🔴 LIVE | GROUP STAGE DAY 4 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

🔴 LIVE | GROUP STAGE DAY 4 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

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Any from Indo, Ani from Philippines, and I’m here with the Anik boys. Firstly, the man, the myth, the legend, the guy who brought Anik ID from ninth to first place, Raja Yeba. That’s what we call him, the king. Yea. Hello, Yeba. How you doing? I’m good. I’m good. You’re good. Next up, we got a legend as well and a world champion, by the way. M6. Look at this guy. The guy in the gold lane, the gold standard. Really doesn’t need an introduction. It’s Kela. How you doing, Keller? I’m I’m good. Good. Not great. Just good. Good. Good. Not great. Good. Good. Better than good and great. Good. And great. All right, we’ll put that in. Uh, last but not least, definitely we have a very special guest here as well. Where’s the spicy boy? Where’s the miracle boy? Because this is key boy. How you doing, Key Boy? Yeah, I’m very good. Very good. Went from good to good and great to very good. I like that. We’re we’re getting getting better as we go. Yeah, let’s go. Well, we’ve got a couple of questions here. I’ve got a lot a lot of questions for you guys, Yab Keller, and Key Boy. Let’s start with Key Boy first. Key Boy, you’re part of the Sky Kings era. How would you describe the difference in energy or play style between that era and the Kag era of 2019? Um for me kagi era just for one season two season but now we dominate all season. Okay. So it’s is the difference in the consistent consistency? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. So what’s the difference there? Was it is it just like is it your coach that helped you? Is it what’s the difference there? How did you get so consistent or how are you so consistent now? Oh. For sure because of the yea the king coach. Yeah. The best coach. Best coach of all time in the world. You agree? All time. All time. Ye. That’s not true. That’s not true. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What would your uh answer be then? What’s the difference between the Skyings era and the Kagay era? Well, um at first I think the Kag era they don’t have a coach. So maybe there’s no one to help them to be consistent, how to adjust for the different meta and yeah, how to be mature maybe. Okay, then. So I mean you joined Any um in season 10. You joined Any season 10 together with Kyrie. So talk us through the journey of you uh becoming the head coach in season 11 and then taking this roster making them Sky Kings in 2023. Well, actually first I I want to say I I’m not the one who make them sky kings. It is the team. It is the effort of the whole team. So yeah, I’m really happy to work with them. They’re very passionate, hardworking, and they really love the game. That’s why it’s fun to be working with them. Clearly they they really love the game. But you know, a lot of times we see players, especially in MLBB, after playing for a few years, they get burnt out really quick, right? In in interviews, after losses, they would always just say, “Yeah, we’ve just been going through so many tournaments.” Now, how do you as a coach deal with that? Like, do you have any ways specific ways from Anik? Actually, um I I’ve just recently learned that burnout is different. Burnout is when you don’t want to play anymore. You don’t want the game anymore. That’s burnout. Okay. It’s different from you’re tired. You’re you don’t know what to do. You don’t have the solution, the answer to be better. That’s that burnout. I see. Okay. So, it just comes down to this the different meaning of burnout. So, the players were tired. They’re not they they still wanted to play the game. Everyone’s tired. You’re tired. Are you tired now or are you hyped? Um I’m hyped. Okay. Yeah, it’s a good answer. Well, let’s move on then to Kelra from Onik Philippines. Hey Kelra, you’ve gone through, you know, a few years yourself in Anik Philippines. There was the season you joined, you actually didn’t qualify for MSE, unfortunately. So, what makes the current roster stand out more than, you know, the previous rosters you’ve played with? Uh, he’s there’s no one helping. We got to speak English. Uh for me uh I think because of our discipline inside and outside the game and also our team bonding and also to to our coach because coach Ton is very big impact to us because he always said say to us to be a consistent every day and improve inside and outside of the game every single day that’s all. So, okay, we’ve seen different iterations as well of Onyx Philippines, right? Like the Onyx Philippines we have now, the one again that you joined into and right before that be when Yeb was still there, Onyx Philippines with Glar Marquy, Kyrie. What would you say is the main difference between the M3 Onyx Philippines and the M6 Onik Philippines? I think uh because in M6 in our M6 form is very different because other teams cannot adapt our game play. I see like very aggressive in invading like in King Kong is very aggressive jungle. He’s the only one aggressive jungle that time. Okay. So, it’s a proactive gameplay that that diff you know is the difference between you and M3. All right. Well, Key Boy, you’ve been in so many finals. Uh I can’t count how many finals you’ve been to. MSE 2022 finals, ML finals, a bunch of them as well. Which loss has hit you the hardest as a player and how did you mentally bounce back from that loss? For me, for sure. M5. Yeah. And then don’t look at me, bro. Just look at the camera. Uh after M5, I just uh realize like uh it’s okay next time. But for next tournament, international tournament, I think I more I need to more work hard and learn everything. Okay. Yeah. Is that moment, the M5 grand finals, something you still remember to this day or is something you’ve already moved on? Like is it something you’ve already forgotten about? Have you moved on from that or is it something you still remember to keep yourself motivated? Yeah, for M5, I think they just remember the how the pain I lose. Oh, and then for my fire in my heart. Let’s go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, it motivates you as a player. What about you? Yeah. From a coach perspective, what’s the biggest challenge in preparing a team not just to reach the finals, but to finish the job in M5? In M5 and all the finals you’ve been to? Oh. Um actually every series I treat it like a grand finals. So it doesn’t matter if it’s grand finals. So there’s no difference in the matches for you. Is that something that you also tell your players to implement? Like don’t think of you have to think of every match as a grand finals, every series as a grand finals. Yeah. Even in screams I’ll tell them that we have to play we have to train like we’re playing in a tournament. Okay. So grand finals technically don’t ma doesn’t matter because every single time they’re already technically prepared for finals. Yeah actually well it matters because of the ambience but while you’re in stage you cannot hear anything. I mean you’re just too focused. You’re just locked in. Yeah. Okay. You won six. You know that’s a massive finals. Oh my god. But you fell short on NPL uh Philippines this time around. Do you feel the pressure from the fans to constantly stay on top is too much or what happened in MPL Philippines? What is the question again? So you lost MPL Philippines. Is the pressure from the fans to constantly stay on top too much? Uh I’m just focusing the game. I don’t mind the social media social media fans. Okay. So you don’t care about the fans. There’s no pressure from the fans. I care to my fans, but I don’t care when I was playing. Ah, okay. Yeah. So when you’re in the game, you’re locked in. Lucky. I’m locked in. You said at M6, I remember this, that ML Philippines is harder to win than the World Championship. So is it the same here for MSE? Is ML Philippines harder or is MSE 2025 going to be more difficult? I think MSE will be harder too because we have we have on Indo. Oh, right now because because also Team Liquid is here. Yeah. What is that? Liar. Liar. Liar. Okay. So, you’re a liar, Kra. No. All right. We’ll see. We’ll see later. We’ll see. We’ll see. If they beat you, that means he’s lying. Okay. He’s a liar. Well, I’m going to go back to Key Boy. What changed in the team’s environment that helped Anik ID bounce back this year after setbacks? Regular season, you were ninth place. What changed in Onik to get you to become champions? Oh, for sure. Baba. Just Baba. Yeah. Baba. Papa, you’ve constantly denied that you were the main man behind the comeback. So, your perspective and the players seem to say, you know, it’s just But what about you? What changed when you came back to from ninth to first? Well, actually, um I don’t really feel it. It’s just um I tried to find solutions for the team problems and the coaching staff all of us helped to find solutions. So it’s just not uh it’s not only me who worked for it. Yeah. So what would you think is was the biggest change uh during that time? Was it was it the change of Luti and Riyota? Was it the change of mindset? Actually, I don’t know because I’m not really with them back when I’m when I’m was not in the roster, but when I entered, I just do it my style. All right. Well, Kra, you certainly have a style yourself at M6 and I believe here, too. What do you think just clicked during the M6 World Championship? What What pushed you guys to become champions at M6 since the emotional loss at MPL? Do you think you’ve bounced back even stronger now as well? But first, let’s M6, what pushed you? thinking again. No worries. Take your time. It’s okay. Yeah, it’s okay. Well, well, I just want to win. And that time I already said earlier the other team cannot adopt our game play. That’s why Mhm. we destroy all all of the teams in M6. So, you’re just very confident that time. Confident. Very. Now, it’s a bit different because you’re coming in as a second seed from MPL Philippines. Have you bounced back from the loss in the grand finals? Yes. And now what motivates you for MSE? Is it just a complete because you already have money? Money. Okay, that’s a great answer. Money is what pushes Mr. Kell right now. W man’s Hey, he’s a father. He needs the money though. Yes. Back to you real quick, man. W man. All right. W mans. All right. I’m back to you, YB. Walk us through again the journey of ID becoming the best team in the region. Not just now, but I think of all time in ID. I think we we kind of have this consensus from the general masses that Onyx ID is the best or to do it in MPL ID. How many I forgot how many NPLs you guys have? Seven. Is it seven MPs? Seven. Seven. Season three season. Yeah. Right. Seven MLS. Seven. So, uh, walk us through that journey. Well, I’m very proud that I’m part of it and it’s also because of the back end of the organization, the management of ONIC, how they treat us. I mean, how they how they um respect my decision and yeah, maybe we’re just lucky. The the classic lucky line in Indo, man. All right, then. YB, what’s Cuz you’re a VP. You’re a VP and a coach. Now you’re more of a coach cuz we’re just, you know, you’re handling the team, but obviously you see the big picture goal for Anik as a VP. What is the big picture goal for Anik as an organization? Well, hopefully we’re slowly wants it to be global. I mean, not only in Indonesia or Southeast Asia. We’re trying to make it Yeah. global. And it’s really fun. It’s really fun doing it. Helping other players to achieve their dream, supporting them. Yeah. So, do you see Philippines and ID both making it to the top for MSE 2025? Well, again, I have to be realistic first. Um, it depends on the bracket. Mhm. Because there’s no lower bracket here in MSE and Yeah. But I hope I really hope that we can meet at grand finals. Okay, key boy. Do you think there’s a future where on ID becomes the best in the world, not just ID? For me, Ken. Mhm. Because VP, right? He can handle everything. Yeah. for you as a player seeing Onyx, you know, get massive success in the Philippines, massive success on other game titles as well. Does it push you to be better as a player for Onic ID or is that something that you just don’t think about? Uh for me, I just get a motivate because so many team on Yeah. like get a result, good result, champion or something. And then for me the management on uh I know already so long they are so good to find the coach like coach chap and then the good player right I thinking yeah that’s it yeah a great answer well final question to you Kra what would you ever I mean would would you ever want to face ID in the grand finals I won because our boss said if we went in grand finals else we will go to the Japan. Okay. So, it’s not Is it about the rivalry you have or is it just about Japan? Japan and rivalry. Japan and rivalry. All right. There. There you go, guys. If they make it to the grand finals together, they’re going to Japan. All of you on ID and Philippines. Maybe you can get one more ticket for me. What? Well, that’s it for us guys here. Thank you so much, Key Boy, Kellra, and YB. If both on ID and PH end up in the grand finals of MSSE 2025, would you people back at home consider as the best organization in MLBB to have ever done it? Amen. [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Level up your gaming experience with over 8 billion playlists. only on Spotify, the official audio streaming partner for the 2025 Esports World Cup. [Music] [Music] [Music] Guys, just trust me, okay? We just have to follow the MSE history footprint. MS we had this year as in Saudi Arabia. Yes. Why are we trekking through the jungle? MSC started off in the tropics before it started to take over the world. Yes. Oh, guys. Guys, this simple. It matches the cubid frequency. I think we’re getting close. You guys hear that? The format is calling me. I can feel it in my gut. Your guts. 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 format with BO3 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 MSE 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 2- 0 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, then 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 they even get here. Let’s go. Brigita, 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. We can still fix the format. Thank goodness I’m out with you this time. Don’t touch anything else, no. Let’s look at the knockout stage. The MSC 2025 knockout stage. 20 teams will get to choose which 21 team they want to face. Will the two O teams just pick a weaker team for a better matchup? Or they could just find a tougher team just the best. The real question is which team gets to choose first? Most game wins or shorter game time. We’re going to have to wait until we get to Riad. Until then, let’s have a look at the playoff bracket. Quarterfinals and semis will now be best of five. Oh, and there’s now a best of five third place clash before the grand finals. The final best of seven to crown the ultimate champion. There you have it. The MSC 2025 format. Wildc cards to glory. Yes. [Music] [Music] Hi Lord. Forward. [Music] Just one more trophy left. Nobody expected this. That’s fine. [Music] This time it’s our year. [Music] We’re locked in more than competition. I can’t live like the opposition. Living everything I dreamed of doing everything you think of the way I work. I’m on the brink of doing everything you dreamed of. Only aim for perfection. Ain’t no half. I’m going to take you back. In fact, it [Music] do all best any [Music] time. Everyone knows who win MSE 2025. Have that ice [Music] break your pipes. After 12 games, group A certainly delivered in the quality and quantity of matches after the third day of MSC group stages here at the esports world cup. Now, can group B match that? As by the end of this day, we will find out who will be the first batch of two zero teams and unfortunately we will be saying goodbye to two more teams here at day four. Hey everyone, my name is Renmar. I’m here with Nisu and Mero. And Nisu, you don’t have to do that. You don’t have to do that. I just want to see what it was like. This is my All right. Give me a ladder and I can see what it’s like for you. All right. How are you guys feeling after yesterday? Feeling great, man. I mean, it was a long day, but I think all of us were really happy with the 12 games that we got. I know you guys part of the first series and then we rounded the day out. It was great, but unfortunately, too. You know, you’re at the point where you’re saying goodbye to a couple teams. Yeah, it’s unfortunate for the teams that got eliminated, but again, that’s the nature of competition right now. And we are at the stage of eliminations. We are at day number four now. Oh my lord. Hey, we’re going to get two more promotions over the knockout stage. Two more teams eliminated today. Again, if you are somehow living under a rock and missed the action yesterday, Team Liquid Philippines and Mythic Seal have secured their spots into the knockout stages and the remaining 12 teams will now encounter the unknown for the final six slots. So, two more two zero teams will be decided and by the end of tomorrow, we’ll see the teams that go into the 2-1 bracket. Remember, Mythic Seal did the unthinkable a and delivered a 2-1 victory against SRG, while Liquid versus Onyx went the distance with a very, very, as people would say in this current uh metag game uh era is a it was absolute cinema. So, I just want to ask you guys real quick. Which one did you prefer? Mythic versus SRG or Liquid Versic. Oh, that’s a tough question cuz both are really good, but I think the I have to go with the Mythic Seal game. Like that was cuz I was holding on to like Well, I was with Lafell and Gideon, by the way, so I was holding on to them while they were watching it. And then that ending I feel like uh throughout the series was pretty pretty crazy. So, but it’s so hard to choose all. We’ve had so many great matches. Uh for me, it’s the match of the day for sure, man. TPH even though it was well I predicted TPH to win too. It just shows us what the level of MLBB looks like here in MSC. At least the top level, right? Both these teams fated matchup. We got to see it very early. I hope it’s a teaser to what we’ll see later in the knockout stage and not just like all right, one time it’s over. One of these teams get knocked out. Yeah, I hope it’s just it’s not just a group stage thing because if this continues on to into the single elimination knockoffs and we are bound for a crazy playoffs here at the MSC at the esports world cup. Now we’re going to be showing you the Korea top plays of the day and with 12 games being played. Which one is it? I would be very surprised if this was like a short feature. I think this is going to be one of our longest top play recap. Yeah, this has to be because there was just so many good plays, so many um you know 10k leads, massive leads that got turned around and you know we talked about this a little bit in the back too. It’s just it’s a very interesting place we are in the meta right now because of the fact that you know things are a little even 50/50 if you have a major lead but some of the stronger teams like I would say don’t even let that chance happen. Absolutely. You get to see in game number three especially for TPH once they get the lead going as far as they did 10,000 gold lead they understood the assignment. They knew how to really just capitalize on that. But we did get to see that as well from DPH. I think they were leading 7,000 in game one and still it became a slugfest. What I’m surprised with is this. CFU Gaming up against Ultra Legends. We got to see full three games. I think the last two matches yesterday, none of us really predicted it to go three games. We kind of expected Corinthians and um Ultra Legends to just get knocked out to zero. But the fact that they were able to prove to be absolute competitors before getting eliminated shows you the level of MLBB and MSE have been rising. Yeah, everyone has been intense as you looking at the best reactions of the day brought to you by Crunchy Roll. Oh, Kbo, we don’t need subtitles for that. Ultra Legends a little bit comic though. CFU a little bit more stoic as well. But of course, you see the heartbreak after the game one loss of Vertus Pro against Corinthians. But then is that how you play MLMBB? That’s how you play. That’s tap tap tap, right? Hopefully you get to see more spicy reactions. I mean, y’all have been seeing the clips online of the, you know, fan-made subtitles for the friendly versions of what’s being said, but it’s it’s really great. I love you. Wasn’t Skyler even had like a reaction himself? Like he I saw his reaction, man. I actually didn’t see that. You didn’t see that? Not yet. No. Oh, yeah. I saw one somewhere online. So, there’s a lot of colorful reactions. Well, I mean, of course, if you are under the banner of the esports world cup and the prizes that you are playing for, then definitely you’re going to want to bring your aame not only in game, but of course through the mental game as the club championship hangs over the heads of a lot of these players, especially for those who are part of the club championship rankings and race for the title team. Vitali of course still on top but well with Vertus Pro being as part of this club championship race as well you could tell why their members are really looking forward to you know secure wins and better placements for Vertus Pro while for team spirit who we’ll see in action today and they are looking really good in the tournament so far and where they are in the club championship standings there’s a lot of hopes for them there’s a whole lot of uh fifth places there you know all a ton of five five5s a ton of 122s yeah basically And are they team spirits the is it the last match today? I believe it is either third or fourth but it is definitely you know the second shift that will handle that match up against the homeboys who were able to come back against team flash. Now for our first match I believe it it is team flash dfy. I think that’s an interesting matchup. Yeah. uh just in just a bit we’ll be able to discuss the matches a little bit more but of course we’d like to remind you that uh MoBon they are nominated for a bunch of awards at the esports awards and at the same time of course you can also get your tickets for the knockout stages which will be starting later on remember August 2nd is the final day that is grand finals day but knockouts begin remind me I’m I’m 10th of July 27 28 29 no that’s the groups that’s the groups that’s the groups or past 10th of July my guy. Let me check. Knockouts would be 20 something 20. What day is it today? 26th guys, we have lost track of time. Yeah, it’s uh we are um 29th of July. 29th 30th of July. One of those one of those days. The beginning of the knockout. Great start. Yeah, great start. This will really set the tone for the rest of the day. But I mean, come on. We we we’re coming off of a 12 game day. I mean, we were doing a shift. Uh, I think I just realized it. No one told me just now that it is July 30th for the first day of Knockout. So hopefully we get to see you there. And don’t forget to get your tickets. Weebook.com. Look for it there. MSE at the Esports World Cup. Now, I think it’s time also to remind y’all what these players are fighting for and why even just making it to the Knockouts is already life-changing money. If you could even ending up in a bracket where you’re like 1, I think it’s somewhat good already because of like the the placements or whatnot. But okay, we’ll we’ll get to remind you about that. Uh we just want to remind you about the format. Now, we’re done with the wild card. We are in the group stages. I think you’re very familiar with this, but there’s been a lot of discussion online. Uh I think we have to iron out how the knockout draw will happen. So, two zero teams pick among the two one teams from the group group stage. There’s no region lock and no group lock. The draw order will be determined by the fastest total game win time. Not average, but fastest total game win time. First tiebreaker will be a first single game win time, while the second tiebreaker will be decided by randomizer. As of now, Team Liquid leads with total game win time at uh 53 minutes. Mythic Seal is at 1 hour. Oh, wait, excuse me, I messed that up, but uh yeah, no, Team Liquid uh is up there and they are leading. Yep, they’re leading. So, you know, some of that stuff will start to fall into place already, especially as we wrap out today um leading forward. But yeah, I think it’s a really interesting thing because you’re going to have those top four from the groups go ahead and go to the playoffs and then eventually we get to that best of five single elimination for the playoffs and that’s going to be great because you know it’s given a lot of opportunity for teams to showcase what they’re capable of. There’s the whole meta discussion still and it’s weird because like in our position where we are right now like I can’t even say we have a set meta just yet and it’s showed in the group stage alone like the group stage alone has been different from what people saw on the wild card even to an extent if they watched MWI right there’s been changes already here yeah neutral objectives seem to be a bit overrated uh in this tournament so far especially in group A for some reason like mythic seal gave away all the objectives to SRG still ended up winning the game through a comeback fightm We saw that from Onyx ID2 in game one against TLPH in that series. And yeah, like you said, Renmar, they’re going to bring home a lot of dollars even if they just make it to 1-1. Yeah, remember if you make it to around 9th to 12th place, that’s 66,000 for each team. Fifth to eighth, that’s when you get into the knockout portion, you know, 100,000. Then if you get uh past the first round of the knockout stages, and then you’re in the top four, you’re already secured at least 150k. Yeah, that’s a whole lot to to go around here. And of course, our teams, you know, already going for that playoff spot, going to get themselves in that position and then all fighting for that uh the top prizes there, of course. Now, again, we’re going to take a look here at the groups. We just went through group A yesterday and now we are here focusing on group B. Yeah, uh, Group B, a lot of surprises, of course, Aurora being one of them, immediately launching themselves as one of the best teams in the tournament so far with them being able to systematically take down the defending world champions in MLBB in Oni Philippines. Yeah, I think what was really surprising about Aurora Turkey is the fact that they also kind of like mixed up that systematic play style that we know Aurora for into the chaotic fights up against Philippines. And we know when it comes to the chaotic skirmishes, Ani Philippines are probably the best team to do it. But the fact that Aura Turkey were able to go headtohead in that department too. A few solo kills here and there. If you remember Rosa against three games in a row. Yeah. This that has sent shock waves through the rest of the groups. Even for the teams in group A. Now they’re confused. They’re like, who do we even choose if we’re 2, dude? Yeah, it makes the decision for the knockout draw all the more difficult. Let’s look at the day schedule. Flash SG and Dian Fong Yaoai will be an elimination match to open up Power Day. Whoever loses that series, fortunately, their tournament life is done. RQ versus Aurora is going to be our second match of the day. And there are a lot of eyes on that one. We are getting closer and closer to reaching the 2 million mark, by the way, for our peak concurrent viewers. So, please tell everyone, tell your friends to catch all of the MSE action to so that we can continue breaking records and you can continue getting codes. Yeah, get those codes. The even the last the the last couple matches. I feel like today after what we saw yesterday, I would say you got to pay attention to all these matches cuz you never know. I mean, maybe a couple of those you’re you’re going to have, you know, an inclination like, okay, this team’s going to win. But I’ every time we’ve had that, I feel like it’s always been in a sense of a 50/50 in some cases. All right, now it’s time to see what the SNB match of the day is. Is it the second one? Is it RQ? It’s got to be. It’s got to be this one. RQ versus Aurora, bro. Aora was on the map like you said. Yeah, RQ they have always kind of been also the systematic team. So it is I think going to be an interesting match up because of the stylistic battle here for both these teams. Aurora known for being a bit more systematic even though now we have seen that chaotic style from them too versus a very like tame RQ so far. Yeah, tame because they Area 77 weren’t really able to pull a lot from RQ in their match. So, I still don’t know how RQ are going to do here against Aurora. It’s still kind of like we’re encountering the unknown. Ooh, that sounds familiar. Where’ I get that? I don’t know. Yeah, I don’t know where you got that either. If you want to see something that’s a little bit more familiar, we can break it down for you. It’s the Ramco power ranking. Remember, we showed this to you in the very first day of the broadcast here in the group stages. And this needs some updating from us because this broke a lot of expectations. Like all the actions we saw at this point. Yeah, mythic seal is definitely a dark. They’re not just a dark horse anymore. They’re a bonafide contender with them being able to take down the defending MSE champs. Yeah, I would put him there. Do we And I even Aurora like Aurora, I feel like you got to move um it seems like they’ve really improved uh overall and I think this has just shaken up shaken up shaken up a lot of people’s predictions and power rankings leading into this. Yeah, for sure. I am shooken. I am shook. You’re we’re all shook dead. We’re all shook. Like even the the ranking of the untouchables with the Team Liquid, SRG, and OnXPH, like you need to change that. I mean, Team Liquid were the second team to make it into the Knockouts. Yes. But uh based off of what we saw against Onyx PH, I wouldn’t brand them as untouchable anymore. It’s still one of the top teams for sure, but this MS has been so competitive uh and so surprising as well. So yeah, I really don’t know what to expect. Even this very first series that we have coming up, Flash from Singapore, the four repeat champions of MPL Singapore against Tanfang Yaoai. I think I as much as I want to say Team Flash is probably going to take this maybe, just maybe, Tanfang Yagai had enough time to just fix what they needed to fix in terms of like their overall team chemistry and how they execute in game. I think despite the fact that group A is labeled as a group of death. Group B is the more competitive one where again every team can really they all have a chance against one another. Uh that goes to show against DFY against Team Spirit they did get stomped. I had Team Spirit at like the upper echelon team. So now I think we’re going to get an even match up here where DFY, we didn’t get really to see them shine too much, but they have a good grasp on the meta and that in itself should be uh cause for concern for team flash because they’ve just been going all out from match number one. They showed those cheese picks, Masha, Liam go so early on. Yeah. Uh when you saw the here the shots of Team Flash, the first one that really popped up is Ken. During their uh loss of their previous series, you could really see how at moments it’s great that you see that young that young energy brought into MLBB which is always like, “Oh, he’s fearless.” But sometimes where it’s like you got to tone it down a little bit with the fearlessness. You really have to maybe don’t Yeah. don’t flicker into the base. There’s been a couple moments like that for a lot of teams, you know, specific players you think are going to, you know, kind of take that risk and I feel like sometimes they’re in a position where they have to, but then yeah, you’re like, I mean, even yesterday in the 12 games that we saw, I was like, there was multiple times where we saw teams kind of overstep a little bit. And I feel like again, that’s just a reflection of where we were uh with the meta. You can actually punish those mistakes severely and turn games around like we’ve seen here. Because that’s the other thing I think as a whole for team flash. I love that they’ve always been the team that brings up these pocket picks, these niche picks. Like that’s what they’re known for and hopefully they can continue to execute it here against DFY because that is a team who has to continue to work on I feel like the fundamentals to come to a cohesive like unit as a team. Yeah, I think when it comes to team flash, the big concern for me is the fact that like yes, we know that they can pull off these crazy picks like the Martis mid, the Masha XP, the gold, but was it too early? Did they show it too early? And also the fact that I don’t know if you guys know this, but Coach Jace has been very vocal, maybe a bit too vocal on social media after that loss, just seeing that one match loss. I really don’t like the fact that there’s already kind of like tension between the team and the coach. it and it won’t impact their performance. Yeah. There has to be some sort of like just making sure that whatever they want in the draft and whatever they want to execute there’s like a a cohesiveness to it. Similar things could be said about Yanfong Yao Kai where we’ve talked about their performance after their previous series against Team Spirit. It really just felt like there’s some sort of disconnect this time with the in-game execution. And it seems like a few players here or there, maybe Super seems to be a little bit more um out of sync maybe with DF the rest of DFY or it could actually be argued that it’s vice versa. Yeah, I think it’s a majority of the teams just not in sync uh from what we’ve seen. And also at the same time, I feel like Zed, if we were going to talk about Ken from um you know, previously with Team Flash, it’s like Zed was in that same position where it’s like a lot of times he was throwing himself towards these fights in the first matchup we saw them play, but then like sometimes the team wasn’t even there. So it’s like you have to consider like their decision-m have they been able to go ahead and refine that from what they had in their first match because you know I mean these players individually all have quite a bit of different levels of experience here. Yeah, Kelvj is experienced in the international scene in competitive MLBB. He’s an MSE champion in his own right after 2021 when Kelro first won it as well. he was there and he’s going to be going up against a youngster in Ken. While E1, Zed, Super Ken, I I think they’re going to have one of the toughest jobs in this series because they’re going to be going up against JPL, uh, Hades, and Curtis, who are a very solid unit. Yeah, veteran lineup there for the side of Team Flash. But yeah, for DFYG, I got to say, I think it’s because Zed has transitioned from his role in the jungle to the ro position. And maybe that’s why we’re seeing him play a bit too aggressively. He definitely has an assassin instinct in the role position. Sometimes it’s great because you want to go for these kind of pickoffs, but a lot of times, especially against Team Spirit, a very disciplined team, a team just full of calculation macro play, it ends up being punished. Yeah. Uh and speaking of uh being punished, don’t forget the Allstar 2025 dyno pilot. I should have thought that a little bit better. You going to punish them with dinos? No, because if you miss out on doing the activities for this event, you’re not going to get the I I missed out again. Yeah. Uh there’s a lot of uh you know, little things I need to do with that little hopping dinosaur. I get it. Got punished from that. And I have done the math. I will officially miss out on the pawing Koopa skin, unfortunately. So, I think maybe it might not be late for you, especially if you’ve been doing the event for quite some time. So, hopefully you will hop into the game and do that right now. I’m not even going to get the jawhead skin, dude. What? Yeah, dude. You have Hello Diamonds. Just like just get it. No, wait. What’s the jawhead one? The jawhead one is the new the the new dino. Yeah, in the in the dino pack. Yeah, I might have diamonds. I might not have diamonds because there’s a event going on as well and I just bought three skins out of three. Which ones did you roll on? The uh every single one all the ones right now. The events. Yeah. Yeah. The skins right now in game look good. So, don’t forget to hop on right now in your in-game clients. Now, uh we are about to hop on into the draft. Uh I want to focus a little bit on and what they need to do here. Uh cuz looking at their games from their qualifiers and even talking to Michelle uh the host for their region over there is that it seems like they have so much respect on Moscow that if it’s available for them, they want to lock it in right away. But if you are DFY, are you just going to go ahead rush, try to take that Moskov when your row mid jungle seems to be somewhat disconnected? I feel like that’s a lot of pressure on Lung even more so if they go ahead and try to rush that. I feel like Lung has showed us his Moskov even from last year for the most part and like he did pretty well on it last year. I mean last year’s MSSE. Now this time I think if they still want to go for the Moskov, it still gives them that option like we can put pressure on the map. I that’s always a that’s always an option for the teams that have those kind of heroes that are split pushing capable. And how many times have we seen a spear of destruction now steal an objective and turn games around, right? So that that is always something that you can consider. Um hopefully again you just need to be able to play into that. I feel like a lot of times when we saw Lung play it previously, he was kind of just left to his own and he wasn’t really able to actually join some of those crucial skirmishes or fights. So maybe they changed the plan here. But again, what have we seen him play? the Moskov and was it Bruno? I think that’s about it. I think that’s why I think for DFY they just got to get winning lanes on the other side if they want to go and set up for the long Moskov. So far we haven’t really been seeing that like Kill VG has been placed into really bad matchups. I feel the trio mid has just not been in sync. I hope the last few days or last day that they had to prepare uh have already prepared them to face off against Team Flash’s very creative drafts. That’s another thing, right? It was a concern for me coming into day number one with those drafts, but I think with an elimination match here, it’s pretty good. Like DFY now are probably the ones confused like what do we ban? Do we even prepare for a leward gold or well flash now decide to go, yeah, we’re going to go normal drafts and then they curveball DFY with the orthodox one. Yeah. Uh what I hope we get to see from DFY here is just once we get uh to the point where their play style is a little bit more obvious uh what to expect that it’s something that has a very clear set idea. They rush the boxer right away with a lot of power picks available still. So okay, we could argue that they’re trying to find stability at the center of the map with that pick. Uh he’s my boy Super Cat, right? I was going to say box or exactly for Dianaguay might be big. I might be biased because he’s my boy, but it did seem like Super Ken was the one with the killer instinct. He was the one doing a lot for uh DFY in their match against Team Spirit. So, putting him on a pick like Bakshia, it’s more of a team player. You’re not much of a carry. You’re enabler and you get to see the flash respect for Moscow taking it away from Long and the instant counter in the CC. What if they swerve it though? What if they swerve the I hope it’s a swerve. Yeah, like they take a card or take a page from Team Liquer’s book and put the box in the row then have something with the assassins. Uh the first two picks alone of Team Flash actually will have to really make DFY get creative. Uh the Moscow sort of soft blocks a possibility of Farsa. So DFG decided to go for the Kimmy. Okay. But then Flash SG also picked up the CC which right now uh not a lot of exp laners can match or do a CC does that. that KVJ might end up being forced on a glue later on. DFYG immediately show their hand right away. And you know what? I’m okay with this because they take away the pressure from Long because if Long has a hard time, at least the center of the map with E1 can be your secondary carry. Yeah, I think you you they didn’t have to do that, but maybe it’s also in the sense of again, we have to think about the hero pool possibilities here for Lung. And the fact that the Moskov was taken, there probably was going to be a good chance at least one more gold leader would have been banned out from Team Flash. So you pick it up right away. That gives them that confidence to go ahead and play into lane. And then you have a Fred from Team Flash picked up. So maybe this is just a throwback to the uh to the jungle match up we’ve seen so much of and the Frederick and the Boxa unless it it still is flexed. And I think that highly depends on what the rest of the bands are here. Is it just weird? Does it feel like Flash picking up the Frederick is sort of them telling DFY we can bully you in your jungle? Yeah. Uh could be the case. But again, I saw how confused you look, Renar. I agree with you. I’m pretty confused myself. Box is a pretty good match up against the Freden number one in the jungle. Number two, Flash kind of need more dive. This is a pure front to back. Like DFY are being a bit too honest in the draft, but they’re not getting punished for it. Mhm. There is also no more, you know, questions to be raised for DFY about Flash’s insane pegs like the Leo gold because the Moscow is visible, the CC2, so you’re not going to get the Masha, you’re not going to get the Leo, which means Flash aren’t just confident that they’re going to bully DFY in the jungle. They’re confident that they’re just going to out front to back DFY. And yeah, that’s a tough game to play with this comp already picked off by DFY. Exactly. That’s why like I appreciate the green join Kimmy even more so now. I I honestly feel like the Frederick could have come a little bit later or maybe you know just for going the Frederick idea that far as a DFY band would have been a great pick for red three. We might just see an Uber strat here for DFYG right I mean they can just double down maybe pick up we haven’t seen in this tournament so far but if they really want to punish this pure front to back Estes could come out Angela with Boxia comboed in a couple of times too. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. And I think an Angela would actually wait Angela is Angela would Angela for flash. Angela roam for the FY. I know but then you get a tank XP too and then you just play for the two carries you picked up in first phase. Ah yeah. And I think that forces the FY to really like be a unit. Yeah. I think it also just kind of help like if they opt for that some of the uh one of the healers here. You can also just give that protection to um Logan. That’s kind of what he would need. So because this time you’re forced to join the fights. It’s not like you can just rely on that split pushing power that Moskov has. So, we’re going to see even a different um pretty much pathing and just rotation from L himself and see if he can actually join in on these fights. So, now that the second phase is done, they still need a maybe they go with their mid lane option here. The far was already taken out. What do we see picked up here? I mean, Zadian has kind of fallen off. Yes. A bit. So, okay. Pick Lolita. just to go for the Kibby against the Kimmy and the Granger. Haven’t we been waiting for this? Like with all the teams picking up Kimmy, it’s like where’s the Lolita? Yeah, I’ve been waiting for it since MWI, man. Like I I name dropped Lolita a good couple of times. Uh let’s see what mid laner they end up being paired with cuz they need a lot of damage later on unless they really want to ham in the idea of more crowd control. They might like suddenly surprise us and pick up an Aurora or they could go utility. They can pick up a Phamis. But it is all very close range and that is a lot of pressure on the Moscow DFY last two picks. They need more front and they need something that hurts. But Esmeralda yet again XP lane for the Esmeralda. There’s the Tiger. So Boxu in the jungle, Tigurel up front and then you got the Esmeralda. I feel like this is this covers their grounds though pretty well. Like there’s some good interactions that can happen with uh their combination of ultimates. you know, the traction pulse, even the implosion might be easier to set things up. But this is also really dependent on what team flash picks for the mid lane here. Let’s see what do they want to go for. No fara figured at this point Eve might option if they want more control. Like they’re going to have so much control if they do pick an Eve. Yeah, in the mid lane they can they can go for the control. Yeah, I think the safe choice would be Eve. Mhm. But then that’s my boy. That’s the only time I want to say that. I’m It’s the only time I’m going to say it. That’s my boy. That’s your boy. That’s my boy. It’s not a It’s not a player. It’s a hero. Perfect that I’m casting this game. I mean with you. Yes, sir. You know, Gourd. So, I get to shout Mr. My boy versus my boy. Okay, that’s true. It seems like uh the story line for the desk is nice versus even though the gourd is also in the hands of Flash. This could be interesting. The surprises don’t stop here in day number four of the group stages. Flash versus DFY game number one. Let’s go, boys. I am super excited if you guys can’t tell. Thank you so much, Renoir, for joining us for the draft. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the English desk here. It’s day number four for MSC at EWC. And we’re starting it off with an elimination match between our two teams. Who will go home? Will it be Team Flash or will it be Genfang Yao Guay or also known as Monster on Peak for our English viewers out there? It’s me, I excited for this one. Super Kent and Hades starting up together. A classic match up by the way in the jungle that we’re so used to seeing with interesting lineups to complement them. Definitely. Here again, back to the utility meta that we expected more of but haven’t really gone. We’ve just been seeing Lancelot dominate the field and land a dawn. But you want to know a fun fact, Na? Tell me. My boy Super Ken once said in season 12, “If I get the box, it’s 100% victory.” And he He did get like a lot of wins up until they lost in third place on a box. On a on the box. Yeah. So it wasn’t 100%. Hades already coming in. But you can see the pressure from the FY. Super can. Great pathing. And it’s a battle. Elite the wanderer. Yeah. I think Hades will have to respect this one. Then Zed and E1. Wow. H still goes for it. Oh, they’re going to maybe initiate this. Yeah. Shield Unity locked him down earlier. Should be a bit more respect. E1 with the purify locked down on the other side of the wall. Hades one last shot, but Super cany puts it down. Gets that do Zed going to be stunned up as well with a flicker response from Zed. They’re still brawling it out, man. Hades just doesn’t want to farm. Continues to push on the pace. That’s my boy. And by that I mean Curtis with the gourd laying down. That’s always something you have to watch out for. I mean, it’s not often that you see the gourd come through. And you’ve got to watch out for those stuns and even the mystic uh gush later on once he has that. He’s going to have a little bit of a difficult time though. I always I always will say this on a gourd. You’re not very mobile which is so awkward because he has like this speed board that he has and it just doesn’t seem like it gets to do much. But he’s going to have to just rely on stunning and then flickering defensively for the most part. And even as you look at the emblems here, there’s a whole lot of just durability from DFYG’s lineup that they’re able to utilize the I mean even Zed uh he can catch out multiple members with the implosion. So I think even for JPL the works cut out for him to be able to find those setups with the Numon blast, but this turtle’s going to be started up. Team Flash has some control, but they might just force this off. Couple level fours missing here. Shield already used up over to JPL. Now it’s going to be Ken with the curtain caller. A true battle. Y1 wins it out. Mystic Gush doing a lot of damage. Pis Wrath locks heal VJ down. Woo! It is a vengeance. Esme Hades gets attraction post. Oh, Hades still able to dash away. Ken very low up against Super Ken. Ken on Ken. Violence here. Z1 tries to cut him off but with the lead up should be okay. Yeah, a little multiverse here. Ken versus Super Ken. But great traction pulse that we saw earlier on as well. Um but still, you know, it’s a it is an objective for DFY. Here we’re back to the fighting in the river. Mhm. They got to be careful with that shield. JPL puts it up and the damage just gets canceled out. Hades forcing out the purify out of Y1 and DFYG are back to their jungle. Team Flash is doing a great job at least from Y1 to get out the purify now. They have that information. You know, you still have over a minute on that battle spell to be up. We’ll see if they actually go for a play here. Oh, again. Uh-oh. Look at Hades. The targeting has been phenomenal. Just jumps on E1 kill. VJ rotates over two. And Kurt is still a okay. Pretty safe in the back on the gourd. Yeah, that’s what he wants to do. Just play from the back, especially when that flicker is down. Now, the rest of uh DFYG, like I said, you got to be able to activate Lung at some point. He’s done a pretty much just a decent job farming up. Doesn’t really have to worry about too much. I’m not sure on if we got to look at the items just yet to see what he’s building into, especially early on. Here we go. So, he went with the Hunter Strike right away. You see Vanic still building up and it’s it’s Lung has a little bit of a lead too. You know, he’s gotten himself Oh, implosion again. JPL early one. They go all in onto JPL. Still has blast. Let’s just see if they decide to go for it. Super can jumps in with the shield. Unity locks Hades down. Blast catches three. Mystic Gushman as well, but Y1 is right there to punish Curtis. That’s a big pick right before the turtle spawns. Yeah, great play there. Turtle’s going to be up. You’re going to see the positioning happening here on both sides. But team flash will start it up first it looks like with Ken at least around the corner while Hades is going to make his way. So now for DFY it’s like do you actually when you bring long in for these fights he’s going to stay there because Vanax can join it anytime he wants. So they’re fighting for this space control right now. They jump in falling star and they shove back to force a purify out from Ken who pops in the curtain call locks him down now. Taunt double on Hades able to lock Zed down. Now he’s caught in the turtle pit. Has the flicker. Mr. Kush use our retry battle. One out by super as he jumps over the shield. Unity once again to the back now. Good pe from Hades. JPL shredded down. Vengeance used by kill BJ. But a big P lands said going forward. Implosion to anyone. Long gets the kill and the sky piercer here and DFYG get the better trade. Yeah, they do. They get a couple kills off of it. And I was wondering when do you activate long? Long came down for the fight. He got the call and that’s a great one. Let’s look at the instant replay. A whole lot happened in this fight. Mystic Gush was actually used on Zed, so a lot of that damage time was used up, but still they get trapped into this little choke point. No one saw that. That’s Yeah, no one saw that. That’s fine. But again, it’s a fight that favors DFYG. They’re able to go ahead and get a little bit of an advantage from that. But ultimately, again, um you know, Long has to go ahead and build up on this Granger. Every single time that we’ve seen the Granger pop up, oh, you should be fine. Kill VJ. Yeah. Yeah, he’s fine. Um, but the rest of the team is trying to make a play. They’re going to force him off. So, you see this mirroring up top. Oh, missed the gun. That’s your boy. That’s my boy. So, is he already strong enough to like just fight it out? That’s a trade by the way for DFY. A turret up top for a kill on kill BJ. Yeah, good good trade. I think again, you know, typically with the gourds, you want at least like the two items. JPL is going to get spotted out. ADS could be in trouble. Yeah. Shield Unity not landing. Rewinds it out. Superken implosion to the other side. Blast trying to peel blade. Gets brought back to the team as long goes for the damage. Still the guard got his bow doing work as Z picks up the kill. Now Superken pops in slows JPL down. Gives long all the shots necessary and Ke just walks up says I want that. I want that. Team Flash decided to go for the buff and they end up getting uh a huge disadvantage. Now DFY punishing on that positioning. So they get the mid turret tier one. It looks like they’re just going to go ahead and grab this next turtle too. Hades is up. He might make his way, but I don’t even know if you want to fight this. You’re going to fall further behind right now. Even with Curtis having, you know, 3 and 0 building into those items. If that Mystic Gushes isn’t available, then he’s uh and not landing the stuns, he’s not going to be able to actually do much. An implosion is used and Ken on the run. Super Ken looking for the Glock on Ken doesn’t find it. Is able to escape. Bax picks up the golden staff as he shoves bottom lane. And it’s just weird for me in this game because team flash can and kill VJ, it almost seems like both of them have traded battle spells, right? Like you usually see the Esme with the purify and the CC with vengeance. So I guess it’s disrespect over to the Tigriel. Yeah, I would assume so. The and Zed has had, you know, a couple decent implosions. You can see now second items locked in. It see how too for long. Lung picks that up to deal with some of the shielding because earlier we saw that rush with the flask of the Oasis from JPL. So he’ll build into that. But this looks like another fight. Yep. Zed still there already. The shield going to be locked down. Track should pull two and the back line able to get the spear down. That’s a mystic gush over. Z walks in with the play onto Fenix and he won’t be able to have damage onto Long. He gets the kill. It’s two. And now with the purify it’s not enough to keep him healthy. Long gets a triple. So many stacks on Sky Piercer. Hey man, give him the Granger from now on. Don’t take the Mosov. Lung is having a phenomenal game already. Gets a triple off of this. And Vanex joins in with the Spear of Destruction, but Long has all the space in the world. Zed did a great job at kind of just tanking up that space from Vanex and then allows him to go and have that. So, they’re going to get a tier two. This is the biggest lead so far that we’ve seen for DFYG to take and we’ll see if they can maintain it. I always have to say that for a lot of teams through the group stages is like you have these leads now. Hopefully they don’t let it slip through their hands. Hopefully they’re able to continue to protect Lung and keep them alive. E1’s done a great job at you know throwing out the traction pulses catching a couple people. Sometimes they’re just whiffed but that alone that area uh gives them some space to work with. Yeah, I don’t know what this Ken walks up way too aggressively. Blast lands attraction pulse there. Hades. Wa missed the cushion. Sod to the back. Banics gets a spear of misery into the vengeance though, but Yi was just wreaking havoc. Banics forced to run back. That’s a one for zero. Little bit of trade. That is just all in favor of team flash. Thought DFY would be able to get something else out of that, but no. Again, in these choke points, you really don’t want to fight. And it’s kind of it counterplays each other because like with with Z, he’s looking to set things up with the implosion, but then if you’re caught in that Numon blast, you set yourself up just to get beamed down. So that’s something we want to consider. This Lord is coming up though, they’re going to go ahead and fight for space. Once again, even with a lead like this, 5,000 gold for DFY, Team Flash is still confident enough with the composition that they brought to go ahead and fight. There’s a concealed explosion or new uh traction pulse not going to land all these blasts, you know, and they’re going to force him off of this. It looks like that’s another blast. Numan JPL using it very early on. Ken already shoved in and he already used the curtain call, too. No trades just clearing up the wave down below. Full reset for DFYG. They can play as long as they want. They can prolong this as Moralda still clearing it up as well. Okay. Z with the implosion. Purify response. JPL able to get away. Spis mystery locks him down long a flick around to safety as the mystic gosh steals through sends HP. Super can shield Unity just running laps around. Flash SG banics with the jump on the SOD gets the kill. It’s a double for Banex. A massive turn around and they set their sights on the Lord. Oh man. And this whole time Long went for the orange buff and now he’s going to make his way here. Big bomb. Oh my lord. That could have been bad. The Lord knocked up members. Long able to get one now. Fanic very low as well. That’s going to be the toad from Super Ken as long dishes out damage now onto Fanatics. He goes the lord very low. Hades and super Ken wins the red tree. Long on a triple dashes away. Wow. 2v5. Wa. Long was like, “Hold on, guys. I’m going to go get the orange buff.” Swings back forward. Joins the fight with Super Ken. He gets a triple and then Super Ken gets the lord here. It’s that patience, dude, of the danger. He saw the bull work and he just held down. He held down. And you got to remember, you got to give props to Lung here. A lot of those ultimates being thrown at him. The abilities too, even from Kurt. Eventually, a beam comes out, which keeps him at bay. But I feel like L could have got more here if it wasn’t for that Mystic Gush. So, he would have gone savage for sure there if it wasn’t for the Mystic Gush. Oh, speaking of the Mystic Gush canceled out, Hades with a massive T, but it gets canceled out by the shove. Super can actually thrown around in the back. Hades. Ooh, that would have been a kill on Long, but luckily for Long. He’s almost fully stacked up on the sky piercer. He is locked in right now. A 0 and five. This Lord makes its way down. Bot. Yes, they lost Super Ken. So, can they get more? The The shields are still up here though for the base. So, they’re going ahead delay it out for that wave in the mid to push too. They’re going to force team flash to respond. Shield will pop. Not sure if DFYG despite having a massive lead right now can do much without Super Ken here either. So it looks like Team Flash holds on to the base turrets for now. Wind of nature for Vanex. A genius one for Curtis. Some items picked up here for Vanex again to try to outplay the situation. But unfortunately it’s not as easy as just picking up wind. I think he also needs rose gold to deal with E1. Yeah. This is why uh you know again it’s that initial window and this is the thing with a lot of our bursty kind of mages right now. We even see this with a Farsa a lot of the times. It’s like you have this window for Curtis to pump out a ton of damage. Once that’s gone though, then you have to rely on Vanics. Look at the look at the stacks here for Long, right? He is locked and loaded. But if he gets shut down, that’s where things can be topsyturvy. We’ve seen that all group stages so long. So for Lung, he’s got to go ahead and protect himself, you know, and rely on the team here. So that is the biggest I feel like target for team flash. If they can somehow shut Lung down, they’ll be in a good position to start turning this around. But DFY have maintained this lead and maintain this positioning for the majority of the game at this point. Here’s the thing though, Nu. No one can really get to long. So it’s like, well, except for Vanics, I guess, like an SOD to the back. Sure, but you’re going to be soding into this into everything into everything. There’s Zed who’s there who’s just been peeling a lot of times. Super Ken who’s super tanky despite the CC pick on the other side too. Yeah. So L just needs to play the normal game. I don’t even think he needs to be extra cautious because he knows the team can play around him with so many stacks. It’ll be weird if DFYG decide to just go in and not peel for long. It’s like the only thing that I see happening here is somehow someway JPL gets a Numon blast with a flicker. Maybe catches out L, but L can just kind of flicker on out to himself or slide out or like you said rely on the team. So they’ve got control here. Lord is up. They’ll pull it to their side. Team flash is going to go ahead and stare this down. We still have Vanex up top and half health from the Lord. They got to do something quick here. Yeah, Hades a mythical steal to the back line. They don’t have last lines as well. X just going at it survive but again the win of nature doesn’t get him out of the damage from Y1 he gets the kill falling star moon doing a lot of damage here VJ looking for a chase of the lord spawns in the bottom lane and Dianfong Yaoay should be able to clear this out they should clear it out but hey team flashes goes in buys them time that enough alone will keep them into this game and that’s exactly what they need again Kurt teasing hasn’t gone down he’s been playing from the back really well and you ultimately need that for team flash. These kind of things that happen in the game traditionally will compound up to turning things around and you know taking away that gold lead that DFYG has and so taking a lord buys them that. Now team flash off of that has to again you saw what Vanix did. Vanx actually had he had the right mindset. He goes in but like you mentioned the wind of nature wasn’t enough either and he just doesn’t have enough damage just yet I feel like to completely take down one of the members here. You can see Yeah, you can see here the damage dealt to Lung is on point. Curtei right behind him and then it’s far from those two. Really tough for team flash to get to the back. The one angle they saw earlier was probably their best shot at dealing with the backline. Either they’re just too strong, dude. It’s a mix of both. You have to wind. You have to go rose gold. Maybe if he had me gun, he would have actually gotten a kill on E1. But again, he needs the defenses. Oh, he’s still just going for me gun. Yeah, he’s just saying, “All right, it’s whatever. I need Melic gun to threaten the backline anyway.” So, yeah, whatever. No rose gold. Maybe he’ll sell the boots later on in the game. Yeah, I think that’s the plan uh for for both the teams here, too. You got Curtis working on the next. He’s already got his three. So, he’s actually shredding the magic, too. And that’s why you see him. There’s a malefific gun, by the way, picked up. So, Vanex might be in a better position. But Curtis, as long as he goes and checks, you know, that’s another thing. he can go ahead and check these bushes for the team. Team flash can play around that. That might give an advantage too where JPL doesn’t have to be so front forward. And that’s one of the um plus sides here to having a gourd because JPL can either peel if he has to or initiate later on with the information. But I think we just see team flash just wait for this next lord. They’ll most likely contest this one because of the fact that they’re in fighting form. The items that they have are pretty good. Ken is the only one I’m really worried about because yeah, I think vengeance like not having that on a CC is what we’re used to seeing. So, you know, that gives you a little bit more of that time to be durable. But now that you have the purify, it’s like you jump in and your job also drop down the current call. Sort of be a distraction if you can or put pressure on the back line and hope the team can follow through from that. And even as a Fred, it’s like you got to be in the right positioning to be able to get that, you know, the taunt off and then even the appraiser’s wrath. So most of the idea for team flash is contest the objective. Hopefully we win that team fight. DFYG has done really well though at just starting these objectives and not hesitating. I think that’s the biggest thing we’ve seen from them is this decision making from them in this match and compared to when we first saw them play. They’re very decisive here as they fight for this lord. You see that? Yeah. Traction falls reflected back. Should be a free. Oh, good one. That’s going to be Z on the back with the SOD landing. It will be them going through the mistake from Cartezy. Ken the super one dies. Yi falls as well, but DFYG still got the lord thanks to Zed with his flicker implosion. Oh man, team flash though. That’s what they needed. They’re going to go ahead and get a tier two off of this. Yes, they have to deal with a lard, but they might even try to get a base turret that’s going to clear that minion out. Just got to respect respect this damage that’s potential from team flash. Do they go for a base turret? Mid turret already down. 4v3 and long still up. Mystic gush again over to Z. Now as Vatics goes in the Bark able to stop the min from getting cleared out. Did he go for the team flash turned it around one team fight without the Lord. No problem without the Lord. Again, just going back to what we’ve been saying. Hey, some of these objectives you don’t need. Just turn around. Who cares about the gold leads that these teams have? What a game one. And Team Flash seems like the themes and surprises from day number three continue on to today. Team Flash turning things around. Curtis was untouched for the entire game as that Gordon in the end. It was his flicker mystic gush that delivered the nail into the confidence of Yanfanguay for that game number one. That’s my boy right there. I got to I got to say it. You know, um Curtis played one hell of a game. He didn’t go down. He was able to go ahead fight with the space, laid down a lot of just stuns, crowd control damage, and that’s what you’re going to be looking for here. So, you know, and even in the towards that last fight, it’s like DFYG had control of majority of things, but the I don’t know if it was just a reflection, maybe that was a big part of the the reflection of the the traction pulse even kind of threw them off, I feel like. And then it was like they had to respond to all that pressure. And you know, again, this is always one of the great things is you can now before you couldn’t do it, but you can flicker with the mystic gush from Curtei because later he catches and does more damage in that choke point of the jungle later on. Yeah, I think for this game we really got to see how good DFYG could be. Uh few, how do I say this? mistimed entries and usages of the ultimate by Zed in the early game, but then he was able to deliver some big ones near the end and then Yiwan and L sticking together. See, as long as you have some clear ideas of which carries to play for and if you have multiple options to alleviate all the pressure away from Long shoulders and share that, it goes well for DFY. I just I don’t know what happened in the last fight, man. I mean, and I I I don’t want to say like it was cursed because I was like, you know, when you have this lead, it’s it happens a lot where teams let that slip through their hands and it happened here. Yeah, DFY Long was deathless this game, but still without a front line, you can’t really operate. And with JPL with a bull war placed down, they can’t even clear minions. You saw it earlier there, they were struggling to clear the minions. And again, this echoes the narrative that neutral objectives are kind of overrated. Yeah, it seems like it’s really just all about the fights now. Teams have ever since MSE last year have gotten significantly better at the post objective team fights, the punishes most importantly, and which is why we’re seeing a lot of importance plays into damage profiles. Remember, Gourd deals true damage as well with his kit. Even when that mystic gush doesn’t doesn’t hit his first and second skill alone already chip down a lot of health. Yeah, especially towards the end there, you know, he has a lantern, he has the divine glaive. So that’s why when even it’s always the case like you we’ve seen this a lot like they fight in choke points of the jungle, you get caught in those tight corners and with someone who is a hero that just has this straight beam that’s like the best case scenario for you. No one’s going to escape that and even then it whittleles them down quickly. And a small nitpick I would have in this game would be Kill VJ’s choice of battle spells, right? I wasn’t a fan of the Vengeance, but I was like, “All right, let me let me give him the benefit of the doubt. Let’s see how the game plays out.” And I think, yeah, uh there’s just too much CC on FlG. Yes, you survive a bit better with the vengeance. But on an Esme, you really just want to break the the front line and break the formation of a front to back from Flash. And because it was vengeance, because there was just so much easy peel for the side of Flash, Cartezi always used flicker forward. He was never at threat of getting killed or even damaged by Kill VJ once we got to mid to late. Yeah, I think the mentality of flash SG would have changed a little bit if say it was like a flicker on that Esmerald because now you have that threat of we have to watch out for a quick entry by Kelvj even if he misses that falling star moon. He could just flicker forward and then use dance around Curtis and because they did not have that flash SG were confident and they really just played around their gourd incredibly well. I still am going to hold out hope for a game three. I still feel like we might be going to a game three here based on what the FY has shown. Uh but uh they really need to tighten up a bit of their entries, their timings. And I I think it was also really tough because as good as they were in the targeting Mhm. Curte Vanics even more on Curtis, he just really positioned himself too well. Very good. Yeah, that’s what I was saying. like it’s he was so well protected himself and I mean just in general for most mages or Gourd in general like you know your weakness like any any player that’s picking that up knows that I’m like one of the most immobile mages out there. I have to rely on my skill shots. I have to rely on a flicker but then that’s where you really rely on the team. And I think again their composition allowed him to have that. And like Mira mentioned the fact that your biggest threat should should have been the Esmeralda going for you. It’s like, you know, that’s not a big threat anymore. Like, as long as you’re able to stun her or rely on the team, you’re fine. And we really saw that showcase there. I hope Lung does I hope he gets the Grinder again. Like, I’m hoping for game two because I I wanted to see that from him after his Moscow performances that we saw first. And I feel like still it it’s a it’s a sting to lose like this like 80 and six or you know, deathless and you have a phenomenal game. So, I hope he gets another chance at that. Yeah. You know, this that’s my goat. My goat. It’s like I was watching an action movie. It was like long lock and loaded, you know. Did he have double triple kills? He had double, right? Yeah. I mean, he was fully stacked up. Oh, no, he wasn’t. He was still 70 all after guning 70. It was like a benchmark and he couldn’t go past that. I think if we take a look at this game though for DFYG, the big mistake for me would be letting their guard down around the lord when it was stolen. Like, there should have been no chance that Hades got that lord. Uh, he was two, no, three levels down on Superken. DFY had every advantage on the table for them, but they just didn’t utilize it. They actually just egoed in went 50/50. They said, “Well, we got we got a level three level lead on Super. We should be able to do it.” Little things like that build up to massive win. Just like we saw yesterday, TPH, how they came back against Onic ID. Ob did. And one crazy Lord Steel could turn the tides of the game just because you delay for a bit longer for the rest of the team to get items. This was it. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. It was cool that we saw the real time adjustments cuz Hades would go and he just dashed in, stole it. And then in the final lord fight of the game, we got to see that crazy prediction read uh by Zed to use the flicker and the ultimate to actually catch Hades in the exact same spot where he stole it from. But at that point, Team Flash has adjusted and they were like, “All right, the just fight it out.” Curtis saves his ultimate in the flicker. Well timed. Well done. Yeah, it’s uh again it’s unfortunate for for really for DFY to lose that because I feel like they did a lot of things right in that game and it just came down to some of the decision-m that they had towards the end there. So again, hopefully they can reset because again this is an elimination match. Yeah, hopefully hopefully we get to see another game through. I mean we went 12 yesterday. Well, I mean, it’s not too crazy to hope for another three game series, especially that we’re starting to see glimpses of how good the FY can be. Now, Miracle, you mentioned earlier that uh you rolled for some skins. You got a lot of spent a lot of diamonds on skins. I have some great I did. Very good. Sometimes maybe even a little bit bad news for you cuz we even got more skins coming out. We got a new series of skins, the Metro Zero skins. I feel like based on what we’ve seen from the teasers and well some of the things that we got to see online, they’re a little bit more like techno cyberpunky themed. That’s my favorite. Yeah, you like that. You like that? So, save up your diamonds and y’all should really save up diamonds that watch out for the Metro Zero skins. Do we know what heroes they are? Yeah, we do. I know. I was about to ask. Yeah, heroes. Do we know Romar? I’m not going to say anything. All right. Renar knows. We don’t know. Yeah, just just look for it online. I think it’s there like a bit of the teasers. Hopefully hopefully uh we get to see more information and news about the new skin line coming out soon. Melissa, you really want a new Melissa skin? I mean, no, I just use the war skin. How about Cho, dude? Dude, what? Every single time we get a new Cho skin, no claw skin, no cho skin. Okay, the two have enough. We have enough. No, Granger. Too many. I mean, I I’m still holding on for more skins for Phobia. So, Phobius, yes, please. He only has one. Yeah, the star the the starlight skin of Phobus is great, but I would appreciate like more Phobia skins if there are available. You know what? Comment down below which heroes you want to see more skins of. And if you answer Mia, you know, I’m not going to tell you to get out, but like, you know, maybe don’t ask for more Mia skins than we will. I will get out. Do you want get out? No, but again, uh, thank you so much, uh, for joining us here today at MSC. Just a bit, we’re going to be seeing the draft roll out. Um, again, it’s not that much of a draft issue. a little bit of just ironing out for the game play. So maybe so that we can understand the team a little bit more, you got to watch this. Hello. DFY. So, a lot of people were actually won over by DFY from the M6 World Championship wild cards. Uh, there was a point where a lot of people were really rooting for them to advance. I have a strong feeling that this is the tournament that’s really going to turn heads and go, “Wow, uh, Chinese team is scary and we now have to watch out for them. Listen to the goat. It’s all about trust. Uh I’m glad we got to hear more from Long. Of course, if you aren’t familiar, Long is actually really the most popular uh player in the region. Wow. Yeah, really is. Like, I’m not kidding you. Like, everyone knows Long. Everyone wants to see Long succeed. There’s a lot of long fanboys and fan girls out there. So hopefully we get to see a game three here. So we get to see more of DFY Long and of course what he mentioned to be the trust with each other there. I more than trust I think is uh refinement is now what we’re looking for from DFY. Lung has stepped up. Uh DFG has stepped up what they can. Hopefully hopefully we get to see that game. But Flash SG knowing them they’re going to pull they’re not going to hesitate here. They’re immediately going to go for the killing blow. Yeah. I want to say that DFYG I feel like we we even said that last year. Last year it’s like each game that we got to see them play they had improvement improvement improvement and it can be even the case here. Now hopefully that improvement is going to be locked in for game two because they they want to get to that game three and again going back to what they had it like you mentioned Renoir it wasn’t really a draft issue. It’s just like unfortunate that that one fight didn’t go their way and it happened to swing in favor of team flash. So based on what we see here, we’re going to see what they want to do. Priority is going to be theirs first pick. You can see this quite a bit here. The MV is up and the Granger is available. They’re really respecting Super here, man. Three jungle bands. They know that after game one, uh, okay, the juicing gets picked up for DFY. Again, a pick that was 100% win rate for the longest time in MSC for day one and day two. But yeah, after seeing game number one, Super Cana super good for the early game. They were great, but he kind of needs to be the one to carry the game. I feel that’s why Flash identified that, said, “Nah, you want to, but nah, we’re just going to ban everything.” And now it forces DFY to go utility again or pick an assassin that’s not super meta, but can still be good, right? Like a Joy Haya type of assassin. Yeah, I think um eyeing out the potential Haya boost to pick up for DFYG. I’m riding with you on that idea because Flash SG, I’m looking at either Farsa or Kimmy as the priorities later on for Curtisi, especially the Farsa. That is his comfort pick. Uh they get the pickoff hero and the Ka and they pick up the Moskov, which all signals point to either a Kimmy and Farsa pick at the third. Yeah. Okay. So, Moskov going to the hands here again and maybe they just pick up the Granger again. The Granger is open. I think uh basically you they can lock it in so it just doesn’t get banned out. We’ll see if they go with that play. Also still I think with a Klaya across the board now you’re going to see DFY forced to pick up some purifies. That might change the game plan for them too. Um but this does really help them out. They’ll pick up a CC and a Ganaka first though. So they’re going to cover the XP and then the Rome positions already leaving up the golden jungle later on. Yeah, this might come back to bite them considering the flash can just take away marksmen. Mhm. Okay, CC. And yeah, the thing is I’m concerned about the FY’s assassin choice in the jungle. Like, are they really just going to play this long game? Cuz Flash now could deny it. They can play the long game as well by saying, “All right, then we’ll just pick up uh a mid lane or an XP now and just battle it out for jungle heroes. You’ve already banned three. We’re on red side. That means first pick on red on second phase two. then we can deny more of Super Ken’s picks. Yeah, it looks like CC and Got Gacha were picked up already thinking about the potential Farsa. So, of course, Flash would swerve and just go, you know what, let’s go Kimmy instead. A bit more mobile, not too static. So, as expected, uh I’m really liking the first three picks right now of Flash. They have multiple carries. They’re playing around the pickoff. Even though it’s not going to be an instant sure kill with the crowd control that Kimmy has, that’s it’s not an instant burst, but the target will get brought down really low. It’s unfortunate too because like if they wanted to DFY could have been like yeah okay let’s try the Lolita this time you know if they wanted to play into the Kimmy here but you know since they already showed their hand it’s pretty apparent and I think that’s why again we might even see uh the gold lane options being narrowed down further as the Herth is taken out and so this might be an interesting position for Lung to be in it’s like what you know how confident is he on that hero pool that he has what can he bring out because he’s not going to play the Moskov um unless they’re confident of giving over that option of Granger again. Now over on the flip side, we have to see what the junglers are going to end up being because um that’s always the interesting thing, right? We’ve seen so much assassin on assassin. We’ve even seen vice versa where it’s like assassin versus utility and still I think that’s the kind of the big tester here for for both the teams of course, but Hades has had some interesting picks himself. Um, but I feel like again, Team Flash is always this kind of unique team that will pull out some of the surprises as even in the second phase. This could be a ling pick by the way for DFY. Yeah, Flash are just not concerned about it. They think they’ve already banned out the really prior picks in the jungle. So, anything else they are prepared to go up against it. Harath and Bruno just pure respect for Mr. Long and now it kind of puts him in a position where he just needs to go Granger. Yeah, could be the next best option. And I’m also going to go with the idea that whatever the jungle pick will be for DFY, it needs to be something that does really good damage cuz right now this lineup at DFY is dependent on the juicer and the goats and Gacha being able to bully the center of the map where when you’re up against a Ka and a Kimmy that is not so straightforward to do. Almost always it leads to a trade not you being able to dominate. Yeah, the last ban Uranus. So XP lane options at least for team flash too. Um could see what they want to go with. Uh I don’t know if they would actually opt for an Esmeralda themselves, but maybe they pick up their XP laner um on this on this pick to see what DFY wants to go ahead and uh form up for the rest of their their draft. But no, they go the Hayabusa. They decide to take it away. Yeah. Uh DFY are really drafted into a corner. I think the last pick for Flash later could either be a Lapu or a Glue. M BFG might want to consider picking up a as much as you guys say Granger at this point now they might want to consider a carry even cuz you don’t know what the exp laner is. You want to play safe and make sure you have the right damage profile for it. This is really tough for DFY. I still think ling ranger at this point for DFY. I think it’s uh tough to go for the carry too just because of the range of the Kimmy. They go for the Granger but the joy dude against Ka and Hya. Yeah, too tough. Like that’s so much peel and it’s a good match up for Hades already. Yeah, that’s tough because I I feel like you’re you’re going to get you’re going to have to pop the ultimate too early in most cases cuz otherwise you’re also just going to get caught here. So they’re going to have to do the work for for DFY just in general as a team to make this work. Yeah, I this either needs to be a glue lapu. No more flash surprises, right? Like it’s okay. They can just go Edith, too. I think the Edith would be pretty solid to set up for the Hayabusa. Locks the CC down as well. Again, even the Badang would be okay in the Yeah, Badang X would be great. There you go. CC to counter the CC. Yeah, this is uh a fantastic draft by Flash. I think they played it really well. I think they were the ones who step ahead of DFY in the draft. Yeah, this one I would have to say favorable draft for Team Flash. Um just in general they they they cover the damage profiles really well, but then they have so many opportunities to start a snowball for them. Yeah. Uh if DFY are going to be winning this game specifically, it’s going to be one of those games where at the end of it, MO is going to go that’s why he’s my goat to Super Ken. It’s a very demanding game for Joy. It’s Flash versus DFY. Flash at match point. Let’s see who will continue their lives here in this tournament. Thank you so much Renmar for the breakdown through our draft. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it’s me Nice and Mira to bring you game number two match point right now for Team Flash after a surprising turnound from game one where DFY had the lead. Can they be bring it to a game three? We’re going to find out here. Again, two interesting lineups, but you guys can let us know which lineup has the favorable composition for this one. We’ve shared our thoughts. Mirro, do you think DFYG, what do they have to do to make this work? I mean, their lineup is very specific on the plan. Wo. Yeah, to answer your question, Nu, they just got to be better. That’s how they win. Right now, Hades has the angle. They’re going to dive under the turret. Hades quad shadow and the shuriken, too. Zed almost catching him with a taunt, but it will be team flash with the early pryo in mid. And that puts Super in a position to actually just walk by just like Remar said. That’s why he’s my goat. He just jumps on in, you know, gets a retry off on the Lith Wander after seeing all that action in the mid lane, too. So, makes that work. But, you know, this is the thing. I I’ve seen this so many times now. If this Hayabusa gets an early kill or two, you’re going to already be in a bad position if you’re DFYG to deal with. Killed BJ taking a lot, but he’s fine. Zed charging up that unbreakable, but won’t commit to it. So, here’s the thing. DFY can go with the same game plan. Let’s let Lone go ahead and farm up, do his thing. He’s got the purify here. That gives him a little bit of safety, but also he’s going to be relying on U1 to go ahead and peel for him or at least help protect him because I think we just expect Zed to initiate initiate kill VJ running the vengeance on the CC. He’ll kind of be able to go towards that back line of team flash. The big problem is you just don’t want to leave Lung alone, especially when Hayabusa and a Kaa are in uh against you. So I feel like even more so. Wo, there you go. The match up of the Ha versus Joy. So we can force back Z able to go for the taunt now. Kill VJ locking JPL down, but he’s able to escape with the help of the fiscrack now from Canon. The pin down to give Cartezy first blood in game two. You see what we’re saying? We’re there’s so many crowd control options for Team Flash’s lineup that even if they use use the first cycle of it, they might get a battle spell, but then it’s up again in time, especially with Ken picking up that bedang that it just allows them to extend these fights, get the favorable crowd control and usually convert it and a Hayabusa alone will be able to pop up enough damage early on that it becomes a threat. So later on they’ll see that transition where the shadow kills are then to even uh get the cleanups. But so far team flash plays with their composition in their favor and this is the hard part for DFYG to really find these fights and it just looks like they want to continue to set up here in the mid lane. Good taunt from Zed respecting the jump now. AoG lock him down. It will be E1 with the Crimson Beacon. Almost a big pin down there. Curtis now gone. The Crimson Beacon still able to dash away. Super Ken gets caught by the shadow kill. Zed all alone. The fist crack to pin him down. Kurt Teasy gets a sky piercer stack. It’s a first item sky piercer for Mr. Kurt. Oh, Kurt’s going to get a lot of extra gold on this, too. Super Ken trying to delay that, but again, great for Curtis to start off like that. They get a couple kills. Yes, DFYG picked up one, but it’s just, you know, it’s tough. Yeah, it I I like the I like the FX, man. Yes, sir. You know, that’s how I play, too. Yeah, you do. I I play without sounds and then I make my own. No, I learned from Leo. Leo. Yeah. All right. Shout out to Leo. I think he’s going to be on his way uh shortly. Young man from the Philippines, man. Hey, Team Flash. Yeah, they’re just dominating through the early game, which I think we expected Nu. Y all of them kind of have Pryo everywhere on the map. The one lane that I would expect Yanfung Yao to have prio in would be the gold lane, but they just haven’t been able to rotate towards it. Or maybe their goal is just to let Long farm, which is weird cuz you want the Granger to be online. We would expect him to be double laning at this point of the game. That seems to be their game plan every single match. Uh for the most part, he does great. Like Lung does great 1 v one. Oh, there’s a jump in from Zed forcing Vanics off. So he’ll actually get some extra gold here at least. Nice skills follows that up. Turtles up though. So this is all for it. Fraction p Z. Tunami time back to the turret range. Oh, and the spear of misery too. The punish for team flash. Yet another sky piercer for Curtis. Oh, that was well played by Vanex. The SOD to take the cannon minion and to teleport to them. Oh man, that was clean with the pin again and the fist crack. BJ can’t move. Super walks up, plays music, but it’s just music to flash SG’s ears, man. They don’t care. They get the turtle for free. Giving them music for that turtle take right now. Super Ken just going to get invaded, though. Yeah, there’s no way he can escape from this one. Oh, wait. Hades didn’t have the shadow kill. All right, Superken gets away, but Flash will capitalize. Taking a few camps. I think the orange buff’s gone, too. Yeah, they’re going to take a whole lot once they spot an opportunity to go ahead and delay Super Ken. Expect them to do it. They’ll take the orange buff here. It’s going to go in the hands of Hades. A push though both sides of the map. So, turrets tier one on both sides going down. Conceal though. Yeah, JPL walks up. Tsunami snap lock them down. The traction pulse goes on. He won with the crimson beacon still not available. It’s a free kill yet again on Zed. Man, how many times have we seen Ken just set things up for Team Flash. Now they’re going to go for the tier one. Putting pressure here. Okay, goes for the pin on Kio. He’s able to escape. Turret falls and Super Ken gets the purple buff. So the Unfung Yao are just on the back foot. Like at this point, they are hoping for what they did to flash in game one, but from Flash. They’re hoping for a mistake from Flash. Little reverse card. Yes, sir. Basically, that’s what they’re going to have to hope for because I think at this point, Mira, like you put all your eggs in Lung’s basket. You have to just hope that he’s able to go ahead and get the positioning and favor for him. But based on what we’ve seen from these fights already, Team Flash’s lineup, like I said, it allows them with so many options to catch Lung. Once the purify is down, you know, you still have enough tools in your basket to go ahead and put pressure on him. So, really for DFY, it’s like, well, we really got to protect Lung. Um, I don’t know who they can even pick off here. That’s the problem. They don’t have much pick off quote unquote potential uh with this lineup. So, he Lung’s going to pick up Sky Piercer, but JPL Mhm. Fraction fall to the back. E1 with Crimson Beacon forward. Gets a lantern flare on Curtis, but no one’s there to follow it up. They’re instead targeting Ken. Oh, the misordination. DFYG. That could have been an angle. Yeah. And all this information Hades, he’s going to take the orange. He’ll swing towards the turtle. So he’s going to be there in time. Oh, okay. Super Ken popping the beats, too. Oh, his going to get caught. No. Quad shadow taunt over and it is a kill. Zed picks it up. Super Ken on the turtle. Hey, that’s an angle for DFY as Ken goes over to pin down now with the fist crack on two members. JP to knock up one more time as Cookies just goes at it blasting them in the back. S O S O S O S O S O S O S O S O S O S O S OD landing. Z with the AOG defensively. Banics takes the SOD. Get shot by long. Super can in the bush now. Walks back and forth. Escapes from the wall. Placed by Ken. Hey, good fight for DFY at least to go in get the turtle. They punish Hades for taking the orange buff. I think Super Ken has had enough of that and they’re able to go ahead and capitalize a little bit here. They still have some room to cover though. You know, 3k nearly gold lead for team flash right now. You can see the items kind of falling into place right now. Super Ken’s got the Star Scythe building into his next. Long is on his he’s on to the next. He’s got the sky piercer just recently had the hunter strike earlier on. And so that’s the thing. He still has to be able to have his positioning in favor, but team flash kind of getting caught off there isn’t something that’s going to be too devastating to the lead they have right now. Um, again, they still have a lot of tools available to them to choose these fights. It’s just that Hades got caught after taking that orange buff. So, we’ll see how they adjust to it. We’re a minute away from the Lord here. DFYD trying to maintain as much as they can and it’s not too much. They’ve lost the tier tier one turrets. They almost lose this tier two, but ultimately for that Lord coming up, DFYG should be in fighting form. 2.4K isn’t too much. Like so far from what we’ve seen from the matches, you can still relatively fight into that first lord if you really wanted to. You really can. I mean, we we saw a 7,000 gold lead get turned around with a fight. We saw no neutral objectives for team flash earlier in game one and they came back. So you can never really count out any of these teams now in MSE 2025 at the esports world cup. Hades though able to get the quad shadow and he actually baits out the crimson beacon. JPL concealed and DFY just respected. But again team flash should be happy with that. They took an ult out with just skill two high. That’s big enough threat. I think they also wanted to get a purify out before this lord comes up but uh they weren’t able to. So DFY holds on to those. A holy crystal now picked up for Super Ken, that’s going to be big for his damage that they can pump out. Always seen this from the joint too. If they’re able to go for that back line or put pressure, he might look for Curtis. If they can actually take out Curtis, it’ll be massive for DFY. But JPL flickers on out. Traction pulse. Long able to escape. Kill BJ doing the same now. Back into the mid lane. Battle for Pryo. Vanics. He’s patiently waiting. Lord still fighting for this positioning. Right now it’s DFYG