🔴 GRAND FINALS & 3RD PLACE DECIDER | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

🔴 GRAND FINALS & 3RD PLACE DECIDER | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

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Coach Y, why did you say that’s Coach Y? The face. Yeah. Oh my god, that’s a tiger. Hi babies. Whoa. This is one huge coach. That’s Coach Y. Which one is coach? Why not? Oh, the big one. Ah, this the boss. So guys, right now we are petting dogs over here at the I guess you we call we could call this like the petting area. Which one do you like so far? Uh I think this so cute like petting son. Yeah, I think I like this one the most. This one? He’s so chunky. Yeah, the face like Oh my god, so cute. Okay, let’s go move in there. There’s a lot of dogs, guys. Look at the bridge. Oh my god, this is so This one looks like This one looks like coach. A baby Coach. Look, it’s sleeping. This one like Adi. Adi. Yeah. So small. So small. Oh, sons. Sansa. Which one? Which one is sons? Uh this one he said cute boy said this is guns because cute. Yeah. So cute. Cute like sons always like this. Yeah. This one like kra which is this the tiger one. Tiger like kra. Yeah. Because wild. Yeah. So what different like how one of a kind? Yes. Okay. Kra special. Special special one. Okay. Okay. We’re getting somewhere. What should we name him? Yes. Paddington for Paddington. Okay. Paddington. We have made a collective agreement that this is Paddington. Watch a coach. Oh my god. So cool. Oh my god. He has a hoodie. Oh my god. Oh my goodness. Hoodie. Such a cutie. Oh my god. He looks like a He looks like a bad boy. Oh, baby. No. That’s inappropriate. Yes. Kelra, call Kelra. Come here. Kelra don’t like you anymore. Adi. Adi. Adi. So guys, they said that this dog looks like coach Adi. Yeah. You see because he’s Oh, he likes a They like you boy. Look at him. Call him here. Here. Oh, he wants the mic. Which one’s Luty? I haven’t seen one yet. Haven’t seen one yet. What about Savo? Savo. What’s What’s wrong? No, some water. But Kai, you set on pee. Yeah, little. It’s okay. It’s all part of the experience, huh? Let’s go to the big dogs, guys. Will they bite? I don’t think so. See, they all look like good boys. Wa my camera. He doesn’t like He’s like, “Guys, no cameras, please. No paparazzi shots.” Okay, guys. So, how do you find the dog experience so far? Yeah, it’s super fun. They’re so cute. And a lot of the dogs looks like our friends. Yeah. I’m currently carrying Coach Adi, right? You said this. This one looks Yeah. See? Oh my god. Like a gangster. Bat Boy, bro. Kai, do you do you enjoy? Yeah. My mood is so good. You feel better after playing with the dogs? Yeah, we don’t feel tired anymore. Oh, you don’t feel tired anymore. Okay, now I just want to say that I wish you guys the best of luck in your journey this MSE. I hope you guys manage to perform well and you know achieve your goals. Is there anything you guys want to say to the people watching this? Yeah, thank you for supporting us and watching us and don’t forget to feed your dogs maybe. What about Yuki boy? Yeah, don’t forget to come and enjoy the the dog dog like this one. Kora. Oh, you see Ka wrong place. Come on, Kara. See, so cute. And then so many energy like special dog like Kra. Special one of a kind. One of a kind. Now, if you guys want to meet according to them, their friends in dog form. I think you guys can drop by the boulevard to enjoy the stuff we have here as well as witness the knockout stages of MSE 2025. Thank you so much to Kyrie and Q boy and thank you guys for watching this video. See you guys around. Bye. Bro, you bro, can you hear me? Bro, bro, bro, bro, what the Um, hello guys. It’s King Kong and Kelra and we’re here. We are about to play. Can you hear me? Bro, don’t. No. Don’t Don’t Don’t touch Don’t touch my my Don’t touch my blue. Blue. Don’t touch my blue. Don’t touch you. Don’t touch my blue. Don’t touch my me my my my my Don’t touch my blue. Don’t touch my blue. Don’t touch my blue. Nice. 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Ah, can chicken, can you hear me? Can you hear me, bro? Bro, can you hear me, bro? We just finished playing. Can you hear me, bro? So, thank you guys for watching and don’t forget to support us at EWC. Thank you, guys. Bye-bye. go for it. Doesn’t fight the knock up onto King Kong. Somehow gets to immute himself though. But then Malcudi, he gets stunned by K. Hon Philippines are really good, but it does feel like this meta doesn’t really suit well as M6. At the M6 World Championships, they were amazing here with King Kong forced to use other assassins, not those snowballing types. Utility junglers too. He has really dropped a bit. season 15 MP but in the group stage for me it’s good that they got a reality check very early in now in the knockoffs they should be prepared they should have already found out their weaknesses and it should be mostly King Kong and assassins two base turrets will fall on again and one end kill The damage from King Kong doesn’t even allow the feathered air strike to be casted. face. Yes, I believe that this is the team that could win the championship again. 100% confident. Going for the maniac. He has to get space. He gets that. He gets the savage. SRG. Uh, group stage. They were shaky. Everyone falling. Only Innocent here goes into the base. Oh my lord. Innocent. Walks it over. Gets a kill. Cat minion. Innocent. He’s trying everything to save this game. They’re going to go for the base to allow the Red Giants. OG Esports fall to the dark horse just like M6. Winter crowd the base. The Red Giants have fallen. But just like M6, they managed to get through as SRG will tell him it wasn’t luck at all. Okay, so first things off, I feel like Stormmy is going to be a standout that goes beyond how he’s able to manage and control the mid lane. literally is the guy who just wants to set things up for his team. What’s happening here? Some Stormy gets an idle planted over to two as it comes down the combo in the back. It’s a raging sttor and an AOG. That’s a double. I think whatever we achieve uh during our journey or last year, we just want more dream and game again to be best of the best like the goods. Oh, they’re going to fight for this one too. Innocent grabs Wu, looks for another, gets the double. Nope, he falls. Innocent gets the triple. Going for the maniac. He has to get space. He gets out. He gets the savage. For me, I’m really proud of Sakai because he improved a lot from last year. His game play and his skills on talking with him. Oh, he comes through. He dashes through. He’s buying so much time for the Red Giant. Outstanding match for me is against Petus Pro because enemy just kind of aggressive to us. The feeling is uh so intense. After losing M6, people look down on us and we want to prove that we are still the strong team like last year and that’s our biggest motivation for this year. You to you to you to you. Will we will will Hello everyone. I’m Sanford from Team Liquid and today I’m with my Sansson duo Sanji. So today we’re going to play a game called Can You hear me bro? So let’s start. So what should be the first? Oh, can you hear me bro? Can you hear me bro? Ah, can you hear me, bro? Five words. Five letters words. Five words. Point. Ah. Five words. Can you You can do no. No. Can you You do you. So I guess do do. Okay. It’s Can you hear me, bro? So, okay. The next one is five again. Five words. We we will will we will will next next don’t don’t don’t Okay touch as don’t don’t touch my blue okay next five words he Stop. D. Stop. Stop. Cup. Stop. Cup. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Yeah. Feeding. Feeding. Feeding. Stop feeding. Full sentence. Stop feeding. Are you crazy? Stop feeding. Are you crazy? Okay. Okay. I’m I’m going to skip this one. First word. Nathan. Action. Oh. Punch. Paige. No. Assassin. No. Fighter. No. Parsman. Yeah. Nathan. Nathan. Natalia. Natalia. What’s that? Natalia. I’m going to skip this one. Nathan. Natalia. Bro, I haven’t guessed anything. So, okay. Last one is Cho China. Kick Karina. Nathan. No. Chew kick kick karina kick karina. Yeah. Into in into combo. Hero into bush. Sand sand. Sand sun. Sand. Yeah. Yeah. Karina into sand. No. Hero. Hero. Hero in the floor. No. Hero. Hero. Map. Map. Map. in the in the legends. I give up. Hey, Je kicked Karina into Khalid. I said hero. Hopefully you enjoyed uh the game and we haven’t guessed anything. So yeah, see you in MSE and thank you for watching. Two pop. Hello guys, I’m Yums and I’m Inosan and I’m Kam guys. We are from SRG OG. So today we’re going to play guess a hero. I think it’s pretty easy. You already know by looking at his face. Okay. Look at his face. Look at his face. Oh wow. I’ll just right you know this is second one. Oh, don’t show you. You know what’s coming from that? Yeah. What? Yeah. To answer. No, no, no, no. Karina, no. He can go everywhere. Keep. No. Assassin. He can he can go here and then go everywhere. Ah, funny. How will you guess it guys? How will you guessing? This one is super easy. I think Ram know this. I think Ram know this because he play this. No, no, no. Three times. Balen. No. Lucas, no. Apple, no. Carmela, no. Oh, you knowing ting. He can he can he can push people. Kadita. No. Selena. No. What is Zet? Yeah. You You should have put circle to this. Still the same. Just stand. That’s what I’m saying. There’s a lot of people that got stuck. Oh. Oh jeez. Swap. Let’s go. Huh? What is that? So land land. Okay. Okay. Okay. Makes money. Yeah. I want easy. You also good eaz you should have bro. So all right guys we already done with the games. See you in the tournament guys and support us. You know what’s Just yesterday we were saying there’s no way SRG do it twice. Ah yeah. And then Innocent decides to turn the entire game into a highlight reel. I mean backto back grand finals. Kids got ice in his veins. And now they’re just what? One step away from becoming a dynasty. But then across the stage you see Team Liquid Philippines. They’ve got the GOAT Carl Tezy. They’ve got Michael Sanford. They’re here for redemption. But honestly, today, whoever steps into this arena will not matter anymore. Because when the lights come on, there’s only one name that gets remembered. This is the final day of MSC Knockout Stage, and today, legacies either live or die. Heat. Heat. As the sh as the sun shines brightly high over the sands of Riad and the boulevard, we welcome you into the journey to the sunset of the mid-season cup here at the esports world cup. as by the end of this day, we will crown a new champion or maybe even crown our first ever back-to- back champion for MSE. Welcome to the grand finals day of MSE 2025 here at the Esports World Cup. My name is Renoir. I am joined here by Nisu and Destroyer. And before we get to the grand finals though, we have to meet two teams who got what they wish for, but not in the way that they expected. Yeah, man. Uh I think a lot of people didn’t Well, they were hoping for an Onyx versus Onyx grand final, but they got to get the third place match. I think nonetheless, both our matches today are going to be phenomenal. Hopefully, we get the full thing, too. Hopefully, we get the full uh series, even for a third place match, but still, you know, it’s a good thing for the uh club that still Oni versus Onic. And for the viewers, definitely it’s hype 1,000%. Yeah, it is an interesting story for the Onyx versus Onyx battle for third match that we’re going to be seeing start things off for grand finals day. But before we got to this moment, we got to see some epic action yesterday. We saw what five games between SRG against RQ. We saw four games against Team Liquid and Onica ID. So now we are going to be witnessing the top plays of yesterday brought to us by Kadilla. just to give you a little bit low uh a little bit of a lowdown of what we expected. Destroyer, you were here yesterday, you were working. What was your like your overall feeling with SRG versus Onyx? Oh, you know, SRG the king’s back, the boss of this gym back. And I really liked it. I was kind of worried during the group stage about Sergio, but yesterday, you know, such a good performance and they beat Oni. That’s kind of tough. Yeah, I I think I have to correct myself. I think I name dropped RQ a little bit earlier. It’s SRG Ony and TLPH Onyx. I have to remind myself we got two Onyx yesterday. There was a moment in my head where I was thinking, wait, Onie couldn’t have played twice yesterday. Wait, don’t write this because one’s PH, one’s ID. It’s fine, man. You know, so many people now are used to either the Team Liquids or the Onyx. You know, it we get it mixed up sometimes, but yeah, we had amazing matches. I was holding on to the edge of my seat. It unfortunately I couldn’t watch inside. They’ve been packed, by the way, the uh the stadiums here as you guys can see from the clips. But nonetheless, I love how the players are just as energy uh like energized and you know they’re into it be as much as the audience because you see these clips of them too and they’ve been thrown around the social media because of just how intense it is and it’s also I know there’s been a debate about how close the the tables are but I mean they seem to love it. Well I mean you saw there the reaction of key boy advert but right now a lot of I love yous being said uh from both sides. If you haven’t seen it, Key Boy face is literally everywhere right now on social media. But yeah, because of the action that we saw yesterday because Team Liquid Philippines took down Onyx because SRG took down Onyx Philippines, it’s now Liquid versus SRG OG. That’s kind of interesting thing. Also, we discussed yesterday with Leo on Lafel about what’s harder to sit here and watch the games or to be at the venue like a viewer and to cheer up for your team. What’s harder? What do you think? You know, that’s a tough question. A good later we are going to be in the grand finals supporting. Yeah, that’s a tough question. What do you think, Nu? Uh, I you know what? because we are so used to being casters. I enjoy the fact that we get these moments where we get to be fans. That’s how we all started. So, uh I’m looking forward to it later on. Yeah, I I’ve never experienced playing. So, I’ll just say, you know what, being a fan is harder, but I’m pretty sure it comes with its own challenges being a player, especially when you know you have this amount of money looming over your heads, the prize pool. Just to remind you, fourth place and third place Ony as an organization will solidify themselves being able to walk away with at least $400,000 US. And later it’s Liquid and SRG fighting for the 1 mil and the second place getting 500,000. That’s actually crazy. I mean, people have been I I feel like talking about this too, but yeah, at the end of this third place match, Any the organization is still winning essentially. So, you know, they’re going to be fighting for that pride, I guess, to go ahead and say like we were the better Onyx today. It’s kind of funny. No matter what going to happen, Onyx going to win. That’s like the best way to one of the things that a lot of people have been saying about this uh series for Battle for Third. It’s like at the end of the day, Onyx as an organization wins. So, maybe a little bit later we’ll be able to dive deeper into that matchup. We have to look at the big umbrella looming over the esports world cup, which is the club championship rankings brought to us by SDC. So yesterday we saw one Liquid Carlson get a lot of points and another title for Liquid and now that launches them to the top of the standings if I’m not mistaken. That’s Team Liquid’s first uh title win in the esports World Cup. And now later today we might see another Carl Tezy potentially add 250 more points into the standings. So now you know if you want to have uh you know a child out there start it with Carl at least. throw in the name. But so and also this is updated for our viewers out there. This is uh this is currently updated. So if Team Liquid happens to win today, they add what 250 is it 250 points to this total points additional points and that’s what they need because club championship it’s super important for EWC and overall like for all the teams for all the organizations uh maybe the priority is even more than uh like if we uh choose the different games like so that’s why Team Liquid got an amazing opportunity to lead this board. Yeah, again that extra 250 uh looming over Team Liquid. Uh no, because of some things we have to acknowledge though, Onyx actually will not be getting points from their performance here at MSE at the Esports World Cup. Since they have two organizations under one title, they will not be getting points and which is why you actually are not going to be seeing Onyx uh in this ranking so far because of their performance in MLBB. So, I’ve seen I’ve been seeing a lot of questions about that. That’s us clearing it up for you viewers out there. I think it’s time for us to revisit our power rankings because I think there are a few things that were subverted. We placed on PH in the A tier. Uh Onyx ID the S tier, but in the A tier, SRG OG, I think they have successfully exceeded a lot of expectations. They have, but when I look at this, I still think generally coming into this, you got to remember this was probably the most competitive international we’ve had. uh in general especially here for MSE at EWC but you know I would say a lot of people based off the groups too would still have put SRG there but now yeah they there’s something about it they’ve said this in the broadcast something about Riad where they just unlock this like potential in SRG and now yeah you could definitely say they’re an S tier team after what we’ve seen even just yesterday. Yeah. Well, there’s something that nicely said, destroyer. I know you’ve also been casting and being part uh you’ve been in BBB town for a good amount of time. Real quick, do you agree with him that this is one of the most if not the most competitive international tournament we’ve had? Yes, absolutely. And uh I want to add one thing and to rem uh like remind you about the situation about SRG why like tier A because during the group stage they underperformed actually true. That’s the reason also never forget about it. Yeah. And that’s what makes the story of SRG a little bit more interesting. The fact that they made it back to the grand finals. The fact that there is a chance they’ll be the first ever twotime MSC champions. Now it’s time for one of my favorite segments that we have in the panels all across MLOBB Esports here at the Esports World Cup. It’s the doctor’s notes hot takes brought to us by the Alphab Medical Group. Nu, you actually had one that you told me. What was your hot take? Hey, my hot take was basically no matter what happens here, Any should take the boys, both sides to Japan because like they they have I mean either way, whoever gets uh third or fourth, you’re going to have plenty of money and uh I think after all this, they they deserve to have some fun. But uh by the way, coach, yep, promised them if they go to the grand finals. But the question, if they match each other the for the third place, will they go to the Japan? Yeah, but but I guess that’s what that’s what Na’u take to say is just take them to Japan regardless. You’ve secured 400,000 for the or might as well just push on with the trip and take them to where they want to go. So hopefully maybe in a few months, maybe in a month or two. Uh we know we have MPLs coming up so soon. At some point before the end of the year, hopefully we get to see them go on that Japan trip. I’m pretty sure the boys deserve it as well. Being able to deliver for the organization in this state. Now, I think it’s time for us to revisit what we’re going to be expecting for the matches today. It’s just two. One best of five, one best of seven. Two teams under the same organization fight for third place, while Team Liquid Philippines will face off against SRG OG Esports in the grand finals. Two teams both seeking redemption in their own little ways. But it’ll be the job of the panel later on to discuss the story of Team Liquid and SRG. We have to talk about Onyx. This isn’t a hot take, but I think I have finally thought of a proper way to push the story for these two teams. What’s that? For the longest time, it’s been we’re fighting for our orgs. We’re fighting for uh Indo-Pride, PH Pride. I think at this point, these two teams, they have to be selfish. They just have to fight for themselves, win for themselves and think about the money they’re going to win for themselves. That’s the point actually. Uh you know the difference still about money and if we speak about organization definitely we can summarize that but if we speak about the players that’s the difference. Yeah. For the longest time these two teams uh they’ve been branded with that big picture on because this is the first time we’re going to see on PH on ID in a in an international stage in uh SPS. we were able to see them go up against each other. But now at this point, I think just throw that all out the window. You got to fight for something more than the big picture. Fight for the fact that you can pridefully say like, “I’m better than you and you know it.” Yeah, this is the I guess the test for the both of them. And maybe at the same point, you can say, “Yeah, be selfish.” I still think obviously we’re going to see them play their hearts out. And uh I don’t know if this is also going to bring a case where maybe you know we’ll talk about this later when we get to like drafts and stuff is do we see some of that testing in the draft because they’ve acknowledged and accepted where they are in the third place match I feel like at this point and then you know you be selfish in the sense of play your best game. It’s your last um game here at EWC so why not put everything on the line for a great show and a great match. Yeah. Uh when you think of that kind of vibe, there’s one player that comes to mind for me when it comes to Onyx Indonesia. It’s Sans in the mid lane. For the longest time, he was touted as the mechanical god of mid laners, of mages that I think whatever he ends up with in the draft needs to be something powerful that he can say, I’m going to carry this team on my own. Also, I want to add one more thing about the compositions. you actually can uh create something, you know, unpredictable. You can create a roster of uh the heroes and create it’s like, okay, we got nothing to lose. Yeah. Really nothing to lose. Let’s make it unpredictable for everyone, even for our dear friends. Yeah. And speaking of unpredictability, like I would have to just highlight Super Friends because even yesterday it was one of those moments where you know, you know, you guys know what I’m talking about. the spear destruction on the Valentina. It’s like every international this guy does something with a Valentina and I already saw the post. It was like 2026 question mark like what is he going to do on the Valentina then? And he’s one of those players too that just like you know he is a mechanically gifted player himself and he makes big plays and I think that’s why a lot of times even the mid lane matchup between him and Sans is so good because they’re both S like S tier mid laners. Yeah. And that’s why hopefully like the fanboy in me is looking for that a matchup in the mid lane that just allows Sans and Super Friends to show how mechanically gifted they are, especially for Super Friends because for the longest time it’s always been Sans great in mechanics, but Super Friends great on the macro. Well, because that’s the heroes that he usually ends up with. We’ve seen shades of that as you mentioned with the Moscow Valentina and all of that that I I think there is enough room in the hero pool of to hopefully allow super friends to you know we call it sour plays in the Philippines you know just have those little moments. Would you want to see that from your mid laner or do you think they should stick to really something a bit more stable? No no no surprise me. make me surprised. And uh I really liked that from Super Friends. And he’s actually the only guy nearly the only guy who is still taking the Valentina and making surprises for us. Yeah. So hopefully we do get more surprises uh from the mid lane in the jungle. I think we’ve gotten to the point where just a little bit more how do I say it’s you already know what’s coming in the jungle, right? It’s the Lancelots. Uh oh yeah, all that. There’s a good amount of options. I think we have gone to that again where we’ve shifted right um even leading into this and I know we saw some of this during the