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Yeah, I like the sound of that. It’s okay. I got this. What’s that? Great Scott. It’s the group stage format. The MSC 2025 group stages is going to consist of 16 teams broken into two groups. Each group balanced and regionally diverse. So all teams will be drawn into two seeds and teams from the same region can’t be drawn into the same group. Groups will then play a BO3 double elimination. Teams with a 20 record and teams that survive with a 21 record will then advance. Eight teams will then fight for the ultimate glory. Is this still a group stage or a group LM stage? Well, it’s kind of both. It’s the best of both worlds. Maybe we’re intentionally lost. Oh, you mean like the time a strong team lost to a weaker team that claimed it was a strategy to go down to the lower bracket for a more dramatic comeback. Yeah, that sounds right. Yes. Yes. Oh, look. That seems like a shortcut to the finale. Perfect. Now we can saw the final format before it even get here. Let’s go. Brias, 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 discoverer. Lel, I think you broke the format. Oh, we can still fix the format. Thank goodness I’m not with you this time. Don’t touch anything else. 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 teams just pick a weaker team for a better matchup? Or they could just find a tougher team just to play. 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 brackets. Current finals 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. 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My name is Renar and yet again, I am a at a disadvantage because they paired me up with two of the tallest dudes in the broadcast. It’s Gideon and Nu. How you feeling, guys? Honestly, feeling really good. It is the final day of group stages, but more importantly, only four teams are going to be left by the end of this, and it’s high stakes matches all the way through. Today is going to be the most intense day, I feel like, of the group stage, which is funny because every day has been so good so far. Um, but yeah, unfortunately, this is going to be a triumphant day for some and a breakart heartbreaking day for others. Yes, it is a qualification and elimination day for the final day of the group stages. But before we got here, day number four proved to continue. Multiple trends and themes all throughout MSU 2025 as we look at the KIA top plays from day number four. Lots of highlights, a good fair share of low lightss as well from here and there, but I think overall a very good litmus test of where teams are in terms of how ready they are for knockouts. I have to agree with that. But so far, I think my biggest problem right now is that nobody has really cracked open the meta as of yet with so many different play styles, so many different strategies and synergies in the drafting phase alone. I think that unfortunately it’s very difficult for teams who haven’t really found an identity within the meta itself. I like the fact that that we’re there, you know, cuz it’s and I I understand it’s a little bit of a extra hurdle that some teams have to go forward, but you know, even for our viewers out there, I’m sure they’re interested in a lot of these different picks that come up, different strategies that come through. Obviously, I think even to the sense like I know we’ll have a few days after this or a couple days after this before we head to knockouts, but I think even in knockouts, we’ll still see teams kind of trying to figure that out through once we get there. Those are what best of fives, I think. Yeah. And I think this is why all throughout the tournament so far as we look at the reactions brought to us by Crunchyroll. I think overall you see just how intense the teams are. Not only because like the level of gameplay that we’re seeing, but I think it goes with that feeling of like, oh wow, our lineup actually worked. Like this eventually worked out for us. It’s I want to agree with it so bad, but I I I think there’s a level of polish between the teams who have already qualified compared to everybody else. And that’s my biggest problem right now. Right. Last year we saw that the meta was figured out and it was really how do you play against your opponent? How do you counterplay and more importantly how do you target against them which was a very refreshing look at the professional scene. Yeah, it is a very difficult metal landscape right now for our teams here at MSE 2025 of the esports world cup and even more so because of the results that we’re seeing here at MSE. Little by little, we’re starting to see how it could change the picture of the club championship rankings here at the esports world cup. Not much has changed. Team Vitality is still most definitely up there, but little by little, we’re going to start seeing some shifts because of the results of AGA yesterday in their tournament. They have now launched themselves up to a fourth place spot, garnering a lot of points with that win. But up until any other of these teams finally get like a tournament win, Team Vitality are still uncontested. Hey man, we still see a whole lot of fives and a whole lot of twelves there, you know. So, uh, but of course there’s still plenty of weeks for these organizations, these clubs to go ahead and and put points on the board. I think even as we get through the knockouts, obviously you’re going to see teams lock that in, too. Um, but yeah, I think eventually Team Vitality, they might be uh a little dethrown for that first spot. Yeah, I mean, we are going to get to the midpoint of esports world cup soon enough and then I think the playing field shifts a lot. Good thing Vitalatti has a lot of clubs under their board and of course they’re also eyeing out the results for the end of the tournament once they get to a different Bang Bang game that we’re talking about that we’re expected to see them triumph in. Now, as we head into the knockouts, we want to remind you that you can catch the knockouts live here at the boulevard in Riad, Saudi Arabia. It starts on July 30th. You can find your tickets at weebook.com. Get it over there. Join us for the knockouts because once we’re done here with the group stages, we’re moving to a much bigger stage. we can accommodate more of y’all out there. And uh a lot of more people are starting to really like ask and look for tickets, weebook.com. Look for it. MSE 2025 at the Esports World Cup. And to remind you yet again of what these teams are fighting for, the money involved and why it is so crucial that you just make it past the group stages. Even getting a 2-1 record is already good enough. And of course, you want to sec start securing those top eight finish uh prize pool money. Well, we’ll we’ll bring up the figures yet again. We’ve talked about it multiple times. Life-changing money. I I forgot who dropped that stat fact about how much it changed SRG’s trajectory and life. Yeah. After they won last year. Mhm. Oh, yeah. No, definitely. I haven’t Well, most people are going to be thinking of old legacy organizations thinking that like, hey, they’ve been winning multiple times. You would to start thinking about like the EVOses, the RRQs. They’ve been there for pretty much everything. SRG wins one time during EWC 24 and now their total earnings even on Liquid Pedo you can probably check already within the top five. Yeah. Uh let’s revisit again the T uh tournament format as we are heading into the knockouts. We’re almost done with groups. We’re heading to the single elimination BO5. Eight teams grand finals becoming the best of seven. We also have the battle of four third. But most importantly, by the end of this day, we’re going to have the drawdraft selection for uh the 20 O21s. Yeah, I almost feel like this has been the most interesting and competitive group stage that we’ve had in an international tournament for a while. Even today, I honestly don’t know for sure. Like, I can’t I’ve never been able to side completely with one team and say this team’s 100% going to win. Um I just feel like that’s the nature of where we are in the meta right now. The teams are hyped up though for today because of again what’s on the line here as they want to move and be one of those eight teams to the playoffs. Yeah. Now we’re going to bring up those figures that we’ve been talking about looming over our players right now. Last year SRG won that Millie after they defeated then Falcons AP Bren in a best of seven grand finals going the distance. See just making it to fifth to eighth. they’re already securing prize pool money for well for the MPL region teams it’s uh around what they would earn but for teams outside of that system yeah it’s it’s big yeah major major league difference 34,000 if we’re looking directly at the numbers but there is going to be a conclusion by the end of today especially for groups A and as well as B we had to say goodbye to a lot of the teams that you see up on the screen ultra legends the Corinthians we also look at Dangfonga Area 77 already taking a beating and now four other teams will be joining two from each group. Yeah. And to see which teams will be fighting it out today. The teams with one final chance to make it into the knockouts. Our schedule. We’re going to start things off very hot here. SRG will once again meet CFU in an elimination matchup. We’re going to discuss the story a little bit more, but the rest of the matches for the day are pretty hot as well. I think all of them across the board is something you want to watch because I would say even down to the last match, a lot of people before yesterday were like so would be more sure about Aurora Gaming from Turkey. But now I feel like that is even up in the air because we saw some of the heated conversations and of course some of the interviews and the statements that were thrown out there, you know, specifically about maybe the hero pool for some of the players and just some of the decision-m in the draft. So I think even down to the last match, this is something everybody has to watch out for. Yep. Our match of the day though is unexpected yet, but at the same time could prove to be the beginning of a very interesting story between two organizations that don’t have a lot of links together, but the beginning of what could be a crazy jungle match up between Kyrie and Andor, of course, and I think that you know Anuk is coming into that matchup being the favorites. Bverus pro if they are able to take down ID. Yes, that would mean that Onyx would get grouped and it it’s a little sad because then it’s a repeat of last year for Any ID, but then new stars from the EECA is going to bring a lot of eyes to that part of the world. Yeah. Again, by the end of this day, we’re going to know who the top eight are. And we are also going to have our little draw to see which teams from the 20 bracket selected the 2-1 teams. And how that is determined is through total game win time. the fastest total game win time gets selection priority. So, here’s the leaderboard. Just to remind you again of which teams right now are at the good time. If I’m not mistaken, yes, Team Liquid is on top. A significant gap between them and RQ. So, I think it’s safe to say that Team Liquid will have priority selection. And yes, I think we are sealed for priority. Yes, we are sealed for priority. Team Liquid will get to pick first, then RQ, then Team Spirit, and then Mythic Seals. Unfortunately, don’t really get much of a choice, right? The question is who is the two ones that are going to be joining in that pool? We’re looking at the opposite side between team flashor gaming on ID slang or ed giants homeboys versus pro CFU and as well as on PH. And based off of what we might as well give our predictions of what it could be today, there’s a good chance that both Onyx might should technically go through to the next round and they probably will get picked last. Yeah, I think again based off the leaderboard, based off those decision-makings, it’s going to make for some teams that first round and mind you, you know, it’s a single elimination. So that’s going to make that entry into the playoffs already from day one exciting because of the fact that you only have that one life, certain teams like Team Liquid are going to be obviously choosing very specifically who they want to go against. Yeah, I also really like that all throughout uh group stages, especially starting around day 2, day three, we started asking the teams uh via the reports brought to us by Eternal which teams that they’re looking to avoid, looking to face or select for the knockouts. A little bit more on that because we have to revisit now the power rankings. And this has shifted so much. The community has been vocal about how wow a lot of our power rankings were kind of wrong. I’m so glad I didn’t do a tier list. Oh, so glad they didn’t show the tier list because I think that unfortunately for SRG OG has been one of the biggest as Malaysian of course going to be one of the bigger uh sagge moments especially if they get grouped here today. homeboy as expected their groups are definitely hard but then I don’t think anybody was really expecting ph to drop down into the lower brackets especially up against Aurora and I think that definitely kind of shifted how the permutations possible permutations of that group was going to look like cuz people like ah group B you know it’s very clear who’s going to be on top and now not so much yeah we’ve set up a lot of the general overarching storylines but we have to look now at a very specific story that began late last year at the M6 World Championship. Two teams met each other and we thought the world will get shot cuz we thought CFU might just eliminate Salelon Red Giants, but the man at the head of the pack innocent with one spear of destruction from a Moscow committing what Gideon says to be the greatest Moscow play of all time. Mhm. Obviously, the greatest plays of all time does come at a cost of an opponent having make a single mistake, right? That’s how some of the greatest plays are made in the first place. Even so, I think that CFU, they’re looking at that and they’re like, “Man, we are not going to let this happen again.” Because they had SRG at the time, SRG on the ropes, and that was supposed to be their moment to actually move on. And who knows, maybe it could have been CFU who got third place at the end. Yeah, I still specifically remember cuz I was watching in the audience for that play and I remember losing my mind uh seeing it live and that was uh I don’t know if it’ll be replicated here because so far, if you think about all the Moscows we’ve seen, they’ve been stealing objectives. So maybe maybe this is going to be contested hero pick. Yeah, it happens a lot. And I think see if you’re going to be looking specifically at which uh to which members of SRG to target because when you talk about Selenor Red Giants, if you look at it at their best days, they’re still one of the best teams in the world with how well they could potentially play. somewhat shaky here, but their members still incur a lot of respect and fear from their opponents, especially at the center of the map with Yumes, Stormmy, and Sakias. Now, looking at the roster, right, based off of what we learned from last year, some of the greatest plays were made by both Sakai and as well as Yumes, most notably the Cho coming in from Yumes. However, throughout the regular season, we haven’t really seen them kind of go back into that fun cuz nobody could really challenge them, right? There was such a big level difference, a power gap some may say. But now coming to the internationals, it feels like they haven’t found their identity within the meta. And worse yet, some of the more stable members are unfortunately starting to shake. I think Sakai is okay. But their recent games against Verdice Pro, I mean, it’s clear Stormy was kind of struggling. And for some reason, Cra, who was supposed to be a large pillar for this squad, also is starting to falter. I think that’s the case for multiple teams right now. It seems like these players that have, you know, these certain expectations towards them, and this is all a reflection of the meta, right? Because even for these XP laners, they’re so used to um being a little more aggressive that but now I feel like they’re more punishable if they’re if they overextend. We’ve seen and we’ve talked about countless times where 10,000 gold leads are dissipated just off one play. And so now I feel like XP laners are in a position where even for them it’s like I can’t completely throw myself into these fights like we’ve seen in the past. Yep, that’s Selenor Red Giants. Now to talk about the other team. I know we’ve had a wild cards and we have a wild card champion, but I consider this team I I don’t like using Darkhor so much. So my wild card because they’ve shown some really good MLBB and sometimes some questionable MLBB with how crazy they can get with their fighting. No hate though. It’s just sometimes it’s just like what’s going on? It’s so true because again I would say that this team you don’t really know where the glass ceiling is just yet, right? they haven’t really plateaued and I think the only thing that’s kind of consistently making them stumble is when they kind of uh overheat during the fights because when it comes down to like raw mechanics and execution when they are hot they are really really good. It feels like there’s no way out of it but as soon as they miss that first execution it feels like wow this team is uh you know hitting the slumps really fast as well. That’s why I feel like for CFU Gaming and this has been apparent from you know even previous iterations of them and it’s like they start they can start hot they can start on a very snowbally centric um position but if they lose that or they go cold right off the bat I feel like it takes them so long and then they you see them forcing themselves again and uh trying to turn things around and it ends up punishing them. So I hope they’ve had enough time to go ahead and recalibrate some of the game plan here. Yeah, I think uh historically as well Cambodian teams just do a very good job of bringing out some of the worst quality of their opponents with how sometimes like they commit places like wait they’re actually committing that and then you realize wow we lost that because they didn’t expect it and not a lot of people expected the result of these two teams at the M6 World Championship Swiss stages when Boxy the current ror of CFU who wasn’t playing at that time was asked about did he did mention that maybe it was just a little bit of stroke of luck that Innocent was able to pull off that play that CFU was not the team to move on forward. So that is the question hanging over these two teams heads. Was it luck or was it actually fated as somehow someway it happened what a lot of us wish for CFU meet SRG at an elimination match. That’s the crazy part, right? Because some of the best plays we’ve seen in the world always starts off with your opponents making a mistake and then the monikers start to roll in. He mania didn’t come out of nowhere. It started with an initial mistake from their opponents before he got Hoomania. Same goes for Innocent. He’s been doing it all the regular season of 2024 and 2025 coming into this. I don’t know whether he can reproduce it, especially when this game is going to be so dependent on the side lanes. Gold lane is in a weird position I feel like right now. still like there’s still these heroes that we’re so used to seeing. There’s been some variations of that too and it’s just in a position where it’s like they have to be not as babysit but eventually they can pop off later on. But the problem is a lot of the playmaking we’re used to seeing from gold laners just hasn’t happened in MSE 2025. Yeah, cuz even more so it feels like yeah as you mentioned it’s so risky. Like you can expect it to pop off but then if you get that one death as a gold laner it messes you up incredibly so and your team as well. If you want to play like all stars, similar to what SRG and see if you have, then hop on your game right now. Oh, Dino Planet is our all-star 2025 event. I did not expect that. Yeah. Uh do the activities. It’s all it’s going all the way up until August 5th. Uh get the purple and Koopa skin, get the pass, and you can get the Jawhead skin and so many other goodies available for Allstar 2025 Dino Planet. And there are also a bunch of events as well in game right now coinciding with them. So you can go ahead and check that out as well. We are just about to head into the draft. And I think there’s going to be one hero that will be hanging over the heads of these two. Looking specifically at Yums and Boxy, the Cho cuz we know how these two teams really love river control. Absolutely. I think you know these pickoff style of compositions and more importantly playmakers are going to be a very pivotal point. Right. Let’s expand on it a little bit more because it’s not only the cho the Kalia has been a big question mark something that you know Boxy has been known to perform on Yuns not as much but even so right then we go to the cornerstones of the playmakers exp lanes Arlet has been a big I don’t know is it too good is it too bad it’s they really are polar opposites wad he’s whipped a lot of final slashes same goes for Cra and it feels like both of them are looking at each other it’s like who’s going to make more mistakes today it almost feels like I mean that seems to be the case for even you know our traditional sports out there. It’s like what team has the less um fouls or mistakes ends up winning. And this is now the case of where we are on the meta. And a lot of that a lot of that responsibility as unfortunate is has shifted to XP and rors because they’re the ones really playing those kind of setup heroes obviously and you know we also have seen iterations of the XP lane where the Lapu Lapus have been coming out and it again they’re 1v oneing, they’re 1v3ing. So there’s still that impact I feel like for some of the teams to go ahead and bring out in the draft, but um it’s less mistakes is going to win here. Yeah, between these two teams, of course, SRG has had a lot more eyes on them, especially with their prolific win last year, but similar to the how much focus will be put in the Rome role. I think we have to adjust it to the other Rome role, which is actually the exp laners. Cram and Wadu, I feel like they actually play a similar play style. They both love spamming the stickers and the recalls in front of their opponents. So whatever hero they end up with needs to be someone who can front, but really enough at the same time can act as like an early game carry for the team, I suppose. But it really depends, right? Because I feel like right now it based on what we’re going to see in the draft really is going to be a show of confidence for both of these exp laners, right? Because if it does boil down to it, they might just say, you know what, let’s get rid of the Arlla in the first place or we don’t mind having the Arleta. We want something that kind of can kind of like focus on the fights that drag out a little bit longer, forcing your opponents to be like, you have to execute pitch perfect if you want to win these fights. And I think it’s a pretty good strategy coming in, but it does show a little bit of that ego dying down and saying, “Hey, it’s not going to be up to me. I’m going to leave it to you guys making more mistakes rather than me just being more polished.” Yeah, I want to see the mid lane still shaken up. I’m I’m I’m so happy with yesterday because the gourd got picked up. But this is what we’ve also talked about in the in day one, day two of the group say just like, you know, mid lane is kind of constricted to this very small hero pool. And now we’ve seen a couple teams kind of test those limits again. And I think again like a hero like Gourd is only going to fit certain compositions, certain team play styles, but I would like to see that too because still we’ve seen um in cases where it’s like all right, the Zatian has fallen off a little bit and like quite a bit. I I don’t even know what the win rate is, but then of course you saw the fares and you still have I mean we saw a Kura as well yesterday brought out by Any. Yeah. So hopefully I’m glad you did uh decide to look at the mid lane here because when you have two teams who can unexpectedly just flip a switch suddenly of like all right let’s just go all out. We can throw macro out of the window and just see which one of us can do the better micro. Sometimes the mid lane picks come in as that big X factor. Team flash yesterday Curtis on that Kimmy was playing it a little bit more like a Hayabusa with how much he was jetacking forward. So with Hayabusa, Farsa, Juin looking like the main trade right now, maybe, just maybe, surprising midlane picks will be the turnaround. But a part of me is feeling these two teams are looking at each other like, “Hey, what what if we pick something like the Gourd?” It’s CFU. If they’re on the side of CFU, what if we pick something like the Gourd? It’s SRG. It’ll be hard to pick a pick like that here. Yeah. No, I I think a lot of it just really expands from the jungle side, right? Again, the big question is the only reason you’re allowed to kind of like expand upon like how big the mid lane pool could be is if you have mobility or you’re playing an assassin, right? Because the only reason the gourd showed up in the first place because Freder was on your side and you’re able to kind of hold your opponents down against someone like a Boxia who again, what are you going to do when you have true damage? Like there’s all these nuances that need to be taken into consideration, but the one of the biggest ones and also one of the biggest problems that we’ve seen here so far in the meta here at MC 2025, Lance a lot. He has been devastating. I I I cannot get enough of this hero. I like I wish that I could play Yeah, I really can’t. I mean, it’s Lance a lot, but it’s it’s too good. And I think there needs to be some level of respect given to this hero. Two items alone, this hero is a menace. Hey man, I’m on board with what Lfell mentioned. It’s it’s lance too much, you know, because uh again, you you said it, two items and in a lot of the cases, there was times when he I think he only had the Warax a couple times and he was still able to like do enough damage, survive literally multiple people chasing after him. And maybe that’s too much. Maybe that’s too much for one hero to have. And the fact that you can do those things with one or two items on a pretty hypers scaling jungler as well. And it it’s kind of crazy because the only other hero that I can think that has that much value is like a Farsa for example, she could be 0 and five and a feathered air strike is still going to be valuable, something like that. And she’s she has enough damage also just in her kit naturally that it’s still going to be a threat when she drops a feathered air strike. But yeah, Lancelot is a little bit too crazy. I think we have seen more teams opt to ban it though now than to let it go through. Yeah, but then when with that ban on Lanclot, it’s like that. It’s that good thing you did mention like the link between the mid lane and the jungle. Lancelot gets banned. That opens up the field in the mid lane. That’s when Kimmy, Farsa, Juin aren’t banned at all because one committance a lot banned means that you got to keep mid laners open now because you can because you don’t have to worry about the Lancelot anymore. So to contextualize things further, I actually looked back at the drafts from the M6 World Championship last year. Yes, I know the meta has changed considerably since then, but we’re still on the topic of like potential surprise mid lane picks. There are two picks here that I, if I’m not mistaken, we’ve already seen at least twice or once each through the string of uh MSE wild cards and MWI and group stage, Zask can veil. I want to look at the Zask a little bit more cuz I feel like in a meta where it’s just like so microheavy, Zas can mess fights up. I agree that Zas can mess team fights up, but it is just it it’s pretty, how do I put this? It’s pretty unplayable in certain scenarios, right? Let’s say you play against a Kimmy and then you’re thinking like, okay, I can zone the Kimmy out, but as soon as Kimmy gets a good position in the lane, you basically lose 90% of your trades. Like, it’s not even contestable. You turn into a 2v2. Again, that’s why Gap thought has been such like a high priority. Even sometimes when there’s no reason for it, only because it makes the 2v2 in the mid lane kind of obsolete, right? It doesn’t matter how much damage you do. As long as I clear the wave, we walk away. We save a lot of that brass tax that we have to pay if we were playing any other matchup. Yeah, I like I liked that Zask also had his moment in the meta because I’m always, like I said, I’m always a proponent for some of these non-meta heroes popping up and it’s been great to see. But yeah, I just feel like he would have a hard time in the way that things are going right now. Who’s the other hero you mentioned? Zil. Veil. Veil is I almost expected this pop up because we did see the Valier back in the earlier days for um group stage and it would have been great to see a veil pop up because I still think in a lot of these team fight ccentric choke points that we’re seeing all these teams go for veil is a great option like you can you’ve got CC you’ve got good burst damage and you know a lot of the times we’ve just been seeing teams fight it out fight it and whatever team has a better fighting power seems to win because objectives are now like on the on the secondary it almost feels like counterargument. Okay, most people are like ah veil. What’s Veil rem reminiscent of? It’s like a Yodora with more AoE. But let me take it one step further. Nana is probably their best option overall. It does basically all what all these two heroes. It scales well and most importantly it has the AoE with an inbuilt kit that says assassins try again later. He’s been fighting for the Nana for a while. I I don’t like the Nana. Don’t get me wrong. I still don’t like this hero, but you can see its relevance in the metag game currently. You know what? I think I’m going to ride on that boat. I I think I would want to see Nana, if not in this matchup, at least within this day, cuz if you look at all the teams that we have remaining here at the group stages, it’s like I think I could see Nana fitting in in like what is Pro? Mhm. Sans might certainly pick up the Nana, too. Yeah, that’s also fair. I mean, to be fair, Storm has played it in the regular season as well. is one of those crazy picks that you don’t expect to see, which he usually does during the grand finals, but even so, it really is a proponent of what the mid lane is being demanded of, right? Every role has now with this up with this current patch has been kind of taxed to a certain degree cuz again, it really feels like if you have a winning lane, you want to be a proponent to pushing that lane as far as possible. If you’re going to play through gold, you want to put all your resources into winning that mid so you can get into your gold lane faster. So that’s why the Mid Trio is such a big well too big of a priority for most teams. All right, folks. I want you to chime in in the comment section wherever you’re watching from on what potential picks we could see. We are waiting for the draft to begin. Of course, right now we’ve just been uh making sure that the playing field for these two teams are at their best condition uh and that everything is going to be okay. So, thank you so much for your patience. But please, we’d love you to join on the comment section. Chime in on the heroes that you want to see. I’m pretty sure someone’s already uh commenting Alikard, but as much as I love Alikard, no, I absolutely hate him. I don’t think we’ll be seeing him here today. But if he does, at least someone can clip this and be like, “Haha, that guy was wrong.” I think the fact that he like kind of like does this mini jump forward is too risky. Yeah. Hell yeah. Like in our current setup, man, like cuz you could I mean, how many times have we even seen just in some cases some of those heroes that have that uh where they’re attached to, you know, the hit box or whatever that might be too bad. uh currently in our meta. I would love to see him too. Um but nonetheless, we’re going to the draft. All right, here we are. SRG is going to be on the blue side and they start things off right away with a box sha ban. So that’s sort of them really also signaling what we’ve been echoing all throughout the uh pregame is that hey, we do not want heroes that can mess up our potential rotations and flow around the center of the map. Mhm. But the question is what is the trade-offs, right? And I think that’s going to be the biggest problem. And as much as we are talking about the relationship between jungles alongside uh the mids, flex picks have been just such a big proponent to the opening picks for a majority of teams. Even teams who have been taking like a majority of banned heroes within the game. A good a good example of that would have been uh Onyx uh was Onyx Philippines. No. Uh oh yeah yeah yeah it was Onyx ID if I remember correctly having a majority like Boxia uh having all the power picks as well and still dropping a game. It really just goes to show that synergy plays a larger part of the game rather than just having strong picks. You know what’s crazy? Very first match of these two teams seeing to each other again. See if you just banned the Moscow right away. No hesitation at all. It’s like no, you’re not getting that. That’s some trauma, right? Like we don’t we don’t want to go back down. We spent a year healing from that. I I I a lot of people expected CFU to like, you know, maybe try to find a way to play around. No, they just set up no, we don’t want to see that again. Hell no. They don’t want none of that smoke. And I can definitely understand it, but will it cost them will it cost their drafting phase? Which is why I’m a little curious because again, there are better stronger arguably picks out there. Kalia, for an example, has been one of the strongest openings that we’ve seen so far within MSC. Farsa as well being a huge proponent. Lancelot, of course, we’ve seen teams even first pick Lancelot sometimes, especially when they have a user who just executes perfectly all the time. Yeah. And banning out the Moskov redside sort of signals to the other team that you’re looking to meet a lot of action in 5v5 scenarios. Cuz when you ban the Moscow, you’re telling the other team, “We’re not looking to split open the map that much. Expect us to our our gold laner to go with us more often than not.” That’s something that SRG could lean on. Now they’re thinking like, all right, if they’re banning out Moscow, that means we need to draft around team fighting a little better. Here’s my prediction on the scenario, right? I think that right now CFU are trying to tell SRG uh OG Esports that, hey, it’s clear that your team fighting is not as topnotch as everyone thinks it is, right? We want to lean into that. We don’t want to give you macro options to play for the side lanes because that was the biggest strength of SRG. the fact that they had a very fine balance of we play macro, we can generate advantages because of our tempo and then we fight with an advantage, which is why they want EWC 2024 until teams started to try and grind against them early on to make sure the tempo is disrupted consistently. And that’s why I would say like if if for a lot of the viewers out there, the last time maybe they watched International was um maybe even back to MSE, the the meta was very different. The priorities there was very different and even down to some of the decision making of team fighting was different. And I feel like when you look at both these teams now specifically, they’ve showed us very different versions of their own strategies. Some work, some don’t. But essentially, I think even when it comes down to I don’t know if we’re we seem let’s just say assume we see more gold lane bands then that also brings the question does you know does CFU have that hero pool for them because we’ve already seen a glimpse of it obviously from Innocent. He brought he was one that brought out the Roger, right? Yeah. Um brought out the Roger back which is a hero that he loves to play anyway. Um, but I think even then it’s like can you pick a gold lane if it’s narrowed down quite a bit because we have seen some teams ban out multiple gold laners. Can you go ahead and narrow it down to a point where you still have that favorable matchup not only in the lane but later as the game turns into all these team fights. Yeah. And so now if we are going to look at that we look at the top priorities for gold right now. If you think about uh Sing and Innocent, you’re looking at Granger, Harris, the usual priorities, but then they have that shared custody of one hero that should come up, Claude. Claude was one of the reasons why CFU shocked in M6 World Championship last year. And we know SRG in that one really funky draft that you saw like earlier in the group stages, they are ready to play Claude. I think I mean I know Innocent at least enough to say that he’s got a deep enough hero pool to make this work. But coming back into the draft, I feel like there’s two proprietary things that we need to worry about. Number one, does CFU want to force SRG in a position where they must team fight all the time? Or do they want to use this as a means of, hey, if we get Innocent behind even just a little, it might force a reaction of SRG to start sacrificing other lanes to make sure that he gets into a carryable position. And that could mean a couple of things, right? Cuz who takes the damage? who takes an economical hit. Usually, I would say it’s guys, but if he’s on assassin, that means either Cram or even Stormy must take the economical hit. All right, Houston is a band there for CFU. Yeah, they’re leading a CFU really are signaling to SRG like, yo, we are going to be looking for 5v5 fights, man. We are looking for priority at the center of the map and for Boxy to be able to do his thing. Arlot, though, was a ban for SRG. I mean once you see those bands you still have to float the idea of Badang is still um out there. Gota Katcha as well. Man the Badang has been so crucial too like just like we saw yesterday alone um from Ken and you know a lot of the players that are picking this Badang up. It works so well because of the fact like everything we’ve been discussing is around these team fights around tempo. What hero disrupts tempo like one of the best and that’s Badang because when you go in for that and you you don’t even need the flicker. That’s what’s so good about him cuz sometimes if you just catch people out at the right moment, you don’t have to rely on a flicker to go ahead and set that up and that is enough uh you know disruption to team fighting and little skirmishes that actually play a big part of that. So maybe we see him picked up here. I don’t think it’s priority. You know, it’s usually we see that in the second phase, but we’re waiting for this last ban from CFU and they go with CC. So a little this is a little, you know, variety of bans that we see from both sides. Yeah. Uh, no, I like this a lot because again, it’s not saying nobody is really doubling down on one particular lane. It’s just a question answered by another question rather than having a direct answer to it, which I love the most, especially in these drafting phases. Right, with Arlo gone as well as Boxia, it just means that things like Fars and Kimmy come into play. Wan, that means Fredin is also pretty good. Then we look on the opposite side, Zhuin really doubling down on saying we don’t want these fights to be sticky, right? We don’t want these fights to extend super long. CC to give option for the exp laner if because knowing that SRG is on blue side takes a power pick in either the Farsa, either the Kimmy, even the Kalya or the Yishan Chin in this case. Yeah. And if CFU There you go. YSS gets picked up. If CFU doesn’t want things to be sticky in the back of their heads, they also have to think about glue a little bit later on because now with them getting priority here, they could honestly rush something either the fobvious or badang at this point would just be great pickups for them. But then if SRG just easily get a glue now that they’re going to be playing around the E and Shin in the jungle, then that means you have one solid EXP lion that you do not have to worry about. Absolutely right. And now the next question is how does that really help out the team? Because Glue is displacement, but then FUS is like a stopper, right? He is a door stopper. He makes sure that you can’t slam it as hard. And Uranus, oh, I totally forgot about that. Also still in play actually not in the jungle. I I hope that it I agree and I hope that it’s not in the jungle so far, but it’s again this is a traditional synergy. This is this synergy of Uranus plus Farsa has been played since the beginning of the MLBB competitive space. You’re right. Yeah. If you go way back, even like the era of like M1, you would see Uranus and Farsa picked up a lot. I was going to say even back in previous iterations of MSC, I feel like I was watching in the crowd seeing this combination still coming through. But you can see the answer from SRG OG. They’re going to go ahead and pick up the Clay. This is the Kimmy. This is already, man, this is these are power picks because not only do you have good vision, you have good setup potential. You have pickoff potential. And I think you’re going to need that. But so this does go ahead and tell us that Uranus is not going in the jungle. Thank you. Um and it’s going to be the Lancelot that goes instead. Yeah, they have one really annoying pick in the Uranus, but then now majority of their crowd control leans in onto the ROR for Boxy. Yeah. No, I again I would say that right now CFU their composition is not too bad as a starting three. When you look on SRG’s side, it really is a telltale sign of we’re going to play a pickoff comp of some sort. We’ve got somewhat of burst damage. We don’t mind if the fight actually drags out as long as we uh as long as we’d like. But at the same time, we need disruption because far again it’s alt dependent. I’m going to assume CFU the next two picks is going to be extremely alt dependent as well. I would imagine that things like yep the fauvious is going to get banned out. I do hope that CFU also takes into consideration of actually picking up the cho for themselves or maybe even getting a Gotth thought. We’ll see whether SRG responds in the same way because again we still don’t know, right? It’s Kalia obviously going into the EXP. Well, sorry, not EXP, the roaming, but it can be switched over to the exp if necessary. Good block there by SRG. They take away the Cho and the because of how CFU have shown their power, their starting three. I think they also have an option for a Hilda a little bit later on considering that there’s not a lot of stoppers that can stop the Hilda from reaching the Farsa and whichever gold laner CFU will end up with. Yeah, that’s I think that’s a big question is what’s going to be in the gold lane here for Sing especially. Um, good ban. They want Harth. They want Har. Har. Do they get it? What if what if SRG just bans it out here? Um, they could ban uh they could ban it out. Is there anything else that they should be worried about? Because I feel like from SRG side, the damage department and scaling department is already enough. The question is how do you get a winning lane against this Uranus or like something that can at least clear the waves fast enough like thought is a really good idea. It could be banned. It can be picked up, but it seems more likely that CFU want it more for themselves. Yeah, CFU once they get to the point. Yeah, they they had to block it. But then the remaining gold laners for SRG, I think the last one in the usual trio of marksmen, the Granger now needs to go into the hands of CFU. Cuz if they give that to SRG, that’s three carries that you now have to worry about. It’s like a ticking time bomb for CFU that if they cannot finish it before the 14-minute mark, it’s over for them in the late game. Yeah, you got to take the Granger here. Um for CFU there, you’re good call because that’s the only plan. Like if you don’t take that, you kind of put yourself already on a back foot. They don’t want to do that. So this what does this leave open for Innocent? Does he actually just go? Do we possibly see him on the the Roger again? Maybe a Bruno. Uh what else is what else have we seen pop up? Are there Okay, but they go fighter for innocent the gold. They can go fighter. They can go Ruby if they wanted to. Um I don’t think it’s a bad idea only because their scaling is kind of like set in stone, right? Roth going to be a a pick coming in from Cramp and Ruby as well. Really good call on the double fighters here because again this is one of the counter picks to Uranus that we don’t see very often because it’s very risky cuz as soon as you start falling behind it’s pretty unplayable. But considering that at least now you have some form of disruption and ways to kind of threaten even if the feather air strike does come through right now it’s a highly volatile composition for the side of SRG. Yes, it can go late, but if things don’t go well early on, CFU are going to, you know, slow compounding interest. Yeah, this puts a lot of pressure to cram instead of the side lanes really the center of the map for SRG is solid. You know, this works out very well for them, but if the side lanes fall off, if Dro can’t get those early kills, as we mentioned, Badang does get picked up by CFU. Really nice stuff. Yeah, I figured it’d pop up because also they need an answer to deal with the amount of crowd control that can come from SRG OG here. More importantly, it’s not like one direct way to say, “Hey, if we go, there’s only one disengage mechanic.” Now, we can slowly peel to see whether there’s a reaction from SRG first. Interesting draft for the very first game here. Best of three. Winner of the series goes to the knockouts. Oh, this composition. I I don’t know. I think that CFU I’m more comfortable with CFU’s comp overall, right? It’s slow compounding interest. It is good. It is reliable. While SRG, we need to see winning lanes here. We need to see whether Prime is able to unlock himself, win out, and maybe get a first blood within the first 2 minutes of the game, how the mid lane is going to be played, and whether they’re going to, you know, divide and conquer or really focus down on the winning lanes. I think that’s uh one of the main focal points to pay attention to in game one. Um, you know, we did get word that they’re going to have to wait a little bit while the players get things situated. Uh, sounds like a possible audio thing for now. But the Dyroth and the Uranus, this this has been I feel like because of this resurgence of Uranus back into the meta, a lot of people online have been saying like, where is the Droth? Where’s the Droth? Um, because they traditionally know it’s a great counter into him. But part of this is like like you said, Gideon, it’s a it’s a risk because it’s for a lot of for a lot of players, it’s easy to even dodge the ultimate, you know, the abym strike, but you know, part of it might be just a complement to the lineup that they have and then you really have to rely on the rest of the team to follow through with whatever setup comes through. But I think now if you consider, okay, if we get a tsunami slam off, it’s already usually a almost a guaranteed kill. But if the DI is there too, it makes it even easier because you can go ahead and shred down some of that armor. You can line up the AbyM strike if you want to. Um, so they might just be going for that game plan. Like, let’s just get the numbers advantage in all these fights that CFU is most likely going to want to fight with us because that’s what they’ve shown us already. And that could be the game plan in game one. I mean, the game plan really starts with, hey, we’re in our lanes and then we have these like really nasty small little combos that we can do with each other. Yes, you mentioned the armor shred, but think about Ruby’s I’m offended into the abysm, right? A flicker flicker I’m offended, catch specifically the Farsa and you’ve basically got the game done for at that point. Not to mention that you already have the