🔴 LIVE | GROUP STAGE DAY 1 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

🔴 LIVE | GROUP STAGE DAY 1 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

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You just skip breakfast. Guys, look. Eight different warriors, all from distant lands. One sacred path. Oh my. Japan is back. Eight teams drawn into two groups. GSL form match with PO3 matches, but at the end only one team advances. We have to find the next piece first because then we get to write the story. Imagine it. Lapels MSC 2025 Fury Pro Max Plus. Ain’t that good? Yeah, I like the sound of that. It’s okay. I got this. What’s that? Great Scott. It’s the group stage format. The MSC 2025 group stages is going to consist of 16 teams broken into two groups. Each group balanced and regionally diverse. So all teams will be drawn into two seeds and teams from the same region can’t be drawn into the same group. Groups will then play a BO3 double elimination. Teams with a 20 record and teams that survive with a 21 record will then advance. Eight teams will then fight for the ultimate glory. Is this still a group stage or a group LM stage? Well, it’s kind of both. It’s the best of both worlds. Maybe we’re intentionally lost. Oh, you mean like the time a strong team lost to a weaker team that claimed it was a strategy to go down to the lower bracket for a more dramatic comeback. Yeah, that sounds right. Yes. Yes. Oh, look. That seems like a shortcut to the finale. Perfect. Now we can saw the final format before it even get here. Let’s go. Bria, let me teach you something. When you see something shining, just smash it. I found it. The sacred format ahead of everyone else. Lel, from now on, you can call me Lel, the great format discover. Lel, I think you broke the format. Oh, we can still fix the format. Thank goodness I’m not with you this time. Don’t touch anything else, Ros. No. Let’s look at a knockout stage. The MSC 2025 knockoff stage. Two teams will get to choose which 21 team they want to face. Will the two teams just pick a weaker team for a better matchup? Or they could just find a tougher team just to play. 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Everyone knows who win MSE 2025 never had that fight but it burns your pipes. We’ve seen our wild card. We’ve crowned Team Vitality as the champions of MWI. And now we return to the MSC stage from the Esports World Cup to see who will become the champions of the MLBB Midseason Cup 2025. My name is Renar. I’m going to be your panel host for the first half of the day. And I am joined by two literal titans, sevenfooters because I’m clearly a sixfooter. Uh it’s Gideon and a NSU Chilman. How are you guys doing? Feeling good. Honestly, great to be back here on the MLBB stage one more time for this international and of course NSU. This is it. This is where every world collides. I’m so excited after seeing that. That’s the first time we saw the opening shot with all the players too. And uh that kind of solidified that man, this is day one of MSE 2025. I’m super hyped for it. Yeah. And remember MSE 2025, it’s not just the mid-season cup for MLBB. It’s also in the middle of the Club World Championship here at the Esports World Cup. So, just in case you need a little bit of a refresher of how the Club Championship works, watch this. This is the Esports World Cup Club Championship, the ultimate crossgame competition that will crown the best esports club in the world. Let’s break down how it works. Clubs will be able to compete at the Esports World Cup in as many titles as they can qualify for. The clubs will then earn points based on their placement in each title. To qualify for the club championship, a club will need a top eight placement in at least two competitions. But to win the championship, a club must place first in at least one competition. At the end of the esports World Cup, the 24 clubs with the highest number of points will earn a share of the 27 million with the winner taking home a staggering $7 million and of course the title of the best esports club in the world. Who will rise above and write their place in history? Watch it all here at the Esports World Cup. Team Vitality’s record setting championship win at MWI doesn’t only have huge effects for the history of MLBB women’s esports, but also for the results of the club championship because in just a moment, you’re going to be seeing the standings. Yes, Tam Vitality is the only team in the running so far to be crowned club champions. Hey man, there’s still other teams up on the table who are looking to try and at least find their very first win. There’s RRQ, Team Spirit, there’s even Team Falcons to And most importantly, most importantly, most people are going to be thinking, hey, we need to get that very first win. If either one of these teams are able to get that first win, they start qualifying for those club championship points. Yeah. So, all throughout the tournament here in MSC, we’re going to be updating you with the standings for the EWC Club Championship, considering that, yeah, there are a lot of familiar names on that board right now. Some aren’t on the board just yet, but might suddenly launch up if ever they end up winning MSE 2025. So, you’re really going to have to keep a close eye on all of the standings and the results. And also, we want to ask you to join us all throughout this event because it’s been a historic year and a historic run for MLBB Esports as a whole because we are actually nominated for multiple awards at the esports awards. So, celebrate a decade of greatness with us. The three categories that we have are actually the uh esports game of the decade for MLBB, the M5 world championship for the esports live event of the decade and moved on for publisher of the decade. So show your support at esportsawwards.com/vote. Uh lots of awards. I think you’ve been also part of with some of the things that we’ve mentioned here. Nice. And that’s of the decade. Yeah, of the decade. I would have imagined that some of the other tournaments would have been part of it as well, but I think the cut off time was a little like ah that’s a little awkward. Don’t worry, we’ll keep with M5. I’m okay with that. But for the most part, it has been a huge year for Mobile Legends. And I think with the starting of this MSSE to kind of kick things off for 2025, it’s going to be a good litmus test to see what’s going to happen for the rest of the year. Yeah. And the things that we love seeing all throughout the esports world cup of course are those key crushes. If you’re unfamiliar with the mechanic with the whole key frames, the keys that are given to the teams, then check this out. No competition is as ruthless as the esports world cup. Its trophy system is no exception. The club championship trophy awarded to the one club that rose above the rest and reigns supreme across all EWC games. The game trophy. When a competitor closes their eyes, it’s all they see. And it’s not complete until it’s sealed with a champion’s key. Every participant earns a key engraved with their name. That’s their right. compete. This year, returning champions hold a key unlike any other. Only one can place their key into the game trophy. The frame of the champion’s key is embedded into the totem, a stone marker of legacy displaying every champion of the year. The keys of the eliminated will be crushed. The champions select three broken keys as a personal token, a reminder of who they have humbled. Beneath the totem, a resin block holds the remaining keys. A graveyard of fallen contenders. Will your dreams be broken or your name carved in gold and stone? At EWC, nothing is granted. Everything is earned. Welcome to the Esports World Cup. The pinnacle of esports competition waged over seven action-packed weeks featuring the world’s best players competing in the best games for a chance to take home a share of our lifechanging prize pool. There’s a ton of money on the line, so let’s break it down. $44 million will be split across game championships, qualifiers, and achievements with the remaining 27 million reserved for the best performing clubs across all tournaments in the club championship where we’ll crown the best esports club in the world. However, earning that title will be no easy feat. Throughout the esports world cup, clubs will earn points based on their placement in each title. At the end of the esports world cup, the top 24 clubs will earn a share of the 27 million with the winner taking home a staggering $7 million and of course the title of best esports club in the world. And it doesn’t stop there. For these seven weeks, Riad Boulevard transforms into the ultimate gaming festival, featuring everything from heartpounding community tournaments and creator meet and greets to allstar show matches and live performances from global music icons. Bigger, bolder, and better than ever before. All kicking off with a jaw-dropping opening ceremony. Who will rise above and write their place in history? Watch it all here at the Esports World Cup. Who would have thought you could make esports better? I mean, you know, you’re already excited for the tournaments, but then you have the club championship and then you have the key crushing ceremony, which is my favorite my favorite ceremony because I always thought like if I was a competitor, who wouldn’t want to be able to go and pick like what three uh crush keys to go ahead and put on your own display, you know? I think that’s amazing. No, I I I love the personal touch of it that you get to put it there and then we’ll let it rip and just absolutely demolish it. That’s the icing on the cake. I’m still really bummed out that I missed out on potentially meeting Post Malone, but I guess that is water under the bridge because now we are at MSC 2025 here at the Esports World Cup. And you’ve seen all the numbers thrown up there for the club championship, but uh we’ve got a pretty nice price pool here as well for MSE. Of course, if you remember last year, it was Celor Red Giants, the champions of MSE 2024 who won a Was it a millie? It was a millie, right? It was a milly. It was quite a bit. Yeah. And Yeah. And uh that hasn’t changed because actually we it’s still going to be like that. So, we’ve talked about EWC. We can discuss a little bit more about the formats and whatnot, but a little bit later on because we need to remind you about what happened prior to this. Again, it’s the second flawless MWI campaign by Team Vitality. NSU, you were part of the action casting that how was it there being there witnessing all of the history making moments at MWI? I think it was great just to wrap up the the story line, I would say, for the most part for Team Vitality. Um, you know, again, we were there uh last year on their loss, you know, against former Smart Mega Empress. Um, but to see them go and complete this story line, which is they’ve been saying it throughout the entire tournament, like we want to go and get this trophy, like MWI was so important to them. So to see them do that in a very dominant way was uh incredible to see. Yeah. Uh you also had a gaming gladiators actually be able to become the first representatives of North America to uh be able to make it to the finals and of course for a member of Twisted Minds Lunar getting a double savage in the game. Now I think Gideon since you were there in the jungle uh with with all of us tournament format I think it’s your go. Hey no worries. The wild cards already started off. Eight teams were eventually divided into two groups playing a gsl format to eventually go into a single elimination for that top four. The winners of that get their task to go into the group stages where 16 teams now broken into two groups of eight teams in a double elimination format and they will all play best of threes. Keep in mind four four teams from each of these groups get to move on to make it to the playoffs. Yep. And once we get into the playoffs is eight teams single elimination. It’ll be BO5s for the first set of runs, but then once we get to the grand finals, it is best of seven. Nice. Let’s talk about the money for the tournament. Yep. This is uh what we were just talking about the Millie there. But it’s a total prize pool of 3 million for this uh run here. First place is going to get $1 million. Of course, second place 500, third place 250,000, fourth place 150, 166,000, and then 50,000 for 13 to 16. Essentially, that’s a whole lot of money for our players to be fighting over. I cannot emphasize how much money this actually is. This is in lifeanging. This is lifechanging money for some of these teams who have been playing for many, many years. One single win here at EWC could basically over well over uh earn everybody else who’ve been winning multiple MPLs and even world titles. Yeah. For the MLB community, it’s been said since last year, you just make it to the EWC MSE stage, your life is already changed. So, here are the teams going to be competing for that Millie, for the championship, for all the glory in group A, group B. Group A, folks, has multiple MPL champions in one group. Six champions altogether, but well, one of them is a wild card champion, right? I mean, if we’re going on a technicality, but it’s Ultra Legend, CF Gaming, Verdice Pro, Corinthians, Team Liquid, Onyx, uh, Onic ID, SRG OG Esports, Mythic Seals coming in from group A. And don’t worry about group B, guys. Don’t worry. Don’t worry, don’t worry. We’ll get we’ll get to them in just a little bit because they have more of an interesting bracket overall. But first off, we’re looking at today’s schedule and I think most people are going to be excited for our lineup. Yeah, it’s a group A focused day. So, all group A matches. We only have four. It’s a rolling schedule. Liquid versus Ultra Legends. On of Indonesia from C against CFU Gaming, SRG OG against Vertus Pro will be our third match of the day. And Mythic Seals against Corinthians, the champions of Latin America. Again, we have to remind all of you all out there, it’s a rolling schedule. So, the matches that you might want to see a little bit later in the day, might start sooner than you expect. So, you got to prepare because uh some of these games, I feel like even today alone, I I I kind of talked about this already um leading into this was some of these might be pretty one-sided games. Some of them might be dominant, but again, they’re all there’s what six champions like we mentioned. And I think the biggest thing is if we take what we’ve seen so far in the past couple weeks with wild cards and then MWI, I think still for us and for our viewers out there, things can still be a little different when we get into MSE 2025. Of of course this meta has been finding its place, but we got to remember like these guys playing for MSE 2025 and some of the minds behind them set things up for some very interesting I think meta uh shifts that we might see here. I mean that is true, but at the same time we there is the problem of since there are so many champions out there and I’m pretty sure the audience is going to be like wait that means one of my champions locally could potentially fall. That’s why each one of these games are extremely important. It’s a double elimination so losing the first one isn’t so bad but you want to kind of maintain your lives until the very end. Yeah, group A incredibly stacked. Group B filled with a lot of interesting stories. So if you want to make sure that you don’t miss out on any of the action, the MSE 2025 tickets are still definitely on sale. Uh just check out uh the website. Uh you can book your tickets for the Knockout Station Grand Finals over at weebook.com. And yeah, they’re still on sale. Come join us here at the boulevard. We’re here until August 2nd, which is the final day of MSE 2025. Lots of action to look forward to and to expect. My goodness, I can’t believe that it’s already gotten to this point for MSC. Uh it feels like it was just it feels like it was literally just yesterday where we crown team Vitalati again, but now we have to talk about what’s going to happen here in group A. It’s going to be absolutely chaotic. And I think every one of us had a similar reaction when the group A uh group was shown. We were just like, “What the heck happened at the draw?” I’m just going to say it’s not my fault. Nobody Nobody’s fault that one. It was all RNG. It’s just fate. And it just happened. This is how uh MC ended up uh getting drawn. But later today, there is a match to look forward to alongside the all the matches. But of course, we have our Saudi National Bank match of the day between two teams who I learned today have actually been longtime scrim partners in Onyx ID and CFU Gaming. Yeah, that’s interesting because uh we got word. Yeah, they they were scrimming for a couple years since I think 2023. Yeah. And then this is going to be their first time actually facing off internationally because as we know, you know, Anuk Indonesia was not part of the most recent international M6. Um, and CFU I think was a quite impressive team back in M6. So, uh, the fact that they’ve been scrimming together, uh, I I can’t wait to see what they have in store for us. I think it’s interesting, right? Because when you when you are looking come to these internationals, a lot of people are going to be thinking we are competitors. We don’t want to be given over strats to our opponents. But at the same time, building relations is extremely key because one of the biggest problems that we saw last year for EWC is once we get deeper into the tournament, people are running out of scrim partners. They’re just people are leaving. They’re flying back. So, who else can you play with other than the people you have to play in the grand finals? Yeah, again, that’s going to be our match of the day for later in the day. But we have to start things off with our first match. Team Liquid Philippines, uh, hailed as one of the titans of MLBB will be going up against a team that literally had to go through a blackout to qualify for MSE to become champions in their regions. But before that, let’s talk about Team Liquid. Team Liquid. Uh, you know, for those that have just watched MLB Esports is going to know all these names. This team, um, you, if you got a glimpse at their championship run over in MPL Philippines, you saw how impressive of a grand final it was. By the way, those guns are impressive because I know Sanford’s been working out, man. Like, he’s been in the gym. And to see it in the the roll out for the roster here, you’re seeing the improvements, man. So, maybe that transfers to the gameplay. I don’t know. Can he get any better, though, in the XP lane? Jeez, you can still see it from here. God, these boys, they are jacked. And I I think it’s the culture that Team Liquid has been building around themselves. I mean, I mean, four out of the five players all have only just recently joining within this year, swapping out for Benny QT, who is obviously not part of the roster anymore, but this particular roster is a dream lineup for me personally, right? Team I’ve been a very big fan of Team Liquid PH for a while. Obviously, I can’t doubt the goat after M2, but the way that they’ve been playing the game and also how they’ve been challenging the super fam and taking the title, the world, well, I would I want to say world title, but it’s MLPH. You know how it is. If this is the first time you’re watching MLBB Esports, one name that needs to stand out for you in the side of Team Liquid is Carl Tezy, hailed as the GOAT of our esport. There’s only one title that has yet to end up in his hands, and it’s this right here, the MSE title. He’s a twotime world champion. He’s a fourtime MPL Philippines champion. Man has accolades. Man has gold medals. More on Team Liquid later as the series goes on. There’s a lot of great stars we need to highlight there. But we have to talk about the next team in Ultra Legends. You heard it right when I said earlier they literally had to go through a Blackout to win their championship. They won their championship while they were in a car. That’s actually insane. That’s I I feel like it’s too much. Like why do we have to put our players through this? But some people want it. They want it bad and bad. Exactly. And Ultra Legends is just one of those squadrons who will do anything, whatever it takes to get the dub. I think I think there’s even more to that story that they initially rented out an office space to play uh for the initial uh their grand finals and then they had to swap out uh their cubicles every single time because they got the timing wrong initially. Yeah. Uh just to provide a little bit more context, the uh finals of MPL Mena, the region that they heal from and that they’re representing, uh it’s an online setup for their grand finals. That’s why uh this whole story of them having to play through uh rented office spaces in a car, just finding really good uh internet connection. That’s why it’s that like that. And interestingly enough too, uh if I remember right, four I think four members of the the team are studying medicine. I think you know again like that that’s always a story I hear about players from meta. You know a lot of them are in the medicine field and they still have time to go ahead and play competitively here. Yeah. And so all throughout the draft we’re going to be discussing the specifics, mechanics, our favorite heroes of the players a little bit more. We just want you to know a little bit a little bit more of their background story and their context. But we’re going to be peppering that all throughout. Again, if this is your first time watching MLBB Esports, welcome. This is MSE and yeah, if the what we’ve discussed isn’t clear, it’s going to be an underdog matchup against a Titan for our very first one. And this is a group A day. The clash of MPL champions. 1 2 3 4 5. Yes, six. Six champions. One group all in one group. The first seeders from so many regions. It’s crazy that we’ve come to this point. You would have expected that it’s been uh more more diverse amongst the groups, but no, no. I I think by the end of this, we’re really going to see who’s going to be able to make it on top, but I think some of the biggest upsets will probably come from this group as well. Yeah, I think uh you know, you really got to think statistically. Yeah. Like what are the odds of that happening? But it I it makes an interesting story for the group itself. But I don’t know. Would you rather be part of group A or group B? Group B for sure. Group B. Group A for sure. I wish I was in group B. I’m here at the casting desk. I’m already happy with this. I’m okay with this one. And if you want a little bit more diamonds in your game as well, all throughout, we’re actually going to be showing codes that you can redeem. So you’re from time to time, you’re going to have to watch out for stuff. Here’s one for you right away. So you can redeem it. MSE 2025 0802. All right. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that I got that right. Or you can actually just scan the QR code so that you can go through that. Okay. But if you if you’re an OD like me, a little bit more manual, you can hop into the game, click your avatar icon, uh I believe it’s settings, and then you can just see the redeem code uh little button there, and you can go ahead and claim that that that’s going to be given all throughout MSE 2025. So, just keep a sharp eye out for that one. Yeah, big shout out to QR codes here. I I know for a lot of our MPLs, we just like, hey, here type this like 11digit code in. Oh my god. Thank god for technology. Shout out to the QR code makers out there. Yeah. Then it becomes like a frantic race. I think all throughout the world you can just hear phones getting pulled out of ah time to climb this code. But now it’s time for us to actually head into the draft in just a bit. And I feel like uh with what happened in MWI, it will help provide a little bit of context of what we can expect for the heroes to get picked out because Tally Gin, you were not you were not able to join us in MWI, but there were some trends in the MSC Wild Card that carry on on, excuse me, carried on over. One of them being the fact that priorities in the mid lane seems to have gone down a little bit because people are racing for that flex in the first half roam XP or jungle and then getting their carries as soon as possible. Yeah, I think I I think a big problem that we’re seeing in the meta is that how we’ve shifted in terms of like a viable heroes within each of the roles, right? I think the most flexible roles that we’ve seen so far is whether it has a correlation of jungle exp alongside with support, which is probably the best of the best. Yeah. And here we are into the draft. Team Liquid Philippines is going to be on the blue side. One of the heroes that was a cons that has been a consistent presence even through wild cards and MWI. NSU is the Uranus getting taken away by Ultra Legends. Yeah, that that guy is just going to be either perma band I feel like for the majority of MSE or he might slip through. Uh but that’s the thing. We we saw him uh glimpsed into the jungle. We saw him of course in the XP lane. Um, and that flex, I think that’s one of the trends that we’re really seeing is the flexible heroes that can be picked up, put in these different lanes, especially the first picks that we see. The Wan Boxer going to be banned out here. Um, as well, another hero, the boxer, that can actually uh fit a couple roles here. Mhm. Mhm. I think so far based on what we’re seeing on the bands bands itself, the fact that Wan as well as Boxia of course need to get need to go out of the meta, but TLPH looks like they’re trying to set up for a Fred here, right? It feels like they just want to be able to have like a tank in that jungle. Make sure that Wan can’t just dance around him. And I don’t mind if you play an assassin as long as I have a tank I can peel for the rest of my team. Yeah. Uh the juice in Band by Ultra Legends feels like this is a little bit of a signal that they don’t want to face that potential pressure that Liquid could deliver into them by minute one at the center of the map. I think they’re really just putting a lot of respect into three key figures, JP, Sanji, and Sanford. Finally, we see the Kalia get banned out. Yeah. No, no, no. It definitely is very evident of where they’re trying to kind of play this game. But let’s see what this final ban from Ultra Legends is going to be, right? Because now that we’ve got the priority picks out of the way, I would say that Wan is still really really good in the meta so far in a lot of the matchups we’ve seen down by the gold lane, especially if you’re looking to play like early to mid. She doesn’t scale the best, but if you’re playing a tank jungler, it kind of sucks to chase her down. I would almost if the first game that we see from TLPH is going to be a utility jungler like in the hands of Carl Tezy. I think that’s just again let’s get some information. Let’s not give too much away because that’s the I guess dynamic that we’ve seen the dichotomy between Carl Tezy’s like his journey as a player alone is there was one time you know he was so dominant on these assassins then he goes towards some of these junglers when we had the jungler meta but now all that practice has led to you know quite a difference of hero pool. The Farsa being the first pick. This is probably would this be your number one mage right now for you guys? Yes. Top mage. I think too good too good at everything that she does especially in the meta that’s forcing us to kind of play front to back all the time. Yeah. So earlier I mentioned the priorities the mages seems to have go gone down or the mid laners unless it’s Kimmy. Speaking of that was a pick there by Ultra Legends. But Team Liquid uh I think they’re also reading into what Ultra Legends and how they ban. They really want to put priority at the center of the map while Ultra Legends takes away two comforts for Liquid. Here’s the thing, right? Because again with so many prior picks on the on the table, I think a lot of teams are a little skewed on the idea of Arlet being like, “Oh, he’s so good no matter what.” I feel like he’s a little more situational than most people think. The Kimmy obviously super good in the early stages of the game. Scales pretty pretty well. The main issue is you need a tank to make her work. You need that front liner. And I think TPH has done a really good idea of saying, “Hey, we take Faren now. We give Kimmy over and if you’re not pairing up with a tank, we can still be a little flexible with the way that we attack our opponent.” And we now see the Brandon. I hope he uses the M2 skin. God, give it to him. Lance slot. And we also get the faux. That’s so good. Those are s like quality picks obviously. Um glad to see the landlar of the build that for the landlot but um still a fobious too. So you’ve got your front liner basically to go ahead and take on multiple guys but then you’ve got a ton of damage with the fara and then eventually the landslot too. So this is crucial I would say to round out the first phase for ultra legends here to see if they do pick up that tankier hero that Gideon mentioned. Yeah, I think they do show it up. Ah it’s you. All right, it’s me. It’s me, the the panda bear, bro. I like the they pick up the Aai. Again, that is one of the key picks for the women’s uh scene. Uh the women’s tournament that we just had in MWI can go in either to the Rome or EXP, but Akai Arlaw together actually is a very specific combo and has a terrific record in MWI. I think, you know, if we’re comparing because again, most people are thinking, hey, Freder should have been the pickier instead of the Akai. Most people are going to think that doesn’t scale as hard or isn’t as thick as the Frederick, but there is a lot more flexibility with this Aai, right? More ways to kind of not only trigger the passive to allow Arleta to jump around, but more so that you have the flexibility of if the enemy starts picking Cho, you have inbuil purify. You have ways to kind of outplay uh your opponents when you’re in the turtle pit itself and more importantly to stop the feathered air strike. Yeah, a quick question for the table. Should team Philippines consider a ban on something like a Badang? like they might put the Akai in the jungle, the Rome, Arlot, uh, Badang Exp. Maybe they can switch that up, but I feel like a Badang for the lineup of Ultra Legends will just absolutely mess up any sort of team fighting tempo for the picks of Team Liquid. I was going to say this is already messing up tempo. Badang is that hero to do that usually that we see picked up. Uh, the three combinations of the these ultimates already for Ultra Legends can be quite devastating. But that’s the only thing I want to throw in there. Like, do they have the timing right? Can they get the timing uh down pat? And I think that’s why you give yourself multiple options. As you see, the Hildo is going to be the last ban from TLPH. So, um if they decide to go that route, it’s certainly going to give them a lot of options to crowd control or mess things up. But I just feel like again, if you have too much of that, can you solidify getting the timings down or will it all just be too chaotic that you kind of mess things up a little bit here and there? Yeah, I think that at at this point both sides can really start flexing around. Honestly, really great drafting coming in from Ultra Legends. I wasn’t expecting them to have such a really deep uh a deep look at this because TPH gave them the initiative. They’re like, “We take the Farsa. We want to see what you do first and then respond accordingly to allow Karzi to at least have flexibility of, hey, you get to play an assassin or you get to play a tank.” And now that we’re kind of narrowing down the lines, ultra legends at this point, this Akai for all intents and purposes could go into the exp, right? And then you put into that Matilda, you’ve kind of solidifi decides got the instant disengage on top of having a Granger. It works out. Ultra Legends Zen perfectly done. You see this line of Team Liquid having a lot of damage aggression potential while Ultra Legends could they be a little bit too utilityheavy? We will find out in the game. Once again, welcome to MSE 2025. It’s Team Liquid Philippines versus Ultra Legends, and I’m going to hand you off over to Gideon and NSU. Thanks, Ramar. All right, Nisu. Looking at this game, a witch draft do you like a little bit more because I I was on praise for the first half for Ultra Legends. That finisher though is what set me back. Yeah, I’m going to have to go lean towards I’m always a big damn guy. A big damage guy is what I like to go with. And that is Team Liquid’s lineup. I mean, they they’re looking to go ahead, I feel like, end the game early. Uh, I don’t know what our fastest game is going to be here for MSE, but it could start off here. Well, let’s find out as we head on into the game. Our very first match to kick things off here for the Mid-Season Cup 2025 here at the Esports World Cup 25. Let’s kick things off with TLPH on the blue side up against Ultra Legends on the red side. Now, as we all know, Altz has been known to be that guy that the goat when it comes down to Lancelot plays. Nobody he didn’t use the skin. He didn’t He didn’t use the skin, but to be fair, this skin is also very, very nice. I personally went out of my way to get the diamonds to buy it as well. So, I totally understand it. Me and Carl TZY, same mindset. Same mindset. Basically, you’re just as good, right? Flicker already. Look at the aggression. This might be a first blood already for Carl Tezy, but he’s checked from Quanox. So, they’ll back off, but they’re going to get the lith wander. Oh, what was that? That was a little That was a little janky. I’m not going to lie. That was a little uh hm I’m going to quickly look back. Nobody called for a tech pause. So, it seems that uh both sides still trying to adjust to their devices in their hands. Regardless, right, no first blood coming through. Minimal damage, but at the very least for Quinox, he’s going to be a little bit behind on that exp. He probably only missed like what? One minion at this point. Not that big of a deal. Okay, looking at the emblems, too. I mean, uh this is the thing. He So, he’s going with the the killing spree. He’s actually got that uh extra speed too. I think the Phobia as well. The Phobia and got the concept for Team Liquid. I feel like give them a safe either engage or disengage to deal with all this utility. Sanji’s going to feel it here in the mid lane. The rest of the team on the response. Carl Te will go in for some pokes and JP just around the corner charging up the unbreakable but won’t land it on Rice What was uh uh Okay. Okay. Maybe I think Team Liquid need to take a step back here. They’re thinking like ultra legends are on a different level because he’s making hard predictions, right? He could have just gone into a straight line if he played it absolutely straight. He would have gotten all three with the top. But now we come up to our very first turbo here. Level force not achieved as you can see. Oh wa Sanford are we going to jump in? Infernal pursuit on Quanok. He’s going to be gone already. Throw boy the heavy spin. He’ll get the turtle though. Turtle secured by Ultra Legends. Meanwhile, still Carl Tezy actually falls. Now the rest TP are still they going to go for the fight. Circling Eel dropped down. They go in throw boy joining the fight again. So tanky for Sanford but Farah joining the fight. Ob rotated up as well. They’re being outgunned here as Ultra Legends picks up a little bit of a lead on that. Yeah, a bit of a bad fight here. Ultra Legends even calling over the Kimmy to almost ensure that they win that fight at the very end. The cleanup was very very good. Dark Lord honestly played an extremely strong game here. Oh, but they find a trade back at least two to two the current score line. Leave it up to Sanji on the far to just make something happen, you know? Yeah. I I I mean, they needed to get something back, right? Because let’s look at this one more time because in that fight alone, Carl Tezy, I mean, the whole team of Liquid is looking to fight. They’re looking to get as many possible kills as they can. While on the opposite end, Ultra Legends are looking to play for neutral objectives. If they’re able to find these punishes like how Dark Lord does, then it’s not too bad. It doesn’t feel as awful. Oh, bottom lane. A little bit of action here, too. Looks like that was a jump out. We’re still here on this replay, but there’s a lot going on in the golden lane. So, JP had to burn his Avatar of the Guardian. I think they were trying to make a play on OAB here, but the rest of the team’s going to be making their way. See if Ultra Legend still goes for this or they just get some extra gold off the turret. Mhm. JP’s here to try and alleviate the pressure, right? But I don’t think they’re going to commit too hard. Yeah, they just clear this out. Minions going to be cleared out, but they won’t force a fight anyway. JP thrown out against the team. Possible revitalized. Carl TG will now join the fight. They’re going to get disengaged though with Guiding Wind, so they’re fine. Ultra Legends will escape that situation. Okay, nicely done. Nicely done because in terms of priority, it’s very clear that Team Liquid want to play it towards the top side of the map. They want to make sure that Sanford can do whatever he wants, right? They want him to have a gigantic lead against Dark Lord. But despite that, that bottom side for Ultra Legends recognizing, hey, if they want to win on that top side, sure. But if we send enough people down to the bottom, we can hurt. Okay, second turtle of the game up. They’re going to go in again with the taunt. They force out the circling eagle. Still going to be breaking it out, but Rice Crim already going to fall now. Sanford up in the front of it all. Dark Lord, though, goes in with the final slabs. He finds Ohe and Frell will pick up a kill. Now Sanford has to flicker out. Ultra Legends going toe-to-toe here with Team Liquid and they’re doing a phenomenal job, right? A lot of battle spells burned from the side of Team Liquid. The tempo in favor of Ultra Legends and despite everything that has happened in the early games to try and hurt the laners, it feels like Ultra Legends maintain this lead. So far, it’s an alt dependent game, right? Keep an eye on those green dots on the side cuz we’re going to go in potentially for one more fight. I don’t know if Carl wants to be anywhere close to this turtle right now. Yeah, we still got Oh, down at the bottom. Dark Lord’s going to flicker out. Carl’s looking for a kill himself. Will find Dark Lord. A revitalized pop from JP. They might reinitiate. Sanford’s up in the front of it all. Throw throw away. Pops the heavy spin though. Sanford in trouble. And Rise still up as Carl TZ looks to get the kill. Goes in. Finally clears it out. JP jumps in. Can’t land the taunt though. So he’s whittleled down at one HP. Turtle still for the taking. No hip. Now part of the fight will force Ultra Legends back. So, Team Liquid wanted that turtle. They fought for it. They again, they’re not looking to go toe-to-toe in terms of I will out retry you. I just need to get a man advantage. And you can see right Carl Tezy, he needs to go in and out of these fights. He needs to start initiating for his squad. Now, we’re going to call for a tech tech pause here. Not entirely sure what is going on. We will keep you guys updated as the information starts streaming in. But Nisu, the way that this fights have been going. I think that Ultra Legends, right, they saw Carl kind of go into the middle of the fight, they realized, hey, this is a bait. We need to wait for an opportunity to jump in with the heavy spin and then the formation started to break once the heavy spin started to come out. You see what I mean, though? It’s like there’s it’s an interesting thing with this because when you look at the fights break out, Ultra Legends does really good at kind of pushing and pulling. That’s what the lineup is going to do for them, especially when you have a Matilda on your side. I just feel like sometimes, like I was expecting from the draft, they get a little too split up maybe and then Team Liquid is starting to figure that out as we see each fight break out. They’re lining things up. And meanwhile, OHB tried joining that fight, but he was just a little bit too late to the party. He did just pick up a sky piercer as well before we had this. And so that’s the main thing. Was he is he going to be able to start to get stacks? Because OB is someone that they really want to watch out for as this game continues on here. He’s pretty much had an opportunity to just go ahead and farm up, albeit that little bit of pressure. Well, Farah already trying to get out of there with a flicker. So, this is the attention now on this bottom side. It’s clear that Sanji has enough damage despite only just completing his first item. He should be able to, you know, pick up kills whenever he feels like it. But more importantly, they’re trying to unlock. They realize that, hey, Sanra can get into the middle of these fights. But this Matilda is a little too annoying. Quino, especially with uh Fury of the Phoenix on top of the heavy spin. There’s just a lot of disengage from the side of Ultra Legends. The only other way to beat them is if you can chase them down and they definitely need that death sonata to do so. That slow is such an important tool. Those are two big item pickups too here defensively for Team Liquid. So that’s a radiant armor for each one for Sanford and one for JP. They are the guys that we see, you know, putting themselves in these fights as they have to. Shots for Rice. Crim looking for that. Oh, Rice Crim one hit away. He’ll actually survive it. So it looked close there. Yeah, OB just the spacing just wasn’t there. He thought he killed him two times and just backed off just before the shots actually connected. But it’s totally okay, right? Because now they’ve already put some good damage on that mid tier one. Altz is already a level 12. He’s out farming Throw Boy as expected. But this threele lead off of that initial fight, this is the Team Liquid that we know and love. Yeah. So they have I mean these small situations have compounded at this point up to a 3,000 gold lead. They’re going to fight once again. The feathered air strike dropped down. They want to clear out this mid lane. Throwboy jumping into the frey. Pops the heavy spin. And once again, everyone thrown around. Throwboy’s going to go down. A jump into the turret from JP. He’ll get the unbreakable off. And Pharaoh goes down. Dark Lord takes the front of the damage as O picks up a kill. They’re going to pick up the turret in mid lane off of it. And now the experience for Team Liquid is starting to shine through. Ultra Legends are reacting too much to what Team Liquid is trying to do preemptively, right? They need to wait just a little bit longer. If they waited for a half second, they would understand that even Team Liquid doesn’t really want to put themselves in a compromised position. Cuz look at this, right? We see the initial knockup coming in from Sanford, but he doesn’t take the infernal pursuit. As soon as we see Zen drop down the Fury of the Phoenix, it felt like Ultra Legends had to make something out of it, right? It’s a super long cool down. They don’t want to give another turtle away. They force the fight and that’s when Team Liquid are in full control. They force you into these scenarios as long as you react. Yeah, really difficult to kind of see how those fights break out uh for Ultra Legends because you’re seeing where that kind of patience that we saw from Team Liquid earlier on in the game has compounded up to this point. They’re able to go ahead and just kind of outgun and out survive a lot of the me members right now. Again, they’re going to try to force them off of this tier 2 turret. So, with this kind of lead, it’s up to Team Liquid to just kind of take what they want. And we’re seeing Ultra Legends try to maybe respond to that and be a little hesitant. I mean, they’re extremely hesitant, right? They saw what happened in that last fight. They reacted too much to it and now with that three-le even clear that throw boy can’t hold on. Wo! JP jumping into the turret. It’s going to get stumped for the fury of the Phoenix. Pops the Revitalize but will go down anyway. Sanji dropping down covering fight with a feathered air strike and Carl’s easy goes in, cleans up a couple kills, gets a double, does enough damage under the turret. They’re under the tier three. They don’t care. Of goes in, gets a double himself. Team Liquid. That was too clean. That was too clean. I mean, Ultra Legends had the correct idea. Take out JP, take out Samper, separate the front line and the back line. And then you have an opportunity to force Carl, force OH in positions where they need to go out of their way and overextend to make it happen. But Team Liquid, they’ve got the mechanics to back themselves up. they have the lead to make sure that these waves are fully utilized, especially for someone like crawl cuz Lance Lot, he loves those waves. Yeah, I mean it’s it’s something to be expected, I guess, with a Lancelot where you’re under like tier 2, maybe tier three, but then OB jumping in on the action, too. That just shows once again that they have gone into the stampede form, this form that they’re used to showing in a lot of the the competitions that we’ve seen Team Liquid play in. So, this gives them a massive lead. This is going to be a lord in their hands and Ultra Legends just going to have to hang on here. Hey man, when the SSJ the trio takes some damage that’s when you call in the baby cakes and so far it’s working out perfectly. Oh my god. Daddy JP jumping on in taking out throw boy. He’s going to be fine. Pops vitalized. They’re going to work on this turret. Shield’s going to go down. Dark lord won’t find that final slash either. So they have to get ready even without the lord. Team Liquid marching in into the base looking to end game one in a quick fashion. Top turret going to be worked on and Ultra Legends will hold on for as long as they can. They know how to push up the pace. 12k gold lead. This is a checkmate scenario unless Ultra Legends can make it to 42. But every single time they walk out, that feathered air spike, feathered air strike reminds them you can’t walk up. Okay, that without the feather air strike, I don’t know if uh Team Liquid’s going to be able to end the game unless they can turn this fight completely in their favor. Dark Lord could be in trouble. Final slash going to be used. Has to flicker defensively. Colonel TZ doing work under the turret. Won’t find the kill though. So Lord’s still going to be worked on and that’s fine for Ultra Legends. It looks like they found themselves staying in the game. Okay, we need to pull out the item list. I’m curious to see whether Rice Grim has the Oh, hold on. Hold on. Another feather strike coming out because we’re not this too close for comfort again. Jumping on in. Flicker burn forcing the fight under the turret. JP will get taken out. Separated from the team. from Sanford now in the front of all. Dark Lord also low. Forced out a flicker, but Ohead still going to be unleashing. Finds a kill on Dark Lord. There’s another defensive flicker from Ultra Legends, but they’re still rolling. Team Liquid at bay from ending the game. But all base turrets will be worked on here. Sanji one hit away on that turret. It won’t go down just yet. And Throw Boy taking a little trip there with the guiding wind. Mhm. Sanji last auto attack going to take out the final inhibitor from Ultra Legends. This is such a difficult position because ultra legends have to make choices, especially when you’re pushed in at checkmate angle. You have to decide, do I lose inhibitors or do I lose the game? And 90 100, sorry, 100% of the time teams will say, I would rather lose an inhibitor than the game. They do buy a little bit of time for themselves, but the inevitable is coming. We look at the items and quickly realize that, hey, a skyper pickup coming in from Pharaoh. Kind of interesting here. A little dangerous, I’m not going to lie. But we do see that the flask of Oasis has already been complete and that’s been why we’ve been seeing more aggressive moves from Dark Lord. These are also still the aggressions from Team Liquid. Carl going on the back side. They’re forcing Chaos alone. A jump from JP finds multiple members. Throwboy’s going to be gone and they’re going to work on Dark Lord next. Dark Lord falls. They’ll come in for the cleanup as Team Liquid will go ahead and take game one in this best of three. Really nicely done from Team Liquid. We get to see what they are all about. Tempo based combat. They have the lead. They will press it down your throat until they have checkmate angle. But Ultra Legends that early game honestly not that bad. They were really going toe-to-toe with these guys. TLPH probably wasn’t wasn’t expecting them to be as uh confrontational. Yeah, I mean they had the utilityheavy, very tanky early game lineup that is designed to mess up early game aggressive rotations, but there was one thing that Ultra Legends forgot taking care of their midame power spike. I feel like they were a little bit too early with going for the fiveman rotations cuz even though Pharoh had the lead up against OH at one point, since OH was went to, okay, you guys are going to stick as five. Okay, four members of my team are going to go. I’m just going to farm. Pharaoh was a little bit too be busy joining the rest of the team. I mean, I got to give it to Ultra Legends, right? I don’t mind teams going for these fiveman rotations like calling in uh Pharaoh to kind of get involved. If he gets a single assist, it’s not too bad if you’re giving half away your uh gold shielding over to considering that you could also get a bit more from that mid lane at the same time. But here’s the thing, right? If if we’re talking about the micro, I think the biggest problem we saw from Ultra Legends was the overcommitment. not only the overcommit but kind of just throwing everything at the wall. And the question is, but why, right? I was going to say, Gideon, like, and part of that, you know, pun intended or not, Throwboy was literally throwing himself into a lot of these fights because he was the maybe the guy that wanted to go ahead and split them up or try to set things up. But like I was saying, you have so much utility that maybe it’s almost just an overload, right? And and a lot of the times when we see these later fights towards that mid game, towards the late game, it was Team Liquid just knowing that power spike timing that they worked against. They knew that once certain uh utility was used, then they could actually respond to it really well and collapse down. And I think they saved some of their major crowd control, whether that was JP jumping in towards the back, Carl Tezy making that angle with the the Lancelot is what worked out so well for them. I think it’s the tunnel vision that really hurts me when I see a composition like this because again, you have an Arot who literally has everybody on your side on your composition to trigger your passive, which is amazing. That means you get to use that vengeance basically for free all the time. But he’s never the first in the fight. Every single time you see throw boy come in, make that initiation, it looks good. Zitan suddenly drops her out and you’re like, but why? You could hold that for a little bit longer. And even Kimmy as well with the traction pulse, you’re looking specifically for the feathered air strike 90% of the time. You’re not looking using it as a uh quote unquote initiation tool, more so to disengage. Yeah, it felt like all all the abilities that Ultra Legends were throwing, it’s as if they were acting that they already had a high damage carry online and ready to go. Yeah, but then as we saw early on, yes, again, you delayed the eventual power spike of the Team Liquid lineup, but then you didn’t set up Pharaoh enough for success. You’re one core damage dealer. Again, Liquid’s lineup has three core damage dealers on them. The Granger, the Farsa, and the Lancelot. And that’s why I say it was so, you know, in a sense where you were allowed to be that trigger-happy Farsa. You know, you can just go ahead and drop down the feathered air strike every single time it’s up. And that’s what we that’s what we saw Sanji do because he knows that all right, Carl, no, they can go ahead and clean up or they can go ahead and even uh have enough damage that if he doesn’t have the feather dash and it’s a pretty quick cool down later on towards the end of the game where he was fine. Yeah, I have to say though for the line of Ultra Legends, I do like what I saw like for the first two to three fights, you could tell like, okay, wow, Dark Loy is very clear in his uh in his role here of when he’s going to use his final slash. All right, but then we didn’t see like the progression of that, the growth of that. Like their strategies were great for the early game in terms of delaying the tempo, but then once it got to the mid game, once Liquid has items, you’re going to have to change things up. Well, here’s the thing, right? That’s where we see the big difference in experience between both of these squads. We saw that team liquid with the lineup that they had. They’re like, “Oh, it’s very topside heavy.” Like EXP should technically smash, right? Like Samford should be winning against Dark Lord in the lane matchup alone. And therefore, with a little bit of help coming in from Sanji and the Sanan start working together, you know how that usually pans out. But that wasn’t the case this time, right? And I think Liquid recognized that very, very quickly. We saw the steel leggings almost bought immediately from the side of Sanford. He could have gone into war ax and being a true damage dealer, but there wasn’t enough of a snowball and the situations weren’t working out during these turtle fights. So, they started moving down to the bottom side. We didn’t see that from Ultra Legends. Arlet could have been the main damage source dealer coming in from early to mid. And I think that would have been a huge game changer as long as they understand how their comp works. You need that Arleta to be in the middle of that fight. You need to start throwing your abilities out after he’s kind of consumed all those stacks. Yeah. Now, I know Team Liquid won in this one, but nice. I feel like early on, you could say there’s a little bit of frustration with Liquid. There were some slightly off timings with their injuries. I want to say I I would I expect that for day one for a lot of the teams, honestly. You know, like they Yes, they’ve been scrimming, they’ve been preparing, they’ve been in their own uh uh respective boot camps, but ultimately when you get to the tournament, you know, I kind of expect some of uh to dust off whatever cobwebs they would have. I don’t know if these guys still have any complas, but you know, but also just adjusting to the tournament setting and and being on these devices and everything else. So, yeah, maybe. But I think uh it’s expected for all the teams that will be competing from group A and group B. Now, I do believe that with what Ultra Legends showed in the early game, there’s some promise there. And hopefully they’re not too shaken on how, you know, the mid to late game just went out of their hands so quickly because again, Team Liquid is known for that. Is known for getting into what we call that stampede form and they just go and end games like this. I mean, you know, how do you reset and adjust from that, I think, is one of the biggest things for Ultra Legends here. Yeah, hopefully if Ultra Legends decides to go for a draft similar to this, they need one more carry with them. uh they need something to supplement a little bit of early to mid game damage so that your mid to the late game transition isn’t as harsh when the opposing team has already power spiked. Which is why I didn’t like their second half of the draft, right? I love that first half of the draft. They still kept it a little bit more flexible. However, coming into the second half, it’s like, man, you you’re really pushing yourself in a corner and you’re highly dependent on your mechanics. As you can see, they can push buttons, but it’s also clear that they’re a little immature at how they kind of make the read on the game in comparison to the team Lego who is like shifting attentions, able to kind of turn things around and more so play around that tempo, which is something that Ultra Legends needed to do for a composition like this. Yeah, I feel like the Matilda pick actually in the second phase was a little bit too laser focused on what JP could pick. It’s more apat than you know in the mid lane against a a fara. Well, personally for me, I think Zatan is okay in these types of matchups. She has enough range to not have to like forcefully take trades against the Farsa in the laning stages. She feather air strikes, you press your alt. That’s basically the the general gist of it. I think that the order of picks should have changed. they should have picked as a first and then afterwards hold up and say we we already see the Lancelot. So it doesn’t really make sense if we do see the Matilda get paired over on the opposite side for Liquid and they could have responded later down the line. So again that’s just me personally. They could have started switching things up, put Arla into the into the support section, then put the Akai into the EXP and then you know pick a Frederick up for themselves if they wanted to or more damage oriented. Kind of up to them. Yeah, that’s it for our takes for game number one. Remember this is a best of three. So we have potentially two more coming up. There are a lot of teams here in MSE and a lot of journeys to lead to where we are today. And this is the journeys of one of those teams. Hi guys, I’m OAB, the goldener of Team Liquid Philippines. Being here in EWC 2025 feels amazing because it’s my first time being here and um I think we have a great chance at getting the trophy for the Philippines. Very excited to have them back on the stage. More importantly, I think it’s great to see that this is one of the few titles that they are looking to conquer, right? I think this is not the strongest form of Team Liquid yet because we haven’t won an EWC title yet. If we win this EW in 2025, I can confidently say that this is the strongest form of Team Liquid. My team now makes me feel like I belong to the team and we are so close and connected to each other that even if we don’t talk to each other in coms in game, we just know what what we’re going to do. This a new age in MLB. Russo goes down a blaze in disguise, but it’s too late. The cavalry reclaim the throne. Stamp meeting two stallion. I think this is the year that we have we might have a shot at winning the MSE title. My expectations for Team Liquid. Yeah, I guess that’s a little bit of a fearless forecast if you ask me. My expectations for them. Yeah, but I’m not I don’t want to jinx it anymore, so I’m not going to expound on that. So yeah, uh Team Liquid was still humble as ever, even Moab admitting that they don’t want to say this is their strongest form until they win the championship, but you got to admit they’re looking pretty dang good so far. I think I think looking good is one thing, but I we need to see them be really stretched, right? I think that’s the only time we’re going to really be able to tell whether they are in their prime form. And so far, even a couple of mis mechanics here and there, like really is like, you know, this is the first game. and let’s just warm up the fingers a little bit, get the joints going. Yeah, that’s what I think. I But, you know, nonetheless, Team Liquid Philippines, you guys have seen it all around, a lot of people have them, you know, at that top spot, uh, if not the, uh, top two, top three. Uh, and so far, from what we’ve seen, I think especially when we get through a couple of their games, I think that’s really going to be able to to gauge just how strong they are. And that’s that can be said for a lot of the teams here that are competing. But again, this is the group with the six champions. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s for all of group A. Yeah. Uh, we all know that we are in in the middle of a massive international event right now. But in your games, there is also a great event going on as well with the Dino Planet event for Allstar 2025. It’s been going on since June. If you haven’t logged on, you’re really going to have to catch up. There’s a mini game in there with a little dinosaur hopping around. If you want to get a really sick bubble and Koopa skin, go ahead and pick it up. But yeah, join us for the event. Uh there’s a lot of good prizes, a lot of surprises in the map. So check that out. Now, as we head into game number two for Ultra Legends, do you think there’s enough room in there that we could see a surprise here? Are they going to suddenly show a different hand? maybe something that they’re saving a little bit later in the tournament because come on, what better way to make a statement than to take a game from Team Liquid in the very first match of MSE 2025 group stages, right? Do you show your hand now or what? What does Ultra Legend need to do here? Well, based on what we’ve seen in game number one, I think, you know, play highly early game composition. If you’re going to make those fiveman rotations, really make it count. At the end of the day, it’s going to be boiled down to simple mobile found uh fundamentals, right? trade well, be effective, and if you can close out the game really, really fast against Team Liquid, that would kind of be ideal. I think their early game already from game one was like pretty impressive. I I think for a lot of people that didn’t get to watch them at all, we’re probably sitting there at home be, wow, okay, they’re they do have some fight in them. So, I would love to see that be the priority in a way. And you can already see that happening right first, right out of the gate, let’s go ahead and ban that Lancelot. Take him out of the picture. Whoa. I feel like that’s a little bit too much of a pryo ban there, but I mean big respect begs respect. Sometimes you just really got to take it out. But interesting that opens up a massive pool of heroes available now. That does it does open up a massive pool. But I think the real question is where are the priorities, right? TLPH first off getting rid of the box totally okay. I want to see whether Ultra Legends cuz what we see from very fresh and new teams coming down to not only international stage but over sole professional play is that they tend to have the habit of if we ban it on red side, we’re also going to ban it on blue side. And it seems to be the case here as well, right? Get rid of the Uranus. Let’s see if the next bands are looking along the lines of like uh what are the biggest was Phobia that big of a problem? I felt like they handled San Frit pretty well. I think the Phobia like you don’t need to you don’t need to ban him out. Um, do they still go with the or do they want to prioritize maybe the Ducian? Like is that maybe the the plan here? I I don’t know if that’s priority, you know, if they did it on red side or there’s chance that they do it on blue side, too. Let’s see if they do decide to go for that a Uranus ban even though you’re on the blue side. Usually, if available, teams on the blue side would want to pick up the Uranus at the exp lane right away. Very first pick. But them checking it out. What are they trying to signal? That they are going to be leaning a bit more towards the assassins now that they they want freedom in the jungle to just farm. I think they still want the Arnlet. That’s that’s my suspicion here. I don’t know whether it’s going to be first pick worthy. Oh, but then they also get rid of the Kimmy, too. So, I guess they could be looking for like Farsa opener against TPH. Kind of, you know, rip the page out of their book. See how it works for them. It’s two strong first picks. a perfect pick options taking away in the blue side for Ultra Legend. So maybe they’re trying to whittle down what TLP could get on the swing back with the first two picks on the red side. Team L takes out the one one. They take the take away the Farsa. That means Kalia is going to be open for the side of TPH though. So again, it’s it’s really it really boils down to where is your priority in terms of the meta picks. I think the Farsa opener is okay. I would have preferred the Kalia just a little bit more uh mainly because of the way that they interact. The pickoff styles of compositions are really really good, but I think ultra legins might be thinking a little bit ahead. Right. If you get the Kala, you still need a big damage dealer and usually it’s paired up with the fara. So you just take one component away. So Liquid can go pick up a higher boost for Cis if they want to. They’re not going to lean into that. They go for juice and Arllot. Lots of control from Liquid. Yeah, take the control. This is So this I don’t know. This is in a way a little swip uh swap from what we saw in game one. at least with the maybe overall arcing game plan of the composition because yeah, you get an Arlot, you get a Duchian, you get a ton of utility yourselves with those. Um, and then for Ultra Legends, it looks like they might be leaning towards that uh damage centric lineup with the Farsa already. We’ll see how they go ahead and build the rest of this first phase out. They also take the Granger cuz I was almost expecting a Granger to get picked up in that first couple picks from TLPH to go over to Ohead, but they go phobia Granger. Oh no. Are you worried? I am worried because I think that TLPH they’re going to throw Arlet into the uh into the support position. They can get the CC now to get a winning matchup into the phobius, but that might not necessarily work out for the comp, right? Because there’s still the possibility that hey, even if Arleta isn’t thrown into the exp, we can pick up Freden for ourselves. And now we have a really deadly mid trio to kind of move across the map and just basically CC people to the ground. And every time you CC, you get free damage. Yeah. So I think team Liquid are weighing the options of whether or not they’re going to pick up the Frederick now. So they get the Frederick Arllot combo alongside the juice in or as we tossed up in the air earlier. They pick up the Hayabusa for Carl Tezy who now has a easy backline access. So Ultra Legends hopefully their coms are on point because if they send their Fus and whatever the ROR is going to be a little bit too early, Carl Te is going to be eating good in the back with the Granger and the Farsa being left open. That’s what I’m saying. like you you ban out as a Lancelot. He’s still going to go for an assassin if he can. He goes with Hayabusa who’s working great for this game plan against a farce and a Granger. So yeah, like you mentioned, that’s something that Ultra Legends is going to want to have to keep in track of. So maybe the is the Gakotas uh viable here for them or at least another tanky hero to go ahead and help protect that backline if they have to or you know kind of have to juggle the Phobia and whatever other tanky member you have. Maybe it’s still utility jungle they go with. Yeah, I think God thought and juicing together in the mid would be good. Good harass. At the same time, it’s a good bridge. So smart. So smart. TP are making sure that their options are extremely wide here, right? Because I I feel like if they got rid of the gat, I I feel like the onus is on Ultra Legends to get rid of the thought, but the ch to make sure that the mid lane is almost guaranteed to be within their control depending on what that mid duo is going to be looking like. concussive blast style of supports come to the forefront of my mind. Right? If they want Kalia, they can absolutely do it, too. But the question is where is the damage going to come from? And I think that’s the biggest problem that I have. If TLPH are thinking along those lines, I think they’re not even going to touch Kalia to be fair for this upcoming round. But we’ll see. Ultra Legends now getting rid of the Moscow on their side. Priority going over to TPH on red side for the second phase. What does Ohead play? Uh he’s got like a good amount of options here still. Thills banned out. Moskov, Kimmy, Granger’s taken. Does he actually go to Harth who hasn’t worked? I know you guys. Is it you, Ryan? That’s not a fan of the Herth. Yeah, I’m not a fan of that. You’re not a fan of her. He can still play Bruno or Beatatrix to be fair. If he goes Beatatrix, it’s almost guaranteed to be Kalia on the other side or they can pick up Kalia now. And that’s the signal, but there’s so much reach on the side of Ultra Legends that either a Bruno or a carry, which are like on the top of my list right now, is going to have a lot of difficulty. And considering that you don’t see the Rome yet for Ultra Legends, yeah, best to save the gold pick for OH last. Mhm. Mhm. I think for now it it’s pretty straightforward what the composition wants to do, right? I’m expecting Beatatrix at the very end for TLPH. Ultra Legends. Very nice. Oh, they go for Harth instead. Throw it out there. Yep, they want to go for damage diversity. I guess they do see the joy on the opposite end. Tigril is also a little annoying to deal with, but I think Ultra Legends very standard like Southeast Asian style of composition that we’re very used to seeing in our own MPLs. Yeah, I like the draft shown off by these two teams, Ultra Legends. Let’s see if they’ll be able to execute and NSU. Uh you guys have a little bit more time to expound and well, you’re going to be casting. I’m going to be watching. All right, no worries, man. You enjoy being a fan for now. You and me, Nu, we’re going to be heading on over to game number two in just a little bit, but looking and breaking down these final compositions. What do you think about TLPH? because I think that’s the biggest question mark with the way that they were positioning themselves. It’s like we could have some really nice combos. Yes, it does come at a cost, but I don’t think it’s that bad if we play well. I like it, man. I like TLPH because they have pick off potential with the Klaya and you guys mentioned that quite a bit through the draft, but then you can fight really well into a final/ Zominforce combination and then you have Adrian to help set that up. So, I like TLPH’s draft here. Okay, let’s head on into it. The Mid-Season Cup 2025 continues here at the esports World Cup live in Riyad. The second match between Ultra Legends now on the blue side faced off against TLPH on the blue on the red side man. Oh, blue on blue. It’s okay. Wait, what about you, Gideon? Mhm. What are you What do you think here? Who are you signing with here? I think my biggest problem is the lack of potential damage from the side of Team Liquid, right? I I agree that Carl TZ is uh looking for these like one-off pickups, but then when the fight is done, what what what happens then, right? If Sanji ends up collapsing in the middle of that fight, if OH, who’s probably not going to participate for at least at least 9 minutes, JP getting really close. First blood for Throwboy. Ultra Legends will pick up an early kill from JP. and all this because overextending on a lithal wanderer little little little uh little strange not going to lie but hey still recoverable. Okay, throw boy once again looking for Sanford will get the flicker uses the retribution as well. Still going to be going a couple hits away for Sanford. Oh, Throw Boy picks up another kill. He’s 2 and0 early on. He’s 2 and 0. He ends up missing a cart minion which is going to really suck for him. I mean uh what to do? What poor Sanford? Can’t do much about it. Let’s see how Ultra Legends continued play because this is where Wo. Okay. All right. All right. Bit of a mistake there coming up from Kunov. Wasn’t expecting him to die, but uh I thought he had wings by wings. So, a little unfortunate there. Yeah, up here up top. Ob delaying. And there’s the shadow kill from Carl Tezy. The timing on point. Meanwhile, in the middle lane, JP goes down again, but still Sanford joining the fight now. Dark Lord takes a couple hits. won’t be able to survive that though as Sanford now converts. So, Team Liquid finding their own I guess through this aggression. Sanford could be in trouble. Gets thrown into the turret. Takes a shot and will fall. No, Samford. He’s uh he’s a little sad about it. Not not level four. Oh, under the turret. Oh, he 1 v one. Far he’s going to be fine. And there is Throwboy to punish. So, we see Team Liquid being very aggressive here early on. Gideon. Yeah, I I see the idea that Team Liquid is going for at this point. But hey, I mean, the meta has kind of shifted. Unfortunately, old Har probably would have gotten the kill there. I’m just saying old Har would have been totally fine. But I I think that Team Liquid is trying to kind of pull Ultra Legends apart, right? Really get them heated up on these matchups because in terms of what they are losing despite the solo laners getting kind of shafted here, yeah, it doesn’t really matter, right? Because San at the end of the day, he’s not a main damage dealer. He’s either a cleanup or a big initiator. Carlzi has been able to progressively get more and more farm. Sanji is the one who’s not dying and has the full level lead. And look, Pino again, he’s trying, but every single time Carl shows up, he’s forced to use an ability. Yeah, he’s And every time that Flicker is down, the timing is going to be there for Team Liquer to go ahead and punish it once again. So now up here in the gold lane, Pharaoh, won’t escape that one. JP comes in to make sure they secure that kill. So, ohhead JP doing work. Still a minute away on the objective though. So, Team Liquid will go ahead and continue to put pressure up here on the turret for now. Mhm. Now, most people wait. Hold on. Let’s see how this plays out. Sanji could be in trouble here. Throwboy has quite a bit of damage, but enough crowd control will keep him alive. Sanji relying on the team here. Great tsunami slam. Now, waiting for the rest of the team. Drops the Zomb Force. Rice Crim forced off of the turret. Farah here trying to keep it up together. There they do. And now they back away. I love how Team Liquid is playing this, right? Pull them apart. And people know their matchups here. Don’t get me wrong. Siphon knows that he’s basically not winning his matchup. And that’s totally fine. The smooth final slash into the mid lane. Be able to pick up Quanock. Throw boy. I don’t know. He’s going to jump in for Sanji. Pops the beats here. Sanford again with a stun. And there’s the slam forward. But Throwboy, there’s an implosion. Still in the mid lane. Going to be forced out. Oh, Sanford will get punished for earlier on. Dark Lord still a part of the fight. I don’t think they can pick up a kill though. He’s tanky enough. The rest of Ultra Legends joining the mid lane. They’re going to drop down the feed air strike. JP trying to get some distance, but will fall anyway. A good fight back from Ultra Legends. So very scrappy here. Really nicely played by Dark Lord. He was able to save his jungler by knocking off Sanji. So he wasn’t able to get that final pickup onto Throwboy. Either way, just look at how this game is playing out, right? It’s chaotic on purpose by design. Oh, OB dropping the Zaman force. Trouble the members. TP final slash will find Quana. Quana won’t be able to escape as he falls now. So, they were making a way up here towards OH, but they’ll lose one member for Ultra Legends. Yeah, they’ve manipulated the way Ultra Legends are looking to play, right? They want to stay on this top side as much as possible. They gave up that turtle so they can get Carl TC to get the initial push down on the bottom side and that’s how they want to play. Again, Implosion to try to counterplay this. a flicker to stay alive. Rice curb is going to be fine. A lot of this back and forth with the abilities and the ultimates so far. Still a lot of attention up there on top. Carl Tezy going to make his way here towards throw boy. Good drop of the bead still. They’re going to fight it out. Shadow kill going to be used and Carl Tezi is going to have to get out of here. He’s focused down under half health. Dark lord jumping back in. Goes back with quad shadow and will survive for now. Pumps the rejuvenate and throw boy forced out. Sanji could be in bad position now as he tried to help Carl Tezy still trying to bob and weave through it but can’t survive as Dark Lord will take him down under the tier 2. That one bit of a mistake from Team Liquid’s side that they needed him to decide whether to disengage or not. But I think Sanji was confident he could take out Throwboy and that ended up putting him in a pretty awkward spot. Regardless, OB is going to get a T1 on top side. They’ve unlocked him and now the main win condition for the side of Team Liquid is now on the loose. This is uh a very different throw boy uh in game two. I And maybe that’s just the fact that he’s on a different style of hero, you know, for the jungle, but he’s a lot more aggressive. He can be a lot more of value, I feel like, on this Joy. Once again, the mid lane’s going to be the focus. Rise Crim doesn’t have a flicker, so don’t expect a surprise implosion from him just yet. Feathered air strike. Oh, a huge final slash from Sanford again. They’re going to jump in, collapsing down on Dark Lord, and you can’t withstand the damage. It’s a wipe out from Team Liquid. And what did I say? It doesn’t matter how badly Samford loses. As long as he lands a good final slash, the fight’s basically done for. Really good culmination of abilities here. Let’s just watch it one more time. This is after the final slash. The big problem is that once if Dark Lord isn’t able to separate the battle lines, really create space for his team, that’s when we see Ultra Legends start to break in formation. Right can look to for these big engages, but if Quinnok gets caught, their main anchor starts to fall. Right now, Alternate Legends need to recognize that Quinnok is getting highly targeted. So, they need to make sure that Pharaoh and Quinn are on two separate angles. If not, have some decent space in between each other. Okay, they do take this orange buff. A final slash on Dark Lord. They’re going to go on the retreat here. I’m not sure if this is where they want to fight, but throw boy already quite low. Gets picked up by Carl. Caro pops the shadow kill under the turret. He’s going to get implosion and caught out though. He won’t escape that as Farah picks up a kill, but they’re going to force the fight under the tier 2 anyway. A stampede under the fight now. Rise Crimp will survive. Quanic just flapping away. Wings by wings. Sanji’s not going to let him go. He’s going to drop that lantern right in there. Takes a couple shots himself though. Flickers out, but he’s going to get whittleled down and Sanji knows it as he picks up that kill. Outplayed by Sanji. Really nicely done there. forced out his flicker as well to try and turn the tides. I mean, Cornog, he just needed to land two more shots at the very end to guarantee the kill. So far, Ultra Legends, they’re still grouping up a little too close for my comfort. But I need to talk about item builds. What is Dark Lord doing with this build? That’s my biggest problem. Why are we going and deciding, hey, I want to go for brute force breastplate as my first item? Like, sure, I get it. You know, get a little bit of tenacity. Sanji going to be in your face going to be a problem picking you up all the time but like that movement speed ain’t saving you especially when you’re dealing with Samford alongside to kind of extend the CC tsunami slam once again Rise Crim will pop the implosion be able to catch him out sacred hammer through JP still alive fight going in anyway Rise Crim finally falls and they collapse down on him throw boy looking for his own option but he’s going to get stunned and he’s go down two three fall for Ultra Legends they have no way to fight in that choke point. I think right now they need to use Pharaoh as a means to open up the map safely. They need Rice Cream to also open up the map. He’s fighting some good, don’t get me wrong, good implosions, but they need to stop Samper from canceling the feather strike. Oh, having a final slash again under the tier three. Team Liquid doesn’t get in game two. I mean, they’re getting farmed at this point. Team Liquid, they’ve got their timings and they know how to extend a lead. Ultra Legends need a mistake from Team Liquid if they want to bounce back. They need to catch OH somehow. They know that he doesn’t have his purify any longer. So with Rice Crim implosion plus flicker, he has an opportunity to turn this around. A huge shutdown on OP could change the course of this game. And it seems like a difficult task, especially when you got two purifies over here. A whole lot of displacement crowd control in Sanford alone, but then you have JP finding the right marks here. And mind you, you’re down 10,000 gold again. So very difficult place to be in if you’re Ultra Legends as they get ready to go ahead and defend against this first Lord push. It’s the checkmate angle right 61 and 11. They’ve got 35 more seconds to force a play onto him before his purify is back up. And I think that Ultra Legends if they have the chance you might as well go for it. Might be a Hail Mary play is what they have to go for. Flicker is up. The shield in the mid lane already popped. They hold on to this top one but the Lord’s going to make its way. And we’ve seen this before with Team Liquid will fight and force this situation on Ultra Legends here getting a glimpse at it too. I just again I don’t know even their front line whether it’s Rise Crim or Dark Lord will be taken out so quickly here. Yeah finally getting the glowing wand conceal going to be used. Is he actually going to initiate this for the air strike used and they go in tsunami slam meanwhile Throwboy going against Carl Ty with the shadow kill. Carl TZY gets that joins the fight. Farah’s gone too. They’re collapsing down under the turret. Rice Crim the only one left. But that’s going to be it as Team Liquid will sweep the series and it’s a maniac in day one for OH. The waves pushing on in as they go ahead and get together and the stampede is true. A sweep for the series. Disgusting play coming in from OB. His mechanics really just showing like, hey, maybe Harth hasn’t really changed as much as we thought. You just got to be that good at the hero. But I got to give it to Samford, right? Despite losing in the earlier stages of that game, he was pivotal. Oh, Rice Cream wants to try and go for something crazy. Go for a flicker implosion. Final slash. Cancel it out straight away. Fathered air strike. Cancel it out straight away. He is absolute destruction. Sorry, disruption in this case. Uh, okay. Oh, I’m going to stop being a Harth hater. That’s it. That’s my character arc done. I’m good. No more hate on the Har. It feels like I just saw it was like Dja Vu again. First five minutes, Ultra Legends clearly know what they want and how they want to do it. But once they get to the mid game, past 5 minutes, past the laning phase, the power spike moment, they can’t convert it into substantial map control or objective control. Yeah, the the the conversions aren’t that great for Ultra Legends, I will admit. But I think they definitely have some really good concepts going for them. The main issue that I am seeing is that when you have certain leads, the game doesn’t necessarily always have to be a 5v5, right? And I think that’s what they initially wanted to do when they had the the leads, but that’s when Team Liquid started kind of throwing bodies left, right, and centered, right? Trying to instigate to see what the reactions were from Ultra Legends. And most of the time, the reactions weren’t very good. Yes, obviously Sanford got punished because of these types of reactions, but later in the game, those final slashes, that was the big difference. All right, that was the game two end series in favor of Team Liquid against Ultra Legends. And in just a moment, we’re actually going to be hearing from one of the key figures in the side, the Team Liquid, who played an incredibly great game that game number one. So, we’ll pass you on over to Eterna and Ob. Thank you so much, casters. It’s Eterna here for the winners interview, and I’m joined today with the richest guy in MLP. Hello, OB. Hi guys. How are you doing today? I’m feeling good. Feeling good. That was a dominant match. 200 already like 13 14 minutes. That was very quick. How was that first match for you? Um it was super fun and I’m super excited my first match. So yeah, it felt great. It felt great. What did you think about Ultra Legends? Right. Because they’re coming in from a region that is rising and technically they were able to take down the Mena favorites. Was it like a hard match for you or what do you think about them? Yes, I think uh a couple more years and I think they can step up because I think their game play is very good. Like they can they can their micro is very good as well. Yeah, cuz we saw like in the early game it looked a little bit tough for you guys, right? They’re very good in turtle fights in skirmishes. They always take fights when our junglers going on sideline. They always they always make us fight, you know. So a lot of potential. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of potential. All right. We haven’t seen you in quite some time, OB. The last time we saw you at MSE was 2021. Is that right? Yes. So, how does it feel to be back? What do you think is like the main difference from when we saw you in 2021 and now here at EWC? Um, I think because I have a new team now and it feels great being here again and especially with my new team because it’s so fun being here. Yeah. Was it hard for you with this new team? No. No. No. because they felt they make me felt like I belong to the team. A that’s so sweet. So upcoming you guys are going to continue your upper bracket run, right? Do you think you’ll be facing CFU or Any? I think we’re going to face Anik. Yeah. Okay. Any do you think you can beat Savo in the gold lane? I don’t know. Let’s see. Maybe. Maybe yes, maybe not. Let’s close with um a message for Savo. Good luck, Savo. Train hard. I’m I’m not going to lose to you. I’m not going to lose to you. So once again, thank you so much, Richest Man in MLPH. And we’re going to throw it over back to our casters. Always great to hear from Big Money. Oh, he thought we were going to walk I thought we were going to walk away with that with like nothing to work with, but then suddenly he goes, you know, you know the little message for Seo. And I like how we weren’t just yapping here. Whatever we said is exactly what Ob said as well, exactly what he felt about Ultra Legends. They were Again, there is a lot of potential. I like that he mentioned that, too, because I think for a lot of people that maybe, again, this is their first time seeing Ultra Legends, there’s a lot of pro promise there, a lot of potential for them. I think they just need to hone in on Yeah. not tunnel visioning, especially taking care of that mid game uh potential. And even the draft, like the drafting was great. I feel like it the ideas are there. It’s just again the execution factor. And hopefully they can figure that out quickly after. What a match though. What a learning experience for your first match. It h it is incredible first match. I’m not going to lie. I definitely think that Ultra Legends things that they need to work on their second phase of the draft needs to improve here because a lot of stuff that they they they had some good ideas and it’s not like their concepts are wrong. It’s just that a couple of interactions they kind of like slip by. It’s like, oh yeah, you have a on that side, but I want to have the implosion. Ooh, but it gets canceled out if you if you don’t catch the Arlets. Therefore, it’s like, is it the best option? It’s moments like that that really show the polish on a team. But as much as as rough as Ultra Legends are, there definitely is potential in the early game. I I I really think that they should lean into that some more cuz they’re skirmishing and their micro is pretty good. Yeah, it seems like uh the story of the draft for Ultra Legends is also a reflection of what happens to them in game. First half, first phase, great. You guys clearly know where you’re going to be going into what style you want to go for. Second half, that’s when things get a little bit tossed up in the air. Maybe you tunnel visioned a little bit too much. You miss something out. But I think we’re all in agreement here alongside OHB. Ultra Legends put on a pretty good show for their very first appearance here in MSC. A lot of potential there, but you cannot deny the fact that Team Liquid is now one win away in their group to advancing into the next stage of MSC. Once again, my name is Renar here with Gideon and N. We will be back in just a bit for our second match. So, don’t go anywhere. 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And for this second matchup of the day in Group A, it’s Onyx, the Sky Kings of Indonesia versus a Cambodian team yet again. cuz somehow someway Cambodian teams and Onyx seem to just keep drawing each other every major international tournament. Hey, at least this time like the stakes aren’t as high. It’s like right at the very beginning. They get a bit of a fight to go on to kind of kick things off and the energy here. Crazy. I’m pretty sure that again these two quote unquote scrim partners are extra excited to meet each other. I’ve never heard a battlecry like that. I hope that was a battlecry. Uh hopefully you got to pick that up on your wherever you’re watching from right now. But yeah, they are scrim partners and history also shows that Onyx they either stumble or they sweep the Cambodian team that they’re going up against. Uh I believe it was also in the previous embassies that they saw each other. There’s no in between with these two. Maybe that’s uh I don’t know just because maybe that’s fate. I was going to say, you know, maybe that’s just maybe that’s just the way it is, right? But at the same time, they’ve been, you know, scream screaming a lot together. And maybe that familiarity is is going to play a part here. Yeah. And when I saw that actually, it’s like it puts into context a lot of the reasons as to why we analyze the way we do when we talk about these two teams. So, let’s look at the Aramco power rankings here real quickly. What’s one thing you want to give focus on, Gideon? Hey, SRG OG untouchables. It feels good to have at least one Malaysian team up there after years of just being like, “Yeah, we’re probably like dark horses or fighters.” Yeah, but now clearly untouchable considering you guys are the defending champions. I was going to say I think you just get to the untouchables after being the the champions from last year especially. Um I don’t know maybe you can say like have you seen significant improvement like over since the last time maybe some of our viewers have even seen SRG OG play? Dude, it’s really hard to say. It’s hard to say because they played like the same comp the entire regular season and even their like grand finals was a absolute stomp. So I I’m more curious about quote unquote because again Onyx ID being put in dark horses is kind of crazy to a certain extent but really when you watch that grand finals in ML ID what is the YB effect right? How and that was just like a taste of it not the full saturation of the YB effect. Yeah. Again, uh we have to talk about Onyx Indonesia, the champions of well, Indonesia clearly where in their journey here wasn’t so clear-cut. For the first 3 weeks of the regional league, there were a lot of people saying we might not even expect them in MSC. They’re not going to end up there. But then the YB effect that Gideon mentioned, their coach Yeb coming back in to the fold, eventually their champions, winning seven games against Arhoshi, it’s actually kind of crazy when you think about that. And you know, a lot of people would go ahead and argue that coach Yeb is the most uh decorated. Obviously, he is the most decorated, but also the best coach out there because of the fact that what he’s done. And for the instance of Anuk Indonesia not like almost not making the playoffs was such a big thing. But then yeah, I think clearly when he came in and then you watch that playoff run for them, it’s like there’s definitely something here in the in the sauce of coach. It really is right because he change apparently he changes the vibes, you know. I I think you know with the players and especially when it comes down to Indonesian players specifically they need to make sure that the mood and the vibes are good especially for like people like Lupy Sans K and as well as Sava if they are feeling good the whole team is feeling good and as much as you want everybody’s going to be like a it’s all about Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie Assangeans and key boy has been such an integral part of this team right they are the only two who have not changed over these past couple of years yeah Seo making his MS debut loot Kyrie Sans and key boy coming back to the stage age wherein they met a disappointing result last year against, you guessed it correctly, a Cambodian team that were able to put the nail in the coffin in their run last year. So, those four, I’m pretty sure they’re hungry to wipe that bitter taste off of their mouth from their performance last year. And aren’t they the only team that basically could be what, three time? It’s three-time MSE winner if they get this one. Yes. Right. Are they the only team that Yeah. Uh just a quick reminder for everyone on in 2019 won the MSE tournament then 2023 2023 Cambodia if ever they win 2025 they would be the only team. All right. Yeah. They won it in Cambodia in 2023. That’s why it’s funny because like we we say that and it’s always on Indonesian somewhere in their in their in their fate is Cambodia. Yeah. It it’s interesting to see how how this has really developed for the team because when when it comes down to like what I’m worried for the squad I think that like the hunger is back right the hunger in their eyes compared to like I am just comfortable like loopy during the regular season got swapped out and now is back in Seo who has been you know filling in the boots of uh funny enough boots of CW is now really coming into his own. Yeah. And so with Onyx already discussed, I think it’s time for us to put a little bit more focus into the Lone Hope of Cambodia CFU. The last time they were in an international stage, it was the M6 World Championship, and they almost, just barely almost made it out of the Swiss stages. They dropped 2 to1 against Team Spirit, then 2 to1 against SRG. CFU have that on their shoulders. Yeah, again, I’m excited to see Cambodia as a region continue to grow because every single time people start counting them out, they seem to be able to steal games from some of the best. Right, Detective, come back in. Obviously, I’m very happy for Oppy. He’s like, “Yes, back on the international stage one more time to try and make things actually work for ourselves. But at the same time, I am curious to see whether Boxy CC this time. You know, used to be Boxy the King can do what he loves to do.” Same goes for Wadu, but I’ll talk a little bit about him later. Boxy’s been like Boxy and OP too. I mean, most of these players, but Boxy especially is I feel like maybe one of the more well-known names from CFU. OP as well. They’ve played so much. So, this because Boxy comes in, I think that allowed OP to go in the mid lane, too. So, this could be a dynamic shift that maybe people didn’t necessarily see from the last time we saw uh CFU Gaming. But this is a big thing because if I remember right too back in previous interviews with Boxy like he is a character and he’s uh he likes to lead if he has to. So now that he’s in the Rome, we’ll see if that plays a big part here in their first matchup. Yeah, again this lineup of CFU Gaming very similar to the M6 lineup. Former mid laner Z is now sub as their former ROR OP had to go to the mid to make room for their new ROR in Boxy who is by all means at this point a Cambodian legend. If you look at the regions all over the world, when you think of Latin American rors, you think of Louise. When you think of Indonesian rors, you think of Koi. In Cambodia, there’s only one guy you’ll think of in Rome, and it’s Boxy. Boxy. That’s why he was the king. Yeah. Again, I don’t know what happened. He has played for a long period of time within the professional scene. Same goes for like OP. But I I think that this time around, they’re coming in with a new type of energy and we’re going to get to experience it against their own scrim partners, right? I think that really the matchup that I’m particularly looking forward to is going to be Lupi and as well as Wadu because again Wadu has been interesting. There are times where he looks like an absolute god and other times where he’s like is he kind of throwing like he’s been extremely volatile and I think right now with the meta that we have with so much flexibility he can be a potential out for CFU. Yeah. Uh coach Yeah. heading into this and even Onyx, they admitted they are excited for this matchup against CFU. And I hope you are excited also for the happenings in MLBB in the game itself because we have our MSE pass available now for a limited time from July 18th to August 7th. And all of the MSE exclusive items are available there. You can get a 20% off for the entire period. So instead of 899 diamonds, you get 719 diamonds. And you get a chance to purchase the new skin of Nathan. I know he hasn’t popped up yet, but I’ve won one game with it, and that’s enough for me to say he’s a really good hero, and you should probably show up because I won one game. And there are also the battle of modes and everything. Uh, every major international tournament, we have a lot of things uh to give away in the game that you can purchase as well. So, please go ahead and check that out. I am excited to see what will end up within the draft. Considering that let’s just alone in the Rome position, you have two incredibly prolific RORs who are known for being aggressive, setting things up. Key boy versus Boxy. So, that might just be one of the things we really have to take into consideration here. But before we head into the game itself, uh there’s a quick little thing that we got to show you first. So, you can go ahead and watch this. Midland Midland. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. melting down the king. The immortality pops by now. Felix Kyrie now is on the job being locked. The turn around be the king. Sorry. Felix with the flicker. Look for dances around. for it’s combat time by and giving away that damage to the rest in the back line. dive on to be in my back. It echoes far and loud throughout the world. The crowd returns to its rightful place. motivate. We are the contender. Self-proclaimed contenders from Cambodia against the well freshly recowned Sky Kings of Indonesia. Two teams, two regions who have been bound by fate. It seems like in the international stage will be our second match of the day. And I feel like that little sizzle reel just added a little bit more to the drama and the weight of the series. Yes, no one’s going home today. It’s not elimination. But considering the history between these two, the players involved, the regions involved, bro, this is no wonder why this is our match of the day. I mean, considering how loud that battlecry was earlier, like no no stakes, but uh pride is on the line. I like that they mentioned this, too. You know, for for Onyx specifically, it was a heartbreak ending for them last MSC. And clearly a lot of teams, I feel like not just them, but want to come back into this year with, you know, maybe a chip on their shoulder a little bit. They want to go and have a redemption arc of their own. And they’ve already had a an amazing storyline back in MPL Indonesia. So let’s see if they can replicate it here. Yeah. For Cambodia on the other hand, again, when it comes to international tournaments, you’ve already touched on it a little bit earlier, Gideon, wherein just when you don’t expect them to go far, they get high-profile wins. Uh it isn’t always series. Sometimes it’s just games, but all the more impressive nonetheless. CFU versus Sonic, game number one. And right away, CFU are respecting a hero that even though left open has been banned a fair bit. They take away the Fanny. They take away the lands a lot. They’re focusing on Kyrie. Mhm. Yep. They are focusing on Kyrie for the time being. I don’t know what their scrims have been looking like because we haven’t seen much Fanny from MWI, from Wild Cards as well. I was hoping that this time around for the group stages that it would still be that priority pick at the end of the day, but maybe some teams have strayed away. We’ll see as the tournament goes on. Varsa, the follow-up band to finish off that first phase. Keep in mind CFU on the blue side, Any on the red. Let’s see how this goes, right? because Boxia alongside with the Uranus is already gone. Yeah, they are. And this is already going to change the course of what we saw from just the last match. And like I was saying too, even from if you guys have been tuning in with us from Wild Cards up to even MWI, you can already see that in a first match, some of those different picks coming through. And that’s going to be the case here, it looks like even. So, so first priority, I guess, while we wait for this last ban over from Onyx is going to still be what? I mean the fact that you Okay. Well, they go with the Arlot ban. So, what do you swing here? Interesting. Uh TF has a rush Kimmy option, rush one option considering the Lancelot, Fanny, Fars are all gone. You go Kimmy or W1 for your first pick. They can go Kimmy or one for their first pick for sure. They could also go for the Kalia if they really wanted to. They kind of want to play a more pickup style of composition. Um the Arlock really feels feels interesting, right? because I know that Wadu plays it for sure. I’m pretty certain that it fits Boxy’s style of like pickoff as well, but we’re going to start things off with the Wan as a strong opener for CFU. It’s going to deter Onik from actually looking to play those tanks in the first place. But I think that’s what CFU want. Yishin Shin finally gets let through. And now this is where things are going to get interesting, right? Because you have this jungler who’s ultra fast, super fast farmer, is able to open up that map. Do you want to pair it up with the Zitian now that we see that Farsa is off? That’d be a great uh compliment to a YSS if you go that way. You know, um not only does it give you an advantage just with map pressure, but like you mentioned, um you can do quite a bit uh speed and rotational wise, too. But they’ll go with the Phobius for now for Any. See what the response from CFU is. CFU, they’ll be able to get their mid laner before Sans can get theirs. And I think that’s one priority they really want to put a lot of focus on considering they banned the fara. Yes, you could say it was a setup for the 1-1. But in the bigger picture, it’s also uh a targeted way of them being able to tell San you’re not going to be on someone who can set the tempo a lot. Maybe you’ll be a little bit more utility. We want priority in our mid lane first. I suppose, but then there’s also like the gamble of oh, if I give you if we take Zit, you won’t have access to it. You don’t get that compliment with Yishin Shin. else is really left on the table in terms of mid lanes, right? I’m thinking like ye along those lines, but even then, I know Sansa’s pool is extremely deep, but a lot of these heroes have kind of phased out of the meta, keeping the mid lane really, really strict in terms of what uh what the meta demands of it. We see the Fredan, we also see the Kalia. I’m not seeing enough damage from the side of CFU just yet. Yeah, it’s like they’re waiting for the mid to the late game on this one. It’s really going to be dependent on what they end up with in the mid and what Onyx ends up with. But yeah, it seems like Onyx can scale relatively quicker. No mid lane picks yet. They go for the Badang instead. Nizu, I like what both teams are doing. They’re kind of just they’re waiting to see what the mid lane uh picks are going to be for both sides. Um and that’s what I was saying. It’s an interesting transition that we see from match one and now match two. But nonetheless, I feel like both teams have that, you know. So yeah, the YSS has um great damage too. You’re able to kind of disrupt things with the Badang that gets locked in, but just like we saw from Klay in the previous matchup, your pickoff potential is going to be good, but like you know, Gideon mentioned, your Wan needs time to build up and then you have the whole you got to be able to proc the weakness points to be able to get the crossbow of Tang off. So how do you round that out? How do you round the damage profile out? And that’s why I think the mid lane picks are so important. And we’re going to see more mid lane picks probably banned out in the second phase. Yeah, Onyx taking away this juice in. This is actually one of the favorite picks of CFU Gaming in the mid lane if it would have been paired up with a Klay and Fren. That means, yeah, they won’t have a lot of damage, but they will have a lot of pressure, which is what CFU likes to play when they have the juice in in their mid. Yeah, but then we finally get to see signatures get to be banned out. I mean, there is just so much targeting towards the mid lane, which is now starting to be a little worrisome because in terms of like raw scaling, like, oh yeah, you can sustain forever, but if you don’t have the damage, you’re eventually going to die anyways, right? So I I want to see how this really plays out, right? CFU, they decide to get rid of the Eve. Now we go back to Any at this point, Zion is almost guaranteed on their side, assuming that CFU doesn’t ban it. So do they want to start diversifying in terms of what uh in in their in their picks and bands? I personally feel that hey, maybe get rid of some high-profile damage style exp laners. Okay, Any bans out CC and we’ll see if it if it is the Zatian that’s banned out here from uh CFU. This is interesting because I feel like this is the maybe the most tested that the mid lane hero pool is going to be so far. So, I’m really like sitting here as a mid laner myself. I’m like, what are they what are they going to pick? Yeah. What is it going to be? And at that point, although there is the one pick that Onyx uh can go for, they can still put a Kimmy in the mid lane. There’s enough room for it with Aka and Frederick usually play around the center of the map. That’s one of the scenarios where we see the Kimmy picked in that slot. Either that or we’ll end up with the likes of Lilia and Zask. That’s true. I I think that it is Oh, they’re they’re opening the question up to everybody, right? So now CF and Onyx, they’re going to look at this. It’s like, man, Onik, they kind of don’t want to get Kimmy on their side. Zen works out in their favor, but instead they go for Lunox. They go strictly for somebody who doesn’t really force out lane priority as one of the best late scaling mid laners uh in the game so far. Wait, sorry. Is it is there an option that this Lunox might actually go gold instead of mid? Um, what does that match up look like? There is a possibility. I think their damage profile does allow for it. Mhm. And then you don’t have to worry about taking purify because you have eyeframes to work with. I I I think there’s a possibility there. There is a possibility there. So that’s the flex. That’s a that’s could possibly be a new flex. And TFU, how do they respond to this? They still need their mid laner obviously. So they go with a Kimmy and they get the Edith. Wow. Such a such a strong standardized composition coming in from CFU. Love it. Love it. And they even got their own chant going. The Sharks are hungry. And let’s see whether the Sonics are able to kind of stand their ground here, right? They’ve basically got their potential flex here. I don’t think there’s any good mid laner at this point unless they want to go back to like good old goods like Loi and stuff like that. Valentino. Valentina. But there’s not a lot of good also and the tsunami slam of course. But even then it’s like man how are we going to fight f for priority in the first place cuz Lunox plus oh Zen plus the Bang Lunox versus the Bang it’s going to be a bit of a struggle especially against Kim Kalia. Yeah a Lunox gold lane and I think that surprises the CFU showed up. It’s it’s very CFU. They can actually stretch out team fights that the old base composition of Onyx might struggle a little bit. However, there is the Yizen Chin on the side of Onyx that CFU really greatly need to respect. Uh, I will be enjoying this. Gideon, Nizu, you guys have more time to expound. Thank you, Renmar. All right, so now our second best of the three is about to kick off here. Any ID facing off against CFU and you heard it two times. Hopefully the mics picked them up because that battle cry is actually kind of sick. We got to ask about that. It’s closer to us, man. Like I would be actually really impressed with the audio engineering if that doesn’t come through. Uh again, it’s so loud for us here uh in the studio, but again, can’t wait to watch this kickoff. Mhm. Let’s begin our second best of three here at the Mid-Season Cup 2025 here at the Esports World Cup live in Riyad. CFU will be battling against Any from the blue side as Onyx will attack from the red. It’s going to be a purple start for both of these junglers. But let’s expound on the compositions, right? Because again, a very classic matchup we’re seeing nowadays is Yishin Shin versus some form of tank style jungler. And usually what happens is that Yishin Shin gets a couple levels ahead of their opponents. Wo wo sands flickers out and that’s a first blood for OPI. Pboy will take a brunt of the damage, but he’s going to be fine, man. Early start for CFU. Very early start. And Boxy even committing the flicker to it. So really nicely done. Singh also using his uh uh using his inspire pretty early on against Seo. He’s trying to get an early lead. Seo just needs to survive. Yeah, you know, going back to uh that as well, the YSS, I feel like in the main part is you always have that added benefit of vision, but then when you come to his rotation and his actual jungle speed, he should have an easy time against detect if you’re on the Fen, right? Well, for the time being, as long as he doesn’t get CC to the ground, right? If he gets hit by the energy eruption, that’s when we start to have problems. As long as he maintains his traceless, it’s all good. All fun in games. But now with the changes to the jungle that it takes a little bit longer these days for these camps to respawn. There’s a bit of dead air after the clear. And that’s where mid suddenly becomes a huge priority. And CFU, they’re ready for this, right? They’ve got Detective in position. Hopefully Sans opens up the map, sees it, and now Key Boy getting attacked. Okay, Key Boy going to go ahead and slide on out. He’s fine. Rest of the team’s going to respond though. Kyrie will take a couple shots off, but again, that’s a Fred. The turtles up though, so this is where we get to see how they play this out as they get in position. You expect the Fredan to have control of this. It’s CFU that’s actually going to zone out on this first objective. And it look like that’s going to be secured for CFU. Sands once again will find himself pretty low. Look how aggressive OP and Detective and everyone else is being. They’re going to force him off the purple buff. They go in. Key boy falls. They get another. It’s a double for Wad. CFU knows the enemy and they’ll go ahead and duke it on out on this side of the jungle. A triple already for Wad. Beautifully played from CFU. You can just see the the hours of scrimmage time that both CFU and Onyx ID have given to each other. And CFU recognize, hey, we’ve got a lead. We must press the advantage. So Varo might find a solo kill. What it just goes into the air seeing out of range. Oh, so Varo, he’s going to get just punished for that. I guess he thought he could pick up the kill, but doesn’t have enough damage yet. I He should have been able to pick up the kill. It’s just that last darkening shot didn’t connect because Zing was just out of range. I think that See might have had to commit a flicker, but that would have felt so bad. Either way, he’s still missing out on that solo kill. Kind of sucks. CFU now 5 and0 against Onyx ID. This is going phenomenally for CFU Gaming. Hey man, if it had anything to do with the war cry we heard earlier on, that might be the buff here for them in game one. Already 2.4k ahead and with this kind of lead, this is going to set things up really well into even the next turtle here. So Onyx, they’re going to have to find themselves building up, you know, from this deficit early on now. Can they do that with this lineup? It might have to be a pick off a flicker. An aggressive play once again. Going to be able to find the mark on Kyrie as Kyrie falls. CFU wants more. They’re going to just jump in. They know the timings, too. They’ll take the purple buff. Amazing play. Really great from Boxy. He sees the Tracless. The Turtle Ball gets thrown from the mountain shocker. It misses Boxy flickers in to yank him and pull him out of position knowing that he’s got literally no battle spells to save him because he’s the jungler. He has to take retribution. And with Traceless on cooldown, it guarantees the kill with CFU Gaming coraling around that mid lane. It’s just it’s working out perfectly, right? Every fight. Wait, hold on. Oh, Foxy could be in trouble this time. Right now, enough damage. Onyx will get on the board. They might be in position to go ahead and secure themselves to an objective. They desperately need this from the game. Getting too out of hand. Swe up on the front side. They’re going to spawn that out. He flickers forward with the onward and goes forward in two will fall from Monik again. CFU is just on point with the fights and initiations. And now Son’s in trouble. He has nowhere to go. He does flick around. A good setup though, but still going to be alive now. Detective on the backside gets a flicker out from Saro. He’ll dodge that. But again, the objective going over to CFU. Oh my goodness. Wad is so good on these earth shatter flickers. He is a dangerous man when he has flicker in hand making sure that uh Lupy basically was non-existent during that fight, right? He’s supposed to be the one who buys time, but it gets chain CC to the ground. Right now, the coordination from CFU Gaming is immaculate. Oh, again this is a tough spot to be in for Onyx and Nia. It looks like sometimes, you know, they’re able to go ahead and convert something, but then that was just one setup, one kill that they were able to get. They don’t really have that many tools to go for a pickoff in comparison to what CFU has. That’s that’s completely true, right? Again, you’re expecting KBO to kind of get into that position. However, in terms of like raw damage, it really boils down to Kyrie, right? He’s going to be the early game damage for now. Sans, yes, he can do some damage, but he’s not like overwhelming like a Farsa or in this case the Kimmy, it’s just not comparable. Even Seo to a certain degree, he’s got a bit of damage, but he really needs his items. And in terms of tempo, CFU Gaming, because of that initial purple buff steel, they know exactly where Kyrie is going to be 90% of the time. And they’re utilizing that information to make sure that Onyx ID don’t have an opportunity to actually attack. See, even making sure that they lane swap to ensure, hey, they’re going to be playing for that Lunox. Now, Wadu, if you can clear these lanes, that’s perfect cuz we’re going to get T1 down bot side. Yeah, just as you say it, that’s going to be fallen here. They’re going to get in position for this third turtle of the game. Last one. I’m not sure how Onyx is going to play that though. Now, this time around, Key Boy, once again, he’ll have the flicker to go ahead and try to set things up, but that might still be the case if Kyrie can’t get in position and you’re too worried about going down for that fight. Okay, there goes he. Key boy doesn’t have the ultimate anymore. So, this is a tough one to go ahead and fight because again, you’re lacking that firepower and the further behind you get in terms of this gold. Again, an initiation with slam. They’re going to force the fight anyway, but Onyx will try to fight back and wrath finds a couple, but the crossbow of Tang will find Key Boy. Zing picks up Sabaro in trouble as well. Can escape. Wadu and CFU Gaming continues to dominate. God dang, man. CFU came in. They’re they’re not here to mess around. They want to make sure that this they are sweeping the floor with Onyx ID. Every play they made so far is so good. They initiate immediately baiting out the last couple of ultimates from the side of Onic. Most importantly, Sans one. The Fury of the Phoenix is such a powerful tool when you engage, but it’s also a great disengage tool. However, at the end of it, Zing was able to get into that crossbow of tank form to apply massive amounts of damage to Artic ID, especially pre8 minutes. So, at this point with a 6.8K lead about to turn into a 7k lead, CFU Gaming just need one more fight and one more tower to break into the 10k bracket. This is insane of a lead and a start for CFU, but a phenomenal one at that. And Wad has been locked in the entire game. every single time he goes for that setup with the if his flicker is available or not. He’s on point with the earth shatters. Now they’re going to fight in between the two turrets. Forcing a flicker out. Tsunami slam. Easy pick up. Luffy falls. Meanwhile, up top, Kyrie has no choice but to push in that tier one turret. They need something and anything because right now CFU is taking everything. Tier 2 is going to fall in the mid lane as well. Everybody quite low from Monik. They have no choice but just to watch. Yep. CFU Gaming understand if we don’t close out this game, the scaling for the side of Onyx ID is going to be a major problem down the line, especially with Yinshin on top of having the Lunox side by side. For now, if we have to break it down, I think that CFU Gaming once they hit that 10k mark, it’s going to be good, but the wave clear might be a little bit of an issue, right? CFU Gaming cannot start falling behind and they can’t let the game extend super late. The pickoff is going to begin using Temple. Look at this. Oh, traction pulse and new tsunami slam. Able to find one. Key boy will jump in, but it’s just way too much damage. Overloading Onyx as another pickup here for CFU and the Lord is up. Perfect timing. They’re all up and alive and healthy. They’ll make their way to the Lord. Yeah, CFU Gaming making sure that every interaction with Onyx is a winning interaction. That’s how this composition must progress forward. And Any just starved out a lot of their resources. Divide and conquer says CFU as they take this lord while breaking the holy shielding. Great juggling happening here from CFU. Very impressive once again. Start off to this best of three series. I think even Any is kind of just left wondering what’s going on here. They don’t even if they try to stay under the turrets, they’re forced to fight anyway. And that’s why that KA from Boxy is so good. And this is might be again the effect of Boxy going back into the Rome role allowing them to have that decision making on their side. And what a great showcase it’s been so far. I think it really just unfortunately Onyx ID just doesn’t have much of an answer to the early game. They just needed to not interact. But CFU Gaming said no force them into their position. Uh force them into a position where they have to interact with them all the time. They can’t run away from these fights and neither can they disengage. So therefore Sonic ID Boxy jumps in with the tsunami slam. Finds Luffy after missing attraction pulse. OP is going to pick up the kill anyway. Boxy finally goes down, but Kyrie quite low. Could be in trouble. They’re going to clear out the wave up bottom. Mid turret already down, but they won’t get more. CFU with a 12,000 gold lead. It looks like they’re going to stay a little bit longer, but Onyx might have been able to hold on a little bit longer for this game one. I mean, the the breathing room for Onik ID is just running out. They’re losing space. Wadu, keep your eyes on He’s got flicker. Oh, wad. Brilliance is going to be used. They’re just trying to clear out the waves here as they do. So, Any despite everything else will stay in this game. That’s a checkmate angle right now achieved by CFU Gaming. 12.3K. The biggest lead we’ve seen so far here at MSE 25. As we can see, even for an Indonesia, how do they find an angle? Right? Every single attack they have, there is some form of counterplay. Singh can go invulnerable with the prosp. Not to mention that she also has an inbuilt purify making it more effective against the raw CC coming out from the side of Indonesia. Boxy, whoever he picks off at this point is almost guaranteed to die. The damage coming in from OP is ridiculous. The stacks that he has, he’s 6 and 10, zero deaths. O again, Boxy threat, jumps on in find multiple members. A great setup under the base turret. Luffy going to be able to fall in. It’s a wipe out. A maniac for OP. That’s game one dominant for CFU Gaming. Holy cow. On uh they’re going to be looking at that. It’s like, okay, we deserve to lose that one. Our draft didn’t have an early game plan. And every interaction we have for the first 5 minutes was just a losing one against CFU Gaming. I want to see how they’re going to replicate this in game two. It seems like Onyx cannot shake off whatever is up in the air here in Riad in MSC, but CFU, I want to focus on them. Draft, gameplay, everything. Aggression, the hunger, they are just so good. That’s literally all what’s said in my notes. CFU versus Sonic ID game one stomp. CFU so good. That’s that’s basically what it came down to, man. Like I was I’m sorry. I was not expecting this. This is not what I expected for game one. It was so dominant from CFU. They knew exactly where to be every single time. Yeah. I mean, this this is exactly where the first stone was thrown, right? We saw that the early first bloods did come through. A couple of mistakes were being made, especially when it came down to the mid lane. But let’s say even if that first blood didn’t even come through from the side of Sans, this purple buff would have inevitably still fallen into the hands of CFU, right? Decisions need to be made really quick. But CFU is again putting their foot on the pedal. I’m not going to give you the time to decide, right? You want to take your purple buff? I’ve already taken Turtle and now I’m in your face. You have to give this up. And that’s what they do. Slow and steady, but they encroach on their territory. They’re encroaching. It’s like a slow encroachment. You know, the aggression is coming. They’re not going to throw everything right away. But again, CFU have drafted similarly what to what Team Liquid did in game number one against Ultra Legends where in this lineup of CFU actually if you look at it it’s three carries the mid, the gold, and surprisingly enough the Edith exp lane which was a really great pick in the second half. Wadu is insane. Wadu is good. He is really good at seeing these angles and really extending the lead which is why again we saw Anna get rid of the Arlet which kind of does the same thing but a little more consistently and a little more often. It’s it’s insane because the Edith you wouldn’t expect to get that kind of lead but even when the flicker’s down like you still have a window which maybe some heroes like even the Arlock for example doesn’t have. You can just onward earth shatter in if you’re you know if you find the right mark. Yeah. And every time Wadu shows up in the map against Any, it’s like they can just hear it’s like, “Oh, call an ambulance for an Onyx for Onyx cuz here comes Wadu. Wad, dude, that man is that Edith performance. It’s it feels like it’s been ages since we’ve seen an Edith like this. It I’m not going to lie, it has been a while. And it used to be just like the classic, hey, how are we going to sandbag this phobia who’s dominating the meta?” Edith was the go-to. But even so, can we can we talk about for a second Opie honest performance? Let’s go. Holy cow. He was He was walking out of that game untouched. Didn’t die a single time. Max stacks on Sky Piercer and was hitting some ridiculous traction pulses. Like come on, dude. Yeah, that last one was really, really good. And just to remind everyone, Opie 8 months ago was a ROR. Yeah. And I love how the end video that we saw leading into this was like him saying, “We’re the Contenders.” Cuz dude, that what a what a statement game one was as the Contenders. It was so clean. It’s so clean the way that they play it. And I love that from the side of CFU because it really shows maturity, but the level of polish that we saw on top of that, right? The fact that they aren’t just throwing abilities. And that’s another chant coming in from CFU. They are so amped up with this 21 to3 victory. What they had for breakfast champions. They usually have um for breakfast or just a dinner thing. They really like the omelet station. Oh, right. Yeah, like the the have been bangers too where we are staying, but an ultimate banner of performance honestly by CF. No other way to put it, it was a stomp. It was very clear where their conditions were at, where their eyes were at. They looked at each individual lane, tick that box. Looked at the jungle, tick that box. And after that, it was just up to Onyx to again, as you two repeated all throughout the cast, just find a way. But how can you? You’re playing a lineup, Onyx, that yes, excels mechanically. It really shows off what does individuals while see if you just show up what’s up and we’ll just walk all over you. Yeah, I think the biggest problem really just boils down to the draft, right? I mean, obviously certain mistakes in the early game could have been prevented like Sans dying and you know, Savo not getting the trade back. I mean, if we take those out of the equation, I don’t think it would have mattered that much, right? Seao dying here really doesn’t matter because it requires him to at least have three to four items for him to be a dominant force when you’re playing that Lunox, especially when you have Detective already building radiant armors, looking to get as much MR as possible. Same goes for Wadu here. But then we start to figure out that wait a minute, their whole composition is designed around the late game. How do they even survive? Their wave clear isn’t that good. Sans doesn’t really scale on this Zen. I feel like all of this was engineered from the from the get-go in the draft from the side of CFU. Yeah. And I think now what we’re seeing, oh, as we see that traction pulse skip again by OP there to close out this game. It really seems like CFU have walked into this with all of their years of knowledge of being able to scrim and play against Onik. That’s just what it feels like. It’s like CFU at one point just snap. It’s like, guys, we’re going up against Onyx. We know exactly what to do. And that’s the showcased in game one. You know, it’s uh you know, not that they’re actual enemies, but it’s know thy enemy. I mean, they they played and they scrimmed together so much. They’re friends. They’re they’re friends. Know your friends. Maybe we can say that. Know your friends, you know. Um, but they they took it in the case of we know exactly how to play against us. We know how to make this work. We know their timings and where they all want to be. But again, like you saw how aggressive boxy could be on a KA. I mean, the man was making moves that sometimes you don’t really see some from other KAS. because of the fact that you have a traction pulse to back that up and then a lot of other options even the freny to play against that a lot of questions up in the air here for of how they’re going to be able to recover the series to force a game number three but all the spotlight all the stars right now are lining for CFU let’s watch their journey heading into EWC at MC for considering how CFU were just so close to making it past Swiss stage in the M6 World Championship. And I think this version of CFU is better. I think they might actually surprise a lot of people. And that was CFU Gaming and their journey here heading into MSE at EWC. Yes, they are entering this as twotime well backto back champions for MPL Cambodia season 7 and season 8. Now, if you want to be a champion in your own right, again, there is our beautiful all-star event happening in game. It’s going to be going all the way up until August 5th. Join the Dino Planet. Oh, by the way, there a lot of people actually don’t know this. You can actually hop onto the Lord when it’s marching and use that as a launching off point. There’s like a little icon that you click. You can use that to jump. Those are just one of the many uh little hidden secrets that you actually It’s not a secret. It’s in the Just read the patch notes. Just read the patch notes, y’all. But yeah, join us for the Dino Planet Allstar 2025 event. Lots of goodies. And don’t forget to try to go get that Bubble and Koopa skin. Uh are we at this point where do we really just have to tell Onyx to really switch things up in the draft? Is that the main problem they have to deal with right now? Okay. So, it’s a yes across the board. Oh, yeah. Yes, across the board. Because again, what were they supposed to do in that game, right? with the early game already collapsing, it’s like, “Oh, I’m just going to take the punches until CFU don’t decide not to crack open our crystal or inhibitors.” But like I don’t know, pre 10 minutes into the game. I I feel like that’s being too generous. I feel like it was one of those games where eventually when they found out there weren’t any openings, they were just like kind of like, “Let’s get to the next one.” You know, and yeah, cuz it was it was it was such a dominant game for CFU. And I think really when you’ve played enough against them, you probably just know like, all right, we we lost this draft and we can’t come back from this. I feel like there has to be something here in the all the knowledge that Onyx has against CF that they could leverage because as we discussed earlier, it feels like that’s what CFU leveraged against Onyx. The fact that they knew the Fobious was so integral to the lineup of Onyx that that was their bridge for the mid to the late game cuz as we’ve discussed before, Zetien is very utility based. Uh she can only do so much to facilitate that. the fobvious once shot down you have nothing to help bridge you into the latter portion of the game. I think that a lot of it just comes down to like Kalia the fact that Kalia got so far down into the draft in the first place, right? I I I think that that was one of the big things that I was trying to figure out, right? Because both sides were kind of like avoiding it. Then Kimmy as well. Kimmy, we saw the far get banned out very early on within first phase and then Kimmy was still a big question mark and then Zatan was still there. So the question was like, wait, hold on. You already see the Fren, you know, they want to go for the Kimmy anyways. Then it becomes a trade-off of do we just completely shut down and collapse because they had to commit at least one ban to get rid of the CC. So that’s why I feel that CFU really engineered it well. My big problem is when the Lunox popped up. Yeah. Same sentiments. Yeah. Was that necessary to show it now? I I get that like having a diverse amount of uh damage profile is always good, but you need something to kind of bridge you a little better, especially knowing that your mid lane is going to be really tough. Kalia, Kimmy, Badang, Wizatan, like there is such a huge disparity there. Yeah, that’s I I I didn’t expect the Lunox to get put in the gold lane. I I maybe it could eventually work. You know, again, this is only our second match for MSE. Um but yeah, I think the the Lunox was the big kind of kicker for me where I was like, I don’t know if I don’t know if that was really good. If I don’t know if that’s going to work out. Part of me kind of wish that instead of that being a Luna, although I did expect it to go with the gold, I wish they considered putting it in the mid lane instead. That could have been good with uh handling the pressure, but no point crying over spilled milk. Now it’s game number two, and so far it’s the exact same banning pattern that we saw from game number one. Yes, it’s going to be the same banning pattern. I mean, it’s exactly the same so far. It might start changing up here. Who knows? I don’t know if CFU game is the kind that’s like, you know what, if we’re going to press our advantage, we got to keep changing it up every single time. Or are they the kind who’s like, well, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. Yeah, I think they well there’s the there’s a farce banan and I don’t know maybe this okay there’s there’s the difference you ban out the one one deals that so first priority here to see if you just go with for example the Ka um they could go with the Ka could go start things off with the Zushin I mean there’s a lot of really strong openers Shin also is a pretty good uh is a pretty good opener we’ll see how they want to kind of play this out knowing CFU and what we saw off of game number one I wouldn’t too surprised if they want to go uh along the lines of like a Zushin opening and then eventually get Fren. Yeah. Uh I’m a little bit more on that considering how much they love playing with that hero. Wait a minute. Arlet was also banned out in game number one from Onyx. Arlet could be a strong opener as well for CFU. Yeah, maybe that’s why it was banned out. But no, CFU said, “Hey, uh our Roman goat is feeling it today. We’re going to give him priority. He has a Ka.” Got mine for the day. Got yours for the day. Hey, I’m pretty sure you could have, bro. It’s It’s still a few more picks. You know what? I’ve spent enough time with you analysts over here that I, you know, I can I can bring up a couple picks. Hey, man, I’ll tell you the secret. Just throw out a bunch of names and one of them’s going to hit, right? Give us one more. Give us one more. 130 heroes. Exactly. Just throw just throw a bunch out. Throw a wide net. Frederick. Okay, let’s see if we’ll get two. Let’s see if we get two. Oh, this is going to be two for two here. We got 27 more seconds until they start locking it in. Right. I’m surprised that Onyx still is going to be more committal, but this time they changed their opening a little bit more. They’re going to go with the Badong opening rather than just saying, “Hey, we got we get fious. We we win. We you dash, we win.” Someone’s That’s two for the day for Daisu. I’m dancing. I’m dancing. Hey, it’s looking good, but this is great. Uh I don’t know if it’s great just yet, right? Because now that they’ve locked in the Arlet, I would have preferred Arleta to be Zuin in this particular in this particular scenario, but the Kalia kind of like forces it like we still need the damage profile, right? We can wait for the later down the line, but then we look at Onyx side, they see Arlet, no matter where Arlet is going to go, he’s going to end up in the exp most likely. Badang goes very well against him. You get the fauvious also does very well against the Arlet as well. I think holding the Bang here is great. There we go. The denial from Zhuin. Well played. And then do they ban out the Kimmy? Does ban out the Kimmy? So this doesn’t this doesn’t get picked up because I feel like that would be the the smart choice for a CFU if that goes through. Yeah, they got to because if are considering Kimmy for that, that’s a little bit too greedy for my taste already. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. I feel like Ein’s a good thing to build around. You save your gold lane pick for last to uh try to answer whatever CFU closes their draft with. I think they really just have to show their hand with the Rome exp flex now already for pick number four. Mhm. Mhm. I’m all for it. I am all for it. Kimmy gets banned out as expected here. Now, from CFU’s side, I’m thinking of like different iterations of what types of damage they want to go through cuz there is the possibility that hey, maybe Valentina might just be viable in this particular draft against Any because they might get some better ultimates down the line or at the bare minimum, the Mountain Shocker. Zenten really, really good because keep in mind the push back. She has a push back, she has a stun. The only issue is that nobody really benefits from the MR Shred. So, it’s not completely useless, but definitely underutilized in certain areas. All right, so let’s see what they’re going to be considering for their event. Lapu Lapu, they’re trying to take away a comfort in Lupy. I believe in MPL Indonesia, Lupy was pretty he was he was prolific with the Lapu Lapu for the previous season. So, they’re just respecting that. Uh interesting though that they decided to respect that before the fauvious considering that Fobius is one of those heroes that are very happy to go up against Arlot because he gets this uh passive effect a little bit faster with all the dashes he brings to the table. I think that see if you need to get rid of Gthot. They get rid of the Gthot. They want to make sure that they can at least have a way to kind of keep on progressively escalating the fight rather than having to disengage as soon as the AOG comes out. That way Boxy can still maintain a high level of priority. And keep in mind as well as Ara into the explan X XP lane focus for CFU and then Onyx went with the gold lane focus to go ahead and narrow those options down. So I think Onyx might be able to take a page out of the book from Onyx. Uh the the Onyx team that competed in MWI and even team Vitality, they can go Akai exp. Sorry, I’m going to say it. I love Akai. I’m down for it. Yeah. Against the Arlot because we’ve seen Arlot struggle against a Kai exp in the past because once you go in, you get heavy spun out and you completely have your flow broken. Yes. Not to mention that his base Akai’s base damage is in lane is actually pretty good. And the fact that you develop your own natural shield already takes away the value from all trying to trade freely against you. But here we go. We got the fobvious. I think it’s totally fine, right? You you already have two dashes available. Well, arguably three dashes here. And that’s totally okay, right? It just makes sure that the mid duo is confirmed. It’s Badang plus the Zushin. Now, how does CFU respond to this, right? Cuz I’m expecting both Badang alongside uh alongside with the uh Kalia to both take concussive blast. So, really, it’s the damage profile that’s going to matter here. I think it’s going to be the Zaten from the side of CFU. It makes sense. It’s got the enough ways to kind of reset Arla to make him real strong. And considering how Wadu played in the previous game, I think he might just be another out. And what about gold lane, too? because gold lane you still uh you still need a what’s left. They go I didn’t I didn’t think they would go with the Herth because I figured they would want some extra physical damage cuz this is a I mean you’re lacking that, right? I mean, yeah, you have a little bit here, but profile-wise, and that’s what we’ve been talking about throughout this entire draft is you kind of expect, okay, gold lane, you’re going to go with a physical damage dealer, but they go with the Herth instead. Um, but let’s not hate it because we were talking about the Herith in the previous matchup. Uh but proved us wrong. I feel like there’s a confidence pick by CFU. There’s to Onyx like we know we can win this game that we know we can win this before the 14-minute mark. Yeah. I mean it’s just to make sure that they could completely utilize every every bit of Zen’s kit. Mr. Shred, there is stun. There is a push back. So every little bit of the kit is utilized. I thought maybe Granger, but again, here’s here’s where it gets dangerous, right? If Lui gets far ahead, those dashes are going to start stacking up. He’s going to get a lot of passive triggers, but there’s a limit, right? There’s if you have too many passive triggers, then you’re not going to be able to do much. If there’s just enough, then you can keep consistently resetting. Yeah. If you’re only joining us now, again, CFU has the lead in this series. One more win puts them against Team Liquid for the qualification match heading into the playoffs here at MSC. Gideon NSU, let’s go. All right. Thank you, Remar. Once again, you heard it here first. 1 and 0 against the Indonesian champions. Cambodia is looking to represent CFU. You hear it every single time. This time we got a visual on what that looks like. They are ready to play as we head on in to the Land of Dawn for game number two in this best of three series. This is going to be a fun one. Detective on that blue side, Kyrie on that red side. Both with a purple buff start. Looking at this too again from game one. CFU started on a roll right away. They took it to Onyx from minute one. We’ll see if they try to replicate that here. Might be a little bit different, but definitely I want to see if Onyx has an answer for Boxy specifically. And um yes, OP doesn’t have his hands on the Kimmy, but they’ve got a lot of crowd control to go ahead and use. You can already see Boxy being aggressive and just trying to give some information over here. And this will be a little bit different too for Wu uh now that he’s got his hands on this Arlot. Taking a look at the emblems here too. They’re still quite tanky enough. They’ve got some decent damage, a little bit of mystery shop there, too. A lot of impure rages, of course. CFU still wants to go ahead and be pretty aggressive throughout this game. A little 1 v one action. Saro, though, this time around the bob, the weave, the rap city, there’ll be a back for Sans though this time gets first blood for. Yep. Yep. So, in terms of the emblem setup, Key Boy decides not to take concussive blast, but but instead wants to be able to kind of uh move a little bit faster with the help of the quantum charge. helps with those rotates, helps to be able to move in and out of those fights, but more importantly, they don’t actually want to push the waves and Boxy unfortunately with that concussive blast doesn’t have a choice as they attack top side. Oh, Boxy Boxy goes aggressively will flicker out, but gets taken down. Kyrie picking up a kill is a way better start for Onyx in game two. A much better start indeed. On have adjusted their plan. You want to be aggressive, you want to punish your aggression, right? And at least for Savo, he’s very comfortable in this Har Granger matchup. They played it for months, months because of the previous patch. Now we go to the very first turtle. First turtle still going to be CFU that starts it up. Wu Fury the Phoenix going to be dropped down. Final slash won’t connect. They’re going to jump in. Luffy though. Infernal blast. Infernal pursuit. One down. Still going to be on. Luffy in trouble trying to get away. Goes in with the dark wave. Gets enough health back. Looking for OP, but finally will fall. CFU picking up a couple of themselves plus this objective. A hard fought first turtle for the game. Oh my god, Boxy. That was that was actually kind of sick. He jumps in knowing that Ly wants to get the passive stack on to Detective first so he can start using the Infernal Pursuit. Catches him mid punch and then the rest of the team chain CCS him. By the time he gets the Infernal Pursuit, Detective gets a free disengage. Let’s watch this one more time, right? Cuz Detective is here. He gets pushed back. He sees Key Boy and then Loki gets knocked up and allows them to disengage properly cuz Zans can’t cover Loki on top of the fact that Key Boy is dead. So really good stuff here. It’s these small moments from CFU which is making the difference. Yeah. And in that OP got taken out uh earlier on. He did have to burn the flicker. So Onic will find something. And that’s you know what you mentioned is anytime key boy can set things up he’ll go ahead and try to do that. uh doesn’t have a flicker available now too, but still Onyx holding on to a very minor lead. This is going to be one of those games too where the gold laners really play a part as Seo has done a good job farming up seeing as well hasn’t gone down despite dealing with a lot of 1v one pressure. This is uh like Gideon mentioned the classic match up that we’re so used to seeing in the gold lane between these two heroes. So the teams for now are really just looking off pickoff potential you know around the rest of the map here. Yeah, again this is a very interesting match up between these two gold laners, right? Because we’ve seen it many times, but it really boils down to the battle spells because now both sides don’t have the flicker. It becomes a skill matchup, right? Seo must maintain a certain amount of distance to stay outside of the Zammon force because if Zing dashes on top of Seo and commits hard enough, he will actually win out in this 1v one, right? Saro needs to make sure that he can poke out Zing and keep his keep his health bar at a minimum. So even if he goes for the allin, Seo with two raps of these should be able to take him out. Oh, Boxy going to try to do something here. Purify is going to be popped already. So Seo is going to be fine. That is a balance spell down. So a little bit of an advantage right now for Sing to work on that Heriff. We’ll see if Onyx tries to go ahead and help out, but Turtle is going to be the next focus for both teams here. Mhm. Yep. They’re going to force out that top side knowing that Sea doesn’t have that purify. Son’s jumping in. We’ll get the flicker out. Sing though going to try to cut it off with the Zan force. So that’s going to be burned as well. A couple battle spells and ultimates but meanwhile the fight for this turtle has control. Wadu there final slash but Kyrie will secure the turtle still going to be breaking down the fight. W going to be in trouble and Kyrie will get a kill as well. Takes a shot at OP. I don’t think you get anything more. Key boy not going to burn that flicker for that. So focus for Onic is the objective. They get a couple kills. They won’t get this mid turret just yet. Yeah. All this cuz Wadu just whiffed the alt. That’s really what it boiled down to. If he hit that all, it would be a different story because he was left out in the water and considering that the front line was getting shoved in from the side of Onyx ID, making sure that Detective couldn’t cover that space, that’s how Onyx ID were able to take this turtle for free. But now back into the gold lane, right? Again, a lot of resources are getting thrown up to this top side. wasn’t really fighters to have some form of pressure, some form of a lead to really skew it in their favor. So close here too, despite, you know, other than the jungle, which is, I guess, to be expected when you get a lead like this. And Kyrie again, Key Boy going to be fine. Tsunami slam won’t land. Boxy punish this time. And a kill goes over to Seo. Still the dark wave. Luffy jumping in. Flicker. Fury of Phoenix will be used. No one else to follow through. So Onyx happy with one. Yep. Really nicely done there. Making sure, hey, you tsunami slam. Okay, sure. Not that big. Not a big of a deal. Liy just flickers on out of there. Instantly punished knowing that Boxy still had his flicker on cool down. So just really good tracking of the battle spells from Onyx ID. Right. Both sides will find any little bit of advantage. T1 collapses down on bot side. But now we are starting to see the ball roll. I’m expecting I’m not sure how Kyrie is going to go, but it looks like he’s going to go for the B O. He’s real greedy because he’s also taking cool down boots on top of it. And not to mention Seo already with the sky piercer. This is where Zing has to be careful. Is this just because of like a confidence play Zing? Wow. Going forward. Zero. He saw Onyx the rest of the members there. So, he’s just going to clear that out. I’m not sure if they’re going to be able to do much more. But that is no Zan force now available for this turtle. So Onyx might have enough of that information. Foxy is going to go ahead and take a look. I’m not sure if they’re just going to rely on a final slash for this fight here. It’s going to go for a little bit of a reset. Dark wave. They go through. Zing going to have to join the fight. There’s the final slash they were looking for. Fury the Phoenix dropping down. Key boy. Tsunami slam as well, but Kyrie still gets the turtle. Zing unleashing now looking for Sans. Meanwhile, Luffy’s going to be in trouble as well. Sans still up, but Zing can’t get the last hit that he was looking for. But now it’s Kyrie before he falls. He’ll pick up the kill and Wadu will survive. I don’t think they’re able to find Sans though. Wow, that fight it didn’t look like it started off well, but it worked out at the very end. I would love to see a replay of that fight one more time because it really boiled down to Wadu jumps into the middle of fight. Let’s see how many people he catches with that final slash. Right. He gets in there, the back line gets attacked, and that’s where things start to snowball out of control when both Zing and as well as Wadu are able to get their initial resets cuz right now they’re still pretty tanky and there’s not enough damage from the side of Onik Indonesia to commit and spread it out and distribute it amongst a lot of spots. Again, Wadu, I know we didn’t get to see the entire play out, but he did a phenomenal job too at zoning Kyrie out. So, Kyrie wasn’t able to actually join some of that uh crucial moments of that fight. So, and then, you know, survives it all after that with the flicker. So, great decision from CFU. So, Onyx, you know, they lose. They had about a 3,000 gold lead that they were working with. It’s going to be whittleled down pretty much uh to an even game here, at least economically. But right now, it’s still Onyx with a little bit of a pressure lead. The way that they’re playing around this, but I I guess they’ve got to respect what CFU can throw at them, especially with between Wadu and Boxy. I mean, sure. I mean, the fights are looking good for CFU Gaming, but now, as you can see, the the conversion isn’t the most deadly, right? It’s not like a 5k gold swing. It’s only a 3k gold swing so far. And when we look at the items as already built, we’re going into like the second phases of the game. We’re going into the mid game, right? BD already complete for the side of Kyrie. And it looks like he wants to eventually build up to an endless battle. Li, he’s not even going for thunderbolt at this point of time. He’s literally anti-curas. I’m going to be able to tank as much damage as possible. I really need to see the MR come through from him. And honestly, the anti-QS is kind of strange. I would have liked to see him play the Thunderb Belt from the get- go. Yeah. Oh, early initiation for Boxy Fury the Phoenix to follow. They get the beacon out from Sans. Sans a little bit low here. Still half health, but that’s a whole lot from both sides utilized for this. Lord is for the taking. They’re fighting for control. CFU the final slash on Sons. Sans goes down. CFU numbers advantage going to be jumping into the fight. Wad’s in trouble. takes a couple hits from Seo, but Luffy has to flicker out as well. Seo has all the room in the world to move. A shot comes out and Luffy upholds him together, but he finally falls. And now Kyrie looking for Detective wants to line up the shot, but doesn’t have it just yet. Oh, Keyboy jumped in, but he’s going to get punished as Zing was waiting around the corner. An even fight for both. Oh my goodness. All right, it’s a battle of interest at this point, right? Both front liners end up dying here. CFU, they do get a bit of a reset. Nobody’s going to be able to take the Lord just yet. And the worst part is as these fights are going through, we start to see the micro plays, right? We start to see the efficiencies from Onyx side. Yeah, I’m down two kills, but look at Sak Vera and as well as Kyrie’s damage. They’re through the roof. They’re top in the charts right now. And even Li without any damage items is still able to provide and contribute. The worst part about this is the fact that Detective is two levels down. They don’t really want to take this lord. They really want to fight Onyx because they know they will lose a 50/50. Oh, final slash going to be used again. Key boy going to be in trouble. Key boy out of the picture. Still going to be breaking out. Wu goes down next. Luffy also half health falls to zinc. Now they’re going to be looking at a huge wrath on Sero will force him back, but the lantern flare will give a double to Seo. Now CFU has no choice of but to back off of this. Kyrie still up, but they’re going to fight under the mid lane turret. S in trouble, but they’ll punish him anyway. And Kyrie now looking for another. They wipe him out. A great fight for Onyx. Down to the wire. Sans able to get that final pickup allowing Kyrie to come in and run through the rest of them. Even Seo able to stack back up. This is a fully built, fully scaled Yu Shin level 15. His alt is on a short cool down. Let’s watch this one more time, right? Because this fight all started with Wadu actually taking off Key Boy and not one of the big damage dealers, which is what we saw the last time, right? We saw Seo dying early in that previous fight, but as this progress, you notice they can actually kite for days. There is no means for CFU to really extend their lead without the Arlet. Detective is great at planting his foot down and being an immovable object and slowly take space, but cannot reach further than it. I think even that when you get a glimpse of them, you know, still pressing on the gas in the mid lane, it’s like, you know, you don’t convert that kill on Sans, you you are going to get severely punished and that’s what we saw there. Even then, Sans able to protect Seo enough to give him that opportunity to survive that whole thing. Was great teamwork there. So, this now leads them to this Lord. It’s going to be marching towards that mid lane. You can see the stacks here too for Sea. So good. 516 natural stacks, 46 on the sky piercer. And now with this Lord, they’re hoping to get as many inhibitors as possible. Keep in mind, they have the better sieging composition. CFU, if they want to take space, somebody has to commit. They’ll clear it out. Seal’s going to be used. It looks like they want to fight. Boxy’s giving them a call. Retry is going to be used from Detective. Boxy jumps in. Tsunami slam. No one to target. Fury the Phoenix already dropped down. And Onyx might choose to counterplay into this. Loopy with a dark wave. Final slash going to bring Luffy. He goes under the turret. A great combination. On down one member. Still going to be looking for the fight. Seo will keep OP in check. Zing very aggressive, but CFU will just find one. Nicely done by Detective. He saw that bar full. He knew that Lupy was going to come out of the uh was going to come out of the taunted state. And immediately as soon as he made the mistake of pressing his auto attack, Detective hops over the wall to pull him underneath the tower. That’s the way CFU Gaming, they understand they’ve got a shark on their logo for a reason. They are fishing for Onyx ID. That reminds me of what Lfell mentioned about sharks and the noise they make. But you know, yeah, that’s that glimpse of CFU. It’s really the the timing they need. We do see this uh the holy crystal and the divine glaive are there now for Zing. And I feel like, you know, he’s pretty aggressive and you can rely on the purify here, but maybe that’s just the way CF wants to play it out. I think even as we get up to the next lord here in about 40 seconds, still it’s, you know, they got to be able to withstand that initial kind of onslaught from Any, they’ve been the one CFU from game one to now even game two despite even being down to start these fights. I don’t know if it would change much for them if they let Onic be the ones to get the the first getgo on it. I don’t think they can afford it right now. Mainly because Detective is a level down on Kyrie and we know that with these world class junglers, that one level difference really, really is the difference maker. Oh no, they’re going to force a fight anyway. Final slash already used under the tier one turret in the mid lane. Still going to be looking for more. Detective finally falls. Zing sees multiple low health bars, but Savo just unleashes. Key boy jumps on in. They’re going to be able to take out Zing, but it’s a double for OP. a trade already. Three for two and Onyx still with Kyrie up. Do they go and take this floor? They’re so low here. Yep, they are low, but Kyrie is going to heal up. There’s no C. Actually, I don’t think if they’re able to do the Oh, wait. No, Kyrie should have enough damage, but he’s going to let Savo do the tanking. So, once he’s got just enough health, he gets back in and they start switching places. So, nicely done from the side of Any Indonesia. Let’s look at that fight one more time because I was surprised that they decided to fight here of all places. Why would you do it so close to mid tier one? I was thinking the same thing. I was like, if they are going to start a fight, maybe not there. That’s not the best place. So, even if they pick up a couple kills, ultimately they now have to deal with the Lord. That was very upsetting. I think that’s one of the bigger uh miscalculations coming in from the side of CFU game. And even though, to be fair, their initiation wasn’t that bad. And I could definitely see an angle, but the problem is is that mid tier one is still available. And that’s what takes away from that power position hiding onto that mid brush. Now the siege is going to be a little tough. I’m not going to lie. But OPI did buy that wishing lantern. In terms of Zing, he’s really, really strong. But he needs that space to take full advantage of that Zamin force so he can start chrome dashing around. Oh, boxing going to start the fight anyway. Key boy gone. Lord’s going to try to march into the mid turret. It falls. But now Onyx, do they still want to fight this? Even down a member. So barrow’s at half health. Boxy