interviews with some of the players in King Kong and you know it was they’re they’re very apparent the shift of the jungle has um changed but it’s also in the sense like you still have these options where we can go utility versus assassin. We don’t have to pair up utility versus utility. You don’t have to do assassin versus assassin. Um but there’s clearly some teams that do it better, some junglers that work better. Um, and I think nonetheless it’s it’s still I would consider a very healthy meta that we’re in. Yeah. Destroyer, where do you think do you agree with that? Uh, I want to add that if we check the stats. Yes. First of all, the we see the nomination of the assassins, but it’s not only assassins, it’s actually a damage dealers because you see Ellis there and she’s definitely not an assassin and Lucas also like the fighter. But still uh the utility jungler they went to the second plan and uh sometimes they appear when they need to be. Baksha it’s like 50/50 depends but Fra still he is dominating. He is one of the best utility junglers and uh still teams respect him and rely on him. Yeah, and it’s cool because you’re really seeing that yes, it is mainly a carry jungle meta, but the utility junglers are an important option to have. The total bands almost sort of double for the assassins compared to the utility, but you’re actually seeing that the utility junglers, as expected, are dominating the stats in terms of control around the major objectives. It’s crazy because even yesterday, we saw the Barretts come to play, right? And that’s why I think utility overall is just in this position where it’s like, okay, this can work, but it fits very niche lineups. The Ez came out and I know we talked about the throwback to that lineup that we’ve seen in the past, but um I’m glad that there’s still that option to go utility if you have to pick up assassins for the most time. Like it is assassins still being picked up. But I also think that this current trend of um more kind of brawly chaotic fighting is is great that we have this because I think it makes things really interesting. How many times have we had a first blood in under the minute? Yeah. All right. So, as we’re getting closer to the match, I want to play a little game. Oh, no. Don’t. Why you Why are you so scared? Okay. So, it’s real quick. Please don’t. One by one. I want you guys to just give me a hero. One hero that we haven’t seen yet or maybe we don’t see enough of that you want to get picked in this series. I know. I know. Johnson. Johnson. Johnson. Okay. Johnson plus Beatatrix. Oh, let’s see this combo. All right. Okay. Let’s see. Let’s see if Destroy is going to get his wish later. Johnson. Beatatrix. Okay. What about you? You guys already know what I’m going to say. Like there’s only one hero on my mind all the time and it’s Gourd. We saw him in the group stage. I would love to see him come out for this final day. Mhm. I just throw them out, you know? I mean, like, there’s already been some surprise picks in the mid lane. Why not do it here? Okay, for me, I want it to be one that we saw only once, but kind somewhat struggled and I’ve been asking for it. I want to see cushion, man. It sounds super friends. I want to see one of them at least pick the cushion once. Like troublemaker. Yeah, just a straight up troublemaker. If you could if you could uh Yeah, troublemaker from ECA. Yeah, exactly. Absolutely. Yeah, like during the wild card M5. M5, right? So, he took the cushion mid lane. Let’s go. I’m ready for it. I’m ready for such kind of of unexpected of unpredictable picks. I’m ready for it. Give me show. I think that’s like the best clip that we can go for. Give me show. Please edit that. Yeah. And hopefully that’s what we get between Any real quick. Very, very fast predictions. Who do you got taking this? Any I’m leaving that, man. No, I’m just Any Philippines? You know, you know Onic. Which Onic doesn’t Okay, he gets to do that. I got I’m going with Onic Philippines. Onic Philippines. Okay, actually I also want to cheer up for Onic Philippines. Ooh, to Onyx Philippines. Am I going to be the Filipino who goes Onic Indonesia here just so that we balance out our predictions? Trust your heart. My heart says I don’t know. My heart says Any wins at the end of the day. My heart desires saying with the same. I think we’re all the same. I think we’re all the same. My heart desires that we win at the end of the day cuz now we have again two teams who for the longest time have been brothers in arms fighting under the same umbrella. But maybe it’s this tournament where they throw all of that out the window and just say, “I’m fighting for myself. I’m fighting for my reputation. I’m fighting for my pride.” We both may be porcupines, but I’m better than you and you know it. On Indonesia, Onik Philippines, welcome to the battle for third here at MSE at the Esports World Cup. Heat. Heat. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the last and final day of the group stages of MSE at EWC 2025. Now before we head onto the GRD finale later on in the afternoon, we will first be watching a third placer match up against two brothers from different nation. And of course you guys are still with Rose and Milos for the final day. It’s a pleasure to have really borne witness to history in MLBB and here at MSC25 at the esports broke cup. Like we said, it’s the third place game, right? The stakes are not as high, but there’s still a lot on the line, especially national pride between two brotherly rosters here between both, of course, Philippines and Indonesia that are two of the strongest regions in MLBB with two of the best teams from those specific regions, too. Yes, you are right, Milos. And you know what? I’m pretty sure this is like an no pressure matchup for them because over at the backstage, they are fooling around. They are having so much fun. And hey, they are even planning their walk outs. So to all of you guys, you guys should get ready on those walkouts. It’s going to be amazing. We’re not putting the bar very high, but we’re saying they’re going to be having a lot of fun. And so will we with you. Let’s introduce then our team starting off with it Indonesia. As the champions of MPL Indonesia, one of the strongest regions in MLBB, they came to MSC25 as one of the favorites to win it all. And whilst they fought hard to meet those expectations, they fell just short of delivering the third MSC title for their team in the Clash of Champions. Now they return once more with their heads held high to finish their EWC campaign on a high note. That note just so happens to be a big brotherly battle. Yes indeed, Milash. And of course going up against Anik Indonesia, it is the Super Family from the Philippines hoping to end their MSE journey on a higher note than their brothers from Indonesia. Let us call on up Onik Philippines. As the reigning world champions, Onyx Philippines entered the tournament looking to complete the Triple Crown. While they couldn’t complete their dream run after the intense series against SRG, Onyx Philippines still has a chance for a podium finish. While this matchup was a grand finals many have dreamed of, they meet in the third place match instead with a $250,000 and the nation’s pride. Oo, I wonder what we are going to see. We just saw Kellra diving right on stage. That’s the sort of energy we’re looking for. you hyped it up, but I had no idea Caro was going to do that. Anyways, if anything, that is a great setup for our third and fourth place matchup. So, please, Any and Onik, you may go to your seats. No more keys. Those have already been crushed, unfortunately. But I think it’s time for us to dive head first into it. Rose, you ready? I am ready. Then, let’s send it over. Start it off our third place matchup. Have fun. I love how just with their walk outs, they’re already giving us what we asked for. They’re giving us a show. Kelra diving head first. Is that is he going to play boxing? Is is that what he’s trying to signal? No, I don’t think so. But it’s great to see that these two teams are in high spirits. I feel like this like the most lacks that I’ve seen both Onyx squads like with all the tension gone now. Now it’s Yeah, it’s it’s a battle for Pride. Once again, welcome to our third place finals. You can redeem the code which is case sensitive and uh type that into your in-game clients or you’re you can scan the QR code. Wherever you are, wherever you’re watching, we’d also appreciate it if you could comment, share, tell your friends that we’re having this matchup. Who is going to win? Will it be Onyx ID or Onyx PH? We’re about to head into the draft. But I I just love the vibe that we have on stage right now. Think about it, man. Like even for the audience, it’s like you show up in an Onyx jersey. Which which side which side are you rooting for, right? Um because even yesterday the support was amazing for both squads in their own respective matches and you know I feel like even as a fan it would be difficult right now to to decide which one to cheer for. Yeah, you see Ko said we they were expecting an Onic versus Onyx grand finals but they’ll just have to try again. Hopefully we’ll do better at M7. That’s our world championship. As for his prediction, Team Liquid looks really strong as a whole but Ko boy thinks that SRG still has a chance. It’s a good point actually. So much respect for the opponents like forg definitely I would like to say if we attaching like the grand finals a little bit just of course of course so I would like to say that SRG and uh Team Liquid will go full series this from my perspective from what I saw yesterday and hopefully we do get that show that full series that we’re looking out for. Metro Zero skins, by the way, are coming out. If you haven’t seen the cinematic trailer for it, search it up. The Metro Zero train is arriving at the MOBB battlefield with stunning new series of skins where visual wonders await a cyber cyber punk meets traditional culture. Now, for these two teams, I I want them to inject a little bit of that punk energy into this. We’re asking for surprises, but I don’t think we’ll actually get it in game number one right away. We might have to wait a little bit later into the series for some of the more crazier picks to come out. Uh I Yeah, maybe for game one. And I actually if we do see it in game one, I think that sets the the theme for the whole best of five, right? I kind of expected, but like you mentioned, Remo, I think you’re in this position for both these guy uh both these teams to just be like, “Yeah, the the pressure is not on our shoulders anymore, and we can go ahead and approach these games with that off our shoulders.” And we’ve seen teams do that before. It’s like when they don’t have any weight on their shoulders anymore, they they sometimes play better. But, you know, these are two squads that already do that in and out. So, if we see them just go with a standard kind of draft that we’re used to seeing as we jump into it, then maybe that’s the case. They’re just going to uh again be selfish and go for a sense of let’s win this for us. Yeah. You know, think I want us to create a perfect draft for them. Like for example, I already just imagine how on doesn’t matter which of them to take Jo and Franco and to see the combination when you’re trying to open to the next. H I wonder if we will get uh stuff like that. I mean, we might be hoping a little bit too much. At the end of the day, these two teams still do really want to win for themselves. So to be able to say that we’re the third best team in the world by the end of MSC that they win this much for their regional organization. So so far very standard bands. Uh Onyx PH and Onyx. You really see the drafting philosophies of these two teams that we’ve seen all throughout MSE shown in these two bands. Now where do we go for the first picks here? Uh they actually go for the box right away and Keller picked it. Is he going BA gold lane? No, I don’t I really don’t think he is. We we can only hope, right? But we’ve actually seen some uh changes or like surprise picks in the gold lane anyway throughout MSC. That’s been great. But you know, this is going to be picked up rather quickly. It looks like it’s going to be pretty standard. So you have the Mosov already for the answer for Onyx and there’s the Gakasha, right? So, I think we’re just going to see a standard draft unless that the trend has been where, you know, both teams kind of save even their mid lane picks for for later. And I feel like that might be the case where we see something um as a surprise, but uh so far pretty pretty standard. Yeah, for now they decided just to Oh, and this is Selena for the Super Friend. Yeah, that’s going to be a tough match. No, no fun. No fun at all. No, I mean we do get a chance to see Super Prince put on a show with the Selena as we have before, but I think with the Gataga and Moscow, he might have to be a little bit more careful of his timings considering that there’s a high chance and with the first two picks alone, he might get punished if he mistimes his entries as a Selena. Next pick is the Ooh, a very early Claw. Usually, we see Claude in the second phase of the draft. Yeah. Yeah. This could also just be the case of again they’re in a position where they can have a little this is maybe this is the little bit of fun that we’re talking about cuz Fanny’s Fanny so far has not been much at all uh throughout MSC. It’s still picked up when you know uh and they’re they’re in high spirits as you guys can see. But the Fanny maybe we get to see this work. A lot of teams when it has popped up, just a simple counter into it like a Kufra uh seem to go ahead and be enough or there are still those heroes that can counter into that. But um yeah, I’m glad that we at least get to see a Fanny come to play for game one. At least something at least something interesting. You know, I’m against just because the win rate is super low. Nah, not on her side. But still, it’s an interesting pick and as a match for the third place. Okay, just show me your mechanics. Just show me like I gonna play this hero. Yeah, I mean it’s Kyrie on Aanny. It’s a Fanny that’s been nerfed and has a very difficult window to actually pop off and do a great job in game. But hey, if he makes it work, then we get highlights. We get lots of clips for social media. I like uh I don’t know how many people caught it leading into you know when we opened up but you had those where the players were doing the can you hear me bro game and literally they say there I think it was Sans saying to I think it was or key boy saying to uh Kyrie you know don’t take my don’t take my buff basically don’t take my blue don’t I know we call purple but don’t take my blue is what he was saying don’t take my buff and uh that’s the thing man with a fanny if you lose that buff uh you’re in a troubled position and with the fact that you have this vision being provided from the Selena the box shell over here for Onyx Philippines. it might be difficult for him but uh again you can go ahead and continue to build up this lineup that will help the Fanny and I think with the Gataka that’s already a great start and you know even the Moskov in the sense that’s not the only problem of the funny actually for now uh previous funny you can go all over the map and uh make a lot of noise a lot of stuff and but now it looks like you need to concentrate on one similar lane so you don’t have uh different choices you need just focus on one lane for example just go gold gold gold gold gold gold etc because of the energy you can’t rotate as much as before okay uh mid lane pick for Indonesia not yet seen as on Philippines now show the cho for Bruce comfort so we get Cho versus Ka and we get either some comforts across the board here for on PH gold we get a jungle box though so it’s a utility jungle versus an assassin in jungle, but it looks like Onic BH has a lineup that can pressure the Fanny significantly more. And this is what I was saying, like if you’re going to see utility junglers, like we saw from the uh the graphic there earlier on. You just have to be able to go ahead and complement it. And that is so well done because you get vision for the Selena. You have great utility with the Cho and the Edith, too. And like you said, pressure. So Onic Indonesia goes and picks up the Valentina like we saw yesterday picked up a couple times for Monik Philippians. So it sounds just it’s really saying I also want to play Selena. Give me a give me Selena. So actually if you speak about the trio I would say that on Philippines got a better triple lane. Yeah their lineup just looks like it can mess up the fanny of Onyx too much. But maybe just maybe uh Sans’s version of his Valentino play. And of course, the Klay of Forky Boy might just be enough to ensure that Kyrie is comfortable and that Kyrie can pop off on a Fanny that has struggled all tournament long. Welcome to the battle for third. But, you know, I think it’s time for us to talk to you on over to our casters. Thank you very much, Remar. And right here we got Lelis Leo on the mic for game battle of third. Welcome. This is going to be Any versus Onic. Indonesia against Philippines. Which one will be the better Onyx? Welcome to the land of dawn. Based on yesterday’s performances, both Onyx showed very clear patterns when it comes to their jungling. And it also shows here that even though we know these two junglers to be assassin specialists, I like how King Kong just said, you know what, I’m going to hunker down, put them on, big boy pants, and say, we need a utility jungler. Give me the box. And you know what? This is a good time to see Super Prince as well as Cara really show their stuff because even the panel said this is going to be a battle of mechanics and so far I kind of feel like for all the fans this is what they wanted. We see here Kyrie crossing over does not get much. It’s anything locking down that little wanderer. Great early pryo for uh the Filipino squad here given that they did end up with a lot of hard CC coming from that Cho and even you see Kirk crossing over early. Now honestly with this mid duo having the cho as well as Selena I myself am expecting a lot of tempo coming in from Onic Philippines. If they don’t do anything for the first two minutes I kind of feel like for the first turtle they could really take something here. Looks like Super is not going to go over to Ly making sure that not going to make a lot of mistakes here. King Kong bumping right in the key boy here and they dog pile on the star boy the MVP from 2023. It’s taken out first blood for the super fam. Yep. First blood goes over to Super Fins. And again, this is the tempo that Onic Philippines really, really want. Making sure that Onik ID, they don’t have this tempo, especially looking at how they play yesterday. They kind of want to play slow, which is something that Onic Philippines really don’t want to allow them to do. And you can see here, they’re rolling out, rotating towards the turtle, spawning about 5 seconds while Kyrie taking his time with this small camp. He’ll make it in time. No worries. Yeah, but the question is, what is he aiming for? Because is he going to let go of the turtle? Because right now King Kong has secured it. Looks like Kyrie doesn’t have an opportunity to really do anything. It looks like LP is stuck. He’s down. Key boy spent his flicker just to be able to get out once bitten twice shy. Onyx lose doubles on that. The major objective and a kill on their XP laner. As of right now, on Philippines with that turtle cake having 1,000 gold advantage on ID not an amazing start. They scale relatively well with this Moscow, but hey, you know what? Kra on this quad. I kind of feel like late game it’s going to be a monster. These porcupines play quick. Just about two and a half minutes in. Do we get the time to check the emblems? Lel, I’m loving the war cry on Kirk here. It’s definitely a sign for him to say, you know what, we’re overloaded on CC. We’re very chunky as a lineup as a whole. How about I invest my major emblem talent in the damage? Which is very interesting because Sans does not have the war cry. Usually when we see a Valentina going up against an Edith, you would opt for that too, just to make sure that you have a lot of damage. So the question is, what is Sans aiming for? Does he still want the Edith? Well, or does he want that wave of dragon? Either ways, this is going to be signs of his choice and we might be a little bit even a little bit critical considering what did yesterday. It’s interesting how a lot of our discussions are taken away from where we usually see the discussions go when you’re talking about PH. We haven’t talked about Keller. We haven’t really put much of a focus on the gold standard. Here he is going to against a familiar site. This is not the same grand finals match we saw in an SPS earlier this year. Yep. All the way from Joho Baru Seo at that point made his name again going up against Kra. It really like gave a reality check and as of right now it looks like for both gold laners they’re just having gold lane experience just farming it up not really getting uh involved with anything. I don’t know. Turret number two maybe they still join coming up. Same spot upper quarter. Kelra here just covering the exit point for Savo. The SOD could come out any time. Kyrie securing his purple buff here. Doesn’t want to be two seconds too late to the turtle like he was in the first. Well, at least this time LP is unleashing the turtle over. But now looks like four members of Onic Philippines is ready to to start a fight. No figure is going to be used by Kirk. Ly covering up. Key boy gets one. That’s a lot of damage dropping in. Blazing the wet sod thrown out. Lot of damage from Onic ID, but Onik PH are so chunky. Kra takes down Loot Pi. Few more straight bullets hitting Suns. No one is able to commit to the turtle just yet. Onik ID just suffered one loss. Yeah, good engage coming in from Onic ID, but just not enough damage here. And Kirk really making it difficult for them to go in because that return damage is so strong. But now on ID is fast through the trigger. Kai was able to go back base, recover, and now they want to go for the turtle. Here comes Kong does not get the retribution. the wall between him and the major objective. Onik ID scores one. Kyrie blasting away. Brusco the enforcer setting up a defensive barrier does not allow on ID to push on forward. The porcupine from Indonesia able to score and we can definitely see Kyrie is trying to balance out aggression as well as being careful because having Rusco on this cho you don’t want to underestimate him because the moment you want to overcommit, you might get kicked. So this is good coming in from Kyrie. try to see how much damage you’re able to deal without getting caught. Put that on a t-shirt. Overcommit, get kicked and Onyx ID. Know that they could do the same, but it takes a two-step process. Lel Sans needs to be able to see Bruska first. Sans needs to be able to see Kirk first. At that point, who do you prioritize? I don’t know, man. Cuz at this point, I’m even thinking, what is Sonic ID waiting for? Are they waiting for? Are they waiting for Sans? Are they waiting for an amazing engage by Key Boy or Loopy? Because at this time, it looks like they’re buying time. The question is buying for what? That’s a big question because even I’m confused. 