Yishan Shin so you can even open up the map even further, right, to overextend those leads. But that’s the thing. As soon as they miss one of those alts, they are an alt dependent composition and it’s kind of like an Arlet where it’s like it’s not long enough like a Zuten to care that much, but it’s also a huge window that is very exploitable from CFU’s side. So, it really boils down to SRG trying to execute perfectly every time they collide or clash against CFU. in terms of the micro and as well as the macro, right? I feel like right now the two core players on either side that will make the biggest difference boxy from the side of CFU because that Badang that disruption affects everybody on the team of SRG. But from SRG, surprisingly enough, I’m going to say it’s innocent on this Ruby, right? Because his disruption is just that is effective if not gamechanging for them. So, if they some CFU somehow stalls out even the jungle for example, then they’re probably going to have an advantage in the early game. I would say if they can get control, maybe if they can get a snowball going for CFU, this could be one of those games where we’ve seen them in the past. They get this lead early on, they go out of control, right? And if they don’t do that, then it’s more so of playing within those timings, those windows of all these ultimates that are being relied on from SRG to actually capitalize on the lineup that they brought. So, it’s actually an interesting uh dynamic between the two lineups that will be showcased here in game one because of it’s a it’s almost, you know, if this doesn’t happen, then we’ll make this happen for CFU and they go from there that point. It’s us, by the way. Don’t worry. Don’t worry. We’re we’re just making sure that you guys know who’s on the desk. Now, let’s get right into the land of Dawn. The Mid-Season Cup 2025 has been an interesting story to tell. EWC continues to provide us with high quality games here live in Riad. So, that’s first blood. That’s first blood already going off. Boxy might be another kill. He gets stunned. He’s going to have to go ahead and go back to base. Man, how many times through MSE groups have we had our split screen and then a first blood happened. Yeah, honestly, I’m surprised that OP died like that, right? I don’t see any battle spells being used. I think maybe Yum’s actually No, he didn’t. He took his H. He took the title strike. Interesting. Interesting. All right. I think this is why we’re going into that tech pause. It doesn’t make any sense that OPI would die in such a manner. There is no excuse for that. Yeah. Very uh again, I still stick with it if that is the case of what happened because it looks like Oh, it looks like Detective is the one who’s calling it. Yeah, it should be an audio tech issue. It looks like it is an audio tech issue more than anything else. Yeah. Yeah. Uh I know both sides have been kind of dealing with this. So hopefully we get things settled out here for um our players of course in this very important match. You want to go ahead and get the best um you know start to this best of three as possible. But the fact that OP went down early on like that is it’s not I I still don’t want to say it’s too bad. Okay, we’re jumping back into the game cuz I still stick to my stance of even if far goes 0 and3. We’ve seen it before. You can still top the damage meters. You can still be very valuable here. So hopefully they adjust quickly from that because I do expect SRG OG now to go ahead and punish with the fact that they’ve been able to pick up an early kill. I mean talking about early punish right with that early kill. It’s great for Stormy in particular, but Yums is the one who actually finds the first blood. So that’s a huge gold injection for Yumes, which is I’m not going to lie, a little sad, but hey, you know, conceal is still a very powerful tool. And even if you’re able to gain gold to speed that up, it’s always a plus point for SRG cuz they want to snowball, right? Every kill within the next 6 minutes of this game is so valuable. Okay, early action still up here. Foxy’s with Wad, but how many people from SRG? OG are up on top. They got to watch out. Level fours aren’t completely online yet, but they’ll go ahead and make their way to set up for this turtle. Mhm. And it doesn’t look like they’re going to go for the level five rush this time around. In terms of the emblems, I’m seeing a lot of pull yourself togethers from both sides, right? Mainly coming in from CFU. They’re going right for OP again and the mountain shock are going to be used. OP falls, but there’s the response as Kai goes down and now CFU has control of this turtle. Can they actually secure the objective? We have some rotating up here to join the fight from Innocent. Wad trying to buy some time, delay it out. And CFU is forced off of the turtle. They bought enough time though to go ahead and contest for it. Fathered air strike going to be dropped down. They burn out of flicker and now still fighting for it. Innocent gets called up back to the gold lane as Kais makes his way. So CFU, how do they approach the fight? Wadu up front. Boxy not level four yet. Creme will keep him at bay and Detective is just going to patiently wait there. Try to go in, but it’s already secured. Turtle goes in the hands of SRG OG. Yeah, Detective he’s not going to risk it right now because SRG can basically fight forever. Just Cra and Yuns alone with the duo uh with the duo of Dyro on top of this Kia is making it tough. Oh, y will be taken out by Zing and Opie. Oh, he’s actually going to be able to escape and live. He gets away just with the wings by wings. No way. That could have been a double kill for sure. SRG really needed it. But this is a saving grace for CFU as they take that lead back again. Every 50/50, if they trade equally, CFU Gaming is technically on the winning trade. And I’m so surprised even after that turtle take, they end up fighting it out in mid, but we’re still at this pretty much even space. But Zang getting a kill is great for him. Um especially I don’t think he he has his uh sky piercer just yet. But maybe he rushes. What is it? Hunter strike then sky piercer for most Grers. Yep. For most Grers his hunter strike and then into the sky piercer. The early damage from the sky uh sorry the early damage and most importantly the passive coming in from that hunter strike really helps cuz it’s so easy to proc for someone like Granger with the raps city. You already get like a bunch of shots off. You just need to land a couple of them and maybe even weave in an auto attack depending on how many shots skill shots you hit. Then you get the immediate movement speed. How should this lane be anyway for innocent? Isn’t this a really difficult lane to be on a Ruby and going against a Granger who has obviously a range advantage against you? Uh, no. Because your sustain is so ridiculous, right? As long as there is a wave, Innocent can basically go from like 50% of his HP back to 100 in a single wave. And that’s pretty annoying for Zing. But what is he really going to do about it, right? Yep. I like this too. You see with most KA games, they they’re forced to take three purifies for CFU Gaming to deal with those setup potentials from either side, whether that’s Yumes or Innocent later on even. And down to the traction pull. So for this, the Turtles going to be up second one of the game. Both teams getting in position for this one. Mhm. Hunter strike already completed for Saga. This next turtle is going to be interesting. Oh, what will he survive this? He does have to jump on out. Pops the concentrate. It’s going to be fine. Goes and regens up. Buff’s going to be secured there. So, CFU, they’ll go for this turtle. It’s going to be started up by SRG. They have complete control right now, but Humes going to be jumping on in too. Boxy. They want to find the Kaisen. They do. They find the perfect mark, but Cra gets one as well. insane fire off of the back. Cra will get the turtle and it looks like SRG will win this battle. It’s a triple for Cra on the Dyro. Beautifully played by SRG OG and also CFU. Boxy as well as Wadu and Detective all have the same mindset. We take out Sakai. There’s a good chance we win this fight. Look at this engagement. Great coming from Boxy locking them all down with Wadu to kind of slow and set this up indirectly. But Innocent makes a play of his own with the I’m offended and also the talk catching three players. Oh, well done. Well done for both sides. Hey, you said it earlier, Gideon. You know, the combination with that I’m offended and then having the Drock there lines things up also perfectly just for him to go ahead and pop out this damage. So, now that he’s got three, look at him. He’s just 1v2ing completely fine. Rest of the team’s going to now join. Jump on in. There’s the tsunami slam setting things up for Creme but Creme respects that OP is here and they’re forced off but Zing goes down. It was a 2v one in the bottom lane. Oh, that makes so much more sense. I even I was falling for the smoke and mirrors. I was like, what the heck is doing? Why is he trying to go for a tsunami slam? He just saw Cra use the the Abyism strike anyways and then the attack down on bot side. So CF’s attention really pulled to the initial big alt and big resource utilized. So a very nice faint by Y. Yeah, great play there. That’s going to get them that tier one in the bottom. This tier one in the mid basically is going to go down as well. It’s one HP away. So CFU will shift things over to go ahead and grab these buff. We haven’t seen Detective be able to do too much just yet and maybe they’re just at a position where it’s like we got to catch up here cuz you know nothing too crazy but especially in the XP lane like you said with this uh Dyroth pick having a lead against the Uranus I think this is just a difficult lane for Wadu to even be in. So once the Uranus is shut down like this, like where do you you know where do you go from there? Yeah. Well, I Well, technically the Uranus isn’t shut down. It’s just not as fast as Creme who currently is able to apply a lot of pressure, but he’s ultra sustainable, right? When I say ultra sustainable, there just isn’t enough burst damage from the side of CFU unless they bring OP into the mix. Without OPI, it’s tough. Okay, we’ll see. They’re going to be forced off. That’s going to be three for three for the turtles here. So even as tanky as Wadu should be, look at the brunt of the damage he’s just forced with, they’ll throw a couple ultimates at him and he has to pop the consecrate to be okay. So they still hold on, but losing another objective and all this leading to basically losing more grounds economically to SRG. Mhm. Right now CF without all of their item power spikes taking prolonged fights against SRG is really tough because their base damages are significantly better, right? Cram in particular is ultra sustainable, especially if he’s hitting multiple people with his third hit. Now, we look at the items, right? Okay, so they skipped on T2 boots, which is probably why we’re seeing Innocent survive so long in lane on top of the war ax on top of the Queen’s Wings to make sure that he’s really, really sustainable. But it’s all about those flickers, right? How many I’m offended can he actually land? And the longer this game actually drags out, the better it is for CFU Gaming because then it kind of narrows down the approach of who should we attack because Cran will start to fall off and then skies becomes a bigger priority. You see them try to hold on to this again. They’re just going to clear things out and buying time would be great. Zing does have that sky piercer now too. Detective picks up the brute force. So he’s got the couple items we’ve talked about a lot about the Lancelots. For now it just seems like he’s going to go ahead and play the macro game. Push some of these lanes in. see if he can get some extra damage on these turrets. But ultimately, he also doesn’t want to get caught out because he could be in a a tough situation against someone like a Dyroth if he has to go against it or the amount of crowd control can be over overlapped on each other to even catch a Lancelot. So, he has to go ahead and respect that you’re 30 seconds away from this lord. We haven’t seen them really have a favorable fight for the turtles. So, I don’t know. Are we thinking CFU Gaming is in a position to actually contest the Lord? Maybe. I think right now Sing is pretty strong with that uh with sorry with the maleific roar. He should be able to cut through anybody who has an antique curass. However, there’s not a lot of armor being stacked up from the side of SRG. The only person he can really find value with that maleific roar is probably just Creme. But even then, that’s assuming Cram is by himself and he’s not in melee range of CFU. I think right now CFU Gaming need to make sure that both OP and as well as Zing are in favorable spots because if they die out first and the fight goes longer than like closer to a minute, SRG will eventually overtake them. Okay, couple items picked up for them. They’re going to be zoned here though, too. They got to respect this crowd control already. Yeah, got cancelled. There’s a tsunami slam again. They’ll be able to find Boxy. Boxy in trouble. Survived a little bit longer. The Lord already secured by SRG. And now it’s a mega kill for Cra. They’re looking for Wadu. The flicker forward, the clean up from Stormy. Meanwhile, Detective’s like, I want my purple buff after everyone goes down. I don’t know if he’s going to get a chance to get it as Innocent jumps on in and pulls him in. Innocent’s offended. Oh my goodness. These these games are NASA. Even our bystanders here, part of the team. They’re all they’re they’re surprised. Innocent is like, man, this marksman player, what is what is up with his flicker? I’m offended. Now, this fight, you can see that Crown immediately is targeting that back line. That’s the big problem I have seen from CFU. Yes, you are getting Boxy to engage on these fronts, but you’re not taking the neutral objectives anyway. So, why don’t you just peel just keep on peeling? Keep your two cores who are able to apply a lot of damage against the front line of Slango Red Giants because in these long prolong fights unless Slango Red Giants are in your face in melee range, that’s how they sustain. It’s going to be again it’s they set up the shields, but I think they’re forced to fight anyway. Tsunami slams going to be able to find Wadu. Yumes does go down. They’re held off for now. It’s a trade though. The one for one. They’ll clear out the lord. They lost the shield, but CFU Gaming will still stay in it. They find themselves 8,000 gold behind now. Do they have enough to bring it back into this? This is a big deficit. We’ve seen it before, though. And again, they’re going to have to just find themselves a favorable pickoff, maybe fight, but they got a lot of grounds to cover here. Mhm. Right now, Opie, he’s scaling. Once he gets that third item, he’s going to be an absolute menace here. It’s going to be such a problem. Same goes for Detective when he gets that endless battle because then his burst is going to be just enough to take on the squishies from the side of SRG OG Esports. Now, if we take into consideration what happened into that last pickoff, right, we see Yums. He grabs over Wadu. Wadu ends up dying, but OP is able to get major. They’re going to force it anyway for the purple buff. Does he actually commit to this? He jumps on in. Cra has the immortality. Does the team follow through? No. That’s a big shutdown though. Going in the hands here of Detective. Big mistake. Big mistake. And now CF was on the chase. Oh, and it’s in trouble. Gets caught into the wall. Goes with the hammer effect though, but has enough regen to stay alive amuno slam into the turret and detective. Is he going to burn on down the traceless to pick it up? A double for Stormy. And just when you thought CFU could turn things around, SRG says no. Oh my goodness. Really nicely played, Creme. Yes, he I agree. He made the initial mistake. Detective and Wadu tried their best to try to turn this around, but they forgot Yum still has his. Oh my god, they’re going to force it anyway. They want to end the game if they can. Mid turret going to be worked on. OP one HP, but they got a Canyon minion. They’ll push in this bottom wave. Sing is back up. And SRG looks like they might just go ahead and disengage from this. They got the Lord coming up in 10. Beautiful stuff coming out from SRG. Now they’re setting up for that checkmate angle. They find the retort against CFU Gaming. They’re back in this debate. And more importantly, with a 9K lead, it is obvious that Sakai’s damage is through the roof. And CFU must take him out first. Cram is manageable now. But they must play with their poke. They need to poke. That’s what their whole comp is all about. Yes, you have sustain, but you can only do it if there is a wave in front of you. If you are in melee range, there’s a lot of conditions for SRG to check off the checklist to make it happen. But CFU, if they just, you know, tickle their toes a little bit, it will eventually cost a finger for SRG. And still, I think after that last fight in the mid lane, you’re almost like hesitant to even go forward and follow Boxy because it’s like if Innocence the target, he’s just going to heal back up here. And so we see this conceal going to be used. They go for the target. Wu in trouble. jumps on in, pops the consecrate, plays around the lord. There’s the setup though. Boxy could be in trouble now, too. Detective trying to help, but Stormy already picks up the kill. Defensive flicker. Still going forward. A slam on down on Detective as he falls. Wadu in trouble. But that’s going to be game one already for SRG OG Esports. Really amazing game coming in from SRG’s side. Like they understood their timers. understood that this game must end on this particular push cuz if not it would have been over for them when they have to deal with the raw poke damage coming in from FA’s op from OP’s Farsa Remar what do you think about the game all the conditions we discussed for SRG they were able to take it which is why they eventually ballooned into an 8,000 gold lead spell vamp and burst damage up the wadu SRG that play by innocent that was like the heat check but the heat check was begun at the center of the map. A 34 second first blood by Y. Is that the fastest or do we have one faster than that? Uh to double check cuz I know it should be somewhere around the 30s for the fast. That’s what I’m thinking as well. But we’ll double check with Zipper later on because again there’s just so many cool things that happen in this game, right? Especially for such a volatile comp. This is very similar to what we saw homeboy making an attempt to do yesterday. But it comes down to can you find those first bloods? And I think that with that initial first blood onto OP, things really snowballed out of control because you can tell that SRG is okay. They are willing to trade one for one in the earlier stages because he’s not dying, right? He’s actually extending his lead. So guys is like, if I die now, it’s no big deal. I’m going to be back on the farming route and by the time we hit 8 minutes, I will be level 15. There is forward thinking. Yeah. And the crazy part about the composition of SRG is in this scenario where they were able to take tick their early game conditions, it essentially became a 4 carry setup. You have the Droth, the Ruby, the YSS, and the Kimmy that in all possible uh computations and scenarios, even if you take down two main damage dealers on the side of SRG, see if you had two more to deal with. That’s why I was saying even if you follow Boxy into the fight, who’s his best target? A lot of times he was catching Innocent cuz Innocent knows like I can also tank this up, heal myself back up and be fine. So, um, you know, really when you break down the draft and everything else, you look at this like you you you see the brilliance to how this comes together. How disgusting is this? Innocent plays Ruby. He’s like the most important playmaker for the side of SRG to like put that seal stamp at the end of saying we’re going to win this game. He comes out 30 and 10. He didn’t die once. Lore wise, man. If you know how to play the Roger, you got to know how to play the Ruby like this. Yeah, exactly. It’s lore accurate. It is. From being the Roger of the tournament last year, now he pops off with a really fantastic Ruby game here. Zero deaths and he really made the most out of all of the tempo breaking abilities that Ruby has in her kit. But not just that, with the flickers too. No flicker was wasted by Innocent in this game. Mhm. No flicker was wasted. The I’m offended were really, really good. and CFU had to adjust much much earlier into the game. They need to recognize that Oppoun as well as uh as well as Zing are their main win conditions, but I think they’ve channeled a lot of their resources into Zing, which is not a bad idea, but they need the damage profiling to work out as well. You could tell that Zing was like, “Okay, I’m doing a decent amount of damage and then wait a minute. Uh, wait, hold on. The anti-heal is not working out. It’s nothing’s happening.” Yeah. And uh speaking of anti-heal, a sea habber pickup by the Ruby on innocent. Yeah, it essentially just became another carry. It’s a gold lane carry on this Ruby. Uh going for the war axe, the wings, hunter strike. No wonder he was able to spell vamp like crazy. Yeah, Zing, I think that he should have switched out that maleific gun. It didn’t get as much value as he wanted to. He should have gone for the sea halbert as his third item. Recognizing that the raw sustain from the side of SRG, especially for the early game only, might have given them a chance to try and take a 50-50 trade back. But then we start looking at the other items, right? No anti-heal coming in from Boxy. He I think he was really really greedy with this. More importantly, the radiant armor, which I totally understand, right? You’re up against that Kimmy. And the same can be said about Wadu. He doesn’t even have any of the items to deal with the Kimmy in the first place, which ended up costing him down the road because he kept on getting engaged on. And then I think it was really late when he did pick up the dominance ice. So it’s like a lot of times when you think the Uranus should be the one helping be that kind of front line, that sty even even when he jumps on in and tries to, you know, be that front, he just gets keeps getting pulled back, you know, he keeps getting brought back to the fight. So even especially when that purify was burnt. So it was a really good answer to a lot of what um CFU had on their on their composition, but SRG answered it. Yeah, it feels like this is a bit of a learning moment about Uranus now in this current meta where he shines against lineups that has maybe just one or two carry options cuz he doesn’t get bothered that much. He’s like, “All right, I’ll just heal through this all this damage eventually.” But then when your lineup is already lacking an early game lead, you’re already lacking a lot of crowd control and the other team has multiple carries, Uranus might not be the pick to go for if you see Ian Shin on the other side cuz it’s already expected. Now YSS almost always will get paired up with Ruby in the gold lane. Yes, usually though is what we’re seeing now as the potential, you know, tournament meta continues to develop. But I’ve I’ve I’ve exed about this. I tweeted about this. You’ve asked ahead. Hey, look, Uranus kind of sucks when you’re behind. Like, there’s no scenario where he’s actually good unless he’s ahead. But I do think that this is quite a technical marvel from the side of SRG because there’s so many problems that need to be answered. As much as you would Justin, you kind of have to give up a large majority of the early game, which CF refuse to do. And you can tell by their item uh their item list as well, that there are a lot of broken buys in terms of what needs to be achieved. We need anti-heal, but we also need enough to deal with the Kimmy. I’m also realizing that, you know, the traditional concept of a Ka’s across from us. Let’s all take multiple purifies. Then you if you have a Ruby in the mix, too. It kind of gives you that other option where you don’t always have to go and think, all right, I got to burn these purifies as the Clea because now you have even more crowd control. But also I think not just the Uranus but man even the Lancelot like this game the Lancelot was actually and now we saw this yesterday we also now saw this today where there’s certain compositions or certain concepts of strategy here that actually stop this Lanclot who has been a menace and we talked about should be banned and all this needs two items but here Detective couldn’t really do anything. I I feel like he just had he had a struggle and he was forced to just go and you know farm up try to push some of the side lanes. Yeah, it was pretty a pretty wild experience here for Detective because even though before the gold lead got completely out of hand, you’d see him bring down people maybe like 20% health, but then he’s like, “All right, guys. I did my job.” Wait, you mean their full health again? You see the D-Ro, the Ruby, and everyone else just spell vamp, raw spell vamp all the damage the detective gets to dish out. Yeah. I mean, look, this is the one time where he’s like, “Okay, you can’t spell vamp. We’ve got the items. We can do stuff.” And Sakai is like, “What are you talking about? I now have the raw sustain to deal with it. I was down to a quarter of my health. I’m back to 50%. I’m still chunking you for 50% of your HP as well. So that’s why Detective didn’t really have any targets. I would have imagined that if Innocent was playing the regular marksman, then he has some options in the early game. But because Stormy was able to find First Blood onto OP and again Sakai, it’s a pretty difficult 1v one in the early game unless Yinshin makes a mistake. It’s just, hey, pop that alt. What are you going to do about it? All right, so quick question for the table here. It seems like after everything that this we’ve discussed game one, did SRG just straight up outdraft TFU? I don’t think it’s an outdraft. I definitely think it’s more of an outplay in the first 6 minutes of the game. From that point onwards, I think that with the items that were coming through, they just needed to defend that lord one more time. They would have been on even terms. Yeah, because you know, Gideon mentioned this when we got a glimpse of the items and you saw it in the last highlights there that See how was picked up around the 12minute mark, you know, and that was really all they had to deal with a lot of the sustainability from this lineup. So, I think if the priority for items was built different than and they were able to drag it out further, then yes, maybe we would have seen a different concept there happened. But yeah, uh first six minutes were devastating for CFU. Yeah, as we talk about item priorities here as something that CF could have fixed up. I know that for a lot of us our true priority in MLBB is skins and we have another awesome skin line coming up for you. It’s Metro Zero. If you are I’m glad I will admit I lied a little bit yesterday about saying like I know exactly what I’m talking about in terms of the skin line. But I’m glad that I was uh validated that it was a cyber punky theme. Sort of like our old Exorcist skin line. Or you did know that it was cyber punky. I did not. I just bas it off of the key visual, you know, the theme of it. But yeah, you confirmed it with me, right? Like it’s a it’s a whole uh Exorcist X squadron. Yeah, I want to say what the heroes are, but I don’t even know whether we have the green light to like let the audience know because uh a couple of my favorite heroes are going to be part of it. I’m really excited for those. But you know, I really hope we get another Alikard skin. Don’t you dare. I swear to God, it’s another Claude skin. Okay, let’s head into the draft. CFU still batting out the Moskov. TCSO gets taken out and SRG because they played it really well. They’re like, “You know what? We’re not going to allow CFU, a team like CFU to run Yan Shin in the jungle and play double fighters.” Mhm. Well, I mean, Yish and Shin right now in the patch, I think a lot of teams can definitely agree that he is disgusting, right? He has like a decent early game because of the changes to the mountain shocker to give him that turtle boat, which is ridiculous. It’s like absolutely ridiculous the amount of damage you can pump out at level four itself on one target ideally cuz it’s not like he’s got strong AoE, but it’s a good disruptor. And not only that, but I just feel like uh if you get the vision advantage, that’s why when we’ve seen teams like play, for example, the um either the YSS or let’s say the Selena to an extent, it’s like vision really helps you, but also just the layering of crowd control from the cleanest games we’ve seen from uh throughout the tournament so far for MSE. It’s teams that have a really good wombo combos, really good layering, and YSS I just feel like fits that role for a multitude of compositions. Yeah. And I remember seeing this comment from our community before where the one of the main differences between us normies in the pro scene is that the pro scene knows every single time what to do with vision. Like they know how to readjust to it. They know what to do with it. And I I think yeah, as you mentioned that NO game number one really was just like with SRG having all the vision and CFU having a mid laner who literally is blind in the lower you know SRG got the vision lead there. They definitely you are not prepared. No, I’m a different I’m glad you I’m glad both of you are on the death because you understand. We get it. We get it. But now that the boxy gets banned out as well as the Arlet, we’re seeing similar trends, right? Despite being on different sides, the only real difference is the Yish Shin that gets banned out for the side of SRG. If not, everything else is pretty much exactly the same as game number one in terms of the bands. Okay, let’s see if CFU I I think they have to try to consider taking out a page of SRG’s book. They need some multiple carries. And most importantly, moving forward, I would want to see Wadu end up with heroes such as like the Lapu Lapu, heroes with a lot of control, strong engage. As fantastic as Uranus is in the meta, I feel like in this specific matchup, we might have to forgo that hero. Oh, interesting. It looks like CFU do not want to go for the Kalia knowing that the Zushin is open. And now I want to see whether SRG is going to change priority, right? Because again, we’ve seen a lot of the time that Zhuin and as well as Fredin make fights sticky. It’s like treaching through mud in slippers. It’s you’re going to lose your footwear at some point of time the longer you fight. And I think that SRG also recognizes this too. If they go for the Kala, they understand that if we execute, we need to make sure that we’ve got the right amount of damage. Oh, they go for the landlot. They don’t have to go for their mid pick just yet. I I guess this is another chance. It’s open. might as well take it, you know, put it in the hands of skies and let them go ahead and and roll with it because still I think the the game plan from SRG specifically because they have a Klaya is they’re still going to go ahead and complement this. A lot of the teams have found success with that hero now after you know some of the changes that I went through is like you need to be able to go ahead and complement it and play into that. So CFU they with that in mind they have a do they just go the Fredin here like do they pick this up? is that we’ve seen Fred’s fall behind the land slot. So, looks like they’ll go with an early gold lane pick. They pick up the Herth and then they go with the Phobia. Very nice. Very nice. You know, I I I again with CC out within first rotation bands, there’s so many good picks in the exp that suddenly just pop out, right? And at this point with the Harth, I think the Harth is kind of interesting, right? Because it’s kind of a hit or miss. Yeah. you clearly teams have been playing Har for like years at a time. Whether you’re a legacy player, whether you’re a recent player within the next past two to three years, Harth has just been a dominant force within the metag game. So, I’m assuming that he knows the mechanics of it. I’m just curious to see how SRG is going to answer. Wow, they omit taking mid picks instead guaranteeing Cram a good time. Yeah, you could really see where these two teams are at in terms of putting priority in the picks for their exp laners. uh because of the wide pool of Stormy as well, he has a plethora of options to go with. Even if CFU decide to just go ahead and ban out say the Kimmy and the Farsa, you could still opt to go with Zetien since you are playing around the landlot in the jungle. Usually, we’ve come to the agreement that if you are a utility jungle, maybe Zeten might be lacking in terms of the early game presence and the damage that you can dish out. So, they’re done with that problem. So now SRG are looking to cover their bases with taking away strong crowd control from the hands of Boxy. I think yeah getting rid of the crowd control is really important here mainly because their composition right now lacks a lot of damage. I’m expecting that CFU is is going to get rid of Farsa. That’s number one. I’m curious to see whether this is going to be a Roger game uh for the side of Innocent. That could be a possibility. Ye really interesting ban here for the side of CFU. Are they hard reading into this? I was expect like one of the heroes in my head for um SRG would have been Eve uh just because again it goes with the sense of all right let’s go ahead and set things up. This would also complement the KA pretty well. Um and then typically uh if you have that Harth across from you and you set things up in that real world manipulation it makes things a little bit easier to go and I feel like just fight against. Um but they could be reading into it too much. But this will still force us into a situation where it’s like, okay, what is Stormmy going to play? But he is one of those players that has a pretty deep hero pool and that’s the advantage for him. So, is it worth the ban? Maybe not so much. Yeah, cuz there’s a chance we might already be seeing a potential last two picks. Farsa Granger on the side of SRG uh with the EGOD. If Fara doesn’t get banned out by CFU, they took out the Hilda. Usually, those are some of the telltale telltale signs that you are leaning towards those two heroes. Here’s a different angle, right? I think they got rid of the Eve this time around. I mean, Afarsa definitely was going to go no matter what. I think we all understood that. But the Eve in particular is a pretty decent match up in a 1v one when you’re up against the Zush Shin. Those void blast really start to stack up for you. You don’t mind if the wave pushes in. Hey, fun fact everybody. Ruby gold lane currently has 100% win rate in three games at this year’s MSC. Bring it. Lock it into your rank games. Yeah, more Ruby and the gold, but make sure you pair it up with the juicing. Please be playing into a five stack so at least you have four other people to talk smack about you if you suck. Yeah, because if you play Ruby in solo Q, it’s not going to do well for you. All right, here we go. We do see the Kimmy uh the Kimmy get locked in this time round. They’re leaving this final pick up for grabs. Oh, dude. Are they going to play another fighter? It doesn’t make sense if they make it play another fighter at this point. They need the burst damage, right? But where is it going to come from? They can use Lancelot as the cleaner. Roger has burst, but only when he gets three items. So, you probably would rather have the Granger at the end of the day. But what what fighters have we seen uh in the gold lane? It’s only been the CC Ruby. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Guess those two. No, I I think they go for the double marksman. I think they are going to lean towards the graier end. Or they might even want to consider carry. There’s not a lot of things that Carrie needs to worry about here. Um the Lucas is probably I think this this is Lucas jungle, bro. But I mean, he’s going to put the Clay in the glue. Plus, you also have the pulse of the Kimmy. I don’t know. Something about CFU and every time I see that Lucas, it’s like it’s dangerous. It’s real dangerous. Fair. Fair. It’s um as much as we would imagine that Lucas has kind of fallen off the metag game, keep in mind what his role is supposed to be. He just doesn’t want to die to the land slot. If he gets picked up, he have he has anti-C to try and look to counterplay this Kalia. Most importantly, he can almost guarantee a separation of the front to backline, which is something that CFU want. Yeah. Okay. SRG, their last two picks were very clear. It could have been Far Granger. Far was taken away. So they go for the double marksman with Gimme and the Granger together while CFU are going all in in a very high aggro all dive lineup to see if they can push this into game number three against SRG. I’m so excited to see the little flash step from Detective to unleash that beast this time round. Look, it’s CFU on the blue side facing off against SRG, but it is match point. Keep in mind, elimination is on the board. CFU must bring this back to take it to a game number three against the defending EWC 24 champs. So close for SRG right now after maybe not the best group stage performances that we’ve seen from them. They are one win away from getting to the knockouts and they’ll be able to breathe a little bit I feel like. So this is a crucial game number two for them. It’s so important. Now both of these squads are going to try and outplay each other at the highest level. CFU will be starting Detective on his orange buff. Sakai is going to be on his purple buff. So, they’re going to be starting on the same side of the map. Uh I’m curious to see that whether or not they’re going to end up towards EXP’s side because that’s what it always seems to boil down to, right? SRG has prioritized so often playing through their jungle to make sure that CRA is going to have a decent time in the laning phase. Not sure if that’s a technical pause, but I’m just going to hope that Oh, no. Back into the game. Okay. I was going to say it looks like they’re still playing there. It was almost a first blood too down in that uh XP lane. So nothing to convert there. Yeah, catching up here. Yeah. H it looks like both sides. Wait, was it both sides? I’m not 100% sure. Either way, either way, this is a big win coming in from Creme. He will start to develop a lead against Wadu ever so slowly, of course, but we want to see how this continues to progress, right? as you can see ever so slightly just missing Wadu just literally missed one minion and that’s it. Yeah. Um okay catching up there too. I guess Boxy burned the flicker down there. So they they were going for that quick kind of play quick advantage if they could. CFU didn’t find it but now they might look here in the mid lane. Stormy he’s going to be fine. Has Yumes with him. So yeah, I think just because that didn’t happen in the early game, you’re going to go ahead and just see them wait for that first objective to come up unless they decide to actually commit to this box going to be the focus. Cra roamed up the first blood for Stormy now. OP going to be in trouble. Four members of SRG all here for the fight and Detective will buy enough time. This turtle’s up here and SRG has control for now. I don’t get it. Why did Boxy walk up so far? He like you look at the mini map, you can see that Wadu doesn’t have priority over that lane. You see three members and the first thing in your mind is like, oh yeah, I’m I’m going to just like try and poke him out. No, you back off. You don’t have your flicker. Yeah, and right now they want to go ahead and start up this turtle here. They’re going to fight for it. Cramp also on this other side. Detective forced off, but he can’t escape this one. Going to go in. Sakai’s actually in trouble. Quite low. Goes in. Sakai falls and Wu will go in, but Stormy secures the turtle. Meanwhile, the fight’s still going to be breaking out. And it’s Voxy that goes down. But CFU is winning this fight after the objective. And Cra one hit away will be able to escape under the turret. But Stormmy will get some extra gold off of that as well. The turtle did go to SRG. Mhm. Oh, he missed. Where are you shooting? Okay. All right. He He recovered. Good recovery. Good recovery. No, no, no. Nobody’s sweating here. Nobody’s sweating here because again, SRG technically in that turtle fight made a pretty big mistake. Wait, hold on. No, Opie shouldn’t die here, right? Yeah, he should be fine. He should be. I I think but I don’t know about Skye’s on the other end because Sky unfortunately I don’t know why he decided you know what I’m a phantom execution back into that fight and W standing there like okay with one HP but my other I don’t get it I don’t get it the arms of Wadu man come on in you know and uh but still good thing Stormmy was able to go ahead and secure that for a second there thinking SF uh CFU could actually turn it around but they do get a couple kills goes in the hands of Wadu and OP And so I feel like now Zing is going to be he’s he’s going to need some help from the team here to go ahead and help him because it just seems like Innocent is kind of in that situation where he wants to go ahead and 1 v one. We’ve seen that match up so much with the Granger and the Harth. And now that the level fours are in consideration here on both sides, I still think SRG has the better option to go for these pickoffs, especially because they have this KA. The flicker is going to be up in about 10 seconds. Cram will be the focus, but still Detective forced off even with the beast form. Oh, not sure if they do anything off of that. No, no, no, no. Getting rid of the beast form is actually really really good because Detective right now can’t get any energy just yet. He has to wait for the farm to completely run out because if he dies early, then whatever the the bar was maintains. And this allows SRG to walk into enemy territory knowing that that alt is down and it won’t be up anytime soon unless they get into a fight here. Oh, they might. Boxy jumping in with Wad. They’re going to be focusing CRAM. Detective though is going to find OP. Goes in with a thorn. Rose will pick it up. They’re going to be trading right now. Turtle for the taking. Cra is still alive. He’s been this way this whole time. The team comes in, but Boxy will go ahead and stop them in with this crackfist break. And now still jumping in. Wu tanky as hell. Will force them off. So no one committing to the turtle. Does SRG go back to it? Sakai’s fully healthy here. We have Detective grabbing the buff. They should be able to go ahead and secure the second turtle of the game here. Boxy doing his best alongside Wadu trying to delay it, but it’s going to be secured by Sakai. The flicker from Wadu. Innocent now rotating all the way down. OP takes up front of the damage and they jump on in. Yumes takes the face of it all, but he goes down now too as Detective join the fight. A shockwave blast won’t land, but they trade out bodies here. Mhm. Worth it. Very worth it for SRG. Wait, technically Creme should still have his alt available. Yeah, he got the reset. But he’s pulling them back. He’s going to pull him back. Guadu, he’s tanky, but not tanky enough. A shot from Innocent will clean it on up. And now Box going to be the next one. Flickers on out. Does Innocent have one more goes in, gets punched on back, but will get a double. Another big pickup for SRG. I was wondering why Stormy, despite being decently low, why he wanted to hover around and then I realized Cram he already got the reset off of his ultimate. He just needed to wait a little bit of time. Good thing that we have the Oh, they win also on that. I think they tsunami slam too. So seeing in trouble still in the mid lane. OP trying to get away, but it’s two bodies too much as cra will pick up. There’s fights everywhere happening on the map. There’s fights literally everywhere. SRG is keeping it scrappy and now they’re calling. They can dive him. They know they can dive him. Look at the top side. Detectives in trouble. Everywhere. There’s a fight literally everywhere. And now Detective in trouble. He’s going to get forced off the turret. And also, Innocent gets a 1 v one. Mhm. Good game IQ coming in from Detective side. He immediately focused. Oh, wait. Hold on. We saw everything that happened on the map. There’s a good chance that they’re trying to go for the top side and dive me. I got to clear up this wave to make sure that I can sustain and then get the hell out of there. Oh, man. This is a lot of ground to cover now for CFU Gaming. Every single fight they’ve been in, it looks like, you know, there’s couple moments where it’s like, all right, they’ve got this. And then SRG responds to it with everything they’re throwing at him. It’s really hard for CFU to find that window like this. Even this tanky as he is, he’s going to deal with so much damage as Wadu falls. And now they’re going to go ahead and go forward. Disengage here. Third turtle. The game is up. But they have the numbers advantage for SRG. Yeah, they like for some reason really badly want this top tier one. They’ve been here for so long. Trying to crack open this neutral, sorry, this turret and get the structure this entire time. You see that’s the guys actually farming on the opposite end of the map, right? clearing his jungle path, making sure that right now this four from SRG is too strong. Cra again, he’s right on Detective. Detective as a beast, he’s trying to get away. They flicker forward. Boxy’s gone as Innocent picks up another and he’ll get a double. Looking for more, but Yumes to fall. Zing forced out. Wad joining the fight now. Is this really the fight he wants? He’s going for Stormy. Stormmy gets the space as Innocent picks up another kill. Now OP in trouble. Innocent locked and loaded. Shoots off one shot. gets a double again looking for the clean up. Zing jumps under the turret and Cra wants to zone him out and it’s only Zing left after that. SRG is locked in. They are locked in and they said turtle it’s chill. We don’t care. We don’t care about this last turtle. We care about the fight. We care about the structures that we can get off of this. And they will continue to progress. Let’s look at this fight one more time, right? Because it’s like Cram is doing so goddamn much. It’s ridiculous, right? How is he getting away with this? I’m not going to I’m not going to lie. Boxy was doing the right thing, holding all four members of SRG back, but I think that CFU just had to give it up. They keep forcing the scenario, especially when they don’t have anything involved. Oh, they’re going to fight for this one, too. Innocent grabs Wadu. Looks for another. Gets the double. Nope. He falls. Innocent gets the triple. Going for the maniac. He has to get space. He gets that. He gets the savage. Innocent is not innocent no more. picks up a savage this point in the game. A huge swing for SAG Red Giants OG Esports and they’ll get a tier 2 in the mid. That’s disgusting. Right now, SRG OG are playing hot and innocent. 