really good it was a |
| 6888s | really strong strategy some nice |
| 6890s | adjustments from Finland though too but |
| 6892s | I really I you know I honestly want to |
| 6894s | call it towards the end it seemed like |
| 6895s | almost an unforced heir to go fight in a |
| 6897s | room against a a BAP and and a cast as |
| 6901s | Farah Mercy where I think of you kind of |
| 6903s | just stay a little bit further away and |
| 6905s | just rain damaged eventually they have |
| 6907s | to come out so |
| 6909s | um just still really close I mean these |
| 6912s | matches have been so absolutely close |
| 6914s | like even our first match of the day has |
| 6917s | been crazy so yeah I mean it's control |
| 6921s | you know we only saw a non-far mercy |
| 6925s | composition from Saudi Arabia for the |
| 6927s | very second fight it's about two seconds |
| 6929s | yeah you know I'm not sure that was the |
| 6931s | official timer but close enough I say |
| 6934s | from uh overall we saw but yeah I mean |
| 6937s | look we went into the saying you know we |
| 6939s | could expect pretty much anything from |
| 6941s | Finland well it looks like hex they |
| 6943s | brought their a game but Saudi Arabia |
| 6945s | there's a lot of hype for them coming on |
| 6946s | in will they be able to bounce back |
| 6948s | we're gonna find out in just a short |
| 6951s | break |
| 6956s | foreign |
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| 7070s | thank you |
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| 7079s | thank you |
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| 7133s | foreign |
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| 7160s | thank you |
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| 7174s | from 2016 to 2023 Finland continuing to |
| 7178s | be a force to be reckoned with in the |
| 7180s | OverWatch World Cup Saudi Arabia coming |
| 7183s | in as the favorites by many people |
| 7184s | finding their match and more it was a |
| 7187s | very very close contest hex between |
| 7189s | these two teams yeah I mean actually |
| 7191s | could not have been closer every map |
| 7194s | that we have cast so far today has come |
| 7196s | down to the final fight |
| 7198s | um so it's it's been a real good one Now |
| 7200s | reminder of the format this is Group B |
| 7202s | only two teams will come out of group b |
| 7204s | we expect one of these two teams to be |
| 7206s | on the top perhaps both but a loss early |
| 7208s | on and your first match does not bode |
| 7210s | well uh only best of |
| 7213s | um best of three or first to two so next |
| 7215s | map is going to be critical and because |
| 7218s | of the format Saudi Arabia will be |
| 7219s | picking at the next map it will be |
| 7221s | either escort or hybrid escort or Circle |
| 7225s | Royale watchpoint Gibraltar in Havana |
| 7227s | hybrid there's Kings Road and Bonnie and |
| 7229s | blizzard world to choose from Bonnie |
| 7232s | going to the lab makes sense to me the |
| 7234s | one and only and you might wonder it's |
| 7236s | like what do you mean in the lab it's |
| 7237s | like well if you didn't watch it early |
| 7238s | OverWatch it then Bonnie you know |
| 7240s | especially for a time in the foreign of |
| 7242s | times was probably the map where you saw |
| 7244s | just the most variance and strategy I |
| 7246s | mean teams would try anything on |
| 7249s | multiple different points compositions |
| 7251s | would swap heavily on multiple different |
| 7252s | points to some extent the map still has |
| 7254s | those qualities but there is a point in |
| 7257s | time where that was all the body could |
| 7259s | be known for you know some teams |
| 7261s | actually made it their uh specialty uh |
| 7263s | the old uh reunited teams back in the |
| 7265s | day uh didn't really lose on the body a |
| 7267s | whole lot but uh Good Times yeah it's |
| 7269s | funny I've got some notes about reunited |
| 7271s | that I was gonna bring up for our next |
| 7273s | match but uh it's kind of funny uh yeah |
| 7276s | a lot of OverWatch history uh coming |
| 7278s | into this too so I mean it's an |
| 7280s | interesting selection from Saudi Arabia |
| 7281s | I was thinking maybe you could see Kings |
| 7283s | because you can run off our Mercy on |
| 7285s | Kings uh for some of it uh not all of it |
| 7289s | necessarily but nombani makes a little |
| 7290s | bit of sense now we also don't even know |
| 7292s | if Saudi Arabia is going to make some |
| 7293s | substitutions like mentioned they have a |
| 7295s | very deep bench |
| 7297s | um so we'll look going forward once we |
| 7298s | get into game |
| 7300s | um who's actually on these rosters |
| 7302s | yeah and uh you know it's it's a little |
| 7305s | bit of a surprise going here and there |
| 7306s | where we get to find out at the same |
| 7308s | time as the viewers well as far as you |
| 7310s | know when it was broadcast wise we're a |
| 7311s | few minutes ahead but uh yeah that's |
| 7313s | just the benefit of living in the future |
| 7314s | as it turns out |
| 7317s | huh I never noticed all the the sigma |
| 7321s | Insignia on this map before no I'll also |
| 7325s | look at there's a lot of gold on the |
| 7326s | Bonnie like this is this is a rich city |
| 7328s | it's only enough to know but take a look |
| 7331s | we do have a summit from Saudi Arabia |
| 7334s | the torb player we saw before subbed out |
| 7337s | now Four Courts so yeah Ubisoft courts |
| 7341s | is in um quartz I think is is a |
| 7343s | fantastic player so that makes a ton of |
| 7345s | sense |
| 7347s | um so finland's gonna be on the defense |
| 7348s | they're gonna get an early Scout here |
| 7350s | from cloud |
| 7351s | and it looks like we're gonna have a |
| 7353s | pause |
| 7353s | I love it |
| 7355s | you know at some point we didn't do like |
| 7357s | stretch goals here like you know some of |
| 7359s | the lines of like hex will shave his |
| 7360s | head after the 15th pause uh but you |
| 7364s | know |
| 7365s | yeah you know fine I'm for it |
| 7368s | um |
| 7369s | well I mean I think you know we we could |
| 7371s | do something that could add to the we |
| 7373s | could add to the prize pool right so you |
| 7375s | know yeah it is kind of crowdfunded |
| 7378s | um you know I I'm getting up there in |
| 7379s | years but luckily my hair's still |
| 7381s | sticking around so if I shoot my head it |
| 7382s | could come back although it's not |
| 7383s | necessarily A gamble I want to be taking |
| 7386s | um maybe I'll I'll shave my sideburns or |
| 7389s | something or shave Nothing But The |
| 7391s | Sideburns and pull off like the the |
| 7392s | wolverine look what's that yeah I mean |
| 7394s | honestly wolverine look could uh go |
| 7396s | especially if you ever complete your |
| 7397s | dream of just living out in the forest |
| 7399s | alone oh dude that is my dream actually |
| 7402s | all right we're back in a game here and |
| 7404s | instead of a pharah we are going to see |
| 7405s | an echo makes a ton of sense Echo uh on |
| 7408s | the side of Finland too or the defense |
| 7412s | and yeah like I said uh quartz coming in |
| 7414s | no surprise courts a very very talented |
| 7417s | damage player there it is and as you say |
| 7420s | that a very talented taking Echoes out |
| 7422s | of the sky resurrection's gonna be there |
| 7423s | but still big Tempo edge here to Saudi |
| 7426s | Arabia early on inside it just goes down |
| 7428s | again quartz gives his life for it but a |
| 7430s | rough time to be an echo for Finland |
| 7432s | right now for before resga come up here |
| 7435s | on court Saudi Arabia working down the |
| 7437s | 5v4 again to secure the high ground and |
| 7439s | you just see this Echo pressure coming |
| 7440s | in gonna be forcing fistula back and |
| 7443s | this right now is unrelenting pressure |
| 7445s | Masa goes down and the DPS of Saudi |
| 7447s | Arabia have no chill hits |
| 7449s | now Court quartz is is such a talented |
| 7452s | damage player that I really was a little |
| 7454s | bit surprised we didn't see him in the |
| 7455s | in the very first map but UB did okay in |
| 7457s | the role that uh was expected to play |
| 7459s | but that is a very quick take from Saudi |
| 7461s | Arabia |
| 7462s | uh finland's gonna switch things up |
| 7463s | sauna is now on Tracer so finland's |
| 7465s | gonna go this Tracer Sombra |
| 7468s | um kind of dive composition usually we |
| 7469s | saw like Tracer Sombra with a Winston |
| 7472s | um but I guess you know vestola is is |
| 7474s | just a much better Diva than is a |
| 7476s | Winston so not a surprise here |
| 7480s | one round on Echo going yeah I'm not |
| 7482s | dealing with that I'm going back to |
| 7483s | Tracer like |
| 7486s | unless you have to swap up though pay |
| 7488s | some dividends clearly gonna be looking |
| 7489s | for ports a little bit more quartz |
| 7490s | meanwhile three shots onto the honor one |
| 7493s | head would have ended up there now |
| 7495s | though coming in from the side taking |
| 7497s | away control the building here just |
| 7499s | forcing Finland back into the street as |
| 7501s | well it goes down I was gonna say boss |
| 7503s | baby gets up but no KSA just finishes |
| 7506s | that where it stands and you know hex |
| 7508s | one thing the body is also known for |
| 7509s | unrelenting momentum if point a goes |
| 7511s | well |
| 7512s | yeah uh some people do not like that |
| 7515s | fact |
| 7516s | uh if you get a rather well and there's |
| 7520s | a decent setup there you're probably |
| 7521s | gonna go right through onto point B uh |
| 7524s | there is going to be a contest from |
| 7526s | Finland Finland is to stay alive long |
| 7527s | enough to get this EMP out Sama has a |
| 7529s | hit on him from basically everyone's |
| 7531s | soccer is a lot of just going down first |
| 7533s | every fight right now got hit by a |
| 7536s | kiriko uh shots and wild takes down |
| 7539s | quartz but legit is just going wild DPS |
| 7542s | kiriko making his presence known as |
| 7545s | Saudi Arabia just pushes forward gets |
| 7548s | point being record time five minutes 20 |
| 7550s | seconds this is a Slaughter so far as I |
| 7554s | mentioned in the opening no one doubts |
| 7556s | sir majet's mechanics one of the most |
| 7558s | mechanically gifted Flex DPS that I I |
| 7560s | mean I think I've ever seen just as far |
| 7562s | as aim goes just some of the best aim uh |
| 7565s | on both the Zenyatta and obviously the |
| 7566s | kiriko now too so really well played |
| 7569s | there and there's been no answer from |
| 7571s | Finland I thought like maybe they were |
| 7573s | going to come back in and try to use |
| 7574s | this EMP to get something done quartz I |
| 7577s | think kind of sniffs out the somber here |
| 7579s | a little bit |
| 7581s | trouble |
| 7583s | EMP see if the fall through is gonna be |
| 7586s | there and Saudi Arabia they live through |
| 7588s | it yeah they're able to back out like |
| 7590s | it's a really good disengage fall |
| 7591s | through from Finland wasn't there I |
| 7592s | don't think Sana really had sight lines |
| 7593s | at all |
| 7595s | and now |
| 7596s | Saudi Arabia ready to move forward again |
| 7598s | Rampage is going to be coming out here |
| 7599s | from KSA and it's a big one hits three |
| 7602s | is Walter gonna be there but still able |
| 7604s | to get Quartz but Sana falling in turn |
| 7607s | however he forces the beat but yeah that |
| 7610s | should be a stabilization from Finland |
| 7611s | yeah Finland played around it pretty |
| 7614s | well I mean they did need the beat but |
| 7615s | uh all in all able to stop it and you |
| 7618s | know we go deep into the bundle War hex |
| 7619s | the other combining lore is the better |
| 7620s | hell well your point a and point B go |
| 7622s | sometimes teams just get stuck |
| 7625s | yeah it's a pretty tough one to uh |
| 7627s | actually close out a little bit you know |
| 7630s | like finland's I don't know they kind of |
| 7632s | need to clean up this composition a |
| 7633s | little bit because sauna can be a really |
| 7634s | good player but that last EMP was like |
| 7637s | in a room and not just like like it was |
| 7640s | like in a smaller part of a room within |
| 7642s | a room like there was almost gonna be no |
| 7644s | way they can follow up on that so gotta |
| 7646s | clean up some of these emps uh for |
| 7648s | Finland |
| 7650s | that's Saudi Arabia ready to go once |
| 7652s | more |
| 7653s | Zan holding on to the duplicate and I'm |
| 7656s | looking really low from the Poke between |
| 7658s | both teams Cloud goes down immortality |
| 7659s | field I'm up to save it I think it |
| 7661s | walked out of that Vastola gang super |
| 7662s | super low also though able to take down |
| 7665s | design on the side but I don't know if |
| 7666s | it's gonna end up Saudi Arabia looking |
| 7668s | pretty healthy here on the point the |
| 7669s | Resurrection comes on in back up to a |
| 7671s | full five and Finland they just got |
| 7673s | poked down so hard at the start of the |
| 7675s | fight that it really wasn't much of a |
| 7677s | fight three minutes left to go and this |
| 7679s | one could be over already on the attack |
| 7682s | yeah cloud is gonna try to stay alive |
| 7684s | and get a miracle EMP but that is not |
| 7687s | gonna happen this should be a closeout |
| 7688s | Aku living on a Razor's Edge there right |
| 7692s | before the the Resurrection on yassan |
| 7694s | and really just almost no pressure on |
| 7697s | yassan and every time they did kill his |
| 7698s | son just got resurrected up it was it |
| 7700s | was never really a problem for them and |
| 7702s | yeah I mean again |
| 7704s | Finland just not the most coordinated on |
| 7707s | their defense maybe making some of these |
| 7710s | I don't know it's it's it's it's been |
| 7712s | kind of rough to watch but defense on |
| 7714s | them Bonnie can be like that it feels |
| 7716s | like you first hold or this happens |
| 7719s | yeah and this is always a tough |
| 7722s | situation to be in uh after a rough |
| 7725s | defense because you look at and you know |
| 7727s | it's very easy to get demoralized on |
| 7729s | point a where you know Finland comes in |
| 7731s | here heck so they have anything other |
| 7733s | and then a quick point a take and so |
| 7735s | it's getting to the point it's like okay |
| 7736s | they have like a minute 30 left it just |
| 7738s | gets so hard to get through the rest of |
| 7740s | nambani and get put through Point C and |
| 7743s | the do so with the time bank that's like |
| 7744s | reasonable |
| 7745s | yeah and also I mean this this could be |
| 7748s | coming into map picks as well like |
| 7750s | because we really need to start taking |
| 7751s | notes of where teams are going on their |
| 7753s | map pick because it's almost impossible |
| 7755s | to practice six different Maps |
| 7757s | constantly as a team you know for |
| 7759s | Finland so obviously Saudi Arabia is |
| 7761s | going to have the advantage here that |
| 7762s | they chose this map it's a map that |
| 7764s | offers really good uh advantages for |
| 7766s | vertical Heroes like an echo or a pharah |
| 7769s | so that's going to be in Saudi Arabia's |
| 7770s | wheelhouse so |
| 7772s | um not super surprising here but |
| 7774s | remember finland's one map up you know |
| 7776s | if they're able to do something here on |
| 7779s | new Bonnie then they just close out the |
| 7780s | set and take a commanding lead in group |
| 7782s | b |
| 7783s | yeah |
| 7784s | well here we go Finland |
| 7786s | right now we'll see if things go a |
| 7788s | little bit better persona |
| 7791s | here on the echo |
| 7795s | right now uh still alive so definitely a |
| 7797s | little bit better for the beginning |
| 7798s | where quartz just immediately found him |
| 7801s | I kind of got him in a weird spot that |
| 7804s | was back yeah that was huge and all that |
| 7806s | went on courts is able to find Cloud on |
| 7808s | the other end as well so |
| 7810s | uh early on finland's struggling to get |
| 7813s | significant momentum here well I mean it |
| 7816s | was such a critical hit there so back |
| 7818s | off the opposing Echo because Finland |
| 7820s | had them set up in a really nice like |
| 7822s | kind of pincer they had them back in the |
| 7823s | corner and it looked like the Sombra was |
| 7825s | about to set up a dive the Sauber was in |
| 7827s | that back corner and they're about to go |
| 7828s | in but the the sticky bombs kind of |
| 7831s | create that that pressure release valve |
| 7833s | that pushes Finland back |
| 7835s | all right so Finland on the attempt here |
| 7837s | once more three minutes ago and again |
| 7839s | they need to get point a quickly gear |
| 7841s | things are gonna turn out well but Saudi |
| 7843s | Arabia just been better in the Pokemon |
| 7847s | Saudi Arabia is one to give up a little |
| 7849s | bit of progress right now they're |
| 7850s | focusing more on when the overall fight |
| 7852s | we have the Nano go on the sauna so I |
| 7854s | was able to get Hawker that's huge how |
| 7855s | are both teams down to Mercy I'm still |
| 7857s | able to get rid of yazan and for Finland |
| 7859s | you like how this fight is developing |
| 7860s | right now you have presence on the point |
| 7862s | of four Saudi Arabia back KSA goes down |
| 7864s | and this is gonna be point a and well |
| 7866s | not quite as quick hex this is something |
| 7869s | you can still work with here Finland |
| 7870s | just needs to have a better Point C and |
| 7872s | there's still very much in this and they |
| 7874s | might get this Chase too coach yeah |
| 7876s | quartz is out in the open gets chased |
| 7878s | down all those Sonic gets punished for |
| 7880s | it see if they get the resurrection here |
| 7882s | how Haku goes down again it's kind of |
| 7885s | just split up here and this is what |
| 7886s | happens on the Bonnie with it was |
| 7888s | somehow these spawns work sometimes |
| 7890s | um yeah it's just it's also once you're |
| 7893s | committed on point a as you saw with the |
| 7895s | cast there there's almost no retreating |
| 7897s | like trying to get back to your team |
| 7898s | like they don't want to really go |
| 7900s | through that spawn because then they'll |
| 7901s | get picked up anyway so you want to kind |
| 7902s | of rotate around and just be playing |
| 7904s | back here so there's there's no |
| 7906s | retreating once you lose point a you |
| 7908s | lose everybody on that team and you see |
| 7910s | some how these staggers kind of work a |
| 7912s | little bit |
| 7913s | Finland now trying to make most of it |
| 7916s | get back on their feet after taking a |
| 7918s | little bit longer |
| 7919s | now here we go awesome Under Pressure |
| 7922s | able to shake it and get out but not for |
| 7925s | long is on still able to kill him |
| 7929s | I mean he was pretty lonely picks up |
| 7931s | another just murdering supports in the |
| 7934s | back and not more than anything else is |
| 7936s | definitely gonna be delaying Finland and |
| 7938s | we'll see where they want to set up |
| 7940s | we'll see what started here because like |
| 7941s | maybe not with this composition but you |
| 7944s | can hold spawn on the Bonnie second |
| 7946s | point but uh composition's a little too |
| 7948s | fragile for Saudi Arabia to consider |
| 7950s | that |
| 7951s | I mean also it's like |
| 7953s | given how mobile this is you don't |
| 7955s | necessarily have the area where like a |
| 7957s | defense just gets run over on second but |
| 7959s | you often see it in KSS be careful can't |
| 7961s | say eats a lot of poke early in these |
| 7963s | engagements and the Soul oftentimes |
| 7965s | would use it to push for an advantage |
| 7966s | but Saudi Arabia now taking the |
| 7969s | initiative KSA getting low gonna have to |
| 7971s | self-destruct |
| 7972s | I Stay Alive here Sana though finishes |
| 7974s | the models Finland still very very |
| 7976s | healthy hack goes under the stool and |
| 7977s | asleep Saudi Arabia trying to return the |
| 7979s | favor of the school but not quite going |
| 7982s | to happen Finland just taking advantage |
| 7984s | on the corners and this should be point |
| 7987s | B for Finland uh don't really expect |
| 7989s | more delay to be coming out here |
| 7992s | yeah cart is inching along there quite |
| 7995s | quite literally on our screen yeah yeah |
| 7997s | that was weird no this is Gonna Come |
| 7999s | pressure back in really big EMP this is |
| 8002s | very high risk would be high reward but |
| 8005s | right now it's looking like they're just |
| 8006s | incurring the risk the point B is still |
| 8009s | captured by Finland and the fall through |
| 8011s | is there Saudi Arabia just down to EMP |
| 8013s | and you know maybe that was the reason |
| 8014s | why they want courts to go over to the |
| 8016s | ash so use it to see if something |
| 8017s | happens and |
| 8019s | see where it goes |
| 8022s | uh yeah I mean |
| 8024s | I've been going over to the Asha is |
| 8026s | better so far I mean |
| 8028s | I kind of have a whole dissertation on |
| 8030s | sombra's in OverWatch and the OverWatch |
| 8032s | league and OverWatch World Cup itself |
| 8034s | but so far the somber play has not been |
| 8036s | exceptional today so I think it makes |
| 8039s | sense and yazan gets two rather easily |
| 8041s | yeah that was a |
| 8046s | screen but just |
| 8048s | just quickly eliminates two and uh |
| 8050s | that's it and you know from what we're |
| 8052s | seeing right now I think uh you know |
| 8054s | maybe the observer's hang a little bit |
| 8055s | like but so as far as we know the |
| 8056s | players are good because they would |
| 8057s | pause at the briefest moment |
| 8060s | just somewhere clear I don't think the |
| 8063s | players are seeing a little bit of the |
| 8064s | studio |
| 8065s | yeah it should be getting fixed up |
| 8067s | because now |
| 8068s | um but yeah I don't think the players |
| 8071s | would put up with that |
| 8072s | um |
| 8074s | just getting Dove on here in the back |
| 8076s | line of sports go no way cordless quartz |
| 8078s | lives what in the world is that |
| 8081s | meanwhile mid duplicate the stola goes |
| 8084s | down I I don't believe ports live there |
| 8087s | no I mean there there's been some |
| 8089s | exceptional saves from Saudi Arabia |
| 8091s | um yeah the the support line has just |
| 8093s | been really really good appealing and |
| 8095s | living on like a knife's edge here uh so |
| 8098s | right now Saudi Arabia will have the |
| 8100s | advantage going forward even if Finland |
| 8102s | does finish the map all right let's see |
| 8104s | if Cloud can get something done with |
| 8106s | this EMP as I mentioned so far the the |
| 8108s | somber play has not been exceptional but |
| 8110s | that's kind of been a League wide thing |
| 8112s | and an OverWatch wide thing oh Sona |
| 8115s | finds Majid early bomb comes out but |
| 8118s | quartz goes down Cloud just picking him |
| 8120s | off here in the back I mean I think a |
| 8122s | lot of set up by sauna and vistola but |
| 8124s | good cleanup sauna finding his hits two |
| 8127s | minutes left to go and that was a clean |
| 8129s | wipe your hex I don't really know how |
| 8130s | long Saudi Arabia is gonna be in delay |
| 8131s | here if at all quartz goes in quartz |
| 8135s | goes up just instantly eradicated and |
| 8138s | that you know we got ourselves a match |
| 8140s | here in nambani extra rest yeah it's |
| 8143s | only a minute finish and you know Cloud |
| 8145s | um I was right didn't get a great EMP |
| 8146s | got into visual hacks and completely |
| 8148s | wreck the team but but I was right |
| 8152s | um yeah it was a really nice play from |
| 8153s | cloud and sauna to clean up that towards |
| 8155s | towards the end in Finland now |
| 8157s | they're only a minute down that means |
| 8160s | almost nothing on your body that's like |
| 8162s | that's like half a fight so well |
| 8165s | no map in the game I feel like is more |
| 8167s | notorious aside from maybe sometimes |
| 8169s | Gibraltar for the yeah it's overtime who |
| 8173s | cares we're just gonna stay on the cart |
| 8175s | forever and ever and at times it can |
| 8178s | actually sabotage teams because of how |
| 8180s | overtime spawns work on point C where |
| 8182s | you don't get a great Point C defense |
| 8185s | because you died trying to stop on point |
| 8187s | B and then you know it just it can all |
| 8189s | go downhill very quickly by the nature |
| 8192s | of how overtime pushes work so really |
| 8195s | for both of these teams your key win |
| 8197s | condition here is don't give up point a |
| 8199s | you know to holding point a for two |
| 8201s | minutes very very doable and you do that |
| 8204s | your job of winning the body becomes |
| 8206s | considerably easier |
| 8210s | all right we'll see |
| 8213s | if there's any changes here |
| 8222s | okay quartz on the cast instead of an |
| 8225s | ash |
| 8226s | makes sense for this first point |
| 8229s | a little bit of a change up |
| 8237s | it was a different hero for the attack |
| 8240s | yeah I mean so this is where like this |
| 8244s | is where you want to sit up on way |
| 8245s | better's done a good job of just pushing |
| 8247s | them off quartz nearly died there |
| 8249s | instead of getting nearly pick off uh |
| 8251s | Cloud did a way better job of pressuring |
| 8254s | and Finland just fully Saudi Arabia off |
| 8256s | the point |
| 8257s | really really Frontline play methodical |
| 8259s | poke sauna though goes down is Zan right |
| 8262s | there the rest is gonna be there |
| 8264s | be there Saudi Arabia immediately |
| 8266s | pressuring and not wanting to give |
| 8267s | Finland any time to reset up and his on |
| 8269s | just continues to go wild |
| 8271s | still though good progress on the point |
| 8273s | for a potential uh Point AV point a yeah |
| 8276s | you can kind of piecemeal these together |
| 8278s | you used to see it a lot on King's Row |
| 8279s | too where like let's just take one |
| 8282s | segment at a time so now with two ticks |
| 8284s | Finland |
| 8285s | and I mean the Nano sauna is gonna have |
| 8289s | to be big I think that is that is your |
| 8291s | win condition you Nano sauna sauna gets |
| 8294s | to their own duplicates you try to get |
| 8296s | something from there but last fight last |
| 8298s | fight opportunity for Finland also a |
| 8300s | very quick Nano build from Mickey G just |
| 8303s | you take a look at that that was one |
| 8305s | fight they only had two men to begin |
| 8306s | with here so you have the bomb you have |
| 8309s | the Nano they also could drop a nano |
| 8312s | onto the store here be the other option |
| 8314s | but no they're gonna drop on the sauna |
| 8315s | as predicted and now Finland looking to |
| 8318s | pressure through able to deal with |
| 8320s | Suzanne immediately gets rid of the |
| 8322s | threat who is the hero in the last team |
| 8323s | fight Finland other than that they're |
| 8324s | really prioritizing the point here x no |
| 8327s | greedy Dives just saying you want to get |
| 8329s | us off the point you come to us in the |
| 8332s | situation when it's five KSA Under |
| 8334s | Pressure gets hacked is the falter gonna |
| 8337s | be there yes gonna get demacked Finland |
| 8339s | still looking very very healthy clones |
| 8341s | the diva the Clone Diva bomb are the top |
| 8343s | gets two and Sana coming alive as |
| 8347s | Finland here we go hex overtime push on |
| 8351s | the body you gotta love it well I mean |
| 8354s | maybe it wasn't like super necessary to |
| 8355s | get that bomb of the Asana |
| 8357s | like I said there's no retreating once |
| 8359s | you lose point a there's almost none |
| 8361s | unless you're like Tracer or Sombra and |
| 8363s | you can get out cloaked but really a lot |
| 8364s | of different value there for the uh |
| 8367s | duplicate from Echo early on and that |
| 8368s | fight is on ended up duplicating a mercy |
| 8371s | and died immediately it's one of those |
| 8373s | desperation dupes like just to you know |
| 8375s | try to save your life and extend it a |
| 8376s | little bit longer but then sauna with a |
| 8378s | much bigger value uh duplication I mean |
| 8381s | generally like even in OverWatch one you |
| 8383s | wanted to duplicate tanks because tank |
| 8385s | value and ultimate value is enormous so |
| 8387s | you really want to be duplicating diva |
| 8389s | in these situations when you can not |
| 8391s | necessarily Mercy like this |
| 8394s | but here we go overtime progress every |
| 8396s | fight super crucial KSA just gets |
| 8398s | focused down immediately EMP coming out |
| 8401s | right after but it doesn't matter the |
| 8402s | bug from case after getting focused good |
| 8404s | finds Masa yazan was able to help with |
| 8407s | getting two and I don't think that we'll |
| 8409s | be able to keep this going it's overtime |
| 8411s | spawns and a pretty good hold from Saudi |
| 8414s | Arabia not quite the you know iconic |
| 8416s | overtime push of uh oh they uh stop the |
| 8419s | news tracks |
| 8421s | no totally fine for Saudi Arabia still |
| 8423s | um |
| 8426s | yeah it's it's |
| 8428s | I just want to keep setting up the |
| 8429s | stakes because you know sometimes we |
| 8431s | glance over it this is map two and a |
| 8433s | first to two if Saudi Arabia does not |
| 8434s | get further than this they go down on |
| 8436s | their own map pick |
| 8438s | um after a really well thought out |
| 8439s | control like I cannot overstate the |
| 8442s | value of this the stakes in each one of |
| 8444s | these fights and each one of these |
| 8446s | because |
| 8447s | again Group B only sends two people |
| 8449s | through qualifiers two teams |
| 8452s | um so these are two of the the favorites |
| 8454s | in the group but there's some teams |
| 8456s | lurking out there |
| 8457s | now losing your first qualifier match |
| 8459s | online is is going to be brutal so |
| 8461s | really a lot on the line here for Saudi |
| 8464s | Arabia |
| 8465s | to not drop their very first map pick |
| 8468s | yeah I mean you take a look at this and |
| 8470s | you know whoever loses this match uh |
| 8472s | they have to now look at Sweden and go |
| 8474s | we must beat Sweden or you're gone you |
| 8477s | know no BlizzCon no nothing like it ends |
| 8479s | here so you know you want to have that |
| 8482s | flexibility to potentially lose the |
| 8484s | Sweden and still get into BlizzCon |
| 8487s | proper but yeah well that said I mean |
| 8489s | given how close our very first uh match |
| 8491s | of the day was between like turkey and |
| 8493s | Poland who knows I mean really we don't |
| 8495s | know this |
| 8496s | but yeah I mean it's all about World Cup |
| 8498s | I mean |
| 8503s | any first attack uh first time around |
| 8505s | here in the body they're not guaranteed |
| 8506s | to get point a you can get hell on the |
| 8508s | body point a pretty easily you know the |
| 8509s | first time around Sonic got picked off |
| 8511s | super early I think sana's made some |
| 8513s | adjustments here so I don't know if |
| 8514s | we'll see that again well they're gonna |
| 8516s | try to take the same angle too because |
| 8517s | quartz is going to play on this this |
| 8519s | long sight line here |
| 8520s | um as the as the Ash and they're gonna |
| 8522s | kind of rotate damage boosting the Ash |
| 8524s | and the echo as they try to take this |
| 8527s | High Ground here Santa's a little bit of |
| 8529s | trouble but it doesn't get away yeah it |
| 8531s | sounds like a lot more defensive however |
| 8532s | yeah |
| 8534s | however quartz goes down so finland's |
| 8537s | down to support Saudi Arabia down the |
| 8540s | DPS spot they're able to get the res |
| 8541s | both teams getting rise up so back up to |
| 8543s | 5v5 Finland though got poked down a |
| 8545s | little bit more ahead they can see the |
| 8546s | bit of space however still looking for |
| 8549s | their option and Nick G just wasn't able |
| 8550s | to get away he's on camera chases him |
| 8552s | down Saudi Arabia is still very very |
| 8554s | healthy here too so you take a look at |
| 8556s | this this is looking like again a very |
| 8558s | good first attack from Saudi Arabia and |
| 8561s | again hex you think back to the last |
| 8562s | round they didn't stop until Point C so |
| 8565s | if they do that again we're going to a |
| 8566s | map three and they just prioritize the |
| 8569s | Anna early on I mean the Anna corner is |
| 8571s | like kind of notorious on the Bonnie |
| 8573s | Anna's almost always set up in the same |
| 8574s | spot so hitting that shot early is |
| 8576s | critical and then when you're able to |
| 8577s | take out the honor for the second time |
| 8578s | and there's no res not only does that |
| 8580s | hurt your team that there's no res but |
| 8582s | now masa's got to run double duty trying |
| 8583s | to keep everyone alive whereas Saudi |
| 8585s | Arabia does have a significantly higher |
| 8588s | healing output so 90 seconds left |
| 8591s | there's the box of Victory on the ground |
| 8594s | even sauna ends up getting duplicate |
| 8596s | value here you know you look at the time |
| 8598s | remaining it is only a minute 20. |
| 8599s | Finland only needs two flights but those |
| 8601s | two fights can be really |
| 8603s | really hard to get here of course to do |
| 8605s | anything they need to get this one here |
| 8607s | and now early hack on the KSA Bob it |
| 8610s | comes out from court Saudi Arabia |
| 8611s | probably gonna burn everything to try |
| 8613s | and do this here and now son of them |
| 8615s | into the back this is the duplicate ends |
| 8617s | up you have mercy ends up getting |
| 8618s | immediately ripped out of the dupe so |
| 8620s | very low value he is on sends him to the |
| 8623s | Grave right after meanwhile the payload |
| 8625s | moving and moving Finland not gonna stop |
| 8628s | him this time we're going to map three |
| 8630s | it seems to be the the harbinger of a |
| 8633s | fight loss is when you have to duplicate |
| 8635s | a mercy it happened to Saudi Arabia uh |
| 8638s | in in the the last stage and now it |
| 8641s | happens I mean obviously like Echoes are |
| 8643s | just like I gotta get out I gotta try to |
| 8645s | get out alive what really happened there |
| 8646s | is the Bob came in at a really nice |
| 8648s | angle and it forced the echo around the |
| 8650s | corner to try to make a play Echo |
| 8651s | doesn't want to be fighting that close |
| 8653s | right it helps with the beam to be that |
| 8655s | close but I just ended up getting in a |
| 8657s | really weird spot because he could not |
| 8659s | Retreat the other way he can't go up |
| 8660s | because Bob can shoot up Bob's really |
| 8662s | smart that way uh forced into the team |
| 8664s | and really well executed by Saudi Arabia |
| 8667s | so they're able to take their own map |
| 8669s | now Finland gets a chance at their map |
| 8672s | and maybe you want to pick something |
| 8673s | that uh you can't let the team get into |
| 8676s | the sky on yeah I know because USANA but |
| 8679s | you know what on the other side like |
| 8681s | Finland matched it a lot of the time |
| 8682s | like they played really well on their |
| 8684s | own Echo so |
| 8685s | well look I mean if they could get them |
| 8687s | to play a far a torb comp again I think |
| 8689s | you do want them to go to the sky |
| 8691s | because I don't think the tour part was |
| 8693s | a great aspect but Saudi Arabia they did |
| 8695s | make the change I don't think we're |
| 8696s | gonna see the tour come on back in and |
| 8699s | you know look Saudi Arabia they made |
| 8701s | good adjustments here both teams had |
| 8702s | their moments in this map but you know |
| 8704s | the biggest thing for me in this is that |
| 8706s | Finland wasn't able to find a firm |
| 8708s | answer for point a to Bonnie defense it |
| 8711s | burned them in the first round and it |
| 8712s | definitely burned them in the overtime |
| 8713s | round where you know if they were just |
| 8715s | able to get one fight on point a it |
| 8717s | probably changes the outcome of the |
| 8719s | match entirely |
| 8720s | yeah I mean there was some some really |
| 8723s | nice stuff uh from from Finland even in |
| 8725s | this loss though and I just can't |
| 8727s | believe how close everything has been |
| 8728s | today it has been so fun to watch and uh |
| 8731s | we're going to a map three uh gonna be |
| 8733s | spectacular it is going to be a rush map |
| 8736s | but it is finland's Choice |
| 8739s | um maybe maybe you'd prefer to have the |
| 8741s | the second map pick because it gives you |
| 8743s | a lot more variety but you know uh the |
| 8746s | game mode is rush I think Finland might |
| 8748s | put Let Me rush I'm saying rush all day |
| 8750s | long but yeah or you've been looking at |
| 8753s | my last name I don't know you know |
| 8754s | either way yeah or or a certain you know |
| 8756s | OverWatch League head coach you know |
| 8758s | yeah yeah there's a lot of ways to get |
| 8760s | Rush on the brand fantastic Canadian pop |
| 8763s | band |
| 8764s | um |
| 8767s | but yeah it's been a fantastic day and |
| 8770s | um yeah I'm just really you know |
| 8772s | obviously we're gonna have to take a |
| 8773s | break before we figure it out but I'm |
| 8775s | gonna try to Theory craft what I think |
| 8776s | they're they're gonna pick next but I |
| 8778s | wouldn't be surprised maybe see cloudy |
| 8779s | come in ah play a little Reinhardt well |
| 8782s | well cloudy or well heck sits here in |
| 8784s | Daydreams of Cloudy coming in The X |
| 8787s | Factor we will be taking a break while |
| 8788s | we come back the thrilling finale to |
| 8790s | what has been a great match so far |
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| 9012s | know it's not every day you can say |
| 9014s | something has lived up to the hype but |
| 9016s | here today hex this has lived up to the |
| 9019s | hype map 3 the deciding map here in our |
| 9022s | matchups here today it is first to two |
| 9024s | so three is the max you can go Finland |
| 9027s | and Saudi Arabia taking each other to |
| 9029s | the left hey buddy I don't want to |
| 9030s | interrupt you you're muted though might |
| 9032s | want to fix that real quick oh you know |
| 9034s | what I was I can read your lips I knew |
| 9036s | exactly what you said actually I I |
| 9038s | understood every bit of it now if you |
| 9041s | want to reiterate what that was no no |
| 9043s | the stream could hear me so really it's |
| 9044s | just on you just imagine you heard what |
| 9047s | I said oh okay well I you know I did not |
| 9049s | hear what you said |
| 9051s | um I'm sure it was insightful and |
| 9052s | wonderful and absolutely perfect uh you |
| 9055s | were just muted on my end so my bad I |
| 9057s | didn't mean to interrupt you as it was |
| 9060s | um so yeah uh that was that was an |
| 9062s | excellent point and I completely agree |
| 9064s | the interesting thing is like what |
| 9066s | what's this map selection gonna be |
| 9069s | um push so our options on the map Pool |
| 9072s | and I don't know if I'm repeating after |
| 9074s | what you said uh Coliseum Esperanza and |
| 9077s | new Queen Street so um it is going to be |
| 9080s | new Queen Street we are going to go into |
| 9083s | that map |
| 9085s | um and yeah that's finland's pick and |
| 9087s | we'll see we'll see what they want of |
| 9089s | course Finland picks the map with a |
| 9091s | hockey arena on it I was kind of like |
| 9094s | gonna say that too yeah it's like you |
| 9096s | know this feels close to home uh you |
| 9098s | know it might be Canada but yeah let's |
| 9100s | go with it uh we love the ice |
| 9102s | hahaha |
| 9104s | yeah so I mean the question is is there |
| 9106s | going to be any uh roster changes for |
| 9109s | either side |
| 9110s | um and we will find that out just now |
| 9114s | it's good looking statue yeah I mean |
| 9116s | look hockey is the theme Here great |
| 9118s | sport by the way underrated especially |
| 9120s | in North America but uh it is a little |
| 9123s | bit pricey to play only only in parts of |
| 9125s | North America I don't think it's |
| 9126s | underrated in Canada no |
| 9129s | no definitely not uh |
| 9131s | you know any place where there's a snow |
| 9133s | and cold yeah but yeah it'll be exciting |
| 9135s | to see what the teams have in store here |
| 9136s | on push and also you know remember it is |
| 9138s | push so you know with as close as these |
| 9141s | teams have been whoever wins the first |
| 9143s | one the two fights uh that could be its |
| 9146s | they could be putting the other team in |
| 9147s | a hole they will not be getting out of |
| 9149s | also and tracking substitutions or lack |
| 9151s | thereof quartz is staying in so no you |
| 9154s | be torb to be talked about here instead |
| 9158s | it's gonna be courts uh likely on the |
| 9159s | hit scan once more |
| 9162s | yeah uh interesting play and also no |
| 9165s | substitutions for Finland either so the |
| 9168s | team's just rolling with the the same |
| 9170s | rosters as they did in map two uh yazan |
| 9173s | was momentarily anime |
| 9176s | of course that's not gonna stick |
| 9178s | because he is on does not like to be on |
| 9180s | the ground at all and will be switching |
| 9183s | over to the echo it's one of the things |
| 9185s | where if he's on had a dating profile |
| 9186s | you know top things things I hate the |
| 9189s | ground |
| 9191s | Terra Firma not a fan |
| 9194s | see picture of me skydiving |
| 9197s | uh but as we say that design is in the |
| 9199s | sky once more so accurate to say the |
| 9202s | least Vastola just getting troubled |
| 9204s | early on has to block and go please |
| 9206s | please heal me but Finland in general |
| 9207s | this game beating up poke wise KSA |
| 9210s | eating a little bit counterpoke |
| 9211s | immortality Fields already used in the |
| 9212s | Solar oh man there's a hit out for him |
| 9215s | right now still the store be able to |
| 9217s | back up get healed on Saudi Raven not |
| 9219s | able to capitalize on what could have |
| 9221s | been an early Advantage so good poker no |
| 9223s | we're back to neutral he's on the fine |
| 9226s | sauna and that is the beginning of what |
| 9228s | could be some momentum here on push yeah |
| 9230s | I mean the sustain was there for a while |
| 9232s | for Finland but eventually just breaking |
| 9234s | through a nice knife from KSA it will |
| 9237s | finish off uh the remainder of the big |
| 9239s | healing for Finland and you know it's |
| 9241s | going to be an issue for Finland when |
| 9243s | you're on this Rush that if you end up |
| 9245s | losing uh your Batiste early you're just |
| 9248s | in trouble you just don't have the |
| 9249s | healing anymore so uh well Finland was |
| 9251s | able to sustain through a lot of that |
| 9253s | into Saudi Arabia that will take the |
| 9254s | first fight Finland with 20 meter years |
| 9257s | though is interesting because you wonder |
| 9259s | if they're going to come back and try to |
| 9261s | push this maybe a person down |
| 9263s | um just to not give up the the lead |
| 9265s | which is just so critical and push yeah |
| 9267s | I think they're gonna be able to contest |
| 9268s | it in time like you look at where |
| 9269s | they're at right now |
| 9271s | they don't care I don't care they they |
| 9272s | realize you know we want a better fight |
| 9274s | you know if we can only get 20 meters |
| 9276s | we're probably gonna lose anyways so |
| 9278s | they just let it be Sonic close to the |
| 9280s | Dead Eye gives up The High Ground goes |
| 9282s | down says I've smelled tank blood takes |
| 9284s | down kiss at the end of the stall uh |
| 9286s | Deadeye here in the back looking at izan |
| 9289s | who goes away it's like man I don't want |
| 9290s | to be here looking for the mercy mercies |
| 9292s | but it comes at a cost |
| 9295s | icious meanwhile Sada goes to the back a |
| 9298s | little bit clean up near the push point |
| 9301s | is on able to get Sana and still a |
| 9305s | threat Cloud get servich had a little |
| 9307s | bit of a dink from the icicle straight |
| 9310s | to the Head blizzard ready to go looking |
| 9312s | for KSA once more won't be a res this |
| 9314s | time this Masa finishes his plate and |
| 9317s | Finland they're gonna be able to push |
| 9320s | right back up I don't know if they'll |
| 9321s | get to 30 but it's gonna be close |
| 9323s | well I think I think they should be able |
| 9325s | to with a couple of late kills I mean |
| 9326s | it's gonna be 5v3 right now and then |
| 9328s | they're right around the corner it was |
| 9329s | an interesting blizzard to take down uh |
| 9332s | KSA there just to make sure the queen |
| 9335s | goes down |
| 9336s | I kind of don't mind it just because |
| 9338s | Queen can be one of those Heroes that |
| 9340s | you think is dead in the sustain just |
| 9342s | kicks in so hard so some changes going |
| 9344s | to come in though KSA gonna get off of |
| 9346s | the queen and on to the uh erisa first |
| 9349s | time we've seen Orissa today who can be |
| 9350s | a real bully in some of these situations |
| 9352s | yeah I mean I think I can't say anything |
| 9354s | to stay alive mean file for you is on |
| 9356s | it's like things are going bad uh what |
| 9358s | do we need do the win Bara go far the |
| 9362s | most comfort of comfort picks for yazan |
| 9364s | KS Halo getting super low again the |
| 9366s | Finland just hates tanks the tank |
| 9368s | focuses on Rio Vastola finishes him off |
| 9371s | the annihilation just a little bit too |
| 9373s | much pressure to deal with because I was |
| 9376s | able to get Masa as this is going on |
| 9377s | still potentially terrible fight but not |
| 9379s | anymore Sana Clips is on his wings |
| 9383s | and Finland getting really valuable |
| 9385s | progress now on the robot I should be |
| 9388s | able to get forward spawn here too which |
| 9390s | is critical but they did just lose two |
| 9392s | as quartz comes in pretty big estola is |
| 9395s | gonna have to hightail it out of town |
| 9397s | yep time to leave |
| 9399s | but you know for Finland you're really |
| 9401s | happy with that I mean yeah you would |
| 9402s | like to keep that going a little bit |
| 9404s | longer but you know a push leads like |
| 9406s | this can't just be the end of the game |
| 9408s | at times |
| 9409s | we'll see if Saudi Arabia though can |
| 9411s | have a good fight here he is on over the |
| 9413s | top barrage immediately gets rid of the |
| 9415s | stola and you know you're not gonna lose |
| 9417s | the tank fight if you have a tank and |
| 9419s | the other team doesn't well I mean you |
| 9421s | you used a barrage you got one and you |
| 9423s | stayed alive like that's the checklist |
| 9425s | right there like you that's it's a super |
| 9427s | successful barrage |
| 9429s | um and also I mean the the target of |
| 9431s | value uh taking out the the opposing |
| 9434s | tank is critical and that might lead to |
| 9436s | Saudi Arabia getting forward spawns this |
| 9438s | has been very back and forth but it does |
| 9439s | seem like Finland wants to contest this |
| 9441s | before they give up board spawn they |
| 9442s | absolutely should and you know part of |
| 9443s | that is gonna be if Cloud could just get |
| 9445s | the blizzard up in time though |
| 9446s | goes down and yeah they immediately |
| 9448s | invest the blizzard they they get KSA |
| 9450s | down Sonic it's Haku no more Lifeline |
| 9452s | here for these on if Sonic can just stay |
| 9454s | alive a little bit longer gazondo |
| 9456s | finishes him off I think though Finland |
| 9458s | did enough damage overall that doesn't |
| 9460s | really matter they're able to keep |
| 9462s | control able to push things back |
| 9466s | yeah I mean as soon as the mercy Goes |
| 9469s | Down You're Just in trouble and I'm |
| 9470s | actually surprised that yazan was able |
| 9471s | to live through that surprise vistola |
| 9473s | didn't kind of uh take him down |
| 9475s | so really in yeah sounds gonna initiate |
| 9479s | um you know I kind of want to see yeah |
| 9481s | KSA has gone back to the junker Queen uh |
| 9484s | really struggling on the tank play so |
| 9485s | far like it just has been kind of |
| 9487s | bullied out no matter what was played |
| 9489s | and in case I just need to find |
| 9491s | something that he won't die first time |
| 9494s | right now because Finland is the |
| 9495s | pressure tank specifically Masada went |
| 9497s | down first in this fight they lose the |
| 9499s | ability to speed up and ASA a little bit |
| 9502s | of quick Revenge aided by yazan and you |
| 9505s | know you lose one person that early in |
| 9506s | the fight and things just snowball as |
| 9508s | Finland they're gonna be bringing this |
| 9509s | right back the other way it's just a |
| 9511s | Mastery of the the firework fit uh the |
| 9514s | pharah kit excuse me for freeze on |
| 9517s | um so to jump on the back line and then |
| 9519s | watch immortality field come down hit a |
| 9521s | perfect concussive blast to knock out |
| 9523s | people out of immortality field get the |
| 9525s | Panic going in them try to finish it off |
| 9527s | just it's just an absolute Mastery of |
| 9529s | the hero to a level I've almost never |
| 9531s | seen |
| 9534s | early on and again |
| 9537s | you see the early barrage just uses it |
| 9539s | to confirm a kill it's exactly what you |
| 9541s | shouldn't be doing on pharah Saudi |
| 9543s | Arabia giving themselves a big edge here |
| 9545s | getting very close to equalizing 51-57 |
| 9547s | yazan just isn't stopping finds Masa |
| 9550s | rocket after rocket gonna be playing |
| 9552s | vistola back and spawn as well and 57-52 |
| 9555s | I think Saudi Arabia is going to take |
| 9557s | the lead here x is three minutes and 40 |
| 9559s | seconds remain oh they absolutely are |
| 9561s | and now quartz is going to play front |
| 9562s | and get this pressure and there is going |
| 9564s | to be a Bob here like this |
| 9567s | um well I mean they're tied right now |
| 9569s | but this should be able to lock them in |
| 9571s | in the lead |
| 9572s | and Saudi Arabia has a legitimate chance |
| 9574s | to finish here if they don't get picked |
| 9575s | off early |
| 9577s | Bob coming up from Fort Saudi Arabia |
| 9578s | really wants to just keep up momentum |
| 9580s | gear if they can beat down from Masa |
| 9583s | well times save Sana from dying cloudy |
| 9585s | while finds corpse Finland 5v4 now |
| 9588s | Vestal holding on to the bomb you know |
| 9590s | if you're Finland you want to be |
| 9591s | economical here you have a long push to |
| 9593s | go the other way |
| 9595s | can't say now Enemy Number One gets |
| 9597s | hacked the focus can be there no means |
| 9600s | it gets machete on the other end and ASA |
| 9603s | says I'm still invested uses the rage to |
| 9606s | Saudi Arabia they don't want to give |
| 9607s | this up sponsor for Finland are coming |
| 9609s | right back in here hex and what is |
| 9611s | becoming a very Scrappy fight yeah now |
| 9614s | this Saudi Arabia has the lead they're |
| 9615s | they're going to switch over to a Sombra |
| 9617s | too which is is kind of an interesting |
| 9620s | pick |
| 9621s | it allows you to kind of just take these |
| 9623s | fights wherever to maybe get some back |
| 9624s | cap pressure to just put pressure on to |
| 9626s | the payload and you know with being up |