6 minutes in, we haven’t seen Sans pick up a big ticket ult like what is the Gila one doing? Arrow hits Luty here on PH playing footsies engages but only for a second does get the ult on super frames of Selena’s transformation. Kyrie hitting Keller here for just a bit. Pushes a wave up. And this is why we see the Fanny hasn’t been picked up too much. The energy is is I would say such a big nerf. Sure, increasing damage so you can kill people easier, but that energy, the elusiveness is really what made Fanny uh who she is. Arrow not going to be hitting onto Loopy or Sons. Troll is coming up 20 seconds later. And now on Philippines engages and they find Sans forcing him. Take the primal wrath, but defensively loot using the vitalize putting a wall between him and his mid laner. does AOG back. Double defensive ult spent by Onyx ID. All this while top lane is getting worked on. Kyrie takes down that turret with the help of Key Boy. We were talking about how both teams are mechanically gifted. Maybe they go for a lot of team fights. But look here, Leo. 7 minutes in and only three to zero. So, both teams are really trying to play this macro game and find a turtle here. Kyrie, can he do something? People coming from the back. Finds that angle, gets to it. The tsunami slam takes down super prince serves it up to loot and that’s a 4v3 here in the mid. Kyrie gets caught out. Cables on through. Does not alarm to get taken down blazing the wet by Kelra finds in the back line. Luty as well. Three go down for Philippines and trade in force and the turtle. Everything looks good for Indonesia but then the moment Kra came in it was done. The team fight is over. At least right now on ID they traded up making sure that Sea at least gets something for the team. But still 2,000 gold lead here coming in from Monik Philippines. We’re going to be looking at a replay. It was a good engage coming in from T boy. And as we see it’s just not enough consistent damage coming in from Monik because Sange was so far away. He could not deal the damage the moment he came in. Kra comes in and it just does a lot of damage. I’ll tell you Lavel, I did not see Keller coming. I knew he was in the bottom lane. I didn’t know he’s going to make it in time and it was just picture perfect. If he came in a second too late, Onik ID would have gotten out of there and there would have been no punish for Onic. We would have seen a very different ending for the economy. But right now, the super fam are up and the map looks like it belongs to them. And this is very tough for a Fanny. Even if you do have macro control, that means you’re not lethal. That means you’re not proactive. You know what? Lore accurate. Claude is a thief. And that’s what you do. You make sure you come in, no one sees you go in, no one sees you go out. Everything is clean. But yeah, I agree with you. Right now, there’s a lot of lock down. So, even Kyrie trying to split is going to be very, very difficult. Even just going up against Kirk, you don’t even have enough damage to kill him. And if he catches you, you’re dead. You’re dunzo or you just have to leave. Yep. Look at this. Kirk playing man-to-man defense against Kyrie. An arrow catches one. Loot, will he survive? The answer is no. the way of the dragon and everything with the kitchen sink thrown at him. That’s his fourth death here 9 minutes in. Tank is member of Any Indonesia but one against four there’s nothing much that you can do as of right now on ID they’re struggling to actually dish out the damage. So I really feel like that’s the biggest problem especially when you have a Fanny in your composition is that if you don’t do well the first 6 minutes you’re forced to play macro. You’re forced to wait for the late game and then just wait for your opponents to misposition. let the Fanny get a crucial target, either Super Prince or Kelra and then hopes Sarah gets everything else. And you mentioned the energy conundrum. The fact that you have to deal with so many things on the map wavewise and then you’re also thinking how can I get how can I punish? How can I fight? That’s that that’s on you. The energy and they fight a kick. Suddenly the flicker and the way of the dragon compromising Liy and Kyrie that’s two down on Philippines have the man advantage on ID check in range they can’t steal this lord Brusco at one HP looking for more looking for the knock up on SS and key boy they’re lucky to even be alive this whole time buying time in the bottom lane but super fins so easy to answer on ID they get nothing because in that fight Bruce was the decisive one He went in, went for the kick as we saw Key Boy using a conceal trying to get into position, but again a little bit too late. We see the hesitation coming in from Key Boy and I don’t blame him, man. If I was a ROR in this situation, I’m going to catch someone. But can you kill? I think you can. So, this is a big problem coming in from an Indonesia. They don’t have the momentum. They don’t have the damage. They have nothing. On Philippines almost 5,000 gold ahead. Contrary to the narrative set prior to the match starting, this feels like a familiar match. This feels like a match set at home in the backyard because they are Onyx versus Ony. But no, this is the cleanest we’ve ever seen. On Philippines, this is the four we’ve seen them when they won in season 14. A purple buff attempt here. Not going to happen. Kyrie secures, but they do find Sans and this doesn’t happen. Lel, you know, this doesn’t happen. Sans at 02 and 0. Dude, this is such a rare sight. And now on Philippines, they’re sieging the mid turret. As of right now, only one tier 2 turret still available up top. And they go for tsunami slam serving up one. Kra survives. How did he do that? Purify plus BMI. On ID can’t catch a break even underneath one. They’re going to lose loot. Kirk gets a kill. K just stood still, deal the damage and as a question, what you gonna do about it? I’m not moving. You do something. It looks like they they’re just dead right now. On Philippines has total control of the map. Looking at the items here as well. Big difference in terms of the gold lane here. 9,700 against 8,100. So even if you if you’re trying to hope for Savo to make a play, he doesn’t have the resources just yet. I’m pretty sure he wants that maleific done, but still looking for that gold. On ID fortunate to have used uh their holy shields to maximum efficiency. We just hit the 12minute mark, folks, and that is when the holy shields get popped naturally. So that means by keeping all of their inhibitors, they’re able to somehow plan for a postlate game comeback. But the question still stands, Lel, you posted it about 5 minutes ago. What are they waiting for? Because if we’re looking at the itemization here, looking at the Valentina. Oh, hold on. Looks like they want to engage on ID and they do find a lot. Sun puts down to fifth of his health. Forced to use the primal wrath here. AoG defensively used. Key boy gets taken down amongst the weight of the whole super fam. A free pickoff and now Anukica here forced to defend. Oh, look at this. The blazing used to engage forcing son’s back. Luty looking for a taunt. The unbreakable not going to find the gold standard. King Kong putting up a wall between him and the push. Finally down goes the inhibitor. Not enough damage coming from Seo. Onik PH back off happy with the siege. Onik PH has just been punishing the front lines. Whoever they catch, Ly Ki boy, they’re going to take them down. Sons if they’re lucky. Ser now having the maleific gun. He has four items. There is potential for them to do something here. But again, the front lines are not able to set anything up. The Lord’s quarter health here. Looks like they’re going to reset it. Honik Philippines respecting the Indonesians attempt. They know that through Sans and Luty alone, suddenly things could go sideways based on what Sans has stolen. But again, he can’t even get in range. And that’s a free Lord for Onyx PH. They’re going to roll up into the side lanes and simulate uh an endgame push cuz this could be it. Lel. Yeah, honestly looking at the items coming in from Sans using this Valentina is going more for damage. Having the lightning trenchion as well as the glow glowing staff and having the arcane boots for more penetration. And you would assume that there’s going to be more damage, but the fact that he completed it too late. Everyone has magic resist at this point. Here we are. Lord marching up to mid. Kyrie cutting that top lane. Blazing the wet by Kra starting it up because ID are looking for the smoke. Kyrie looking for Kelra. Does find him. So does the SOD. But there’s a lot of chunky bodies keeping the gold standard guard. And they’re gonna at least protect that bottom lane and top lane. On ID doing pretty well for the situation. No, the pause came in during the conceal. Okay, we can count our blessings and at least say it didn’t happen during the engagement. It happened pre-engagement and I’m pretty sure given our new time break feature Oh yeah, we can fix this. So, whatever is uh ailing our in-game situation, I’m pretty sure this is something that is reparable. Yeah, I I like King Kong’s reaction as well. Like, bro, we’re about to smoke you. Just let it happen, right? But anyways, we can see here. I like that this narrative Any versus Any third place match, they’re giving it their all. On Philippines, if they can stomp Onik ID, they’ll do that, right? So, I kind of feel like Onic ID, they also got to rethink what’s going to happen in game number two because this is a very risky draft that they drafted for themselves and it just didn’t work out. But Lfell, imagine the plot twist if some way somehow Onik PH don’t win this. What if some way somehow ID are able to pull something out? I don’t even know what it is. I don’t even know where to start to try and weave that tail. But what if they do? Talk about Dr. Sullean Al-Habib hottake. Now, that’s a pretty pretty big hot take. If Hanic ID could do it, damn. How? But yeah, now we’re resuming back into the game here. Looks like still a successful defense coming in from Onic ID. The waves are still far away. So Onic Philippines, they have to reset, but still 8,000 gold lead. That’s a big hurdle for Onic ID. It does come at the cost of a third of the chunk of the top lane inhibitor. So, I guess on Preh got something there, you know, uh an investment into that top lane push, especially given Lord will be spawning in the lower quarter in a minute and a half. I just checked the items and uh the uh gold gain. Here we go. One more look. You see what I’m seeing, Lel 5,000 gold between Kirk and Luty. Oh my goodness, man. And that’s a that’s a carry if I’ve ever seen one. Yeah. Startle him scythe as well. No wonder he can do a lot of damage and he can stand up front and this is also a problem. Key boy who’s who is he going to catch right logically going to get Kelra but hey in a few seconds he’s going to have that purify super is the best target he’s done it once this game now the siege continues. AoG by Luti right underneath here. Three down bottom. Brusco’s very low. Forced to use that winner crown BJ. Bruce power gets taken down. The trade though. Oh my lord. Nothing for Onic. A shut down on the Kirk. Sod by Savo Lel. This is what we were saying. What if somehow Onic are able to dig deep? And I’m talking about Onic ID. What we were saying, what you were saying if if you called it and it does happen. Caster. casters or we’re just too good at our jobs. But either ways, like I said, it’s not over yet. 16 minutes in. In about what, 3 minutes, the gold won’t matter anymore. At that point, everyone has their core items. Onik ID looking at the mid lane here, trying to secure this mid turret. Kyrie goes in. Can he get something? Gets stunned up. He gets stunned up again. That’s a half second arrow. Super friends throw out just to stop Kyrie from getting the Kelra. And do you see this? A single moment of weakness, a vulnerability wherein they lack two of their key members. Onik PH suddenly lose the whole mid lane. With the amount of damage SA has done, I’m surprised he has no kills. I’m also surprised he has no deaths. So far, Sea is having an amazing Moscow game. If if Onik ID came back, hey, Severs, goes up top. And that’s exactly what Onyx PH failed to do in the early to mid. They did not apply any pressure to the gold lane. This is what we were talking about, the gold lane experience. Now the lord down to a fifth. Key boy finds one tsun. Nami slam onto Brusco. He’s put down to a tenth of his health. Li goes down though despite the revitalizer. The cirk taken down sons. Here comes Kyrie in the back line. Super backing out. Bruce gets taken down by S. The spears in the face. Key boy gets killed. A double kill for the Kirk attack. Three for one the trade. Where’s Sa going? Onyxic PH don’t want to take pursuit. Kyrie though deep behind enemy lines. King Kong and Kirk going for the pursuit. Cutting the exit. Oh, he’s low on energy. Doesn’t have a purple buff. Can King Kong do it? Okay, looks like he’s able to get away. King Kong trying to stop him. And looks like he’s not able to. Oh, he stopped Kyrie, but still the cable saved him. But now the Lord, you saved yourself one time. The Lord comes in. Kyrie, Savo, Lupy, can you defend this? All members of Onic Philippines except for Bruso and the Lord are marching in the siege. The possible end angle for Onyx PH Loot Pi and Savo trying to clear. They’re saving that top lane inhibitor. Key boy might catch some smoke here. Arrow onto Loot Pi on PH refuses to engage. They’re going to take the slow. They’re going to go the defensive uh the disciplined route. Kyrie. Oh no. Unable to quell on PH. A successful Grand Theft purple for King Kong. Let me just say Leo. Four to five months ago. This banning would would have been a big problem. But now looks like they go in. King Kong got caught. Oh no. The Spear of Misery puts him down at zero health. Saves a kill. Could it be a trade for Lutby? AoG canceled out. Kirk in the middle of five members of Onikide. Sans gets another. Two for none once more. IC ID pull it out from their heart of hearts. What did you saw Leo that you predicted this? I thought the game would have been over 5 to 6 minutes ago. I saw the clouds part and I saw the sky kings on ID not going to lay down and take this. Not so fast. Oh, beautiful placement. Savo has a killer instinct unlike any. And at this point, Korea says I don’t care who. front line, back line, mid line, anyone. I’m going to catch someone cuz at this point, Sans and Seo has that damage. Looks like Blazing D got hit and they do get a kick. Sans falls. K use the blazing duet. Arrow on the one. Blue be able to save block that projectile. Kyrie also protecting key boy now. The KK connection from Indonesia keeping them at bay. And that super dashing through. Key boy is going to go down here. No way. The star boy survives. Kellra gets another. Two down for ID. Oh no. Kyrie stunned but still saved by his steel cables. I got to tell you, someone give this Fanny some caffeine cuz he has no energy, man. Every time dives in. There’s nothing left. The tank is empty. That has been that has been the risk of playing a Fanny. Again, you do get a mechanically unique and honestly broken hero if you’re talking about map mobility. But if you can’t make peace with the fact that your energy dictates what you’re allowed to do, this is what happens. So sod with a dream, not going to happen. Another lord for zero for ID, by the way. I might be confusing folks, but yeah, you get the picture. Honestly, Fanny just proves you still need cardio. You need that standard. Now go is able to pick. Looks like Luffy still survives for now. And it looks like Onic ID are in still good position. But again, they did this before, they got to do it again. The Lord is marching up mid, but at least the waves aren’t synced. They only got to worry about two waves. Oh, arrow thrown out. Savo catches it. Kasha Unite here coming through. Kirk with the primal wrath able to take down Savo. His first death in this whole 21minute game. Triple kill for Kirk. Give him the savage. There it is. The Kirk attack. takes down all of the Sky Kings. Game one goes to the super fam. We open up the third place match with a savage from the EXP. The last time I saw that happen was Renzio out of Smart Omega, the former Kings of C. And now the Super Founder doing it. The last I saw that was back in MPLY Toad for on a exp Martis. exp getting the savage. Now that’s rare. So Martis, Masha, and now Edith. Dude, a lot is going on, but one thing is for sure. Thank you very much. We get to see the clip. That’s a highlight. That’s a highlight coming in from Kelra. Looking at this matchup, it really is about Any Philippines starting things strong and then ending strong. And now we’re going to be throwing it over back to the panel to see what do you guys think about this game. A day after ending up with a fobious pick that could barely do anything against SRG in game number five, Kirk comes back with his signature Edith and gets a savage. I will echo what Destroyer said behind the scenes. What is this game? I don’t know anymore. That’s true. That’s true. That’s what happened behind the scenes. Actually, it was super interesting to see how ONIC Indonesia are trying to defend. They got chances, but you know, after the savage, that’s all. I think uh I’m I’m surprised, maybe some other people were too, that it went to this point in the game, but uh hey, it brings it to a another savage for MSC. And who would have thought? Yeah, like the it would have been an XP laner. Um and then but I guess this is what you get when you have uh an Edith rolling with a s uh rolling with the war cry. Now as we see on celebrate well that okay I just got to say that went as much as we expected when you pick up the fanny third pick. You already see a boxer on the other side. There’s a Selena Onyx PH even got to pick up Cho. So, the difficulties of Onik Indonesia here, they were expected, but they were able to hold on. Was it more of an error from Onip PH? Were they too eager to end it, or did Onyx just have the right heroes to actually punish Oni Philippines in the defense? Onic Philippines got the right heroes. And I would like to say you can’t rely on funny anymore. Sorry guys, you can’t blind pick it. It should be you can potentially show it, but it depends. You need to adapt for the draft. I think especially when the box comes up first pick probably don’t want to go with the Fanny, you know, like go with the if you want to pick an assassin, go any other assassin. And I know a lot of people, oh, it’s Kyrie’s Fanny. Um, but you saw like he just got pretty much shut down the whole game. He didn’t really have much wor uh much space to work with. And that just happens to be the case. And any team is any team knows that they’re going to put pressure on his buff and that’s so if you think about it they’re the fact that they were able to defend though a couple times and then turn it around I think is great but it was also just because again you have a Moscow you have a lineup that actually allows you to defend in your base pretty well clearing things out but um you know the inevitable is going to happen and that’s what we saw here. Yeah. Now we’re going to be showing you once again another savage for MSC from the exp laner. The Edith having a hard time tracking where Kirk is. Oh, there he is in the middle of it all. He’s still he was almost going to go down, but because he had full stacks primal wrath, it looks like that he was just able to sheer life steal himself back to good health and then be able to pull off this savage that he did. So, I’m going to ask you, Destroyer, how is that enough that now in that game number one, we got a savage win 20 minutes. Are you happy that we’re getting a show or is it not the show that you’re looking for just yet? Chat, you know, they made a good advice. I uh asked for Johnson and Betrix. Mhm. They decided to fix me. Johnson plus Adeta. No, please guys. Okay. So for you the show the show really isn’t what happens in game. It’s like what crazy fix can you end up with? No, I I want to see the combination. I want to see the combination. Not like the worst stuff. I want to see the combination that works. And this is one of the, you know, the classic ones when you go to the soul rating and you see, oh, I know this. I know this. And um yeah, so something like that. And I also wanted to mention uh by the way the good point that uh Anesso said the Kyrie can’t even make funny real. So even Kyrie can’t make the funny work. So that’s not only the statistics the best junglers of the world can’t make it real. Yeah I think at this point we’re not going to be seeing Fanny for the rest of the series. Maybe even for the rest of MSE as we do still have our grand finals later. That was only game number one in the best of five series for the battle for a third. When we come back, can Onyx PH continue to push it and go for a two0 start or can Onyx ID take one back so that we have a potential 5game series ahead of us? Once again, my name is Redmar. We’ll be back after this break. I need help. Yeah. Do it. When the world of business is constantly changing, you need to stay ahead. So, what about AI to generate new possibilities? Machine learning to predict what customers will like. or expand your business by forecasting delivery routes with real time data with the power of the cloud. Imagine how AWS can transform your business. Heat. Heat. We asked these two teams to give us a show and game number one ended with the EXP laner Kirk from Onic Philippines on an Edith getting a savage. What can we expect? I honestly don’t know anymore. Hey, you know what? That’s uh something that all XP laners now can look forward to because for all the XP laners out there, I think MSE has been one of the showcases of just how good XP lane can be, how it’s transformed from maybe one of the more calmer lanes or, you know, very kind of stuck in one position. Yeah. Now you have a capability to well off a savage. Savage. Yeah. If you want to feel like a savage in game, go ahead and get the MSE 2025 pass. It’s still available only until August 7th. A lot of exclusive items available for you like the Nathan Arkon of Knowledge skin and the pass is 20% off from 899 diamonds to 719 diamonds during the duration of MSE. You also have the tournament avatar border, the battle emote, the returning skin atlas rune sentinel, the joy space explorer MSE skins, and so many more rewards. So hop on in game and get your goodies there. Now, I think based off of what we saw from game number one with the fact that Any is willing to Onyx Indonesia is willing to play Vanie into what looks like a difficult lineup. I think we’ve just increased our chances of our wishes coming true of some crazier picks coming out. We floated the idea of Guushian. We floated the idea of Johnson of Death. Chat is looking for Han uh now what was it? Nana and Hannabe. Nana. Come on, let’s get crazy. I don’t think we will, but a guy can hope. Just at least one pick. One crazy pick. Yeah, one crazy just for us. Yeah, just for us. Just for one game. Uh like we already see Kellra roll out onto the stage. By the way, we have to work on his form. He could have injured himself. Someone’s got to teach Keller how to do a proper roll. I wonder if he just got like a dare to do that. Like, you know, dare you to roll out on stage, man. Maybe we potentially got to see like the what’s it called? The inner thoughts. The inner uh internal thoughts. Yeah, the internal thoughts just win. like he just realized I’m gonna do this intrusive thoughts. The intrusive thoughts like don’t do it. Yes. Yes. Yes. Do it. That might be a good potential line of thinking for these two teams in the draft. Don’t do it. Yes. And on PH despite them handling the Fanny so well in game number one still decide to ban it out and respect it. Okay. Well, they’ll ban out. They’ll ban that out. They’ll respect it. You still got Onic. See, I’m getting mixed up now. Onik PH was on the blue previously, right? Yes, they were. Yeah, they were because I know even our casters in game are like, “Yes, you know, Onic, Onyx, Onik this, Onic that.” But hey, if Onic Philippines is going to be on the blue, that’s fine. Uh I think if Box is open, if they still go the Boxa, then they’re sticking with like this standard jungle, but then they might change things up as the the draft goes through. Um you can see the Jian taken out last here from their side for the first phase. You know one uh to hear one of the funny things on Indonesia. Yeah. But just check this drafts I mean the positions not going to change because on Indonesia nearly all the time prefer the second pick. Yep. That’s the reason. And the last bun is gatcha. taking away a gate means you’re looking at the choa batangs bakshas to be the main uh things to fight for later on. As with that last ban from Onyx ID means Onic PH gets free reign on the Ye Sunshin. So maybe in terms of crazy picks, it might come now from the side of Onyx ID because when you have an assassin in your jungle, it’s tough to go kind of crazy with the selections. Maybe we’ll see Keller get back on a Ruby gold lane that we’ve seen it pop up before. That’s what I was going to say. Usually when you see the YSS pop up, that’s sort of where you have to put the option is is it going to be a shakeup in the gold lane. So far throughout MSE, we’ve seen the Ruby and the CC, but since the CC’s taken over, there’s the Ruby as we were just talking about it. So that comes through and next up is the Arlot. Now the guy sitting next to me, Mr. Destroyer doesn’t feel too uh happy about the Arlon. I can see it in your face already. Mr. Destroyer is a certified Arlot hater for MCO. Se okay, that’s the guy who can pick it and I’m okay with it. You got no problems. Wait. Okay, real quick though. What do you feel about this Lanclot getting picked up by