140 and one. What a KDA as they’re looking to try and close out this game as soon as possible. This is some nasty stuff. I don’t know. Maybe SRG figured out eat rice and some good stuff and you’re playing on a different level. Hey, they got that from the interview and right now so far ahead 140 and1 on this Granger. Innocent has had all the space in the world and he has a flicker. He’s had a couple moments close moments where he’s been very low health but still again you got to give it up to the beast here. His positioning, his micro is always so good and it’s really recovered from the rest of the team. Yeah, unfortunately for CFU they they just keep on fighting and fighting and fighting. I get why they had to fight for the lord specifically, but other than that, the previous objectives, it was not necessary, especially on third turtle or even second turtle. Second turtle technically could have been outplayed from the side of Wadu, but again, very slim margins. Okay, even with this lead, they’re still going to go ahead get to the base. Kai’s going to jump in. Oh, detective goes with the blast, but doesn’t have enough damage. Oh, Sing not close enough to catch the Kaiis. Yeah, if only Sing had flicker. If only he had flicker. I think that’s the biggest problem that we’re seeing right because of the Kalia just taking that purify. You’re just so worried. But you get caught out in these positions where you can’t force plays upon your opponents now in this fight alone. We see the exact same problem, right? The lead, the gold lead, especially on the carries are basically untouched. Stormian as well as Innocent are having the time of their lives. And Sakai so far, he’s not making too many mistakes, but Boxy has to worry about too many things at once. And you can see Innocent, he’s having the time of his life. Well, right now the time of their life is in this base turret if they can get it. But the waves are cleared out so quickly from this lineup from CFU Gaming. Look at the difference here. Look at the gaps, especially in that gold lane. Mhm. This is too much. It is too much to handle. OP, he’s playing hyperaggressively, especially when the resources are down. This is what I was talking about, the overheats coming in from CFU. They want to win so bad, but they keep compromising their early game when honestly they just needed to take a breath, wait for that first item to come through and then look for these fights because these chain fights have netted SRG such a whopping lead on the perfect time. That’s why SRG didn’t even bother taking the third turtle. It’s all about those fights. Yeah, it’s proved that point, too. They’re going to find they lowered up here in a couple seconds. And so with this, I think CFU I I I don’t know, man. I think it’s better that they stay in their base. Oh my god, Innocent is already at full build. Yeah, full build. Hey, 11 and 12 minutes in, full build. That’s what happens when you’re 140 and one. Jeez, this is uh not a fun time for CFU. And the worst part is now they decide we can’t we can’t even walk up. This is a 10k gold lead. This is this is the checkmate angle of a lifetime. And right now there unfortunately the reason why they fought for the very first lord in the first place was because their wave clear isn’t exactly good. So, as they get the Lord, they’re going to get ready to go ahead and march in the base here. They’ve already worked on the shields. This half health on that mid turret and they can force a fight with this kind of lineup. CFU really just kind of has to buckle in and wait for that initiation. And maybe Boxy will be able to disrupt that when it does happen. But unless they decide to go on the front foot, I I don’t know if they’re in fighting form to be able to turn things around even as this approaches the the base here. No, this is this is the worst part. Just watching that Lord. You cannot walk out of your base. It feels like impending doom. CFU are praying on a miracle here. They’re praying that SRG OG overextends and makes the first mistake right now. Seeing I don’t even think he’s strong enough just yet to deal with the major tanks on the side of SRG. Base turret going to be worked on. Lord will push on in. Managing the top and bottom wave. Zakai’s going to jump in. OP has trouble already. He’s gone. That’s one down. A tsunami slam up top. Innocent will go off with the shots. Wadu won’t survive that and SRG already on the work. Detective jumping on in but it’s already a double and the last ditch efforts of CFU as SRG will tell them it wasn’t luck at all as they sweep the series. SRG OG take it away too and oh they really had Rice in something good this time. Taking the words of Boxy and honestly feels bad that they’re putting it right against the team who gave them the advice. The Sharks will have to sleep with the fishes as the Giants will move on forward to the knockouts with a chance to defend their title that put Malaysia back on the map. SRG were just dominant. CFU overheated. Honestly, as much as I am happy to see SRG move on, my heart breaks for CFU because honestly, it feels like they could have shown so much more in this particular series, right? I mean, just look at the highlights. You could tell that they did not want to give an inch of ground to SRG, but that stubbornness has costed them the early game two times in a row. I felt like they were missing out on a few respect calls on the side of SRG in terms of the damage and the crowd control they have available for their lineup. Once I saw OP deciding to use a Crimson Beacon forward multiple times, I was already thinking, “Yeah, that’s already setting the tone for CFU. Overly aggressive. They took some fights early on that would have allowed them to turn things around.” But the best quality of Cambodian teams and CFU that we’ve talked about in the past about how they would pull off surprising moves that might catch their opponents offguard emphasis on the might. SRG were not caught off guard. They weren’t. And I think that CFU had a really good idea with this composition, right? But to execute it, you need the target priorities. They needed to identify it, but they kept on tunnel visioning in the wrong spaces, which really hurts my heart. Ah, shout outs to CFU. Love these guys. Now though we have to talk with the victor here. Innocent is with a turnoff for the interview. Ble savage. Ble from the beast himself. We get a savage here in the group stages just on the brink of elimination. Innocent that performance game number one people were already talking about that Ruby play. But then in game number two, you pulled off an amazing impeccable Granger play. How was that like for you? Um because we review a lot of games and we want to focus on our like strength like more onto aggressive early game. Okay. What changed today? Because this is such a different SRG that we saw today. Um we just ate breakfast together. You guys ate breakfast together. So you guys didn’t eat breakfast together like yesterday and the day before that? Yeah, that’s why we don’t have a lot of energy. Ah, I see. So the key is to have breakfast together, guys. Quote by innocent there. Now Boxy earlier on, well it was yesterday in his interview he mentioned that your win at M6 against CFU was based on luck. What do you have to say to Boxy now? Because there’s no luck in game because imagine if I didn’t go to that play because that was his like to decision making not on luck. So it wasn’t luck. Yeah, it was skill. It was skill. Now, we didn’t get to talk to you after you guys lost to Mythic Seals. That was like one of the biggest upsets we’ve seen here at the MSE group stages. How did you guys take that loss? Um, we just review a lot of things and our early game and maybe when we’re sieging on how we can end it early. I see. And then after that, what was the biggest lesson that you could take? Maybe more onto like on how we can play our heroes properly. Okay. So, more about that. Now you guys are heading over to the knockouts 2 to1 and you’re aware that the two zero teams will be able to pick you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we’ve had a little bit of talks here and there. TLPH have mentioned that they do want to face you because they want to be able to take down the defending champions. Team Spirit also said they want to meet SRG because they want revenge from M6. So, do you have a message for OHB from TLPH as well as Team Spirit? Um, we can only fight one, so just choose who wants to fight us. Who would you rather face? Innocent any because we don’t have any choice. We’re going to choose. They’re the only one who can choose. That’s true. That’s true. That’s a fair point. But if you if you had to like be like, m maybe not this team, would it be TS or would it be TPH? Well, maybe TLBH because we want to get the revenge from our last tournament. Oh, which tournament was that? Can we see the tour? Oh, yeah. SPS. SPS. Ah, revenge for SPS. He had to make sure there. Lucky, lucky, lucky. So, once again, congratulations. Is there a message that you want to maybe tell your girlfriend? I heard she’s on the way here. Is that true? Um, unfortunately, no. She’s not coming. Yeah. Okay. Um, still message for her then. Can I just speak to Galag? Of course. Of course. Um, I’ll just speak English then. Um, finally we’re at the playoffs. Don’t be think don’t think don’t think too much because before this game she’s worrying because our game is kind of messy and I just told her that we already fix it yesterday. So, plays. Okay, that’s so sweet. No, I love you or something like that. I love you. One more finals. A Okay, once again, congratulations and thank you so much, Innocent. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters to break that game down. Who Who knew that the secret to SRG getting savages winning would be Ble Mua? That’s it. They just had to eat breakfast. Dude, every time you see Innocent yet another Savage, it feels like his hair just grows like an inch longer and like just way more fuller, even shinier, some may say. That’s the beast form, man. That’s that’s exactly what it is. But yeah, I love it, too, cuz he’s like, “Can I speak to God?” But then he realized, wait, is not going to be able to translate. Or maybe she would. Yeah, maybe she could. I think we’ve taught Eterna enough Filipino that I think she could translate some Filipino now at this point. I’m sure she’s picked up something. But yeah, obviously like this game is looking so good for SRG OG Esports. I mean, this feels a little reminiscent of what happened last year. It’s like, oh guys, how do we drop like a couple of these games? Uh, we had a bad early game. We didn’t know how to like close out games. All recurring problems from EWC 24. Yeah, and it’s great to see the growth of SRG. I mean, even Innocent acknowledged uh the messy games that they’ve had, uh, what they needed to work on. Even his girlfriend acknowledged the messy games that they’ve had. So to see SRG back on this form, I think it’s great for the tournament overall because now you have the defending champion showing that okay, we’re ready. We’re back on top. Stormy, man, two games as a Kimmy. It’s not just innocent you have to worry about. Yes, he got the savage, but I feel like the Kimmy at the center of the map puts so much pressure on the CFU. And that’s why I said like when we saw those highlights there, the the space that was provided. This is always what we see with the gold laners when they get to shine. It’s like the roams, the mids, like they they provide them so much space to work with and their positioning is so good that they’re allowed to shine and and the Kimmy does that so well for a lot of teams. Yeah, I I think you know the biggest man, I don’t want to say it because I love this player, but OP definitely is going to feel the most hurt for this game because a lot of the mistakes that we saw and this inevitable snowball from SRG came from I couldn’t finish off the kills. Should I have been chasing for those kills in the first place? I think he’s got a lot to think about because again this is technically well a new role for him on the international stage and I think this is going to be a very big learning experience for him. All right, let’s see who the match MVP is between SRG and CFU. And it is Innocent, the man who got the Savage. 17 Z did not I agree with this one. I agree with this 100%. Very great Sony match MVP. God damn. 1702. So ridiculous. Not to mention like despite having so many kills, his econ didn’t even break a,000. It’s just 9667. Was he Was he fully stacked? He was fully. Yeah, never mind. Yeah, the man was like like 80 plus. So zero deaths. Yeah, he he was good. He was stacked up be was he stacked up before the savage or after? Anyway, I think regardless like again, Innocent has that amazing game. Um, and this is why Granger can be so good cuz we’ve seen this a couple times now. And that is it for very first series. Congratulations again to all the Malaysians and to the supporters of Selenor Red Giants, OG Esports. You will be moving forward to the knockoffs with a chance to defend your title. But coming up next is the Saudi National Bank match of the day between Onik, the champions of Indonesia against Vertus Pro, the champions of the wild cards who still continue to go on their run. Who will move on to the knockout stages? Only one can. My name is Renmar. Gideon and Nu will be coming back with me for series number two. So we’ll see you in a bit. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] When the world of business is constantly changing, you need to stay ahead. 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Let’s see if that will be the case as Gideon Na and I will be joining you here for this series and I honestly don’t know what to expect because as much as we have a lot of things to say about Vertus Pro, they are a team who tend to surprise. Yeah, that’s the thing. It’s hard to judge the power level of Vertus Pro because generally speaking, right there there’s a lot of uh factors which we would assume. What is Buffer holding there? We’ll see in a little bit. Hopefully, he brings it up onto the stage. But yes, when you’re up against Anik Indonesia, the YB effect has been very apparent for the vibes of the team. They’ve been showing some really interesting uh takes onto the draft, which I don’t know whether or not it’s going to influence the decision making for the drafting phase, especially for Verus Pro. My biggest question is did they have breakfast? Because that seems to be the trend right now for group stages. Yeah, it seems like uh that’s a secret. A lot of players have said it like they just eat breakfast together and somehow they get savages, they win games. So that’s going to be something that maybe we’ll find out later in the interview depending on who wins. But again, if you want to join us for the knockout stages, that’ll be beginning on July 30th here at Riyad Saudi Arabia at the boulevard at the esports world cup for MSC, then get your tickets weebook.com. Look for them now. Now, for this matchup between Ony and Vertus Pro, uh, looking at it, and a lot of the community has saw the beats, a lot of them don’t see a lot of storyline links between the two. But it could be the beginning of a very good story because you have on one side Kyrie, the sky king of Onyx in the jungle going up against fellow Filipino Andoru. Again, a guy who did not expect he would reach this far at this stage. And this is the a little random kind of fun fact to throw out there for Andoru, right? Over in MPL Philippines, he was known as this moniker as the nightmare. So maybe he’s going to be Kyrie’s nightmare in the jungle or Indonesia’s nightmare in general. He definitely was nightmare during the wild cards, right? He would really just jungle gapping a lot of the teams that we saw down there. But now showing that he honestly is coming to the level, the power level, the power creep some may call it, against some of the best of the best in the world. Right. And I think here’s a really good litmus test. I I keep in mind, right, because Indonesia are coming back into that form based on the games that we have seen, they played some pretty good games, right? Especially their very first round of the groups itself. Sans really big standout for me, showing the not only the depth of his hero pool, but the fact that he is not in that carry position anymore. He’s like, I can play for the team, but if you need me to carry, just give me the signal, coach. Yeah, he can still definitely do it. Sans, Kyrie, and Key Boy uh have played incredibly well to supplement what Loopy and Seo have done for Onyx, which is really step up. They are so dependable now. So, the members of Vertus Pro have a lot to look at. There was something that you discussed with me backstage before the day started. Vertus Pro, BadC, he’s going to be the central focus for this team. I think so as well. And there’s a deeper conversation to that. I will get into it in just a little bit because I think that, you know, Batcourt in his wild card performance, it is clear he’s got the mechanics right. He knows he’s got some really smart battle IQ in 5v5 team fights. But so far, based on what we’ve been hearing from the squad, it feels like they’re having a different take on what the tournament meta is. And it is starting to affect them, right? They’re letting Endor being the main shot caller. And obviously, Pluto has translated everybody else naturally, right? It hasn’t been a problem up until we’ve gotten to the international stage. To be fair, Pluto was a little bit sick. Hopefully, he’s feeling good today. And then we get to see their polished form. Yeah, cuz he he was very uh vocal about how it it did affect their overall performance in the last time that we saw them. So, you know, he’s had a couple days of rest and hopefully they’re all healthy and ready to play here. But yeah, I think, you know, there’s a couple things that we can say, especially with Verdice Pro and their performances is sometimes it is 50/50 and and a lot of that has to hinge on specific roles as well. But I think even now, I mean, think about what they have been through as a wildcard team and the opponents that they’ve had to face up to this point. Yeah, they have had to go up against champion after champion. It hasn’t always racked up wins, but they have been delivering in games. First against SRG, they could have won that series. They took a game, but then as we saw, SRG just qualified earlier. while going up against Corinthians. Yeah, they suffered a devastating game one loss where they almost got egged. No kills at all. But then VP were able to turn things around. So, as the question of is this the end for them looms over them, I think I want to start the focus beyond the jungle. Mhm. The mid lane. All right. Cuz you mentioned Sans. I think Boar really needs to deliver Onic to the Bob emergency room, man. Bring them to the Bob ER. All right. Let’s look at the lanes individually. Right. Hopefully, if we see Bob bring him to the Bob ER, it’s going to affect the draft. And I think it’s clear that Super Eigora when you’re bringing comparing him to the rest of the gold laners out there, we don’t see him as a dominant force. He can hold lanes against some of the best, but he’s not winning those lanes. So, where else can we look for potential wins? Bobber’s lane in the mid lane, but that’s a duo, arguably even a trio. And then finally, the one I’m most excited about, Luti versus Badcot. Because Liy, his best hero so far has been the CCS. Everything else has not been up to snuff and I think back has a more consistent performance on a majority of his hero pool. Yeah, we’ll be able to break down the matchups a little bit more later on and get nice takes in on this with these specific roles. But again, don’t forget the MSE pass is available in the in-game client right now. Don’t forget to get that Nathan skin and all the goodies that come along with the pass as we’ve done with multiple patches. Yeah, it’s also 20% off. Don’t forget about that. It’s really good. Don’t miss out on that. And don’t forget to, you know, do the guesses. Uh, I have been forgetting and I have been regretting it. We saw Atlas yesterday, by the way. Oh, and we saw Atlas. You can get the Atlas skin. So many things that you can get from the MSE pass. Now, for Onyx and Vertus Pro, I think it’s time to see what these two teams and the players within these two organizations feel heading into this matchup. For us, it was very obvious that we’ll win in tense. So, we actually made it too close to comfort, but they actually showed a good fight for us. This might just be it as Team Liquid secured the win. [Music] It’s Pluto that goes in. He’s able to find multiple members with that set up. I’m feeling very confident because I I I think our odds against Anuk are even. Of course, they are way more experienced than us, so it will be very hard, but I think we can manage. playoff. I’m pretty sure all the pressure is on idea because for us, we just came here to play. Making it to the main stage is already a win. So, we just want to face all these teams. We want to get experience, want to have fun. It’s no pressure for us. Anik, let’s have a good fight. Let’s go. I love how you saw the difference and contrast in mentality heading into this between Sans and uh and Pluto. Pluto’s like, “We’re just happy we made it to the main stage. No pressure for us.” Well, even it was Sans him mentioning that they’re already thinking about playoffs. I mean, everybody’s thinking about playoffs at this point, right? Everybody is pointing to the fact that this is going to be a game that will not only look to change their lives, but put them on a spotlight. And hopefully, because considering that, you know, YB is a YB is a very social guy. He likes to he likes to get he likes to have pocket scrim partners here and there. I’m hoping that VP qualify for one of those spots. I love how that was painted though in the interview because yeah, essentially Vertice Pro can be really happy with what they’ve accomplished from, you know, their entire journey. Now they’re up here against Anik and and because this is also our match of the day like they know they are completely right there is more pressure on Anyia here for this matchup. Now imagine if hopefully we get a chance to go three games for this one but uh I think yeah we were talking about it a little bit earlier on as we get through this first phase. Vertis Pro in order for them to get to game three in this I think they really had to refine what we saw from them in the previous matches especially what we already talked about with the mid lane but even so like down to Badcott a lot of the times we’ve seen him in positions and this is why we started this whole day so far with like what XP laners are going through right now I feel like XP laners are in a very precarious position where they have to find this balance between being a little aggressive and also making plays happen for the team. Yeah, if there was a meta that demanded so much for the exp lane, it is this particular meta. Not only do you have to like try and win your lane, you also have to have team fight impact. You still have to manage your waves. And the game gives you a couple of tools to try and do that, but it doesn’t mean that like if you hesitate, that’s when you see the big difference between a top tier polish exp laner and you know what we’d like to call the regular public, the normies as some may say. But yeah, it’s so demanding for the exp lane. So Onyx start things off with the Boxia uh flex pick. Although could be leaning more towards the jungle and roam. Not a lot of exp lane box in this tournament. While Vertus Pro going to be up to them to see how they’re going to be handling that cuz Onyx have block pick Uranus, something that you VP have done and used incredibly well with especially in the hands of Andoru in the jungle. So VP are locking in the Arot and the Granger. They want to avoid a potential combo there. But with the Arlet, it’s an easy easy pick up for a phobius for Onyx. It is. I’m genuinely worried because Arlet has been one of those like 26 coins. Yeah, exactly. It’s so coin flippy. 26 times pick 10 times, man. 20% win rate. That’s abysmal against all odds basically. Like, but what we have seen from Arlots, yes, the win rates like that, but we have seen some really good final slashes. But what we haven’t seen is follow through like after that. And so this is the the case with any team that does pick up the ARA. It’s like do we have are we in a position whether that’s in the early game, the mid game, the late game to actually follow through with the potential of amazing setup potential because you can do it defensively, offensively. And that is always an option here. And for Onyx, you see what they’re going with. They’re already so durable. They already have so many movement uh options across the map, but they also get their gold laner early on. They get the Athell here. I think Vertus Pro just want to lean in on picking up the Fredin, combo it with the Arlot, and then pick a really strong pick for Boar. Oh, I thought they go Fredin first and then Forcer, but okay. They want to make sure that Boar has a chance to bring Onyx to the Bob Eer. Absolutely. I think that this it’s strange to see because again, why would you let Boxia through, right? Especially when Boar’s like some of his priority picks is going to be the Kimmy in the first place. So they came in with the mindset of okay there’s a good chance we’re not going to be playing this Kimmy but there’s all but we also want to take the flex pick in this Arlet. It can be played by both backp and as well as Pluto. Most likely I think it’s going to go into the hands of Pluto. And uh here’s where I get a little bit worried. Right. So now how do they play the mid lane? They’re getting rid of the Kadita. I’m hoping they also get rid of the Kimmy too. But at the same time with all on top of the fara, if Kimmy takes uh takes the purify instead of a flicker, there’s a good chance that Bolar is going to find solo kills with the feathered air strike. Yeah, I think it’s uh a couple risk here on both sides that they have to take coming through this. And I I also would say like you’ve seen a lot of the uh talk online about, you know, Sans specifically and how they like to measure him up against the other midlaners right now. And that’s always something you have to consider because isn’t he like I would say he’s the only one to play some of these more pocket u picks for the mid lane despite what the kaguras that we saw. But this is for the most pace it’s just sans and his ability. Okay, they actually banned it out as I mentioned it. So he’s one of those players that has this hero pool to pick up. I mean there’s some smiles happening over there too for Monik. But so what does this mean for for Sans to pick up? Just go Kimmy, right? Yeah, I mean Kimmy is going to be a little hard, right? Because at the end of the day, it boils down to what the duo is going to look like. And right now, they again, they’re more than Any is more than happy more than happy to see what that first pick on the second phase is going to be for VP. But I think that VP has made some good reads. I think they’ve also figured out that maybe the Onyx are working together. It’s like they have the same analyst or something. Yeah, it’s like I wonder why Superfins decided to go for Kagura. I’m pretty sure Sans could do the same. Yeah. Gourd. The only thing separating the two Onyx teams are is a distance of 8 in. Hey, at least minimum 6 ft apart. Okay. All right. So, Glue gets locked in. No surprises here overall, but that means that Onyx has a significant punish, right? Mhm. Do they go for the firearm mist? If they do go into the farm, keep in mind that they can get swept and hit by the feathered air strike. really what do how much trust do they have in Luke as well as Kyrie to kind of create that space just taking Eve here? Uh I guess it’s all right. Yeah. And uh there is that old relationship I remember from season 14 about how Arlot and Eve it can be sometimes he has easy backline access for the Arlot but then once you get there it’s like what can I do? She it’s not she’s CC immune with her ultimate up. So they do decide to go for the Kimmy as expected. Ka locked in there for Kib. So it’s a very good uh lineup for Onyx. Plays to their strengths. Nothing too crazy. You have multiple carries. You can allow Sans to be the carry from the early to mid. Great draft by Onyx. Yeah, really, really smart stuff coming from Onyx. I I mean I’m looking at particularly the Fred man because they also recognize that if VP decide to like show what their jungler is going to be, especially if it’s going to be the Fred, there’s more there’s a very high likelihood that they won’t be able to get away with as much. So really narrowing down the pool for the side of VP. What do they lift with? Uh goodness. A Hanzo up against a lineup that can easily access your jungle. It’s a huge gambit. Hey, the nightmare. The nightmare. Oh yeah, living up to his name. Living up to his name, which I don’t think is as bad as we think. I think he needs to start on the right side of the map. He needs to start on the correct side. Quickly take away that buff so that even if he does get invaded, it is not too awful. It’s a bit of a gambit here, right? It’s a 50/50 at level one. Let’s see how it works out here. Vertus Pro shocking Onyx and us with a last pick. Hanzo. Game number one for this best of three series between the champions of Indonesia and Vertus Pro, the champions of the wild card who are still going on. Oh, this is this is going to be really interesting. The first time you’re seeing Hanzo on the international stage and I think Endor is making a huge gamble for the early game. Keep in mind that their win against SRG boiled down to I stole away your buff at level one because he made a correct prediction. Can he do it one more time knowing that Onyx is going to be well prepared for this match here at MSC 2025 at the Esports World Cup live in Riyad. Let’s see what buffs they start on. It looks like Endor is on his orange facing off against Kyrie on the blue side. Starting off on his purple same side of the map. Is this the right side then? Is is is this way? Oh, wo wo. Over. Okay, this is the early action that we’re all used to seeing. Pluto could be in trouble taking a couple shots. He does walk away. Gets stunned. One HP. Sons won’t be able to get it. I don’t know if K was really thinking about it. He has the flicker, but they’ll go ahead and just uh that’s that’s a start for them. Uh they at least get a little bit of priority here. You can see what the what’s happening around the jungle, though. Mhm. This is the correct side of the jungle to start for Andor. He knows that with the mid lane pushing up, Kyrie can instantly invade, but it really boils down to can you make the correct decisions, right? And Doryu also, he’s not immediately starting the vertical jungle in the first place. He quickly is taking away the neutral camps. He knows that he can’t take absolutely everything, but at this point, he will take what he can get. Um, oh no, he’s also going to be denied the crab. And Doru knows he’s going to be down in levels, especially when you’re up against Kyrie, considering that the mid lane doesn’t have that sort of pressure. He’s going to depend on lethal wanderers. He’s going to depend on river crabs, ideally the exp river crab, which I’m pretty sure Endor after this invade is going to look for. So, he’s going on that side right now. This might be a play uh for them to make. It wasn’t there. So, um does hit the level four anyway. And you know, that’s the thing. It’s It’s interesting that the Hanzo does come through because when we saw it a few times, well, Kyrie’s going to just make his way on up here. They zone them out. But when the Hanzo has popped up, I’m not sure so much, you know, over in Malaysia, but when it did pop up in the Philippines, there was times where it was good, but it was good at just a specific thing, putting pressure, getting a pickoffs, and being able to convert a kill here. Bluto does take some damage. I don’t think he escapes this time as first blood goes in the hands of Kyrie. Bad caught now in trouble. Zoned out by Loopy. dark wave to bring him back. There’s the slam down for the infernal pursuit. They got the job done and now the turtle will slowly go down here as they take more just for Kyrie here. Oh my god, Kyrie. Dude, is so smart. Kyrie understands exactly what Endodor wants to do. That’s why they’re trying to deny as many of the neutral creeps alongside the river as possible. Why he’s rotating so early on when he could have continued his invasion down on bot side. Oh, good use of the tsunami slam going to bring him back and Hentori has no no choice but to go back. Yeah, at least they know that key boy doesn’t have that tsunami slam preventing potential dives on the bottom side of the map. And I think right now Pluto, he’s going to have to take so much damage, right? Because they wanted Bakot to have a good time up in the exp side of things. He is going to be a prime target for Onyx to continuously attack. So if we’re talking about altimes Oh god. They want to fight for this final slash used on key boy, but they just disengage. All that for the Lith Wander. Yeah, because Any is like, “No, we’re not letting Endor get to play the game. We’re going to take away all the river. Then we’re going to slowly start encroaching on your territory. Steal away your green camps. If if we get a buff, that’s always good. But we don’t mind you having the buff because Kyrie has already developed a level three minutes into the game.” That’s so going back to what I was saying earlier with the Hanto specifically that’s sort of you know one of the things is like even if he’s down at some point you can actually still convert kills but I think that is going to be difficult in our current meta um because it has shifted a little bit here he’s going to do some hits to Kyrie soul snatch not going to do anything on a tanky hero like this box he does negative damage to Kyrie negative until he gets the trinity build done and I think that’s the big issue right Kyrie literally knows that his base damage and his base health his base defense is Everything about this Boxia hero is so nasty that he does not care. Sure, take away your buff. I don’t care. I’ll take everything around it. And eventually this is going to compound into a two-level lead getting closer to the 7minute mark. But we’ll see, right? Because Verdice Pro, they need to be very intelligent about their fights. So far, Luke is putting on quite the performance, right? He is able to not only handle BCOT in the lane, but is getting first motion as well. With this turtle coming up though, it looks like they’re going to go for this rotation. So VP wants to fight. Tsunami Slim going to be able to find the target. Pluto could be in trouble here. Quite low and already and Doru jumping in. Has to return already. But with the final slash, Ly gets dragged into it, but we’ll get him with the infernal pursuit anyway. The worst target you want to follow you back to your body if you’re this Hanzo. Mhm. Mhm. Mad respect to Ludby. He’s getting a lot of infernal important infernal pursuits off. But that dark wave usage is looking better from the last time we’ve seen him play this Fovia. So far so good for Anik ID as they continue their routes. This is only going to get more difficult for Andoru cuz every time he uses his alt, he needs to get some kind of resources from Onyx side. Ideally a battle spell, but most likely the most the max he can get is the tsunami slam because now Onyx ID, they recognize, okay, and Doru is at that point where he’s probably already finished his first item. If he goes for that second item, doesn’t really matter to Kyrie. It’s only the third item that matters. The person that they can punish is whoever doesn’t have a purify. In this case, Pluto. Tsunami slam again. Pluto getting caught. This is going to be time and time again when this happens. Every time the tsunami slam is up, people doesn’t need the flicker to make it happen. And this is why we were talking about in the draft with the Arlots. It has not been a very good uh hero to pick up just with the case of this even taking a lot of shots here. He’s actually just zoning out Super Gora. So it looks like they’ll get the at least the tier one there. Key boy does go down. They still fight for this. I think buff was secured. Buff was secured. Yes, very nicely done by Kyrie, but they’re going to re-engage. They’re going to re-engage. Goes in with the final slash. He’s able to find Sans. Sans goes down. A good pick up for Bulmer. And now breaking it out. Loopy will join the fight with Seo as Badcot falls. They’re still on this side of the jungle, but VP does find something in the exchange. Beautifully played, honestly. Very beautifully played by Pluto. He knew that he was going to get compromised unless he makes a play of his own. Uses that fit flicker final slash to catch out Sans cuz keep in mind the big volatile point for the side on really is Sans. He could have taken a purify to try and protect himself but no instead of arrow is fine right. Oh they would get him manoo. I was about to eat my words there. Yeah also taking a breath. Pluto in trouble again. Won’t they be able to escape that as a dark wave brings him back. So even this I guess this is just going to be the experience for Pluto. He’s going to have to deal with this. Bober and then that feathered air strike. Any wanted to go for it. Ko does have the tsunami slam. So turtles up. This is going to be a free one for Any to take. They’ll be three for three for the turtles. Mhm. And Kyrie, despite the level lead that he had on Endor, Endor is not wasting any time. He is literally trying to find any bits of farm. He knows he cannot contest these neutral objectives until that Trinity is done. So now he’s heading back up and you can tell that he’s even calling for his teammates to actually try and get information on what is still available in his jungle before he moves. If not, I think he would have, you know, tried to clear bottom side as soon as possible. So he’s just in that position where it’s like, let me get to my Trinity as fast as possible so that I can be a threat to maybe hold on again. Seo comes in, pops off with a heavy crossbow will be able to pick up a kill now. And Doru trying to hold on to this tier one in the mid. They’re going to use the final slash and Doru goes back quite low. Kyrie around the corner, but Pluto to follow. Now the mid turret goes down. Bad caught in trouble as well as the full force of Onyx is in the jungle. VP has nothing to gain here. All right, we need to pull up the item list. Why are they so tanky? Is it because Verdice Pro is too far behind or are they already completed their second items? And it looks like they’ve completed Oh my goodness. Loopy and Sever have a ridiculous lead. Okay, Ko could be in trouble. Oh, they’re trying to run him down. And Dora has to return back to his body. So, getting close, at least there’s some progress there. But as they fall further behind, you know, you’re 5,000 going behind. You can only do so much if you’re Andoru. So, you have to start relying on where else can we focus on Super Eork. Has he had enough time to farm up? Pluto has had one hell of a time this Arot, but he’s still going for those plays. He’s still trying to set up the final slashes. And honestly, at a certain point, it could just take one. And Doru now on Luffy, but that’s not the target you want to go for. Kyrie might go ahead and re-engage this fight. Does fight Bad Cot. But Pluto, I don’t think you want to commit to this one. Mhm. Yeah. Right now, Onyx, this mid game is so powerful. It’s just it’s too strong. Their front liners are just too thick. Kyrie’s only job is to make sure that Endor and the rest of the members of Verdice Pearl are going to feel depleted of resources, right? He is supposed to be a giant sandbag as Lupian as well as Seo have continuously found small advantages just to get further ahead. Well, they’re going to start up the lord here. Half health already. VP trying to get here in time, but they’re going to be way too late. So, they’ll just have to defend. Ly does jump in, but again, they’ll just force VP off of the jungle. They’ll have to pull something amazing out to go ahead and defend. Again, they still have the shields. They can still clear things out, but Onyx, you know, they’ll definitely be knocking on the base turrets here. Mhm. Ber, he needs he needs a third item. We’re seeing that Super Eigor at least finally gets that maleific roar, right? He’s got the three item he needs, but he needs the big chunkies. He needs somebody who’s able to apply the apply damage, whether it be Adoru, but he can only do it on one person at a time. But most importantly, Bober, who again only has uh only has the going wand, like he needs more than this. At least the holy crystal, at least the divine glaive, something to kind of cut through the members of Any. That’s crazy. Uh again, you know, at this point, you only got that one item on the far side. Yeah, you can still do some damage with the feathered air strike, but you’re you’re losing that advantage. Pluto okay uses the final slash is going to get tossed in, slammed down into the jungle as Pluto is gone for the sixth time. Lord is still up. The shields are in the mid and top are up. They’ll clear out the Lord for now. Andor is going to jump in, get a little bit of shots off. Soul snatch isn’t enough on Semo. So Onyx playing this 10k gold lead will now set their sights on the mid turret. BP still waiting for Pluto up. They might have to force them to fight anyway. Badcot taking a ton of damage and Doro jumping in after they bring Sans forward. He gets out of there though. Still going to be shooting off as Badcott is stuck onto him. But Badcot just trying to buy time as he falls next. On wins that one. Yeah, Any has played the draft extremely well. The fact that they got Kalia for themselves is making sure that even if Glue is able to stick on to you really doesn’t matter, right? You top up, you can top them up. You can make sure that they stay alive in a lot of these fights. And Luffy, he’s so tanky. He’s 20 and six at this point. And he even has a Twilight Armor purchased for himself knowing that you try and burst me down. Good luck. I have natural damage reduction. Yeah, it’s looking really grim here already. You know, we’ve seen teams turn things around before, so we can’t say that for VP, it’s completely done. But they’ve had to funnel so much into, you know, Andoru to go ahead and catch up. He has maintained his levels. Even itemization wise, he’s okay. But when you have to go and put yourself in a position where it’s like we need to be able to defend our base, but then even your biggest artillery mage, Bulber doesn’t have the items. Oh, damn. Andor is gone. Gets caught out. A great response and find from Kyrie. I think this is a checkmate angle for Onic ID, right? They can siege very, very well. They can guarantee in uh alts coming in from Verdice Pro as soon as they get close to those inhibitor turrets. And now with the Lord spawning, right, there’s no reason for Onyx to try and push any further. They’ll let that wave build up on that top side. There’s no point taking it as well. They want Virtus Pro to actually walk out from the base, walk out and try and contest for this, which again they’re probably not going to do. Not going to do. 9.4K lead 12 to2. like there’s no reason to do so. They have to freeze it in front of their turrets as well. Yeah, you’re just going to see them just wait there. Uh well, never mind. They’re going to go towards their jungle. Maybe just to get the orange buff. They don’t want to get caught out here. So, it looks like that’s going to be the case at least to secure them a buff. I don’t know how much that’s going to help them on this defense though. Massively behind going to lose the purple. So, for VP, they’re in a tough position. I don’t think they’ve had enough time. I don’t think they’ve had enough options to get back in fighting form of this game. And Any definitely with this lord pushing in will want to end the game here. How bad of a mistake would Onyx have to make at this point? They would need Kboy to use the tsunami slam on either Badcott or maybe Endor you in his uh ghostly form, right? Uh Kyrie would be out of position. No, he would still be in the front. It’s very difficult for him to be out of position, but that means that Sans and as well as Saro need to get caught by the final slash after the tsunami slam. see if they can pull it off. Lord still up. Takes down the mid turret. Top turret still standing. And right now VP just trying to clear this out. Onyx doesn’t want to push it just yet. They’re going to wait for those waves. They weren’t exactly the way they wanted to go ahead and sync up. They could still start a fight with Key Boy. But as they wait for these waves to go ahead and push in to take this next base turret up top down, the wave down bot still quite a far away. There’s the flicker forward. He’ll get the tsunami slam. Andu the final slash was already used, but Endor trying to run back to heal up. Pluto’s gone. Badcock’s gone. The next target is the base as Onyx looks to end the game in a swift manner under the 14-minute mark. They’ll clean things up and take game one. Wow, this is a really scary Onyx. A good draft, but the tactical precision in this game was ridiculous. They were waiting for the right conditions and it was all banking on the fact that Pluto is playing on an Arlet, but he’s also using Flicker and he’s the main reason why they would either win or lose and they wanted to guarantee that it was going to be a win. Yeah, pretty and as expected because of the draft picks, what Verus Pro ended up with at the center of the map on it. It was up to them to not drop the ball on this one. And as you mentioned, they were just so precise. No rotation, skill and commitment wasted. They were looking for trades. They were looking for sure wins and they got it every single time. There was not much Vertus Bro could do at the map. Mhm. Li is playing today really hot. I got to give it to him. You know, some of the past couple of days people have been like questioning whether he can get back into form and I think that Liy is still looking very very nice. But the tactical the the tactical supremacy of Onyx making sure that the river was an uncontestable point. The starting point for Andoru was good, but the adaptation from Kyrie foreseeing if he started on this side. What value can he take to generate a level lead early on three minutes into the game? Yeah, again, you can, you know, from these highlights, you see just how much of a struggle it was from the beginning and towards the end there for VP. It was very one-sided for Any. And I think that’s the best way to put it. It was just such a tactical execution from the lineup that they had. They layered things really well. And the fact that you have pretty much this innate tankiness in this lineup between Luffy on the Phobias and then Kyrie on the box just gives you so many options to throw yourself at VP. Yeah, they threw themselves in such a way that it was just everything was so calculated that for Vertus Pro again it’s when your ROR is losing and dying that frequently. It is difficult for all parts of the map especially when your glue is your secondary ROR. Dare I say in ma in lineups like these, he sort of eventually evolves into the main ror of the team, but with Arlot so behind that means the glue will just eventually get taken down as well because the other team has already gotten so much farm, so much items, and this continues this trend of really great Kimmy games for day number five. Yeah, I think that Sans and Key Boy played a strong game. It was on the onus of uh both Babber as well as Badcot to really kind of hold out and I think we didn’t get to see much of that, right? Even Batcott was actually taking moves. Honestly, the fact that he was losing lane to the Fious was interesting enough because he only started losing as soon as Loopy got that first initial point. He found a good trade against Bad Code, forced him into level three, level four scenario, and then immediately Lupy made impact on first turtle fight. Yeah, a lot of this uh you know even down to Bober struggling like he had just at the end he picked up the divine glaive but he had that one item for the longest time like the feathered air strikes weren’t even doing anything to this composition from so you know you just lose so much of that firepower and you’re forcing these situations where you also have a very specific plan with the jungler that they brought up for the Hanzo and even then it’s like who does he go for because he’s going on Kyrie he’s going on Luffy it’s like you’re not going to be able to even with the Trinity easily get those pickoffs that we usually see from Hanzo. There needs to be a bit of a at this point desperate shift in priorities for Verus Pro in terms of the draft. Uh I I at first I get like okay pick up the Farsa earlier but then they needed a much stronger pick for the side of Andor knowing of that they were already going up against uh Baksha at that point was most likely going to the jungle. So hopefully we see we get to see Vert recalibrate because at this point there’s not much to say for Onyx to fix. It’s at this point it’s just like you’re doing great honey. Just keep it up. Like there’s nothing much that you need to change. You guys are doing great. Everything is going right for them. Uh I mean I don’t know