| 9629s | 20 meters you kind of just want to stall |
| 9631s | you're fighting clock now yeah at this |
| 9634s | point for Saudi Arabia you're okay |
| 9635s | losing a fight so long as it takes a |
| 9637s | long time you know it's going to take |
| 9639s | Finland at least two fights in all |
| 9641s | likelihood to bring this back so you can |
| 9644s | lose this fight just make it take a long |
| 9646s | time but of course winning fight would |
| 9648s | be better |
| 9650s | it's huge |
| 9653s | yeah that's that's really rough |
| 9655s | um |
| 9656s | now there's there's almost no healing on |
| 9658s | the ground they're gonna get the |
| 9659s | resurrection in though but it does mean |
| 9661s | that oh sticker goes down yeah |
| 9664s | a life finland's been doing a really |
| 9667s | good job of punishing these registers I |
| 9669s | feel like half the time Haku goes for a |
| 9671s | res you know it's a blood sacrifice it's |
| 9673s | life for a life in a lot of situations |
| 9675s | but Finland they get the fight they need |
| 9677s | they're moving forward Saudi Arabia not |
| 9679s | really a huge Edge at all into the next |
| 9681s | fight I mean the big thing is gonna be |
| 9683s | EMP you know if the EMP can set up the |
| 9685s | barrage is the number one thing but |
| 9687s | Finley can also set the tempo of banana |
| 9691s | but now you have to go really worried oh |
| 9695s | the movement |
| 9697s | no way he's living how is Victory alive |
| 9700s | no not anymore at the same time both |
| 9703s | teams have support is on running for his |
| 9705s | like 9 HP |
| 9707s | is on to live how in the world but |
| 9709s | yazan's also very far out of the fight |
| 9711s | that is still going on meanwhile of the |
| 9715s | stole I think was off hunting for yazan |
| 9717s | and what turned out to be a split fight |
| 9719s | both teams a little bit scattered one |
| 9721s | minute left to go and there's the pause |
| 9725s | well why not |
| 9727s | um |
| 9728s | I mean how can you end a map three with |
| 9731s | one minute left to go if you didn't have |
| 9733s | the pause is the the real questions you |
| 9736s | gotta ask yourself |
| 9738s | yeah we'll see if it's uh if the players |
| 9740s | are experiencing some some stutter or |
| 9743s | lag I know our engineering Department's |
| 9744s | been working on a couple of things here |
| 9746s | to try to bring you guys the best |
| 9747s | product possible but you know whatever |
| 9749s | it's just a pause in one of the most |
| 9751s | critical moments |
| 9752s | um of the map so far uh it has been kind |
| 9757s | of weird like these fights are happening |
| 9758s | all over the place and I think like what |
| 9760s | really exemplifies that is you know |
| 9762s | where yazan ended up being and then you |
| 9765s | know it's trying to bop himself around |
| 9767s | and all over the place uh but been |
| 9769s | playing really well and the the people |
| 9771s | from Finland has been really really good |
| 9773s | up to an extent I think it's just izana |
| 9776s | as Relentless pressure whereas like most |
| 9779s | borrowers would shoot like two rockets |
| 9780s | at that Anna um and then be like oh well |
| 9782s | the Diva's there and they're getting |
| 9783s | peeled because I'm just pumps in like |
| 9785s | two more and ends up getting the kill so |
| 9788s | it's been kind of crazy up 20 meters and |
| 9790s | in control of the cart is Saudi Arabia |
| 9793s | or the robot |
| 9795s | um and yeah see how this one goes down |
| 9798s | and we're only 40 seconds left a single |
| 9800s | one fight from Saudi Arabia could close |
| 9802s | out this series yeah Saudi Arabia |
| 9806s | change here depending on how this pins |
| 9809s | up probably close to the two at this |
| 9811s | point is on getting support means tallah |
| 9814s | says I hate mercy kill the mercy kills |
| 9816s | the mercy with the aid of mixing says I |
| 9819s | don't need a Lifeline life for a life |
| 9821s | once more takes down both supports on |
| 9823s | his own a solo Mission successful in |
| 9827s | Finland now desperately without heels |
| 9830s | just all though moving on forward |
| 9832s | Finland can't really back out a whole |
| 9834s | lot here 10 seconds left to go is on the |
| 9837s | threat yet to be dealt with gets the |
| 9839s | stolen doesn't let him remake this could |
| 9841s | be the end for Finland as his on cannot |
| 9844s | be stopped |
| 9846s | I mean generally Divas are really solid |
| 9848s | counter to the the pharah but he's on |
| 9851s | his really good at cleaning up these |
| 9852s | these uh d-mac pilot Divas like it's |
| 9855s | been happening all series Masa is trying |
| 9858s | to desperately keep his team alive up |
| 9861s | into this how long can they delay is the |
| 9863s | question here fifth win is scattered |
| 9865s | Masa just gets crunched and that is it |
| 9869s | Saudi Arabia pulls it on out but you |
| 9872s | gotta say here hex Finland gave them one |
| 9875s | heck of a fight and it was just great |
| 9877s | OverWatch across the board yeah it |
| 9879s | always comes down to like just one or |
| 9881s | two fights and I think it was you know |
| 9883s | one of the last times and Masa sometimes |
| 9885s | will end up winning these but so yassan |
| 9888s | went to dive the Anna again as always |
| 9891s | you know after the Anna killed his mercy |
| 9893s | and then he went to get revenge uh you |
| 9895s | know montoya's style goes in there takes |
| 9898s | down the mercy and then for whatever |
| 9899s | reason as yassan is on mega pack |
| 9903s | um Masa just comes rolling through the |
| 9904s | door as Lucio and like that's the second |
| 9906s | like it just made no sense and he just |
| 9908s | there were so many times Masa died where |
| 9911s | he was like two feet away from yassan |
| 9913s | which I guess is like the how you have |
| 9914s | to play it as Lucio if you want to try |
| 9916s | to get some damage but he comes in late |
| 9918s | that means that Lucio's not alive to |
| 9920s | taxi the rest of his team back or give |
| 9921s | any sort of heels and then that ends up |
| 9923s | being a one-sided fight and and so the |
| 9926s | diva can't go in and yassan still has |
| 9928s | free reign but you know we talked about |
| 9930s | a little bit of the meta coming into |
| 9931s | today and I was like man I think we're |
| 9934s | gonna see some power and mercy just |
| 9936s | because some teams you know have |
| 9937s | Specialists and things like that but I |
| 9939s | didn't expect to see 99 of the match to |
| 9943s | be far of Mercy I guess there was Echo |
| 9945s | I'm counting Echo into the Farah family |
| 9948s | um but yeah it's it's not surprising |
| 9950s | what Saudi Arabia did a little |
| 9952s | surprising Finland was able to deal with |
| 9953s | it as well as they did actually yeah and |
| 9955s | yeah we look into the highlights here |
| 9957s | sauna having moments but you know at the |
| 9960s | end of it just dealing with an enormous |
| 9962s | threat in yazan's Far where you talk |
| 9964s | about people that say pay attention you |
| 9966s | know the average player going to a game |
| 9968s | you know keeps informed goes okay here's |
| 9970s | what I should play you know yazan just |
| 9971s | has a page permanently locked where it's |
| 9973s | like what's meta and it's a wall with |
| 9975s | nothing but pictures of farm that is how |
| 9977s | he's probably operates on this game just |
| 9980s | give the fact is like what to play |
| 9982s | pharah doesn't matter yeah or speaking |
| 9985s | of like you know we talked about |
| 9986s | Wolverine but like the Wolverine meme |
| 9988s | just a picture of pharah |
| 9991s | well yeah I mean a fantastic game so far |
| 9994s | today and I mean it's only going to get |
| 9995s | better |
| 9996s | um but yeah I mean you have to give a |
| 9997s | lot of credit to like I said you know um |
| 10000s | Haku which I thought like |
| 10002s | maybe his worst map it was the last one |
| 10005s | going for like really aggressive |
| 10006s | resurrections but that's kind of the |
| 10007s | nature of push where like if you get |
| 10009s | that res off then your like team is |
| 10010s | still in it and if not you're at least |
| 10012s | delaying so it wasn't like that bad but |
| 10013s | early on especially at that Bichon Tower |
| 10015s | Haku played amazingly well on the pharah |
| 10018s | so like we're gonna talk about yazan |
| 10019s | because that's in the kill feed and |
| 10021s | you're the one hitting Rockets but like |
| 10022s | you're only half of the duo there |
| 10024s | um so I'd like to give credit to some of |
| 10026s | the mercies there the rest of the team |
| 10027s | picked it up really well and I mean |
| 10029s | finland's still a very very dangerous |
| 10031s | team because as much as like I think |
| 10033s | Masa made a few mistakes there towards |
| 10035s | the end but you're Lucy over his bar |
| 10036s | it's not gonna be awesome Masa also had |
| 10039s | like game and match winning plays uh |
| 10042s | especially on Lee Jong Tower early on so |
| 10044s | like this Finland team has a ton a ton |
| 10047s | of talent and this is the upper echelon |
| 10049s | of Group B uh Saudi Arabia and Finland |
| 10051s | so we'll see Sweden in a little bit and |
| 10053s | also some other teams but yeah a group a |
| 10055s | is looking really strong speaking of |
| 10057s | other teams coming up next it's gonna be |
| 10059s | Norway taking on Sweden the action is |
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| 10283s | foreign |
| 10286s | we just watched the Kingdom of Saudi |
| 10288s | Arabia take two straight games after |
| 10290s | losing one to Finland to take it two to |
| 10292s | one and proceed in our round robin |
| 10294s | welcome back everyone to the OverWatch |
| 10296s | World Cup 2023 online qualifiers for |
| 10298s | emec I'm your host Jim Basco and of |
| 10301s | course joined by zp and hex man aerial |
| 10303s | superiority zp I think you said it best |
| 10306s | I wasn't expecting Farah for 99 of the |
| 10309s | match or maybe it was hex I really |
| 10310s | couldn't tell you which one of you said |
| 10312s | that but that's exactly what I was |
| 10313s | thinking you know this is a pick that |
| 10315s | generally has a lot of problems |
| 10317s | especially in organized plays EP how did |
| 10320s | he make it work oh hey man work just by |
| 10322s | just hit all your shots forehead uh |
| 10325s | pretty much and you know it's one of |
| 10326s | those things where it's like it's the |
| 10328s | very thin line between feast and famine |
| 10329s | on far right you're either Landing |
| 10331s | enough Rockets to immediately take |
| 10333s | people out and not dying or you're not |
| 10336s | quite hitting as much and you just |
| 10338s | simply fall over and you look like |
| 10339s | you're completely ineffective like you |
| 10341s | have to just hit a certain threshold of |
| 10343s | lethality that most people don't |
| 10345s | nowadays because yofara hasn't been meta |
| 10348s | as often people don't spend really as |
| 10350s | much time dedicated to the character but |
| 10352s | you know for someone of his Gambler it's |
| 10355s | one of those things where hey I can make |
| 10357s | it work it's a hero I'm very very |
| 10359s | comfortable with and you know yazan just |
| 10362s | made it work simple as that I think |
| 10364s | hitting shots is a big part of it too |
| 10366s | but but to me the thing that really |
| 10368s | separates Great Fair gameplay is always |
| 10371s | the movement and the concussive blasts |
| 10374s | um just being able to control where |
| 10375s | other players are and where you are |
| 10377s | because especially with the way |
| 10379s | OverWatch has developed and I spoke |
| 10380s | about this very early on and I think in |
| 10382s | our first match the game has gotten a |
| 10383s | lot more sustainable there's a lot more |
| 10385s | healing that goes on the tanks are a |
| 10387s | little bit stronger there's mitigation |
| 10389s | there's immortality Fields there's so |
| 10391s | much that a pharaoh can't just sit back |
| 10393s | there and poke away and hope that one of |
| 10395s | your Rockets hits eventually you get a |
| 10397s | kill so what is on does and by extension |
| 10400s | the rest of his team and and the mercy |
| 10403s | with them is noticing those windows |
| 10405s | where now it's can cause a blast in and |
| 10408s | I'm on you and you saw it time and again |
| 10409s | with like remaking Diva like that that |
| 10411s | was the big thing for me you would see |
| 10413s | like the diva get played and like going |
| 10415s | down and Diva thinks she's safe all of a |
| 10417s | sudden bam in there with concussive and |
| 10419s | down how he got closed the distance on |
| 10421s | Masa was closing the distance on people |
| 10423s | and also knocking people out of |
| 10425s | immortality field knocking people into |
| 10427s | walls so that those those Splash damage |
| 10429s | is better like yeah hitting shots is |
| 10431s | important and staying alive is important |
| 10432s | but you can't play passively as pharah |
| 10435s | anymore you have to take the fight to |
| 10436s | him and I think that's that's what the |
| 10438s | game |
| 10439s | um that he played was is so excellent at |
| 10441s | yeah high in the sky yazan has managed |
| 10444s | to stay a Mainstay of the pharah |
| 10445s | gameplay from really day one of |
| 10448s | OverWatch so you know adapting to the |
| 10450s | times is no problem for him but with |
| 10452s | that match out of the way definitely one |
| 10454s | of our best matches of the day we have a |
| 10455s | lot more action just around the corner |
| 10456s | let's go ahead and take a look at the |
| 10457s | schedule I believe for our third match |
| 10460s | of the day today we've got Norway versus |
| 10463s | Sweden of course following that Iceland |
| 10465s | versus Germany Belgium versus Great |
| 10468s | Britain Italy versus France and at 12 |
| 10470s | p.m Pacific the Netherlands versus Spain |
| 10473s | so going on into Norway versus Sweden |
| 10476s | here zp hacks thoughts on players |
| 10479s | thoughts on what we've seen so far |
| 10480s | throughout the day obviously the meta is |
| 10483s | still yet to settle and we've seen some |
| 10484s | very very interesting pics so far but |
| 10487s | you know Norway versus Sweden coming up |
| 10489s | what are your high level thoughts here I |
| 10491s | mean my high level thoughts are pretty |
| 10492s | low level |
| 10493s | Kevin's kempster win game like and also |
| 10496s | sparker but I do think that there's a |
| 10499s | potential that we just go into this and |
| 10500s | we see kevstner just put up you know |
| 10503s | three four eliminations you know every |
| 10505s | other team fight I I do think it could |
| 10507s | be that sort of match but as we've seen |
| 10509s | today teams can be surprising |
| 10512s | yeah I mean obviously like you you would |
| 10514s | favor Sweden just looking at the DPS |
| 10515s | line when you when you're a second DPS |
| 10517s | like buy a pretty significant margin of |
| 10519s | sparker uh you're doing pretty pretty |
| 10522s | good I mean kevistor is just that good |
| 10525s | um Kevin Pearson or person which is what |
| 10527s | a robot would call themselves if they |
| 10528s | name themselves just saying umster might |
| 10531s | be an AI it's very possible |
| 10533s | um I guess on the other side of things |
| 10535s | we can talk a little bit more about it |
| 10536s | like Norway does have some players with |
| 10538s | experience um psycho and Isaac have |
| 10539s | competitive experience but uh the guy |
| 10541s | I'm looking at is a guy that man uh he's |
| 10544s | been Ross's 2016 is his only God has |
| 10547s | been around forever I mean you want to |
| 10549s | talk about experience that you've had |
| 10551s | like he was on a team called Nordic |
| 10553s | Alpha I don't know if you remember that |
| 10556s | back but obviously like he was on |
| 10557s | reunited did a brief student with the |
| 10559s | Dallas fuel uh Paris Eternal um before |
| 10562s | like officially retiring earlier this |
| 10564s | year and like that's kind of what's |
| 10565s | great about World Cup is that players |
| 10566s | will like come out of retirement because |
| 10568s | it's like well I get to play for my |
| 10569s | country like it's a completely different |
| 10571s | thing so Norway has some players and |
| 10573s | like I think the strategy is obvious |
| 10575s | it's like we need we have to check |
| 10576s | Hester first and we have to hope that |
| 10578s | sparker doesn't pick up the slack when |
| 10580s | you do that so I think that's what we're |
| 10582s | seeing but Sweden could just run through |
| 10584s | it just because they have two not only |
| 10585s | OverWatch League level DPS but like top |
| 10587s | of OverWatch league right absolutely |
| 10589s | well zp and hex I believe the players |
| 10591s | are getting ready to rock so I'm Gonna |
| 10593s | Leave You guys with the match Norway |
| 10594s | versus Sweden just around the corner |
| 10596s | all right we are getting into it and |
| 10599s | yeah we're gonna be looking at Norway |
| 10600s | first so I'm willing to go down only God |
| 10602s | uh Memory Lane uh with you because I I |
| 10604s | think it was also it was only God I |
| 10606s | think filled in for one of the uh Old |
| 10608s | Apex tournaments you know Apex the |
| 10610s | Korean OverWatch tournament uh you know |
| 10612s | specifically where I think it was oh man |
| 10614s | I'm trying to remember I think it was |
| 10616s | kid maybe who like at the time like |
| 10618s | didn't feel comfortable with travel and |
| 10620s | then like Oni God I think filled in |
| 10622s | short notice where United it was |
| 10623s | something along those lines my memory |
| 10624s | might be fading at this point but uh |
| 10626s | sure yeah I mean it's very possible |
| 10631s | I just like yeah it's it's I was looking |
| 10633s | at it oh my God is that the same only |
| 10635s | God from from way back in the day and I |
| 10638s | was just kind of looking at it at the |
| 10639s | resume and it starts in like September |
| 10642s | of 2016. |
| 10644s | um of course was like a Mainstay on |
| 10645s | Toronto Esports when Toronto Esports was |
| 10648s | like a big thing has been all up and |
| 10650s | down had time on Envy time on fuel time |
| 10653s | on Paris just like just a player who |
| 10655s | seems to love to play uh because like |
| 10658s | just we'll we'll take anything really |
| 10660s | like we'll like play for any team just |
| 10662s | waiting for the chance so |
| 10664s | um definitely a player when I think of |
| 10666s | uh only God I think of like |
| 10668s | um maybe I'm thinking of someone else |
| 10670s | perhaps but I always thought of the |
| 10672s | Genji being one of his best players no |
| 10674s | no it was Genji 100 yeah I think we're |
| 10677s | we're probably gonna not see a ton of |
| 10679s | Genji might have to play Tracer just to |
| 10681s | try to check kevstraron Tracer which is |
| 10683s | a money yeah well speaking of Kev start |
| 10685s | we got our Sweden roster here where yeah |
| 10688s | uh Sweden has retooled a bit uh I again |
| 10691s | Sweden's progression over Overwatch |
| 10693s | World Cup history is very very |
| 10696s | interesting to me because you know you |
| 10698s | go back in time enough there was a |
| 10700s | period of time believe it or not that |
| 10701s | the they were the favor to win the |
| 10704s | OverWatch World Cup in 2016 before the |
| 10706s | reality of Korea being extremely good at |
| 10708s | OverWatch crashed upon the community uh |
| 10711s | you know rather coldly but you know then |
| 10714s | in future years I kind of fell off a bit |
| 10715s | as I sort of had an aging roster where |
| 10717s | they didn't reinvent but now you look at |
| 10719s | it the DPS line alone should be scaring |
| 10722s | you |
| 10724s | um yeah absolutely I mean if that's what |
| 10726s | everyone's looking at also I mean |
| 10728s | experienced tank play and lossesh I'll |
| 10731s | also just been around for quite a long |
| 10732s | time I think's had issues with maybe a |
| 10734s | Visa of some sort that I ended up with |
| 10736s | his unceremonious exit from the league |
| 10740s | um so yeah uh I think the story is Kevin |
| 10744s | sparker everyone knows that and I mean I |
| 10746s | think I'd be surprised if they didn't |
| 10748s | end up like kind of carrying this match |
| 10749s | and that's what makes Group B so scary |
| 10752s | is that like we just saw two of the best |
| 10754s | teams in group go go toe-to-toe and in |
| 10756s | Saudi Arabia in Finland and what you |
| 10759s | expect both of them to maybe get out of |
| 10761s | group but that means Sweden doesn't get |
| 10762s | out of group do we really expect sparker |
| 10764s | and cavister to not get out of group |
| 10766s | like this it's it's kind of crazy and |
| 10768s | then you've got a lot of wild cards like |
| 10770s | you know Norway and whatnot so |
| 10772s | yeah I mean but I think this one on |
| 10776s | paper maybe maybe just because I didn't |
| 10778s | know enough about like Poland and turkey |
| 10779s | but this one on paper seems like it |
| 10781s | should be Sweden right yeah on paper for |
| 10784s | whatever it's worth in this tournament |
| 10786s | where again historically you never know |
| 10788s | uh in the OverWatch World Cup but uh on |
| 10791s | paper it does seem like uh Sweden's |
| 10794s | probably gonna come on through and you |
| 10796s | know production you know talks are |
| 10797s | you're in like yeah you know we're |
| 10799s | actually a little bit behind schedule |
| 10800s | today you know didn't expect it this may |
| 10802s | be the game that gets us back on |
| 10803s | schedule to the uh listed times here hex |
| 10806s | because you know on paper at least |
| 10809s | there's a pretty overwhelming advantage |
| 10810s | of Sweden but you know there's a reason |
| 10813s | why the teams play the game and it's |
| 10815s | because you don't know until they |
| 10816s | actually play and that's where upsets |
| 10819s | and the unexpected can truly happen so |
| 10821s | I'm just curious to see what happens |
| 10824s | yeah um so obviously we're gonna kick it |
| 10826s | off on Lee Jeong Tower I'm actually just |
| 10828s | mostly curious to see what's uh what |
| 10830s | we're going to end up playing here as |
| 10832s | far as like comes I would expect Kev |
| 10834s | star to to just play Tracer |
| 10836s | um and then maybe sparker playing the |
| 10839s | Sombra right would that seem correct to |
| 10841s | you |
| 10842s | yeah I mean I think there's multiple |
| 10844s | things I also wouldn't be surprised to |
| 10845s | see like kevster just go on the Cassidy |
| 10848s | with uh some of the hype around like hey |
| 10850s | just play Cass he's really good yeah |
| 10851s | let's play cast like if you're feeling |
| 10853s | good about your single shot hit scan you |
| 10855s | know even though I would probably expect |
| 10856s | the Tracer you know play whatever in |
| 10860s | this regard I think the capster there's |
| 10862s | a lot of things kevstner can play and |
| 10864s | it's gonna go well regardless of what |
| 10866s | gemster plays so but right now it is |
| 10868s | looking like the Tracer as we head into |
| 10869s | the control center |
| 10872s | yeah uh Norway is looking like they're |
| 10875s | playing something kind of interesting |
| 10876s | here like this is a little bit of a |
| 10878s | hybrid this looks like kind of a Saudi |
| 10880s | Arabia cop actually |
| 10881s | one shot Captain that's all I want to |
| 10883s | say sorry |
| 10886s | so chemster's so good you're actively |
| 10888s | rooting against him absolutely yeah well |
| 10890s | no no it's worse so I just |
| 10892s | come back |
| 10894s | oh there it is I've wheeled it into |
| 10896s | existence X that's it that's a peak |
| 10905s | I icicles are the worst thing that's |
| 10907s | ever been out of this game I hate it so |
| 10909s | much |
| 10911s | I don't normally predict to be like man |
| 10913s | I hope this player does this but in this |
| 10914s | case I did it worked out and I'm good |
| 10920s | well I mean that's a really nice start |
| 10921s | for Norway to be in control of this |
| 10923s | especially when you're going to opt for |
| 10925s | the kind of uh the the echo Mercy style |
| 10928s | where you're kind of going to be |
| 10929s | squatted up where your Echo Mercy is |
| 10931s | going to be alone-ish |
| 10933s | um to have control of the point is |
| 10934s | really important |
| 10937s | coaster now also going to be on their |
| 10939s | event roll the play for not right now |
| 10942s | just general poke I think building more |
| 10944s | towards pulse than anything else right |
| 10946s | now rather than going for anything |
| 10947s | specific just press around the tanks |
| 10948s | marker though goes down most yourself |
| 10949s | finds his counterpart 93 comes through |
| 10952s | the pulse bomb here we go psycho over |
| 10956s | and in off the duplicate in Sweden just |
| 10958s | good poke here nothing too flashy to |
| 10960s | open this up |
| 10962s | no and uh the duplicate comes in late |
| 10964s | doesn't get anything done so Sweden will |
| 10966s | be able to take that one back and yeah I |
| 10969s | mean this is uh |
| 10971s | does the summer Tracer makes a ton of |
| 10973s | sense just because that's what the |
| 10975s | League's meta was for quite a while so |
| 10977s | it just seems like if sparker and |
| 10979s | cavister are going to come in after |
| 10980s | playing mostly in the league like this |
| 10982s | would be like what they're most |
| 10983s | comfortable with |
| 10985s | um so yeah it's as long as they have the |
| 10987s | comms going like it can be a devastating |
| 10989s | combination |
| 10990s | against her and now in the back threat |
| 10992s | here not so much poke but the pulse bomb |
| 10994s | in reserve we're now going around the |
| 10996s | other end coming up |
| 10999s | I'll spawn not gonna do too much JP able |
| 11002s | to find lotious and Norway playing very |
| 11005s | well around their May around their tanks |
| 11007s | right now very close to getting the |
| 11009s | reflip unless Sweden can get a pickup |
| 11012s | here psycho in or the top of the |
| 11013s | finishes off Sile smarter though in the |
| 11016s | other end it doesn't matter as psycho |
| 11017s | kind of coming alive here hex |
| 11019s | yeah it looks really nice and I mean |
| 11021s | kind of one of the byproducts of playing |
| 11023s | against a somber Tracer is that your |
| 11024s | team is going to stay a little bit |
| 11026s | closer together so when they come in for |
| 11028s | this dive when they come in for the |
| 11029s | hacks it gets very difficult to isolate |
| 11031s | a Target because the peel is already |
| 11033s | there you see it even with like the the |
| 11035s | echo uh Mercy is they're never too far |
| 11038s | away now part of that is that the map is |
| 11040s | a little bit condensed but it's been |
| 11042s | working really well against this kind of |
| 11043s | uh hack dive composition that Sweden's |
| 11046s | trying to rock EMP comes out real early |
| 11048s | psycho able to get the duplicate off |
| 11051s | yeah |
| 11052s | holy God though finds the Bap a quick |
| 11055s | pick up for money God |
| 11056s | backed up the other way I suck able to |
| 11058s | move forward in the support line of |
| 11059s | Sweden is just getting demolished right |
| 11061s | now hex I don't think the DPS could |
| 11063s | bring this back |
| 11065s | now in a free MP from psycho there too |
| 11067s | duplicating the Sombra I'm able to |
| 11069s | finish that one off and at 85 percent |
| 11071s | it's gonna be rough because even if they |
| 11073s | get in here they're going to have to end |
| 11075s | up playing against a blizzard |
| 11076s | momentarily so that can just really lock |
| 11078s | down the point entirely |
| 11080s | they're gonna have to try to sneak a |
| 11082s | sovereign you're just gonna touch |
| 11083s | because that Wall's coming up |
| 11085s | well just got sent up by only God who's |
| 11088s | been playing very consistent here again |
| 11090s | I love to see a veteran player because |
| 11091s | they play against like gets the map two |
| 11094s | icicles from Odie God show and he still |
| 11097s | has it it's Sweden now without a whole |
| 11099s | lot of healing kebster not able to find |
| 11102s | a Pick Off Norway coming in hot 99-54 |
| 11105s | saw those able to get psycho that's |
| 11107s | massive pick for the Bap Walsh is able |
| 11109s | to slow it down a little bit |
| 11110s | Transcendence in from Sweden all in on |
| 11113s | the point they need to reflip It Here |
| 11115s | and Now |
| 11120s | Tracer and Norway is Isaac just goes to |
| 11124s | town |
| 11126s | one of the downsides of Sweden's |
| 11128s | composition is your Tracer and your |
| 11130s | Sombra are almost never going to be with |
| 11131s | your team like they're always gone so it |
| 11133s | kind of leaves your back line extremely |
| 11136s | vulnerable Lucio Zen not a ton of |
| 11138s | healing anyways so you see lol such |
| 11140s | getting punished on it too I mean if you |
| 11142s | just look at the Pure Healing numbers JP |
| 11144s | and mimio are going to have so much more |
| 11148s | sustain on it so if you're not getting |
| 11150s | extreme value in controlling the tempo |
| 11152s | of the game with the Tracer and the |
| 11154s | Sombra you're leaving the rest of your |
| 11156s | squad pretty exposed and you saw it it |
| 11158s | happened to losish time and time again |
| 11160s | just kind of got uh bullied out a little |
| 11162s | bit so yeah going to the Winston makes a |
| 11165s | little bit of sense here like if you're |
| 11166s | gonna do this Tracer Sombra like do the |
| 11169s | Tracer Sombra no don't don't do half of |
| 11171s | it also you know we talked a lot about |
| 11173s | the DPS of Sweden and also |
| 11176s | um you know well such and his pedigree |
| 11178s | but you know one thing there and you |
| 11180s | know they're players that you know not |
| 11181s | as familiar with but you look at the |
| 11183s | support line Norway was doing a really |
| 11184s | good job of punishing the back line of |
| 11187s | Sweden there and you know I wonder if |
| 11189s | that might be a little bit of an |
| 11190s | Achilles heel where you know you know |
| 11192s | don't worry as much about Kev star just |
| 11194s | deal with the supports |
| 11198s | yeah well I mean there was there's no |
| 11199s | one to protect the sports and I mean |
| 11201s | look Zen Lucio you're not gonna be able |
| 11203s | to protect each other anyway unless the |
| 11205s | Zen is just kind of stopping you get the |
| 11207s | poop but that's just it's just not |
| 11208s | enough now with the sustained line of |
| 11210s | like a May and uh and an echo Mercy |
| 11213s | coming after you |
| 11214s | the thing I like about Norway here is |
| 11216s | that the comp they're running is just |
| 11217s | it's consistent you know if Sweden |
| 11219s | doesn't get an early pickoff oh my God |
| 11222s | we get pickups get tipped by the bionade |
| 11223s | Under Pressure able to stay alive only |
| 11225s | God got real low still got away from it |
| 11228s | doesn't die psycho |
| 11231s | off the outskirts on the echo a ground |
| 11234s | Echo here uh yazan really wouldn't |
| 11236s | approve of that too much time onto the |
| 11238s | ground but hey still alive getting uh |
| 11240s | supported all the while in Norway adding |
| 11243s | on progress to points Parker trying the |
| 11245s | pressure here in the backs Parker nearly |
| 11246s | goes down just barely translocates at |
| 11248s | times still really low if anyone can |
| 11250s | catch him Isaac eats the bio name gets |
| 11252s | healed back up nanoboost ready to go |
| 11254s | here for Sweden in just a moment what's |
| 11256s | turned into a very long fight but |
| 11258s | something Norway is okay with hex I mean |
| 11260s | they're in control of the point spark |
| 11261s | has been trying to get something done on |
| 11262s | this right side but every time he goes |
| 11264s | in and just completely shut down by the |
| 11266s | echo now finds a good Target but ice |
| 11268s | block is a thing |
| 11270s | and Only God he's just living doesn't |
| 11272s | care about kimster poking kebster has |
| 11274s | had to really respect the icicle poke |
| 11275s | and turn psycho finds the Anna |
| 11280s | pushed out after the healing is gone so |
| 11282s | is the tank and Kev star Norway at 56 to |
| 11286s | zero hex what is going on |
| 11288s | well I mean the support line for Norway |
| 11290s | has held their own right so it's not |
| 11292s | been captured bullying uh down uh either |
| 11295s | of these supports one because mimio gets |
| 11296s | to stay in the air too because kiriko is |
| 11298s | just a great duelist and was able to win |
| 11300s | that last duel and Norway like you said |
| 11302s | this I mean this is a composition that |
| 11304s | doesn't rely on like super overplay your |
| 11306s | super coordination everyone hang out |
| 11308s | together try to peel for each other and |
| 11311s | just hit some shots Emil got caught |
| 11313s | early and Only God doesn't care still |
| 11315s | get dropped to play the tank do we need |
| 11316s | the mercy I'm gonna take down your Zen |
| 11318s | still though I think a little ambitious |
| 11321s | and yet still enough to make kempster |
| 11323s | burn the pulse bomb and seemingly one |
| 11325s | fight but Sweden now X finally on the |
| 11328s | board yeah uh Norway needs one single |
| 11331s | fight here they're probably gonna try to |
| 11333s | use the kazune rush maybe get a |
| 11335s | duplicate in onto the Winston would be |
| 11337s | helpful as well Sweden in a good spot |
| 11339s | though if I'm Sweden I really want to |
| 11341s | try to initiate this early on with |
| 11342s | sparker if I can try to get a fight with |
| 11345s | just an EMP |
| 11346s | I mean I think that's a play here be as |
| 11349s | efficient as possible and yeah |
| 11351s | the follow-through on the yeah killster |
| 11354s | push that eight percent of the way while |
| 11355s | such just smacked the rest Sweden |
| 11358s | looking very very healthy right now and |
| 11360s | this is good this is a solid economical |
| 11362s | fight for Sweden and something they |
| 11364s | needed to get back into this so they |
| 11366s | need like two more of those |
| 11368s | well it just which is good because they |
| 11369s | still have an EMP they like I think |
| 11371s | Sweden just can't be playing passive |
| 11373s | here now that you're in control like you |
| 11374s | can't be playing passive on this |
| 11375s | composition anyway it's it just doesn't |
| 11377s | work that way |
| 11379s | um you don't want to let Norway go get |
| 11380s | set up on the point because the map |
| 11381s | editor in May is going to be able to cut |
| 11383s | off half of the the dive paths for you |
| 11385s | so I would like to see Sweden stay |
| 11387s | aggressive here |
| 11390s | that's it |
| 11391s | I'm so good |
| 11393s | I mean you lose the mercy immediately |
| 11395s | essentially for |
| 11397s | should the rest of your push I mean you |
| 11399s | know there's parking that you almost |
| 11400s | wonder is the time to jump off the |
| 11403s | legendary go for the reset cycle that |
| 11405s | was able to get sparker so afraid Hill |
| 11407s | Norway they don't really like giving |
| 11408s | away flights for free here and that |
| 11409s | might pay off Kevin in the back here has |
| 11412s | the pulse bomb probably willing to |
| 11413s | invest it now maybe Waits out the orisa |
| 11415s | ultimate goes forward goes for the stick |
| 11417s | not playing around easy stick one and |
| 11420s | done 82 enough for Sweden then |
| 11423s | you know Norway took a gambler cycle |
| 11425s | gets two and it's sort of paying off |
| 11427s | your Hicks they've gone on to a point |
| 11429s | they're close to a reflect chemster goes |
| 11431s | down and this scrappiness from Norway |
| 11433s | really unexpected so far yeah they're |
| 11436s | gonna stick in it too and if they can |
| 11437s | stay alive long enough to get both the |
| 11439s | mercy and the main here they should be |
| 11441s | able to lock it out like rather easily |
| 11443s | and they will do just that the sustain |
| 11445s | on the point is really good as Isaac |
| 11447s | stays alive and now it's gonna be very |
| 11450s | difficult for Sweden to come in |
| 11453s | they touch the point and and volsis |
| 11456s | should be able to get Primal here 99 |
| 11458s | ready to go oh God don't drop so |
| 11460s | defensively gets rid of the Lucio again |
| 11463s | only got Terry the sword lizard |
| 11466s | who's that kempster caught a kiriko hits |
| 11468s | and that could be it psycho mopping up |
| 11471s | the rest and oh my goodness hex I did |
| 11474s | not expect this coming on in Norway |
| 11477s | defying expectations they take map one |
| 11481s | away from Sweden yeah JP got hamster as |
| 11485s | many times as kebster got JP which is |
| 11487s | totally fine for support if you're gonna |
| 11489s | hold your own in the back end there |
| 11490s | that's completely fine I thought Sweden |
| 11493s | improved on the dive in the second um |
| 11495s | part of the map obviously it's a little |
| 11497s | easier on that uh that stage than it is |
| 11499s | on Mecha base but going over to Winston |
| 11501s | was super helpful |
| 11502s | um it just seems like they're about a |
| 11504s | second off either way of like the the |
| 11506s | somber's not there in time or the |
| 11508s | Winston's not there in time where |
| 11509s | kelster is getting someone down to maybe |
| 11511s | 10 HP but then they live because it's |
| 11513s | not the Super coordinated dive that you |
| 11516s | need |
| 11517s | um but yeah I mean you can't you can't |
| 11518s | say I can't say enough about like uh JP |
| 11521s | like this really good care play like the |
| 11524s | Lucio played well mulsish did their job |
| 11527s | as well and yeah I only got kind of set |
| 11529s | in tones with some icicles and that |
| 11531s | composition works really well against |
| 11534s | um a Sombra Tracer because maybe somber |
| 11536s | comes in then you wall up one side now |
| 11538s | the Tracer has to go around like it just |
| 11540s | is really well thought out and now |
| 11542s | Sweden is gonna have map pick here it |
| 11544s | also cycle played really well yeah |
| 11546s | psycho was solid only God just didn't |
| 11548s | die it was ridiculous but you know I did |
| 11550s | just hear something really interesting |
| 11551s | from production in my ear apparently his |
| 11553s | wedding is today or it's sometime this |
| 11555s | week but reinforce has left his wedding |
| 11558s | ripped off his tuxedo and he's actually |
| 11560s | going on to Sweden team comms to try and |
| 11563s | give them support he heard about the |
| 11565s | math loss he can't stand the next Lake |
| 11567s | and Johnny is Unleashed so you know |
| 11570s | we'll see |
| 11571s | but that's dedication to leave your own |
| 11573s | wedding for OverWatch wow I mean |
| 11575s | priorities right you know it |
| 11579s | it makes perfect sense to me so yeah a |
| 11582s | little bit of an upset like I said |
| 11583s | mentioning mentioned coming into this I |
| 11585s | thought on paper Sweden looked like the |
| 11587s | stronger team but paper has been useless |
| 11590s | today in a digital world so what do I |
| 11592s | know |
| 11593s | um Sweden's map pick is coming up next |
| 11596s | do uh platitudes uh be like hey anything |
| 11598s | can happen no we've been around the |
| 11600s | block a few times we've seen stuff |
| 11601s | happen |
| 11603s | ing right now you're seeing it happen |
| 11604s | too Norway up one to nothing over Sweden |
| 11607s | what's gonna happen next you got to come |
| 11609s | back to find out |
| 11616s | good |
| 11626s | [Applause] |
| 11651s | [Music] |
| 11657s | foreign |
| 11660s | [Music] |
| 11698s | foreign |
| 11701s | [Music] |
| 11728s | foreign |
| 11729s | [Music] |
| 11744s | [Music] |
| 11781s | thank you |
| 11784s | [Music] |
| 11797s | foreign |
| 11799s | [Music] |
| 11830s | [Applause] |
| 11832s | foreign |
| 11836s | Norway is up one to nothing over Sweden |
| 11840s | if you had a prediction bracket it might |
| 11842s | be about to be blown to Smithereens if |
| 11845s | Norway can keep up the pressure and if |
| 11847s | Sweden doesn't find a way to play up to |
| 11849s | the potential that most think they have |
| 11852s | yeah I mean they have potential |
| 11854s | um again baseless speculation usually I |
| 11856s | say this for pauses I wonder if that's |
| 11857s | like a little bit hubris though of just |
| 11859s | like oh we have Caster we have sparker |
| 11861s | just go kill people right just just win |
| 11862s | your one-on-ones and they just didn't |
| 11864s | win their one-on-ones a lot of the time |
| 11866s | like I I can't really remember like |
| 11867s | sparker having a moment where he found |
| 11869s | someone out alone and hacked and got the |
| 11871s | kill uh kevster I saw like you know I |
| 11873s | got kiriko a couple times but I saw |
| 11876s | kiriko get their own in there a couple |
| 11877s | times as well so uh maybe part of it is |
| 11880s | like okay we need to relax it seems a |
| 11882s | little better than we thought let's |
| 11884s | let's coordinate let's get our our |
| 11886s | composition down uh get something like |
| 11888s | that also I mean you can't take anything |
| 11889s | away from Norway just hitting shots |
| 11891s | playing well good peel |
| 11894s | um but yeah I mean the composition that |
| 11896s | that Sweden ran in the very first stage |
| 11898s | with like a Lucio Zen and just kind of |
| 11901s | getting jumped on by the echo not ideal |
| 11904s | um so yeah it's it's I kind of got |
| 11907s | counter compositioned because |
| 11910s | Norway just stayed together the whole |
| 11911s | time and that that summer Tracer doesn't |
| 11913s | like playing against a team that stays |
| 11915s | together |
| 11915s | yeah and look uh I do expect Sweden to |
| 11919s | bounce back here but the player I gotta |
| 11921s | highlight again just you know we talked |
| 11923s | about him in the Preamble because it's |
| 11924s | always fun to talk about players I've |
| 11925s | been around for a long time but look you |
| 11927s | don't play this game for this long |
| 11928s | without getting consistent and |
| 11930s | especially on Heroes like May that are |
| 11932s | so based on how's your positioning how's |
| 11935s | your reactions only God still has it |
| 11937s | only God is a good player and if only |
| 11940s | God keeps this up like should Norway win |
| 11942s | and Norway continue to do well |
| 11944s | I do feel like this is one of those like |
| 11946s | OverWatch World Cup stories where you |
| 11947s | could see only God just suddenly back |
| 11950s | into the league like OverWatch World Cup |
| 11951s | does have that way of just revitalizing |
| 11953s | careers so seeing the story of one God |
| 11955s | right now yeah it's been one map but if |
| 11958s | that narrative continues that's awesome |
| 11960s | I I really like that narrative yeah I |
| 11962s | mean |
| 11963s | um psycho and Isaac have some some |
| 11965s | competition like experience as well like |
| 11967s | ex obliviony if you're psycho psycho I |
| 11969s | thought played really well |
| 11970s | um also like the support line was Rock |
| 11973s | Solid so like yes it's only God and |
| 11975s | perhaps it's that leadership and that |
| 11977s | experience |
| 11978s | um and the the comfort of being within |
| 11981s | competitive OverWatch for seven years |
| 11983s | now just about like that's kind of crazy |
| 11987s | um so yeah that leadership I think is is |
| 11989s | valuable and the composition looked |
| 11992s | really really strong I I don't know you |
| 11996s | gotta you gotta let them leave spawn |
| 11997s | first yeah I know |
| 11999s | because I don't think we're gonna see |
| 12000s | life Weaver life Weaver Genji I'm for it |
| 12003s | you know but I I don't think so spark |
| 12006s | around to the dedicated hit scan rather |
| 12008s | than the Sombra I think is good too |
| 12009s | especially on this map along sight lines |
| 12011s | you either want to run like a Hanzo or |
| 12012s | an ash |
| 12014s | yeah I mean that makes all the sense in |
| 12016s | the world to me and you know you take a |
| 12018s | look |
| 12019s | at Norway setup and you know honestly if |
| 12021s | you can get away with it I you know you |
| 12024s | keep running them hey I mean only God's |
| 12025s | good at and I do think you know it's |
| 12027s | sometimes it's memed on but there is |
| 12029s | something to be said for the fact that |
| 12031s | may can give a good Tracer fits at times |
| 12033s | you can't play exactly how you'd want to |
| 12036s | play in some cases because you have to |
| 12037s | respect the one shot you know anything |
| 12039s | again kevstrom's head is good |
| 12043s | yeah so Norway is going to run pretty |
| 12045s | much what they ran on lijiang Tower here |
| 12049s | um almost exactly different tanks set up |
| 12051s | here from Isaac trying to get more |
| 12052s | Brawley |
| 12053s | oh sparker caught early Isaac also a |
| 12057s | standout right now at the tank play |
| 12058s | really good contribution so far psycho |
| 12061s | in the fall through gets the Zen and |
| 12063s | Sweden is folding this point already |
| 12065s | might be over hexes Sweden has to back |
| 12068s | out and pray to get a recontest which |
| 12070s | right now doesn't even look that likely |
| 12072s | yeah falling apart like cheap furniture |
| 12074s | which is apropos I think right now A |
| 12076s | Sweden just absolutely crumbling they |
| 12079s | lost one they lost two and then that was |
| 12081s | it also she tries to get out is unable |
| 12083s | to do so but I kind of want to see where |
| 12085s | that kill from Isaac came from early on |
| 12087s | to be able to get sparker like that |
| 12088s | might maybe hit a knife I didn't exactly |
| 12090s | see it but yeah I mean some yeah it was |
| 12093s | a blank can you miss it tight moment but |
| 12095s | Norway right now that's one thing |
| 12097s | they're not doing missing everything |
| 12099s | going well for them right now just |
| 12101s | flipping the script of what people |
| 12103s | thought this match would be |
| 12106s | and now go away just looking for the |
| 12108s | setup here meanwhile walsish on the |
| 12110s | Winston in the back |
| 12112s | I mean it's kind of gutsy for his psycho |
| 12114s | to be running Echo into into sparker's |
| 12116s | Ash yeah |
| 12118s | kind of respect it it's kind of a shoot |
| 12120s | me you won't moment that's going on |
| 12122s | right now he's just like do it |
| 12125s | I dare you but uh what else is right now |
| 12128s | back over onto payload gonna play a |
| 12130s | little bit more grounded rather than |
| 12131s | drop down oh you gotta get Parker in the |
| 12133s | middle of that that opens things up for |
| 12135s | psycho too no now he just doesn't have |
| 12136s | to worry at all about it yeah there's no |
| 12138s | anti-air anymore oh man also only God |
| 12141s | can just entirely focus on gemster now |
| 12144s | and just keep tester back psycho |
| 12145s | duplicate ready to go walsish can't get |
| 12148s | away Oni God controlling space so well |
| 12150s | right now a well-timed ice block when |
| 12152s | getting low and the one thing that keeps |
| 12154s | on going right now is the payload it has |
| 12156s | not stopped four minutes and 20 seconds |
| 12159s | for Norway the pressure unrelenting in |
| 12161s | Sweden the crumble and Sil goes down |
| 12165s | ultimate's gonna be invested here by |
| 12167s | Norway they use the duplicate the |
| 12169s | Valkyries in progress tried to do |
| 12171s | anything here with the primal does he |
| 12174s | get the Clone Bob coming out Isaac able |
| 12176s | to finish off the Anna Walsh's is down |
| 12178s | hex it's still happening |
| 12182s | maybe it is like kevsters there but |
| 12184s | we're not long it's kind of funny that |
| 12186s | Norway is running this like budget Rush |
| 12189s | with like the Joker Queen and then me |
| 12191s | like the commanding shout will come in |
| 12193s | and they've just been chasing people |
| 12194s | down it's it's been kind of crazy and |
| 12197s | then when when their target you know |
| 12200s | goes away or goes on a high ground or |
| 12201s | something like that then it's psycho up |
| 12203s | top trying to just good nuts with it a |
| 12206s | really quick preemptive switch though as |
| 12208s | LOL switch goes on to the |
| 12210s | um the erisa which is obviously a nice |
| 12212s | counter to the junker Queen and so Isaac |
| 12214s | just plays rock paper scissors and goes |
| 12217s | to the the zarya which is a nice counter |
| 12218s | to the eurosa always up like capster |
| 12221s | right now by the Bay of all things even |
| 12223s | on the echo blizzard coming down here |
| 12225s | from one God forcing things back at this |
| 12227s | Parker got caught again sparker's been |
| 12229s | having a tough day here hex and psycho |
| 12232s | goes I'll kill your robot too I don't |
| 12233s | care it gets rid of the bomb as Norway |
| 12236s | the payload just doesn't stop it does |
| 12239s | not stop |
| 12240s | yeah sparker has just been living in |
| 12242s | spawn it it has been really really tough |
| 12244s | for him to get anything done |
| 12246s | uh Sweden's been bullied back here |
| 12249s | this is a spot where you can hold on |
| 12251s | defense |
| 12256s | hope to get hope to win a team fight |
| 12258s | they haven't won a team fight yet yeah |
| 12260s | Sweden also sparker's gone to the |
| 12262s | desperation Hanzo here of please you |
| 12264s | know guide my arrows let they hit |
| 12267s | something we need anything right now and |
| 12269s | actually not too bad damage there at the |
| 12271s | end of tester like that is what they |
| 12273s | needed for Sweden they get Isaac out of |
| 12276s | the fight the problem is they don't deny |
| 12277s | the res mimio's able to get away cleanly |
| 12279s | and Norway the pressure's still oncoming |
| 12281s | duplicate comes on out well it's just |
| 12284s | getting pushed back has the Nano so it's |
| 12287s | able to stand to an extent Sparkle |
| 12288s | though lands the arrow finds Isaac and |
| 12291s | the Hanzo coming online helping out |
| 12292s | Sweden a bit here but the pressure from |
| 12294s | Norway they don't back out hex they just |
| 12296s | keep the fight going |
| 12298s | will sparker does have a really really |
| 12299s | good Hanzo and we've seen it time and |
| 12301s | again so it's it's a really nice pick |
| 12302s | especially with the sight lines here um |
| 12304s | and also the anti-nades have been pretty |
| 12307s | clutch uh coming in from Sweden so they |
| 12310s | were able to anti-isaac gets Isaac down |
| 12313s | low and then the combination of sparker |
| 12315s | and kevster able to finish that off so |
| 12318s | uh gonna have a dragon gonna have a dupe |
| 12321s | here oh my God |