Onik? Yes, it’s an assassin is one of the best assassins of this meta, but you already see a Ruby and Arlot on the other side. I feel like this landslot might actually have a hard time. Might, but also you uh have a curtain call and tsunami slam. There’s a composition from the right side also. Never forget about it. So you can work on the yushin and try to focus it first. Ah, all right. So it requires Kyrie to talk a lot to key boy and loot to make sure. Okay. Help set me up so that my Lancelot doesn’t have a hard time. Second phase now. Uh what could we potentially be looking at the bands here nu? Uh well, they’re still going for some of the Rome options. Look where they took out the Miltild though. You can see they’re going to focus on the gold lane for Onyx Philippines to take out some of those options over for Saro. And I don’t know, this is the thing. It’s like I would say when we consider the fact that even for Onyx Philippines, there’s still some switch up that can happen here. Like I’m thinking add this like the Arlock’s there in the Ruby, but we don’t know 100% where the Ruby’s going. Like if it is going to be parked in the gold lane, I think they’re playing around that hand. Um you can see the Phobia is banned out here. Last one might still be a gold laner though. Yeah. Okay. So Onic actually reading into your suggestion here because if they’re banning out Phobia, that means they’re still thinking of the potential switch up. Yeah, exactly. So this Ruby might go to the XP. The Arlot might actually end up going into the Rome as we’ve seen in the past. Although I think and the most crazy thing, Arllot go in the gold. Yeah. Or or maybe we’ll go crazy and we’ll see Arlot in the gold lane. Who knows? So Onyx ID are now keeping that potential option open while Onyx PH I think they have to consider a mid lane ban here. There’s still a really powerful farce of pick a available even though you have uh Arlot on your side, but they are respecting the Ruby, which could have been problematic for Ruby and Arlot. So you just take Farsa here since it’s open. I would assume for I mean it gives them enough damage that they’ve got really good play into the Ka and there it is. So the far comes through immediately the answer though over from Onic Philippines the Kakura is is this are you happy with this shake up? I you know I got a point. Uh actually isn’t it too dangerous to pick versus this setup just uh mountain shocker I’m offended final slash like everything a lot of initiation. Yeah, that’s true. That’s like one of the trade-offs you have to consider picking up the Farsa. And then now it even demands more out of Kiboy and Luty to make sure that okay, you’re setting up for your Lancelot, but now you also have to protect Sans. Yeah, that’s what about resources when they took Lancelot with this composition. I’m okay, but you need to protect two targets right now. It’s super hard. I like how they they held on to this. Where is the Ruby going? Is it going to be in the gold? Okay, that uh All right, there’s a Bang. So, Ruby Gold. Yeah, Ruby Gold. Arlot Expang in the Rome. And this is Yeah, now it looks so tough for a Farsa. It’s This is like one of the toughest Farsa games we’ll see all embassy long on. They need something stable. They go for a Claude under a lineup that has so many crowd control that can stop his initiation. Are we in agreement with you? I feel like we’re all in the same boat. Yeah. Yeah. Only Philippines should be. Yep. I’m in YSS’s boat. Yeah, I’m in I’m in that I’m in that boat. Yeah, you’re you’re in this turtle ship. I’m in a turtle ship. Ah, I think that’s two drafts in a row now where on paper it looks like it’s just so tough for Onyx ID to make it work. While Onyx PH Yeah, a little bit unique, but at the same time, the idea is clear and there’s a lot of capability for them to shine on their own roles. You don’t have to rely too much on playing together as a team. Lao Lavel, what do you guys think about the two drafts? I think we’re going to see a lot of fighting here. Heck, three fighters on one composition. I want to see Any Philippines pushing it through, but hey, Indonesia with a standard draft here. Maybe they could do something by pushing it all the way to the late game. Welcome folks to the second game of this third place matchup. It’s me Lel and Leo calling this one. Nothing is impossible given that in the first game of the series an XP laner Nay and Edith with no sky piercer mind you scored a savage. So who’s to say what and what can happen here in Any versus Onic. Something I can say though this time is much different for this Kalia because heck now she has backup with a lot of damage and a lot of range. I kind of feel like that’s the important part. I agree with the panel that it is a very difficult draft for this Farsa, but if you win by too much, it won’t matter. So that’s kind of the goal here coming in from Monik Indonesia. Try to win enough so that even if something happens, they can’t outplay you with a lot of easy and quick damage coming through. But can that force themselves through the CC? Again, the sheer amount of crowd control that OnB have on demand. Looking at that XP lane matchup again, the Arlet against the CC, which I I believe that Arlets, the majority of Arlets, say for Sanfords, have just ran into weird situations, especially the ones in Rome. But here against CC, I I think it’s a valid pick. And here’s the thing, man. Looking at Onic ID, almost every single person here has some form of dash to get out of a very sticky situation. And so it does feel like Onyx ID, they’re trusting on their own instincts as well as mechanics to make sure that they can outplay uh Onic Philippines. So this is definitely one of those games where the reaction time is going to be highlighted by both teams. Oh, Brusco here walking into that long side lane brush towards the corner. Kirk vengeance on one key boy jumps in. Final slash from Kirk not going to keep him alive long enough as he gets drawn. First blood on by Liic ID already on the board. The vengeance popped in keeping himself alive as key boy starts up the turtle. Good instinct by Kyrie making sure it doesn’t go in and now used very low HP on PH the duo the trio gets pushed back on ID claim the turtle and now they’re attempting grand theft purple final slash once more. Can they stop it? The tsunami slam takes down Kirk and where’ the purple go? It’s on Kyrie. And now honestly even though yes boy got taken down this is what Any ID is trying to establish some kind of map control earlier on especially giving over the gold to either Sans or Kyrie Kyrie even though he only got two assists it’s better than nothing right of course you want to want to kill here but either way I feel like this is very good Bionic in Asia as long as they can get more kills and then preferably before the lord spawns get some get some turrets at least two and I think you’re in very good position where you can just outdamage on a kill piece and that’s what you’re looking for if you want to really invest in this sound macro direction that you’re going for. Again, very low kill count, very good movements to isolate certain parts of Onyx PH’s attempts at, you know, chain CC’s. And so far, I think this is going to benefit plenty for Sea. We know that Seo, if he takes care of himself and he invests in himself in his kit, that he has this clutch gene late game that maybe will allow him to claw Onic ID back. But what if they’re comfortable? But what if they’re in a good position all game long? Looking at the rotations here coming in from Onic Philippines. Onic ID, they need to be aware by Turtle 2. It will most likely be five men coming in from Onic Philippines. So they have to make a decision whether they want 4v5 or 5v5. And that’s 30 seconds from now. They started off already. A tsunami slam on the cart. Won’t let him live. But Lfell, isn’t that overkill? They threw all them ults on him. Maybe maybe Onyx ID is secretly just destroyer. They really don’t like that Arlet. They were He was in their ear. And it makes sense because part of the joke, you want to get that final slash out of the equation. That can change the entirety of your approach. Imagine being within retribution range, get hit by that sweeping ult push to the side, and then suddenly poof, King Kong steals it. Speaking of King Kong, Mountain Shocker revealing everyone from Onic ID where their whereabouts are. The I am offended forcing the response. The failure strike and the vengeance. The fist break trying to stop him from getting in the way. King Kong scores it. Taken down Loot as well while Kyrie finds FR. So Tsunami slam onto one. Kirk flickers back. The break once more trying to stop the forward in momentum of Onic ID will result in a twofor one trade. Make that a three cuz Onyx PH got the turtle right now. I feel we can finally hear some noise coming in from Kyrie fans because how long have they waited for him to use this kind of pick using the landslot dashing in and out getting all those kills and now he’s looking amazing. Too long lll too long. He is so comfortable. You can see it in his movement. This is that same hero that he’s used years back to run away from an inevitable death that we all could have sworn he was going to die from. But Kyrie looked at death and said, “Nah, uh, not today.” About 2,000 gold ahead. Onik and the map seem to be on their side again. This is just going to benefit Sava all the while. He’s He’s not sweating at all. Yeah, Kyrie making Lancelot look like lands too much. And again, they’re going for one lane. They found Kala. They want to go for it. So, Nami slam onto the Ruby. Again, there’s only so much you can do as a fighter. You flicker back, you were still going to die regardless. You were right smack dab in the middle of the circumference of that feathered air strike. And there’s so much pressure up top. Mount Shocker used up the stun portion of that ult going to push back on ID. And this is how you make sure that your far side is safe by everyone that can that can disable you which is using the ultimate crowd control death. Just kill them first. So this is a good initiation coming in from Monic ID. And so far Kirk not having a good time going up against Loopy. And Kyrie’s here. Looks like he’s not going to go for any kind of engage. Probably saving all those skills for this turtle. Sadly, the one way that the Arlet could have been good into the CC is if you’re away from the lane. If you’re fighting somewhere else, if you’re using your kit in a different way. A tsunami. He slams a bit off. Putting it at the tip of the fed air strike. Sans wailing away. Hits him with two salvos, but Kelra survives with a flicker, but he’s out of the conversation for this turtle tank. Yeah, but again no tsunami slam coming in from key boy. So they got to make sure whoever engages next is going to be fist break and a crack on the loot forcing the vengeance putting three four members down of PH very low and three by the dust. Savo gets a double on ID are running through the super family. I got to say mana and Khalia are best friends because they make the impossible possible. Have five counters on your side. I don’t care. This Kalia is going to give so much kill or opportunity for the Farsa to actually be doing much. Right now, we’re looking into the replay here where Luffy was the one that got engaged, but that vengeance made it so that not only did he survive, but actually got a lot of reflect damage onto Philippines and this iteration of Lanclot deals so much damage so that that kind of outplay is possible. Back to real life here. Sans just pulled a feather air strike to try and help Savo clear this wave and possibly take down this turret a notch or two. And I just noticed something, Lafel. This humble skin on Sao’s claw. Mhm. Its blazing duet is deceptively subtle. Yeah, it has a very low visual identity. You barely know that it’s going on up until you see your life just at half. Especi looks like another engage going in, but looks like Key Boy caught no one. Oh, an engage. Here comes Brusco punching his way through his problems through OnB’s problems. And now Kirk right into the middle. Smackdown of four members of Onic ID gets punished. Mount Shocker plus a stun not going to stop Loot’s forward momentum popping that vengeance keeping on ID’s momentum up. On BH has a tough time asking ID to slow down, to stop moving. They have a lot of crowd control, but again, all of it is being avoided by Anic Indonesia because we’re seeing them moving in and out of the team fight quite freely. And I would say this is more on Any ID having that instinct of dodging all those kills where we see Kyrie just stopping in his own tracks, anticipating some kind of engage either coming in from Kurt or Brusco. Yep. Fundamentally speaking, Onyx ID have all of the initiation. Onic ID have all the ways to start fights. Sonic PH, what they’re really good at is anticipating and reacting. I’m offended. Check. Fist crack, fist break, check. Mount Shocker, check. Final slash, check. So, that alone is what describes this dichotomy between the Onyx ID and Onyx PH lineups. One is waiting. The other just saying, “Let’s keep going. Let’s keep on fight. Let’s fight. Let’s fight.” Lord here down to a third, a fifth, an eighth, a 10th, and it’s over. A clean take for the Sky Kings. Looks like a better engage coming in. Sneam onto Kirk. It looks like Kirk is going to get taken down. And now Bruce tries to make a play. Looks like Sea is still able to escape some friends. Try to get a kill onto him, but double kill for Key Boy. And now Loopy all alone front trying to make some more play. Kill tries to get away. A good ammo bandit pulling in Ly, but it still survives. So far so good. So great for Onyx. I taking two kills, suffering none, plus the lord along the way. Marching down bot, the super fam. They can’t catch a break again. It’s in the nature of these lineups. Who’s the beatd down? 99% of the time it’s Onyx ID. A feathered air strike plus another tsunami slam. The final slash catching nobody except for key boy. He was a little into deep goes down. I like the attempt. But yeah, so far Philippines was able to outplay that. But now I with 8,000 gold lead. They’re able to take a lot on the map. The lord is still marching in. It’s just the first lord, so it’s not going to be that devastating. Plus looking at the inhibitors, the mid lane still having that holy shield does make it very difficult for ID to really end the game. So now it really is about choking on making sure that they don’t get any farm after this. But here’s what’s scary, Lafell. I have to mention on BH. Yes, they are a reactive lineup. Their comp would like to wait for you to try and engage. That’s very strong with the high ground defense. It’s lethal, especially if you’re underneath your tier threes. And look at this. They’re baiting Onic ID. They’re saying, “Hey, look. We’re ready for another tsunami slam. Key boy, you want any of us?” This is kind of scary because Kyrie did a lot of damage with just the war ax. Now having the endless battle as well, there’s going to be a lot more burst damage as well as healing. Uh going back into his his HP. Looking at King Kong, still respectable amount of damage with the blade of despair as well as the hunter strike. A lot of penetration cool down as well as just raw damage. But you really can’t compare when the landslot have three items here. And even having one defense item with the brute force, making it so that even even if you do catch him, it’s going to be hard to take him down. Yeah, I’d reckon King Kong is about a thousand away from finishing his endless battle. So that’s definitely a big power spike that he can expect. All this while Sea just picked up his rose gold meteor dog. That’s the fourth item after the swift trinity. So it it already comes to reason that even in the mid game, you’re already hurting with your subtle blazing duet, your stealth blazing duet. What more now when you’re a little more chunkier, when you can protect yourself just for a second or two longer. He invested in this, mind you, instead of the wind of nature. But look, the wind of nature would also be very good since there are three fighters. I got to say Onyx PH for them to turn things around, they got to do what DD JP did and play like an assassin actually go to the backline either Kirk, Brusco or Heck, Super Prince, maybe with anyone could really do that because I got to feel like the moment you’re able to stop that Feder Sri a lot of the firepower is dealt with and it’s all the more easier. If anything, Lel, they have great tools. They have the mount shocker. They can see where the pieces of Onyx ID are, but this 9k gold lead is just too huge. Kelra here. Nice attempt. Flicker. I’m offended. No one home. But here comes the punish to Keyboy looking for a target. The already spent the tsunami slam. Brusco and Kirk hit with a curtain call. Brusco able to retreat and Onic PH sent packing. Yeah, a lot were used, but still no one really died in that final engage. And Onic ID, they’re fine with that. Having 10,000 gold, the minions are looking good. They’re setting it up. The Lord is marching down bot trying to slow it down so that Kyrie can get his buff first. This could be an end angle, but like you said, the draft coming in from Onic Philippines. They’re actually very good at defending. So Onik ID, if they want it, they got to get some kills first. Onik ID are just waiting for this Lord to come crashing. So they’re managing the movements of these waves from mid and top. Not going to be fully synced, but at least that’s a lot of pressure coming down on the Super Fam’s base. Here comes the lord putting that bottom lane inhibitor at about zero healthy and there’s the damage on key boy loot pushing the advantage mount shocker here by king Kong check in range final slash finds one but key boy answers back in kind very low K goes down Sans gets the kill and that’s already one member of the super fam taken out of the equation super prince very low as well Kyrie takes him and now here comes a holding on to the blazing duet does not use it just yet. Oh wow, the discipline on this young man. You know what? I’m surprised Sans hasn’t gone back yet. He’s like, I’m barely having any HP, but you know what? I can take some minions. Still looks like on ID, they don’t want to stop. They want to make sure that they get this mid inhibitor. And now the minion waves. There’s only two. Will this be enough? They also want the finish. Feather strike coming in. Plus a tsunami slam. Oh, the eye offended. Not enough to save him. Didn’t even get to pull it out. Here comes the blazing duet. King Kong going to fall and just Kirk left to defend. Can he do it? Vengeance plus a final slash plus another vengeance and now it’s over ID take us to deadlock one to one. It took a while but finally this is the Indonesia we’ve been waiting for. A lot of burst damage, a lot of engages, a lot of team fighting. This is something that we wanted to see. And speaking of something that we want to see, I’m pretty sure Destroyer didn’t like what he saw on that Arlet. So far securing only Sanford. I can almost hear Destroyer saying, “I told you so.” He might even see that after this. But again, to be fair, that that Arlet was ganked mercilessly. Like it almost feel like it almost felt like destroyer was there was the question like, “I don’t care if you lose. Just make sure this Arlet goes 0 and 10.” Luckily, it worked out. Again, all of this pressure on Onyx PH and that half of the map was enough to stop him from doing anything at all. And with this action-packed match, I’m pretty sure the panelists have a lot to say. So, we’re going to be throwing over to you guys where right now ID has equalized. I told you so. There you have it. There you have it. Validated in his opinions about the Arlot. Kirk struggled here, but yeah, we said on PH had the easier lineup to pull off theoretically, but what happened? We did until we forgot about Arlot, man. The the the state of Arlot right now is not very good. Unless the one caveat there, Sanford, like we’ve seen so far. Um, but yeah, there’s something about it. And talk about a contrast from game one to game two for Kirk specifically. Uh, really difficult here. And I think Any Indonesia just really played into the part like every single time that we want to find someone to go ahead and tsunami slam Kirk’s the easiest. He he usually puts himself in position to do that anyway cuz he’s trying to get a final slash off. So uh they just really punished hard and didn’t give any opportunity really for anything to happen off of that. They just played they I mean on Indonesia yeah played for the first target and they were focusing like okay we see our lot let’s go a lot and the biggest problem for the Kirk uh again it’s our lot definitely and he got no escape if you engage one way ticket that’s all that’s the problem it it’s not about that Kirk playing bad it’s about our lot all the time yeah it’s and not even just Kirk but also I think it was just you know it was nice to see the kura man, but that also just didn’t work. Like there it didn’t do too much. Once that yin-yang overturn is done, then if you’re comparing that to the damage or the value that even a fara brings, like it’s not it’s not comparable at all. Yeah, just the combo of those two alone, the as we mentioned, it was the tsunami slam, feathered air strike, whoever is the first target that you see, that’s it. pretty much GG for OnPH in terms of the fights because once they lose one front liner it’s so tough to sustain a fight when you have your Arlot gone when you’re going up against uh what on ID brought to the table. So is it really just the story of Arlot story of math? Story of math five more than four. Yeah. Yeah. cuz like with one guy always constantly just getting picked off, then yeah, you’re going to have a man disadvantage and if you’re not getting the items and the the flow of the game that you want on the side of PH, yeah, on ID can run away with it. What we thought was going to have a hard time, the landslot of Kyrie, we did not see that at all. He had a perfect game. Again, it was just it was enabled because of the way the composition worked, the way the lineup worked. It was all good for them. And you also sprinkle in the fact that when you’re when you’re that far behind, even in one of the lanes, like it’s so difficult, especially when you’re the guy who’s like supposed to set things up. Like that’s that’s initially what Arlot’s picked up to do. And if you don’t get that opportunity to do that, like you’re an automatic dead dead hero, you know, like that’s just the case of it. Like we saw from the the KDA, he was just trying to force things up. But so this this gives room for Kyrie to just flow through the game and that’s probably the best position to be in when you’re playing these assassin jung assassin junglers like the landslot. And you know one more thing when you play with so much AOE composition you like you’re straightforward you got one plan and your opponents totally understand it when you got the setup when you can like take one person okay just remove it and we got an advantage and uh the problem when you got this oh composition the second problem it’s not only that your opponent understands what you’re going to do if you lose one person. Yeah. Oh, your comp like it doesn’t work anymore. Yeah, it it just gets busted. It’s like when we were posing earlier about there’s a chance that the lineup of Onyx PH can shine uh individually outside of team play. It’s if funnily enough they’re complete as a team. If the five members are there, then you have an increased chance of okay, you can get the Ruby doing its own thing, the Arlot doing its own thing, but you lose one of that element. Now you’re forced to play together as four against a lineup that just bursted five. And the clawude wasn’t even there yet. Yeah, you needed way way way too much time. And you could see, I mean, even given the loss here, both teams still really in high spirits. Um, even pointing at each other, laughing at each other, and smiling. So, you know, I know when we got into this uh match, it was like, well, we hope to see some um entertainment, some great picks come out. Well, I think so far for two games, we have seen that. Um, some might be Yeah, you know, we we saw the second Savage now of MSE. So, I think that’s the thing, but that’s the main point is even for these fun drafts, even for these fun picks, if you lose like one of the main components to make it work, and this has been the case throughout MSE, then you’re going to lose those team fights, you know, every single time. Yeah. And I think we’re also