if great is the word. I feel like VP they need to pick their poison at this point, right? Because it’s clear in the draft that they’re most worried about Mr. Kyrie himself. you know, the handsome jungler himself. Import of a lifetime. Amazing pickup from Anik ID from years ago, considered to be one of the best, but he is flexible. That’s the problem. There’s a lot of faith in the side laners in Sea, in Luti. And I think that BP, if they’re going to go for anything, trust that Endor, you can go toe-to-toe in Kyrie mechanically because their side laners need to have a leg up on their opponents. All right. Uh, I think we’ve already gotten to iron out the things that we that Vertus Pro need to work on. We’re going to discuss it a little bit more here, but before we move on with the draft, we have a very special guest with a Turner right now. It’s Delar. Thank you, casters. We’re here with General Delarski. He’s in the building right now. Hello, guys. Hello, guys. Okay. Oh, okay. I thought you were going to say something complicated. I was just about to say I don’t speak Tagalog. I was just kidding. But anyway, it looks like both Any are now fighting for their tournament lives here going through the uh lower brackets 2 to1 and they might not even come out of this alive. Right now it’s looking good for Anik ID. But were you there for the preparations that they went through before MSE group stages? Yeah, that time I’m there especially in their boot camp. Yeah, that’s it. Yeah. You don’t want to explain anything else? Uh, help me. Why are you speaking in Indo now? I have to translate. He said it was normal training that went through when they were in Indonesia cuz they were there for like a couple weeks, right? So, what was that like specifically? Like did they do um like synergy training or was it just purely scrims? I think in terms of in-game like strategy, I think they are almost same. But in terms of outside game like the uh they weren’t comfortable with the food. So Onik BH didn’t like Indonesian food. They also like but it’s different from Okay. But it’s different food from from the Philippines and that’s why they un weren’t performing as well because of the food. Stop making you’re confusing me so much. We’re going to start speaking in Tagalok very very soon. But what is your personal confidence level for both Onyx right now to make it to knockouts? I think right now they are different and they are really prepared especially game one. They are their lineup is really good. It’s it’s it’s so hard to to beat that lineup. What about for BH? Do you think that they’re going to make it to knockouts too? Yeah. Okay. So, he’s quite confident for OnPH because looking at the expressions, they seem like they were really ready to do their next matchup. So, that will be against Homeboys. So, you think it will be on PH moving forward? Yeah, I think it’s an easy game. Oh, easy game. You think it’s going to be an easy game? Do you think it’s good for them that they had to go through this lower bracket run? Yeah. For uh Kala Daro. Yeah. Okay. So, he thinks that it’s good that they went to the lower bracket so they’re more heated. They’re warmed up for their next upcoming battles perhaps in the knockouts if they do make it through. Now, which team do you think would pick Onyx from the two-0 bracket? You’re aware of how things are going to go in the knockouts, right? So, two zero teams will be able to pick from the 2-1 pool. Do you think that there’s a particular team that stands out to pick out Onyxe [Music] playoffs? Oh, okay. So, he thinks none of the teams will actually choose to pick either Onik because they’re specialties when it comes down to playoffs. Playoffs. See, you understand English. You’re He’s making me work, man. Zarski, so do you have a message for Onik ID right now who is still fighting for their tournament lives? I will I will always support you. So just keep fighting because they already know what to do anyway. So he just wants to share good luck towards them. But what about on PHP? But you’re giving an Indonesian. You know what? Keller can speak Indo now. So initially technically what he was saying was good luck to everyone especially Kala because right now he’s not feeling very very well. So hopefully he can bounce back in the next upcoming match. You’re really like yeah okay fine I’ll Okay, I’ll I’ll ask you one more thing before we go. Why do you think that in this meta it’s so easy to go for comebacks in the meta? Right now in this meta yeah in this it’s so easy for comebacks. [Music] Oh, so it’s because of the brawl style method that is happening right now. All right. Thank you so much, Lars, for making me work. I appreciate you. And we’re going to throw it over back to our casters to see who will be able to head to the knockouts. Let me just explain what happened. That was a Filipino who spoke more Indonesian in that interview than our Indonesian reporter in the English broadcast. If that isn’t proof of we have totally become a global game, I don’t know what is. Fantastic interview by Eterna and Delar. They’re always great to hear from Delar. That’s truly the ASEAN spirit here. Not just Asian. This is ASA through and through. I don’t know when he uh gave up his Filipino passport for the Indo one, but hey, that’s just me. make an assumption. I feel uh a little inadequate now cuz I can only speak a little bit. No, I I’m I’m fluent in Filipino. You are. Not going to do that. I’m not going to do that broadcast. Yeah, I think we are we are actually a multilingual uh table. We got English, Filipino, Bahasa, son of all, dude. I wish that was a sticker in game to show your face. dude. All right. So, as we talk about and wish for the stickers that we had in game and those voice lines, I think it’s now down to discussing the draft cuz clearly after game number one heading into it, though, there was a very specific window for that Hanzo to work out which side he would go for. On responded to it very well, I think Vertus Pro cannot go for crazy ideas here. they really need to double down on some fundamental picks that gives them a bigger chance of being able to outplay Onyx. Uh I mean starting with not having to ban so many of the junglers to be fair andor you can play these types of junglers too. It is hurting them indirectly. That’s what I personally feel. But again Kyrie is such a big driving force as to like if we can narrow him down to just the utility maybe we can give an option. But now they’ve adjusted, right? We’re seeing that there is going to finally be that Boxia ban, which might open up some options for Bob. But here we go. First picks Wan goes through. Yikes. I just say that now. Yikes. I was going to say, wow. The uh one, which we’re usually seeing uh banned out, goes first pick over here for Onyx. So, and we know this is a power pick for them too. They can go ahead and play into now. VP, what do they do with this? Because there’s also really good options for them uh to pick up here on this first swing. You still have the KA if they wanted to see them take the KA. I think they’d have a better time on that for Pluto. But they do take the Phobius away from Luti and then they pick up the Kimmy as well, which is again there’s so many good options. Maybe those are the best two for them. Yeah, honestly u I was thinking into the 1-1 you really need a good balance of crowd control and damage whether it’s scaling or pokes initially. Uh I I think VP now are still having to decide whether or not they will go through with their tanky fighter junglers or this might force Andoro to consider picking up an assassin because the 1-1 is such a high-profile target you need down fast. Mhm. Mhm. Uh they’re going to go with a Fred this time around alongside with the Kalia. Interesting to say the least that at least for Lutby, I thought they might want to consider getting the glue early on, but that would just close out the very first phase for Onyx side, right? So they want to make sure that they can dig a little deeper for LP. I don’t think Arlet is going to get touched this game in particular, which begs the question, what does he play at this point for the exp? Is he looking to sandbag? I mean, Uranus is still on the table. And I think that’s totally fine for a lineup like this. But they need a mid laner that has some form of damage. We’re going to see once again, it’s going to be the Granger for the side of a Super Eaga. Now we go into the second phase. What does the bands look like? I’m guessing the Farsa is going to go. Um, are there any other mid laners that they should be worried about? Considering that it’s Onyx and it’s hands maybe they do Farsa Kadita. Farsa Kadita. Won’t that be leaning a little bit too much to the mid lane bands though? That’s the thing. I mean, previously they did Farsa Kagura. Oh, that’s true. I I’m okay with Kadita in particular because at least then you don’t get punished too hard by things like Phobia. ways to kind of like get in and out of the fights without, you know, getting jumped on by the Infernal Pursuit. Like the for example, Kagura, it’s like, “Yeah, I got hella mobility, but I’m just adding more charge to the Fia’s passive.” Anyways, h if VP suddenly show up with an unexpected mid lane ban similar to uh like a Valentina, we might be expecting a Tigril pick down the line for them. But again, that’s just a very specific scenario. I don’t think it’s that bad. Oh, the death is already dead from Onyx side. It’s going to hurt VP a lot. I want to see them play something like Cho. Um, but the only problem is that like your key targets would be usually most of the time it’s going to be like the mid lane on top of the gold laner, but with Wan, it’s pretty impossible to freely get a kill. Hilda gets banned. Are they going to do it again? Are they going to try and go for the Hanzo one more time? Little bit greedy. Yeah, I hope not. I got Creamy Granger. Yeah, me Granger and then uh and then something like Aanzo. Um because even we saw that in the last game like a lot of the resources had to they went to Endor because you know they were just so far behind and it made Bober have a really hard time building up on that the Farsa. So I don’t know maybe they I would like to see them maybe they I don’t know if they want to do utility versus utility. We know that Endor is capable of that. You can see there is a Hibusa being banned out though. Yeah, it’s like wolf’s in their ear or something. It’s crazy. It’s crazy how accurate these bands are very targeted against VP’s side and especially it’s a really good read when you see the Hilda come through right almost immediately after the Farsa. So let’s see now how is this going to go because the mid and as well as gold is already predetermined by you. Right. So, do you want to show off your jungler now and then wait until the very end to see what your support’s going to be? Or do you just lock in your support now and tell Onyx like whatever, pick whatever you want because there’s really not a lot of options in terms uh of the jungle at this point. Yeah, all of them are actually kind of bad. You go lane, you’re going to get picked up. You got what? Wow. What? H I mean you did uh mention the Cho earlier for the crowd control. The other hero that does what Cho does in terms of getting vision is the Grock, but that’s going to be tough against what Onyx bringing to the table now. They go for the Labo for loot. Are they going to play Uranus jungle or something for VP? For VP. Yeah, they might be leaning towards in because this Grock is this Grock is interesting. It’s a bit of a hit or miss, right? Because if Kalia sticks on top of you, she literally waits for you to, you know, wait for your Power of Nature to then just grab you. That’s the big problem. It’s a great disengage to Wow, Valentina from Onyx side. They want the wild charge, too, man. Oh, man. I mean, that’s that’s that’s why I was thinking Versus Pro would want to consider a Valentina bad earlier, but wow. Okay, Onyx, that just I don’t get it. Why would they compromise the mid lane like this? They could have gone for the Kadita anyways and it should have been fine. I feel like that’s also just a confidence pick. You get a second setter alongside that KA and the lap. You have three setters now essentially for the side of Onyx. I I I think this feels like Sans telling coach, “Hey, I’m not bothered by the trading. I’ll be okay.” I would have preferred like a yeave or something. Create a box after we go to Uranus jungle at the very end. Oh, this one this one’s really tough. Yeah. Mhm. I I I’m not a fan of VP’s draft here, though. I I think it’s going to be hard to pull off and and like you said, there’s a lot of crowd control options for Any to utilize. Mhm. If somehow someway Vertus Pro gets a much better early game compared to Any here, they get to punish them if they get to lock down Sans who might just be more susceptible to overstepping as he is a Valentina. This could be good for BP VP. A lot of possibilities to consider. So, Gideon Nu, you guys have to take over. Yeah, thank you Remar. Oh, this is match point for Any Indonesia. BP really interesting draft. We could see the Uranus coming through eventually. I don’t think they wanted to go for especially when you’re up against that Freder you’re thinking about the Hanzo being that late game carry to get you through the end, but it’s that mid game that’s going to be a huge problem. Right now, the onus is on ID to try and close out this game a little earlier than you would have liked. The scaling is not bad from the side of Vertus Pro. Let’s jump right into into this game. Onik Indonesia on the blue side facing off against Bertus Pro on the red side fighting for tournament lives. It’s going to be once again a interesting showcase because so far statistically this Uranus in the jungle has not been too hot. Actually just in general it’s kind of fallen off a little bit struggled and this is going to take some work for Verdice Pro to make this composition work. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen the Grock come into play too. But Pluto maybe will have a more of a I guess time a better time on the Grock if he can get the setups in comparison to the Arot where you’re just throwing yourself at them. But I think either way with a Ka across from you, you’re going to have a it’s not going to be fun. Wait, let’s see who wins that retry battle. No, no, go back. Go back to the retry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s keep our eyes on this. Who wins this one? This is so important for Andoru. Ah, and it’s Kyrie who wins it out. Win out. jump in to Andoru. He’s pretty tanky. Gets cut off. Wa! Sans. Oh, and how Andoru’s gone, too. Kyrie will pick up a kill. This is devastating for VP. Yep. And even Bober ended up dying. That’s why this was so important for Oh my god, Key Boy nearly died there. This was so important for Andoru to win out in that retry battle against Kyrie because there’s no leaving this, right? Battle spells are still available for both Sans and KB boy who again were struggling to wrestle for control against Bubber and as well as Pluto, but knowing that they already used the battle spells early on, I think Sans he’s playing a mean Valentina game against Bob. Yeah, very tough uh to go down that early because, you know, as we were talking in the draft too, it’s like, yeah, it’s a Valentina, but Sans the way he’s playing, he doesn’t care. He’s willing to go for the trades. Does have a level four, so he can go ahead and take one of these ultimate. He did take the wild charge. Fight for the first turtle going to break out. Sand’s getting a position. There’s the jump through from Luffy. He’ll take out Bober already and still with the pursuit, but Andoru will get the turtle, but Embraer’s wrath will come down on multiple. Still going for it. Sans gets taken out now. Key boy and Kyrie also Luffy goes down. This is a fight all for VP. A triple kill for Andor. Beautifully played. That’s what we want to see from Badkar at a sliver of his health. He turns it around and Blue Pluto finally hitting the level four just in time for the big turnaround against Ank Indonesia. You can see that right now Endor, this is why Uranus is a big problem, especially when your opponents don’t have the raw burst damage to 100 to zero him. If he’s able to linger around in these fights now with the lead against Kyrie, two levels, might I add, he will get right in front of his face. So, this is what we’re going to see here. He’s actually going to be a nightmare in the early game. So Kyrie does get his orange. He’s going to be fine with that. But Andoru will take more from Kyrie. And like we mentioned, you know, this is a different start for VP that they definitely needed in game two. Mhm. Bober sacrifices a little bit of his own life and even a death to make sure that Endor tries to get ahead, get the retry out of Kyrie early so they can start invading consistently. And now winning that scenario and getting three kills and Doryu is significantly ahead of Kyrie at this point of time. What helps is that Pluto, this is what when Grock actually gets good. Most of the time Grocks from behind don’t make a difference unless he times his wild charge to cancel out a majority of abilities in these 5v5s. But now he’s able to walk up into enemy territory, force Kyrie to use that retribution, which works in Endor’s favor. He goes in with a flicker right into the wall for Sense. That wild charge used and a flicker down. So Sans has his own wild charge now. They know the timing on this for Pluto. So he’s not going to have that for this next turtle coming up. Mhm. I hope Sans he might want to reconsider taking instead of the wild charge but actually stealing away uh the traction the traction pulse coming in from Bob because he also gets to steal the auto attacks plus that passive which works in his favor. Yeah, they could approach that fight this way. They’re going to be the ones to start up the turtle here. So still no wild charge just yet for Pluto. They’ll play into this anyway. A tsunami slam on Andoru. He’s so tanky though. They have to commit so much. He does go down and Kyrie gets the turtle. Crossbow. The tank going to be popped off. Luffy will clean up the kill on Pluto. And now they have the advantage here numbers wise. Badcot jumps in trying to keep them at a disengage. He’s going to go in for more. Dark wave will catch Loopy and Loopy with the rest of the team will be able to get away. They couldn’t chase any further. Really nicely played by Ly right. He jumps in with the bravest fighter. He’s right on top of Pluto. He makes sure that Bobber has to respect the distance, but he throws the stun backwards onto Endor so he doesn’t slip away cuz Kyrie was locking him down. He was about to run out of CC. KBO already used his resource as well. So nicely played for the side of Anik Indonesia as they punch back, but the gold lead is still not theirs just yet. It’s very close and it’s a struggle between the two teams. Yeah, they did take away that minor lead that VP was holding on to. 1.5k plus a conceal and Pluto goes in with the wild charge. We’ll see if they respond to Tsunami slam not going to connect that key boy was looking for still the double purifies are still up here too. Bulbert still in the mid lane. They’ll keep it together. They lose that turret up top by trying to make this play. I think they want to trade here for the macro. They want to take this tier one in the bottom side and VP puts in the work. They’ll get the objective. They want to, but that was a bit of a mistake coming in from Key Boy. He could have timed his tsunami slam a little bit later cuz he ended up picking up Pluto, right? Supergora doesn’t lose his purify and Pluto still had the anti-C cuz he was close to the wall with the power of nature. So well played by Pluto and I think that at this point on Indonesia are recognizing okay Vertus Pearl here to play. We got to make sure that we win out this these scenarios. We don’t have as much of of a lead that we did in game number one. But if we’re going to come back into this we need to make sure that Seo is having a good time. His next item power spike is on the way. He’s already got the wind talker. As soon as he gets two items we might consider making a play of our own. Okay, so with that turret going down, we’ll see some changing of lanes here, too. So just trying to get as much as gold as possible. We already saw it in the previous fight. Once he gets that crossbow tank air time up, he is in a good position. Kyrie getting a little more defense. Picks up the antique carass. Now this turtle is up. It’s been one for one for both teams here. This will be the fight, the face off for this third one. They have to dance around for now. And Doryu is coming in. He’s got a level lead on Kyrie. It would be over here on the back side. And there’s a tsunami slam going to go for Bad Cot. Badcot jumps on in. Seo’s in trouble. Does get the crossbow of Tang off though. Turtles already secured. Sans still alive. Able to get Bad Caught. And now Andoru on the run. I don’t think they’re going to chase him. Two fell for VP. Everyone still alive for Onyx, but the turtle did go to Vertus Pro. Well played to both squads. Wow, that was almost a clean engagement coming in from Vertus Pro’s side. You can see the idea right back gets yked. He’s trying to like create a little bit of space, but Pluto most importantly seeing the opportunity to seize the intersection between the tsunami slam and more importantly SO walking up close to try and make it happen. The damage was there. They needed a little bit more damage from Bad Court to secure that kill. But now this is where it gets dangerous, right? The counter engagement from Rookie stopping the angles from not only Bolar and actually finding a kill onto him, but denying Super Eigora the death sonata shots. Yeah, it’s Luffy’s been doing work still on this uh Lapu Lapu. Really finding the angles and you know this at this point in the game when you have this and you’re waiting for that first Lord to come up in a minute to just kind of scrape up as much as you can for both sides here to be in a better position to fight for it. But it’s been a lot of the decision making for both sides. You can see this conceal is going to be used. I don’t think they catch anyone. Key boy’s job might also just to be if they can get some balance spells out before that objective take. That’s going to be helpful for them. But good trade up here, they’ll get another turret as Andoru takes up the tier one in the top side. And that’s good for VP. They need this. They need the space to work with with this kind of lineup. Yeah, Endor naturally trying to pull attention to himself. He is Well, unfortunately right now Onyx is walking as a squadron, right? Nobody’s kind of solo laning by themselves. They’re making sure that they have the most amount of coverage while still having options to regroup in case things gets bad cuz they know Searo is pretty slippery naturally, right? They have to commit flickers if they want to guarantee CC onto Seo’s side. However, look, if he decides to go split off on its own, there’s a good chance that Vertus Pearl is not going to let that slide for free, right? They’re probably going to time it to make sure that he doesn’t have the bravest fighter or force him to use it early to initiate for another fight as this lord spawns. It’s up now. will get the information that they need and you can expect Any to go ahead and take position and Doru still working on this purple does secure it so we’ll make his way. I’m not sure if Kyrie is going to want to grab his seals going to be used. There’s the Nami slam but the engage on Luffy as well mid lane still going to be breaking out. Crossbow Tang isn’t close enough to take down and Doryu but still finally goes down and Luffy was chasing and Doryu but doesn’t have enough to burn through this Uranus pick and now he’s in a bad position. and he’s going to get cut off from the team and it’s Onyx that loses two in the fight. Yeah, the execution from Onyx very close but not enough. Supergor played that well. Same goes for B. The fact that both of these two didn’t die and they were able to not only get the space but find the counter engage against Onyx ID. Sans got chunked out the entire time he was going into that wild charge form. Super Igora was making sure that this damage was applied well. And Doru just showing he is the nightmare right now of Kyrie taking more from the jungle and Kyrie still a couple levels behind here. Sans has been holding on to this wild charge throughout the game. We’ll see how they go ahead with this defense. They’ve lost some turrets. Now they got to deal with this lord pushing in and VP finding themselves in a good position to start getting towards the base of again with this being the first lord. Most likely just gets close to the base. I think it’s still going to be cleared out even before we get to the uh shields here. But VP fighting in the position, fighting with the fact that we have this tanky front line to handle things and it’s more so just keeping Super Igora alive, too. So, he’s done a great job with positioning in a lot of these fights. It really Yeah, it really does come to whether or not you can take out the carries from the side of Reddit Pearl. Oh, concealed just to take him off the tier two. Key Boy has initiated a lot of the fights, too. So I I I think now you really have to consider who he grabs with the tsunami slam here. It’s too tough because he doesn’t have an ideal target. The ideal target’s already a purify which they can’t force out by the way. But like you catch Badcot, he’s got that vengeance, right? DR is one of the most powerful stats in the game already. And Pluto has natural anti-CCC. So uh not a lot of value to find again. Key boy jumps on in. He’s going to go for the tsunami slam anyway under the base turret. Badcott pops the vengeance in the winner’s crown. Loopy jumping in the fray of all. Badot finally goes down and Ly looking for the target. Super dark as Sans will clean it up and now with the numbers advantage. They’re going to force VP to disengage. Onyx on the defense and they still h onto the base turret. Beautifully played here. Really good stuff. They saw that back was getting kind of like uncomfortably low. So that’s when Key Boy takes advantage of the scenario even through the vengeance. He just didn’t have enough health currently at that point of time to survive. And I mean to be fair, the winter crown was a really good call, but Seo smartly enough not just throwing everything at him, right? He didn’t commit the crossbow with Tang just yet. He waited it out. And that’s where we see the big turnaround. See if they they still hold on to this mid turret, too. So you you know, you got to say like Vertus’ pro lineup, though. What they have for this composition keeps them in a pretty good fighting form. It doesn’t really matter that they lost that gold lead that they had. Mhm. Onic ID still has to be very peculiar in how they approach these fights because once again like we’ve seen if you get that tsunami slam or you know these setups on the wrong targets and you’re not able to get to Soaper Gorka then you’re going to be at a disadvantage with just how tanky right now Verdice Pro seems to be. Yeah. If game one was about tactical supremacy, game two is about team fight prowess. And I think it’s hard, right? Because Verdice Pro have a much easier style of composition to play. And I think Pluto, you can tell by his mechanics on this Grock. Yes, Grock is simple, but the timings, his reaction time is so good, making sure that he doesn’t get punished too hard. Even though we’ve seen many, many times there’s an overload of CC. Crucial Lord here to take. They’ll go ahead and back off of it. They know Endor is right around the corner and this is not just a lord that they can go ahead and start up, but they’re going to start with a Nami slam anyway on Pluto. Pluto gets terrified and knocked up. He’s gone, but Luff is going to be the follow. So, the one for one for now. Kboy on the run and Kyrie, they don’t want to force this fight. Sans still holding on to the wild charge. They’ll heal back up and Doru healthy as well with the rest of VP. So, it’s a 4v4 the XP for the Rome. How do they approach this fight here? Sons could have a flank angle. Key boy, he’s lost his conceal, but he’s got no tsunami slam. I don’t see this happening. Doru so tanky. Sans going in with wild charge if he can pull it off. He’s going to get stunned. He goes forward. Still pops it off, but Sans is gone. Not the window that he was looking for. You saw the idea there, but it failed drastically. And now Verdice Pro gets themselves the lore. The hell was that? He had a he had multiple different lines to wild charge to almost guarantee hitting multiple people. I mean, he held it for like a decent amount of time, but he doesn’t have the base health to tank as long as he would like to. And that just didn’t make much sense. I mean, Kyrie even engaged for him to create that angle as well. Yeah, just it’s the wild charges seem to be hit or miss for on both sides. Pluto didn’t even really get to set up the way that he wanted to, but ultimately Verdice Pro comes out on top of it. They’ve got themselves this lore to push in with. Now, this is going to go ahead and charge into the base. So, we’ll see how they approach this. On ID on the back foot going to try and they’re going to start the siege. I want to see where this wall placement is coming from Pluto. Okay, it’s not too bad. Still looking for an opportunity. So, here comes the traction pulse, but no, I don’t see the engagement angle just yet. And so far, Verdice Pro very good at utilizing this lore, but they cannot guaranteed more than one inhibitor, right? Because if they want to get a second one, they’re going to have to engage pretty hard to force the fight against Onyx. Well, they still have this wave now in the mid lane. Not sure if they’ll force the situation from Onyx. There’s a tsunami slam. They’re going to choose the fight. They get the immortality to go ahead and pop actually. And Doryu is gone. And now back out of trouble, too. Sans goes in with that wild charge. They get the double to find him in the mid lane. Onyx looks to run him down. Super ego. Gorka tried to win. Pops the wind to nature. Zero on the one v one. He gets the triple and goes on through. to wipe out Vertis Pro and Onyx ID with plenty of time will now focus on this tier 2. You still have more than 10 seconds for BadC to be up. Oh my god. Can they run it down mid? They’re going to try. The next wave is going to spawn. The wave clear is okay. It’s not the greatest, but Keyboy is tanking on purpose and they’re looking to close it out. Onic after the fight, after the wipe out will take the chances for Vertus Pro. They’ll get the sweep. What a game this has been. I wasn’t expecting that was the fight to determine it all, but Key Boy is like, I’m not going to let this minion die. I’m going to put this final nail in the coffin and move on from the knockouts. A heartbreak and a nightmare for the members of Vertus Pro as Anik in one fight, in one moment, completely flipped the script and the story around. The valiant effort by the representatives representatives from EECA from MCC, but the veteran wilds of Onyx eventually give them the win over VP punishing Bertus Pro a little bit too deep in that mid lane turret. Very mature superior. I mean, it must be an emotional ride for Barber and his Pluto and as well as Endor. Again, deep heartbreak because there were so many moments in that game where they were in control, that they were executing better than Onyx Indonesia, which is a very big statement for a team like Vertus Pro. This is their first debut and they felt like they had hope. If this went into a game number three, I would have been shaking for Onyx because they look really good here. Vertus Pro, what we discussed and suggested them to do to just focus on the fundamentals and the basics and see if you can outplay Onyx. And multiple times in this game number two, they were outplaying them. I got to say it again, you know, very intense match. I honestly thought we were going to a game three, but you got to give props to Verdis Pro. Their entire journey like we’ve been saying leading in this matchup and then they they do this game two against the champions from Indonesia, you know, fantastic performance and it’s unfortunate they have to bow out. Now though, we have to listen in from Gilas Sans from Monik the Victors. Thank you so much, Casters. Another Indonesian representative here goes through from the MSE group stages into the knockouts. Congratulations, Sans. And he said that he will conduct this interview in English. No, Inda. IndaN no. Okay. Okay. Okay. I’ll help you translate. Okay. So, Sans, coming into this, it hasn’t been a smooth journey for Anik. It went, you know, up and down, up and down. Even in game number two, it felt like you were a little bit struggling there in the early stages. What happened with Onik. Okay. So he said everything is actually okay, but they did make a little bit of a mistake in the early game, but as soon as they went to turtle, they were able to save off the pressure coming in from VP into the mid game. And then what else did you say? [Laughter] Oh yeah. So basically that’s what he said. So it doesn’t it’s not that there’s anything wrong with Any. It’s just the journey that they had to undergo up until this point. Now coming to the knockouts, are you aware of the format? Okay. So, he hopes that Team Liquid will be the ones to actually choose them coming into the Knockouts. Sons, why? Oh, he said the game yesterday was really fun, so he wants to redo it again. Is there something that you want to redo better? Okay. So, he just wants uh he thinks that the match was really fun and so he wants to redo it just as a general scale. Now, earlier on I got to interview Dellarski and he mentioned that Onik PH will have an easy match. Do you agree with this? Oh, he thinks that he doesn’t really know what to expect because he does think that Homeboys will put up a really good fight and he’s actually really excited to watch it. So, no predictions. Okay, so with predictions, it’s still Any, but he knows that Homeboys will put up a good fight. Any message maybe to the two zeros who might have to think about picking you later? [Music] Okay. Not no message. He just wants TPH. Please choose us. Yes. Do you have a message maybe for a special someone at home? Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters. Thank you. Always great hearing from Sans. And wow, that is one of the first times we’ve actually heard a team just go, “Liquid, please pick us for knockouts.” They were having too much fun and they want to continue that same energy. This is what I’m talking about. The Yev effect, right? It’s all about good vibes, good times. Hey, did you hear the the excitement at the end of the match though too? You know that that is good times. Uh, real quick, I just want to say right now the members of Vertus Pro are actually taking pictures with Kyrie and other members of Onyx. As we got to see, some of the members of Vertus Pro were heartbroken with their loss and were unable to fist bump with Onyx. But right now, it seems like Vertus Pro are in good spirits and they are chatting and spending time with the members of Onyx. So, it’s great to see that. Uh, can’t see it on camera, but it is happening right now. Maybe you’ll see the pictures go on. It’s all smiles. All smiles right now for Vertus Pro. Good to see that. Hopefully, we get to see more of them in their region in future tournaments. Now, it’s time to find out who the match MVP is. Honestly, a lot of potential candidates. Maybe it’s Sans though. Maybe. Right. Seo. Okay. How are you feeling about this? Uh, I have to say I I still give it to Sans cuz like Oh, the the W but then the tsunami slams too. They force the fight into the base. So, I don’t know. I think I would have to. Yeah. Yeah. Also, Sea did get that massive like triple kill there in the end. I Okay, look. And then the chase down onto the Granger. I would say that our Sony MVP Sea is to a degree justified, but I got to give love to the EXP out there. Luke Loop was playing a strong game. I mean, when when he was up against Liquid, there were moments where you’re like, “Oh boy.” But now it’s like, “Wow, he’s blocking shots. He’s kind of doing everything in the middle of that fight.” Yeah. Congratulations again to Onic. They move on to the knockout stages. And if you want to look like a knockout in game, well, watch out for our Metro Zero skin. It’s a new skin line coming up. Uh, no spoilers just yet, but in a few days, hours or so, maybe you’re actually going to find out more details from the skin line coming up cuz we have trailers popping up soon. So, watch out for that. That has been it for us. Once again, it’s been an honor to share the desk with you. It’s a Height Despair 3. That’s our official Yes, sir. name. Now I need boxes or at least like platform shoot every time I’m paired up with you guys. But it’s always been great. Thank you so much on behalf of Gideon Q and Nisu. We’ll see you at the knockouts. But group stage isn’t done yet because Lafel, Brigida, and Miracle will be taking care of you for the second half of the day. Hit the ground off. Yeah. Hit the ground off. Yeah. I can’t take no loss. I don’t even know what it go. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] No, no, no. [Music] you hold it and drops and drops and drops and drops you drops and drops and drops and drops you. [Music] [Music] [Applause] Hey. [Music] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] I’mma get Let’s stand in. 4 3 2 1 zero. [Music] Another [Music] heat. [Music] [Music] It’s been a a full of two zeros. We have two more matches for today. Will it continue or for our group here is going to be a 2-1. Welcome to the MSE here at the Esports World Cup. And we open with this Rio and now we’re closing with this Rio. It’s me, Lafell, Brigita, as well as MCO. Welcome to Gangan Gather. Uh, how y’all feeling? Cuz don’t ask me that. Yeah. Um, I think you’re feeling good. I’m just going to assume. I’m not going to ask you. I am feeling pretty good myself after Onic ID just got a two win earlier. relieved. A whole lot of relief. Now it’s up to her. It’s my turn. It’s my turn. Right. Are you nervous? No. I mean, look at how Onyx Philippines are looking right now. How are they looking? This is something they’ve been mentioning even after they lost. Right after they lost, it didn’t feel that much big of a deal to them. I mean, it is it is a bit, you know, but you know, it was just mostly motivation for them to do better in the upcoming matches. It’s funny how you were talking about them back here because they’re arriving just now. Whoa. How does that work, dude? Rigita like wow. What? See, they just arriving. You know what? You are a phantom. A phantom. A phantom execution. You want to elaborate? What? Just call someone a phantom? Uh, I’m I’m still trying to figure out what that means. Okay. English is difficult, right? English is difficult, but now we’re seeing both teams coming in and again, this is elimination as well as qualifying for the knockout stage. So, it’s kind of like good news, bad news that this is a situation where you guys can qualify to the knockout stage. The kind of bad news is that you don’t get to choose your opponents. Although, I kind of feel like if Onic Philippines goes through, they’ll be like maybe the last two picks. Yeah, as that’s true. Maybe this and the other Onyx like very high chances. I mean, SRG too, right? But no, I think SRG first pick. Okay. So, that’s my assumption. What about you? I think so too. I mean considering Onyx Philippines might be the ones to go through. Onyx ID have already gone through. The two ones are looking really really stacked. And again, Onyx Philippines, even though they lost against Aurora, these are still the reigning M6 world champions. Yeah, I feel like that’s a good point. The 2-1 teams are actually quite scary. So, it it almost feels like no matter who you choose, it’s kind of not the best matchup. Yeah, we’re looking at Onyx Philippines here and I feel like they have spoken about how yes in in M6 they were dominant cuz people weren’t able to really adapt to how they play. Now people are adapting and after the loss they feel more encouraged rather than discouraged cuz they’re like, “Okay, the competition is getting real now. It’s time for us to start try harding.” Yeah, try harding. That’s a word, I think. Um, look it up. Okay, I’ll look it up later. So after that, more encouragement and determination I feel are the words to describe how Onyx Th’s play style has evolved throughout the first few days here in the group stage of MSE. And I feel like we see that in the way there has just been a sudden jump in terms of performance. Not the cleanest of transitions yet to what we know of them in the previous tournament similar to M6, but I think even the numbers speak for themselves, right? Um, King Kong already after losing, the next moment we saw them fight again was able to snatch away the record for highest kills, but not now anymore since someone else was already able to snatch that title away earlier this day. But that’s just one of the examples of how we see Ony continuously trying to adjust and improve along the way. Yeah. So, that’s the Super family. Now, we got to look at the family coming in from Malaysia. We got to talk about the homeboys here where again looking at their story is that they were all coming in from other teams that didn’t want to accept them and now they’re here on the world stage and even though it does look kind of bad. This is definitely an uphill battle because you’re not just going up against any opponent they are the current world champion. So, and we saw they made a lot of mistakes especially yesterday within one day. Have they had enough time to really really recuperate especially mentally because again going up against world champions. Yeah, that’s a big question here coming for home boys. Again, they have kind of defied all odds in their own region. In Malaysia, they were amazing. They defied expectations. A lot of them, the analysts, the people back at home who were watching as well. But once you get to the international stage, it’s a different style as completely right. Different stage, so much more pressure as well. It does seem like homeboys just haven’t been able to find that comfort within the group stage. Yeah. Although for like some of the teams and particularly homeboys who’ve been through at least a couple of series already here in this tournament. Hopefully the same problems we saw from the other teams who played for the first time don’t resurface in this match. Similar to um a jitters and hesitation because I think a point we’ve been trying to put across yesterday time and time again was that they need to be a little more firm in their decisions a little more decisive and confident because you definitely need to have that mindset especially going up against this kind of team because you can’t feel pressured. you can’t feel overwhelmed by the thought that you’re going up against this team and that you’re already in the lower brackets. And for you guys, I hope just to remind you guys, the MSE pass is still available. It’s 20% off. So, make sure you guys grab it quick because this is a chance for you to grab previous skins that you guys didn’t get before. Kind of like the Atlas skin, which we only saw one, so I want to see more of it. But you know what? It is what is it? Yeah, I think it really depends on the draft, right? It is what is it. It could be another way for them to bring up here if they go for the Eastern Chin Ruby. That’s what we saw from Aurora and we get to see them later on for our final match of the day as well. But I think for home boys, they might want to stick to the meta. I don’t think they want to diverge out of the meta. On Philippines on the other hand, I don’t know what they’re going to do. They brought a Kura yesterday. Yeah, that that’s the thing. I kind of feel like it’s also a trap if you go for this meta picks because Super Finn so far, I feel like almost every single game he’s been changing those heroes and I feel like the mid lane is one of those roles where you’re able to counter a lot of a certain draft. So, it’s also something that you have to look out for because when people pick up metadrafts, something like the Farsa, all of a sudden Farsa catching heroes like the Jawhead and then you have heroes like the Kagura which kind of just denies all of that and now Yeah. and now we’re jumping straight into the draft. Homeboy is first pick, Any is second pick and they’re bing out the Selena as well as the one one Philippines banning out the Jin. Mhm. I think that also uh one of the big concerns for me when I’m like rooting for the other guy against Onyx, it’s just I don’t know if they’re still experimenting. I don’t know if the last two matches where we saw them kind of like shake. You’re talking about Onic Philippines and Onic ID, both the Onyx, their first few matches in MSE 2025, it looked like obviously they were shaky in game, but the picks weren’t really the picks that we expected. the aman front ID on a Philippines again the Kagura the no respect towards Selena against Aurora 2 that now you’re kind of put in a place where you’re constantly thinking are they going to go for meta are they going to go for their own vision of MLBB both are equally scary because you just can’t prepare for that and they’re the kind of team who despite deciding to introduce those kinds of interesting picks are still capable of showing the fundamentals of still able to carry it out in its essence and what just is basically needed from that lineup to work. But now interesting. Mhm. Back is the last ban. So that leaves I guess all the Lancelots still out there for picking for both of these teams. But other than that, I don’t know. Like in terms of options here, like like you said, Lanclot, the Kalia, um I kind of feel like those two are the more safer ones. The other first picks are I would say counterable. the fasisk. Yeah, I agree. It’s going to be really tough for homeboy now to decide. I thought the chin would be left open by themselves just forcing on a killip to deal with either the box or the een chin, but now it places homeboy uh to a pick where again can be countered. This isn’t the Ka of the past where that second skill’s range can outrange anyone and you can go for easy picks. Now you kind of have to combo with flicker. Yeah, and I also feel like Onyx PH might just stick with the idea of saving Super Princess heroes for later in this game because that has been a trend. I think we mentioned it. It’s not just the um Kaguras, it’s been the Phyamises and all that. So, the good old There you go. Phyamis or Fire Lon because I should answer the Fire. Maybe she’s predicting early. Yeah, we might see a Fire later on. So, now we see it with this comp yesterday. Now I want to see if they want to counter this with a CC pick because we saw yesterday that even against the landlord the CC is kind of a good pick as long as you time that current call very very well and other than that what is going to be the priority because in terms of mid like I said I’m just worried that they will eventually get countered and is one of the main carries for homeboys although it does seem lately he’s more of a support role more than anything else. Yeah it’s just tough. I I was thinking about the Farsa, but the Farsa just doesn’t really seem like the best choice to go for here if homeboys want to continue to play the way that they’ve been playing the last two matches. Like they’ve been very sporadic in the team fights. It hasn’t been clean front to backs. Although to be fair, you did say you want to see more meta. I kind of feel like this is kind of more meta. It’s just that from home boys. It could get countered. But I I kind of feel like going up against on Philippines, you just have to have that that that bravery. Just try it out. If it doesn’t work game number one, maybe they have plan B for game number two. Yeah. So maybe this is really them sticking to just what’s familiar so they can focus more on the macro and just playing the game as a whole. But Onyx PH wrap up the first phase of their draft with the Granger. I’m liking it so far since it doesn’t reveal much just yet and it leaves a bit of room to adjust since you already see the CC which you mentioned was a great answer not just to the fobios but I feel to any other frontliner they want to put alongside the Fobio and in especially in terms of diving in. So they’ll have a bit more room to think of whether or not they want to go for that. Oh, but they’ve banned the Fanny and the Fred Rein. Oh, honestly with this Granger pick, I’m I’m kind of worried because we got to talk about this story as well, the golden goat, Kelra, the golden standard going up against the ordinary marksman, Mel Cutie, where I would say in this tournament, he doesn’t look too uh too confident and going up against Kellra on a pick like Granger, which is very lane dominant. It might put too much pressure to the point where Mel Cutie is really going to going to feel stuck, going to feel very much um I would say suffocated to the point where he doesn’t know what to do in the game. I’m glad you brought that topic out because uh right now it does seem like that’s what Philippines are trying to play into. They picked up the Granger and usually you would expect the Aithal ban, the Moscow band taking away these mobile heroes in the gold lane just to enable the Granger. But yeah, uh the golden standard is um feeling themsel. The ordinary marksman may be a bit too ordinary for Onyx Philippines now because they’re saying go ahead pick up the counter matchup. We are confident that Kel will still win that matchup either way and they’ve gone for the Badang on Brusco too. They’re now playing to what I was expecting from Ani Philippines from day number one. Their strength is this these the team fighting composition with massive sets. They’re picking the Sierra heroes. Yeah. So probably the is a given but the jungler maybe not or could be a Moskov still. Yeah. Oh, they still pick the joy despite the badang and the fobius. It I mean it does seem like there’s little to no options left for Amal. There’s the Hayabusa and other assassins, I guess. But this is again sticking to the meta. But speaking of, let’s talk about picking their best heroes on game one. I kind of feel like I feel like this is their their mindset. They want to get a very good momentum going in and making sure that they have a very dominant game one so that not only does Onyx Philippines have that confidence, but take away the little confidence that Homeboy has. So, I kind of feel like for for Homeboy, they have to make sure early and mid is good cuz I kind of feel like losing in the mid game really screws if you’re hit. If you lose late game, it’s kind of like, yeah, whatever. They’re the best team. But either way, this is, I would say, a very good draft coming in from both teams. We can definitely see the win condition. It really is about executing it. So, now I’m going to give it over to Merko as well as Brigita to start this game. Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been seeing a whole lot of different variants of Onic Philippines here in this tournament, MSE 2025 at the Esports World Cup. We’ve seen day one to day four. Crazy picks all around, but finally here for the qualifying matchup, they decide to go with what works best. It’s Lo Yi, a signature pick on the man who immortalized himself in the game with this pick at the M6 World Championship. Only difference is it’s been changed. Now you’re visible. Welcome to Atlanta Dawn, homeboys. Can they deal with this? And imagine these are also some of the picks which super friends introduced the entire idea of the brave smite emblems to as well. So we’re seeing that as we bring up the emblem build, a very tanky Lui emblem build at that. So it’s tenacity brave smite and the same goes for Brusco. And it seems like they’re banking on the idea of really spamming their skills as much as they can with that additional cool down reduction that they have. could be the case with the tenacity on both. Yeah, they might just be looking for Oh, that was pretty early from Bruce Skull. Okay. Yeah, an interesting sight to behold here early on. Master Assassin on the other side for Mel QT in the gold lane. Really still playing towards the strength of the Moscow again up against the Granger. Still feels the confidence even though we’ve been talking about it. He hasn’t really been able to perform at the level we expected him, especially after watching MP Malaysia. Everybody else seems pretty normal. Nothing too crazy except for that um early flicker I guess that we really saw. But I I probably it was just playing safe since he saw that Ivan was nearby. But King Kong tries to damage Vel just a bit since uh it might not be an easy task to actually go for the early pick up on the CC at this point. So, I like how homeboys are actually being very careful of where they decide to position themselves and not just careful with the just the right with just the right amount of aggression at that. It seems like they really want to attempt and contest this first objective. Yeah, Mryo already here. See the damage from Fris not level four yet. Guess level four late. They should be free, but Ama walks up. Okay, infernal pursuits coming in from Kirk, but so will the flicker cuz the curtain call was already committed, but that’s already enough time for King Kong to secure the objective and home boys will just play safe. There’s a diversion. Where could they go? So they I mean, if this is the case, you’ll always have to be careful if you’re home boys, right? Yeah, this is the thing, you know, uh me and Midnight actually have spoken about a few things with the Loi change. We thought did that would make the uh Loi obsolete in the meta but the way that we saw Sans play it that was the first time that was the only time we’ve seen Loi before this by the way guys is uh Sans using it in a way where it just scares your opponents he would just use the diversion to give vision to the opponents opponents see the Loi diversioning and they’re like oh where do we go they’re behind us they overthink oh Ivan finds Bruce go they decide to burst him down there’s the fistreak already will have enough damage they secure first blood in this game. So, yeah, when you mentioned that, I was worried about Homeboy and their capabilities of scouting out where Onyx PH might be, checking the brushes and all that, but it seems like the the call is just Isami or Ivan rather committing the crowd control skills. If there’s a target, then so be it. They have the tools to burst him down. Mhm. Now, it’s who walks up a wow early purify. Yeah, Philippines are giving homeboys so much respect in the early game. That flicker early from Brusco now the instant purifier from Super Prince right as the skill one landed and Keller is doing a good job in lane right now. Mel QT’s got to be careful. Yeah, the matchup and the laning phase might be quite the struggle here for Malc. But what’s important is really just holding on being the Moskov here and doing other things across the map later on when needed from your team. But homeboys, they’re the ones holding the brush again. yet to find Brusco. Targets him down. Air strike already committed, but King Kong will be just right in time. But nonetheless, it’s still Bruce who gets picked off first on the bad. Great punish. Homeboys are really just utilizing the pace of an Philippines and slowing it way down. They are holding angles instead of opening up the map because they know are the ones who are going to do that. Kirk holding on to the turtle. It will just be a free one for King Kong. So yeah, homeboy, it’s all about reactions from them. They’ve just been reacting to the moves of Bonic Philippines and punishing them. Diversion up top. Oh, Malcu used the spear of misery. Also has the flicker, but the phantom execution. Thorn Rose will catch up. Will keep himself safe under the turret. And Amal might just catch up to King Kong. Electrifying be already committed. Oh, the SOT also lands and Malc decides to go in. But then there’s just the right timing coming in from Kirk, but he gets punished. Brought under the turret while he still gets to commit the dark wave and the infernal pursuits. He’s up against four and he won’t be able to survive that. And again, homeboys have just read Any Philippines out all the way from the early stages of the game. Yes, they haven’t been able to get neutral objectives, but it goes to show how Onic Philippines have been the ones proactively moving around the map. They’ve been proactively getting the position around neutral objectives, so they get the advantage there. But when it comes to just pure setup in team fights, homeboys have had Anic Philippines number and it’s not even being reactive in a bad way. It’s a good reaction. reaction that we’re home because they’ve been holding the brushes really well. I would expect the faster rotations to them, but it seems like they’re using that to their advantage in a different way to just out position on PH and find the right timings to go in and surprise them. But there’s another diversion. Ivan spots where they’re planning to go though, so him and Mel QD will be able to keep themselves safe while Onyx at this point, yeah, might be settling to work on the objectives for now. has been destroyed. A lot of times teams just panic whenever they see Onyx Philippines, you know, make these crazy moves, play with the pace that we have known them to play with, but homeboys again have just stayed calm and composed. And that has what uh that’s been what Philippines have been struggling with. They just cannot seem to understand the tempo of homeboys. They cannot seem to understand like why aren’t homeboys making mistakes when we’re constantly rotating around the map popping these diversions. So it comes down to the objective battle still and when we’re talking about that it is still Onic Philippines hold the lead and bounty on Amal that Onyx PH can claim. So comeback potential still on and even the lead. Mhm. Although the gold lead hasn’t been growing that much between these two teams. This might be an opening for home boys to do just that. They in full control of the turtle. Ivan who uses the conceal but Kusco finds the target and somehow Kurt gets the last hit on the turtle. Now they’re chasing after home boys. There goes the path execution. King Kong finds the kill onto Bell and Kelra gets access to is a but goes in with the SOD. A cleans them up. What a steal by Onyx Philippines trying to adapt to this chess game that we’ve been having in Atlanta between homeboys and Onyx Philippines. But right as they pull the trigger again, play aggressively, it’s punished by Homeboy. So this game has literally just been about waiting for overextensions and punishing. You see that from Onic Philippines, punishing Homeboy for making the proactive play on Turtle and then it’s Onyx with the chase and another punish from homeboys. That’s what we we’ve been seeing in the land of dawn. It’s a punish battle. And I don’t know who’s winning cuz again kills homeboys, but everything else seemed to be Onyx Philippines. So, it’s still a very even game. And this is surprising to see for a team who, you know, is very well calculated in terms of their decisions. Onyx Philippines are the ones constantly being punished. King Kong versus Amalo won’t be proceeding with the fight just yet, but the better air strike is already gets canceled by the dark wave. And look at the damage from Kela. Seems like he’s getting some stacks in already with that ranger. And this might be the change in tempo that they need because they’re able to group up a bit more and just let King Kong do King Kong things on the Lancelot. I mean, the first times, first few times he did use the Lancelot back then, it was always this kind of play. It’s not just looking for the fights just yet. It’s really working on other things and farming up until you feel confident enough to join the fight. Although that may not be entirely applicable for the Lancelot now. Mhm. And now they they slow the game entirely. Onic Philippines, I think they understood, you know, what homeboys have been doing in the early game, just adapting to that fast pace. And Onic Philippines slowed down their own tempo by a whole lot utilizing the diversions to play with that overthinking. Brusco. Oh, finds the target on to Malcue. Kra doesn’t get enough damage. Doesn’t land the right amount of bullets just yet, though. Okay, somehow this is a good standing for me and a really good situation for him. 202 on that Moscow. Yep, really good stuff. Ivan walks up. Tsunami slam. He decides to commit it onto Kirk who still has the flicker to somehow get out. Curtain call already committed by Vel as well. So those are two ultimates already used. Actually, maybe three even cuz Ianami doesn’t have his feathered air strike as well. Big resources burnt out on Philippines with a slow down on the tempo. That could have been the read. Kirk jumps in again. Oh, Ivan trying to look for the knockup and he finds it. King Kong though keeps himself alive long enough to also find the kill. So will not latch on to anyone and Onyx secures the objective and there goes the shutdown kill onto a Mal. They get damaged by Fed Air Strike, but will they catch up to Malcutie? No. Wow. Well played, Mel. That was a really good spot to recall. just a pixel away from being outside of the bush. Really played around with those small little margins to get away. On Philippines though again have slowed the game down to a point where they are comfortable. They’ve gone back to their previous style of when teams don’t panic up against them which is I think this is like an old M3 style on Philippine sty. It’s the banana split. They’ve just been constantly splitting up the map, playing it slowly, utilizing the diversion to get back into contention of the big neutral objectives. And that’s what the big lead is all about now for Any Philippines. It’s about getting structures and objectives. Kills still behind. Another diversion to get them closer to the big objective that they want to get, which is definitely that base turret up top as they siege down. And Kel, he’s only had one sky piercer, but one big fight could change everything. Yep. It’s nice to see Onyx adapting to the on the fly, introducing those very familiar play styles, too, which definitely are working for them here in this kind of situation. They’ve got some of the most crucial kills, the shutdown gold on Amal as well. And if the gold lead was very small up until the I’d say seven or 8 minute mark of this game, now it’s ballooned to 5k in their hands. So, it’s looking to be a very difficult situation for homeboys, but at least they have the tools to defend. They have the Farsa and the Moskov to somehow deal with the waves that are coming in. But now on PH, they might find or they might seem a lot more confident to just go in with those surprise setups from Busco if he finds another key target similar to how he has done it earlier. Mhm. But that’s the point now for Onic Philippines, right? Early game they were still reaching for a lead. That’s why they you saw again that fast-paced combo from Onyx. Constantly looking for something around the map. I tsunami slam, but that’s what the purify is for. Yeah, great reaction again. Back to the point. On need to look for those surprises anymore. They can constantly throw faints like this diversions to open up the map. But the early game where there was a lot of desperate moves from Mic Philippines won’t be seen here cuz they already have a 5,600 gold lead. And they’ll just play for the next neutral objective. Blade armor already picked up by Kirk as well. So Onyx BH definitely at this point have a lot more ways to deal with the surprises that can come in from home boys too if ever they’re the ones who want to do that because Ivan has been very consistent in looking for targets and looking for those setups. Even just by looking at Keller and Melie Kel just needs one more item to complete his build on this ranger. Oh, and King Kong might just find a kill down bottom. He’s looking for the kill on Belle. Sod will land, but they might not commit this anymore unless Ivan wants to actually go for it. Disappointed the knock up onto King Kong somehow gets to immune himself though. But then Malcudi, he gets stunned by Kirk, so he won’t be able to supply the damage. And that’s three kills already for Onyx, making it four because Kelra, he finds a triple. A forced engage from homeboys. very unnecessary and very weird to say because in this game it’s been a calm and composed homeboys. They suddenly make a desperate play and it might cost them the game. One second on fell, two base turrets will fall. On a again the damage from King Call doesn’t even allow the feathered air strike to be casted. And just in a split second, that’s game number one for Onyx. Wow, the calm before the storm. We saw the storm and it was instant. How that was setting up to be a longer game. It ended quick for Onic Philippines. Yeah, I kind of feel like this game is really a game of patience as well as discipline where both teams are really talking about, okay, we know the strengths of each of us, but I kind of feel like maybe homeboys just took that a little bit too far because I kind of feel like they have the right idea. But this is why we usually criticize this kind of game play is that you don’t look for those opportunities, right? So I kind of I kind of feel like it’s a good idea to wait for those opportunities to present themselves. But once you have like a small enough lead, try to extend it. I feel like that’s the only thing that they didn’t do is that they didn’t extend it. There has to be a switch. There has to be capitalization on top of the punishments. I agree with you completely, Lafell. I think here in for home boys, the game plan was just react to Onic Philippines with one style. They expect the Onic Philippines to come in guns blazing and that’s it. They didn’t really prepare for a slower Onic Philippines, a smarter Onyx Philippines who again took the game by themselves just by controlling the tempo. Yeah, by the moment King Kong just decided to not go for the fights anymore, just focus on the objectives and when they wanted to do the same, just allow Kellra to maybe go for the double lanings and secure the farmings every now and then. It was a completely different story here for homeboys because the rotations didn’t come in as fast anymore from BH. So, there weren’t much room for them to anticipate where they could be coming from and just catch them by surprise. I kind of feel like the thing about going up against Philippines where you’re trying to stall out the game is that you figure that your late game is pretty strong with the Moscow as well as the Farsa. But again, one of the reasons why we talk about the lens is that lens kind of feels like a late game assassin now where he basically can oneshot you. So, I kind of feel like they didn’t really put that into consideration where they feel like they can outplay King Kong the moment he comes in either with Ivan or or just punish that mistake. But again, the front line coming in Kirk as well as Bruce just opens up the team fight so much. There’s a lot of opportunities for King Kong to go in without getting punished. Yeah, there there was an opportunity for homeboys a couple of times when they were in the lead, but they really just didn’t take it. They still wanted to play the reactive game. They still wanted to punish an overextending Onyx Philippines. And that’s what uh that’s what you need to have, ladies and gentlemen. When one style of your play, one of one style gets countered, you have to change. You have to adapt. And I kind of feel like this is the problem because we saw yesterday the exact opposite. They try to force everything. And now they’re being very reactive, which kind of shows that maybe they’re not entirely sure what’s the best play style for them. And now they only have one game to really adapt going up against Onyx Philippines where they like like Brigita said, it just mid game. That’s going to be tough for homeboys though. if that was already the idea for their overnight adjustment or probably meeting that they might have to be the ones to be a little more reactive considering that Onyx is indeed a very aggressive team. But definitely they could learn a thing or two from this game that they too can pick up the pace whenever they want to and not get overhyped because I feel like there were moments too for homeboys that maybe they realized down the line that they actually have to be a little more decisive too. And I feel like that was most evident in that last sequence we saw down bottom because it was right before an objective. Ivan seemed like he still wanted to force something even when Vel was already down. With this conversation moving through, I kind of want to go back to the interview with Keller. Well, Carol said during M6, no one could figure out how they play so they were able to stomp the competition. It looks like in MSE, people are starting to figure out how they play and does look like homeboys they’ve prepared going up against on Philippines where yes, they lost. Yes, it was very passive, but at the same time, I feel like it was a very good effort. Yeah, it was it was a great plan, great game plan by the coaching staff, but then when it came to the execution of adapting again into the later stage of the game, it got really difficult. So, to go back to the point that Brigita uh mentioned, the decisiveness, I actually thought that was indecisive by home boys because yes, Ivan went in, but everybody were confused. Everybody’s like, “No, we don’t want to go in.” And that’s why Ivan jumped in alone, gets a tsunami, and then the team’s like, “All right, he’s already in. We have to go. We can’t just leave him alone cuz that’ll be a free lord.” Then they went in. So, you have to stay decisive. No hesitation, right? The team hesitated, but I also honestly feel like it was a bad call. Yeah. Yeah. Um, agreed. And now look at King Kong because he understood like they’re not going to go for a fight, so might as well farm. And again, like like I I I really feel like Lana has been transitioning into more of a mid late game hero where you can literally just one-shot people. 911 gold per minute in 13 minutes. That’s pretty impressive. Yeah, that’s high. Um especially considering it’s a 97 kill score. You know, it’s not like they got like 30 kills and homeboys only got two. Yeah, the game started with home boys getting a lot more from Onyx BH2. So, it’s amazing to see how he balanced it out just by being very consistent in terms of farming. And so maybe that’s another thing, consistency for both of these teams. Um, but not in a way that should restrict you because it felt like homeboys wanted to be consistent with what they were doing all the way and that’s not how it should have worked for them if they wanted to win that game. Yeah. And now I have a bit of a hot take. All right. Hotake presented by Alhabib Medical Group. Now, to be fair, it’s not really a part of this matchup, but it’s something that I’ve been holding in, which is my hot take is I want a meta, at least for one month, to be a lot about fighters, cuz I kind of feel like all the fighters, the designs are so cool. Like we see the Leo, the Tavos, the Ruby. Uh, honestly, like even um even Argus, Lapu, Lapu, like I kind of feel like we’re we’re stuck into the maximum of one fighter, maybe two. Putting fighters inside the jungle because look at all the fighters. They’re so cool, but we can’t use them. I mean, there are rubies now. Rubies now. Yeah, but I But remember the draft where there’s like two, three fighters, the Yeah. back in the day, like the the constant rotations and the team fighting just just keep fighting all the time. Like I’m not saying I’m not saying like for a few years, maybe just like at least a month, you know, just to let just to let gold laners, mid laners, junglers feel that that that fighter sensation and then after that, all right, go back to standard, you know, maybe like an off season or something. Yeah, I would actually love that. I would actually love to see a little bit more of a different meta here because yeah, we have kind of been in the same meta roughly from M3 to now. No, M3 was the last time we actually saw a lot of fighters. So after M3, it was just because we still don’t have the user. M we still don’t have the Yuzong on. And I’m I’m pretty sure the audience wants wants a Yuzong. We did an MWI, but as a mid laner, I don’t want a Yuzong. But hey, we got to think about the audience here. I agree. I agree. As a gold laner, I do not want to use either. But I You know what? No. I’m just going to say no now because I want to save my KDA in the land of Dawn. Okay. But hopefully when we do get there or maybe we’re getting there. Earlier this day, there was a Dyroth. Yeah, but that that’s kind of what what I want, you know, like more more fighters cuz now it’s like it has to be a marksman. At least there are less Uranus or maybe not. Yeah, I don’t actually I don’t like the Uranus. Before this, there’s zero Uranus. Now, even when it’s meta, it’s very not picked. Mhm. That’s true. It’s with the sustain heroes like this, like the Esme and Uranus, it’s kind of it’s so hard to balance because when you buff them too much, it becomes super pryo. It conquers the game. But when you nerf him too much, it just non-existent. Completely non-existent. Like the moment you pick it up, people will smash you for it. Yeah. Why are you trolling in my game? He’s trolling in my game. Like, guys, guys, guys, this guy is trolling. Report, report. And then they win. It’s like, eh, I got good teammates. The switch up is crazy. They’ll be like, “Oh my god, this guy, he’s trolling in my draft.” And then he wins. They’re like, “That’s my boy. That’s my goat. He’s always been my goat.” Number one is me in world. Number one. Why is it so hard to balance fighters? So, that’s my hot take. I hope you guys have a different hot take cuz I’m pretty sure I’m pretty sure someone wants a lot more mages, a lot more assassins. More mia, more no. Okay. No more mia. Uh, it’s like, you know, you know, like in those games where you you either have the godly Mia Mhm. or worse that I can’t even say on broadcast. You’ve had a godly Mia in your game. Oh, I have. Wow. In in in Malaysia, we had this we had this uh friendly uh I don’t know agreement between ranked players for one week. It was just one week, but in that one week, there’s a lot of MIA. After that, not so much. Oh, was Yeah, that was a that was a fun one. When was that? Like right after the patch or I mean, you don’t know cuz you weren’t playing rank in Malaysia. It’s not a tournament thing. It’s a rank thing. It’s a rank thing. It’s a rank. I played ranked games in Malaysia. Trust me, everything is still meta there. Especially when you’re solo queuing, man. So, if you guys want to try new picks, that’s that’s why that’s why you boot camp in Malaysia. There’s there’s a lot of whatifs happening every single game. You’re always prepared. Fast internet, good food, everything is everything is meta. Just don’t solo queue. Hey, or do solo queue so you can learn. So you can learn. So you can be better. If you play with your team, you’re just going to win all the time. What do you learn by winning? You don’t Oh. You don’t learn as much as the losers. Yes. But I think you would want to win $1 million. Okay. Right now I I want to talk about the all stars here because hey, it’s been crazy. It’s been wild and it’s only going to be here up until the 5th of August. So, make sure you guys play the game right now because you can you can still get the Popo and Koopa skin. But make sure you guys do all the tasks again up until August 5th. Going up into this this matchup. Um, I kind of feel like homos have roughly the same idea. I’m just worried if they switch it up a little bit too much cuz kind of I kind of feel like the foundation is there. Just needs polishing. Maybe maybe even waxing. Maybe even pomading. I agree, dude. I I really agree with homeboys here because I think the draft wasn’t really that bad. They they actually had a proper draft and it showed in the game because they were able to outplay Oni Philippines a couple of times through reacting. It’s just now how the players execute the game plan a bit better. after reacting to those plays, punishing on a Philippines, we need to see a level of capitalization that we didn’t see in game one that should be present here. And yes, they don’t change anything so far. It’s the same game plan coming into game two. Yeah. So, probably for Homeboys in terms of draft, still sticking to these kinds of lineups, unlike those we saw yesterday because yesterday might have been a bit too extreme in terms of what they wanted to try. this kind of approach feels a little more comfortable for them. It’s just that the execution is what needs to be polished a bit or whatever you said. Like I’m not I’m not entirely sure how Ivan is comfortable with pickoff heroes because the thing in Malaysia even even Chiku said one of the uh the better play styles of Malaysia’s pickoff heroes and we saw the success with SRG picking up the Kalia and even though homeboy lost I would say it does look good because you’re able to punish your opponent’s overextension. So, I do want to see if homeboy stick at at least roughly the same idea. We need at least one catch hero and then a hero that can punish by dealing just a lot of damage. Yeah, I just wonder why they keep banning the eastern shin, right? Because they first pick now. I guess the what lead what that leads me to believe is the fact that I think homeboys just don’t play the eastern shin well the composition or they really want first pick Kalia, right? Which if if on Philippines banned now then it’s going to be a bit awkward. Mhm. Kimmy ban. Whoa. All right. It’s the exact same. Yeah. No changes at all. This is You know, you know what they say? What? Uh you you you pay it if you break it. You what? What? You pay it if you break for it if you break it. You pay for it if you break it. Yeah, that’s what they say. I’ve been to a few. Uh if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Is that Is that what you were looking for? That’s the other one, which I guess can apply here, but you know. Okay. I just I just want to be different. Was I not different? That was very different. That was very different. Very different. I liked it. I liked it. So, if it’s Oh, Keller Innocent and CW are the only players in this year who ever was ever. Shut up and talk. Come on. Shut up. Again, Keller Innocent and CW are the only players in this year’s MSE who were able to secure a savage. Yeah, she went very fast that one. She played by play that. She played by play that one and the Lancelot comes through and Anie Philippines responded instantly as well. They play by play the draft here. Ka and Phobia. So that’s a whole lot of peel, my friend. Onyx have used the landslot really well because they’ve taken away some of these counters. And now the fact that Onic Philippines have taken away again the two good picks against the landslot, this means the lance isn’t really going to be as slippery as we saw in game one. Yeah, I just wonder if they’ll still feel like they want to pick up the fara in game number one. They did that even when the Lancelot was on the other side. Now it’s in their side. So maybe they would, but they don’t pick it up here. They actually plan to change things except or not the far anymore. Okay, so Lancelot Gatot has I kind of feel like the Gatot is number one a way to counter a lot of what on Philippines could do, including if they pick up a fara or any kind of assassins. At least with unbreakable, you’re able to counter it. And I kind of feel like for Mel Cutie, he just wants something that has the possibility of actually winning the lane because I kind of feel like that that’s part of the uh the not good thing about the previous draft was that he was not able to get out of lane. Like you pick up the Moscow with the SOD trying to get there, but then you don’t get it and then now they pick up the Fanny and there’s no catch. No point and click catch. Yeah, no point and click catch. They have a taunt, yes, but that isn’t really reliable when you’re up against a Fanny. I think this is the first time where I’ll say the Fanny actually looks good. Uh the other times that we’ve been seeing the Fanny, it’s been I think bad picks into like really good drafts against the Fanny that could just peel away for the carries. Now 0%. Let’s see if King Kong can actually turn the ties of that win rate. I’m personally hyped for this. They’ve set up perfectly for it. The Kala Phobius takeaway now banning out the Badangu. Homeboys will respect the Beatrix. There you go. Okay, that’s funny though because I think the most recent team who used the Fanny was home boys too like yesterday and it looked okay honestly like you know you know Lancla sorry uh the Fanny they always have okay games they just can’t close it out that’s the biggest problem yeah even the Kufra respect here they really want to enable this Fanny so could they potentially be playing around this instead what if what if on PH No just say oh my I’m getting so I thought of it, but then I took it back because I realized they have no late game. But the fighter in the gold again, oh, like a ruby. Yeah, I personally I don’t think that’ll come out again. I think that’s a strat like when you have a marksman in the gold lane, sorry, in the jungle. So you already have a bit of siege there, range there. Yeah. So could make sense by just peeling for the Shin in the jungle. Valon ban from Voice. It means are they looking to go for like a Phamis? That makes me wonder. Granger comes out for Philippines. A safe choice in the gold lane for Kelra. What is the plan? Yeah, they want a big ultimate, but what is it going to be? What is that big ultimate? Belle has use a chewy XP before. It didn’t really work out. So, I don’t know if they want to go to that extent for the other catch heroes that they is available right now. There’s the Edith. Even the Ed is kind of like Yeah, you have to get luckyish because you’re not going up against any Fanny. It’s uh it’s King Kong’s Fanny and like the Franco doesn’t you don’t have a combo with the Franco yet, right? The Gata will then have to go XP if you go Franco. They go like Kadita and um unless it’s a it can’t be a little ban the Valon if you want to go if you want to go Kadita like is the rough wave stat scary to give away because what other mid laners that can save themselves against a Fanny at this point? Yeah, Miss Link Fram is like right now. Yeah. Valban usually leads to like an Edith Phamiss choice if if Okay, so if they pick up a Phamis, they still need, in my opinion, a secondary finisher. So you kind of need your exp laner to be someone that can actually dive to the back. Honestly, like it’s been so way back, but the Valentina is usually banned if there’s a Lucas supposedly, right? But I don’t think it’s going to like I don’t think they’re going to consider that either. So it’s either the fire miss or cuz other mids like like fara even etc just you know volatile towards the fanny so that’s you know and I think right now that oh oh no I don’t think so right now there’s a lock up already for yeah that that’s that’s what I said I’m I’m thinking of all these huge alts that you would ban a Valentina and now I’m I’m drawing a bit of a blank yeah I think that my guess would be like a Franco and a Kaya to like try to stop the fatty those two bigs that could uh stop for sure as a stopper. But for Philippines, now they have a Granger, Fanny, Ka and Fious, I think they have enough peel. They have enough distractions to distract homeboy’s backline and to distract the landslot to open up for a fara cuz imagine far Granger here up against the Harth. Harth ain’t even going to get close. Like when you pop Zanforce, you’re already too low. And even then, you get punished by the Fobious constantly jumping. Yeah. I was also thinking if homeboy wanted to consider that, but since there’s a far uh there’s a Fanny, maybe not. Yeah. So, it’s being it looks Oh, they pick out the far side as well as the Edith. So, they’re going to try it out. Okay. Okay. So, it is You know what? Edith, respect it. This might be your final game. Just guns blazing. Guns blazing, you know. Yep. Put all your marbles in the marble cup. Is that what’s cup? That’s a small That’s a pretty big cup, man. Every everyone has a marble cup in Malaysia. Uh some parts of the world. Yeah, it’s a big world. There’s like 8 billionish people. Oh my goodness. Well, there seems to only be two picks in the mid lane so far in the series. This is why I say I want more fighters. Yeah, maybe we need the fighters in the mid lane to make it exciting. But for now, it’ll be the same exact matchup. At least in the mid lane. Everything. Oh, Granger two. Okay. Yeah. And right now, looking at the drafts here, I kind of feel like for both teams, they kind of got what they wanted. It doesn’t seem like a lot of takeaways except for that Kalia. But now we really have to see because Onyx Philippines looks like they learned a lot from game number one and took some crucial picks away from homeboys. Now homeboys, this is their potential last hurrah. We got to see if Onyx Philippines can close this out or Homeboy has a lot to say about that. I’m tossing it over to Brigita as well as MKO. Thank you so much Lfell for that toss. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to game number two. Homeboys take on Anik Philippines. on the Philippines currently 1 Z holding match point to qualify and to send homeboys back home. Will homeboy be able to equalize? We’ll find out in the land of dawn as Natan flies over to bring us right here. Amal on the landslot King Kong on a signature fatty. I feel like we have to put a bit more emphasis on the way on PH did take away crucial heroes from home boys, but they’re playing it very aggressively. 36 minutes or seconds and they secure first blood. Oh my goodness. Our friends on this Lui does not disappoint so far. Mhm. King Kong 2 already punishing knows the mid pryo is there for them, but this could be punished. No, they just get it straight up too. Wait, that was retreated by Amo. Did Ammo get it? I didn’t get to see the XPS. Oh, King Kong knows he already used retry, so he wants to battle for this little camp. He’s got to be careful, though. He’s wasting precious time. He still has a retribution, but was he going to use it there? He actually did. He just wanted to deny it so much from a He’s so petty, man. He’s like, “Okay, you steal that one. I’ll take another one.” Huh? What you going to do next? Huh? You have no retreat. Oh, man. Well, it’s a big lead for Onic Philippines. Like you said, at the start of the game, you really need to respect the KA level one, dude. I think this hero’s been out for a while. I don’t know why players still go and fight level one Kao with especially Loi. This is like the worst comp to go up against level one. And it feels like it’s always been the Farses who get punished in the early game. Like I know there’s the wings by wings, so you get a you get a chance to position yourself somewhere faster than your opponents, but that’s something that’s just read out by most teams by now. So clearly on PH have anticipated that rotation coming in from homeboy so far and now they’re working on the exp lane. Definitely would want to get some help from Kirk as they try or maybe attempt to go for this first objective, but that diversion was something visible though. Oh, they instead go for a mal forces him to puncture out of it. Onward already committed now onto Kirk and he might not be able to get away. That’s an objective for home boys. Could could they get another kill? Okay, that’s a two for the turtle trade so far for home boys. Yeah, King Kong gets the purple and uh there’s no punish by Mel pops in force but doesn’t have the unly dashes just yet. On Philippines, that was strange from them. They went in knowing King Kong didn’t even want to fight. He was already at the purple buff. Didn’t look like he was interested and now goes into battle again for this green camp. Yep, I had the same thoughts. I was wondering why they wanted to commit it so much. But Ianami wings by wings out and again I wonder what the call was because even Super Prince the diversion was committed but homeboys was fully aware of where he was going to come from. Now I think we can take a quick look at the emblem build so far. Still the same for Super Friends. I think uh it’s pretty standard for most of the heroes so far. Even Vel just has a bit of the uh attack speed here. The only not only thing not standard is the tenacity for Super Prince, but that’s standard if we use game one as a reference. That was the same uh choice of emblems for Super Prince again wanting to be in the front just playing with the spacing, playing with the sustain of the brave smite tool. Firmness I guess with the Kala is a bit different. I think previous game it was pull yourself together and agility for Ivan. Another air strike coming down on Brusco. Good taunt too. Oh, Tsunami slam already committed now on to Ivan, but he gets to AOG himself out, but King Kong will chase after him. There are three members of homeboys, though whom he might go up against. Nearly got punished, but gets the fly away. This could be a rare case of, you know, a rusty Fanny Onic Philippines. Yeah, they haven’t really been able to get the value out of King Kong’s Fanny. Maybe a lack of practice because it just never gets left open. He’s going to have to shake that rush real quick cuz homeboy have a pretty amazing draft to take it a mid to late, right? Like they all scale. They can play it slow in the early game and they’ve already won turtle one. The most action we’ve seen was when they were stealing away jungle creeps from each other in the early stages of the game and that might have happened once again. King Kong’s ahead by a level though up against a mile. So this time around might have decided that they want to take on this fight but homeboy have enough resources. Oh, the earth shattered gets dodged. However, they might try to go and punish Bell this time around. Primal rat gets committed, but Amal freely gets his ants on the objective. It’s on PH wanting to fight back. King Kong jumps over the cut. Only goes on Vel. Yeah, they lose Ivan for Brusco. One for one, but obviously it’s worth it for Homeboy who got the turtle. Clean take for homeboys. Diversion over. They got to be careful here. They decide to go up top and it’ll just be capitalization. This time it’s already different. They’ve improved from what we saw in game one. After getting kills, after getting the punishes, they capitalize with objectives with even stealing away camps in enemy jungle. Oh, game could have been caught there, but no one else was near Bruce either way. But yeah, clearly improvements from home boys and somehow a sort of similar situation to how Ony encountered the early game in game number one as well. Or it’s also probably just because again, as you’ve mentioned, we haven’t been seeing the value just yet come in from the Fanny. They haven’t been able to maximize the early game presence from this Fanny. Even despite that level um lead that it’s been able to establish so far earlier on it’s been evened out by now it’s already Amal catching up only 100 gold behind King Kong. Mhm. For Philippines the one hope that they still have especially when we get to the later stage of the game will be Kelra 700 gold ahead still in this game. Another diversion to send them into mid lane. Yeah, Onyx Philippines at this point of the game, they just have to they just have to team fight better than homeboys. That homeboys are not making it easy. Good poke. Yep. Duality. Amazing poke. They’ve been able to poke Ivan and Vel down really low. Could have broken out to a fight, but boys decide to play it safe and might just be a good call since there is only 8 seconds left before the next objective. So, they could keep themselves alive before then. But it seems like they’re planning to do something in the mid lane. Mhm. Battle for Turtle mid pryo again. Mel in the mid lane. Different priorities for Onyx Philippines. They send Granger Kra up top. So it’s a 4v5 already. It’ll be a trade for a turret. Yep. They just let go of this turtle. King Kong passes through the members of homeboys. Nearly gets caught there. Oh, but the diversion will be able to send Super Friends away. So Onyx PH so far, they’ve just been mostly trading objectives for home boys. All three turtles, they did contest one, but not entirely even. It wasn’t a full commit onto trying to contest that turtle. Yep. They’re avoiding fights on Philippines now. I think because they have identified that homeboy have the better brawling composition at least early on just because of the damage output, the CC potential as well of the Edith. I think this is really the game changer here for homeboys. Even if you miss the earth shatter, that primal wrath does so much damage and Onyx will have to kind of play around the window which stays for quite a bit. And it’s not just the Edith, it’s Edith plus Har and the feather air. There’s so many we like one cycle of cool down abilities that make it very difficult for Onyx Philippines to force out longer fights. That’s true. I think that’s going to be the key word for this game. Homeboys, it feels like they have the better comp in terms of the sustained team fights that could happen later on. They have not just the Edith with a primal raft, but even the Harth whereas Onyx Philippines mainly because they have the Fanny, they have to be able to look for those big plays that they get immediate value out of because if not, Homeboy could always find a way to turn things around and that’s exactly what they seem to be respecting as you mentioned. So Onik PH might be playing it a little more safe for now. Not unless they go for a target. That’s going to be Vel. Will they have enough damage to burst him down though? They do doesn’t get to cast the primal rant on the other side of the map. King Kong just finds Isan Nami. There’s the Zaman force already coming in from Malcud, but Kirk is doing a great job at trying to stop him in his tracks. And that’s two members they find from home boys. On Philippines caught homeboys before they could even react to it. And they panicked. They really did. As Nami popped in for the air strike in a pretty nonoptimal spot and now it’s the full punish from Onic Philippines capitalizing. Look at the timer for Onic Philippines. clean in their decision as well. When they decide to go for a fight like that, it’s always time to perfection towards the neutral objective spawning. They won’t get it, but they have a slow push up top. So, they’ve already built the setup for this fight. Do they still want to commit? King Kong maybe will be able to catch up. Ivan already pretty low. Me, he tries to go for execution already committed. A gets the last hit on the objective. Rusco gets punished but King flies in looks for the target and now PH just keep going at it and Val is the only member left from the side of home boys but they don’t even care. They want to end the game through top lane. Val, can you defend without the primal wrath? I don’t think on it can end right here. Right, they have a cannon minion. Will they actually do this? Vel, what can he do to deny this? There’s the duality. Gets to knock up three members. forces out the flicker out of Super Friends, but he gets taken down and Onic PH might try to go for it. But there’s the Fed air strike. They’ll have to disengage. They have to run away. A big gamble by Onyx Philippines. It doesn’t pay off, but they don’t get punished either. Like they got a big base turret, too. So, in the end, it’s so value for Any. And again, this has really just been the pattern of MSE 2025. Objectives sometimes are overrated when you can’t really have a few of your members surviving after the objective, neutral ones. All right. And that’s what we saw. Homeboys, they got the neutral objective. They used everything to get it. And Onyx Philippines really identified how they need to tackle these fights. They just have to attack from multiple different angles. They need to send one guy to bait out most of the resources where in that case it was Kirk and Brusco that they sent forward and then everybody can just come in and clean up. Yeah. It also helped that Vel was kind of alone during that moment. So Onyx PH it seemed like they did not hesitate to pour all of their resources or most of their resources on him despite him being what was that? An off cam kill in the mid lane against Melie. These kinds of errors cannot happen if you’re homeboys because those are the heroes who can potentially extend and prolong the fights for your team and that’s what on ph does