| 12323s | a little projectile versus projectile |
| 12325s | gets a Arrow versus icicle Taste of his |
| 12327s | own medicine |
| 12328s | the not as cold sparker under a little |
| 12331s | bit of pressure goes back drops back |
| 12332s | drops the Dragon |
| 12334s | your way eats a lot of damage from that |
| 12336s | able to get away meanwhile only God uses |
| 12338s | the blizzard Zone swing up really |
| 12339s | capitalizing on that hamster meanwhile |
| 12342s | duplicate in progress star hit me zarya |
| 12345s | builds the grab and just full commits |
| 12348s | the follow-throughs there he's his own |
| 12349s | follow through on Echo after the |
| 12352s | duplicate Fades uh kebster had enough |
| 12354s | well Echoes combined for five kills in a |
| 12357s | row and now it's getting really really |
| 12359s | Scrappy towards the end here but it |
| 12361s | seems that Sweden will hold on the |
| 12364s | roughing for Norway during that last |
| 12366s | decade well maybe this evening a little |
| 12368s | bit |
| 12368s | I mean he might have died but |
| 12372s | so what yeah and that caused a little |
| 12374s | bit of pain |
| 12375s | well I was going to say it was really |
| 12377s | rough for Norway because they they |
| 12378s | committed so many ultimates that got |
| 12380s | absolutely nothing out of it but now |
| 12381s | Sweden is kind of helping them out a |
| 12383s | little bit by throwing ultimates of |
| 12384s | their own in towards the end Norway has |
| 12386s | made another switch as Isaac's gonna go |
| 12388s | to Sigma I mean this has just been a |
| 12390s | tank rock paper scissors back and forth |
| 12392s | we'll alsojana on Winston and we've seen |
| 12394s | Sigma we've seen six different tanks |
| 12396s | here so far all right get some they rush |
| 12398s | out here from Norway looking to put it |
| 12400s | away heavy pressure on the wolsters and |
| 12402s | style look at Style Style so low right |
| 12404s | now I think was just barely able to |
| 12407s | squeak away from the pressure but |
| 12408s | kepster Falls as a result the prophet |
| 12411s | supports and the back out kempster Falls |
| 12413s | Norway cleaning up Sweden and they're |
| 12416s | gonna finish out blizzard World here |
| 12417s | with a very respectable time yeah 90 |
| 12420s | seconds left to finish up blizzard world |
| 12421s | is uh very very clutch that is enormous |
| 12424s | I mean we talked about it going into our |
| 12426s | second game of Saudi Arabia versus |
| 12428s | Finland but Sweden going down here would |
| 12431s | be absolutely have enormous implications |
| 12434s | for Group B and Norway putting some |
| 12437s | people on watch I mean I can't say |
| 12438s | enough about pretty much every single |
| 12440s | one of these players the best player in |
| 12442s | the server has almost been psycho it's |
| 12445s | been kind of crazy |
| 12448s | a little bit uh unexpected to say the |
| 12450s | least but it's a good type of unexpected |
| 12452s | I mean look I feel bad for you know all |
| 12455s | the fans of Sweden I haven't looked into |
| 12456s | this like this is our year this is great |
| 12458s | and it's not that Sweden can't bounce |
| 12459s | back right like losing this match it |
| 12461s | doesn't knock you out but if they play |
| 12463s | like this for Saudi Arabia or Finland |
| 12465s | they will get knocked out if they're not |
| 12467s | able to turn this match around here |
| 12469s | today so this has been a little bit of |
| 12471s | whiplash in terms of expectations meet |
| 12474s | reality it's uh yeah Sweden and Saudi |
| 12476s | Arabia going 01 to start it off would be |
| 12478s | a little bit bonkers |
| 12485s | of the setup here where we talked about |
| 12487s | what team was favored on paper there's a |
| 12489s | reason why you play the game you got to |
| 12492s | play the game and this is why because |
| 12494s | all the hype in the world doesn't always |
| 12496s | match what the reality is when one team |
| 12499s | plays another and uh this match right |
| 12500s | here living proof |
| 12504s | yeah |
| 12505s | um swing gonna come out take a couple a |
| 12507s | couple of pot shots here early I don't |
| 12508s | know how long have star is gonna stay on |
| 12510s | this Widow |
| 12512s | uh three seconds makes sense yeah |
| 12517s | that might be the expected uh time to |
| 12519s | stand Widow right now till uh players |
| 12521s | get a little bit more comfortable with |
| 12523s | the changes |
| 12525s | but Sweden they need to get point a |
| 12527s | quickly here hex this is you know a |
| 12529s | minute 30 time bank is not easy to make |
| 12531s | up on blizzard world and stuff number |
| 12533s | one here gemster |
| 12535s | has to become kebster the the kebster of |
| 12537s | hype and not just you know struggle with |
| 12540s | the only God containment that's been |
| 12541s | going on |
| 12544s | yeah he's kind of struggling to find a |
| 12546s | Target you don't really want to go up to |
| 12547s | the echo that's gotta got a pocket right |
| 12550s | with the mercy pocket going after drunk |
| 12552s | or queen is Tracer is what's the point |
| 12554s | you know it's it's just been very |
| 12556s | difficult to find an isolated Target for |
| 12558s | kebster |
| 12561s | and Sweden I mean the softens your exits |
| 12563s | slow right now they're really it's slow |
| 12565s | because they're hoping sparker please |
| 12567s | get an arrow or Kev start get an |
| 12569s | isolation you know hey they wait for the |
| 12571s | pulse bomb but Sweden is wholly |
| 12573s | dependent on that to kick start their |
| 12575s | offense right now Norway is just |
| 12577s | defending all the Poke attempts super |
| 12579s | super well now heavy focus on laws just |
| 12581s | but there it is sparker finds only God |
| 12584s | the opening they needed the res though |
| 12585s | is there the bomb onto Isaac though very |
| 12588s | big from kevster this gives Sweden the |
| 12591s | advantage of looking for a sparker just |
| 12593s | lays the arrows into the freshly |
| 12594s | resurrected Bay yeah I mean you see the |
| 12597s | moment that junker Queen goes down that |
| 12598s | they can't hold that corner anymore and |
| 12600s | that's when sparker just jumps in and |
| 12601s | then may kind of has to step up as the |
| 12604s | Quasi tank to try to like hold some |
| 12605s | angles hold some Corners because the |
| 12607s | junker Queen's down and just holds a |
| 12610s | whole quiver of arrows with her face |
| 12611s | instead so yeah Sweden's gonna be able |
| 12614s | to crack that one open and I think I saw |
| 12616s | some nice ultimates coming up here as |
| 12617s | well |
| 12620s | all right sparker right now going |
| 12622s | fishing |
| 12623s | there's ever a time to just have a |
| 12624s | fishing skin for hanza it is it's like |
| 12627s | what are you doing out here I'm out on |
| 12628s | the you know top of the building just uh |
| 12630s | you know hoping I hit something and oh |
| 12633s | right now that is what sparker's doing |
| 12635s | anyway these arrows could be lethal |
| 12636s | meanwhile Norway just you know standard |
| 12639s | poke back and forth right now |
| 12644s | yeah I mean it's just everyone's got |
| 12647s | faults happening right now I would like |
| 12649s | Sweden to like end up being a little |
| 12651s | more aggressive but the way Norway is |
| 12653s | playing this kind of has five doesn't |
| 12655s | really lend itself to like Sweden being |
| 12657s | able to dive in on it force on some |
| 12659s | ultimates Isaac Stone again first though |
| 12660s | yeah it was also a pretty well timed |
| 12662s | Transcendence there from style like |
| 12663s | right as Norway came in the |
| 12664s | Transcendence came out there wasn't much |
| 12666s | to be done sparker lands the arrow |
| 12668s | immediately and you know I think the |
| 12670s | change of momentum we're seeing here in |
| 12671s | part is that you know sparker Hanzo good |
| 12674s | as it turns out you know Sparkle is |
| 12675s | playing a whole bunch of different |
| 12676s | Heroes settled on the Hanzo but yeah as |
| 12678s | I say that no way I used to make |
| 12680s | something out of nothing there at the |
| 12681s | lake blizzard but you know they're just |
| 12683s | too far behind in the fight here |
| 12686s | yeah I mean the blizzards have not |
| 12688s | gotten value like probably the last two |
| 12690s | or three of them from oniga that needs |
| 12692s | to be cleaned up a little bit because |
| 12693s | it's such a high value ultimate for the |
| 12695s | most part should be winning you fights |
| 12696s | uh only God has had enough of the May |
| 12699s | and going to switch over to the ash |
| 12701s | which makes sense because like you know |
| 12703s | controlling this High ground and having |
| 12704s | sight lines here is good also like |
| 12707s | someone needs to be able to dual sparker |
| 12708s | a little bit and you don't necessarily |
| 12710s | want to fly your Echo right into the |
| 12712s | Hanzo so yeah and unfortunately yeah I |
| 12715s | mean it makes sense uh the swamp that |
| 12717s | they've done here and Only God right now |
| 12719s | is that pretty good Ash right now this |
| 12721s | lady looking for a little bit more |
| 12722s | damage but here's the thing of going to |
| 12723s | the ash it is opening up kebster now to |
| 12726s | do more like Kev start can be a lot more |
| 12728s | aggro so I'll find psycho I think psycho |
| 12730s | went for the dive this time doesn't |
| 12732s | quite go as well as Sweden right now |
| 12734s | starting to come online kemster finds JP |
| 12737s | and you know only God's lining some |
| 12740s | shots here but hasn't really been to the |
| 12742s | spot to do anything lethal as his team |
| 12744s | is just kind of dying underneath them |
| 12746s | now and a lot of this is sparker is |
| 12749s | found the hero that he's he's best on |
| 12751s | right now like the Hanzo has gotten so |
| 12753s | much value for this team as far as |
| 12754s | cleaning people up getting some early |
| 12756s | pressure onto the opposing tanks like it |
| 12759s | it's the difference in this map |
| 12761s | specifically has been sparker's Hanzo |
| 12764s | um and I think it goes back to like that |
| 12765s | the very early Ash on defense where he |
| 12767s | just got rocked like three times in a |
| 12769s | row like |
| 12772s | I you know look sometimes you know we |
| 12775s | talk about Comfort Heroes especially an |
| 12777s | OverWatch World Cup this is a comfort |
| 12778s | Carol for smarter and yo shows meanwhile |
| 12780s | kebster you can see how much more |
| 12783s | aggressive kevinster is able to be right |
| 12785s | now with the swap like |
| 12788s | he can't start flying a lot more |
| 12789s | pressure psycho goes down pulse bombs |
| 12791s | ready to go here from kempster it's like |
| 12793s | it goes back up waiting waiting just no |
| 12795s | respect to Onika there leaves a pulse on |
| 12797s | the corner gets rid of him and now |
| 12799s | Sweden hitting their groove they drop |
| 12801s | the Transcendence in response to the |
| 12802s | bomb moving on forward Isaac still |
| 12805s | trying to delay on point but Sweden way |
| 12807s | more pressure on the point right now |
| 12808s | they're gonna go okay we'll go for Isaac |
| 12810s | we'll Force the bomb out are they gonna |
| 12811s | be able to punish before he gets back |
| 12813s | and back no not quite |
| 12816s | nowhere near the same amount of fear |
| 12819s | no in insile is actually held his own |
| 12821s | like the last three fights against |
| 12823s | psycho and because psycho is going is |
| 12825s | has had to Die the back line can't stay |
| 12827s | at mid-range and train trying to fight |
| 12829s | the Hanzo whereas like the ash seem like |
| 12831s | a little bit more reasonable for him to |
| 12833s | dive on because it's like just storm |
| 12834s | arrow is really really good |
| 12837s | um and it kind of negates a dive on |
| 12840s | Isaac goes down early and also Kessler |
| 12843s | has the Tracer mirror now I again even |
| 12845s | if Kevin had a slow start you've gotta |
| 12846s | like this change in concert Sweden it |
| 12849s | plays way more to their strengths here |
| 12851s | so far Norway is off their game sparkner |
| 12853s | just rips Mercy out of the sky with the |
| 12855s | aid of welshish and Sweden finding the |
| 12858s | groove two minutes in the time bank |
| 12859s | roaring forward they can set a quick and |
| 12862s | time now hex with the setup of Team comp |
| 12864s | swaps what a change of momentum for |
| 12866s | Sweden |
| 12867s | yeah and I just want to give all the |
| 12869s | credit in the world to the support line |
| 12871s | of Sweden it looked completely different |
| 12873s | right now and it's just like kind of the |
| 12874s | Duelist nature because only God doesn't |
| 12877s | really want to go one-on-one versus |
| 12879s | kevster who would so he's trying to pick |
| 12880s | on the back line but the back line is |
| 12882s | picking on him uh kebster cleans it up |
| 12884s | sparker finds his Groove and yeah |
| 12887s | absolutely Sweden just needed to warm up |
| 12889s | there because you're you're starting to |
| 12891s | see the mechanical advantage that the |
| 12893s | damage line does have yeah and |
| 12896s | yeah I mean you think about what changed |
| 12898s | here Norway was able to get away with |
| 12901s | the May comp throughout all of map one |
| 12904s | and the beginning here of map two and it |
| 12907s | had this impact of keeping kebster in |
| 12910s | check and putting sparker in that well |
| 12912s | okay sparker has to beat you situation |
| 12914s | sparker ends up rolling through multiple |
| 12916s | different Heroes finally lands on Hanzo |
| 12919s | and everything seems to open up for |
| 12921s | Sweden I think it also like ended up |
| 12923s | relieving some pressure on sil's not |
| 12925s | going down first every fight and also |
| 12927s | maybe so I'll just need to warm up so |
| 12929s | it's just been this huge Tempo change |
| 12930s | where the support line of Sweden is |
| 12932s | living longer sparker is contributing |
| 12934s | kebster isn't under anywhere near the |
| 12936s | same amount of pressure it's a |
| 12938s | completely different game |
| 12941s | yeah absolutely I mean it's really |
| 12943s | helped the support line too like I said |
| 12945s | psycho found very little there tried to |
| 12947s | go after the support line a couple times |
| 12949s | but unable to do so a lot of those |
| 12951s | sparkers they will play a little closer |
| 12953s | to them |
| 12954s | um and yeah I just completely different |
| 12956s | game and it seems like Sweden has found |
| 12959s | the composition that they want to go |
| 12960s | with I was really worried about the |
| 12961s | Zenyatta for a while it seemed like it |
| 12963s | wasn't getting a ton of value and kind |
| 12965s | of just getting picked off but watching |
| 12967s | um Style just hold their own against a |
| 12972s | psycho diving in on an echo with a |
| 12974s | pocket has been really impressive |
| 12976s | Norway's going the same offense I did |
| 12978s | before but again key difference this |
| 12980s | time sparker starting on the Hanzo so |
| 12983s | we'll see if psycho's Hala Duty did |
| 12985s | before where you know psycho was heavily |
| 12986s | going after sparker heavily going after |
| 12988s | style but he's been challenged a lot |
| 12991s | more now helix |
| 12993s | yeah and also there's a lot of times |
| 12994s | where they're getting discorded too |
| 12996s | right so like psycho's getting marked in |
| 12998s | the sky immediately that's brutal Isaac |
| 13001s | is anti too wow just stays alive that's |
| 13004s | tough and you know for Norway you |
| 13006s | haven't done anyone here enough damage |
| 13007s | Queen is healthy just wait for onigo to |
| 13010s | come back after you do get the rest so |
| 13011s | you don't have to go for the full ring |
| 13012s | it's Parker gets long |
| 13014s | because I was able to take down Isaac |
| 13015s | doesn't fall the psycho if psycho just |
| 13017s | landed a little bit more damage Isaac |
| 13019s | would be alive but it's that thin margin |
| 13022s | let Sweden hold it off and Norway only |
| 13025s | 30 seconds here hex they don't have much |
| 13026s | time period it's like God CP get 33 HP |
| 13030s | right there because he gets stickied and |
| 13033s | he peeks around the corner and takes one |
| 13035s | of those try shots then that's just |
| 13037s | death but instead ends up taking away |
| 13039s | the tank |
| 13040s | and that's it there's another wealthiest |
| 13043s | way to say that that's just bravery |
| 13045s | you're a bravery it's like I'ma hit this |
| 13048s | but Sweden now while she's getting |
| 13051s | blown the Poke game here not really |
| 13052s | close to the Primal either so Walsh just |
| 13054s | has to be careful the tank pressure is |
| 13056s | very methodical here from Norway but the |
| 13058s | Nano boost is up because I gotta go to |
| 13060s | here's Parker Guild right on over Nano |
| 13063s | comes on out |
| 13064s | well now sparker here in the back |
| 13066s | waiting waiting has the trike it has a |
| 13068s | demon of space Proctor is gonna fall as |
| 13070s | well as uh half a swing at the same time |
| 13072s | a very well coordinated dive off the |
| 13075s | Kitsune so Norway spending some money |
| 13078s | for it but here we are hex we thought |
| 13080s | we'd get it on the Bonnie but a big |
| 13082s | overtime push could be in the cards |
| 13084s | well it just seems like Norway decided |
| 13086s | they'd uh they'd figured out the problem |
| 13088s | and they'd had enough of it like a |
| 13089s | three-person dive onto spark or um |
| 13092s | sparker never even in position to get |
| 13093s | the the dragon down earlies because the |
| 13095s | rotation of Isaac onto the diva uh was |
| 13098s | really helpful a diva to take away some |
| 13100s | High Ground into to put some pressure on |
| 13102s | the sparker was really nice that's a |
| 13104s | good swap off of the junker Queen onto |
| 13106s | the diva I think to be able to kind of |
| 13108s | mitigate it also it just it helps Norway |
| 13110s | appeal Norway is better when they're |
| 13112s | kind of sticking close together as a |
| 13114s | squad I'm looking at the pulse bombs |
| 13116s | right now between Kevin easily could set |
| 13118s | the tone here onigon hanging on to the |
| 13121s | pulse Isaac down early a huge value |
| 13124s | dragon and they get forced off the point |
| 13127s | uh once more deprived of the big |
| 13130s | overtime push but Sweden is awake now x |
| 13133s | uh they might have been sleeping at the |
| 13135s | beginning but they've found their groove |
| 13137s | and this is very winnable and it could |
| 13140s | be yet another map three in our first to |
| 13143s | two Series so uh really good OverWatch |
| 13146s | today |
| 13146s | yeah it's it's been fantastic to watch |
| 13151s | um |
| 13151s | yeah like is it Sweden just kind of kind |
| 13154s | of came alive Norway like a nice |
| 13156s | response too like this has been so back |
| 13158s | and forth and especially like the tank |
| 13160s | battles we've seen so many different |
| 13162s | tanks played already and what's amazing |
| 13164s | to me is like that Isaac will switch |
| 13166s | just based on like not even having a |
| 13168s | battle with a tank but being like oh |
| 13170s | they went to this this counters this |
| 13171s | this like it's just been this rock paper |
| 13173s | scissors |
| 13175s | um yeah it's been really fun to watch so |
| 13178s | Sweden not gonna switch anything up here |
| 13180s | Norway not gonna switch anything up |
| 13182s | either they both kind of settled into |
| 13183s | this groove of what they want to run |
| 13185s | yeah and again I I just feel like the |
| 13188s | fact that sparker on Hondo has now like |
| 13191s | caused enough Ripple effects that only |
| 13193s | God cannot play the May it is on Tracer |
| 13195s | it's just it a chess match it almost |
| 13198s | feels like Checkmate because this is so |
| 13201s | much more favorable to Sweden and what |
| 13203s | they're good at and you know the only |
| 13204s | way forward I feel like from Norway here |
| 13206s | is that you know you gotta find that |
| 13208s | extra level from onigod on Tracer but |
| 13211s | that's hard when your mirror is |
| 13213s | literally one of the very best Tracer |
| 13215s | players in the game so uh we'll see what |
| 13218s | goes |
| 13221s | absolutely |
| 13223s | so sparker wants to take this right here |
| 13226s | and then you just start firing logs in |
| 13228s | this is exactly how their their last |
| 13230s | push went |
| 13232s | from sparker you have your confidence |
| 13234s | back and then some take a look to the |
| 13237s | right something a little bit more |
| 13238s | squishy you can get Pony God of course |
| 13240s | it would be huge now turning to the side |
| 13243s | looking for JP in the back Walsh is |
| 13246s | again getting focused but that's the |
| 13247s | other adjustment too but also she was |
| 13248s | dying early now while it's just shaking |
| 13250s | the pressures oh my God though got style |
| 13253s | early big pickup for only God if he |
| 13255s | could get away under pressure by sparker |
| 13256s | has to go for three one still under |
| 13257s | pressure in the back sparker looking |
| 13259s | waiting gonna get Force back just a bit |
| 13262s | cycle though Goes Down Kevin was able to |
| 13263s | find him both tracers playing Scrappy |
| 13266s | and in each other's backlines right now |
| 13268s | this only God barely shakes death |
| 13271s | is looking for him but right now both |
| 13274s | teams trying back and forth 39 seconds |
| 13276s | left for Sweden's attack |
| 13278s | well they need to be able to get on this |
| 13279s | High Ground here right now LOL says just |
| 13280s | kind of just baiting it kind of doing |
| 13282s | like that the quasi-jump the half jump |
| 13284s | uh nice little Tracer battle in the |
| 13286s | background here only God I think out of |
| 13287s | abilities yeah oh my God uh needs |
| 13290s | cooldowns badly pulse bomb though built |
| 13292s | up both tracers ready to throw it out |
| 13294s | pulse already gone no does not connect |
| 13296s | meanwhile sparker finds psycho that's a |
| 13299s | huge shift in power and sparker grabs |
| 13300s | another kempster the bomb for good |
| 13303s | measure this point is going to Sweden |
| 13305s | and Norway hex gets one fight left to |
| 13308s | try to prevent the map three |
| 13310s | yeah and I think like just psycho is |
| 13312s | just getting marked by this Discord |
| 13314s | pretty consistently and it just has no |
| 13317s | good targets to go on kevsters Just an |
| 13319s | Illusion of blinks and recalls well so |
| 13322s | she's just living the bubble and you |
| 13323s | know he's been trying to get to the back |
| 13325s | line actually wasn't even discorded |
| 13326s | there I'm sorry but like uh silent |
| 13329s | um you know the support line has been |
| 13331s | doing a really good job psycho has |
| 13332s | gotten very little value in the last 10 |
| 13334s | minutes of gameplay yeah I mean psycho |
| 13336s | his Tendencies have perhaps been figured |
| 13338s | out a little bit by Sweden the devil and |
| 13340s | maybe complete Dragon though going |
| 13342s | through the middle Rampage in from Isaac |
| 13344s | yeah that's a nice Rampage but it's also |
| 13346s | after everyone got hit by the beat cycle |
| 13349s | though still able to find the Anna in |
| 13350s | the middle of it so in return both teams |
| 13352s | down a crucial support JP Lowe gets on |
| 13355s | the side Norway getting a little bit |
| 13357s | more from this here so far so I'm |
| 13358s | looking awfully low I don't know what |
| 13359s | chemistry is but he's not healthy in the |
| 13361s | the least though trying to make room at |
| 13364s | the point not gonna have another time |
| 13365s | takes down and that's it |
| 13370s | Sweden have figured it out towards the |
| 13372s | end hex but the damage had been done |
| 13375s | I mean that was just an enormous Rampage |
| 13378s | right it just just Isaac gets a five-man |
| 13381s | anti and yes the beat goes in there but |
| 13383s | the B the overshield kind of goes away |
| 13385s | pretty quick and they're able to pick up |
| 13386s | the back of line of the supports and |
| 13388s | make sure that they don't have beat |
| 13389s | coming into the next vid will also just |
| 13391s | forced to use Primal just because how |
| 13393s | the timer was working mostly everyone |
| 13396s | who was alive just ignored the Primal it |
| 13399s | didn't really matter they didn't have to |
| 13400s | be necessarily on the cart eating those |
| 13403s | punches they could just kind of rotate |
| 13404s | around and get a touch here and there so |
| 13407s | yeah I'm just kind of stunned wow Norway |
| 13410s | did that uh Sweden looked a lot better |
| 13412s | in the second map than they did the |
| 13413s | first of course so they seem to be |
| 13415s | figuring it out but |
| 13416s | what an upset what I mean this is the |
| 13419s | one I felt almost most confident in |
| 13421s | because like I think normally like I |
| 13423s | have some like solid players but these |
| 13424s | aren't like it's not kevster and and |
| 13427s | sparker right and even like volsage like |
| 13429s | has this league experience where there's |
| 13432s | not a ton of League experience on Norway |
| 13434s | um but I guess it just goes to show you |
| 13435s | like the teamwork and compositions kind |
| 13437s | of held sway there but another one of |
| 13440s | our series comes down to the last |
| 13443s | yeah |
| 13446s | yeah time in a way obos like gets away |
| 13448s | for you look at that it's like oh |
| 13449s | there's so much movement for swimming |
| 13450s | they're doing good it's like yeah by the |
| 13451s | way they're also out of time like this |
| 13453s | is one of those things where |
| 13455s | at the latter half of this map I do |
| 13458s | think Sweden was playing better overall |
| 13460s | they dug too much of a hole on their |
| 13463s | first defense it took them too long to |
| 13466s | figure out how to give Norway fits and |
| 13469s | Norway's lead was enough that they could |
| 13471s | just solidify Play Good OverWatch and |
| 13474s | find the advantage to bring it all in |
| 13477s | and look this makes Sweden's Road the |
| 13478s | BlizzCon uh absolutely miserable they're |
| 13482s | not out of it here hex but you know they |
| 13485s | gotta go next level uh for everything |
| 13487s | else or it's gonna be tough |
| 13490s | yeah uh both Sweden and finland's go |
| 13493s | down today so kind of raw I mean who |
| 13496s | would have thought that Norway would be |
| 13497s | like the one team though to pull that |
| 13499s | out so kind of uh |
| 13501s | oh it's been an interesting groupie |
| 13503s | that's all that's all I can say it's |
| 13504s | been an interesting groupie we got seven |
| 13506s | more days we saw four more matches today |
| 13508s | to go through uh absolutely crazy but I |
| 13511s | mean I think if you know if I look back |
| 13513s | at that matchup it was pretty much like |
| 13514s | if sparker got Isaac early then they won |
| 13517s | those fights like Isaac died a couple |
| 13519s | times in somewhat foolish ways um for |
| 13521s | Norway but when Isaac was alive he was |
| 13524s | doing a lot of work on the tank the |
| 13526s | junker Queen specifically was a very |
| 13528s | good hero for them so |
| 13530s | um a lot of like little mini battles |
| 13532s | kevstrom obviously played a little bit |
| 13533s | better but |
| 13535s | um yeah that's I'm I'm just a little bit |
| 13538s | stunned and now Sweden has got to dig |
| 13540s | themselves out of a hole Yeah uh Sweden |
| 13542s | uh well that's gonna be one of the best |
| 13543s | stories to fall from here on out can |
| 13545s | Sweden bring it all back they're gonna |
| 13547s | have to run the table but hey we still |
| 13549s | got so much good OverWatch left to go |
| 13551s | not just in other days but also today as |
| 13553s | well this is gonna be it for me and hex |
| 13555s | today coming up next it's gonna be more |
| 13557s | matches with you CP and epitome is |
| 13559s | casting we'll see you then |
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| 13790s | foreign |
| 13792s | welcome back to the OverWatch World Cup |
| 13794s | 2023 online qualifiers for emec we just |
| 13798s | watched Norway absolutely dominate over |
| 13800s | Sweden in a match that could have gone |
| 13802s | either way of course joining me right |
| 13804s | now CB and epitomees how have you been |
| 13806s | enjoying enjoying the match so far |
| 13808s | throughout the day what were your |
| 13809s | thoughts on this last match and we've |
| 13811s | got a lot of action right around the |
| 13812s | corner please break it all down for us |
| 13814s | epitomies let's start with you |
| 13816s | well I definitely feel like you could |
| 13818s | call these last two upsets you know |
| 13820s | Finland kind of being a staple for |
| 13822s | OverWatch World Cup when it was hosted |
| 13825s | back in the day that a lot of those |
| 13826s | players |
| 13828s | um like Finland has just been holding |
| 13829s | that spot for a long time in Saudi |
| 13831s | Arabia though in the Pro-Am like |
| 13833s | mentioned before they have just been |
| 13835s | bringing so much heat and fostering so |
| 13837s | much talent in that region so I'm not |
| 13839s | surprised to see them bringing so much |
| 13841s | Firepower to this event and obviously |
| 13843s | Norway and Sweden both of them are |
| 13846s | pretty good uh pretty good competitors |
| 13850s | but I think you might even call that |
| 13851s | last map an upset |
| 13854s | yeah absolutely I would definitely |
| 13856s | consider that when an upset I don't know |
| 13858s | if I would consider Saudi Arabia going |
| 13859s | over Finland to be an upset because I |
| 13861s | kind of predicted that Saudi Arabia |
| 13863s | would be kind of sick that that Twisted |
| 13865s | mind's core with surmajet in the back |
| 13867s | line and sliding in yazan like that's a |
| 13869s | team that's been you know trying to pull |
| 13871s | out pharah comps even without having the |
| 13872s | most notorious fire player and |
| 13874s | potentially the whole world on their |
| 13875s | roster so I wouldn't call that an upset |
| 13878s | I would just call that a barn burner of |
| 13880s | a matchup and I think we have a few more |
| 13882s | to go as we progress throughout the day |
| 13884s | so I'm looking forward to seeing where |
| 13886s | we go from here yeah the action is gonna |
| 13888s | be non-stop like you guys both mentioned |
| 13889s | man it has been so good to watch these |
| 13892s | teams storylines develop and of course |
| 13893s | it's just day one it's a two week |
| 13895s | Endeavor here before we jump back into |
| 13897s | the action let's Refresh on the format |
| 13899s | right so the online qualifier showcases |
| 13901s | two groups competing in a round robin |
| 13903s | fashion so it's first to two they play |
| 13905s | out those maps and if we need a third |
| 13907s | one that'll make it we'll make it happen |
| 13908s | you know what I mean so it's a single |
| 13910s | stage tournament like I said going over |
| 13912s | two weeks today we're focusing on these |
| 13914s | couple of Maps we've had three matches |
| 13916s | occur so far four more still to go seven |
| 13920s | per day and we're doing it for four days |
| 13921s | straight all the way to Sunday so with a |
| 13924s | lot of action just around the corner |
| 13925s | let's go ahead and take a look at the |
| 13927s | schedule and see exactly what matches |
| 13929s | we're working with |
| 13930s | of course like we mentioned we just had |
| 13932s | Norway vs Sweden of course you can see |
| 13934s | the 2-0 score there earlier in the day |
| 13936s | we were graced with that bar and burn |
| 13938s | burner of Imagine a CB called it Saudi |
| 13940s | Arabia versus Finland definitely the |
| 13942s | close match we've had so far ending 2-1 |
| 13944s | in the favor of the Kingdom of Saudi |
| 13947s | Arabia and turkey versus Poland which |
| 13949s | although it is a 2-0 in favor of turkey |
| 13951s | was a very close game as well though |
| 13954s | coming up we've got Iceland versus |
| 13955s | Germany after that Belgium versus Great |
| 13957s | Britain Italy versus France and shortly |
| 13959s | afterwards Netherlands versus the span |
| 13961s | versus Spain though Spain that wraps up |
| 13964s | day one of competition here today but of |
| 13966s | course like I said four days straight |
| 13968s | two weeks back to back the World Cup is |
| 13971s | underway CB and epitome's how are you |
| 13973s | all feeling before we head into this |
| 13974s | next match |
| 13975s | well we're still over here in group b |
| 13977s | and there's already been a lot of |
| 13980s | competition thus far Iceland versus |
| 13982s | Germany I mean for this next matchup we |
| 13985s | do have some players that have also been |
| 13987s | on OverWatch World Cup teams before in |
| 13990s | the past so there definitely is some |
| 13992s | experience going into this next one yeah |
| 13995s | experience is definitely the name of the |
| 13997s | game and if we were talking about you |
| 13998s | know experienced players my mind is |
| 14000s | drifting immediately to one of the |
| 14002s | biggest names that I saw from Team |
| 14003s | Iceland and that's Happy cool someone |
| 14005s | who's been a member of the OverWatch |
| 14008s | competitive scene since before the |
| 14009s | OverWatch League even existed you know |
| 14011s | playing in an OG and Apex tournaments on |
| 14014s | fnatic being a part of the historic |
| 14016s | British hurricane lineage I mean these |
| 14018s | are you know teams that you know long |
| 14020s | time OverWatch fans will definitely |
| 14022s | recognize and I think half a cool is |
| 14023s | someone that can potentially lead this |
| 14026s | crop of newer younger players to the |
| 14028s | promised land but they do have to go up |
| 14030s | against a team that has a pretty sizable |
| 14032s | lineage as well in Germany so we'll have |
| 14035s | to see what ends up happening here there |
| 14037s | are a lot of story lines and of course |
| 14039s | eight years of this game being out or |
| 14042s | you know from beta 2015 to 2023 there's |
| 14044s | a lot you know that a lot of history and |
| 14047s | I'm so happy that we've got players like |
| 14048s | half a cool and like you mentioned |
| 14050s | opportunities in the World Cup right the |
| 14052s | kingdom is Saudi Arabia putting together |
| 14053s | teams trying buying things that you |
| 14055s | really wouldn't see in the OverWatch |
| 14057s | League try and making them work really |
| 14058s | you know great matches so far but with |
| 14060s | that said CB epitome I'm Gonna Leave the |
| 14062s | action to y'all take it away with the |
| 14064s | next match |
| 14066s | thank you very much |
| 14068s | yeah now going into the next match like |
| 14071s | we want to take a look at these rosters |
| 14074s | obviously you were mentioning half cool |
| 14076s | and they are and he's basically joined |
| 14078s | by a roster that's part of a team called |
| 14081s | Beau mod cohort |
| 14084s | um and they play together regularly |
| 14087s | finzy as also a different another player |
| 14089s | that's actually substitute on this |
| 14090s | roster but all of them from what I saw |
| 14093s | do play together on that Squad this is a |
| 14096s | very interesting uh roster here I don't |
| 14097s | think Tracer has been converted to a |
| 14099s | tank yet I don't know if that rework is |
| 14101s | coming through but yeah I think Chrissy |
| 14102s | is uh Jericho in the DPS they increase |
| 14105s | or hitbox by like six thousand percent |
| 14108s | and now she finally is the tank we've |
| 14110s | been asking for for years but happy cool |
| 14112s | I I'm curious to see what he ends up |
| 14114s | playing if he is going to be here on the |
| 14115s | tank bro it should be a great role for a |
| 14118s | veteran player to lead like I said lead |
| 14120s | a lot of these younger lesser known |
| 14122s | players through what might be some |
| 14124s | Uncharted Territory |
| 14127s | uh yeah that definitely does feel like I |
| 14130s | mean definitely since now the tank roll |
| 14132s | has just been reduced down to one here |
| 14134s | in OverWatch two you need a lot more of |
| 14137s | that presence and having that |
| 14138s | experienced player be the one who's |
| 14140s | basically leading the charge on the tank |
| 14142s | seems like a necessity and over on the |
| 14145s | other side of Germany you have players |
| 14148s | like that played for sheer cold together |
| 14151s | um that plays top eight in the spring |
| 14154s | Contender series and immediately |
| 14155s | qualifying over to that summer |
| 14157s | contenders for Europe so definitely a |
| 14160s | lot of competitive experience especially |
| 14162s | in recent times over on Germany |
| 14165s | yeah like you know we have a lot of |
| 14167s | representation coming through from sheer |
| 14168s | cold and from raspberry Racers to you |
| 14170s | know decently successful EU contenders |
| 14173s | teams this kind of feels though like a |
| 14175s | putting together of the pieces rather |
| 14177s | than you know pulling together a whole |
| 14178s | core from an established team so we'll |
| 14180s | have to see how these players gel |
| 14182s | together how they all work as a |
| 14185s | collective here now that they've you |
| 14186s | know been kind of taken out of their |
| 14188s | comfort zones picked up and dropped |
| 14190s | right into our first map here against |
| 14192s | Iceland we're going to Nepal for our |
| 14194s | control map here |
| 14196s | and Nepal we've seen like a lot of |
| 14200s | lijiang tower Nepal is just a little bit |
| 14202s | different uh in terms of the like just |
| 14206s | the pathways that are offered into this |
| 14209s | um into the control Point as well and |
| 14212s | it's definitely going to be interesting |
| 14213s | to see how the compositions change |
| 14216s | especially in the sanctum where you just |
| 14218s | have that huge control point in the |
| 14220s | middle of a in the middle of like a hole |
| 14222s | you will like you're you're trying to |
| 14224s | highlight sanctum here I want to see |
| 14226s | what happens on Village if we uh if we |
| 14228s | end up going to Village because we've |
| 14229s | seen a lot of players trying to bust out |
| 14231s | Pharmacy comps especially hey Saudi |
| 14233s | Arabia because again they had yazan and |
| 14235s | other players have also been trying to |
| 14237s | bust out Echo and other flyers and |
| 14239s | Village is one of those Maps where those |
| 14241s | kinds of Heroes can really Thrive really |
| 14243s | you know find a way in to crack that |
| 14245s | like cube of a point that everyone's |
| 14247s | trying to jockey for and there's plenty |
| 14249s | of sky space on Shrine as well so we'll |
| 14252s | see how everything shakes out once we |
| 14253s | start to see what points we play and in |
| 14256s | what order and also what kind of comfort |
| 14258s | picks these two teams decide to play I |
| 14261s | do want to remind everyone by the way |
| 14262s | that these are two of our group B Teams |
| 14265s | and Group B is a wildly competitive |
| 14267s | group we've seen so much of the action |
| 14269s | from group P so far and there's only two |
| 14272s | spots up for grabs two playoff spots for |
| 14274s | some of these teams to try and grab and |
| 14277s | you know seeing how like all the other |
| 14278s | competition in group b the people who |
| 14280s | are trying to get it it's really |
| 14282s | important that these two teams get out |
| 14283s | ahead of one another if they want to |
| 14285s | make a case for making it to playoffs |
| 14287s | here what |
| 14288s | yeah just like one look at Group B you |
| 14290s | see Norway Saudi Arabia Sweden Finland |
| 14293s | there's just like so much competition |
| 14295s | here already and they have one less spot |
| 14297s | than group a so we're just going to get |
| 14300s | everything out early as we try to |
| 14302s | contest this point looking at the comps |
| 14304s | it's that Tracer Sombra on both of the |
| 14306s | sides but the Zenyatta is a little bit |
| 14308s | surprising along with the Winston really |
| 14310s | looking to dive into this back line get |
| 14313s | a little bit that early damage Orion |
| 14315s | trying to spam down divorce The Retreat |
| 14317s | and totori actually does fall after that |
| 14320s | the Brigitte floors to retreat with the |
| 14323s | rest of the team Germany just falling |
| 14325s | into this underpass and trying to back |
| 14327s | off and away from the Tracer as Iceland |
| 14329s | get first capture and that's where I |
| 14331s | kind of want to look take a look at |
| 14332s | Iceland's composition because they have |
| 14333s | the Sombra they have the Zenyatta for |
| 14335s | the Discord so you can see it's already |
| 14336s | just kind of blew up once all the focus |
| 14338s | fire and all the damage amp just went |
| 14340s | out onto the Winston there and that |
| 14342s | might just be what ends up happening if |
| 14344s | they're not able to get a successful |
| 14345s | dive |
| 14346s | but that's then you ought to just |
| 14348s | completely exploded at the hands of |
| 14350s | fight and they're trying to get back |
| 14352s | onto this point forward a recontest but |
| 14355s | half a cold is already so low and |
| 14357s | already has to back off now with the |
| 14358s | tank eliminated with the help of qrx you |
| 14361s | and by just finishing off that Tracer |
| 14364s | it's only the supports that are left up |
| 14366s | and they are already all the way back |
| 14368s | and spawn just waiting for the team to |
| 14370s | come back such as the life of a Zenyatta |
| 14372s | player sometimes used entirely blow up |
| 14374s | the enemy tank sometimes you find |
| 14375s | yourself being blown up and we're gonna |
| 14377s | actually see a swap over onto the |
| 14378s | Brigitte here so no more random support |
| 14380s | explosions in the back line for Iceland |
| 14382s | hopefully as they try to find their way |
| 14384s | back in here looking to try and take |
| 14386s | this Coastal approach here but hitori |
| 14388s | does not want to let them have it for |
| 14389s | free and Phi is looking for somewhere to |
| 14391s | put this pulse bomb |
| 14393s | yeah if I able to find Jordan that uh |
| 14396s | that repeat is unable to protect and |
| 14399s | that's really what you want there to |
| 14400s | bring me to stop that dive in the face |
| 14402s | of these winstons but in the case of |
| 14404s | Iceland it's just not working as well fi |
| 14407s | is just completely harassing this back |
| 14410s | line and half a cool is unable to just |
| 14412s | peel for that back line when they're in |
| 14414s | the middle of their own dive |
| 14416s | yeah it's the back line from Iceland is |
| 14418s | definitely under a lot of scrutiny right |
| 14419s | now and even with the Brigitte to try |
| 14421s | and peel for it they're not really able |
| 14423s | to effectively deal with the you know |
| 14425s | the two-prong attack coming out from |
| 14427s | Germany's DPS plus the monkey zapping |
| 14429s | everything in the front line that's a |
| 14430s | huge name from suckrax and that's pretty |
| 14433s | much just gonna be the fight right there |
| 14435s | yeah that makes it so easy for Germany |
| 14438s | to just shred and already up to 60 from |
| 14441s | Germany means that Iceland is running |
| 14443s | out of time to contest after that first |
| 14445s | initial capture they've been unable to |
| 14447s | win a fight they've just been throwing |
| 14449s | themselves against the brick wall that |
| 14451s | is by and this Sombra as well harassing |
| 14454s | the back line while her Tori |
| 14457s | um while Hattori is just trying to dive |
| 14459s | as well and George and futhrack they are |
| 14463s | really struggling with all the pressure |
| 14464s | that is being put on them they have a |
| 14466s | nano let's see how they could use |
| 14467s | they're gonna go ahead and pop it onto |
| 14469s | half equal here but another huge name |
| 14470s | from suprax and yeah the back line from |
| 14472s | Iceland just explodes yet again |
| 14476s | yeah and it just feels like Iceland |
| 14478s | can't find a pathway onto this back line |
| 14480s | at all their Primal Rage is still active |
| 14483s | from Iceland while Germany is able to |
| 14485s | use it and just Scout all the way back |
| 14487s | into Iceland's spawn they're not able to |
| 14490s | get any more than 50 not even half on |
| 14493s | this first capture Point Germany finding |
| 14495s | that first round and it's just so |
| 14497s | efficient every time Germany is able to |
| 14499s | win a fight it's usually just off of a |
| 14500s | bionade which is one single cooldown or |
| 14503s | you know if they need to invest a single |
| 14505s | ultimate like they managed to win a |
| 14506s | fight where they only invested the rally |
| 14508s | that's just economy that stunks right |
| 14510s | there you take that a hundred times out |
| 14512s | of a hundred and Iceland just aren't |
| 14514s | able to find the same value thus far I |
| 14517s | mean you can see half a cool making a |
| 14518s | lot of space and trying to put on a lot |
| 14520s | of pressure but the DPS from Iceland so |
| 14522s | far just hasn't quite been there but you |
| 14525s | know control is very wonky sometimes it |
| 14527s | takes a while to get your feet |
| 14528s | underneath you start to walk and start |
| 14530s | to run as we move over here onto Village |
| 14532s | we're gonna see a slight DPS |
| 14534s | compositional swap from Ice Iceland |
| 14536s | we're gonna see the Hanzo coming out |
| 14537s | from Orion here Germany gonna look to |
| 14540s | try and play close on the point here |
| 14542s | they got the May the simtp onto the |
| 14544s | point here with the rush comp they want |
| 14546s | to brawl |
| 14548s | yeah and it seems that they're keeping |
| 14550s | the symmetra as well going into it |
| 14553s | behind that Reinhardt which is they're |
| 14555s | trying to get so much sustain up close |
| 14557s | get this first initial capture as well |
| 14560s | the May barrier is just so strong for |
| 14563s | making sure that they stay outside of |
| 14565s | the point and of course that Reinhardt |
| 14567s | just a huge Health sync in terms of this |
| 14570s | next fight the Winston is trying to do |
| 14572s | damage but it's just all coming up short |
| 14574s | against the shield and Orion as well |
| 14576s | Hanzo not known for his Shield breaking |
| 14580s | abilities and oh getting caught between |
| 14582s | a rock and hard place so that DPS does |
| 14586s | fall no more Hanzo for this next fight |
| 14588s | half a cool is being an equalizer though |
| 14590s | and able to find so much of value |
| 14592s | despite Orion falling early Iceland |
| 14596s | able to turn it all goes back to that |
| 14598s | early pick off there onto suck racks if |
| 14600s | you're going to play this Rush |
| 14601s | composition if you lose the Baptiste you |
| 14603s | just have no legs to stand on you have |
| 14605s | no heels you have no sustain you will |
| 14607s | inevitably fall and that's where this |
| 14609s | comp is a little bit weak if one stray |
| 14611s | Arrow or one straight orb headshot takes |
| 14614s | down that Baptiste they can't do |
| 14616s | anything about it but a nice MTP is a |
| 14618s | great way to clap back and they just |
| 14620s | flip the point right back over for free |
| 14622s | oh the EMP from crazy but it's just |
| 14625s | immediate death after that ultimate |
| 14627s | comes out and like have to work their |
| 14629s | way back up to it once again George did |
| 14632s | find one pick off that yeah so working |
| 14634s | hard yeah just really trying hard in the |
| 14638s | back line with a Discord orb in hand as |
| 14640s | well now the Nano boosts onto half a |
| 14642s | cool alongside the Primal Rage but oh my |
| 14645s | goodness just completely Frozen forced |
| 14648s | to absorb a lot of damage here but it's |
| 14650s | that Zenyatta once again that's finding |
| 14652s | us so much value for Iceland and this is |
| 14654s | what they were missing over there on |
| 14656s | Shrine with being consistently Dove and |
| 14659s | they can't do it with a Reinhardt as |
| 14661s | well so they're allowing that back line |
| 14663s | to just wring out unpunished yeah it's a |
| 14666s | gorgeous 3K there from futhrack to cook |
| 14668s | to kick that all off and again it's the |
| 14670s | pick-off on to suck racks you saw the |
| 14671s | Primal come out from Happy cool in |
| 14673s | Germany they had to invest both the |
| 14674s | blizzard and the sound barrier just to |
| 14677s | try and keep themselves alive in the |
| 14678s | fight and sure they build up to 60 but |
| 14680s | they end up losing it and it's gonna be |
| 14682s | a while before they're able to fully |
| 14684s | retake here they're gonna go for another |
| 14685s | Sim TP but happy cool is going to be |
| 14687s | right there on their tails to try and |
| 14688s | negate the cap from coming through |
| 14692s | and after that they are trying to use |
| 14694s | the soundberry earlier as well but now |
| 14696s | with the amplification Matrix they |
| 14698s | should be able to get so much damage |
| 14700s | down however with the help of that anti |
| 14703s | from the bionade Hattori had to put the |
| 14705s | shield up and couldn't participate in |
| 14707s | the fight for a few seconds trying to |
| 14709s | allow fukard to get a lot of damage out |
| 14711s | on the back line once again those Sim |
| 14713s | turds are able to get bit of damage |
| 14715s | through on the Winston taking that tank |
| 14717s | down is Big to allow Germany to hold on |
| 14720s | to that point just a little bit longer |
| 14721s | and Luthor just can't turn to take down |
| 14724s | the Sim turrets either now with a lot of |
| 14726s | sustain here over on the field even with |
| 14729s | the uh even with after burrowing |
| 14731s | unfortunately just can't get through |
| 14733s | revenge for our fallen comrade who is |
| 14736s | doing so much work for team Iceland |
| 14739s | right now and is I don't want to say |
| 14740s | single-handedly keeping him alive in it |
| 14742s | because it is definitely a group effort |
| 14744s | but father is more than carrying his |
| 14746s | weight right now gonna be building up |
| 14748s | that Transcendence a little slow use it |
| 14749s | pretty recently but the EMP should be a |
| 14751s | fight when he for team Iceland if the |
| 14753s | follow-up is there and it looks like it |
| 14755s | might be in the form of that nade |
| 14757s | yeah that was just such a simple |
| 14759s | ultimate but there's a sound barrier |
| 14761s | once again rapid building up that very |
| 14763s | quickly to try and counteract for the |
| 14766s | EMP and it's just one of those ultimates |