that’ll get the favor. They’re going to go in. Oh, massive fist crack there. Tsunami stand locking them down as well as goes in. AOG will get JP and a bag as long getting the kill back on Vanics. A big mistake as Super Ken deals enough in the back. Kurt will get a kill. Flicker forward. Sky piercer diff. Kurt with a triple. Now it’s just the boy, the kid. Superken looking for the stacks. Has the electrifying beat. Needs to be clinical as the quad shadow forward. again gets the kill now on K. He goes immobilization and it is an unofficial maniac for Kurt TZ. Man, I thought they would get a chance to get Kurt down too, but Kurt is too locked in from game one and now game two. 80 and three. This was a fight that broke out on two fronts. Lone gets space, but then has to go ahead and dodge all of this. Kurt goes forward. He’s like, I got the flicker. I’m going over the wall. I’m going for Lone. takes him out and then they go forward. So now they’ve got control of the lord here. Team flash. They’re going to start it up. Can they actually get this? Is DFY still want to fight and contest? Super Ken’s trying to get here fast enough as they try to buy time to delay it out. Beacon going to be used. Zed will be forced off, but they’ve taken him off the Lord. Fist crack used already. Ken going to fall down. Lancer flare used. That’s going to kill BJ brought under the turret by the tsunami slam. And it’s a one for zero for Dianong Yao who are on the lord threatening team flash with the take on the lord. Let’s see level up. Super on it already going for the stacks now. Zed goes into the back. KZ able to escape as landing. Super wins out the red tree. Hades was zone away by Zed and DFYG are well and truly back in the game. What a great job delaying from team flash to go ahead and commit to that. They bought enough time for Super Ken to come forward. They’ve got the lineup to make them push off of the lord. And now they’ve done it. They’ve bought themselves enough time. They’ve widowed down that 3k gold lead that Team Flash had. And as we mentioned, they’re going for the reverse card. They want to do what Team Flash did to them in game one. And they’re well off their way to make it happen. Lung’s got some defensiveness now, too. Hades. What? Said with a read catches Hades trying to go for a pick on Long. unbreakable catches Hades. And as I was going to say, L has the wind of nature now, too. But when you got someone for your back like that, you don’t have to. So now they get a turret. Lord still making its way up top. And DFYG has control. Can they assault the base now? A team flash. Shields are going to be worked on. They’re popped through. They hold on to the base turrets, but they’ll make their way with this lord now as it works on tier 2 turret in the top lane. Lung leading the charge. Hades will come up in a second and team flash on the defense. Are they going to lose some base turrets here? Traction pulls over to long still able to escape now. Oh no, pops up find locks down in the back but low able to survive for a bit longer. That’s a kill. Fatics in the back able to get a spear of misery but goes for the target on Z instead. Super goes for the back finds the kill and Kirk Hades stays alive. Gets a double. It’s a three for two. And man, how did they keep that base turret alive? I don’t know. It’s one hit away. They saw it, but Team Flash decided not today. They’ll go for a trade, but the three for two for DFYG. We are in a brawl out now for game two. It seems like they just want to go ahead and fight it out. Let’s look at the instant replay. Lun goes so low here because of the wind of nature. He has to pop it, but then Vanex comes in. Super Ken will chase him down, but this fight just gets split up to the to favor team flash. And they wanted the base turret. They paid the price and they didn’t get it just yet. So, they’ll find themselves once again 40 seconds away from this Lord coming up. Both teams are going to be locked and loaded for that fight. And this is where we see that push and pull. The battle spells are crucial here on both sides, especially for DFY to be able to use those purifies. We saw how much pressure can be put from Team Flash as long as DFY plays smart into those fights into uh even JPL. Yeah, you can see the damage. Wow. that Curtis is doing. This is, you know, he’s he’s been online, like I said, from game one with the Gourd. Now, here going to force a fight, huh? They actually don’t go and kill VJ. I thought that would have been a free pick. He just walked up to aggressive and he has his vengeance. But I guess Team Flash are like, “Lord’s coming up.” Let’s not let’s not risk it. Let’s just play it safe cuz we have Vanex. We’ll we’ll always win the side lane. Hold up. Wait, wait, wait. Oh no. This could be a crazy read. Super jumps in now. Over to Vanex. Has beats. Van shoots out the SOD. doesn’t land it. Meanwhile, in the mid lane, flash SG with a pryo. No kill. VJ walks over the current call. Curtis. Oh, the jump away. The AOG doesn’t land. Hades pops in a quad shadow, but it doesn’t land on anyone either. Oh, DFYG just so much used from top lane now mid and Lord being up here. They’re going to have to wait for some of these ultimates to be back up. So, they’ll go ahead and just kind of stand off here for this Lord. Fighting for positioning if they can right now here. Fan might have to join once he has a spear. Oh, Z revitalized still gets closed in. Double pin over now with the quad tool landing in the back. Wind of nature for long. That’s a win crown for Yi as he pops in crimson beacon. Retreat battle coming down. Super wins it out. Kill. BJ pops it. Avengers now. Vanx locks him down with a pin. Will be able to get the stun down as well as Kurt kited away. The lands. Vanx goes on long. Super Ken wants to go for the dash, but Vanex goes in. That’s a winner crown by Super Ken. Chain CC. Still has the dashes to go through and will be able to escape somehow. There is a big wave. Two cannon minions. Flash looking for a clean sweep. Super Ken trying to defend here, but he gets chain CC and Team Flash will get the clean sweep to eliminate Yanfong Yao Hai again in a flash. Team Flash will turn things around off of a fight to take the sweep here. An exciting series, but ultimately Team Flash comes out swinging with a 2. It’s always one moment with them. One fight to turn things around to shock and awe. The team that ended last MSC part of the top four keeps their tournament’s hopes alive. And unfortunately for Dian Yao, another early exit. Though shades of their potential shown yet again, they could not get out of groups this year. Oh, really tough here. looking at the highlights. I mean, this was a great game, too, though. And still, I just feel like Curtis, man, there’s something about him. Something that was he was just so locked in for the series that the FY just didn’t have an answer for. Ken on the Bang did amazing job in a lot of these crucial team fights and early on in the game, he was finding the fist crack, fist, uh, fist break combinations that he was looking for. He was very aggressive with it. And even I feel like this was one of those games where it’s like the spear destructions were usually able to join the fight at the right moment. But still it was curty that was just kind of untouched in a massive problem for DFY that they couldn’t solve. Yeah, when you put teas on your name, expect Filipino players to play a certain way. There’s a reason why uh there are multiple players from the Philippines who have that TZ title and Curtis just showed it here. But Vanex definitely it was a starmaking performance uh for him. So let’s go on to the stage right now for an interview with the trainer. Thank you so much casters. I’m here with Vanix from Flash SG20. How was that series for you? Uh the series was good for us because uh we uh did badly for the homeboy series. we made a lot of mistakes and then uh against game DFY today we had uh we lessened our mistakes so I think it’s quite good for us can we talk about that a little bit more mistakes you said were made against that match against home boys where you lost 2 to1 what happened there uh during the uh the last part remember the game three the home boys part uh we had some misconcept uh hear properly like what we plan to too. So that’s the miscom the game which is quite sad. Oh okay. So miscommunications happened in that previous match but are those miscommunications you know solved today? Uh yeah I believe they are soft because uh Ken has been listening to us and he has not uh make his own decision at all. Yeah. Okay. So we’re you know we’re putting Ken under the bus here a little. Yeah. Oh no. can uh going to talk to you a little bit after this I guess but so far again we’ve been seeing such unique things from Singapore like every single international tournament and again yesterday Leo Moore two times in a row in the gold lane that was not something that we expected were you practicing that uh Liam used to be my main hero and that’s then uh fighter go somehow come back like uh such as Ruby Lapu and then uh Jay decided to asked me to try Liamort since he’s one of my M hero and one of my comfort heroes. That’s why we played that hero. Oh, so it was a comfort hero to you. But do you still think that Leoort has a place in this meta? Like were you struggling in the gold lane going against, you know, the Moscows, you know, that type of hero? Uh, it was okay for me because uh they can’t do anything to me. I also can’t do anything to them. It’s just about a team fight where I can chase them down. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, we’re going to be expecting some unique heroes I think after this cuz we saw Lolita today and then the gourd. So, again, were these like comfort picks, pocket picks that you were already preparing before MSE? Uh yeah, we have been practicing this before MSE already. So, yeah, these are our sort of like pocket picks, but they are quite good heals. Okay, so beware Z and his impact. So that’s another thing that we really wanted to know about because we’ve been hearing a lot about Zay’s his impact in previous international tournaments. How has he fit and adapted to you guys? Uh I think he uh fit into our uh fit into us quite well already and then his coaching style is also quite good and everything he teach uh makes sense and it’s just that sometimes we uh forgot the things he say. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Sometimes they forget the things that Z says, but overall it has been good. Now, next up, you are going to be facing very big prominent names in, you know, the MLBB landscape. What are you guys doing to prepare for that? We will definitely go back to our practice room and scream more and then uh review our games and see which mistakes we made that can be avoided. Yeah. Then we will try our best against the hard teams on our next series. Okay, good luck once again and congratulations Vanix because we are going to throw it over back to our casters. Break it down for us. Way to throw your teammate under the bus there Vanx. I’m kidding. But it’s I mean good. I love it when we get to hear these moments where teams are really more vocal and uh they open up a little bit more about the specific things that they need to work on. We got to see it. So, it wasn’t just all speculation. Now, now it’s something concrete. And yeah, you could see it here. team flash in this series against Yanfong Yaoy were an absolute unit and yeah looking back Ken didn’t overstep in fact this Badon game from him was really good yeah I think he definitely you know got his redemption this game so even though he was s under the bus maybe maybe he just does better on setup heroes over you know a masha that flickers in yeah I I that’s the thing that really stuck out to me with um the bedang was just the fact that you can go ahead set things up amazingly for your team from start to finish And that’s what we saw from Ken. I think it was a big part of it. Yeah. And what I appreciate about the Badang pickup, especially for a player who is a little bit more uh inexperienced, still newer to this kind of landscape, is that you have significant room for error. Actually, even though you leave yourself in a vulnerable position, you’re CC immune. And even if you miss your combo, at least you force something out of the opponent like dashes or flicker. So, a lot of room for error when using a hero like Badak. Maybe we do get to see Ken from team flash use heroes uh more heroes like that. Now I think though we’re seeing that team flash little by little because of their flexibility, their ability to now play lemort gold lane, fighter gold lane. I feel like maybe vanics may have over teased a little bit of what to expect from his picks. Now you’re seeing based on the performance of Curtis, it’s a triple carry team. You have three members of their team that could just absolutely carry. Yeah, I love the fact too that not just bias for the gourd, but like Curtis brought that out because now I feel like it is a actual considerable option because we’ve always been talking about the mid lane hero picks and now you’ve seen it in action and it works really well with certain uh compositions. Yeah, finally it’s another mid laner that we can actually play here because with the Zitan not doing too hot in MSE 2025, we’ve been kind of at like a a very weird stated mid where it’s just the same heroes over and over. or it’s too if it’s banned out you see the far mean and if it’s banned out then you’re like all right I guess we don’t have any more picks now we have a gourd so there you go if you want to play pure front to back that true damage hoy y our Sony match MVP is a lot of options on the side of team flash none other than Vanex of course I got an interview with him great Moscow play and yeah his decisions of when to use the spear of destruction it was the top side engagement and then after the major objective able to throw that out hit I I believe it was Superkin in the orange buff that really turned things around and that set up the victory for Team Flash. So, congratulations to them. They are still in the tournament and again, thank you Dianfong Ya for your efforts. 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[Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] This land is calling. [Music] [Music] We don’t have to wait long to witness our match of the day. RRQ from Indonesia versus the champions of Turka in Aurora who took down the reigning world champions on the Philippines to get to this point. Welcome back to MS here at the esports world cup. And if you want to witness the action for the knockout stages, don’t forget to get your tickets over on weebook.com. We’re here until August 2nd. Knockouts begin July 30th and you’ll be able to join us here at the boulevard in Riad, Saudi Arabia at the Esports World Cup. And remember, it’s single elimination for knockout stages. So, you want to show all support that you can give to your favorite teams. Still here with Naisu and Miracle. And to say that we are excited is an incredible understatement. Yes. Yes, we are very excited uh for this matchup because yeah, I think a lot of people they were excited after seeing what Aurora did here. I think that was very impressive. Yeah. I mean, the fact that they were able to beat the reigning world champions in AI Philippines, it sent shock waves through everyone, the whole groups, maybe even different games. They felt they were like, “Whoa, what’s going on here?” They definitely heard it. They definitely did. We were yelling our brains out, lungs out. No, body parts were were being yelled and uh activated. You see there, of course, coach master the basics. Apex 47 was very vocal about how coach MTB and Techstar have just reignited and reinvigorated the team because they helped them all puns intended master the basics and then it’s scary to think that that’s just that’s all it was and then suddenly next thing you know Rosa who’s been always known for like support types or artillery mages range is going up close as a Selena Apex 47 has looked very good TN even has now launched himself as an allstar jungler. The Turkish trigger man, bro, I’m Aurora, they suddenly have just skyrocketed. I think the cuz Aurora alone like in these individual players are were already impressive. Like so many people around the world knew of them and then comes in master the basics and Dexter and they they I feel like just refined them somehow, you know? Like that’s kind of what we’ve seen. I can’t wait to see more. I think Tenzi, I don’t know if he’s statistically right now the best performing jungler for MSE, but I’ll tell you what, he had a hell of a performance and I I would love to see him replicate it here in this match up against RQ. He’s always been this, you know, figure like a shadow figure that’s been lingering like he’s mechanically been amazing. I remember in ISF as well, seeing him almost beat Malaysia at the time, Prime Malaysia, by the way, was crazy. And he was on the Joy. He was swapping three items here and there with Rosa, too. So, in the past, we’ve already gotten a glimpse of what they could do. It’s just now how they have mastered the basics. I want to keep on putting it there, but it’s true. MTB has literally helped them master the basics and play a fundamental style plus the style that they already had before. Yeah. And it’s surprising to me because for Aurora, I thought a lot like heading into this, I thought so much pressure would be put into Lunar to sort of replicate how Edward from Aurora Gaming Philippines would be playing, but no, Lunar has essentially just turned himself into a ROR. Apex 47 juggles that and usually yes Lunar is the one down, but it sets up Siggy Boom’s unique picks. They played and even Ruby in the gold lane. So that alone just shows how flexible they are in terms of their hero picks. I like that you brought that up because in the past we have seen that Apex 47 does better when he’s the second initiator, not the first one. So you want to have a layer of initiation before you get Apex 47 to land a big uh pick or a big implosion like in the past. In the past, it was Alien, but it’s kind of like Alien wanted a carry a lot of times. Now, Lunar, he’s very selfless in the way he plays, dude. On the Phobias, he just jumps in and he says, “All right, I’m gonna die. You guys need to get something off of my death.” He is so selfless in the fact that he will literally just die for the team to get a set. And it’s beneficial, I think, for the most part against Onic Philippines. Yeah. So if you have on one side Aurora a team who has in their own words again remastered the basics and have just launched themselves as one of the best teams in the world it looks like now they’re going to be going up against a team who are very well known for following a very certain textbook lest you feel the wrath of a very textbook man behind the scenes. RRQ and their coach KZ uh serves a very good contrast and maybe sometimes even a bit of an equal footing to how the Aurora play style has shined so far. Yes, Sutagen has mainly just played the utility junglers, but we’ve shown that the options for assassins are there. RQ is looking on track to reclaim the long-lost glory that their team was once known for. But earlier, as you mentioned at the top of the day, Miracle, it’s like they were up against Area 77. We didn’t get to see much of them just yet. I think that’s a great point that Miracle brought up earlier because this for a lot of people will be like that first, you know, not to take anything away from Area 77, but this will be like a big test to see just what RQ has for MSE groups. um because of the fact of you know especially now when we come into this matchup after what Aurora from Turkey did this is a a phenomenal limit test and just kind of an opportunity for both the teams to show that they don’t just have the fundamentals down that they do have these very specific play styles but this is the true test I feel like for the group stages anyway and that’s why it is such a good match of the day that we have here yeah I think again when it comes to RQ that systematic play style of theirs that was seen in the regular season was seen in the group stage of the SPS Mobile Masters. That’s why I have so much confidence in them in the group stage. Like, this is a team that just demolishes every single group stage. Even in M6 with a different lineup when Skyler was still there in the gold lane, they went through 3-0 in the Swiss stage. They didn’t really have any problems with anyone. Yeah, they’re really good. They’re really good at group stage when there’s no pressure. Let’s see though now. Again, no one between these two teams are going to be eliminated today. It’s all about qualification. and only one of them will be securing their knockout slot by the end of this series. I want to refocus things onto the jungle again. It’s an unexpected clash of styles considering that Tutin has only played the utility so far, but now that they’re going up against a team like Aurora, do you guys think that RQ might actually use that as a means to sort of rattle an assassin heavy lineup? Because that’s always been one of the strengths of the tanky fighter junglers. you can actually rattle opposing assasses that way. Yeah, I think it’s great. Uh this is and this is what I meant like we’re actually going to see really how how far that limit of the styles go because who wouldn’t want to see a utility styled jungler go against maybe more of an assassin jungler and I think we’re in that perfect forming of the meta where that is still possible. We’ve seen it already in the previous days and what more so in the hands of these two junglers and I think even in a case what if we end up seeing Tienzi also be in a case where he adjusts and plays something a little more utility or again if it’s just completely a contrast between our two junglers. Yeah. So for RQ, let’s see if we’ll get to see Sutsu Jin bring out some assassins or if Aurora will just sometimes we even see teams like not care about like go ahead pick whatever you want because we control a lot of the map. I think because of the matchup that we are about to witness this puts an insane amount of pressure on Apex and Rosa and Edo and Rins. It’s about that mid duo for sure. You know again for in Indonesia RQ are kind of known for the shot calling of Rins and then the playmaking of Edo. It’s something that’s kind of weird because usually you would see the ladder. You would see the ROR make the calls and the mid laner be the one to carry, but for RQ that’s been the case. So, two members that you guys need to put your eyes on, especially if Sujin does get the utility jungle pick would be Edok on a playmaker set hero or pickoff and Dyron on a straight up just carry. That is their strength in the regular season of Mid. Their strength all the way to the playoffs that unfortunately they weren’t able to utilize against Any in the final game of the best of seven. Yeah, let’s see if we’ll be able to see just that cuz again we’ve seen a whole lot of great things coming out of Aurora for RRQ. This is I think could be our first true glimpse of what they look like here for MSC. Speaking of, don’t forget about the MSE passes available right now on your in-game clients. It’s 20% off throughout the event. Available until August 7th. That’s massive. I I I love the additional hype that we’re providing for it. The Nathan skin is incredibly beautiful as well. Entropy, bro. Let’s go. And then there are also a bunch of other prizes available. Don’t forget to get your avatar borders and everything that comes with the M SC pass. Yes, you can actually he’s there too. He’s there too. You can claim Atlas also still available. I believe it’s Farsa. Whoa. Is that available? See the world Farsa. See the world. The See the World Farsa. Uh but the special place in my Atlas is wait. See the world. That’s right. That’s right. Yes. See the world atlas. That’s what MC meant. Something different. As we go down memory lane, remembering the old tag lines and songs of MSE, I think it’s time we get to know RRQ and Aurora, excuse me, just a little bit more. [Music] Rub playing this perfectly. So good. And [Music] the momentream. [Music] But they’re going to chase after him. They’re not letting him go. [Music] Aurora gaming. [Music] To add more onto what Susin just mentioned about how Aurora plays, I want to call back to the interview of Carl Tezy after their victory yesterday. He was asked which teams does he want to or not want to go up against. And one thing that really stood out, he said, “I wouldn’t want to go up against Aurora. They’re really annoying to play against.” Like the fact that they’re already getting acknowledged by Carl Tezy in that way. And then with everything that everyone here in the esports world cup at MS has been saying, they really are just a terrifying team. I think uh part of that too is again when certain you know coaches go around to these different teams from the Philippines and everything else, they impart the knowledge that they know so well amongst the Philippine teams and that could be something. But if you already have a strong team that has great synergy, a great uh play style themselves, and you just help kind of refine that a little bit with the extra knowledge that they have, this is the epitome of that. Like that’s what we’re seeing from Aurora so far. And I think that’s why everybody really respects them uh in the matchups and maybe don’t want to face them until the knockouts. Yeah. Uh despite again a lot of players saying they were not surprised that Aurora beat Onyx Philippines. I myself was kind of surprised despite the fact that I kind of knew as well that they were doing really really well in scrims. But we know how it has been in the past as well. Teams do well in scrims and then they just don’t do well on stage. But yeah um that happens a whole lot. And so I was like, “All right, I think AI Philippines should be able to do it again on stage, just knowing the experience there, knowing that they’re reigning world champions, you know.” Yeah. But if we call back MLBB history, and we don’t have to go that far back, there was one team who did so well in scrims, did well leading up to MSE, and replicated scrim results into a championship SRG last year. So that I wonder if that’s something that Aurora is thinking about in the back of their heads like, “Okay, we’re doing really good in scrims right now. Doesn’t this mean that maybe, you know, it’s going to look good for us this MSE?” Considering last year’s champions had the exact same story. Mhm. I think it’d be so great, too, honestly, just for the for the plot to thicken out there. It’s like, you know, we already had a, you know, non-Indonesia, non-Filipilino team win last year with Malaysia. Now, what if we have our, you know, a champion from none of those regions and it happens to be from Turkey? Hey, Spirit from ECA, Aurora from Turkey. I don’t mind. You know, I was also like DFY, but that’s not unfortunate. That hurts. I go, yeah, imagine imagine how crazy it would be if our grand finals is is too completely non-stop. That’s too healthy. Incredibly healthy. like suddenly like as you mentioned it. I was thinking that too the other day. What if our grand finals is Team Spirit versus Aurora Turkey? I’m not going to complain. I’m not going to complain. I’m not complaining. That’s going to be again. Yeah, I love thick plot because I love great stories. What about the thick seals? Oh, imagine the thick seals, too. I saw the claps on the I saw the claps on the desk. They’re actually not this seal, by the way. We’re just a joke. That’s just a Yeah, they’re actually just a seal as in like mythic seal. The seal, you know, the seal stamp. Wait, no. This whole time I thought the logo was an actual seal. That’s a dragon, dude. That’s a dragon. That’s not a seal. No, close enough. Oh, okay. Uh, that recontextualizes my favorite team with a seal now. I thought they were the first team in MLBB history to have a seal proudly on their logo, but no. Yeah. Uh, again, there’s so many possible so many possibilities. Now, it feels like this MSE. Uh last year once we started to realize that oh SRG is really going good it’s like still that feeling of like oh Southeast Asia but then now it seems like we’ve really seen the world and are encountering the unknown because the supremac Yeah. The supremacy is getting challenged. I like that everybody’s rising above. Yeah. This is almost greater than ever right now. We’ll see if we can be better than great here. But it really comes down to the teams to dare to be great. Mhm. I’m now you’re out of I was about to lean in and uh nothing is you know nothing’s granted. Everything’s earned. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Hammer out all the meta as much as we can right now. Okay. I think uh as we are getting closer to the draft and we are just setting that up for our players right now. Time to talk about it. Aurora still continues a trend unfortunately for teams who bring out the Fanny to just get no not a good time. It was a challenging game for Onyx. However, uh but looking at the spread of heroes that they have with the Selena focus from Rosa, their flex into the gold lane, do you think it’s going to be a tougher time for RQ or for Aurora in the draft? You know, I honestly it could be both sides, but I feel like Aurora has at least showed us this even even down to the gold lane Ruby. Like they still have I feel like some of these pocket picks maybe RQ does too. I mean, you’re probably more uh knowledgeable about that, Marco. I think Aurora is also the draft for them is going to highlight their play style with this essence of some of these picks that we’re not used to seeing and honestly that’s been the trend of MSC so far up to this point. So I wouldn’t be surprised if RQ has that as well. Yeah, I agree. I think for both these teams it’s going to be equally difficult, maybe a bit more difficult for RQ just because they’re used to drafting a certain way in Indonesia and now up against Aurora who are very uh unorthodox against Selena three games in a row. that surely is going to be a big curveball towards RQ who have prepared a certain way and I don’t think they banned Selena again against area 77 they were kind of like given a lot of the big prior picks so here now that it’s contested I wonder if they’re still going to stick to the utility style that they use to beat A77 or they’ll have to pick up like the shins that we saw in the grand finals and in the playoffs in Impunia for Sitagen. Yeah, also one of the reasons why this is tough to analyze as we enter the draft. We’ve seen a lot more of RQ leading up to MSE, but less of them within the tournament itself. The It’s the opposite for Aurora. We’ve seen a lot more of Aurora based off of that single best of three that they’ve played. So, to ask if which one of these two is the more mysterious difficult to answer, but let’s see how the draft will get answered by two coaches very well known for just some drafting prowess and master the basics and Kes Lancelot. I think because of yesterday, Lancelot becomes now one of the priority bands of the tournament. As Lafel said, lands too much. Lance too much. Wait, this isn’t the first time he’s been banned, right? No. No. Okay. I I do I was like at the earlier days of the group stage, I was like, there has to be some point when Lanclot starts being banned for a lot of teams that are dealing with this. And I think this changes the course of it too because we have to go ahead and consider the fact that RQ as you see will expend some more bands towards what we’ve seen from TNZ. So this ultimately will leave open other hero options that have usually been banned out and they can go ahead and play into that. You can see for Aurora, they take out the Clea, the Arlot, and the Wan. First pick for them. I don’t know. Do they just go for the Farsa if it’s open? What else could they a Fovious too since we’ve seen? Yeah, the Jin. Uh there’s just a whole lot. The box shoulder being the last ban from RQ. Yeah, I think this is what you get when you see have two teams who have potential like flexibility and surprises that so many power picks just get open. Yeah, Een Chin up for grabs here. Aurora, they’re very they really like the Een Shin in the match against Onyx Philippines. So, let’s see if they want to pick it up here. Fun fact. Yeah, Toy Resuin still has not garnered a death in this tournament. in this uh in the previous series against area 77. They did not garner a death and they walk into this still with zero. YSS Aurora immediately going for a comfort and Kimmy and Uranus are the power picks that RQ get back. Super quick respon like this was super quick from RQ. They knew the Chin was going to pop up and they go Kimmy. Uranus has been falling off recently like a most I was the win rate on it. Did you see it? I remember cramp playing it. It was they lost on it. So, it was shut down a couple times. I feel like at this point the Uranus is less than 45% win rate. How many times picked? Uh, a lot. Oh, wait. No, this is also considering the numbers from wild cards. Yeah. So, just a total of seven wins. This is so fast. They went with the Ruby again. Uh, and then they pick up the Selena. So, Aurora is just going for some power picks that they showed us previously. How do you think this will work out? I think it might be a bit too honest from Aurora to be honest with you because RQ, they’ve already picked up the Uranus. I think this was like planned by Kescu to beat out this Ruby and Shin. So there’s no real burst right now for Aurora for the Uranus. There’s still burst obviously for the squishy members. Yeah. Uh obviously when you have a Selena, one of the conditions uh as acknowledged by Suzu Jin as well with Aurora loving to play around the river is if you can get some very early kills on that Selena. That’s one condition checked. But even more so considering you’re playing up against Ean Shin, it does take time. So you need heroes that can hold out and wait out. So RQ ended up putting the Uranus in the jungle showing their hand already and then they go for CC with the exp lane very good this this style of play against teams that want to wait for mid to late. That’s why I was wondering when that Uranus came up in that first uh pick area. I was like could this still be flexed? I was still thinking could it be flex into the jungle? That’s always been the question when it has popped up in the draft. Um now that it is you know parked in there or the XP lane. So the CC is great. You give yourself a lot of those options. I think even for Aurora, it’s really interesting to see what they want to go ahead and plan this out based off Yeah. very honest three picks. But that means where’s the Uranus going? Is it It’s a jungle roam flex. I think it’s just mainly jungle. Yeah, jungle. So, it’ll be jungle. Jungle. You’re uh So, it’s it’s different. On one side, you have a lineup that can actually highly invade. Yeah. While Aurora are just looking to make sure that the Een can farm properly. Okay. So, what’s going to be the gold lane then? The Angela gets banned out. They want to take away the or the Uranus Angela combination away RQ. That would have been disgusting. That would have been Yeah, crazy sustain. And again, Aurora kind of are pretty bad against that sustain right now. They don’t really have the insta burst and I think this is a new take on the CC. Either it is a read into like Aurora wanting to go for tankier picks later or it’s a it’s a new take on the CC of just like you tie people up because they’re all melee. It’s going to be very hard for them to get close to the Kimmy to get close to the backline that obviously they are setting up for and yeah they are just going to ban out Gat and Hyos. Two picks that you would usually leave open when you have a CC have been banned out. So again new CC style. Yeah and this turns off the possibility of Aurora because of the picks that they have like Apex 47 can’t go Hilda anymore. He’ll really have to go for a very tanky front line. So RQ have looked at how the Aurora play style with what they’ve shown. It’s okay. They’re playing around one singular main carry and that’s the Yan Shin. RQ will have two options around their carry since they have a Uranus in the jungle as he’s in the exp lane. This Kimmy and whatever gold laner they’re going to end end up with are both going to get farmed consistently and are going to be able to scale consistently. Yeah. And off of that too, I you know, it’s funny. Has even been picked up yet? I think I don’t know if I I remember asking about this. We saw it once. I think maybe once, but it’s like more, you know, because um still a pretty good home option. Six times. Yeah. Including wild cards. Oh, okay. Including wild cards. Yeah. I feel I was going to say I feel like we saw him way more in the wild card. Mhm. Yeah, that’s true. So, Ka is up for grabs. The Tigril 2 for Edok open. Yeah. Oh, they go pick off. It’s going to be the Kaja. Okay. Fun fact about Tanzani. Currently holds the highest skill in a single game. 13 at this year’s MSE. That was his landslot in game number one and his total record then I believe it was 130 and six I think 130 and six monster landslot performance pick off they’re playing around tank it’s a throwback strategy for RX RQ except this time it’s a Kimmy in the middle while Aurora what I’m thinking what else they can give Apex they need some tankiness here too beefy boys kind of roll right do they go glue Oh, Apex signature, bro. Back in M4. Yeah, it’s a throwback to his Atlas. Wait, RQ have no room to go Valentina because that Kimmy has to go into the mid lane unless they’re willing to risk it just so that they can take away the ultimate of the Atlas. Lapu Lapu as well. Lunar going to be active. This is a throwback for how Aurori used to play. I mean, minus the Ruby Gold and the Selena, but like Atlas, Lapu Lapu, back where it was alien in their exp. This is great. Oh, RQ goes the Masha, too. So, wait, wait, wait. Who wears what? Oh, so this is a RO Masha Kimmy Gold. Unless we don’t even get to see the SWAT, we don’t know. Unless this is a CC or Masha gold, they might end up with a fighter gold as well. Oh my lord. They’re just battling it out. Oh wow. Poor RQ. Just when we thought their textbook is so clear and so understandable, it’s changed to a completely different game language. And I wonder if that’s enough to surprise Aurora Tier, who have already surprised the world. It’s game number one of our match of the day. Indonesia versus Turk Nisu Miracle. You guys break it down because I’m just going to be enjoying. We’ll be enjoying it as well. And thank you once again, Renar, for going through the pregame here and then the draft with us. It’s us at the English desk ready for a matchup here against these two teams fighting for a spot in the knockouts. Will it be RQ or will it be Aurora Gaming from Turkey? We have interesting drafts to say the least here for game number one in this best of three. We’re getting a glimpse of exactly where things are falling in place. Mira, what do you have to to say about the drafts here? It’s CC in the goal lane. Well, I honestly don’t know. This is such this is uncharted territory for all of us. For everyone. for everyone. We We didn’t expect the Atlas to show up here. The Kaja Rome as well. We didn’t expect we expected a Selena and Shin. That’s about it, right? Like everything else is kind of like up to them. When was it? You know, we I know this was a fell that I asked. I was like, you you you bring a scythe to a gunfight. Well, now you bring yo-yos. If there’s a scythe, just bring a a yo-yo. That seems to be the answer for the Ruby gold lane. I don’t remember the last time that we’ve seen a competitive match without a traditional like marksman on both sides. Yeah, and Toy has been such a traditional marksman for such a long time. This could actually play with, you know, the muscle memory even in MDL. I don’t really remember him playing a lot of the fighters in the gold lane, obviously because of the meta, but that means that he’s I don’t think as used to it as Sigiboom, who has played a bit more Dy though on the Masha. I like that. Let’s take a look at the emblems. Yeah, looking at this too. Uh again, whole lot of brace here too. The Atlas is going to be great for setups later on. Kanja as well going with the hybrid has to pull yourself together. It’s going to be crucial for Edo to try to go for some catch uh catches here with the Divine Judgment, especially playing against Rosa on this Selena who has been a highlight for a lot of the matches that we’ve seen from Aurora Gaming already. And yeah, even so, I think the fact that Uranus has struggled a little bit in the competitive matches we’ve seen, maybe he works just better in this matchup in the jungle for now against the YSS, which has popped up quite a bit. This first turtle is up, so this is where we get to see that. But some of the level four still missing, especially from our rors here for Edo, but they’re going to force it anyway. Yeah, Luna with the brave spider. That’s going to be the arrow landing, too. First blood to Rosa. Free turtle to Aurora Gaming. Great setup early on. Again, it’s Rosa with these abyssal arrows. You got to watch out for the traps, too. That gives them information to go and put pressure on the buff. Is it going to be a response? Curtain call. Good flicker from Rosa. Aurora just outplaying RQ in the first two minutes of the game. And RQ are already on the back foot. The himself a nice little bit of a lead to work with. Nothing too crazy though. Bar definitely is a lineup that wants to also wait for Edo to have that level four. Divine judgment is such a big component to making this work in the early game because if you look at the heroes that they have, man, there’s not that many like to make something happen in the early game. Wo, solo kill. Oh, D with the flicker out. Lunar might just be dead. Thunder. Solo kill for Lunar up top against Dyron. No flicker. SA Jin walks up now. Lucky for the kill already. Apex 47 getting the damage down, CCing him. Lunar staying alive, but will fall to Sutsu Jin. So, at least it’ll be traded back. Well, that was interesting. I mean, that was crazy from Lunar to actually be able to make that work, too. But again, all this Mira has brought them a nice little comfortable lead 1.5k ahead up to this point against RQ. It’s going to put them in a good position for the next objective. But now that level fours are available across the board. This is where we start to see some of the setups in the mid lane. Okay. Oh, they’re just going to force him off. Apex will take some shots. He’s tanky enough. It’s been a while since we’ve seen an Atlas in play, but you know, again, tanky enough. It’s funny because sometimes you also get to see the um focusing mark Atlas or the uh the Kaja, but this time not. There’s an arrow though. Mhm. Apex 47 from the back as well. Perfect match landing. Traction P coming down. Beta lace on three. Good purify out there. Zoto walks over to find judgment. There’s zero damage as Toy gets copy of the arrow. Rosa dives in under the turret. Gets a kill and it’s a 340 trade. Apex knows there’s no purify. Walks up with a perfect match. And that is another free buff stolen away by TNZ. Should be a turret too. A turret. There it’s they’re so clean with it, man. I mean, that fight there, everything layered really well and the popping of the purifies, but then Apex still goes in with a and the fatal links to be able to catch some. It’s it’s so well timed. Oh, you know, okay. Yeah, you might want to get out of here, Edo. Someone’s got to deal with Rose’s uh Selena, too. At some point, I almost expect that to be banned out specifically against Aurora Gaming because right now, these arrows are so difficult to deal with. Uh Blade of Hepsi is picked up by D by Dyron. We’ll have to see the items if we can get that brought up here to see where they’re going forward. So again, a lot of these first items already locked in on both sides. But yeah, man, there’s a big lead starting to build up here, too. Even in the gold lane, a thousand difference between this matchup that we weren’t really expecting here. No conceal. I mean, no purify on board. Links onto now the mountain shocker, too. Beautiful combo by Apex and Tenzi. Can I just say it again? So clean it out. Two for two on the solo kills. Traction pulls a trade it back, but Lunar has definitely been the one. The alpha in the XP match up as the turret falls in the bottom lane. I think Lunar is just going to take that every time, man. He’ll take the 1 v one and he’s going to jump into the turret and after that he’s like whatever happens happens. I get the kill. It’s a great match up there. Yeah. Value. Cuz look at this. This is all value for Aurora Gaming. 