seeing now as to why Claude has been popping more off now especially here in this knockout stages because now that becomes your X factor where in let’s say 4v5 you’ve already or let’s say in a theoretical 5v5 you’ve used majority of your abilities but then the Claude hasn’t used his blazing duet yet and even without the blazing duet we know how good Claude is. He’s just great with a sustained basic attack that now we’re seeing. Okay, now you really have to consider Claude and how we set up for the Claude success. So, that might be one of the next heroes now we’ll see getting contested by the new Claude. Yeah, I hope I hope so. Especially with Leo on the desk, man. I mean, I know sometimes it’s l with the the sound effects, but I I need those sound effects to keep coming through. Also, there is one more thing uh that Clo gives you. Additional monkey, additional player. Yeah, that’s a great point. Yeah, you you have your six versus five. Okay, so now that’s one of our things we’re looking out for here. Simple math. Wait, so technically in that case in in destroyer math. Yeah. When they lost the the Arlot, it’s still a 5v5, right? Wait, no way. No, they’re wait 6v4. Never mind. You see, destroy outsmart it. I like Okay, I like that. Okay. So, they just open it with the monkey. So, in destroyer math, the does the umbrella of the Kagura account as a player? No. No. But Dexter does. Yes. Okay. So, simple destroyer math here for Onyx came through with a sixth man. Dexter in the hands of Savo. The gold lane of Any ID. And yeah, it’s good to see that Onyx despite the shattering loss in game number one, they it’s like they stuck back to a basic idea of pick off one, let’s go go after that. And then maybe moving forward, that’s what we’ll see from Onyx ID, that maybe less on the Fannies, less uh yes, you can still get high mechanic heroes for uh Kyrie, but just get that raw damage that you know Indonesian teams are like known for dishing out. Yeah, they like that very specific uh play style. And you know, honestly, we’ve seen pretty much all the teams kind of adapt to that so far with our current meta. I don’t know. Would you guys say that our our meta for because we always talk about this when it comes to internationals and even own in our own respective regions. Do you think it’s actually uh established now or is it like is that meta? Can we say which is so odd because on the last day are we saying that it’s established? No, I think it’s still shifting. Yeah. Still in progress. I I think we’re in agreement there. I think it’s established but in the sense that everyone knows that there’s so many options that you can go for now that it’s like a wide pool. During this MSC we got around 85 heroes, right? Yeah. So something like that and uh we still in progress of searching and the pro players totally understand. I I even pretty sure that the coaches are still sitting and calculating like what should I do this here here here what’s better like 1 + 1 is 2 2 + 2 + 2 is four etc dexter map destroy map yeah here all right uh here’s a little bit more math for y’all out there all the way up until August 7th the MSE 202 2025 chest excuse me will be available for only 20 diamonds you could draw the luxury Yury reward, the returning MSE skin, Atlas, Rune Sentinel, plus your first three openings of the chest guarantee you Crystal of Aurora and Banner of Morale. That’s not all because up to 1,000 MSE coins could be yours, too. Buy the MSE support chest now and cheer for our midseason cup. Again, we are in the final day of the mid-season cup after everything that’s happened in wild cards group stages now here in the knockouts. It’s one for one in the battle for third and with all of the crazy picks we suggested. All right, I think we have to find some stability. Stability in the exp lane. Mhm. Maybe Arlot might not be the best route to go for. Or if you’re considering going with the Arlot, maybe a little bit later. You don’t for straight up just no more Arlot. No more Arllot. Not in this series, please. Guys, I was gonna say we might see him later uh for the grand finals match for seven. Okay. Okay. Okay. Chill out. Chill out a bit on the just reminding the time. Yes, we can. Okay. First on PH I think. Uh yeah, this the YSS first pick was great and then a I think a little bit down the line they just sort of lost it. I wouldn’t mind if they go for YSS here and then we can get uh just readjusted picks for on PH. The last time we saw Onyx versus Onyx PH in a Moontown tournament was actually in the M3 World Championship group stage where Sans played as the jungler and won 1 Z. So that was during the time where uh the M3 group stages. Wait, no, that was a best of two, right? Cuz you could go 1-1 if I remember that. Was it a best of two? Or maybe at that point he could just just one. It’s been a lot of MLBB since uh M3. So I was going to say M3. That’s uh that’s been a while. You know, I remember still I remember specifically watching M3 in uh just at home. Like I was just like I wasn’t even casting yet. I was just watching it. No, wait. Weren’t you? You were already casting. Was I? Yeah. No, I Okay. Wait, you just weren’t flown out cuz And then we had the Filipino broadcast. That was after my first season. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was after your first season. So I still felt like Yeah. All right. Okay. Okay, so as expected, on Philippines can uh we’ll still go to the Eension route, but you just have to readjust. Maybe a bit more stable picks in the exp lane and maybe not too crazy a pick in the mid lane like uh something a little bit more simple than the Kagura. Do they just maybe just take the Farsa like you know that that might be able to work really well with a YSS pick? You can see the Gakatcha over here. Uh what do they think you know thing that they could potentially think about and uh adjust the draft about me? Uh if you already mentioned actually Renar you mentioned today that if is going back and uh they got nearly equal range I mean if you speak about the para and if yeah uh could also be one of the options and I think that’s why rushed the gata and even the lancelot. It’s like they already they’re already telling on page, “We know your best options are either like Farsa, Eve, heroes like that that will make it difficult for you to play those artillery mages.” Yeah, I’d still I mean, if they still want to pick up the Farsa, that’s fine. I think Eve is very situational in a lot of cases, though, too. But the fact that you already have this YSS up, the Selena is gone, so they’ll go with another pick that has found a interesting place in the current meta. like Duchian still works, but there are obviously teams that utilize it better. Now that you have a Phobias, too, that can be that, you know, front line. I feel like um usually that’s the case anyway, unless you have a really hard uh start to the game. But Fobius naturally is going to be tanky enough, but then you get the Lapu Lapu on the other side for Monica Indonesia. And the signature pick for Kurt. Actually, if you speak about Fobios, he really likes it. He performs well. Oh, we saw. Oh, but it’s uh going to be in Onyx ID, so it’s going to be the hands of Loot. Kirk will get the Fauus, which uh struggled last night. Uh but let’s see how well it will fare this time around. Good thing that they banned the CC, though. Uh I think that’s what they were already seeing. So, both teams within are in agreement. Now, on PH knows that Onyx will shine really well with artillery mages. I think it’s going to be up to them if they’re going to ban either the Kadita or the Farsa. That will most likely end up in the in the hands of Sans. I I think maybe just take out the Farsa here uh for their last ban. I think maybe since we saw them ban out the Kadita before it’s Yeah, there it is. So, they ban that out. Maybe just better to go ahead and handle the Kadita if it if they decide to go ahead and draft it for Anukica Nia. And then over on the other side, you see that box was taken out. So um interesting because yeah the YSS being over there. What could they pick up for a Rome then for on Philippines here? I think we should uh predict something for the onic Indonesia because right now they are on the first iteration and uh actually I don’t expect Kita. I’ll explain why. In the previous draft it was okay because of the Kal. So you got the composition, but here like catch only with Got that’s all. So yeah, and here one another hero that you’re not a big fan of here. It’s okay. I’m not a big fan, but uh it depends. It depends on the trio. Trio with Lancelot and Gatkachi. You got a good push potential for the mid lane. You can rotate fast. Uh no problems here, but you need time. And here’s a question to the on Philippines. You need something super fast and like for skipping lanes and initiation. Cho Cho. Yeah. Yeah. Phil Cho was probably going to be the perfect uh pick here. Answering Nu’s question earlier. The Rome pick for Brusco. They go for the Harris, but they’re not going for the Cho. Oh, no. No. This Well, it is in a different lane at least. Yeah, it’s in the room, but this is where I usually play the you know. I wanted to mention that they took Fios. So there is no no chance that on Indonesia going to take our lot and I was so happy and on Philippines destroy her. Here we go again. I think this is good though. I I think it works better. Uh Arlot in the Rome at least in this case you could go ahead and play into the Harth and I think that’s why those last picks were held on to because um you could either and this is always the case with Ar. always a 50/50 because you can use it to set things up really well for the zomb force or it could end up just putting yourself in a bad position, but you’re also covering it with a phobia. So, you have that there. You can see the last pick is the Granger though from Onic uh Indonesia. But you see the thing is they I was making uh the point that they need uh I mean Onyx Philippines need a strong triple meat and they take a lot. Have faith. I’m having faith, man. All right. Uh you got destroyer knights who torn apart in the center of the map if the Arlot will just be a great combo with the YSS and the Zin. Let’s see because Onyx have set up for their Kimmy and Granger really well and let’s go. There’s a lot to say about this one. I love the Kimmy Granger. And you know what? We might need medic for destroyer because there’s there’s going to be a lot of Arlet in this matchup. But welcome back. This is game number three. It is specified between Onic ID going up against Onic Philippines. The third place match. We’re starting it here and again assassin versus assassin between King Kong and Kyrie. You know what lapel? I’m worried about our friend from the ECA because he’s this close to getting an aneurysm. But I think that is from a lack of faith. He’s molding. He’s molding. But I see what nature getting to here. This is Brusco now. You can see how Brusco played on the Badang game number one. Look at this. is very low. Could have taken down key boy. He’s down to fifth of his health. Super prince threatening the kill on Assange. The choke on the key boy. King Kong coming in with an early rotation too. Might even score the little wanderer. That’s a technical knockout on Brusco. But hey, that’s the cost of getting aggressive early on. Yeah, right now Key Boy are using to revitalize. Stays in lane, but now looks like Non goes in. Flickers already spent with a choke slam taking down the Gil one. I got to say these mid laners are playing like exp laners trying to trade as much as they can and so far Philippines is on top. King very patient to stay in the mid lane to make sure a gank actually happens. So here’s a quick look at the emblems trying to understand where these teams are coming from. How they built their heroes. How often does this happen? Concussive blast on the fob. He wants to clear quick and leave. I mean look at that. He even has the thrill. So kind of wants to win the lane. Kind of making sure that there’s a bit more damage than you would expect, I guess. Yeah. Looking looking at how the map is looking like even with Onic Philippines winning that mid lane. So far, it doesn’t translate too much, which is good for Indonesia because at this point, I kind of feel like if possible, they do want to play for that turtle. The difference is this time without the Kalia, the setup isn’t going to be as easy. Uh, you know, comparing the Kala as well to Gap Katcha. Yeah, there’s more steps for ID to find success. Now Any PH first to the scene looking for that choke on a key boy. Kirk putting him up. The bravest fighter set in already. Luty ready to go. Throwing hands or should I say great swords into the back line. King Kong looking for that traceless and the successful retribution coming in from the Sigma jungler. Onyx PH pushing the advantage. Look at this crossing the threshold. Crimson beacon finds Sans finds another key boy forces retinalize but it’s not going to be enough. The Onyx PH squad are way too deep to find nothing. They take down Key Boy. This is the consequences of dying early as a mid laner. You don’t get that level four on time and that caused them to lose. But hey, Lippy trying to get something back. Getting a kill and looks like he’s able to escape no problem. They did not expect a rogue lapulap to be waiting for them in the bush. And it’s Kirk who gets the worst of it. Bottom lane, we haven’t really talked about this much. Again, you give Kellra and Sea space. You don’t know what you’re cooking with. Kyrie going for that small camp attempt. And now they’re crossing over. Oh no, Super Fris is a little too deep. He does have a flicker. Almost bumped into the wall. Gets away with it though. No one’s watching. Yep. Overall, a lot of attempts coming in from both teams, but nothing super successful just yet. So definitely got to look at those timers on those flickers especially which also in my opinion Kurt kind of used the uh flicker very early in the previous turtle fight but again not punished. So overall still looking pretty good. So having that hunter strike it does mean oh hold on final flash and it starts the mountain shockers thrown out. Oh but misplaced himself used the flicker but no one caught with the final flash. They put him where they wanted to be. Onik ID are at least cutting it close two to two. But we can definitely see Onyx DH the idea is really trying to shut down Sans as much as they can cuz how many times have they gank mid at this point? It looks personal. Yep. This is the same situation that they found themselves in in game one. Again, we’re not used to Sans being forced to play reactively, to be on the back foot, and this seems to be the play for the super fam. Now, Seo put down a half health. This is where the turtle is going to be spawning. So this is hitting two birds with one stone. Crushing the gold lane and starting up early. Key boy the middle of three here. Red li already used. Brusco down to fifth of his health and the mount shocker. Kbo doesn’t want to catch the tail end of that stun. In comes Ludy uses his ult. Finds Brusco into the backline there. And he is still alive. Spellbound going to keep him up. Key boy defensive AOG. Kron able to stop Kyrie from scoring the second turtle. Key boy might go down here. The captain of the sky kings fall. A bit messy coming in from both teams, but again we see the idea coming in from an Indonesia. Doesn’t matter who as long as it’s Arlet. We got to take him down. And I got to say, Leo, the fact that Sans has been targeted so much, I blame Seo. He’s so ungankable that you just got to go mid. Going to the exp is going to be difficult going up against this Lapu Lapu. So, you know, so good that Sans has to has to take the the hit for it. I agree with you because the only reason why King Kong and Keller tried in the bottom lane because it was free. They already have the turtle there anyways. But regardless, they would not waste time to try and take down a Savo. So, this is the best on PH can do is to just check what’s going on with Savo lest they will still continue try pressure. Sans jumping up, forcing a flicker from Super Prince. Now, the response, do they know this is four? Yes, they do know it’s four and it’s still worth it. Key boy revitalized already. Final slash hits two displacing sons, but Kboy might bite it here. Looking for the damage. AoG between these three from Onyx PH. There’s really nothing going on. Instead, it does buy time and space for Keller to push though down bottom. That’s the first taken down. Zan force drop to push the vero back. At this point, I’m pretty sure Aker is a bit annoyed because not trading with Seo. Sea is playing very very safely. Fight me. Fight me. Come on, man. There’s Granger, you know how to use this hero, but yeah, looking at the fight, looks like Key Boy was trying really hard to bait out as many skills as possible coming in from Monic Philippines and then just spreading the needle with AoG. Looking at the gold difference here, not a lot of gold difference when looking at gold. The biggest difference is in the jungle. But this is the thing about Yen Sheen. Just farm up very, very fast. And eh, he’s using it to his advantage. The meta may change, but players habits do not. King Kong keeping up his jungling pattern and his speed even in August of 2025. Final turtle spawns lower quarter. Here we go. On PH major presence here. Bush control here from Rusco. Missing the flicker spent in already. Key boy splitting up. Super friends and King Kong. Ludby scores out. That happens up and forced by Kellra pushing back. Key boying Kyrie but it’s not enough. They’re compromised. Bruce goes, they’re a man down. AoG key boy splitting up the rest of BH. Down goes sprints. Nothing for the M6 world champions there. And that turtle take goes all to the sky kings. Ly is amazing at splitting up families, man, because he makes sure that there’s no 5v5 team fights. He goes to the back line, makes you choose who do you want to deal with, everyone else or just me? That doesn’t sound uh as good as it looks, but Luffy is doing God’s work for the Indonesian champions here. And there’s just not him doing that. Key boy 2. Look at this late entry AOG coming in. And there it is. Oh, masterful Anik PH really had no business being deep into that fight the way they were. Yeah, this is a good way for Anik Indonesia to appo approach this team fight, which is just making sure it’s not a 5v5. Don’t make it honest. make it so that you got to choose who you got to deal with. And uh we got a lot to deal with here. Onik ID still 1,000 gold ahead of going up against Sonic Philippines. But again, looking at their damage dealers, looking at Kela as well as uh King Kong, they’re in a very good position to get back to the team. Yep. If anything, King Kong is in a more uh beneficial spot. Tboy here unable to pop the AOG to be able to retreat. King Kong is just going to farm. King Kong is just going to farm. The fact that Sea denied a lot of fights from Kelra. Maybe that’s what made the 500 gold difference. But the Superman ain’t sweating it. The Superman ain’t sweating it. On ID are uh looking for their wins, licking their wounds. They’ve lost the thousand gold lead. I don’t know where to find it next cuz to be able to split up a family, right, as you so eloquently put it, the family has to be together. But look at this now. On PH are actually across the map. They’re they’re they’re spread out. Yeah. Yeah. And the fact that the fact that King Kong I feel like key boy really Oh, hold on. Looks like Kirk got caught. And Kirk is going to go down here. So gets the kill. Zinforcement in by Kelra. Dashing through and Sons gets bitten down. Perfect chrono vision. Now Ki boy left to the dogs here. And by the dogs I mean the Filipino porcupines. Two for one the trade. On PH come out on top. Amazing mount shocker coming in from King Kong. Stunning two. And I was about to say I kind of feel like Onyx ID they’re miscalculating the amount of damage the Y and Shin could do because the last time they saw him it was just a hunter strike but now he has a BOD as well looking to the mid lane here. Look at how Yen Shin King Kong enters the fight flicker used and then getting to both Sans as well as Saro got caught purified a little bit too late. I I can’t blame them. Who would have saw that coming? Also immaculate positioning on Keller. He was fighting between a bush, a wall, and the other half of the map that belonged to Onyx ID, and he made it work. Great, great positioning. That’s what scored the free lord for Onic PH. And now the map will work itself up to becoming blue. Super Fris pushing back. All five members of Onik ID. Now it’s their turn to pull an Indonesian. Yeah, but right now Onic ID to have a good way to clear the Lori M char. Oh, missed. Amazing placement. They cordoned off all of Onic ID behind that tier two up top. Super fridge crimson beacon and flicker deep into ID’s base. Worth it. All is worth it. Three for one plus this charge on the inhibitor. Onik PH. A blitz creek up top. I got to say I didn’t see that one coming cuz I thought the dark wave missed with the flicker, but they made it work. And now the inhibitor up top is destroyed. Looks like the second tier turret down bottom is going to follow suit. And if it doesn’t get any worse, Kelra here now having that holy crystal. It’s going to be a lot of damage. The Onic ID has to chunk through. And now Onic ID, they don’t even have a good way to actually initiate a fight. It’s so different between Aatuka as well as Kalia. Kalia, you almost don’t have to think about it. Just press your alt. Whoever’s there, you just go with it. There’s a lot of foresight involved if you’re playing the Gatot. One of the main differences is at least there’s a defensive aspect of the thought. Not so much for Kalia. Looking at the items right now, you know that a Harth is ahead when it doesn’t build the book. Kelro went straight for the holy crystal. Went straight for the scythe. Went straight for the feather. And Harth means be happy. Like Kelra is making your hero once more worth it cuz there was a time in the past month when Har was totally useless. That said, we got to look no real gold difference between the gold laners. Only about like what 100 200. So Zero is still farming up very very well. And a reverse situation between King Kong as well as Kyrie cuz now Kyrie is the one with two items and King Kong is the one with three. And the thing about a Yen Shin is that you skill very very well. So yeah, definitely a much different position now. On PH against Onyx ID, they really got to respect King Kong here because deceptively strong. Yep. Very high macro utility. Very good damage burst if you have good positioning. Picks up the malefic gun uh rather roar here. Uh able to shred right through even Luty or key boy. I also like how Savo now has the uh see halbird so he can even pierce through Kellra shields even super because those are what makes the difference between a fight that ends well for ID or a fight that just ends period. I got to I got to tell you, Leo, if I’m on ID, this is so difficult cuz at this point, I don’t know who to target cuz everyone’s so slippery. Carol slippery. Super prince slippery. King Kong slippery. It’s not that you don’t want to catch. The question is how. Oh, fight breaks out. Forces super to go defensively. King Kong get shot down by Kyrie. That’s a lot of damage spread out through the super fam. And they split him up again. That seems to be the key here. Kra dancing through the top for a hack does not stand long enough. Kyrie gets a triple. Bruce and Kirk the only ones left. On PH have gotten denied their front line. Once again, the banana split works out for Onic ID as they claim a lord. I was wondering who are they going to target? They were decisive. Go for King Kong first followed by Super Friends and then when Keras all alone, you deal with him then. Split up the team fight and being decisive. Got to give a big heads up to Ly. He went for the first engage and it worked out well. He’s so good at splitting up the super family that that’s how you deal with family. You split them up. But now, yeah, looking back at this replay, oh, it it it almost looks like they’re doing a magic trick like, “Hey, everyone, look at Loopy.” Yeah. And then all of a sudden, everyone else goes straight for King Kong. How clever. One might also look at it this way. Don’t pay attention to blue score or Kirk. That’s what on PH wants you to do. And they said just ignore those two. They’re way too chunky. It’s useless for us to try. Go for Frince Kran. King Kong. Down goes the monster mage again. He is slain. So is Brusco. The Z force left