| 14767s | that can so easily counteract but on the |
| 14769s | other hand without the Transcendence |
| 14771s | they have to back off from the blizzard |
| 14773s | that was just thrown by Phi and now the |
| 14775s | amplification Matrix as well they have |
| 14777s | no joints but to just hide around these |
| 14780s | corners and Germany although there was |
| 14782s | just that glimmer of hope from Iceland |
| 14784s | in the middle there they unfortunately |
| 14786s | were unable to secure this first map |
| 14788s | yeah Germany's just getting so much |
| 14789s | value out of the May pick the walls are |
| 14791s | just effectively locking half the team |
| 14793s | out from even contesting the point from |
| 14795s | one side and on the other side you'll |
| 14796s | oftentimes have happy cool you know |
| 14798s | falling low but no one can get to him to |
| 14800s | heal because there's just a big ice wall |
| 14802s | right in their face they can't do |
| 14804s | anything about it he ends up falling and |
| 14805s | if it's not him then it's you know |
| 14807s | phonthark being just left out high and |
| 14809s | dry unable to get in do that damage that |
| 14811s | he's been doing consistently enough to |
| 14813s | keep Iceland alive in the fight but it's |
| 14815s | yeah just so much value you and that's |
| 14817s | kind of why I wanted to hone in on |
| 14819s | Village as the point here from Nepal |
| 14821s | because you do see a lot of the pharah |
| 14822s | like we've been seeing all day but you |
| 14824s | also see a lot of that may Sim and that |
| 14827s | was a lot of value coming out from that |
| 14829s | may Sim comp on the side of Germany |
| 14831s | their support line looked pretty solid |
| 14833s | there on Shrine but it was Phi on the |
| 14835s | May on Village that brought it home for |
| 14838s | them |
| 14839s | yeah and it was also the fact that you |
| 14841s | see Iceland kind of running a half coke |
| 14844s | uh half poke half died |
| 14846s | oh my God they were definitely coping |
| 14849s | very hard on that first on that first |
| 14851s | capture point but it was a half poke |
| 14853s | half dive calm you know you have them |
| 14855s | throwing the bionades and the Discord |
| 14856s | orbs from the back line and you hope |
| 14858s | that half cool does enough damage uh |
| 14860s | after going in for the dive and the rest |
| 14862s | of the team just kind of answers from a |
| 14864s | distance as well and it just didn't seem |
| 14866s | like there was enough connection with |
| 14868s | those two components to come together |
| 14870s | and scrap out a roundwin over on Nepal |
| 14873s | yeah and yeah it's it's going to be |
| 14876s | interesting to see how Iceland tries to |
| 14878s | recover here because you know we have a |
| 14880s | lot of unknown names on both sides of |
| 14882s | the equation right now but it's time for |
| 14884s | both sides to make a name for themselves |
| 14886s | Germany has a pretty strong start we'll |
| 14888s | have to see if Iceland can catch up here |
| 14890s | we're gonna throw it to a quick break |
| 14891s | and we'll be right back |
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| 15117s | hello everyone and welcome back to the |
| 15120s | OverWatch World Cup emec online |
| 15123s | qualifiers we are back for map two of |
| 15127s | Iceland versus Germany over here in |
| 15129s | group b to fight for those two |
| 15131s | qualifying spots to the playoffs and |
| 15134s | already we have Germany up one point |
| 15137s | after taking Nepal yeah you said I would |
| 15141s | have you know hone in on one point that |
| 15143s | you said again once again only two spots |
| 15145s | from Group B and that's you know with |
| 15147s | teams like Saudi Arabia three quarters |
| 15149s | of Scandinavia already trying to buy for |
| 15151s | that all the teams that we've seen today |
| 15153s | and how close and how tight all of these |
| 15156s | matches have been this match not looking |
| 15159s | so tight right to be uh you know right |
| 15160s | out the gates Germany does look to be at |
| 15162s | least a little bit stronger than Iceland |
| 15164s | and Iceland if it's your map pick you do |
| 15166s | have to try and make your stand right |
| 15167s | now you can't go down early like I said |
| 15170s | this is very important for both of these |
| 15172s | teams to try and get out ahead of each |
| 15174s | other and not try and fall towards the |
| 15176s | bottom of the pack and be one of the |
| 15177s | teams that's able to make a case for one |
| 15179s | of those two spots right now Germany |
| 15182s | looks to be the favorite blizzard world |
| 15183s | is where Iceland wants to try and take |
| 15185s | it how do you like Iceland's chances on |
| 15187s | this map |
| 15188s | well Iceland once again they do really |
| 15191s | like that Zenyatta on a back line but |
| 15193s | also half a cool tends to prefer that |
| 15195s | Winston from what we've seen so far so |
| 15198s | it means that there might be a lot a lot |
| 15200s | less protection for that back line right |
| 15202s | so they really have to take those long |
| 15204s | angles and blizzard world does have |
| 15206s | spaces where you can do that especially |
| 15208s | on that first capture point but it also |
| 15210s | is going to depend on whether or not |
| 15212s | they're going to be starting on that |
| 15213s | attack or defense I think it also is |
| 15216s | kind of a compositional thing I did also |
| 15218s | like I'm usually a fan of a Zen on a |
| 15220s | back line but I'm not so sure that it's |
| 15222s | worked out so well for Iceland thus far |
| 15224s | at least on Nepal it didn't work out if |
| 15226s | that's something that they want to come |
| 15227s | out of the gates with here we'll have to |
| 15229s | see that might be something that can |
| 15231s | that you can you know try and run if |
| 15233s | we're playing maybe a Jugger Queen |
| 15235s | mirror but then you're also going to be |
| 15236s | looking for more kiriko in the back line |
| 15238s | and maybe a little bit less of the Zen |
| 15240s | Anna so we'll have to see again this is |
| 15243s | another situation where Comfort picks |
| 15244s | tend to be what people bring to the |
| 15246s | table because you know this is how they |
| 15248s | got got to the level that they that they |
| 15250s | got to come to the global stage to play |
| 15252s | to represent their country because they |
| 15254s | are some of the best players on their |
| 15256s | roles in on their heroes in their nation |
| 15259s | and it's worth highlighting them but I |
| 15262s | want to see something else from Iceland |
| 15263s | I want to see you know like I'm seeing |
| 15265s | what I what I want to see right now with |
| 15267s | the brig and the Anna something a little |
| 15269s | bit more survivable but I want to see |
| 15270s | them get more value out of that pick |
| 15272s | than they did on Nepal |
| 15274s | I'm going to assume that this life |
| 15276s | Weaver is just so you can get like a |
| 15278s | little of that petal uh the pedal |
| 15280s | platform and get that Widow up for the |
| 15282s | first yeah |
| 15286s | okay Germany going to start on the |
| 15288s | attack though uh try and get that first |
| 15290s | shot off Widow which is uh pretty |
| 15292s | interesting doesn't go to plan but |
| 15294s | they've also switched to the diva here |
| 15296s | so I think they've really honed in on |
| 15298s | the fact they have a really immobile |
| 15299s | back line but this time they have the |
| 15301s | break instead of the Zenyatta so it's |
| 15302s | going to be a little bit more difficult |
| 15304s | to dive since break's entire job is try |
| 15306s | and prevent those dives from happening |
| 15308s | but now up and close and personal it's |
| 15311s | already a hack onto the diva so they |
| 15313s | can't really get past and choke point |
| 15315s | the team is around the left side of the |
| 15317s | statue and now half cool has gone in for |
| 15319s | a dive on three of Germany's players but |
| 15321s | immediately slept in and there's that |
| 15324s | anti-nade from George to try and save |
| 15327s | their tank but half a cool still with |
| 15329s | the bionade has been taken down now a |
| 15332s | hack over on Alex but it's not going to |
| 15335s | deter the diva from continue to try and |
| 15337s | dive that back line they're just going |
| 15339s | to lay the pressure off go ahead and |
| 15341s | capture the point instead Germany are |
| 15342s | putting a lot of pressure on Happy cool |
| 15344s | right now and like you know the healing |
| 15347s | is there the sustain is there but the |
| 15349s | pressure just feels kind of |
| 15350s | insurmountable like the hacks are |
| 15352s | constantly going out onto halfy you're |
| 15354s | constantly seeing Alex trying to use |
| 15356s | those booster Jets to just melt that |
| 15358s | monkey down and it's working out wonders |
| 15360s | because Iceland you know they can't |
| 15362s | claim space Germany can just kind of |
| 15364s | take whatever they want and run with it |
| 15365s | they've already captured the point a |
| 15367s | five minutes to try and get through |
| 15368s | point B and have to cool hey he's |
| 15370s | already dead again so you know the |
| 15372s | card's gonna start moving pretty swiftly |
| 15374s | here |
| 15375s | yeah it feels like they just can't |
| 15377s | really follow up with the way that half |
| 15379s | a cool is trying to engage with |
| 15381s | Germany's Squad because you do have that |
| 15383s | break on a on a more immobile break and |
| 15386s | get up close and personal but without |
| 15388s | the break close to the honor to protect |
| 15390s | it's going to be so much harder to keep |
| 15391s | them alive meanwhile Alex is just being |
| 15394s | run up with both by and qrxu right by |
| 15398s | his side so it's a lot easier for him to |
| 15400s | get those picks through plus the diva |
| 15402s | damage is so much uh it's just like so |
| 15406s | much damage in comparison to Winston's |
| 15408s | Tesla Cannon here and you can see how |
| 15410s | far they're aggressing allowing the back |
| 15412s | line to try and heal from a distance but |
| 15414s | the pulse nade from Orion actually going |
| 15416s | to take down sucress but Orion I believe |
| 15418s | fell off the map so it is a one for one |
| 15421s | trade and they still have the same |
| 15423s | amount of players over here on the |
| 15425s | payload that was a uh interesting there |
| 15428s | from Orion you know dead to the old |
| 15430s | pulse bomb there did manage to find suck |
| 15432s | racks but again happy cool was the first |
| 15433s | one to fall and Germany has got this far |
| 15436s | without having to push q a single time |
| 15438s | and they can do it five times if they |
| 15440s | want to now to get that card that last |
| 15442s | couple meters into point B this is a |
| 15444s | very difficult place to capture because |
| 15446s | of this Defender spawn Advantage but |
| 15448s | when you have this much of an old Bank |
| 15449s | you might as well eat a few in and see |
| 15451s | what comes out use the EMP to open it up |
| 15453s | and they've already got George |
| 15455s | yeah and without that support there's a |
| 15458s | lot less sustain you really need that |
| 15459s | Inspire to be product in you do have |
| 15461s | Briggs ultimate to come through but Alex |
| 15464s | is just having so much sustain from the |
| 15467s | other side sucrox still yet to pop the |
| 15469s | Nano as well so you just have so much |
| 15472s | sustain that hasn't been used Alex still |
| 15475s | holding on to the self-destruct as well |
| 15477s | Germany already making it to that first |
| 15480s | point without so much of a hit yeah 444 |
| 15484s | on the time bank we're down to 437 it's |
| 15487s | not gonna get all that much further down |
| 15488s | if Germany keeps this up if they keep |
| 15490s | fighting pick off snowballing from sorry |
| 15493s | farther down again and George that's the |
| 15495s | back line from Iceland just wiped out |
| 15496s | yet again it's Gonna Keep snowballing |
| 15498s | and Iceland they have to try and find |
| 15501s | something they're finally building up to |
| 15503s | something of an old bank that they can |
| 15504s | use to mount something of a defense here |
| 15506s | but they need to be given a chance to |
| 15508s | use it they need to find their footing |
| 15509s | and they need to try and find a way to |
| 15511s | bail half the cool out because all of |
| 15513s | the pressure onto your Winston all of |
| 15515s | this time time is it's not doing them |
| 15517s | any favors |
| 15518s | yeah George has been holding on to that |
| 15520s | Nano for quite some time but Chrissy's |
| 15522s | going to try and open it up with the EMP |
| 15524s | it's going to force Alex at the very |
| 15526s | least to run back and they do have to |
| 15530s | use the recall |
| 15532s | on the Sombra and the Tracer so they're |
| 15535s | able to take a little bit of pressure |
| 15536s | off of themselves with that EMP ultimate |
| 15539s | but not able to secure much else after |
| 15541s | that they're just going to wait for the |
| 15543s | respawns and the timers come back in and |
| 15545s | Alex always using those boosters just in |
| 15548s | and immediately out as soon as they're |
| 15550s | able to get some damage down Orion once |
| 15552s | again a big pulse bomb to stick onto the |
| 15554s | Anna and but they've already got the |
| 15556s | Nano out right before going down and |
| 15559s | they're able to get a little bit more of |
| 15561s | sustain while walking back on the race |
| 15562s | of Montana and they're so close to that |
| 15564s | second Point as well so they can very |
| 15566s | quickly regroup here half and cool |
| 15568s | however holding the choke pretty well |
| 15569s | Iceland finding a little bit of a rhythm |
| 15572s | yeah Orion able to find a kill with that |
| 15574s | pull spawn without having to find an arm |
| 15575s | and a leg or without having to sacrifice |
| 15577s | an arm and a leg but now Iceland get a |
| 15579s | sacrifice half the cool that is a huge |
| 15580s | EMP and Germany they're once again on |
| 15583s | the March forward Iceland on the back |
| 15585s | foot they've lost both Arc again you can |
| 15587s | see George just wants to hightail it out |
| 15589s | not gonna get out with his life and now |
| 15591s | the cart is gonna start moving again and |
| 15593s | you look at the old economy for both |
| 15595s | teams for Iceland the coffers one run |
| 15597s | dry right now they need to try and build |
| 15599s | up to another EMP from krizzy if they |
| 15601s | have any hopes of stopping this cart |
| 15602s | Germany are threatening to cap with a |
| 15605s | pretty beefy two minute time bank here |
| 15607s | private cool gonna go ahead and jump out |
| 15608s | we'll see if eisen's able to mount |
| 15610s | something of a defense here at the |
| 15611s | Midnight Hour |
| 15613s | and still the self-destruct is in the |
| 15616s | back pocket for Alex and it's so much |
| 15618s | area control for this Diva if that does |
| 15620s | go through both repeat tests going go |
| 15622s | for the ultimates but the EMP is going |
| 15624s | to stop Germany from pushing any further |
| 15626s | now the self-destruct coming through |
| 15628s | taking down crazy without the Sombra now |
| 15631s | they're going to have to rely on have a |
| 15633s | cool Orion going down so far HP but |
| 15636s | having to recall none of them can touch |
| 15638s | the payload it's all left up to George |
| 15640s | with only the Anna but the honor can't |
| 15642s | touch the payload can't touch the point |
| 15644s | it is all the way up to the third point |
| 15647s | with such a good time bank |
| 15649s | I'm really liking the coordination that |
| 15651s | I'm seeing out of Team Germany right now |
| 15653s | I'm seeing a lot of you know assambra |
| 15655s | finds a hack everyone jumps on top of |
| 15657s | that I'm seeing a lot of so happy cools |
| 15659s | trying to go in deep trying to find a |
| 15661s | back liner everyone peels back even at |
| 15663s | the end there where you you know |
| 15665s | an average player might have just been |
| 15666s | like okay well I just want to stay on |
| 15668s | the cart and continue to push it uh |
| 15670s | Germany they know better they know if |
| 15671s | they all peel back and they all kill the |
| 15673s | people that are trying to threaten their |
| 15674s | back line they can just win the fight |
| 15676s | outright and they do just that get back |
| 15678s | on the cart and I think at that point |
| 15679s | there was just happy cool to try and you |
| 15682s | know try and keep that keep that contest |
| 15684s | alive and he falls and yeah Germany like |
| 15687s | like I said it felt like they were kind |
| 15688s | of an amalgamation of several different |
| 15690s | teams a bunch of pieces picked up from |
| 15692s | different places and you know kind of |
| 15694s | slapped all together but the |
| 15695s | coordination the cohesion feels like |
| 15698s | it's there and I can't say the same for |
| 15700s | Iceland they're not doing as good of a |
| 15702s | job appealing for their back line |
| 15703s | they're not doing as good a job of |
| 15705s | bailing half the cool out they're |
| 15706s | finding some big value whenever Chris is |
| 15708s | able to come up huge with an EMP but |
| 15710s | outside of those sorts of fights Iceland |
| 15713s | hasn't really brought a whole lot of |
| 15715s | fight to the table and they have to come |
| 15717s | up with more than this if they want to |
| 15718s | even hope to match Germany's time bank |
| 15721s | yeah and Germany is just so good at |
| 15723s | kiting uh like you were mentioning with |
| 15726s | peel for the back line but the way that |
| 15727s | they kite back whenever half cools tries |
| 15730s | to go for those big engages as well |
| 15732s | immediately you see that fionade also |
| 15735s | landed on crazy very early somehow so |
| 15738s | you have that sucrax building up a |
| 15740s | little bit afterwards |
| 15744s | she's got lineups for these bio nades |
| 15747s | and you can see that the ultimate |
| 15749s | charges are coming up very quick but |
| 15751s | especially for Germany especially for uh |
| 15753s | Sombra on Germany's side who's able to |
| 15756s | get a lot of value just in and out |
| 15758s | weaving in and out of their back line |
| 15759s | the havocool is trying to find a way |
| 15762s | into these side rooms and on to the |
| 15764s | point they've already progressed pretty |
| 15766s | far up right around the corner now but |
| 15769s | they're just being taken down by all the |
| 15770s | damage laid down by suit cracks in the |
| 15773s | back line and Orion trying to find a lot |
| 15776s | of damage but with rapid just right |
| 15778s | there at their side it's so difficult to |
| 15781s | get enough damage down and half a cool |
| 15783s | dies diving the back line as well the |
| 15785s | Sombra is traded but a DPS for a tank I |
| 15788s | think it would take that if I were |
| 15789s | Germany I did half a cool say something |
| 15791s | disparaging about Germany because they |
| 15793s | seem to want him dead all the time he |
| 15796s | simply can't go in and try and take too |
| 15797s | much space because he just explodes |
| 15799s | every time he does but as I say that |
| 15801s | Icelander finding a lot of pickoffs here |
| 15803s | they're finding a lot of of damage and |
| 15805s | they're able to get two ticks |
| 15806s | potentially find the cap off the back of |
| 15808s | just a couple of picks and the rest of |
| 15810s | Germany yeah they hightail it out |
| 15811s | Iceland they are somehow able to cap the |
| 15814s | point |
| 15815s | I think it comes off Orion being able to |
| 15818s | harass Alex so well because previously |
| 15820s | you saw that there was a big sleep |
| 15821s | George was able to land on Germany's |
| 15823s | back line and then you just had Alex |
| 15825s | standing there with the defense Matrix |
| 15827s | open and then you can't do anything but |
| 15829s | then Orion able to harass the diva off |
| 15831s | the point and isolate them from the |
| 15833s | sports means that without the tank the |
| 15834s | rest of the squad can just completely |
| 15836s | obliterate their backline and even |
| 15838s | though they do have the Sombra and |
| 15840s | Tracer combination they still don't have |
| 15842s | as much sustain here oh crazy big hack |
| 15846s | here onto the back line but sucress just |
| 15847s | turns right around and they're just |
| 15849s | going to go back into the invisibility |
| 15851s | cloak and run away as if that engagement |
| 15853s | did not happen but crazy with the EMP |
| 15856s | built up is able to find a lot more |
| 15858s | value here jumping right into the squad |
| 15860s | and another hack on to Alex the tank now |
| 15863s | down and the pulse bomb from Phi is the |
| 15865s | only thing that's going to be able to |
| 15867s | answer but very quickly after that |
| 15869s | Tracer does fall Orion however traded |
| 15871s | out by qrxu but even then the Sombra |
| 15874s | does have to retreat cannot keep capping |
| 15876s | the point here yeah both back lines |
| 15878s | pretty much got instantly deleted there |
| 15880s | and it ended up being a bloody fight War |
| 15882s | of Attrition with just the sombres left |
| 15884s | over and we're not seeing a whole lot of |
| 15886s | cart progress here they're about halfway |
| 15888s | through uh point B here just starting to |
| 15890s | round that first Corner they're not even |
| 15892s | the most dangerous part EMP coming out |
| 15894s | Germany they want to go in |
| 15897s | oh Germany already with another ultimate |
| 15901s | over here the self-destruct as well as |
| 15903s | breed to Ultimate on board but they |
| 15905s | don't even need it they haven't even |
| 15906s | pressed Q here they did have that EMP |
| 15908s | right at the beginning of the fight but |
| 15910s | they don't need to invest much in order |
| 15912s | to win these fights and they're able to |
| 15914s | once again get Iceland force them back |
| 15916s | to their spawn and wait for that next |
| 15918s | fight Iceland coming into the next fight |
| 15920s | they do have those three ultimates but |
| 15922s | in combination I feel like they haven't |
| 15924s | made a big impact thus far yeah half |
| 15926s | equal has finally been allowed to do |
| 15928s | enough work to build up that Primal Rage |
| 15930s | but a big Antion to George that's gonna |
| 15932s | Force the rally out from Rapid there or |
| 15934s | sorry that's gonna Force the rally up |
| 15936s | from a great sleep there on to Happy who |
| 15938s | gets the Nano and everyone's just kind |
| 15940s | of scattering around right now trying to |
| 15942s | find something but further's gonna be |
| 15943s | the first one to fall |
| 15945s | now with the Primal Rage to come through |
| 15948s | that Nano just went to waste because of |
| 15950s | the sleep and now another sleep landed |
| 15952s | by Sue cracks along with the bionade to |
| 15954s | have the anti-heel onto half a cool very |
| 15957s | low now isolated from Georgia has been |
| 15959s | taken down and further just doesn't have |
| 15962s | enough healing to keep the tank up very |
| 15964s | close by you have the both of the dps's |
| 15967s | going down after Alex and I are able to |
| 15969s | isolate and now once again unable to |
| 15972s | push the point any further not able to |
| 15974s | get the payload to that second point |
| 15976s | just yet yeah we're at the point where |
| 15978s | Iceland's attacks have to be squeaky |
| 15980s | clean they can't be getting this messy |
| 15982s | with it they can't be losing members |
| 15983s | they have to be efficient here and they |
| 15986s | just haven't been early hacks coming out |
| 15988s | onto happy cool what else is new no |
| 15990s | follow-up even needed Chrissy's gonna |
| 15992s | have this EMP this has to be how Iceland |
| 15994s | gets in here |
| 15996s | oh that defense Matrix absorbs a lot of |
| 15998s | damage Alex still trying to contest this |
| 16000s | but after just using the booster to get |
| 16003s | on out while Phi harasses that back line |
| 16005s | they were distracted with Alex and they |
| 16007s | weren't able to protect George and now |
| 16009s | they're missing a lot of sustain from |
| 16011s | this brawl composition half goal does |
| 16013s | take down a uh the mecca of Alex but |
| 16017s | there's a self-destruct to come through |
| 16019s | as well then both pulse bombs now |
| 16022s | finding their respective kills but |
| 16025s | unfortunately it is still just neither |
| 16028s | of them able to contest the point I |
| 16030s | don't know if I agree with that EMP from |
| 16032s | krizzy there they had already lost |
| 16033s | George they didn't have a rally there |
| 16035s | was nothing to sustain that fight and |
| 16036s | sure you know you you're able to get |
| 16039s | like a little bit done you know get some |
| 16040s | more trades there but again it needs to |
| 16042s | be clean and Phi was doing a ton of work |
| 16044s | on the side of Germany on like |
| 16046s | throughout that whole time way way too |
| 16048s | much for Iceland to try and come back |
| 16049s | from and now they don't have an old they |
| 16051s | also don't have an Orion he's gonna fall |
| 16053s | as well courtesy of suck racks and now |
| 16055s | Germany has the old Advantage the spawn |
| 16057s | advantage and the clock Advantage |
| 16059s | because we're down to just a minute |
| 16060s | Iceland have to pull a miracle out of |
| 16063s | somewhere |
| 16065s | oh and now without the mecca of half a |
| 16069s | cool you do just have a baby Diva on the |
| 16071s | field you don't have anything to absorb |
| 16073s | that pressure and your XU is trying to |
| 16076s | take down George bavita comes to the |
| 16077s | defense and father is able to just Stave |
| 16080s | off the Sombra of Germany but they just |
| 16083s | go right back TV into wherever they need |
| 16086s | to go and escape the fight without so |
| 16088s | much as a little bit of a scratch now |
| 16092s | Alex even though haft still has a |
| 16093s | self-destruct in the back pocket half a |
| 16095s | cool has a self-destruct of their own |
| 16097s | and this could be a battle of that area |
| 16099s | control that we've been talking about |
| 16101s | with these ultimates but Germany |
| 16103s | definitely just has more ultimate |
| 16104s | charges in the back pocket with this EMP |
| 16107s | and qrxu is just trying so hard to sneak |
| 16111s | up onto the stock line they've been |
| 16112s | detected but there's the EMP and |
| 16114s | immediately George Goes Down both of the |
| 16116s | supports out of the fight they don't |
| 16117s | have to sustain and even if they do pop |
| 16120s | this self-destruct what are they going |
| 16122s | to be able to do with it because they |
| 16124s | are so many members of Germany that can |
| 16126s | just hide wherever they like and now |
| 16128s | both self-destructs do go out fine with |
| 16130s | the is able to find the baby Diva with |
| 16134s | the pulse bomb and now so many of these |
| 16136s | Health packs are hacked as well of |
| 16137s | aspect of Sombra that we haven't been |
| 16139s | talking about and since they've had so |
| 16141s | much area control for so long they've |
| 16144s | just been able to hack through all of |
| 16146s | those Health packs and get so much |
| 16148s | control over the defense and it was a |
| 16151s | very smart play towards the end there |
| 16152s | from Germany they realized that they had |
| 16154s | the time advantage and they had five |
| 16155s | volts in the bank and they didn't use |
| 16157s | any of them until OT struck and then |
| 16159s | they just hit Iceland with Wombo Combo |
| 16162s | after Wombo Combo that they were not |
| 16164s | prepared for they didn't have the |
| 16165s | resources to swat away you know Iceland |
| 16168s | just kind of dug themselves into a hole |
| 16170s | there that they couldn't bring |
| 16170s | themselves out of and Germany were happy |
| 16173s | to just bury them under a sea of their |
| 16175s | own ultimate abilities in said hole and |
| 16178s | take what looks to be an easy 2-0 and |
| 16181s | this kind of like gives us an idea of |
| 16183s | where some things are going to shake out |
| 16185s | in group b you know you you definitely |
| 16187s | want to say that Germany is ahead of |
| 16189s | Iceland Iceland is going to look to be |
| 16191s | one of those teams kind of towards the |
| 16193s | bottom unless they're able to mount |
| 16194s | something of a comeback in the coming |
| 16195s | days remember we still have eight days |
| 16198s | worth of games so there's plenty of time |
| 16199s | to make up the slack but this was an |
| 16201s | important win for Germany they get to |
| 16203s | get out ahead of things they get to you |
| 16204s | know set their own narrative say hey |
| 16206s | we're a team that you have to take |
| 16207s | seriously we've got some killer Sombra |
| 16210s | play we've got a fantastic back line we |
| 16213s | are a threat we are here we're coming |
| 16215s | for one of those two spots |
| 16218s | yeah and like you said before Germany is |
| 16220s | one of those teams that has kind of a |
| 16222s | lot of strong individual players you |
| 16224s | know their names they're familiar uh |
| 16226s | household names especially after playing |
| 16228s | in the spring contenders for Europe so |
| 16231s | you know that they are able to play at a |
| 16233s | high caliber but you just weren't sure |
| 16235s | how well these players were going to |
| 16236s | mesh together and Iceland as well was |
| 16238s | from the Wild Card group and they came |
| 16240s | in second so they were kind of |
| 16242s | automatically seated a little bit lower |
| 16244s | as we were started getting into this uh |
| 16246s | qualifier as well so it's going to be |
| 16249s | interesting to see how this Progressive |
| 16251s | Germany definitely getting a really good |
| 16253s | start especially with round |
| 16255s | differentials as well 201 first map |
| 16257s | three one on the second it is looking |
| 16259s | really strong for them absolutely and |
| 16262s | you do have to be looking at Iceland to |
| 16263s | try and make a bit of a comeback here |
| 16265s | but today is not their day it belongs to |
| 16268s | Germany but we've got more action coming |
| 16270s | up we got Belgium versus Great Britain |
| 16272s | coming up here next we're gonna throw it |
| 16274s | to a quick break we'll be right back |
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| 16496s | the OverWatch World Cup 2023 online |
| 16499s | qualifiers emec continue right now I'm |
| 16501s | your host Jim Basco and of course I'm |
| 16503s | joined by epitomies and CB y'all what |
| 16506s | was that match that was so very fast |
| 16508s | epitomies break it down for me man |
| 16510s | because that happened in the blink of an |
| 16512s | eye |
| 16513s | yeah I mean when we were talking about |
| 16515s | going into it we knew that there was |
| 16517s | representation from uh European |
| 16520s | contenders spring uh just this year a |
| 16523s | lot on the side of Germany but on the |
| 16525s | side of Iceland we were really only |
| 16526s | seeing uh that representation come |
| 16529s | through in the familiar household names |
| 16530s | of OverWatch and half a cool and |
| 16532s | unfortunately it didn't seem like it was |
| 16534s | enough to just lead these the squad of |
| 16537s | younger more inexperienced players |
| 16539s | through this uh last matchup and we just |
| 16542s | uh it just felt like they couldn't find |
| 16544s | their stride |
| 16546s | yeah and I mean I will also say that it |
| 16548s | does kind of help speed things along a |
| 16550s | little bit more when there's not a pause |
| 16551s | every single map you know we had more |
| 16552s | pause than an animal shelter here for |
| 16554s | the first half of the day hopefully |
| 16556s | we're clear for the rest of it and we |
| 16557s | can just get through to the action |
| 16558s | because there is plenty more action to |
| 16561s | be had I'm looking forward to the next |
| 16563s | match up here absolutely yeah the World |
| 16565s | Cup you know we talk about it bringing |
| 16566s | the top tier of talent and it's some |
| 16569s | more talent that may not get the |
| 16570s | exposure that they deserve in the |
| 16571s | OverWatch league so it's always great to |
| 16573s | be here for the World Cup but with that |
| 16575s | said like you mentioned CB let's go |
| 16577s | ahead and take a look at the schedule |
| 16578s | see what matches and what action we have |
| 16580s | just around the corner for y'all as you |
| 16582s | mentioned we just got out of Germany |
| 16585s | versus Iceland 2-0 there Norway took it |
| 16587s | over Sweden 2-0 Finland over South I |
| 16589s | mean Saudi Arabia over Finland and of |
| 16591s | course earlier on in the day turkey |
| 16593s | versus Poland which was a much closer |
| 16595s | game than that score line may represent |
| 16597s | but we are down to three more matches |
| 16600s | for day one we're rounding out Group B |
| 16602s | here Belgium and Great Britain is up |
| 16604s | next followed by Italy versus versus |
| 16606s | France and we close out the day with |
| 16608s | Netherlands versus Spain so a ton of |
| 16611s | great talent still here of course Let's |
| 16614s | Talk About Belgium and Great Britain CB |
| 16616s | you had mentioned this before right |
| 16618s | great talent come out of coming out of |
| 16620s | Britain especially with the hurricanes |
| 16621s | in the past the contender scene is |
| 16623s | popping that Community has been very |
| 16625s | active for a long time talk to me about |
| 16627s | these two teams I mean team Great |
| 16629s | Britain let's take a look at them really |
| 16631s | quick these Seven Lions are fighting for |
| 16633s | more than just their pride let me throw |
| 16634s | a couple names at you right here Kai |
| 16637s | funny Astro backbone jakaru this is a |
| 16640s | roster they can definitely be proud of |
| 16641s | they came to fight they're in group a |
| 16643s | where there's actually three spots up |
| 16645s | for grabs and they look like a shoe in |
| 16647s | to take at least one of them here but |
| 16649s | hey we've seen crazier things we've seen |
| 16651s | some upsets already we might see some |
| 16653s | more Belgium still has a little bit of |
| 16655s | star power that they're coming to the |
| 16656s | table with they could maybe throw a |
| 16658s | spanner into the works make Britain have |
| 16660s | to work a little bit harder for it than |
| 16661s | you think they would I'm looking at |
| 16663s | people like Logics another household |
| 16665s | name did a lot of long time OverWatch |
| 16667s | fans will know and love especially on |
| 16670s | the hit scan Heroes Logics can |
| 16672s | definitely hold his own and I'm gonna be |
| 16674s | looking at him to try and carry team |
| 16675s | Belgium through to the end here |
| 16678s | yeah epitome is you know obviously when |
| 16681s | it comes to long time names like Logics |
| 16683s | we're gonna want to vouch for those |
| 16686s | players right they have those fan bases |
| 16689s | that are so large and of course eight |
| 16691s | six seven years after starting playing |
| 16693s | the game that fan base has evolved maybe |
| 16695s | they're still playing OverWatch maybe |
| 16697s | they're not but people tuning back into |
| 16699s | the World Cup what do they need to be |
| 16700s | watching out for in this matchup |
| 16702s | well in this matchup like you mentioned |
| 16704s | with Logics you have that player that |
| 16707s | has played in a World Cup before as well |
| 16709s | Logics playing in 2017 for Belgium I am |
| 16713s | so sorry about my cat and um also in the |
| 16716s | last match we did see Alex who you |
| 16718s | mentioned was from a team um raspberry |
| 16721s | racer CB and did a lot of work for that |
| 16724s | Germany squad and on the same Squad uh |
| 16728s | here for in raspberry Racers we have Ken |
| 16730s | who is one of the dps's here for Belgium |
| 16733s | yeah absolutely let's go ahead and hop |
| 16735s | right into that match so you guys can |
| 16737s | take it away CB and if I'll see you soon |
| 16740s | awesome |
| 16743s | yeah now headed into this next one |
| 16746s | looking at the rosters once again we |
| 16748s | mentioned that the raspberries Racers |
| 16750s | player can a DPS for that Squad and you |
| 16753s | know obviously another well-known name |
| 16756s | for the EU contenders uh contenders |
| 16759s | scene but looking at these looking at |
| 16761s | these picks you know do you have |
| 16763s | anything that you might want to expect |
| 16764s | going into these next matchups I mean |
| 16767s | you know some of these names here are |
| 16769s | ones that we haven't really seen a whole |
| 16770s | lot of so again it's their opportunity |
| 16772s | to make a name for themselves here but |
| 16775s | you know with not knowing exactly what |
| 16777s | sky tour paranova and Chaba all bring to |
| 16779s | the table I'm looking at this as the |
| 16781s | squad that potentially is going to live |
| 16782s | and die by their DPS line can can and |
| 16785s | can Logics do the bulk of the work and |
| 16788s | help tip this squad over the edge here |
| 16790s | and or are we gonna see something |
| 16793s | unexpected from the other three here is |
| 16795s | there you know potential diamond in the |
| 16797s | rough sort of situation here that can |
| 16798s | make Belgium look a little bit more |
| 16800s | competitive than First Impressions might |
| 16802s | lead you to believe |
| 16804s | yeah on the other side you mentioned |
| 16807s | there's just a lot of talent over here |
| 16809s | on the Great Britain Squad you have |
| 16812s | Jacob aru who was who is currently |
| 16815s | playing for sovereigns I believe uh |
| 16818s | sovereign's EU which is also you know a |
| 16820s | big contenders team but I think the |
| 16821s | biggest name that we do see here is |
| 16823s | backbone who is a London Spitfire player |
| 16826s | but also you have uh you just have so |
| 16830s | much talent La Gladiators as well from |
| 16832s | Kai so you know lots of OverWatch League |
| 16835s | Talent yeah absolutely and not only lots |
| 16838s | of OverWatch League talent but OverWatch |
| 16840s | League talent that might be able to find |
| 16841s | their stride with some comfort picks |
| 16843s | here backbone is known for the may play |
| 16846s | on the London Spitfire stage there so if |
| 16849s | May ends up coming out which we have |
| 16850s | seen a fair bit of so far that's going |
| 16852s | to be something that Belgium are gonna |
| 16854s | have to try and navigate here Kai one of |
| 16856s | the top Western hit scans potentially |
| 16858s | ever if we put him on the Cassidy he is |
| 16861s | gonna pound so you know it is again up |
| 16864s | to the DPS of Belgium to try and punch |
| 16866s | up and try and match that level if |
| 16868s | nothing else and hope that the rest of |
| 16870s | their team can do enough to try and tip |
| 16872s | them over the edge here so as we go to |
| 16874s | lijiang Tower here I might expect to see |
| 16876s | a little bit of May on Night Market or |
| 16879s | on control center so you know how do you |
| 16881s | deal with backbones May |
| 16884s | yeah it's really hard to say you really |
| 16887s | need that strong uh strong back line |
| 16889s | especially here when it comes to dealing |
| 16892s | with the May and you want those bailout |
| 16894s | ultimates from the supports as well I'm |
| 16896s | thinking of transcendencies I'm thinking |
| 16898s | of the sound barrier just those types of |
| 16901s | ultimates that's able to very very |
| 16903s | quickly get them out of those sticky |
| 16905s | situations |
| 16907s | 100 I'm curious to see what map we go to |
| 16910s | here first because that's going to kind |
| 16912s | of dictate the pace of things I really |
| 16914s | want to see what team Great Britain |
| 16916s | comes out with what kind of composition |
| 16917s | they decide to play it looks like we are |
| 16919s | going to start things off on control |
| 16921s | center so maybe I mean looking at what |
| 16924s | I'm seeing right now I never trust |
| 16925s | attack response they can always change |
| 16927s | that but maybe Great Britain is |
| 16929s | channeling just a little bit more of |
| 16930s | that London Spitfire than just backbone |
| 16933s | and there's that lethal May that I was |
| 16935s | talking about I you know Belgium they're |
| 16938s | gonna have to have an answer here |
| 16939s | they're gonna try and mirror the rush |
| 16940s | here can on the may as well Logics on |
| 16942s | the Sim and it looks like that's not |
| 16943s | going to be just for a swap that is for |
| 16945s | positioning and for a little bit of |
| 16946s | damage here so it's gonna actually be |
| 16949s | Kai that I want to keep an eye on here |
| 16950s | now because if Kai is able to find just |
| 16952s | a stray head shot one Straight Arrow to |
| 16954s | the Dome could put this off the bed and |
| 16956s | hey there's there's more than one yeah |
| 16958s | yeah I guess that's how you deal with |
| 16960s | can uh uh with a May on this map you |
| 16964s | just have Kai ringing out the back line |
| 16965s | already in support down as well and that |
| 16969s | Reinhardt going to be melted very |
| 16971s | quickly after with the storm though it |
| 16973s | is just so quick for Great Britain to |
| 16976s | take down this squad funny Astro as well |
| 16978s | another name that we haven't uh quite |
| 16981s | touched on as much but another La |
| 16983s | Gladiators player right and also played |
| 16986s | in another OverWatch World Cup in the |
| 16988s | past so just so much experience so much |
| 16990s | individual Talent on this Great Britain |
| 16993s | team yeah and not a whole lot of heads |
| 16995s | up Forward Thinking and quarter checking |
| 16997s | from uh Belgium because they never saw |
| 16999s | that flying from Kai coming and he's |
| 17000s | still just holding up here on this High |
| 17001s | ground and they've opted not even to try |
| 17003s | and challenge him they just want to try |
| 17004s | and take down jakaru but with all the |
| 17006s | healing being pumped into shikaru that |
| 17008s | is a tall tall task |
| 17010s | okay both amplification Matrix coming |
| 17012s | out means that Kai is going to be |
| 17014s | dealing a lot more damage is going |
| 17016s | through sure it's often to just block it |
| 17018s | off with a maywall try to teleport over |
| 17021s | here on this pass and they're just |
| 17024s | unable to get anything done quickly |
| 17026s | regrouping around to help this hit scan |
| 17028s | and the Hanzo just stays alive and you |
| 17031s | have the dragon strike online as well |
| 17033s | you have that funny Astro has built up |
| 17036s | the sound barrier so incredibly quickly |
| 17037s | if you look at Chaba only 50 on the |
| 17040s | ultimate it is just such chaos but Great |
| 17042s | Britain is thriving through it yeah and |
| 17044s | Belgium doesn't really have an in here |
| 17046s | like Logics is gonna have the Sim wall |
| 17048s | and that's how they're gonna try and |
| 17049s | open things up and try and build some |
| 17050s | positioning here but they don't really |
| 17052s | have something big that can just win the |
| 17054s | fight here and especially when they've |
| 17055s | lost their entire GPS line this fight is |
| 17057s | already over Great Britain are just like |
| 17060s | they're playing with their food right |
| 17062s | now they're taking candy from babies |
| 17063s | what is this |
| 17065s | uh yeah this is and they're already |
| 17067s | pushing in their spawn and typically |
| 17068s | this is not really something that you |
| 17070s | see in high level play because they |
| 17072s | don't really want to risk letting |
| 17074s | someone back cap onto that point but the |
| 17076s | confidence is there they're going to go |
| 17077s | right ahead the sojourn has been brought |
| 17079s | out by Logics to try and counteract give |
| 17081s | that a little bit of carry potential |
| 17084s | here but with the sound barrier they're |
| 17086s | allowed to just make like plays that are |
| 17088s | just a little bit silly a little bit |
| 17090s | foolish they're allowed to troll a |
| 17091s | little bit because they are so easily |
| 17093s | bailed out by this blizzard by the amp |
| 17096s | Matrix and by the sound barrier it's |
| 17098s | just all there and not even a touch not |
| 17100s | even a little bit of secure first point |
| 17102s | going to Britain yeah you were saying |
| 17104s | how you know you don't want to worry |
| 17105s | about the back cap coming through but |
| 17107s | Great Britain they don't even have to |
| 17108s | worry about it because they have |
| 17109s | everybody who could reasonably touch |
| 17111s | that being pretty much only Chaba on the |
| 17113s | Lucio there all corralled in the spawn |
| 17116s | there and they just can't get out they |
| 17118s | don't have to worry about that back cap |
| 17119s | because they just simply don't allow |
| 17120s | Belgium to exit their spawn doors can't |
| 17123s | touch the point if you can't play the |
| 17124s | game such as strategy that Great Britain |
| 17126s | has decided to bring here and you know |
| 17128s | we're seeing a little bit of swap UPS |
| 17130s | here coming out you know Gardens tends |
| 17132s | to favor a little bit more of a dive |
| 17134s | style so we're seeing jaycaro and uh |
| 17136s | skytor try to reflect that can get a |
| 17138s | swap over onto the echo that's gonna be |
| 17140s | something we might want to keep an eye |
| 17141s | on here but I mean if if control centers |
| 17144s | anything to go off of this is entirely |
| 17146s | Great Britain's match to win |
| 17149s | oh yeah Great Britain is just having fun |
| 17152s | with it they've switched over onto the |
| 17154s | echo mercy and you have that honor as |
| 17158s | well this is I mean it's an |
| 17159s | unconventional back line for sure and |
| 17161s | against the Tracer Sombra it's |
| 17163s | definitely going to be a hard one to uh |
| 17165s | it's going to be hard to get away from |
| 17167s | these two dbs's Sky tour trying to go in |
| 17170s | for the dive but there's just no support |
| 17172s | from the rest of the Belgium Squad |
| 17173s | immediately falling to jkro and it is |
| 17177s | just you know a meltdown once again for |
| 17179s | the first capture yeah so here's the |
| 17181s | trouble when you're running an echo |
| 17182s | Mercy because that Mercy is going to be |
| 17183s | attached at the hip to the echo at all |
| 17185s | times so a skytor wants to go aggressive |
| 17187s | it's all onto pot Anova to try and get |
| 17189s | the healing done and if he's zoned off |
| 17191s | if he can't Los the tank then you know |
| 17194s | Sky tour is just gonna fall uh Ken with |
| 17196s | a great opening pick off there and they |
| 17198s | might be able to clean up jakaru as well |
| 17199s | Belgium they might have finally found |
| 17201s | their inner |
| 17204s | shabby Echo Mercy is doing a bit of |
| 17206s | damage skytor has also found a pick onto |
| 17209s | the back line of cronus's Anna just once |
| 17213s | again that immobility getting to that |
| 17215s | support once again and now they're able |
| 17217s | to capture that point and I think |
| 17218s | allowing them that little bit of air |
| 17220s | space as well when Great Britain is |
| 17222s | really focused on ground control is |
| 17224s | really helpful it seems to be what they |
| 17226s | prefer here yeah and when you're putting |
| 17228s | all of your eggs into that Echo Mercy |
| 17229s | basket sometimes you have enough eggs to |
| 17231s | make an omelet as Ken does there but sky |
| 17233s | sword going really aggressive gets low |
| 17235s | there Great Britain want to try and |
| 17236s | focus that Winston down Ken has to try |
| 17239s | and invest the house invested duplicate |
| 17241s | just to get another monkey on the field |
| 17242s | because theirs has already been dealt |
| 17243s | with and this might be Great Britain |
| 17245s | coming through with the flip but it is |
| 17247s | Scrappy |
| 17249s | they're able to get those few picks to |
| 17251s | go through and now with Ken down you |
| 17253s | kind of have to worry about what Java is |
| 17255s | doing where are they going to escape to |
| 17256s | where the support is going to go and |
| 17258s | that the answer is just right back to |
| 17261s | spawn the flip comes through from great |
| 17262s | then written very quickly after that |
| 17265s | fight and once again these ultimates are |
| 17267s | being built up to very quickly Kai did a |
| 17269s | big flip with a pulse bomb and that |
| 17271s | ultimate just gets built up so quickly |
| 17273s | in a matter of seconds yeah and speaking |
| 17274s | of ultimates Belgium with the cops |
| 17276s | they're playing they don't really have |
| 17277s | access to a huge fight-winning ultimate |
| 17280s | they're gonna have the Kitsune rush and |
| 17281s | that's a great initiation tool but |
| 17282s | they're gonna walk right into backbones |
| 17284s | EMP and if Great Britain's follow-up is |
| 17286s | there that's gonna be a clean easy Fight |
| 17288s | Win for Great Britain so I'll have to |
| 17289s | see if uh backbone pulls the trigger and |
| 17291s | indeed he does but Cronus Falls early |
| 17294s | yeah Cronus going down before the sound |
| 17296s | barrier comes through could be a game |
| 17299s | changer for Belgium they have to keep |
| 17302s | jkro up somehow but they're unable to |
| 17304s | it's got a backup quite a bit because |
| 17307s | funny Astro just doesn't have as much of |
| 17309s | that's insane and now the pulse bomb has |
| 17311s | been built up by Kai though might be |
| 17313s | able to answer something back the |
| 17315s | contention is still there Kai just |
| 17317s | dashing around on the point blinking |
| 17319s | around trying to take down Chaba and |
| 17321s | trying to find Mercy pocket and finally |
| 17324s | JK aru finishes the job but that allows |
| 17326s | Logics and opportunity to just trade |
| 17328s | back onto the DPS already to 95 |
| 17333s | contention's still there this might be |
| 17335s | an overtime flip for Belgium and now the |
| 17338s | duplicate forced through once again can |
| 17340s | going to transform into the wits in a |
| 17343s | second tank onto the field to try and |
| 17344s | harass JKR from regrouping with the rest |
| 17347s | of the team Ken is still on fire just |
| 17350s | going to Glide away very quickly waiting |
| 17353s | for Jabba to come back Jabba has |
| 17354s | switched on to the Lu show though and |
| 17356s | that means building up another ultimate |
| 17358s | while Kai already has the pulse bomb to |
| 17360s | come through and Sky tour is taken down |
| 17362s | now without a tank in a play it's going |
| 17365s | to be so much harder for Belgium to keep |
| 17367s | their hands on this point over time |
| 17369s | activated Logics attempting a blink and |
| 17372s | a recall upon the Nova also looking for |