5,000 ahead. There’s the pole. But Apex just doesn’t care. Yeah, no damage yet. D get it. Dy flicker forward. Gets a ton of plant down. Rosa in the bad spot now as Dyron looks for another reset on it and gets a double mount of shocker by TNZ. Gets a kill back. That’s him. Unstoppable. Edo, no divine judgment as TNZ utilizes the Traceless back again. At least RQ is able to fight back, get something off the Divine Judgment. I almost for a second thought Apex 47 wouldn’t go down. Little bit of action here, but Sigab Boom is not going to be able to catch Sutsen at all on this Uranus unless Tenz has something to say. They’re still tanky enough, but I don’t know, man. You You’re falling behind. Three levels now difference between the junglers here. TNZ 50 and two. This is what we saw in his landlot performance. Now he’s doing it even on the YSS and they’re going to have control of the third turtle of the game. RQ, I don’t know if they really want to fight this, if they want to contest it as it looks like they’re just going to let it go. They’ve got the information, but oh, flicker divine judgment damage coming down as well. Retraction pulse knock down. Apex looking for the backl gets the turtle for free. Curtain call. Darus Jin is able to escape with the consecration gets thumbmed up by the abyssal arrow. Fatal links brings him back. Lunar gets the kill. An allout win for Aurora. Great job, Byron though. Oh, Thunder Clap landed on Lunar. Apex for the seven pops in a perfect match and that’s about it. Yeah, that’s uh that’s all they’re going to get. You catch Susin with those fatal links and man, it’s he’s just going to lose more of his jungle. You know, this orange buff is up. I’m not sure if they were going to go ahead and make a play from that, but Lunar’s definitely just kind of waiting there to see what happens. You can see the difference too in terms of gold for the um junglers. Yeah, 2.5k ahead right now. And I think this is just going to solidify more that the Uranus is struggling, man. He’s having a really hard time when we saw he was going to be such a strong definite pick throughout this. So struggle for a while for suits of Jen going to have to rely on the team to catch up. Especially it puts you in a weird position where it’s like we don’t have this traditional marksman in the gold lane to that we can like hopefully bank on later. I don’t think a gold lane CC is going to be that. So it’s like then where do you shift your focus? Well, maybe it’s got to be Dy to be able to, you know, clap down on someone later on. Rins possibly as well, but it’s just a very interesting lineup that isn’t what we’re traditionally used to seeing here. As you see, Dy still going to be up top. They’re going to fight for this purple buff. Apex, Apex, Apex. Look at the flank with the conceal already. Purple buff taken away. Sig with Diamond Fender now over to Jin. A full burst down to the consecration. Traction pulse doesn’t land. Apex 47 now caught. Oh, gets canceled. Divine judgment locks him down. Fail still comes through though. And that’s a damage from Lunar. AoE pulls the trap. It’ll be traded back as Dyron walks up and gets the kill over. No, it’s Ren who picks it up. Rosa lands the trap and the arrow. Purify out by Ren, but he is in no man’s land. Rosa gets the shut down. TNZ in the finding it. Now it’s a double and Aurora have wiped the Kings out. I got to say it again. It’s so clean from Aurora Gaming. the timing, the windows, it’s all falling into place. Let’s look at the instant replay. I mean, Apex played cat and mouse for a while. Goes in between the tier one and tier two, but he’s like, “Guys, I’m going to go in.” He gets divine judgment, but the team is so synced up that they go in and follow through anyway, even for Lunar to go ahead and stall this out. Rosa lands another arrow, and then Tienzi comes, swings forward. This was such good communication and synergy that has been showcased time and time again from Aurora Gaming. They are locked in here for game one. And you can see it again. This is, you know, this is a very specific lineup that does Oh, hold on. Apex giving information. I don’t think he’s going to be able to do much, but this lineup allows them to do that. Mhm. Apex 47, the true Apex Predator here in this game and constantly flanking RQ. And Sut Jin, while he can sustain, you can’t really continue to sustain when you’re just CCed every time. You can’t move at all. I think this is like the third purple buff that he’s taken this game. Every other one has been snatched away by Aurora. Lunar with the Rainbow Spider gets a stun down too. Tenzi rotates up top. Lord taken. Apex looking for the kill again. Has a perfect match. Pops it in, but it’s just to threaten Su Jin for him to back away. Okay, here’s the Lord. Shields are still going to be up, so they’re going to force him off the tier twos. And we’ll see if RQ has enough to defend again with this composition. Oh, I’m offended. Won’t land. Keep trying to keep it together. Apex 47 could start up a fight. He does have flicker, but I don’t know if it’s going to be worth it. We’ve seen too many leads get turned around. And Aurora Gaming knows this. This is what we’ve been talking about. I know, all pun intended, mastering the basics. Don’t want to over extend it. Don’t want to throw the game here. And so, they’ll just get what they can. Shields are popped up in the mid lane. They’ll continue to focus down the next if they can, but not forcing it now for RQ. They want to somehow someway turn this around. It’s got to be on their own. Uh it’s maybe it’s a divine judgment. Maybe it’s that traction pulse that finds a couple members of Aurora Gaming. But do they have enough damage to follow through? I think a lot of this is now you see the BOD picked up from Diamond, but that is that question. Look at the damage meters, man. It is. It is so far behind. Yeah. Oh man. Four members of Aurora before you get a glimpse of Reins on the Kimmy. And you got to understand that for most of these picks, especially Reins and Diren, they’re have they have to scale a bit more for them to actually deal damage. If Aurora have like a 14 or 12k gold lead by the time that happens, I don’t think it’ll be enough to come back. Yeah, Suzin finally getting his buff again. TNZ’s been level 15, locked in for a long time. So Suzin’s still playing massive catch up here, but even so, his job really as this Uranus jungle is to be kind of more like that front line. Like he is the guy just going to be tanking up a lot. And that’s why you have to hope that somehow someway when they catch up in terms of items, I think one of the plays that they can make is Dyron goes to that back line. If they somehow shut down Tenzi, I don’t even think that’s the complete end of it all because like we saw when Stigy Boom played the Ruby before. He’s a he does enough to go ahead and heal back up, but this stops RQ from disengaging. And so once so much is expended and you know you’re trying to run away or disengage, you’re forced to deal with this Ruby, the amount of crowd control even with Apex 47. So this is just a free lord going over to Aurora Gaming. All this leading into how can RQ defend against this push? Do they have a lineup that’s actually going to allow them to stay in this? Cuz even wave clear wise, it’s it’s not that great. Nope, not at all. RQ just have the Kimmy, right? Everyone else is well I guess you have the CC to deal damage to like the lord but that’s it. The min waves it’s all going to be on the hands of Kimmy to like try to clear and for Aurora I guess the same could be said about them. Their siege isn’t too good. They’re going to have to just rely on the yeast and Shin but they have dive. They have a way to threaten the back with Apex too. Yeah, Apex 47 and Sig boom can literally flicker towards the wall and catch someone most likely a mound shocker to give the information they need. Lord’s going to be pulled in. It charges him in mid wave. Conceal use. Are they going to go here? Dy forced back already by the perfect match up. Apex 47. Two base turrets taken down now. It’s mid lane will fall too. Bouncer shocker lands on such jin. Sig boom goes into I’m offended. Doesn’t land. RQ still able to defend. Now the curtain call landing onto. No, I’m offended. And Apex 47 won’t go in just yet. They’ll play it slow. They know they have waves and the advantage. RQ defend the lord, but are not done just yet. I’m offended over toy. Apex47 looking to play has purified toy. Bravest spider by Lunar. Apex right there with a perfect match. Lunar actually diving in a bit too deep getting chunked. That’s a divine judgment over by Apex 47. Fatal legs. I’m a better than the mountain shock. What a combo by Aurora Gaming. Dire jumps in the midst of it all but cannot deal enough damage. Two members of RQ falling. The arrow not landing. Sutin still standing there. Sig boom goes over it again. What a combo. Rins free hitting getting the immortality. Tenzi looking for the base. Lunar taken out. Ren’s getting rid of the minions. Toy still there as well. Apex right there. I’m offended by Sigy. Boom. Locks him down. And it should be GG for game number one. Tenzi gets a double. Will have to wave. The wave up top destroying the base turret to win this game. Two seconds on Edok. I don’t think they’ll care. Aurora take game one. And there you go. A dominant game one for Aurora. 12k gold lead towards the end there. Interesting drafts, but Aurora Gaming comes out on top for game one. At this point, we have to accept it. No team in the world and in this tournament right now is playing and drafting like Aurora Turk. Ru Hoshi tried to show that they can dance to the same tune, but they just kept tripping up on their own feet as Aurora have brought us back to the past. shades of what MLBBV was like back then with like pure funnel into the center of the map. Man, it was I guess the this is amazing by the way from Lunar to be able to get that. But I guess the answer still is what do you bring to that fight with the scythe? Because so far Sigaboom has been uncontested in that gold lane. They tried the CC. It just didn’t work. It was so awkward too towards the end there that last fight cuz it’s like usually if you have that marksman, they can go ahead and lock down the base. But eventually TNZ was able to do that. But still, from start to finish, there was so much difficulty from RQ to deal with Rosa’s information, TNZ’s uh setting up Apex being able to find all this. Like that layering, that wombo combo itself happened so many times for Aurora Gaming. And that’s why I was saying it was so clean from them. It was too clean for RK to handle. And again, when RU thought they had an ace up their sleeve, you see the Atlas come in. And it was literally just the perfect pick here to deal with whatever Ru was planning with cuz again, Uranus, the reason they picked it up was because, all right, we’re going to sustain through the initial burst of Aurora’s comp and the kind of like lack of full burst power. But if this if the Uranus just stays in place, everyone will get the hit on, right? And like that’s what the Atlas brought to the table. The threat of them clumping up together and getting brought into a combo and none of them moving. Yeah, it’s unfortunate because RQ with their last two picks in the draft, it felt a little bit off. There was something there that could have just been different, but then you can also say just Aurora just answered it really well. If you look at Aurora’s composition, you see pure laser focus in supporting every part of the map for TNZ. Hypothetically, this could have just been two dead side lanes and just all action in the center, but Ouru ended up picking up the Masha, which sort of like shifted. It was like their way of saying we’re not fully confident in just the Kimmy alone, so we needed some sort of other carry, but the Lapu Lapu just could mess up the Masha so badly in lane. It’s not really the best of matchups for the Masha, dude. Like up against Lapu Lapu. Masha needs to just survive in lane, but when you’re up against such an aggressive XP laner like the Lapu with a crazier power spike than Masha level four under the turret, he wasn’t safe. Dy, that’s a good example of just how I feel like impressive Lunar has been. Um, again, we saw so much of the Phobia. Now we get to see him on the Lapu. So, I think even other teams when they’re seeing this, it’s like, man, we really got to be able to actually hold our own against this because the way Lunar player is playing sort of reminds me of little shades of uh Sanford, you know, like very aggressive. He’ll take those 1v ons and win them even if it means afterwards he’s probably going to die because what that is doing is it’s sending other members of the team to go deal with Lunar, you know, to make sure. So then it opens up the other side of the map and that’s what we saw here so well from Aurora Gaming and it was just a really good synergy amongst all the roles here and they all really played their part. RQ just looked like they were absolutely shocked. Uh you could commend them for trying their own way of how Aurora would play. Yes, I like that they were mountain shocked by Aurora. It’s again I really feel like just in the second half of the draft they s somewhat lost confidence in their initial game plan was to like funnel everything into the CC and that costed them. I’m trying to think though what else could have they put in the XP lane to just make it a dead lane. Yeah. I don’t know. I feel just like for RQ they try to match the loco of Aurora with their own loco, but it ended up just being more like goofy and zany. Man, it was it was a little bit more goofy there in the end. And because Aurora’s loco is very there’s at least one clear concise goal every time that they pull this off. So TNZ continues to impress 937 gold per minute. Deathless perfect. And because of the adjustment in re of RQ in terms of their strategy, Suzuin became the sand sandbag. and Sigy Boom on this Ruby was another layer of threat that was just like, “Okay, nice. We killed the Lapu. Wait, the Ruby’s still there.” Yeah, that’s two like very sustainable heroes that they just had. And then I think based off that when we see that breakdown too, Tenz’s got to be at the top like for junglers right now. The guy has not he’s died or like has died maybe a couple times. I think he has the best KD in the tournament so far. Yeah, for sure. Like based off of the games that we’ve already seen him play and Yeah. And because of this performance, wow, the evolution of Aurora and how coach Master of the Basics and Dexar in combination as well, we have to give it up to coach Badgal Seph as well. Just allowing Aurora to play in such a way that no, I can confidently say there’s no other team in the tournament is playing like right now. their unique take in this meta. Throwing it back to when we were just funneling everything into the center of the map where side lanes just felt like two fighters duking it out to see who fights better and they have shock and awed the world and they continue to do so again. What RRQ needs to do, there’s a lot of questions, lots of lots of big adjustments they need to consider if they want to force this into game number three. But all roads are pointing to Aurora Gaming being able to take the cake and cons and secure the knockout spot. Before we continue though, we have to toss you on over to Baloyski and Eterna for an interview. BBB TripleB is in the building, boys and girls. Hello Baloyski. Hello. How are you doing? Good. Good. Good. Okay. with the you know the brain big brain Valoy coming into the building. We got to pick your brain just a little bit here. What is going on with the metaoy? Tell us what are your are your thoughts? Is it as flexible as that to see two fighters in the gold lane? H the good thing about the meta right now is uh it’s so flexible because of the jungle. They can play both uh utility tank or the assassin. That’s why the gold lane can also be flexible. I really like the meta right now. So what else could we be expecting potentially in the coming future? I don’t think there there will be a lot but uh for sure there will be flexible like if they have YSS is it will be have more surprise pick to be honest with you but uh besides that it’s it’s going to be normal assassin versus tank or assassin versus assassin or tank versus assassin that’s it okay so it really depends on what the jungler is going to be filled with right for sure okay but specifically about these two teams because it’s already one zero now for Aurora and it’s weirdly to say that we’re in an era where RQ look like the underdogs here. Do you agree with this notion? Do you think Aurora is the stronger team? Uh not surprised about the performance of Aurora because the they are a really good team from internationals. They always beat uh team team that have the potential to win championship. But yeah, I think RQ uh need to catch up more on draft. If they do uh I I’m confident that they can win also. Okay. So you think it’s a draft problem? Yeah, but but uh uh besides that, Aurora is really strong. Okay. Okay. What about play style? Do you see like a difference in play style between these two teams? Well, um play style not a lot. They’re about aggressive team, but I I think the or have just a better dep and then have a better gameplay in game one. And let’s see what game two can be. What about mechanics? Any differences in mechanics? Uh for sure I have. But each player have their strength. Uh each player like head tohead advantage. Uh some some of them can win, some of them can uh can lose. But at the end of the day, it’s going to be a team game. Okay. Okay. But if we specifically see like individuals here, let’s say in the jungle, Sutsuin versus Tanzi because Tanzi has been popping off since, you know, a couple days ago. What are your thoughts on the jungle matchup? Well, uh I uh before this match, I I already know Tanzi will will have a good game because uh since since M5, if I remember, he always performs so good already. That’s why I’m not surprised at him. uh every international he tried to prove himself and maybe it’s time for him to prove it more. Oh, maybe an avenue for him to prove more now coming into this next game. We’re already 1 to zero like we mentioned before, but what are your predictions here? Do you think RQ can come back for game number two? Well, uh it depends on what they what they’re planning, but I think if they didn’t adjust, they it will be hard for them. Maybe they need to respect some hero of the Aurora like uh using Chin and Selena. I think it’s the main problem. Uh let’s see if they can catch up. Okay. So, maybe force Rose on a different hero and force Tany on a different hero. Do you think it would be different if let’s say Rosa was on another hero? Why why do you think the Selena is so important for Aurora’s gameplay? It’s not just the arrow, right? I see his map uh his map counter is really good. Uh when he’s using Selena, their map is so big. That’s why it’s one of the main factor why they can make uh very good moves. Okay, we’ll see exactly who’s going to be able to pick up game number two because it looks like the players are already. So, once again, thank you so much. We’ll get to watch it in the back rooms later on because we’re going to throw it over back to our casters. Thank you, Malloyski, for the big brain breakdown. Everything’s so clear right now. And yeah, I think I’m going to ride on that one single thing that he decided to focus on. Take the Selena away from Rosa. Make the map smaller. It’s not like he’s already gone it four times. Yeah, fourth time in a row. They’re just consistently good with it and very comfortable. I said it in the game. I was like, “Someone’s got to take this. Someone’s got to take it away.” ban it out just and this is what’s going to happen I think next game ban Lanclot ban Selena all right yeah let’s see if that let’s see if that will be the case for the bands with the Lancaw Selena and let’s see if the nicer prediction will hit to further understand why this team is just so good right now and why they are surprising the world here’s Aurora base wide open a few waves coming out as well this will be it RRQ takes a clean sweep against area 77 MSJ. [Music] Oh no, it’s a disaster for the Super Fam. Super prince tries, but Aurora Gaming made it happen. And did it two on the rollway? What a game three for Aurora Gaming. I don’t see any like big mistake with Onyx page. It’s just like Aurora Turkey is more prepared than that. Aurora did a very good job. Their macro is really good and I think Aurora improved a lot. 3 2 1 go. There’s a lot of news that Aurora Turkey is really one of the dark horse in this tournament. So, not really surprised that they did a pretty good job in their first match of the group stage. So, yeah, I think they’re just a team to watch out for. [Music] [Music] Just goes to show how different Aurora are. If you have every other team and at the end of every huddle just going, you have Aurora just going, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen do something like that for their huddle. Now, great that we got to understand them a little bit more, but if you want a little bit more good stuff happening in your in-game, don’t forget about our all-star event. Woo! Dino Planet. Dino, best things in the world. Dinosaurs, technology, and bang bang. Yes, sir. Hey, look at that. Right. 27th of June all the way to the 5th of August. You guys can go and check it out. It’s online right now. Dice roll your way into skins, man. Mr. Renar can’t get the pop. I can’t even get the jawhead, but I know you guys have been playing the game non-stop to achieve what you believe in and you believe in the purple goopa skin. Get it now. I won’t be getting it. I’m already heartbroken. Dude, I’m going to get your head, man. Bro, you already got a bunch of other skins that you mentioned earlier. So, like, we’re good. We’re good here. I think it’s time to try and if we can can although it’s I feel like it’s so difficult to break down what potentially ARC you could do to break down Aurora and the draft. We’ve already started off with something that Baloyski set up for us which was take away the Selena. But then if you take away the Selena, you’re you still have two heroes who can rotate the map very well and get vision in the Farsa. And although she’s fallen out, I would still consider Aurora to be the type of team to consider Zeten. M they might I think we also have to go ahead and consider the fact that let’s just say if if this happens where Aurora ends up sweeping RQ I think they’re automatic a tournament like favorite like they already are like they already are but if they beat RQ in a sweep I think a lot of people are going to put them in the championship spot they want everyone wants to avoid them. Yeah, I’m going to I’m going to add double that idea too as well. Backstage, I was saying like, you know what, if they sweep RQ here, I’m confident enough to say they’re going to go into top four immediately. Like whatever their first knockout match will be, it’ll be like they can get through that. And then there is a lane in the top four, right? Well, now in a draft, you call the Selena ban, it will be banned out, but no Lancelot just yet. We’ll see about that. Now, Fanny and Selena, so respect to TNZ and Rosa. Oh, do they does does Sutrogen want to take it? Like is that the plan? Are we going to see a first pick Lancelot if it’s open depending on this? Uh because the YSS was banned out too from Aurora. But um again, we’ve seen Oh, there it is. Okay, so Lancelot banned out as well. Selena like I expected and then the Fanny. So this might where do we see RQ go with this since they’re going to be first pick on the blue side here? What do they what do they prioritize? I think the Boxa Boxa utility for S Jin play uh the way they did against A77. See how that goes. Mhm. Uh Baka has a lot of map presence, helps control the center of the map, which by all means is the focal point for Aurora. As long as you can mess up the center of the map for them, the rotations of Apex and Rosa, that makes it easier to be able to apply pressure onto either Sigaboom and Lunar, depending who who is the more uh accessible side lane, excuse me. Boxia is the first pick of RQ. If I’m Aurora, just go ahead pick up the Farsa as early as possible. I wouldn’t mind it. Farsophobius maybe or CC could also be an option to go for up against the box here. So, we’ll see. There are a lot of options. I mean, we haven’t really been seeing a lot of the Grangers in this like this early. Yeah, it was very I mean that’s what I love about our our draft so far is they haven’t you know cuz like last MSE and even back in M6 is like we had very specific patterns that were very uh showed early on cuz this is already different. I mean Aurora goes for the Jucin and then the Uranus. Interesting. You would usually not want to go Uranus when you already see a box on the other side but they still decide to go for the Uranus and the Juice in Juin. All right makes sense. But now for RQ, do they just I think they’re still going to stick to the Kimmy, right? Boxer Kimmy combo. Do they actually just go for Farsa instead? Imagine Aurora puts this in the hands of TNZ too. Like that would be a different thing, right? They actually put I don’t like that. I don’t think they should, but I’m just saying that it’s always a because we we have to always say there’s like always been surprises so far. So, um but it’s still technically a flex. We can see RQ, they’ll go for the Cho early on and then they lock in the Moskov here. Yeah. Essentially, when you have the Cho with you, you’d want to already show your mid laner that can burst with it. Mhm. Is this them just trying to match the rotational speed of Apex and just try to control it through vision alone because Yeah, they need more damage. They’re trying to secure mid pryo right now with the Cho Angela. Uranus. Oh, no. There you go. Angela, juicing Uranus, dude. I ban out Esmeraldo. Oh man, this is a really good start to the draft for Aurora right now. Yeah, Angela, you you’re a jella. You’re a jella. That sounds that can work. You’re jealous. Stick with that. Really, it’s just you’re a jella. There is no other option. All right. Uella combination. How about no no no. So like you this the idea I guess for them would be like all right, Uranus does get countered a bit by the Boxia, but if we have even more heals, what you going to do about it? Yeah. Before Apex 47’s picked last game, Atlas was last played in the MSE two years ago. D7 of Burnx. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Shout out D7. Yeah, it was great to see the uh the Atlas though, especially since we’ve been talking about, you know, you can you can still get that skin that was shown there for you guys out there. I think you can still get it. Yes, you can. I got it back in 2020. Same, bro. You know, 2023. Look at these. 2023. Two skinners beside me. Skinners. Pakita gets banned. Interesting. getting the fara. There you go. We expect it from RQ, but RQ could still just go Kimmy or Gor think you know we have Angelus. Kimmy ain’t doing anything. I’m only wondering why RQ were so confident in just picking up the Moscow. The cho I get mid pryo but Moskov could have come later into the draft or their golden could have come later in the draft. Wouldn’t this wouldn’t be the uh wow can’t speak. Wouldn’t be great here for RQ though. Yes, I think so. All these shields. I guess RQ are expecting like a joy like an assassin for Tenzi early. But yeah, this actually could still be a Uranus jungle which is weird. I don’t like it on TNZ. Yeah, but it is an option knowing that a lot of the assassins have been banned out. No, Shin Aurora banned that out. Lanclot Fanny taken away by RQ. Granger gets picked up by Aurora. Okay, as much as Aurora has been very surprising in this tournament and as great as their performances has been, isn’t their draft just a little bit too honest considering that you already see you know how they’re going to be playing this? Or is it just because it’s so honest but it’s just a really strong lineup that you don’t really need to worry about? Aurora. Yeah, Aurora. Yeah, I think it’s just a really strong lineup that you don’t really need to worry about cuz I don’t think Aru can go through the front line. at least not no way early to mid. Like they have to wait late game before they can go through it and just have really good damage dealers now with a Granger first, but I I really think they’re going to go for another damage dealer. I don’t think they have enough damage just yet. What is mid going to be though? Oh, an Eve. Oo, the old counter to the Jin with the Chaw. Okay. And yeah, if they if they ever put this Uranus in the jungle, he’s going to be eating a lot of damage from that Eve. Going to take a while though. Aru’s damage profile takes a while. It takes a there’s a lot of pressure on Dy to actually win lane so hard that he’s going to be able to get uh his first damage item very quickly. This is going to be a telling sign though too. Last pick because it could still be swerved a little bit if they wanted to. But indeed. Yeah. Essentially the RQ when you look at the lineup, this is kind of like a slow burn lineup. Now if they can get pickoffs early on that’s great, but it’s still going to be a bit hard. Oh, there it is. Oh, that’s good. All right, Benetta. Yeah. Yeah, that’s good. one pick out of nowhere just like that. Similar to another Aurora EXP laner from the Philippines. Will this Benardetta actually end up into the EXP lane that could end up becoming the reason why this Eve centered formation of RQ gets broken down? Will it be a sweep and straight to Nagas for Aurora? Or will RRQ force game number three? It’s MSE at EWC 2025. Anything can happen. Thank you so much, Renmar, again breaking it down with us through that draft here, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the English desk. It’s still me, Nu, and Mirao to bring you game number two in this best of three, the battle for a knockout spot. Can we get to game three? RQ has their work cut out for them, or will Aurora Gaming from Turkey make it happen in a suite and make it even more apparent that they are a force to be reckoned with? So looking at these lineups here still TZ like we said is going to be rolling with that Uranus in the jungle. This is a utility match up now and we were building up these junglers leading into this and they’ve got the compositions I feel like to complement them. I’m only just hoping that for RQ anyway they need enough time to make this lineup get online and be able to uh pop off later on. Yeah, I really hope that are able to change the narrative of the Rena jungle right now. Edok with that mid pryo coming in. You can see the burst on TNT. That might have been a mistake. TNZ no movement ability. First blood to RRQ and again the narrative sticks. Nice to Uranus jungle. Uh not so good. Well, so far I mean we got to see but uh that’s the thing. Oh, Lunar. Lunar might be cost shield unity. Two early kills for RQ. Hey, I said they need a little bit more time, but when you have an early game like this, I guess, you know, you get two kills in your favor. Now, you’ve already got this lead puts Aurora in a precarious position in the early game. We take a look at the emblems here. You can see building up I think even so you got a whole lot of impure rages of course also for this the concussive blast on the Cho does quite a bit of damage and that’s what we saw earlier on which secured them that first kill over. Oh, Apex 47. And this is going to be a struggle. He also had to burn the flicker. Yeah, this is why I personally I really like the mid trio for RQ when they picked up the Eve. The Cho was a bit too early, but they managed to get the last two picks to fit their agenda here. Mid pryo was almost certainly going to be RQ almost every single time. Shield coming down and damage the Gundo too. I for a petrify used up and it will just end up with a kill spider by Tyron the turret. Oh, that burst at least it’ll be traded out with Rosa getting the kill. But Eternal has already been started by RQ as Edok goes for Gunds Tenzi up coming in with the shield. Unity and that’s the RWM to lock him down. Edok with the lantern flare thrown back. Oh no, that’s it. Oh, purple buffs take as well, I think. Yeah, they’re going to put pressure here. So tough. You see how that fight played out too. It looks like Yep, just going to lose the buff. Are they going to stall this out? I mean, so tanky. Mhm. Roll on out. Okay, again, that fight was a perfect uh picture of exactly what this lineup can do. Even the fact that you’re so tank in a box, you can just play into the real world manipulation around these objectives is the major advantage of this composition. Meanwhile, all this is happening and Toy is just free to farm up, do his thing because you can rely on this rest of this composition to do its part. I was thinking it would take him a lot longer to get online, man, but they are already there. And now that you have a level four for he’s going to be most likely going for those kicks, going into those plays. Susan getting a advantage, too. Two kills already this early on. A twole advantage against Tenzi is why we see him just taking what he wants. Sigu able to secure a few of those kills. Edo tried to look for a pick there. And yeah, right now it’s slow game for RQ. And this is like back to um at least to Jen again. A lot of shield unity. Edo takes a turret shot too. Po in the mid lane and the consecration by Tenzi. I’m just actually, you know, now that we see this, it’s like uh it can be the same thing for Aurora where Oh, Rose is so up front. Okay, Rose is fine. But that’s the thing. They have to rely on this Granger later on to an extent too. Lunar is going to be a little bit different here now with the hands of the Benadetta that could mess things up in team fights later, especially with the petrify. Going for that backline, going for the Eve if she sets up if he tries to set up the U rearwood manipulation, but I just don’t know if they want to do it now. The turtle’s going to be coming up here. They do have a heart guard they can rely on. There’s a couple tools now that Aurona Gaming has that they didn’t have in the previous fights. So, if they manage to make this work, uh, they could turn this game slowly around here. But RQ has control. They’re going to start up the turtle. They have all the space in the world. This is great positioning from them, too. I don’t think there’s any way Aurora Gaming gets this as it’s a turtle in the free hands for RQ. Yeah, absolutely no chance they go for the contest here. They’re too behind to go for it. And again, so far their front line situation isn’t really looking too good with the shred from Ren and the anti-regen for such chain. He’s going to go in with the shield. Unity just zones him away as Toy picks up every single shot of that turret shield, leaving a bit over TNZ in the mid lane. Tyron pops into Raven’s fighter and will just clear out the mid lane as Lant Edo down, but he has a Shan poo to escape again. A stun and more poke. Yeah, there’s a whole lot uh you know, both lineups are kind of like that in a in a sense. That’s what I was expecting from RQ. But even for R Gaming, their lineup won’t allow them to really just go into these fights and they almost have to respond to what does a lot of times again when you have a cho play, you’re just going for those kicks. There isn’t essentially someone to do that from Aurora Gaming. Now eventually, like I said, Lunar could play that part, but we see them trying to slow things down. They’ve already lost a quite a bit of ground in the early game. You’re talking about a 3k gold lead that was built up in the first 4 minutes or so. Wow. And so you’ve got to catch up here. You need time because you can see the disparity in the jungle alone, that 1.2k gold lead. But even more so, it’s still that maintaining the twole lead against Tenzi. And that’s a difficult spot in unfamiliar territory. Oh, kick. Oh, good dash by Lunar. Dire pops in the rain. Spider now jumps in. Rosa with the flicker out. Already used a crimson beacon earlier. So there you go. Burnt resource. Yeah, resources. Sometimes that’s the name of the game right now, especially in a slower pace game. Off to a great start for RQ, but even for them, it’s like they acknowledge the fact that Aurora Gaming, you know, has some of these tools now like the Heart Guard. I like the fact that Lunar could go ahead and pressure them with a petrify that they have to kind of approach it in a different way. And if that kick isn’t in the right direction, then there’s no point in following it up. You maintain the lead you have, you continue to farm up. They should be able to get even this third turtle, I think, without much of a of a nuisance. But there’s a petrify. Yeah, but it’s used defensively. And Edo, he used away the dragon, but unfortunately, it wasn’t actually canceled by the petrify. It was canceled the animation, so there was no kick, but he still has it on. He still has it up. He still has it available. So, this is a turtle taking it. Looks like Aurora is going to go for it. Mhm. RWM2. That’s the box. Oh my lord, that’s damage. the sword and the blast from Rein. Oh, Rose with the crimson beacon trying to read out the Gundo flicker combo, but just walks up and to gets the kill with the SOD tier one in the mid lane falling. RQ with a massive lead. Massive lead and then now it’s RQ looking clean as ever just like we saw from Aurora Gaming in game one. It’s completely swinged over to RQ. They are on time for everything. They’re finding these windows and I don’t know damage was there. He did have the flicker but not going to make that call to go forward. So Aurora Gaming finding themselves pretty far behind already. It’s just going to continue to balloon further and I think this really is that game that’s just solidifying the fact that I mean look at this Uranus he’s struggling. Bravest spider by Dyron gets a stun as well now. Pops in the second part of the bravest fighter but it’s going to be the hard guard coming down. Kenzi looking for an angle, but I don’t really think that’s an angle you want to take, brother man. Yeah, you don’t want to commit to that even with a hard guard burnt out again. I think you start to he’s going to go for good reaction by Sig Boom. Good response. But you see what’s happening here, man. It’s like every single thing that RQ does. Sometimes it’s not even an ultimate or or a flicker from themselves. They’re getting these battle spells. They’re getting these these spaces to work with against Aurora Gaming and it’s really difficult. You’re looking at just space taken. I mean, think about it. The tier 2 turret’s about to go down mid lane. So, landing too, but it’ll just force out the Crimson Beacon out from Rosa and RQ are really just suffocating Aurora at this point. They have Aurora at a choke point like they can’t trade neither. Uranus has been up top, but Dy just has been standing there like, “Hey, yeah, you can push the lane, but you can’t get turret.” Lapu Lapu is insane right now so far from game one and game two just on respect different respective teams. You can already see itemwise, they’re very far behind even in that gold lane. Three items already locked in here for Toy. Yeah, just a whole lot. Yikes. Yeah, that’s why the healing is not really doing anything, man. Dominance eye. See Albert’s glowing wand. Chloe one and and oh man yeah there this sustained comp has oh tens walks up that oh he’s going to go flash dealing quite a bit of damage with dragon now connects it as well Jin with the shield unity Rosa jumping the back line with the crimson beacon over the rins now as Ren is able to damage a toy melting them down the healing is nonexistent from Aurora they’re you shot that shot Close. Yeah, very close there. And that was just the reason of, hey, we have way more gold than you. We have way more items than you. We can take this fight. If maybe there wasn’t a 7,000 gold differential here, maybe it would have been different because this was a fight that they decided to go for. This is just odd, which is very odd. Dire just gets an assassination. Live cam view. Assassination happened. So again, Aurora Gaming is in a position where we’ve seen teams be in before. They’re massively behind. Do they have a composition to actually defend against the Lord? Yes, they still have the shields up. But this is something they have to watch out for because fighting even under the turrets with an Eve on your side for RQ. They can just be like, “Yeah, sit around your turret. We’ll just pop up and angle the real world manipulation in a way that forces you to fight us anyway.” So that’s why you see Tenz is holding that lord there. He’s trying to like delay it as much as possible. He’s going to go ahead and work on it. You see Dy though. He’s He’s willing to take the 1 v one down on bottom. Shield’s going to pop up top. We got the 1 v one here going around the l. Yeah. Oh, ring around Rosie. Tenzi just trying to buy time. He knows there’s no way he wins this 1 v one. He can just try to delay. Hard guard coming down as well. Tenzi gets away. Kind of a non lane there. But what this does is RQ have another way to push in. Like the Lord wasn’t really dealt with. I think not even half HP. So it just ends up being a slow push for RQ to get more. Oh my god, this is done guys. Oh my god. Battle it out. Lunar pops in the eye for an eye. Enoch goes in with the way. Dragon still second part of it. Toy piercing through the turret over to Sigu who has to respect this. The void blast coming down. Still a battle in the bottom lane as toy gets a base turret and finally after what seems to be 9 years, the lord gets to the vicinity of the TN still running. D. We’re just keeping him. Oh my god. This This is his job. Hey, there you go. Hey, I’m here in your base now, man. Edok doesn’t even want to kick. Are you just like, “All right, J.” This is where you say takes three. Takes three. Oh my god. Hey, but did TZ accomplish anything there? I mean, he delayed things as much as possible, but still, they lost a base turret. They lost the shields. Mhm. You’re still down 10,000 gold. Mhm. I think just again what did that accomplish for Aurora Gaming? You know, maybe bought them a little bit of time, but they’re so massively behind that and this is the full force of RQ. There’s RWM. Yeah, Rosa forced to use a crimson beacon and that should mean that it’s going to be a free turret. Look at the piercing damage again through the turrets to Rosa and Apex. Two base turrets in the sides. 30 seconds for the neutral objective spawn. Lunar before he can even swing his sword gets blasted down by Ren. Yeah, this is so tough to see for Aurora Gaming just because they don’t really have much positioning. Rosa picking up brute force trying to survive a little bit more. Yeah, Twilight Armor though for Susen. This is a complete outclass for game two. At least in this one, it’s just completely in RQ’s favor and gaming. I feel like they’re almost in that position where it’s like we’re a little desperate. We want to go ahead and maybe take these flights, maybe force it because it’s getting to that point where it’s just so one-sided for them. Luna in trouble. Eye for an eye coming down but oh petrify and a final slash or sorry the final blow. Oh no shots over to TNZ is getting tanky but he walks up to Jun. No that’s a flicker out for Sigy Boom but the wave of the dragon locks him down and the RWM forces Sigy Boom to just take the shot from Sutsu Jin. The base wide open RQ will crack it up as Dy pops in a famous fighter. They’ll take a bit longer here as they’re actually out of minions. They don’t have minions. It’s a little bit of health left. That wave’s going to be pushing up top. That’s a chundo. The flicker in to Rosa. A kill back at least. Aurora make it two on the board, but RQ send the question back to Aurora. Maybe they’ll go Uranus jungle. Maybe don’t. I think a lot of teams are going to be able to see that what’s happened here with Uranus jungle and it’s not working out. A dominant game for RQ. I just have a question now. Yes. Whose draft was worse? RQ game one or Aurora game two? This is why I posed a question earlier if the Aurora draft was just a little bit too honest because everything that they wanted to do and could have done was immediately shut down by great early game rotations. Again, Cho Priority up against a center of the map. That’s Angela and Juin. Yeah, man. That does not feel good going into that. And even though you say if you tell the agilant juice in just be careful, high chance you’re still going to lose the early. I mean, this is 2 minutes in, you know, and they’re doing stuff like that. And that’s the crazy thing. I think maybe, just maybe, it would have been different if the early game didn’t happen like this. It’s like because RQ punished so hard 2 and 1/2 minutes in and then they get the turtle, they continue on, they get resources and it put TNZ even further behind. They knew that opening and it almost just completely shut down game two. Like from the from the get-go, I just felt like after that whole interaction 3 minutes, 4 minutes in, it was almost like, yep, this one’s not looking good. It’s probably over. Yeah, it really has just been a chess match between the two coaches right now or the four coaches. You got to remember that MTV is with Bagdell Seph and Kasc is with NMM. So, it’s a chess match between the two coaches right now like draft one, draft two one. Yeah. At first, as much as I was like questioning the Moscow, it also made sense a little bit more in the bigger picture of RQ where it’s just like there’s so much focus in the center of the map that you can just leave to his own devices. you need a uh pick that can just sustain the lane and also just if not hardcore win it and they just keep it even and ultimately in the big picture RQ drafted incredibly well it feels like Aurora after they decided to pick up the Angela in the first phase they were just shoehorned into that idea they couldn’t get out of it anymore yeah unfortunate I think too like you have this lineup that’s built off like the Angela and having all these shields and sustain but then there’s a box and then like we mentioned with the itemizationactly too. Like they all had so much gold too that they just in the lead that they just built those up to pretty much deal with any of the sustainability that comes with an Angela, comes with these shields, comes with these, you know, tankier uh junglers like the it’s supposed to be the Uranus, but look, he’s 0 and six. Tenzi, I just feel like we haven’t seen him play much utility and maybe he should just go ahead and stick with the assassins and that they can play around there the best. But when you go through the band now, the ban list, it’s like, yeah, he’s really being targeted down. And then you have to think, okay, what other assassins could he pick up? Would it still work for that? And I think that’s where we see, you know, later on for for game three. But this now makes it really up in the air. It’s like Aurora had a great game one. They got smashed here in game two. So where does this lead us for uh game three ahead of us? I think the glaring two uh points that we can talk about in the draft is the fact that so far so has only made the utility jungles work and so far TN has only done well with assassin. So maybe it’s a utility ban on the left, assassin ban on the right. Maybe we’ll see that happen in game number three because at this point I think both of the coaches should have a read on each other. Yeah. And I think we’re also going to be continuing a theme that we’ve popped up ever since MWI. Don’t be too honest in your drafting. Lie uh lie a little bit. Uh lie a little bit. A part of me was was on the same boat as you Murko where that that lineup was just so good, but then he just took one really good rotation for the very beginning of RQ. Add to that though, I feel like Lunar, yes, I know his job is to clear and rotate. I feel like there were times he was over rotating and overcommitting, man. Like cutting way too early too. Then gave the second kill away to the box. Yeah. Yeah. The Benadetta can work, but you’re just not as I would say like tanky for example as the Lapu Lapo for example. like you’re going to go in, you’re going to be able to do some of the damage, but I even feel like with the Benadetta, like if you are punished early on and you fall behind, like you then find yourself in a position where you’re just having a hard time to do much and then you’re forced to even use the elect blow or the petrify more defensively than the game plan was to maybe initiate with it in some cases when they were initially going through the draft. And so Aurora the entire time, like right from minute two, they were in defensive mode. Yeah, and that is just not where you want to be with this kind of lineup. And Selena Ban really uh hurt Aurora. They had such a like crazy creative pick on Rosa that enabled Rosa to do everything crazy. Now on the Juin, I think it’s not just because of the Juice in pick. The Juin pick was fine. Yeah, because there was no front line. There was no space given to Rosa. He wasn’t really able to replicate what he’s been able to do the last four games on Selena. Yeah, I feel like if Aurora had a different ror for Apex 47, something that could supplement what Juicen brings to the table early on, could have tempered a little bit of what Edok and Rins were able to do in the center of the map. So, I think that’s uh something we really have to think about now for Aurora if I feel like this is the first time we’ve really seen a big dent in their armor. Yes, I know their series against Onyx went to three, but even then that loss game number two, it wasn’t a stop. who was so competitive. This is the first time we really got to see Aurora take a misstep. You know, I think to bring the point of like my criticism toward RQ in ML Indonesia Grand Finals, I could say the same thing about Aurora. It’s almost like they know what their strengths are. Tenzon and Assassin, Rosa on a on a playmaker. Apex 47 similarly on a playmaker. They literally did the opposite of all of that in game number two. They went to play I think and this now becomes a very big weakness point that a lot of teams are looking at and being like all right we might have a read on them too. Mhm. And argue were the team to be able to do that with bands on Fanny, Selena and Lancelot. I would want to see RQ continue to put the pressure on the Selena of Rosa so that we get to see a little bit more of how Aurora would draft and play around if they don’t have the Selena. And at the same time, it’s also a good thing for Aurora because now they get to really see how their limits or where their limits are. So their limits are tested. So then they can come up with new things to surprise us even more if ever. Again, if you miss out the surprise earlier, we do have a new skin line coming up, the Metro Zero skin line. Again, it just feels all like cyberpunky, futuristic, all that. So if you’re a fan of that kind of aesthetic, look for it. Wait out for it. Not a lot of news on it just yet, but of course, keep your eyes and ears out for our new skin line. Now, as we head into game number three, I’m trying to think of the possibilities here. It seems like Yan Shin really is something that you should not be giving to Aurora. So, Aurora going to go blue side now. Yan Shin has been the first pick in game one. I think looking at the bands, they ban Lance Fanny Bakshia game one. So, I think leave the box. leave the box like it’s okay if even if Tenzi gets the utility I think I’d much rather if I was RQ go up against the box then the Shin yeah I think you I still think may like I almost want to say for Aurora I I mean I I kind of expect this even for RQ to an extent it’s like this that game two or this series because it is a position to the knockout it’s like we could have tested something out and I almost feel like this was a test in a way for Aurora to be like all right let’s see if this works but it completely failed It did. It crashed and burned. So, I almost want to say, yeah, maybe if they go utility, the only one really I see Tanzi um being able to make work probably Boxa for him. Um but if not, and also depending on once we get to the bands is like what has open him uh for him in the assassins and I think uh have we seen him play Hayabusa yet? Who t So, it’s mostly been Lance a lot. Fanny Lance uh YSS. Yeah. So, they are in the blue like we mentioned. Selena first. First ban. I think we’re going to see a landslot again. And this poses the question of what does Aurora want to do? Do they want to give a utility over to Tenzi? And how do they have a better game plan for game three? I wonder if RQ want to pull like a crazy one and forget about the Fanny. Like just leave it open. We Fanny 0% win rate right now hasn’t really been doing too well. I’m more on that boat. Instead of banning out the Fanny, you take out heroes that shine with it and plus give it difficulty. If you’re going to give the Fanny, you’re going to have to prioritize Batang on the first two red picks. So, let’s see. Aurora ban out phobia. So, they are setting up for like I think more lance. Mhm. Than Fanny. Oh, be open. I think Argue needs to ban the lance. Yeah, I think you should over to Fanny. I agree. I think the Lance is a bit more terrifying in this current meta. Yep. Ban the lance here. Let them pick up the Fanny if they really want to and then like punish it. But the truth they ban out the box show. This is first pick priority for Aurora. Mhm. Want to trade it? Or what what what I don’t think or like Aurora should just go landslot. Yeah. I mean it’s proven even after the previous day. Okay. They go for the Koa. They want to take a few extra steps. They go for the Kala. They get pick off. They’ll get burst at the center of the map or go for high control. Either just the juice in Farsa or I know we haven’t seen the Kimmy yet in the hands of Rosa, have we? Not yet. No, it’s just been Selena in Selena juice in. So the juice in gets picked up by RQ with the Moscow again. Wow. Early Moscow one more time for RQ. No lands just yet. Yeah. So it seems like that’s the game plan. Strong center of the map. Strong XP. Dead in the gold lane. There’s a lens and the fara fara. This gives you the again, you know, Rosa uh going to be fine with this farsa. You already have a ton of damage profile. You have a great burst. This is uh interesting though. Over on the other side, the Akai comes through which is still technically flexed. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean like most part we’ve seen him I think it mostly it’s been the flex of jungle roam. Yeah. But I think this is already going to be jungle. Yeah, but like that’s for me. Doesn’t Kai get countered by the Farsa and the Lance, right? Like you before the fight even starts, you get poked down by retreat battle thorn rose is still there and you can get poked by the lance too to force out early heavy spin before the neutral objective. So AR you have to win out the mid lane if they want the Sakai to be to get the most out of the heavy spin. Yeah, they need a strong front. It can’t be those one of those scenarios where you have the jungler or the tanky jungler, excuse me, being the front liner getting vision. You have to be the uh let the Akai play back and let someone else play front. Uh I think get a glue maybe. Maybe glue for the XP. Oh, for for RQ like they need something. Yeah. Tankier for that for the XP lane here. Yeah. Or just think they want damage. Someone annoying like a Hilda maybe in the XP lane if ever considering Hilda. Yeah. Lance on a Farsa. Mhm. Could still be a Granger, too. Mhm. What will R or RQ ban in terms of the gold lane? Just Yeah, just take out the Granger, maybe. I think just if they want a Hilda, leave the Granger, but if they don’t, then um yeah, ban it out. Yeah, of course. One of the good respect. Yeah, I like that. IA. I feel like that’s so uh such a pocket pick, you know, like and there’s no dive right now for RQ, so that could have been a a sealed the deal kind of moment for Aurora. Yeah, good thing they didn’t miss out on it. Uh they could still eventually yeah, end up getting the Granger later on for Aurora if they want a little bit more backline poke. Uh yeah, it seems like all roads lead to like Hilda and as you mentioned maybe even potentially the glue if they want to add a little bit more of a dive aspect with a bit more damage and set they could even consider Lapu inpu end to the draft here. Yeah, I think it’s just a kind of decision like do we want more damage to be able to also set things up or do we want more kind of durability so the Aaya just isn’t the one that’s kind of up in that front line and then taking the majority of that setup damage. I think safe choice would be the Cho first and then Aurora decides to go like Lapu or something else. If Aurora do go Lapu and RQ, you get Esmeralda. Get that winning lane two. There it is. There we go. So now it’s up to Aurora. So Aurora go either Lapu or what are the XP we think and here CC. Oh no, CC. If they go CC then RQ go. No, they need a bit more damage. Yeah, this is difficult thing about Aurora right now. Uh they it’s they have to choose the matchup. they’re the one determining it right now that with the picks available arc you could just answer to it well enough not essentially win it. I still want to say consider something like a but honestly yeah they go okay they still go for the damage. Okay, CC and then in the last last pick gold lane Bruno. Bruno. Okay, Bruno. Fara, good chunks of damage. Lots of singular. There’s no stats for Bruno. This is He’s been picked before, right? Yeah. The the reason I mean like the reason they didn’t want to go. So, it is going to be the battle against CC after seeing CC. I thought they needed more damage, but I guess they’re just confident in that, but yeah, in case you guys are wondering why Bruno over Granger, that could have been a very easy Hilda XP pick. Yeah. All right. I really honestly don’t know what to expect. With all of the surprises that the group stage has brought, it is now down to one final game between RRQ and Aurora to determine which one of them will join Mythic Seal and Team Liquid in the knockout stages. Nitsu Miracle, break it down even more before we head into game number three. Thank you so much, Renmore. I like this. We now get a glimpse at the lineups once again for our viewers out there. You guys can let us know which team you think has the better composition. which team will go ahead and lock in that spot into the knockout stage. Once again, it’s me, Nu, and Miro to bring you the action. The very last game here for this best of three. It’s all going to come down to this because game one, game two have been one-sided for each team. Now, what will happen here? Jumping into the land of dawn. It’s game three. Mira, what do you think? You called a lot of these picks, you know, that came through. And I I got to say the Akai in the jungle versus the landslot of course from Tenzi who has had probably the best performances so far in this hero and just overall in a jungle even for Tenz. How do you think that’s going to fare out? Uh the last a really good pick for Aurora for RQ Mike. The big question for me is a Badong. Is it going to be damage Badong? Apex 47 and EO just going at it here in the mid lane. Rins with lantern flare will bring Apex back. Oh that it’s going to be first blood rin. Oh my lord. Automatic just a bit. Still gets it down. EW Rosa might have to flicker and he does. Hey, we’ve spent so much time talking about mid lane trio or mid trios for a lot of the teams. And RQ it it’s not as devastating as game two, but they do get that first blood. They go ahead and get a minor lead. We’ll take a look at the emblems real quick, too. a lot of whole com common emblems going on here. But also uh to be the case, you know, this is one of the things I think with the Bang. What do we see here? Because he’s running quantum charge. Yeah. Uh buildwise is what more so dam like probably damage, right? That’s the question. I don’t know if he’s going to go damage or if it’s just normal build. Tenz lifted up. Lantern flare there. Eat up the shoo and it’ll be a quick escape escape for TN. Yeah, that’s the question I have. Um will Darren go damage? The emblem looks pretty normal. Yeah, this is uh what we see from Dyron a lot of times in ID. Okay, we’ve never seen him go damage yet in ID. Well, I I think you know based on the way that we’ve seen Bedang’s play and stuff too, it’s just more so like your your setup potential. Fist crack fist break. Dy already locking Rosa down. This is why Onyx ID in the grand finals just banned Madang. Both teams respected Madang. Dy on a signature pick gives RQ a free neutral objective. Tsunami slam over to Dyron. This could be a kill back. D looking to pin able to get two there. Knocks him back. Suin walking up too. He evades from a kill and now it could be a kill back. Su Jin with a heavy spin. Apex pin down to the wall. Rins puts the light on him. I was going to say what a terrible way to die. Get locked down by a heavy spin from a panda and then get a lantern. Uh-oh. They’re just too clean. Oh, you hear the war cries from RRQ here in the venue. Wow, they’re pissed off after game one. Yeah, it’s heated, man. They’re already once again. I was like, it wasn’t as devastating as the previous game, the start, but 3 minutes in, they find themselves four kills. A nice little bit of a lead in gold here. And Susen having a great start. You know, 2 and 0 on an Akai. Yes, Tenz is going to be able to keep up, you know, farming wise, XP and everything else, but the compositions. Mhm. EO should fall. Sigy Boom gets the kill. Good shot. Sigy Boom gets the H claws, too. That sure an attempt from Toy Crab away. Yeah, I think this is going to have to be one of those cases, man, where, you know, for Auroric Gaming, they got to rely on Sig Boom again to be able to pop off. He did get this early kill. That’s going to be great. But Rosa has been having a hell of a time. And usually we’re expecting in the early game, you know, that fara to be the threat with this feathered air strike. It was utilized. But that’s something to be said. Even if a fara falls behind, one thing’s for sure, a feathered air strike is still a valuable ultimate to have, especially around objectives later on. So for RQ, you know, they try to maintain what they can. Edo does have that flicker available. And like we saw previously, expect them go for the kicks. He’s going to be pretty aggressive on this. And uh they’re hyped up, man. Mhm. Some other teams are hyped up too. I believe we just heard the next team will be competing in the next match. Go crazy in the back there. But RQ, yes, still in control, but Aurora have done a really good job at just stopping the lead from being too crazy. Tsunami slam reading Ed’s move. Edo still going to be taken down by Tenzi there as he constantly just dashes on the minis in the mid lane with a puncture. Well, remember Tyron with a big pin down there, but it’s going to be a good escape as Rins is forced to use the Crimson Beacon. Dyron poked down as well. Aurora Gaming winning out. Turtle toy just farming up top. Yep. Good push from Toy. That’s probably all they’re going to get since this objective is going to be secured unless tries to get there. Oh, heavy spin baited out. There you go. The SOD didn’t land. Tyran caught in the bad spot now. Lunar chasing him down. Turtle 2 free. Okay, Turtle 2’s taken. It was worked. There’s a kick though. That’s going to be Apex jumping onto Sister Jin. Good curtain call and the vengeance from Lunar to evade from a possible kill. Okay, all this in the past couple minutes, man, has brought that little bit of lead that RQ had earlier on down to pretty much nothing. So, you have equal objectives so far. RQ, though, I feel like got some decent gold in the hands of Toy was able to go ahead and push up quite a bit into that, but still it’s a macro lane. Oh, bottom lane a gank. Okay, D survives. We got we got uh thrown off there. But yeah, Dy’s going to be fine. He’s still going to stay though, guess just go ahead and grab this, clear this wave out so it’s not pushed in. But meanwhile, up top, Sigaboom been holding his own. He did have to pop the purify it looked like for that. So, um still playing into that. And this is where we see both teams kind of get back into the settled position. Now they’ve traded objective. They’ve still working on the tier one turrets if they can, but ultimately they have to rely now on setup potential. Even looking at Aurora Gaming, they essentially have the same thing. The option of going in with the Somni Slam. We’ve seen it a lot from Apex 47 and that is going to be the exact play over here for RQ. Now, the other facet to that is Dy has been the one that’s very proactive on the Badang to go ahead and set things up. So, you’ve got a couple options here. There is some pushing though from Aurora even up toward towards that tier two now. Yep. Good stuff from TNZ too on this Lancelot. So far, it’s just been a trade. And I think for the trade, it’s I mean, it’s just equal here. Lunar has been getting a lot of free farm, but they got a turret up top, and they were able to enable Toy it power spice a bit quicker as Tenzi will invade here. The big question for RQ is damage, right? Another tsunami slam into the burst. Edo falling again. Sigy boom getting a second kill and a second item with the Berserker’s Fury. Yeah, picks up a big item for him again. Bruno still one of those heroes that just needs maybe two still maybe three items to go ahead and really be online. So now that he’s got that little bit of extra damage one v one Dy with the flicker up. That’s a phantom execution dodging from Thorn Rose too. Suchin walking up sod. Oh very close from landing. Suchin already with retribution but has to respect this as Apex cuts him off. Good try that uh the spear there but not going to happen. TZ will make his way to the turtle. This looks like it’s just going to go in the hands of Aurora Gaming as Susen is zoned out from Lunar. Yep, it’s going to be a little bit too late to that. So TNC secures the turtle. Conceal used. They force the fight. Yep, that’s a flicker over from Apex finding Edok again. The feather air strike coming down as Apex gets lifted to the air by Ren, but there is no threat. Aurora 2K. Interesting, man. Like how the adjustment has come to play from Aurora. just they held on, you know, they felt that the the brute force from RQ early on, they’re like, man, we can’t let this happen again. Having flashbacks of game two and they’ve adjusted. So, they’re playing into that whole Apex 47, it goes in for the pickoffs. We make that happen every single time it’s available. But also, Lunar has done a fantastic job at playing the macro game. You can see he’s got the Warax and the brute force. Now, he’s actually going to be fine on his own, especially because he has a vengeance, right? No one’s really going to single-handedly take down Lunar. Lunar can continue to put pressure around the map. So, RQ has to be able to actually contain that. And that’s why we’ve seen this shift where Dy in the early portion of the game was a part of all these initiations. Now, he has to kind of keep things in tow. The mid lane though is going to take the purple buff. Look at this positioning here though. Wow. He’s got to get out of there, I think. Yeah. Ar now just backing on toy. S gen going to be engaged on. Has a heavy spin. Uses it and gets away. But that’s it, right? Like RQ at this point, they really are just banking on Toy item power spikes and then to maybe carry the game, but Aurora have a loaded Bruno. Yeah, I was going to say the problem with that is like the Bruno is already there. And that’s always Yeah. And the far side. And remember, Rose has struggled in the early game, but as I said, the feathered air strike is still valuable even if you’re 0 and4. That’s one of the plus sides of having a far so you can go ahead and set that artillery up for the team and work through that. So now a tsunami slam going to be used again. This time onto Dyron doesn’t react in time. Apex gets the kill and it actually baits out a flicker out from Dyron. Timing couldn’t be better for Aurora. Look at that damage on Rin too. Lord spawning in the game. Aurora should get this for free. And RQ again just forced to watch. Yeah. Oh, heavy spin used Lunar. That’s a vengeance too. No damage again. Weigh the dragon. They have a ton of CC though and that’ll be enough to keep Oh, no. But gets the kill. Yeah. And I Oh, hold on. Still pressure under the turret. Gets a few shots in. Rin still standing. Oh, no. That might have been a mistake. Oh, it’s going to cancel so constantly and Rin gets the kill. Are they I’m not sure why they stayed. They didn’t have to go in and pressure that. No reason. They just gave that kill over to RQ there even though they got the objective. That’s great for them, but man, that is not a mistake you want to continue to make here. Aurora Gaming still holds on to a lead. They did a ton of work at getting in this position here. They don’t want to throw it away like that. But RQ will look to punish and clear things out. Boom. Doesn’t doesn’t get the orange buff. She was working on it, but they’re going to fight anyway. There you go. Another one. Dyron is dead again. Aurora with the constant pickoffs and RQ are forced back despite the kill on Tenzi. They really just can’t capitalize here. Yeah, still waiting for toy. Apex with another jump over to Su Jin. Ren still there with the lantern flare and Moscow starting to hurt at least, but the world is doing the same back and forth on the RQ members. Toy trying to clear. That’s again a zoning skill one from Rosa. Look at Sigy Boom. So confident has all the space in the world to work. That is going to be the holy shield being popped though. So ultimately that lord not too much. RQ is going to be fine to go ahead and clear things out. And Toy is pretty much online. I would say, you know, we’re we got to start to see him convert some of that damage that he has now. Looking at the items, he’s got the Trinity that he needs. He’s going to be in a good position. Maybe gets the wind to nature, of course, next for that defensiveness. Earlier on, the maleific gun was picked up by Sigy Boom. So, he’s got a great advantage. Look at the damage still from Rosa. This is the crazy thing about Farsa. Even going down two kill, two deaths early on, you’re still at the top of the charts. Conceal’s going to be used. Are they going to make a play? Dyron in the back finding a massive one and Rosa lantern flare not there yet. E dog jumps to the back and toy just dismantles them. Sky piercer built up by Rins D with another pin down over to TNZ forcing the phantom execution. Edog with the Guno on the way to dragon finally getting a pick over to Apex 47. The thorn rose there but it is RRQ with now a stack on the sky piercer. TNZ with the thorn rose one more time. Edok deliver able to get it onto TNZ but there’s no more follow up here as Toy continues to pierce through. Phantom execution pinned down from Dyron again. Oh man, RQ will fight back. Just when you thought Aurora Gaming had that lead that they wanted to, they come back, swing things forward. They’re so aware. And again, Niso, Dy on Badang, the game changer, the X factor. Oh, and Dyron has dealt with getting tsunami slammed multiple times. Man, I feel like this one was a little personal. as he goes in. You can see the load advantage that they had too. It was negative negative for Aurora. And so this was a great play and I’m surprised still they try to clear this out and keep things going. Oh, that should be a pick on Lunar. There’s no one to help. He’ll buy some time. Maybe they can lord. No, they can’t. It’s a bit too quick. They have no burst on Lord. Not like not instant. So free pick and RQ have the advantage now. Hey man, I was saying you know Toy have those items. He had the trinity of items that he needed. He came in, popped off, and it worked so well. Win of natures now for both of the gold laners. They’re going to need it here. But big thing is RQ playing the advantage around Dy, and that seems to be the hard part. Rinse, too, has done a phenomenal job at using that beacon, using the flares down to give space to RQ. Now they’re going to take control of this. They already get the feathered air strike down, too. So, this should be an easier Lord for them to take unless Apex zoning. Okay, Tsunami slam over. That should be a free retreat. Dire still able to escape as that’s the phantom execution defensively. Free take. Free take. They get that feathered air strike down and they’re they’re confident enough to go ahead and continue on. So now they’re up to this point. RQ, but conceal from Aurora. And what’s Apex 47 want to do here? They just want to fast clear this lord out. Yeah, they do. But RQ read this. Look at the move of Edok on the side looking for Gundo. Might be able to find out. Apex does do it. Way the dragon toy. gets the damage down and the instant execute with a sky piercer on him. Oh, they might look for more. Lord’s still up here. They got to clear this out. They still have Sigaboom, but down one member. What more are they going to lose here? Takes a couple shots. Yeah, they’ll burn on down, but the Lord finally worked on. This might be all that RQ gets, but they are clawing back towards this game. They’ve gotten themselves in a good position here. Tenzi though, not sure if he’s actually Yeah, he’ll just be forced out of the jungle here. Sus Jin might jump forward onto this turret. Wow, almost well played there. You know, the chain CC was almost there, but Tenzi got away with a puncture away from the heavy spin that could have pinned him down. These fights are so interesting because some of them are almost like a faint. like some of the fights, some of the uh ultimates that on both sides allow them to go in for these I’m going to initiate, but then they pull off and then they go back and forth here. And now we’re getting into the territory where you’re going to play into some of the immortalities coming up. Of course, still the defensive items like the wind of natures we mentioned. Edok has been on the hunt all game, man. He’s been doing a really good job at finding the setups and kicking it into Toy. A lot of times he’s able to just go ahead and kick it towards the right members of RQ. Essentially, they still have to respect what Aurora Gaming have though. You can see economically, you know, the gold lean isn’t going to be too crazy like we’ve seen from the previous two games. So, it’s more so down to the managing the macro. But, as we said through this meta, it’s like how is the micro for both of these teams? How can they go ahead and solidify an advantage into a team fight? That’s one of the biggest things here for both of them. Taking a look at the items, you can see the plays here. You got a bit of advantage in the mid lane, but like I said, for Rosa, just build up on that damage. And the Moscow, the man they they’ve been banking on from the start of the game is now fully built up. Even the rooms, everybody getting him. Mhm. Uh helping the helping Mr. Man Edo out with some gold and XP. This is good. Seal can be used. Apex way the dragon putting him down to camp. So actually comes in. So Oh, they were able to cancel it out. Feather air strike up to RZ now. Oh, so it’s a Jin with a pin down now. on the heavy spin as well. Sigy boom all alone isolated by the panda but gets the knockout punch and RQ 10 seconds away from the lord get the marksman. What a target. The perfect target for RQ to get. They go find Sigaboom. This is going to be a lord for them to take. I don’t know if there’s anything that Aurora can do unless they try to pull something fancy here. Dyron’s going to go ahead and post up. You can see how fast they’re blitzing it. They go with the conceal anyway. Yep, they have to try. Rosa already wings by wings. This is going to be free. Without Sigy Boom, there’s absolutely no chance that they have a shot at winning a team fight. Tough place to be in now for Aurora Gaming. This lineup that they have once Sigy Boom’s up, they could still be in a good position again to go ahead and go for a defense. They hold on to the base turrets. RQ as well. This is about as close as it’s been throughout our series today between these two teams fighting for that knockout stage spot to move forward. And right now it’s leaning towards RQ. A good push in with this Lord could get them the win. Rosa. Uh-oh. Flicker already used by Rosa. The SOD doesn’t land but has the way of the dragon. Rosa all alone. The way of the dragon and Ren is right there to pick up another sky piercer. Rins is unstoppable. 5 and 0. No Farsa. No Farsa for the defense is what I’m thinking. Miracle. This is so unfortunate for Aurora Gaming. Still 30 seconds away. Ty gets a fist crack over to Sigy. Boom. Now Kundo as well. Lantern flare not there but finally gets it down. Another sky piercer for Ren. And now the heavy spin. Rq with the war cry as they reverse Aurora Turkey. And RQ will do it. They’ll move forward to the knockout stage here against Aurora Gaming from Turkey. Everything we’ve seen from them and now for RQ. What a great victory in this best of three. The surprise run ends here. They are not out of the tournament, but now they are brought down to the 1-1 bracket as RRQ will now join Mythic Seal and Team Liquid Philippines in the knockout stages through textbook and a slow download understanding of their opponents. They eventually were able to craft the perfect temple breaking crowd control heavy lineup to stop Aurora’s crazy run. Man, this is this is a this is such a great series because you have both teams hyped up of course, but you also have these games where it’s like game one, you know, fa favoring Aurora Gaming, game two, a dominant performance from RQ, and then game three, it was really close like this back and forth between both teams where it wasn’t completely one-sided. And this also now throws everything up at the air. It’s like Aurora Gaming beat Onyx, right? Now RQ has beat Aurora. Now everybody’s I feel like power rankings. There has to be new power rankings or something or tier list for for knockouts. Man, this is this is great though. I I just love the fact that RQ again play through their strengths. I I’m in love with their gameplay with their drafts game two and three not one. Uh Tyran on a playmaker Edo as well and then the carry being toy sort of suchin being on utility. I love it. Yeah, we’ll be able to break this down further, but first we have to join Eterna in the stage with an interview from the winning team of RQ. One of the key players are up on stage here with me. It’s Ido from RRQ. Congratulations, Edo. Massi. Yeah, Massi. Okay, Edo, how are you feeling right now? Masuk Knockouts, you’re headed over to the Knockouts. Are you happy? Yeah. Okay. He says that there are he’s happy, he’s relieved, and that there are going to be a few days that he can rest and also study and train more for the next upcoming battle ahead. Now, you were able to take down a team that people are not stopping talking about, right? Aurora Onyx PH was taken down by Aurora. What did you learn here in the series that Onik PH couldn’t figure out? Knock out. Okay. Okay, so he thinks that Selena is the key because he was reviewing Onyx PH games earlier on. So is that the secret sauce? Take down the Selena. So do you think TNZ was a problem? Because earlier on mentioned that perhaps TNZ was also a big problems. Uh, okay. So, he figured it out. And that’s what maybe OniP couldn’t figure out. Why are you going so far from me, by the way, murus? He keeps moving backward. I’ll go closer. There you go. There you go. We’re friends, right? Okay. Okay. We’re friends. So, how were you able to bounce back from game number one? Selena. Yeah. Selena. Okay. So, literally the key from game one to game two was literally just the Selena from Rosa. Okay. Okay. What do you think now? Because now you’re heading over to the knockouts. And the cool thing about MSE this year is cuz you’re going in as a two team. You will be able to pick your enemy. Okay. So, he doesn’t have um what is it called? Uh he doesn’t know any particular hero in mind or I mean team in mind. He just doesn’t mind going up against any team. Is that right? What about Onik PH? Do you think you might want to meet up Onik PH? Yeah. No team that you want to, you know, spice things up against. Okay. He wants to be champion, so he’s ready to face up any opponent. All right, Edo, I think we’ve taken enough of your time. Thank you so much and congratulations for making it to the knockout stages. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters. Thank you to Eterna and Eterna’s friend, EOG. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. A great win. prolific and yeah, it seems like you take away the Selena from Aurora and they changed significantly. Yeah, he even went as far as to say Rosa only Selena. Only Selena. Selena Dang. Selena Dang is what he said in the interview. Yeah, so far without Selena, this team has just looked very different. Like the play style, they’re not as aggressive. They’re much more passive and they just don’t know what to do with the lead. Yeah. Yeah. I think RQ also just had a really good uh composition that I mean we said that in the draft like both teams had really good comps and I think this time RQ just played it really well. Um I think a lot of teams are going to have to deal with that aggression that we see from RQ in the very first two minutes of the game. Yeah, backstage I was actually talking about it with Eterna once RQ slipped that early lead that they had and it was Sigy Boom who finally got to break off and then it was Aurora controlling the tempo. I kept telling her like you really only have two conditions for RQ, the Badang and the Moscow. play around those ultimates and then Susin decides who he can pick off away from the heavy spin and we saw that multiple times happen over and over again for RQ. They knew their conditions very well. Dy, you mentioned it. Playmaking in his hands and he gets to find gold for the kingdom. Let’s see who the match MVP is for in this threeame series. It’s none other than Toy in the Gold lane 20 and three. I’m sorry, man. The MVP choices have been pretty wacko honestly. Like it’s been so bad. Uh we saw what Vanics get the MVP when Kurt got crazy. We got to change that. But yeah, toy MVP here. Not to say that he’s bad, but man, the gamechanging moments came through Dyron. Really? Yeah. Like from the series? Yeah, even earlier Flash. Yeah. Yeah, brother Kurt Tezy. The Gourd. The Gourd. Well, we can debate the MVP as much as we want, but he is still at the end of the day the Sony match MVP. And yes, now we’ve seen Team Flash take down Jan Fang Yaguay and we’ve seen RQ take down Aurora. Now we move on with the rest of group B. You’ll be joined by Lafel, Brigida, and Gideon. That’s it for me, Nau, and Merkel. Thank you so much for joining us. We’ll see you in a bit. [Music] I am a woman. [Music] [Music] All the [Music] [Music] I swear you remember who you are. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] I’mma get Let’s stand in. 4 3 2 1 zero. [Music] Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Fortunately, there’s not the runner’s apathy from Keller to finish off the kill just yet. But will they still try to regroup? They go for but still sec and it’s Bruce and Super trying to run away but Aurora they’re going to chase after them. Oh no, disaster tries, but Aurora Gaming made it happen. And Sigoom did it too on the Ruby. What a game three for in a split second. That single decision that mattered the most. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] We have two more match. matches for today and I hope you guys are ready for it cuz I’m not. Welcome to MSE here at the Esports World Cup. I’m more okay with the third match, not so much for the fourth one. My name is Ael. Alongside with me is Gideon Q as well as uh Brigita. It’s going to be intense matches. And here’s the thing. I can’t believe the third match is an elimination match. That’s true. I can’t believe I’m seeing Onyx Philippines here in this lower bracket going up against Area 77 in this do or die match. I mean, I I know I’m having quite a hard time right now in the third series, but it’s okay. We’ll balance it out once we head into the fourth. We don’t talk about that. But yeah, I don’t know why people are stressed. I’m expecting things to go exactly as planned, right? It feels like a lot of the things are kind of like getting back into that, you know, that that that standardization, you know, the traditional ways of playing it. I’m not talking about match number four. At least for match number three, this should be a confidence booster to all the Filipino fans out there. And then there’s Area 77 who I think as of now we shouldn’t expect an upset. But that’s just me cuz my question is you said everything is going to plan. Yeah. What’s the plan? I have no idea what the plan is. But here here’s the thing. We got a hot take here because the previous match that was pretty interesting. So this is the doctor’s note presented by Alhabib Medical Group. since RQ just defeated Aurora. Does that mean uh RQ is better than Anik? Oh. Oh, you know the funny thing is, okay, I’m I’m using I’m using the viewers logic against them cuz you guys know you guys are thinking the same way. Hey, they probably already are subscribed. Make sure guys, Dr. Salama Alhabib, that’s the way. Make sure you cool down these hot takes so far cuz uh they’re going to need some medical medical attention afterwards. What do you feel about that hot take? I checked to see if they’re wearing their headsets and I’m glad that they are because I wanted to warn you of saying that right in front of them. But at least they’re wearing their headsets. Hey, some people play better when they’re like challenged just like me. I’m meant to be challenged. Hey, I mean, and we’ve saw RRQ getting a little a little upset in that game, you know? I mean, Aurora at the very least definitely made a statement towards them and they’re like, “No, no, no, no. This does not fly.” That’s true. The story of teams playing better when they’re behind is becoming too real. Oh, it’s be becoming very real. Now, we got to talk about the match that’s going to happen just after this. Believe it or not, it is going to be Any Philippines going up against Area 77 in a do or die. Loser gets eliminated. The winner survives. And we got plenty to talk about here, but let me just say for Area 77, listening to their story reminds me of the good old days where when you’re forming a team, you’re just grabbing a bunch of your friends, the ones that, you know, always rank up together and then forming a team. Cuz nowadays, like there’s a lot of um popular players where you just pick and choose. But for them, they’re going old school. It’s like, hey, we know each other for a while. Let’s make a team. Yeah. And I think, you know, I think they had the hardest route cuz coming into this, they didn’t even know that they were going to be in this position in the first place. And then, of course, they get the big international welcome facing off of the Soul Socket RQ. And then afterwards, for some reason, they have to face off against world champions on PH. That’s true. Um, in a sense, the chemistry should undeniably be there because they’ve stuck with each other through and through. Even though their former teams have been shuffling players left and right, they decided to stick with their roster, only changing at most their ror. So that’s the only thing they’ve changed ever since. But I think you can’t take away the fact that since they’re considered in a way the new ones in this kind of situation or in this tournament, they too have admitted that there are still some jurors here and there and they’ve experienced that in their first series. Yeah, this is going to be an interesting match up between the Philippines and the Philippines uh I mean North America. Uh cons considering that basically everyone there are immigrants from the Philippines. But yeah, looking looking at their lineup here, uh hearing some of the interviews where even Joy Boy say that um they feel very nervous. They feel the stage fright and I can understand that because you’re going up against strong opponents and now going up against Sonic Philippines. I’m worried if that will happen again because they say because of that stage fright, they become more more passive and not as aggressive as they’re they’re used to. And that’s why we needed to see them play hot from the get- go, especially against a team like RRQ. Right. Again, their play style just kind of forces them back into a corner. But now you’re going to try and out mechanics. Some of the best players in the world. We’re reigning world champions so far. They’re as cool as ice for a reason, and they’re looking to kick them out as soon as possible. Talk about easier said than done. That’s true. I hope on Philippines though after what happened um do not commit those small mistakes again because yeah make big mistakes. Oh no no sorry I I misunderstood. Sorry. My bad. My bad. No. Honestly because as small as it seems those mistakes that they did in their previous series eventually cost them the game. So it it sacks up. It stacks up. It’s a compounding interest sort of thing. And I definitely think that right now on Gage really needs that confidence boost, right? So if they can go 2 0 against area 77 that’s going to put them in a position where all right mentally we are reset whatever happened in the previous game that was just us we slowed down a little bit they have to just chill out right don’t break just yet and considering that they have the coaching staff of both Hazen as well as why not we saw even in previous bits of content getting into the show hey guys we have to communicate with each other we have to be the super fam that everyone knows and loves us for yeah and I’m pretty sure if you talk to their coaching staff as well they’ll just have this mindset of probably not thinking too much of the pressure of being in the lower bracket and taking things one step at a time. And I feel that’s very important that they do because if you think if you think to ahead um it’s going to be a little you know different since they’re already in most likely if they win going to be in the 2-1 pool. So that means that’s just or they’re just be going to be one of the options of the two zero winners. I mean I don’t I doubt it. I doubt it. You know what I say? sometimes being an option ain’t a bad thing. Anyways, make sure you guys get the MSE pass because it’s still on 20% discount. And hey, you saw an atlas being used just now. If you want the skin, making sure that you guys get the MC pass, get the coins, and then get yourself some free skins. I had no idea where I was going with the previous one, but I got to say, Brigita, looking at this matchup, especially considering that area 77 might be a little bit stressed out going up against uh Onyx Philippines, I feel like if we really want to make it worse, we asked them to take off their headset uh Onic Philippines and and say the hottake again because here’s the thing, they won’t take it out on us. Look, I mean, they’ll take it out on them. To be fair, they already have to deal with aph like shouting across the room and they can understand. And they can understand. This is not a like, oh no, I don’t know what’s going on. They’re all bilingual. They understand exactly what’s going to be thrown across the room. And that could be motivation. That could definitely dampen out the vibes. But I’m feeling that Area 77, looking at them right now, it’s like, okay, they’re kind of chill. Let’s see whether it ramps up. Okay, I’m waiting. No. Okay. Uh, we wait faster. Wasn’t Area 77 the team who played facing the opposite directions. Uh right now, right now, we got to look at the game times here because we’re about to jump in the draft. So, we got to look at the game times in case for everyone to know where everyone is at right now. Team Liquid is their their overall game time is only just under an hour and mythic seal is 1 hour and 7 minutes. A pretty good 30 minutes. I kind of feel like it’s going to get updated a little bit later, but so far Team Liquid is the leader here. Now, let us explain the winning game time. This is the total time of only the games that they have won. And it’s important because as we start moving on from the group stages into the knockouts, teams who have a faster winning game time get to select first. So, right now, Team Liquid currently sitting on top. I don’t think Mythic Seals have an option of getting like second. An hour is a long time. Yeah, we’re yet to find out who are the other two zero teams going to be down the line, but an hour an hour for all the past few matches that you’ve played. That’s that’s pretty interesting. I think that also brings into perspective how long we play. Yeah. Like I kind of feel like I kind of feel like average with the draft with waiting for the game to start. Damn, we we play a very long time a day. Considering how long we’ve done this, I’m pretty sure we’ve lost the years of our life accumulatively probably at some point. Hey, don’t worry. But the draft is now started. We see that area 77 is going to go on the blue side. Onik PH going to be opting for the red side. Kimmy alongside within first bands. Yeah. Um we can definitely see like the development of this Jian as well because no matter how much we criticize saying she’s not enough of this or that always seems to prove us wrong. Kimmy does seem like still one of the hot favorites because I kind of feel like a team that doesn’t know how to play from behind should never let go of Kimmy. Yeah, Kimmy the way that it’s almost always paired too with just another continuous magic damage or not magic continuous damage source like the double marksman, the triple marksman lineups have been a lot more prevalent in the previous games that we’ve been seeing. It’s hard to let go of that. But that leaves the question yet again of whether or not we’re going to see the um Farsa being prioritized here in these or in this game since I feel like in the past few games there have been instances where it’s left open but not necessarily picked up by either of the teams. I totally agree. I think that right now with the pocket metas that are starting to show the tournament meta is forming to be really solid with junglers ending up as saying, “Yeah, potentially Selena can be played, potentially Akai can be played.” All of these options are really, really good overall. But it all depends on the crux of, “Hey, we need to answer the first couple of few picks. Do we like him through? Do we let Kalia through?” Uranus has been something that’s been popping up here and there, but it feels like most of the teams are generally saying, “We actually don’t really care about the Uranus.” And here’s the thing. I kind of feel like Farsa is always a good pick. The only thing is that when something is good, your your counterpart is going to get stronger as well, where a lot of these assassins are amazing. So, I kind of feel like if you’re going to get a Farsa, it almost forces your jungler to be able to protect the Farsa whenever needed. So, maybe we’ll see that that utility. So, almost showing a little bit too much of your draft as well. Yeah. So, maybe not. The Yizen Shin gets prioritized instead, right on Q. um because it is left open for area 77 and Onyx PH such a quick response with the Phobia again not completely paying attention to the fara but I feel like if they did want to pick pick it up they can still go for it for red three. Yep. But area 77 I mean if area 77 picks up a fara here they could pick up something like the landslot and then be like since you have a in the jungle good luck of protecting your farsa. Oh wait that’s a draw. M wow. Okay, so now area 77 bringing up the, you know, class favorites from NA. The jawhead’s interesting in this in this particular game, right? Because technically it is a flex pick. Does it do well into the fobvious in the exp lane maybe for the first couple of levels, but then eventually falls off. I mean, looking at the grand finals, right? uh back in NA and ACT they only won with this uh with this jaw head and now having this actually now it looks like they do have a reason to pick up something like the far later on cuz they’re fine it’s okayish the combo is okay it’s okayish is but I feel like they probably felt a little more confident picking it up too since there’s no chance of a badang or a ror or a hero on on ph side that can cancel out the jawhead as often Finn since I feel like that’s one of the biggest problems Louise encountered when he played the jawhead the first time here in MSC. So they see the Kala and the Fobious immediately picked up and now this just probably was the reason why they’re encouraged to pick it. But that doesn’t take away the fact that the Lancelot still gets through and is in Onyx Philippines hands right now. It’s interesting to see because now it means that on PH is now changing up the priorities, right? Like Super is like I will play whatever you need me to play. I don’t want to be the main win condition just yet. Make sure that King Kong is going to be on a hero that he can actually perform on. Don’t put him on the utilities anymore. We want him to be able to kind of try and escalate the game as much as possible, which is when we see Area 77 making the hard read with the Hilda, right? Again, it’s not like you want to see you blindly pick the Hilda. You’re hoping for the assassin on the other end. Personally for me, I kind of feel like for MSE, I feel like all of the players need a little bit more confidence because what has been shown is that yes, the hero that you pick has counters towards it, but it comes to a point where if you’re good enough, you can play around it because