going to jump in with title strike again. They’re going to force the fight anyway. Beacon already going to be used from Sans giving them the space to work with. They’re going to be able to find Wadu. Wu still has the immortality, but Zig now leashing on S. They’re going to be able to pick him up. It’s a double already, but Kyrie comes back in and Saro still up. Immortality will not be enough. And now it’s Kyrie and Saro still inside the base. And it’s Opian Detective. Does Sonic want to end this game here? They’ve got a little bit of this minion push. Nah, they can’t. They can. Not yet. Unless they kill OP right here. Detective, please stand in the right spot here. Severo is allowed to auto attack. And same goes for Kyrie to the crystal, but it does basically nothing as long as they maintain these waves. They’re going to go ahead and maintain it again. Detective going to watch out. Kyrie will go ahead and go for it anyway. Now they’re going to work on the base and that’s going to be enough. Double kill for Seo. We’re going to game three. Man, I definitely thought he had an opportunity to walk back into the fountain, but again, just not enough pressure. Well done. It really goes to show that Zen doesn’t really scale that well into the later stages of the game. But when you have SA and as well as Kyrie on these heroes, holy cow, no front liners, no problem. We’ll just bulldo through you. Match of the day for a reason. And just when we thought we’d see CFU run away with it, gets it back. The CFU gets it back from Anik. Then Onyx eventually gets the death nail and gets the win. What a tremendous series dictated by what is a signature of the Cambodian and Indonesian play style. Team fighting. Mhm. It’s It’s really incredible the way that a lot of these fights came and the adjustments that were made. I think at some point Seo and as well as Kyrie Kyrie was doing his own thing. He was playing a little selfishly for sure. But Savo probably looked over at Loki and Kibbo is like one of y’all got to die for me. Like as soon as that final slash is out of the way, I actually can play this video game. Yeah. And I again, it was interesting to see the decisions that CFU made throughout the game. I feel like there was a couple moments where, you know, like this when we saw this with Wadu uh around some of the objective fights that was really interesting the way they took it and there was some brilliance to it, too. But then same thing, it’s like you get through the game and you still question like, man, why did you guys fight there? Why did Boxy go in for that tsunami slam? Yeah, this game number two was a emotional and mechanical roller coaster. It was the heist of Great job. Good thing you did that to Why the heck did you do that back and forth, back and forth? And that’s the type of action that I personally like to see where you got to see members of CFU shine at the right time and then falter and then get punished by Onyx. But then the same thing could be said for Onyx. I feel like at this point I I got like we’re we are unanimous here where we just got to say we just really got to sharpen up some of the decision making in the in the team fights for both teams. Hey, I mean it’s overheat, big overheat coming in specifically uh from CF more than it is for. I feel like naturally were more consistently making the better decisions. Mhm. I think it just came down to like a couple of micro mistakes of like, “Oh no, I accident I have full charge. I am fious. I accidentally hop over the wall. I shouldn’t have been under tier 2. Please, somebody save me.” Sort of sit scenarios like that. Yeah, that was a great mechanical call by uh Detective to the fact that he knew that that enhanced basic attack of the Phobias that would instantly be like the we call the shoulder tackle would come through. So, he’s like, “All right, let me just quickly press my dash past the wall so that he carries on over and then he gets punished.” But then on the side of Onyx, you saw that at some point, it seems like a computer switch flicked into the brains of Savo and Kyrie. It’s like these are very specific skills I need to watch out for. Watch us maximize our dashes to avoid them. Even looking at the breakdown here of the game, like I would say this is quite a stark difference from game one. Obviously, Any had a great time coming in this game. It was relatively I would still say sided towards Any, but there was clearly moments where CFU um was winning portions of that game. It’s just unfortunate for them because and I don’t know I don’t know if even the her like even the Herth like the Herth seem to actually work out in some of the team fights but then like yeah what if it was what if it was something different you know but I think again that interaction between having the magic penetration that you get with the uh Zion but then you have the Harth it was the plan and it was just unfortunate that even at some times they were down you know a good few thousand gold so that could have changed the course of some of those earlier team fights even so but um nonetheless less still very interesting. Yeah, like you said, emotional kind of roller coaster of a game for game two. Yeah. And I I was talking about it with the talents at the back. I mentioned something where this wasn’t a game won by the draft or dictated by the draft. It was dictated in the battle preparation, the two purifies on the side of she changed things up with the flow of battle for CF who were so pick off dependent in the first game that now in the second game you have the bad is still there. Yes. who can just uh CC immune by popping up the ultimate. But the fact that some of your key figures have ways to just cleanse out the crowd control initiated by Boxy, you could see that CFU were a little bit uncomfortable in the initial phases of an engagement. Yeah, I think it really came down to like you had you had to think about these fights like chess and I think that’s the hardest part because it’s a stacking effect. When somebody throws out their first ability, then you have to kind of figure out what are the next things that are going to be traded out for resources, right? if I get a good appraisers rat here, if I get an energy eruption, what happens afterwards? And I think a lot of the time we did see that, you know, CFU understood the assignment assuming that Wadu was able to get a good final slash on either of their back targets, whether it be Sans, whether it be Kyrie or Seo. But then you see the adjustments coming in from Honik, right? As they adjusted, Sans doesn’t mind getting pushed forward as long as he has his purify and his alt. Kyrie is the one who must not be caught. He’s literally got no counterplay other than the Trace. So, it’s all based on his mechanics, why he was selfish. And then there’s Savo who’s like, “Yo, key boy, you you better do your thing. You better start walking out because I can’t afford to do that.” Yeah. And and for Onyx, you see for majority of these fights as the game went to the latter portion, there’s always three members alive. Sero, Kyrie, and Assange, who this time it wasn’t a secondary carry. It’s like a secondary peeler and ror for the two dudes that you really need to survive. That’s what I was saying. I I in one of the the fights it was clear like Sans because of the way he plays, way he positions and the threat of the beacon too like and the the lantern flare like it’s so good to be able to go ahead and peel or initiate if you need to. And I think Sans really played that part like he was in a way a little bit of like a punching bag but he had to be like he had to be that guy in a lot of these team fights that broke out and it allowed Seo and Kyrie to have the positioning that they had. Yeah. Uh I have a fun little fact for both of you gentlemen. So, as you all know, MLBB at the Esports World Cup is record-breaking in terms of viewerships, and we are actually breaking a record right now. 1 million PCU has been advanced. There are over a million people watching this series right now. This group A match up between Any CFU, our match of the day. We are at around 1,151,612. That is our current peak concurrent viewers. Thank you very much. Here is your code to redeem one game, two champs. scan the QR code as well if you know you don’t want to do the whole process but you can do whatever but again thank you thank you very much for joining us for what has been an pretty epic match up so far with game one being shocker mhm see they’re so ready they just absolutely stomped on it what’s going to happen the second game we get the emotional mechanical roller coaster and now I am even more excited for game three knowing also that we have a million plus viewers watching us hey it’s the best kind of games it’s not boring for our million plus viewers out there it’s really interesting to see these teams like slowly fully make these micro adjustments and that are very impactful in the game in in the game in very big ways. And I think for all of you out there to our Cambodian as well as our Indonesian fans keep supporting who’s going to win this match is one to one so far. Do you think that the draft is going to change? Because I feel like the only thing that could spice things up even more is if well if this case CFU is the one who ended up dropping uh game number two, they take red side instead of blue. I I think that’s the big difference. they, you know, swap sides and then maybe aside from one or two of the heroes, I think we still see similar heroes banned, but they are going to pro like we’ll see if they swap sides cuz I have a feeling here if we’re going to see the similar sides again. CFU blue on red. I think Onyx’s going to walk away with it. We’ve seen a enough adjustments from there. I think I I think that CFU is more inclined to actually hold on to the blue side to be perfectly honest here. I feel like Any don’t mind being on the red side, but if they could be on uh if they do go on blue, how does the priorities end up changing, right? Because does that mean Oh, now look. Yes, he gets to play Uranus now. Wow, so much fun. Ka, uh you know what? 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Uh I like the discussion we were on about uh the draft changing things up. Uh sorry, remind me here who gets selection for game three. Uh, it should be CFU because they were the one recent team who lost because they’re the team that recently lost. So, all right. Maybe behind the scenes we can try to discuss a little bit more see what could happen for uh CFU if they do go onto the red side and choose to go that for game number three. But for now, we have to listen in on Onyx story and the road to EWC. Helloickname Midland. MSG. It’s better than the ONIC teams of the past from Indonesia that just dominated. This time they were tested. They struggled. They rose above that. And I think that just makes better teams. That was a Gilang Sands uh as the focal point there. Of course, we saw the one from CFU earlier where the focal point was the mid laner in OP. And it’s good now that funnily enough, we focus on the mid laners in terms of talking about the road to EWC. Talking about the potential draft happenings for this game number three, Gideon, you mentioned something to me about a midlane uh priority match up here cuz Zetin hasn’t been doing that great so far this series. Yeah, I mean I’m not going to take it away from either one of these midlaners. They are good at what they do, but Zutan just doesn’t seem to be the right answer in a majority of these cases, right? We’ve seen that so far in terms of her raw pushing power, especially in the early game, is kind of okay. You would like to use that more to trade against your opponents. Yeah, I think that Farsa might just be opened up in just a little bit. Don’t worry, guys. Don’t worry, guys. We’re not sp we’re not spicing things up. We’re just resetting it back down. It’s a B1 right now. And CFU kick things off with a fanny ban naturally. And they’re still on the blue side. Still on the blue side. So, they they still want to go for that. That’s fine, I guess. But um like you guys mentioned, I think for the most part, Anuk has figured out how to adjust uh throughout this this draft. I mean, we’ll see if we still see similar bands from them. They let the Arlock go earlier game one. They ended up banning that out. This time around, like you said, it’s still the Fanny and the Lancelot. So, I don’t know is priority like do we still think that CFU is actually going to priority Boxy here or do they switch things up? Cuz there’s a Uranus man. Yeah, I think a slight switch up. Oh, I thought they would somehow consider opening up the option of not banning the Farsa and even going for a surprise Farsa first pick, similar to what we saw earlier in the day for Team Liquid. But no, they’re both leaning into what they want to do. So, real quick, CFU are do you still want to go for the Freder? Like a straight up Kala opener again? I don’t know. I I I feel like the Kala opener is always going to be safe. Mhm. Uh is what they go for. It is. Yeah, it’s usually what they go for. But at this point, what are they going to pair it up with? Because the last time the big problem was the fact that the adjustment from the side of Onyx was really, really good. They’re going to go for Yishin. I’m guessing they’re also going to go for the Badang. If it does, if it hasn’t broken, why fix it, right? And the big issue is the fact that, oh, Onyx doesn’t mind giving you priority, but they will tax you heavily as you are walking off. That is the big issue here that I see from CFU’s side because as much as you want Kalia to kind of top you up unless you have a Kimmy on your side that allows you to be like I have the early damage to fight back against you then it’s a different case. I wonder if they’ll end up taking that here cuz yeah there’s the Bang there’s the YSS once again. Maybe they do they take Kimmy in this first phase. I wouldn’t mind it honestly. Uh considering that Kimmy does have the jetpack, the thrusters so that she can reposition a little bit. Uh if she could somehow pair that up with flicker if it’s available for her, that would actually be really great that it might force out some early engagements. You called it again. There’s the Kimmy. And yeah, they do switch things up in terms of what they pair up with the Fredan. Also going on with what Gideon mentioned with the mid lane pick for CFU, they get the Kimmy to pair up with the Fredin together. And that means they can still continue the style that they’ve been playing without changing things too drastically. Yeah, that’s one of the main points I would expect from CFU because again, you know, some of the pieces of the puzzle that they showed us in in game one where they just won so dominantly. It was uh on the fact that they had the Kimmy that really helped things out. But I still think you have to see what the last two picks are going to be for them to make sure that they have, you know, the damage profile there. The options of um to follow through even if they work against two purifies for example from Onyx. You can see this though coming through finally is the CC. So that’s going to be a pickup which is again a it’s a popular pickup. It’s a signature here I would say for for Loopy even. Yeah. And it’s a good interplay of crowd control layering between the CC and the Badang. So the Badang doesn’t always necessarily need to front. You can send Loot to front instead. Have Kib Boy go for the follow-up and vice versa. And so now CF has another layer of oh, we have two great tempo breakers on the other side and we’re playing around the very sort of slowm moving uh composition around the Freder. This pickup is massive for Onyuk and it might be the main Xfactor pick right now that CF has to consider. Mhm. with all the adjustments that I’ve had within this first phase, right? A lot of it just boils down to just changing the order of what we pick. And I think it’s a good idea, right? But the question now boils down to how many people are going to take purify, right? Are we expecting CC to take vengeance this time or are is she going to go for the purify to try and protect herself specifically from getting picked off? Because keep in mind a lot of the previous fights that we saw in game number two, both Kib Boy and as well as Lupi were priority targets for Wadu when he was on Arlo or sometimes if they’re out of position and that’s when Boxy picks him up. Yeah, we also have to consider that maybe Detective will would want to be a little bit more careful with when he’s going to dish out the appraiser for cuz if he’s not careful, he might just uh eat a whole bunch of reflective damage towards him if uh you have the vengeance up on that CC right away. He’ll be wondering, hey, I’m going to hit you back. That hurt me too. Yeah, I think the other part for Detective though is not falling too far behind like in terms of the levels because that seemed to be uh one of the issues that they had in the previous game and and what made them too just kind of choose to you know what let’s just let’s just brawl it out. Let’s just fight it out because we don’t want to go and go for the the retribution battle here. So maybe part of that plan part of that equation for them as we get through this last phase of these bands is allowing Detective to not fall too far behind. And maybe part of that too was Onyx just got those early kills in the early portion of the game that allowed Kyrie again to grind and scale up quickly. Fourth pick I think. Yeah, this bad is Oh. Oh, excuse me. Mid lane and gold now is what we’re going to be looking at in terms of the carries. Should Donic just try to go for a little bit more reach? I think I want to go for a little bit of reach. I mean, time to reach. This is one way of doing it. We haven’t seen a Loi in a hot second. And I was curious to see what Sans wanted to do. Uh especially when it comes down to the mid lane. Like is this a scenario where you can actually play like a Chonga, you’re going to be playing, you know, your traditional front to back anyway. So it kind of makes sense. But I think with Aloi very team fight oriented, but the recent nerfs is why a lot of people have kind of moved away. So I want to see how they’re going to utilize it this time in the current patch. Yeah, I think for Onyx, it’s because the thing about that this feels like a team fight counter for CFU. uh Kasp especially Fredericks do not like seeing the loy the other side which means now Lut excuse me uh Savo should be free to pick up the things like the carry uh for their gold and maybe even the Bayatrix which pair up very well with Aloi shots come through Hilda Bruno on their side I mean they want to go right into the faces of and I like you guys mentioned with a Lui over there I don’t I don’t know how this going to completely play off I mean again we haven’t seen too much of Lui uh previously in uh recent weeks. But maybe again with this last pick, you’re going up against a Bruno. What do you take here? Do you go I forgot Granger is still open. So why not uh give that into the hands of Seo again. Not surprised with the way that they played it. I do kind of wish that Bruno was switched out for Beatatrix. All right. I just want to get your say I wish there was another consideration for the Bruno, but let’s see what happens there. Uh, real quick, Gideon, who are you leaning towards for this one? Honestly, I’m kind I feel like the execution for the side of CFU is slightly easier and I’m going to lean more into their composition. Nice. I’m going to just I’m going to go for All right. I don’t want to be opposite to Gideon. All right. To the million plus watching right now, thank you. Let us witness together who will be facing Team Liquid in this group A at the 10 bracket. Will it be Onyx? Will it be CFU? Will it be Indonesia? Or will it be Cambodia? Thanks, Ram. We’ll be bringing that sentiment into our upcoming game as we head on over into the land of dawn. To the millions of viewers out there, welcome. This is match point currently for both of our squads, it is CFU on the blue side facing off against Anik Indonesia on the red side. Once again, both teams refuse to switch sides. There are no traitors, only warriors as they battle it out on first. Starting off with the purple buff. No surprises there. But I I really wish that, you know, the Bruno was switched out for a Beatrix. There’s just so many ways to get value out of the Beatrix. The raw burst damage, there’s not a lot of sustain from the side of Onyx Indonesia. And even then, most of them are running with the flickers anyways. Yeah, it’s it’s kind of weird because Vatrix just doesn’t seem to be popping up much, you know, in general, especially back in the uh the professional leagues in the qualifiers leading all up here on the the road to MSC. It just didn’t seem to be one of those picks that people like to go for. The Bruno though, on the other hand, I guess in a way too, it kind of gives you a little bit of a Oh, hold on. Already going to jump in with title strike. Key boy though is there to keep things safe. So, you go ahead and just disengage from that. But still, I think Lebrono is just more of the lines of, you know, you get a little bit of damage earlier on with the two items, still maybe the three that he needs. But I think, yeah, you need that later on, that maleific gun, that’s going to be crucial in comparison to the Granger specifically who has so much more range. Yeah, I mean, they they want their late game scaling. I think that’s the most important thing for them with the crit build. It’s just oh, the damage is through the roof. And they got to be careful, right? Because again, all these rotations are being read very well from both sides. They know they’re going to be on the bottom side of the map. They want to unlock this Hilda. But even so, Wadu, it’s a pretty dead lane for the most part. Look isn’t able to manipulate the waves without the help of his team. And that’s why KBO is here, right? If anything gets a little fishy, he can kind of neutralize the effect. Yeah, that’s what the Badang does so well. Goes ahead and messes with some of the tempo and that’s what Boxy really wants to do earlier on on this Ka. But the first turtle the game’s going to be up. So, it’s CFU getting in position. We see this time and time again, especially with the Fredin, but they’ll go ahead and check things out with the mount shock and they’re just forced off. Just they just walk on up, force CFU back and Kyrie will go ahead and get the turtle. But still Wu now on the backside looking for the first blood. They take a ton of damage. Double flickers on out here from CFU. Still Kyrie, one shot won’t land it on OP. Okay, first bloods haven’t been achieved, but I don’t know if anybody realized that, but Sans did a very interesting move, and I think it messed with the minds of CFU, which is why they gave up so much space. And by the time they realized where Sans actually was, they couldn’t take back the territory anymore. Looking at the emblem build so far, uh everything seems to be up to snuff. Nothing too out of the ordinary. We do have common emblems being built up uh by Zing, not taking marksman emblems, uh and not even taking assassin emblems of his own. He’s not looking to try and win the lane. He’s trying to not only survive, but make sure that he has enough mana to stay relevant. The master assassin’s always going to be a good time, especially if we see Sarah make a mistake. Uh, in terms of everything else, the only thing is lethal ignition coming in from Sans. He is not going for impure rage. He wants to hurt. Yeah, I guess you want to do that, especially with the Lui who, you know, dealt with some of the adjustments that she’s gone through. But it was welld deserved. You know, Lu E and the chip for a while were uh on the top of some of the decisions, especially when it came to the macro play. Wadu, not sure if he’s going to be able to survive this. Mount Shock are going to be used here. That’s a whole lot of damage to go on through as Kyrie will pick up the first blood. Really good punish here. Really good punish from the side of Onyx Indonesia. I mean, look understand that understood that Wadu isn’t looking to try and shove out this wave super super fast. And now that he’s got that assist, he’s got the lead, and more importantly, he’s got the tempo, he can now start influencing the sidelanes and rotating off first. Now notice, we do see that Boxy is coming down to try and push him out of the way, allowing Wadu to walk back into the lane safely, but he no, he hit the minion. He He flickered into the bush, but he hit the minion. Oh, that feels bad. Oh, that hurts so much. And Sea, the best part, Sea didn’t have any energy at all. He didn’t have any energy to rap city. He didn’t have any energy energy to throw out another death Sonata. He just was auto attacking until the very end. All right. Now, second turtle of the game going to go up. On getting pushed out of this one tsunami slam to bring him into the turtle pit. They’re going to go for the fight. Vengeance already popped to Sans will be able to pick up Ladu. A double for already forcing him off and Kyrie gets the turtle on top of it all. So Any will come out swinging for that objective. And now the snowball starts to begin. The smaller mistakes coming in from CFU Gaming getting punished hard by Indonesia as they crack open the most valuable structure in the game. Mid tier one. And with that, we’re starting to see what CFU did to Anik ID in game number two. But on the opposite side, Onyx has the timings. They’ve got the tempo. And Loopy, he Lupi is in a phenomenal position right now. He’s flowing right now, man. I mean, a lot of the you you said this because that’s typical, too, when the CC gets a lead, even if it’s a let’s say you’re getting assists, but you you have that lane advantage even built up. I think Warax was the first item that Luffy went with. You kind of give yourself that positioning, especially around the objectives. I can just jump on in, use my current comp, my vengeance, do what I need to do, and then the team will go ahead and clean up after that. And so Loop is in a really good position to go ahead and provide that for the team. Meanwhile too, if he’s the target that gets tsunami slammed, it’s not that big of a deal uh for Onyx. Yeah. And as long as he has that vengeance, right, anybody with like quote unquote burst damage or consistent damage really starts to suffer. Oh, Foxy going to go in once again. Purify is going to be used though. So is okay, but saying look at this. This is the battle of the range that Onyx has right now. Oh, so close to getting another one with the death key boy now has the flicker. Oh, he won’t be able to find Sing. We’re going to force them off on the tier 2. Kyrie will go on in. Sans is there now as well. Nope, he has to go back to base, but Savo will pick up Detective. Two kills for Onyx. Oh boy, this game is getting real spicy. And Any Indonesia are making sure that they are running away with this. A 4.5K, sorry, 4.6K lead 6 minutes into the game. and they want to take a tier two alongside of it. If they do get it, they will turn this into a 5k lead. Oh, Luffy, Luffy wants that kill on Zing, but he pops the vengeance won’t be enough though and they go ahead and get on out with the diversion. The turret tier 2 still going to be able to stand though with about a little bit of health left. But this next turtle is Onyx for the taking. That’s going to be three for three. This is so good. I mean, Lance, despite most mid laners not wanting to play Loi because of the new changes to that diversion that it reveals the starting position but doesn’t show your ending position, it gives too much info. So, now he’s using it as a mind game, if not a disengage tool. So, what if you can see us? As long as the channel completes, my whole team can get on out of there. And the two other times that we’ve seen him use it, he does it in front of his opponents to keep them on their toes to force them to doublech checkck the bushes that they had already cleared up earlier just in case. That’s why it’s the perfect name for an ultimate, man. It’s literally a diversion, you know, and uh when Lu Yi is on play, you really have to stay on your toes. You really have to be able to lock in and, you know, know how to play against this. So, right now, Sans will take a shot. Also, the mid lane Wu in trouble. Kyrie’s going to be able to pick up a kill in the jungle. still going to be fighting. Sabo gets enough movement and he will survive anyway. So again, Onyx will be able to find two against CFU. And that is a econ. That is a huge econ. 5K now turning into a 6k lead. If honestly, if didn’t have that 5k, Boxy probably would have been able to pick up Seo anyways. Wad probably would have still died regardless, but even so, it’s a very worth it trade for exp and as well as gold. In this case though, Onyx currently six kills up on CFU Gaming and they’re now just waiting for the neutral objective. They’re walking into enemy territory to deny as much Econ as possible while still making sure that Kyrie has a very efficient path. Threelevel lead, might I add, against Detective. It’s the same thing that I was say, you know, that we mentioned from the previous game. Oh, and even with that diversion, they’re going to go in for it. may be able to find two. Box is gone and Wu to follow. On it comes through with the conversion and Zing has nowhere to go. He’s going to just get run down. He’s running for the turret. Maybe I can get a little extra gold before I go down as he falls as well. Onyx in control. And they’ll take the lord. Yep. A Kyrie committing his retribution knowing that once he once he dies then he has nothing to worry about. There’s no way that Detective is going to walk up and try and steal this from me. Not with my entire team covering the entire map. Making sure that this filter net doesn’t allow CFU Gaming to take space. Oh, the next target here is see if they can get some more resources before this push in with that lord. Right now, they’re staring down for CFU an 8,000 gold deficit to work against. And even with, you know, key boy’s got the flicker available. If they want to force a fight in the base, they will. Boxy taking a couple too many shots. Loopy. will go in to clean up after the death is all land from Saro. But now looking for more still with a numbers advantage. On ready to possibly push into this base fully here as Kyrie walks in with Lord. Yep. On ID are clearly they are in the driver’s seat. They have momentum on their side. No way. Oh. Oh. Key boy jumps on into the base. He gets taken out but they’re going to force the fight anyway. Lords are going to be up and Zing is gone. Severo’s unleashed. Still trying to hold on. Tsunami slam be able to find Luffy. Luffy will fall. The base could be locked on, but Wadu is going to be the next target. Seo still shooting off from the backside looking for Detective. They’ll clean out the lanes, but they still have minion waves pushing on in. And that’s going to be it. Detective jumps on in. Savo will lock on and Onyx will take the series 2 to one. Hey, a little disrespectful coming from Onic at the very end. If they wanted to finish it, they could have, but instead they’re like, “No, no, no. We’re buffing out the Kadis real quick. We got to show CFU, you may be our scream partners, but we will not take this down while we’re standing up.” What was a dream start for Onyx, excuse me, for CFU in this series turned into a nightmare as Onyx slowly readjusted, re-calibrated from the drafts to the execution to showing CFU, we have you red. Yes. Don’t fake what don’t fix what’s not broken, but you have to change what’s already been read by your opponent. I think it’s all about tempo, right? There there’s such a big tempo difference between the two. I mean, Zing, this could have been his like key moment right here. Zero literally had nothing left. He had no energy. He got three auto attacks because of the fact that, oh, I hit a minion. I flickered into the bush. I still can’t see you. And by the time I slide tackle in, it’s too late. Yeah, you know, that’s happened to me before, so I completely understand. It happens to the best of us. But yeah, nonetheless, I I just think, you know, Renar really mentioned that it was the adjustments that we saw Onyx made from not just the draft because they were on red side all three games, but also just the way that they played around the map, you know, that they even utilized this time around a Louis Yu who’s not picked up too much, but they played the macro really well here. Yeah. Also the difference in the exp lane picks. They have a Hilda who has to literally run to the back line, find a good access point while Lutby, we were discussing this backstage, his job is so simple, throws out the curtain call in Yo-Yo Blitz. And that is it. The highlights will play out, but in just a moment, we’re actually going to be hearing from Eterna, who is with Savo on the stage. Thank you, casters. It’s Eterna here with Savo. Congratulations on that match. Yeah. Okay. Savo, this was your first official Moonton International tournament. Now, how were you feeling? Did you feel pressure? Was there anything that was going on? Any jitters? I think maybe a little bit because like uh as you said this is my first time but hopefully in the upcoming match I will be much better. Okay. Okay. I mean you did really well right that laning phase with Singh as well. It was amazing. So now the thing is we’ve been hearing that you guys were scrim partners. Is this true? Are you guys scrim partners? before MSJ. Yeah, quite a lot. Are the results that we’re seeing similar to the scrim results? Is that something that we can, you know, know? Uh, so it’s a secret. We don’t we don’t want anyone to know. Okay. Okay. It’s a secret. It’s a secret. But how does it feel to finally meet them on an international stage? So I think uh compared to the screams they improve a lot more. Yeah, that’s it. Okay. Okay. Because it makes sense, right? Cuz I think a lot of people out there were thinking that, you know, Onyx coming into this match would go two zero. So what happened in game number one? Yeah. Uh, I think we made several key mistakes in the early game that makes the enemy can snowball early. Yeah. Okay. Can we know what happened? Was it like a miscommunication error or was it an execution problem? Yes. Just execution problem. Okay. So earlier on I got to interview Obed. Of course you know OHB, right? Okay. So he said that he was expecting you to move forward against CFU. And when I asked him about how the Laney phase will go against Sapphero, he was like maybe yes, maybe no. Maybe I can beat him. What do you think? Do you think that you can beat OB in the gold lane? Oh, I think I can. Okay. You think you can? That’s the confidence that we’re waiting for, Safero. So, once again, thank you so much and congratulations and we’ll see you in that next match against TPH. But before I let you go, I do want to ask, do you have a message for TPH in your next upcoming match? Good luck, just good luck, have fun. Okay, good luck and have fun. Okay, we’ll see. Thank you so much once again and congratulations. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters. Congratulations again to Onyx Seo. Good luck. Have fun. He says to O’Hare. But yeah, we got to break down what happened in this game number three a little bit more. One of the uh one of the fastest games we’ve had so far this day, 10 minutes and 37. And clearly clearly Onyx already knew what CF wanted to do ahead of time. Oh yeah, they did. I think you know two main key factors. Number one, the fact that Kyrie was able to go out of his way to re uh to change his jungle path to end up on Lupi’s side to get that first blood. That was the start of so many problems that were going to occur because with that kill, Lupy was able to control the tempo and the way that the waves were going to be manipulated. Sans that al diversion, holy cow, the fact that he just te-poses in front of his opponent’s like, “Where are we going to be? What we going to do? Where am I going to disappear into?” definitely made definitely made CFU have to rethink and recalculate. Right. You can see the hesitation walking into fights like I’m not 100% sure where he’s going to be. Yeah. It also felt like they just didn’t have like uh really safe and confident face checker. Hilda can only run away so much uh and deal damage. There’s not a lot of what they can do. So, you can see the hesitation really. And uh Seo being the rich guy, he was farmed up because again when your center of the map is going really well, Nizu, then your gold laner is the one of the happiest people in the world. I like to call him the gold lane experience, you know. But Savo, for the most part, like I love watching him because it seems he seems so smooth. Like his positioning, his decision making, his placements uh seem to be really smooth and just on point. And so I can’t wait to see that matchup uh between him and Obi because that’s going to be one to definitely keep track of. But nonetheless, like you mentioned, I think just the calculations and the adjustments that we saw Onic make, especially for Kyrie for that example. I mean, this was a 10 and 1/2 minute game, 1037 to be exact. And even game two for them, it might have took a little bit longer, but Onyx did an amazing job at just making those micro adjustments after a devastating game one loss. Again, CFU, I did not expect that game one, like how how dominating that was against Any. So, um, we’ll see if they continue to do that on their adjustments. Yeah. So far, it seems like the trend for this day has been the teams that are expected by the majority of our community to win the match is tested somewhat in the earlier portions of the game andor series, whether it’s the first 5 minutes. But really, you see the difference in what separates a lot of the what we consider to be the top tier, S tier, championship favorite teams to the rest of the world, where in their understanding of what to do from six to 8 minutes, what they do around the second turtle or third turtle. That’s what separate the boys from the men. Mhm. I mean, let’s not forget about some of the conversions as well, right? It really depends on the level of experience that we’re seeing from a lot of these players, like how long they’ve been in the professional scene, especially once you are playing at the internationals. there’s just a different level of standard and on top of the fact that the polish is so evident on teams who have come here extremely prepared. Yeah, I think they I think we continue to see that though and you know the preparations that all these teams have because we we do not and I don’t know we’ll dig into that later on too with some of the teams but they spent a lot of times preparing and I feel like we continue to see that. It’s been a tremendous day so far for the very first day of group stages here at MSE at the esports world cup. Again, my name is Redmar. Uh the three of us are going to be uh heading out with Gideon Nu height despire 3 bouncing out. It’s going to be Lfll, Miracle, and Brit coming in. So, we’ll see you in a bit. I don’t even know what it feel. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. One. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I’mma get Let’s stand in. 4 3 2 1 zero. Another group. And I got I say day one we already opened up with the banger. We started with two amazing matches especially the previous one on ID going up against CFU Gaming where game number one pretty interesting draft coming in from Anik but hey game two and game three they’re able to secure it and talk about that we got 1.15 million viewers watching that match. Welcome to Gang and Gather uh MSC here at the esports world cup. My name is Ael. Alongside me is MKO as well as Brigita. That was an amazing match too. I got so hyped after what happened. Hyped in a way that we’re seeing much closer fights than we expected in the first two series of the day. So, what more are we expecting, especially in the latter portions and we have two more series upcoming for the rest of the day. Yeah, I mean there’s a reason that match that we just saw earlier on versus CFU was considered a match of the day, right? It was banger all the way from the start of the game uh from the start of the series all the way to the end. Roller coaster of emotions, but it got the job done. Hey, but hey, that’s what you predicted. Oh, yeah. You said it was going to be a 2-1. Now, here’s the thing, America got to know. You got to be careful what you wish for. Speaking of which, we got a video talking about just that. Oh, we have our recent winners of the wild cards from EECA, Vertus Pro, joining group A. It is going to be the Salango Red Giants, OG Esports. Uh, I think we can we can win SRG if we perform well. I hope for two to choose the team after we qualify. But we’ll see what happens. Who’s the who’s the one that talking? Pluto. Who? I don’t think to zero is possible for them. But I mean, if they’re confident enough, then we’re more confident than them. So to zero will be on my side. I think it will be a good match going up against them because they had a good wild card run as well. So, it’s going to be an exciting match and we’re well prepared against them. Let’s see later if they can two zeros. So, we already see Virtuous Pro saying that hey, hey, we can take down SRG to zero. They look pretty calm and SRG responded with with calmness as well. So, be careful what you wish for, Brigita. Do you think uh Virtuous Pro do you feel like they could do it? I mean, part of me and I feel like even for other talents, they feel like there is a chance that they actually show up. But whether or not they’re able to win, maybe that might still be a question. But personally, after hearing what they had to say, this might as well be one of the matches of the day for me personally. Hey, everything is matches of the day, right now. We we’re looking at Virtuous Pro and again, they are the champions of the wild card. So, they had extra time here in Riad to get themselves comfortable compared to all the other teams. Is that going to be an advantage or is just going to be a non-factor? I think it’s a double-edged sword, right? Looking at it. Obviously, they have a little bit more time to experience the stage here in Riad to just uh sit and adapt to the weather and everything here in Riyad and also to the strats. We saw that in the wild card they were very good at early game setups. amazing when it comes down to getting control early and snowballing, but they do struggle in the mid to late game, which I think is one of SRG’s strengths. No, that’s that’s true because the thing about SRG is that they somehow keep losing the early, but come mid game. Uh talking to Remar as well, it seems to be the theme of the day where minute uh six to minute 8. That’s like that’s like the crucial part. That’s that’s where you win or where you lose. Um yeah, it’s very very crucial to win out on the first I think I would say turtle to turtle three. Those are when the big fights start to happen. That’s when the real snowball starts to happen. You win turtle one. I think a lot of times teams would actually just give it over now. Yeah. Although I’m starting to wonder on how the draft is actually going to pan out between these two teams because I believe even the coaches have sort of some history between them already. And that’s the thing, like they probably have somehow picked up a lot of the metas, especially ever since wild card, which based on the first two matches we’ve seen today don’t differ that much. But Arcadia, like even Fly Solo, I Okay, both of them, they’re very adaptable and flexible coaches when it comes to that. Yeah. But now we got to talk about Salango Red Giants OG Esports because the thing is they looked okay at the start of MPL Malaysia. But then once when Seb starts coming in talking to the players, they they seem to have gotten stronger. But even I worry, are they just big fish in a small pond? Now seeing the world, will they finally start to bleed? Yeah, I think that narrative has already been shut down by themselves last MSC. They already showed the world what they could do. Yes, they dominated through MPL Malaysia. I think now three season in a row, three repeat, but we know that they’re kind of like a PSG in League One situation. You know, they’re the only dominant team, but when they get to internationals, they perform. Yeah. And they’ve done that three repeat Malaysia. Yes. But like in MSE, there’s yet to be a team who has actually completed a back-to- back record. And so that is another challenge for SRG OG if ever they do want to accomplish that this year. Hey, you know what? It’s a long name. I get it. But speaking of long, 10 years is a long time. And this is where we would like to say thank you to you guys because Moon got nominated for three different things. Publisher of the decade, game of the decade, as well as M5 live event of the decade. Make sure you guys go over to esportsawwards.com/vote and vote for us cuz I got to say, 10 years you guys have been supporting us. That’s that’s amazing. No wonder second match you already had over 1 million PCU viewers. Yeah, we’re going to break that I think as we get on with the days. That was only match two of day one. So very interested to see exactly how it plays out. Maybe one of the Brutus Pro wild card matches, wild card team matches can get all the way there. We’ve been seeing a lot of fans coming over from ECA. If they got if they got 2, that’s I don’t want that, but that would be insane. I don’t know why, but it feels like it’s been such a long time since we saw these teams or I feel like I missed watching these teams. Probably because again, we followed a different flow compared to last year’s MSE. Like MWI came in first before wild card. So, it’s been a long rake for Vertus Pro, but a much longer one for the teams preparing for the group stage. I mean, here’s the thing. There’s a big patch. It’s not one of those patches where you just change one or two heroes because everything changed. Even the even the timing for the buffs. And even though it’s just a few seconds, but we know a few seconds could mean the world to the players. So SRG OG, they look strong, but they were strong in the previous patch. We do have to see how do they adjust, but purchase Pro look more confident than I feel like all of us really thought they would be. So yeah, maybe behind the scenes, maybe they had training with SRG that made them feel like, eh, they’re not that big of a deal. Yeah, for sure. I think Versus Pro again, they’ve had a lot of time to prepare to adapt to this new meta. They’ve actually played a whole tournament, mini tournament before this. And yeah, I I guess we can talk a little bit more about that wild card because they were the dominant force, but I’m not too sure about how what the level is there. If I’m being totally realistic here, I think it was quite far below the other teams here in the main stage. Yeah, although I’d say the boot camp they had in the Philippines really did help. Which leads me to another point, I guess, because the way Andor is playing in Vertus Pro now looks very comfortable. And um some might even argue feels like a different or better version than when he was in Omega. So let’s see how it pans for this one. I mean Brigita, if I know our fans, they all like to argue. So now we’re going into the pick and bans here. SRG OG will be first. Pig versus Pro will be the second one. Interesting here. Banning out the FIA. So it does show that maybe they just want a a team fight comp that just goes all over the place. Yeah, this actually um it is great setup for a lot of different picks here. The Wan obviously comes up to mind. I think another one would be an Arlet that we’ve been seeing a whole lot of plays from, man Sanford in match one on the TP versus Ultra Legends match, but they actually ban out the Wan. So, this leads me to believe that it’s more of an Arlet setup. Yeah. Or maybe even like um I’m liking how we’re starting to see the farce again for the past two series, which is still available if ever they do want to opt. But like last MSE, I think when we talk about Stormmy, I think the the picks that come to mind are more of the like Valentinas and all that, but we’ll see because I don’t think we saw that just yet for today. Might bring in a Nana. Ah, we did see that in the grand finals. It’s a it’s a Stormy special. All right, because here’s here’s the thing. How’d that work, by the way? Okay, knowing Stormy, he’s my boy, right? He’s my boy. One of two boys. He I I have plenty, right? But here’s the thing. like he’s practiced time for all the heroes. He doesn’t need all that much time. So, it does expand his hero pool and then just ask like, “Hey, what you want now?” SRG OG, let’s let’s talk about this because I feel like the bands does show the draft. Betting out the faux, meaning you want a lot of dashes, betting out the one, maybe you just have a very heavy front line, you don’t want to get punished, but betting out the ar because we thought that was the setup. And I’m looking at VP. I kind of feel like VP is just metab banning, you know, betting out. I I kind of feel like Fanny doesn’t have to be banned, but you know, that’s either here or there. And banning out the Uranus, what is the setup? What is going to be the first pick? Is it going to be the far side? Is it going to be the Kimi? What’s going on here? I mean, the back is still there, right? Oh, yeah. It’s a good ch. I think right now for SRG, the plan is to take away as many early game turtle one fighting heroes away from VP knowing that VP are really good for fighting the first few neutral objectives. So, take that away. SRG will have a smoother road to scaling to their own win conditions. M a lot of picks are open here. Yeah, Baksha, Farsa, Kimmy is also I think a pick that should be contested up against VP who again from Pluto. We’ve only been seeing Kimmy in the entirety of the wild card. Yeah, even the Jian which was previously banned too I think might be considered later on for both of these teams but they never mind immediately take it instead for first pick. Hey SRG OG they’re living in their own world for better or for worse. So now they’re picking up the Juin, which if we’re looking at the draft here again, they’re batting out heroes that can more or less counter the front line. So I’m I’m I’m thinking I feel like everyone expected Skies to go back to previous MC, the Lings, the Lancelots, maybe even the Alpha. But so now it’s like what is he going to be playing a tank? Is he going to be you know Frederai that that kind of thing? But I don’t know about about the Akai especially because they themselves banned the art. I feel like that’s the biggest question mark. Think like what are they aiming for? Yeah, that would be the good combo. What wasn’t like Sekai’s at least just using the Freder in terms of utility heroes like recently? It was mostly just the Fredins or the Suyos. I mean like it’s good. It’s good. Like I’m saying his freed is good but you know people are like oh you know you know your hero yeah it’s not skies. Yeah. Okay. So it’s got the Kacha and Lanclot. I actually didn’t expect that. I thought with the Juin picked up they would go for a Boxia. They would go for maybe like a Kimmy here. But I guess they’re thinking all right ju was already picked up. There’s no real reason for us to pick up the Kimmy early knowing that the mid lanes were already there and actually sets up for double carries in the first phase. It’s a CC and joy pickup for SRG. Wo, this is very interesting. I haven’t seen SRG draft like this in this patch, but this looks like they’re drafting the previous patch. No, because this is this is exactly their opener back in MPL, which is like what like an M6 draft, too, a month ago at least. And even if you pick like the farah here, wouldn’t you be a little like uncomfortable considering that there’s already a joy in the lineup of SRG or regardless? I mean, Kimmy. Oh yeah, that too. Yeah, Kimmy would be a safe choice and they go for the safe choice there. VP again. Pluto, he’s only really picked up Kimmy for the most part. If it’s not banned out, he will always go for it. Now we’re going into the second phase where VP have a good shot at banning out the gold lanes. Now they have first pick on red, so they can actually contest for the gold lane that’s open to leave SRG with less heroes. But the thing is knowing Innocent, he probably legit doesn’t care. He legit doesn’t care because this is this is a real thing that happened before where they were discussing and they could not decide which goaner to pick and he’s like, you know what, Clint, it’s like I’m I’m I’m just going to pick Clint and then I’ll I’ll make it work. And he made it work. So I think I think this is one of the advantages for SRG. They can delay the gold later just cuz they have that trust in innocent. Yeah. Now they seem to acknowledge that and not ban any gold laners anymore. Though I’m wondering if this got there’s there’s a lot of frontline