| 17374s | the contest with the Isuzu and now the |
| 17377s | doomfist from Sky tour to get quickly |
| 17379s | back to point it is just so back and |
| 17381s | forth there are some desperation |
| 17383s | switches from Belgium but they are |
| 17385s | holding on and not by very much there |
| 17388s | Sky told that HP gonna finally fall |
| 17390s | you've got Shabba on point to try and |
| 17392s | contest here but this looks like it's |
| 17394s | all Great Britain in the kill feed all |
| 17396s | yep it's all coming up for the Seven |
| 17398s | Lions here that's gonna be a nice easy |
| 17400s | 2-0 there for Great Britain they |
| 17402s | definitely look to be the stronger of |
| 17404s | the two teams here and I want to go back |
| 17406s | to that last fight there where Belgium |
| 17409s | was able to flip the point at 99 for |
| 17411s | Great Britain Great Britain did enough |
| 17413s | to stagger out to where they got to 99 |
| 17414s | and in order to even get the flip at all |
| 17417s | they made it costly for Belgium they had |
| 17419s | to invest ultimate abilities they had to |
| 17420s | invest pretty much everything throw the |
| 17423s | kitchen sink at it so when the next |
| 17424s | fight comes around and Great Britain |
| 17426s | come in they have ultimates they have |
| 17428s | resources Belgium just has nothing and |
| 17431s | they just crumble under the pressure |
| 17433s | there towards the end and we saw a lot |
| 17435s | of life from them on Gardens there's |
| 17436s | definitely something to this team |
| 17438s | there's definitely some things that we |
| 17440s | can see going forward here but I gotta |
| 17443s | ask you know do you think they can do it |
| 17444s | it's gonna be their map pick what do you |
| 17446s | what are you feeling |
| 17448s | I don't know it's going to be a really |
| 17450s | tough one like you said I mean it feels |
| 17452s | like they might also just be waking up |
| 17454s | each of these teams only playing one |
| 17457s | match you know every single day so it |
| 17459s | could be like they're kind of warming up |
| 17461s | to it because we saw so much more life |
| 17463s | over on that second round but it's also |
| 17466s | the fact that there were desperations |
| 17467s | which is you know Great Britain seems |
| 17469s | like a very calm level-headed team but |
| 17471s | when it comes to these really really |
| 17473s | chaotic messy fights and they start |
| 17475s | falling apart they start realizing |
| 17476s | they're losing the switches come through |
| 17478s | and there might be less of that |
| 17480s | forethought going into those team |
| 17482s | compositions when they're making those |
| 17483s | switches as much as we need to get back |
| 17485s | to the point we need to hold on to this |
| 17487s | no matter what and then you don't think |
| 17489s | about what about the ultimates that |
| 17490s | we're building up what about the |
| 17491s | ultimates we just lost how will this |
| 17493s | work with our team composition you know |
| 17495s | the switch on to Lucio they wanted to |
| 17497s | rush back to the point but it also means |
| 17499s | that Ken which was basically you know |
| 17501s | their big all their eggs in that basket |
| 17503s | they didn't have the mercy pocket |
| 17505s | anymore so it was a lot more difficult |
| 17506s | to get value out of it yeah it overall |
| 17509s | kind of feels like Belgium is playing a |
| 17511s | little bit more reactively instead of |
| 17512s | proactively I mean we do we do have the |
| 17516s | chance for them to try and be a little |
| 17517s | bit more proactive because you know as |
| 17519s | the non-winners of the first map it is |
| 17521s | going to be their map pick next they can |
| 17523s | take us to hybrid they can take us to uh |
| 17526s | escort I you know what kind of maps |
| 17528s | might you be expecting them to try and |
| 17529s | go with with what we've seen here like |
| 17531s | what strengths do they have that they |
| 17533s | can realistically play to here |
| 17535s | I feel like we could definitely see them |
| 17539s | on an escort map rather than a hybrid |
| 17541s | map uh they definitely feel like they |
| 17544s | want to be able to flow back into the |
| 17546s | fight instead of having to constantly |
| 17548s | hang on to something and that could be a |
| 17550s | problem for them with the first control |
| 17551s | point or the first capture point of |
| 17554s | those hybrid Maps but it's definitely |
| 17556s | going to be up to them to see what they |
| 17559s | want to play to their strengths and what |
| 17561s | kind of compositions they're going to go |
| 17562s | for this time around |
| 17563s | all right well they got a little bit of |
| 17565s | time to try and uh piece this all |
| 17566s | together we're gonna throw to a quick |
| 17568s | break let them go to the drawing board |
| 17569s | piece together a plan and a map pick |
| 17571s | we'll have all that for you and more |
| 17572s | action when we come back from the break |
| 17574s | stay tuned |
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| 17798s | World Cup emec online qualifiers I'm |
| 17801s | epitome is joined by CB and we are back |
| 17804s | for map two of Belgium versus Great |
| 17807s | Britain after a little bit of a stomp on |
| 17811s | the shunga tower just a little bit I did |
| 17814s | say at the top of this match that Great |
| 17816s | Britain did look like to be one of the |
| 17817s | shoe wins for one of the spots in group |
| 17819s | a and they are staking their claim early |
| 17821s | they're not even let Belgium sniff one |
| 17823s | of those spots right now saying you have |
| 17825s | to go through us if you want even a |
| 17828s | snowball's chance and heck of making it |
| 17829s | to the playoffs here so it's up to it's |
| 17832s | up to Belgium here with their map pick |
| 17834s | to try and pull some magic out of a hat |
| 17835s | try and find something to turn the tides |
| 17837s | back in their favor and try and topple |
| 17840s | this British giant that sits before them |
| 17842s | and circuit Royale is their destination |
| 17844s | of choice this is where they will choose |
| 17846s | to make that stand and I gotta feel like |
| 17849s | this might be putting some eggs into the |
| 17851s | Logics basket this time |
| 17853s | oh this is definitely an interesting |
| 17856s | choice here I mean we did see like a |
| 17859s | little bit of that sojourn switch as |
| 17861s | well over on the first control center |
| 17864s | map of lijiang so I'm wondering if they |
| 17867s | might be bringing that out once again if |
| 17869s | we're going to see maybe a Cassidy come |
| 17871s | through as well |
| 17872s | and you know what else I did want to |
| 17874s | point out that you know we saw a lot of |
| 17875s | the Hanzo coming out and when we saw |
| 17877s | this map earlier today Hanzo seemed to |
| 17880s | be you know the pick that most of the |
| 17882s | hit scan players were going for in lieu |
| 17884s | of the Widowmaker because we saw the |
| 17885s | Widow Nerf so we're likely not going to |
| 17888s | see as much of her as we might be |
| 17890s | accustomed to she might still rear her |
| 17892s | ugly head again here once again but I |
| 17895s | mean Hanzo has been a great thing to you |
| 17898s | know a Great Hero to slot in with that |
| 17899s | traditional long-range sniper it's you |
| 17901s | know kind of one for one it's the same |
| 17903s | sort of deal where you can just find a |
| 17906s | headshot as I say that though both teams |
| 17909s | kind of looking like they're gonna eat |
| 17910s | my make me eat my words and uh go back |
| 17912s | to all reliable pull the Widowmaker out |
| 17915s | of out of this or off of the shelves |
| 17918s | here dust her off she hasn't even been |
| 17919s | up there for like a week yet but duster |
| 17922s | off try and find some some value with |
| 17924s | them and you know overall Belgium is |
| 17926s | kind of going back to |
| 17928s | the previous meta with this composition |
| 17930s | you know zp and hex were talking about a |
| 17932s | little bit but Sigma with the Bap Zen |
| 17934s | and then the double sniper that's very |
| 17936s | much a meta of a bygone era where we've |
| 17939s | been through some patches we've changed |
| 17940s | some things maybe Belgium knows |
| 17942s | something we don't and they're able to |
| 17944s | find some value here or maybe we'll just |
| 17946s | have to spam chat with thank Mr Logix |
| 17948s | once again |
| 17950s | yeah I mean you also see the Genji being |
| 17953s | brought out here and there's like a |
| 17955s | little bit of a buff there with the |
| 17956s | increase in ammo but also you see that |
| 17958s | there has been a switch |
| 17960s | um onto W maimon and as well on the |
| 17963s | other side shaira as that tank on the |
| 17966s | sigma here to try and get themselves a |
| 17968s | little bit of that stronger defense but |
| 17971s | it doesn't look to be like much of a |
| 17972s | defense right now it looks like Belgium |
| 17974s | they're just barely backing up they've |
| 17975s | kind of just given up this entire Street |
| 17976s | space over here for free like this first |
| 17978s | corner like you typically want to hold a |
| 17981s | little bit further up with your Sigma so |
| 17982s | that your snipers have an angle but the |
| 17984s | snipers are just holding their s key |
| 17986s | back and all the way up you know Great |
| 17988s | Britain they're about to get this first |
| 17989s | corner here essentially for free without |
| 17991s | even having to spill any blood but rest |
| 17994s | assured there's gonna be some bullets if |
| 17996s | Kai has anything to say about it |
| 17998s | okay Ken is able to find W my mom and |
| 18001s | Logics actually going to take down Kai |
| 18004s | Battle of the widowmakers which is |
| 18006s | something you don't really see too much |
| 18009s | um but sure and now they're just still |
| 18012s | holding the corner waiting for their |
| 18013s | dps's to come back into the game logic's |
| 18017s | still holding this very long corner and |
| 18019s | they don't really have a good way of |
| 18021s | kind of diving onto the Widowmaker the |
| 18023s | Genji could do something here |
| 18025s | but still haven't made the move yeah the |
| 18028s | problem here is as long as we're both |
| 18030s | investing into this Widowmaker battle it |
| 18032s | is going to be whichever Widow is |
| 18033s | getting the better of one another that's |
| 18035s | going to dictate which sight lines the |
| 18036s | other team can safely play in but a nano |
| 18038s | boost onto Chicago is gonna make the |
| 18040s | entire Point anything but safe for |
| 18042s | Belgium |
| 18044s | funny Astro going down so they're |
| 18046s | relying on backbone to get those sight |
| 18048s | lines on but it's just not going to work |
| 18050s | Ken is able to take down quite a bit of |
| 18053s | damage onto that tank taking out jaycar |
| 18055s | from the fight but the Primal Rage has |
| 18057s | been built up for the next one and |
| 18059s | because of how Pokey their comp is they |
| 18061s | are just backing up all the way once |
| 18063s | again it's just holding the S key and |
| 18065s | giving up that first checkpoint for free |
| 18067s | yeah it's a poke comp and typically if |
| 18069s | you want to poke someone you got to keep |
| 18071s | them in arm's distance but Belgium |
| 18072s | keeping Great Britain away with like a |
| 18074s | 10-foot Pole right now won't let them |
| 18076s | get close and that's totally fine |
| 18078s | because great brick and Great Britain |
| 18080s | can just take all of this space for free |
| 18081s | the site's gonna come out from Logics |
| 18083s | and you know Great Britain might slow |
| 18085s | the pace down just a little bit here but |
| 18087s | once Kai has those up it's going to be |
| 18089s | completely flipped and reversed and once |
| 18090s | again it'll be Belgium on the back foot |
| 18092s | ravidic flux to open things up are they |
| 18094s | gonna find any Peter with it |
| 18097s | and the gravity flux it unfortunately |
| 18099s | doesn't find too much here the Primal |
| 18101s | Rage does come out though Jake are we |
| 18103s | looking for a little bit more of that |
| 18105s | Health thing but oh what a shot from |
| 18107s | Logix Kai just straight back onto the |
| 18110s | support a tank for his support both of |
| 18112s | them are going to be at a little bit of |
| 18113s | sand still for the next fight but Logix |
| 18115s | and Kai they are just a gift that keeps |
| 18117s | on giving but with the new Widowmaker |
| 18119s | neutralize on Belgium's side it does |
| 18122s | give Britain a little bit more of that |
| 18124s | room to push forward but the sigma is |
| 18126s | just contesting the point I mean that |
| 18128s | that shot on to jaycar there from Logix |
| 18130s | was a discorded amp Matrix shot with a |
| 18134s | Sonic arrow and I'm just for good |
| 18135s | measure that was a great pick off there |
| 18136s | from Logix here but it's Kai that's |
| 18138s | getting the better of this duel right |
| 18140s | now and it's also forcing Logics and the |
| 18142s | rest of Belgium back they have to |
| 18144s | respect Kai if he keeps clicking heads |
| 18146s | build or Great Britain can keep charging |
| 18149s | forward another big pick from Logics |
| 18150s | here but it might be too late |
| 18152s | and there's the uh there's the Dragon |
| 18155s | Blade just coming through and forcing so |
| 18159s | much of this squad back what is logic |
| 18161s | going to do against Genji that has 5 |
| 18164s | million dashes and also a sword battle |
| 18166s | two shot you and even though there's the |
| 18168s | Widowmaker nurse you know uh even with |
| 18171s | the Widowmaker nurse you're still seeing |
| 18173s | Widow battles is a little bit insane to |
| 18175s | me but Belgium I think they might have |
| 18178s | been a little bit too overconfident on |
| 18180s | the sniper comp because Great Britain |
| 18182s | they are bringing the sniper comp right |
| 18184s | back to them and they're doing it with |
| 18186s | only one sniper and they're looking like |
| 18188s | they want to try and open with a nano |
| 18189s | boost by the way this is the return of |
| 18191s | bone back I just realized we have |
| 18192s | backbone on the support once again we |
| 18195s | didn't think we'd see him again but it |
| 18196s | is bone back the evil twin |
| 18198s | makeup holding the Nano can put that |
| 18201s | onto shakaru at any point in time and |
| 18203s | make life miserable for Logics as funny |
| 18206s | Astro seems to try and do right now with |
| 18208s | some of the wall rides but well |
| 18209s | everyone's looking at the Frog no one |
| 18211s | was looking at the monkey and jakaru is |
| 18213s | in now |
| 18215s | yeah jaycaru has been allowed to take so |
| 18217s | much space just weaving in and out of |
| 18220s | Sigma Shields with the Tesla Cannon as |
| 18223s | well in such an easy way to escape with |
| 18226s | the jump they're trying to hold The High |
| 18228s | Ground trying to take control because of |
| 18230s | the prominence of the snipers in this |
| 18233s | composition and there's a gravity a |
| 18235s | gravitic flux to take down Kai as well |
| 18237s | as backbone and without Backbone in the |
| 18240s | back line Great Britain doesn't really |
| 18242s | have a backbone but jkro they're forced |
| 18245s | to retreat a little bit further since |
| 18247s | funny Astro doesn't quite have the stain |
| 18249s | that they need what he finds the killer |
| 18252s | okay funny ashtray is known for his |
| 18254s | aggression but even I would for a second |
| 18256s | there was like this is this is too |
| 18258s | aggressive for you but shyra not able to |
| 18260s | dislodge the wall riding frog here funny |
| 18263s | Astro able to take out the enemy Sigma |
| 18265s | and even kind of force the swap there I |
| 18267s | think Shire was probably already |
| 18269s | contemplating making that Diva swap here |
| 18271s | so they can try and counter dive and you |
| 18273s | know control The High Ground a little |
| 18274s | bit better here but it might be too |
| 18276s | little too late Great Britain they're |
| 18278s | really feeling themselves and starting |
| 18279s | to go for some ego plays and they're |
| 18281s | still marching right on forward |
| 18284s | yeah they just really don't have this |
| 18286s | attention Okay slept Genji in spawn |
| 18288s | that'll slow it down just a little bit |
| 18290s | but they have that sound barrier and |
| 18292s | they're just able to force forward to |
| 18294s | make the silly plays you know funny |
| 18296s | Astro having a little laugh to himself |
| 18298s | he's just he he ha haing his team into |
| 18300s | their spawn and now they've gotten so |
| 18302s | many picks as well Logics in the back |
| 18304s | line on the Tracer but backbone isn't |
| 18306s | barely even phased because the rest of |
| 18309s | the squad is just capping the payload |
| 18311s | and they're almost right to the end and |
| 18314s | it's all left up to Logics who's just |
| 18316s | being harassed by the Tesla Cannon but |
| 18318s | since they are so close to the spawn |
| 18319s | it's making it easier for Belgium to |
| 18321s | regroup Great Britain might have to let |
| 18323s | this one go and wait for that next fight |
| 18324s | Belgium they might be able to hold on |
| 18326s | for a few seconds longer but Jake and |
| 18328s | arrow popping the Primal Rage so much |
| 18330s | more of a Health sync now and with the |
| 18332s | Doom fist pick from shaira are they |
| 18334s | going to be able to knock the monkey |
| 18336s | back they do disengage off the back of |
| 18338s | this but they are still trying to cap |
| 18341s | yeah it was very much a thank Mr logic's |
| 18343s | moment as he did just enough to try and |
| 18344s | stop the bleeding a little bit and he's |
| 18346s | come back on the Bastion taking down |
| 18348s | jaycaru and once again Belgium are doing |
| 18350s | just enough to hang on by the Skin of |
| 18353s | Their Teeth here they once again repel |
| 18355s | the Great Britain Onslaught and Great |
| 18357s | Britain they invested a lot into that |
| 18359s | fight the Primal and the Nano and I |
| 18361s | believe the beat earlier on into that |
| 18362s | fight it was a long one it was a scrappy |
| 18365s | one but definitely thank Mr Logics for |
| 18367s | that one because now we're under a |
| 18369s | minute Great Britain they're still |
| 18370s | looking to cap here but Belgium might |
| 18372s | have finally found their footing |
| 18374s | yeah it seems like they are in a really |
| 18377s | good spot to hold on to this especially |
| 18378s | since it's so close to spawn and they're |
| 18381s | on their way to that meteor strike as |
| 18383s | well okay shyra in the back line Kai |
| 18385s | where are you gonna go on the back of |
| 18387s | this I guess I'm just going to go ahead |
| 18389s | and kill shyra and now without a tank |
| 18391s | they have to deal with a Logics now and |
| 18394s | just going to escape to The High Ground |
| 18395s | Kai getting healed up from the back line |
| 18398s | but Ken on the other hand has a dragon's |
| 18401s | blade of his own and is able to find |
| 18403s | only one funny Astro now down from Great |
| 18406s | Britain but the rest of the squad is |
| 18408s | there to back up and avenge for the |
| 18410s | Fallen teammate Great Britain completing |
| 18413s | round one with 17 seconds left over yeah |
| 18416s | the good news for Belgium is that they |
| 18418s | didn't end up falling with a two minute |
| 18420s | time bank like that definitely could |
| 18421s | have been the case save for some heroic |
| 18423s | plays the bad news is still that Great |
| 18426s | Britain capped at all and on circuit |
| 18428s | Royale that's not always guaranteed so |
| 18431s | now Belgium have to try and match that |
| 18433s | if they want to keep themselves up in |
| 18434s | this fight fight and potentially have a |
| 18436s | chance of winning this map here and |
| 18438s | that's not going to be easy again like I |
| 18441s | said Belgium is living and dying by what |
| 18445s | Ken and Logics are able to do we're |
| 18447s | seeing Shira going Uber aggressive on |
| 18449s | the doomfist and the diva there and you |
| 18451s | know failing to win uh duels with an |
| 18453s | enemy Lucio granted that enemy Lucio is |
| 18455s | funny Astro so you get a pass there |
| 18457s | because funny Astro is just funny Astro |
| 18460s | and I don't know what else I can say |
| 18461s | about that without you know being |
| 18463s | redundant we all know how good funny |
| 18465s | Astro is on the Lucio there and like you |
| 18469s | know I I gotta believe that Belgium is |
| 18471s | going to be able to pull out something |
| 18472s | here but Great Britain I mean if they |
| 18474s | just put enough pressure onto Logics |
| 18475s | where he can't get enough done on the |
| 18477s | Widow Force the swap for some comp swaps |
| 18480s | out of Belgium it might just spell |
| 18482s | disaster it might spell the end of uh |
| 18484s | Belgium's run here in this game another |
| 18486s | quick 2-0 for Great Britain it's it's |
| 18488s | yeah it's it's just up to logics |
| 18492s | yeah |
| 18493s | yeah Logics is I mean he did have quite |
| 18496s | a few Shining Moments on the defense on |
| 18499s | the attack it might be a little bit more |
| 18501s | difficult having to fight for those |
| 18502s | positions with a widow Sigma Zenyatta |
| 18506s | Baptiste Hanzo kind of comp and Great |
| 18509s | Britain they're holding so much further |
| 18511s | forward as while they're not going to |
| 18513s | allow that free space the free caps and |
| 18515s | if Belgium had held further forward in |
| 18518s | that first fight Great Britain might not |
| 18519s | have been able to complete round one |
| 18521s | with all three points here now they are |
| 18523s | having to fight up through the side |
| 18524s | house but it's being contested by three |
| 18526s | players and back right up with the Lucio |
| 18528s | of funny Astro just allowing to Boop |
| 18530s | them back into the room and then it's |
| 18532s | just so much free damage from that Genji |
| 18534s | it's all some of the most you know the |
| 18536s | most mobile heroes here so they have an |
| 18538s | opportunity to jump out but that rock |
| 18540s | from from shyra and the follow-up there |
| 18542s | from Chara or Chaba means that jakaru |
| 18544s | cannot get out and with the Winston gone |
| 18546s | now Belgium can start to trudge forward |
| 18548s | here yeah you can see backbone has to |
| 18550s | try and you know head for the hills and |
| 18552s | this is gonna be that first stretch uh |
| 18554s | you know being given up to Belgium but |
| 18556s | again we go back to Belgium's defense |
| 18558s | here they are now working to take what |
| 18561s | Great Britain essentially took for free |
| 18563s | on their attack here so now was Great |
| 18565s | Britain is able to set up they can get |
| 18566s | Kai on this High Ground here there's |
| 18568s | still a lot of work to be done that's a |
| 18570s | huge need from backbone not gonna be a |
| 18571s | lot of follow-up but that will slow |
| 18573s | things down just a little bit Kai |
| 18575s | looking for a head but Ken is not going |
| 18578s | to show his today because you jump up |
| 18580s | out of the way here cart's still moving |
| 18582s | Great Britain they're looking for a way |
| 18584s | in a way to get shikaru onto that back |
| 18587s | line |
| 18588s | yeah they're able to cap this for free |
| 18590s | it's going to be difficult for them to |
| 18592s | contest once again the Widowmaker uh has |
| 18595s | to stand really far back here but W |
| 18597s | maimon is able to find one on to Ken and |
| 18600s | that Genji is really the one that's |
| 18601s | going to be right up in their faces and |
| 18603s | forcing them back especially those two |
| 18606s | dps's that have been sent back to spawn |
| 18608s | here Java however has been doing a lot |
| 18610s | of work for Belgium thus far the Discord |
| 18612s | orbs and doing a lot of damage even for |
| 18615s | just Zenyatta but wmo and coin to |
| 18618s | neutralize that the Genji is such a good |
| 18621s | way to counter these really immobile uh |
| 18624s | backline picks you talk about how much |
| 18626s | damage Chaba is doing but that's so you |
| 18627s | know what this back line is right it's |
| 18629s | full poke full damage and it's finding a |
| 18632s | decent amount of value but not enough to |
| 18634s | dislodge Kai not enough to fully punish |
| 18636s | jakaru consistently and not enough to |
| 18639s | stop the support from coming in from |
| 18640s | backbone hey Kai there's another free |
| 18642s | headshot for you Logics never saw that |
| 18643s | one coming there's an easy trade and |
| 18646s | again like you have to try and find a |
| 18648s | way to shut down this Widow a pick on |
| 18650s | Tobacco no that could be huge |
| 18654s | now the Transcendence being used in that |
| 18658s | situation as well as the immortality |
| 18660s | field to just try and counteract the |
| 18662s | damage that was going to come through |
| 18663s | the sound barrier also used but looking |
| 18666s | at the ultimates that are coming up and |
| 18667s | now they have that widow's ultimate |
| 18670s | coming through so they can just see |
| 18672s | right through these walls and it should |
| 18674s | allow Logics to get a good pick here but |
| 18676s | Ken is actually the one that finds funny |
| 18678s | Astro now a player down missing that |
| 18680s | made support but oh my gosh the Dragon |
| 18683s | Blade doesn't even find anything and in |
| 18685s | the face of that they've also put up the |
| 18687s | immortality field and it's given them |
| 18689s | that enough sustain for sure to go ahead |
| 18691s | use the graphic flux and force them so |
| 18693s | far back and now with a few seconds left |
| 18695s | over they're able to get that first |
| 18698s | checkpoint which is going to give them |
| 18699s | three more minutes in the time thing to |
| 18701s | push into the second while shyra |
| 18703s | continues to Surge forward and try and |
| 18706s | force these players back and what a |
| 18708s | great shot from Ken here and with that |
| 18709s | shot to shut down that Dragon Blade now |
| 18711s | the hard part is done Kai is gonna swap |
| 18713s | off of the Widowmaker because he no |
| 18715s | longer has the favorable angle Belgium |
| 18717s | they can play this far up and as long as |
| 18720s | the fight goes on this even ground he's |
| 18722s | not going to be able to find much of |
| 18724s | anything meanwhile Logics can still play |
| 18726s | the Widow to his heart's content get a |
| 18728s | takedown W my moan and keep things going |
| 18730s | in favor of Belgium keep this cart |
| 18732s | inching ever closer there that's another |
| 18734s | great shot from Ken on takai there this |
| 18737s | might actually just be point B being |
| 18738s | capped here outright a storm arrow kill |
| 18741s | into jakaru why not Ken you're already |
| 18742s | cooking yeah Ken is definitely whipping |
| 18746s | up something in the kitchen and now it's |
| 18747s | all left to funny Astro another pick for |
| 18750s | Ken and now they get that second |
| 18752s | checkpoint it was just not even a |
| 18754s | struggle at all for them to get up that |
| 18756s | ramp and into this little building here |
| 18758s | now we're looking at Great Britain they |
| 18760s | switched up their pump a lot it's going |
| 18762s | to be back to that Widow |
| 18765s | there was a little bit of struggle to |
| 18767s | get up that wall but it was a little bit |
| 18768s | of that um |
| 18770s | he cannot overcome the wall he takes the |
| 18773s | stairs I have to admire that but you |
| 18775s | know he's able to get this High Ground |
| 18776s | here and jakaru wants to fight for it |
| 18778s | and dislodge him but not able to and |
| 18780s | they've lost funny Astro again Astro |
| 18782s | might be getting a little too big for |
| 18784s | his britches here going too aggressive |
| 18785s | and getting punished for it |
| 18787s | yeah it definitely doesn't feel like |
| 18789s | he's getting the support that he needs |
| 18790s | especially what needs the Winston to be |
| 18792s | right there with him in order to absorb |
| 18794s | some of that pressure but now they're |
| 18796s | trying to use this Tracer oh my God just |
| 18799s | immediately stunned by uh shyra's Rock |
| 18802s | and just going to go down even though |
| 18804s | there's a sleep onto the tank here it's |
| 18806s | going to be that bionade that's going to |
| 18808s | really Force shyra back a little bit but |
| 18810s | still Great Britain cannot get |
| 18812s | themselves in good position to defend |
| 18815s | this they are just it seems that they've |
| 18817s | really lost their stride yeah I mean I |
| 18819s | have to be looking at Kai making that |
| 18821s | swap off the Widow over onto the Sombra |
| 18822s | and hasn't been able to build up to the |
| 18824s | EMP yet is going to have it now and two |
| 18826s | early pick-offs that is huge okay Great |
| 18828s | Britain aren't even gonna need to invest |
| 18829s | at EMP they should be able to just win |
| 18831s | this fight outright with the cleanup and |
| 18833s | now they'll have the EMP for the next |
| 18835s | fight and that should be another fight |
| 18837s | win I mean Belgium is about to have five |
| 18839s | ultimates of their own this next fight |
| 18840s | is looking to be a bloody one but it's |
| 18842s | one that I think Great Britain might be |
| 18844s | favored in it's It's gotta be all up to |
| 18846s | Kai here going for an early hack they're |
| 18848s | on to shyra but gets sussed out is he |
| 18851s | gonna be able to find anything here |
| 18853s | yeah now that Widowmaker has been |
| 18855s | completely Switched Off and they're |
| 18857s | choosing that amp Matrix as well as a |
| 18859s | Transcendence in response to only for |
| 18861s | the Primal Rage and the pulse bomb from |
| 18864s | Great Britain Squad but now they're able |
| 18866s | to take down jkro with that little bit |
| 18868s | of extra sustain from those two supports |
| 18870s | and Shabba instead after using |
| 18872s | Transcendence has switched over to the |
| 18874s | brigitta to try and help out the team |
| 18876s | right next to their spawn Ken is allowed |
| 18878s | to just do a lot of free damage off |
| 18881s | after the tank has gone down and they're |
| 18884s | just trying to weave around with the |
| 18885s | Tracer and the Sombra but Kai has |
| 18887s | decided back to the Widowmaker they go |
| 18889s | especially after logic has switched |
| 18891s | don't have to get Widowmaker diff this |
| 18893s | time around as they push into the final |
| 18894s | point there was a moment in time there |
| 18896s | where I could see that Kai wanted to use |
| 18897s | the EMP but the Transcendence came out |
| 18899s | and it was just too costly to do it and |
| 18901s | by the time it would have been |
| 18902s | beneficial everyone else from Great |
| 18903s | Britain is dead so Kai just needed that |
| 18905s | one in there gonna go ahead and make the |
| 18906s | swap here but it might be too little too |
| 18908s | late he can't get favorable positioning |
| 18910s | the gravidic flux comes out my head |
| 18911s | shots are coming out from Ken Belgium |
| 18913s | going to cap this point here Ken is |
| 18915s | going absolutely nutty right now |
| 18918s | Ken just went crazy in that last fight |
| 18922s | and I'm pretty sure he was on fire for |
| 18924s | that entire last checkpoint and it was |
| 18927s | largely due to Ken as well that they |
| 18929s | were able to even just force their way |
| 18931s | through that second checkpoint without |
| 18933s | just even a little bit of a hitch and |
| 18935s | Great Britain you can see why Belgium |
| 18937s | picked this map Great Britain we saw |
| 18939s | them on the attack and we thought hmm |
| 18941s | why are they letting them capture it for |
| 18942s | free but even though Great Britain was |
| 18944s | in their faces and trying to contest |
| 18946s | every little spit of space that they |
| 18948s | could while Belgium was more looking to |
| 18950s | kite back and keep them at an arm's |
| 18952s | length Belgium still end up with a |
| 18954s | larger time sink yeah I and I think it |
| 18957s | kind of goes back to that somber swap |
| 18959s | from Kai I don't think it paid enough |
| 18961s | dividends it took him too long to build |
| 18962s | the EMP the synchronization wasn't quite |
| 18965s | there you know he would try and go for a |
| 18967s | hack and either it wouldn't get it |
| 18968s | wouldn't come through he'd get you know |
| 18970s | the the hack canceled or there just |
| 18972s | wouldn't be a hackable target for jakaru |
| 18974s | to jump on top of or for the follow-up |
| 18976s | from uh W Memon to be able to come |
| 18978s | through through and it just wasn't quite |
| 18981s | there I think this is kind of what Great |
| 18983s | Britain needs to do because now you know |
| 18984s | they're behind the eight ball a little |
| 18986s | bit Belgium set the better time Bank |
| 18987s | Great Britain they have to be Swift I |
| 18989s | think you just want to have Kai on this |
| 18992s | Widow to try and take the duel with |
| 18993s | Logics hopefully win that duel and be |
| 18996s | able to make enough cart progress to |
| 18998s | mount a pretty decent defense here |
| 19000s | because you know yeah like I said the |
| 19002s | time bank is in favor of Belgium right |
| 19004s | now which is not something I thought was |
| 19005s | gonna happen when I saw you know how |
| 19007s | slow their uh or how how rough their |
| 19010s | defense was but that attack was just |
| 19011s | something special |
| 19014s | yeah and Kai on this Widowmaker has to |
| 19017s | contend with two snipers and logic |
| 19019s | already taken down W May moan and you |
| 19021s | can see that the Genji isn't putting |
| 19023s | enough pressure but oh my goodness what |
| 19025s | a shot from Kai to take down Logics and |
| 19028s | now they're missing quite a chunk of |
| 19030s | that long range damage and they're going |
| 19032s | to have to back up a little bit since |
| 19034s | Kai is allowed to ring out for free here |
| 19036s | now looking for the pick on the Chava |
| 19038s | finds it the Zenyatta now out and no |
| 19041s | more of those Discord orbs for that |
| 19042s | extra damage that they have left over |
| 19044s | logic comes backs as Tracer partially |
| 19047s | maybe to try and get to the point that |
| 19049s | much quicker and force them back instead |
| 19052s | of allowing for them to cap for free Kai |
| 19054s | almost finding the shop on the support |
| 19055s | once again the shield does come through |
| 19057s | and saves Belgium's backline for the |
| 19060s | second longer and now choppa's switching |
| 19062s | on to the Lucio there's a lot of Rush |
| 19064s | switches that are coming through from |
| 19066s | Belgium and funny Astro now taking down |
| 19068s | Logics Logics once again sent back to |
| 19072s | spawn Great Britain they're making this |
| 19074s | a lot easier for themselves by |
| 19076s | neutralizing that DPS flare and now |
| 19078s | they're able to capture a first |
| 19079s | checkpoint and this is exactly what |
| 19081s | Great Britain needs to do they need to |
| 19082s | just let Kai pound let him win out that |
| 19084s | Widow duel you know losing WMA moan |
| 19087s | there early doesn't really matter all |
| 19088s | that much because his only job was to |
| 19090s | try and pressure out Logics but without |
| 19092s | Logics alive then you know job well done |
| 19095s | you know gave your life for it it's |
| 19096s | still good they've played us they play |
| 19098s | slow enough to build up to the Nano just |
| 19100s | send jaycaru in to mop up the damage and |
| 19102s | the follow-up is there they've capped |
| 19104s | point a which is already so so much for |
| 19107s | one minute if they're able to cap point |
| 19108s | B that might be an insurmountable task |
| 19110s | for Belgium to try and match here and |
| 19112s | you know Great Britain they want it It's |
| 19115s | gotta be up to Shire with this gravity |
| 19116s | flux to try and negate that try and slow |
| 19118s | something down Fine Pay Dirt with this |
| 19120s | ultimate Kai has the sights up Belgium |
| 19123s | they don't want to Flinch who's gonna |
| 19124s | make the first move here |
| 19126s | and that amp Matrix is also up and after |
| 19129s | they're able to get that through it's |
| 19131s | going to be up to Ken to try and find |
| 19133s | the damage the immortality field comes |
| 19134s | through as the Primal rages popped by JK |
| 19137s | aru trying to pound on the back line |
| 19139s | able to find both of the supports now |
| 19141s | the sustain simply isn't there for Shira |
| 19144s | being completely shredded by W maimon |
| 19147s | and there's the Genji once again the |
| 19149s | final pick on the Logics and the |
| 19150s | overtime continues into the second point |
| 19153s | at w maimon trades his life early on in |
| 19156s | the fight and takes at least three of |
| 19158s | them there in exchange towards the end |
| 19159s | of that fight and now has a dragon blade |
| 19162s | it will be a naked blade unless backbone |
| 19164s | is able to build that uh Nano boost |
| 19166s | quite swiftly but there's also that |
| 19168s | window where choppa's gonna have the |
| 19169s | Transcendence here regardless of how |
| 19171s | that interaction plays out this is |
| 19173s | already so much cart progress for Great |
| 19175s | Britain and Belgium are going to have to |
| 19177s | match all of this and then some on their |
| 19180s | attack they have to try and stop this |
| 19182s | train before it goes off the tracks here |
| 19184s | deep |
| 19187s | yeah Kai taking control of The High |
| 19189s | Ground needs to be a little bit careful |
| 19191s | about being flanked by this Tracer but |
| 19194s | the dragon strike does quite a bit of |
| 19196s | zoning they just take out that sound |
| 19198s | barrier as well as the dragon plane |
| 19200s | they're trying to get so much value here |
| 19202s | oh uh where are you going W May moan |
| 19205s | able to get back up onto the platform |
| 19207s | but they weren't able to tank so much |
| 19209s | damage from the dragon strike because of |
| 19211s | that sound barrier from funny Astro but |
| 19213s | now funny Astro going down to Chava's |
| 19215s | Discord orbs and Logics as well finding |
| 19218s | backbone this might be the end of the |
| 19220s | overtime Kai too far away to touch but |
| 19223s | this is 60 meters and a lot further than |
| 19226s | they would have initially hoped with |
| 19228s | only one minute yeah that's that is that |
| 19230s | is so so much I don't even want to think |
| 19232s | about what Belgium has to do in order to |
| 19234s | try and match that you know they have |
| 19235s | the favorable time bank but throw that |
| 19238s | out the window because as much as Great |
| 19239s | Britain did with a minute that's like an |
| 19242s | astronomical task to try and do with a |
| 19243s | minute 46 that extra 46 seconds pretty |
| 19246s | much means no nothing at this point it's |
| 19248s | gonna be an OT push no matter what and |
| 19251s | if Kai keeps winning out the Widow |
| 19253s | Jewels with Logics not allowing Logics |
| 19256s | to control the sight lines use the |
| 19257s | defender's advantage and control the |
| 19259s | angles then you know it's it's going to |
| 19261s | be pretty much over we're gonna see the |
| 19262s | Widow mirror coming out from both of |
| 19264s | these teams again and it's going to be |
| 19265s | Kai that has the advantage of |
| 19267s | positioning it's going to be up to |
| 19268s | Belgium to try and shut Kai down somehow |
| 19270s | but they just haven't really done that |
| 19273s | and meanwhile you can see how effective |
| 19275s | Great Britain has been in shutting down |
| 19277s | Logics if it's not Kai hitting a |
| 19279s | headshot it's jakaru with a nano boost |
| 19281s | or WMA moan with the with the Swift |
| 19283s | strikes just dashing through mopping up |
| 19285s | the back line putting the pressure on |
| 19287s | and once again we're gonna see Great |
| 19289s | Britain going for this really really |
| 19291s | close hold and this is designed |
| 19293s | specifically to bleed time off the time |
| 19296s | bank and get us into that OT situation |
| 19298s | as early as possible no compositional |
| 19301s | swaps up here from Belgium we have to be |
| 19303s | looking at Logics and indeed Ken to try |
| 19306s | and make magic once again can lightning |
| 19308s | strike twice Ken it's up to you bud |
| 19312s | it's time oh logic's not even going for |
| 19314s | the Widowmaker early looking really to |
| 19317s | harass Widow on that high ground that |
| 19320s | Kai is holding and once again they |
| 19322s | aren't looking to get control of this |
| 19323s | room very early and they do so great for |
| 19326s | not gonna make the same mistake quite |
| 19327s | twice and have their tank fall early to |
| 19330s | that engagement instead going to back up |
| 19333s | onto the second bridge and hold from |
| 19335s | there holding closer to Kai as well so |
| 19337s | it's easier to protect in case that uh |
| 19339s | Tracer goes for the dive yeah but |
| 19341s | there's no flank routes here on first |
| 19343s | point of circuit Royale right so logic |
| 19345s | is gonna have a hard time trying to get |
| 19347s | to Kai and is at some point going to |
| 19349s | have to face check him if Kai hits the |
| 19351s | shot it's just done and dusted here |
| 19353s | Lotus is trying to look for a way in but |
| 19354s | you can see Kai wants to take The High |
| 19356s | Ground not gonna even give Logics the |
| 19359s | chance here take this favorable ground |
| 19361s | that everybody has to try and respect |
| 19363s | and you can see how far back oh Belgium |
| 19365s | is forced to play right now and Logics |
| 19367s | is down |
| 19369s | okay backbone being the one to take down |
| 19371s | Logics trying to harass the supports out |
| 19374s | of the fight and it didn't work and |
| 19376s | there's just no follow-up which allows |
| 19377s | JK are going for a huge dive onto |
| 19380s | Belgium oh my goodness 30 seconds left |
| 19383s | over first fight already lost this is |
| 19385s | mean this is mean what oh what are they |
| 19389s | doing to him the Stagger on Zapata Nova |
| 19392s | and yeah with the ant Matrix that's |
| 19394s | gonna be your only ultimate that you |
| 19395s | have the last person to spawn is anyone |
| 19398s | gonna be able to touch logic is gonna |
| 19399s | have to try and get the touch but again |
| 19401s | there's no real flank rails he's gonna |
| 19403s | have to face check everybody and go |
| 19405s | right into the point here Ken's not |
| 19407s | gonna be there for backup it doesn't |
| 19409s | even look like there's gonna be a touch |
| 19410s | logic's gonna use both his blinks to try |
| 19412s | and get on the point here but the Dragon |
| 19413s | Blade comes out what does Belgium even |
| 19415s | do about this |
| 19417s | yeah the Dragon Blade is just so |
| 19419s | oppressive to Belgium Squad their back |
| 19422s | line is almost gone the amp Matrix even |
| 19424s | though it comes through what is Panda |
| 19426s | Nova going to do to touch that stagger |
| 19429s | was pretty much the nail in the coffin |
| 19431s | now Great Britain taking this another |
| 19434s | map 2-0 for us CV both of the series we |
| 19437s | casted have been pretty dominant for one |
| 19441s | team over the other but there was still |
| 19442s | that glimmer of hope the glimmer of life |
| 19444s | for Belgium that we saw in the previous |
| 19446s | match for Iceland there it's definitely |
| 19449s | there you can see the competition yeah |
| 19451s | man zp and hex got to cast all the good |
| 19453s | ones here I'm hoping we're not just on |
| 19455s | two OverWatch all day all night all day |
| 19457s | but it was still a really good series |
| 19459s | here like you said there was signs of |
| 19460s | life that came out from Belgium there |
| 19462s | was definitely some heroic plays that |
| 19464s | came out from the likes of Ken and from |
| 19466s | the likes of Logics it's still a squad |
| 19468s | that you do have to kind of watch out |
| 19469s | for because the heroics can be there and |
| 19471s | can make big plays but it's not enough |
| 19474s | to overcome the circle of life that |
| 19476s | these Seven Lions from Great Britain and |
| 19477s | just introduce them to it's just quickly |
| 19479s | life Kai hits you with a head shot death |
| 19482s | that's the circle right there that's how |
| 19483s | it goes top to bottom and you know |
| 19486s | there's even when Kai is not hitting all |
| 19488s | the headshots the Synergy is here jakaru |
| 19491s | and backbone with these Nano uh Nano |
| 19493s | sorry these Nano winstons the Primal |
| 19496s | rages funny Astro just you're playing |
| 19498s | playing however he really wants to just |
| 19500s | kind of like going in trying to take |
| 19502s | duels With the Enemy tank sure why not |
| 19504s | he's able to get away with it if Belgium |
| 19506s | can't stop him then you know he's gonna |
| 19508s | keep going for those kinds of plays and |
| 19509s | Debbie maimon on this Genji also a |
| 19512s | threat here there's a lot to be afraid |
| 19514s | of here on this Great Britain Squad like |
| 19516s | I said a shoe-in for one of the three |
| 19518s | group a slots and who else in this group |
| 19521s | can reasonably take it from them |
| 19524s | yeah I mean Great Britain they are just |
| 19527s | they just have such strong individual |
| 19529s | players and that experience allows them |
| 19531s | to gel together really well I mean from |
| 19534s | this group we've still got a few |
| 19536s | contenders I mean you you and I we were |
| 19538s | talking a little bit about Denmark the |
| 19540s | other day as well but they don't even |
| 19542s | play today so you know Great Britain |
| 19544s | they can safely say that they are |
| 19546s | looking in a good a good spot for at |
| 19549s | least day one of the emec online |
| 19551s | qualifiers yeah I I think it's going to |
| 19554s | be for more than just day one I think |
| 19556s | this is a squad that might go eight days |
| 19558s | uh being a dangerous threat to everybody |
| 19560s | else in this group throughout the |
| 19562s | entirety of it there's still a couple of |
| 19564s | squads here that might have some things |
| 19566s | to say about it some squads that are |
| 19568s | bringing some uh some heavy coaching |
| 19570s | staff some heavy uh strategy and some |
| 19572s | big names to the table here we're gonna |
| 19574s | have to see a few more of them down the |
| 19576s | line here but I mean as for now like |
| 19579s | someone has to stop Kai like someone has |
| 19581s | to shut this guy down and if you can't |
| 19583s | do it then like what shot does your team |
| 19586s | have what's your game plan you gotta |
| 19587s | come at me with something because Kai is |
| 19590s | a problem here |
| 19592s | yeah and it also feels like you know |
| 19595s | greatness elevates greatness when Kai is |
| 19597s | popping off wmail starts popping off you |
| 19600s | know they're focused on the Widow |
| 19601s | they're like we have to get that |
| 19602s | Widowmaker and then the Genji is all of |
| 19604s | a sudden in your back line with a blade |
| 19606s | and you're like what are we going to do |
| 19608s | about that and you're not really sure |
| 19610s | and it's just like it's so good that the |
| 19612s | way that the Synergy has been going with |
| 19615s | this Great Britain Squad and I'm excited |
| 19617s | to see what they do next I'm also |
| 19619s | excited to see who can step up to the |
| 19621s | plate and try and Dethrone the uh the |
| 19623s | The Lion King over here the Seven Lions |
| 19626s | I don't know how many more times I can |
| 19627s | reference that movie without getting a |
| 19629s | cease and desist from Disney so no more |
| 19631s | of that we can go ahead and move on to |
| 19633s | the next game here it's going to be |
| 19634s | Italy versus France we're gonna have |
| 19636s | that for you ready to go when we come |
| 19638s | back from another quick break here don't |
| 19639s | go anywhere we got two more games coming |
| 19641s | at you and they're both gonna be good |
| 19643s | ones stay tuned |
| 19651s | thank you |
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| 19862s | thank you welcome back everyone to the |
| 19865s | OverWatch World Cup 2023 emec online |
| 19868s | qualifiers I'm your host Jim Basco and |
| 19870s | of course epidemies and CB have been |
| 19872s | bringing you the action all day long we |
| 19874s | are three matches deep and of course we |
| 19876s | just got done with Belgium versus Great |
| 19879s | Britain epitomies break it down for |
| 19881s | anyone who may have missed it real quick |
| 19882s | what just happened what did we just |
| 19884s | encountered |
| 19885s | I mean obviously on the side of Belgium |
| 19888s | we had a little bit of that sniper |
| 19891s | battle on the very last map of circuit |
| 19893s | Royale for those who have missed it it |
| 19894s | was legendary Ken popped off logic was |
| 19897s | popped off Kai popped off Kai especially |
| 19900s | popped off at the very end and allowed |
| 19902s | them to cap to two and a half points in |
| 19905s | overtime with only one minute and that |
| 19908s | was just insane from Great Britain Squad |
| 19911s | and you know I I just really didn't |
| 19913s | expect that out of the second nap in |
| 19916s | circuit Royale yeah absolutely CB you |
| 19918s | had mentioned this before right Great |
| 19920s | Britain coming into this one with a lot |
| 19921s | of veteran players on their squad did |
| 19924s | this match go the way that you expected |
| 19926s | it to |
| 19927s | uh almost exactly honestly I mean I I |
| 19930s | after the first map I thought it might |
| 19932s | not be quite so close on circuit Royale |
| 19934s | the signs of life that we saw coming out |
| 19936s | from Logics and Ken like I said the |
| 19938s | heroic plays definitely you know made me |
| 19939s | believe for a split second that we might |
| 19941s | have seen a map three but it was not to |
| 19944s | be because you asked what happened Kai |
| 19946s | happened and just as much as Kai |
| 19948s | happened Logics did not happen because |
| 19950s | Kai and the Gang did not let him happen |
| 19952s | because they know what happens if you |
| 19954s | let Logics cook so got him out of the |
| 19956s | kitchen Kai was the only one left |
| 19958s | wearing a chef's hat and they just took |
| 19960s | it all the way home and also oh you know |
| 19963s | nearly took it to six points for them on |
| 19966s | circuit Royale which is just bananas |
| 19968s | with only a minute in the time bank and |
| 19970s | OT like mwah chef's kiss that's so good |
| 19974s | yeah lots of cooking references lots of |
| 19976s | heat references in here and you know |
| 19977s | with logic previously being on the |