not want but so far they only have a single holy shield left and even that gets popped will he go in air strike just to clear the minion waves. Oh boys who would have expected them to be this much behind after how they started things. Great start by homeboys, but an a more amazing recovery from Oni Philippines. It was just so clean by them. I don’t know. It’s the slowdown of the tempo into objective takes into punishing the neutral objective setup of homeboys and the perfectly timed pickoffs. Got to mention that too. King Kong also shaking the rust off. If you saw a game early game Fanny the way he was cabling and the fan you see right now, you’d just expect, oh, that’s two different players, right? the early game banning was someone else. Now it’s King Kong. But yeah, that’s how it works, ladies and gentlemen. When when you don’t play a certain hero for the longest time after it gets banned for what, almost half a year, you’ll need to shake off a bit of that rust when you get back onto it. I don’t even think in scrims people want to deal with that. So on Philippines, yeah, just had they needed a bit more time to shake the rust off. Now they have everything. A slow push down below as well that Iami will have to deal with. He will get sent down below. Conceal already from Ivan. Uh and was revealed by the death sonata too. So Onyx PH have full information on where majority of the members at least on home boys are the taunt. Oh no, the onward catches King Kong for a moment though, but still Fel gets deleted. Not looking too good for homeboys but still they try to fight back. Kirk coming in from the sides gets to find the knock up onto forces out the wings by wings but Ivan holding so much for PH but Kirk’s doing other things on the other side of the map and Keller finds the kill on Ivan. Perfect execution by the reigning world champions. They know homeboys need to utilize that cycle of skill once it’s down. It’s a big window of opportunity for Philippines to punish and King Kong without the purple buff is looking for it. Oh, somehow they get to cancel a mile. Death Sonata doesn’t land, but it seems like they’ll be able to take out all the remaining base turrets for homeboys except the one down bottom. Discipline from Onyx PH. Diversion out and they do not risk it. No. Onic Philippines go back to the calm and composed nature that they’ve been showing from game number one. At least after they saw how homeboys reacted to their plays. King Kong. Yes, we saw the turret very low. King Kong will just dash in. No minions, no problem. Sieges it down all alone. And that makes it three base turrets down. Slow push built up forever in the bottom lane. They just want all the super minions, I guess. Oh, but there’s the flicker combo coming in from Vel, but the counter to Nami slam onto Malcutie gets him punished. King Kong finding a way to look for the targets on BH uses the cutthroat to get through the wall. Now in a monster kill against Izanami. Amal trying his best to escape. Uses the eye frames but Kel chasing after him. And it’s only Amal left alone to defend. We’ve seen miracles in the past, but Amal has to walk all the way back. Phantom execution tries to clear away, but gets blasted by Kelra. And it seems like the day of sweeps will continue. Onik Pabid proceeds to the knockout and homeboys are eliminated here. Another clean sweep. Like Brigita just said, today has been the day of sweeps and Veronic Philippines, they’re on the smiling side. I got to say, I kind of feel like homeboys, they kind of figure it out a little bit too late in their run here in MSC Essup. I kind of feel like it really is just about showing like that lack of experience of playing on the stage, right? Cuz I got to feel like it’s it’s definitely a different beast playing at home and now playing in in a different country in a different environment against different opponents, right? Either way, congratulations to Anik Philippines for moving on through. Yes, we saw that. We a smack. What do I say? What do we say about that? Yeah. Oh, man. and Lel, it’s just unfortunate to see home boys because again, like you said, they figured it out, but that lack of experience really hurt them. Impatience towards the end as well. They needed to save at least a few of those big ultimates in that final fight after getting the pick on Bruce Skull, but Mel QT popped in Zaman force, feather air strike, primal rat, everyone just used it at the same time that gave Onyx such an easy road to then just say, “All right, we’ll just wait for those to get off. Once it’s on cool down, boom, we’ll just go shoot him down, clean them up, proceed with the long team fights. And it’s the complete opposite for Onyx. They stayed composed all throughout, even despite again some of the rust showing, especially in the Fanny for King Kong. He just, I guess, needed some time to reset, you know, focus on taking the buffs and just probably trying to figure things out down the line. But yeah, I feel like homeboys this time around they did what we mentioned in terms of being not too hesitant and going in at the same time like not leaving each other behind. But yeah, it kind of backfired. I mean like we’ll continue this conversation later on because right now we got to troll do an interview with Eterna as well as King Kong. Thank you boys and girls. Here we are with King Kong. What’s up, King Kong? Hello. Hello. Feeling good. Uh, feeling blessed. Feeling blessed. Perfect. All right. So, earlier on in the group stages, obviously, it was a little bit shaky for you guys. You had to go to lower bracket, but then you went through back-to back wins. What was the X factor there? Um, the X factor, I think it’s the things we realized after our first match versus Aurora Turkey. What was that? What did you realize? um some lack in chemistry and decision makings inside the game. Oh, lack of chemistry. That’s interesting. That’s never been a problem for PH. What’s been going on? Any anything happened behind the scenes? Um some lapses inside the game. That’s it. Lapses. Okay. It doesn’t look like you want to elaborate on that. Do you want to elaborate? What lapses? Um secret. Secret. Okay, that’s fine. A lot of people have been wondering maybe is it because of a challenging meta for you in particular? I mean considering we are kind of buying into a situation where it’s no longer just assassins in the jungle, but you have to be a little bit more flexible with the tanks and the fighters. Has that been difficult for you? Um for the team, I think it’s an exciting patch because the hero pool is so huge. What about you? Um fun. Fun. No, no, not not hard, not difficult, nothing. Um, just a little. Just a little. Cuz I mean, considering in this particular game you went back to back assassin, right? The Lancelot and the Fanny. Is that something more comfortable for you? Uh, yes, of course. It’s one of my favorite heroes, Lancelot and Fanny. I see. Do you think other junglers have been struggling with this? Uh, let’s see. Let’s see. A man of a man of few words. A man of few words. Okay, that’s fine. Um, in that particular situation then do you think that there is a particular team that has really understood and figured out the meta? I think it would it would be Oni Indonesia and Team Liquid Philippines. Okay, those two teams. And considering coming into the knockouts, there is a chance that TLPH picks you. Is that something that you might be looking forward to or do you want some other team to pick you instead? I think um we are expecting Team Liquid to choose us because they know us how to they know they know how we play. Oh, so PH versus PH first day of knockouts. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Of course. Yeah. Three words. Yes, of course. Yes, of course. So, a lot of teams right now really want the LPH to pick them. Very peculiar. Very peculiar. But to close things out, I heard that you lift. Is that true? Um, secret secret is I mean you’re posting all Oh. Oh. Oh, there we go. Cuz I heard Sanford said that he lifts more than you. Um, yeah. Okay. Okay. We’re going to throw it over back to the casters. That’s what he want. If that’s what he wants. That’s what he want. Sure. You live more, bro. He’s He’s so n Don’t Shalant now, man. Nonchalon. This is nonchalant. King Kong, dude. PR PR, man. PR ruins everything. I thought he was going to say people change. No, this is It is. What is it? Why Why do people have to be professional? Oh, it’s part of the game. It’s part of the game. Part of the game. I did not expect that, though. Like, he used to be a lot more animated and uh No, here’s the thing. Here’s the thing. when you when you have a lot of uh very vocal fans, they they change you, right? Who are you talking about now? Yeah, doesn’t change. He he kind of just accepts it, but you know, like uh honestly, I understand there’s a there’s a lot of people out there. There’s a lot of people. But speaking of which, we saw the match up just now. Now, I’m I’m just going to call it Gotling. Let’s see who’s the match MVP is going to be. I will be so surprised if it’s camera. Can I Can I predict the next match? Hey, we’ll all say at the same time. One, two, three. Gold. Yeah, there you go. Hey, cuz cuz you you want to win, you need a gold. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That’s about it for the breakdown on our Sony match MVP because Hey, Cal did amazing that game. Hey, the golden goat. toy did amazing yesterday. The gold lane in the previous game did amazing and all the other golders from before, they’re like so good. I just love the gold lane right now, you know? I think there’s a lot of love to be given over to the gold lane. Gold laners, you guys are amazing. Everyone else do better. Hey, and you guys don’t forget to support your teams. It only costs around 20 diamonds, so make sure you guys go on in into the phone and then just support the teams that you guys are supporting for. And here’s the thing, there’s not too many teams left to support. They’re going to be eight right after the match out coming up next, which is going to be Flash going up against Aurora. So, that’s going to be uh pretty exciting as well. We’ve had three two O’s. Will it be a fourth? I mean, we had one day full of 21, so why not? Yeah. If we can have a 12game day, we can also have an eight game day. Aurora versus Flash. Flash. Yeah. Predictions, Brig. After this, we’re going to have the draw, by the way. So, so in I’m just going to tell you guys early after the show ends, just just wait for a bit. We’re going to have a draw where the teams are going to select who they’re going up against. And even though King Kong did say there’s a chance that TL will pick them and they say because TL knows how they play, the reverse is true, right? Any knows how TL plays. So, and mind game Kong King Kong is be likely game. You know how to fight us, right? I mean, you defeated us before. Don’t forget to wink. You could do again. Wink. Okay, there you go. So, predictions. Flash. Aurora. Oh, I thought I escaped it. You know what? How about like he doesn’t want to hear my I I think you know what? No, because like when we say something, we’re going for a break. Bye-bye, guys. We’re going for a break. See you guys later. At I am [Music] [Music] on hold on. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] All [Music] [Music] right. [Music] We be living in fantasy. I’ve been living all my dreams. No worries. No worries. We be living everything. We be living in harmony. I feel it. Feel it in our dreams. I got everything that I need. Got it all right here in me. I’m feel my destiny. I am ready. Set me free. Just pass it all to me and go. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I’mma get in. 4 3 2 1 zero. [Music] Number two. [Music] Welcome back to the final match of today where we will figure out who will be the final team to advance to the knockout stage. Is it going to be Flash or Aurora from Turkey? Welcome back. My name is Ael. Alongside with me is MKO as well as Brigita. You guys are watching the English broadcast here at MSE EWC. And uh I’m I’m I’m having a very okay day. Just an okay day. It’s like u it’s like three words. Wait, what did you say again? Okay. And three words. Yes, of course. Yes, of course. There you go. Just Okay. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Hey, you know what? That’s that’s the story of uh MSE nowadays. You got to be nonchalant. You got to be you got to be men or women of few words. Actually, I wouldn’t mind that. Yeah, I feel like some people should talk less. Especially the casters which just get to game, right, Chad? Right, Chad? Start the game. Casters all the time. Hey, man. Hey casters, why are you pausing? Exactly. We’re looking at you guys. We’re looking at y’all. We’re looking at y’all. We’re going to start the game, right? No, we can’t. We have to. We We got to wait for the teams to arrive, which they haven’t arrived. See? Right. So, how are we going to start the game when they’re not even there? Huh, Chad? Exactly. You got to calm down. Nonchalant. Okay. Why did you have to Why you have to what? Squint your eyes. Nonchalant. Cuz there’s lights. Speaking of lights, let’s talk about Aurora, right? Oh, you like that transition? The Northern Lights. Yeah. Let’s talk about Aurora here. First of all, I kind of feel like this is one of the teams that people are like, we think they’re good, but then when they play, they’re like, “Holy shields, they’re good.” Holy shield. That was close. Uh was what I said during the Ourel versus Onyx Philippines matchup. Yes, I agree. You expect them to be good, but you don’t expect them to be that good. Especially when the man you see on your screen gets Selena. Ooh, but that talk about it. Talk about it. That could be a weakness. Yo, that could be a weakness cuz then being like, hey, hey, hey, guess what? Hey, guess what? What’s up, Selena? Ban up. Guess what’s up. Well, at least that’s how the Kings RQ did it. They were like, you know what? Nah. And game number two and game number three, they were like, “All right, well, ban the Selena.” And then Aurora really struggled after that. So now the big question is, are they just Selena OTP? Well, I wonder how Rosa’s feeling about that because even during times where yes, RQ forced both Tenzi and Rosa to adjust, it was mostly on Rosa. Just Rosa. Like every now and then, they’ll even let Tenz get his hands on the assassin junglers, but it’s just Rosa who they just cannot let the Selena. So, it’s not that Tenz needs the assassin, it’s Rosa. Rosa needs the assassin. The Selena. The Selena. Hey, who knows? Maybe the Amon. Maybe the Guion. Probably not. Probably not. But hey, a man can dream. Aman was actually Tenz’s pick back in the day. Like if you remember M4, he brought that up a couple of times at MSC as well, if I’m not mistaken, 2023 when they were still under the banner of Fireflux. I mean, I don’t know. Like, first of all, like looking at it, it was like a flash. Speaking of flash, let’s look at Team Flash here because they are actually the previous years. Yeah. One of those teams that you you know they’re good, but it’s like, “Holy heels, you’re good. They got top four last year.” Mhm. And this year, if you want to go top four, this this is what my uncle told me. You got to go top eight first. Wa. That’s dude. That’s that’s that’s a nugget of wisdom. You’re lucky you got that uncle, man. Cuz I don’t like my uncle. Oh, why why say that? Anyway, I mean, we put a lot of focus on We put Anyway, we put a lot of focus on Rosa. Yeah, but I feel like we also should talk about the man on the screen which is the previously. Yeah, the the the forgotten teasy the uh the uh what role he plays again? Mid lane, I think. Oh, so it doesn’t just gold lane. What do you mean? No, mid lane. We’re here to talk about the gold laners. Well, I mean because in the previous match that he fought was actually one of the most aggressive and one of the most um one of the highlights for Team Flash. I mean, he was the one who tied the uh score in terms of highest skills because previously it was at 13 and then with his Kimmy, he also did the same. And I wish I could just stop at saying his Kimmy because he actually decided to bring out the likes of a gourd and all those heroes. So nice was happy. Nice was happy. But you know, if the man can bring out a Martis, a Fanny in last year, who’s to say he can bring out these local picks again this year? Like we like we’ve seen a lot of midlaners now. The only ones that in my mind right now we haven’t seen is Chang. Cha. Um, Nana. Nana. Udora. Mhm. Veil. We haven’t seen Veil. That’s true. We haven’t seen Veil. We haven’t seen Veil. Cyclops. I mean, we will, but yeah. Wait, what? Maybe we won’t. But yeah. Hey, we even saw Kagura. Hey. Oh, yeah. You know, you know, you know what my uh good friend used to say? What? What did your good friend used to say? I don’t have a good friend. Oh, they’re all pretty bad. I thought you were going to say they’re all pretty great, but hey, you took negative route short. But yeah, uh there’s still a lot of mid laners that we still have not seen, but at least this is more diverse than like a few months ago, right? Um we we saw the Kadita. Uh we even saw the Valier. Yeah. Rabbi Onic Philippines. Did they win? I kind of feel like they No, they lost that first game against Aurora. Yeah. So I think a lot of the mid lane picks when they do try to go for crazy picks, we haven’t really seen too much success. Actually, never mind. The Kura actually won. And the Kadina uh was it from Sans first? So just the Valier. Yeah, just the Valier. Zan’s out of the meta by the way. Got it. That’ll be That’s true. I think for majority of the roles, we’ve seen a lot more options come in. No, except the jungle. Wait, I think except the exp. I think the exp is the least right now. It’s just been art lap phobia Uranus sometimes. Yeah, sometimes like we don’t we don’t even see uh what you call it uh we saw a dyroth earlier today. Saw a dyro. We haven’t seen uh anything else like a high loss and etc. And we actually have we have in the XP in the XP. It hasn’t been good but we saw it. Maybe that’s why I forgot I got a lot of trauma. And now we got to look at rereamers because while we’re watching here we got our friends all over the world. Look at this. Oh, Z Cass is number one alongside with Syia R seven, Tatsumaki, Blank, as well as Fix. So, a good representation here. Um, three from YouTube, one from Facebook. Dude, can’t believe people still use that. And then YouTube and Tik Tok. Yeah, I think it’s just you guys. Yeah. No, I mean like we use Facebook, but not like this. Not not for reream. Uh, that’s true. But Oh, same there. I mean, we barely get to see the uh streams happen on Facebook nowadays, but that’s a lot for a stream that’s happening on Facebook. Fourth, actually for Blank. That’s interesting. If you guys want to check out our streamers here, I feel like these are just five out of the many streamers we have. These are the top five. These are top five. You see top top five, of course. Correction, my bad. But there are a lot of compilations going on circulating of the many reactions because there have been a lot of insane plays to be fair happening here in MSE. And it’s fun to see how these guys react to it every now and then. I think here my competitive side l says, “Ah, we could get there. You could do better. We could do better.” Hey, imagine a call out to all the just just bring a laptop here. Let’s casting dude streaming. He’s like, “Oh my god, look at that play.” And then 5 minutes later, chat, there’s a fiveminute delay, ll. So you’re going to be like, “Oh, oh my god, triple.” And then five minutes later you have to do it again for your reream. Exactly. So meta. Um but yeah congratulations and actually thank you to all our rereamers because again like the audience not just want to see they also want to feel this kind of connection right and uh streamers are able to do that. Now let’s talk about this this matchup Aurora going up against Flash. Um Flash with their unpredictability in the draft even something with Leo more gold. Do you guys feel like this will actually help them out or it’s going to be bad for them going up against Aurora that has like we all know mastered the basics? Oh man, for Flash I I think it is going to be tough for them because I think for them they’re still kind of struggling to decide what is their most their best meta their best picks right now. Kind of like homeboys then. Kind of like homeboys but also kind of like Rora. That’s why I think this is going to be an interesting matchup because even Aurora find themselves in that position. They don’t know what to do without the Selena. Do they still uh go with that aggressive composition, aggressive style, or do they now take a step back and say, “All right, without the Selena, let’s play the classic Aurora style.” You know what I wish? What? I could just ask like, “Hey, you actually can.” Hey, y’all going to use the Selena? Hey, that’s so cool though. Yeah. Yeah, we can we can ask them cuz like bad girls have sitting right there. Right there. Yep. Mhm. Cuz they they they gave extra chairs. Shout out to EWC bringing in six chairs. Dang. I do think that in terms of like all the surprises though, like there’s a slight advantage for Why are you mimicking my but there’s a slight advantage for Aurora Turkey because like personally I feel for team Flash like they’re familiar with the pigs that they bring out. Yes, they know how to play these pigs, but like they don’t fully get to consider the matchups and all that. But in Aurora’s case, when they did bring out a very unique and interesting draft, there was the um Atlas groupy draft. Atlas was good. It played so well into the enemy lineup, right? So, those are things are I feel like those are one of the differences between these two teams. But if there’s anything the draft between these two coaches are definitely going to be fun. I mean, speaking of fun, right now there’s a lot of things going to be flashing on screen cuz we’re going to go over for a quick break. Uh, we got some issues here, but we’re going to solve it really quick. So, make sure you guys don’t go anywhere because we’ll be back in Aurora. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Silence shakes the ground. Shake shake shake shake the ground. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] [Music] And this means that Onyx PH will stay in this tournament. [Music] My best friend The extreme car was fine. It was just a quick question. So, if you actually enter the playoff, who do you think will pick on it? I’m not really sure. It depends on the go. [Music] Check this out. Look over here. [Music] [Music] Thank you. Thank you. Bye guys. [Music] What will you be doing later? Just practice pract practicing again and eat. Eat a lot and rest. Don’t forget to rest everyone. That’s the the number one thing. [Music] In a moment of mild hesitation, we have currently arrived at the situation where we are at right now in the same location where we have been in the past previous days. Name’s Afel. Alongside me is Merkel as well as Brigita. You’re good at holding it in. Yep. I’m I’m I’m trying to break you, but hey, you know what? The short form of what Lfell just said, fun to start. Welcome back. Yeah, we’re still waiting for the players. I believe they’re here. No, no, they’re not. Nope. What? No. No. Cover. Cover. Cuz we got to do arrivals later. Yeah. Yeah. There he goes. They’re not here yet. Okay. We’re a man of few words. It would be kind of funny to be like the players have arrived. I’m doing a King Kong thing. Yeah. You know, we we’ll do all the King Kong things nowadays. And when when interviewers come ask us be like, who do you think is going to win? One of them. You just give him a non-answer every time. Not not going to lie. At this point, I don’t know how you do it. I don’t want to give up predictions anymore cuz no matter what, you always lose. That’s true. That’s true. You always lose, folks. You always didn’t want to hear my No. Meaning like meaning like even if the the person you think is going to win does win, you still lose. Yeah. You know that. Yeah. Right. So, be biased. Okay. I won’t. Let’s all not do what? Let’s all not. Let’s all not. I heard she say, “Let’s shall not.” Let’s shall What does that mean? That can be easy. See, you don’t understand English. She does. She’s from the Philippines. She knows English better than you. That’s true. That’s true. Let’s shall not. Actually, now when you see that the players have arrived, by the way, you know, they’re just there. You know, you see you see over here got a we got the we got the flashes. They’re all the way over there. And again, they’re playing for elimination as well as going for the um going for the knockout stage. This is the final match of the day. It is still going to be a best of three where after this matchup concludes, we will have all two O teams as well as all 2-1 teams, which later on we’ll be doing the knockout draws where the two O teams will be selecting the 21-1 teams. Well, number one, two, and three gets to choose number four. Yeah, they get to just get who’s left. You know, it’s kind of like in high school when you want to go first pick, you want to get But here, the last pick is the scariest. Yeah. Unlike in high school. Yeah. Yeah. Either way, you don’t want the last one. You just really don’t want. No one wants them, but you’re kind of forced to. So, right now, but then that becomes the question, who will be the last one? Wo wo wo wo. Right now, I believe cuz we got two Onyx. TL number one spirit. No, no. As in like who’s the last that’s going to be picked cuz we got two Onyx there. And I kind of feel like no one really wants to go up against the two Onyx two cuz you know you know what they say hedgehogs are scary. Depends on what kind of hedgehogs like real life I don’t think they’re that scary but in that show hedgehog just took a lot of hot sauce and and recently got scolded by his or her boss. Mhm. And they dropped their coffee. What’s the difference between a hedgehog and a porcupine? again question. That’s a good question. Question. I’m going to Google that right now. Yeah, we probably got to check. But while he’s checking, don’t you worry, guys. We are about to start the match again. Please be patient with us. You know, we’re still waiting for the players to get ready here. You can see JPL right behind me right here getting ready, setting up. Vanx right there, too. They are trying to strategize. They’re trying to think about what to do here against Aurora, knowing that Aurora have only found success on Selena. But it could be a flash composition that is very aggressive team fighting oriented right Masha XP it could actually work against those pickoff heavy Selena type compositions and to be fair a lot of teams have their eyes on Aurora Turkey now as the standout team quote unquote and this is interesting because last year we did mention that it was team flash or then NIP Flash who was the standout team but or as many considered them to be the stand standout team. So, this is a matchup of where there’s a bit of history, too, I guess, because it’s not just them being standouts at two different times in tournaments, but also them having a bit of history between each other. I believe there have been a couple of times where in wasn’t it the that team flash beat beating then Fireflux or right? So, there’s been that sort of history. No, no, not last year. There was a time before and then last year they beat them too. Anyways, hedgehogs and porcupines, while both spiny mammals, differ significantly in size, cool spine structure, and defensive mechanism. Did you just do that on a honor tablet? Hedgehogs are smaller with short non-detachable spines, and they curl into a ball when threatened. I didn’t hear anything, by the way. But that’s the difference. Porcupines are larger. Oh, you can’t hear me right now? I can, but I just I zoned out, you know. All right, we can dance. You can still hear me. Oh, you’re the one. Oh, sorry. Sorry. You the one I can’t hear. I can’t hear him. Oh, my bad. My bad. My bad. I was I was giving you a solution to a problem that I don’t have. Yeah. You by trying to solve my problem, you create problems for yourself. Oh my gosh. So, who do you think is going to win? I thought we’re not talking about that. That is true. We are not talking about that. Heck, you know what? Let’s talk about the draft cuz who know when, right? But so Selena will be banned. will probably be banned here unless Zay does a we can counter it move. Whoa. With what? My my my hot take is that there are players that so good you can’t really counter. Yeah, like me. Like you. Why aren’t you playing for homeboys? Yeah. Why aren’t you playing for homeboys if you’re that good? Be here is better. What? That’s a good answer. That’s a good answer, dude. Like, respect. You know, game is game. It could be better, but you know, maybe translation. Translation. You want to translate? You want to translate? You speak Tagalog, right? Yeah. That one. You speak Tagalog, right? Tagalog. So, what should I translate? Tagalog. Yeah. So, like when Kelra speaks. Ah, yeah. I want I want I know she’s slow. I didn’t know it was that slow. Hey, speed is relative. That’s true. That could be slow for you, but could be fast for a lot of people. Hey. Yeah. Hey, I don’t know what that was. Welcome to Gang and G. This is Gank and G. This is Gank and Gather and this is the draft where Flash second. Oh, I look even the players like why are they so excited with that? Oh, we love our job. We do. I’ve been waiting for this. We’ve been waiting for this since 1:00 p.m. Well, here it is, boys. Aurora blue side. So, this does fit, you know, the color scheme that but also the play style and also the draft style that they’ve gone for for most of their wins, you know, against Philippines. They won game one, game three when they were on blue side when they caught Yunshin early. I like that you respect my color blindness if if it was she would she would lay it all on me. By the way, um, Arlet One band, uh, really not seeing Selena Bact not seeing Selena B. Hey, I think we need to whisper because like I don’t know if they want to actually leave something open like this, bro. Hey, break it down. But would they actually first pick the Selena? Hey, as as a as a auntie of mine once said, why not? Why not leave Selena open or why not? Actually, actually, as of Philippines coach once said, why not? No, he doesn’t say that’s just his name. Sup, Tony. But yeah, uh Kalia Kalia gets banned out. So Flash, this is the last opportunity for them to ban out the Selena. So if they don’t, hey, maybe you’re right. Z has a way to counter it. But is it really first pick? Cuz again, Flash might be able to deny it, right? Curte has been phenomenal in this tournament so far on the Kimies, on the gorge. Maybe he can pull off a Selena, too. And then it’ll be Huh? How hard can it be? How hard can it be? You just need to land skills, press skills, and then win. They’re thinking about it, though. Yeah. Yeah. They got to think long and hard about this. Yeah. Around 15 seconds. Oh wow. Okay. Ban of the box. Yeah. So in terms of first pick here. Wow. Still looking at the fauvious. Looking at the uh what else is here? We don’t see a lot of faras. Lance slots. Yes. I think lance. I would choose lance in this position. No Arlet already, but then the fobies can come out on the other side. And then just fight back CC. You know what? I think maybe Fobia just just so you set up the landlaw. But they go Lancelot here. You go CC to counter the Phobia, but in team fights, Phobia can just jump around, man. Hey, sometimes you just got to think that you’re better. May you can be better than one lance. If you if you don’t pick up Selena here, then it’s it it 100% goes to Aurora, right? Yeah, it’s or Rosa has been hearing what RK has been saying, oh, you think I’m I’m I’m a Selena one trick. That’s the good sir. That’s going to be the statement if he does not actually pick the Selena even though it’s wide open. But Flash SG, I know their priorities have been very interesting, but they pick up the phobia Selena matchup if ever. I feel like it’s okay because for me, one of the ways that you deal with the Selena is that you need someone that doesn’t care about walking through her traps. You know, at least deny her vision because everything else you kind of just have to accept your fate. If you get get hit by the stun, it’s like, “Oh well, see y’all later.” Okay, so do Aurora go for the CC now to go up against a Phobius or do they go for a different take on the counter towards Fobious like a Galaka try to lock him down right as he jumps in or an Edith like we saw earlier from home boys. It is a very different start to the draft for Aurora. We expected the Lancelot, but Uranus Moskov, huh? And there is no Selena getting picked up. I mean, not yet, but at this point, it it really doesn’t feel that bad to ban out the Selena later. And and again, maybe maybe Rosa just be like, “Oh, you think I’m going to Selena one trick? Let me let me show you guys my my Cyclops.” If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, though. I’m not a fan of like proving people wrong here. If it’s open, go ahead. But if it’s bad, then sure, you can prove them wrong. Yeah. I mean, I get it, but come on. Let’s be real realistic. Is there any teams out there that do that? That like to prove people wrong? Come on. That that that doesn’t happen in reality. Can’t see it back at home, but I am Hey, uh in full agreement with Lfell. Yes, that is fiction. Yeah, that is pure fiction. That’s a big fiction. But now Granger gets picked up here as a response towards the Moscow as well as the uranas. So the situation right right now for Flash is that they don’t have a jungler as well as a ROR. Aurora, they don’t have a mid as well as a ROR. So I I I kind of feel like the RORs are really going to be one of the focus here for both teams. Yeah. Although if we’re talking about Yeah. If we’re talking about JPL though, like the heroes he’s been bringing out so far have been pretty unique too in a sense. Even using the Lolita one time. Mhm. So good ban on Cho. One of his signatures. Y probably won’t be Cho is his middle name. JP JP L. Wait, I think we have to change the order for that one. J Cho PL. Yeah, there we go. There you go. Really? Hey, ask the man himself. Yeah, he’s been here six MSE, you know. Yeah. J Trophy L. Okay, maybe I’ll ask him later. Yeah, just ask. Just ask. Nothing hurts in asking. So, what is going to be the final band here? Selena. It should be a Selena, right? It should, but they’re they just respect. Just respect. Yeah, if they wanted to respect anything, they should. They would have done it already. Prove yourself. No. So, it is fiction. Matt, you know, it was this reality here. Uh, no way. It’s It’s not like you would like pick up a one- one and don’t ban the uh Iritel or ban the Iral and then don’t pick the one one. I’m going to pretend that didn’t Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Flash aren’t red robots, so they should be fine. Um Aurora with the last ban here. I think I think it’s good to go for this idea of banning like catching heroes cuz look at this. Uh the Khali as well as the Chill in a way are Yeah, they’re they’re looking at catch. The only catch that I’m thinking of right now is Jawhead, but I don’t know if they want to go for it. Yeah, they banned the Joy instead. Here they do have only one stopper as of yet. So flash SG now is the composition just going to be team fight all the way. I mean so far they have the better three at the start, right? It really comes down to how they close it up. No more flex picks, no more cheese. At least I don’t think so. Badang still there. Yeah. Mhm. Maybe still up as well. You really need something to punish this landslide. Mhm. H. So, I mean, the droid I did mention earlier was open, too. But if you just want to really disrupt, Aurora hasn’t revealed much of their um mid laners just yet. Whoa. Don’t be surprised. I’ve been doing this job for years. Uh, so Aurora now, they need a ROR and a mage. No Mercelina, no more Farsa. The Valentina could be up. I mean, could be a choice here. Take away the heavy spin. Try to utilize it for yourself. What if they want to try this like Angela again? I mean, it didn’t work before, but you know, you just you just got to keep trying until it works. I don’t think so. Uh, it could come through. I just don’t think it’s the best choice to go for right now. That Guinavir one time picked up, 100% win rate. There you go. Apex 47 and Zen who’s been missing for a few days. It’s been all surprises for Aurora in terms of their draft pattern so far. picking up the gyne. But I think this is an interesting situation where Zatan opens up the alt, finds out where they are, and then potentially the gyne can go for an engage, right? Yeah. Like because of the heavy spin. I actually don’t think you’ll be able to walk up. This is a very It’s almost like they drafted like counter towards their own self. Counterintuitive. Yeah, this is a I don’t like it. It’s like one of those things where you try out in scrims and it works really good. So, you just want to want to use it here. That’s so good. And now with the Matilda as well. So, it looks like this Akai is going over into the jungle. And uh I thought that Aurora will be the more sustainable kind of draft. Um but then looks like uh Flash, they actually went for it. Uh I kind of feel like Flash they they have a easier to execute draft compared to Aurora. And again, just to remind everyone at home, this is elimination match as well as advancing to the knockout stage. Aurora is the favorites right now. The drafts look kind of good for Flash. And with that, I’m going to be throwing it over to Brigita as well as MKO. Hey, thank you so much Lfell for that analysis on the drafts. I have to agree with Lel have the easier to execute composition. And well, for me, the only concern would be the Granger is the only one with damage. Everybody else kind of have to support the Granger. Let’s see if it will work out. Aurora, I would say a pretty greedy composition, but if they get snowballing from the start. Oh, they’re going to scale like monsters. Welcome to the Lanodon to find out who the final team to the knockouts will be. Will it be Aurora or Flash? Yep. Let’s see if they get to do that snowball you did mention, especially up until before the level fours come in for both of these sides or especially for team flash because I feel like that’s where a lot of the pressure definitely can come in. The heavy spin, the infernal pursuits, they’re going to matter a lot when it comes to the team fights later on. But you can pretty much say the same for Aurora just so long as they coordinate their skills well enough even despite the presence of these much disruptors from team flash because the biggest concern definitely is going to be that heavy spin we might see from Hades later on. Yeah, Aurora again the reason we’re skeptical about their composition would be their engage potential is kind of off. TNZ with a poke over to Kurt just in the early game. But yeah, Apex 47, he needs to land pretty good spatial migration, but it’s pretty easily countered. They have so many ways to disengage. Two purifies plus a heavy spin on Hades. So again, how are they going to utilize this right now? Like I would love to see the execution explain the composition. Yep. And I mean even aside the purifies, right? Just now we saw a welltimed guiding wind can even potentially save you from those threats. And now it’s clear that Team Flash are being the more aggressive ones, fully aware of their capabilities with their lineup so far in this game. And that’s another thing like for the first few objectives you will be seeing or we will be seeing in this game. How do you fight up against the heavy spin? How do you go in knowing that there’s a threat of the heavy spin which could just make things so much easier for team flash to guarantee them the objective? That’s a whole lot of agility by the way in the emblems for team flash. Three members chose agility and I guess it’s to rotate around a turtle again for Aurora. It doesn’t seem like they have a shot at contesting. They won’t be approaching the turtle anymore. It seems like Kenzi is going to look for the trades on the jungle camps instead. But Team Flash, there’s a quick response from them as well. So there’s no clear trade whatsoever yet from Aurora Gaming. It’s Team Flash currently in despite a very minimal lead still in the lead so far. And the pressure is just constant in the mid lane. This is interesting to see for a team with a surprise setup factor in the Gunir. Yeah, we have to see how it works out later because for now I think it is exactly as we expected. Team flash will have all the control in turtle one. That’s a purify already and all the engage or can go for it doesn’t really isn’t really relevant. There’s no damage to follow it up either in the early game, right? You go and gank the gold lane. Moskov needs three items before you can actually really be a threat in the game. Lancelot can deal damage, but then I think even if Vanx takes a whole of the Violet Reququum earlier, the guiding wind would give him enough sustain. So yeah, no kill threat at all for Aurora. Yeah, there are just too many ways to get out if your team flash. The mere presence of a Matilda changes up so many things here, but it seems like they’re trying to go for the kill. Fortunately for Apex 47, he has the flicker, but that could have been a kill for Team Flash. And it’s interesting if they’re able to take that on the Guineaver instead of any other member. There you go. At least we get to see Uranus uh in this game kind of get more pressure. I’m really confused right now because both these teams I think they’re really struggling before neutral objectives. But at least Team Flash have a goal, right? You can see they want to get neutral objectives. Aurora is the one where I’m I’m really confused. We got to see the brilliance of this draft, I guess, mid to late. Yeah. Oh, wait. Here bottom though. They’re actually going to start the fight. These are tanky members from Aurora Gaming. However, I feel like they won’t be able to fully commit just yet. Hope Lunar down low enough though. But he just regains his HP back. So, it’s just a constant trade of hits here and there, but none of these players are really going down. Not unless they fully commit to this. Now, Fury of the Phoenix already committed. Ken doing a great job at zoning out the other members. And as we’ve expected, Hades, he’ll freely get to secure the objective now. Potentially might just go for the pick up onto Lunar, but then again, it seems like there’s still the damage that’s lacking for Team Flash. Well, I think it they don’t really care. They they lack the damage, yes, but they can just play for the gold laner, especially when they’re ahead like this current. Oh, that’s a very aggressive Crimson Beacon in coming in from Kirk. And that’s the first blood that Team Flash will finally get to secure. I think I’m going to agree with you on that. There’s just too many ways for Team Flash to guarantee that they can go in and escape and survive with the resources that they have despite them not actually finding the kills. Yeah, I guess for Aurora, this is just the composition that can hold early up until Moscow and Lancelot get their power spikes because other than that, I don’t really see the windcon. I can see it if Moskov and Lanclot scales up and you know uh gets the damage items. But for now, yeah, it’s just all flash on the board. They’re rotating everywhere. If they shut down Siggy Boom, you know, that’s plan A for Aurora out of the game already. Yep. Now they’re working on the tier one up top. Hades pretty low, already below half HP, but has the guiding wind, so he’ll just get to survive. Mhm. To this point, it’s only just been one kill across the board for both of our teams. And surprisingly, both teams kind of like it. Flash are kind of non-confrontational. They want to play for the Granger. They have so much disengage, so much mobility. Aurora on the other hand as well is like, “Yeah, you can go for the first turtles. I’m just going to farm up and wait for my carries.” So for both teams, they’re like, “All right, we’re happy with this.” Sigu man has to flicker out a bit too aggressive there with the skill one forward. Yeah, the thing is Aurora Gaming are holding this out pretty well though. So if they do get to find their power spikes later on, which can come in a lot sooner than we expected, if Team Flash still is yet to find the conversions, then they might have a lot more confidence to dictate the tempo or for a fight. But whether or not they’re able to do that, let’s see. Because now team flash, they’re the ones who start things off. Already using the guiding wind. Gets to zone out some of the members though. Ken also trying to do just the same. Oh, solo. And where are the trades going to come in for Aurora Gaming? Vanix nearly taking down Rosa. But now it’s a mess. Look at just how Ken keeps disrupting everyone. But the Violet Cream gets casted on him. There’s an additional layer of knockup, but he still survives. Buys enough time. Dark wave casted once again, but they still get to survive. Aurora Gaming, no casualties at all. And they traded the turtle for a turret. Yes, they weren’t able to kill Ken earlier, but yeah, strangely enough, I feel like both teams are kind of like all right with this. The Aurora are still scaling. They’re still waiting for Sig Boom. I know it sounds like I’m a broken record, but that’s literally what we’ve been seeing. Like, both teams just been okay doing their job right now. Well, it’s 1,200 gold lead for Vanex. And that will be the big factor in the mid to late game here for Team Flash. If Vanics can get one, I would say three to four stacks on the Sky Piercer here in the mid game, then it should be Team Flash with an easy road to just winning this game just because they have so much peel for the Granger. They can just play hyper carry Vanics. That should change things up, right? Once they finally get the damage, once they finally get those stacks. But how many times have we seen these unsuccessful attempts? Apex 47 always trying to land that vi that spatial migration on JPL, but always gets away even without the purify. It’s impossible to get like a big set just because again there are three purifies. Let’s say you even catch them without purify. There’s a panda spinning around, right? There’s too much peel. The only guy you could go for is Ken. And I don’t think you want to go for Ken. That’s a tier two for a tier one down below. These are like pretty bad trades across the board for Aurora. But I guess this is like the cope. We’re scaling, yo. Yeah, I feel kind of Turkish saying that, you know, like, yo, we’re they’re scaling. Apex 47 is pretty much denied in this game. I feel like at most maybe they can rely on other members to force out the purifies or even the heavy spins. But again, that’s too many things that you have to check. Those are too many things you have to force out away from team flash if you want to be confident enough that you’re going to find a successful setup. So, they might want to look for other ways to work around the map. But the way that Team Flash is managing the waves, not even Sigum could do much on the Moskov in terms of that. They’ll try to go for Lunar Circling Eagle already committed on him. There’s the stacks from the lantern flare, but they’re just going to damage him just a bit. Okay, just a bit of poke from both these teams again. Neutral objective control. TNZ is going to have to pull off a miracle here to get through all of those members because the poke from Banex is starting to really hurt. Oh, Tenz had to use the thorn rose to dodge that flicker in coming in from Ken. All eyes on TNZ. Spatial migration lands, however, but there’s no follow up from his team. That was just a way for him to protect his jungler, but nothing more than that. Sigum gets a turret up top and that’s about it, right? Like that’s a trade. L Oh, he doesn’t even get the turret. Can he get it? Oh no, he has a recall now. Rotating up top. Yeah, he does get it in the end. Good news for Aurora is the Moscow’s very close to being online. Just a bit more towards that DHS. That’ll be the third item. Tenz’s online as well here with the endless battle. Three out of power. All right. DS already. So this should be the time where they can start to fight. But I will actually say maybe not because team flash now have a win nature on the Granger. So what that means is the power spike hit a bit too late and now flash have uh means to counter it. Yep. They might need a bit more of damage in order to deal with that. But okay, even though the spatial migration lands, they can’t go for the full commit on Hades just yet. Their damage dealers aren’t within range. And now they use a circle eagle onto Lunar once again. I feel like they’re just okay with using all these resources onto members they don’t necessarily get to take down. They’ll try to finally take the base turret up top though. Heavy spin already committed by Hades. Could this be go time for Aurora Gaming? Lunar tries to go for their other members, but gets taken back through the lantern flare. There’s literally not much they can do, at least for now. It’s always trading that Aurora’s going for. The thing is, when you want to play for trades, you need it to actually be somewhat equal. This has been one of the worst trade deals of all time for Aurora. Like, they just have been getting shafted in the trades. It’s a turtle for nothing. turtle for tier one and then a tier two for team flash. So, it’s always just been positive trades for team flash and aura have just been forced to take the negatives. I am so confused. Yeah. Okay. Um, we need a bit more time to I guess process everything that is going on in the land of dawn. I feel like even the entire situation is a massive shock because the expectations of many heading into this map were definitely favoring Aurora. But right now, that is not what we’re seeing from Aurora Gaming, especially draftwise. Look at the damage. Oh my goodness. Coming in from Vanex. There’s almost no one who could deal with him as he tries to take down the turret. Flicker already forced from Rosa. Even right under the base. Fury of the Phoenix and the Spatial Migration all committed, but the heavy spin just counters them all. They can’t go for anything. Still want to use the conceal. However, Rosa gets very, very low just by the lantern flares from Curtei. We got two members taken down. Oh, sorry. Two flickers in that fight. Three, four with Ken there. That’s the action. Uh that’s Yeah, that’s an epic roar for TNZ. That should help him in getting through the front line. But then like I we’ve been both saying like they should do it now, but I don’t even know if they can cuz again Apex just jumps in and then the panda spins and then there’s nothing like team flashes purifies have kind of been like a suggestion so far. It’s just like hey he they don’t even press it. Yeah, it’s like MLBB just says you have a battle spell but they’re like nah. Ken walks up gets the guiding wind. That’s a free noot. Oh already forced or the I mean Ken’s already half HP though. Lunar tries to close in. SOD already committed. Hades. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hades gets the lord. That would have been such a surprise if the SOD got it again. But okay. Team flash secure the objective. Two zero kills in this 13-minute game. And yes, these are not the best trades you can get, but that’s what they’ve been doing. That’s the only thing they’ve been doing so far. But could they still work on the waves that are coming in? Because if team flash, they get to use all their skills successfully defensively. What more aggressively now? And that’s what they’re showing us. Phantom execution already committed here by Tenzi doesn’t get the kill on JPL. However, and the Lord is slowly approaching the base. They’re just going to go for the siege. And this again comes down to Hades just opening up so that the Granger hits. Hades walks off. Oh, he’s already very low though. Aurora Gaming get to deal with the Lord. Fury of the Phoenix. A very welltimed one at that. And could this be their opening to actually fight back? There goes the free hits coming in from COM as well trying to go for Ken, but the somehow is saved by JPL. I thought they could have already made something out of that, but we did it. Okay, we got to the power spike, ladies and gentlemen. Now, this is a time for the Northern Lights of Shi. This is why whenever you go over, right, it’s like it’s rare that the Northern Alliance get to show themselves and now we found that timing for Aurora. It’s just so the whole game they were banking on a overextension punish from Team Flash. Hades went in way too aggressively. I think again for Team Flash, the way they need to play this composition is we’re non-confrontational. Just like we said in the early early game, Haiti just needs to use the ultimate to peel for Vanics. there. He tried to zone Aurora and that created an opening for Aurora to break the front to back to put Vanex in a tough spot. Not just Vanex, everyone from Team Flash in a tough spot. So for Team Flash, okay, this is 15 minutes in, but it’s very simple for the Wincon. Team Flash just don’t. Okay, heavy spin forward and Aurora hope that Team Flash heavy spin forward. It It’s funny how it feels like the game is just starting for Aurora. like they’re just they’ve just gotten themselves in the game. But is it too late? 15 minutes in. They don’t have any turrets anymore. Brag, you know, this is been kind of kind of tough. And that would be so disappointing for Team Flash if they actually lose this one because they’ve been in control for majority of the game. But this is another heavy spin coming in from Hades. Is the right target. Is he the right target though? Oh, the spacial migration doesn’t land. The guiding wood saved him just in time. Now they find Lunar but from the sides. Will he try to make something happen? Okay, SOD does not land. Now Team Flash are just walking away. Oh my goodness. Slowly but surely, I feel like Team Flash are also starting to feel it. You know, you know why? Why? Hades heavy spin forward. That’s the wind con for Aurora right there. Yes, cuz that that’s their only engage. And guess what? JPL circling eagle forward too. The two forms of engage went in and Aurora punished. A 2,000 gold lead has just been built up for Aurora. Guiding win. No guiding win. Just circle the Eagle. Oh, to the front liners once again at that dark wave flicker and also coming in from Ken gets to zone out the other members of Aurora, but the lord is very low and will actually be reset. Okay, you know what? I think yeah, most of the time the uh circling eagle onto the tanky heroes have been working, but maybe that is not the way to go right now unless they’re isolated completely from the other members of Aurora. Fury of the Phoenix though already committed. Will Tenzi find a way to actually steal away this objective. Lunar doing a great job. Look at the damage already coming in. Seeking foam meeting expectations, but the heavy spin and retribution combo still secures the objective for team flash. But they lost two members in the process. Hey, neutral objectives are overrated. Aurora are showing what they’ve got here as they have completely turned the game around. A composition built to scale, built to just outlast Team Flash and punish on their mistakes is working. Two members down, it’s just Hades, JP, and Banex against five members of Aurora with now a 4,000 gold lead. Yep. And that’s Hades without the heavy spin. Flicker Spatial Migration coming in, but doesn’t lack onto anyone. They get to keep themselves safe, but they lose their base turret. The damage coming in from TNZ is already pretty decent enough. There’s the heavy spin. Makes it just in time. TNZ gets caught. Immortality pop, but they’ll do their best to save their jungler. They actually find a way to punish Hades instead. Fury of the Phoenix 2 landing on everyone. But Aurora Gaming after 18 minutes, look at where we are. How do we get here? I the how we got here was through heavy spin forward and circling eagle forward up top. Flash are now the ones. No, we’re welcome to game number one, ladies and gentlemen. Into the land of dawn we go. This is where the game officially begins. What we saw the first 18 minutes that was a trailer. Now we have the win conditions set for both these teams. Right. For Aurora, they need to wait for a heavy spin forward. That was the longest trailer of my life, by the way. Hey, you know, like nowadays trailers just give out the plot. So, we we that’s what we’re seeing here. Modern day trailers. So, wind of nature, rose gold meter, they’ve actually already sold boots, too. They’ve gotten to a point of the game where they just don’t need boots. They are fully built up. Uh the Granger still has boots. Um interestingly enough, no B O just yet. Maybe he doesn’t want to be OD. Wants to just stick to this. I think he needs it though. He needs a bit more damage. Again, Team Flash kind of don’t have damage here. They need someone to deal and he doesn’t have he only has two stacks in 19 minutes. Man, I do feel like they’re trying to build a bit more of the um anti-heal though. See how bird picked up by Vanex. Um might be a last item dominance ice for Ken as well. But I feel like more than all these items and priorities, it’s really the decisions that count. Like the way they start their engages as you’ve mentioned. And I don’t want to just say the heavy spin. I also want to point out the circling eagles coming in from JPL. I I do think they’re actually wellcoordinated, but it would have been better if they’re also welltimed. And the way we’re seeing it now, Aurora Gaming, they’re not afraid of anything anymore. I mean, I can’t believe I’m seeing a 7k gold lead in their hands after losing majority of this game. Again, they were just waiting for this moment. And it was a training arc the entire time for Aurora and they’ve managed to get through it. It was a very tough early to mid game to weather the storm, but they did it. Again, Team Flash, this composition was kind of built for just one guy, and it’s Vanex. I think at this point of the game, they wanted Vanex to have a bit more sky piercer stack so that he could actually dish out more damage, maybe even a bot. You know, it really seems like Flash is struggling with damage. Aurora have a ton of damage now, but they don’t have base turrets. So, it’s kind of a stalemate again. Aurora also with all the damage, they don’t have engage. Flash have like a billion movement speed, movement uh abilities, a heavy spin, and three purifies. Right. So, it’s a team who can’t initiate with a lot of damage. It’s a team who can’t initiate with no damage. Yeah. And a lord in the middle. It’s such a contrast between these two teams and what they’re capable of doing, what the other is not capable of doing. But now I feel this is going to be a very important objective between both of these teams. We’re already at the 21 minute mark. Ladies and gentlemen, I would love to see Vanex’s stacks at this point of the game. He’s been racking up those stacks, man. How are they going to fight and start things off? I feel like the call is just to really brute force their way in. I guess they don’t want to look for those materialist setups. JPL though already using the circling eagle onto just the lunar. So that’s already one resource down for team flash. They try to work on the lord just managing the waves but they have the information. Rosa can see. Lunar can see. How are they going to deal with this? Let’s see if they can. JPL just giving them HP. They go on to Ken, but he’s still safe. Flasher still deciding to go for it. Tenzi rotating over. Will Hades use the heavy spin now? Spatial migration lands onto Ken, but he has the winter crown though. Oh no, Hades, they’re all very low with the spatial migrations keep coming in also from behind gets to find the target. And now Aurora Gaming finally steals away the lord. They’re chasing after team flash. There’s the wind of nature coming in from Fatties and the heavy spin just to protect her gold later. But Apex 47 still has the spatial migration. Jensen going in. also finds the immortality from Vanex. It’s only JPL alone and it’s a disaster for Team Flash. Aurora, the whole game they’ve played from behind, but now they’re the ones to crack the crystal open. Team Flash is in disbelief. Their coaching staff probably in the back confused as well. But Aurora, they truly have mastered the basics. We should have taken first shift. How How do we How do we start this conversation? Brigita, um because here here’s the thing. Like the viewers, they’re not here yet. Yeah, they’re not. I’m reading the comments be like, “Guys, you’re you’re in for a game.” You know what’s crazy, Lefel? What is crazy, Leel? I think the Lord did more damage to the front line of Flash than Aurora in that last fight. It was like they were just all right in evolved lord. Let’s just sit here. Not going to lie, I was looking at the play players reaction when they when they won. Even Rosa was like, “Oh my goodness, it’s finally over. Why would you know what today? Yeah, you know what? The world is healing, right? In the previous match, in the previous match, there’s not a lot of fighting. In this match, there’s also not a lot of fighting. And then and then and then when you do, you get punished. So maybe they just should not have been fighting. Wait. I mean, hey, at least at least, you know, at least Miracle gets to gets to rest bit by play, you know. So, that wasn’t play by play. Oh, well, you get to rest for play by play then. I mean, I don’t know if I can rest my brain after that still cuz like there are a lot of things not sinking in up to this point in the way that game turned out or in the way we actually reached the 21 minute mark. Just constantly pointing out things that need to be worked on. And like shout out to both these guys for making that a very good match. You know, you guys Thank you, man. You guys earned your paychecks for today. Thank you. Oh, really? Is that a bonus or something? No bonuses. No. No. Hey, it’s not within my power. And if it is anyways that like let’s break it down. So, we got a a team that can engage, but the opponents have a lot of counter engage. And if they do engage, they don’t have enough damage until they have full items. And then the opposing side with their full items, they don’t have enough damage. That was uh that was this is why I say I want more fighters in the game. Mm-m. Right. Cuz if they had a lot of fighters and like my my previous hot take was like damage is kind of good. So this was uh Yes. Yeah. Let’s just do that cuz as of right now Okay. Okay. Okay, let’s look at the damage here. Uh h damage dealt. Damage dealt. JPL did more damage than 80s. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Fenix did 120k. Neutral objectives overrated again, chat. All right, you got to remember in your games when people go neutral objectives, just say nah. Nah. You think Lord is that good? Only when he’s in a pit. Only when he’s evolved. Hey, when he’s outside a pit, he’s just a glorified minion. Bigger than usual, but still a minion nonetheless. kills is where it is, guys. Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it. It’s killing Brigita being a Filipino be like, “Yes, you need team fight.” No, cuz remember I was like trying to lift the entire idea of Akai jungle, but this was not welcome to ganking. Well, to be fair, it to give you credit was good. Like look at the object. All that was because of the well not just the Akai but the Akai played a big part in all most of the neutral objective takes but the decisions by the 15 mark on No it should have been ending like 8 minutes ago. Yeah. So the way they let Aurora extend the game was very questionable for Team Flash. I I just want to give myself credit. Go ahead. Go ahead. cuz I gave Aurora the benefit of the doubt for 20 minutes and it paid off. It paid off, man. Cuz usually I would just be like, “What the heck?” You know, but I was like, “No, they are scaling. They’re waiting for conditions.” Here’s here’s the thing. Usually when you lose, you feel bad. I feel like it’s extra for this one. Dude, that’s why I said they’d be super disappointed if they lost this. I’m pretty sure they are. I think they might just be tilted at this point. This should be tilted. Yeah, they might be tilted, man. How do they reset after that? Cuz you know like you got all the answers especially against the good already which was one of their major early game conditions and then they still find a way back. So yeah maybe to meme it even more lfell. Yeah they have mastered the basics this game they deckstarred. Wait what? Dexar. You know what? Um I feel like the way that you uh untilt yourself at this point you know drink drink water. Okay. Uh, have some chocolates, maybe some fruits. Um, spray your face with water. Face mist. Just Yep. Stay hydrated. And then here’s the crazy one. Here’s the All right. Draft damage. That’s Until right now. No. No. Because then you you just go all out. You just go loco with it. Yeah. Maybe I’m be I’m going to be okay with the fighters now. like curtzy. I’m okay. Go on. Or what? What? What about you? We’re going to be looking at at more highlights while while we’re thinking. We’re thinking about like um Fanx didn’t go ba. I think like in this game, especially being the only damage dealer, I think that would But maybe it doesn’t matter anymore. I don’t know, dude. I’m so confused. Like legit, I’m just This game has put me in a in a not so healthy spot. It’s It’s a Sunday, man. Is it a Sunday? It is a Sunday. It is a Sunday. So, you know, you just you just have have one of those moments. And um even looking at chat, people are like, “Hey, without without Selena, they they could have win. They they won, but still at this point, I want I want Rosa to pick up the Selena.” Yeah. Just just taking the first three picks. It took them so much to win this game. Although like to It also took Flash to forget everything their composition stands for. You know, this was a thing in Indonesia once as well in MP and I remember being just so tilted casting that game. It’s just they would have they have an Akai and like they would just play for a hyper carry. Then the Akai started spinning forward like looking for picks instead of peeling for the the hyper carry and that’s what we saw this game. I think the biggest example of of that mistake was when they try to go for a pick up top when they still had such a big lead and then the Akai got picked off. I think they didn’t have big heavy spin. Three members were left to defend all alone. I know. I think that’s okay because I would throw a different way. Okay. Be with Yakai. Oh. Oh, that’s what I would do. We would lose, but I’ll be having fun. Yeah. Maybe all of Maybe Fia should have also built damage. Honestly, at that point, honest honestly. Honestly, honestly, at that point, I didn’t notice if he had a war axe or not, but that would be a good item. Yeah, for a long team fight. Just keep going. Just keep going. Did he even have a thunderbell? It looked like he just had Probably not. He would get a lot of stacks. Like thunderbells, right? I I I don’t think he did. In fact, I can reverse. Hold on. Give me a sec. Okay. And I’m looking at Team Flash while you’re trying to reverse because hopefully they’re okay after everything. Hold on. This game is very long. Actually, we haven’t even gotten to our analysis part. Yeah. Um it’s going to take a while. This is such a Oh. Oh, no. Okay. No. We got to reset to We have to reset. No. No. Like I I I kind of feel like this is to take the jitters away. Jitters. Swear. An 18 trailer for jitters. Yep. Sometimes sometimes you know what they say, you got to do what needs to be do. All right. And and that’s what they did. Yeah. Realize Brigita. He’s he’s holding in. You should hold in as well. All right. Welcome again to Ganking Gather. I don’t know if that’s him holding in or that’s just him not being recovered after what happened yet. I’m still processing that game. Speaking of processing, we we we got to think about what are going to be the priorities for this one. Cuz imagine if they didn’t have Gwynever and then they had Angela. It might be a longer game, but I think it would be easier for them as well because GW, I can see it. But seeing an Akai maybe not the best pick, you know, because Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It it it kind of felt like in a way a 4v1. Not saying that Apex 47 didn’t do his job, but he was kind of shafted a bit where he’s not able to do his job, you know. Let’s just get into game two. Let’s hope for a different Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Breath of fresh air. Yeah. Let’s go. Let’s go. Okay. Inhale. Exhale. Flashing. Inhale. Exhale. Oh, inhale. Exhale. Sure. Wait, weren’t they first pick earlier, too? Uh, no, no, no. It was first pick and then they banned the land. This is good cuz cuz that land spot was such a problem at mid8. Yeah. So, this is gonna, I think, change things up a bit. Just a bit. Just a bit. Just a bit. Like, of course, the priorities are still going to be a surprise. I I want catching heroes. I want someone to early pick up that Kalv is not banned out cuz I really feel like it can disrupt tempo. I kind of feel like that’s the problem where both like uh what is it? Guyavir as well as the Matilda. They can’t really disrupt that much tempo unless you have like someone like like a fighter that can just stick onto everyone. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, no. They had phobias. Never mind. Mhm. Wait, that’s still open to All right. Flash just banning out assassins now. They they’re taking away the picks from Tenz and then maybe they go for the same strat just without the landl. Mhm. Are they actually going to bend? I mean, without like if you use the same strike, I kind of feel like you can still do it with the uh Hayabusa. Yeah, may actually be even better with the Hayabusa because then it’s going to be more harder for you to deal with the with the splits. Okay. So far, majority of the flex heroes are open like the box grabs for team flash. Yes. So, even the Arlots, they’ll be open if ever the trend continues in the band so far. But um the pan’s already taken out. I feel like the juin might be an option as well. I feel like it’s a good idea for Aurora to ban out the Jin because that also kind of deters them from engaging into the fights. The Uranus gets taken away from Flash by Flash. Sorry. Okay. Okay. Is it going to be Jin here or Hold on. What else is actually open? Unless they want to give away the Klaya too. Yeah, it should be the Juice and Pryo or the Klaya Pryo. Those are the two picks that Mhm. Agreed. Agreed. Or let’s not buy any of them. I mean, like I think that’s okay. Like trade for trade, you know, like they pick up the J, we pick up the Kala. Uh, is there anything that we really should be banning out right here? Uh, Boxia, Fobious, Arletm, Kim, Kimmy. Oh, Angela. Okay. I think they’re respecting the boxer first pick from Flash. That’s why they want to respect the Angela here. Uh, the combo box Angela. So let’s see even Juice in like even if when you first pick Juice in and you go Boxa later with Angela that’s a ridiculous comp. So it is a Boxa good read by Aurora by banning out that Angela. Yeah, there you go. So either you want the Kali or the Jian here. I kind of don’t like it when they’re both in the same team. All right. So I feel like go either or and then maybe either pick up the um Moskov again. Not they could honestly. I mean to be fair is pretty good at the Moskov. It’s just that their their mid couldn’t like get any kind of tempo, so he just had to farm. Yep. And this is actually just a setup for for Curtis to get Kimmy too, right? Um MVP performance. At least my MVP performance. Yeah, with uh the Kimmy and the Gourd back in was it yesterday? Yeah, it was yesterday. Hey, you’re right. There you go. Mosov the juice in this is a Kimmy should be for team flash. They could also go Ka, which is a comfort or Kimmy Ka. Yeah, sounds good. Or where do they go? Hm. There’s a fuse. I’d say just go Kim Ka right now. Don’t think the phobia is really warranted. They’ve already banned out Fanny and Lance. Yeah, unless they’re considering other options or honestly I do I do prefer the um the Kali as well as the Kimmy. It kind of does open up your draft quite a lot. Uh especially because you have a lot of forward momentum, right? Let the boxer go in front. Kimmy Granger. Pick up Kimmy Granger here. I do. I do like Kimmy Granger. uh especially because you already know who your matchups are going to be. So now it’s all about Aurora. I feel like if they don’t pick up a jungler here, it is going to get banned out unless they have something spicy in their hand, something like a Ammon. Yeah. What jungle would you go for now, right? Um I feel like in terms of assassins, it’s just the Hayabusa unless you want to go for something like the Ling and then later on uh what is it? Like we’ve seen a Lucas. I’m I don’t think Lucas here, but yeah. Oh, they pick up the Lapu first. Honestly, respectable respectable. That’s really good. I like it. Uh they need some a pick to dive in to get past the front line and again with anti-CCC it’s going to be very hard to peel for your carries here. I think Aurora might be building up to a pick that you mentioned Lel a Ling maybe last pick here. Uh whenever you see Kimmy Granger, it kind of opens the window for a ling pick to show up. Yeah. Although I’m wondering what they’ll be opting to go for in terms of battle spells, especially for these two marksmen. Flicker looks good. But if Aurora gets to pick up another great setup hero, then purify might be an option as well. And that’ll make things a lot more better for their lineup cuz there’s such a dive heavy comp so far. So yeah, maybe no. Maybe the flicker is going to be the priority here for Team Flash. They banned out the badang though, so I feel like they can limit a lot more of the assassin options at Wait, what’s the left? The L or the Joy? Oh yeah, Joy. Yeah, the Joy is there out too, but they banned the Badang. Maybe they want the Joy. Mhm. It’s a good ban there. Lolita uh taking a page out of their own book. They use the Lolita to counter the Kimmy and the Granger, but also does show like they kind of are okay with most assassins in in whatever comp they’re going to finish after this. Yeah. Justice there though. Feel like it’s mostly really going to be the Joy or the Ling for Aurora. Will Aurora ban out the Esmeralda? Will they have troubles there? cuz if they really want to win out that XP and they want to enable Lunar, I think taking that out will be a solid choice cuz yeah, Esme has been a good way to just win out. Yeah, there you go. As Morald the man got to take that out flash SG, are they going to double down on the Rome heroes or do they want to like get rid of at least an assassin or the assassin jungler options we’ve been mentioning? Because at least for Aurora, they don’t have that much range just yet. They have backline dive. There’s the Lapu, but other than that, it’s just mostly him. Yeah, who’ll be tanking the job, I think. Should be Joy. Uh if or Ka. There you go. That’s the Joy. This could be just a Ka into Ling pick for Aurora. I kind of feel like um taking the Kala here is okay. But I don’t like the combination with Jane. At least you take it away from from Flash. Oh, but they pick up a Franco. Ooh. So, it is a pickoff. First time ever. Yeah. But again, it really is about the micro because although to be fair, as a Franco, you kind of only need that one godly hook to really turn things around. But now I bring up the point that you’ve been saying a lot in MSC about the Kaju Sin. This combo is I think worse cuz for the you want someone to burst unless you have like a jungler that could legit one shot, which I can’t think of one right now. Aman. Ammon. Yeah, but even that you kind of need to scale a bit, right? Like you you even need to attack other things to get your stacks to get all those shards and then you go in. And then there’s the Kalia and then the glue. Looking at the damage profile here, not the best. But I kind of feel like Lapu is okay up against the glue cuz then when your long longs are there, at least you can heal up. Yeah, but what does what does Tenzi pair up with a Franco though? If we’re talking about like what or where the damage is going to come from for the setups or for the iron hooks for Aurora, you got to understand that Aurora were in desperate need of a ROR that could actually get the mid pryo. That’s why I really expected them to go KA. Franco is not bad. Like you were more of a pickoff hero and with this Ka Kimmy that’s instant mid pryo for flash I think. Goose. Oh, dude. That That is crazy, dude. Reverse the stream. I I called it out. You said Gucci on reverse. Hey, you know what? Oh my lord. Wait a minute. I’m looking at them right now, dude. Dude, I I I I I said that because I knew it was it was coming up today. Are you actually looking back? I need to check the name. All right. Right. Cool. Cool. Cool. But but either way, incandescent. Another Yeah. Incondens. Uh there’s uh you know you guys have it. I’m just I’m not even going to set it down. Thank you Lel for uh the setup. But ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in MSC, we are seeing a Franco and a Guushian. Oh my lord. It’s been I think M5 was the last time we saw the Guushian. It was Sans was it up against AP Bren at the time. Let’s get into the line of dawn ladies and gentlemen. Will this send Aurora to the knockout stage? Agushian and Franco debut as we encounter the two unknown picks or will flash SG just take it with a meta draft so early. Okay, the crazier part is I did not expect it to come in from Aurora the team flash but it is what is it as lll would say. So now we’re heading into game number two. This is match point for Aurora and it’s not looking too good because they’re able to chase after Rosa in the middle lane granting them first blood. Instant mid pryo Ka and Kimmy. You have to respect level one. This is also what happened against RQ by the way. I’ll just say Aurora in the mid lane a bit too comfortable. Always looking for those brawls getting punished by the box. Yeah, they might want to be a lot more careful with that because the um conditions in which their lineup is going to work still remain a question and they might not be able to show us that if they get too behind in the early stages of the game. Taking a quick look at the emblem build. Okay, I I had to check the bush first because it hasn’t been Oh, okay. Okay. But going back, it’s just a pretty common emblem build. Ma magic emblem, rage emblem, and I think it’s similar to the others we’re seeing in the jungle. So, not the killing spree for the Guushian. It is actually um the impure rage choice. Also, for the rest of them, pretty normal. Apex 47 has actually gone for concussive blast. I thought he would actually just go for more of a setup of uh sorry, focusing mark maybe. But yeah, he actually does go for concussive blast. wants to get a bit more mid pryo against team flash’s composition especially knowing it is a Kala Kimmy but it is also just Aurora sticking to the agility fast movement speed across the board but this time only two not three Mhm. The way it’s looking right now again, it’s Team Flash in control of the early game and they will be letting go of that first turtle. Kenzie will still have to secure his purple buff and they don’t necessarily get to trade anything out of it. So, um, yes, it’s very similar to the way game number one played out, but this time around, Aurora, they I feel like have a lot more options to not wait too long or too late in the game to fight back against Team Flash. This is what I was concerned about for Team Flash, though, because this time they actually have more damage. It isn’t just Vanex and the mid pryo, I would say, is even better than the previous one. So the lead should be bigger. They’ll have proper setup. JPL it doesn’t land on Rosa and then they get to stun still this Jin however but the Crimson Beacon was there. So oh they go instead for Lunar. And there’s the incandescent already committed but the bravest fighter from Lunar gets the last hit off to Curtisi onto the back line though. JPL and Hades get to find Rosa too. So it’s a two for one trade so far. It’s back to back. No damage. Oh, Zeu. Okay, there was a flicker knock up from the title strike. They’re still going to commit it. However, Apex 47 last the Iron Hook. And now it’s JPL who they’re actually going to go after the Spear of Misery. Kind of messed up the intentions there, especially from Hades. But okay, it’s a it’s a much closer fight, I guess. Yeah, Aurora, they just I think lack a whole lot of damage in the early game again with the Guushian and the Moskov. can’t control neutral objectives, but Team Flash had actually just been playing into Aurora’s game. Aurora would want the game early to be messy because they have proper wasted team fights. Just controlling neutral objectives will be very hard for them, right? Team Flash, this could be a factor of tilt from the previous game. Or it could just be a miscalculation cuz they should always just have the better control over neutral objectives. Oh, now Aurora are setting up for a pick on Ken. Can they even do this? Yep, they do use the bloody hunt and the bravest fighter and everything else, even the incandescent to take down this glue. So, they take away the nuisance from team flash in terms of the team fights that can break out later on, but their ultimates, they have already been expended. JPL doesn’t go in with a title strike and Rosa just trying to zone out Curtis. Yeah, they know there are no big resources. Bravest fighter and the blade hunt use JPL. Yep, there’s a tsunami slam already committed onto Lunar as well, but he still gets to cast the bravest fighter. Gets a little bit more of sustain as well. Enough to take down JPL. Banick finds the kill onto Lunar, however. But then Curtisi, he just finds a way to deal those free hits. They find the kill onto Kenzi and now Ken is next. Two for two trade by both of these teams. But Team Flash get the neutral objective as expected though. and Aurora are just making it messy again. We got to think about the late game for Aurora cuz that’s their main win condition with Sigy Boom and Tenzi scaling up bloody hunt. Oh, for some reason. Oh, it’s always them looking for the tanky heroes and now they lack the damage to convert that into a pickoff. That’s unfortunate. Apex really wanted to give the kill over to Siggy Boom, but at this point of the game, not too much damage for him. Let’s take a look at the replay here where yeah, Flash SG were late to the contest because of the pick off to Ken, but still made it work. It just goes to show you how strong they are here. Tsunami stab life can be view. Yep. And they find another kill on Tenzi. Not looking too good for the jungler of Aurora Gaming. You’d expect him to be following the setup from his teammates, but it seems like they always find a way to isolate him, and that might not be the best way to go. Sigum goes in with the SOD, tries to get the kill onto JPL. will successfully secure it. But Ken also decides to join the fight on the glue, messing things up for Aurora Gaming. They get to punish Lunar as well. And that will be the disengage for both. But the thing is, Aurora are still forcing Flash into these skirmishes. And it’s actually been pretty equal. This by all means, especially if you look at the composition, should have been a first two turtles, maybe two kills the team flash win in the early stage of the game with a 2,000 gold lead. But it’s Aurora who are keeping it even. And this is playing into Aurora’s win condition more than it is for Flash. Like Flash are the ones that kind of need to push against this composition. Later on, the one shots will be even scarier with Apex landing a hook, but now they are looking to capitalize. Rosa caught the shield. Unity char doesn’t land onto anyone, but the tsunami slam is committed onto Lunar once again gets the bravest fighter though. And Ken just trying to disrupt everyone else in the back lines. Will they have enough damage to deal with him though? Rosa gets separated from the other members of Aurora and they’re forced to retreat for now. Team Flash might actually gain access to this mid turret. Yendi will do his best to defend it though and that’s going to be it for now. Now it’s another free objective for Team Flash. Not too free. Aurora get a turret at least in the bottom lane. But also for Flash, they take a fight, they win it, they go over the neutral objective. That’s what you want to do. But there I think we saw an angle there. They could have punished to nitpick a little bit here. Tenzi used the red tree on the canon minion. The orange buff was up, but they decided, you know, to take the safe route even though all the damage dealers were not present. So used as well. JPL uh if they find TNZ one again, this is going to be horrible. And they do. Curtis gets the last hit. Raven spider already committed by Lunar gets to punch JPL. But then the damage coming in from Team Flash. This double marksman lineup. It seems like it’s been pretty overwhelming for Aurora whenever the team fights break out and has there’s just too much front line right now and Aurora just have no damage to get through the front unless obviously they use four ultimates on one dude but that’s more of a pickoff scenario not in a skirmish. Hades now we’re seeing the invades over to punish Tenzi on the Guushen. Okay, they get to steal. No, still actually gets the purple buff, but then they take down the tier one in mid. So yeah, this is pretty interesting to see that the goldie is only 150, but there’s another tsunami slam. Winter crown coming in, however, for Apex 47, but still he will be the first to fall. Big move from Team Flash because there will be no one else to set up for Aurora if they get to take down Apex 47 first. Yep. And for team flash, it’s all about stacking up sky piercer stacks for Vanex. It’s almost I mean very similar to game number one where Vanex needed the sky piercer stack. Now another shield unity. Uh everyone used the conceal and the title strike still gets it. Tanzi goes in. Incontestence somehow finds the punish and now Aurora Gaming they’re starting to fight back. Rosa looking for the lantern flare stacks can isolate it all alone but still has a way to get out. Such a messy team fight for both these teams. They have just kept on brawling. Team Flash have stayed in the jungle of Aurora a bit too long. Lord was spawning up. They had a lead up top. They had a lead earlier when it comes to members too, but they wanted more. They were so desperate to find more. And I don’t really think they were, you know, calculating the timers of the purifies at all. They went in all in dove. Like JPL used the flicker up front to get a tsunami slam without really putting into account the fact that Rosa has purify. Now he also has sky piercer and the three item power spike has hit for Sigy Boom. Like Aurora have actually gotten to a pretty comfortable spot in the game where they should be able to start fighting or at least we’re close if they don’t go for it. Yeah, but positioning has been such a struggle for Tenzi. Now they don’t even get to contest the objective and might lose a member. fortunately has the immune for Lunar, so he gets to survive. But I think that’s another problem for uh Aurora Gaming. Tenz every now and then does find some opportunities to finally cast the combo, use the incandescent, and take out some members from Team Flash, but whenever he does, it’s almost as if he needs to accept the fact that he’s going to die when he does that because Team Flash are very consistent in finding ways to punish. Yep. And the punish is what you saw on your screen. Vanics with the sky piercer stacks. Now he has damage to help him, which is the Kimmy in the mid lane plus a lot of CC that could lock Aurora down so the shots keep landing. That’s why the Lolita was banned out by Team Flash. They really know as well how that this how this composition could really just fall on its own head. Let’s take a look at the damage dealt rankings. As expected expected, it’s Banax up top leading the charge, but it’s Lunar and Sigy Boom. All right, Lunar. Yeah. So, Sigim’s been doing that much damage without three items like TNZ, how is he even get going to get to the back line? Yeah, that’s going to be such a problem. Already used the Crimson Beacon for Rosa. Tsunami Slam doesn’t get to land onto anyone. And there’s an iron hook for Ken. A pickoff by Aurora Gaming. Bravest Spider committed by Lunar, but was that the right choice? Rosa gets actually taken out. There’s too much damage coming in from Vanics. Iron Hook doesn’t lag onto anyone too, but at least they somehow get to defend. Yeah, the again messy skirmish and Ken gets picked off by Apex 47 landing the hooks. So, this changes a whole lot, dude. Especially considering Kurt and Vanex are on flicker. If Apex gets to thread the needle somehow, miraculously finding a backline carry, that could shift the whole game. Yeah, to like sixth gear for them. That’s a Melick gun for Siggy Boom. So, even stronger. Now, let’s take a look at the entire in-game equipment. Sig around that chaos. He actually utilized that chaos to clear up top, which got him closer to the gold lead that Vanex had earlier. That’s a winter crown and fleeting time. But hold on. Hades tries to go for something. Sig might just get targeted here. It’s a shut down for Vanex. Currently legendary on the screen. Another tsunami slap committed onto Apex 47 in an instant. Two members of Aurora Gaming went down. And those are not the situations you like if you’re Aurora because you don’t get to set the tempo for yourselves. It’s Team Flash who just goes in, catches you by surprise. And now they’re looking to take away an inhibitor turret or two. Too many stacks. Too much to deal with for Aurora Gaming. Bananex is a monster. It seems like Team Flash want to change things up. They want to change the story lines. But hold on. Somehow Lunar decides to go in. Might get bursted down though. That’s another kill going to the hands of Fanx currently legendary. There’s just too much damage from the Rapsides and the Death Sonatas. Aurora Gaming. They have their base exposed. That did not land. The iron hook did not land. Ken tries to go in, captures Apex 47, but still has the flicker. They might get punished here if they stay a bit too longer. And that is the first step for Aurora Gaming. Oh no. I mean, oh yes, for Aurora, but this is looking a bit too deja vu when Ken flickered forward on Amasha. You guys remember that? It was up against home boys and now it’s against Aurora. And without Ken, look at Aurora. They’re rotating over to the Lord. They might just be looking for a 4v5 at this point. They have to take it. They have to try to get a win in the team fight while they have the advantage. Uh, traction pulls catches, but they won’t be able to supply other sources of damage. Hades might get bursted down here. Look at just targeting JPL. Tries to go in, but gets to purify the tsunami slam and does not land the So, but that was close for JPL. Aurora were in desperate need for a win while they were in the lead manwise. They had a man advantage, but they couldn’t capitalize. Some of them were really hesitating. Apex still wanted to hold onto the bloody hunt. He needs to find a target, but it’s going to be hard as team flash now have five members up. And actually, wait, the waves are pretty good for Aurora. They can go for uh for round two. They can manage it somehow. But I think Apex 47 is going to be very crucial here. There are no purify spells on team flash’s side. So just one good iron hook could literally change the tempo and flow of this game. But Sig Boom he has to manage other things first. Can just go in with the SOD though. But wait, they actually land the stun onto TNC. He doesn’t get to do anything and gets immediately bursted down. There’s also the grab grab coming in from Ken and they also kill Apex 47. Massive fight for Team Flash. That should be it. Two members down. A lord spawning in 10 seconds. But Flash want to just go into the mid lane. This can literally be their chance to change things up for the last day of the group stage. They just keep going in. Fatics. No one can stop nor deal with this man. And for the first time today, we’re heading to a game number three. Skype here. Sure. too much to deal with. Fanics a beast this game. So much stacks and it came down to them just playing it clean towards the end. And now looks like we’re going like you said Brigita to game three. Sorry. I just had to check if my mic was saw it or not. Yeah, I got to say, Brigita Merco, I’m just going to take this opportunity to be like, if people ask us like, “Oh, why don’t you guys do predictions?” And the real answer is cuz anything can happen. Literally, anything can happen. The game is so subjective when it comes to uh players behaviors, the the draft, the weather, everything, you know, everything starts to collectively build up. And I got to say this series is um with the lack of a better word to describe it. This is a very interesting series. Yeah. You know when a counselor says that you just have to read into the tone of how he says interesting. So say say that again. Interesting. But I I kind of feel like game game three it will it will be 180. Everyone keeps saying 360 but if you say 360 it means brave man. I’m brave man. Okay. Okay. Uh, I I got to be honest with you guys, like I really dislike the drafts coming in from Aurora, but for some reason, maybe I dislike Team Flash’s execution a bit more. It was just not clean at all in the early game. They had a composition that should have stopped um Turtle one to three, maybe 5k gold lead by the time Lord spawns, Lord one spawns, but they kept on brawling for some reason, giving Aurora an actual chance at beating them. But I think I know what I understand something that you guys don’t. one because whoever wins this one, they’ll be in the 21 bracket. Okay? So, if they start confusing all the two zero teams, even the two zero teams will be like, “Wait, we want to pick them.” Cuz what if what if it’s all smoke and mirrors? And you know what they say, where there’s smoke, there fire. And when there’s mirrors, there’s casters. Yeah, that that could actually be a legit strat now that we know that, you know, it’s going to be two zero teams choosing 2-1. Maybe you do want to confuse your 20 counterparts later. You’re like, “Hey, maybe you want to choose me.” And then they come up and pick up Selena in the knockout and you’re like, “Oh no, no. Oh no, my bad.” Although you’re saying that this is all part of a Hey, I’m trying to cope here. Just roll with it. This is cope. Just roll it. Oh, okay. Okay. I’mma I’mma be with you guys on that one because like I’m still finding it hard to uh find words to describe how I’m feeling in uh this entire series because like we had I mean our expectations were sort of met for the first three at least like we didn’t say anything. We didn’t say anything but I would say I would say like u most of it is closer than I thought. Yeah. But I mean in terms of the results. Okay. But this one is literally You know what? Chat, try try to predict the third game. I’m see how you guys do it. So we we’re terrible at this. No, the thing is chat chat is privileged. They can just say, “Oh yeah, are going to lose.” And then when they win, see, I told you they won. I told you they would win. They that that they switch up, you know? That’s true. Like they they don’t have people clipping. Imagine Imagine if we’re not casting and we’re just watch partying. Yeah. Yeah. You can imagine. Oh, dude. If I was watch partying. Oh. Oh, we Oh, man. I would be saying wow wow wee. Wow. I just got to say when we’re in 2025, Lafell, a composition with zero mid lane pryo should really not be it. Especially when you have a Guushian in the jungle. Like if you if the plan was to go Guushian jungle, how is the mid pri going to work with with Jusen and Franco? This is like we we call it out very early in the draft, too. We’re like Ka and Kimmy. This is instant pryo. like you have a box and this is pretty turtle maybe is watching. is watching and they’re like maybe we have to buff cushion. Honestly, like in terms of the buff, okay, I think either lowered the cooldowns or give a what you call it like a HP scaling so that he gets a bit tankier because I think one of the problems that we saw just now was that people can say, “Oh, the Kalia catches you and and then you die.” But the thing is even when the Khalia doesn’t catch you, you die cuz I think he got like two tapped by the by the Granger. Oh yeah. What? I’m waiting. I’m waiting. No, cuz I was thinking if this was if there was no other way to go, then the ling might have even been a better option for Tenzi. I agree because he’d have more mobility. He’d get to at least find a way out of the tsunami slam with the Tempest of Blade. Although that will be used defensively, but not not going to lie, I would even be okay with the Alo card just force fights. Oh man, Franco Franco does doesn’t even have the hook. just just you know um you know bite someone and just Alakar just just just cleans up. Uh either ways I really feel like I feel like we we had this conversation where it does seem like people are using the group stage as a testing ground to roughly see like what can and cannot work and both Onyx did it and I guess Aurora has the privilege of winning game number one. So game number two they have a bit more leeway plus it’s still early so you know so they could they could add more time. That’s what the that’s what they were saying the entire game one and game two by the way. It’s still early. Yeah. Yeah, we’ll get to late. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. And um let’s face it, I kind of I kind of feel like a Flash SG, they got like a very good draft, but what are the chances they get this again? Because look at this. Granger, Kimi, Kalia, Boxia, Glue. Like almost all heroes that are bannable, they got it. Wow. And look at that. Vanex got a higher gold per minute compared to the King Kong game we had earlier. This is 920 for Mr. Vanex. Now this is a well deserved MVP if he gets it like okay imagine the only time he deserves it is someone else like battings for whoever wins this series I don’t mind both they deserve it but imagine though the only time the goal deserves it they’re like Rosa that that would be that would be such a troll okay I think that but nah it has to be them it has to be them because I feel like this is not a hot take to say both goat laners because we’ve been talking about the Moscow and I kind of feel like sig boom is one of those really good Moskoff players, right? Even even from behind, he’s still able to get a lot of farm as well as create pressure. So, I really feel like I don’t think the Moskov will be banned, but you always have to keep this in the back of your mind that it’s going to come out. So, make sure that you have a proper counter for it both in uh in the draft as well as the macro. Yeah, cuz even here, right, like for the majority of the game, Sigaboom did not die on the Moscow and he’s been doing a lot of work for his team and there are so many good SODs. Some crucial ones too, not landing though. But you get how Aurora definitely were just trying to play around him once again because I feel like they’ve clearly understood that it was hard for the Gushon to work in this game. Like I feel like they realized that early on when they just couldn’t make anything out of it. It feel it feels like it relied too much on the setups that could come in for Apex 47 rather than being an assassin who can do something on his own and look for targets on his own. And that didn’t work multiple times because Team Flash had answers to towards Apex 47. They found ways to deal with Apex 47. So Mhm. Clearly a disconnect for Aurora Gaming in terms of what they wanted to do for this game. I mean, personally for me, we always have to look at the bright side. Okay. Eterna has a lot of questions she can ask. Thank goodness, right? No matter what, like always look at the bright side. At least for her, it’s it’s just going to be easy to to collect all those questions. Actually, the hard one is choosing which one to ask. I actually thought we were going to throw into an interview right now. I thought that was was your leading Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, no. That’s why I looked at I was like, “Wait, no, she’s not there.” Just just, you know, when when I shout around, you know, eternally, you’re you’re doing a good job. Be be proud of yourself. Oh, yeah. I don’t know what I want her to ask, too. Like, is it the guru? It’s not our job. Is it the cut? Let’s let her do it. Let’s let her do it. Questions. Ask. She’s good. She’s good. She’s good at asking questions. It’s something that she does. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s ask some questions about the draft now. Okay. Arlet ban. All right. That’s an answer. I kind of feel like let’s let’s just throw away the the yun shin the um Yeah, we’re not going to see that. The one ones wing wings. Wait. Yeah. Yeah. One one should be mania. The one ones the kimy’s or unless Yeah. This is just game one repeated again. Um Arlet 1 one. It’ll be Ka next for Aura. If they go for the same exact draft flash, we’ll just go for the Fanny and the Boxia. And then we’ll have Lance first pick. Do both really want to go for the same exact draft though? I think for it it there’s more reward for Flash if they go for the same exact Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The the second game went, right? First game. Okay. Mhm. Okay. Um Oh, but they have the fious, so they want dashes around. So, they’re looking to maybe first pick the lance a lot. Mhm. Mm-m. I’d prefer that over another Gushian game. So yeah, you know what? Yeah, forget the Guushian for now. I like that this game has made it so that Brigita is more forward. Yeah. See, like she’s not so nice anymore. Like she’s slowly No, I’m surprised even that the look at the bright side thingies were coming from him. Yeah, it has made you positive and it has made Bragita negative. That’s how impactful this game was. Hey, people changed. Hey, Brigita, time for you to be the bad guy. Okay, well landslide gets banned out. the Fanny left open. And I think for Flash, yes, it makes sense, especially considering the way that they’ve been playing the game. Aurora though also have changed a few things. They have banned out the phobias, let go of the KA. No, no, but but but now with with this Kalia, this Lena becomes a real threat. Oh yeah. So it is something that Flash has to be comfortable with. Like if you want to let it go, sure. I can see why you want to let it go. But you better have an answer. Which makes me think that they might eventually pick up the Akai or the Akai will get banned because again you got Kalya and maybe eventually get get a Selena. Akai is the annoying answer to this kind of problem. Yeah, definitely not the Fanny. So um Oh, they take away the Moscow. That’s good. Denied for Sigaboom. No three game Moscow for him. But h what does Aurora want to pryo now? Looking at their pattern, like Lefel said, I think Selena makes a lot of sense right now. But then what do you go for in the jungle? Yeah. Would you still be confident in the Fanny? Would you still want to try it? Just one today. King Kong. Just I I honestly wouldn’t mind something like a Hayabusa cuz you need someone to match this mask off. There you go. Yo, Selena. Here we go. Comes in with a Granger for the game finally started. The Aurora’s game has finally started. This is 100. Wait, not 100%. Actually, they lost game number two against Ani Philippines, but out of the four games they’ve played 3-1. It’s one of their best heroes. Best heroes. Yeah, even like the the the first three picks now compared to the first two games make so much sense now for uh Aurora. They get to save a bit of what their plans are in the jungle though. But you could say the same for Flash unless they reveal it here, but that’ll be too much. which I feel like a flex option in red three would be a star. Okay. Yeah. Rein I’m just I’m just worried like I feel like it’s no secret that the the desk we like damage and I’m just worried that they won’t have enough damage. And the thing is this Freder can easily be countered at this point, right? either by the Kalia or by the Selena and just by you know either putting the traps or when the Frederick overextends just pull him over put a trap change demon form and then just burst him out right. So this Frederick is a little bit questionable. We have to see what the other two picks that maybe could help him out. I thought they would need a Cho there right because they again it’s a juice in they don’t have mid pryo right now for team flash. We will be struggling on that part considering Aurora have already picked up the Kala that’s almost instant mid pryo usually and then you combo with anyone Kimmy comes in it’s great the fara comes in it’s actually a great possibility here up against this kind of wait no sorry it’s already Selena so Selena Kala instant mid pryo whatever now jungle fanny band what else joy with a fant I think you want to go up against joy you already have so much displacement right so ju this is like a counter draft to joy it’s interesting how they picked it up Um, I’d feel so iffy about standing in front and trying to create space for my teammates if the first three picks of Aurora can already deal so much poke and crowd control. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing from the Kala and the Selena so far. They ban out the Uranus, though. Mhm. And I’m I’m hoping Flesh SG has some kind of damage in in exp. Oh, that’s why they battle the Marsha cuz they they legit need damage. And who else is going to bring it uh other than exp at this point? Unless they do something crazy by dishing roam or something. I don’t know. Oh, probably not. Maybe we save that. But then Gourd, Lolita, you know, that’s true. If it’s damage on the exp though, CC is still up. Lapu Lapu. If this were Diablo, I swear I have like a lot of damage on Ken. Okay, hope this can like be used in the exp lane. It’s mostly the glues that he favors. So the glue, it will be the glue for flash Aurora. Let’s see. Jungle and XP is what they are lacking right now against the glue and frence. Even something like a exorg might not be bad in the jungle. Pretty solid actually against this composition. You’re right. They just need damage up against this composition. The Lapo could is all right too. Yeah, they go for the Gwyn and the CC. There you go. All right, but it is awe jungle. Yeah, a lot of engage at this point. This is a better way better game. Like there’s no heavy spins. Wait, don’t don’t say it yet. But oh, that’s right. That’s right. Don’t count your eggs before it. Yeah, it could happen. It could happen. Of course. Of course. Oh, yeah. It dude. Dude. Okay. Listen, listen. Listen, listen, listen. What? This is a stride. All right. This is a stride. Okay. Flash SG has seen this before. They’ve played this before. Wait 18 minutes. Hey, look at it. Oh my. And then as Actually, at this point, you don’t even need damage. You just have to force things out right now. Now, this is interesting because the thing is it not only heals, but gives you hybrid defense, which may be enough to actually win mid and then force fights. So, it’s going to be much different hopefully compared to game number one. And this is going to be the final game of today. I believe all the two O teams are watching as well to see who will be qualifying to the knockout stage. Now, I’m going to give it over to Brigita and Merkel to cast the final game of the day. Thank you so much, Lfell. Ladies and gentlemen, here we go. This is the final game of the group stage. Aurora versus Team Flash with again another surprise towards the end. Estes finally making his debut into the land of Dawn and MSE 2025 at the Esports World Cup. It feels weird seeing the Estes once again, but to make things weirder, it’s used against this lineup. It’s used against Aurora Gaming and I feel like this is something we kind of attach to their name in terms in terms of play style like that entire sustained and ubeish kind of approach to playing the game. But this time Aurora Gaming are are Aurora Gaming are the ones who are with the more aggressive mid trios. Ka, Selena, and Guyineir. So they’ll have an easier time at locking down whoever they want. So which is why we’re seeing a couple of purifies again from team flash. And Curtis already had to use his 1 minute into this game. Purify is really really good to have. But the thing is Aurora’s composition. They also punish immobility, right? Like I mean the Quinavir is going to just get in and dish out damage. The Granger will have easy targets to hit. Same goes for the Selena. Mhm. So the purifies in a way can get popped in quick and we see it here in the mid lane. Cartezy already forced to use the purify very early and now is very vulnerable to abyssal arrows and yeah as we saw in game number one. Yes, this is how Apex likes to go for uh the Kates the P together and agility. So extra move speed on the right side though. Team flash doing the same now. Wilderness blessing agility for XP and mid lane. The rest pretty normal. JPL is really going for those tanky emblem combinations on the Estess. Has to keep himself alive just to provide the sustain that his team needs. They get to find Apex 47 though. Energy eruption, but it’s a threeman knockup using the title strike. Ken might be the first to fall. Tenzi tries to chase after him, but at least he gets to flicker away. Now Lunar going for Hades. He’s making things so hard for the jungler of the flash and will actually get to secure first blood. I don’t know what the plan was there. Like Hades wasn’t even level four. So, did they really want to contest with a level three Fred? Now it’s a steal. Purple buff taken away by Aurora Gaming. Mhm. They bring back Apex 47, but he still has the flicker. And um that is going to be one of the biggest questions I guess for this game. Like what was the intention behind Team Flash positioning themselves that far? Hades going in once again, Energy Eruption, but then he gets to receive the tsunami slab and the title strike. Appraisers wrath landed on Apex 47. JPL gets last hit though. Yeah, that was actually a miscoordination from Aurora. Tsunami slam and TNT was like, “Okay, you got to I’m going to spatial migration here, so bring him here.” But he did. He actually spatial migration to the other side. And then they were kind of scattered. But still, I think that ambush around the tribush here was just like what what was what was the goal there? It’s weird for Team Flash and that has costed them a 1,500 gold deficit. It’s in Aurora’s hands. Uh I mean, if you think of it, JPL can’t do much of tanking the front lines or standing in front. So maybe it’s Hades that they really need, but Ken is there anyway to do that if that’s what’s needed of them. But here, there’s no damage. They can CC lock someone for a minute maybe with all the CC they have. But where’s the damage going to come through? Lunar gets brought back. Has the vengeance. Okay, Jenz tries to catch up. Will provide some support. Apex 47 from behind landing everything. Ken will go down and team flash will just deal with the mid lane for now. It’s okay. A 2k gold lead so far in favor of Aurora. this. Okay, they’re just going to cut to give Fan some turret gold up top, but it’s responded over by Aurora doing the same thing with less resources burned. They will control the bottom side jungle. And this is also where Oh, the purple buff will spawn. It’s already a two-le for Tenzi. He’s going to get even more. At least he got his purple buff there, but he was forced or he got to use his retribution. I wonder if Team Flash would like to capitalize on this idea because even then they’re still way behind. It seems like the plan is to trade top lane looking for Sig Boom. Retrifusion committed. Energy Eruption will not necessarily make it. But they have enough damage to deal with him. But that’s three man knockup once again coming in from Apex 47. Fortunately, they get to keep themselves alive though. They’ll just work on the tier one up top. Blessing of the moon god is already committed by JPL for the first time, but it won’t be enough to actually keep Hades safe. Apex 47 still trying to chase after everyone. Jenzi walking up too. Spatial migration going to land. JPL had already exhausted the purify earlier. It’s a free kill over. It might just be a turret take too. But Vanax and Kurt hold their ground. Another Abyssal Arrow landing. And I think it’s safe to say it’ll be an even bigger lead for Tenzi. Now three levels. I don’t know if it was Team Flash who took that long up top or it was just Aurora Gaming rotating too fast to make it there up top and to somehow respond against Team Flash because the way we’re seeing it right now, they’re going to be able to take away this tier one up top as well. But then they switch their attention to taking down Hades. They have enough damage and the spatial migration will lack onto JPL won’t be able to walk away nor purify himself out of it. So those are two consecutive kills that Aurora Gaming found by just standing there. Yeah, Team Flash literally just like they have been handing Aurora these kills on a solar platter. Curtisi held down on the purify and this should be a siege in the mid lane. Successful for Aurora. It’s very tough cuz like their resources are getting taken away. Yeah, I mean every one of these kills on Hades, the three kills so far have just been kind of weird. like Hades level three was standing in a bush instead of looking for level four with no damage in the lineup again earlier was level six to level 9 of TNZ still decided to walk up and look for a fight now tsunami slam on Ken will they have enough damage to deal with him here Violet Rickim already committed but it seems like their side lanes aren’t part of the fight just yet that was enough time to distract them though so they get to work on the other sides of the map all the while These are happening. Ken already splits and this might be a free objective again towards Aurora Gaming. Not unless they try to work their way towards it. There’s the blessing of the Moon Goddess once again coming in. But the knockups, they’re too real. Jenzi gets taken down. However, Apex 47 still gets the objective for his team. Purify out from JPL to avoid that imbeile arrow and a possible kill. But Aurora, this is like, yes, they still got the win. It’s actually not bad for Team Flash because they at least got something back. But now, did I say it? Aurora capitalize even more. And it’s still going to be very, very tough. They got a tier one up top, too, with Vanex split pushing earlier. There should be a tier two down below. Taking a look at the replay again, it just came down to Hades tanking up front and the rest of the team doing damage. But unfortunately, there’s just no damage without Vanex. This is a full utility composition for Team Flash. Somehow I’m surprised they even got a kill. Yeah, somehow. I wonder how they got the kill on on TNZ because like the team fight was indeed a bit too messy. And the way it’s looking right now, it’s such a hard position for JPL. But wait, they find another Violet Fruit Quam onto him just as I mentioned his name because it seems like he never gets to get a hold of his purify when needed. It’s always forced out of him and when you need him the most or whenever Aurora Gaming forces a fight, that’s when you need him to be there. But Hades decides to go. When SOD lands, Vanics will try to pick a fight. They get to isolate isolate Apex 47. So that’s a kill for team flash. Yeah, but it’s responded over with a turret down below and it’s only a kill on Rome. So value again for Aurora. Tenzi walks up, stunned up, spear misery, too. At least they’re somehow finding how to deal with it bit by bit. The minor overextensions from Aurora can get punished every now and then because regardless of maybe how you look at it, there is some decent hold for team flash, especially towards one or two members of Aurora through Hades. Although there have been, yes, several questionable decisions and positionings coming in from Hades. That’s just what you need from him, I guess. Now, it’s, by the way, two games out of three for Team Flash, but they have drafted a similar composition. Only Vanex having damage. That was the case for game number one. So, lands. No, no Steel. Free for Aurora again. And just like in game one, Team Flash are forced to play for Vanics. Like, they they just have to wait for Vanics to get items. Unlike game one, they don’t have the lead. They don’t have an Akai. They don’t have mid pryo. So, it’s a comeback where you have to value or you have to just play for Vanex. Yeah, damage dealt ranking so far though. Vanex still has a lot of catching up to do. All members of Aurora Gaming are above him in terms of that and the damage department and they’ll have to work on defending the lore. That is going to be another crucial problem for Team Flash because their wave clear also heavily relies on Vanex in this case. So I wonder how Team Flash are going to hold out long enough for Vanex to do that if Aurora Gaming with their constant chain CCs are just able to find a way to deal with these front liners. Three level lead for both XP and jungle. By the way, Tenzi and Lun are holding this fleeting time done for Apex. So he can constantly just go in and it’ll be way faster than the purify. That means he can just again uh bait it out constantly. Lord already charging down. They’re dealing with the holy shields and they get to pop the holy shields. None are left for team flash. Magic sentry already used by Curtis. At least they get to hold on their base turrets for now. But this has been a way faster development compared to the first few games. We’re 10 minutes in and it’s a very clear dominant game for Aurora Gaming. This isn’t a situation where they have to play from behind. And if you look at the gold distribution right now between both of these junglers, surprisingly enough, it’s quite close, but then the level gap, it’s significant there. It’s two levels between these two gold laners. Yeah, Vanex has uh been Oh, now this is the big one, dude. The gold distribution. You can see jungle creeps two times for TNZ in the jungle creep department. Turtle lore turrets as well. Really winning and all that. Yeah, he even got I think 40 gold from the roing item. That means he was at one point of the game the poorest one, which is definitely concerning. So yeah, I’m really struggling to find ways for team flash cuz their composition they can man like they Yes, they can get away from the CC, one of the CC abilities with purify, but then they’ll all just be easy targets for the Granger to land shots on. And they can’t even initiate on Tenzi. Like people who walk up like Tenz and Roso could open up the map, they’re never going to be in a position where you can fully punish just because there’s a clone for uh Tenz, there’s anti-C with Violet Reququum. Rosa has traps so he doesn’t even need to walk up to open up the map. Yeah. And they have so many dashes to just there’s no like usually for team flash they would have like a Tigro, a Cho, Kala, someone who can turn the tides with a pick. This is an Estess. You’re kind of forced to wait to be engaged on. There’s only so much JPL can do and I feel like he’s struggled fairly enough so far. Already dying thrice so far in this game. So Aurora Gaming definitely have their priorities set. They know who they should be targeting and who they should be going after if they do want to guarantee the win in terms of the team fight. And now team flash. They’ll try to do something. They’ll look for an angle here. But the first one who gets spotted out is very unfortunate. It’s Hades. Blessing of the moon goddess doesn’t even make it to keep him alive at least. And now they’re still trying to gain some information but will finally decide to retreat instead. Aurora Gaming. There’s a high chance that they can capitalize on this roar to get the win. That was close to Okay. Yeah, if they baited the purify out from one of these members, that will be an easy pick for Apex 47 when they go and siege. And yeah, Aurora just play it clean. They just played it fundamentally good. They go in on Hades, the guy who with no purify, and they all in on him. Great combo with TNZ too gets the passive and then do the CC of the Valerquium. And now they have a lord, but the wave has actually managed well. Oh, so Team Flash will get to at least work on one wave for now. They’ve sent Sigiboom onto the opposite side, though. Doesn’t even get to reach the inhibitor turret. They’ll try to definitely take this one up top though, but then again, find another target. Not even Ken is tanking a blessing of the Moon God is a bit too late. Hades trying to do so much just to tack the damage, but the damage coming in from Lunar and Sapum, it’s too much as well. Unfortunately, some bit of sustain is still there, but Fenix goes in, takes the risk, has the wind of nature, takes down Rosa, and now somehow they’re holding on. Hades also finds the Galanto Apex 47, but he has to trade his life. And this might just be it. Sig finds JPL. It’s only Vanics left alone. And there’s the spatial migration. Violet Rick. Triple kill for Sig as they take the series and advance to the knockouts. And with that, we have all eight teams locked in and loaded for our knockout stage. Aurora reaching the knockout stage here with the company of the elite waiting up top. And now, unfortunately, because of this, Team Flash will have to bow out from the competition from their previous MSE reaching in top four. Now, unfortunately, have to bow out before making it to the top eight. And I’m going to say we’re not we’re not going to go too deep into the analysis just yet, but honestly watching back the game now I’m starting to see the reason why the Selena is so strong. And the thing is it’s not even because of Rosa is actually for someone else. But yeah, definitely good game. This is the real Aurora that we were uh anticipating and definitely they do not disappoint. Uh team flash very risky and going for all your eggs in one basket. I kind of feel like we’re all Yeah. Uh how do I say this? being vocal throughout MSE that there shouldn’t be just one damage dealer, right? I kind of feel like even two is is a little bit too too low. Three is that sweet spot. But either ways, Aurora showing the true colors in game number three. So, we’ll definitely see how the two old teams react to this kind of match and we’ll see how they’re going to choose it. For now, we’re going to throw it over to an interview with Eterna. Eterna here and we are now with Rosa. Rosa, you’ve sent shock waves around the world, especially in the professional MLBB community considering that you were able to knock down one of the favorites here at MSSE, Onik PH. Now, the thing is after that, it felt like RRQ was able to get the better of you. So, what happened there? What do you think RRQ figured out that that Onic PH couldn’t? Um, so on our first match, our plan was to ban Selena during the draft and we managed to do that, but then we had some issues during the second match in the draft and this was a setback for us, but now we still believe that we can win against them. Oh wait, so wait, am I understanding this correctly? They were the ones to ban the Selena or Oh, they wanted the enemy team to um they wanted to have them ban Selena so they can have like a space there for other heroes. Interesting. Interesting. Because in an interview, RQ Edok as well as Rins mentioned that Rosa is only good at the Selena. Um, so they will get this answer when we play against them again. Um, they will see that I have a very big hero pool and uh, it’s funny that they just like limit me to one hero like this. Oh, okay. Okay. I mean, Rosa was very famous for all the high ground heroes, so it does make sense where uh Rosa is coming from right now. So, how were you able to bounce back from that loss against RQ to perform this well today? Uh to be honest uh we weren’t expecting the loss against RQ. Um but today this morning we just got together. We said this is a new day. This is a new map match and we are going to win this match and this is how it went. It again it wasn’t exactly how we expected it to go but we still came out on top. I really like that. I really like that. Is there anything that they feel that was an obstacle? Did you ever feel like there was a challenge maybe that maybe that could be fixed for the next upcoming because you are heading to the knockouts? Um, so during the scrims, we have really good drafts and a really good strategy, but sometimes when you’re on stage, you get a little bit nervous. Um, but we know that we can fix these small mistakes and uh we’re going to be strong in the knockouts. Okay. Amazing. I mean, I’ve been hearing similar things that you guys are very good at scrim, so we’re excited to see your performance in the knockouts. Now coming into the knockouts, do you have a feeling what which team would want to face you? I have no idea who would pick us, but I definitely want the rematch against RQ. Okay, Rosa wants a rematch with RRQ and we’ll see very soon if we’re going to get that as one of our first matches heading to the knockout. So, once again, thank you so much, Rosa. Thank you so much for that translation. And we’re going to throw it over back to our casters to break that down. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Eterna. Oh my god, I wait for that one. Thank you very much, Eterna. As well as Rosa and his Hey, I want to rematch with RQ. So now the ball is in your court. You choose. But I want to talk a bit about this Selena because re-watching the game now I see it. This is not good because of Rosa. Okay, it’s good because of TNZ because when I when I look back into the game, minute one, the moment the buff spawned, they immediately destroyed the buff, immediately gets level two, and then the Fredding just started the buff. So now, now I’m starting to see that it’s mostly just about that jungle pathing, giving the opportunity for TNZ, and then picking up heroes like like the Gwyverse, something that can go in and in case something bad happens, you can go out so you don’t get punished. So, it really is about creating that tampo in the early game. So, I kind of feel like if they get the Selena again, maybe don’t pick a slow composition because you’re going to get punished real hard. It’s about the pace of the game. It allows the rest of Aurora to be enabled in the game. And I agree with you. It also was Apex 47, right? acting as a 47 bait out purifies for the Granger to get easy shots. Again, they went purify. That’s the gamble you play when you go purify. You don’t have flicker, you don’t have that mobility, you can’t escape from these bullets. Bang bang. Yeah. And now we’re going to be looking at the match MVP. So, oh, wow. Dude, we called it. We’re getting We’re getting so good at this. You know what? We’re getting so good at this. We’re getting too good. It’s scary. Yeah. It’s almost like every time we we say the gold laner is going to get the match MVP, they do. And they deserves or they deserve it for this game. like Sigum even in the previous games making things turn around through the Moscow plays through the macro blade or if not through those early stacks on the sky piercer which were something team flash found very difficult to deal with especially in game number two so I have no other reactions whatsoever towards our match MVP well deserved and finally we get to complete our 2-1 team so it makes you wonder right what the matchups are going to look like. And I like that I would say all eight teams here, everyone is very strong, which I kind of feel like will make it very difficult for all the two teams to really choose the 2-1 opponents. This really isn’t like picking a free game. It’s more about choose your poison, pick the lesser evil. There’s no free matchup. There’s no free win here in MSE 2025 at the Esports World Cup. Everyone will have to battle cuz like Lafell said, the the level of competition has risen. so much since we last were here. Mhm. And here is the quick recap. Yeah, this is today’s schedule. Seeing how mostly it is a 2, but only the final game, Aurora going up against Flash. It was a 2-1. SRG12 against CFU. So, CFU got eliminated. Onik uh Onyx PH on ID defeated VP. So, VP is eliminated. Onik PH defeated Homeboy. Homeboy is eliminated. And the final team to get eliminated is Flash SG. So, and here’s the thing, folks. We’re not even done yet. We’re not even done. We’re not even done. We’re not even done because after this, we’re just going to take some time to set things up because we’re immediately going to be doing the draw where the two teams is going to decide today and it’s all going down live. How many minutes do they have just to think about it, right? I mean, well, I think they did think about it for some time. 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Welcome back to another segment that we have here. Today we have a special podcast here for MSE at the Esports World Cup. This year we’ve got two of the same organizations qualifying from different regions. Anik from Indo, Ani from Philippines. And I’m here with the Anik boys. Firstly, the man, the myth, the legend, the guy who brought Any ID from ninth to first place, Raja Yeba. That’s what we call him, the king. Yea. Hello, Ya. 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 Kelra. How you doing, Kellra? 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 consistenc 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 the yea 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 Sky King 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. Right. 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. And 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 Onyx 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 Tony 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 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 told 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 a 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. Such 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 not. But what about you? What changed when you came back to from ninth to first? Well, actually, um I don’t really feel it. M 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 Mhm. 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? 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. Real quick, man. W man. All right. W man’s. All right, I’m back to you. Ye, 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 org to do it in ML 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. Yeb, what’s cuz you’re a VP. You’re a VP and a coach. Now you’re more of a coach because 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 coach 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. Well, that’s it for us guys here. Thank you so much, Key Boy, Kellra, and Ye. If both on ID and PH end up in the grand finals of MSE 2025, would you people back at home consider as the best organization in MLBB to have ever done it? Amen. [Music] [Music] Holy. [Music] Hello everyone. Welcome to the part of the show you guys have been waiting for. We’ve just concluded the final day of the group stage. And now, finally, we’re at the part of the show where the two O teams get to choose their 2-1 opponents. Welcome to the knockout draws here with Mel as well as Brigita. We all know you’re so excited for this moment, especially as the first round matchups for our emphasis on single elimination knockout brackets are about to be revealed right here and right now. It’s definitely going to be very interesting because this time around they get to choose. So there’s nothing in our control to influence the players to choose who their opponents will be. Now here’s the thing. All throughout this, we were able to talk with the players to see their insights a bit on who they might want to face later on in a knockout stage. So, let’s check out a video to see what they are thinking. They are the first team to go in the knockouts. The Liquid Stampede is back. Team Spirit shall advance to the knockout. [Music] SRG. We are familiar against them. Any team is okay cuz they all really strong. I want to pick SRG because we face each other in M6. So now I want to do at least um in B3 or B5. I will choose Separine because last time I won on M6. So I want to be good eventually this one. I think that Dream Lifford is picking first and they’re going to pick the winner of CFU versus SRG. Then RQ is picking second, right? So they’re going to take Aurora Turkey again. Then we’re left with a choice between Oni Malaysia and Onic Philippines. So it’s like pick your poison, you know, but I guess we would choose Onic Philippines. Two teams will pick us. It’s going to be Team Spirit and RQ. Of course, we lost against RQ and Team Spirit. I think everyone will uh pick us if we uh reach the knockout stage because you don’t really have a good choice, right? We are like the weakest on the choices. I think we already got the momentum that we need for this tournament and whoever wants to choose us. So be it. I think it’s hard to beat them in ESL and then pile. So I think they ready for the revenge. Maybe Team Liquid Philippines cuz I think they know us very well. Which team will choose us? I don’t have any idea. But whoever it is, yeah, I think we’re ready. So many predictions and so many preferred matchups. But you know what? Time is going to matter in how everything unfolds and turns out. I believe for all those who might be wondering, it’s a great time to recall how we made it to this point. Lefll. Yeah, and here’s the thing. The group stage has been happening for about five days, but now you guys are looking on screen. The knockout stages, it’s going to be single elimination. So, choosing your opponents here will be very crucial. Either you choose in your mind to ease your opponent so that you have a better time going all the way to the grand finals or take out the toughest competition early to make sure your later portions of the tournament is going to be much more smoother. We’re going to be having first pick all the way to the fourth pick where first pick as well as the fourth pick will be on the left side of the bracket and then the second as well as the third pick will be on the right side of the bracket. That’s exactly the format that we are going to be follow. And now we will be revealing the exact order in which we will be having these teams from the two bracket choose who their opponents are going to be. And based on the group stage, the team that had the fastest game win time will be awarded first pick. And that team is team liquid Philippines. So first of all, I would like to say big congratulation for having the fastest game time. Do you feel like having their first pick is a big advantage for your team? Yes. He feels like having this is very crucial to ensure that they go all the way to the grand finals. Now looking at the 2-1 teams, you guys have four options. Aurora, Any Philippines, SRG, as well as Any Indonesia. In my eyes, there’s no good team to go up against, but you are first pick. Who will you choose to be your opponent in a knockout stage? Um, we’re going to choose Aurora Turkey. Aurora Turkey will be the first pick by Team Liquid Philippines. All right, we’re inviting Aurora Turkey. We’re inviting Rosa and of course Rebecca to join us here as the first chosen team from the 2-1 pool. Rosa, you just came off a win. You just came off a match and this has been a surprising turn of events. You are first pick. In any way, do you feel that this means Team Liquid underestimates your performance? Fore. So, we played a few scrims with them. So, maybe they feel like they already know our game and they figured us out. Um actually we would have wanted to play with RQ but uh we are happy for this pick. All right. All right. And now it looks like you guys took away the opportunity for RQ to choose them. Now here’s the thing. I also need to ask you guys because earlier we had an interview with King Kong. They thought you guys would actually choose on Philippines because you guys know how to face against them. Is there any reason why you don’t want to go up against them just yet? Um because we want um PH versus PH in grand finals. All right, they want PHP PH grand finals. We’ll see according to the bracket. Is that even possible? So, thank you very much Team Liquid. Thank you very much. Aurora, you guys may go. And now we’re going to look at the graphic here. This is going to be the first matchup in the knockouts where you guys will see if the HBH grand finals is possible. It has to be on the fourth pick. Yep. The next two teams will have to pick Onyx Philippines for that to happen. But now is the time to figure out whether or not it will because we will be calling on our second team with fastest total game win time from the two bracket. Yep. It’s time to invite RRQ to choose who their 2-1 opponents will be. So, welcome to Zen. Now, here’s the thing. Aurora is no longer one of the choices for you. Three strong teams here. We have Any Indonesia, SRG, as well as Anik Philippines. So, what do you think of the choices that you have still here? Yeah, they are still very very strong team. Yeah, they are very strong. So, this is going to be very difficult for you to choose, but you have to make a decision. Who will you face up against in the knockout stage? Uh, SRG. SRG bringing in Malaysia here. All right, RRQ decides to go with SRG. And you are officially the second team to be picked out of the 2-1 bracket. Now, you are the only remaining Malaysian representative here in the knockouts. Unlike last year, we had both of the Malaysian representatives joining us, but RRQ decided to go with you. How do you feel about this matchup? How is your confidence heading into this match? We already expected it. The already expected RRQ. So, how confident are you feeling that you’re going up against RQ for the first match? Again, this is single elimination. So, if you were to rate it 1 to 10, how confident are you feeling? Um, confident, but not that too confident because too much is like, you know, kind of risky. So, just normal. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And now, Innocent did say he anticipated RRQ to be picking SRG. So, I got to ask you, what is the reason why you chose SRG between Ony Philippines as well as Onic Indonesia? Uh, I think I want to rematch cuz in the last M6 they sent us home. I think I’m going to try to send them home. Hey, that’s a very good story line. So, here we can see the players have a bit of a revenge match here. So, thank you very much Suzu Jin as well as Innocent. And that will be the second match up. You may leave. Yes, thank you very much. And honestly, that was a very good answer. They’re aiming to send SRG home. All right. Now, we already have two out of the four best of five matches set in place for the first round of our knockouts, but I feel like many are anticipating what the next choice is going to be and who the next team will be for this, I say last match for the right side of our bracket. Again the order here is very important because as of now the two teams we still have team spirit as well as mythic seil and in terms of the 21 teams both on are still available for the choosing. So now we’re going to invite the third team and may I say the final team that actually gets to make a decision. We’re going to be inviting team spirit. So, Kit Bomba, first of all, as you predicted in the video, you’re going to be left with two Onyx teams here. So, this is very crucial because you’re not only going to choose who you’re going up against, you’re also going to be choosing who Mythile is going up against. So, between Any Indonesia as well as Anik Philippines, which is going to be your opponent? King Kong, over. You want Any Philippines? All right. King Kong coming in. Come on, King Kong. Come on. Not the last pick here. I love how he called King Kong. All right. Wait, where? No, no, no, no, no. We’ll be there. Yeah. Yeah. You make me feel like you want to go. No, because he has to come there. Yeah, that’s why he wants to come. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, here’s the thing. Fresh off your interview with Eterna, we will be requesting a minimum of five words from you. But okay, so now Kid Bomba decides to go for you. The PHP dream is alive, but what do you have to say to Kid Bomba? Because it feels like the way he called you was very confident, you know. Aaga kakali. Okay. So, so, so he he he said in like, “Oh my god, wonderful.” Oh, that’s two words. I can translate to by the way. Yeah. Oh my goodness. All right. So, for on PH, I will be asking you the same. I know it has been somewhat unexpected that you are indeed part of the 21-1 pool, but how confident are you feeling now that you know your first Okay, wait for the mic to go to your again. How confident are you feeling? 100%. I have to keep up, you know. But you said 100%. So now Kib Bomba, if we’re thinking about confidence, people always think about Kip Bomba. Now they look a bit confident. Maybe because they’re world champions or something, but are you ready for this challenge? Cuz we’re ready. All right. So right now we’re looking at at both competition here. The last question is, is there any reason why you chose ID to go up against Mythic Seal? Um, not really. I just met Kra before our match with Song Boys and he told me to not go down versus them because they’re going to go home and that’s why I want to fight them now. Hey, there’s the story right there. So, thank you very much to Team Spirit as well as Any Philippines. So, now we’re going to be looking at the graphics here and these are the teams. And honestly, at this point, Brigita, we can already complete the bracket because we know what the final matchup will be. We just have to call them in later on for formality. But now you see the possible outcomes and the first round matches in our knockouts. Honestly, I know we’ve not called the last few teams yet, but hey, we’re going to do it now. You know what? Any Indonesia, please come in. As well as Mythic Seal, please come on in because Mythic Seal is the final team for the draw and there are no other options. will be going up against Any Indonesia. So, first of all, Ken, congratulations for being a 20 team. But now, what do you feel about this matchup? Uh, I feel excited because I want to face Kyrie in the international stage. So, I’m happy with this. All right. All right. Now, Key Boy, you were the last team to be picked out of the 2-1 pool. Does this give you some sort of confidence boost? Like, do you think this means that teams consider you to be the strongest out of the 21-1 teams? Uh, no. Just Why do I feel like they planned this? No. At least they’re making it fine. Translate. Translate. Okay. He he meant to say, “Yeah, this is intense.” Or something like that. you know, I I can still work on my being a translator, but is there any other message you have for Ken now that you’re going up against them in the first round of the knockouts? Uh, for me, just very excited to first them. All right. Now, Ken, before I let you go, uh, since, you know, you were the last team to be picking, did you foresee this situation to happen? Did you already have a rough idea you’re going up against Sonic Indonesia? Yeah, I knew since uh like they I knew since the beginning. Yeah. On ID. All right. Since you know, do you feel like this gives you an advantage because you have time to prepare to go up against them? Uh I I wouldn’t say we have an advantage, but I I’m I’m happy with this choice. Yes, that’s all I can say. All right. Thank you very much. And now we have to excuse Mythic Seal as well as Onik Indonesia because now we have completed our knockout brackets here. All eight teams have been matched up. Yeah, I mean the first time or after we ended this day, we officially saw which regions are participating in the knockouts and there have been some sort of changes here and there, especially if you compare it to last year and the way they were the ones who decided what their matchups are going to be that just makes it all the more exciting. You know, I would say narrative-wise, this is very interesting for both Indonesia as well as Philippines because looking at the bracket, there is an opportunity for PHP Grand Finals as well as ID Grand Finals. So, there you go folks, you guys have seen the order of teams. Team Liquid choosing Aurora, RQ choosing SRG, two Onyx left, and Team Spirit chose Philippines. And the last one, Onyx ID will be going up against Mythic Seal. Personally for me, I’m very happy with the draw and I’m very happy that we can’t be blamed about what happened today. That too. That too. Like that made me kind of nervous heading into the draw. But now you see it, you hear it from the players themselves. And my oh my, should they make good use of the next few days because you know what? Knockouts is coming soon and that will be starting officially on the 30th. Yep. It’s going to be best of five. 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