there’s so many Hildas going up against the landlords and yet when we’re looking at the win rate is not really Hilda favored, right? So, I kind of feel like this is what the coaches have to tell to the players like yes, I know utility is safer, but sometimes you just got to trust in yourself. Like, yes, it counters you, but just play better. Yeah, cuz I feel like I will never forget that one time where in the Lancelot with a full damage build or even not a complete build just yet was able to take down the Hilda which was constantly bugging him all by himself. So, the damage is clearly broken for a Lancelot. So, if Area 77 wants to play this aggressively in the early game, which seems like the case since they have a draw and the Hilda, they have to make it consistent and they have to close the game fast. Yes, speaking of closing the game fast, right, I’m surprised with the picks, sorry, the bands that we see from Aries 77. I get the Kadita, but they also get rid of the Moscow, right? Which to me is a little strange considering that there are natural combos that Onik PH want to actually provide. They want to be able to, you know, have some a little bit of burst damage to work alongside this Kalia, but then they go for the Harth instead this time around to increase their damage profile, which begs the question, right? What is the main idea? Do they know for a fact that area 77 is not going to go uh for the fara this time around? Or do they feel like, hey, we’ve already taken out the big picks. What are you going to do? Honestly, at this point, I want to see a fighter in the gold lane. Like, I feel like in this situation, it works, right? Another ruby. Yeah. Oh, because again like there’s so many ways. Oh, I mean technically a fighter kind of kind of a fighter. Yeah, the Roger the Roger and the Sicilian. So, and the Kakura this looks like an e this looks like ego picks, right? I feel like on PH at this point of time, these are all ego picks. We were expecting standard. They’re saying no, we don’t want to play standard. We think that we can just style on area 77. No, legit Kalia and having three burst options. I really feel like they they want to say if you see anyone, take them down. Lower their confidence even more. Make them afraid. Speaking of which, this is elimination match and I’m going to give it over to Gideon as well as Brigita to break one this one. Thank you, Lafell. All right, second half of the day has already begun. We’ve got two best of threes to kick things off, but the very first one is already an elimination match. Onik PH, no one would have expected them to be in this position. Area 77 facing off against some of the best teams already from the get-go. If there was a time for an upset, it would be now to spark hope in NA. But Filipino fans all are looking at the world champions here at MSC 2025 at the Esports World Cup to come back into form. Now that you mention it, Gideon, what if they actually do that? No. And that’ll be so hard on because the biggest upsets were taken against them if that were to be the case. But I mean, let’s see because I feel like both of these teams, their intentions are pretty clear. Just burst down whoever you see for Onyx PH area 77. They might want to attempt to do the same because they have a lot of pressure, especially with their ROR or through their ROR, which is Joy Bodgege. But whether or not they’re able to do that, that’s going to be the question. It’s goes back to what Lel says about you have to be confident. Hey, you need some confidence in your team, man. I I I’m seeing that I’m seeing that fear come out of you. Don’t let it Don’t let it Onxic PH, they got this, right? I would imagine, but Area 77 have proven that they are able to, you know, press buttons. Well, they’re able to team fight against their opponents. It’s just finding those leads within the game itself. Now, looking at the emblem set, seems very standard all across the board. Killing spree coming out from the side of Shiro, very confident of him, but more importantly from the side of ISO. He needs to win this lane, right? He’s already taking the quantum charge. is also making sure that he has master assassin against someone like Kelra who again mystery shop he doesn’t even want the tenacity he’s like all right if I have to give out the laning phase that’s fine but give me at least 12 minutes and it’s over oh god oh instead it’s Hunter who gets the tenacity fortunately he does because those are instances wherein you definitely need a little bit more tankiness in your hands considering that it’s not just King Kong also super friends maybe this is why there are no farsas being picked you know like the kadavans the kaguras they didn’t come out a lot more often. So maybe teams are being more cautious of that. Uh I don’t know what scrims have been showing for both of these teams, but it’s interesting if this is truly what they were looking to play now. King Kong, he gets out of there and she’s able to peel back, but it seems pretty chill for now for both sides. Nobody wants to make that first blood happen just yet. Not just yet. Super prince though doing a great job at scouting where the other members of Area 77 are. But look at that ejector getting denied by the title strike and somehow Brusco gains access to the turtle. Joy Forge the first to fall. You’re trying to zone out the other members as well, but that’s already one pick off. Licker, dark wave coming in from Clark, but Shirou somehow finds a way to steal the objective. Rusco might just get punished here, but Uressi at least has the flicker. Beautifully played by Shirou. Finds the one frame he needs to get the Traceless off and weave in his retribution to steal that turtle from King Kong. Despite getting attacked by so many members, he stays pretty healthy throughout it, right? so he could maintain his jungle farm. And this is what we were looking for, right? The natural way to kind of speed up your jungler, especially when you have someone like Jawhead. Use those spark missiles, leash for him, speed him up, clear it fast, and then look for opportunities across the map. Yeah. So, this is probably a different way to look at it for Area 77. If they’re just literally playing around Shirou, then that doesn’t change much of what they want to do of playing aggressively from the very beginning because even the first objective went into their hands. Oh, but they use the unstoppable force and the ejector onto Kirk. Will they have enough damage to take him down? It seems like they do. They just answer what we mentioned right off the bat. Yep, they have a clear idea now. On PH have to answer back. We need to see some kind of retaliation. Iso will have to try and outplay. Keep in mind, he only has purify. Oh, they’ll get to find a way out of this Lyon bounce. But look at the ultimate coming in from Super Fred. Still somehow dodges it. Even the phantom execution won’t get to take him down. Brusco gets punished instead. That was a massive outplay coming in from ISO. Beautifully played. The yin-yang overturn coming out from Super Friends. Wanted to collapse on him, but he quickly purifies it. Rolls out of the way. Uses the extra movement speed plus quantum charge perfectly to dodge the damage. Nicely done from ISO. This is what we’ve been waiting for 77 to show that they can not only push buttons, but more importantly, they can go toe-to-toe with the best. Yeah, those are some plays that you would expect to see from the likes of Keller 2, but Iso too good at pressing buttons. He just needs to stay this way for the entirety of the game because he’s going to be one of the major factors as well of how the next few team fights are going to pan out. But another thing is Joy Bourge. He’s doing such a great job at finding those ejector plays. But it seems like they’ve tried to go for him for overturn again. Burst him down. But will Shirro once more get this turtle? It seems like it’s a no. But will they fight back? Because Onyx PH, they will dis they will respect and disengage. Nicely done. Nicely done from Onic H. The lead is still within the hands of Area 77, but they now are forced to respect the motions from Area 77. Take out Joy Bodgege first. Don’t let him escalate the scenario. They’ve already got a tier one on top side and they got outplayed by ISO. They cannot afford any more disrespect from Area 77. Now, in terms of how the age is going to be looking to escalate, they’ve got some really good combos on their side, right? Yinyang overturn plus the tsunami slam is a great way to kind of make sure they guarantee a kill. And not to mention that a majority of the members from side of area 77 aren’t running the purify, right? They’re running flicker. Oh, but can’t just go for any target. Can’t just go for super vin. There’s still the rash umbrella flee as they call it to get away and somehow purify the ejector. So that’s the thing I think on PH it’s great that they picked up this Kagura because it serves as their main source or way to find where Joy Boyd is going to come from. And the plan to just keep taking him out is clearly working in their favor especially now that their main damage source is just coming from Shirro. But speaking of King Kong somehow finds him here up top, but Odeshi’s within the area as well. So, they’ll somehow get to help him unless Brusco tries to do something, but I don’t think he will. Mm- Not yet. Not yet. I don’t think they have enough damage with just King Kong alone. Plus, it’s a two-pronged attack, right? You’re attacking that top side. You see Shi where Shiro is. The mid lane is suddenly missing. Could he be bot? Could he be top? It’s better for Area 77 to just sacrifice the turret on that bottom side, which is actually really good specifically for Kelra. It unlocks him from the lane. Now, he’s able to double wave off of the mid as well and participate for the upcoming turtle fight. Now, this turtle fight is going to be interesting, right? I feel like area 77 shouldn’t be the ones initiating on it. I feel like ISO his first item though he decides to go for the halbert. So he has anti-heal which is yes it’s good against shields which is great against super prince and as well as Kelra. I’m pretty sure that King Kong is going to go for his traditional uh bruiser build. I don’t know if he wants to go for full damage just yet considering that his targets are pretty squishy but here we go. They don’t find anyone. Brusco with the conceal walks away from the range of the ejector but the Taguin claws catches too. Brusco misses the title strike and Resi disturbing everyone from behind. But this might just be the time for the diamond force to show off. Bruce is the first to be taken down. However, Hunter is next. Kelra still dancing in between Io and Joy Bodgege. And look at the damage coming in from King Kong. Phantom execution also committed. Uresses using the flicker trying to take down Kelra, but he can’t do it alone. Mhm. The experience is starting to show from the side of the onx. They are together. They understand every aspect of the fight. They see the full battlefield cuz Area 77 ended up splitting their forces into two. Shirou understood. Oh man, I can’t get on top of Super Prince. But I think he needs to work alongside Iso cuz watch this fight, right? Uressi knows what he’s doing. He’s on top of King Kong. Shirou moves away as Hunter gets blasted. But notice that Iso specifically is targeting Kelra, right? Let’s say he wasn’t targeting Kelra. Let’s say he finishes off these kills on the end of Archage like Super Friends. They need to make sure right now in the early game. Wait, hold on. Ah, Yinyang overturn, committed ejector onto Kirk, but he has the infernal pursuit. However, Bruce is the one who gets punished, so they get to defend this mid lane turret for area 77. Why did Onyek so desperately want to push them out? I mean, they were working on the minions and honestly, they got pretty close to breaking that mid tier one. I get that if they broke that mid tier one, it opens up a lot more options, but at what cost? It’s basically gone, but they’ve already sacrificed the initial lead that they took back from the previous turtle fight. And it’s interesting to see that it’s actually a very, very small gold lead that exists between these two teams because even in terms of map control, area 77 is doing a great job. So maybe despite these early item decisions, these pickups, it’s more on the macro that they want to play. after all up until that moment wherein they feel that they can really decide to start to fight themselves because as you mentioned I feel like that’s not not a good decision especially if there’s King Kong who can burst down your crucial heroes like that. Oh yeah, he I don’t think he’s going for bruiser build this time. I think he’s going for raw damage. He’s got the hunter strike and the war axe already. He’s level 139 minutes into the game. Shirou is keeping up with him and we saw a couple of 1v ones happen on the top side of the map but now majority of the objectives have been spawning on the bottom side. A little unlucky for area 77 because these fights have not been easy. Oh interesting destiny purchase from the side of Hunter. He decided to complete the gleaming gem. Well, I feel like there’s a bit of tankiness there too if you complete that. But the ejector will be committed onto Kirk. There’s the flicker but it won’t keep him safe. There’s the zammon for as well coming in from Kellra. tries to burst down Shiro, but there’s the Traceless as well. And that’s after they got the Lord for themselves. They still lose a member when maybe they couldn’t have not gotten any casualty. And now Kiko might be next because he gets caught by the Lyan BS. I thought I was going to die there. He got chunked by 50% but it’s not over. Is able to hold on and finally the mid tier one collapses. It’s a breathing moment for both Any as well as Area 77. But honestly, Shirou’s probably smiling is like, “Nice one, IO. Now I get to be the one who gets a eventual level lead.” Yeah. I mean, the Lykan pounds from the Rogers sometimes puts him in a dangerous spot. But during those kinds of situations, it’s just a sure way to chase and kill whoever you’re trying to take down. And in that moment, it was King Kong who unfortunately found no way to deal with it. But at least for on PH, at least for Keller, it seems like he just has his eyes set on the turrets. Probably a bit of pushing back the members of area 772 through the Zammon force, but uh on BH they have to keep it together a little more because I feel like it’s great that they’re playing it aggressively, but Area 77, as you mentioned, even if they don’t start things, they have good ways to punish or turn things around. Yep. Now ISO third item already complete. He’s got the wind talker. He’s got the sea halbird. He’s also got uh uh he’s also got the endless battle. With that being said, yep, he’s got more than enough damage to start one v one of the squishier members. King Kong is doing a good job. But here’s the thing. Onik DH don’t scale as well as Area 77. And I feel like right now, unless we see like big mechanical mistakes, you whiff on a kill, you don’t you don’t use your eyeframes in time from the side of King Kong, the big punishments from Area 77 are really devastating because Hunter, he’s been eliminated pretty early on in these fights thanks to King Kong. But now, as we are going into the 11th minute and I think by the 13th minute, Hunter is going to be a huge problem for Onyx. That’s Hunter, Shiro, and Iso who you have to consider in terms of scaling from area 77. Whereas for Onyx PH, yes, the burst damage is there, but once you commit the combo from Super Friends, you pair it up with whichever setup decides to go for and it’s unsuccessful, things are not going to be looking too good for them. They respect that Joy Bodgege might just go for the setup and it might be this time their turn. execution committed by King Kong tries to chase after Shirro. There’s the down force takes down ISO. A beautiful pick off coming in from Onik BH. Super Fitz committing the Inyang overturn, but they’ll settle with that one pick off that they got. Look at the footsies from both of these teams taking space giving up space. We see the initial movement from area 77’s concealed to get access to not only push on TH out of their own jungle, but to walk to their wave. And I think that’s the problem, right? They could have just waited a little bit longer and the wave would have naturally pushed in their favor. On PH punishing ISO specifically for that and now it’s a 4v5 unless we see area 70 really drag this out. I feel like on PH can really take their sweet time with this. Yeah, Shido and Joy Board are both coming from the sides. Bruce probably looking for an angle. There goes the title strike. He will be finding the tsunami slab onto Shido and that’s going to be a massive problem now for area 77. Floyd popped his immortality as well and the lord will go into the hands of ph. Beautifully played by ph. And now it is crunch time. 8 to8 with the current kill score with a lord in their hand. They’re looking for inhibitors. They’re looking for all the out of tier turrets. And worse yet, Kelra has fully scaled. He’s got a concentrated energy, so he doesn’t mind taking a couple of hits maybe from a Lykan pounce, maybe from a single traceless coming in from Shirou, but he cannot afford to get CCd by the Sanguin claw or even the turtle boat from the mountain shocker. Yep. And it seems like they’re doing a great job at just forcing reactions out from area 77. Already taking down the inhibitor turret in mid even before the Lord gets to approach the base. But Toybon nearly catches Kra just in time. There’s the Tom as well, but will they have enough follow-up damage? Gia overturn. Here comes King Kong as well. Joy Marge might not survive. And Durashi trying to buy some time, but King Kong shuts him down. Mhm. King Kong so good at maintaining those Warax stacks. The true damage is too good. But now the Lord at full health, but no inhibitors. Terra’s going for the end. It’s a Zaman force just to take down the base and Onyx PH take game number one. What a what a strike from the side of Onic PH. Decisive fights from both sides. Area 77 telling them, “Hey, you must respect us. On PH had to.” And once they saw them as equals, they went straight for the throw. Yeah. Honestly, congratulations to Onik PH for winning the first game. But I kind of feel like for all on fans, they were a bit nervous. Very, very nervous for for that one. And I kind of feel like now I can see where Area 77 they said that they’re the the stage fright comes in because I kind of feel like there are moments where they could be a little bit more aggressive, you know, trying, you know, risk it just a little bit to make sure that you have some kind of advantage because I kind of feel like Io made one good play when he was ganked, but then after that, we don’t see a lot of ISO. You have this jawhead, but you’re not really forcing fights. And to be fair, I can’t even blame him. The the damage is just not there yet. You have the Sicilian as well as the um Yen Shin. Yin has damage, but it’s not like like second skill lands lock kind of damage, right? It ramps up just a little bit. So, I kind of feel like Area 77, they’re good in the early game, but once you start going to the mid and late game, it does look like they’re overthinking it a little bit. Yeah, just a little bit. Right. You can tell by these neutral objectives, they really want to come in feeling like they’re on equal footing against BH. They don’t want to threaten their positions. They don’t want to kind of overstep their boundaries because they feel like Odic will just topple them because of that slight man advantage. There were moments that Area 77 could have, but maybe their hesitation got the best of them a lot of times in this game because like I agree with you, even as a Filipino watching this, it wasn’t as clean as you would probably say it or expect it to be coming in from Onic PH, coming in from the super fam. like there was a bit of the mechanics showing here and there, the chemistry from Area 772. So hopefully they get to work on that because again this is still a best of three either way. It’s it’s much closer than people would think. Uh the thing is I kind of feel like Area 77 they got to change their mindset just a little bit because even with the drafts it’s kind of like a triple marksman kind of draft but subbing in that that that Sicilian. The difference is is that Kimmy, even from the early game, already puts a lot of pressure compared to the Sicilian. So, I kind of feel like for this one, they’re kind of playing not to lose, right? Waiting for it to make a mistake. And we’ve saw that quite a few times, right? King Kong goes in. All right, catch him, kill him. That’s great. But you can’t like if you want to become champions, you can’t always hope for your opponents to make a mistake. You just have to be ready for it. Yeah. No, I totally agree here. I think that right what area 77 needs to do especially with a composition like this you can’t really quote unquote peel backwards right there there’s just too many people who kind of extend their leads or stick onto you like glue Kirk is a really good example right he may be 03 and four but he’s in the face of Hunter he’s in the face of Shido which forces both ISO or Shiro to kind of make a decision on where they need to be during the fight I think my big problem is that unfortunately Hunter didn’t have as much impact as I wanted it to right his whole job is to make sure that if Kelro drops down the Zamon force, hey, you better dash backwards every single time. You cannot fall within my range. It kind of felt like they lost or ran out of options in a way because they were the ones who kept banning out mid lane heroes, too, because again, I think we talked about it in the draft that Super Friends, he’s just saving his hero for second phase. Like, that’s probably one of the biggest shifts we’ve seen in Onyx PH and their um drafting style. So it kind of backfired to Area 77 as well because I mean the Kagura came in very unexpected but Sicilian couldn’t really complement the idea of your draft as much. I got to say as we as we don’t see a lot of Kagra, but I really feel like this Kagra was the reason that they won. I kind of feel like Super Friends was the one that make sure that everyone don’t overextend, right? Throw the umbrella just to have an idea of where the engage could come from. That gives the confidence for Bruce to just go in and then immediate burst because I got I I gotta say like his Kagra mechanics were amazing. It’s really good. You can see how good it is, especially in a 1v one scenario against a Sicilon. Sicilian’s like I want you at X amount of distance all the time. And Kagura’s like plus minus every single time. I will never give you that ideal option. But worse yet, whenever we see Area 77 looking to try and go on one target, that’s when that yin-yang overturn becomes a really powerful tool. Even if Brusco doesn’t use the tsunami slide, hey, that umbrella is going to force you to kind of break apart. You can’t really stick together too hard. It messes up their formation so much. And to be fair, their Onic or I mean Onyx PH’s lineup, I feel like individually, every single one of them can break a Area 77’s formation. like either the Lancelot when he goes in and looks for the backlines or Kirk because again he mentioned he’s just like glue always sticking to the members of area 77 and the AoE from the tidal strike and the yin-yang overturn just so many things you have to consider if you’re area 77 and I kind of feel like you you kind of have this mindset as well that even if you have three late game heroes Kog with one with one hero he can outpower any scaling hero in in in the game by the way did the most amount of damage in that one. So that’s a very impressive Kagura play. King Kong still having the highest gold per minute, 814. Yoshi took a lot of damage and then Brusco set things up for Onyx Philippines. So yeah, I kind of feel like area 77, they got to find that confidence as as as difficult as it is because how how can you like just just trusting yourself because it’s one more game for you to get eliminated. Yeah, it’s one more game. They got to throw everything at the wall here. And I think that at least for Hunter, he needs to be on something that’s comfortable, which is why they put him on the Sicilion in the first place. or that’s what I would assume that they did. But even so, if they’re going to play a composition like this, they have to be really surgical with their attacks. And there’s if we’re if we’re going to trade, we either go even or we go home. So, we got to make the best out of the scenario. Yeah, that makes me wonder now if the jawhead has been the most effective ro for area 77. I feel like for for Hunter, he’s been mostly on the douchins, Farsas, and those are pretty much either banned or you feel hesitant to pick it up going up against this team of Onik BH who if they keep saving Super Prince for last can bring bring out all these Kaguras and all that. Yeah, they could. And I think that I think that Joybot this looks like the most comfortable he’s ever been, right? I think some of his out plays, especially when you’re thinking of like how Brusco and Joybotch want to play the game, are extremely dissimilar and we’ve seen them both kind of mess with each other. Flicker forward. Oh, Brusco is able to stop him. Brusco tries to make a play. Ejector comes immediately. Yeah, and I got to say Onik Philippines still look very strong there. But we got to remember even in this tournament, Onik Philippine can bleed. In fact, we have a video to see later on like how they no how they’re so good. I have voices in my head that it just talks and it’s just going crazy. But but but right now we got to look at the road to EWC for Area 77. It feels surreal for us to be here. I’m finally on the global stage. Nobody expected us to be here. We’re like the outsiders. So yeah, we’re just here to prove ourselves that we deserve to be here. That’s huge damage. The air strike comes down and BTK falls. This time around with Area 77. I think we’re looking to see what new impact that NA is willing to bring to the table and whether or not it’s going to be worthwhile, especially since their group is not only like the it’s not the easiest group in the world, but things can really snowball out of control for them if they get through some of the hardest teams in their group. I think they definitely have a shot at going pretty far. Couple more shots from trying to defend, but that is it. Area 77 to find the odds and take game number one. I will put it as simply as I want to see Area 77 succeed because their success could mean revitalization, could mean a renewal of hope for a region that was often overlooked. And I hope they can deliver some absolute surprises. [Music] I would say it’s at least safe to say that they they’re strong enough to hang with the teams here at MSE, but again, it’s just unfortunate. I wake up against both me and Remar when we did those uh when we did the documentary interviews, we were like there’s there’s a possibility, right? If one of the bigger teams from from their side on the upper bracket side actually drop down then it becomes a huge problem for area 77 and unfortunately that’s what happened. We didn’t predict the future or anything but like I mean this is the worst case possible for NA. But let’s jump right into the draft. I can’t believe it actually came to this point where area 77 will have to face an elimination match against a fellow Filipino team. But it is what is it? I guess in the words of what isn’t. It is what is it? It is what is it in the words of LEL I guess. Yeah. The other one is shut up and talk. Yes. Yes. Lel 2025 coming up with some banger lines these days. But hey look as we see that the blue side has been taken over by area 77. It looks like they are the ones who are looking to make the adjustments. Same bands coming out from the side of KH and honestly pretty similar bands from the side of area 77. The only order difference being the Selena in two rather than band three. Honestly, when I saw the Selena ban earlier, I was thinking they might actually be considering the Farsa. I really thought so, too. And then like it went all the way to the end, we didn’t see Farsa at all. I mean, like to be fair, I think we just saw how difficult it is to use a stationary mage right now because like again, every single time he shows his face, he gets attacked. And this is why we see the adjustments coming in from from mid because even playing mid, I get hella annoyed going up against this assassins, these fighters going up against Lapu Lapu in rank like you. So I’m like, “Okay, give me something with dashes.” So that’s why we we’re starting to see like Kadita the Kaguras. I mean, eventually maybe even the Nana, even if I die, I have a second chance. You know, then the one Oh, actually Nana has a pretty good shadow right here. Yeah, that I can get behind honestly. Even though I don’t like the hero, but in game number one, they showed they were playing Sicilia, which I don’t think is much of a big adjustment, right? It still falls within the same parameters. It still has the same problems. But now we see that the Kala is going to get banned out. And now Kimmy from the side of Onic Page, we go into the opening picks. Do we still see that jawhead opener? Do we see the Yishin Chin? No one. Oh, but can get very heavily countered by like Fara any assassins. So, you know, but but we’ve seen even with like like I said, even if they’re counters, you just got to outplay it. Just yesterday, Team Liquid Philippines felt like they had all the counters in the world against the one- one, but but that’s Liquid Philippines. But yes, man, it’s crazy. Same region, completely different play style. Different expectations altogether. Wait, is that Yishin as well as FUS? Again, it feels like PH has a system that they want to stick by, right? Shin makes a lot of sense. I would like to see the far, but the only problem is that when you see the Yishin on the other side, it’s like, man, I have to really worry about my positioning. I also might even consider taking of uh taking uh the purify instead of the flicker because again that turtle as soon as it connects with you you’re basically as good as gone. Oh, jaw head again. So they picked a jawhead again. Maybe it is going to be a good good time. Just just more burst. Yeah, burst them down. All right, just got to be brave. Like this might be your final match. So might as well. Might as well. I’m all for it. I am all for it. But now the question is what is the jungle going to play, right? because I’m assuming the Lancelots are going to get banned out here. I’m also going to assume that the uh Payabusa Hayabusa probably would go, but I feel like at the same time the Freden wouldn’t do too bad. But that’s just me. That’s just me, right? Let’s see what this final pick is for the side of Anakage because this really affects the second half of the Aman. Hey, you know what? Kyrie could do it. I can do it. I can do it. King Kong is like, “Yo, Kel, you you play me in my gold lane, right?” So, we’re playing in the gold. I mean, if we saw the rubies and all that, I wouldn’t be so surprised anymore. Just now the Roger even was in the gold lane, but I’m feeling maybe Kura round two cuz you have the mobility. You have inbuilt purifies to deal with the jaw head or they picked the Kadita this time. They That’s not too bad. just just adding more unique picks because the difference is like the the knockup is a guaranteed way to cancel things or a lot of things like the Kagura Atmos can do the stuns the burst but ever since they adjusted the Kadita and made her combos a lot more faster every time I see her in the land of dawn it’s such a massive threat to all the Farsas so there’s so many ways to deal with the Farsas like as as amazing as she is ma make sure to balance balance it out by making sure that all the other predators can’t keep up. Yeah. No, it’s really tough. It’s really really tough. But it it’s about impact in the game. And I think that’s why Farsa is so highly prioritized, but also so volatile at the same time. It’s just you hit two feathered air strikes, those two shots are more than enough to take out 90% of the problems within the game, assuming that they land in the first place. But now looks like I’m not sure. It’s kind of It’s kind of like having a hot girlfriend, huh? It’s like, yeah, you got a hot girlfriend, but everyone wants her. Oh, the far side. The fara is the hot girlfriend, but then everyone wants her. So then you got to go to the gym, bulk up, you know, and then and then be able to smash everyone, but not in that way. Uh I think Yeah. Yeah. Sure. It makes sense, right? It makes sense. It’s it’s it’s the trophy wife analogy essentially, right? You’re you’re again, you’re not looking to parade it around, but it’s just that’s something that everybody desires. That’s why Farsa has her face covered, her eyes. Yeah. But if she can’t look at other people, she won’t know how bad they are. It’s bad because in the lore, Alice took her eyes. Yeah. It’s not a choice. It’s not a choice. Hey, one baddy for another, you know. Okay. Okay. Okay. Part of story is is is sad. It’s pretty depressing. It’s pretty depressing. When are we going to get worse? At least she’s strong. She is really strong, but Well, Alice and hot, I guess. Wait, now that you mentioned that? Imagine what a like the entire everyone wants Farsa thing. There are actually a lot of picks still out there that can make things a lot more harder like the Arlords. Yeah, they’re still left open, right? Yes. The Arlets, the CHO, but they pick the FUS, but they can still Arlo. They can still Oh, yes, they can still. Maybe they br you want to use Brusco. Yo, Bruce, you can do a room. Yes. Now forever the image of like, hey, are we going to flex pick something is going to be like, yo, Kellra, yo, Brusco, you’re going to be you want to play Yun Shin, my guy. Uh, no, but it’s true. The flex picks are going to be important. And I do agree that there’s a lot of disruptors in the meta and are still available in this draft to make sure that this Farsa does not have a good time. And now with the Oh, hey. Hey, yo. Okay, just letting you guys know technically that there’s a pause in the in the draft. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Didn’t realize that it looks exactly the same as in the as like when you’re in game. I thought it would be a different UI, but hey. I mean, I don’t know. Maybe they heard that far was high and they’d be like, “Wait, pause. Stop. What? Stop. Pause. We can’t be distracted. Not on an elimination game. My gosh. Good luck, Hunter.” Maybe that’s all I can say. Super prince is looking across like, “I get it. I like Good luck, Hunter.” No, cuz like that’s the that’s the thing. I think I was um reviewing some notes and even for homeboys I feel like the same applies that things kind of change when people is kind of like isami no yeah so we’re seeing that right now bad I know I will punish myself that’s two out of 10 right thereof that one stung couldn’t say anything no I some of these some of these there’s a hit or miss it’s a hit or miss friendship has been rough maybe that’s why he’s just isabi now he better honestly he I don’t want him. Yeah, exactly. Yay. Yo, ain’t it? Mm- Where did that even come from? Apparently, he’s my boy and I’m like, I don’t approve. But that’s kind of like a parent thing, you know? That’s more like a parent thing. I would agree. Even so, as this draft continues, I I am a little bit concerned of what exactly Brusco is going to play. I feel like it’s going to be the troll. Like I it’s it’s a gut feeling, but at the same time, it there’s not a lot of flexibility now that you’ve early picked the Fauvious, right? It’s a lot of the flex picks that we see in the meta so far usually contributes to hey is it going to be exp or is it going to be the roam. Now you’re just kind of forced into this one road. M I think the cho indeed has been his most picked hero. Yeah. If if you want to be a ror you have to know how to use the cho. Yeah. It’s like junglers and fanny, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You’re a ror. Do you know how to play the cho? Don’t put me on spot. He can. I’ve seen him play Cho. I can play Cho. It’s just that you you you know you know you have those heroes where like you’re amazing at it but the moment you pick up everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Like how am I the highest kill? Oh like a boy thing. Yeah. Yeah. Like like like a boy thing. It’s like you have an amazing game but everyone else sucks. You know it’s kind of like your your goal laner going 08 and 0. And I’m like bro okay you don’t have to like put me you don’t have to put me in that kind of position. So you’re the goal actually. You know, he he’s the one that actually carries most of us. He’s he’s legit pretty good. I I’m like, okay. Everyone else is not. Every Actually, Husky is okay. Husky Husky’s pretty decent. Milo is very hit or miss. Like he will carry or he’s the reason why we lose. He’s mood based. He’s mood based. Big shout outs to Milo. Love that guy. He’s He’s the kind of guy that will pull off a Moscow Zing like yesterday. Sometimes we have name drops. Hey. Hey. Sometimes Milo, he can be innocent, but most of the time he’s like a Mikey. Oh yeah, you see the difference? There’s a very big disparity there. And it’s all based on mood. If he’s feeling good, he’s innocent that day. Not going to lie, sometimes when he feels good, I I’m I’m even more nervous when he was going like, “Oh, you’re everything’s like, “Oh, yeah. I feel invincible.” I’m like, “Okay.” Proceeds to play Menitar Gold. Yeah. Yeah. We have fun. We have fun. MLMY in a nutshell. That’s why we’re the best place to uh boot camp. Yeah. cuz anything that can happen will happen. So you’re always prepared. So what about what about what about where they boot camp? Hey, why did they boot camp? Indoor, right? In Indonesia. Hey, I I think that everywhere based Okay, so this is what I’ve been gathering, right? All the teams who came down to MP uh well, not MPL, MY, but came down to my to boot camp. The general consensus is this. The Philippines sometimes they’ve got really good games, really good rank games, really good teams to play. biggest issue, internet. Can they get consistent internet? Indonesia, decent internet, decent teams, really expensive venues because how are you gonna fit like six, seven people? So, Malaysia is the perfect in between where it’s like it’s cheap enough, you get decent internet, and you get like semidecent teams. So, there there’s that. So, that’s the tourism part is like, hey, come to Malaysia, it’s cheap. I feel like if teams heard that, it’s bang for buck. It’s it’s bang bang for buck. It’s bang bang for buck. and we’ve have enough top tier teams from around the world coming to one place, then hey, scrims are also going to be pretty good, too. Yeah, I’ve been there a couple of times and uh I like Malaysia. I I like how you took your time with that. You like Malaysia. That’s just me helping you convince. I mean, like most players come to Malaysia, it just eventually becomes like really super good, innocent cra. So, you’ve been there long enough, so you should be really good. One of the best. A one of the best top tier. I almost defeated Zorn. I’m not even kidding. We we we we found him in rank and we almost did it. Almost almost very close. We We only know because he he was he was streaming and then we check like Oh, so close. If we only did not make this one, two, a few mistakes. We fine. What was he using? Uh I think I think Suyu or something like he was playing jungle. He was playing jungle. Yeah. Yeah. Dur during that time he was he was playing jungle. Yeah. Oh, fair enough. Fair enough. I mean, like to be fair, I kind of feel like he’s one of the best junglers in Malaysia. The full experience was if you nearly beat him and he was on the likes of uh Igra or something or like Lel was playing like Cho. Yeah, I will only use Cho on solo rank. So, at least if I feel bad, I’ll just I’ll just be angry at a few randoms, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Pull down the MMR of the four other randoms. That’s the way to go. Oh boy, this game is really taking some time. It looks like we’re going to take some time before the technical issues are going to get locked in here, but I mean spirits are very high for both sides. I don’t think anybody is uh too disappointed just yet. Not entirely sure what the issue is just yet, but even so once uh thank you for everybody out there being patient enough to stick around for this matchup. Again, it is still elimination, so I can imagine that this is like a looming dread for Area 77. Yeah, especially as they’re one game away from actually potentially being eliminated here. And so far in the past two days or actually if you count it to if you count today then yeah that’s two days. We’ve already seen what like two teams get eliminated already. Two or three. Was it two? Yesterday was two. We already had one today. So that’s three. Yes. Quick maths. It’s quick maths. We’re about to get another one here because this is the last lower bracket match we’ll be seeing today because we’re jumping to an upper bracket match right after this which is Let’s not talk about that. It’s it’s it’s unprofessional to talk about other matches during this round. We don’t talk about that yet. Yeah, we don’t talk about that ever. Oh, what about later then? Hey, what about just silence? Just raw silence and we cut over to the EECA broadcast. Oh, look. The game is already up and now we are exactly the same position that we left off from just now, right? This final pick is going to be the from the side of Onic Page. Very fast, very quick. Thank you. Why not? As we go into the second half now to the bands. That’s um respect on the one one. I mean, even earlier on, we saw the mechanics already, the potential that you could get from ISO. So, you’d really have to find a way to counter it out. Now, will Onyx PH indeed deny the other junglers available there for Shiro? But they banned the Hilda instead of any other jungler. To be fair, Urishi was playing a pretty decent game from early to mid. It seems like he was at the right places at the right time on top of the right targets, making sure that King Kong’s life was he was forced to make certain moves because his life total was getting attacked by Resi consistently. So, I’m I’m all for it. Right. They get rid of the hill. They get rid of the annoying problems. Zutian gets banned out for the side of Area 77. I guess that’s the most interesting part because like the Zitans don’t get that much attention anymore. Mhm. Even though I feel like it was established that the trade back then was the zetan into the fara just canceling out better air strike wherever you are. But things have been different. The win rate hasn’t been that good for the zitan. So area 77 if they want to double down on the mid lane bands again. I mean like here’s the thing Brigita what that’s human nature. People change. You make one mistake. Oh it’s different. And everyone just keeps looking down on you. They’ll look at you as unredeemable. Unredeemable. God damn, brother. That hurt. That hurt. Reality is harsh. Wa wait. Well, I mean, yeah. Leangelo, dude. Oh, wait. Go ahead. No. Uh I mean it was an expression. Yep. It’s it’s a good ban coming in from area 77, right? They’re looking ahead of time. And I think that the ZM ban also has some logic behind it because a lot of the reason why they were losing fights in game number one was because of information, right? It was the lack of information for Area 77 and every time they made a move, they got punished. Another thing, Fed Air Strike open and then Zion use her alt can cancel that as well. Yeah. Yeah, that but they still kind [Music] I don’t know about this one. Where is Well, yes, there’s damage from the one one char. So, no, I think that the Suyo may not I think they’re going to comfort picks, right? It has to be comfort picks at this point because Suyo doesn’t do well in to this particular matchup. Yes, he chunks out uh the Yishin Chin given the right opportunities, but the Phobia is not is going to be difficult to deal with the gap as well. And most important now that they’ve got the farm is it it doesn’t feel like on PH can do too many mistakes, right? It’s just oh, I overextend. drop down the alt in case there’s any new players. This was the traditional way to deal with the one one where when she uses the crossbow of tang, you open up your alt so it doesn’t like always refreshes. And the thing is once you get like two or three items, your ghost bursters will be able to deal enough damage to one one because she’s a mid-range hero. So she will inevitably get hit by those ghost bursters as well. So very smart pick showing their experience, showing the amount of years that they put in into this game. But now again, this is potentially Area 77’s last game. I’m going to give it over to Gideon as well as Brigita. Thanks, Lafell. All right, now that the technical pauses are out of the way, it’s time we start moving into the game to see what is important between our two fighters, our gladiators fighting for tournament live from NA. It’s Area 77 on the blue side facing off against a super fam. Onic PH for on the red side. Man, these last picks coming in from Super Friends. Such interesting choices all the time. They they always always make sense. It felt like they had much more room to ban out other heroes too because since Area 77 already revealed the fara, they didn’t have to take out the Valentina and whatnot. So, it was an easy option for Onyx PH here. But then again, we’ll see how they play this out. It seems like the plan is to still go in aggressively, potentially get the first blood and they will. How fortunate is it that they actually get Shirou even a pretty bad mistake. A pretty honestly, I didn’t think it was going to get punished this hard because you see the initial tapped blade surge into the wall. He wanted to go over the wall to get right on top of the lip of wanderer as it spawned. Had he gotten that, he would have more than enough time to not only take the lift though, but go to his purple buff. But the cooldowns, right, they’re still pretty long in the earlier stages of the game. Just a nice chain of CC from Super Friends and Brusco. Yeah. And also interesting somehow Shido still able to catch up. Also stole away that gold crab away. They find a way to deal with Brusco as well. So they even out this the kill score and they might actually try to go for what? Maybe not the best decision, especially as you’re trying to catch up. So that just hands over two kills in the early game for King Kong. I That has to be That was quite the mistake. I’m not sure because he knew what the jungle pathing was. He shows up by Lithuand knows that he doesn’t have his orange buff. Therefore, it should still be up. Gets into the fight. They do make the initial play on towards Brusco’s side. But then why go further than that? Why go make your way towards Beetle’s side? And you know that you’re low. You literally handed over the information. And now Urresi gets handed over to Onik PH as well. Ghost bursters already committed. Joy Bodgege will he still try to attempt to scout. So I don’t think at this point Area 77 should actually try to contest for anything. And just as they still want to farm, Shirro gets denied of that. King Kong the only one who worked on the objective. There’s