| 19979s | Mayhem way back when it feels good you |
| 19981s | know what I mean like sort of living up |
| 19983s | to those Glory Days but Great Britain |
| 19985s | like you mentioned that Widowmaker |
| 19986s | battle is something to watch The Meta |
| 19988s | still being explored as we talk right |
| 19990s | match throughout the day have led us to |
| 19992s | so many different places but we're |
| 19994s | talking about throughout the day let's |
| 19996s | take a look at the schedule right now |
| 19997s | and see what matches we have up for you |
| 19998s | around the corner I believe Match six |
| 20000s | and match seven are final two showings |
| 20002s | of the day are just around the corner |
| 20004s | Match six will be Italy versus France |
| 20007s | which is coming up next and to close out |
| 20009s | day number one will be the Netherlands |
| 20012s | versus Spain of course like I've |
| 20014s | mentioned before World Cup action will |
| 20016s | be going on for four days straight |
| 20018s | ending on Sunday of this week and then |
| 20020s | restarting again next week and we'll be |
| 20022s | doing the same stretch here Thursday |
| 20023s | through Sunday so with two weeks of |
| 20026s | action around Robin and Stakes at an |
| 20028s | all-time high here Italy versus France |
| 20031s | is just around the corner of course |
| 20033s | three teams from group a will be moving |
| 20036s | on two teams from Group B with Italy and |
| 20038s | France just around the corner like I |
| 20040s | mentioned CB what are your thoughts |
| 20041s | heading on into this next one well I |
| 20044s | definitely want to see what France comes |
| 20046s | to play with because you know they have |
| 20048s | a lot of big names on their team but I |
| 20050s | think the names that are going to make |
| 20051s | the most difference are the ones that |
| 20053s | you don't see they're rolling up here |
| 20054s | with a fad coaching staff right now with |
| 20057s | get amazed at the head of it and this |
| 20060s | tells me one of two things either a they |
| 20062s | really really want this playoff spot |
| 20064s | they want to go the distance and they |
| 20066s | want to be a threat when it comes to |
| 20067s | playoffs and they have to do it here or |
| 20070s | maybe it might be a case of too many |
| 20072s | cooks in the kitchen and if I had a |
| 20074s | little bit more prep time I would have |
| 20075s | written a Ratatouille reference about |
| 20076s | that because it's France but that you |
| 20079s | know we have to kind of see which one |
| 20081s | it's going to be right I feel like it's |
| 20083s | gonna be it's gonna be the first one but |
| 20085s | you never know there might be a case |
| 20086s | where you know some wires get crossed |
| 20088s | and things don't quite click and they |
| 20090s | kind of just have to fall back on the |
| 20091s | value of the names they bring into the |
| 20093s | table the ones we will see going full |
| 20095s | force to try and bring that W home for |
| 20097s | France well and with that epitome's CB |
| 20100s | thank you so much for bringing us the |
| 20102s | action throughout the day we got Match |
| 20104s | six just around the corner I'm gonna |
| 20105s | drop it off to you guys and I'll see you |
| 20107s | I'll see you both shortly thank you |
| 20110s | shortly Longley who knows maybe this |
| 20113s | will be another 2-0 like I |
| 20115s | other match that we've casted so far |
| 20117s | which has only been two so I am |
| 20119s | exaggerating and being a little bit |
| 20121s | dramatic for the funnies but or it could |
| 20123s | be a 2-1 you never know but do you think |
| 20126s | that this is going to be a close matchup |
| 20127s | I think it has the potential to be and |
| 20129s | again it's gonna kind of be you know |
| 20131s | France is the team that I'm looking at |
| 20133s | the most here but you know it takes two |
| 20135s | to tango what is Italy going to be |
| 20136s | coming forward with you know are they |
| 20138s | going to have uh some star power are |
| 20140s | they going to have a big plan here we |
| 20142s | can see the uh the lineup here one name |
| 20145s | that I know a good friend of mine Mikan |
| 20147s | over there on the support that's someone |
| 20148s | I'm looking to see uh you know with some |
| 20150s | big things there don't be fooled by the |
| 20152s | Anna this guy's Lucio is really really |
| 20154s | strong and definitely something that |
| 20155s | could make a showing here but is it |
| 20158s | going to be enough to overcome the raw |
| 20160s | power that France is trying to bring to |
| 20162s | the table here we'll have to find out |
| 20165s | and we'll have to see if any of these |
| 20166s | other names are going to jump out to you |
| 20167s | in the future if today is where they |
| 20170s | finally find their way into your mouth |
| 20173s | yeah I mean one of the only names that I |
| 20176s | really recognize here is freyu who has |
| 20179s | played in OverWatch World Cup in 2019 |
| 20182s | and okay so Miken on the loose show like |
| 20185s | you said there we go ahead change that |
| 20187s | one over it's like how's that going to |
| 20189s | work with both of them on the honor I |
| 20191s | wonder |
| 20193s | interesting strategy yes I didn't know |
| 20196s | that we were playing on uh you know an |
| 20198s | arcade patch |
| 20200s | but you know over on the other side like |
| 20203s | you mentioned a lot of raw power from |
| 20206s | this uh French roster you have FD God |
| 20209s | who is a huge name just left Washington |
| 20212s | Justice and off the back of that I feel |
| 20214s | like it's going to be bringing a lot of |
| 20216s | fire to this next game yeah there's |
| 20219s | definitely a lot of Fire coming from |
| 20221s | this kitchen right now we know Ben best |
| 20222s | and FD God like you said FD got formally |
| 20225s | of the Washington Justice I think you |
| 20228s | know a lot of eyes are going to be on |
| 20229s | him as a result of that departure we |
| 20232s | don't know the circumstances of it or |
| 20233s | you know giving everyone the benefit of |
| 20234s | the doubt but this is an opportunity for |
| 20236s | FD got to show everybody that he still |
| 20239s | got it and he's worthy for another owl |
| 20241s | team to maybe give him a look maybe try |
| 20242s | and pick him up here remember the World |
| 20244s | Cup is where he made his name where he |
| 20247s | became a household name and it's time |
| 20249s | for him to do it again and speaking of |
| 20251s | household names we have a bit of a |
| 20252s | throwback in Nico coming out to try and |
| 20255s | uh join this France Squad here so |
| 20257s | there's some big names here there's a |
| 20259s | lot going on a lot of moving parts and I |
| 20261s | want to see what again the absolutely |
| 20264s | beefy coaching staff that Francis |
| 20266s | bringing to the table what they've got |
| 20268s | cooking for us here |
| 20270s | yeah it's going to be interesting on |
| 20273s | lijiang Tower once again who's surprised |
| 20276s | not me but it I think we might be seeing |
| 20280s | some more of those brawl compositions |
| 20282s | with the may but it's possible we saw |
| 20284s | some Hanzo preferences up there on the |
| 20286s | roster screen that we might be getting a |
| 20288s | little bit of that Hanzo thrown in the |
| 20290s | mix as well and Hanzo has definitely |
| 20293s | been lethal again we go to the previous |
| 20294s | matchup and we saw the magic that Ken |
| 20296s | was able to do you know help claw |
| 20298s | Belgium from the brink of Despair only |
| 20300s | for them to be thrusted right back in it |
| 20302s | but that's the power that Hanzo has or |
| 20304s | has those headshots with those arrows |
| 20306s | can give you a Lifeline where you might |
| 20308s | not have previously had one tip the |
| 20309s | scales in your favor where they might |
| 20311s | not have been snatch Victory from the |
| 20313s | jaws of defeat and however many other |
| 20315s | metaphors and similes I can throw at |
| 20317s | this uh to get the point across here you |
| 20319s | know if either team busts out the Hanzo |
| 20321s | and is able to find some success with it |
| 20323s | you know absolutely I would love to see |
| 20325s | it I like that you also brought the may |
| 20327s | as well because that's one of the heroes |
| 20328s | that I think Nico in the past was known |
| 20330s | four so there's a decent chance that |
| 20333s | that's something that France tries to |
| 20335s | pull out here especially if we go to |
| 20337s | Night Market as our first point here on |
| 20338s | lijiang Tower and you know I think as |
| 20341s | well for uh for control center I think |
| 20343s | that's a very viable thing to come out |
| 20345s | with on both of those points here but |
| 20347s | we're gonna kick it off on Gardens here |
| 20349s | and despite that France still definitely |
| 20353s | wants to run the rush here I can I don't |
| 20355s | think there's gonna be a whole lot of |
| 20356s | swaps there |
| 20357s | yeah I feel like the symmetra might just |
| 20360s | be for that first initial but it also |
| 20363s | might not because we've seen a lot of or |
| 20365s | a lot more than I expected symmetra play |
| 20367s | and it seems like they're sticking with |
| 20369s | it they're really focused on the area |
| 20370s | control that you can gain with the |
| 20372s | symmetra May well on the other side they |
| 20374s | actually have a sojourn going into this |
| 20376s | one but Mikan immediately going down and |
| 20379s | true as well the kiriko just doesn't |
| 20381s | have the bursts and sustain to heal up |
| 20384s | that wrecking ball without the Lucio by |
| 20387s | their side but it's also interesting to |
| 20389s | see the wrecking ball being picked at |
| 20390s | all hopefully to get an early Point |
| 20393s | capture but unfortunately going down |
| 20395s | early now switching over to the orisa |
| 20397s | another interesting pick but one we've |
| 20399s | already seen played today and the |
| 20401s | strategy here from France is not too |
| 20402s | dissimilar from one that we would see on |
| 20404s | like Nepal village where they just set |
| 20405s | up shop on the point with the SIM |
| 20407s | turrets and they use the maywalls to |
| 20408s | section people off and make it difficult |
| 20410s | for Italy to try and poke in and get |
| 20412s | anything done and you can tell that's |
| 20413s | why they wanted to swap off the wrecking |
| 20415s | ball because they knew they weren't |
| 20416s | going to get anything done and sticking |
| 20418s | with that they have to try and mirror |
| 20420s | the rush in some kind of way and it |
| 20422s | looks like the horse is what they're |
| 20423s | gonna try and come out here with to do |
| 20424s | just that but it might be too late |
| 20426s | because France is already marching right |
| 20429s | at their front door |
| 20431s | already they have these ultimates that |
| 20434s | are coming out and France they are doing |
| 20436s | so much even though Ben best does fall |
| 20438s | they're able to weave in and out of the |
| 20441s | wall and with the amp Matrix drop down |
| 20443s | by freyu it doesn't even do much here |
| 20445s | they're not able to secure anything |
| 20447s | except for that tank who is almost to |
| 20449s | the shatter as well while on the other |
| 20452s | hand they are really lacking in terms of |
| 20454s | that ultimate build up and Italy only |
| 20457s | really have two abilities that can maybe |
| 20459s | block the shatter that's the ice wall |
| 20460s | from Chimera or the four to five from |
| 20462s | Andrew if those abilities get faded out |
| 20464s | Ben best is going to have the freest |
| 20466s | chatter of his life and that's gonna be |
| 20468s | another fight win for France and will be |
| 20470s | enough to take them into one fight |
| 20471s | territory so Italy have to try and make |
| 20474s | a move here and try and build for that |
| 20475s | blizzard of their own to try and match |
| 20477s | the one that France might even just open |
| 20479s | up here with |
| 20481s | oh and there's the blizzard that could |
| 20483s | be a really free shatter but yukino does |
| 20486s | take down pack but still the Sim turrets |
| 20488s | are on the point both sound barriers |
| 20491s | coming through to try and counteract the |
| 20493s | damage from the blizzard over on |
| 20494s | France's side and there's the shatter |
| 20496s | takes down the erisa takes down the May |
| 20498s | Orissa still live and fighting the |
| 20501s | javelin spin might do something but no |
| 20503s | it's just going to be a jump into the |
| 20506s | side of the map and regroup with the |
| 20507s | rest of the squad France just |
| 20509s | essentially mashed their keyboards |
| 20511s | making sure everyone hit the Q Keys all |
| 20513s | the olds coming out here Italy are going |
| 20514s | to have only the uh only the erisa Ulta |
| 20517s | try and uh get this contested but France |
| 20520s | isn't even letting them touch the point |
| 20521s | just playing gatekeeper not even letting |
| 20523s | them yet not letting them get through |
| 20525s | the window not letting them try and take |
| 20526s | any routes there even getting some early |
| 20528s | pickoffs there to try and just negate |
| 20530s | any sort of Ingress just completely |
| 20532s | locking the point down owning it |
| 20534s | entirely their own and that was the map |
| 20537s | where you know this may Rush was the |
| 20540s | least favorable and you gotta believe |
| 20542s | that going into night market and if you |
| 20544s | know Italy is able to pull out night |
| 20545s | markets somehow if we go into control |
| 20547s | center France might just have this in |
| 20550s | the bag unless Italy has an ace up their |
| 20553s | sleeve or you know unless they just kind |
| 20555s | of wake up maybe first round they were |
| 20556s | also a little bit asleep there there |
| 20558s | were some good plays coming out towards |
| 20560s | the end but not quite enough if they're |
| 20562s | able to find their Mojo I mean they kind |
| 20564s | of have to if they want to take this map |
| 20567s | yeah now Miken has switched back onto |
| 20569s | the Lucio right they're trying to get |
| 20571s | themselves early on to touch that night |
| 20573s | market first control Point yeah in |
| 20575s | through the window with the symmetra but |
| 20578s | on the other side they have symmetra of |
| 20579s | their own and they're just all |
| 20580s | contesting right on the point yukino has |
| 20583s | been given free reign to build up the |
| 20585s | charge on symmetra's by primary fire |
| 20588s | though and it's a lot of damage being |
| 20589s | laid down especially with the Reinhardt |
| 20592s | shield in play however Italy still |
| 20594s | forced back and unfortunately the |
| 20596s | turrets from yukino are unable to remain |
| 20598s | on the point so France once again giving |
| 20601s | free reign to set up shop here yeah and |
| 20603s | it's gonna be Italy on the outside |
| 20605s | looking in this comp is great for |
| 20607s | defending but not always great for |
| 20609s | trying to be on the offensive here not |
| 20611s | great for flipping the point in your |
| 20612s | favor especially when the turrets are |
| 20614s | all set up it's gonna have to be a TP |
| 20615s | there but they lose two just trying to |
| 20617s | take it |
| 20619s | oh they do trade for reviews but with FD |
| 20623s | God's still alive that's just enough |
| 20625s | sustain especially for a squad that is |
| 20627s | so tanky with the symmetra and may pick |
| 20630s | in tandem there's just a lot of uh there |
| 20634s | is just unaware of attrition they |
| 20636s | definitely do win even if it is only |
| 20638s | that Lucio Nikon is doing a great job |
| 20640s | finding some of those picks I'm glad |
| 20642s | that you bring up the Lucio but it's not |
| 20643s | going to be enough because you can't |
| 20645s | rely on your Lucio to be the one to get |
| 20647s | you all the kills all the time sooner or |
| 20649s | later the DPS in the tank have to do |
| 20651s | their part here meanwhile France |
| 20652s | everyone's doing their part they're |
| 20654s | about to have all of their ultimates |
| 20655s | here especially if this fight goes a |
| 20657s | little bit long which you know it looks |
| 20659s | like it might with uh the amount of |
| 20661s | sustainability here an early blizzard |
| 20662s | gonna come out from in Nico here though |
| 20664s | and yeah Italy they're in trouble |
| 20666s | yeah Chimera is able to hide behind that |
| 20669s | wall for the blizzard and yukino |
| 20671s | actually finds a pick off the back of it |
| 20673s | but it's the symmetra both of the |
| 20675s | cementra is going to go ahead pop the |
| 20676s | ultimate weave in and out to try and |
| 20678s | find a fight but France all of the |
| 20680s | players now up there's a shatter in the |
| 20682s | back pocket for Ben Fest but being |
| 20684s | shredded down right now now we can |
| 20687s | finding the Pick and Pack as well |
| 20689s | setting up shot with the turrets so much |
| 20691s | damage being laid down up front by Italy |
| 20694s | and now I'm just going to go ahead |
| 20696s | destroy Francis teleporter and make sure |
| 20698s | they have to take that long walk back |
| 20700s | from Spawn and that's a really good |
| 20702s | fight for Italy because France and best |
| 20703s | three ultimates and come up with zilch |
| 20705s | NADA they're gonna have that shatter in |
| 20707s | that beat which are two huge ultimates |
| 20708s | but you will definitely take that over |
| 20710s | having to deal with the blizzard and the |
| 20712s | Ant Matrix and the Sim wall on top of |
| 20714s | that they're gonna have a blizzard and |
| 20716s | an M Matrix of their own plus Nikon's |
| 20718s | beat here early and major gonna try and |
| 20720s | pressure Ben best back and that forces |
| 20722s | to beat out in France |
| 20724s | oh my gosh just the javelin spin to take |
| 20726s | Ben Bess right off the edge of the map |
| 20729s | and now Fran's missing their tank means |
| 20731s | they're going to have to just Retreat a |
| 20733s | little bit further Nico is already in |
| 20735s | the thick of it though with this may |
| 20737s | just can't do much and I have to go back |
| 20739s | it's a little bit of a staggered spawn |
| 20741s | as well for France's players and it's |
| 20744s | giving Italy a lot of this free charge |
| 20745s | making them a lot more secure on this |
| 20748s | point and once again the symmetra Nay |
| 20750s | once they have hold it their defense is |
| 20752s | just so strong yeah and now it is France |
| 20755s | that are gonna have to try and find a |
| 20756s | way in we might be looking at a blizzard |
| 20757s | for a blizzard here between Chimera and |
| 20759s | Nico and whoever gets the better of the |
| 20760s | two without a sound barrier on either |
| 20762s | side to sustain might be what dictates |
| 20764s | this next fight we'll have to see who |
| 20766s | ends up pulling the trigger first it |
| 20768s | looks like Nico wants to but they've |
| 20770s | only really isolated Andrew there so |
| 20771s | chimera's actually going to come in and |
| 20772s | use his |
| 20774s | oh yeah the blizzard on both sides both |
| 20777s | of the tanks have been frozen but it's |
| 20779s | France that has the backup here and |
| 20781s | they're able to destroy the rest of the |
| 20783s | Sim turrets as well yukino charging up |
| 20785s | the primary fire on the Reinhardt Shield |
| 20787s | but FD got allowed to just uh shoot for |
| 20790s | free in the back line and yukino gets |
| 20793s | taken down the rest of Italy regrouping |
| 20796s | but Ben best wants to take that early |
| 20798s | engagement and that's you know that's a |
| 20801s | great fight for Italy again you know |
| 20802s | France it's very costly they have to |
| 20804s | invest nearly everything they're gonna |
| 20805s | have the am Matrix but Italy could just |
| 20807s | section that off with a Sim wall here |
| 20809s | and they managed to take the lead so |
| 20810s | we're at roughly 80 to 90 for both teams |
| 20812s | Tara surge gonna come out and here comes |
| 20814s | the Sim wall that amp Matrix is kinda |
| 20817s | useless now you can't go to fall though |
| 20820s | yeah that amp Matrix was a little bit |
| 20822s | unfortunate but France Italy pops there |
| 20825s | is a little bit later trying to get that |
| 20827s | big damage on to Ben Bess who just hides |
| 20830s | behind the May wall after the fact and |
| 20832s | now the sound barrier dropping the beat |
| 20834s | is after God so France has so much |
| 20837s | sustained leftover Miken has a sound |
| 20838s | barrier of their own but still shredded |
| 20840s | so low by the amount of damage that |
| 20843s | France can put out in a matter of |
| 20844s | seconds now this we see the pharah has |
| 20847s | been switched out but yukino can't find |
| 20849s | any value reviews is actually the one to |
| 20852s | find and secure the pick but that back |
| 20854s | line dishes out so much damage and Italy |
| 20856s | just could not contest it Italy |
| 20858s | definitely had some big plays there |
| 20860s | while they were able to hold the point |
| 20861s | there but it feels like their attacks |
| 20863s | aren't always all that good their |
| 20865s | defense pretty solid they're able to |
| 20867s | mount up a pretty sizable Bank there but |
| 20869s | not enough to secure the lead there they |
| 20872s | take just a little bit too long in that |
| 20874s | last fight they're not able to get a lot |
| 20875s | of value out of Nikon's beat and |
| 20877s | simultaneously FD God is able to do |
| 20879s | enough work to build up to his at the |
| 20881s | back end there use that to great effect |
| 20883s | keep everybody sustained and again when |
| 20886s | you have that composition and you're set |
| 20888s | up on the point it's really really |
| 20889s | difficult to dislodge the enemy team |
| 20891s | especially when they have all that over |
| 20893s | Health to just keep them up keep them |
| 20895s | sustained a big beefy Reinhardt health |
| 20897s | bar that just doesn't ever seem to go |
| 20900s | down is is what they had at their you |
| 20903s | know is what they had to deal with and |
| 20904s | they just weren't able to do it there I |
| 20906s | do want a shout out making on there so |
| 20907s | for some great Lucio plays overall but |
| 20909s | team Italy it feels like they they're |
| 20912s | missing at least a couple pieces so far |
| 20914s | hopefully they're able to put it |
| 20916s | together in the next match up here or |
| 20917s | sorry in the next map uh as it is going |
| 20919s | to be their map pick again either uh |
| 20922s | hybrid or escort I mean what kind of |
| 20924s | like what do you think they pick here I |
| 20926s | mean that erisa was definitely not what |
| 20928s | you were expecting you know I feel like |
| 20930s | you we've seen a lot of Winston we've |
| 20933s | seen some of that stigma especially on |
| 20935s | those push Maps |
| 20937s | um and I think that it feels like we are |
| 20939s | seeing like the Eva Winston they prefer |
| 20942s | the dive tanks and the orisa is kind of |
| 20944s | more like upfront in your face for more |
| 20946s | of those brawl compositions as well but |
| 20948s | even when you do have brawl you could |
| 20950s | also be going for the younger Queen who |
| 20952s | overall still is very strong despite a |
| 20955s | few Nerfs in the most recent patch so it |
| 20958s | is interesting to see a team's Pick 3 |
| 20960s | and try to play around that you did see |
| 20963s | some moments of Brilliance from Andrew |
| 20965s | as well being able to you know knock Ben |
| 20967s | best off the edge of the map the javelin |
| 20969s | spin does have quite a variety of uses |
| 20972s | and is pretty versatile but is it the |
| 20975s | best in slot for anything |
| 20976s | I'm I'm curious to see where they want |
| 20979s | to butter their bread here because you |
| 20980s | know I also saw that wrecking ball |
| 20982s | composition come out very early on and |
| 20984s | I'm wondering if that was just a thing |
| 20985s | for Gardens or if that's actually |
| 20987s | something that is a comfort pick for |
| 20989s | them and they just had to try and like |
| 20991s | abandon it on the Fly because they |
| 20993s | realized they couldn't try to play it |
| 20994s | into the composition that France came |
| 20996s | out with again we'll have to see with |
| 20999s | the benefit of having the non-winners |
| 21001s | map pick you know Italy do have the |
| 21003s | opportunity to set the stage try and |
| 21005s | play something that might be a little |
| 21006s | bit more favorable to the compositions |
| 21008s | that they want to play so we'll have to |
| 21009s | see what it is they actually want to do |
| 21012s | here when it comes to their map pick but |
| 21014s | they also have to try and follow through |
| 21016s | with it and while there was a couple |
| 21017s | times that they were able to it still |
| 21020s | feels just like an inch short of being |
| 21022s | good enough to uh to compete with France |
| 21024s | here |
| 21026s | yeah so we will see what Italy is going |
| 21029s | to bring to us in this next matchup we |
| 21031s | are going to throw to a very quick break |
| 21033s | before map 2 but we will see you then |
| 21036s | don't go anywhere |
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| 21253s | foreign |
| 21258s | as you may have gathered from the heroic |
| 21261s | fly-in of the OverWatch Heroes we are |
| 21263s | currently in the OverWatch World Cup |
| 21266s | emec online qualifiers I'm epitomies |
| 21269s | joined by CB once again for map 2 of |
| 21273s | Italy versus France |
| 21275s | yeah and you know we hyped up uh Great |
| 21277s | Britain in the previous matchup here but |
| 21279s | maybe here in group way we might be on |
| 21280s | the brink of a French Revolution not if |
| 21283s | Italy has anything to say about it |
| 21284s | though it is going to be Italy's map |
| 21286s | pick here either escort or hybrid it's |
| 21289s | entirely up to them we'll have to see |
| 21291s | what they do indeed have to say about it |
| 21293s | if they can stake their own claim here |
| 21295s | and they want to go to watch Point |
| 21297s | Gibraltar which I think is very |
| 21299s | interesting to me this tells me that my |
| 21303s | instincts were right on Gardens that |
| 21304s | they did want to try and play something |
| 21306s | resembling a dive because if you want to |
| 21308s | play a dive composition on an escort map |
| 21311s | watchpoint Gibraltar is the one you go |
| 21313s | to |
| 21314s | yeah watch boy Gibraltar it does have a |
| 21317s | few tweaks going into this patch but |
| 21320s | it's definitely going to be really |
| 21321s | interesting I definitely do miss seeing |
| 21323s | gameplay on this map as well and it's |
| 21326s | going to be really fun to see what both |
| 21328s | of these teams are able to pull out |
| 21330s | and something else interesting I do want |
| 21331s | to point out is that watch Point |
| 21333s | Gibraltar was recently reworked in a |
| 21335s | couple of ways it's a lot less uh |
| 21337s | favorable to The Defenders than it used |
| 21338s | to be it used to be that Hangar phase |
| 21340s | was so so difficult to crack through if |
| 21343s | you as the attacker weren't able to just |
| 21344s | snowball your way all the way through it |
| 21346s | you have your pick of like four tiny |
| 21348s | doors that are just essentially choke |
| 21350s | points for an enemy widow or an ash or |
| 21352s | Hanzo or entire enemy team to just melt |
| 21355s | you down as you came through them but |
| 21356s | now there's uh there's some options |
| 21358s | there there's some ways around it the uh |
| 21360s | The Defenders spawn at the end of Point |
| 21363s | C is also uh altered from its past state |
| 21366s | which is going to make defending on |
| 21368s | point c a little bit easier to try and |
| 21370s | compensate for how much easier it's |
| 21373s | going to be attack on the hangar phase |
| 21374s | here so we get to see a lot of a lot of |
| 21377s | new things we get to see what Italy |
| 21379s | wants to come out here with and |
| 21380s | hopefully they can give us a nice tour |
| 21382s | of this new reworked watch Point |
| 21384s | Gibraltar here meanwhile France yeah get |
| 21387s | that life we have roughly no don't even |
| 21390s | pretend come on what what if he was like |
| 21393s | What if he was just trying to have a |
| 21394s | little bit of fun you know lifeweaver |
| 21396s | did get buffed you know he got he got a |
| 21398s | little tiny little tiny tiny bumps so |
| 21401s | maybe he's fine now question mark yeah |
| 21404s | he's less of a throw pick now and more |
| 21405s | of like an underhanded toss pick a |
| 21407s | little bit where you know you're not |
| 21409s | you're not quite an MLB pitcher uh if |
| 21411s | you're playing him but you're definitely |
| 21413s | still kind of throwing an easy one for |
| 21415s | the enemy team there so FD God actually |
| 21417s | gonna move over two of the briguitza |
| 21418s | much more expected Italy like I expected |
| 21421s | is going to play a dive composition here |
| 21424s | with yukino on the Widowmaker |
| 21426s | interesting but it looks like that's |
| 21427s | going to be a swap there once they |
| 21429s | realize that there's not going to be a |
| 21431s | lot of targets to go through and a |
| 21433s | defense Matrix to try and chunk for |
| 21434s | Russo it's going to be an ash Tracer |
| 21437s | mirror on either side now |
| 21439s | I mean similar to the Widow but the |
| 21442s | ultimate just has so much more presence |
| 21444s | especially on these escort Maps where |
| 21446s | you always want to be capping this point |
| 21448s | and getting as much time as possible in |
| 21451s | between each checkpoint it's just having |
| 21453s | Bob on the field having one more person |
| 21455s | to focus and so much more health is |
| 21457s | really helpful for both of these teams |
| 21460s | to have on board already though we are |
| 21463s | seeing that it is a little bit harder |
| 21464s | for France to get themselves off their |
| 21466s | feet at the very first point |
| 21468s | yeah I mean Italy is just taking so much |
| 21470s | damage right now from everybody on |
| 21472s | France who's controlling this High |
| 21473s | ground and they can't really commit to |
| 21475s | the fight here you know Dynamite from |
| 21477s | yukino not gonna find anything but does |
| 21479s | actually find Nico getting a little bit |
| 21481s | too aggressive here that might be enough |
| 21483s | without that pressure on your back line |
| 21484s | you might now be able to try and put |
| 21487s | some pressure on you can see they want |
| 21488s | to go for the dive but a great move from |
| 21490s | FD God to keep that monkey at Bay if |
| 21493s | France is still holding The High Ground |
| 21494s | thus far yeah and it's really helpful |
| 21497s | that they have that honor with the |
| 21498s | bionade to kind of anti their front line |
| 21501s | when they're trying to go in for those |
| 21502s | Dives so they don't want to Grass any |
| 21504s | further without the help of the healers |
| 21506s | since they are still a little bit more |
| 21508s | uh long range and you want reviews being |
| 21511s | kept very safe in that back line now |
| 21513s | they are have been able to push all the |
| 21516s | way to the underpass though |
| 21518s | I do also kind of want to point out you |
| 21520s | know we didn't really get the update |
| 21521s | that there was going to be some swaps in |
| 21522s | here but Ben best is out for France and |
| 21524s | Poco is in a very handsome tank line |
| 21526s | indeed but under a lot of pressure |
| 21527s | despite the Nano is poco gets antsied |
| 21530s | and is potentially about to get demect |
| 21533s | here if the pressure continues Italy |
| 21534s | meanwhile you've got Chimera just kind |
| 21536s | of back capping here and you know forced |
| 21538s | away with a dynamite but get significant |
| 21540s | cart progress |
| 21541s | yeah they've been holding this High |
| 21543s | Ground really well but they didn't |
| 21544s | really contest the cart as a win to the |
| 21546s | underpass and now they're all the way |
| 21548s | past and almost that point oh that is a |
| 21551s | good stick from Nico and now Mikan out |
| 21554s | of the fight they are looking at a rally |
| 21556s | from Ft got as well allowing them to |
| 21558s | drop down onto this lower ground Nico |
| 21561s | now locked into a fight with the Enemy |
| 21562s | Tracer but going to turn around and try |
| 21564s | and get ready on off of that back line |
| 21568s | yeah he's definitely off of that back |
| 21571s | line that anti-nade and the follow |
| 21572s | through coming through from just about |
| 21574s | everybody on the side of France |
| 21575s | definitely gets that monkey off of their |
| 21578s | back meanwhile Poco gonna be forced to |
| 21580s | use the self-destruct just to get the |
| 21581s | Remake here and that's pretty much all |
| 21583s | of France's ultimates running dry here |
| 21586s | they're gonna have a nano boost to try |
| 21587s | and defend here but they had a lot more |
| 21589s | going into this and I think you would |
| 21591s | have liked to hold on to that |
| 21592s | self-destruct just as you're you know |
| 21594s | you're push in case of emergency buttons |
| 21597s | yeah uh Italy definitely on better Pace |
| 21601s | with their ultimates now other than just |
| 21603s | that Nano boost the rest of the squad |
| 21605s | seems to be building them up very |
| 21607s | quickly especially those cps's which can |
| 21609s | dish out a lot of damage and France |
| 21611s | doesn't really have that bailout button |
| 21613s | they don't have the rally up and the |
| 21615s | Nano boost it's only a single Target |
| 21617s | bailout and it doesn't really stop them |
| 21620s | from dying just makes them take less |
| 21622s | damage so it's definitely going to be |
| 21623s | toughration now going to try and start |
| 21626s | that initiation chimer has hit by huge |
| 21629s | bionade and tied for a second delaying |
| 21632s | that engagement but Bob now coming in |
| 21634s | from Italy means that a lot of damage |
| 21636s | being forced through France and FD God |
| 21639s | does fall Evo is the next after rajaon |
| 21641s | is able to get a good jump onto that |
| 21644s | High Ground to take out the Ash and now |
| 21646s | the dynamite just burning through |
| 21648s | reviews as health at the end of the day |
| 21650s | Italy they're able to win the fight and |
| 21652s | take that checkpoint |
| 21654s | that was some really good Bob placement |
| 21655s | there from yukino there wasn't really |
| 21657s | anybody that could dislodge that Bob Bob |
| 21658s | was contesting the card and putting out |
| 21660s | the pressure at anybody that wanted to |
| 21661s | try and come through so Italy able to |
| 21664s | cap the point here and true to their |
| 21665s | instincts on the previous iteration of |
| 21667s | watchpoint Gibraltar they want to keep |
| 21669s | the snowball going so they're going to |
| 21670s | try and hold this High Ground here and |
| 21672s | make France try and work for it and |
| 21674s | meanwhile push the cart hopefully at |
| 21676s | least past this High Ground here try to |
| 21678s | punish poco's aggression to help seal it |
| 21680s | and almost losing the mech there is poco |
| 21683s | able to hold on oh but that's a huge |
| 21685s | nade oh the Primal Rage to come through |
| 21687s | the Sleep immediately deterred a pipe |
| 21690s | France though they're able to just wake |
| 21691s | up as if monkey and he's taking a lot of |
| 21694s | space on The High Ground they're not |
| 21696s | able to Capital once again it's only |
| 21699s | Nico who's kind of weaving in and out |
| 21701s | here and Poco is trying to come in to |
| 21703s | try and help but it's really just |
| 21705s | weaving around the corner and not going |
| 21707s | too far in and getting the Dives on the |
| 21709s | back lines that they might have wished |
| 21711s | with the Steve a pick now both of the |
| 21713s | rallies to come through and try and keep |
| 21715s | their teens alive as they start the |
| 21716s | brawl inside the aircraft carrier while |
| 21719s | the tracers are just fighting for the |
| 21722s | low ground and fighting for control of |
| 21724s | this point now dropping down the bubble |
| 21726s | and weaving in and out there's a little |
| 21728s | bit of that anti-name it's going to |
| 21730s | force reshon back and Nico finishes the |
| 21733s | job for the team now without the tank |
| 21734s | without that heat sink in the middle of |
| 21737s | the squad it's going to be back line |
| 21739s | having to press s and just back all the |
| 21741s | way up it's it's some interesting |
| 21743s | positioning from Team France here you |
| 21745s | see freyu hitting some big nades and |
| 21747s | Rajon trying to follow through on it |
| 21748s | this is going to be a stagger killer |
| 21750s | onto yukino and we're down to under a |
| 21751s | minute that's going to be massive |
| 21752s | especially considering Francis old bank |
| 21754s | but every time rajyan tries to try |
| 21757s | follow up on those anti-nades they're |
| 21759s | just corralling him inside of that |
| 21761s | shuttle where there's no support and he |
| 21763s | has to back up he can't fully commit in |
| 21765s | France they're able to just hold strong |
| 21766s | here and again going back to that old |
| 21769s | Bank they're looking to hold pretty |
| 21770s | strongly indeed and look at the |
| 21772s | aggressive positioning right now from |
| 21773s | Poco yeah and Nico as well with the |
| 21776s | pulse bomb gets quite a bit of damage |
| 21778s | down however on the other side they |
| 21780s | still have that Nano entourage on and |
| 21783s | they're trying to force the monkey |
| 21784s | through but even then the anti-nate is |
| 21787s | going to slow them for a second but with |
| 21788s | reviews now out of the fight thanks to |
| 21790s | that monkey they are going to be able to |
| 21792s | get a little bit more space they're |
| 21794s | going to counteract both Bobs and try |
| 21797s | and they just take each other down not |
| 21799s | much value founded by that it's just |
| 21802s | simply ulti counter ulti |
| 21805s | for you gonna go ahead and use the Swift |
| 21806s | step in to try and get uh Rajon backed |
| 21809s | up to full HP that monkey was looking |
| 21811s | very low and that was a very palatable |
| 21813s | Target here gonna go ahead and try and |
| 21814s | jump in the back line but Poco is gonna |
| 21816s | go ahead and trade out the back line go |
| 21818s | for the enemy one and now Italy they're |
| 21820s | on the back foot the Primal Rage being |
| 21822s | forced out but they've lost me again and |
| 21824s | they've lost yukino |
| 21826s | and now Nico is just going crazy on this |
| 21830s | Tracer allowed to kind of run around |
| 21832s | everywhere the self-destruct forcing |
| 21834s | through that area control Italy they |
| 21836s | either have to hide but all of them are |
| 21838s | dead so over time pass through Italy |
| 21841s | only able to get one checkpoint and |
| 21843s | forced halfway through hangar |
| 21845s | the more things change the more they |
| 21848s | stay the same that's yet another |
| 21849s | attacking push stalling out towards the |
| 21851s | latter half of the hangar phase that's |
| 21853s | very much the tale of watchpoint |
| 21855s | Gibraltar pretty much since its |
| 21857s | Inception and Italy despite having a |
| 21860s | slightly more favorable method of |
| 21862s | getting into uh getting through this |
| 21864s | choke point you currently see on your |
| 21866s | screen it's not enough to help tip them |
| 21868s | over the scales because France are |
| 21870s | playing a positioning excellently like I |
| 21872s | said they're not making themselves |
| 21874s | susceptible to the enemy Winston dive |
| 21877s | not making themselves susceptible to the |
| 21878s | follow-up from freyu's Big antinades so |
| 21881s | they're essentially not coming up with |
| 21883s | any real value which is insane to say |
| 21886s | because bionate is one of the strongest |
| 21888s | abilities in the game typically if you |
| 21890s | purple someone they die but if you can't |
| 21892s | get on top of someone who is purple you |
| 21895s | can't kill them they'll find a way |
| 21897s | they'll end up uh living through it here |
| 21899s | and that's what France has been able to |
| 21900s | do just through sheer force and |
| 21901s | positioning so Italy looking to try and |
| 21904s | best this uh best this defense here |
| 21906s | trying to hold them strong hopefully go |
| 21908s | for a full point a hold and if they're |
| 21910s | able to do that we're going to a map |
| 21912s | three but uh if we get to the end of |
| 21915s | point a it's not looking all that likely |
| 21917s | it's going to be tight here I want to |
| 21919s | see what they come out here with |
| 21921s | three two okay that's symmetra is |
| 21924s | definitely interesting I feel like it |
| 21926s | might be a Teleport play okay it doesn't |
| 21929s | look like it's a Teleport play they are |
| 21931s | actually playing the symmetric question |
| 21933s | mark no okay just teleporting everybody |
| 21935s | The High Ground so you can have a Avo |
| 21937s | with this sight line here and you don't |
| 21939s | have to like try and use abilities to |
| 21940s | take this High Ground for free and you |
| 21942s | can see Italy already forced to back up |
| 21943s | and give ground because of the threat of |
| 21946s | one of those arrows coming through and |
| 21947s | just hitting someone with a headshot |
| 21948s | yeah and there is nobody on that low |
| 21951s | ground either to be contesting the push |
| 21953s | for that cart they do have someone down |
| 21956s | there now it's Chimera who is looking to |
| 21958s | try and cap a little then not allow them |
| 21960s | to take the underpass since they really |
| 21962s | have no sight lines from The High Ground |
| 21964s | in but even then Rajon trying to dive |
| 21966s | that back line along with the Hanzo |
| 21968s | there's a little bit of that bio made |
| 21971s | that's going to put the purple Health |
| 21972s | but they're not I have any sight lines |
| 21974s | once again they can't finish off the |
| 21976s | kills off the back of that play from uh |
| 21978s | freyu so it's all left up to the tank as |
| 21982s | they're just forcing Poco through trying |
| 21984s | to take control of this overpass and |
| 21986s | even though that they did get purple |
| 21988s | they're able to negate a lot of the |
| 21990s | damage with the defense Matrix and now |
| 21992s | with the boosters are trying to force |
| 21994s | this monkey down to the low ground where |
| 21996s | the rest of the team can finish them off |
| 21997s | but Nico gdh being neutralized means |
| 22001s | that it's going to be a lot harder to |
| 22002s | get the monkey out of the fight and now |
| 22004s | without a oh |
| 22007s | without the mecca it's baby Diva going |
| 22009s | down Poco out of the fight so we're |
| 22011s | talking a lot about freyu's anti-nades |
| 22013s | and how there wasn't a whole lot of |
| 22014s | follow-up there but the beautiful thing |
| 22015s | about being on defense is there doesn't |
| 22017s | really have to be as long as you're able |
| 22019s | to hit nades that are big enough to slow |
| 22021s | the enemy down and make them think twice |
| 22023s | about poking their heads out you're |
| 22025s | doing enough to bleed more time off the |
| 22027s | clock we've gotten nearly two minutes |
| 22028s | off and France haven't made all that |
| 22031s | much progress as I say that Nico is |
| 22033s | currently sneaking off with the cart and |
| 22035s | Italy's gonna be forced to give up a |
| 22037s | little bit of high ground and also their |
| 22039s | honest life |
| 22043s | France still trying to push to the first |
| 22045s | point Italy is just contesting through |
| 22047s | these rooms on the side and on that High |
| 22050s | Ground off the back but they're not |
| 22052s | really touching just yet kramera is |
| 22054s | blinking in and out but isn't actually |
| 22056s | trying to touch through and avo actually |
| 22058s | getting a head shot off on yukino the |
| 22061s | ash now out of the fight the hit scan |
| 22062s | and The High Ground surrendered in off |
| 22065s | the back of the Dragon strike now Primal |
| 22067s | Rage is ready but the rally from both of |
| 22069s | these teams is going to be able to |
| 22071s | sustain them through just a little bit |
| 22072s | after you got coming back to full health |
| 22074s | right after getting to one HP oh my God |
| 22077s | the back cap was there you're absolutely |
| 22080s | right and now freyu going down as well |
| 22083s | off the back of the bionade they just |
| 22084s | didn't notice that there was Nico was |
| 22087s | just sitting on top of the point and |
| 22089s | they and when they turned around it was |
| 22091s | too little too late that back cap is |
| 22093s | massive though because this means that |
| 22094s | France has the opportunity to do what |
| 22096s | Italy tried to do and let's take this |
| 22097s | High ground and not let the Defenders |
| 22099s | have it that's going to let them roll |
| 22100s | the cart all the way through to that |
| 22102s | overpass again and you know Italy they |
| 22104s | have to try and find something to stop |
| 22106s | this and it's not going to be yukino |
| 22108s | because Avo has uh has his exact |
| 22110s | latitude and longitude written down at |
| 22112s | all times okay but the switch on to the |
| 22115s | mercy is really interesting here too |
| 22117s | because you don't really have these High |
| 22119s | Ground area control uh uh characters |
| 22122s | that you would want to pair the mercy |
| 22124s | with but they did use that Resurrection |
| 22126s | to get uh to get yukino back into the |
| 22129s | fight Nico and yep Nico is backgapping |
| 22133s | again |
| 22134s | yokino exact though they notice they |
| 22137s | noticed this time and they're not going |
| 22139s | to allow them to get past they're able |
| 22141s | to sniff it out this time but look how |
| 22142s | close the cart got just from that back |
| 22143s | cap now if like anyone blinks for too |
| 22146s | long France can just push it that last |
| 22148s | couple that last couple meters you know |
| 22150s | Italy they have to be on their p's and |
| 22151s | q's for the rest of the game here and |
| 22153s | look at the old bank that France has |
| 22155s | yeah they can just go ahead and heat |
| 22156s | those dragons out to try and force the |
| 22158s | positioning off The High Ground for |
| 22159s | Italy because they can afford to they're |
| 22161s | coming up on four more ultimates |
| 22163s | yeah and there's the Nano Boost from |
| 22165s | both of these sides right as well as the |
| 22167s | rally but mikin's already down and even |
| 22169s | then that Valkyrie wouldn't have the |
| 22171s | same effect that the rally would and |
| 22172s | France just winning the fight out right |
| 22175s | off the back of that and they are able |
| 22177s | to secure a victory on map two France in |
| 22180s | a very dominant fashion this time around |
| 22182s | are able to win 2-0 |
| 22184s | yeah that that definitely looked quite |
| 22187s | dominant again there were some signs of |
| 22189s | life from Italy but I think we saw more |
| 22191s | of that on uh on lijiang Tower and we it |
| 22194s | kind of petered out a little bit there |
| 22195s | in uh on watchpoint Gibraltar watch |
| 22197s | Point Gibraltar especially with that |
| 22199s | back cap just look like a baguette beat |
| 22200s | down there from France Italy had no real |
| 22203s | response once that uh once that back cap |
| 22205s | came through on their defense they |
| 22207s | couldn't hold The High Ground |
| 22209s | effectively France started building up |
| 22211s | to too many old Banks because Italy was |
| 22212s | investing to try and hold point a and |
| 22215s | they failed to do so and that's just |
| 22217s | kind of how things snowball out of |
| 22219s | control from there when you have that |
| 22220s | much of a time bank to work through not |
| 22222s | even the entirety of Hangar phase and |
| 22224s | you have Nico just being slippery and |
| 22226s | taking the card away for you right out |
| 22228s | from under your nose there's not really |
| 22230s | a whole lot you can do here well fought |
| 22232s | from Italy overall but France definitely |
| 22235s | looked to be a dominant force and |
| 22237s | another team that much like Great |
| 22238s | Britain we're probably going to want to |
| 22240s | watch out for on uh in group a |
| 22242s | definitely looking to take one of those |
| 22244s | three spots for for their own yeah and I |
| 22247s | mean I feel like it's really funny to |
| 22248s | have like basically |
| 22250s | um a World Cup alumni and Nico be the |
| 22253s | one who's kind of just sitting on the |
| 22254s | cart when the rest of the team is hyper |
| 22256s | focused on the fight happening on The |
| 22258s | High Ground he's just like sitting there |
| 22260s | behind and pushing it forward and it |
| 22262s | allows them to gain so much space for |
| 22264s | free |
| 22265s | and you know I talked a lot about the |
| 22267s | positioning of France when they were on |
| 22268s | their defense and I think that plays to |
| 22270s | the coaching staff that I brought up I |
| 22272s | think they look like a very well coached |
| 22273s | team again you know in these World Cup |
| 22275s | situations you tend to have a lot of |
| 22277s | different parts coming from a lot of |
| 22279s | different teams in a lot of different |
| 22280s | places and sometimes entirely unknown |
| 22283s | names in the case of France again they |
| 22285s | have people like you know Poco who are |
| 22287s | not actively competing these days they |
| 22289s | have people like Nico who's a name that |
| 22291s | some of you guys might not have heard in |
| 22293s | a while but they're still able to get it |
| 22294s | done because of the talent that these |
| 22296s | players bring and the fact that they are |
| 22298s | indeed coachable and if you're gonna |
| 22299s | bring eight coaches to the table they |
| 22301s | better be but it's paying off so far and |
| 22303s | I think it might continue to pay off as |
| 22305s | we go forward |
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| 22311s | to be the last match of the day after |
| 22314s | France two o's Italy we are looking at |
| 22317s | the Netherlands versus Spain up next |
| 22318s | after this break see you then |
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| 22542s | to the OverWatch World Cup 2023 online |
| 22545s | qualifiers for emec I'm Jim Basco and of |
| 22548s | course joined by epitomees and CB we |
| 22551s | just had the pleasure of watching match |
| 22552s | number six of our day Italy versus |
| 22554s | France |
| 22555s | go to oh unfortunately for the team |
| 22558s | involved however we are on to match |