punish. What is their plan here? Because CC and and Joy doesn’t really scream, you know, oh, we’re so scared of our front line. What hero is Hume’s going to be using? Yeah, I think again for SRG it’s just them trying to play with uh their strengths, right? They are very very good in the mid to late. They struggle sometimes in the early game and that’s why they’re taking away as many setters, as many uh heroes that can force fights early on to get that lead to get the snowballing going for VP. Uh I think I mean the the Kaa is still open though VP seems to be Oh well, okay. Hey, good shot. Good shot. I thought VP would be uh the ones actually threatened that pick. They actually fan it out themselves. So I hope they don’t pick the box out because this is already not a great draft for Boxia for VP. I mean, yeah. A lot of shred. Yeah. But then SRG can pick it up if they want it. So I’m wondering what does like do they think or do they plan to put the Gatot? It’s likely going to be Rome, right? Like I don’t see any Gatot XP lanes anymore. But the the mere fact that there’s already a CC and I feel like the entire gaming situation was a testament to how CC is kind of like up there in terms of the XP lane matchup. So it’s going to be tricky already for VP to think of that. Yeah. So like how do they deal with the front line pressure that SRG currently has? Who’s going to protect the Kimmy aside from the Gatot Katcha? Well, usually when you’re up against this kind of composition, you want a little bit more appeal. You want CC. how you counter the CC. It’s with CC, but not the hero, the crowd control. CC countered by crowd control. So VP, I think they could take a page out of CFU’s book, pick up something like an Edith. That would be pretty solid to just lock her down in lane and in the team fights or go MWI and pick up Belleric. Uh, hey, that that was one of the counters to Joy in M6, too. Yes, SRG did a good job by the way. The down ban amazing. I think the Haramman even better taking away an amazing pick that could have been a counter towards the Joy, but it’s going to be the Moscow that gets chosen by VP. So, a bit more side control. Don’t let innocent half that cuz that that too is I remember that he made a small play where he got a almost I think a comeback at Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was that was like the the play that actually got them to Axiatara. So, at least now they have ways to like really deal with the macro. Although SRG2 they already have the joy. Okay. So, like I mean in terms of side control, they pretty much have an answer to that. But the Moskov and the Lancelot, that’s a lot of presence. Oh, okay. Oh, now no, now here’s the thing. Here’s the thing. Claude, question mark. Yes. But also, I want to look at all these bands. Are all of these bands to protect this Hilda? Because I kind of feel like the only one that that might get punished is Hilda/Claw a bit. This is very interesting coming in from SRG OG, but as a Malaysian I trusted because they spent a lot of manpower on studying the meta. So, hey, maybe they know something we don’t. Yeah, it really looks like a mid game composition for SRG. They’re really banking on their strengths here, but so are VP. We’re seeing a little bit of a change for VP’s play style. I think mainly forced out by SRG. There you go. And that’s the Edith pick up in the XP lane to deal with the CC with crowd control. Yep. And and here’s the thing, looking at the draft here, I kind of feel like for VP, they got the meta pick here. SRG OG, they might have seen this coming and they just want to counter it. So either ways, good luck to the both of you casting this game. I hope it’s a good opener for us. I hope so too, Lfell. Thank you for that. And now we are going to get ready, ladies and gentlemen, to jump into the land of dawn. Will it be the unorthodox draft of the defending MSE XEWC champions? Or will it be the newcomers in VP with a meta draft? Something that works, something that’s solid, very orthodox, and actually does suit their play style in the wild card. I like to see how they’re proving just how flexible they are indeed in as early as game number one. Who would have thought they’d be switching up their drafting patterns that early on? We’ll see. Indeed, it’s a it’s a unique approach to see the meta coming in from the wild card champions rather than the defending champions. Well, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to game one into the land of Dawn as Natan brings us in. Skies and Andoru going to be pathing towards the same route over. They’ll be meeting up. And let’s talk a little bit about this match up, right? Lancelot versus the Joy. I think in recent times, well, oh, hold up. Big fight mid lane. In as early as less than a minute, it seems like Stormy has been brought down to less than half HP. And I’m seeing the confidence in the interview even just now in the mid lane from Pluto. Bober really well played on the Kimmy. This it just shows you the experience that he’s had in the wild card just picking up this heroes so many many times. And Doryu was actually gone for the orange buff straight into the lethal wanderer knowing that SRG’s jungler skies will probably go for the triangle route. Yep. And I’m liking how they’re controlling the mid lane so far since you we know for a fact that a Hilda does tend to be the one putting the pressure being the one trying to invade a bib. But okay, so we saw this coming but not to a point where it could potentially be an early solo kill. But hold on in the mid lane. Seems like there’s action happening once more. Thorn Rose committed by Andoro, but Sakai secures first blood onto Pluto and will not get punished for it. Great moves from Skies. A glimpse of the MSC performance he’s had last time. Vengeance. Okay, gets the flicker out of the turret. Will that keep him safe? Because Gra will try to go for the kill, but instead No, it’s trying to help him there. A little bit of help, but somehow still a solo kill. Yeah, I mean, I guess it can still count lane. This is definitely not a solo. Oh my goodness, the pressure in the mid lane coming in from Verus Pro and the way they’re they’re able to answer back against SRG. This is a surprising turn of events, but Andoru Phantom execution out. Luto might be taken out though, not yet level four. And the control in the turtle pit seems to fall into SRG’s hands. This is big. SRG have brawled it out and actually have gotten a better timing in towards the turtle. Bad cut level four. No, that’s Pluto. Oh, so it seems like they don’t want to recall. They’re just trying to regroup, but that will mean that SRG OG secures the first turtle of the game. Now we get to see the setup that was done in the draft. You know, banning out a lot of the ready to fight heroes for turtle one to take away that strength away from VP. Now we get a check onto the emblems here. Master assassin for the claw. It’s the firmness for the Moscow. Super Agora has taken much more of a passive route. Well, I think the entire team has three tenacities from Vertus Pro. They’re really respecting the firepower from SRG. So, could they be really planning to focus on the macro for this game? Not until they know that they’ve already hit their power spikes. But the way we’re seeing it right now, at least in the trio mid, they’re just really taking on the fights. They are somehow starting to brawl. But speaking of brawl, it seems like Stormy will start it instead. They will try to go for it and they take down Pluto. Andoro gets to escape, but now will he try to re-engage because the rest of his teammates, they seem to be in danger. That’s two members down for Vertus Pro. Great fight from SRG utilizing that stormy utility here early on. Getting those knockups massive for SRG. And you can just see the coordination here for SRG, right? The fact that they were all ready to pounce as the knockup came through with the lantern flare shows you that at least here they’ve got the advantage in that department. Versus Pro were all over the place. Bober was hiding away. Wanted to go for the member they used faction pulse on. Now Creme what? AoG right in front of Creme just to somehow block his path. But they will successfully take him down though. But they needed three in order to do that. And I agree with you. It seems like Verus Pro. Their mechanical capabilities. They’ve proven that. But their coordination might need a little more work especially in the way we’ve seen them play. But Stormy forced to flicker away. And now the SOD. Okay. They will not proceed with the fight. Yeah, scoreboard four to three. Really close, but SRG have gotten more value out of their kills over Vertus Pro. Vertus Pro, like you said, Brigita, they’ve been sending three, two members into the bottom lane to go for these kills. And SRG have bought so much time with those guys before dying that they could get more value out of the map. Purple buff was stolen. This puts guys in a good position despite Andoru still being at the same level. Actually a bit ahead in XP fighting for Turtle 3. He’s actually 3. It’s a really good standing, but again, even despite him being a Lancelot, if SRG OG are able to just dominate and control the objectives that way, yeah, it’s going to be a little difficult for them to contest. And now they can immediately transition to the top lane. Although Andoru might try his best to defend. They might not let go of this tier one just yet. And that’s another thing I feel there’s no turrets taken down from either of these two teams so far. Yeah, very disciplined from both these teams. At least when it comes to the protecting their structures, lane swapping the lanes as well. Super Aora set down below for the turtle fight earlier. They didn’t want to contest and at least when it comes to the macro, it’s great for pro, right? They have been on the back foot for the most part of the trades, but they know what to do here. Badcock. Oh, bad caught. There’s the AoG as well, but will not knock up any single member forward tries to go for. But on the other side of the map, Y is the one taken down. So will be landing on to Stormy and Innocent might just be the turnaround of Vertus Bro. Innocent gets to take down one, but still that’s three members traded out by BP. That might be the first win Vertus Pro has found in this game in a pure team fight. Adoru. Oh, the Phantom execution. If that connected, I wonder how things would have changed. But just as we spoke about turrets, Vertus Pro get the first one away from SRG OG. It was so close in the early game despite SRG’s control over the neutral objective. 1,000 gold was all they had in the lead. And you can see with the team fight, despite it being also very messy from BP, you can see the targeting being all over the place. They managed to find the solution and it was a big spear to land from Super A down below. Absolutely ridiculous accuracy from the young man from EECA. And now we’ve got a game. Both teams scale up pretty well and both teams are playing for mid game here. Brig, that was a firmness Moscow. Firmness Moscow dealing damage. AOG. AoG right in front of Crab. Oh, the flicker coming in as well from Badcon. Immediately eliminating a single member from SRG before the turtle. Could this be a little different this time? Cuz VP, they’re able to take a pick off against SRG. Wow, I’m really impressed by VP. the misord coordinations we saw early on. It seems like one fight and they’re back together. This is their wild card for him in the final. Super Cora picking up turrets for free as they set up for the final turtle of the game. Pluto. Oh, will Andy let go of this opportunity? Sai still secures the objective, but is unstoppable. Might just go for the kills. Sai fortunately gets away, but still VP they’re not letting up without a fight. The trades have been so equal this time around. VP get a little bit more of value. 2:1 a turret, but SRG did get the turtle. So, it’s a plus one value for VP here. Super Gora though, he’s far enough up to be a beast. Let’s take a look at the items. Perfect timing. In-game equipment. It’s not just the man in the gold lane. But it’s the man, an import from the Philippines who’s done amazing this game. Look at that lead. 1,000. Again, you have to remember his purple buff got stolen. This hasn’t been the best games when it comes to farming. Doryu, he’s almost legendary. 6 round. Oh no, primal round. Not just yet. It was the ban of execution, but somehow still gets away, but not Cra. Oh my goodness. Someone has to charge BP for fraud. That was in the wild card. This was not how they performed. They were messy. Yes, they were good, but now Endor is going 1 v one. Are they actually going to Okay, back to the point. They’re not playing the way we expected them to. This is clean gaming for VP. Maybe the first few minutes, yes, that was the VP we expected. You know, miscoms happening, miscord coordinations, little small wins from SRG individually here and there, but it seems after the laning phase, this team has turned around so quickly. These fights have been so good. The rotations as well, and it’s SRG who find themselves on the back foot. mainly crap being very vulnerable with the CC on vengeance getting countered by the crowd control we spoke of in the draft ludo. Yeah, and he got such a good start too, but hold on. Speaking of, it’s Innocent who gets taken down this time. Not the best one for LRG. Sai gets to trade however, but Doru still going for it. Two for two trade for both of these teams, but it’s worth it for BP. They got both the carries. Skies and Innocent leaving the utility. Stormy in the mid lane. SRG still have the better control over the neutral objective here. So, they will deny BP of a take on Lord and it will prolong the game to a point where I think SRG can still pull things back. It really comes down to a battle of team fights at this point. But BP have a Mosov. That’s where the butt comes in. Yeah, if Super Agora plays this well, this could be a split push angle that forces SRG into a crucial forced error. Yeah. And if SRG OG in the fights actually get the shutdown onto Andoru, I feel like that will matter a lot. But will they actually get to do that? He doesn’t try to, but he will not succeed. That’s a kill from Super Agora. AOG committed by Pluto, but he’s all alone in the middle of but Super Agora, he makes it to the fight. Ber positions crab with a beautiful use of the vengeance gets a double kill. And Adoru, he’s legendary, but they lose three members. Bad is he still going for it? The one time you don’t go for the CC on CC, you lose it out. Now Phantom Execution is Cra gets the kill back. Bad taken down. Endoryu looking for scraps. Has to land the puncture. Goes over the thorn. Rose Creme survives. Somehow he still survives. And Sai might get the shut down but still doesn’t. How is Endor still alive after all of this? How is SRG doing it as well? Oh, we’ve got so many questions that we need to answer that these two teams need to answer. And Doryu surviving. SRG winning despite not having Innocent in that fight. They want to fight again. Pluto knocked up. He’s starting to hurt. Innocent is starting to hurt. Pluto won’t be able to land the Ao fight, but he might be taken out here by Innocent. And now it’s Super and Burka doing work trying to look for the trades now that their jumper is down. But it might just be the disengage. uses the pull because Yums and Crab hunt him down. Three deaths, but he’s still clutched. That Innocent man is ridiculous. Bober with the flicker out. Yum looking for a chase now. Trying to cut him down, but Bad C all alone and it’s a dive into him. One last Earth Shatter as Innocent picks up a killing spree and finally sets SRG’s win condition in place. Those were like consecutive redemption moments for CRA because the sudden jump on his KDA. Just look at that. If he was struggling to position himself earlier, he got the shut down on two crucial heroes of VP and then after that just kept putting in the pressure which led them to getting this objective even. Let’s take a look at the fight again. A replay of it. Super Aora zoned away. Now we see the brilliance of the Hilda pick. Maybe a lot of people, me included, don’t like the Hilda pick, right? Because especially in Rome, but he’s done his job. Y was able to bait out so many of the resources from Super Aora. Tank so many shots from him that the rest of SRG can come down and beat him up. Creme the most vulnerable member on the team to crowd control is still the big cryo. There’s a fight going on in life cam AOG to defend. Let’s take a look at it. Oh, super. Will BP actually go for this fight knowing that their jungler is down? But they focus on taking down the lord for now. That at least exposed all their inhibitor turrets, however, and somehow an advantage for SRG. What did Super Agora get a solo kill? Did Skies walk up too aggressively? Because he did land SOD. Yes, but when he did, Skies was already super low. So, there was probably a fight before that. But speaking of the fight, look at this current call lapsed onto Pluto and Superca. Beautiful targets for Crab, but gets knocked up right there by the Earth Shatter. Badcot though doesn’t have the primal wrath so they won’t be able to find a way to fight back out unless Andoro looks for the trades but the thorn growth doesn’t seem to land onto Stormy. A desperate play from Endor and SRG will capitalize on this. The experience of the defending MSE champions coming in in the mid game. 13 minutes in and they’re going to be knocking at the base turret. First one going down. Sod landing for Super Gora Skies. Could this actually be it? BP will try to defend. He uses the AOG as well, but Super Agora unfortunately gets taken down. There’s the traction pulse from Bober and they still have some minion waves coming in, but they have to wait for the next wave. 5 seconds on Andoru. Wave is coming in, but it’s a bit too slow. BP actually have a shot of defending. SRG need to get this wave into the base. Here we go. Did they actually go for the concealed backup? Doesn’t land there. Shatter and Bober is the first to follow and Dory. You two won’t or he will make it out alive and successfully clears the wave still. Oh, Sky just died. What? Where did he get shot by the turret? Did he walk up too far or was the minions the one that dealt the final blow? There’s a lord. There’s a lord. This is a big mistake from SRG. Yes, they’ve gotten value. It’s still value. Base turrets taken down mid and bot, but VP have more members for the lore. 20 seconds for Skies. Pram is walking up still very aggressively. Okay, it’s not a big mistake. The SRG have recovered very, very well. Just poking and holding their ground up against a BP team that also was waiting for two members to get back up. And Badcon and Bober. Okay, so at least um it isn’t necessarily an immediate transition into the lord for VP. Even though Sika was taken down earlier and it seems like they’ll need a bit more resources if they want to deal with CRA, unlike how it was for the first few minutes, things have changed a bit, especially as Innocent has already taken his items. He’s already full build on this clot. But speaking of full build, oh no, Pluto doesn’t go for the engage and instead gets taken down. Also, Pluto and Badcot the two front liners. They’re nowhere to be seen for BP. There’s no front line up against this SRG composition in the late game. Man, Yum’s walking up, canceling the recall, and it will be a 2v1. Super Agora throws it out. Almost catches Stormmy. 2v1. Ah, uses the window of nature, but against two. Will he be still able to find a way out? Make it three indeed. And see Kais doesn’t care. taking down one of the best ways to defend for BP. 30 seconds on the death timers. SRG are looking to go for just one wave in the mid lane. They think it’s going to be enough. They’ve shoved up top. No, wait. Yeah, they’re just going to go for the mid lane straight into it. Crown of the curtain call over to Baton. Okay, the curtain call was already used, but it seems like they’re not going to care. And Doru doesn’t land any of his kills and instead SRG gain access to the base. It’s a killing spree for Sika. And after 16 minutes, they finally end the game. That game right there was a perfect way to describe the Salonor Red Giants OG esports play style. They wait to mid. They might be a bit messy, but they make up for it with ridiculous team fighting and mechanics. Can I just say that was weird and familiar at the same time, right? They’re very chaotic because this is the thing about Slango Red Giants, right? Where you know they lose the early game. Yep. They get some items. Something happens and in profit. Yeah. But if in some way, right, VP were able to capitalize a bit more on some of those mistakes, it could have been very dangerous for SRG. That’s that’s Malaysia team, man. I I don’t know what like we’re the most we’re the most entertaining for a reason, right? We we got to have that comeback story. Absolutely. There’s always going to be a comeback story. And this was the moment where they actually took control of the game and a massive spear of destruction from Super Aora. Ridiculous accuracy like we mentioned. Bobber getting a stack too. But yeah, uh VP I think they went back to again this is the problem with the experience gap, right? Inexperience really costed them. They didn’t know what to do after getting the lead. Uh it was very messy and I think more so SRG knew what to do better. Yeah, we were pointing out the entire oh, no one’s able to convert just yet, even though the lead’s already clearly in VP’s hands. And the moment it was SRG who was able to do that first, it just felt like VP started getting lost. I kind of feel like we got to break down the draft as well as the itemization a little bit later because I kind of feel like for SRG OG going up against uh VP is more about them understanding what is going to be the target and they’re definitely targeting the front lines here both Badcot as well as Pluto because again even in the bands a lot of those front liners are taken out and then picking up the CC here we rarely see an exp laner having the highest amount of damage in the game but it makes sense right because percent HP damage There’s a lot. My boy Crime, he was smiling. He was like, “That was that was my game. That was my game.” Because here’s the thing. Even if you’re looking at the items later on, even Stormy using that Juin, there’s a lot of tanky items cuz he understands and Doryu, he knows how to play, so he just got to stay alive and actually lift some people up. Oh, I actually liked um the way Stormmy was able to be very precise on using the Crimson Beacon and all that. It’s either just to really position herself outside of the uh thorned rose or even away from the phantom execution or if not if she knows that he knows MWI if he knows that you’re somehow able to go for the punish and BP have overextended then it’s a very on point decision that we’ve seen from Stormmy a lot of times in this game. It’s just very decisive, right? Again, it comes down to the experience. I think Stormmy MSC champ, all right, experience there already. He’s always been very decisive. Even in the M6 World Championship when a lot of people thought he was declining in form, the one thing that stayed true was his decisiveness. He would be the one to go with Loi and uh just teleport forward and he would just stick to his plan. Yeah, I I got to say it’s just mostly about the setup because it it makes it look like for SRG OG to completely understand who’s the setup and who’s going to be the payoff because Sakai did a lot early to mid, right? But then later on when Creme started to be able to tank some of those damages, then he starts actually shredding everyone else and then Zakai is like, “Okay, now my job is actually just to make sure that the objectives are taken and then if needed, I’m going to be taking out that backline.” Um, that was a very good opening game. Like question marks all around because that was very chaotic. But now we’re actually going to be checking out a video about the defending champions SRG. When you rise, everyone watch your throat. The last MSE is mean a lot to me and my team espe especially when I got FVP I got extra bonus there and it is like life-ch changing there to won that title EWC and MSE and I really grateful and I feel that my career is uh getting better and more promising. After that, after the winning, we reach the semis and then it starts to become very real. It becomes real that we actually have an opportunity at this. This team is clearly uh something else, right? I think most Malaysians were very like emotional seeing that happen. Now that all eyes are on us, the pressure zone, I really prefer to be that horse or underdog. When you feel that you are champion, you are the boss. I will easily flop because of you know get swipe away of that title, you feel like arrogant of kot thing, you feel like you will never lose. So I really prefer to being underdog and like a newbie. Yeah, the crown is no burden. It is a reminder of who we are. Uh we really confident and we uh just trust our ourself try to do what we does last year. At least we can have a good place and been consistent at the international scene. The road is never easy. We have done it before. We’ll do it again. First of all, you didn’t uh I wasn’t emotional. I was actually very stoic. Uh when they wanted, it’s okay. I don’t remember seeing you crying or celebrating or being happy at all. It’s all right. But we got to talk about that video a bit. Even Sakai was saying like I would prefer being the dark horse or the newbie because apparently the pressure is very heavy. Yeah, I mean certainly right after going and winning MSC just later on going to SPS over as well in the M6 world championship on that golden road. It definitely put a lot of pressure of a lot of burden on their shoulders. Yeah, but he did say the crown isn’t or maybe shouldn’t be a burden. So it’s just wear a hat. Just wear a hat. Maybe just wear maybe it should just be an MSE hat. Like maybe crowns are overrated. We’re in 2025. Yeah. What? Virtual hat. Virtuous pro hat. We got to talk about Virtuous Pro because hey, that was that was a good game. That was impressive, right? And and Doryu I actually thought he would actually go deathless. Uhhuh. Yeah. Until we saw just the little habits that he has shown in the wild card, but I thought had already been improved, had already changed. Turns out it’s still the same Andor. does amazing in the early game with his template, but then once it gets a bit more dicey, he goes in for a lot of desperate plays, like very individual solo plays, I think that’s the word. I feel like the entire early game has been such an adore you show that when it came to the latter portions wherein they felt lost, it felt like he had to keep it going and he had to do so much. That’s where we probably didn’t see the coordination. It’s like he got the spotlight early and he wanted the spotlight to stay on him for the entire game, but he needs to know that it comes down to Bobbert and Super Agora to carry them in the later stage of the game. He needs to understand that. And you’re a prime example of what we were talking about the solo play that I would say this this is a very this is a bad mistake. I mean, you saw in that play, you know, you know what people always say, you chase after three chickens. Yeah. All the chickens are going to escape, right? Because just chase one. The moment he hit onto Stormy and he’s like, “Wait, no, I want innocent. Wait, no, I want CRA.” It came to the point where he’s there, but he forgot his purpose. It’s like, “Wait, why was I here again?” Exactly. It’s like that moment when you go to the fridge and be like, “Wait, what? I I come here for what? What did I come here?” So, so that was what happened. So, I kind of feel like for game number two, I feel like Virtuous Pro shouldn’t really feel that bad cuz that was a good game coming in from them. So, in game number two, just tighten them up. just just lock in and they could do it. Yeah, cuz I feel like even for SRG the early it was something we also talked about like before we went into the game. So, um a lot of the uh expectations which were laid out were pretty much met I guess except the part wherein it got like really really messy for both of these teams. But other than that, so long as they figure out how to hold on to that lead and how to be a little more composed together, I guess then things could potentially be different. Yeah. And and here’s the thing. I feel like for those of you that actually check out the wild cards, you see the the journey of Virtuous Pro. But hey, in case of you guys missed it, let’s actually check out the road to MSE for Virtuous Pro. I’m usually very calm during the games in terms of like being nervous. Our main goal is keep making a plan no matter what happens. I think this achievement means a lot since uh it’s our first international experience and yet we already got a win. So I think it also gives a good motivation for the next big tournaments and now we have a feeling that we belong to the main stage. Since we’re coming from the wild card, we can be both disciplined and unpredictable depending on the matchup. I’m the one who joined the this team closer to the end of the regular stage on the MCC tournament. So, we only had 3 weeks to play together and yet we made it to the wild card. I think if we can make it out from the groups, we will have a big confidence since we have to beat one of the ex world champions to make it. So I think if we can make it out we will gain our confidence and we can go higher than top eight but all or nothing want to get out of groups and we even heard earlier where they’re like one of the things that we do is that when a plan doesn’t go well we just think of another one. So now we have to see for this game because I feel like even for all of us in terms of the draft there’s really not that big of a problem. It’s it’s mostly just execution. Yep. Um there were I like I said I said a lot of heroes which I thought would come in later but eventually um came in a bit earlier but still worked. Um the Jin being one of them but um yeah I think the draft went um beyond expectations I say. I’d say like that’s the way I could describe it to be beyond expectations for me. So Fly Solo doing a great job. Uh real solo. Real solo now. Real solo. He’s not fly. He’s real. He’s real. He’s real solo. I wonder if he plans to change that again. But yeah, real solo doing a great job now. Um, so is Arcadia because I feel like the the rhythm they’re picking up now, it’s uh it’s something that kind of catches you off guard. So So Mer, I I got to ask you because SRG OG technically this is how they play, right? So real fans know like, oh yeah, this is just part of the course, but personally for you, do you feel like this is an okay way of playing? Because these are previous champions. They should not make games look close. I don’t agree with that assessment. I feel like again every team should play their own game right now and I think SRG is a great example of a team that understands what their strengths are and plays into it. I’ve been a big criticis I’ve been criticizing a lot of different teams for not playing to their strengths. So seeing a team like SRG who very clearly understands their weaknesses and their strengths and just plays towards their strengths is amazing. That’s the reason they were able to become champions. And now we got to talk again about Virtus Pro because in terms of playing for their strengths, it really does look like uh Andor is amazing. Uh their goal laner is amazing as well. I kind of feel like the moment the lord shows up, right? The moment the Lord shows up, there’s where a lot of chaos happens because I feel one of the big reasons is I would say the the quickness of SRG OG finding out where they are decisive and in thank you very much decisive about what what to do because the moment Innocent got taken down by Andoro they’re like wait two people at bot two main damage dealers at bot and start up the lord and and I feel like that’s the biggest difference here. No hesitation coming in from SRG. Yeah, maybe. Um I think even when it comes to how we see the uh matchups, the laning matchups fare, like it’s it feels as if Innocent is more willing to do everything all at once. Like laning um even dying for objectives, even dying. But Super Agora, I think even the emblem says it safe. He’s just playing it safe. Yeah. And safe doesn’t get you wins against champions. You have to take those risks. need to be ballsy, you know, you can say you got to have that you know, lapel. But this could also just be a case of early game MSE or early stage MSE because a lot of times teams will just be baited into constant fights early on in the tournament. That’s what we we’ve been seeing. It’s so quick. VP got such a big lead, well, not big lead, such a lead in the early on, early on because of the quickness and snappiness of the games and so many brawls happening that they just continued to do that as we got into the later stage when I think they should have slowed things down, especially with a Moscow with so much more side control. Yeah, I kind of feel like as well join joining the fight, which is an amazing tagline by the way, uh it was it was good, but there are moments where where I’m like, you know what, maybe he just should have just stayed inside and you know, anyways, now we’re back in the draft here. VP first pick. SRG OG second pick here. Some changes here. VP betting out that fara as well as the 1-1. And SRG OG this time betting out the box. Yeah. So maybe trying to bait out an early Kimmy pick as well cuz hey, if you if you’re not going to take it, I’m going to take it. Yeah. I’m wondering if um VP though would still try to stick with playing for the uh early game like the way they did earlier because I right now the Yeizun Shin is also still out there but will they be confident enough to let the game last a bit longer and have to fight against SRG in the late game because that’s where again the experience and the decision making might matter a lot. Yeah, that’s the thing though. I think we saw a little bit of that in game number one. I think for VP, it would be better for them to play with their own strengths instead of trying to fight SRG at their own game. So, leave the mid to late. You can have a few uh plan B’s, plan C’s set there, but you want to play for the early game. You want to get it done. And that’s why I think we already are seeing the bands on Juin and W one. They they want to fight early. This is rock paper scissors, right? And it’s all about win condition. Either I hit my win condition or you hit your win condition. So, honestly, I’m I’m agreeing with both of you here. Making sure that if you’re strong in the early game, then hey, try to win more. Cuz hey, I I think like don’t don’t change the strategy. Just win more. If if you lead by 1,000, try to lead by three. As the people in the comment section would just say, why are these teams struggling? Just win, Lau. Yeah, just win, Lau. Just break the crystal. That’s such an accurate way to put it. But, okay. Um, it’s been a while. Parazan not available again. So, we’ll be seeing different mid laners. I mean, today we saw a Lui. I mean, they’re still like like trying to push for this Kimmy, hey, do you want a Kim or do you want a Yen Shin either or we’re going to have a good trade here? And they take away the combo that VP have been using in the wild card with the Zatan. They’re actually the ones that really enjoy going for Yen Shin and Zatan. Even though Yeah, Zatan hasn’t really been having the best of days. This has been a pretty horrible day for just day one. It’s just day one. Legit just two matches going into third. That’s why they came. Oh, Uranus got left open. Dude, I love Uranus. Yeah, when it’s when it’s open, you just pick it. Exactly. Straight into Uranus. Team Uranus. I’m not so sure if Sakai doesn’t seem like that that kind of hero for him to put into the jungle. So, this is probably Creme. Speaking of which, Creme. He has a different level of of a what you call. No, not that one. Different level of confidence. Yeah. Will they go for CC again here? Actually, I hate the CC Uranus matchup. It’s It’s very It’s like you’re nothing against the Uranus. Yeah, you get a few stacks in and then once he comes back to lane, he’s full HP ready to go to go Ka. They want to get some I think you need burst and that’s a struggle now because what what’s a mid laner with burst that’s open? Oh, hey, you know what? Lunox can work. I think just not in the go. I’m sorry. Yeah, but I was very angry earlier. I will say it now as well. I don’t like it. All right. But now SRG, they’re picking up the MOS call. So it’s kind like No, no. Yeah. Not again. Again, but in different hands. Yeah, different. So So now SRG, they got two of the main damage dealers that VP had in the previous game. Now, I’m really looking forward to what SRG is doing because Yumes as a ROR back in MSC last year, he was the game changer, right? He was the game changer. He set things up, but now he seems more like a zoner, you know, something like the Hilda and etc. So, I I I just wonder what’s going to be the plan here. Are they going to push people away or are they going to set things up? But actually, you know what? Stormmy is pretty good. He can set set it up for a team. He’s pretty good. Looks like he won last year. He’s just like a prodigy or something. I mean, pro Diggy. I think he plays Diggy a whole lot. The CC gets banned, which is interesting in my opinion. We just spoke of this. Usually the match up against Uranus is it’s kind of like a non-lane. Uranus just ends up out sustaining your damage even with the curtain call, but this leads me to believe that SRG are going for even more tanky picks, right? So, I believe maybe utility jungle, maybe a possible Gatka could come through as well. Yes, you don’t want to see it on Skies, but sometimes you got to do the dirty work to win games, man. It is. What is it? So, you’re you’re saying there’s a chance this actually is that much of a flex pick still. Yes. What? Uranus in the jungle. Uranus in the jungle. Uranus XP. I kind of feel like Uranus can go anywhere. You know, Wrecked. Wrecked. M1 world champion. He played Uranus Revitaliz in Rome. He lost, but he played it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like that side. Yeah, he lost. It is. What is it? But but he he made it work. Now the final band here. They’re batting out the gate katcha as well as the material. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, we’re waiting. No, no, no, no. Just wait. No, I mean the badang is still there. That’s true. That’s true. You’re not wrong. Else is there. The badang is still there. Although we don’t know the mid laners for VP. Yeah, for VP. Yeah, it is quite tough right now because Oh, they do go for the nice call. There you go. Oh, that’s pick up for SRG. VP need the front line now. They already have two marksman. They want they can’t go triple marksman. Now the Kim is already on the other side. So mid lane’s going to have to be it’s it’s very awkward because usually the go-to is kind of like a Valentina, but at this point there’s not a lot of Yeah. Yeah. No, but wait. E, I think there’s so there’s too much mobility that it depends on how VP decides to play this because they’re already kind of like they’re very front to back cuz I feel like at least don’t lose the lane against Kimmy, you know? But the VP does like to go for unique mid duos. There you go. That’s the Lunox. Hey, it’s not gold lane. Okay, I mean like called it, right? Called it. Esmeralda, too. So, this is the matchup in the XP. It’s a battle of no you sustain and it’s like no you and then we just keep on going for 50 minutes. It it really does feel like two exes going for lunch. It it kind of feels forever. Yeah, it’s just awkward there for a bit too long. Like you pay, I pay, who’s paying? Do we do we run away? Someone just leaves. If we actually break records though and go for a very long game. No, we could. Hey, you are like you and Chantel have this thing where where games just go on for Hayabusa. All right, so it’s not Okay, there you go. Hayabusa. Very interesting. Yeah, the Lunox is actually not bad against that. No, pretty good. Pretty good. And Uranus is the only tank that can get shredded. Yeah, and and I think I saw a matchup. The Uranus will really not like this Lunox. Oh yeah, speaking of which, Chaos and Uranus. Hey, Chaos is the game. for now. Good luck to the both of you. If it does stretch out to be a very very long game, you’re going to help us. I don’t mind. I’m I’m going to say it. I don’t mind making a trio cast. I don’t mind either, Lela. Thank you for that. Now it’s time for us to shine with the teams they have gone for. Again, I would say now it’s a bit different. BP have the unorthodox draft. They have the Lunox. I don’t like it in the gold lane. In the mid lane, especially in this comp, it’s all right. You know, it’s still here. Well, let’s get straight into Atlanta dawn to see if it’s going to be a clean sweep for the defending MSEXWC champions or will it be VP taking it to game three. Yep. At least we don’t feel that iffy about the uh chemistry between their ROR and mid lane because sometimes you see the KAS and then they pick up a mid laner which doesn’t necessarily supplement like the burst damage or what. Wait, what? I thought this was supposed to be a very awkward battle. Turns out Batpot just Okay, we’d love to see what actually happened. Did he take a couple turret hits? Yeah, cuz there should be no other way, right? Am I mistaken? Did is Esmeralda did she just get like a crazy buff? Have the time changed? Well, one zero. That’s how we started the game again. This is looking pretty SRG, you know. one zero down and then they go back and um find a crazy team fight to turn things around in the mid game. Okay. Still on track. Still on track. Yeah. Yeah. For the uh typical and signature SRG play that we’re used to seeing. But it seems like Badcott is still going for it. Oh, he’s dominating this lane. For some reason, there’s actually a lot of action happening in the Esmeralda Uranus lane. I guess Esmeralda is good in Uranus against Uranus and Doru on the Een Shin. Now Pluto as well. They’re just doing a good job at screening. I think Hume has been able to like he’s been trying so hard to just screen to get vision on on Endor, but Pluto is just not having it. Tenacity and the firmness, a whole lot of tankiness cuz he needs to compensate for the support emblem. Tank emblem on the other side compensating for no support emblem with the pull yourself together and the agility right there. And it is the common bargain hunter. I guess lethal ignition is kind of interesting. Bad got ganked. Okay, that’s four members trying to take him down, but somehow with the sustain, he still survives. But Cra gets last hit, however. And now Bober using the chaos assault and the flicker will try to take down CRA and successfully will. And Doryu were to dash away because of just how good SRG is trying to control the turtle pit, but they get back and they’re still going for it. Andor is picking a fight. Use might just be taken down, but that’s the light ultimate already committed by Bober. It’s just such a back and forth between these two teams in that objective just like in game one. But SRG want to keep going. Creme walking up to zone them away. Yom will be able to recall and SRG, they got to respect VP, dude. Yeah, they were able to, you know, out out team fight them in the previous game. Bober, uh, this is such a nightmare for a Uranus. Bobber seems to have his eyes set on taking or making things very difficult for CRA. doesn’t like Uranus. SRG again just you got to respect it, right? VP, especially in the early phases of the game here, they’re going to have more of a say when it comes to longer team fights. SRG with the Hayabusa, you’re kind of you need to get the burst down early and go for the execution. If you don’t get a big kill with a shadow kill, it’s kind of already cooked. You just have to back away, especially when you’re up against someone with constant passive crits in the Yen Shin. Yep. I’m liking how they’re really watching out for that Yon Shin, though. Oh, tsunami slam onto Y and they have enough damage to actually burst him down. And Ber still going for the damage. Takes down Stormy too. Sikai’s trying to trade, but that’s remembered and still BP actually wins that fight. Super Aora, the nitpick, the criticism was you’re a bit too safe in game one. He says it’s all right. I’ll just pick a safer pick. I don’t have to take risks. I’ll just shoot from the back and get some crazy kills. SRG on the back foot, but this time not in their comfort zone. This is a 2,000 gold lead for VP. And you can see again, it’s not just about the initial fight for SRG. Even in the initial fight, as long as Pluto gets the pick, it’s crazy. He’s answered the question that Yums proposed to him. Who’s Pluto? The guy that just got the tsunami slam on you. Oh man. And Pluto feels so confident in all of those setups because of Bober. Bober. He’s just able to provide the right amount of damage and even a little bit more even when the chaos assault is over. But traction pulse committed onto Bober. Almost half HP. And Doryu though, will he freely secure this turtle even with the presence of SRG? He does. Sikis actually uses the retribution there, but he doesn’t get it. And Doryu is just farming aura at that point. Skies with the red tree. Skies with the move. Cran trying to open up. And Doryu just says, “Eat this arrow turtle. and takes it. Versus Pro holding the lead again. Yum. Tsunami slam. Uh, there you go again. Yum is always the target, but will sai actually try to take them on this time. Splits the damage for two, but is enough to take out Pluto. So, it’s a one for one. It’s just the rors which were taken down, but Superora got a whole lot of space in the bottom lane. Now, it’s a turret for free to VP as Crown tries to cut in these lanes to relieve pressure off the rest of the map. But VP are just constantly rotating. This definitely does seem like the early game we’ve been seeing a whole lot from VP in the wild card. And uh-oh, Cra’s trying to cut, but VP are the ones cutting SRG’s CRA’s movement. And Doryu, Mountain Shocker, he had to pass under that turret. And that might have been bad for him once again in the mid lane as well. There’s action as they take Stormy out. Stormy and Cra. This is This is already a 4k gold lead for VP. Stormy had purify for Star Moon. Sky can’t even walk in his own jungle. Adoru. Okay, that was close. That was close. Oh, she has been slain. A risky move that does not pay off. It was already a 4,000 gold lead now. And Dory is going to have a whole lot more to say. Two levels ahead. That’s another tsunami slam. Uses the flicker, but it was well worth it. Mid tier one falls for SRG and now they gain access to the purple buffs to SRG’s farm and that’s what you don’t want to happen as Kaiis those were such risky decisions we’ve seen from SRG so far and innocent taking one or taking two members trying to at least but he cannot do that I was just about to say Brigetta that SRG are just going to have to fall back to plan C, which is play for Innocent. But he gets caught off staying a bit too long up top, punished by Vertus Pro. And now what is plan B? What’s plan C? I I don’t know. It’s 11-3. 6,000 gold lead for Vertus Pro. You can see the SNB gold difference. Oh no, Cra again trying to cut. How confident is Andoru now taking on the Uranus and with just the help of a single bullet from Super Agora able to take down the tankiest member in SRG already. This is not looking too good for the Red Giants. You put the perspective in the right place. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that guy right there who just got shredded down by a Yizen Shin is the tankiest member on the team. Bulber is going to now shred through everyone, not just crap. Traction pulse over the mountain shocker for vision. Would love to see the items right now. Innocent has picked up the golden staff. That’s an oracle. There you go. Punish strike. All right, there’s an attempt here with the quad shadow, but it won’t really work out. That’s Oh man, look at the gold lead for Oh, wait. That was so close. He already had the sky piercer. What if it actually landed? But then this one lands. The tsunami slam and the follow up from Bober. Yums is eliminated and they gain access to the inhibitor turret. Holy shields already popped in as early as 8 minutes in this game. Unbelievable showing from BP. That sound like a reaction. Holy shield. BP continuing this relentless assault into the base of SRG. Mountain Shocker there with the falling star move too. They really tried to read Storm’s move. Crab hitting them down. Oh yeah surprises them from behind but still Kaiis burst it down. CR forced to flicker just to make it out alive. And Yumes, it’s a double kill for Supergora. Now they have to defend all over again. We take it back. I’m sorry I do not need to risk it all to win against champions. Maybe you just need a better hero like one that suits you. Play in the back. Shooty shoot Mcshoot. And SRG goes down. Now it’s a lure that will go down as well. And Verus Pro, they’re on route to securing game two. Oh, and SRG. Oh, what a crab. Okay, there were at least some waves managed. That’s the thing. SRG with the Moscow, with the Urus are somehow able to deal with the sides. But that was a sacrifice there by Crown. He or at least Innocent had to go down. But since he was closest to the objective, then know what’s going to happen. At this point, break, I’m just thinking of ways that SRG can actually turn things around. It’s very very difficult. I don’t want to say impossible, but it’s very difficult. Yum has to get like a fiveman, fiveman fist crack. I I That’s so hard. I just got that. A little bird told me. Wind of nature already too. So even if they do get a pick, like they go for a big stun, great initiation. There’s ways you got to understand the yellow from Bober now. Shadow kill. There you go. That’s an attack. Oh, that’s a lot of damage. But look at that tsunami left. Tidal strike combination just denying the last hit. That potential kill onto Andoru now making it 4v5. Bird goes in, uses the KO’s assault, but all they want is the inhibitor turret in mid. Pluto gets taken out with the falling coming in from back goes in into the base. That was Edgory picking up the scraps. Mega kill. One last shot to get another. Innocent trying to save the game. And he falls to the bullets of Super Egga. We’ve got a series in our hands. Game three for BP versus SRG. Oh my goodness. Wow. Wow. We Holy shield. That was an amazing game, dude. Dude, I here’s the thing. There’s so many questions, right? So many questions that I don’t even want to ask right now. Like maybe when everyone has has left then maybe I can ask, you know, but still that was that was a game. No, no, we’re looking at the replay. Can I just say can I just say Pluto man? Pluto. I love when Khalia players have no hesitation. And as a Kalia player, you will have no hesitation if your mid does does damage. He had and the mid does damage. Bulber had such a great start. He got a nuke in that ult when he got the Bober. Bobery. Bobery. That’s that’s what he did. He was Bober. Hey, this game was all fine and dandy until Bober said, “It’s Boberin time and Bober all over the place.” He when he got the uh genius wand, things were just a lot more difficult for SRG to manage. I feel like it was already difficult when level one Oh, yeah. That already died. Yeah. What happened there? I would love to see a replay of I honestly I have no idea. Like the only thing that I can think of is just that he tried to cut the wave and then just freeh and and he’s just like no way this guy’s going to kill me, right? Yeah. No way, right? And be like, “Holy Holy shit.” But really though, like was he actually under the turret that early? I mean I I don’t There’s no way there’s a turret shot, right? There’s no way. So it could Did Bad Cut level skill two up first? Was that how he dealt enough damage shoot then? But maybe like that might be Yeah, cuz the damage comes from skill too. It could happen. Yeah. Yeah. And his name is Bad Caught. He’s a bad boy. Hey, and he’s caught. Caught that. I don’t know. But hey, we got the bad part. Caught. He was caught. He caught. Yes, exactly. But wasn’t he the one who like caught them or craa like Super Gorka like you say? Shooty shooty mc shoot man just stay just stay in the man just stay in the back and then deal some free damage and then and then get 904. Yeah, he’s got uh although I I do have to say like probably not the MVP but Pluto. I feel like because of him no one from SRG could do anything. Even even Sky made a desperate play. Maybe just one more shurik, maybe just one more basic attack and he can get something and then Pluto is just like let me shoot you to Mars and then back on Earth. I mean Pluto. Yeah, Mars. Pluto. I got to say, yeah, I agree with you. I think Pluto is definitely the MVP here coming into this matchup. Just knowing, dude, the targeting was so so good every single time as well, just playing around Bober. Or was it Bober who just played around Pluto? Anyways, coordination was there, synchronization was on par to beat SRG in game number two here. Yeah, and things were so much easier when there was no one in SRG who could actually deal with bad cut because looking at it now, they at least just have the glowing wand to deal with the sustain that’s coming. I I mean, even for Pluto, right, there’s some defense that you have. There’s there’s sustain you have to deal with. And I I mean, this is a fleeting time pickup also from Pluto. So now I understand why there were endless tsunami slams going on. Talk about the Oracle. Yeah, I was about to bring it up like why Oracle? Yeah, because you increase your shield, but Esmeralda kind of likes. Yeah. No, honestly, there is a lot, but I like that my my simple analysis was correct. Okay. Which is just do what you did, just win more, right? Just break the crystal amount. Instead of instead of winning by 1,000, try three and then four. Oh, they did that. Yeah. Right. Right. So, hey, sometimes the simplest things is the most correct one. Now we’re looking at the star players here. Super Goka, rich guy to carry. Bad caught. Wow. The exp laner. Wow, that’s impressive. Damage dealt per minute. Per minute on the Esmeralda, dude. Yeah. Again, he was just going through all these shields, right? You you said the Bang got a bit more shielding with Oracle. Lunch time by bad cop. Pluto as well. Best wingman. I had a point to bring up earlier. Oh, yeah. So, just look at the tanks. Enchanted talisman first item. He had to go for that. And uh dreadnot armor, right? So again, he just gave Bob so much free room and gave Pluto so much free room to target whoever. Usually you don’t want to target the VDong. You don’t want to target the Uranus, but at this game, anyone’s fine. Legit, it’ll be Lud’s going, “Hey, go for it.” Pluto’s like, “Which one?” Yes. Yeah. Any I I kind of feel like this draft is virtuous pro. This is them, which is do you want to fight? Yes. When? Yes. Just a whole lot of Yes. Right. is at any point of the game if they want to start a fight they can. And the best thing about them that not all of the teams do is that they can finish that fight. Yeah, cuz some teams they started but they can’t finish it on their PO. Look at this. So beautiful. Maybe they shouldn’t be fearing the team fights too much because based on what or how they played this, so long as they’re the ones able to start things off, then it seems like they they can actually focus on the team fighting up against SRG, especially if they always find them in this kind of position because admittedly we did feel that in game number one VP did feel a little too cautious about what they were trying to do, But when it’s like this, it’s an entirely different version. And yeah, even SRG couldn’t handle it. I mean, something I tell my dad all the time, throw caution in the air. He doesn’t understand why I say that, but I just like saying that. Okay. And and we heard the the war cry coming in from the players here. VP is feeling good. SRG OG feeling, eh, you know, and here’s the thing. Here’s the thing. Between both teams, I would say Virtuous Bro has less pressure here because now they have the momentum. Exactly. And if they win, that’s huge. They’re a wild card team from a nonMPL region up against the defending MSE champions who have dominated Malaysia for three seasons back to back to back. So, you could definitely tell who the pressure is on right now. Yeah, I mean, they did Pluto did say it that if they ever get through the group stage, that’ll mean so much for them cuz that means they’d have to at least deal with some of the biggest threats. And if they do that in as early as their first match, then that’s a massive statement which will put SRG in danger of defending their crown because they only have a single life remaining moving forward. I don’t like day one, we already have to shift our uh tier rankings. Happens a lot. Apparently day one is just like, oh wait, give me a sec. Give me a sec. You go here, you go down here, you know, just going to give you new coordinates for you to go to. But now this is match point. BP wins this one. Mhm. It’s going to be the biggest upset for today. I got to say Anik just now even we were nervous after game number one, but I feel like this is nervous. Nervouser, especially for you, you know, as No, I’m nonchalant. No. Okay. I’m nonchalant. He’s not. I’ll just pretend I didn’t see him reacting. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The entire game. like uh oh that was that was me the entire game that’s accurate you know um yeah but anyways now what do SRG do right because we already brought this topic up play better there you go see sometimes the simplest thing just play better just play better maybe don’t die level one okay crazy ID crazy crazy you want to shout it out to cram I don’t think I don’t know if you can they’re just behind it so you know I technically we can, but don’t don’t cuz like the the exact same problems we said for VP showed up in SRG for this game. Like they felt less coordinated. They had questionable timings when it comes to their entries. So maybe it’s really just the simple things that they need to consider now. You know, like I think for me it comes down to the draft again, right? It it comes down to like what were they planning for? They ban out the CC, which leads me to believe at least that they were going for utility jungle, that they were going for a bit more tankiness in the team. They picked out the Medang. So, I was like, “All right, they’re going for a Fred here maybe.” And then they end up going Hayabusa, which means Yeah. So, the setup earlier and the first three picks just doesn’t really connect with the last two in the end. Yeah, it doesn’t match. Uh I mean they they they do tend to become a little surprising in the draft but not this kind which giants but even like they even they themselves don’t know how to pull it off. So speaking of which in case you guys don’t know it’s only 20 diamonds to purchase the MSE support chest. So make sure you guys do that now because we’re going to be jumping into the game and by that point you guys might forget. So do it now. Now now. Come back in 30 seconds when we’re uh up and rolling. So now we’ll wait. It’s okay. You can but we won’t wait that long. So now we got we got to talk about this, right? I mean like yes, play better because in my eyes the only way that you lose that one v one is if you disrespect them, right? Yeah. Because I don’t think he would do that in say against MPL regions where he’s like, “Okay, I’m definitely going to be punished. So I’m just going to be playing it a little bit safer.” The moment I see this is a bad trade, I’m not going to go in because the thing about people actually going is that they want to get level two very fast cuz most of the exp laners, they need level two for a dash. Yeah. So, I kind of feel like that’s the thing where the Esmeralda understood that he had no way to leave. He can just and then that’s it, right? So, kill him while he can just do that and can’t be like that, you know? So, I get it. Mhm. Take him down level one cuz at level two you’re toast or you’re Esmeralda. See, how do you do that? Uh just with the delay in the jungle, it actually creates another it creates a safety net for a lot of the laners in the mid lane and the gold lane and XP lane. It’s tougher to gank early on. You don’t want to go level two right off of purple buff or right after first buff into a gank cuz that would cost you a lot especially up against very fast clearing jungles on the other side. Yeah, I’m trying to recall what battle spell did um Cra have. Purify flicker. Flicker. Flicker. Flicker. Craig. Yeah, stormy purify him. That’s true. He had flicker. That’s a That’s a good take. That’s a movement. No, it’s not going to they’re focusing. Maybe Maybe we’ll ask Eterna to ask him. Oh, yeah. Maybe. But that’s Does Eterna do the winner? So you he has to win. He has to win. He will win. I don’t think you want to say that, bro. Oh, that’s right. That’s right. That’s right. That’s right. That’s right. That’s right. You want to reiterate? Okay, let me reiterate. I love cookies. There you go. I love cookies. I love cookies. We all love cookies. Do you love cookie? Yeah, she doesn’t. I do. I do. I do. But I was Hey, bring him in. Bring him in here. Bring him in. I will. That’s for over. So, that’s how it feels like to not get high-fived. Oh, why do you feel Why do you say that? Like you’ve never Oh, maybe it’s just different. Everyone wants to high five when it comes to us. Yeah. Sometimes we just say things too crazy. Like they high five us, but we didn’t receive it with our hand. Get it? It’s the face. The face. They high five the face. No, no, no. High five to the face. But now SRG first pick. VP second pick. Betting out the one one again. And this time VP is like, “Yo, my was snashy, so don’t give it to them.” Yeah. So this is back to game number one. And again, if we just if you want to recall game number one, SRG were the ones to actually win it out in the draft. Win it out in the game as well. VP were struggling with that draft. I’m not trying to say that the draft was bad for VP. It was just it’s not their style clearly after seeing game number two. Yeah, I kind of feel like they just have to be careful of really that that Kalia Lunas combo, right? Like the insta kill even maybe consider picking up the Kalia early. I I was waiting to see Yumes actually pick up that kind of ROR. Yeah, because in game number one he was in game number two it was Badang but not the kind Yeah, it was Hilda. Game number two it was the Badang but it didn’t feel like the Badang who wanted to go for setups first. It was the uh reactive or he was forced to be the reactive kind of Badang. So hopefully they actually go for that since I believe even in game number one there have been a couple of cho bands here and there respecting the pickoff capabilities of SRG. Mhm. Fobious and Wan, they’re sticking to the script again. I mean, game number one, this is exactly what they went for, but VP, I believe, have gone for a few changes. Not the eastern Shinban, but the Uranus. So, they’re taking that away. Maybe they’re like, there’s no way you can do that again, right? Yeah, there’s no way we get solo kill level one. The juice in will be another change here for VP. The first pick of game number one for SRG. And now it will force SRG to change. I don’t mind Kalia first pick here cuz Fora’s problem. Yes, Kim is a problem. Yes. Okay. If it’s not Kia, I would I would actually prefer more damage. I would actually prefer the Farsa here. Legit, I prefer the Farsa like for SRG OG style. You know, first two matches, we saw Bakshia, I think 100% contention rate just in bands. Match number three, we are seeing no Boxia so far. It’s been ignored completely in the drafting phase. It was banned last game, I think. Yeah. Yeah, it was it was SRG. OG banned it. Game one and game three. Then it’s been Kala first pick comes in for SRG adapting to BP’s Kala pick in game two and VP should consider just sticking the boxer if you don’t want to deal with it because Crime has used the box and the exp looks pretty good. Yeah, honestly any anything they pair considering that they already have the Kala okay I would consider taking away that fireside cuz Kalia fireside is pretty good too. Yeah, we got news, by the way, that Badcott’s first blood in game two was 36 seconds. That makes it the fastest first blood in the group stage. Okay, might be ever. Might be ever. Might be ever. 36 seconds. Oh, so that’s a Zen and a Gatka this early. We’ve just had, you know, a couple of doubters, including me, myself, about the Zatan and it just not picking up wins on day one so far in the first three matches. But this is bobber. This is bobber. He’s going to be bobbering. Yeah. all over bobbering the entire map literally with all and I’m liking the pairing with the gate cuz like you can go fury of the phoenix and then there’s an immediate AOG so you can like layer all of your skills together and let your damage dealers do their thing. Lancelot please or box with this Farsa and SRG has a good draft. Yeah, there you go. Great pick. Uh great call from Lfell there. Farsa and Lancelot. This looks to be a very very good composition for SRG here. Going back to the classics to the meta, right? Not really going for the unorthodox picks that they went for in game one as VP now are in a tough spot. Do they want to go Granger? It has been great for Super Agora. They can still play pure front to back or do they go jungler? If only this wasn’t the Lancelot, the Kimmy would have sounded great because they have so many combinations. But then even the fara will make things so much difficult for that. So sometimes you got to be brave. be like Farush Marsha. If I want Granger, I pick up Granger, right? If they ban out the Iritel, then we might be seeing a a Granger later on. Just a heads up, maybe a good idea as well is respect the CC. Like, it may not be picked up, but just in case, you know, I mean, now they haven’t revealed or could they actually consider it for themselves though? Like, okay. Does Badcott want to go for that or for a XP laner that can actually die? We haven’t seen the likes of a Lapu yet so far. Yeah, it’s banned. That’s why it’s banned. Yeah, for VP themselves. Okay. But yeah, I kind of feel like I still prefer the Gata being in Rome. And I feel like Badcot just wants a winning matchup against CRA. Might be the other reason why CRA’s hero hasn’t been picked up just yet. N Yeah, SRG, they know even from game number one, right? When Cram is in win a match up, it’s it’s pretty good. You know, the guy gets going and uh VP now they definitely want to shut that down. But what is next on the chopping block? Do they just go for a gold lane ban now? I mean, the Moscow is already taken away by SRG. VP they ban. Okay, they end up going for CC. I was about to say if they ban out, we’re going to see a Granger on the other side banned out too. And then we’ll see new faces in the gold lane, but with the CC ban, I don’t know. Game one, they banned out the Hierof. I don’t know if they want to repeat that or not. I don’t think so. Um, there’s a they have a fara to deal with it and there’s no joy. I think the main reason was because they had joy as well. Oh, what if VP actually go Harris, which against the force and lance but sometimes you got to be brave. Yeah, you got to be brave. But that’s what I always say to my mom. Okay. So, your dad is caution. Throw caution away. Throw caution away. Your mom and then I tell my mom sometimes you got to be brave. Sometimes you got to be brave. It’s a good parent dual combo right there. Okay. All right. Interesting. There’s a Bruno. Yeah, Bruno is pretty safe. Granger still up for grabs. Ill. I think honestly the safest choice would still just be the Granger. You have so many dashes, too, to get away from the thorns and skill shots of the Lancelot. Yeah, the far soul will be a bit of a problem, but that’s why you have a high. That’s why you’ve picked it up, right? You just want to get a Oh, I forgot about the Hilda. Yeah, that’s a great pick. Lance and Farsa BP. Well played. That’s great. Now they set up for a winning match up in gold. Yeah. Yeah. And no CC. Yeah. This is going to be a much freer game for the Hilda. Not yet. We’ll see. Maybe they have an answer. Maybe. What could be the answer? What could be the answer? So many XPs banned. Dude, there’s still the Esmeralda. The Edith. Edith. I lost. They’re going to go glue. Glue. Okay. Respect. Respect. First time in MSC. By the way, the Harth gets picked up for SRG. Now VP, they can go Granger. I feel Granger. Yeah, Granger is good against Harif. They could also go for claw or carry. Yeah, cuz there’s a glue. You might want to distance yourself really or find a way to deal with it. You can dive with the team to the fara. So I think there are still a couple of options open. Safe choice is obviously Granger. Mhm. Granger. So now roughly around 20 seconds left for now. SRG OG. I kind of feel like they got a very meta draft. So very different from game one and game two where it looks like they have a centralized game plan. Now it’s just like, okay, we know what picks are good and they were just going to go for it. And now they pick up the Bruno. So again, maybe they just want a little bit more range, safety, safety, and if we really want to get get into it, shred some armor, making it easier for the Hayabusa to actually go in and actually execute the the entire team. So this is a very interesting draft. I would say game one, game two, there’s a lot of mix up there, but game three, I kind of feel like this is the most standard that we’re going to see all throughout MSC. So now this is going to be the final matchup of SRG OG going up against Virtuous Pro where Haton that we got here. You know, a young man from the Philippines is watching here. So shout outs to him. Hey, shout outs Mr. Dan. And I’m going to be throwing it over to you guys. Thank you so much, Lfell. We are going to get ready here ladies and gentlemen for the final game of this series. Vertus Pro have fought tooth and nail to bring it to a game three and it comes down to the land of Don. Natan is flying in the air to bring us into it here for our final game of the series. Here we go. SRG versus VP. I’m liking how both of these teams have adopted so far in this series. the way that we’re seeing VP finally go for that really team fight comp as well. I mean, even just looking at the Bruno, it does feel like this is the type of play from Super Igora that’s really going to go for the fights against SRG. So, we see what the plan is going to be this time around. Is the early game still going to pan out the exact same way so far? because Pluto was already forced to use that revitalize. Great pressure coming in from Cram. So far in this game compared to game number two. Yeah, good stuff. Emblem builds here. The bargain hunter for the Harth. So far everything looks pretty normal. Well, I guess there’s a difference. Oh, good take by Innocent. There’s a difference in the KA right for um Pluto. He likes to go for the P yourself together and the agility. This is a tankier take with the firmness over the um agility on the other side. Master Assassin for Super Agora really trying to win out this matchup. So, this is adding to what we just mentioned about Vertus Pro changing things up, adapting to what they think or what seems to be one of the best ways to deal with SRG OG and their play style so far in this game. And it seems like the action in the mid lane is still on. Will Pluto actually go for the unbreakable though? Might not for now. So they just resume the farming and play it very cautiously in the first few minutes of the game. The first objective might be the actual fight. Yeah, it’s just a battle of pryo at this point of the game, right? Uh for both teams. That’s why SRG have been sending even Skies to come in mid to clear it out. Stormy’s level four, so first move by SRG on Turtle One. Oh, there’s the grab. Grab and Pluto. Will he still be able to commit the AOG? It’s a no. And Sikai secures the objective as well as first blood. Bad got forced to flicker away and that does not allow for Andoru to at least get close to contest and now they transition into denying the orange buff. It’s all about speed. SRG saw what Vertus Pro were able to do in gamer 2 with that speed with that pace. Tsunami slam bringing Pluto back for the second time around. Are they actually going for Pluto? That’s his second death in this game. Bad trying to take out Sakai, but it’s Bob who gets to do it instead. But still Badcot, he also falls. Two deaths on Pluto, one death on Badcot. Overall, it should still be worth it for SRG here, especially if they deny this trade in the jungle. Innocence is walking up. Yums, too. Oh, and Doryu gets the retry down. So, at least he finds a bit of value with Sky falling, but it’s really not too much considering again SRG got two kills on Mr. Sky Prince. Yep, the numbers are clearly in favor of SRG right now. They’ve also established a 1k gold lead so far, which I feel like is a really good situation, especially if you’re Innocent, which is speaking of innocent, look at him right now being very confident using the Zammon force just to force Super Agora to go back under his turret. So, this is SRG. Yeah, this is the team. This is the experience showing up in terms of holding on to the lead or actually trying to make it grow. This is why personally I wouldn’t think of the Bruno against the Harth. Like you’re not really a big bully in level one to three against the Harth. And once Har gets level four into a book and uh just a book, you get the ultimate dashes, unlimited dashes on the chrono dash with the zaman for zooms. Oh, that’s such a quick rotation from Stormy as well as Yumes. A very decisive flicker and tidal strike as well. But the counter engage takes down Y but the zammon force the cool down is already gone. Now they actually try to go for Pluto, but Anoru makes it just in time. Will he be able to cast the Yogi shadow kill though? He will. And Stormy gets traded down, but the F of execution. Oh my goodness. Saiis, he got on Doryu. Very unfortunate. They split apart. It was a good flicker from Stormy to bring in to disperse the damage, but then they just dispersed again. And now Turtle 2. They don’t have the jungler. They don’t have their jungler. And still Sikai clearly will have the the upper hand, the advantage in securing that objective. The pressure just it’s always in VP’s side of the map. They’re not letting go, especially with Crab who’s also able to rotate down bottom this early on. So, they’re clearly trying to go for the objectives, but at least for VP, it’s a commendable way that they’re able to deal and defend their turrets for now. Super solid from SRG. That pace that they’ve been playing with. They literally just again adapted to VP style. In game number two, VP were the ones constantly fighting, constantly getting the early setups onto neutral objectives. This time it’s SRG. They’re first into the fights. They’re first into neutral objectives as well. And everyone wants smoke. Even Innocent in the bottom lane, constantly going for 1 v ones, feeling confident. And Doru brought back. Uh there’s no way out if you’re Andoru. And I think the way we’re seeing SRG play this so far is that they’re not following a certain um system. They don’t follow a certain sequence when it comes to forcing the fights. Anyone can actually start the fight if they wanted to. It can either be innocent if he’s confident enough to use the Zammon force or even the air strike. But hold on. Speaking of innocent, he might put himself in a dangerous position. Bad still catches up, but there’s a flicker and the zammon force to keep him alive. Stormmy catches up too, which makes Vertus Pro a little hesitant. There’s too much members or too many members from SRG who caught up in that moment. Mhm. And SRG get the wave up top. They get a turret, too. They have some more capitalization over BP who’ve just been reacting to the plays of SRG without much to say in the macro game. They’re not able to trade for much here. It was a flicker. I guess it was pretty good, right? because you got a flicker and now next fight you should be able to punish innocent if you catch him. But it’s an if. SRG got an absolute. They got a structure down that will be down forever. SNB gold difference here 1,200 gold lead for Skies. The last two games he’s been, I would say, struggling, right? Level one, sorry, game one as well, losing out to farm against Endor. And game two, we know what happened. So great to see Skies finally in the lead. I mean for VP I guess they don’t really have a choice but to wait for their timings to wait for super Iorca but now they might actually try to contest for this objective. AOG already committed actually knocks up a couple members from SRG but they immediately take down Stormy but Ludo gets punished as well. Yubes tries to escape but he will not succeed. Look at the damage coming in from Superorn and Babco who decides to dive under the toilet just to get that kill allowing Su are allowing Andoru to finally get a turtle for his team. Pluto last ditch effort most of the times. You see it got the catcha AoG back. He was mounted. He was bound to die and he decided to AoG forward. He even caught Stormy offguard. He popped in the feather air strike thinking that the AOG will be defensive or thinking that would at least be like a slam slam forward to cancel out the AoG. Miscom by SRG. Great punish by BP. The team fight capabilities right now. And yeah, the flicker wasn’t used. Not by Stormy. Yeah, but the team fight capabilities of VP, they’re becoming scary at this point. They’ve already somehow caught up. There’s still a 1k gold lead for SRG, but this could have been way bigger if only they’re able to keep the momentum in their hands. And as you’ve mentioned, even the leads between their junglers, somehow someway, they’re slowly catching up. 1,500 gold lead. That big lead that SRG have built up in the early stage of the game towards this point is gone. And VP looking to see the confidence in Endor. A sky piercer for the Hayabusa. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t remember seeing this even in the wild card. Oh man, another pick. Super. Agora gets it. 2022 and it was CRA who got caught. There was a different intention I feel for SRG. They had plans to do something up top, but majority of the members of VP, they were they weren’t there. They were in the mid lane. They were in the bottom lane. And Pluto droning out Sikai and gets to AoG out of it. So they did so much to zone, but luckily SRG they get to hold out that tier two. The lead is completely gone and Doryo is still stolen away the purple buff. Skies is still a level ahead. And that could be an angle that SRG decide to use to contest for the neutral objective here. Lord spawning in the game at the 9th minute mark as Endor constantly farms up trying to get even in level up against Skies. But VP know they’ve got a winning angle here. They have to play for Super Agora yet again on a safe pick that’s just previously shooty shoot. This is balling away cramp. Oh, but is crammed though. Oh, they find Sikai. Ah, they go for the tsunami slap onto Bob. What a beautiful target for SRG. OG and also using the Zaman for might just be able to get another kill, but the AOG immutes him for a while, but not for long. Okie shadow kill also committed as well by Andoro and that might not be enough anymore for Vertus Pro to keep going with this fight. Super Agora chased by four and Doryu tries to go in but he doesn’t have the OGI shadow kill anymore but still finds Stormy tries to get away but it won’t be enough. That’s still four members of SRG OG. The recovery from the Salangor Red Giants OG Esports now straight to the lower 10 minutes in 2,000 gold lead back. So they’re back where they left off. Not completely, but they’re on the way there versus Pro. Boowbert way too aggressive standing up front not respecting the concealed potential of Yums and he got caught. He got caught hard. Everyone wasn’t really able to recover from that position. Everybody was just throwing in skills. Even Endor, he walked up with the quad shadow, got the shadow kill in, but he was stunned right as he went for the quad shadow. So it ended up being a very awkward shadow kill that got I think most of the damage was actually on the Lord. So very unfortunate for VP for SRG. Back to plan A. They go in with the snowball utilizing the lord. 4,600. There you go. That’s where they left off. VP need to be a little more careful about when or where they position themselves, especially for heroes like Bulber because she he wasn’t able to even use the fury of the phoenix anymore to scout the other members of SRG. OG, but with that single combo and the Feder strike, he gets deleted on the Hayabusa. Even with the quad shadows, there’s no way out. And the holy shields once again they are already down but this is the punish from VP. They find innocent sikai though still a massive threat. So they focus on taking down the lord for now. But sika he just won’t stop. He will have to stop though now with the holy defense already taking down the tur the lord. Verus pro. What a crazy engage yet again by Pluto. He saw an angle for innocent went for the taod. Got the AOG. Now the air strike used up. Pluto holding the line down. Oh, bad cod was only trying to zone to get some space, but he cannot do it alone anymore. Will Andor tried to go for it again this time. Oh, he shadow kill, but it splits between three members. Sikai also looking for another kill. Fortunately, there’s a flicker for Bob and now they disengage, but not for Endor. He still might want to go for it because the fury of the Phoenix is committed. with the eye frames. The thor rose. That was a close call for And now Stormy fights Super Eigora. That’s why you want Stormy on a carry pick. A flicker forward to punish an overextending purify Super Egga. Great moves by SRG. And yes, the reaction time locked in completely. Even though Skies was far away from what could have been a threat, he was locked in. He knew that was coming. went for the throne rose, dodged away from in. And now without Super Agora, they’re sieging in the base yet again for a base turret and they’ll be happy with that. They got to keep discipline. They know that VP have many ways to still turn things around despite the 7,000 gold lead. So they have to take it slow. The third air strike is such a problem at this point for VP. I mean, they have the Hayabusa, but now that Storm is always protected by the other members of SRG or at least beside another member of SRG makes things so hard for Andoru to find the right pickoff. And I feel like that’s one of the biggest things that they have to figure out now that they’re forced to defend for majority of the game. How do they actually find that one single pick off if SRG are just always grouped up and their tankiest frontliners? They can’t find a way to deal with it just yet. I mean, Super Agora, I feel like he already has the malefic gun. Yeah. So, somehow there’s a little bit more of range to it. But if you’re forced to disengage just from joining the fights for a while, then how could you maximize the passive of the Bruno at this point? Skies walks up. We’re also reaching a point where Badcott’s really struggling to stay relevant. Pluto walks up. Ah, Yunen in from behind knocks up too. And without even the zon force, just the thorn rose already eliminates Stormy and Bober. Pluto trying to walk back to the base, but Badcaugh and Doru. What can they do if their paths are being blocked like this? Still has the quad shadow, so will find a way to go back, but they’re not letting up. They’re chasing after him. They won’t let him go back to the base. They want to end the game right here, right now. No upset, at least not here, is what they’re saying. Skies walks up the punctures. The on force over SRG bad trying to deal with the waves, but there’s still a single cart minion left. And that is it for Verus Pro. A great showing, but the series it falls into the hands of SRG OG. The war cries over from Salango, Red Giants, OG Esports. Right as they won, it was a bunch of hey, walking over. Hey, they were face to face. That’s a lot of heat. Hey, that’s why I miss having this kind of setup where the players are so close to each other and and you you know why it works here, Mo. Why? Cuz they both both teams can talk and they don’t understand each other. So that’s why it works. And and and once it’s done, take off the heads up like, “Hey, hey, game two. That was a fluke.” Yeah, that was a fluke, bro. Dude, Cra, I saw him. He was just pointing at the boys. Look at him dead straight in the eye. That was cold. Yeah, his like, “Hey, you killed me level one. Never again.” Never again. That’s all you get. That’s all you get. That’s all you get. Now, we’re looking at the highlights here. And talk about a change of tempo, right? And this is what we look like when we start to see SRG start drafting standard. Yeah. Keeping things simple is probably the best thing to do in the group stage. And identity, what? I I don’t know. I mean, this is what we were trying to say before going back to the to game number three, right? It’s probably the simplest things, and I feel like VP, they did attempt to simplify their approach. It was clear that they were after the team fights as well, but whenever they do try to go for a fight, it seems like the angles from which SRG comes from, they’re not able to cover all of them. Like Supergora seems like a free target for most of the time. And even Bober, he has questionable positionings every now and then. So, I feel like that contributed a lot to how these team fights fared out for uh VP and SRG. Yep. Thank you very much. But now, honestly, looking at the highlights, it’s all great. It’s all good. But behind me, I already see Eterna as well as Sakai standing by. So, we’re going to throw it over to see what Sakai has to say about this game. Thank you, casters. Eterna here once again, and this time, I’m joined with the Sky Prince Sakai. Welcome, Sakai. Hello. Hi. Hi. Okay, so congratulations for your first win here at MSSE. And I think a lot of people are curious, right? Because as defending champions, I think a lot of people were obviously expecting that this would go to you, but it looked like in game number one, things were a little bit shaky. Can you tell us what happened? and even they are the only one. So I think they just normal part of the game. Mhm. Yeah. First of all, I think uh VP is a strong team. Uh we need to give them credit. It’s because of uh from the playoff sorry from the wild card itself they are the champion and uh to be honest we just play like normal. We don’t we don’t underestimate them and I think this is just part of the game. Okay. So what part of the game was what made things tricky in game number one? Uh, I think for I mean it’s okay. So obviously yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah, I think the part of the game that uh been tricky for the first game is basically just like I mean we are trying to still to adapt with the weather with the stage itself and yeah uh it’s just a mistake on the early game but for the second series which is the second game basically it’s uh completely our mistake so yeah I think that’s all okay okay so understandably so right adaptation period is definitely going to be there now what about your next match because you guys are continuing into the upper brackets and there’s a choice here you could either go against Corinthians or mythic or mic seal. Who do you think you’re going to go up against next? Okay. personally. Brazil. Sorry. Brazil. Yeah. Yeah. I think uh between Corinthians and Maitel, I would choose uh personally Micil is because of for me Burmese or Myama team is basically it’s one of the strong uh region and I think it’s a strong team as well. So I’m looking forward to meet my seal. Okay. Now considering that you did mention mythic seals, if we have a little bit of a flashback to M6, unfortunately in the Swiss stages, SRG lost to another Burmese representation. Are you confident going against Mythic Seal this time? Okay. Burmese M6 for the last series. So I think against Yeah. Yeah. I mean for the last M6. Yes. Of course we are still confident that we can win that match but unfortunately we just lost that game but for this series right now in EWC we are really really confident against Myanmar team and yes we we are look forward for to next match. We’re also looking forward to it and we’re excited and I’m glad that you guys are confident because that’s going to be a banger of a match. So once again, thank you so much the Prince of Mages and we’re going to Sorry, Prince of Mages. What? The Sky Prince. What in the world? That’s Stormy. But once again, thank you so much and we’ll see you in the next match. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters. Sorry, Lfell. Please don’t hate me. Hey. Hey. Only a little bit. Only a little bit. But shout out disguise. He’s clearly sick. You know, it’s it’s cold here and he’s sweating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hopefully soon. Hopefully you get well soon. Uh because he needs to be in perfect health for this one. But now we got to talk about innocent on this harve because after the changes uh from the start, now we’re starting to see the enchanted talisman coming back in which honestly I like that. You know what adaptations the item is bad so now let’s change it. That that’s why I was uh I don’t know I don’t know if you remember but in the game when I saw the enchanted talisman I was like wo oh this this is the new build. So there you go. There you go for innocent as well. Once you get an enchanted talisman, it’s unlimited dashes instantly, right? Like the the I think there was a proxy for for it before. You go for the little book from the feather of heaven, the little uh yeah, sub item, then you build the boots and then you’re done. You can actually go for it. Now you actually go for different boots. You don’t go for cool down anymore. It kind of looks almost like a very spammy fighter kind of thing, right? Where in terms of traditional marksman, you just want someone to open up a situation and then you start things up. Sometimes innocent could start something. And we saw even in the laning phase the moment the all is up the moment the design force is there he’s going to utilize it to get some kind of advantage. So it’s interesting without the stardium scythe not only do you change your build but also the kind of mindset that you play with a harif. Yeah and I feel like that really dealt well with the way super egora wanted to play cuz it was it was such a big contrast. We’re starting to see them now. We’ll also see them in game in a bit. But yeah, that’s like such a contrast between the play styles of Innocent and Super Agora. Super Agora probably could learn a bit from how Innocent really decides to play the gold lane because you see the potential and how he was able to at least manage it. But in the larger scale, there’s clearly such a significant difference in the way we we’ve seen both of these gold laners play. So the unly dashes, the unlammon forces were there, but unly dashes saiis, he had a lot of them too on that. That’s how he plays while being sick. Yeah, dude. He was dude, not going to lie, he was pretty sick, dude. Oh, that girl, me guy, that girl. Brrigy man. But yeah, talking about it, Innocent play the goalie kind of like an exp. And I really like that they understand that they have to change the pace. And talking about the um the interview as well, I like that they say that we did not underestimate them at all. It’s all just part of the game. And they understood how to play against us and they played very very well and they took uh accountability. Game two, we we made a mistake. Like that’s on us. Absolutely. And I think that that just goes to show the championship mentality, right? They know when they made a mistake. They know when uh they blundered and they’ll just use it. They’ll answer and they’ll fix it. This also shows how crazy how competitive it looks right now at MSC. This is looking like a banger of a tournament with so many teams being super competitive. Yeah, it’s super competitive. Speaking of which, coming up next part of the interview as well, they they talk about my thick seal. Looking like the favorites coming up going up against Corinthians later on. And at this point at this point, I don’t know. Maybe we should not see anything. Maybe maybe not. Yeah, she can. I have should I We the both of us should not have an opinion. No way. Cuz like if I had to say one as the only one who can have an opinion according to them. I’m not sure who to call the dark horse like between these two. I mean you don’t have to call them. You can just text. You can maybe. But like I And speaking of which, the MSE support chest still here. 20 diamonds. It’s amazing. Make sure you guys purchase it now. Heck, you can draw Atlas. WA Ruin Sentinel Atlas. Man, that was MSE 2023 skin. Dude, I love Atlas. It’s 20 diamonds. 20 diamonds, guys. 20 diamonds. Make sure you guys grab the MSE support chest. Speaking of, you don’t know who to call the dark horses, right? I just don’t care. We’re just going to see who wins. Yeah. Uh they’ll answer the question for us. They will predict for us by just winning it out. But I’ll say Mythic Seal. That’s my prediction. Yeah, I zero. I I I like my tixil. Um I really like their mid laner. Niko. Yeah, Niko. Niko. Gilla. Yeah. Gila. Niko. Gila. Niko. Like that was amazing. But going up against Corinthians, we know that they’re a team with passion. A whole lot of passion. A whole lot finals, right? Luis playing in Rome and then having Hu and the XP. We got to see can they bring it against Micil. Heck. Wa. You guys probably can’t hear it, but that was that was a war cry. That was a loud war cry. I wonder who it is now. Like, is it Corinthians or was it I think it’s because mythic seal mythic seal is around there and I think we heard it around there. So, could be Corinthians. That’s a Oh, no. Corinthians are here. Oh, well, I think a mythic seal. I That was Mythic Seal. That was loud. Mythic Seal. Wow. They’re loud and they’re already marching in. You guys can see. Hey, I don’t mind going straight to the second game. Fourth game. Fourth match. Last game. Match of the day. And we’ve had two game threes so far. Exactly. Game two, two. So now we’re going to let them get ready and we’re actually going to be throwing over to the break. But once we come back, final series of the day. Bang bang. See you guys later. Bang bang. Bang it up. Bang everywhere. I’m a die. Oh. I’m alive. Oh, hey. I’m alive. Reach your impossible. Lenovo Legion. I’ll be forward. And just like that, we’re back here. The players are ready. And I got to say, the previous game, I was very nonchal. Nothing really happened. But now we’re about to go to the final series of the day, it’s going to be Corinthians going up against Mixil. Welcome back to MSE here at Esports World Cup. My name is Ael. Alongside with me is Merco as well as Brigita. I got to say, game number three, that was uh interesting. Now the fourth one though. The fourth one though. This is going to be it’s going to be hard to anticipate. I’m not going to lie. I disagree. Hey. We saw what my thick seal can do. Exactly. Corinthians. They could change. Actually, they could change. People change. That’s what that’s what my grandparents tell me when they were alive. People change. Okay. Well, hey, I hope they do change because they need a whole lot of changing right now. If we’re just basing it off of their own grand finals, Mike Seal had a phenomenal grand finals that was very, very close, but mechanically it was phenomenal. Corinthians, very shaky. Here’s the thing. If you were disagreeing with me right now, we got to talk about our hot takes. Presented by Dr. Simon Alhabibi Medical Group, where especially for me, Uranus ain’t all that. That’s your hot take. Uranus ain’t that great because we’re going to be looking at the clip here. dying one v one. And now we can actually look at here. I think he just he just underestimated the ES like Yeah, he cut. Yes, but that took way too long that he stayed there. I think that was second skill. Yeah, Padka got second. No, no, so Creme got level two, but then the moment he tried to dash away, the shield doesn’t help, you know, against an Asaralda. So maybe maybe Uranus ain’t all that. You can get countered by the Asmeralda and the Lunox. I agree. I agree with your hot take. I don’t think it’s uh that big of a hot take on this desk because I don’t think any of us like Uranus. Yeah. None of us like Uranus. Yeah. I don’t I mean sometimes but like in that everyone has their moments. Everyone has their moment. Yeah. You got to be I guess careful about like you like jungle Uranus. Do you like XP? Which one is it? XP. Of course. I feel like I feel like I just don’t like the hero. I feel like you have to just delet you know what Gideon should have been here. Exactly like that. I would just be relating to him. Biggest Uranus hero. Yeah. I I kind of feel like you can’t be too honest because then people can counter you. You have to lie. You have to lie and be like, “This is Reus Rome. Don’t your opponents can see. Just be like, “Hey, it’s Ro.” Exactly. Then utilize the flex. Maybe maybe that’s how you utilize Uranus, right? You utilize it as flex. You lie to your opponents. You make them think about it too much. But we didn’t see that. Not there. So hopefully the next Uranus picks will be a bit more of lying deception. For like majority of the pryo pickics we’ve seen, they haven’t been that or something like they haven’t I can’t do it. I can’t do it. I can’t wink. I can’t wait. They haven’t wink. I I think I can uh hurry hurry hurry her. No, no, no. Like like No. I’ I’ve been trying. I’ve been trying. But you know, that’s what I’m trying to say. It hasn’t been the usual, oh, it’s always the flex picks that are prioritized and whatnot. Those kinds of, oh, you’re sort of unsure as to what the plan is going to be cuz we’ve been seeing like those KAS, Farsas, yeah, all those priority picks showing up compared to the past few days or months even where it’s always been, oh, flex picks here and there. Speaking of which, we got to talk about the MSC pass because right now it’s on, it’s available. Make sure you guys grab the MC pass because here’s the thing. You’ve been playing every day, but if you don’t have the pass, like it’s not going to give you the rewards that you guys want, the XP, the experience, the gold, the etc. Make sure you guys grab the MSE pass while it’s still here. Heck, today is the first day of MSE, so just play the game in. He’s the one flying in the intros, right? Yeah, he’s the one flying in the intro when we get into the land of dawn. And also, I mean, there’s something I don’t I had something in my mind, but disappeared. What? your mind. A thought in my mind. Oh, a thought. A thought in my mind. A thought in your mind. So now, honestly, the players the players are just right behind us. And um I’m I’m also looking at Mic Seal and I hope they fix some some of their problems here. Yeah, especially in gold. I think now that you mentioned Mythic Seal, the pattern of the day has always been just brutal team fights, super fast team fight, super fast turtle one setups. And I think that’s something that Mythic Seal could take advantage of because of their play style in Myanmar. They’ve just been so aggressive, a very team fight heavy team that again just capitalizes on Turtle One onwards to snowball around Mythic Seal’s meta. Yep. Now we’re looking at Mythic Seal here. And honestly, in terms of the experience, there’s a lot here. Uh even even Nikico like he’s amazing but he actually started as a jungler and now playing in the mid really showcasing the u the mechanics that he’s got. Mythic I would say uncomfortable to say that they are the dark horse because people respect them enough that they could do it but at the same time they haven’t proven themselves just yet. Yeah. And I feel like what MGO mentioned about the entire first few objectives and how they actually plan out the fights will matter a lot in how they’re able to prove that because I feel like an ongoing conversation of what may potentially might again keyword is might be a weakness is their XP laners hero pool because I think a lot have been expecting the more aggressive types of XP laners but is known to not necessarily go for those kinds of XP laners which might contribute to the way they do those or pull off those first few objective fights. Yeah, I agree. Uh he’s been kind of delegated to like setup picks for to enable Ken. Yeah, but I kind of feel like back in uh MSLar that we watch the Bad is an amazing pick for almost any team and we’re talking about you know drafting can only really with the joy. Yes. All right. So that’s also a problem. The Joy has been receiving quite a lot of nerfs. So I want to see how he manages that uh in this current patch. I mean like Sakai was able to get that W in game number one in the third match of the day. So we got to see if Ken can do it or he just has a different pick. Maybe he can’t, right? Uh the Joy. On the topic of the Joy, I think that was also during a meta where it was kind of just really really weird for the jungle. You only had Joy and Suyo and then Lucas. Lucas. Yeah, we had those three picks. Now it’s very, very different. I think we just got to see it for Skies. He was able to pick up the Lancelot. Hey, guess who brought up the Lancelot hybrid build in an international first MS22, it was Ken playing for Falcon Esports. So, I’m expecting Ken to pick up the landslot and be like, “Yeah, this is my boy. This is my hero.” And now we got to talk about the Corinthians here. Again, very, very, very spirited, very, very passionate, right? and they brought a lot in their own grand finals to make sure that they are, you know, they’re able to get here. Louise though, now I’m playing in Rome. First, for me, that was an interesting development. Mhm. I think majority of like the um comments I hear around the play style of Corinthians esports is that it feels like their approach is very quote unquote solo. Like they do a lot of things on their own. So, um, against a team who has really great chemistry, that might be a problem because how are they going to challenge that if they always do things individually across the map? Well, usually I would say that the individual teams like Corinthians could actually break apart systematic ones. The thing is, stylistically, this is a bad matchup for Corinthians. Yeah. And here’s the thing, this is only day number one, and we’re already bringing in a lot of action. So, make sure you guys while the tickets are still available, make sure you guys grab the tickets for MSNC because you do want to see the best that the world has to offer here in Riad. So, while it’s available, buy it cuz I’m worried after day number one, it’s going to get sold out soon cuz it’s already amazing. If we haven’t seen every single team play yet, it’s just eight teams. MSC at EWC is super hot, right? Not just the weather outside, but here. Oh my lord. You can see the players getting ready. You saw what SRG were able to do. You know, you saw the little trash talks they had in the interview segment. It’s hot. It’s hot, but it’s not dry. It’s pretty dry. It is though. The games. Ah. Ah. Yeah. There you go. There you go. But like it’s group A. So like it met or even exceeded expectations. So so far group A exceeded or met expectations? I think the draft has started. So Okay. You don’t want to answer. Okay. Met. There you go. Yeah. No. No. Mythic Seal is going to be the uh first pick here and Corinthians will be the second one. Coach Lind going up against coach Darkness bending out the fobvious might be a theme that we’re going to be seeing all throughout MSE here. Fobious is basically like an easy way to guarantee turtle one. That’s why it’s so so pryo especially considering the other very meta XP is Arlet. It’s also a good counter towards it. Hu though often times he goes for the aggressive or sort of setup type of XP laners too if any. I feel like he also had a couple of Benadetas here and there back in their region. So it’s I I probably a way to limit the counters or it could tell something about what Mythic Seals wants to pick up. But for Heso, I feel like he has such a deep hero pool if it’s just that Heso is the kind of guy where someone questions his play like why did you go in? Yeah. And then he will just say why not? That’s on PH’s coach. Hey. Yes. Tony, shout out coach Tony. But that’s something that Jesu does as well. You know, he goes in and he tries to make a bad play look good. Speaking of which, right now banning out the Fanny as well as the Farsa. very good ban in the mid here, but banning out that Arlet as well. This is going to be very interesting because now we’re going to see the uh exp pool shine just a little bit more. But also maybe don’t take it too early because in this in this current patch, I feel like every single exp laner has some kind of uh some kind of counter either in the lane matchup or somewhere else like in the jungle or in the mid. Yeah, we saw that as well. Uh the one gets banned out here. That means Mythic Seal can actually pick up the first pick Juice in that we’ve been seeing a whole lot from different teams. And hey, if we take a look at MSLM season 1, it was Nico who played a whole lot of juice in and won a whole lot of times on the Juice In. I I wonder how messy the fights are going to be if like it’s always Hessu going in for those kinds of attempts and the Jin is just like trying to manage the lantern flares every now and then. if they are going to prioritize the juin here in this spot because other than the juin uh give me the kalya uh I don’t think they’re going to rain I I I like the kala first pick because looking at the previous matchup it does set the tempo as long as you have the right uh mid laner with you right uh I like the kala first pick only if they get something with a lot of damage I don’t want to see that that not the anymore not not the douchian It was either or, right? You either get the Kala or the Juin. I don’t think you want to go KA juice in. We’ve seen a couple of teams actually fall because of that. You can start a fight, but you can’t finish one. Absolutely. Well, you can finish it, but it’s on the ground beaten up. That’s Frost Lanav’s favorite though, the Kimi. I think he picked it a couple of times, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he does go for it here with the box and the box open. Yeah, they might be his favorite, but maybe that was previously. Now the juice in gets picked up. They also want to deny like we’re not expecting the juice sin to come out but it is a Nico comfort. So Corinthians take away the juice in. And now I don’t know what’s coming up next. Do they go for a Granger? Do they go for I mean the box is still not a bad pick. No. Yeah. But like but you usually want to go box with a damage mid laner damage mage. So utility plus another utility or maybe flicks hero. H he’s going for he usually does go for the joy and that can be a deny. Yep. Looks like there is a pause in the draft. So it looks like something is going on. They’re going to solve it um you know promptly. Now now here’s the thing in my personal experience. When someone says the fight is going to be messy, it might actually look clean now. So that’s that’s a very good take uh coming in from you um Brigita. So if they do pick up this Jin, I’m only thinking that you want to fight all the time. Okay. Right. And I kind of feel like if you want to fight all the time, maybe maybe red three, they need some kind of pryo jungler or pryo exp lard to make sure that you have that on time anytime you want to fight just fight. But the question is now most of those exp lers are not here, right? You don’t have the phobias, you don’t have the arlet, maybe the Lapu, but I don’t know. Or yeah, I actually I want them to save it for a bit later too, honestly. So maybe a flex if they’re not looking at the Baksha. Uh there’s the Gatot like they can I guess. Yeah. Layer or pair it up with the style. I just I just hope we don’t go to a draft where there’s barely any damage. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Especially for Corinthians because like their play style is based around damage cuz I feel like in in this current patch, three damage dealers is okay. Maybe one, maybe one is kind of like semi, but still I kind of feel like one is not going to be enough or too risky. And having two is okayish as long as the supports around you are doing an amazing job, right? So I kind of feel like just to be safe, have three because then that makes the either the assassin jungler or the marksman or the mid be like, “Wait, who do we target?” Kind of like what we saw in the third match first game where Right. Yeah. Yeah. The L’s like, “Okay, who do I go for?” Yeah, VP were very very confused up against uh SRG. They were like, “All right, the CC is a good target, but we need to get rid of skies in the jungle, but also there’s Innocent there, too.” So, it became very very difficult. I think that’s what the Juicin actually enables, right? It enables the carries to be on other side of the map. Yes, you will lose out the potential of a mid carry, but then you would just fill it up with an XP, a CC that could come through, especially if mythic seal decide to be the ones to pick up the box, to pick up the utility jungles like the Freden. Because in the past it’s also been a thing for Ken. Like Ken really likes the utility jungle too. He doesn’t really like it. Knowing him personally, he hates utility jungle, but he’s good at playing utility jungle. I mean, if if it comes to a situation where he has to, he’s up for it. He’s up for it. Yeah. As long as he wins, he’ll pick up anything. Even Nana in the jungle. Nana in the jungle. That actually sounds like it could be a it could show. Yeah. Nana in the jungle. I mean the the farting like give give us give us give us some time off screen. We can we can think of a song. We just want 50% royalty from the show. It’s all good. We’ll come up with amazing ideas, right? It’s going to be the new MLBB show for kids. Be like a Nana the jungle. Watch out for that tree. Okay, maybe we have to change it up. Watch out for that buff. Wait, that’s that’s a cute idea. Watch out for that. Watch out for that higher coming. Oh, hopefully they figured it out though. But don’t don’t steal our idea. By the way, speaking of which, right now we’re still looking at the players. Uh they’re they’re making sure that everything goes well because again, this is the best that the world has to offer. So, we want to make sure that everything goes as close to as planned as we want. Now, looking at the players for Corinthians here, that’s who got his thumbs up, dude. They’re looking very confident. So, I’m hoping, like you said, play your own style. Don’t be like, “Oh, this is international. We got to play like the meta game. The top teams like no, just like like my teacher always said, be yourself.” So, he’s he mentioned his mom. Mom, dad, and now a teacher. I just at this point, I’m wondering what’s next. You’ve been surprising us with a lot of quotes. What does your neighbor say, my friend? Get out of here. Why are you doing Look, look. No, no, no context. All right. No, no, no context. Okay. Okay, let’s just leave it at that. My neighbor my neighbor keeps on talking about my cat. So, is it my fault or is it their fault? I think you just Well, that actually that quote I will use for a team that’s getting invaded. Get out of here. Get out of here. Get out of here. So, your neighbor is right in some context. Yep. I I sometimes I sometimes forget that Flick 2 is actually Filipino, you know. Wow, dude. Dude, I forgot what I ate for breakfast. really forget a lot of things. That’s kind of got goldfish memory, dude. That just happened. What’s a goldfish? Landslaw. Okay, that’s okay. That’s okay. Landl I’m okay with that. But now mythic seal, I I want a damage dealer. I want some kind of damage to help out this Kalia. Okay, the fares ban. I think the Kimmy is the safest choice right now. And then you go like I’m not sure about Ziten. All right, Joy. And then the Granger. So we were talking about him really liking the Joy. Hey, he still does. He’s like, “New meta. Same me, brother. No change here. The joy comes around.” And to be fair, this was like 100% win rate in the grand finals of MSLM. So, I don’t blame him. He’s sticking to what works. Yeah. So, we’ll have to find out what they’re pairing with the or with the KA later on in the draft. Earlier today, it’s been the the Lunox that was paired with it, but I don’t think it will. By the way, we just had the hot take and we don’t see Uranus yet. Right. Unless they pick up Uranus here. And then and then ban out the Esmeralda and the Lunox. No. Boxia. Boxia. All right. Good pick. Good pick. So they pick up the Lancelot knowing that maybe Mythic Seal could actually pick it up themselves. And then they go for the Boxia here for flex and XP and Rome. All right. Solid choice. Semi denies the Kimmy as well. Absolutely. Yes. Semi- denies the Kimmy. So they don’t need to ban it out. Now they are kind of caught in the tough spot. They they have I guess leave their Lunox. We’ve seen it as well for Nico, but it puts the in awkward spot. Valin as well. Yeah, but he likes Valin. But what do you So far, no big ultimates to steal, but that can change. Yes, unless you know that Hess is likely to pick up a hero who will go with the big ultimates. Okay, never mind then. Yeah, they want to deny it, but also it’s like we better not face it, right? Like if we can ban it and pick a box, let’s not risk it. Let’s not risk it. Let’s not risk it. Okay. So that leaves like uh B. Yeah, mythic seal. I’m thinking Moscow. Uh take away some of the some of the firepower in the gold lane so that the Granger can be enabled. Maybe even the Harif cuz like even when we say that don’t pick the Har, they still do or like they kind of make it work. And in this draft I feel Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Har is a good call. Uh Harth really good especially here against the Joy. Whenever you pick up joy back at home, ladies and gentlemen, just pan out the Harth if you can cuz u it’s a really good way to beat the joy out. I feel like for um Corinthians does really sound like a good option if it gets through the bands here for mythic seals. I know what they’re doing. I think they’re going to go Angela. I think that’s what the setup is right now. So Iritel 100% should be banned here. I think so. Mythic Seal should not let it go. Yeah, Corinthians are setting up for what I would say is a ridiculous rank game strat. Like, dude, in the rank games that I play, whenever I’m up against this, I’m just like, all right, let’s FF. Yeah, it’s a it’s a hair puller. Bend the CC also. Yeah, that makes sense for the Yeah, making sure that your front line doesn’t get taken down. But then my seal could just last pick something like a Phamis, I would say, and it’ll be pretty solid up against the Angela. So, it could just be a battle of like we know what you’re going to go, we’re going to try to counter it here and we’re just going to The best bet would just be I think Il. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Because even back in Myamar, it’s not that um ZP has a good leading phase as well, right? He’s been countered a whole lot. Whenever he goes Granger, he gets countered by though. So, uh they don’t. So, they basel that could have been a choice for them actually. But what if they want the Uranus? They have a box you on the other side. I think it’s already kind of bad to go for like Esme and Uranus. I mean, we said that should be banned and they didn’t. Yeah, but maybe they’re just a step ahead, right? We’ll see what the last two picks are and then we’ll determine whether it was a a misstep in the draft or if it was five head. Yeah. So, is it the I mean, they don’t have to rush the Ithl at this point, but if they want to save the element of surprise, then they can opt to show it up here unless they have a different plan in mind cuz like Mythic Seals have yet to show who their other front liners are going to be. So, if it is going to be one of the tanky heroes as well, the carry is still there. if ever they want to opt for that. I think it can position itself well considering the hero so far of Corinthians 2 or unless to keep it a bit safe. Mhm. Ununo’s there as well. Yeah, looks like they’re pausing on the fourth second here is MO. Yeah, one of the ways to enable the juice in we’ve been talking about this earlier. Uh pointing at it, Juin wants a long team fight, right? The initial burst where if you get bursted down, it’s going to be tough and Angela is a good way to enable that to force the fight to be way longer than it should be. That’s why the Jin and the Angela works out here. I wonder if they’re actually just going for it because it looks very straightforward. So, it is back exp if ever that is going to be the case. But I feel like it’s fine because Boxia compared to a lot of exp laners. It’s pretty fast. He can actually get to the mid lane if something goes wrong. Quick quick rotations with the shield unity. You get mid pryo, you get turtle one has been the name of the game. They’ve also already banned CC. That’s the counter match up in the lane itself. I’m thinking of other picks in the XP like could deal with Xorg if they are up against Angela Angela, you know, like tanky with Juin. Actually, yeah, now that I think about it, they not the Esmeralda. So, even if they would feel bad, it’s like, oh wait, we could have used that against um but either ways right now looks like the draft is about to resume. And again, in our heads with Tallangela, we have to see if they actually go for that route or they’re going to surprise us by bringing in something else. Heck, there’s a surprise folks. The the only healer we haven’t seen is the Raphaela. Ah, we even see the Diggy before the Raphaela. So, we saw the Florin. Yeah. From Oh, yeah. Since I didn’t work for for Wild Cards. Yeah. Yeah. But what why do they Okay. Okay. So, they don’t go for the straightforward approach. So, they just want to brawl here. Yeah, it does. I think the brawl works better with the angel actually. So this is more of um here my question is you go for the set and then juicing just shines a lantern. Yeah. So they need explosive damage on the gold lane. And what if that happens to mythic seals too if they pick up a mid laner that doesn’t necessarily burst? I think it’s better for mythic seal is it’s not better but it’s okay to go for mid lane utility because you already have explosive damage in jungle and gold. So you already have a combo. Yeah. So honestly, even something like I guess the Eve would would still be fine here. They pick up the Lapu Lapu just to go to the back line in case they want to shut down. And now they pick up the Selena. So a lot of damage here. And yeah, this is one of the heroes that Nico really liked uh during their own playoffs. So now there’s a lot of damage coming in from Mythic Seal. Heck, you can even say four. Yeah. So now coming in from the Corinthians, you only have one. That’s a lot of burst damage for mythic seals. even up against the lineup who has like two tanky heroes already. So, the gold lane response mobility really is going to be key going up against mythic seals lineup. You need a lot of dashes here to get away from the Lapu Lapu from the Joy from the Selena this you want and you want to purify to deal with this um Kalia. So yeah, not a lot of exp uh sorry gold leaders now. That comes to my mind cuz the easy one is but even at this point I’m like is it though? Yeah cuz the actually does struggle a bit against the joy. So it’s it’s a tough one to even go for it now without the help of the angel. So they go for the Moscow. All right. All right. I mean we did say they need a lot of mobility back in gold because again there’s going to be so many people going up against you. So looking at the draft here, personally for me, I do like the amount of damage that Mythic Seal has, but this is a very difficult draft. They got to make sure that their micro mechanics are actually good cuz the moment they miss their abilities, I got to say Corinthians with a very easy draft to execute. Could easily punish. So now we’re about to start game number one of the final series of the day. The final match of the day. Corinthians going up against Mythic Seal. I’m going to give it over to the both of you to cast for this one because I like the damage, but hey, will it work out? We’re doing what the tagline is saying to us. We’re encountering the unknown here with Mythic Seal versus Corinthians. They’re encountering the unknown. A lot of picks that we’re not expecting from the two teams have shown up here and we’re going to jump into the land of the trusty O Natan bringing us over. Here we go. Game number one. I have to say though, I do agree with the idea that I’m liking the amount of damage we’re seeing from the draft so far from mythic seals because even way back in MWI, I believe Lfell has been saying that you cannot have too much magic damage based on how things are going in the patch or in MLBB overall. But it will be crucial for them to do just that since I believe much of the damage they are going to have to provide will be somewhat skill shot. So they’ll have to actually find the targets on Corinthians Esports to do that pressure, but I did not expect to see that happen in the gold lane first. Yeah, I think we have to take a look at the emblems here for teezy. Did he not Yeah, he went for Thrill and Master Assassin. Full damage. Nico doing the same here. Jumping in. still opting for Season Hunter. I think in MW we saw a different route from the Selenas. Uh no more Season Hunter. It’s still going to be season hunter for Nico with Rupture. Yeah, they’re trying to speed things up. Um that’ll allow Ken to really perform on this droid. That’s a lot of chain CC you could see from mythic seals honestly. So Louise on the back might have to be a little cautious because as we know the back shot once you actually go in and put yourself in a dangerous position. There’s almost no way for you to get out unless you use the revitalize which could barely sustain you, especially if you have a lot of members trying to take you down. Yeah. Also something to point out, Mythic Seal, no purifies at all. They’re they’re just all out here, right? Ah, so much more ways to evade from CC, but for mythic seal, it’s really all about mobility and speed. The spider committed by Also uses the flicker to stun too, but that’s pretty much it. They’re not going to force the fight any further. They’re already okay. They Mythic Seals got the turtle. For the folks back at home, that’s why you go season hunter on Selena if you have a very fast clearing jungle, great pryo and XP and aroma that can actually get mid pryo to help you out with the on the Selena, you take turtles before your opponents can even react. Corinthians didn’t know they were even doing turtle and by the time they noticed turtle taken by my thick seal. even when they were trying to take down the purple buff, right? There were two abyssal traps which really sped up things for Ken here, which uh I believe allowed them to rotate a lot faster. And that’s another thing I guess I would expect the fast rotations from Corinthians, but it seems like it’s mythic seals doing that this time around. It seems like they’re able to anticipate where the bash is coming from. And speaking of anticipate, they try to lock him down. That’s a beautiful tsunami slam committed onto Louise, allowing them to secure first blood. And Corinthians are not able to trade out anything for that. No, it was kind of awkward to Wait a minute. Brave a spider by looking for a montage play there. It wasn’t even a minion clear, right? He was He just He just wanted to show Hu who’s boss in the XP lane. That was flex. That’s what you get from a Lapu who is a very difficult hero to target. If you want to like hammer down on crowd control, then Lapu might not be the best option because he’ll actually enjoy having a lot of people around him to also increase that passive which he currently has. But so far, it’s been a very lowcoring game. Even though we said that Mythic Seals might really want to play this aggressively, at least for Corinthians, they have a lot of sustain and you cannot take that away from them. Yeah, we expected Mythic Seal to definitely be way more aggressive than they are looking right now, but it takes two to tango. You can’t be aggressive if your opponents aren’t actually walking up to fight you when you want to be aggressive, right? So, as long as Mythic Seal continues to get free objectives, they won’t be forcing Corinthians to a fight. They’ll just be like, “All right, sir. Uh, good day. We’ll take this turtle and we’ll be on our way.” And I feel like has the has the decision to start things up. Oh, it’s not after all. I take it back. It’s Boy, but Frost Lan actually gets the turtle away from mythic seals. Still however they will try to go for the fight but the sod it connects and upati might try to go for it. Boys catches up. That’s two members of mythic seals. Big fight from Corinthians. The least expected member to steal the turtle. Does it for oh my lord with just a lantern. Yeah, we don’t. We’ll take back all everything we said about damage. Two red trees and chin got the turtle. My bad. G we didn’t. We were not aware of your game. Ah, let’s forget about the thorn rose retry combos. Let’s forget about the electrifying beats and the retribution. It’s the lantern flare which mattered at that point. There was all the CCs too. Dude, there was a fist crack coming in. Tsunami stabs so much CC. He didn’t even use the purifier, right? No, there was no need for Lev. He was shot. She want to shine in the light. Oo. Oh, Oppa might have to use his skills to get away though. Fortunately survives that attempt. That was just That was just Zippy. So, how has it come to this point where Zippy could already pose such a massive threat? You you needed to have two members up top just to somehow keep you safe because Mythic Seals, it seems like they’re trying to go for something. Wow. Sky Piercer too for Frost Lan. He’s really playing into the main character of being the juicing damage. That’s a Okay, so both Zippy and Fro have picked up the sky piercer. This is where it gets really exciting because this is where we’re seeing the calm before the storm. Yes, the game seems very slow. One big team fight. Three stacks on that sky piercer and we’re going to be seeing a snowball. Oh, Flick will just try to dash away from this though. Are they trying to commit? Boy respects that they might have too much mobility for them to commit. And they also have an upcoming objective, too. So, they’ll have to play it safe. So far, it’s Corinthians being the ones able to position themselves first, though. Will they capture Ken? Oh, this is a very aggressive play from Liz and Frost Lanv for the second time around. Someone with the retribution has to get this right. Oh. Oh, but there goes the tsunami slam. They committed on to Kun. Very tanky member at that. Sod will connect. They might have to reposition for a bit. Crimson beacon also used by Frost Lenev, but it’s only Louise who’s already pretty low on HP. Mythic seals. It looks like they’re still able to take on this fight except Nico. And this time around, Flick steals away or takes that turtle from mythic seals. Well played Corinthians. So clean. What happened to the slugfest we saw in the grand finals of the Tom region? This is a completely different team. It was 43 against influence rage. It was them chaotic in and outside of the game. Here they are just as clean as can be. No sky piercer stack for frost. So that’s the bad news. But the good news is the lead is completely gone and up is capitalizing on these waves in the side lanes with the Granger forced to play with the team already. Yeah, he’s having such a great time. The other members of Corinthians okay already used by Hu. But going back, the other members of Corinthians esports are just making things so easy for up at this point. Flick. He’s doing such a great job on heroes like this, like the Lancelot. Even after that one moment where they failed to or he failed to actually get the last hit onto the turtle, but Louis still has to revitalize though. Is this going to be the right decision? They’re fully aware that there are four members of mythic seals trying to approach them in the middle lane. Oh, and they actually try to go for it. With the fist crack already can with the leg be a kill over to Zippy. Sky Piercer stack picks up the gun. That certainly will be of much help for Mythic Seal. They need to crack open the front line before they can deal with the back for Lana and OA. But Flick is getting really tanky right now, man. I feel like in that moment, Mythic Seals were the ones who stayed a bit long, but they were the more decisive ones. like they didn’t want their you could say overstay to go to waste. So they at least took off a pickoff um from Corinthians esports. But still going back there isn’t that much of a lead despite everything that has been happening. It’s still less than 1k for Mythic Seal. It’s so even on the board, right? At least when it comes to structures, it’s better for Corinthians. They have a turret down below that will play a big part into setting up for the next neutral objective. But yeah, this is I think the closest game we’ve had at minute 9. There has been only one turret take. Oh, a flicker from Nico respecting the shieldedity of Louise. But remember this come before the storm once those sky piercer stacks keep going. Tsunami slam once again in the mid lane. They decide to pick a fight. Hu will still survive this though. And already commits the bravest fighter. So there have been resources already used, but Louis the Oh, you’re he’s starting to feel the damage coming in from Ken. Forced to use his ultimate flick. Will he attempt to go for someone? We’ll just try to clear the waves for now. It’s No one’s just going for the full commit. Hey, if we want to refer to something, this is tactical boxing, right? You’re just playing at range. You’re just fainting constantly wasting resources from your opponent. Corinthians, they’ve had to burn a flicker from Hessu. Uh, Tortois’ poisance as well from Luis. They get a free turret up top of the wave. Now it’s a conceal. Luise is looking for an opening, but he gets chunked instead. Remember, no poance. And the bravest spider is back. So is the tsunami slam to immediately take down Hu. Louise is next. That’s immediately two members. Phantom execution used by Flick just to get away. And this is a clear signal for Mythic Seal. Good fight. Really decisive. They punish again. They went for the faints. They baited out some massive resources. They go for it. There is a trade however for up. He was able to get a tier two down below and holy shield that t that thing is down. Okay, they’re able to somehow trade something away, but that will allow mythic seal to get a lot more of the important resources from Corinthians. That’s a mid lane turret that they’re able to take down. And for someone on a Lancelot for Flick on the assassin, that is potentially going to limit the way he’s able to move around, especially just looking at how Buoya and Zippy are confidently able to stand up front. Oh, but that was a close call for Frost Lanv. So, let’s talk about investments. Mythic Seal, their investment in the Sky Piercer has resulted in, I believe, one Sky Piercer stack for Zippy. Frost Lanv zero. So far, mythic seal have had the better sky piercer investment. Fleeting time completed too for Ken uh sorry for Boyet on the Kala. They look alike, man. Wind of nature and already to a b. Wow. I would expect to have a bit more gold at this stage of the game because he’s constantly farming in the side lane, but it’s a 1,300 gold lead for the good old consistent Zippy. Yeah, it’s a 202 as well for Zippy, which also probably contributes to why this is what we’re seeing. Hey, Nico has the uh purple buff, by the way, so they’re being very aggressive with this, but that’s that’s all Mythic Seals are probably going to get for now. There’s also respect for Corinthians Esports. You still can’t take away the fact that although he is behind, there is some sort of damage to it, but also what? Okay, speaking of damage, you got to respect Zippy. You got to go for Zippy. But I feel like their attempt did not succeed. Now that’s a counter conceal and engage coming in from mythic seals. jumping in with the bravest fighter. And so will Voy with a title strike. And now Zippy’s just free to target down Hessu. Ken did a great job as well in zoning out the other members of Corinthians on the back lines. And they’ll be happy with that single pickoff, but it seems like they still want to go for more. Flick fortunately gets away, but that was a dangerous attempt certainly. And you can see Nico just hovering over trying to bait flick over towards him. Good stun actually lands shield unity can out of spider has to flick around to lands her flare. Oh my goodness. And Frost Lenev gets the shot. Hey, I don’t know if you you saw the interaction the shield unity and the abyssal arrow. I think it’s just a wacky awkward interaction, man. You still keep rolling. Keep rolling, right? Even though the you can’t turn. You’re just going straight. It’s like a Never mind. It’s like a Yeah, he just never mind. Yeah, never mind. But that was clearly Mythic Seals still trying to respect whatever Corinthians can do in terms of defending. Oh, did he just put himself in a very dangerous spot? Ken finds the kill on Upzy, however. But look at the other members falling by one by one in the hands of Zippy. And what better timing if not right before an objective, but will they still go for that even? There’s no better timing than to end the game right here. They won’t want to go for the objective. They want to go and brawl it out for the battle for the win. All right, this is going to be their attempt. There’s the potential. Title strike. Doesn’t land on to anyone, but they gain access to the base. Hess using the fist crack tries to clear the waves. There’s a single minion left, however, and they will not have enough firepower to end it. just yet. They have an incoming minion wave, though. But the other members of Corinthians, they’ve already they’ve already gotten back. Uh-oh. Let’s see. Mythic Seal went for a gamble to try to end the game. They’re on the Lord already. SOD. Oh, it connects. Nico dashes away, but Flick from behind. Could this be a gamechanging steal? Oh, the Phantom Execution gets denied, but Ken, he will fall in of Corinthians Esports. And now Flick finally steals away the Lord. Frost 11 with a double kill. Finally, the sky piercer in action, too. And that’s three members down for Mythic Seals. Look at the flick of the wrist. Look at the flick of the fingers. What was that flick? Getting the kill on Zippy despite the nature. And now they’re the ones knocking at Mythic Seal’s base. Phantom Execution. He actually went in brave enough to try and take down Bo, but they focus on the inhibitor for now. But is this going to be enough? There’s the purify for Lupati. He has his eyes set on the base. Boy gets to clear the minions and now they have another incoming SO goes for Niko but can walks up like peace the base wide open the middle wav is there as well. Flick taken down. Frost with the last shot and Corinthians pull off a one straight push comeback. Oh my goodness. Oh my lord. Like I said, people change. That was a wow wow wee. Wow. Oh my lord. That’s why I say I don’t know. Either teams could be the dark horse. And let me tell you, man, this is something that I tell my friend back in Cambodia. Don’t count your eggs without your calculator because that becomes unreliable. Cuz they said they could have ended the game. They could have. They could have. They could have ended the game. They also just could have gone Lord if they didn’t want to end the game. There’s so many things they could have done. Oh man. But they didn’t have done. Yeah. This is why I’m not sure about the dark horse. Dude, I I don’t know what a dark horse is. I thought that was a nightmare. Get it? Cuz mayor is horse. Ah, some you know dark. Yo. Hey, that’s pretty good. Hey, thank you. I I I read I read the vocabulary. Seven out of 10 for me. Oh, yeah. But honestly, looking at a game, my personal opinion is that Mythic Seal, they start a lot, but it’s really not clean because I kind of feel like a lot of the fights, they start without purpose, without really understanding like what’s up next, what’s coming up next. So, it it does look like they’re playing mostly for their own micro mechanics. And that’s what we talk about the draft. There’s a lot of damage, but it’s also all about mechanics. The moment you miss an ability, the moment you use it wrongly, it all starts crumbling apart because Corinians, their draft is much easier to execute. So, the moment punish Mythic Seal makes a mistake. Like I said, punish. And here’s the thing, there’s a lot of room for mistakes with that kind of draft. I agree. Uh it’s a very high skill ceiling uh draft. And it’s actually something that was uh foreshadowed a bit for for me cuz I made a video, everything you need to know about MSC. And in that video I was like Mythic Seal explosive team fights amazing mechanics but they tend to get very overconfident and sometimes a lot of times that’s their downfall by themselves. I think I felt that the most in the way we saw limited interactions between the Selena and her other teammates for majority of the game. I know when they were trying to go for the siege that there were a couple of uh interesting abyssal arrows which landed every now and then, but up until that moment, it felt like Nico wasn’t able to really maximize the presence of the Selena in the early game. And when you’re forced to defend, even in the last sequence, I believe I saw that you saw that uh Abyssal Arrow which was thrown out seemingly out of panic. So once it doesn’t land to the crucial target, it’s going to be hard. At the end, he stood there taking the lantern flare going to dash out the the moment that he’s going to get knocked out. But I’m like, you don’t even have to be there in the first place. You don’t have to take the damage. And by the way, you guys were talking about the Boxia. I play Boxia quite a bit. The moment the box gets stunned, doesn’t matter if Lena arrow, even a high stun, you will just keep on moving. You just keep on rolling. act like nothing happened cuz boxer is that nonchalon kind of guy. So that’s why you use boxer. That’s why I use boxes cuz I’m a nonchalon kind of guy. But yeah, in this game really really really really they need some kind of discipline here because yes there’s like if you just pause the game at any point you could have said could have done this, you could have done that, you could have done this, you could have done that but instead you wanted to flex. Mhm. Mhm. Even I think individually in lane, right? We saw the flex braider. We saw constantly them wanting to show their individual flare and we did get to see it. But I think a better way to display your individual flare is by winning just beating them out for sure. Corinthians, they played it slow. They were the disciplined ones in this game. And you get to see the reward already for the disciplined team. They waited for a mistake. They saw that dive. GG. I mean, even when it felt like it was Mythic Seal who were slightly ahead, there were moments like the Lord Steel on the Duchin and all that. So, it wasn’t that clean of an early game as well for Mythic Seal. And um so, I feel like those are things they definitely have to work on cuz it’s decision-m in the late game, which was a major highlight in how this game was lost, but even in the early game, they could have refined it a bit more. But let’s talk about Flick cuz I kind of feel like if it wasn’t for him, they could not have that opportunity in the base. Yeah, Flick was amazing. Uh the Endless Battle here, this is the build that we were talking about for the landslot that we actually expected from Ken, but we got to see from Flick. Warax, uh, Endless Battle, and the Mephic Roar plus the purple retribution. You saw just how lethal he could be while also being super tanky. I would say this build is a bit more lethal than the damage build when it comes to late game because you’re just there for such a long time and you rack up those stacks so easily that even the Granger with with the nature couldn’t handle the damage. It’s true and even more true with the purple. Yeah, cuz honestly like you already have enough damage, you know, no need to add a gun to a sword. Just make sure that you can stay there long enough to stack to stack. Yeah. And this hurts to see that Zippy already had such just great time. A spectacular job was way ahead even of teasy in terms of gold during those moments when we thought mythic seal were already able to get that game. But it was a single oneway push. Yeah, we haven’t seen that in a while, dude. So long. I mean, that’s that’s the thing about MSE. This is the best of the best. You’re not allowed to make one mistake. Like this is this is the amount of stakes that we have in this competition right here. You can do it in ranked games. It’s it’s it’s fine. If you lose a rank game, you just lose one point. Yeah. But here you lose in MSC, there’s a lot to lose. Money, playing time, pride, pride, ego. And here’s the thing, the people is watching. Oh yeah. not just from your home country but everywhere around the world. Right? So here’s the thing. You can make those kind of mistakes in rank. It’s no big deal. I’ve done it. You’ve done it. Everyone’s done it. But here’s the thing. This is a different stage. Absolutely. This is a different stage. Especially in MLBB, right? I think that the whole perspective is you’re only as good as your previous tournament. So if you lose here, if you get knocked out early, everybody’s just going to be looking at this despite your run previously. Yeah. Again, the number is you can’t lose twice. And at least for I don’t know if it’s that if that’s an at least. But if you do lose today, you’ll have rest tomorrow. But will that be enough time though looking back it’s Yep. Yeah. Flick has been really great on this Lancelot. I think this is his highlight. Oh, look at that. Yeah. Here’s the thing. I like the decipher because they’re like, “Okay, we go in. We get we get some kind of trade. Flick, do your own thing. Everyone else deal with the front lines, right? And then we see what we can get from there.” Cuz I really feel like that was a hailmary play. is like we’re just going to risk it if it like we’re going to lose anyways. Yeah, might as well take a chance. And they took the chance and they won then. It was unfortunate really. Uh very very unfortunate for mythic seal. Amazing from Corinthians. It was Yeah, mythic just wanted instant gratification there by going for the end and they got punished real real hard. There’s really no other way to put it, dude. Yeah, there’s simple there’s a different kind of reset that’s needed if you lose that way. It’s a mental reset and hopefully they got to do it in that short amount of time because I feel like we’ll be heading back into the game very very soon. It’s a it’s a very disappointing way to lose. But before that, I got to say Corinthians look absolutely amazing and I believe for you guys, you guys want to see how did they even get here. So, so let’s look at the road to EWC for Corinthians. My name and my nickname is Louis and I’m the Roma of Corinas. Two came to Riad. Our journey was a little bit difficult because we have some problems in the start of the year. We change two players and our journey in NPL it’s very hard. I think our hardest moment in our journey to a WC, it’s when we are losing three match against influence ramp lat finals and we need to think about that. We need to improve our strategy and we win the last two match and we become champion. Corinthians, they’re bit of a wild card. I want to see them go far into this considering that Latin America has always struggled in the internationals. But at the same time, it’s like they’re new. I don’t know. It’s so up in the air for them. I’m very happy to put the Brazil again in the map and I’m very happy to represent Corians because it’s a lovely supporters. Every time they give us energy and we are very happy to put them in the international center. Every team that comes here, they have their own story. they have something to prove and right now for Corinthians even remar did say all the previous tournaments Latin America hasn’t been performing quite well so now even even Louis say said that I’m proud to be here for Corinthians and he wants to be able to push hard and and right now mythic seal is in their way we’re going to see if they can actually win to oh or mythic seal understood okay that was our mistake never do that again yeah I I mean for Mythic Seals. It’s been a while since we saw them back on this stage too, right? I think it’s been two two years more or less of not being able to see them of Yeah, their absence has been for quite some time. So, yeah, there there probably is still a bit of adjustment here and there, but we know that the big brother figure can he’s still that reliable guy, his boy. One of his boy there’s a lot of Ks. There’s a super Ken. There’s a Ken. There’s a lot of Kens. There’s a lot of K. There’s a lot of K. So, yeah. Now, I want to go back here because do you feel that the draft that um that Mic Seal brought in, was there really any trouble or was it just just them getting ahead of themselves? I think the draft is definitely like like we mentioned, it was very risky. It requires a high skill ceiling, a lot of chance of it to actually fail for you to just miss mechanic and lose the game. But they played it really well. I think that game was just a very good example of why mythic seal when they do get overconfident when they are put in a very crazy wining spot, they ultimately fall to themselves their own overconfidence. So maybe they shouldn’t win the mid game. So play like SRG. Leave from behind. From behind play from behind. Why what what do you think about about that briga? like tactically losing a bit so that you can win big. Yeah. You lose. It’s called hustle. You lose the battle, but you win the war. Yeah. Only if they’re willing to risk that much against teams like this though. They risk it just now. They took a lot of risk in that previous. That was a bit too much risk. That was a bit too much risk. Maybe it’s true. No, no, no. Okay. I I feel like for me though, it’s more on them sort of running out of like I know there were other options in the mid lane that could have been there for Nico, but um I feel like the banks went in such a way that they had limited options to choose from as well. So, might be one. Marco, yo, here’s the thing. We’ve known her for a while. Yeah. She’s too nice. She’s too nice. She She doesn’t want to be honest. She she doesn’t like, hey yo, you play bad. Yeah, it has to be us. It has to be us. You know, it has to be us. This is the gank and gather contrast. We always have, you know, the bad guy, the critic, the good person. It’s like she’s the Angela. I’m the Bman. Wait, what does that have to do with being good and bad? Cuz Angela’s like innocent, little kid. Why? Why? Why did you have to cut me off? Yeah. Oh, no. I was just genuinely wondering. Like, you could wonder later. Speaking of wondering right now, looking looking at the back here, by the way, this is a nice experience that we could hear the shouting just last time was everything, dude. Yeah, dude. That was so long ago. That was years ago. And uh yeah, too nice. M. We got to balance it out, right? We got to balance it out. And now we’re jumping into draft here. The is going to be first pick. Still banning out a Fanny. Now Corinthians batting out that yeast and Shin. They might just go for the scene bands unless someone is feeling a bit frisky and letting go of the Arlet or the Fobius. I don’t think we’re gonna see that. But yes, I don’t think I think for mythics. Oh, Corsa, they are leaving it open for now. Phobius and Arlet. Hopefully, we get to see it because it’s been banned a bit too much. For some reason, when we start casting, we don’t get to see these fun heroes. So, maybe we shouldn’t be casting. Oh, man. I don’t know. Translating or something. Oh, that could be an option. That could be an option. That could be an option. one one getting banned out. So Mhm. unless those are the final two bands cuz hey mythic seal could just have a throwaway band so that they can have either or. All right. Pick up the Arlorer or the the Leovius Fusen even. Now is it as pryo as first pick? Now that’s a question. There have been teams who like pick it up. They won with first pick FA first pick Arlet. Maybe not. I feel like this is the thing about expas you feel good and then you see a CC and then you’re like oh no. Yeah. And if they take it out here that’s too obvious. So like not they’re they might be risking it. Hey the name of the game is if you want to win you got to take some risks right. So banning out the Kimmy personally for me I wouldn’t ban either Aras. Just let them both go and then see what we get. So the the the Uranus wasn’t banned earlier too, right? Like it wasn’t it was snob. I think we can ignore the Uranus at this point of the game. I think right now Yeah. What Corinthia what Lfell said about Corinthians, leave the Arlet Fius open and then trade. If Mythic Seal go for the Phobius, you go for a Fred and Arlet. Yep. Yep. Never mind. They Now here’s the thing. If they don’t pick up the um the Fobious, they can pick it up. Yeah. Who wants her to one? And if they do and they pick the Lancelot again, that’s I feel like Kalia is still an okay first pick. Yeah. So they pick up the Jin. Okay. So now it’s Corinthians who can go for the Fobius plus Fious plus either the gold. They could just go Fious Lance too. By the way, I don’t mind l cuz like I was thinking then you’ll have less to worry about if you already have the fobus and the flick performs the same way. Oh yeah. on the lance a lot. Hey, he made a game winning play. So, I’m I’m perfectly fine with vious lands because, you know, if you’re not gonna unless they want to give it over to my seal and then just pick up a a CC. Yeah. So, that’s a Granger. So, it’s already different to what we expected, but the Lancelot comes through. Now, I would say for mythic seal, this is a proper game to set up for a Phobius, right? With the amount of dashes the Lancelot has. We were talking about the unlimited dashes for flick. Punish it with the phobia, but you will be punished by the CC. You can evade from it. There is a way to for you to just last hit, stay alive in lane and then turtle one. Yeah, they they might feel better about about picking the joy too here in this spot if they want to go for that again because they’ll have the phobia and they won’t reveal much yet. Not unless cuz right now yeah they do pick up the joy as well as the fobvious. Now Murko, this is my concern is that we talked about this before the game started which is Zippy doesn’t usually win the lane unless he’s on something like a Granger, right? I I I remember even the game with Irit. It honestly doesn’t look all that great and I feel like he went for something like a carry. I don’t know if if he will go for that. I feel like it should be a CC here and then just ban out either the gold laners or the roams. For me, I’m thinking a different route to counter the phobias and the joy. I’m thinking Gatot and Edith, but yeah, they will go for the CC. So, they will go for the damage route, but this could be very greedy from them. You already have a Granger and the Lanclaw who need a lot of resources early. And this is also you’re kind of forced to go for a damage mid, so that’s going to be four very resourceheavy picks. Mhm. I feel like something this is not super damage but still okay the zatan is open and if you don’t want that as long as there’s no like very long range heroes and honestly not not too bad just to pick up something like a Valentina like I feel like there’s still options for coron although now I’m I’m kind of convinced about the idea that this might be a little tricky for Corinthians if it especially reaches a point wherein they don’t get the best possible sequence in their fights. Although the way that they play is very aggressive. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they still take on the fights with this lineup. I like that they’re batting out all these catching heroes, the Cho as well as the Kalia, because we saw there were moments that maybe the landsl could have been punished. So I like that they take that away. And it’s not just the landsl too, right? We got to remember that CC does get countered hard by crowd control. You need to bring vengeance most of the time. So if there’s a big pickoff hero like a Klay or Cho, you’re in some big trouble here though for Corinthians. I think the Eve is still a good pick that they can go for. They’ve had I mean right now they have a really good composition to play pure front to back with the CC just holding ground. If he plays it in the way where it’s just in front of the Granger and Eve, even with the joy jumping in, you can just curtain collar and then Eve and Granger will do the rest. Yeah, got that banned. Eve was like one of the heroes least used by Nico or No, not by Nico. Fras I think or not at all like been much recent. Yeah, but people change. People can change. People can change. So maybe they can opt for that if they do want a bit more control in the team fight since it looks like they’re actually going for that safe choice. The global but yeah I mean with the passive too it’s great but I think it could be baited very easily. Everybody wants to be in front of your face here. Everybody wants to dive. So once someone does bait it out, it should be an easy road for the Joy to just walk up, which should be Yeah, I honestly I kind of feel like the Joy I think the Joy can even, you know, do that job now picking out the Badang as well as the Mosov. I think he did have a good Moscow game back in the grand finals. But now for Corinthians, if if you have one more hero that can potentially counter this joy, I don’t like the Tigro, but something like that. something that when the uh Joy goes in, you’re able to counter. That could be good because you just play with the habit of of Ken. He likes to go in and and try to get a trade. This could also be like it’s strange, but the Belleric XP with the Phobius and Joy jumping on you could just be a way to take both of those heroes out of the pool. Oo, for Louise Joy. Ah, I mean, still same kind of idea, right? Someone goes in, you counter it, and then this kind of solves the problem that Zion doesn’t have that much damage, right? You just burst him down. Exactly. So, they have options here. Now, Corinthians, they got a pretty good draft here. And this time, I agree. Looking at Mythic Seal, they’re not going too loco, right? They’re making sure that there’s there’s logic, there’s fallbacks, if something goes wrong, there’s a backup plan. So, now I’m going to give it over to you guys. We got to see if Mythic Seal is able to redeem themselves and push us to a game three or Corinthians they show up and start day one with a two-0. Can Mythic Seal bounce back? That’s a big question here. Thank you, Lel uh here with Mirao and Brigita to bring you game number two of what can be the upset of the day. We’ve been throwing out the upset word the whole day, but this could be it. Corinthians with a solid shot as Natan once again flies over to the land of dawn for us to join him here. Ken and Flick on the same heroes. It’s the Joy up against a Lancelot. Yep, the Jawhead. It It excites me to see that we’re finally going to see another Jawhead back here in MSC and the way it can just potentially be the source of surprise and set up here for Corinthians cuz it suits their play style so well. like Louise and Hessu. So long as they just don’t get too far away. Oh, that’s a that’s the cute passive. Cute. I mean, it bounces like Yeah, that’s that’s that’s going to be a big problem, by the way, for Mythic Seal. If they go Badang, that’s why I’m I wasn’t really too big of a fan of the Badang. You go in, you get bounced back. Oh, that’s actually a win for Corinthians. Oh, one hit is all they need to get the kill onto Boy, but still he’s able to walk out and imagine not even using the flicker during that moment. He was just too confident that he wouldn’t fall down. Patient. Oh man, Rapsidity shots. Okay, he might have to go home now because Flick is nearby. uses the thorn rose. But yet again, Corinthians for the second time in a row lacking just a single hit to secure first blood. But it’s still worth it. You bait out flicker for red tree. I’ll take it any day considering again that RT will be up by the time the turtle spawns in the game. So they really don’t lose anything for making that play happen. Great moves from Zippy to stay alive. But it is still Corinthians who have the lead. And it’s probably safe to say that Oppa is going to win this lane even harder now. Oh, Torn Rose doesn’t connect onto Nico, but you can see how well Corinthians are actually controlling the river side in this game so far. They’re not allowing mythic seals to be the ones to set things up. Curtain Call was already used onto Cook by the way. So that’s an ultimate already down for Corinthians, but they still might want to go for this nonetheless. Louise flickers in decides to go for good. Is that the right decision though? Fury of the Phoenix also committed as well. SOD will not land onto anyone just yet. And look at the sustain coming in from Kun. Actually takes down Louise instead even though he was the one who tried to set things up first. But it’s Louise for K worth it for Corinthians especially because they’re going to get this turtle for free. Ken is nowhere near and boy cannot get that fist fast enough. Zippy though actually finds a pretty good trade. Oppa staying a bit too long I would say around the turtle and that gives Mythic Seal at least something to trade back with. Yeah, this isn’t this isn’t that uh smooth of a start for Ken though if you were to compare to the previous game or it felt like he was just on track on timing when he was trying to secure his farm. So far, it feels like they’re doing a great job at denying him of that, even just when he wanted to take that lither. You could see how Louise makes his presence felt. And now even Flick. Yeah, I really like this build by the way from Fruss Lan. The tenacity with the inspire here. It’s safe and that’s all you need to do technically in this game, right? You’re just playing in the backline with up. You’re acting as a as a sort of peel with your with your passive. So whenever you’re around, anyone who walks up and initiates will be thrown back. so far away and it will give safety for everyone in the back line. So now it’s a slow game as expected here with these two drafts. It really comes down to trades especially with the Moscow picked up and noll waiting for the next neutral objective. 