there. K get to use it. The lord V for ID still standing as it crashes through mid. Yeah. Super and holy Kra gets taken down by double kill and now they want to go through. Kirk looks like he’s going to get taken down by some barrow. An Onyx ID match point against Any Philippines. It’s as if the lightning engage by Onyx up top was fast and swift. Onik ID one upped them in mid all the way. The Super Fam were just gathering their breath. They were still recovering from that split and then suddenly the end. I got to say this shows how much Anik Indonesia understands how Anik Philippines looks at the map. They understand how to make sure they don’t have what they want. I like the smoke and mirrors coming in from Anic Indonesia showing two hands. Look at my left while my right is doing something else. This is an amazing showcase by Anic Indonesia on how the brawl server Indonesia really understands how to work the team fight. But now with match point, we’re going to be throwing it over back to the panel. Looks like Onyx ID, they’re up a game against Onik PH. After two stompy games, we finally get an incredibly intriguing and close one where it was actually Kiboi in the mid who found the right targets on the side of Onic with an unbreakable taunt that led to Onic ID getting the lord and eventually getting the win. Yeah, and a triple for Kyrie in that one. But, you know, this is just a showcase of how impactful all the roles in the, you know, the flow of a game can be here. Actually, I want to add that uh there are so many mistakes like from uh both teams. Not mistakes like outplays. Okay, let’s call it like this. So from the first time when uh on PH they just uh bounce back and with the mount shocker they made like King Kong initiation that was super amazing and from that part they started to dominate back then like uh several minutes later on Indonesia uh like key boy just dropping down and everybody is uh bursted. Yeah, it’s it’s really good to see that we got to see Yes. With two explosive teams like this, the risk of mistakes can be high, but the return on investment, with outplays, with great performances is even more magnified. And I I like how we got to see a back and forth of that. I was uh kind of expecting Destroyer still to come in about the Arlot. It’s too obvious. Too obvious. Too obvious. Even Yeah, even when you throw it in the hands of Brisco, it still, you know, unfortunately doesn’t get the win there for them. But yeah, it was just a really good punish and and this is honestly what we’ve seen a lot for MSE 2025 is just these situations where it’s like one team is, you know, already charging into the base. They got the Lord with them. They still have the holy shields, but then it’s that one team fight or maybe a couple of those team fights that can really turn the tables and then before you know it, the game is over. You know what I mean? So, it’s like it was one of those cases here too where both teams had this their own, you know, power spike and everything else working for them. It should have been uh this case or that case but again one major play in the mid lane changed the course of that. Yeah and it’s funny because if you could see it from the other side of the story of the side of Philippines if they won that game it would have been the same thing where it was just that one play around the major objective the mountain shock or fingong them being able to set up themselves for victory. So, I’m glad now that after again two very one-sided games, we get a game three that’s back and forth that shows some of the best reasons why Onyx ID and Onyx PH are at the top of their game. We will be back in just a bit for game number four where Onyx ID are in the lead 2 to one. Heat. Heat. I’mma get Heat. Heat. Wonder how I do it like that. Thank you. Heat. Heat. Heat. You two to one in favor of ONIC Indonesia, the champions of Indonesia. While Onyx Philippines, the reigning world champions of our esport, but second place in MPL Philippines in the tournament leading up to MSC. Now, it’s up to them to figure out how they’re going to crack the code that Onyx ID have found. First step, maybe, just maybe, take the Lancelot away from Kyrie. I agree with that. I’m going to say take the uh take the landlot, don’t pick up the Arlot, and give yourself a Yeah, nice bursty mage, I think, will set them up to get to a game five. Also, I would prefer to see from them the most stable rors. I mean like you make a bet on the O composition but I don’t like it. Make it more clear for you. Just catch your opponents like on Indonesia showed us. Goko make it real. Okay. Even one person you remove it from the fight and destroyer starts here. Exactly. Destroyer man. You take one out you’re up one. That means your chances of you winning the fight are really good. By the way, shout out to all our restr now being led by Setya Wanade. Peak viewers peaked at 217,000 plus and more with almost 2 million hours watched on his stream. Also have Zakas Gaming, Skylar, and R7 Tatsumaki on the board. So, a lot of uh Indonesian names that I’m very familiar with. So, congratulations to all our reamers and shout out to everyone like spreading the good word. That is MSE here at the Esports World Cup. You see coach YB and coach, why not actually just like I wonder what they’re talking about. I really wish we could uh the players are laughing too. So, you know, like this is a fun conversation between the two head coaches, I guess. But going back to the draft, I I really like the main points that we focused on. For Destroyer, it was a stable roam pick. for Nisu. Yes. Take out the landslot, get burst was the other condition with yourself and don’t get the Arlo. Yeah. So I I think across the board those are the main I that’s where we can anchor the drafts into like those main ideas. Maybe for Kibboy and Sans the main trade now will be heroes like the Cho Ka the pickoff heroes that we know them to be really good at. Maybe at this point too, they were the the coaches were like, “Come on, give me blue. Give me red side.” Yeah. Stop laughing. Yeah. Is this the this is the fourth game in a row now on Philippines on the blue, right? So I I said you from the beginning just rewind the time and remember that. Yep. You know, so I don’t know, man. I guess based off the first pick that we’re eventually going to see from Monic Philippines, we’ll tell us if they change it or not because even then like YSS still being open, it’s like do they still opt for that? Do they still go utility or do they just potentially put uh an assassin in the hands of King Kong? Yeah, I feel like for two games now, Onyx ID has gladly told on PH, get the YSS. It’s it’s fine for us. So maybe that’s something that PH will think about that. Okay, if they’re so okay with us getting Yan Shin, what then do we go to? Do we go back to the Bakshia in the jungle or maybe even as a potential flex pick, first pick? I liked your suggestion about ban Lancelot but they ban Gatka. So a question mark if they want prior priority for themselves Lancelot or they still go the same you should chin yeah I think that’s now the choice of on to decide that it’s them banning out gaja it’s onic page telling on ID your choice either you’re going to give us the yss again or you’re going to give us the landslot with the CC taken out now on ph has the choice you see coach coach yep is making a face like I see what you’re trying to do so you know What? I’ll take away a really good CC option that could have been a first pick for Onic. Yeah. So, this leaves a whole lot. Basically, what we’re saying here is a whole lot is left open for really good priority because and this is a big one for Onyx Philippines. You’ll see it. They’re still going to go for the YSS. And a part of it again from last game is it’s it’s the YSS. He still is a valuable hero pick and that’s why we see teams pick it up early on. But complementing it is the other thing, you know, being able to complement it. And that could have also just been the fact why they went with those first three bands. It it plays well into the game plan that Philippines probably wants to take. Now for Anuk and Nia, it’s wide open as well. They could take the Phobias if they want to. They take the landlot which is expected. It’s been open for Kyrie now and he hasn’t had any problems with it. So, and then on top of that, that is the Baksha though. Wow. We already know the jungler and the ROR. So, no flex picks. Okay. Potentially Baxa can go explain but most likely no. Yeah, it’s very rare now. It It’s still an I I know even as far as up until like getting like in group stages it was still an option in the explay during scrims but yeah usually it is in the Rome jungle. So Onyx let’s settle on that idea unless they pick Akai. I love Akai but I have a feeling these two teams don’t like it. Go Akai Rome. Go box Xplane and Lancelot go jungle. I’m on the boat if there’s going to be an AI somewhere put in the exp lane. I’ve always been that guy screaming about uh getting more Kai, but now yeah, I don’t think we’re going to see a Kai between these two teams. So PH picks up the far. So strong burst, strong rotation, very good map presence for your mid and jungle. Things just slow down a bit with the Badang. But I feel like this Badang, it’s sort of like a throwaway cuz onip can still go Cho in their role. Yeah, they could. So, like they’re both kind of playing around the fact that they could flex if they wanted to. But the Bedang is the the most likely flex uh possibility here, but it also Bedang so far has just been so good at disrupting a lot of rhythm and flow from a lot of teams and that’s why it’s picked up. But you can see this early on too in the first phase. Sans wants to play the Kadino man. It’s been banned out and now he gets it in his hands to go against this Farsa pick for Super France. It’s kind of interesting and not at the same time. From one perspective, okay, you got petrify, you can engage, you can burst someone, but uh I don’t see crowd control. I mean, most likely on Philippines going to ban CH from what I see. Oh, wait. They don’t need because Yeah, we got No, PH needs the Cho. they need. But I, you know, I thought about the CH going Rome just to catch the opponent and to make a combination with the Kadita, but uh most likely Box is going Rome. That’s the reason. So they need to remove the XP laners and uh also Ruby Bang. It’s kind of interesting. Yeah. Uh, I think Onyx ID do not want to close off the idea again that uh you can get Kelrod to pick up the Ruby in the gold. Look, look at them. They just they know each other too well. They’re already just showing to each other, signaling to each other. I know what you’re thinking. We’re not going to block it. So, I think a Claude might actually be okay here for Savo. Yeah, this is also it makes me wonder again the difference for the placements here like we saw coming in this is $100,000, right? So the coaches could be facing off against that too because again that’s what’s going to separate the uh placements here for both the teams and it it’s right now it’s match point right for Anuk Indonesia. So for Philippines these are two uh big picks that still need to round up the lineup. The last ban is going to be Arlot. So they don’t they don’t Thank you. They don’t worry about the math. They just ban it out instead. Thank you on Philippines. I love you guys. This the biggest smile I’ve ever seen on Destroyer’s face this this entire trip. Someone bans out the Arlo like, “Oh, yes. Let’s go.” Now, now it’s going to be interesting. Honestly, dude, I’m on the same boat. It’s like, you know what? At least now we won’t we’ll get a four forced to see some different options. They did. They actually go for the flex. Okay, they put the boxer in the exp and the the possibility that you posed comes out. Yeah, you know, I thought about this, but then I No, no. You know, they they’re too conservative guys. They won’t do it and and they’re doing it. Yeah, I think I like it. One of the first few times, if not the first time, we’re seeing Baka go into the XP lane. What if it’s Cho XP? XP. Oh, maybe. I think again part of that the flexibility is the strength there and you can really do either. um depending on how this goes. But with the Granger now picked up, you’ve essentially got that double marksman lineup for Honor Philippines. What’s the last choice here? All right, they go glue. So glue and XP and then So what would be the Yeah, what would be the best case there? Do you Cuz would the boxers just win that or would it just be a dead lane? I guess better uh just don’t see that often. So yeah, it might be better off for the Cho and the exp cuz it’s a little bit Cho looks better. Yeah, it’s harder for the glue to deal with in the laning phase. That glue essentially is just like all right, let me slowly clear my lane while the Joe gets out. I think still think this is going to be like a cloud for Zo unless they go something like if they want something mobile with good damage. But yeah, it is a clad. It’s really hard for me to draft even I I don’t know. Yeah, especially, okay, if you think about destroyer math. Okay, 6v5 with Dexter, but how many little glueless does he have? We’re in the same boat, bro. I I think I’m Somebody count them. Yeah, amu destroyer here. It’s hard to read for this one. Nicely. What do you think, man? H I’m on the same boat, but I’m hoping for a game five. So, I’m going to go with Onic Philippines. All right, let’s see if we are going to be getting that game five in this best of five series where Onyx ID are in the lead or will Onyx just have no more game five. We want to walk away with $100,000 more than our Filipino counterparts. Lelo, just take us into this game. Yeah, I agree that this one is going to be hard to read. Heck, this is a good time to be illiterate. And now 5v5. Who cares about that numbers? It always expands as we’re jumping in to the series where right now Any ID is still in match point is on his chance to extend but now Super Prince looks like he’s able to survive with a slither of health and now Kirk even comes in just to just to provide that backup early technical knockout for the Sky Kings here giving a lot of space for KB and Sans to bully Brusco. This will someway somehow compromise King Kong’s jungling patterns unless they are able to clear him out. Yep, there it is. So, it’s now Kboy’s turn to actually check in on his side if King Kong’s been cheeky. The answer is no. So, the Super Fam are playing this a little too close to the chest, hoping that they still find a way to be proactive. I got to say, playing Boxia quite often this patch, it is a bit annoying going up against that crew because you don’t have a way to really survive. And now, Brusco taking a bit of damage coming in from Ki as well. Son’s doing a very good job trying to have priority here in mid, but it looks like they’re not really rotating anywhere. They’re just making sure that Onyx Philippines, they don’t go anywhere. They just stay mid. Uh-oh, even King Kong, just stay mut about a third of his health. They are fighting closer to Kirk’s turret. But you’re right, Lavel, it is tough for the box to survive. Here’s a quick look at the uh emblem set. If you want to play box exp. There you go. which is all HP plus concussive blast. Interesting for this one. Super prince is going for pull yourself up together on that purify. Understanding that perhaps he’s going to be the main target that Onic ID wants to shut down and respectfully so the far is going to be a big problem in this matchup. The glue having thrill as well trying to make sure that he wins out that lane. So looking at the priorities coming in from Onyx Philippines, it really is to get pressure and making sure that you don’t get you don’t get stopped by anyone coming in from Onyx ID. on PH first of the scene here. Turtle already spawned in Brusco pulling it ever so slightly closer to their side of the map. Sans cutting through. There’s the mount shocker and the spread spread. Kirk looking to get the ride out to Looty finds the mount fee air strike. Can Looty survive? Gets out of the circumference of the feathered air strike rolling out. I guess that’s how that works. And now Kirk left all to his lonesome. gets cornered by Kyrie and Looti survives via the spread. Spread, but only for so long. A retribution. He’s taken so long. He’s held these two hostage. Opening up the turtle take to Onyx PH lefto. Is that worth it? I don’t think so, man. Cuz that took forever and a half to take down one Kirk and to give over the turtle to Philippines because we got to think about the win condition and that’s getting King Kong online as fast as possible. And in the way they allowed that to happen and all the more it opened up the rest of the map for PH cuz already you saw post turtle take Frince and Keller were able to rotate up already. So yeah, all the more this is so worth it for the super fam. Onic ID have to bounce back. They have to get their priorities straight lest we go to game five. Yep. That’s something to keep in mind for Kirk. Make sure you manage your long longs very well because once the uh landslot has the war axe, he’s going to have a an easy time to get maximum stacks on that war ax. So maximum damage with the penetrations. He just has to be careful not to hurt his own team with those long longs. For those of you wondering, long longs are the triple OG name for glues gluings. If you know, you know. Kelra here gets visited by Kboy. So, this laning against Sava is going pretty well. Again, he’s up by about half a XP bar. That is a uh byproduct of that early rotation post turtle take. Mid lane though, this story, the fact that Superface hasn’t died 4 minutes in and only popped his purify once, that means it’s going relatively good for the Super Fam. Yep. I like that Savo has a good answer where people ask, “How do you fight with Kelra?” And he just says, “I don’t.” You don’t just let him do what he wants and I’ll do whatever I I want. Yep. 10 minutes then then we’ll we’ll brawl out. We see who’s better. And now King Kong having that hunter strike will have quite a lot of damage coming for this turtle fight. And this turtle is spawning in about 3 seconds just in time for Sever cleared the majority of that wave. And the not fighting Kelra M is fitting this Claude’s uh farming pattern cuz you just got to leave the lane double lane and then Bob’s your uncle. So far, this looks like a complicated dance. Second turtle up for grabs. Kirk setting up the uh front line for Onyx PH. There’s the mountain shocker. Kirk already taking too much. The fifth crack and break by Brusco setting up a turtle take. Down goes one. Luty bites it. Train for Kirk. Down goes Sans as well. And now it’s Keyboy’s turn. Double kill for the gold standard. On PH walking away with everything they want. It’s so good. and so bad to see a Badong perform this way because this is the thing about Badong. It’s not about being tanky. It’s not about canceling out those CCs. Just about being annoying as heck, making it so that you disrupt your opponents. Whatever plan you have, scrap it. Scrap it all cuz I’m going to make sure you don’t get to execute any of them. It was just about a year ago when Badang started to uh rear his handsome face in this current metag game and in the higher echelons of MLBBE Sports and now he’s a legit mainstay. Again, the fact that you can be on the losing end of a fight and a game and still find a way to clap back via hero engage that’s doubled down by the fact when you’re ahead, you’re so ahead. Brusco, despite just having two assists, have helped score everything for Onic has set up this 2k gold lead that makes us all the more closer to a game five. How’s that for a battle for the How’s that for a quote unquote just scrim between friendly teams? Great trade top and bottom. Hey, answering the question, who’s the better on man? that in itself cuz even during the draft you can see how excited the coaches are to draft against each other because they know each other so well and look at on ID they’re going for more farm on Kyrie making sure that he has the damage first he has the war ax maybe they want a little bit more so taking a lot of damage coming in from super prince and super wants to chase after that but son and loopy make sure that Savo gets out alive this whole don’t fight Kellro can only go so far cuz if you run away from that lane you go to mid Super Frince is there. You leave mid. You don’t want to go that direction. You have Brusco and King Kong chasing you. So the the map is shrinking for Onyx ID. There’s only so many place you can go that the Super Fam can’t get you. King Kong here gets hit by these kicks from Key Boy. Mount Shocker to confirm the positioning of all of Onyx ID. This wall set up behind the wall forcing Luke to go ahead and use the Pan. It’s not going to be enough. Serving up a kill stack on a sky piercer. Make that two. Key boy falls as well. Pres by super friends forcing a rough waves from Sans. The Gila can’t survive this one. All this while cheeky cheeky Kyrie going for the purple while King Kong takes the turtle. Yep. And now honestly Kra is starting to become a problem here. 40 and0. About time where he’s going to be able to one-shot people now. Even with the malefific roar doesn’t matter if you’re building all those armors going to get shredded down. Loopy is already not having a good time going up against this glue. Now he’s going to have a worse time going up against this Granger. Who knew violence could hurt this much? And so far, Violence is the answer. Onic PH throwing damage on everything that Onyx ID throw their way. Half health on Sans and Luty just through pokes. Lfell just through pokes. One of the biggest problem right now is that Key Boy does not have an opportunity to get a kick onto anyone. The fact that Super Friends having that pull yourself together with three assists makes it so that timing is going to be so difficult for Onyx ID to the point where even if you extend this game Oh, look. Going for an attempt and looks like he’s failed. Oh, the fist break. Didn’t even get kicked clicked yet. That was just a crack right there. So, how imagine how unfortunate it would have been for TBO just get picked off for free. Kirk looking for a mount. Not going to happen. Onic ID dispersing. They’re they’re doing everything they can in their power to protect mid lane tier one. Yeah. And Onic Philippines is also making sure that they don’t overhype themselves. They don’t overheat. They make sure that they don’t overextend because they understand that in terms of firepower. They already have a lot of it. They don’t have to force things out. If ID really wants to defend this, eventually one of them will go down at that moment. That’s where you can really capitalize and punish them. So, I like the patience coming in from my god. Bruce with a full combo and a flicker committed. The feather air strike serving up another kill for Onic PH. You saw that coming. You want back? Uh, I take back what I said about being patient. They just uh they just waited for an opportunity for Brusco to go in and then B your uncle 005 for Brusco. 