| 22561s | seven our final match of the day between |
| 22563s | Netherlands and Spain epitomies let's |
| 22566s | start with you here between these two |
| 22567s | squads of course we just came hot off of |
| 22569s | set off a set between France and Italy |
| 22572s | was pretty dominant until that last map |
| 22574s | but with Netherlands and Spain here |
| 22576s | right these are two regions that don't |
| 22579s | necessarily get the most representation |
| 22580s | on the big stage so what are you looking |
| 22582s | out for here today |
| 22584s | I think the Netherlands you do look out |
| 22586s | for like a 10 who is one of their DPS |
| 22589s | players but is also known for the |
| 22591s | ability to like Flex onto zarya as well |
| 22593s | and played in previous World Cups and I |
| 22595s | feel like that's a really big name and |
| 22597s | it's also the fact that he is |
| 22599s | technically a retired player who's |
| 22601s | coming back to represent the country in |
| 22602s | the world cup which I think is |
| 22604s | incredibly cool |
| 22607s | and CB honestly the same question to |
| 22609s | yourself right what are you watching out |
| 22610s | for here today because context I feel |
| 22612s | like for anybody watching at home and |
| 22614s | like like you were saying tala the World |
| 22616s | Cup is so special because you get these |
| 22618s | opportunities in these moments for these |
| 22620s | retired players for these content |
| 22621s | creators for people that want to |
| 22622s | represent their country on the world |
| 22624s | stage for OverWatch to come out and play |
| 22625s | for so for CB for you what are you |
| 22629s | looking out for today I mean that pretty |
| 22631s | much you sums it up that's the story of |
| 22633s | the Netherlands because you know you |
| 22634s | mentioned A10 surely there's someone in |
| 22635s | the twitch chat right now who's hit |
| 22637s | their GM for the first time thanks to |
| 22639s | a10's coaching videos you got tap from |
| 22641s | Red Birds you've got uh you got cranned |
| 22643s | up from team peps who's likely going to |
| 22645s | be leading this team forward but there's |
| 22646s | also another name on tank that you might |
| 22648s | recognize you've got Don from the uh |
| 22651s | City redacted 2020 Eternal and a lot of |
| 22655s | different power coming from a lot of |
| 22656s | different places a lot of different |
| 22657s | parts of the community to represent this |
| 22659s | meanwhile Spain their Core is coming |
| 22662s | from a contenders team ataraxia which |
| 22664s | hasn't had the most success here to say |
| 22668s | the least it's it this is a good |
| 22670s | opportunity for them as a collective to |
| 22671s | try and turn their fortunes around but |
| 22673s | you got to be looking at the Netherlands |
| 22675s | and the power that they're bringing to |
| 22676s | be the favorites here absolutely let's |
| 22679s | go ahead and take a look at the schedule |
| 22680s | right now so we can show you the matches |
| 22682s | we've done so far the match that's left |
| 22684s | and we can talk about the days to come |
| 22687s | so with the schedule ready let's go |
| 22689s | ahead and take a look |
| 22691s | Netherlands and Spain of course like we |
| 22692s | just mentioned 12 p.m PT we are just a |
| 22695s | little bit behind there but Netherlands |
| 22697s | and Spain will be the next one up like |
| 22699s | we mentioned France 2-0 over Italy Great |
| 22701s | Britain two over Belgium if you missed |
| 22703s | that earlier in the day we had Germany |
| 22705s | make quick work of Iceland and the 2-0 |
| 22706s | there Norway to over Sweden Saudi Arabia |
| 22710s | 2-1 over Finland in our closest match of |
| 22713s | the day and turkey in a close match |
| 22715s | against Poland 2-0 as well so as we |
| 22718s | round out day one here epitomies CB of |
| 22722s | course we are heading into the |
| 22723s | Netherlands versus Spain |
| 22725s | what's been your favorite matchup of the |
| 22728s | day so far and honestly this is the |
| 22730s | first time we're seeing a lot of these |
| 22731s | teams right this is day one of the |
| 22732s | qualifiers with two weeks of competition |
| 22734s | ahead of us |
| 22735s | the stakes will continue to get higher |
| 22737s | talk to me about picks that you think |
| 22740s | um you're you're counting on to make it |
| 22742s | through the next stage and like things |
| 22744s | that you felt good about from today |
| 22745s | epitomies we'll start with you CB will |
| 22747s | go to you after well I think looking at |
| 22749s | Group B I feel like is probably the |
| 22752s | biggest point of contention since they |
| 22754s | do have one less slot in order to |
| 22756s | qualify into playoffs we saw earlier |
| 22758s | that Saudi Arabia and Finland both had a |
| 22761s | really good competition it was the only |
| 22763s | match to go to 2-1 and I feel like both |
| 22765s | of those teams are really strong |
| 22767s | contenders for those playoff spots but |
| 22770s | also in that um also in uh this group b |
| 22774s | you have teams like Norway which I think |
| 22777s | have really good chance as well |
| 22780s | yeah I mean I I could agree I I think |
| 22783s | the easy answer for what stood out to me |
| 22785s | so far today would be that Finland |
| 22786s | versus Saudi Arabia match but I'm going |
| 22788s | to be a contrarian and I'm gonna go |
| 22789s | ahead and say that my favorite of the |
| 22791s | day so far has been Great Britain versus |
| 22793s | Belgium because we did get to see what |
| 22795s | Great Britain brought to the table get a |
| 22797s | little bit a little bit of a taste of |
| 22799s | what the best of group a has to offer |
| 22800s | and even get a little bit of a glimpse |
| 22802s | into what Belgium might be cooking up |
| 22804s | for the rest of this two-week period |
| 22806s | here so I'm looking forward to seeing |
| 22808s | how things shake out in group a group b |
| 22810s | though the level of parody is just so |
| 22812s | like even across the board those two |
| 22815s | spots could realistically go to pretty |
| 22817s | much anybody in that group but there's a |
| 22819s | couple like clear favorites Finland and |
| 22821s | Norway or sorry uh Finland and uh Saudi |
| 22823s | Arabia |
| 22825s | yeah that's also yeah that's an easy |
| 22826s | answer that one's also you know that |
| 22829s | that's what I think too and like you |
| 22831s | mentioned the the parody between the |
| 22833s | teams is so even at this point |
| 22834s | especially right we're playing on a new |
| 22836s | patch uh new or patch uh and this is the |
| 22839s | first day of competition that we're |
| 22840s | seeing from these teams right so metas |
| 22841s | are still being established we saw a lot |
| 22843s | of different picks which is really good |
| 22845s | to see you know we saw a lot of |
| 22846s | Widowmaker we saw a lot of the echo the |
| 22848s | mate so much diversity in those picks so |
| 22851s | with match seven the last match of our |
| 22854s | day one just around the corner |
| 22856s | CB epitome I leave it to y'all |
| 22859s | thank you so much and it's it's looking |
| 22862s | like looking at these rosters looking at |
| 22865s | the maps that they're going on to let's |
| 22867s | see what we are headed to or where we |
| 22870s | are headed for this very first matchup |
| 22872s | between the Netherlands versus the Spain |
| 22876s | the Spain let me first let's have a look |
| 22879s | at who the Netherlands are bringing to |
| 22881s | the table and hey there's some of those |
| 22883s | names that I talked about or that you I |
| 22884s | know you brought up A10 there's Don |
| 22886s | making a return there and tap again from |
| 22889s | Redbirds a very successful North |
| 22891s | American contenders team these are some |
| 22893s | names that you're going to recognize and |
| 22895s | if uh if if the Spain doesn't come |
| 22898s | correctly then they might end up falling |
| 22900s | just by the sheer force of mechanical |
| 22902s | skill that the Netherlands are bringing |
| 22904s | to the table here buddy and a j are a |
| 22907s | little bit more of unknown quantities |
| 22908s | but not entirely they're still a very |
| 22910s | capable back line so the Netherlands do |
| 22913s | look to be the favorites here what do |
| 22915s | you think Spain is going to be cooking |
| 22917s | here how do you think they can best this |
| 22919s | squad here because this squad looks |
| 22920s | pretty beefy I the thing about Spain is |
| 22923s | that most of their uh beefiness comes |
| 22926s | from the fact that they've played |
| 22927s | together before that they are that |
| 22929s | ataraxia core so they have like that |
| 22932s | Synergy they have the ability to make |
| 22935s | these uh very synchronous plays that |
| 22938s | maybe the Netherlands cannot compete |
| 22940s | with because they might be newer and |
| 22943s | still getting used to each other's play |
| 22944s | style but obviously you do have I want |
| 22948s | to say that Hira is a huge point of |
| 22950s | contention as well uh he played briefly |
| 22954s | for ataraxia but also what is now |
| 22956s | playing for F-16 Esports and I feel like |
| 22959s | he does have a lot of experience when it |
| 22961s | comes to |
| 22962s | um when it comes to this High tier level |
| 22964s | of play |
| 22965s | I'm also looking at Health on this Spain |
| 22967s | Squad this is another veteran player |
| 22969s | that's been around and again part of |
| 22971s | that historic British hurricane lineage |
| 22973s | that has you know done wonders for the |
| 22975s | EU contenders saying definitely someone |
| 22977s | to keep an eye on and hopefully going to |
| 22979s | be the leader for this Spain Squad but |
| 22982s | he's gonna have to lead him up a uh an |
| 22984s | uphill battle if our predictions uh go |
| 22986s | the way we think they're going to go who |
| 22988s | knows Spain might have more than a |
| 22990s | couple aces up their sleeve they might |
| 22992s | be playing with a with a bit of a |
| 22994s | stacked deck here you never know but |
| 22997s | I still kind of you know my gut is just |
| 23000s | telling me that this is the Netherlands |
| 23001s | to to win here and we might be looking |
| 23003s | at another two OverWatch we might not |
| 23005s | get to see a map three it would be nice |
| 23008s | I would love to be wrong please Spain |
| 23010s | help me be wrong maybe Netherlands if |
| 23012s | you want to throw a little bit just so |
| 23014s | we can stay on the air a little bit |
| 23015s | longer here but it's gonna be uh it's |
| 23018s | gonna be tight it's gonna be it's gonna |
| 23019s | be tight for Spain to try and make up |
| 23021s | the Gap here that I at least predict |
| 23023s | will be the case here |
| 23024s | well definitely you'd will see I think |
| 23026s | these signs of life as well as they |
| 23028s | start adapting to the way that the enemy |
| 23030s | team plays and you might have like you |
| 23033s | know a little bit of a surprise like we |
| 23034s | did with Belgium and Great Britain then |
| 23036s | all of a sudden they're having cross map |
| 23038s | Widowmaker shootouts you know or we |
| 23041s | might see some of the picks that we |
| 23043s | haven't seen before yet like ash is |
| 23045s | pretty new to this last two matches that |
| 23047s | we just saw between Italy and France |
| 23048s | maybe we might see a Cassidy come in you |
| 23051s | know with the altered magnetic nade that |
| 23053s | everyone loves |
| 23054s | now we haven't seen nearly as much |
| 23056s | Cassidy as we probably thought we were |
| 23058s | going to I mean it's been terrorizing |
| 23060s | the live patch as of late with that |
| 23061s | hindering grenade that it's almost like |
| 23064s | a long distance kind of budget Sombra |
| 23066s | hack the way it works out and it's |
| 23067s | really really annoying for other players |
| 23069s | to try and play into and part of me was |
| 23072s | kind of thinking that like you know |
| 23073s | maybe we weren't actually going to see |
| 23075s | the pharmacy come out from teams like |
| 23076s | Saudi Arabia because like Cassidy would |
| 23079s | be so prevalent but he just hasn't been |
| 23081s | most teams are just still falling back |
| 23083s | on their comfort picks we've learned |
| 23085s | essentially nothing about what the meta |
| 23087s | is today everyone's just playing what |
| 23088s | they're best at and coming you know |
| 23090s | trying to put their best foot forward |
| 23091s | and for some team just looking better |
| 23092s | than others but it's time to put your |
| 23094s | best foot and probably every other foot |
| 23096s | you have forward if you're Spain and if |
| 23098s | you're Netherlands again you want to try |
| 23101s | and get it out ahead of the pack we |
| 23102s | think that France and Great Britain |
| 23103s | might be the famous in this group we'll |
| 23105s | have to see Netherlands could |
| 23106s | potentially make a push for that third |
| 23108s | slot here |
| 23109s | and also the fun part about there being |
| 23112s | so many veteran players as well headed |
| 23115s | on to lijiang Tower right you we know |
| 23117s | that junker Queen has been strong maybe |
| 23119s | a little bit too strong in the previous |
| 23120s | patch but now on the live patch a little |
| 23122s | bit of adjustments to just bring her |
| 23124s | power level down but we have not seen a |
| 23127s | single JQ and I'm just wondering is it |
| 23130s | just like not a comfort pick because |
| 23131s | these players are so experienced and so |
| 23133s | veterans and they're like oh we are all |
| 23135s | the way from the 2016 OverWatch days we |
| 23138s | didn't have JQ you know |
| 23141s | a little bit of Boomer mentality like |
| 23143s | back in my day that I only had Reinhard |
| 23145s | and Winston and we liked it we didn't |
| 23148s | complain about it and also there were |
| 23149s | two of us |
| 23151s | yeah back in my day we played Reinhardt |
| 23154s | we played Winston we played Diva I don't |
| 23157s | know who this junker Queen person is |
| 23160s | some days I miss Ryan zarya comps I know |
| 23163s | that like looking at it now kind of |
| 23165s | feels like it might be just too busted |
| 23167s | too overpowered especially with how you |
| 23169s | know how much of a threat zarya has been |
| 23171s | on and off throughout the history of |
| 23173s | OverWatch 2 not in the best place now |
| 23174s | but when the game first launched was an |
| 23177s | absolute Menace Ryan zarya I I missed |
| 23179s | those days but I I really do it was just |
| 23182s | a fun comp to be able to play that |
| 23183s | flavor of Rush where you have the |
| 23185s | bubbles to pump out all the damage you |
| 23186s | have the Rhine to take the space and all |
| 23188s | of the healing to try and keep |
| 23190s | everything up I don't miss 6v6 but like |
| 23192s | sometimes I just like I long for Taste |
| 23195s | past like just take me back for one day |
| 23197s | and then I go into like a you know pick |
| 23199s | up games and we play 6v6 and I go oh |
| 23201s | this is why they swapped |
| 23204s | yeah I mean there was also that brief |
| 23207s | period of time where it was just like |
| 23208s | rock paper scissors except ramatra orisa |
| 23211s | zarya which I thought was a little bit |
| 23213s | funny but maybe nobody else thought that |
| 23218s | it's the tank counter picking thing is |
| 23220s | so it feels really annoying as a tank |
| 23223s | player if you don't believe me try and |
| 23224s | play Winston just ever and see what |
| 23226s | happens after you win one fight you know |
| 23228s | so-called free thinkers you've got the |
| 23229s | enemies always gonna switch to like |
| 23231s | roadhog Moira |
| 23233s | kitty go and then like Bastion Reaper |
| 23236s | yeah you're going to see Reaper if you |
| 23238s | try and play Winston like in quick |
| 23240s | player in like competitive ladder like |
| 23242s | at some point you just have to be like |
| 23243s | okay I have to be good enough to deal |
| 23245s | with this it's yeah you know I just like |
| 23248s | wonder if one of these teams is going to |
| 23250s | see the Winston on the other side and |
| 23252s | they're just gonna be like you you know |
| 23253s | what no I don't want you to play the |
| 23255s | game and then they switch to that Reaper |
| 23257s | because we really haven't seen that much |
| 23258s | of it I think we've seen one Reaper very |
| 23261s | early into the day and that we haven't |
| 23262s | seen one since and you know it's curious |
| 23265s | if that will ever come out since Winston |
| 23267s | does seem to be very dominant in terms |
| 23270s | of a lot of teams liking to run brawl |
| 23272s | and dive comps as well |
| 23273s | yeah at this stage most of these teams |
| 23276s | are either going to fall back on mostly |
| 23277s | their comfort picks or what they've been |
| 23279s | screaming and you know you don't want to |
| 23280s | throw everything out the window and just |
| 23282s | go like full anti-winston just because |
| 23283s | you saw the monkey and got spooked by it |
| 23285s | you know you do want to kind of like |
| 23287s | stick to what brought you to the dance |
| 23288s | stick to your strengths play to those |
| 23290s | strengths and we're once again going to |
| 23292s | wouldn't you know it lijiang Tower I |
| 23294s | think we've only seen another control |
| 23296s | map once today we saw Nepal and I think |
| 23299s | everything else has been lijiang Tower |
| 23300s | from uh from then on out so you got a |
| 23303s | pretty good feel for what kinds of |
| 23304s | things this map brings to the table by |
| 23306s | now and what we kind of expect these |
| 23308s | teams to play but lijiang Tower is also |
| 23310s | one of those Maps where you can |
| 23311s | realistically play anything and get away |
| 23313s | with it if you're good enough at it and |
| 23315s | again Comfort picks so these teams they |
| 23318s | might just come out here with something |
| 23319s | wacky we haven't seen before just |
| 23320s | because they're good at it I think we |
| 23322s | did see someone try to take out a junk |
| 23325s | rat earlier I don't even remember which |
| 23327s | map it was but it was just completely |
| 23329s | meltdown it did not work at all so you |
| 23333s | know maybe there are some things that |
| 23335s | are really easily countered and I was |
| 23337s | talking about Reaper and ramatra and |
| 23339s | being a little funny you know I was |
| 23341s | doing it for I was doing for the jokes |
| 23344s | but I actually do see a Reaper at |
| 23346s | ramatra on the Netherlands side and that |
| 23348s | Moira as well are they listening do you |
| 23351s | think they're listening to us they might |
| 23353s | be but I do kind of want to highlight |
| 23355s | that Moira specifically because when |
| 23357s | you're playing the Moira Lucio backline |
| 23359s | especially with this front line you want |
| 23361s | to be aggressive you want to push |
| 23364s | forward and you want to do as much |
| 23365s | damage as possible and you want to get |
| 23367s | your a Matra and your Reaper and your |
| 23369s | May right up in the enemy's face the |
| 23371s | question though is is Heroes Bastion |
| 23374s | going to put a wrench under that |
| 23375s | equation |
| 23376s | bro the Bastion I is this a joke but the |
| 23380s | Bastion now coming through both of the |
| 23382s | maywalls coming in as they try to get |
| 23384s | the first touch onto the point the |
| 23385s | ramatra are going to stand there soak up |
| 23388s | all of that damage in the Nemesis form |
| 23390s | and it's going to be tabs that gets the |
| 23392s | first laugh and health will trade back |
| 23395s | for that Reaper trying to get a lot of |
| 23397s | harassment onto the Reinhardt not going |
| 23399s | to work out this time around but tap |
| 23400s | still comes out positive and Netherlands |
| 23402s | gets first capture I very quickly found |
| 23405s | the answer to my question by the way |
| 23406s | Heroes Bastion did not keep the |
| 23408s | Netherlands at Bay they just went |
| 23409s | full-on aggressive just like they |
| 23410s | planned to took out with backliner just |
| 23412s | like they planned to and tap just |
| 23414s | cleaning up with the May and now Spain |
| 23415s | they're trying to force like they're |
| 23417s | trying to force a positioning here get |
| 23419s | this Bastion set up somewhere but |
| 23420s | Netherlands they don't want to show |
| 23422s | themselves and risk taking all this |
| 23424s | damage and health has fallen early oh |
| 23426s | Shira is also just in the thick of it |
| 23428s | and they're unable to defend it with the |
| 23431s | Reinhardt and I feel like one of the big |
| 23433s | facets of the composition that Spain is |
| 23435s | taking out right now is the fact that |
| 23436s | the ant Matrix has already been built up |
| 23438s | by a canal and once they have a Bastion |
| 23441s | firing through that they can shred |
| 23442s | pretty much anything but they need to |
| 23444s | get the Bastion to set up shop and with |
| 23446s | the May kind of like hiding in a corner |
| 23448s | here with the blizzard and the ultimate |
| 23450s | economy of the Netherlands looking |
| 23451s | really healthy only a few seconds into |
| 23454s | the round it's going to be tough yeah |
| 23456s | there's the maywall blocking off that |
| 23458s | Matrix but still a lot of damage being |
| 23461s | dished out from Spain Dan however going |
| 23463s | to come out on top Nemesis form just |
| 23466s | gonna go throw some hands and win the |
| 23468s | fight yeah they are currently living in |
| 23470s | Spain without the S right now |
| 23472s | Netherlands they only invest the |
| 23473s | coalescence into that fight and Spain |
| 23475s | aren't able to get much of anything with |
| 23478s | their amp Matrix so I mean you will get |
| 23479s | that old back up eventually pretty |
| 23481s | quickly but you would still like to have |
| 23483s | it or at least if you're going to try |
| 23486s | and go in and commit ultimates like that |
| 23487s | to a fight you would have liked to win |
| 23489s | here but tap's got the blizzard a10's |
| 23491s | lurking around the corner no one is |
| 23493s | checking the corner and he's about to |
| 23494s | just go in with a death Blossom here and |
| 23496s | clean up |
| 23498s | yeah even just getting Kira but sending |
| 23501s | that one player back spawn is huge and |
| 23503s | the immortality field is the only thing |
| 23505s | that's keeping them up now it's a sound |
| 23507s | barrier but they are all just getting so |
| 23509s | low with that over Health ticking away |
| 23511s | too quickly tap is doing so much work |
| 23514s | and just building it up so fast those |
| 23517s | icicles are on point and doing the |
| 23520s | turtle for a moment here but right |
| 23522s | around the corner is Hira spamming away |
| 23524s | with the sojourn still overtime has been |
| 23527s | reached a little bit of a touch from |
| 23529s | Spain but that's going to be all that |
| 23531s | she wrote Netherlands finding that first |
| 23534s | map 100 to zero and it's that aggression |
| 23538s | from the Moira composition coupled with |
| 23540s | just tap and A10 going absolutely Wild |
| 23542s | on the DPS front line there for the |
| 23544s | Netherlands Spain didn't really have an |
| 23547s | answer to that aggression at any point |
| 23548s | in time and they didn't really have any |
| 23550s | defensive tools that they could have |
| 23552s | used reactively to try and stifle the |
| 23554s | pressure that Netherlands kept putting |
| 23555s | on them and as a result they weren't |
| 23557s | able to find their way into the point |
| 23559s | for any meaningful amount of time I am |
| 23562s | curious to see what they're coming out |
| 23564s | here with now though it looks like |
| 23565s | they're trying to favor that Pharmacy |
| 23566s | comp which might work out well against |
| 23569s | the Netherlands here but you know we're |
| 23571s | seeing something we've seen time and |
| 23573s | time again today is that Ryan Rush |
| 23574s | that's going to simtp on to the point so |
| 23577s | Lauren's gonna have a tough time trying |
| 23579s | to poke in from the outside try and get |
| 23582s | some Splash damage from those rockets |
| 23583s | and make a play somehow that way |
| 23585s | hopefully able to find a pick otherwise |
| 23587s | Spain are just gonna be on the outside |
| 23588s | looking in all day but yeah but the only |
| 23590s | other thing about the composition is |
| 23592s | that they have that Anna and it's going |
| 23594s | to make it really hard for the honest |
| 23596s | Survivor when there isn't much |
| 23598s | protection from the other support as |
| 23600s | well on the other hand Netherlands tap |
| 23603s | still firing away with those icicles |
| 23605s | isolating the tank here but not going to |
| 23607s | aggress much further they're still |
| 23608s | trying to hold on to the first touch of |
| 23610s | this point and go ahead and capture they |
| 23613s | have that first capture |
| 23615s | yeah and hell like goes in for the the |
| 23617s | try to find out the damage there goes in |
| 23619s | for the jump they're able to find A10 |
| 23621s | off the back of that but it's not really |
| 23623s | enough because the Netherlands are able |
| 23625s | to just poke right back out but hold on |
| 23627s | they've got Lauren at the back door here |
| 23629s | threatening to flip the cap and is |
| 23630s | killed too oh okay Lauren able to get |
| 23633s | the first capture that Spain has had |
| 23635s | this entire map thus far breaking out |
| 23638s | the Reinhardt Shield as well the damage |
| 23640s | boost does quite a bit of damage |
| 23642s | especially since they are running the |
| 23644s | Reinhardt the pharah is such a good |
| 23645s | Shield breaker here and it leaves a lot |
| 23647s | less protection for the back line as |
| 23649s | well since they can just go over the top |
| 23651s | of the Shield |
| 23657s | I respect it you know it was it was |
| 23660s | targeted and uh you know Lauren knew |
| 23663s | what they wanted and there was a couple |
| 23666s | of turrets in the way that kind of like |
| 23668s | uh took a little bit more too much HP |
| 23670s | down there and tap was able to just |
| 23671s | clean that one up and yeah Netherlands |
| 23673s | they flipped the point right back over |
| 23674s | tap not letting anyone in |
| 23677s | yeah it was a really good uh turn from |
| 23680s | Spain but as soon as Lauren went in for |
| 23682s | that barrage without much support there |
| 23684s | and can't get out healed here by got |
| 23686s | Allah actually going to go ahead with |
| 23689s | the valkyrie but the value of the |
| 23690s | valkyrie is really just that group |
| 23692s | damage boost and it doesn't have as much |
| 23694s | value as other support ultimates have or |
| 23696s | as much sustain but Lauren is still able |
| 23699s | to get some capitalization off of the |
| 23701s | belt and getting out one of the supports |
| 23705s | out from the Netherlands now it's all |
| 23706s | left up to the loose show to try and |
| 23708s | keep the team sustained but there's no |
| 23709s | sound barrier in sight so Spain is able |
| 23712s | to flip point back towards themselves |
| 23714s | once again a buddy now going to switch |
| 23716s | over to the Moira the very Scrappy |
| 23719s | nature of Spain's composition and Lauren |
| 23721s | indeed always being on their back door |
| 23722s | means that the Netherlands have to keep |
| 23724s | their heads on a swivel they're living |
| 23725s | in Spain without the a right now having |
| 23727s | to spin themselves around time and time |
| 23729s | again to try and just find who's you |
| 23731s | know where all this damage is coming |
| 23732s | from it's a pull Spawn from Hira A10 is |
| 23734s | down despite investing the Sim wall and |
| 23737s | Netherlands have to invest a blizzard to |
| 23738s | try and come up ahead here |
| 23740s | yeah the blizzard coming through from |
| 23742s | the Netherlands tap really easily |
| 23744s | cleaning up the point and it's going to |
| 23746s | allow them to flip it right back Spain |
| 23748s | just can't defend this but they are |
| 23750s | going to be able to re-agress and |
| 23752s | recontest on to the point May a |
| 23754s | potential recapture there still could be |
| 23756s | contested by Spain but Netherlands they |
| 23760s | are still holding on to especially now |
| 23762s | with the shatter doing so much damage to |
| 23765s | health even with the Winston switched |
| 23767s | not even having that Primal Rage built |
| 23769s | up just yet they're holding on to the |
| 23771s | point Spain they look like they had such |
| 23773s | a good idea off that initiation from |
| 23776s | Health but they're unable to pre-flip |
| 23778s | the point |
| 23779s | yeah and despite not having any other |
| 23781s | ultimates to speak up except for the |
| 23782s | coalescence coming up soon you can still |
| 23783s | invest that shatter safely because you |
| 23785s | have time even if Spain flips the point |
| 23787s | here they're gonna invest The Barrage |
| 23789s | and it's gonna find a j hell's got the |
| 23791s | Primal Rage and Spain might take it here |
| 23793s | but Netherlands is still gonna have time |
| 23794s | to build up to another old bank and take |
| 23796s | another fight yeah that coalescence |
| 23798s | going to come through a and j coming up |
| 23800s | with the sound barrier as well can |
| 23802s | potentially get to Point very quickly |
| 23804s | there's that |
| 23806s | um there's the pulse bomb as well |
| 23807s | unfortunately does not find anything but |
| 23809s | creates enough space for the Netherlands |
| 23811s | and enough for a j to come right back to |
| 23814s | Justin's buddy falls for the sound |
| 23816s | barrier and that little bit of sustain |
| 23818s | has keeping Netherlands up once again |
| 23820s | Lauren is trying to do so much work with |
| 23822s | the pharmacy the valkyrie has been |
| 23824s | popped as well but there's no damage |
| 23826s | boost on this pharah it's just for this |
| 23828s | type of survivability of the mercy |
| 23830s | herself but it's enough for them to |
| 23832s | capture that point it's a Reinhardt from |
| 23834s | hell this time around Lauren finding tab |
| 23837s | but Netherlands they are just able to |
| 23839s | contact so quickly and that Mora a huge |
| 23842s | threat as well Netherlands taking map120 |
| 23846s | yeah Spain did a lot of work there to |
| 23848s | try and flip it but the Netherlands just |
| 23850s | didn't ever fully go away they weren't |
| 23852s | able to clean up all of the pieces and |
| 23854s | tripped over the mess that they left for |
| 23856s | themselves there they had the olds to |
| 23858s | try and push it but they didn't do |
| 23859s | enough with them they had the abilities |
| 23861s | they had the positioning but Netherlands |
| 23863s | just can be just as Scrappy as Spain can |
| 23866s | and they're able to hold on tight there |
| 23868s | that was a kind of a closer Affair than |
| 23871s | we did see on control center I think |
| 23873s | Night Market definitely showed us a |
| 23874s | little bit more of what Spain is capable |
| 23876s | of here but it's not enough to get |
| 23878s | themselves even a point here and a quick |
| 23880s | 2-0 on Legion for the Netherlands and |
| 23882s | once again |
| 23883s | you know non-wares map pick what is |
| 23885s | Spain going to come out with |
| 23888s | it's going to be either hybrid or push I |
| 23891s | mean once again it's just the same story |
| 23893s | over and over I feel like on their map |
| 23895s | pick they just have a lot more |
| 23897s | contention though every single time but |
| 23899s | even then maybe they don't like hybrid |
| 23902s | maybe they don't like hybrid or escort |
| 23904s | maybe they only like push you never know |
| 23907s | with these teams because we rarely ever |
| 23909s | make it to that third map but tap just |
| 23912s | did so much work for the Netherlands on |
| 23915s | this first point capture it was insane |
| 23917s | how much value that may was able to get |
| 23919s | and how quickly those blizzards were |
| 23921s | built up time and time again and it just |
| 23923s | left so little area for the rest of the |
| 23926s | squad to try and retake and A10 as well |
| 23929s | on the edge of your picks you know the |
| 23931s | symmetra the reaper but still so much |
| 23933s | area control again |
| 23935s | yeah I'll just very well played from |
| 23938s | everybody on the Netherlands they |
| 23939s | understand their comp they understand |
| 23940s | their abilities like you called out tap |
| 23942s | was doing so much work especially on |
| 23944s | that may and it wasn't even just like |
| 23946s | the maywall sectioning people off like |
| 23948s | that's what we normally highlight when |
| 23949s | it comes to a may we say oh that's a big |
| 23951s | wall but tap is just hitting icicles |
| 23953s | like playing May like she's Hanzo and |
| 23955s | finding value and like okay you can |
| 23957s | section off a player or you can simply |
| 23959s | kill them they are dead now they are no |
| 23961s | longer a factor I don't have to worry |
| 23962s | about you and as long as you keep that |
| 23965s | Tempo up as long as you keep that pace |
| 23966s | up they're not there really isn't a |
| 23969s | response other than to try and match it |
| 23971s | or try and change your composition |
| 23972s | around I like the pharmacy I think it |
| 23974s | worked out well on Night Market not |
| 23976s | quite enough |
| 23977s | I think that maybe on either uh escort |
| 23981s | or uh or on hybrid you want to try and |
| 23984s | play into that a little bit more we |
| 23986s | haven't seen a lot of the cowboy not as |
| 23988s | much Cassidy and Netherlands didn't opt |
| 23989s | to bring it out so maybe you can find |
| 23991s | yourself in a favorable situation to |
| 23993s | pull out that uh pull that one out maybe |
| 23995s | Lauren can channel the inner yazan there |
| 23997s | and you know get some power going for |
| 24000s | Spain |
| 24001s | yeah the biggest threat I think to the |
| 24004s | pharmacy con um comp was literally just |
| 24007s | Buddy's Moira who's kind of able to use |
| 24010s | that alternate buyer get a lot of damage |
| 24012s | off along with the biotic orb but other |
| 24015s | than that it just felt like they weren't |
| 24017s | really trying to contest the pharmacy |
| 24018s | and they were able to get a lot of |
| 24020s | damage off for free but it's it's going |
| 24023s | to be interesting to see if they do |
| 24025s | decide to switch to a hit scan in order |
| 24027s | to contest that if it becomes a problem |
| 24028s | on the second map |
| 24030s | yeah and we'll find out what that second |
| 24032s | map is it is Spain's map pick we'll see |
| 24035s | where they want to take us don't go |
| 24036s | anywhere we're about to be uh we're |
| 24038s | gonna throw it to a break we will be |
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| 24260s | welcome back to the OverWatch World Cup |
| 24263s | emec qualifiers I am epitome is joined |
| 24267s | by CB and thank you for joining us for |
| 24270s | potentially the very last map of the day |
| 24274s | between the Netherlands versus Spain |
| 24278s | it feels like so long ago that we got to |
| 24280s | see a map 3 will we get to see one in |
| 24282s | this series who knows it's going to |
| 24284s | depend on what map 2 is and if Spain |
| 24286s | chose wisely if they're able to play to |
| 24288s | their strengths and they're able to |
| 24289s | catch the Netherlands off guard we |
| 24291s | talked a little bit about the pharmacy |
| 24292s | comp and how that seemed to be something |
| 24294s | that works out for Spain but is that |
| 24297s | something that they can uh that they can |
| 24299s | hang their hat on is that something |
| 24300s | that's going to bring them a w and bring |
| 24302s | them back in this series or is the |
| 24303s | Netherlands just too strong of a force |
| 24306s | in this group for a team like Spain to |
| 24308s | overcome |
| 24309s | yeah the Netherlands looked incredibly |
| 24311s | clean and well executed oh King's Row I |
| 24315s | mean this is the first time we've seen |
| 24316s | King's Row today that's insane I know |
| 24318s | it's it's I feel like so much of the |
| 24320s | OverWatch Community is actually a huge |
| 24322s | fan of King's Rose so I'm actually |
| 24323s | surprised this is the first time that we |
| 24326s | are seeing it but it is going to be |
| 24328s | really interesting on King's Row right |
| 24329s | because it opens up like potentially the |
| 24332s | Widow potentially the snipers but also a |
| 24334s | lot of those brawl and dive cops |
| 24336s | yeah and you know lately we've been |
| 24338s | seeing a lot of dive compositions here |
| 24340s | you know mostly through uh OverWatch |
| 24342s | league play but you gotta remember there |
| 24344s | are a couple of patches behind in more |
| 24346s | recent tournaments we've still kind of |
| 24348s | seen some inklings of dive but we've |
| 24350s | also seen junker Queen I think the |
| 24353s | safest thing to go with here if you're |
| 24355s | either of these teams is something |
| 24356s | resembling a ramatra rush comp that |
| 24359s | seems to be the flavor of the month |
| 24360s | right now for King's Row but this is |
| 24362s | still a place where that Pharmacy is |
| 24364s | viable and if you want to try and swap |
| 24366s | that bird out for another bird and put |
| 24368s | the echo in instead of the pharah that's |
| 24370s | doable too so I we'll have to see what |
| 24374s | Spain comes out here with if this is |
| 24376s | just indeed like a case of it being |
| 24378s | scrim zero we've scrimmed this map a |
| 24379s | thousand times this is where we're |
| 24380s | comfortable we uh we either live here or |
| 24382s | we die here and we'll find out later you |
| 24385s | know we'll find out at the end of this |
| 24386s | matchup here or if there is a strategy |
| 24388s | if there's a reason they took us to |
| 24390s | King's Row and meanwhile the Netherlands |
| 24392s | I fully expect them to just keep doing |
| 24394s | as they've been doing because they have |
| 24396s | been doing some some incredible things |
| 24398s | there again tap on the May phenomenal |
| 24400s | stuff the whole team as a collective |
| 24402s | looks to be firing on all cylinders |
| 24404s | right now |
| 24405s | yeah and it's just interesting to see |
| 24407s | what that secondary DPS is and it's |
| 24411s | actually Pastor so we've got a switch |
| 24413s | here in the dps's and we're looking at |
| 24415s | that Widow potentially while tap I think |
| 24418s | that symmetra is probably just for that |
| 24420s | early teleport but on the other side we |
| 24422s | do see the Tracer Sombra picks |
| 24426s | yeah and not only that we've got the |
| 24428s | double Flex support backline for Spain |
| 24430s | with the kid to go Anna that's another |
| 24432s | thing that is a couple metas behind as |
| 24434s | of now we'll have to see if this uh |
| 24437s | Bears any fruit for Spain with hell at |
| 24439s | the helm I gotta believe that there is |
| 24440s | something cooking here but you've got |
| 24442s | crandop coming in on the other side |
| 24444s | there Don is out crandop is in and |
| 24446s | crandop is a phenomenal tank player |
| 24449s | again from Team pep somebody that can |
| 24451s | lead this team quite far we'll have to |
| 24453s | see which tank ends up getting the |
| 24454s | better dive going out here in this |
| 24456s | Winston mirror |
| 24458s | already Lauren looking for a huge flank |
| 24461s | there's the briquita for the defense and |
| 24463s | that's exactly what she's there for |
| 24465s | however because it's the honor Brigitte |
| 24467s | you have Pastor who should be able to |
| 24469s | get a lot of damage but the bird doesn't |
| 24471s | have a pocket so it's going to be a |
| 24473s | little bit more difficult to execute |
| 24475s | especially since you don't get a lot of |
| 24477s | that burst healing and Anna it can be |
| 24479s | hard but Hira is able to take down |
| 24481s | crandoff after trying to go for that |
| 24483s | early dive and there's a weakness of the |
| 24485s | echo on her own once again without the |
| 24487s | mercy it is just so quick to take them |
| 24490s | down especially when they're in the air |
| 24493s | yeah the echo has to try and |
| 24495s | subsist entirely off of the little |
| 24497s | cookie uh armor packs that bring it to |
| 24499s | throws and those are often in quite |
| 24501s | short supply there's only so much damage |
| 24503s | you can do before you have to back out |
| 24504s | and take shelter and you know get a |
| 24506s | little bit of healing out from your |
| 24507s | other support player so pastor's just |
| 24509s | gonna go ahead and drop the bird right |
| 24511s | now gonna switch over to the Cassidy |
| 24513s | we're finally seeing the Cowboy come out |
| 24514s | but interestingly enough I'm not sure |
| 24517s | what it's actually going to do here |
| 24520s | that's a big nade and the Netherlands |
| 24521s | are just gonna crumble |
| 24523s | wait Lauren is looking incredibly strong |
| 24525s | on the somber pick previously we saw her |
| 24528s | on the pharah and now he's switching |
| 24530s | over to this Sombra and it seems to be |
| 24533s | getting so many good flanks even with |
| 24534s | the beta in play now crandoff going to |
| 24537s | go very aggressive right out of Spawn to |
| 24540s | force that Sombra out of position once |
| 24542s | again Lauren although having to regroup |
| 24544s | with the team this is buying a lot of |
| 24545s | time very early |
| 24547s | yeah I like this a lot from Spain their |
| 24549s | dive looks pretty clean so far crandop |
| 24551s | gonna go and try and mirror that die but |
| 24553s | gotta get slept there's the EMP and it's |
| 24555s | all gonna fall apart for the Netherlands |
| 24556s | once again Spain just comes in and mops |
| 24559s | them all up back to spawn with you yeah |
| 24561s | we'll lose our Anna in the fight that |
| 24563s | might be a big thing uh to look out for |
| 24565s | in the next one here but that Lake death |
| 24567s | onto tap means that the Netherlands have |
| 24569s | once again failed to cap the point here |
| 24571s | and we're under two minutes Spain |
| 24573s | invests heavily for that one so that's |
| 24574s | your silver lining there but they're |
| 24576s | still gonna have a Primal Rage and |
| 24577s | they're still gonna have a Kitsune Rush |
| 24578s | those are going to be some difficult |
| 24580s | ultimates to try and bust down and that |
| 24582s | is going to cost you if nothing else a |
| 24584s | fair bit of time yeah and the thing |
| 24587s | about Spain is they are so mobile and |
| 24590s | when you're looking at really aim heavy |
| 24592s | characters like the Cassidy he really |
| 24595s | needs to be getting those head shots and |
| 24597s | it's going to be a lot very difficult to |
| 24600s | track the Sombra Tracer that just blink |
| 24602s | back and forth everywhere and the Sleep |
| 24604s | misses as well the high noon comes |
| 24606s | through but doesn't to find anything and |
| 24609s | even after that there's a biotic nade |
| 24611s | for the purple anti-health but |
| 24612s | Netherlands are going to force their way |
| 24614s | through with the help of the rally and |
| 24616s | the Nano boost a little bit of |
| 24618s | overhealth as well from brigitte's rally |
| 24621s | to allow them to capture a few ticks of |
| 24623s | that point but Spain is still looking to |
| 24625s | contest and their back line is just out |
| 24627s | in the open they don't have many places |
| 24628s | to hide a good sleep landed from Buddy |
| 24631s | means Akira does fall grandoff on the |
| 24633s | other hand with a Primal Rage still |
| 24635s | ready didn't have to invest allows them |
| 24637s | a lot of the space with the bubble drop |
| 24639s | down on point now payload coming out and |
| 24641s | they can push through the first choke |
| 24643s | hell's Primal and Galas katsune Rush do |
| 24646s | end up leading a lot of time off and now |
| 24647s | we only have three minutes for the |
| 24648s | Netherlands but it wasn't really a lot |
| 24650s | of time for you know the rest of Spain |
| 24652s | to try and make something with that and |
| 24653s | build up to another key ability because |
| 24655s | their old bank right now is kind of |
| 24657s | lacking right now a pulse bomb from tap |
| 24659s | could force them very far back grand Op |
| 24661s | with the Primal Rage could also |
| 24663s | potentially find a couple of kills onto |
| 24665s | the back line there Gala by the way |
| 24667s | gonna swap off of the kiriko and on to |
| 24668s | the Regita here so now they're trying to |
| 24670s | put a little bit more eggs in the |
| 24672s | counter dive basket something a little |
| 24673s | bit more resembling a mirror composition |
| 24675s | from what the Netherlands is running |
| 24677s | Lauren has to try and build this EMP |
| 24678s | ASAP but Gala has already fallen |
| 24681s | yeah top with a great pulse bomb onto |
| 24685s | Gala and even though it's anti-dive |
| 24687s | without the Brigitte it's going to be |
| 24688s | harder for canal and that's exactly what |
| 24690s | we expected passed her on a good flank |
| 24692s | to take down Camille and still being |
| 24694s | sustained by the back line even through |
| 24696s | all of the shots that here was hitting |
| 24699s | with the pulse with the pulse rifles now |
| 24701s | Lauren looking for a good flank to try |
| 24703s | and delay a little bit but just going to |
| 24705s | be running back trying to find a good |
| 24707s | place to retreat to still three players |
| 24710s | just sitting on the payload and Lauren |
| 24713s | even if he goes for the dive on Pastor |
| 24715s | there's briquita right there and you |
| 24717s | have buddy sitting so far back there's |
| 24720s | the EMP to come through though and |
| 24721s | Lauren does so much damage in a matter |
| 24724s | of seconds now Pastor can't do much as |
| 24726s | Hira joins in on the dive and it's all |
| 24729s | left up to Grand up to try and hold on |
| 24731s | to their forward positioning they're |
| 24733s | just going to go ahead and Retreat and |
| 24735s | disengage instead that was perfectly |
| 24738s | time from Spain the second that EMP |
| 24740s | takes effect a tactical monkey airdrop |
| 24742s | in the form of Hell uh the form of |
| 24744s | Health just comes crashing down from the |
| 24746s | sky on top of the Netherlands and |
| 24747s | putting a stop on this push here and now |
| 24750s | with how far the cart has gotten it's |
| 24752s | going to be difficult for them to try |
| 24753s | and keep that contest going here they |
| 24755s | have a nano likely gonna put that onto |
| 24757s | crandop here but they still have to make |
| 24759s | sure their back line is secure and it is |
| 24761s | not |
| 24762s | yeah once again the brigitta going down |
| 24765s | first to the pulse bomb so it's just |
| 24768s | going to leave buddy very vulnerable so |
| 24769s | they kind of have to play Closer to the |
| 24771s | rest of the team there's buddy just |
| 24773s | being brought down so low by the Tesla |
| 24775s | Cannon from Winston and Pastor doesn't |
| 24777s | really have that much Mobility to get |
| 24779s | out after the combat role has been |
| 24781s | forced through now with less than a |
| 24783s | minute left over for the Netherlands |
| 24785s | they have one more fight left into in |
| 24787s | them after the rest of the team comes |
| 24790s | back up and tap is still trying to |
| 24792s | contest that forward position having a |
| 24794s | pulse bomb in the back pocket and Pastor |
| 24796s | almost to the high noon as well |
| 24798s | I think between the Primal rages and the |
| 24800s | uh the rallies that are gonna be up for |
| 24802s | both sides this might be a long fight we |
| 24804s | might be looking at an OT push here |
| 24805s | unless tap is able to find something |
| 24807s | with this pulse bomb or try and take |
| 24809s | someone out early but and they're not |
| 24811s | able to finish off Laura in there and |
| 24812s | they tried they try so hard to do it |
| 24814s | potentially give up some positioning for |
| 24815s | it Taft needs to find something before |
| 24817s | these old start coming out |
| 24819s | yeah the pulse bomb goes out and it |
| 24821s | doesn't find anything Health however is |
| 24824s | low and it's waiting for a little bit |
| 24826s | more of that sustain it does come |
| 24827s | through the Primal Rage coming out and |
| 24830s | crammed off even with the final rage |
| 24832s | does go down now the rest of the squad |
| 24834s | it's the rally that has to come through |
| 24836s | and the high noon as well but it takes a |
| 24838s | while to charge it up and can he contest |
| 24840s | with all the damage that is coming out |
| 24842s | through the rifles from Spain it doesn't |
| 24844s | look like they can Spain is able to |
| 24846s | force all of Netherlands back in a |
| 24848s | matter of seconds with the help of an |
| 24850s | EMP pulse bomb and rally lots of |
| 24853s | ultimate such a good fight out of them |
| 24855s | and you can see exactly why they picked |
| 24857s | King's Row it was all up to tap there |
| 24860s | with that pulse bomb but it went wide |
| 24862s | and that let Spain sustain for just long |
| 24865s | enough to build up to that EMP and that |
| 24867s | pulse bomb to close things out that's |
| 24869s | kind of why it was all on tap at that |
| 24871s | point in time the weight of the world on |
| 24873s | his shoulders there and it had that |
| 24875s | pulse bomb stuck to the brigitta that |
| 24877s | would have been a completely different |
| 24878s | story that would have been Spain you |
| 24879s | know falling crumbling at the last |
| 24881s | hurdle there in Netherlands capping out |
| 24883s | point B but that ends up being a great |
| 24885s | hold for Spain I like their dive comp I |
| 24888s | like Lauren somber right now and I |
| 24890s | really like Hells Winston and more than |
| 24892s | any of that I like the Synergy between |
| 24894s | the two when Lauren hacks a Target helve |
| 24897s | is there when you know Lauren hacks a |
| 24899s | Target Hira is there when you need to |
| 24902s | try and slow down Netherlands push here |
| 24903s | is sticking a pull storm onto a and j |
| 24905s | and Netherlands have to play Slow they |
| 24908s | can't afford to do so on the attack and |
| 24910s | now their defense is gonna have to be |
| 24911s | just as good if not better Spain looking |
| 24915s | like they might want to try the echo |
| 24917s | that the Netherlands didn't really get a |
| 24918s | lot of value out of you know try it on |
| 24920s | for size see how it fits them |
| 24922s | yeah it's not the uh it's not the echo |
| 24926s | Mercy that we see a lot of as well but I |
| 24929s | mean that Synergy we're talking about it |
| 24931s | does have a lot to do with the fact that |
| 24932s | these players all have experience with |
| 24934s | each other except for Canal they've all |
| 24936s | played on ataraxia and you can kind of |