the curse of the crow. However, Super Prince dodging all those feathered air strikes. Zill survives. also touches the falling star moon. Area 77 doesn’t get to punish them at all. Area 77 need to take a deep breath right now cuz they’re playing a little nervous, right? They’re making these desperate moves when honestly it’s not a desperate situation within the game. I understand the elimination is on the line here. But if they don’t recollect themselves, these mechanical mistakes, Onyx PH will start disrespecting you. We need to see you hold your ground like you did in game number one. Okay, Joy Bodgege. Do they have the damage to deal with him? King Kong catches up. Mountain Shocker into Joy Bodgege will actually get to punish, not even punish. Just clearly take him down. Shirro gets chased by Super AoG committed by Brusco. They’re forcing the fight right here. There goes the Nether Realm as well. Surviving or allowing them to survive. Things are not looking too good. It’s already a 61 kill score. Mm- mm. Hunter, please. Please, we need you to land these shots. He’s He’s trying to be Oh, wait. No, finds a play of his own, but it did come at the cost of his flicker. If he manages to walk it, it’ll be great. But no, he’s going to fall as well. You can see this desperation oozing out of area 77. You need to see the chemistry, their familiarity with one another come in because it feels like they’re doing too much things, separate things individually in this game, which clearly is not the way to go up against this lineup, especially if you’re trying to play around certain heroes of area 77 because being this much behind, especially on Shirou, doesn’t guarantee the space that your other members need to farm up. Yes. And right now you can tell that when it comes down when people talk about experience, right, most people are thinking, “Oh, you need to have a certain level of game IQ.” No, Onyx PH has years of protocols that they’ve implemented in their game. Force of habits when they see certain movements across the map. When you see someone like Uhi walks up, guess who’s there? Kirk keeping an eye on it. And with that being said, their numbers advantage can pinch them whenever they want to. With the lead that they have, they’re forcing it. uh dark wave and infernal pursuits into the AoG. Even with those two setups, it’s all enough for Onyx PH to take down several members from area 77. And now it’s an easy way for them to convert just 5 minutes into this game. They’ll actually get to take the tier one in mid. Mhm. Yep. This mid trio from Onic PH now bulldozing their way. the most important structure of the mid lane collapses and the anchor of area 77 just struggling like I mean ISO he’s doing okay right he’s trying to hold on to this wave but the single assist and more importantly so the crab control from Kelra is only going to propel him forward right 92 gold honestly not that bad is holding on despite Kra’s initial assist oh but Shirro gets caught here in the middle of three are actually four members of PH that’s already Monster kill for King Callum gets to use the mountain jar onto Hunter and with the AoG they don’t get to catch Joy Bodgege but still those are two crucial members from area 77 already. Mhm. The one thing that you should never give on PH. It’s tempo. They’ve got not only a decent lead on their side that we’ve seen a lot of teams recover from even at the top of their game, but tempo is too powerful. That’s Kirk dealing with two members all by himself. And with that little help he got from Super Friends, they got to kill ISO for the first time. So all members of Area 77, they’re clearly struggling at this point in time. Mhm. Any play that they make is going to get disengaged. They need to understand how this composition works from the side of On. They’re getting bulldozed through because they don’t have the right abilities at the right times. Not to mention not even the items, right? So it feels hopeless. The only ways we see Anakih actually dropping the ball mainly comes from Brusco. His A OG is a game changer right now. Great disengage, but more importantly, it forces area 77 to use a battle spell if they are caught out in the open. We need to start with that punish. Get that AOG out of the way and then be patient if on makes a mistake. And that might just be the way they’re planning to go. And their first step is to maybe avoid the fights for now as they look for the trades on the opposite sides of the map. But will Onyx PH actually let you avoid these fights? Kirk will try to chase down Shirro forced to use the retribution. AoG gets dodge, but he won’t get to touch the Infernal Pursuits and they finally deal with him once again for the sixth time in this game. Honestly, it’s not too bad because there’s no jungle there’s no jungle camps that Shirou could have taken, right? no jungle camps to invade and steal. Taking that tier 2 is not that bad and dying for a sixth time at this point really isn’t much gold to the side of Onyx the age. They can kill him another four more times and then yes, we have the Diggy uh the old good old Diggy feeding strap, but even so, he’s basically pretty worthless. Yeah, Or is going to try his very best to escape this chase from Onyx PH. fortunately has the mobility as an Esmeralda and the flicker to keep him safe. But that doesn’t change the fact that he’ll get to find King Kong in the mid lane and King Kong’s the one who has enough damage to actually deal with him there. They’ve already taken down Ushi here on H. They want anybody other than Shirou right now. Shirou just doesn’t give them enough gold. It’s not worth the time. They’ve already taken one off of ISO. They’ve taken one off of Oreshi at this point. Sorry, three off of Areshi. They just need to get these holy shields down. If they’re able to crack these holy shields early on, this lord could be devastating for PH. They have a 6.4k lead with the majority of their carries already moving to their third item. Yeah, that’s already blade of despair that you can see. Oh, don’t doesn’t even get to use the ejector. He’s just canceled by the dark wave as well. Bettered air strike doesn’t deal enough damage either towards the members of Onyx PH. So, they’re not going to force a fight. Look at King Kong just working on other things across the map. Iso tries to fight against him, but that might not be the right choice. Just look at the damage coming in from this 904 Yson Shin. Mhm. Three empowered auto attacks is all he needs to take out iso. There’s really no counterplay to that for now. Shirou understanding his role. Hey, if there’s anything I need to do, it’s to push these towers. the holy shielding from the side of area 77 starts to collapse and that’s perfect for DH. They’re setting up this lore. They don’t care. Take the econ turrets on the tier 2s. Yes, they’re not buffed up anymore and they’ll take a little bit uh shorter to break down. But when this lord falls into the hands of Onik PH, they’re going to look to end. Yeah, these are things that Onik PH just willingly chose to let go of. They just allowed they them they just allowed Shido to take those turrets to take the orange buff. It’s not like they don’t have any information whatsoever that he’s doing that anyway. And now they assign Kirk to go for the chase. He might just deny Shirou of his path to getting back to his base. But at least for now, Area 77, they definitely have to find a way to defend and deal with this upcoming siege. Mhm. And now they’re calling the the squadron back. They’re like, “Whatever, you can take an inhibitor if you want to. You can try because we’re going to close out this game, Shiro. You decide your fate as we see RPH now knocking on the front door. Oh, he probably tried to buy some time, but look at the air strike immediately canceled by the dark wave. There goes the unstoppable force and the ejector onto Ko, but the nether saves him just in time. And even the crossbow of town doesn’t feel like it dealt enough damage against Onyx, but it will be enough to at least send them back. All right, they took an inhibitor. They’re looking for one more inhibitor. And Shirou, he’s already gotten that initial push, but for some reason, they decided to switch Kirk and Brusco, right? With two inhibitors now. Brusco is finally back in. He’s been holding the AoG this entire time. Oh my god. And there goes the AoGi somehow gets to dodge it. But will he be able to dodge the damage coming from Onic PH might not. And now they gain access to the base. This looks like it’s finally it for PH. But area 77 still find a way to clear it. Another wave is about to collapse. Top side is going to go through. And it looks like Onyx, they’re waiting for a mistake. They can’t really necessarily force it. They already technically made a mistake by diving too far. And now they’re just waiting for the waves to make sure that this is an inevitable end. Yeah, fortunately, they get to dodge those potential setups coming in from Onik PH. But the death timers aren’t that long, so they might have to respect that a bit as well. Well, all members of Area 77 are back in this game, but they seem to want to end it as soon as they can. They find a target there. They look for Joy Bodge. They finally get to take him down. ISO gets to find the stacks, but there’s a winter crown and another realm. And this might finally be the opportunity for Onic BH to end things. They don’t have the minions, however, but that’s a near wipe out for Area 77. I will try to find an opening, but that will be denied from them. And this means that Onyx PH will stay in this tournament. And that’s a 200 victory for Onyx PH, eliminating Area 77. Oh man, game two. That was a beatd down, Lafell. I mean, I don’t know about you, I think that was a very fun game. And um both teams get to express themselves cuz I kind of feel like at one point they’re like, “Okay, we know we know what’s going to happen, right? So, might as well trade a lot of objectives.” And to be fair, they got it. They got a lot of turrets in the game and you know overall yes they lost but again they’re going to lose to anyone. Might as well be the world champions. Mhm. I think there’s nothing to be disappointed here inside of area 77 as well as NA fans out there. Uh the early game definitely is what really sealed the deal cuz once had their midrio kind of roaming around and kind of bulldozing after the mid tier one, it was basically done for. Right. Sidelaners, nobody was getting much of a lead anywhere there. So it’s just there’s no saving grace. Yeah. the way that um Onyx PH just decided to capitalize mistake after mistake coming from area 77. This was yet again experience clearly in play. I feel like Mhm. There were a lot of those small mistakes which could have been avoided. But that’s the thing. Maybe this is still in a way at the end of the day something to learn from if you’re Area 77. And for their first experience for sure, they’ve got a lot of lessons from the first two matches that they played. I mean, here’s the thing. When it comes to experience there, we don’t talk about this a lot, but there’s an art to be on stage because we’ve heard from multiple teams either they’re too scared or too hype. Even for teams that’s been here like a few years now, they have this this mental crutch where yes, you got a good game, but that doesn’t mean you have to overextend. And now we’re going to throw it over to an interview with Kelra and Eterna. Okay. Hello everyone. Sorry, we were discussing a little bit earlier on because apparently Keller needs a translator. Yes, I need Yes, he needs He needs He needs translator. Okay, Keller, congratulations for winning this match. Now, I heard that you were sick before getting into this match. Is that true? Yes. Is that true? Okay. Are you okay? What’s going on? I’m okay, but earlier I not feel better because it’s hard. It’s hard to breathe because of my asthma. Oh, so the asthma was triggered. Yes. And also I’m feeling dizzy earlier. Oh, dizzy and asthma. But you’re feeling okay now. Or is it still? A little bit. Okay. A little bit. Okay, we’ll make it quick then. We’ll make it quick. Uh get well soon, Keller. Hope everything is okay because you’re sick. You’re unwell right now, but it didn’t translate into the game game number two. That was a a very dominant game to say the least. Congratulations on that. And that’s why I was really wondering and I think a lot of people back at home are very curious too as to what’s been going on with Onyx VH. It’s very different to your M6 run. I think you guys went through that very smoothly. But here at MSSE, going to the lower bracket, has there been obstacles, challenges maybe that we should know about? He said that I think the challenges that we have faced during this season is that a lot of a lot of players and teams are able are able to adapt with a with our play style compared to our play style in M6. Okay. So, it feels like the other teams are stepping up because we didn’t get to talk to you about what happened after that Aurora game. How did the team take it? Was it a like positive vibe after that or what happened? Aurora is very after. Okay. So he said that after our game with Aurora, uh he we became confident after that. Although we didn’t expect that we’re going to win the fight because we were able to to to to do scrims with them. But despite that, they’re still able to to be motivated after their fight with Aurora. Okay. So still motivated after that. But you were expecting that loss against Aurora. fight. Yeah. Uh we didn’t expect to be uh to lost the game, but uh we we expected that that it’s going to be a close fight between us. Oh, okay. They expected it to be a close fight. But was that okay? Was uh the players all right after that? Was it like a hard hit to the mental or are you guys okay after? after that game fight, we don’t actually know, but we we just felt motivated after that. We just want to win more after. Okay. So, the drive became larger after that loss. Now, speaking of that drive, you’re not in knockouts just yet, right? You still have one more match to take down and it’s either going to be against Homeboys or Team Spirit. So, up first, who do you think it’s going to be up against? Home Boys team. I think it’s going to be Homeboy because Homeboys. Okay. I mean, right now, Homeboy are looking like a strong contender, but Team Spirit R2, do you think it’s going to be a two-0 for homeboys or 2-1 for homeboys? 2-1. 2-1 for Homeboy. Any message for homeboys? Then you better do it because we’re going to fight. We’re going to do better. Okay. Thank you so much, Kelra. The golden standard. We’re not going to take too much of your time because you we want you to get well as soon as possible. So, with that, we’re going to throw it over back to our casters to break it down. Hey, thank you. In a way, again, we wish him uh fast recovery. Looks like looks like a lot of people are are getting sick here. So hopefully everyone is is doing okay. And you know what’s interesting about the interviews here is that the the person talks very long. Yeah. And translation so short. It’s like the reverse of me. I take I take short ones and make it longer. This is longer. Oh, very very time efficient. Hey, I I think Well, I’m just going to live in my naive little world and just assume that Tagalok is just a lot of words that have very condensed meanings. Well, in a way it does feel like a much more condensed and summarized version of some of the ideas that are repeated here. Similar to the entire they didn’t feel that bad after losing. It was just for some reason a lot more motivation. It it felt to them that they wanted to play right after that happened, which of course doesn’t happen because you have a day to rest, but you know, like maybe that’s the super family mindset. I mean, honestly, we can relate because when we lose, we’re not going to sleep. Oh, that one more game until we win. We’re not going to sleep. But now we’re going to be looking at the MVP of the match. It could go on to to anyone. Uh it goes over to Kelra. Yep. Kell three zero and three on this. There’s a Ye Shin in that game. Hey, that kind of like one shots people, you know. Hey, Kelra had to struggle. King Kong just got the farm. That’s the difference. That’s why that he’s the most valuable player. or Keller denied the uh main hero they wanted to play around. That’s also true. Yes. Also making sure that the wan wasn’t as effective. I mean again having lane dominance has its roles. And we’re being real kind with this because man oh boy Kel it’s hard to say that he isn’t the gold standard without getting an MVP. Yeah. But anyways for you guys at home make sure you guys support the teams. It’s only what 20 diamonds. Make sure you guys support the teams because again it all contributes to your own benefit of getting uh skins as well as a lot of goodies with the uh MSE coins. Now coming up next. Mhm. It’s very interesting because Kara has a lot of confidence for homeboy. So I’m not going to have opinions cuz we know how that goes. So uh I’m not even going to ask you guys. We’re just going to prepare for the next one because right now we’re going for a break where after this is team spirit going up against homeboys. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, [Music] hey, hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, [Music] hey. [Music] I’mma get Let’s stand in. 4 3 2 1 zero. [Music] [Music] Reach your impossible. Lenovo Legion. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I’m there. [Music] We’re finally here at the final match of the day and this is going to be between homeboys going up against team spirit. In terms of storylines, they’ve met before, at least in terms of the organization. Players, not so much. Welcome to the MSE here at Esports World Cup. My name is Ael. Alongside with me is Brigita as well as Gideon where we’re going to be talking about this match. And it’s interesting where Kellra thinks that it’s going to be a 2-1 could go over to Homeboys. But if you look at the previous um I would say performance of both teams, Team Spirits looks more looks more confident and Homeboy looks a bit shaky. Yeah, I have to agree. I think that Team Team Spirit is really solid this time around, right? And I’m glad at the very least both of these teams aren’t going to be the cause of each other’s downfall. They’re not going to group each other here. It’s just it’s a no stakes match. This is just for a playoff advancement. Yeah. The fans can relax a bit, I guess, because like these teams just a bit cuz loser is going to go up against on, you know. Yeah. Oh, that’s another thing, you know, like whoever loses this will have to win against if they want to secure the last or one of the last few spots remaining for knockouts. But yeah, at least they’re heading into this match without thinking that it is a do or die or it is the elimination. But I guess it depends on perspective. Yeah, in a way it’s kind of do or die because if you lose, you’re going up Sonic. So kind of the same thing. Speaking of which, I don’t know if the audience can can can hear it, but here Team Spirit, they’re already uh voicing out their their their confidence, their war cries, right? Um it ways definitely Team Spirit looks much more stronger, but again, looking at the uh the opponents that they went up against uh before Yaguay does look like they’re not really up to date on on how to play the matchups. uh in this current meta where homeboy they won but they really won based on the punish that they did against team flash. Now here’s the thing. Will team spirit do any kind of mistakes that they’ll be able to punish? Because looking at how they’ve been playing, they’ve been uh they’ve been pretty clean. Well, based on, you know, context cues that I’m solely basing this off of what Keller is saying and what I’ve been hearing down the grapevine, it really boils down to scrims, right? What is the information are they getting from the scrims itself? Homeboy is one thing, but Team Spirit, I I feel like considering the environment that they play been playing in, the brave draft system that they have to go through, their hero pools have always been big, but now with a lineup that has stuck together for more than one year, this team coming in from ECA is a powerhouse for a reason. And it’s not only because of their strong fundamentals, but each person is a playmaker in their own right. Yeah, I agree. This is somehow definitely going to be a much more level playing field for Team Spirit if we were to base it from the previous matches that they had. But seemingly even through the interviews you get from them in the previous match that they had the confidence you still get to see it there like you talk or Aterna talked to Hiko and I mean we all know Hiko is the guy. He’s all smiles. He’s just that very jolly young player. one of the youngest players that we have here in MSE. But when you ask him about his confidence, I know he says it’s okay. But it doesn’t seem like it’s just okay. If you look at his play, hey, you got to lie to your opponents. All right. Give them false hope. When you’re really confident, just be like, not really. I’m I’m like very nervous. And if you’re like super not confident, be like, I’m good. You you just got to lie. I I feel like between the matchup of homeboy and deeper between Hiko and as well as Mel QT where he goes like ah yeah you know I’m no big deal and then there’s Mel QT who’s just like I’m kind of average overall really averageman. He is the average marksman. They give off the same energy. Which is why coming into this matchup, I really want to see whether or not what we’ve been seeing from the homeboys, is it just the wrong read on the meta or is it the information from the scrims that been kind of skewing their perspective on the meta as a whole? Yeah, I’m honestly looking forward to see how homeboys does enter this match because I don’t think relying simply or just on the your ability to punish your opponents is going to be enough especially in the long run if you really get to stay longer here in MSC because heading into this tournament they’ve gotten a lot of attention. They’ve only lost to, I believe, SRG in their entire run. And that’s definitely something you’d have to look at from MPLMy. But the way that they won in their first match, I believe for many wasn’t that convincing. I mean, again, like their their story is basically like every single player are basically scrapped, right? Uh, Suphood, the owner is there. Um but yeah, looking looking at a team, they are very strong, but also one of those teams that they really need confidence in order to play well because their main shot caller, Ivan, really needs to be in the zone to make sure that everyone is uh is playing their positions well. And now we got to talk about both these matchups because Hickmania going up against Malaysia. This is not the first time. Heck, before this even homeboys went uh against previously Dez Vult. That’s also a story in itself. Right now, we’re looking at a man on a mission. Uh, so far going up against Vamos, they were able to win, but MSE 2024 homeboys was able to beat Team Spirit. Now, here’s the thing. In terms of the organization, more or less the same. But the players are definitely different. Yeah, the players are definitely different. This is a whole new homeboy in rebranded, right, with what people some may call scraps now turned into potential diamonds. And they could really change this narrative here cuz keep in mind, Team Spirit, it’s not like they’re unfamiliar. Yes, they do have history with Malaysian teams, but they also decided to boot camp in my as well. So, keep that in mind that they do probably have a I wouldn’t say upper hand, but at least a good insight onto the my play style. Yeah, I mean, even for um the match wherein we saw Onyx PH and Aurora, those players two weren’t entirely the same players in Aurora PH, which you get to see go up against each other every now or every single time. But the stories behind the organizations, it’s still there. And now that’s going to be what Bo aspires or strives or wants to do in this match is to even out the score historically between these two organizations because if they do get to win it this time, then they’ll be able to bring it to a 22 standing. Like regardless, regardless of the changes between Vamos, between homeboys and vault and team spirit, then that’s probably that what they’re going to be after. Honestly, there’s a lot of lanetolane matchups that I really want to look at, but I want to start with the gold lane because Mel Cutie back in MPL Malaysia is known to be like even though we call him the ordinary marksman, he does try to win his lane. Like he’s very aggressive in the sense that he wants to join the fight even when it’s like not super necessary. He just wants to be involved. Uh but I got to say in the previous match up going up against Team Flash, I see some hesitation. It almost feels like he’s playing a little bit too safe, which is not really his play style. going up against Hiko Mania, we’ve seen him having the capability of even getting savages against one of the stronger teams. So, I really feel like uh Hiko Mania, despite him saying, you know, confidence-wise, it’s just okay. I kind of feel like for both of them, Mel Cutie is the one that really has to get comfortable here, where Hiko mania in a way, he feels at home. Oh, yeah, for sure. Because Hiko Mania has proven time and time again that he is capable to play on a big stage and perform at the highest level. But homeboys, this new revamped, rebranded homeboy, it’s a little different. As we get into this draft, I’m hoping this time around it could change that full narrative that these rejects are now turned into diamonds and being shaping up to be potential favorites or dark horses, right? I mean, if we’re talking about as we go into the draft, we need to start talking about some of the other matchups because Iami Yayo or Ianami the Prince of Mesami against Sunset Lover, I don’t care. Fair enough. But Iami and Sunset Lover are honestly pretty similar in their play style. And then finally, the one match up which I’m really worried about, Amal versus OneShot, because OneShot really feels like he’s found himself this season. That’s true. The mechanics that we’ve seen from OneShot, they’ve been terrifying. Which leads me to my question of whether it will be the same situation where the Lancelot is going to be banned. Because for the past few games, I think we’ve seen that teams have just been respecting him, but so far it’s still okay. Personally for me, I prefer the last slot getting banned or homeboy pick it up. No bias, but you know, it it is what it is. I don’t even say it is what is it, you know. Yeah, personally for me, I do prefer it getting banned out because so far people have been uh fighting the Lancel slot with the heal up, but I kind of feel like for both junglers, they’re experienced enough to be like this is a nuisance, but I’ll get I’ll get through it eventually. Yeah. No, I I agree. I can agree with that. But I feel like Lanclot right now is positioned in the meta a little too well, right? It has a very high skill ceiling, but it’s got ridiculous numbers thanks to the items that people have been adding on to it. But let’s look at the fun fact because again the staple from Team Spirit, Kid Bomba. Apparently his IGN came from a kid who shot a kid Bomba after his Fanny eliminated Emmy with just one shot. Wait, so one shot? Is it one hit or one shot the player? Mhm. I don’t know. It would be funny, even funnier if One shot the player was the guy getting hit by Kip. He’s like, it’s like, oh, I like that name. I died. But hey, one shot is a good name. No, wait. Are they actually banning out the Irto? This is very interesting. They want to set up for a one-on- one first pick. Let’s see whether TS uh decides to kind of lean into it, right? They can decide to be like, “Ah, yeah, sure. No one want one, no problem.” Why do Why does it feel like they’re thinking about Oh, they might let it go. But the thing is, they ban out the Arlet. So, this makes it so that Team Spirit can’t pick up the Farsa. Yeah, maybe even Farsa Lanclot to go up against the one-on- one. I kind of feel like that’s a worth it trade. So, are we still going to She went like, “Oh, oh, oh, oh, no.” Because I’m thinking, are we still going to be supporting home boys in Oh, wait, wait, wait. It was a Okay, coach. I see. I don’t understand. This is the the table of the flipping. Why? Why would you? You’re on blue side. You’re on blue side and you’re like, I want to set up I want to set up to potentially get a get a one-1, but no. Get a para. Yeah, now they’re going to get uh do they want to go Granger here? I mean, it would have been nice if was open, but hey, decided to ban it out. There’s a fious tool. Fious isn’t too bad, but then that opens up options for TS picking up the CC and then really starting to comp. I mean, it’s difficult enough that you have to deal uh with the uh thein. Yes. Sorry, I don’t know why the name was taking so long to get to me. Oh, processing speed slowing down. It’s okay. Uh I I forget people’s names too. Maybe it’s the voices. I don’t know. Even so, being able to kind of stick on to your opponents is always a really good opportunity. But that’s the thing. You are going to be an anchor. Now, homeboy say, you know what? We don’t want that far. Instead, we’re going to lean into the Kimmy this time, plus the bad, which is probably saying something about TS, like, hey, maybe there’s an opportunity, and it also deters TS from actually picking up Joy. Interesting flow we’ve seen so far. So, does Team Spirit get the hero for Fious? I feel like either either Fious or the Hilda is an option here. I don’t think that they’re going to go for Hilda. Uh, I’m just worried about the one shot options later. Oh my. Okay, there’s a lot of damage here, but the thing is Homeboy has a lot of damage as well. So, it kind of looks like for Homeboy as well as Team Spirit, they’re just, you know, making a gentleman’s agreement and be like, “Hey, let’s fight Micro here to see that who has the better skills.” I’m down. But the problem is is that Homeboys do have a bit of a trump card on this side. Ooh, good ban on the Akai. Really good option here for the side of the homeboy to ban out. But the same goes for TS. It does reveal a little bit of how they want to run their comp. However, homeboys, they’ve kind of they kind of have their book a little more open other than the badang. I feel like TS need to recognize two things. One, yes, the phobias is still a potential for the side of the homeboys, but I think they should be more worried about a Masha more than anything else. Or maybe even later on if homeboy picks up something like a Harif. I kind of feel like their their momentum, you know, it it builds up very very fast with the Ki as well as a Harri and even like they just Okay. Hey, you know what? I’m I’m good at drafting. Hey, they could they could throw the Kimmy into the gold lane. Worst comes true, right? I think that’s still a potential. There’s still some potential there. I’m not sure how that match up works up specifically against the W1. I know Granger and Har not so sure about the W one positioning on that. Now we go to the final ban for the side of the home boys and then first picks on the second phase for TS. Oh wait, another another pick that people like to go up against the one. Uh it mo mostly just because you want to survive the lane is pick up something like a quad which I remember like week one or week two of NPL that is what something that uh Melkudi really likes to use just to make sure that this one one is not able to get an edge over him. This is interesting. It seems like it’s purely utility that they want to deny from one shot. So again, gentleman’s agreement let everyone be damaged. They’re letting I mean I thought damage was the good thing. Like even a lot of damage was a good thing but Homes are just letting it happen for team spirit, but they save one shots hero for later. Pick uping picking up the Wow, this is like a lot of single target, not so much bursty composition we’re seeing from team spirit so far. I totally agree. I think that right now team spirit what it really boils down to is we fight we I’m we’re going to get no matter what there’s going to be attacks for our life total when we trade against each other. But if I can leave the lane first, we rotate super quickly with our entire lineup. I think that’s the general idea I’m seeing from from the side of TS. Yeah, I kind of feel like they’re playing for um playing for Ho here because honestly like this is kind of like the same mindset or play style that they have for quite a while and now picking up the Ruby as well as the Beatrix. So first you thought, oh Ruby, go and like nuh-uh. No, even the Lancelot first pick gave us that feeling, you Okay, mythic seal picked up lens first pick and took down SRG. Okay, I still have my traumas. Brigita, there are still traumas, but now comes into play. This is really good. That was so surprising they immediately drop it down. Yeah. No, I I have to admit, Team Spirit, I think they’ve got a better draft here. It’s easier to pull off. However, it all boils down to can you land the CC in the first place, right? So, Homeboy have a high ceiling of trying to outplay TS, but at the same time, TS if anything hits, it’s over. Yep. has a lot of ways to initiate a fight. So, I’m going to be throwing it over to you guys and uh we’ll see how this match really plays out. Oh man, Lel doesn’t even want to give a prediction. I mean, or even doesn’t even say what comp. He’s like, “No, no, there’s too much. There’s too many curses in play.” But hey, what about you guys at home? Who do you think is going to win? This is going to be a really fun matchup. We don’t get to see I mean, we I mean, the first shifter has got a fun little game of their own. They got the Atlas. They got the Atlas. They got the Atlas. So therefore, we deserve to have some fun, too. It’s time here at the MSSE Mid-Season Cup 2025 live in Riyad for the EWC 25. Homeboy going to be on blue side facing off against Team Spirit on the red. This is going to be an interesting take on the play style from Team Spirit. I don’t know if you could say it’s mostly team fight cuz the majority of the heroes we’re seeing in their composition are literally single target heroes. I mean, you could say that the Gavir could like affect more than one hero and it’s great that it has a way to keep itself or immune itself from the other crowd controls that can coming in from homeboys because that’s going to be a problem. I mean, Ivan, Ianami, and actually more importantly, Vel, right? Those are a lot of layers of crowd control that you have to think about if you’re team Spirit who wants to go in and looks for the setups. So many, right? And I think this game is going to boil down to the performance of the laners on every single lane. Maybe the jungle junglers not so much, but there is a higher onus on one shot to land his abilities and Amal needs to be able to use his eyeframes to get on out of there. Speaking of which, let’s look at the emblem setup because this time around, I’m not seeing killing spree. has decided to go for the war cry even for I mean looking at the uh emblem combinations for one shot since it’s been a while since I’ve seen a quivo here jungle seems like it’s going for tank emblem a little bit of thrill here and of course additional damage to the jungle so yeah maybe it is indeed team spirit just wanting to play around heo if even the gyne seems like it’s going for a bit more tankier ier approach. Yeah, I think the tankier approach is slightly better here, right? Because if we’re talking about just like there’s just so much disruption from homeboy’s side, the only way we see one shot actually making an outplay of his own is if he times his violet recreum uh perfectly against the I’m offended. But now first fight. Oh, that’s another one that’s timed. But look at the layers of crowd control coming in from home boys. They introduce it as early as minute two of this game. First blood is none other than one shot. And this is likely to be a turtle that gets into the hands of homeboy. Thorn girls dealing a lot of damage, but Amile somehow gets punished, too. Mhm. He didn’t. Oh, he thought they wanted to go for more. I’m pretty sure Vel was communicating. I was going to flicker and try to make a play to get you out of there, but it happened too late. And now the I’m offended as well. I I’m not going to lie. I wasn’t expecting those two upcoming kills. That’s true. That’s why I already stopped. Like, imagine that. There was still a flicker that Ivan could potentially burn. And yes, it’s going to be a huge problem for Team Spirit who’s just trying to run away. But that’s the thing. This isn’t a gold lane Ruby. It’s an XP lane Ruby. So seeing it active in the first objective just helped so much in terms of Homeboy winning that fight. I mean, the the way that they’re able to layer the fist break and the I am offended. Teams could barely move, could barely get out. There aren’t any purify spells either way other than Sunset Lover. Yeah. Oh, so it seems like it seems like I was wrong. Amal did end up missing one of the punctures. He didn’t get a reset on it, which is why he couldn’t double dash out of the pickup here even. So, right, the extensions and the kills that came afterwards after Amal died is really great for the homeboy because these leads adds up for people like Ianami. He’s got that full level lead against Sunset Lover and Vel. He’s got full priority, right? He’s not really interacting with Kid Bomba. He’s saying, “Hey, I am willing to give you a little bit of gold because if Iami gets far enough ahead, you don’t have an option.” And he still has purify. So Saul’s thinking, “Man, I can’t even force it.” Oh, already using the traction pulse though. Got to be cautious of Saul because he can potentially look for a setup though. But this is this is different from what we were kind of expecting to be. Team Spirit just constantly being the ones to dive trying to interrupt and look for Izzanami or making him uncomfortable in terms of positioning because if they’re able to establish this lead, I mean that’s 100 particip that’s a 100% kill participation for majority of their heroes so far. So I feel like they’re going to be extra confident in whatever they try to do or wherever they try to position themselves. And that’s what we’re seeing right now prior the next objective of this game. Hey, you got to be careful there buddy. You got you can’t be losing your resets here, especially for your puncture. It’s too important. This might break out. The traction pulse has been thrown, but at this point, everybody, they’re ready for this 5v5. They’re really really Oh. Oh, and it’s homeboy who starts things first. Amal doesn’t land the Thor grows will still try to go for heo, however, and Vel actually gets taken down. Kid Bomba surprisingly gets the last hit on the turtle and Amal might have just gotten taken out. What? Rener’s apathy from Melie. It lands to Sao. That was a head shot coming in from Mel QT saving at least a bit of the scenario. They give away the turtle, but they end up losing two for it. Amal, he’s got to be careful here. He cannot make these types of mistakes. And honestly, just with the war axe alone, Ho was put in a lot of trouble. Had he landed it, that definitely would have been a kill. But now the lane swaps have started to come through. Right. Melt still wants to be able to participate for this upcoming turtle fight. And surprisingly enough, Vel is willing to sacrifice mid tier. Sorry, bottom tier one for this. Oh, brief stun onto Kid Bomba. Enough to burst him down. Drew the follow damage of Mel, but the curtain call. Such well timed and well placed. And now one shot finds the kill onto Mal cutie. There’s the way of the dragon as well. Landed onto Belle. But look at the sustain and the phantom execution. Homeboy, they turn things around. How worth it is it? I got to give it to Kid Bomba. He outplayed the scenario very well. But it’s a two for two trade with a tier one down botside and Ho catching double waves in the process. The true winner of this really is Ho because Mel QT if he survived here, it would have been a different story. Had he taken a kill off of Kid Bomba, then the economical damage wouldn’t have been so bad as Hiko continues to get ahead in this game. The cleanup is nice from the side of the home boys, but the execution is not as polished as we would like it. Look at Kim Bubba. He knows he outplayed that. It’s like try me again. How often do you see the actual winners not being part of the fight? But yeah, Hiko got a lot from that entire team fight, which took home boys long enough. But still, if you look at the lead, at least it’s still in Team Spirit’s hand. But nonetheless, I’m liking the mechanics. I’m liking how coordinated homeboys actually is starting to look like in this game. Regardless of how Team Spirit seems to play it maybe a little too aggressively even. I mean there were a lot of times kid Bomba up top was even right under the turret already but they tried to recreate that play onto one shot has a way to immune himself. However, not the angle they’re trying to look for as they land the kick on Anami and a Mal gets taken down even before he gets to use the path of execution of the crossbow off. He’s actually finding the targets right now. Four members already taken down from home boys. And now you can hear I can even hear from here. Team Spirit are very vocal about it. We saw that mistake. You do not get to walk away with that. We need more polish. We need to smell the varnish off of you. Anything less is beneath us. Kibumba already managed to get the blade armor. This is going to just be a tougher time for MQTT to try and cut through him until he gets a maleific roar or a gun. Regardless, it is a winning scenario as Team Spirit 7 minutes into this game, 4,000 gold ahead and a majority of it being held by both the side laners, Kid Bomba and especially Ho. They have so much room to move around the map ever since they’ve been winning out on the macros is the first few team fights that we’ve been seeing and it’s a surprising change of pace for this game. I mean that was a high pitched crossbow Tang. It was it came in a little too surprisingly as well. old traction pulse though doesn’t land onto anyone, but they’ve created enough space yet again for Team Spirit who will likely try to just secure this for themselves. Homeboys, even after that great start, even after those multiple chain CCs that we thought could have made things so much difficult for Team Spirits, now they’re the ones struggling to find a way back. And look at the curtain call once again landed beautifully, but the Bennett’s rage. There’s enough damage as well. Kid Bomba popping the vengeance tries to sustain a little bit more but he will try tries to look for the stacks. There’s a from Bell but he gets to receive the way of the dragon and that gives two kills or one kill. One for one trade for both of these teams. And Amal he’s coming back into this. He’s like guys I messed up a couple of times but now I’m going to make sure that if we get somebody low I will finish them off. And kid Bomba he tanked through the damage with the help of that vengeance and not to mention his blade armor which is making life extremely difficult. But the conversion, right, Team Spirit was 4,000. There’s now 6.1K ahead. And they still have the Lord walking down to the bottom side. All the Econ turrets, which is all this tier 2 turrets are going to collapse. That holy shielding will protect them. But I think that team spirit now just really taking their time, right? Eating away at the economy of the homeboy, stealing away their jungle at the same time. Yeah, you got to be careful if you’re homeboy. There are flickers available for Saul. Spatial migrations even for one shot. And looking like the holy shields are already going to pop before the lord even gets to approach their inhibitor turret down bottom. Sao might have wanted to try and go for the attempt, but they’re going to play it safe. There’s the traction pulse gets dodged by the crimson beacon and somehow homeboy successfully defend for now. Mhm. All holy shielding has been stripped away and team spirit they understood there’s no way we’re going to be able to finish this on the first time, right? Even Saw, he’s looking for an angle, but if he doesn’t see it, they just have to back off. No reason to throw your lead now. Especially now that you’ve developed a very solid 7K in about what 70 seconds or so, homeboys are bound to make a mistake. They have to walk back up. Maleficent gun already purchased for the side of Mel QT. And I think it really boils down to a battle uh a battle of battle spells, unironically. That’s true. I like how Sao yes tried to look for a kick when he saw that it might not be the best time to go for a kick anymore. Just disengage. Didn’t force anything to happen anymore because that’s respect of course coming in from Team Spirit and them just badly wanting to hold on to the lead that they have. And now all they have to do is just to keep managing these waves, deny the potential farm that Amal could actually secure. And that’s not looking too good too by the way cuz he’s two levels behind of one shot. So even when it does come to the objective fight later on this is a Lancelot but the retribution won’t be the same. Mhm. It’s not on equal footing. And I think worst yet, right, the transition piece. Ianami was supposed to be the one that gets them over early to mid and now that we’re seeing the blade armors coming through. And I’m pretty sure Radiant armors are also eventually going to get built unless he’s got a holy uh sorry, a divine glaive on top of maybe having uh I would say the concentrated energy might just be a little bit better in this particular case just to sustain in this battle. Right. Let’s look at the items so far. Sky Piercer already built and now already looking for a second item. But ah man members from the side of team spirit already moving to their fourth item for their cores third item for their side laners. One shot doesn’t have the raven armor yet but already has the blade armor enough tankiness to at least sustain the other major damage dealers of homeboys at this or at this point. So probably a major target for them is indeed going to be Izzanami considering that he hasn’t died yet even once in this game too. So, it’s going to be a huge problem for Team Spirit because Izzanami is also able to supplement a bit of crowd control, but homeboys have to do a great job at protecting these heroes, not just Izzanami, maybe because this is a 10k gold lead we’re talking about in the hands of Team Spirit. So, things can get pretty messy once they approach the base. Yeah, it’s looking to be a checkmate angle and they’ve achieved it at a very primal time, right? Because off of this push, homeboys are not anywhere close to the 42k mark. Team Spirit will eventually hit their final item power spikes while Hico he’s done with his items, right? He doesn’t even need his situationals cuz nobody really threatens him at this point. So unless he wants to sell his boots off for a one. Oh god. Like I mean Salo was okay, right? He takes a bit of the damage, but there’s a second wave coming through. There was a slight mistake it seems from Sawo in terms of calculating how he could have landed a setup for Team Spirit, but it doesn’t seem like he still wants to go for the reset. might attempt to do something if some or if a member from homeboys overextends a little