45 seconds. It’s been very very slow. If it’s just that they tried to go for hes though force out the vengeance and curtain call. I don’t know if that’ll be much because he still has quite some time to wait for that cool downs before the next objective. But Corinthians, it seems like they’re planning to go for something else. It’s not boy actually. Flicks finds Nico and tries to go for him instead. But because of that disconnect, it seems like Louise will get punished now. There was a change of target and that might not have been the best decision. They got confused and Con is now the one winning lane. That is winning by that much is interesting, dude. Like look at zoning Hu completely away. And this should be a free turtle over with Hu being so low at least. Never mind. I thought it was going to be a trade. Oh, almost. They’ve been here for like majority of the game. He did give out some energy shields to Zippy, but now it seems like he got way more way too slow than Zippy in this game. So now it feels like Corinthians might willingly be letting go of this hurdle or they might be entrusting it to Flick and Hessu because they have other things in mind, but they no longer will contest. They just allow up to secure the turret instead. Corinthians have just been playing so smart. So SD lands. Oh, are they going to fight? Doesn’t look like they need to. They will take it just for a faster rotation. Yeah, Corinthians, they’re just playing it so so smart. Even there, they didn’t want to go for the engage. is playing it super disciplinedly, playing super intelligently. Hessu caught in a bad spot, has the vengeance, will use it. It’s a turret for Turtle, so I would actually say it’s worth it for Corinthians. Yeah, they’re probably banking on the idea that it will work best considering that they’re with Zen mid if they get to include upzi in the rotation. So, they have a bit more of damage source whenever they try to go for the setup. But Flick, oh, he might just actually be taken down here. He wasn’t supposed to be there. And look at that. This big this crack combo coming in from Foy. Louis is next to fall. But Corinthians, they’re doing their best to hold on this mid lane turret. You hate to see the puncture get cancelled or even the puncture missing straight out. Flake had no way to escape. The Phantom Execution could have been a way to jump and to run. Remember, Mythic Steel have a ton of very small displacements that make it very difficult for Lancelot to pop the Phantom Execution. Mainly that shoulder bash from the Phobia, fear of misery from Zippy yada yada with Nico 2. And this Phobia is really taking control of the game right now. But I don’t know if he’s going to survive 1 v3. He’s taking so much attention. And now they try to burst him down. Ken is nearby though. And they don’t know it. Patzi fortunately has the flicker. So he gets to survive, but that was a close call. And still they don’t get to take down Nico nearby using the lantern flares. Oh, there was the ejector trying to save Asu, but then the Crimson Beacon was also committed. So, at least they get to keep everyone safe. Mythic Seal now the ones playing it incredibly slow and clinical. They’re no longer the team we saw in game number one in the lead while being in the lead. Maybe Lefel was right. Maybe they just got to start off behind and then they’ll come back with discipline. So far, that’s been in the name of name of the game. SMB gold difference. Look at that. 762 gold lead on the Phobias. There are ways to beat the CC in lane and is doing it. Curtain call bait it out. Kon is showing us how. But Flick tries to go for Ken. Actually, this is actually the first time they get to take a kill away or the second time they get to take a kill away from Kon. But this break again in danger, but still buys the double kill. TZ gets taken out too though. So that’s a two for one. But the turtle fight still going on. canceled out. Electrify beats. Now the phantom execution as well. Turtle reset. Nico in the midst of an off wins out the red tree and Nico will fall to Jesus’s yo-yos as the curtain call locks him down. Mythic seal while being in the lead again. Some odd initiations overextending Kun without fl. I’m surprised they’re actually able to win out the prolonged team fights even without like Corinthians esports. They were able to proceed, I think, just regroup, reset for a moment, not a full reset even, then proceed with the fight. And that was all the while up was down. So, it’s an interesting way that they were able to deal with the fight. I think I think we’ll be seeing that in this instant replay. Yeah. So they’ve been trying to target down Kun and they’ve been successful in doing so again at the expense of but who would have thought they’d be the ones actually able to fight longer. I think I think it just comes down to them being too split up at the start. They went in one by one. Mythic Seal hold up to go on this. Oh wow. Ken could barely move. Flicker used supposedly. Yes, but it was committed onto Hu. Nonetheless, still a pickoff for Corinthians Esports, but they’re still struggling to convert into objectives. Back to my point earlier, I think for Mythic Seal, they just fall into habits, bad habits so fast. Like they they would come back, they would be behind, and then they’ll be like, “All right, we’ve got to play discipline.” Once they win, they go back to be like, “Oh, yeah, you know, I’m just going to walk up like this. You know, they deal damage, but I was able to 1v3 earlier, so I can do it again.” It’s different. It’s different. Especially because Khan, you didn’t have flicker. You had flicker the first time when you 1v3ed Kun just took too much in the turtle fight earlier and it became too chill. Yo, they can’t forget about the small things. They really can’t. When you’re starting the fight alone with a quarter of HP as the main front line at this point of the game, you need to be a bit healthy. Okay, Zippy might be sensing danger here. By the way, Opati is not alone. But Zippy, he actually hesitates. Doesn’t go for the recall just yet. And Corinthians might be able to set up for this upcoming Lord. That’s a fleeting time. This is a utility zen. Frost has built a fleeting time. He’s really just a peel. Number one, it’s a peel for up. Second, that global for the stun. It’s a utility zan as they go for the lord. Okay, so that’ll connect. That will be a huge problem for Oh, yeah. Gets the last hit on the lord and the fight is still going. Kun might be traded down here, but very dangerous will be the target for Zippy, but he goes for hesu first and still will be able to catch up somehow, but they need to commit the conceal. Three members in exchange of only good and Katzy now make that four. Mythic Seal just need to be behind for them to win. They are behind were behind and then they had a clinical fight around the lord. Corinthians didn’t know what hit them. The concealed cancel with the dark wave onto two was beautiful by co and a lancer flare frost. Remember no damage. It’s utility build. So defending this is going to be quite hard. That’s why when they don’t get to be or to pull off the successful setups, Corinthians esports are definitely going to struggle. Like those ejector plays are going to be very important. Those targets are going to be very important. But now what’s more important is the way they’re able to defend this objective, this lord. They’ve already lost all of their holy shields. And that’ll mean a lot for mythic seals who were sort of on the seesaw for this game. It’s been a roller coaster of a game here. Back and forth, back and forth. Damage dealt ranking. It’s still wow. teasy and despite the the fleeting time some frost on Hey, you know what? Never mind. He does deal damage. Hey, maybe maybe fleeting time is just the way to go. Maybe that just adds into the damage because you can spam your old a bit more and then it leads up to more damage. Maybe that’s where it’s coming from to use it every now and then. Yeah, sky piercer though for up it’s at an all-time low. It’s not looking real good right now. Conceal does feel like a desperate one and even they’re confused. They pop a conceal and they’re like, “Wait, we shouldn’t be going in.” 70 seconds on Lord. There’s no reason for us to conceal. There’s no information either. All the waves are synced in top mid and bot, but you see no one from Mythic Seal. So, you have no way to guarantee that you could actually go for something near the Lord Pit. Very questionable for Corinthians Esports. So, it seems like mythic seals are still able to hold their ground and not do anything because they know that they shouldn’t do anything or need not to do anything. I think if Mythic Seal sees that replay, they’re just going to be like, “Oh, okay.” Cuz that was one of the conceals of all time. Now, this is a conceal. Uh-oh. Okay. Okay. There’s an And there’s the fury of the Phoenix in an an attempt to stop them in their tracks, but multiple members get stunned by mythic steals. Hu. Louis the front liners are down. They get to take out but Zippy. What a brave attempt from the gold leader of Mythic Seals gets taken down too. Oh man, that was so unfortunate. I don’t know if targeted that because I think it did. It did, you know, cuz it it only goes to the target that’s visible. He didn’t go for the shot straight onto Zippy. That might have killed him, might have not again. But hey, in the end, that was worth it for Mythic Seal. They lost CO for the price of Louise and Hessu, but they’re not actually blitzing the lord. As long as the landlaw’s still alive, they still have a shot. That’s a fist crack. Oh, a beautiful catch. Ken was brought down to almost 60% in that sequence, though. And they know the resources that were used. So, that might mean a lot for Corinthians Esports now that they’ve been able to all catch up in this potential Lord fight. So, is Oh my lord. Oh, look at the damage from Zippy. They get to receive that curtain call, however, and the Fury of the Phoenix does a great job. Oh, Corinthians Esports actually get the objective, but will they be able to make it out alive? That is going to be the question. Hzu doing his best to delay, but they lose four members in the process. It’s only Louise standing alone and the Lord will spawn up top. As long as Mythic Seal time it right here, it’s going to spawn in and they will not have to deal with the Lord. 15 seconds on Frost Lan. There you have it. They wait for it and they will have the route to go for the equalizer. They went for the flicker and they gain access to the base. It seems like group A indeed is becoming very competitive. We’re heading into another game number three. Our third full series of the day. Hey, if you thought MSE was going to be predictable, maybe. But not the games. I got to say only team Lucid got away with a 200 for today. But hey, you know what? We got to balance it out because that that was the game that got a pause. But either ways, I feel proud. I I I just I just uh I just throw out words of wisdom that is not supposed to be wisdom. Wisdom. Yeah. It’s like you have to lose for you to win. You’re a philosopher. I am. I’m a I’m a Yes. I’m a I’m a philosophy. You are philosopher. I am. I am philosophy. Now I got to say I got to say my hearts skip a bit a bit when Zippy tried to go for a play up top against against Granger thinking that he can outplay that with the wind of nature. Yep. Considering that you know sky piercer is true damage that was that was very brave. Yeah, I’m not as brave that as that man, but that man’s pretty great. But he’s performing very well because in a previous championship not doing that great, but hey, in this one, very disciplined, dealing a lot of damage. This was the one taking a lot of risk. But hey, they’re not even going to show it. Mhm. They they felt nervous about that attempt to But now I feel we see why the phobia is also always banned. Like speaking of which, we’re we’re going to talk about it during the uh itemization just a little bit more. But Fious against the CC, Fobius wins that matchup until CC gets that war axe. Then it becomes different. So I like the way that played the lane understanding I have a timer. So I got to make sure that I’m stopping you in your tracks, not allowing to roam around the map, creating pressure, influence, anything else. And that way the Phobia does win the matchup. And then once uh once the CC has that war axe, it’s not your job anymore. Yeah. Right. It’s not the job of the Phobia, everyone else can start taking turns dealing with the CC. I think level one to four, that’s when the CC actually also wins as well. Uh before the war axe, that was level one to four. And then after that, level five to like six before the war axe, then that’s phobia winning it out. And then we come back to a CC win with the War Axe. There are multiple windows where the phobius wins, where the CC wins, and it comes down to you just understanding that power spike, when it opens, when it closes against your opponent. It um for majority of the time, I think the camera panned to the exp lane. There’s a lot of BS and showed Hu kind of struggling on this. Made a lot of mistakes as well. Like curtain call for for who? For one. I mean, understandable for one if you want to shred down trigger happy. Yeah. that the turtle is coming up. It would have been great if you had that, you know, later on. Yeah. Yeah. So, I think this wasn’t the Hessu we are familiar with, like the Hes we saw here, cuz people would say that he kind of stabilized the team in terms of decision-m. But if he w was the one in that game who went for the questionable things, then Yep. She’s too nice. He’s way too nice, man. You’re way too nice. Yeah. Just say, “Mixth, you’re better when you’re behind.” Just say it. And then it’s sec. Yeah, you you can you went for utilities at 10. Yeah, like Jesu, don’t make a mistake. Yeah, don’t say that. Don’t. Okay. Randomly should avoid mistakes. But going back here as well, see see the difference when Nico was on the Selena and now on a juen. Very different heroes. Oh yeah. Looking much better now. Not not a lot of recalling, not a lot of um ego challenging. No, don’t say that yet. you know, consider last time he he was on Zus and he was winning and he started recalling and then the game turned around and then he almost lost and didn’t qualify to MSC, but he ultimately did. So, yeah. You know what I tell myself? Shut up, man. So, yeah, go ahead. We we choose our words from this point onwards. But yeah, um I think we were also talking about um Zippy earlier before this game and he actually did show up except that one point where it was discussing there by the way. Kind of dangerous there. So we see their Wait, why aren’t they backstage? They they like us better. They want to hear our analysis. Absolutely. Yes. They want to know, bro. They want to know what we think. You know, speaking of what we think right now, we’re looking at all the players here. Uatiz still did a lot of damage, but Zippy very high goal per minute 875 Willies took a lot of damage. I kind of feel like for Corinthians it’s micro like that’s that’s my personal opinion because especially with Hessu like we’ve seen different CC players today even even during MWI and even in the wild card and I really feel like he just made bad decisions where I agree. You shouldn’t be playing for yourself. You should be playing for your team. Yeah. Just play with the peel, right? move back with the Zatiana and the Granger. So that’s where the individual play style might backfire. We saw it in action in game number two because it felt like they were doing individual very like decisions that need or didn’t even consult others. The other word is selfish. Yeah. Selfless. Selfish. That sounds harsh, but maybe that’s how we should keep a self. She’s too nice. even like wait I got to think think about it is this is this too harsh maybe but in all seriousness also if we if we bring it back to game number one that’s why Corinthians was able to actually pull off the comeback it’s because they just had a lot of individual picks and so did mythic seal mythic seal just played into the game of Corinthians you brought it up they’re very individualistic for Corinthians and that’s why the landlaw really worked out now that mythic seal are playing much more like a team at least when they are behind uh they have ways to what’s uh displace there you go the the displace the land slot to make it not as free for flick yeah flick as well we uh you guys were talking about it but missing some punctures getting shoulder bash so this is why I say like the mechanical mistakes needs to lower down just a little bit and and play with the team because there are moments like this is good but it’s not good because of them but it’s because mythic seal botched the engage I think in his defense lefel that’s what a little more small dis like uh displacements can do to a landlaw like just a shoulder bash you you the targeting gets off the punch from Mr. Badang and even Dusin. So like small things make it very hard for the landlord to land punctures. I think a lot of them had unexpected moments where they got displaced even by so there were a couple of ejectors which were supposed to be for mythic seal but did not land through the members of mythic seal. And that’s another thing I think Louise wasn’t able to play the jawhead. It was last pick but it felt like it struggled the most. I mean that’s the thing with landslot right? Your enemies are your enemies. Yeah. And even your friends are enemies because you want to use the minions. Yeah. And then they clear it. And then they clear. It’s like, well, I guess I I gotta go back to the buff. But now we’re gonna be looking at the road to EWC, but this time for meal. Hi, my name is Ken. Uh, I play for Mythic Seal and I play in the jungle room. The toughest moment was in the grand finals because uh the first game we lost and everyone’s mental was maybe a little bit down and we were all tired because we had to play uh lower bracket finals in early in the morning. So, everyone was tired and we lost the first game. So, it was kind of like a setback but we overcame it as a team. Uh I told them I told my team just just don’t care if we lose just play one game at a time and that’s what we did. Ken finally after being so loyal to Mitsen for so long going over that hurdle there was a moment where people thought oh it’ll be Yang on Galactic most likely but now they were able to eek it out and they made it. Cutie finds the kill. The base is wide open after three heartbreaking runs. Mythic Seal have broken through the doors of destiny. They finally rise to the international stage at MSC XEWC. I just learned not to be afraid of losing anymore. I’ve had to grow a lot over the past year or so. And now since I’m the leader and I’m the oldest in my team, uh I have to be an example to my teammates. But I’m really happy to be back and I hope that I can really prove something here. Ken said it himself. I’m not afraid to lose. So lose just a little bit so that you win everything else, you know, just just what like just a little bit. 700 gold, 4,000 gold between between that that that that gap. Not too much, but also not too little so that you are aware that oh, we still have to lock in. Okay. Okay. That’s that’s scary then. Like if you’re a team going up against Mythic Seal and you have the lead, you still should not be complacent. Oh no, we have a lead. This is going to backfire on us. Yeah, that could be an actual strat, dude. Like if if they don’t notice their patterns and like their bad habits when they’re ahead, that could actually be a legit strat. They’re like, yo, letting this going to be the key to victory, dude. SRG Mythic Seal that match up, right? Both of them is like, no, you win. No, no, no, no, you win. No, no, you win. No, you win. That’s going to be a game to watch. Yeah, that’s going to be hit the crystal now. I wonder how many games that’ll reach if ever they do. But hey, seven. Seven. Oh, the players are behind us right now. And the draft have just started. Is that why they’re always better than us? They’re behind. Oh, dude. Two out of two. All right. Now, two out of Okay. Mythic Seal first pick again and Coritians second pick. So at this point, Miracle, I’m actually with you in the sense that CC is an option, but also the Edith as well as the Gat. Like looking at the plays just now, I kind of feel like Hessu needs a hero that plays for his team, right? Yeah. I want to see the It’s also just easier. It’s also just easier. Yeah. Yeah. the easier, the snappier, the I want to see those heroes from Hu which actually changed the tides and then he picks out a better dead. Oh, he goes, “You know what? You guys are talking too much. I’m going to pick the hardest hero.” What if though? But we’re yet to see a damage exp. Hey, we haven’t seen a lot of damage exp. The closest one is Lapu Lapu. We’ve not seen a Masha yet. We’ve not seen Does Arlet count as a damage exp? Depends on the items. that Sanford’s Arlet does. Yeah, cuz Sanford played Arlet. I mean, he used a thunder belt. Technically, there is He has a fury hammer. Yeah, but see, you don’t even you don’t even uh what? You don’t commit. You don’t commit. Yeah. Like you just put to all the You just put one foot in. Yeah. And then the rest of your body out. Exactly. The real full damage arlets are the petrifies are the blade of he sky piercer. Sky piercer. Those are the real G’s. Yes, sir. All right. Speaking of G’s right now in the draft, that’s a change. Okay, that’s good. I like that. So, respect, respect, respect. Mythic seal uh showing a lot of that up against Flick. Wait, so that leaves the fara fobvious open and if they don’t get the joy, that might be the next option for Flick. So, what does what does Ken use then? What about they just ban the joy? They won’t. But what? They won’t. But what if they ban the juice in my question here or the Arlet? That’s okay. I feel like they can get the Arlet cuz they banned the Arlet previously, right? Yep. Yep. They can. They can. They go. All right. They traded out. All right, let’s see. Mythic seal. Is it going to be Fious first pick? The Farsa is up. Yes. Oh, Farsa. I think Farsa should be the pri I like Farsa. Same. Like she doesn’t see things literally. Yeah, cuz she’s she’s buying but but she does a lot of damage and she can fly and she clears the minions fast. Yes. And she can fly. I would like the fast strategic. Have you mentioned that she can fly? I I think I haven’t. She can fly. You literally can fly as far as as far as So they pick up the arlet. Ah, they’re all back from hotel. I think they probably heard you, dude. They were like, “Dude, this guy’s talking a whole lot about flying. I don’t want to do that. I want to just, you know, my spear.” All right. My bad. My bad. My bad. But this is awesome. So, he did pick up the far. No, no, no. The thing is if you have an I’m sorry, l I’m sorry to shut you down here, but the Arlet is a good way to go up against far because you pop out for the air strike, you’re a sitting duck for the Arlet into whatever it is the team has. Farsa’s not a duck. Actually, she can’t. Actually, she is. She can’t depends on the scale, bro. They go for the first. You You need to You need to listen to my voice of wisdom. But the joy still Well, at least they have a Freder. Yeah. I don’t think you go join now, right? See, into the counter, bro. They can hear us. Can they? I depends on how loud. No, they can’t. They can’t. We’re pretty loud. So, not maybe not Joy. Okay. And then switch it up. Switch it up. And then Joy. Uh, do they take a gold leader here? Okay, one’s out. I think Ranger will be fine. Same choice. I think Ranger is fine cuz There you go. Joy. Yeah. Yeah. See, don’t don’t don’t say stuff. You’re challenging them. You’re ch I challenge them to go Forsa. They should be a It’s hard. Wait. What’s fine? Yeah, fobies will be great here. Uh, that’s why I was There’s no way they don’t pick up the Phobia, right? All right, I see what you’re doing here. Lal Corinthians, do they go instead for something else just to be like, yeah, we’re not because we wanted something else from Hu, but I think the phobias works. Like the focus is a bit too good right now. You have a joy, dude. Okay, there’s a joy, an Arlet. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Go on, go on. Wait. Ah, no. Cuz the Arlet still can be flexed. So, but still you get value like the ror the XP will always be parts of part of fights early and then the arlet the joy is there too. So it’s like you get value anyways. Hey maybe maybe we should mythic seal don’t ban phobias dude. Let’s let’s just start a podcast. Okay. We already have one I can gather ladies and gentlemen. Go check it out. So they should be banning out the mids. Um maybe consider the Selena right? Just take out Nikico’s Selena and Valentina cuz I feel like you got to respect that. You just got to respect it. Yeah, cuz there’s nothing left to do and the Kimmy are out and neither of them will get banned. I really hope Mythic Seal bans the Phobias. That’s what I really hope right now because hey, their composition is looking very dicey without the Phobia ban. It’s 100% Phobius. 100%. Okay. 100%. 100. Why wouldn’t it? Like, what else is there to ban? Ir maybe. Sure. Yeah. Wait, why? They have a monster. Oh, wait. Yeah, of course. Dude, it’s Dude, the game it’s been The game has been It’s been messing with my mind. Oh, hey. Hey, we got it right. There you go. There you go. We got it right. There you go. We finally This is a roller coaster. Who knew who knew a draft can be this intense? Corinthians next. Wait, wait, wait. Selena, we haven’t seen Honestly, not a bad one to actually. Yeah, valin. Valin is the safest in my opinion. Take out the valin so you don’t get to give away listen to me. No, I was challenging them to dude. She’s five head. She is mythic seal. Now, do they also just say, “You know what? We’re taking your heroes out of the equation, too, Jesu. Take away the CC.” And then they honestly CC is a good ban, but I don’t know after watching that game they’re like I can deal with it. Kalia. Okay. Okay. Hey, what about the Masha right now for Corinthians? Utility jungle. Oh wait. Yeah. Yeah. We haven’t seen the Masha. Maybe Hu is telling them that let me do damage. Damage and then they give Louise something like a box. Oh yeah. It’s still open. Yeah. Could also be got Katcha. I think that works too against this composition. Safest. Wait, there’s a bad take now. I feel like they could get also badang. Yeah. So, a lot of good options for Corinthians here. If they want to go Masha, that’s up. They could also just go for the safe route for chip mash. So, no. No. Right. No, I don’t think the force of I feel like I feel like you don’t have to go Masha. Like there’s other damage dealers. Yeah, they go for the bad. So, what’s his I want the Valentina. I feel like the Valentina is going to be pretty good here. I agree. And uh Nico actually did amazing on it. So equalize against the Yangon Galactic in MSLM season 1. Valentina and Valentina Cappuccina. Hey uh Val um Mimi me I I would prefer just just to book uh the Arlet in the exp. I agree. Please XP XP. Arlo, what do you go Rome? Sure. Wow. Okay. Okay. Nico stops with this one. Nico showing up. He’s like, “Hey, I’ll watch MWI. I saw the final game. And an Esmeralda.” Oh, this this is this is so much riskier for mythic seal. The composition. Yeah. This is what we wanted for MSE day one. We’re encountering the unknown. Experience the world. Yeah. Where when you move forward, you don’t know which is left and which is right. Yeah. And now we’re jumping into draft that we’ve never experienced before. This is what the world has to offer. And I’m going to show it to you guys. Thank you so much, Lafell. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Well, we’re still on the same desk, but me and Brigita will be bringing you the final game of the day as we encounter the unknown here in the final game of the day. Interesting drafts from both these teams from Mythic Seal and also Corinthians. Now question is, is the upset real? Can Corinthians beat the Dark Horse of MSC or with Milic Seal take the dub with Ken in his third toy game? That’s right. This should be the last game of the day since we’ve had a lot. And imagine that. Okay, we’ve already beat the record for fastest first blood in this day. We got one in 29 seconds courtesy of Boy. Shout outs to Boy Man on the Cho. He’s ruthless. Just showing Jun knows all around the board. Corinthians couldn’t handle the kicks. Couldn’t handle the swagger. That was such a great start for Mythic Seals though. Like I was honestly supposed to say that. I was They need to play from behind. Break. Oh no. Yeah. Okay. Continue. Yeah. Anyway, I was trying to I was kind of worried for Frost Lanv considering that the Kadita sounds like such a great answer to the fara similar to the entire Kadita fara matchup or Kagura Kagura Fara matchup rather. But given that they’re already able to get that great of a start with just I like going to be a little tricky for Frost Lanvi to position himself around the map. But speaking of frost, look at that. He went for tenacity on the far side. Oh, all right. Tenacity for both the mid duo here and inspire. They’re really in sync for this one. Despite the tankiness, they still fell first blood. And it goes to show you how much burst mythics have. Explosive burst in the early game. Yep. Petrify again. I mean, that’s the pull yourself together. Kadira, they’ll just be using all these skills over and over again. Flick is kind of low. Will they try to chase after him? He might try to disturb his farming. And that’s a few moments away before we see the objective spawn. So they’ve done a really good job in zoning out the members of Corinthians. Hess though somehow managing two members all by himself. We’ll get some help from Louise, but then that’s the flicker from Already committed before the fight. A bit of a mistake there from He walked up, tried to go for vengeance, but has to popped in the purifying Star Moon. Oh, that was such an accurate use with the knock from the rest of the ocean. Nico tries to burst down flick, but some of his HP goes back because of the appraiser’s wrath. Kendo still steals away that objective from Corinthians Esports despite a great start. And now Kun might just be the next to fall. Hu doing a great job. Retribution committed just to slow him down and he tries to dash back in. There’s the Jeep Kundo knock up and K. Oh my god, he’s still able to survive all that flicker from Louise. finally takes the kill, but so many resources were committed just for that. Great on over looking for Wow, Breath of the Yoshi from Nico and away the dragon to lock things down. Mythic seal. A long team fight that lasted ages. One out by the seals and now it’s all in for them. Ken already invading the jungle. Oh, Corinthians outplayed by And that just shows you how Oh man, that was a mistake by Upzy, right? He didn’t mean to spear misery there. But anyways, great outplay from Kun. They didn’t expect how many more ways the CC was available for mythic seal. They forgot about the breath of the ocean. They forgot about the Gundo that landed on two. And mainly they underestimated the sustain that the Arlet has with skill two. Every time you get it, oh my god, purify. Okay, I mean again that’s the pull yourself together Kadita. So Nico will just be constantly hunting down targets for Corinthians esports. And I agree. I mean that entire sequence which took place earlier was because Mythic Sales was somehow behind. So that’s why they were uh trying to invade deep into their jungle, but they find a way to turn things around. Took Corinthians Esports long enough to stay in that fight. So somehow Mythic Seal clearly have regained the lead in this game. Not their key to victory, but that’s when you know they are starting to make things work. Yeah, they’re not behind, but it’s all right. You know, it’s doesn’t have to always be them being behind. I think the last two games have taught them. Way the dragon with a flicker combo with the rest of the ocean as well. Wow, that immediately deletes Louise before he gets to do anything or even looks for a setup. There’s the daggers coming in from Ken Sod lands as well. Upati goes in and beautiful energy eruption used here by Flick. But then the response, the breath of the ocean coming in from Nico once again. It just denies so much from the attempts of Corinthians Esports. It’s as if you try to commit to the fight, but then you just suddenly get knocked up. These fights have been so long, dude. And Mythic Seal, fortunately for them, have been winning out. Nico now again breath the ocean. Does he have the rough waves? doesn’t. But that was already close. Like I mean if he has rough waves though I need to sneeze. I need to sneeze. Oh, another one. Now he has rough waves. Oh, okay. Okay. Is it going to be a turret? Zippy at least. Oh, he’s sanking turret. Okay, he gets Oh, he can’t defend it. And he might not even survive. That was a close call. Zippy is playing a very brave gold lane for the past two games. Like he’s been very confident in his decisions. Flick might go in. Oh, double mana knock up from the Gundo. SOD also lands. There’s the better air strike, but it won’t be doing much. Flick is the first one to get taken down. Ken tries to reach for 11, but the double kill instead for Zippy, granting them free control over this turtle once again. Mythic Seal are feeling it in game number three. Styling all over the board. The Fredin counter hasn’t really been a way to stop Ken. Well, in a way, yes, in KA, but when it comes to damage, Ken’s still dealing it. He’s still getting three sacks. Electrifyine beats in. And mainly, it’s because of the setup. Mainly, it’s because of how much CC Mythic Seal have. Arla’s just jumping all around the place. Nico’s jumping in with water. Corinthians don’t know what to build now. This you you see that Kadita just standing in front of you. It’s it so annoying cuz you know that you can’t really attempt to go for this hero, this pickup. There’s still the petrify. There’s still the knockup from the breath of the ocean. She can just literally swim away from danger and she’s becoming such a huge problem for Corinthians who I believe their early would revolve around the way they’re able to utilize the fara. Frost on F has been struggling to some extent. Even even forced to use the purify every now and then. So they’re not able to Oh, okay. That was close. Okay. Fortunately didn’t catch up. But now the question remains. Corinthians Esports, they’re significantly behind Mythic Seal and there hasn’t been a successful attempt from Luise. It’s always Boy or Nico starting things up. And you can really see how the farce are struggling in this game, right? Like it’s just so difficult for you to get an angle where you’re free to deal damage with feather air strike. At most you deal you throw out two and then you have you’re forced to cancel. You’re forced to walk back just because of this guy or maybe the other guy who who knows kung fu or the one with music or the one with a big spear and that guy with a spear who’s walking up can again man three whole levels ahead of the Fredin boy. Okay. Are they actually going to try to do something now? Oh, they spot uses the SOD, but will that be enough? Luise is here to help, but the final slash. He gets to purify himself to safety. Might just be able to walk away, but still, he had to use the purify. He had to use the SOD. That’s a lot. Two members. Could they be locked in here by the Fisk? They don’t. And they won’t commit it just yet. He also doesn’t have it anyway. So, a lot of utilities burned by both sides right before the objective. Voya is still trying to look for it though. But they might be a little more cautious. Never mind. Could go goes for the final slash, but there’s no followup, but it’s still worth it, I would say, for Mythic Seal because they baited out so many big ultimates. No feather air strike, no falling star, no fist crack, right? Turtle spawn in the game, but they don’t want it. Mythic Seal are just going to wait and possibly Yeah. go for a fast lord here. This is a two turtle game, ladies and gentlemen. Mythic Seal have started the lord earlier and this could be the beginning of the end for Corinthians if mythic seal do get it. But I feel like he wants to at least try to manage the wave but they have limited information. Ken and Boy could have actually tried to do something. Oh, now they know where the other members are though. Nico tries to go in but gets denied by Louise. A beautiful way to shut him down. So they at least get a pickoff away from Mythic Seal. A bit too greedy by Nico. Walks up, but he doesn’t want to utilize the rough waves. Thought he had enough to enough time to actually use it, but in the end he got chain CC. Boy looking for an angle and is really not letting mythic seal breathe. Not letting them play this slow paced game. He’s constantly punishing as Mythic Seal continued to hesitate on what to do. Yep. At least now for Corinthians Esports, they’re able to somehow gain a bit of control since they were forced or they did take a pick up earlier. Bravely goes in. Oh, but it seems like that wasn’t the right decision because it was Flick who was taken down. Frost uses the better air strike, but gets cancelled by K. And it’s a free objective going into the hands of mythic seal. The Arlet canceling out the fara there just without Final Slash. We expected maybe final slash could be the way to do it. No, he just vengeance is over to Louise. Gets the stun. Frost lane. A no chance to purify out of that one. Rome boots coming around already too. That’s a sea halbird for the fourth item. So even more penetration to get through these tanky front lines of Corinthians. Oh, another wave of the dragon though. Do they have enough burst damage? That’s Hessu, which they caught enough to bring him down to low HP. But again, I feel like Seal, they’re okay with this. They still have a lord coming up top and they’ll get this chance, this opportunity to clean up the remaining towers of Corinthians Esports. Slowly but surely sieging down the turrets in the side where we walk in with the Lord now. So far, they managed waves really, really well, by the way. Mhm. Now they’re going to build up another big one as the lord actually charges up top and flick is sent all alone. Yeah, he has to respect this. Ken is fully stacked up. Doesn’t want to use electrifying beats. Should just be a hoy defense here. Breath of the ocean such a big problem. They don’t want to let go of their holy shields but unfortunately will have to. They have no choice but to sacrifice these resources because mythic seals are playing this very aggressively. There’s no guarantee on whether when Boy will try to go for the flicker setup or when Nico will actually try to at least petrify a single target which then can be layered as well. But Ken, will he go in? There’s the taunt from the energy eruption. Frost Lenev already using the feathered air strike. Might be a go signal for Mythic Seal. They have to be careful of their positioning. Kun can do the final slash flicker too any time. Could be. Boy looking for an angle as well. They’re constantly sieging, but their only sword, their only like way to siege right now is through the range of Zippy. And I don’t think that’s enough. Corinthians have Moscow Farsa. That’s really, really good defense. So, Mythic Seal are going to have to wait for the next neutral objective. Lord, that’s still going to be enhanced. We won’t have evolved up until 18. Wind of nature final item for Zippy. Wants a bit more defense. Not even a fury hammer for Kun this game. It’s purely tank Arlet to survive and just to be a distraction to cancel out the player air strikes and to isolate some of the backliners away from the big fight. Yep. Uh Zippy also picked up his Window of Nature just now. So that’s going to be another problem for Corinthians Esports if they do want to attempt to go for him. It’s not like he can be the first option nor the easiest target if you’re looking at the lineup of mythic seals cuz you have to go through so many members. You have to not get surprised and bursted down first if you want to do just that. But speaking of they actually go for the surprise. They target Hu tanky enough though. Gets to survive and walk away. But not Louise. Louise will be the sacrifice this time for Corinthians. And it’s perfect timing. Really good timing. Mythic Seal have been on point when it comes to picking people off right before the lord. It’s a risky game to play because if you lose one member, could be another 50/50 or could be an advantage towards your opponents. But if you’re this good at going for picks on Cho basically is free. Good escape too with the breath of the ocean landing on Hu Lord Slain. Boy is looking for more but he doesn’t want to go for it. He knows he has a lord to play with it. There have been a lot of interesting interactions so far today. Just now we saw the breath of the o the the falling star moon into the breath of the ocean and still get knocked up midair. But this is going to be pretty hard for Corinthians esports if they don’t time their skills well if frostic gets forced to use the federate air strike again similar to earlier if mythic seals manage the waves right. And it seems like that’s what they’re trying to do. But interestingly enough, Corinthians Esports, they’re not staying in the base. They’re actually trying to go out. Yeah, they they really aren’t trying to fight back to gain some tempo back in the map, but it’s just so difficult because you never know where Mythic C are going to attack from. You don’t know where the Kita is. That’s the thing. I was nervous for a moment cuz they were just holding the brush down bottom. Oh, Spear of Misery denies Boy of that potential setup. But these are three waves all synced. Heading or close to gaining access to their base. Flick. Oh, already down half HP. Oh, the flicker. Final slash might be the way to go. Better air strike already committed by frost on Ne. They won’t be able to cancel it for now, but they just focus on taking the inhibitor turrets. will he actually try this time? Flick. He gets forced down. The final slash is committed onto two members, and that’s going to be a tricky spot. TZ is the next target. And look at Nico just diving in. Gets a double kill away from Corinthian Zippy as well. It’s close to a wipe out. It’s only Hessu left alive. And he too might be taken down as Mythic seals. The upset is denied for this series. Three times we saw a possible upset. Three times we saw the favorites come back to prevail. Today is not the day of upsets. It is all about the top teams. I mean, here’s the thing. It’s day number one and they’re already nail buyers, man. Like, this is just going to ramp up. Day two, day three. Heck, especially day three, cuz that’s when we be we’re going to have the uh eliminations. And in that matchup, like I don’t know, Nico, hey, you know what? At the end, it’s fine. Hey, hey, you know what? It’s fine. Hey, right. A win is a win. A win is a win. And and this time, it does show that, okay, maybe for game number one, they’re being a little bit too much. They got to they just got to bring it back in and then everything looks good. Imagine the amount of times we saw Nico and Boy just go for like the pickoffs, the setups and Corinthians had no answer to it. Like even for Flick, this was the time when they spent too much uh time in their jungle. But oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Was just beautiful by and the team. Remember, it’s team effort. whatever is an you can’t really make those kind of plays alone. Either ways, this is an amazing matchup. But behind me, it does look like Eterna is ready with Ken. So now we’re going to let Eterna talk with Miracle’s boy. That’s my boy. That’s his boy. Thank you, casters. I’m here with Miracle’s boy. So Miracle’s boy, Ken, okay, his name is Ken. He’s not Mira’s boy, actually. But we wanted to ask first and foremost, is it Mythic Seal or is it Mythic Seal? Uh, it’s Mythic Seal, but the Burmese pronounce it as Maidc, which is not the correct pronunciation, but Mythic Seal, that’s the correct pronunciation. Yes. Okay. So, you want us to refer to you guys as Mythic Seal? Yes. Yes. So, we got confirmation casters. All right. Perfect. So, it’s been a hot minute since we’ve last seen you. How is How are you? How does it feel to be back on the international stage? Uh, I feel very happy. uh especially coming here with uh a lot of my teammates because they’re all very young and uh some of them this is your first international experience. So I’m happy to take the charge for them. That’s what I really wanted to ask cuz I think a lot of people are considering you you to be particularly the big brother of the team. Uh yeah. So how has that been? Uh it’s been a pretty fun experience because most of my teammates, they’re all like uh 2, three, four years younger than me. So, uh, they all really, uh, look up to me and like, uh, it’s really nice being in the leader role. I’m I’m happy. That’s so sweet. That’s so sweet. Um, game number one was kind of a weird game. I think the casters were talking about it a little bit. So, as the big brother of your team, what did you say to them to bounce back for game number two and three? Oh, um, we just told each other it’s okay. Uh, we just, uh, yeah, we made a mistake and it’s fine. We won’t do the mistake again. Uh it’s just we got a little bit overhyped in game one. Like we killed like all three of them and then we were just like uh we got a bit overhyped and next game we just uh focused on our objectives and I think that was the key. Yeah, cuz this is the first game we got a bit hyped. Yeah, that’s all. Okay, so overhype. So it’s not that they’re good playing from behind, boys. I’m looking at you, Lel. I’m looking at you MO. All right. Um, a lot of people are considering your team, Mythic Seals, to be the dark horse. Do you have any message uh messages to the challengers coming into MSE? Uh, just good luck, have fun, and we have a lot of more in store. So, let’s give the audience a very exciting match. All right, before we let you go, we did get a little bit of an interview with Sakai earlier on, and he mentioned, you know, flashbacks to M6. It was SRG that was defeated by a a Burmese representative. The fact that it happened in the Swiss stages and I was asking him, do you feel confident going up against Mythic Seal? Because they were also predicting that you would be the one to move forward in the upper brackets. What do you have to say about that? Uh, I think it’ll be a very fun matchup, exciting matchup for sure. And uh, yeah, that’s that’s all I can say. It’ll be an really fun match. So yeah, you guys, everyone tune in. No messages for Sakai. Oh no. All right. Uh just good luck. Have fun. Uh let’s play Assassin versus Assassin. Okay. Assassin versus assassin. We’ve been waiting for this for such a long time. So once again, congratulations, Ken. It’s good to see you once again and we’ll see you in the next match and good luck. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters. And then Sakai picks up box. Y I just come on. The band has already said, “Let’s go assassin versus assassin.” And then he be like, “Yo, Matilda’s an assassin.” Right. Honestly, that was that was an amazing interview. Shout out to both of them. Um, I respect the Burmese by calling it my seal. But yeah, you know what? Same same, dude. We We’ll just keep alternating so that we make everyone happy. You know, the international viewers have probably been like, “No, dude. It’s mythic.” Well, now you got confirmation. That’s how the Burmese say it’s mythic seal. Here’s the thing. Here’s the thing. People say you can’t make everyone happy. Yeah, I accept that challenge. I We accept this challenge. Accept the Brigita, you want to accept that challenge? I will not. Okay. In this game that they say like they were overhyped, right? So maybe just above average hype. Could be just a tiny bit more than the average. That is also considered overhyped. But I think for them, no Eterna, they do look well from behind because how do they get overhyped when they’re ahead, bro? So when they’re behind, they can’t get overhyped because they need to find the hype. That’s a good idea. See, that’s good. See, you need to be behind so that you don’t get overhyped. Speaking of which, now we got to look at the Sony MVP of the day. We got to look at the MVP of the day. Who is it? Oh, the match MVP. We’re going to be looking at the match MVP just to see. Who is it? Yeah. Who is it? Nico. No, look at Okay. Yep. Sony match MVP here. And again, like uh just got to throw in that that Nico flare. Yeah. Just to die at the end just just cuz. That’s what we’re going to call it. Niko flare. Nico flare. That’s a Nico flare. Yeah. He needs that flare. If he doesn’t have it, he’s not Nico. Uh-huh. I enjoyed watching this Kadita so much. It’s amazing. It’s like the Kadita was the only one able to play in the mid lane and the faro was not able to play as much. It’s almost like they picked two. Yeah. From the very beginning picked the purify so couldn’t already position that much and every now and then uh there’s just a mermaid. So like mermaid. Oh, mermaid. What? Mermaids are not mermaid. No, mermaid and seals. Seals. Ah. Ah. But I think they’re I I I think it’s not that kind of seal. Yeah. Yeah, it’s like a seal as in like boom, we mythically sealed this game. Look at the brackets. Yeah, let’s go. Okay, let’s let’s let’s look at the brackets just to see how things have shaped up after day number one. Thank you very much. Looking at looking at this one t Oh wow, dude. Oh my lord. Wait, wait, wait. Real this early. This this already looks fine. Okay. Um, if you guys didn’t watch the screen, now’s a good time to look at the screen, screenshot, and post it all over social media. Team Liquid going up against Onyx ID. Hype, hype. That’s hype. SRG OG Mythic Seal Assassin versus Assassin. Hype, hype, hype, hype, hype, hype, hype. Oh, nice. CFU CFU Ultra Legends. Hype, hype, hype, hype, hype, hype, hype. I virt I I I like MSE. Hey, wait till you see group B. Oh, group B. Group B is going to be tomorrow, man. That’s That’s going to And now we’re looking at home boys team flash. High depends depends who wins for me. Okay. Oh. Oh, RQ R. The known versus the unknown. That’s that’s the story of that one. Encounter the unknown. Encounter the unknown. That’s Area 77. And then Onic Philippines going up against Yo guys, we got we got amazing games here. Team sprit ya. That’s my boy. That’s your boy team. We got my boy earlier in an interview. We got a super my boy on this one. Dude, you you got a lot of boys here. You got to got to calm down. You have a lot of boys. Hey, thank you. You can’t get overhyped. Don’t get overhyped. Relax. She’s too nice, but she also brings us back to reality, which is nice cuz that’s what Madara said. Uh anyways, looking at group B, which is going to be for tomorrow. That’s that’s going to be insane. Personally for me, you know, I want to see Team Spirit. I want to see Aurora, right? Haven’t seen them for a while after the patch. So now I want to see what has changed. And I agree. Hey, especially looking at Team Spirit, you know, looking at the EXP heroes that they will get or probably won’t get probably get banned out. We’ll see, man. At this point, it really comes down to we we were expecting like the XP carries, utility jungles, but we’ve still just been seeing a lot more assassins. The box we assumed would be a picker ban every single time, but turns out it depends on the team because some teams early on we did see the box just get completely autobanned and then towards the end when we started casting, they’re like, you know what, let’s just go assassins. So, that’s your thoughts. Any final thoughts from you before we close the show tomorrow? I think I’m most excited too for the uh Yao. I just wanted to say it, you know, like I I’m excited for that. Shout outs to Michelle and everyone watching. That’s it for today. We had four amazing matches. Only one to 0. The rest went all the way to ones. So far, no big upset just yet. But hey, that could change tomorrow. My name is Ael. This is MCO and that is Brigita. And we’re ending the day. Heat. Heat. Huh? Heat. I got it. I got it. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Hey, Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

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