| 24938s | tell that experience from the way that |
| 24941s | Lauren plays a Sombra and the rest of |
| 24942s | the team just follows up very |
| 24944s | effortlessly now the Widow has been |
| 24946s | switched out it's Echo uh Echo tracer on |
| 24949s | the attack |
| 24950s | and that Synergy by the way between |
| 24952s | Lauren and health and the rest of Team |
| 24953s | Spain is exactly what you said that they |
| 24955s | were going to have to rely on that |
| 24957s | Synergy as part of ataraxia it might be |
| 24960s | time for them to turn that team's |
| 24961s | fortunes around here using the World Cup |
| 24963s | as their stage to do so here has already |
| 24966s | infiltrated the back line is likely |
| 24967s | going to be looking for buddy but a j |
| 24970s | gonna cut him off at the pass here and |
| 24972s | uh now just trying to punish krandom and |
| 24974s | they do |
| 24975s | Yahira has taken position up top and |
| 24978s | it's just harassing for free nobody has |
| 24980s | really turned around to try and take |
| 24982s | downtown and try and take down Hira but |
| 24985s | Lauren has been taken down by Gala and |
| 24987s | they are able to push onto this point |
| 24989s | very quickly a little bit of a touch |
| 24992s | here from Netherlands but other than |
| 24993s | that it should be a free capture for |
| 24995s | Spain Netherlands don't look like they |
| 24997s | have any interest in trying to recontest |
| 25000s | this they've all been forced too far |
| 25001s | back and hell is in such a good position |
| 25004s | oh the jump in from the Winston the |
| 25006s | bubble goes down and oh my gosh the |
| 25008s | anti-nade from Canal that was huge they |
| 25011s | couldn't do anything except Retreat and |
| 25013s | Pastor just had to sit there and take |
| 25015s | all the damage and go back to spawn and |
| 25018s | walk back to the point |
| 25020s | there's a late kill onto tap there but |
| 25022s | the good news is the last two players |
| 25024s | that die were past her and tap they're |
| 25025s | fast characters they'll be back in no |
| 25027s | time but Spain they don't care without |
| 25028s | those DPS on the field they know they |
| 25030s | can afford to play aggressively get that |
| 25032s | cart progress and force the Netherlands |
| 25034s | back don't let them set up don't let |
| 25036s | them be comfortable constantly force |
| 25038s | them to be as uncomfortable as possible |
| 25040s | we're gonna be looking at an EMP coming |
| 25042s | up from Pastor here and that's what's |
| 25044s | going to have to alleviate some of the |
| 25046s | pressure for the Netherlands right here |
| 25048s | barring that you might be looking at |
| 25050s | buddy with a nano boost but Spain has a |
| 25052s | pretty sizable old thing of their own so |
| 25053s | I mean this could really go anyway Nano |
| 25056s | gonna kick things off but we're gonna |
| 25057s | fall early |
| 25058s | oh crandop does get nanoed but is |
| 25061s | looking for a fight and can't quite find |
| 25063s | one it's only the back lines in there |
| 25064s | and it's a quick disengage from Spain's |
| 25067s | backline while Hira with a pulse bomb is |
| 25069s | able to find so much value with only the |
| 25072s | pistols and now crammed off has to pop |
| 25074s | the Primal Rage and Retreat for that |
| 25076s | little bit of extra Health in |
| 25079s | Netherlands they have just been forced |
| 25080s | back once again Spain the echo I don't |
| 25084s | think we've seen much of Lauren but I |
| 25086s | feel like they've been putting enough |
| 25088s | pressure with just Hira alone and if |
| 25090s | they're focused on trying to get rid of |
| 25092s | the echo in the sky then Hira is just |
| 25094s | allowed to do whatever they want Pastor |
| 25097s | has the EMP and is likely going to be |
| 25099s | looking for it but if Gala pops this |
| 25100s | rally and is able to sustain everybody |
| 25102s | it might be enough to keep everybody |
| 25103s | alive but actually with hell falling |
| 25106s | there it's yeah I was gonna think better |
| 25107s | of it actually gonna go on the back foot |
| 25109s | they've got time to reassess themselves |
| 25110s | and come in with an old Advantage so |
| 25112s | don't let Pastor expend that one they'll |
| 25114s | just go ahead and let that one go take a |
| 25116s | little bit of an Eco push drain the old |
| 25117s | economy from another ones that was |
| 25119s | already looking quite Barren and now |
| 25121s | Spain can come in and just hit him with |
| 25123s | a four-way combo with the rally the |
| 25126s | pulse bomb the Primal and the duplicate |
| 25127s | Rally from a j to kick this next fight |
| 25130s | off that's another old off the table for |
| 25132s | the Netherlands yeah and now on the |
| 25134s | other side they already have that Primal |
| 25136s | Rage lore and goes ahead and tries to |
| 25138s | duplicate the Winston but immediately |
| 25140s | gets knocked out of the duplicate now |
| 25142s | the rally from Gala attempts to sustain |
| 25145s | the rest of the team as Hira makes their |
| 25147s | way back from Spawn being knocked down |
| 25149s | early but crandop has been taken down |
| 25151s | low because of the biotic nade and tap |
| 25154s | finding one but it's a gift from Beyond |
| 25156s | the Grave tap taken down by hell now |
| 25159s | it's so many kills going back and forth |
| 25162s | but stuck by Heroes so crandop does fall |
| 25164s | now without the tank for the Netherlands |
| 25166s | it's a tough one they are going to be |
| 25168s | able to push back where Netherlands |
| 25171s | failed on King's Row Spain they take it |
| 25175s | to 1-1 |
| 25176s | there was a moment in time there where |
| 25178s | there was some great cycling of the |
| 25180s | bodies on the point there from the |
| 25181s | Netherlands you would have one person |
| 25182s | going in for the contest and then |
| 25184s | dipping out with some cooldowns but |
| 25186s | eventually you run out of cooldowns and |
| 25187s | eventually you run out of bodies and |
| 25189s | Spain just keep the snowball rolling |
| 25191s | downhill and guess what we get to go to |
| 25193s | it's been a while since we've seen it |
| 25196s | but we get to go to map three that's |
| 25198s | crazy and it is going to be pushed and |
| 25201s | from push you've got three options right |
| 25204s | you've got Colosseo you've got new Queen |
| 25207s | Street in Toronto and then you got |
| 25209s | eastransa so we I mean it's going to be |
| 25213s | interesting no matter which way you |
| 25216s | spell it because this is the only second |
| 25218s | map three of the entire day and |
| 25221s | obviously in the early stages of the |
| 25223s | OverWatch World Cup you're probably |
| 25225s | going to expect a few of those Stompy |
| 25228s | matches but this is definitely one of |
| 25229s | the most interesting ones that we've |
| 25231s | gotten in the latter half of this day |
| 25233s | and also a very interesting matchup from |
| 25236s | group a of this of qualifier |
| 25239s | very interesting and I'm looking at the |
| 25241s | push maps that you were talking about |
| 25242s | that we have in the map Pool which is |
| 25244s | all of them there's only three in the |
| 25245s | game so take your pick I feel like we |
| 25248s | might not see them wanting to go to |
| 25250s | Esperanza because that's a map where we |
| 25252s | typically see a lot of the dive and I |
| 25254s | like Spain's dive a lot it is you know |
| 25257s | it's not the cleanest that I've ever |
| 25258s | seen but it is very clean and it doesn't |
| 25261s | look like the Netherlands have a |
| 25263s | realistic answer for it theirs just |
| 25265s | seems to be a little bit behind so if |
| 25267s | they're gonna play that they have to try |
| 25269s | and go for like a counter dive |
| 25270s | composition maybe a junker Queen but if |
| 25272s | you're gonna play that you might as well |
| 25273s | go to like new Queen Street so uh you |
| 25276s | know that's gonna be my map prediction |
| 25277s | I'm predicting new Queen Street |
| 25279s | Netherlands I'm happy for you to prove |
| 25280s | me wrong but we'll have to see |
| 25282s | yeah and I feel like Colosseo is just |
| 25285s | one of those very versatile maps that it |
| 25287s | kind of just like suits whatever you |
| 25289s | would like you know so you can play kind |
| 25291s | of any comp on that but it also means |
| 25293s | that we'll display to our strengths will |
| 25295s | it play to their strengths do we really |
| 25297s | have an advantage if we pick this so I'm |
| 25299s | going to have to agree with you on the |
| 25301s | new Queen Street pick |
| 25303s | yeah well we'll have to find out if our |
| 25305s | predictions are correct we're going to a |
| 25307s | map three it's going to be the last map |
| 25308s | of the day so make sure you grab your |
| 25310s | popcorn really quick as we throw it to a |
| 25312s | break but be sure to come right back |
| 25314s | because this is going to be look uh this |
| 25316s | is looking to be one of our matches of |
| 25317s | the day we'll see you on the other side |
| 25318s | of this break |
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| 25536s | foreign |
| 25540s | welcome back to our third and final map |
| 25544s | between the Netherlands and Spain this |
| 25548s | is the OverWatch World Cup emec online |
| 25552s | qualifiers I'm epitomes joined by CBN |
| 25555s | I'm extremely excited for our map 3 of |
| 25558s | today CV yeah we finally get one we |
| 25561s | couldn't let hex and CP have all the fun |
| 25563s | they had to throw one our way and Spain |
| 25565s | came out with a surprise and here's |
| 25567s | another surprise they're actually going |
| 25569s | to take it to coliseo our predictions |
| 25571s | were wrong we uh are sorry that's |
| 25573s | actually going to be the Netherlands |
| 25575s | pick so actually yeah I mean still wrong |
| 25578s | we were saying new Queen Street but this |
| 25580s | is an interesting one where I think you |
| 25581s | know Spain can maybe still get away with |
| 25582s | the dive but I think this means that the |
| 25584s | Netherlands want to play something a |
| 25587s | little more rushy perhaps |
| 25589s | yeah maybe a Lucio kiriko like back in |
| 25592s | the back in the day back in my day I |
| 25595s | used to play Lucio kiriko or Lucio |
| 25597s | burgito |
| 25599s | um I don't know it's definitely going to |
| 25601s | be interesting to see what they play |
| 25602s | because push really necessitates that |
| 25604s | you win lots of fights in a row so you |
| 25606s | need to manage that ultimate economy |
| 25608s | incredibly well |
| 25610s | you like I said you still can get away |
| 25612s | with the dive here though so that might |
| 25614s | be what Spain comes out here with and |
| 25616s | again I really like their dive on King's |
| 25619s | Row I think that is you know that's the |
| 25621s | basket that they need to be putting |
| 25622s | their eggs in and if that's uh if it's |
| 25625s | able to Bear any fruit here we might be |
| 25627s | looking at another potential upset on |
| 25629s | the day I |
| 25630s | it could definitely happen it's not |
| 25632s | within the uh it is within the realm of |
| 25635s | possibility it's not impossible but |
| 25637s | we'll have to see what these teams come |
| 25638s | out here with surely there is a reason |
| 25640s | that the Netherlands are taking us to |
| 25643s | coliseo here and surely Spain will have |
| 25645s | something resembling a plan for it uh |
| 25648s | speaking of which by the way we do have |
| 25650s | Don coming back in for the side of the |
| 25652s | Netherlands as well as a 10 and uh I |
| 25656s | don't believe there's any swaps coming |
| 25657s | out on the side of Spain so a couple of |
| 25661s | swaps of the Netherlands definitely |
| 25662s | tells me they want to play a different |
| 25663s | composition but Spain they're sticking |
| 25665s | with what brought them to the dance |
| 25667s | [Music] |
| 25668s | yeah well Netherlands they're actually |
| 25671s | taking out a rematch I mean the switch |
| 25674s | on the tank back to Dawn right and then |
| 25676s | A10 also coming back in here with the |
| 25678s | Reaper and The Moira on buddy so this is |
| 25682s | a lot more reminiscent of what they were |
| 25684s | playing on Li Zhang Tower |
| 25686s | um with tap back on the May and Spain I |
| 25689s | think are trying to answer with a very |
| 25690s | similar composition except it's a |
| 25692s | Reinhardt and sojourn and the Baptiste |
| 25695s | in the back line |
| 25696s | I think that sojourn is going to be the |
| 25698s | biggest head scratcher for me here I |
| 25699s | hope that here is able to find some |
| 25701s | value out of it but the Netherlands |
| 25703s | again just like they did on control |
| 25705s | center they are just going to run at you |
| 25707s | and hurt you and you have to try and |
| 25709s | either pick one of them off before they |
| 25711s | get too close or try and find a way to |
| 25713s | keep them at Bay and sojourn unless she |
| 25716s | has a rail shot charged up doesn't |
| 25718s | really do either of those things and so |
| 25720s | suddenly you're putting a lot of |
| 25722s | pressure onto Lauren to be to be there |
| 25724s | with the maywalls to be there with the |
| 25726s | big damage you're putting a lot of |
| 25727s | pressure onto hell to try and keep the |
| 25729s | shield Up Hold the Line sooner or later |
| 25732s | it's going to crumble if the Netherlands |
| 25734s | all decide to smash their W Keys we'll |
| 25736s | see who Flinch is first here though it |
| 25738s | looks like Spain gonna at least start |
| 25740s | getting a little bit of Bot progress |
| 25742s | yeah neither of them looking to progress |
| 25744s | past their respective walls they need |
| 25747s | that something to play around since |
| 25749s | there is a lot of One-Shot potential |
| 25751s | over on Spain's side with the railgun |
| 25753s | shot charged but other than that it okay |
| 25756s | well |
| 25758s | we also get our first pause let's go |
| 25760s | congratulations us you know let's let's |
| 25763s | OverWatch without a few pauses I feel |
| 25765s | like I really jinxed this you know I I |
| 25767s | said I was supposed to Caster curse |
| 25770s | positively and be like yeah we're going |
| 25772s | to not have any pauses you know because |
| 25775s | we are on schedule right now and we're |
| 25777s | not going to have any pauses and |
| 25780s | now we've got one I mean like I said we |
| 25783s | couldn't let hex and CP have all the fun |
| 25785s | so now we get to fill time while we try |
| 25787s | and sort out whatever issues might be uh |
| 25789s | might be plaguing the players at this |
| 25790s | point in time you know when we're |
| 25792s | playing these kind of remote things and |
| 25793s | we've got players from all over the |
| 25794s | world you know ping exists and sometimes |
| 25797s | it's not the easiest thing to overcome |
| 25799s | so these sorts of things kind of happen |
| 25801s | we want it to be as Fair as possible so |
| 25802s | yeah we'll uh if someone's disconnecting |
| 25804s | or if they're experiencing a pink Spike |
| 25806s | or if someone's cat just chewed a power |
| 25808s | cord somewhere you never know |
| 25810s | you know we want to be fair we want to |
| 25812s | give these players a chance to kind of |
| 25813s | recuperate here but I you know nobody |
| 25817s | really finding any blood in that first |
| 25818s | fight there it kind of just felt like a |
| 25821s | stalemate there there was that part |
| 25822s | where the bot kind of like inched a |
| 25824s | little bit forward for Spain but went |
| 25826s | right back didn't even touch the |
| 25827s | barricade because the Netherlands don't |
| 25829s | really want to Flinch and I'm expecting |
| 25831s | them at some point to just hit the speed |
| 25834s | amp and go all in and you know |
| 25837s | what are they waiting for is it the |
| 25839s | thing that we paused for is it someone |
| 25841s | on their side that's dcing or are they |
| 25843s | just waiting for one false step from |
| 25845s | Spain and then pouncing on it it is |
| 25847s | possible that a tap is playing from n a |
| 25850s | uh in the EM you see so I mean it could |
| 25854s | be a DC over on the Netherlands side we |
| 25857s | don't really know hopefully we will know |
| 25859s | soon and hopefully that they are they |
| 25862s | are able to get it fixed but yeah it |
| 25863s | does seem like they were just to add a |
| 25865s | bit of a sail mate at the beginning I |
| 25866s | mean depending on whose side it was it |
| 25869s | might make a little bit more sense |
| 25870s | because like Spain started getting it |
| 25872s | going but that they didn't really follow |
| 25873s | up on it |
| 25874s | um if you just saw my camera shake that |
| 25876s | was my cat and |
| 25878s | um |
| 25879s | hydropower chords yes make sure that |
| 25882s | they don't get chewed through like |
| 25884s | possibly one of our players power chords |
| 25886s | did |
| 25887s | uh I'm glad you brought up tap though by |
| 25889s | the way because yeah something that you |
| 25891s | know I'm sure the chat might not realize |
| 25892s | is that while all of these players are |
| 25894s | representing these countries it doesn't |
| 25896s | always mean they're physically located |
| 25897s | in these countries we have tap who yeah |
| 25900s | is here to represent the Netherlands is |
| 25901s | from there but currently I believe is |
| 25903s | playing from n a he's uh been a staple |
| 25906s | in the uh North American Collegiate |
| 25908s | scene been a threat for pretty much |
| 25909s | every school here also with uh red birds |
| 25912s | Esports been a threat for everybody in |
| 25913s | the North American Contender scene so to |
| 25916s | my knowledge he is physically located |
| 25917s | here in North America so you know gonna |
| 25920s | be playing on a bit of paying potential |
| 25922s | for pink spikes like we said always |
| 25924s | something to be on the lookout for but |
| 25925s | when he's cooking he's able to he's |
| 25928s | definitely you're not showing that he's |
| 25930s | playing on ping when he's able to cook |
| 25932s | there we go back to like lijong Tower |
| 25934s | when he's just hitting icicle head shots |
| 25935s | like like it was a hit scan like he's |
| 25938s | just playing Cassidy and just going for |
| 25939s | the head click simulator there the |
| 25941s | icicles have been phenomenal the may |
| 25942s | play has been phenomenal |
| 25944s | I yeah he's a phenomenal player |
| 25947s | definitely someone worth highlighting on |
| 25949s | the Netherlands |
| 25950s | yeah and it's also interesting to switch |
| 25952s | back from Grand op and Dan and A10 and |
| 25956s | Pastor right so Pastor playing more of |
| 25959s | that Widowmaker for a second there |
| 25962s | um playing the Sombra the Cassidy while |
| 25964s | A10 is looking at you know the symmetra |
| 25966s | the reaper so really what much more like |
| 25969s | up close Brawley play style when you |
| 25972s | switching over to like Dan and A10 |
| 25975s | because you know Dan plays a ramatra and |
| 25977s | the ramacha just loves the brawl |
| 25979s | yeah you you brought up late earlier |
| 25981s | that A10 has a has a history of flexing |
| 25983s | over to this area and in some circles |
| 25985s | that might even be what he's known for |
| 25986s | it feels like he just likes the heroes |
| 25988s | that get up close and melt people down |
| 25990s | you know the symmetra the reaper there's |
| 25993s | a lot of uh a lot of |
| 25995s | similarities there in the play style |
| 25997s | from Azaria not quite as much but the |
| 25998s | way that you the tempo the way that you |
| 26001s | play the level of aggression it looks |
| 26003s | like we're actually gonna have a restart |
| 26004s | here which is you know just as well |
| 26007s | because no progress was made we just you |
| 26008s | know bled a little bit off the time bang |
| 26010s | for both sides here so gonna go ahead |
| 26012s | and restart it here it looks like Spain |
| 26015s | might be trying something a little bit |
| 26017s | different a little dishonest but you |
| 26019s | know when opportunity knocks you answer |
| 26021s | the door |
| 26022s | okay I mean okay back to the right all |
| 26025s | right uh good honest good honest mirror |
| 26028s | yeah I mean I would really like to see |
| 26031s | the junker Queen um come out from either |
| 26033s | of these teams especially since she does |
| 26035s | play very well |
| 26037s | um into these brawl comps as well as the |
| 26040s | factory plays well on Coliseum you don't |
| 26041s | need to have too much control of high |
| 26043s | ground and having the low Ground Control |
| 26045s | on junker Queen she really does reign |
| 26047s | supreme and that's going for a flank |
| 26050s | here oh the entire team yeah the entire |
| 26053s | team they're just gonna give up the bot |
| 26055s | to Spain and like that's just as well |
| 26057s | because now we've uh you know shout out |
| 26058s | to Missy Elliott we flipped it and |
| 26060s | reversed it now the Netherlands are over |
| 26061s | on Spain's side and no one's really sure |
| 26064s | what to make of this so we're back to |
| 26066s | the stalemate we had before the pause |
| 26068s | but without sides out guys good job they |
| 26071s | put the they put the Blizzard or I'm |
| 26074s | sorry the May wall down and they're just |
| 26075s | able to get a little tiny little push of |
| 26078s | one meter on their robot and now they're |
| 26081s | just just you know weaving in and out of |
| 26084s | these columns held taking quite a bit of |
| 26086s | damage from The Shield but otherwise is |
| 26089s | there's just not too much going on they |
| 26091s | want to get A10 behind this Reinhardt |
| 26093s | get a little bit of that harassment in |
| 26095s | with those shotguns since Reinhardt |
| 26097s | can't really contend with the reaper at |
| 26099s | close range but in that at that point |
| 26101s | the A10 will also have to deal with |
| 26103s | Lauren and Hira just spamming from |
| 26106s | behind oh that is a very early amp |
| 26109s | Matrix from Canal though |
| 26111s | yeah I don't know if it's gonna really |
| 26112s | uh amount to much of anything but that |
| 26114s | charge from hell just Mike gonna Force |
| 26116s | the Nemesis form out from Dawn and the |
| 26117s | fist are flying Health just getting |
| 26119s | pummeled down and that's gonna be |
| 26121s | Netherlands most likely taking the bot a |
| 26124s | little bit more here they just have to |
| 26125s | dislodge it from Spain's barricade over |
| 26127s | here but without a Reinhardt to hold and |
| 26129s | without a Baptiste to heal that's gonna |
| 26131s | be looking not too difficult of a task |
| 26133s | to do just a couple more stragglers and |
| 26136s | again I like the flank play that the |
| 26138s | Netherlands went for here trying to turn |
| 26139s | this push map into a pull map where they |
| 26142s | just you kind of yank the bot out from |
| 26143s | underneath Spain and say no no you're |
| 26145s | coming with us back towards your spawn |
| 26146s | here you guys stay over there do your |
| 26148s | thing we're just gonna take Bobby here |
| 26150s | back to the back to the spawn yeah I |
| 26152s | think the hardest part of coliseo is |
| 26155s | really just getting started because it's |
| 26157s | just that long stretch on like Maps like |
| 26159s | Esperanza where there's kind of a curve |
| 26161s | and you have places to cover you just |
| 26163s | kind of have to force yourself into |
| 26165s | these rooms and that's why people love |
| 26167s | brawl comp so much on coliseo now |
| 26170s | they're forcing themselves past those |
| 26171s | arches which gives them a lot more room |
| 26173s | to play with a lot more obstacles that |
| 26175s | they can leave behind and potentially |
| 26177s | even take control of some high ground |
| 26179s | but the shatter comes through from Spain |
| 26181s | and hell is just swinging now with the |
| 26184s | sound barrier on the back line the |
| 26186s | immortality field does save some of |
| 26188s | Spain's players but alongside that |
| 26191s | remotra ultimate um and the death |
| 26194s | Blossom there's not much they can do |
| 26196s | after the immortality field has been |
| 26198s | taken down a lot of ultimate investment |
| 26201s | from Spain to amount to a whole lot of |
| 26203s | nothing uh Hey Netherlands it's me it's |
| 26205s | your pal CB here did you really need to |
| 26207s | invest all five ultimates into that |
| 26209s | fight there I'm not so sure that was |
| 26211s | entirely necessary but they do it |
| 26213s | regardless and it might end up actually |
| 26214s | being worth it if they're able to get |
| 26216s | the checkpoint here but Spain still has |
| 26217s | a chance to contest and potentially an |
| 26219s | ant Matrix to force some positioning |
| 26221s | here and they're gonna go ahead and Pop |
| 26223s | That speed on down and start the contest |
| 26225s | here |
| 26226s | oh that was a huge job that was huge |
| 26230s | from hell to get buddy down and now both |
| 26233s | of Netherlands supports are out of the |
| 26235s | fight they have to try and subsist just |
| 26237s | by themselves and off the health packs |
| 26239s | in Europe by A-10 is able to get out a |
| 26241s | little with the Rave form but other than |
| 26244s | that it is just not enough and they |
| 26247s | didn't even activate the checkpoint |
| 26248s | Netherlands just shy of getting that |
| 26250s | forward spawn for themselves now just |
| 26252s | going to push straight on back through |
| 26254s | to Spain's side |
| 26256s | had they got the checkpoint here that |
| 26258s | five ultimate investment would have been |
| 26260s | worth it but it's not and now they don't |
| 26261s | have anything to counter Lauren's |
| 26263s | blizzard here so we might be looking at |
| 26265s | at least one one fight here for Spain |
| 26267s | and they might be getting close to being |
| 26269s | able to match that payload progress but |
| 26270s | The High Ground here that the |
| 26272s | Netherlands can hold from is very |
| 26274s | oppressive and you know they don't |
| 26276s | really have anybody up there poking from |
| 26277s | it currently but if Netherlands just |
| 26279s | backs up here which they're doing the |
| 26281s | exact opposite of it could be a threat |
| 26283s | now both blizzards being dropped to try |
| 26286s | and freeze both teams in their tracks |
| 26288s | but Spain is coming out on top with Kira |
| 26291s | on the Hanzo such a powerful switch over |
| 26294s | and even at close ranges it's able to |
| 26297s | dish out so much damage very quickly |
| 26299s | especially with all the headshots that's |
| 26301s | being landed here suddenly on fire and |
| 26304s | pushing towards Netherlands record and |
| 26307s | possibly to the checkpoint |
| 26309s | I mean this this might be another fight |
| 26311s | win for Spain but Netherlands are going |
| 26312s | to have some ultimates coming online |
| 26314s | here but one pick can throw a wrench in |
| 26315s | the equation here Hira gonna use that |
| 26317s | Dragon strike early for some positioning |
| 26319s | and that's gonna Force some olds out of |
| 26321s | the Netherlands the shatter comes out |
| 26322s | from hell and a and j Falls |
| 26325s | yeah the amp Matrix as well as the |
| 26327s | dragon strike from Spain was so powerful |
| 26330s | but now once again the rematch ulti the |
| 26332s | death Blossom is also available but it's |
| 26334s | not going to be a necessary rimatra the |
| 26337s | obliteration it just annihilates |
| 26340s | everything and |
| 26343s | Netherlands walking back towards their |
| 26346s | own wall trying to push a little bit |
| 26348s | further to that checkpoint still in the |
| 26350s | lead and I thought that Spain might be |
| 26352s | able to delay a little bit further |
| 26354s | especially with the huge value out of |
| 26355s | that Dragon strike and their little bit |
| 26358s | more of long-range contention but it |
| 26360s | wasn't so now Spain back in the fight |
| 26363s | I mean they came into that previous |
| 26365s | fight with four ultimates but they |
| 26366s | didn't have the sound barrier online |
| 26368s | just yet and now they have it and it |
| 26370s | might have to be played the counter out |
| 26372s | a10s that's awesome here and it works |
| 26374s | wonders to counter there and now hell |
| 26376s | with a pin there on to Dan that's gonna |
| 26378s | be the Netherlands on the back foot |
| 26380s | but now buddy hat being eliminated |
| 26382s | because of Hell's dive means that Hira |
| 26385s | gets two basically for free without the |
| 26387s | sustain of the biotic or Premiere in the |
| 26391s | backline sound barrier up for a and j |
| 26393s | but other than that they have no reason |
| 26395s | to use it because their squad has been |
| 26398s | so staggered |
| 26399s | I mean this might actually be Spain |
| 26401s | being able to capture it here once again |
| 26402s | Hira is on that High Ground being a |
| 26404s | threat but the pressure is there for us |
| 26406s | to dip down and try and pressure the |
| 26407s | cart a little bit more sorry the bot |
| 26409s | Netherlands gonna go ahead and drop on |
| 26411s | top here comes another Earth shatter |
| 26412s | from hell but no follow-through |
| 26416s | yeah unable to the zoning from the |
| 26418s | dragon strike was incredibly powerful |
| 26420s | and the amp Matrix now coming back |
| 26422s | online for Canal it has been online |
| 26424s | three times already during this map and |
| 26427s | now it's the blizzard on the other hand |
| 26429s | to try and stop Spain from progressing |
| 26431s | any further but Spain has pushed past |
| 26433s | and they're also going to get the |
| 26435s | checkpoint here are taking a lot of |
| 26437s | damage from the Nemesis form of Don |
| 26439s | though but Canal is going to finish off |
| 26441s | and clean up for the squad while Spain |
| 26444s | get their forward spawn that getting |
| 26446s | that checkpoint there is everything they |
| 26448s | don't need alts they have the lead now |
| 26450s | and they have the checkpoint they have |
| 26451s | the forward spawn and they can get even |
| 26453s | just a little bit more progress and |
| 26455s | that's gonna be real tough for the |
| 26457s | Netherlands to do on the other side they |
| 26458s | still have to go through the butt |
| 26459s | scratch animation when it's their turn |
| 26461s | to try and take that checkpoint if Spain |
| 26463s | even lets them get that far that likely |
| 26466s | will because they'll have the ultimates |
| 26468s | to do it but they're going to have to |
| 26469s | invest some of them here the coalescence |
| 26471s | is going to go ahead and kick it off is |
| 26473s | there going to be any more do they need |
| 26475s | more |
| 26476s | Don is able to find something though in |
| 26479s | the Nemesis form and it's also A10 |
| 26482s | that's been able to get up close and |
| 26484s | personal with Spain's back line Canal |
| 26487s | being that main source of sustain in |
| 26489s | their composition going down means that |
| 26492s | they're going to have to back off just a |
| 26493s | little bit more and Netherlands is |
| 26495s | really looking to contest that |
| 26497s | checkpoint it seems that they're going |
| 26498s | to be able to get it especially with |
| 26500s | Dawn keeping help at Bay with the help |
| 26503s | of his primary oh no Shield but oh the |
| 26506s | death oh my God he got knocked in the |
| 26509s | air and the sound barrier has been |
| 26511s | invested as well as the immortality |
| 26513s | field but they invested it too early |
| 26515s | they didn't wait for the annihilation to |
| 26517s | come through from Dawn and tap also |
| 26520s | having the blizzard in combination with |
| 26522s | that huge area of effect ultimate means |
| 26525s | that Netherlands can push a little bit |
| 26527s | further the death Blossom was really |
| 26529s | just a scare for the Netherlands I mean |
| 26531s | what a play from Gala to be able to Boop |
| 26533s | the reaper away and then hit the death |
| 26535s | Blossom there hello there's an early |
| 26536s | pick off there on to tap that might be |
| 26538s | enough for Spain to get their foot back |
| 26540s | in the door here and they're gonna kick |
| 26541s | that door right down they lose here and |
| 26543s | Gallo though when they try to do it the |
| 26545s | Netherlands are going to be dislodged |
| 26547s | quite so easily |
| 26549s | the Netherlands still contesting playing |
| 26552s | around this robot but ramacho when he's |
| 26554s | not in his Nemesis warm can be so paper |
| 26557s | so A and J going to go ahead drop that |
| 26559s | beat and the coalescence as well so much |
| 26562s | sustained come through from Netherlands |
| 26564s | but AJ still goes down with a swing of |
| 26567s | the hammer the shatter is still online |
| 26569s | for help and they can make a lot of |
| 26572s | space here Spain taking control of the |
| 26574s | robot marching it back towards their own |
| 26576s | checkpoint with only 60 seconds left |
| 26579s | over but it's only 10 meters in between |
| 26582s | the two of them that was a beautiful |
| 26585s | that was a beautiful fire strike and |
| 26587s | Matrix combo their held gonna take down |
| 26589s | two make it a third hell is just cooking |
| 26592s | right now another one on to buddy give |
| 26594s | him the 5K here Health just took that |
| 26598s | for free that's gonna keep put them |
| 26600s | going only one old was invested there |
| 26602s | and they're going to be able to get back |
| 26604s | up to that checkpoint Netherlands will |
| 26605s | have a contest here but Spain can look |
| 26607s | to match that progress and potentially |
| 26609s | Take the Lead they still have an earth |
| 26611s | shatter to do it and the Netherlands |
| 26613s | have nothing to stop it yeah Health |
| 26616s | didn't even need to invest the Earth |
| 26617s | shutter to get that triple kill but they |
| 26619s | have a locked held back into this corner |
| 26623s | and they are using the Earth shatter to |
| 26625s | take out the ramatra dam just forced |
| 26628s | into the corner and corralled A-10 away |
| 26630s | from the rest of the team sectioned off |
| 26632s | by the May while there's going to be the |
| 26634s | raid form to bail him out a little bit |
| 26636s | more but they're unable to take anything |
| 26639s | A10 does go down golliff quickly |
| 26642s | respawns and coming back to the rest of |
| 26644s | the squad canal still so much burst and |
| 26647s | Hira just popping off and over time a |
| 26650s | few seconds into it a j tries to touch |
| 26653s | but it's not enough Spain in a reverse |
| 26657s | sweep 2-1 Netherlands that has to be an |
| 26660s | upset but Spain oh my goodness what a |
| 26663s | what a sequence of events there to close |
| 26665s | things out we go to the fight where the |
| 26666s | Netherlands have the lead first rule of |
| 26669s | OverWatch you never investable support |
| 26670s | ultimates into a losing fights but they |
| 26672s | do just that so sound barrier and |
| 26674s | coalescence both off the field they |
| 26676s | can't be aggressive and they can't React |
| 26677s | to what comes next and that's that ant |
| 26679s | Matrix fire strike combo from health and |
| 26682s | the 5K cleanup that followed and at that |
| 26685s | point it's like you know the only old |
| 26687s | that the Netherlands were close to that |
| 26688s | they could have used to sustain was the |
| 26690s | annihilation but Don fell to the shatter |
| 26693s | got charged got mopped right up and that |
| 26696s | is a beautiful play there from Spain oh |
| 26699s | my goodness this uh this is a squad to |
| 26701s | watch folks definitely one that can uh |
| 26703s | surprise some people if you sleep on |
| 26704s | them great stuff from Hell great stuff |
| 26707s | from Gala as well those Lucio plays were |
| 26709s | something special I mean and again props |
| 26712s | to the Netherlands for this flank play |
| 26714s | that we're seeing here on the replay |
| 26715s | this was something spicy and might be |
| 26717s | why they chose coliseo in the first |
| 26719s | place but it was enough Spain they just |
| 26722s | came out with the clutch play there |
| 26724s | towards the end beautiful stuff 10 out |
| 26727s | of 10 no notes |
| 26729s | I mean held during the end the Synergy |
| 26732s | with Canal to put up the amp Matrix as |
| 26735s | well for that beautiful fire strike that |
| 26736s | took out so many of Netherlands players |
| 26738s | just in one Fell Swoop the Spain I mean |
| 26742s | they were winning fight after fight and |
| 26744s | it seems like Netherlands they were |
| 26745s | really losing their footing and just |
| 26747s | couldn't find their way back into the |
| 26748s | game nearing the end as well it felt |
| 26751s | like there was a lot of panic plays and |
| 26752s | Don really got caught out with that last |
| 26754s | Earth shatter and it was just such a |
| 26757s | good layering of their crowd control a |
| 26760s | good layering of their ultimates as well |
| 26762s | so they always had something in the back |
| 26764s | pocket for when the pressure came down |
| 26766s | I mean looking at the talent that the |
| 26769s | Netherlands came here this is absolutely |
| 26770s | I would definitely consider this an |
| 26772s | upset and if the Netherlands want to |
| 26774s | keep fighting for one of those last |
| 26775s | three spots or sorry one of those three |
| 26777s | spots from their group they're going to |
| 26778s | have to shape up here they looked |
| 26780s | dominant on lijiang Tower but everything |
| 26782s | after that was just Spain's game to play |
| 26785s | and they played it to Perfection they |
| 26787s | are definitely a hi Kitty Hello they are |
| 26790s | definitely a team to watch out for as |
| 26792s | you should definitely watch out for that |
| 26793s | tail |
| 26795s | yeah no I'm I'm yeah I definitely want |
| 26798s | to see some more of this Spain Squad as |
| 26800s | we go forward this is just day one out |
| 26801s | of day eight and they have already shown |
| 26803s | us something special and I hope to see |
| 26805s | more from this squad what a great game |
| 26807s | I'm glad we got to go out on a map three |
| 26809s | and a and a good map three at that yeah |
| 26812s | this was an excellent game to end the |
| 26815s | day and you know Spain who is like they |
| 26818s | rely on that Synergy and even though |
| 26820s | Canal wasn't ever really part of that |
| 26822s | ataraxia Squad that we were talking |
| 26824s | about that really makes up the core of |
| 26826s | the Spain's team he's still able to mold |
| 26830s | and gel with the squad so perfectly and |
| 26833s | it allowed a lot of those Place Plus |
| 26834s | Canal on his own was able to get so many |
| 26837s | of those eight amp matrixes up very very |
| 26840s | quickly it felt almost like he was |
| 26843s | charging up like a pulse bomb on Tracer |
| 26845s | because they were just so frequent in |
| 26847s | every single fight I feel like there was |
| 26849s | an amp Matrix It forced so much |
| 26850s | positioning and even when they were out |
| 26852s | of the fight during the transition they |
| 26854s | just delayed staggered with the amp |
| 26856s | Matrix even though there wasn't directly |
| 26858s | a fight there |
| 26859s | yeah and we talk about the Synergy that |
| 26861s | amp Matrix fire strike combo that makes |
| 26863s | it look like these two have been playing |
| 26864s | together for years and years and years |
| 26866s | so at uh that ataraxia core looking a |
| 26869s | little bit stronger than it has in the |
| 26870s | past definitely paying some dividends |
| 26872s | and a welcome addition in the back line |
| 26874s | there that ant Matrix fire strike combo |
| 26876s | that essentially won them the game there |
| 26879s | again great stuff from this squad I I |
| 26882s | cannot wait to see more of them as the |
| 26884s | days go forward but it looks like you |
| 26886s | know we should be uh we should be trying |
| 26887s | to cook up an interview with the team |
| 26889s | captain here from Team Spain here in |
| 26890s | just a little bit uh but like |
| 26894s | what a game we're gonna go ahead and |
| 26896s | throw it to a quick break here we'll |
| 26897s | have that interview ready on the other |
| 26898s | side of it don't go anywhere we'll see |
| 26900s | you on the other side |
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| 27119s | there we go that should probably fix |
| 27121s | that ordeal welcome back ladies and |
| 27122s | gentlemen to the OverWatch World Cup |
| 27123s | 2023 online qualifiers for emec I am of |
| 27126s | course your host Jim Basco that's |
| 27128s | epitome's CB we just had a banger of a |
| 27131s | match between Netherlands and Spain CB I |
| 27135s | mean that last map |
| 27137s | was pushing way back and forth the |
| 27140s | entire time I couldn't tell you who was |
| 27142s | gonna take it until the very end where |
| 27144s | Spain finally with that beautiful fire |
| 27146s | strike through the amp page and Matrix |
| 27148s | like you mentioned it was just so good |
| 27150s | to watch yeah and that's kind of like |
| 27152s | the nature of push in a lot of these |
| 27153s | situations where it feels kind of even |
| 27155s | kind of back and forth push and pull you |
| 27157s | know no pun intended but it often comes |
| 27160s | down to those big clutch plays towards |
| 27163s | the end that Spain came out with and you |
| 27165s | know Netherlands kind of fumbled the bag |
| 27167s | in the fight before with some of those |
| 27168s | support ultimates being expanded for |
| 27170s | very little payoff there and the payoff |
| 27172s | was definitely there for that ant Matrix |
| 27174s | fire strike combo those clutch plays |
| 27176s | when it's that close are what takes home |
| 27178s | the dub and that's gonna be a big dub |
| 27180s | for Spain one that a lot of people might |
| 27182s | not have been expecting to see when we |
| 27184s | saw the talent on both squads here but |
| 27186s | definitely one that people are going to |
| 27188s | remember for the rest of this week |
| 27189s | absolutely and it you know things get |
| 27191s | even more exciting right now because |
| 27193s | like you mentioned before we headed into |
| 27194s | the break we've got an interview with |
| 27196s | the team manager of team Spain it's Nest |
| 27199s | themselves so epitome CB I'm gonna hop |
| 27201s | out and hop into that interview with |
| 27202s | them so I'll see you guys shortly |
| 27204s | foreign |
| 27207s | yeah we're gonna get that interview |
| 27209s | underway in just a moment here Ness |
| 27211s | manager of Team Spain yeah there he is |
| 27215s | oh my God I'm I'm already sweating I'm |
| 27218s | still sweating like it was so emotional |
| 27220s | I was uh screaming with the with the |
| 27223s | guys they are so excited uh we are so |
| 27225s | happy we were working so hard in the |
| 27228s | last month so yeah uh it was so so equal |
| 27232s | that I was just like I don't know |
| 27236s | that's the reality man we saw it |
| 27238s | firsthand map three was the most equal |
| 27241s | game we've had all day so talk to me |
| 27243s | right in map three of course there was a |
| 27245s | couple of Team fights namely one where |
| 27246s | you came in with the death Blossom and |
| 27248s | you saw |
| 27249s | um of course a extremely well-timed Boop |
| 27251s | and a |
| 27252s | the beat drop keeping the team alive at |
| 27255s | the last millisecond talk me through |
| 27257s | those moments and then getting there in |
| 27259s | the very end to take it all the way to |
| 27260s | the victory |
| 27262s | so we knew that the we knew that the |
| 27265s | blossom was coming so we were just like |
| 27267s | looking for Reaper all around like where |
| 27269s | it's Reaper where's Reaper so Gala uh |
| 27272s | was really really looking for it he |
| 27274s | actually made an amazing play and also |
| 27277s | the Matrix from Canal it was help help |
| 27280s | was the one who called it he said okay |
| 27282s | they are all in this room let's go with |
| 27284s | the Matrix and fire strike and and we |
| 27286s | get Reaper and then and also like the |
| 27288s | last uh the last Ranka ultimate also |
| 27292s | helped call it like we go in and we |
| 27294s | focus around we did it so well I'm so |
| 27296s | proud of my voice I'm really like I I |
| 27299s | feel like like a pro father right now so |
| 27301s | I'm so happy and you want to tell the |
| 27304s | world like this is just the beginning |
| 27307s | Oh yeah talk to me more about that man |
| 27308s | this is just the beginning for team |
| 27310s | Spain you guys came out against |
| 27312s | historically one of the stronger teams |
| 27314s | in the OverWatch World Cup you know what |
| 27315s | I mean so and you took the victory this |
| 27317s | is day one you made a huge statement for |
| 27320s | all the Spanish fans and supporters so |
| 27321s | talk to me first about what was your |
| 27324s | preparation like right of course weeks |
| 27326s | leading up to this I'm sure were |
| 27327s | extremely intense that |
| 27329s | yeah we work a lot especially the last |
| 27332s | three weeks we were having like uh |
| 27334s | double Vlogs every mostly every day and |
| 27337s | we have some of the kids that are also |
| 27339s | working on students so they made a huge |
| 27342s | sacrifice into like playing and and |
| 27345s | doing their their life so uh also cheers |
| 27348s | to everyone on on the social team on on |
| 27351s | the the our social electronic that right |
| 27353s | now is is swimming uh there was party uh |
| 27356s | to everyone like uh it was hard but |
| 27359s | right now you can see that all the work |
| 27361s | and all the preparation and all the hard |
| 27364s | uh times that we had because like we |
| 27366s | have up and downs like we there was a |
| 27368s | time that we were believing that we are |
| 27369s | going to beat everyone there was time |
| 27371s | that we are like a bit down but right |
| 27373s | now all the work is is coming is coming |
| 27375s | through and I'm so happy |
| 27378s | it's coming together baby okay of course |
| 27380s | you played Belgium tomorrow right we'll |
| 27383s | be bringing you all the action then too |
| 27385s | but you know you saw them play today how |
| 27387s | are you feeling going into that matchup |
| 27389s | uh I we always uh we always we always |
| 27393s | gonna be coaches like we've seen that |
| 27395s | they create a a lot of problems to read |
| 27400s | written that for me is one of the |
| 27401s | favorites of this group so we are just |
| 27404s | gonna play our game we're gonna play |
| 27405s | what we know what what to play and we're |
| 27407s | gonna focus and I think we if we if we |
| 27410s | all play good we all play together we |
| 27411s | are gonna win |
| 27412s | man the energy is contagious you know |
| 27414s | what I mean I think everyone is buzzing |
| 27416s | right now about this team Spain victory |
| 27417s | for all those people like you mentioned |
| 27419s | in the watch party what's your message |
| 27421s | to the Spanish fan base right now can I |
| 27423s | can I do it in in in in Spanish of |
| 27425s | course please go ahead |
| 27435s | thank you so much it's yeah man it's |
| 27438s | your year I believe it team Spain thank |
| 27441s | you so much for being here today |
| 27442s | congrats on your Victory and we'll maybe |
| 27444s | we'll check in with you again tomorrow |
| 27447s | all right ladies and gentlemen of course |
| 27449s | that was NASA epitome Stevie what did |
| 27452s | you think man the energy is contagious |
| 27453s | I'm sweating now |
| 27455s | yeah I mean it seems like they were just |
| 27458s | so uh excited and it definitely felt |
| 27461s | like they were really really in tune |
| 27462s | with one another and what was happening |
| 27464s | in that game and it honestly really |
| 27466s | really nice to see how supportive the |
| 27468s | management staff is as well like they're |
| 27470s | not even playing in the game but they're |
| 27471s | right there listening to the comms and |
| 27474s | it is just seems like such a good |
| 27476s | environment for such talent to thrive |
| 27479s | yeah absolutely sorry CB go ahead oh God |
| 27482s | I was just gonna say that is the energy |
| 27484s | that is that's the energy of an underdog |
| 27487s | that just got their first win and has |
| 27489s | now transitioned from an underdog to a |
| 27491s | dark horse you're looking at the matches |
| 27493s | that they have coming up against Belgium |
| 27494s | if this Spain shows up tomorrow Belgium |
| 27496s | looks beatable some of these other teams |
| 27498s | in this group are gonna need to be on |
| 27500s | notice because Spain is here they have |
| 27502s | shown what they're capable of and they |
| 27504s | might even be capable of more they may |
| 27506s | well be you know that match went the |
| 27509s | distance even in map three even in the |
| 27511s | last minute I couldn't have told you who |
| 27512s | was going to win so team Spain the |
| 27514s | energy is contagious they're on fire |
| 27516s | right now and I'm happy for them and the |
| 27518s | country they represent but of course |
| 27519s | let's take a look at the schedules so we |
| 27521s | can get you a bird's eye view on all the |
| 27523s | results of the day and see what we're |
| 27525s | working with of course the broadcast |
| 27527s | will continue tomorrow into Saturday |
| 27529s | into Sunday and then again next week so |
| 27532s | there is a ton of action still to come |
| 27535s | so if we can't let's go ahead and take a |
| 27537s | look at the schedule with all the scores |
| 27539s | and um we can get those for y'all |
| 27542s | and of course Netherlands going down to |
| 27544s | Spain two to one in that close game |
| 27546s | France taking it over Italy Great |
| 27548s | Britain over Belgium Germany over |
| 27550s | Iceland Norway over Sweden Saudi Arabia |
| 27553s | over Finland I gotta say that that's |
| 27556s | definitely lost the spot for that top |
| 27557s | match of the day Netherlands and Spain |
| 27559s | definitely taking that one in my book |
| 27560s | and of course turkey over Poland that is |
| 27563s | just day one of the action everybody the |
| 27565s | action continues tomorrow same time same |
| 27568s | place same people too it's gonna be zp |
| 27570s | hacks epitome CV and myself bringing you |
| 27573s | all the action so |
| 27575s | honestly it's been a fantastic day one |
| 27578s | of action of course two weeks we'll |
| 27581s | determine who will move on into the main |
| 27583s | event three from group a two from Group |
| 27585s | B epitomies and CB it's been an honor |
| 27587s | and a pleasure to cast with y'all today |
| 27589s | but that does it for the broadcast for |
| 27592s | today so once again thank you so much uh |
| 27594s | thank you to Ness and all the teams |
| 27595s | competing today and we'll see you all |
| 27597s | back here same place same time for some |
| 27599s | more tomorrow |
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