bit. But at least they’ll keep themselves safe. They’ll just stay under the turrets for now. And even Sao won’t risk it anymore. So again, a successful defense, I’d say, for both boys. Very successful indeed. I mean, their composition has the better wave clear, right? Team Spirit are the ones the way that they siege is by threatening you with their position by actually catching you uh prior to the siege or while you are underneath your turrets. And I think that right now with Zo losing that flicker. It’s a hu Oh. Oh, and he doesn’t have the flicker as you mentioned to get out of that spatial migration doesn’t land onto anyone. There’s the conceal coming in from home boys. Might just catch multiple members from Team Spirit. And there you go. But the crossbow of T lands onto the members of Homeboy. Can Ho find a way to take down more than just one member? Belle being chased here by Kid Bomba and one shot. Tanky enough to deal with the other members, but Ho comes in and with his help, they finally get the kill. Ecomia, he got his name for a reason. A really good engagement coming in from Ivan. Even Vel trying to make sure that this play was going to work out. Setting up for his boy as a secondary engagement tool, but Hiko already had the the weakness points already triggered. He had that crossbow of Tang. And even Saul, he’s telling the rest of his team, he’s like, “Hey, I got caught off first.” Good recovery this time. I’m going to make it count. Give me 17 more seconds. That just brings it to the 10k mark though in terms of the gold lead. It didn’t shrink at all. And Zawa once again with the conceal looking to find a target, but Homeboys are going to keep themselves safe. Even with multiple successful attempts to defend without the lord, team spirit were able to take that inhibitor turret up top nonetheless. So this upcoming objective will homeboy be brave enough to try and risk it. They’re complete in terms of numbers. But in terms of battle spells, these two flickers that are in that aren’t in the hands of Ivan might be crucial. Extremely crucial. Not to mention, they’ve got two side waves to deal with, right? Team Spirit can take however long they want to deal with this lord and they should be able to secure this without much of a contest from the homeboy and this is it. If home boys are able to make this one final defense, they will come back into this game on equal terms with team spirit other than the minions pushing. But in terms of power level, Team Spirit, they’re looking to try and close this out here. Saw he’s used that conceal to get another inhibitor on that top side, but hadn’t commit the flicker. So, we need to see that big choke play from Sao. That’s what we’re expecting here. Unless OneShot is going to be the one who initiates. Yeah, because for the f for the past few um Lord Siees, the attempt from Sao hasn’t been that successful. He’s always forced to recall, reset, and so team spirit are left with four members. And of course, you’d expect the uh setups, the engagers to come in from Sawo and of course OneShot. But I feel like for now, one shot is more of the secondary layer of crowd control for Team Spirit so that they don’t put themselves too much in a dangerous position. But Tao, will he get to find it this time? Iano still has the purify, so might not be the best target, but he’s already down half HP. One shot gets to find a different target. It’s Vel instead and sets up for the perfect crossbow of Tan coming in from Heo Mania. And that will just hand over the win to Team Spirit. Too many mistakes being made in the earlier stages of the game. And Team Spirit, great converges, great punishes against the homeboys. This is what I’m talking about. Team Spirit are so solid. I kind of feel like this is the perfect time to have that rank mentality of that when you lose, blame your jungler because I got to say Amal on this on his last he did make a lot of mistakes and uh I kind of feel like it’s very evident like you said like miss punctures and then just questioning like what are you doing there in in in the first place and I kind of feel like he wasn’t ready to face up against this CC coming in from Kit Bomba because there were quite a few times where Kit Boba was able to actually catch him with the curtain call and it made it so that hey you want to dash hey guess what you don’t get to do So in this in this sense CC is just a better mincar in that in that kind of sense where you just can’t move around and you just have to take the damage. So maybe maybe it’s jitters in game number one, but I really feel like the mid trio well I I would say isami Ivan as well as Vel. They tried their very best, but if your jungler can’t really contribute that much, it’s not going to be looking good. Yeah, but that’s not the only thing that I thought was really weird, right? They got Vel to kind of move out of his lane. And he sacrificed like what two, three waves even just to try and force a play with Mel QT’s side. All of which again I understand the idea behind it, but if the execution doesn’t net you that profit, it is you on the losing end. The gold swing falls into the favor of Team Spirit very quickly. And we saw by Midame both K Bomba and Hiko both developed a 1.2k lead. That’s not something you want with this type of comp. Yeah, honestly, Homeboy seemed like they wanted to force too many fights together, which wasn’t a bad thing because I feel like their lineup needs to be together for it to work. But Team Spirit, they were just, I’d say, much more composed in a sense that they’ve had their um crucial key heroes or players just working on what needs to be worked on. And namely that’s Hiko who didn’t care if he got to join the fight or not because what’s important what mattered was that he got to get the farm. Yeah, I would say is that we saw Hiko with just raw pure mechanics but I got to talk about Kip Bomba’s battle IQ because more often than not we see like in a fight he’s going to be involved but the way that he uses this CC is kind of like he’s just waiting for them to get in a bad position curtain call and then gets away and then using the yo-yo bliss just to get some of that HP back. But it really does look like his battle IQ is that him he’s using himself as a bait make them all these force mistakes and then trust his team to follow up which they did. Mhm. I I think that’s why you know Kib Bomba has been such a standout player and one of the some of the best exp laners in the world because he is not only trustful of his team but he’s very effective when he is utilizing his abilities. Not only that, right, because I feel like One shot had a lot of times where he could have been the first one to engage and then look to kind of like set up for somebody else. But really, it’s that curtain call that makes the difference because if you lock down at least one core or even a tank, that’s perfect because you technically get a two for one if one shot comes in with a magic thump into the violent recreum, you’ve basically locked down two people. Yeah, I was thinking the same. I feel like best example was the one that happened up top. Like Kid Bomba was already kind of under the turret. Mhm. He just had to bounce away to reposition a bit, but that was all him buying time because there were other members of Team Spirit on their way anyway. So, they got to somehow manage the team fight which was looking good for Homeboy supposedly because I’d say the idea was great. The fist breaks, I’m offended, the setups and then the follow-up damage from either the throne roatrix because the Bennett it the Bennett’s rage happened a lot of times. It got to burst down members a lot of times, but like what happened after that probably was the difference. Yeah. Here’s the thing. Like I really feel like what Kiba did was the best example of what we mean by you got to lie, right? You can’t be too honest because in that situation people would think that he was throwing, right? But then but then all of a sudden everyone is is is jumping in. But now I want to move on to say that homeboy is not just EML. There’s a lot of uh mistakes in terms of their abilities as well because I even remember in mid where when he throws the the wave into No, not even into wave into nothing. I would understand if they’re, you know, the minions are there, at least you get uh value there. You you clear minions very fast for you to go to to do something else somewhere else. So yeah, I kind of feel like homeboy, they need to calm down and utilize their skills properly because at this point it looks like they’re throwing to a to a degree, right? It’s just there’s a lack of polish, which is why I was saying that for team spirit, they need to smell the varnish to give you respect. If not, they’re going to just get away with everything, right? Convert on all of your smaller objectives, all of your green caps, all of your buffs. And that’s what we saw in this game that every scenario that we see TS win against the homeboys. The gold swing is a little too significant than what I would be comfortable with, and homeboys were more than happy to give it away. So coming into game number two and one more thing, another thing that I found really weird. Despite TS being the more composed team, they were literally very vocal and shouting in the game while home boys. Yeah, that was them. Homeboy were the one who were silent, but they were the ones who didn’t seem as composed. So that was Team Spirit all along. I mean, we did see a replay once of Kid Bomba shouting. I mean, when when is he isn’t it? That’s true. It’s on brand. Yeah, that’s kid Bomba for you, I guess. But this is also Hiko for you, the rich guy and the carry for that game who was relatively quiet for a 1-1 from the start. But that didn’t matter. Like the moment he was able to find his footing, join the fights. That’s another thing. Like everyone else made it so easy for him to stack the crossbow of Tang. He didn’t have to go out of his way too much to stack the crossbow of Tang. I mean like to be fair it is based on his skill because even I was surprised by how quickly he flew up but either way like we can definitely see like at least for team spirit in terms of their their micro it’s amazing the the decision-m as well as how they perform in the team fights it’s really good for home boys they really got to make sure that they are back in their own form back in MP Malaysia because they look much more confident in that one where when they’re being aggressive it’s aggressive for a reason because you For this one, it really does look like you’re being aggressive, but at the same time, you’re hoping to get lucky, which is not the right. Yeah, I think I mean, as much as I want to experience in case you don’t know, as much as I want to believe that they’re hoping that they get lucky in a lot of these scenarios. I like the proactiveness coming out from the home boys, right? I think that the jitters really are getting to them. And it becomes very evident when you look at these plays like fair fairly closely once they kind of got their composure together. It’s a little too late. When you’ve given a 10k lead over to your opponents, your opponents can make mistakes like this. Like, oh no, it doesn’t matter. And then he goes like, I don’t care. Right. That was something I’d expect. Homeboys could have really won. They could have. Those were two members who got caught in the fist break, but in the blink of an eye while they were being kited, for some reason, Ho got the stack. So, you know, like that feeling when you were the ones chasing and then suddenly you’re the ones I would say that’s more on Ho. Hiko like Ho is damn good. Yeah, Hiko is really really good. He’s one of those gold laners that you got to keep an eye out for, right? But hey, it just means that homeboys need to play a little bit better, right? They need to pump up the standard. They need to be a little bit more consistent and have better execution for this upcoming game because again, the ideology for the comps are good from both sides. These teams, I want to say that they’re a little more equal, but homeboy have to show up first. I mean, here’s the thing. Yes, it’s not elimination, but but but you’re going to be facing against Onyx, so it kind of feels like you’re just delaying the inevitable. So, winning this one will make it big because going to the knockout stage being top eight. That’s huge, right? Even in terms of just the placement you get with with the the money, right? So, I really hope they start locking in because if they don’t do it now, I don’t know when. Yeah. I think they got to get used to like um locking in and just winning it out in series being better because like once you get to the knockouts too. Yeah, that means a lot but it gets scary there. Isn’t it? Single eliminations. It is single eliminations. Singles are scary. Yeah, they are. They are. And it helps that also that Team Spirit are playing like they don’t want to face off on PH. So they really they really got to pump they got to put their foot on the gas here. It’s really how badly do you not want to play against the super fam? Yeah, but it its kind of feel like in terms of the draft, I feel like it still makes sense, you know, cuz it does. I feel I feel like here in the in MSSE, there’s no real super bad draft. Sure, there’s like one or two, but I feel like every single player, they show you the reason why these heroes are getting picked. And then we can see like in terms of homeboy draft, it’s really about in a way like hiding where you’re trying to bait out mistakes with the Ruby as well as the badang. But again, the way that Hiko played that one one really made it so that it’s kind of irrelevant. The moment they want to move forward, you instantly get punished. But to be fair, Hiko was also able to do that kind of damage because they were too far ahead. So again, they just got to got to relax cuz I I I feel bad for my boy, your boy. My boy did my boy did well, you know, early to mid. Like he had like 00 and six, but at that point he’s like, “Guys, what am I going to do?” Well, I don’t know. I feel like I’ I’ve been in the scene long enough to witness too many downfalls to to kind of uh care at this point. I know. Look, it’s just it’s a matter of fact. I’ve seen a lot of Malaysian cynical as we get we get more and more cynical, which is which is totally fine. I I think what I appreciate what I appreciate the most from these teams especially at an international is when there is that layer of polish which I think is a big difference compared to all the other MSC’s as well as M series that we’ve seen so far. This time around the drafts are looking good. We do see the the pros and cons of the draft very quickly. It’s not like oh this is an interesting draft. I hope it works in this way and nothing happens. Yeah, I know. I I agree. They really got to polish this as well as be a little bit hungry. Hungary. Hungary. You didn’t guess the joke. Oh, I So, I’m assuming it’s No, it’s it’s a it’s a joke. Don’t worry about Yeah, it’s Balkcon. Don’t worry about it. Sure. Yeah. Look, TS this time. Oh, wait. Actually, homeboys have decided to go to the red side. Yeah. Interesting. For some reason, why do I feel like the one’s not going to be banned all the time in the series? Because people feel like I I can. Oh, they can. They feel like they can. just trust, you know, but you know. Okay. No, no, no. Homeboys doesn’t feel like they should. They’re like, “We’re done with this.” Okay. Then maybe maybe like one of the players like, “Coach, we got it.” The coach looks at her like, “Mhm. Say that to my face. Say that to my face, boy.” Okay. I can imagine just holding his little notebook, just pulling it down a little bit, just eyes glaring. Say that to my face, boy. Kadina gets locked in. Oh, wait. CeCe. Oh, Homo is really making their own drafts here and now. A quick Lancelot pickup. Wait, that’s what you like to see, right? I mean, who? The the the the unique drafts cuz the first patch had a lot. So, what do you mean? This is what we want to see. I mean, what do you mean by we? Okay, never mind. It’s just me. All right. Oh my goodness. But yeah, your goodness kind of feels early. It I I agree with you with that. I I think that the Kadita is a little because they already have a mid laner. That’s Well, I Unless Unless No, it’s not. What are you trying to say? No, no, no, no, no, no. He knows what I’m trying to say. Unless it’s a ror. I don’t No, no, no, no. I don’t know what you’re smoking right now, but you got to stop it. All right, get back on the meds here, sir. It’s not happening. Fanny is getting locked in, baby. Homeboy, balls to the wall. Talk about changes. Like, talk about changes. Like, you know what? I feel like in that game he wasn’t hard enough. If I were right behind homeboys right now, wasn’t there a time they also went minced gold. They did. They did do that just to double down. Shut up and talk. Okay, but less of the talk right now. That did not work out. I mean, like here’s the thing. Um, Coach Jin, honestly, I I respect him a lot. like he he has this crazy ideas and and like I said previously about about the drafts like once it’s finished the questions will always be there but as the game progresses you can see the logic around it for now you don’t see it hey trust me even I don’t but eventually eventually just just wait for these let’s just wait for the last two if this if this gets even weirder and wait what does that say oh it’s the Malaysian Oh dude he’s got the notebook for the Malaysian esports Federation that’s cool wow yeah I didn’t know they had a notebook I thought he would get shirt at most. But even so, if this draft gets even weirder, I’m just going to assume that Jess, he just misses his girlfriend or something. I don’t know, dude. Cuz I mean, this is we we’re not seeing traditional. No, it’s it’s about like never let your opponents know what’s going on. I don’t know. The element of surprise. Yeah, I would disagree. Never be honest. Always cheat. Okay, not that one, but like but like you you got to have this deception. be okay. A magician. This looks too honest though. What’s honest? What? You think this fan is going jungle? Actually, I probably, but you know, you know, it’s like make make them think, hey, are we not thinking about it? Are we not thinking? I’m thinking too hard about it. What do you think about their opponent? I I I think we have to simplify this just a little bit, right? Because right now it’s a pickoff composition from the side of the homeboy. I don’t know how they want to round off the pickoff composition or who’s going to be the true setter cuz if they throw Kadita into this mix already like a Badang Lancelot and as well uh as the Zhuin and if just takes purify you basically dodge 90% of the abilities in the first place right eye frames from one and a good follow up coming in from this Badang I think I think if TS wants to have any opportunity and this is why they’re thinking about their last ban right they’ve gotten rid of the thought they get rid of the Harris so now they just need to make sure that homeboys don’t scale to the late game so worse comes to worse all your pick off you did a huge snowball. Oh no, 10k lead. But if you can’t clear waves, you don’t scale that well, they can hold out. Now I’m I’m also thinking about the Mitar cuz in your head that’s actually pretty good. In your head is always that what if. What if or please do? Yeah, maybe you agree with me now. I mean, it’s not that I disagree. It’s more like I don’t want it to be a reality. You’re getting very convincing, Brigita. I’m just going to say that. You know, Lefel usually doesn’t agree with me, but I think you’re the only person who’s made him agree with you this entire time. Oh, so yeah, they don’t agree with us. It’s they’re going to simplify it maybe as we asked. No, it’s still snowball oriented. It works in the favor of like, you know, profile of picking people off, but really did they are they going to like run with Gaja or something? They’re running with Franco. Oh, actually Franco doesn’t sound too bad. Yeah, actually doesn’t sound too bad. Yeah, all right. Okay. And like again, that’s Yeah, that that does a lot of counters here. It looks like Team Spirit, they’re really going for for standard and then and then Homeboy is really going for a question mark, which again, good work. They’re they’re going for a gas gas sort of like composition. Ooh, Cho. So good. Good denial from TS. But now we see the instant response here. It’s going to be the Hilda. So strange. This is giving me like Ultra Legend vibes cuz it’s really like homeboy. Even if you look at how they played in game number one, their idea is is that kill them very, very fast. Yeah. And then hope for the best, which not going to lie, I like that. It’s something that I wish I can do in my rank games, but now I’m going to throw it over to you guys where, not going to lie, I have no idea how to call this match. Yeah, I’m not sure how to call this match either. But hey, it’s going to be an interesting one. The composition from the homeboy is so damage oriented and the setter surprisingly enough is going to be a combination of the curtain call and some of the breath of the ocean plus petrify. Right? That’s what we’re hoping to see from the side of the homeboys. Team Spirit, they’ve gone like we’ve seen compositions like this all the time within our MO regions. But it’s time. Let’s head on over into the land of dawn. MSE has been an exciting time as the esports world cup continues, but it’s going to be Team Spirit on blue side facing off against homeboys on the red side. Team Spirit on match point. Yep. As you mentioned, Team Spirit clearly have to respect the amount of crowd control and verse that is going to come from the side of homeboys, which results to again Sunset Lover and Hiko forced to pick up the purify because the Kadita, which often times goes with a pull yourself together tool and that’s no joke because they always almost always have the petrify. You can just go in and out because again, it’s much more faster this time around. And considering that Ivan’s the one who can do majority of the job of just trying to disrupt the members, then you’ll feel so much more confident to just go in. But Saul responds with that flicker as well. Committed onto Ivan and the lantern flare immediately punishes Homeboy in their attempt. What was that? I mean, really good response coming up from the side of Team Spirit. Like Homeboy nearly came in with uh with Grand Theft Auto there for a moment. Not Grand Theft or Grand Theft in this case, just one of the green camps. That’s totally fine. But even so, this does mean that Team Spirit has Tempo on their side. Will able actually try to find a target gets to secure the kill on Sawo. So somehow it’s like a trade that’s a bit delayed, but yeah, I feel like it’s what Team Spirit tried to do there was very similar to what Homeboy tried to do in the first few minutes of the game. It’s just mirrored sides, right? All right, let’s look at the emblems and see whether we can get some ideas because I’m seeing a lot of lethal ignition on either side. They’re going for big burst damage. and looking to, you know, try and take him out as soon as possible. They also have concussive blast on this Hilda to try and unlock Ezanami as soon as possible. Clear the waves fast, then immediately start hiding. Guerilla warfare. Yeah, it’s clearly burst that homeboy wants to go for. Oh, and dual man this break fist crack by Kid Bomba, but there isn’t any follow-up damage. And now Homeboy knows that they don’t have those resources. But Sabo finds the last hit on the turtle objective. to Amal with the gets to take down one shot and he’s looking for Kid Bomba next. That’s a triple for Amal on the Fanny. Really nicely done. Sunset lover couldn’t peel enough. There’s a lot of mobility from homeboy’s side and I got to give it to Kid Bomba. He got some right ideas, right? I wish he didn’t commit the ultimate onto two so early on in his lane. He could have used it a little bit later, but he still tried to slow down Eizenami like like watch this, right? Kim Bomba, he absorbs the damage. He doesn’t mind, tries to dodge, but it’s too late because the conversion from the side of the homeboys kind of forced them into the corner, right? Sandwiching them in the river. Oh, but Ivan though gets taken back under the turret through the lantern flare. This is such an action-packed early game for both of these two teams. We’re seeing kills happen here and there up top. There’s another committed ultimate from Kid Bomba, but he did not expect Izanami to be there. Mhm. Mhm. The pull yourself together stacks are coming through and Amal doubling down, right? Making sure that he’s got the blade of heepies, the double up on that burst damage. You show up, you go for that kill, and they want more. Saul finds the kick, but with Vel and the yo-yo blitz, he won’t get to survive much long. That was such a good shutdown if they got it against Amal, but I don’t think they’ll be able to get that as easily. Sunset lover trying to help One shot here. Still getting the the stacks on the lantern flare and one shot gets the final hit. Yep. All this because there is no information over the mid lane, right? Because we’re seeing that both Izzanami and Ivan are doing two separate things. He’s Anami trying to hurt Kit Bomba on the top side of the map while Ivan needs to make sure that he is uh giving vision over where OneShot is. It is costing them a little bit but not enough to turn this game around. Amos still is has a three kill lead so far while OneShot has already taken a single death but he is up by two kills. So it’s not like he’s too far away. Yeah, somehow they can still find a way to deal with this. They might want to contest though, but Fell doing a great job scouting the members of Team Spirit, but Ho decides to join in. doesn’t or already uses the heavy crossbow who by the way and you can’t just see that damage just yet is Anami yet again bursting kid Bomba a member down from team spirit down below though they find Ivan that fifth time they get to secure the kill but Amal will be just trying to look for the other target secures the retribution on the turtle first before he decides to join the fight down bottom tries to go for heo there’s the cris coming in from sunset lover but that’s a shut down coming in from team spirit nicely played A very nice play from Hiko’s side. Unfortunately for Amal. It just doesn’t have enough damage to completely burst through yet. I’m pretty sure that his lethal ignition had already propped on somebody else. And the same goes for his heptacy. So I think at that point Amal might have considered backing off there, but he was confident because Hiko is playing an air who’s known to be really squishy. I’m curious to see the item list in just a little bit, but it looks like a fight’s about to break out. Yeah, Iami gets spotted out there, forced to use the ultimate just to escape. But I think that’s what Homeboy needs or what that what Team Spirits needs to do. Just always scout where these members could potentially be. Mhm. And the reason now I see the reason why Hiko was able to survive that initial dive. First item has claw. He’s looking to sustain through the damage for the most part, especially in the early game cuz he knows, hey, I got to wait for my timing, right? I’m playing purify. I’m not playing sprint. I’m not all damaged just yet. Yep. Getting through the laning stage is very crucial in this case. Oh, they get to bring Ivan down to half HP. A Mal flies in. Doesn’t get to damage anyone that much, but then there’s the conceal canceled immediately by Kima. However, there goes the fist breaking the path from home boys, but they still find a way to get in. They use the way out the dragon onto Fel and Amal will be able to catch up, but somehow Team Spirit get to manage it. There’s the flicker pump from Kid Bomba, but the other members of homeboys have a way to disengage. What was that? Vel had the most ideal flank possible. The followup just wasn’t there for the side of the homeboy, even though a majority of the abilities came out from the side of Team Spirit. Unfortunately, Isami didn’t have his alt and the and the disruption from both sides wasn’t able to line up perfectly despite that flank. And I think this is the big struggle we’re seeing from both of these teams, right? They are alt dependent at the end of the day. Homeboys, they want to snowball this out of control. And Team Spear are not giving them that ground. They’re forcing them to use resources. They actually delayed the reset for Amal. Find the way of the dragon onto Bell. And yet again, one shot might find another kill. Belle is already down. Ianami goes in. Doesn’t get to burst anyone though. Sunset lover finds Ivan instead. This is the time for a but he get canceled by the Jeep Kunto. This is team spirit. They’re literally on a roll. Mhm. They’re on a roll. They’re pulling it back. Even though homeboy started thing off pretty exciting. Team Spirit, their fundamentals stay true and they stay strong. They haven’t broken under this type of pressure just yet. And honestly, it looks like they’re very comfortable with this style of, you know, constant consistent brawls, instant invades, split map rotations as well to kind of distribute the damage. This is indeed becoming such a brawly fight. Look at the damage dealt right already. We’re getting into the 22,000s. Yeah, this is a 98 kill score in 7 minutes of this game. I mean, you’d understand why homeboys, they have so much kill potential, mainly through Izanami. And yet again, similar to what happened in game number one, Team Spirit aren’t able to deal with him just yet. They’re not able to find a way to kill or take down Izanami. There’s been great positioning coming in from this mid laner so far, but there are other things which matter too when the team fight breaks out. Just so long as Team Spirit still has the purify or these crucial heroes dodge the combos from Izanami, then that’s an immediate reposition and a way to re-engage in the fight. Mhm. Talking about things that matter, I think homeboys, they should keep on looking to try and force scenarios against Team Spirit because at this point, the majority of the leads that we see from Team Spirit are actually in the hands of Ho, right? Pico alongside with Sunset Lover. They are the big profiteeers of this. Well, I’m not going to forget about one shot because again, he is two levels ahead of AL and they were able to take away the purple buff. It feels like homeboy now they’ve come to a point where they’ve hit a brick wall. They can’t seem to get past this plateau and are now diverging resources to Mel QT. Saw uses the way of the dragon onto hisami. Still has the passive though. There’s the flicker. Saw tries to escape. Also has the conceal. Vel will try to chase after him. Also has the vengeance. But will it be enough? This might be the perfect time for homeboys to go in. And there you go. Amal tries to look for a kill but gets blocked. It seems like the purple buff spawned just in time. And now Ivan might just get punished for this attempt. Unlucky. Unfortunate. And one shot takes out before he could get the heal from the alt. Everything that could have gone wrong despite it looking so good for the homeboy stolen away. That was a sequence of unfortunate events for homeboys. That could have looked like the perfect opportunity for them to finally chase after Team Spirit because Saw was very unsuccessful in his attempt. We have to look closely at this replay. Just look at how that path was suddenly blocked by the spawn of the purple buff. Oh, we didn’t even get to catch it on camera, but I mean, mainly because Team Spirit won’t stop pouring gasoline on this fire, right? This dumpster fire is getting a little out of control. Another purple buff steal coming up for the side of Team Spirit. Not to mention that even for Amos, he was locked onto the wall. Luckily, Amal was able to find a purple buff of his own regardless. So, he’s able to make things happen. He’s trying to even up the pressure off of this Lord push because let’s let’s let’s be real here, Homeboy exactly have the greatest wave clear. Yep. So, they might have to rely on a surprise. And that’s exactly the surprise they might need. Kid Bomba still sur still survives. And with the Crimson Beacon going in, Team Spirit, they just keep finding targets against homeboys. They do. They really do. This landslot is so ridiculous. He’s got the one shot’s got the items and really he’s living up to that namesake. They’re going to push in. No inhibitor now. Oh, look at the damage. Ivan can’t even survive. Phantom execution to execute him then and there. They’re just working on the minion waves, but will Team Spirit actually try to go for it? They just focus down all their resources on the base. They’ll still get to cast the rough waves and clear the minion waves. All right, at least they defend, right? At least they defend. That’s all I can say about it. Winds of nature being utilized by Ho. He’s been scaling at a steady pace, like a too good of a steady pace, some may say. Four items already completed. He says no to the wind talker. says yes to the GDS, which is a bit which is a little interesting, right? Because he understands that, hey, not only do I need to survive, I need to make sure that I don’t take any residual damage from everybody else. People like Vel, people like Amal if he’s chasing me, Ian Nami especially. And it’s fortunate that Iami, even at this point, still has that damage. You have to respect enough to even clear out that wave, which Spirit could have definitely used to try and put an end to the game. And that’s clearly what they’re after right now as they try to take out all remaining outer turrets. One shot might just want to look for a target once again down bottom. But homeboys will have to keep themselves safe. There’s still a few more seconds before the next objective spawns. And if you’re team spirit, you can’t afford to make mistakes. But the Sawo actually want to try and go for something. I think it’s worthwhile. They’ve got a 10k lead and it’s clear that Izzanami can only one-shot Ho. And honestly, as long as they find the position of where Iami is, it’s not that big of a deal, right? Because I’m pretty sure Hiko is going to get his Winds of Nature off of cool down in just a little bit. So, that is going to take care of at least two of the carries from the side of the homeboy. Yeah, this is an interesting damage dealt ranking, though. Bell is fourth and is the most damage dealt in home boys on the uh CC so far, but Sunset lover Heo and OneShot, they’re definitely up there. Could this be the timing they want to go for? Because it’s only a few seconds. No, even the Lord has already spawned. So, Team Spirit seems like they want to make something happen, but Homeboy, they’ve split themselves up pretty well. Not unless they try to go for Ivan. Oh, gets blocked, however. And on the other side of the map, it’s Kid Bomba who they tried to burst down Amal. Will he successfully find the target? Gets knocked back. And one shot on the other side of the map though. He finds the kill on Ianami together with Heo. They’ve zoned out majority of the members of homeboys. Yeah, and that’s what a 10k league ghost gets here. You know, I think that it was a little greedy for Saw to initiate this fight by being by saying, “Hey, Ivan’s the guy that we need to get we need to start things off with, right? I’m going to go for not only just the kick, but a flicker kick, which is a big resource to use considering that Amal is still at large. There’s also Mel QT. At the end of it all, they still get pretty much everything from the home boys. Every single one of their battle spells are gone. Ianami ended up dying in that fight because once again, One shot just seems to not be able to make the mistake. Yeah, luckily it went that way, right? Because the kick seemed like it was something Homeboy could have punished. And I I don’t think that the other members went for the wrong targets either. Amal onto the backlines on maybe Ianami though tried to go for Kid Bomba. So maybe that could have been the one thing that was different. But let’s see how they defend this for now because these are consecutive waves coming in. They decide to go in with the flicker. Kid Bomba sets up for another kill and it seems like homeboys are just falling one by one and so will their base. Team Spirit shall advance to the knockouts. Well done, Team Spirit representing EECA going to be showing the world that they’re back on that world stage. And my god, are they great at closing out this show. I think Cara, the interview just now, it was a mistransation. You know, Cara did say that they want to go up against Homeboys and uh Hey, hey, hey, hey, he was right. Right. Maybe just just misration. He said like, “Oh, I’m I’m facing you against home boys.” But yeah, that that game it was explosive. It was dynamic, but again, I kind of feel like being on stage, there’s an art to it, right? Like again, you don’t want to be too nervous, but at the same time, you don’t want to be too hype. And I kind of feel like the two hypeness is everywhere from the draft, from from the game, from the decision making because again, I kind of feel like homeboys, yeah, it’s a very good start, but then at the end of the day, there was just a lot of things that we got to question. And part of it is it’s just bad luck. What? What? Dude, to be fair, yeah, there were I I have to admit that some of the turnaround moments definitely it does. You have to incorporate bad luck. But you got to give it to Team Spirit, right? Because they identified straight away that Homeboy is playing an extremely volatile lineup. It’s not going to scale very well in the later stages of the game. It only wants to snowball. Therefore, that’s why Team Spirit is so down to trade 50/50 because if they keep trading 50/50 the whole game, eventually they will outscale them naturally without having to do too much. And Kid Bomba, I love his build, right? I’m going to go Thunderbell. We’re going to be fighting a lot anyways. I’m going to get a boatload of stacks. And that worked out cuz Iamic just couldn’t one-shot him at all. Yeah, that’s true. The item priorities played a huge role in this game. Both Hiko, both Kid Bomba, the side lanes. Yeah. And now we got to throw it over interview with Eterna as well as Kid Bomba. Thank you so much casters. We’re here now with Kid Bomba. All smiles right now. Kid Bomba. Hello everyone. Hello everyone. So coming into this match. I had a little bit of an interview with Hiko yesterday and he mentioned that he wants to even the score with homeboys. What’s that about? Uh I don’t know. We faced them a lot in M60 was Vamos but then they were home boys earlier as well and we had like I don’t know. It’s kind of like a vendetta with the organization you know like team sur home boys. We always play them in every international. I don’t know why. So, how does it feel to finally get your revenge here against Homeboys? Um, it feels good to beat them in the same place we lost last year, also to zero. So, yeah. So, you’re coming back here and you’re going to be able to move forward to the knockout. So, congratulations. Did you expect to be able to come this far? Um, we did. We had really good scrim results. So, we aren’t surprised that we do well. But now the real fight starts, you know, cuz now we will fight all the good teams in the playoffs. So, what’s your main concern here coming into the knockouts? What are the teams that maybe you’re looking forward to going against or maybe even wanting to avoid? Um, I guess you don’t want to fight on ID in the first round cuz in my eyes, they’re the strongest team here and Team Liquid as well. So want to wouldn’t want to fight these two in the first round, but you’re going to fight all of them eventually. And we want to play versus them because we always have struggled against Indonesian and Filipino teams in the world stage. So we want to prove that we can beat them. He wants to prove that they can beat the Indonesian and Filipino representatives. All right. Thank you, kid. Bomba, did anything happen in the, you know, the group stages that were a little, huh? What happened there? Like maybe upsets like what happened to Mythic, Aurora, OnPH? Did any of that surprise you? Um, I’m not that surprised that SRG is in the lower bracket like last year, but they’re still a very strong team. I’m not underestimating them. SRG is very strong. Um, what else? I thought I would win versus Team Liquid, but they lost unfortunately. So, yeah, that’s the only thing that is like upsetting. Okay. Okay. Upsetting, but like an upset. Yeah, it’s up. It’s an upset, not upsetting. We got to make that clear. I heard Lafell laugh really, really loud just then. So, do you think Spirit can pull off the same? Can you guys create upsets here on the world stage? Um, we hope so. We really hope so. The playoffs are going to start in how many days? Couple days. Couple days. So, we will prepare for them. We will try our best and yeah, just watch out for us. Watch out for team spirit because I think I think that’s what people are kind of expecting coming through this. I don’t think you’re a dark horse. I think you’ve been great granted the role of like contender. How does that make you feel? Um, I guess last we had we could have already gotten that title since we got top four the year before that, but we finished top 12 that year, but now we got top 12 again. Uh, top four again. So, we proved that we’re pretty good, and now we want to prove it again. So, let’s just see what will happen. Also, I want to fight Aurora Turkey. Aurora Turkey. Why? What’s going on with Aurora? Uh, cuz my friend Tanzi is there. Ah, your friend Tanzi is there. What about SRG? You know, you got homeboys down. Do you want to complete your revenge arc against SRG? Um, I’d love to face CFO SRG as well, but I don’t know who’s going to win that series. So, don’t know. No predictions. No predictions. No predictions. All right. So, coming into the knockouts, is there any message that you want to send to the rest of the team later on? Good luck everyone. I’m not going to be overconfident yet. Okay, that’s fair. That’s fair. So, once again, congratulations, kid Bomba. We’ll see you in the knockouts and we are going to throw it over back to our casters. You know what, Gideon? Let’s congratulate ourselves cuz now Malaysia is the new Indonesia. SRG is the new RRQ. Cuz at this point, I feel like it’s fair to say people don’t even dare talk about anyone from Malaysia anymore. Hey, we win one time and now we’re like this. When do we suck? When When did our fan base suck? I thought we were humble and then we got that first international. They’re like, “Yeah, we’ll show the world how it’s like to be on top. How to be humble and be on top.” But hey, regardless, it’s been a good time. And honestly, I got to shout out to the EECA as a region. Best interviews through and through. Verdice Pro Pluto and I mean K Bomba, they always give banger interviews. Yeah, I’m not going to say anything either. They’ve convinced me enough to not say anything. That’s a good thing. Shut up and talk. Shut up and talk. Oh boy. I mean, in this game alone, right, it definitely feels like homeboys, they took a very risky gamble with the composition that they ended up with in game number two. And Team Spirit took full advantage, but I think the scariest part about them as soon as those first couple of lords come out, you can feel like that impending doom, right? They’re ending this game with like 11 about 12k lead. It was a very similar situation to game number one, mind you. It reached another 12k gold lead. So, that doesn’t look too good. I’m choosing my words. very very very Malaysia’s the new Indo. Yeah, I’m just like that didn’t look too good. But Indo, you need to step up. Yeah, they still have a lower bracket. So, homeboy, but that’s against Onyx. So, I’m not going to say anything again. Let’s Let’s check the match MVP of this one. It’s going to be better. Hold on. He Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He’s good. He’s good. There’s no question. I would say like considering his performance in game number one. Yeah, I can I can kind of I see it happening, right? I personally for me, I would probably say one shot in this because in both matches he played a strong game, but Ho definitely is like an absolute rock because we haven’t seen him lose a lane just yet. And even when pressure is applied towards him, his item builds really reflect his game IQ and not to mention his just gold management overall. Yep. This guy, he seemed too reliable on the gold lane that too reliable. Maybe just a little bit less reliable. We get round. He need not put too much attention on him anymore. He still got to manage everything and in the late game did what was expected of him for his team. Kids be like Hiko. Don’t gamble. Be sturdy and straight. And now we got to look at the groups here just to see how things have been shaking up. Uh this is going to be pretty interesting because like Bomba said even he doesn’t want to predict anything. Uh SRG going up against CFU Gaming, a rematch in a sense. uh Onyx ID going up against Virtuous Pro where Onik ID we heard from Koma as one of the strongest teams and now Virtus Pro as well. Even though they came from the wild cards, they definitely look very very strong. Yeah, I’m still looking at SRG versus CF though. I don’t know. This is a repeat of like M6 all over again. I mean, I don’t know. I’m I’m I’m nervous even I don’t want to see anything. How many super plays can Innocent pull off against this team before they’re like, when do we let it h Are we just letting this happen? Are we just, you know, giant Tik Tok reels on a stick? Uh, that sod. Can it happen again? I don’t know. But hey, just ban Moscow. Yeah. Now we’re looking at group B here. And Aurora Gaming going up against team Flash. Good luck, Team Flash. And then the homeboy is going up against Onyx Philippines. Good luck. Yeah, it’s not looking good for group B, right? Obviously, because of the upsets that have happened, it really kind of changes the dynamic of how this group works. But regardless, seeing both RRQ and as well as Team Spirit move on is already a really good accomplishment. At least RQ don’t have to worry about getting grouped. Team Spirit looking to not only take top four, but go a little bit beyond. Okay, I’m I’m going to be second batch tomorrow. So, let’s look at the schedule. I want to see what what matches I’m I’m going to be uh looking at. We’re starting with SRG and CFU and then on VP. Okay. Um Hey, at least you can wave off Flash SG. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, it’s group A first and then group B. So, we’ll follow that over. I think Team Spirit is homeboy. But other than that, other than that, you know. Yeah. Other than that, it’s fine. See, even the production don’t dare to touch Ma like no no no. They’re cursed. They’re cursed. Their fans are whack. That’s just not okay. I I I I like that now it’s basically cannon. Don’t don’t touch Malaysia. The players don’t dare do it. Casters don’t dare do it. Production don’t dare do it. Hey, we won one time and now we conquer the world. Uh, either way, that’s it for us, folks. I hope you guys had fun. We kind of did. Uh, this is Brigita. This is Gideia. My name is Ael. Tomorrow’s going to be amazing matches depending on which team you guys are supporting. And, uh, we’ll see you guys tomorrow. [Music] Batman. [Music] Batman. [Music] Hook up. [Music] Freedom. [Music] and launch. 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