50 and 0 for for Kov. both the ROR as well as the goal laner having an amazing game for themselves. Mad stacks on Keller Sky Piercer. I’d reckon that’s four kills in the bank for the stacks on that. And now the Lord, this is a very significant 5,000 gold lead. Onik ID have to play this well. They have to play it very specifically and carefully if they want to contest. Kirk alone, Kirk and Prince alone are able to send Onyx ID a certain direction. But now the golden staff being built by Saro going to be able to deal quite a lot of damage. Not sure if it’s going to be enough to really take anyone down, but they still have a fighting chance. Showing that Dexter inside the bush to make sure that they have clear vision of where Super Friends is. Key boy probably going to try to catch King Kong, but again, easier said than done here. God loot down to a fifth of his health. Forced the poance and boxite out looking for a target instead. Gets mounted here. The key boy a kick unable to pay off but no they’re able to burst call goes down too. A deceptive positioning from Anik ID able to take three down and now Kellra up next on the docket survives. Suddenly Any ID able to blitz into a winning position. They claim this lord and now people are going to question how does Kyrie keep getting the Lancelot. Man, this guy’s a problem because Onyx ID, even without that Lapu Lapu, in a way, they’re able to split the team fight, but a little bit differently where you wait for the glue to mount on the Boxia and then just roll on out of there, make it into an honest 4v4. This is a different way of ID splitting the fight, making sure that uh Kirk is a non-factor in the team fight. Man, Luffy made sure Kirk knew that it wasn’t him mounting Looti. It was Looti mounting Kirk. He took him away. You’re right. That’s definitely one way to make that 5k gold lead matter less. And now Onik ID are on their way to reclaiming a majority of the map. Great work here by the Indonesian champions. On PH, they have to recover. They can’t let what happened in game three repeat itself. That was the story of that game. It was all on PH until a moment like this. Onic ID is also making sure that they don’t get caught by Philippines. And this is a very interesting situation where the coach is telling Ly is like you got a one vi one K. And Ly asks how long and he’s like exactly now. The Lord already getting chunked down. Looks like it’s going to be a nonfactor. Not able to touch that turret. So spike on ID having a big lead. Kyrie’s able to escape that one. Fish crack. already spent by Brusco. Didn’t want to commit too much. We’ll go off cool down in just a few moments. Super Fins very dangerous positioning. Wings by Wings has a purify on hot call here. On BH again, their their lead has uh shrunken again down to just barely a thousand. This is definitely a defensive power spike by Key Boy. The Twilight Armor no longer is going to disappear. Yeah, I really feel like Any ID is making this goal lead look very deceptive because you would assume that Any Philippines has control of of everything and the way that they just take away control, it’s very interesting to watch, but Onic Philippines, they can definitely outplay this just by making sure that they play deceptively themselves. I kind of feel like if one or two members just don’t show it themselves on the map, it will cause some hesitation coming in from Anik ID and maybe one of those members should be Kirk because he should see that he is the one being isolated every single time. Yep. No longer can they just go for the one two step of Kirk go mount somebody and then Brusco walk up. You have to have Brusco and Kirk walk up and use your flickers, gentlemen. Use your flickers to try and find an initiation. So now on PH I think they understand that because they’re not just welcoming Onyx ID’s attempts. This is also a trap. Onyx ID now forcing a feather strike out of super fins. Key boy threatening a kick. Still has his flicker on the ready. This is all good for ID. The the more time that on PH allow for them, that’s more farm on SO that they’re building up. Yeah. And now looks like an engage coming in. Li jumps in, gets caught. So far still okay, but times he actually goes in, deals a lot of damage. And now Kyrie killing spree goes all the way in. Kelra still free hitting from the down low. But here, look at the flicker shut down. Kyrie gets a triple. And now Super Friends having to use the feather a strike just to create some space. Look at key boy. Key boy is waiting in. Super friends. Does he know? Does he know? And looks like he knows now. Ser goes in. Wings by wings out of there. Not a problem. He had his purify. A moment of hesitation, a slight episode of confusion for Onyx PH. That is what led to the triple for the Sky Kings. A trade for Lutby. All the more worth it. Again, if this repeats itself, they ended up with a different approach in the equation, but ended up on the same result. Onik ID have now gotten the lead to their side. A,000 and a half plus a lord. You know, I got to say Onik ID have been doing this, I believe, ever since the second game, which is they always try to bait out abilities coming in from Onic Philippines. On ID is very good at fainting here, making it so that they’re in position to do damage, forcing a reaction coming in from Onic Philippines and be like, “Nope, just kidding. We’re getting out of here. Nothing left. You sure you’re good? Now it’s our time to shine.” Now, a very, very obvious weakness in Onyx PH’s game plan, especially when they’re on the back foot. They lack the re-engage. What is the re-engage in their arsenal? The repertoire used to be miles deep. Now, it seems like when Onyx ID finds that window, Onyx ID uh Onyx ID just puts Onyx PH in a position wherein they can’t respond. They’re stuttering. They’re caught with the pants down. like how do you fight back? That’s been the story of these previous games where Onic ID went out of nowhere and now they’re knocking on PH’s base. Lord jumps onto bottom lane. Mountain Shocker already used. On PH definitely on the back foot, but losing that bottom lane inhibitor. And now we’re looking at Onic Philippines again having a bit of a difficult time here to really protect their base despite having that fara. Honestly, Onic keeps forcing it out. We even saw Suns like freely using the rough waves just to get out of a bad situation after he got what he wanted. Here comes Any ID that is fainting another engagement forcing a feathered air strike and a defensive maneuver from Onyx PH. Although it could have gotten so much worse. On ID, they know that they have to play for this next lord a minute out. Yep. Despite Onic ID basically having access to the base of Onik Philippines, Kela and Superfins are still top two in the damage charts here. So in terms of damage, in terms of fighting back, they can definitely do it. And I believe that I have to use the Lord because getting inside the base with this kind of draft against the Granger, against the Een, against the Farsa, not a lot of things will really work because at this point they have more firepower in form of turrets. So Onik ID, they’re in a situation where they want to force a fight. They honestly they can’t. And if they do, it might be a big throw. The clock is ticking. It’s Sonic time definitely. But you know for which there’s about a uh 20 second timer wherein Onic can force something. That’s why they’re rotating out aggressively. And there’s a decent amount of stacks on Keller. Oh my lord. Super spot sons. Or should I say the other way around, forcing a response. Magic sentry used up. No one home. It was just Sans checking these rogue brushes. Yep. Respecting as well the fact that science can get off harm’s way. Make sure that Superf Friends does not use the Father estrike, especially considering that the Lord has spawned here. Onic Philippines. How do they react to this? Because Onyx ID, they might go for a fake engage again. So now the Lord is confirmed to have evolved. It has extra abilities, especially in the siege and on PH have uh made their intentions well known. They’re looking for the contest. Frince and Kelra very close to the front line. In comes Sans Mount Shocker on Page know where everyone is. Fed their strike pushing them out. Lord at about half health. Loot rolling around. What’s the plan here for Onic ID? Yeah. And now we have a lot of skills being used by Philippines. Sonic ID is taking control. It looks like Sans goes in with the petrify and now Kyrie gets the lord and the revitaliz from Loot be able to keep him alive long enough but Onic BH will punish the lord for the exp laner. I think on idea are happy with this result at this point. It really is about who has the better trade and considering the base situation of Onyx Philippines. Like you said, Onyx ID, they’re very happy. And again, Onik ID are in the minds of Onic Philippines, understanding how they think, understanding how they react and using all of that to win this third place match. And they even know what Onyx PH are willing to give up. And that’s what allows Onik ID to get these beneficial trades. They’ve been trading up. The Sky Kings have been trading up, ladies and gentlemen. They got a calculator right underneath that desk saying, “All right, this is what they do. All right, we’ll get away with it.” Loot for the Lord. Let’s do it. And they’re still holding them by the neck. 3k gold lead. The map is red. This might be the endame siege. Second engage coming in from Ko. Stopped by Kirk. No dragon just yet. The lord is inside the base of Onic Philippines for now. Looks like onic ID. They’re spread out the map. Flicker goes in, finds one feather strike plus the fist crack and now another might fall. Popping T boys immortality able to fling around and Kra gets him max range. Super prince looking for stragglers two for free and no additional inhibitors fall for the super fam. They kick out on ID and again this is what we were talking about on ID against the draft of Philippines. They can’t really get inside the base. They got to use the lore to really pull them out, which I feel like Philippines, they understand this. That’s why sure, get the lore. As long as we don’t die, we can protect the base, we’re all good. And that was an evolved lord, mind you, that had the extra skills, that had more damage to improve and enhance Onyx ID’s chances at team fights. And now, suddenly, look, Onic PH have left their base, turned the map blue, and are looking for a siege of their own. Another air strike come in from Super Friends. Luty taking a good amount of these salvos and that inhibitor falls. What a disciplined comeback. Onic able to regain a majority of the macro. Let me just say if this goes all the way to game five, on ID should really consider doing something about this. Badang, man, because everyone just stop it. Badang. The conceal by key boy knocks up Kirk finds him. There’s a failure strike the answer. Loot on a super friends. Kellrad have health. Down goes Kyrie. Loot now catches a few stray bullets. He’s down and so will Key Boy go and Savo left. I don’t know how this Kadir and Cloud can do this especially against five members of Onyx. And now having the minions charge in as well. They’re able to get the inhibitor. Is this the end? Can they do it? Massive waves. In comes the a blazing the wet to save the day. It’s not going to be enough. Brusco fights in the back. Down he goes. And ladies and gentlemen, the super fam have said, “Not so fast.” We’re going all the way to game five. Any against Any. The battle continues. This is a battle for third, but at the same time, this is to prove who is the better Any. This is a back and forth match. And I got to say for Brusco, if he’s able to get that Badong again, he’s going to create havoc against Anik Indonesia. So definitely something for them to consider cuz I got to say, good idea coming in from Onik ID, but every single time prevented by the Vadong. Kudos to Onik PH as well for the discipline and the foresight to know that these fights are worth it. A little extra on this. And then we go all in on this. And that was that last minute sequence where they kicked out Onik PH and then went for the finish up top. Yep. I got to say Onik ID maybe a bit of a desperate play for the final one. But now with this match pushing us all the way to game number five, we’re going to be throwing it back to the panel. Just when you thought you knew how this story would end, Onyx PH pulls it right back. And we’re down to just one best of one in what started as Onyx PH taking this very first Salavo in the series. Onik ID going to match point. Just like the previous game, this game came off one sudden turnaround. It was that one sudden turnaround here in the base right as I mentioned it. There it is. Brusco with a great flicker setup there to stop even Sans from you know maybe petrifying someone getting the rough waves off could have been very different because that was the start to bringing it back in their favor and this is the the trend this is the case of a lot of our games here for MSE from the beginning on PH actually were leading then they come back from on Indonesia then again turn around and on Philippines win I’m just shocked that was super impressive I really like game. Yeah, it’s the similar story for the previous two games now. And it’s just fun to see. It’s always great to see those back and forth. Oh, that team’s going to win. Suddenly a turnaround out of nowhere, and this ended up becoming 21 minutes long. We’ve had uh a couple games now reach, you know, this point and even further. But I I guess that’s always the case. I know we were talking about this back even in the group stage where it’s like, you know, some of these objectives that you see be the focus. Sometimes it’s not always about that. It’s fighting for those objectives that usually turn the tables. But then the base defenses, man, there’s just something about these lineups, and maybe that’s something we can talk about later on too about the meta shifting like we mentioned or is it established now. It’s a lot of these lineups that allow you to also turn things around when it’s a base defense because, you know, whether that’s 5,000 gold, 10,000 gold, I think is some of the biggest ones we’ve seen so far. Actually, you marked a good point about the base defense because also Leo and Lafell mentioned it and it was impossible for Oni Indonesia to reach out the main goal, the main building and they just couldn’t enter the enemy base. Yeah, that’s the problem. Yeah, it’s like every time they wanted to end and enter the base, it was so risky for them to whereas Onyx BH had a glue and a badang to hold down the front line so that the Farsa and the Granger can just damage from afar. And as we can see, take it out from the base and put it into the rest of the map. The lineup of Onyx sometimes can be too hard for the lineup of Onyx PH to handle because you have so many formation breakers that take away the frontto back team fighting that on PH wants. But you put that in the bases, whether it’s in defense or even offense, it’s too tough to deal with uh the lineup of on PH. Yeah. And a lot of those lineups that we see that do have trouble, you know, finishing a game. Um that’s why, you know, you need certain things to happen. And for them, it was what to get a kickoff to maybe utilize the cho utilize cuz then it’s even to the sense it’s like a box you’re going to see coming, right? He’s just shielded up and he’s going to jump over the wall most likely. So then it it shifts over to a very specific scenario to turn that into an actual siege that can end the game where in comparison you have so many options to go ahead and defend it, clear the waves, hold the waves if you have to with the front line that we saw from Monic Philippines. You know, I like our conversation because we don’t know what we going to expect for further. It’s no idea. Uh for me, this series looks like uh Yeah. Hi, bro. Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh delivery department. Yeah. Uh, I want a hamburger and one come back. Uh, on uh, Philippines or what do you want? One come back, please. Either or, right? I think at this point either on Philippines or Indonesia because now throughout the series, we’ve seen that a couple times in a couple different games. Yeah, I I don’t know if my heart can handle another comeback ccentric fight for game number five, but let’s see. Maybe that’s just we might just actually get that here. I also feel like at some point maybe on Philippines or maybe even as the draft ended coach why not coach Hayes probably reminded the players guys our lineup is good at defending from the base it’s even better that they were actually able to take the lead in the early to mid because if this was Anik uh Indonesia taking the lead early snowballing it might have been actually tough for on P to pull it off so kudos to in the previous series on Indonesia sticking to their win condition in the excuse me in the previous game in this game on a PH sticking to their win condition and despite it being a battle for third we’re seeing it just how important this battle is for them. Yeah, again the difference in terms of prize money for them but also like you you could see it from the shots here. I love the I love the shots that we get of the players because we talked about going into this match up anyway that some of the the pressure, some of the weight was off of their shoulders, you know, because it is this third place match. And even when they’re having those close-up shots, you see them having fun, smiling, you know, prepping up and then essentially it has now come down to that best of one that we mentioned earlier, it comes down to one game for basically $100,000. several days and nearly all the time we see full series, you know, it means something. It means something. It’s uh I think it’s one of the best World Series. I mean, for the semi-finals, for the third place, and I hope for the grand finals. Yeah, I I think you could definitely say this is one of the best, if not the best, MSE we’ve had in terms of match quality, match length, uh the hero pool, everything. It’s like every like all of the previous years of tournaments we’ve had have just collided into what we have now. This is the best for me like hands down. I I would say like even as a viewer before like this uh MSSE in general has just been like all the boxes have been ticked. The healthy meta you know you don’t see the same exact well you see some as some of the heroes that still pop up but you see a lot of variations in the draft. You see a lot of I think we are up to like 90 I want to say like 90 unique heroes or something. I know before it was like 85 87. We’ve seen a couple more pop up now. Um turnarounds much more fighting ccentric games as well, but also still games that we’ve seen be low low kill games for a while and then they’re just focusing on the first three turtles of the game. So it’s like you have a lot of shades of all the the previews we’ve had in the past. I really like this MS. Yeah. From my heart, from the bottom of my heart, I uh enjoying I I’m really enjoying all the atmosphere that’s happening here at the venue. And special thanks to our viewers, guys. You are super amazing just because of you also. You create this atmosphere in chat. I understand that not everyone can appear here in Riad, but still even if you’re watching online, you create this atmosphere and thanks to you. Yeah. And in just a few moments, we are going to be seeing the final game between two brothers at this point. You know, I don’t have any siblings, but if I did, I would do everything I can in my power to prove to them why I’m the superior child. Even if you were the younger one. Yeah. Even like even if I’m the younger one, even if I have older siblings. And I feel like that’s the energy that this series brings to the table now. Like again, we’ve discussed like it’s no longer about org pride, country pride. It’s about their each individual pride to be able to stand up at the end of the game, look at across the stage and just go, I’m better than you. And I feel like these two last two games were just like the evidence of that. Yeah. Hey, man. If they do end up going to Japan, you know, if they they do get that opportunity, they can go ahead and say that to each other. Whoever ends up winning this towards the end of it, you know, from my perspective, they already proved that they are the best. I mean, they went to top four. I mean it’s two two and uh the last game no matter who gonna win it’s uh anyway for me personally they showed us really good performance. If you want to see some really good stuff in game check out Dino Planet it’s our allstar event. Roar. Roar. We got Dinosaurs. Put up the roar song in your main main menu. So good. It’s the best song we have right now in game. We swear. 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I feel like at one point in my career, that’s what I said every single week of my life. Just to remind people and just to remind you, we are now in the draft for game number five. Just waiting for it to pop up. One thing for Onyx PH, I really think they should not give Lancelot anymore to Kyrie. Yes. Yes. Absolutely agree. So basically, you know, they could ban it or just let something else. Yeah. And um when I see for example funny banan I got a question like a question mark a big question mark a huge question mark why actually yeah that’s a good point like they made that fanny struggle but they still continue to ban it I guess you just call that respect just like this you know ye’s giving them respect right finally oh wait Indonesia first peak wa that’s probably why I told you I told you guys the whole time that him and maybe coach why not have been making faces at each other. It’s because of the sides. Oh, that’s not what it is. Keep calling to make joining. Dude, I’d be scared. I’d be scared of that. I’d be terrified. All right. All right. Your turn, Lutri. All right. Never mind. He’s got He’s got nothing. Yeah, he’s cool. He’s cool. So, returning back to see Coach Addi pumping his chest there again. You love to see the vibe. Uh, we shouldn’t get second taken out with the Lancelot gone. I think we might be seeing a utility jungle battle. Fredin might be the first option here for Oni Idea. Even Frederick, that’s all just Oh, man. Yeah, Fre Fredin others. No, imagine if we just Yeah. Throw it back to game five and it’s just like Fred Boxa. Yeah, that might actually be the case cuz they banned out the So, they banned out the landlord, they banned out the Fanny, YSS is gone. Hayabusa, let’s go. Let’s go till the end. Let’s ban out the Hoosa. They started burning junglers. Let’s go. Tell each other no more assassins and go back to utility junglers. The brutal fight for the like utility jungler. Yeah, just like big meaty man slapping meat by lantern. Yes, something like that. Uh on the middle like boxing ring in the middle of the map from the downtown. So uh and the drusin bun and the first peak for on Indonesia. Oh, it’s not the Freder. It’s the Bakshia. Baka. So this has this there has to be a Fredin over on the side of Onikop. Uh, I mean, they don’t need to rush it. They don’t need to rush it, but So, they grab the CC. Do they grab the what? The Farsa. I like Okay, I like CC Farsa. CC Far C Moscov. Oh, right. Moskov and then Oh, no. But they took the juice and Yeah, they most likely will pick up the Farsa. Then Onyx can go Oh, excuse me. I’m on Philippines. Go Frederick. On Philippines. Yeah, they’re pro. They’ll probably pick Frederick as like their third pick. Yeah, they’ll pick up their mid or gold laner now. Doesn’t matter. You can exchange. So, I mean uh if you want Okay, never mind. Ka Ka. Okay. Oh, yeah. That would have been terrifying to go up against if you had like a Kala Rome and then a jungle Basha. Your jungle is not safe. And there’s a composition again. So, we see the CC and Kala again. Mhm. Okay. They have a strong combo. Onik, how are you going to flip the script here? Cuz I think they’ve already settled this going to be a jungle box. They pick up a Sans hero now or Seo hero. Oh, I think Gata got a punch for Wait, wait, wait. Uh, shout out to Ranger Emas who completely whooped me in lane as a Pakito exp laner last night. I was playing CC and it is not a fun trade. So would you say that this is a winning trade? Yes. Or is it just in that instance? We saw it several times. Yeah. So I know Ranger Amos is here. So shout out to you and your Pakito. You know, we saw it uh several times and this matchup. Yes. One versus one. It’s better to be Pakito. But there is the reason you are playing five versus five and Pakito. Um it’s kind of hard to position yourself in good. Oh and fant. Wow. I I like it actually. I like it. So, um finishing with the Pakita. Yeah, it’s it’s really hard to make your hero work as you plan. Yeah, you you’re trying to skip, but you can get C. Yeah, especially now with the Fred and the Ko on board. Laning wise, Kito should be very happy. Bigger team fight wise, that’s when Loot really needs to find his timing. That’s exactly what I was going to say. Like the window for Luffy is paramount on the Pikito. I guess that’s just in in general is what we usually see from Pikitos and and you know the XP lane is going to be played a little bit differently where he’s going to be looking for uh those targets from Anik Philippines especially depending on what the gold lane options are going to be. We’re going to see if Ank Indonesia continues to narrow some of those choices down. You can see the Kimmy’s taken out. So I don’t know the Herth being up you I guess you you ban them just ban the Moscow at least one of these bands or I think they Any would want to actually consider banning out both ban out I’m thinking Claude’s go for the Granger cuz Onik might have enough room in their lineup to go for Phamis so they can go fast try to end this quickly but then you need to take out a lot of the AoE. Do you think that you need to buy clothes? I mean the composition again to catch one person on Philippines from the right side Moscow sounds more reasonable and also I would think about okay never mind uh they just b Matilda and uh there’s decision. Yeah. All right. So for people wondering why the Matilda was banned here, uh Onyx Philippines is one of the teams who actually have a pocket Matilda mid laner option for them for Super Frince, which is why uh Onyx Indonesia decided to ban the Matilda A cuz I’m pretty sure there people were wondering like, wait, there’s already a Ko, we know the Rome, we know the exp, but that’s the main reason. KO still making faces while uh coach Wat is facilitating the draft. Oh, this is also a pocket pick. Oh, this is so bad for the Harth and the Pakito though. Like even more so now you were mentioning the Pakito will have a hard time with the Loi around. Loot, his timing needs to be perfect every single team fight. I feel like at the same time though, like if uh France isn’t careful here, he could get bursted down really quickly. So that might be the job. It might be like this game of um who gets a better positioning, who gets that window, and it could be Luffy to go for that. But yes, you’re right. He has to be very careful. So how do you help that? You bring in a fara, you can fight around the feathered air strike now. That’s also a threat in itself. And then lastly, they’re going to go for what do they put in the Rome? Are they an Angela? Oh, overloaded. Angela Boxra combo. Yes, but your early game struggles a lot. So yeah, for example, only Philippines if they okay if we change um Kala to Cho, the early game would be just insane for on Philippines. But even without the Cho, it’s still the triple is much better than Oni Indonesia. Oh man, I think on BH will still end up with a cloud for Keller most likely. Moscow is the option, of course. Yeah, there we go. It is the Moscow that gets locked in and key boy on an Angela. He was able to pull it off as an SS yesterday, but an Angela today, we don’t know. How do you feel about it? Nice. Real quick. I like it. It covers the grounds, but uh you got to make it work. Okay. I don’t like Angela Ror. It’s like one of the worst option for now. And I think that trio of Onic Philippines is going to win. Let’s see. It demands a lot of mechanical precision to make this Angela at the center of the map alongside the Farsa, alongside the Baksha work out, but they could potentially snowball out of this unless Onic PH just shows why their lineup is easier to pull off. Lfell and Lao take us into game five. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Welcome to the final game in this Onyx versus Onyx series. So, Lel as well as Leo calling the final game to see who is the better Onyx. Is it a one from Indonesia or Philippines? What a way to wet the senses to prep for our grand finals than to get two of the best teams in all of MLMBB esports right now to put on a clinic of what is possible in the current meta game to take us all the way. We’ve seen assassin versus assassin throughout this five and now they’re ending up with the utility junglers, the Peron as well as the Boxia. So prepare for a macro heavy game here. Especially Superfins getting that loyalty again. But Sans and Key Boy having a very good burst mid. I don’t know how this will turn out. Not to mention the p the resistance of the Moskov in the hands of Kela. So there’s so many ways that Onyx PH can get to Onik ID, but it’s not like Onic are throwing blanks. You know what I mean? They have the Angela. They also have the fara that can wings by wings out. Not to mention the box unite from Kyrie. So already I assume that as soon as these teams hit level four, then they’re going to try to do stuff on the map. I got to say for Onic ID, they have a second winning condition, which is waiting for that flash of the Oasis. And now Loopy going up against Kirk. Looks like both are really heavily trading against each each other. So now we’re seeing the rors coming down to rotate. They’re taking quite a lot of damage, but should be fine here. Yep. the the these early engagements from uh these bruisers in the exp lane demand attention and additional effort from the other parts of the map. And again, how does this happen, Lafel? That for the first 5 minutes, first 10 minutes of every single game in this fest of five, the gold laners getting gold lane experience. That just seems to be an Onyx versus Onyx standard. At this point is a gentleman’s agreement. It’s like, can we all agree that only four four of us are going to play for the first 5 10 minutes and then uh afterwards if they feel like it, hey, they can join in. Speaking of right now, Turtle has pawn on a kill. Looks like they’re in control. Bruska overshooting quite a bit, forcing a flicker now from Super Prince as Loot gets to the back line. Kyrie secures the first turtle. Bruska goes out, gets punished for his odd positioning. Now the hard guard loot, he’s in. That’s four members of Onyx ID pushing forth into Onyx PH’s jungle. Can King Kong clutch this? Doesn’t have a retribution. Kyrie rolling up the SOD by Keller. Won’t be pressing the button. They let off. Too much pressure. Too much of a risk. If things go sideways if Onic gets it and that’s a steal. Grand Theft Purple in the worst possible way. Sons. Gila Suns gets it. The moment you think it’s safe, it’s really not. Now Kirk having to use the venge just trying to get out of this predicament. Looks like he’s able to get out of it. Onyxic ID they basically won everything in the first 3 minutes. Brusco quick slam here. The flicker, the tsunami slam. Not enough damage from Fringe just yet. Key boy survives. Kyrie helps with a poison. It’s all going on’s way. Yeah, even Saro getting that gold crab earning just a little bit more for himself now that Searo has level four might be a little bit more aggressive going up against this Moscow. And now looks like the Lui. All right, here comes the diversion as well. The rest of an come through is taken down. That’s the first on the board for the super fam. Yep. But still, I think in terms of punish that was actually a very good punish because the minion waves were coming through. So there’s a lot of exp that Luffy is going to be missing out on. And he won’t feel the pressure now, but it will definitely feel in the uh second turtle to the point where I have to think even Luffy is thinking whether he should join the fight or just push the lane trying to play the side lanes going up against Philippines especially with this Louis on the map. And now suddenly the gentleman’s agreement between Kelra and Savo have to be disrupted. The turtle will be spawning on that half of the map. Brusco first to the scene unless Kyrie has something to say about it. Kyrie and Savo first to the pull. Sans holding that fence brush. Now the diversion. Turtle at about tenth of its health. Sans helping burst it down. Onik PH couldn’t even react. Decision coming in from Onic ID making it so that it’s not a dance. Just a straight up take. Now on ID with roughly around 2,000 gold ahead going up against Onic Philippines. But again, I feel like for both teams, the gold lead doesn’t really impact that much because both composition doesn’t really have a big snowball with that kind of gold. Kyrie jumps. Kirk, forced in that vengeance in the protection of tier 2. Kirk will survive. Keller throwing out that SOD in case his XP later needs a little bit of help. Onic huge rotation not leading to much. I mean, they chunked a bit of that energy shield down bottom, but that’s a good save for Onic PH. And this is what a fara can really afford you. A lot of pressure down in the early game and Alara getting that turret. So honestly a very good trade coming in for both teams. The gold lead doesn’t really change much. And now the diversion just to give more farm over to Keller at this point. They’re just hyper farming Keller making it so that he gets all the minions. That’s right. Double laning on a Moskov with very low effort with the help of the diversion. Kyrie Za holding this brush. I think Kel’s aware. But at this point, Key Boy having the Flash of the Oasis, that’s a big power spike for the entire team of Onic Indonesia because it makes it so that the next turtle, if they choose to go for a fight, they’re at a very big advantage cuz at this point, I feel like on Philippines, they don’t really have any anti-heal. Yep. Not a single turtle yet going over to Onyx PH. They’re doing their darnest to protect this tier one up top, but Onik ID will go ahead and shrink the real estate on PH is allowed to play in. They’ve taken this XP lane fight to the mid lane cuz again, this is a lot of pressure coming from Ony. They’re now building up to a 3k gold lead up to this last turtle. The saving grace here is both Kirk as well as KA is having a relatively good time. Still able to farm up. No deaths yet for both KA as well as Kirk. Super Prince as well not involved so much but again not punished. So this is a situation where Onyx Philippies they’re losing but honestly not by much. This is still a combatable game coming in from Onic Philippines. Yep. This is a controlled amount of losses that Onyx PH are giving. Call it a margin of error that they’re working with in the early game. 100% turtle take rate for the sky kings. Yet on PH they don’t look so sweated. They don’t look so troubled. And now in comes Brusco looking for one hit with a tsunami slam. Zan Force forced out of Seo. Curtain call. He’s not able to dash on through. Forward. Brusco flickers back. King Kong holding the line. That is an appraiser’s wrath. Forcing a hard guard on Seo. In comes one from the side. That’s Luti looking for damage. It’s Kirk gets taken down. Brusco follows Sue. The the super fam are crumbling. They put in so much effort and all they got out of that was the top lane. They traded two bodies for the top lane tier two. They tried to punish the Boxia’s worst nightmare, which is checking the bush in mid. So many moments there, but hold on. Kra getting targeted by Lup. Ly gets the kill onto Kelra. KO. That was that was an amazing move coming in from Ly. But yeah, Onyx Philby, they tried to use that bush to their advantage to get them. But again, this is one of the strengths of having an Angela. The moment you feel like you’re out of the match, she brings you back in. And all this while, again, this is a very scrappy team fight. But the fact that Onik ID, they have heal on Philippines, they have heal as well, it became very extended and eventually giving enough time for Luffy to get that flank angle onto Kelra. Onic may have overestimated their uh margin of error. Now Kirk is in trouble. No one can save him here. Luffy gets another kill. In comes the rest of PH, but it might be too little, too late. This Angela Baksha is capable of so much more than just brute forcing its way into team fights. Again, concrete example is that last engage in mid. They they they they feigned the Kumar bush and said, “Nope.” Oh, yeah. It’s it’s not us who’s in trouble. It’s you. This is what my mom always says. Behind every successful fight, there’s an Angela behind there. Heck, she takes this. She takes the kill. I I need the stats on how good Angela is in MSC. It’s interesting that she did not get banned here. Now the dawn begins. Onic ID definitely the favored one. On PH, I don’t know what they’re thinking. Trying to contest. King Kong taking this long brush down bottom. Fender strike already. Lord had a 10th of a 16th, a 20th. King Kong with a steal. He’s happy with what he got. He’s just going to waste Onic ID’s time crossing the long way forcing a response. Onik ID will definitely punish him here. But at the cost of a lord from out of their nose, I’d say it’s worth it. It was 100% worth it. This feels like an AOT moment where they just ask King Kong. It’s like go and die, but get that lord from us. A bit of a mistake coming in from Kyrie using the retribution a little bit too early. You saw that slither of health linger there for a very long time allowing King Kong to get that. But hey, those are the kind of mistakes that differentiates $100,000. If I’m not mistaken, Kyrie just uh King Kong just used the first skill. Didn’t even retribution. No, he was waiting for the threshold and instead made that nanocond call to go, I will not retribution. I will just use my first skill. And he got away with it. And I guess that does help the map equalize. It did enhance this initial wave that will be coming out from Onyx. So yeah, this allows for the Super Fam to be a little more proactive. Figning a diversion there keeps the gold lead at a manageable 4k. Something to consider as well. Karan now has the uh Trinity build here. Their version trying to figure out whether they want to go for it or not. Kyrie going into the bush. Version is going to be used. Oh, they’re bringing him in straight into the inhibitor. That’s dirty. Very well orchestrated. A freak of MLBB nature. You see the smile on Kirk’s face. Can’t believe they fell for that one. Kyrie forced to take a dirt nap from what could only be called an RG experiment done on the grandest stage of them all. Can Can I just say this? We can now make a compilation of every international of where the box just goes inside a bush and then just escalates to become worse and worse and worse and worse. I don’t think we’ll see anything more dirty than that one. But hey, knowing knowing the MLBB community, they’ll figure something out. You know what? Uh after what happened. Oh, look at this. Taky box M5. This is just but a flesh wound. It’s hilarious. I’ll tell you that. It’s hilarious. Yeah. No one saw it coming up until it happened, but now we know it’s possible. Now you Now you know you can do it. Hey, that’s a Tik Tok reel. It’s waiting to happen. How many remixes? I think that will stay all the way to M10. But either ways, right now Onic Philippines, it’s like, yes, they only got two kills, but I feel like they’ve they won, right? I feel like in this situation, Onic ID, they’re in full control, but on P, they kind of won. Now looking at items as well, having the guardian helmet for King Kong, making it easier for him to move around the lord, which is spawning around their side of the map. Kra at this point is just waiting for that maleific gun. And at that point, we got to wait for Kra to make a play. He’s farming up, trying to get that level 15, making sure that he hits every single power spike available. But something to keep in mind as well, Savo is on the way for, forget the item’s name, but more spell vamp man. And now concentrated energy. Thank you very much, Leo. Yeah, this is just a fight waiting to happen. Not even breaking out into full-on dons. Kyrie forces a poison already. Kelra pushing down bottom. Zaman force here on plus a heart guard from key boy and they crash on to Kelra ts to Nami slam away. King with the dragon retribution. No one hit by the SOD. So Keller’s going to have to take the walk of shame, but it’s all right. Ain’t no shame in doing your job. He pushed all the way into that inhibitor down bottom. Onik PH suddenly have the map on their side despite the 4k gold disadvantage. On PH got the cake and eat it too. They got the inhibitor. They got the lord. They got the psychological damage onto Indonesia. The super fam walked into Onik ID’s room and said, “Mom said I can have your bed.” And laid in it for a month. Onic ID is now wondering where it all went wrong because they had everything under control. They even sent Sans home to defend, but they still lost that turret. And now they’re looking at a simultaneous wave push. All three coming in. A lord down bottom. They’re going to lose everything here. Game five is solid proof of why brothers always fight. And now Anik Philippines, if you look at the score, you would think they’re behind, but look at this. They’re almost inside the base of Anik Indonesia. Rusco just fainting, not going in just yet. The lord is going to be handled by Savo. Oh, there’s a conceal. Loot thrown out a few punches. Champion stance already used the knockout punch not going to keep him alive, but the hard guard will. But for how long? He’s down. Super prince takes him. So does the inhibitor. It goes down. The next stop, the base. Maybe the top lane inhibitor. Kyrie eating a lot of damage from Onyx PH. It’s a bear base for the sky kings. They have to defend. And now one minion. They’re able to deal with that. But now the other minion wave is coming in. It’s coming down mid. 4v5. Fathered air strike plus a zmon force. The isolation from Brusco. Use the purify. Savo is down. Kyrie and Sans Key Boy 2 left to defend. Kying a lot. Heart keeping him alive, but it’s over. The super fam prove to be the supreme. They are the third placesers of MSC. And now the onic conversation has ended. As of today, Any Philippines rise on top. And with that, Any Indonesia will have to settle for fourth place. The Sky Kings have been flying very high. The internet could have sworn that this was their time to take home another title, but they fell and they’re facing their brothers. They fell again. Being in each other’s heads we saw on Hillines being at a disadvantage, but that one cheesy play got back that momentum. And I have to go back to what Carl Tezy said, for you to be the best. You have to have fun with what you’re doing. And I kind of feel like that play gave them that fun for them to find a way to come back. And it’s two versus one stone. Lel PH found a way to have fun and show us something we’ve never seen with a hero like this. A combo like this. Plus possibly, I don’t know if you’ll agree with me, they got into Onik ID’s heads. Oh, dude. I agree. It got into my head. No, I don’t want to be using box here, man. That That’s a lot. And the fact that King Kong, one of the kings of the jungle, getting the crucial picks on that Lord. By the way, if this is not a part of Kadilla, top play of the day, I don’t know what’s going on. It’s got to be. I don’t care how good the grand final is, that has to be there. This deserves to be one of the top plays. Kadilla, take notes. I would argue maybe even the top play. You know what? Forget about savages, man. That was all five of Onyx PH. This was this was premeditated. This is This is how you show you play together as a team and you just make it personal on that one guy. And now we are ready here. Congratulations to Onik Philippines. And now we’re throwing it over to the stage where we’re going to be having an interview with King Kong. Yes indeed, gentlemen. King Kong joins us. Our third place here at Onik Philippines. First of all, Kingone, can we get a flex? Come on. God damn. God damn. God damn. All right. All right. All right. See, you got the good vibes. They were going on. Kelra immediately slid onto the stage to really celebrate. Did you take that positive energy into the third place game with you? Um yeah. Um, coach Why not told us that no matter what um let’s we will just enjoy the game and even though it’s battle for third um we should still do our best. Yeah, there’s a very good way to see it. So that’s a healthy mentality going into it doing your best. We got to a game five. That’s fun. However, both Onyx Philippines and Indonesia, you guys boot camp together for a couple weeks in Indonesia. What was that experience like? Did it build any sort of friendly ties between you? How was the practice like? Um first of all um of course it built friendship for Philippines and Indo. Um I think and I think we had a better practice cuz we could talk to the indo players personally. That’s a good way. What do you think you learned from a more gameplay standpoint by practicing with really some of the best players out there? Um um all I can say is we learned a lot from them and they learned a lot from us too. Very good. a lot to learn from players that are at this level and now if we’re a bit serious about it obviously third place at MSE you’re looking at even a higher position but I want to reflect on that journey what do you feel you’ve learned as a player and as a team from this journey this two past two weeks um first of all I still feel happy and and I still feel proud for the whole team on Philippines um we learned a lot we realized a lot um I think we still need to improve much more inside the game. Um, what’s important is we enjoyed this journey and we learned a lot from it. It was good to have you through it all and of course you had a huge Onyx crowd here, be it PH or Indo that are also cheering for you. So, anything you’d like to say to the Onyx fans that came all the way here to Riad to watch you play? Uh, so fans, thank you so much Malat. Thank you very much, King Kong. Congratulations again on the third place matchup. Incredible performance from team Onyx Philippines. An extra flex to top it off. This was our third place game. We still have more to go. It’s the big one after the break. Thank you so much Modge and to King Kong. Man, what a series. I thought you were going to say what a flex. Oh, and what a flex by Onyx. for the world’s longest tsunami slam that went from Riad back to Manila to ensure that on PH completes the turnaround. They took Kyrie. Yeah, they took Kyrie. Get back to the Philippines. Actually, that was good. That was really good. By the way, one more time. One more time. One more time. I’m not King Kong. Sorry. It’s fine. It’s fine. It’s fine. It’s fine. There we go. Oh, there it is. Oh, wow. I I never would have thought that that’s how it would end. I mean, we pose the possibility of the lineup of Onyx Indonesia. If it goes well, very hard to stop. It’s Angela, Baksha, Harif, which can be very frustrating to go up against if you’re not ready to handle it and if your damage dealers aren’t ready. But then Kyrie checks a bush bush as a Basha. And you can’t blame him cuz that’s his job. No way in hell would have anyone thought that there would be five members of Onyx Philippines ready to go. We’re taking you back to the Philippines with us. Fiveman teleport tsunami slam. That’s it. That was insane. I just can’t even picture like how that actually works physics-wise. Like Ka lifting up a box and then through a portal. Like I mean I mean it it was brilliant. I don’t know if we’re going to get to see something like that again. Actually, it’s super shocking because I saw a lot of efforts uh when people just trying uh like on purpose to create this composition. It’s not that easy as you think. And they made it in the match for the third place for like a decisive map and they do it. It was like, wow, what the heck is going on? Yeah, it’s the 250,000 tsunami slam plus teleport. I you couldn’t have written it any other way. What it it crazy crazy is all I could say. And this man was even crazier this entire series who helped launch his team to victory. Kelra is our Sony match MVP. Of course, a little bit more muted this time around the Moscow and a little bit more muted for PH in the previous game, but Kelra still stands to be one of the main conditions for Onyx victory. Kell is always going to be I feel like that guy uh especially in this lineup for Onyx Philippines and it was very apparent throughout the entire run for them in MSC. You know, a lot of the teams were trying to figure out how do we get to Kellra? How do we deal with Kelra? And that’s just a resemblance of what we’ve seen from him in the past year especially. And you know, even when he might not be as loud in terms of the game or, you know, making these plays, the team still plays around him. And again, that’s always what enables these gold laners to do that. They have these conditions. They have this environment where they can go ahead focus on farming up, do what they need to do, but the team allows them to do that from early to mid game where then Kelra gets to really shine towards the late game of whoever they’re playing against. Actually, Kellra was shining like all the way around. And uh if you speak also about the semi-finals, just like remember the situations when he carried solo versus team spirit. I remember a post that Keller made on social media. That moment that tsunami slam. That’s it. That’s it. That was the moment. And he even he got the kill on to carry there at the end. But yeah, there was a post that he made online. He it was a photo with him with the MSE trophy and he said, “You already know my name. Let me remind you what it is.” Considering that he is a former MSE champion in his own right. But what I like about that last series, it wasn’t it didn’t feel like a Kelra show. It felt like an Onic PH show. We got the show that we asked for. We didn’t get the crazy picks. We got the crazy moments. That’s it for the semi-finals. How how are you feeling? This is the end of our MSE journey. We’re going to be fans now moving forward. But gentlemen, a final word from the both of you now. Uh for me, you know, MSE, like I said, has been phenomenal. Uh EWC is always a really special event now that we’ve got to do it twice. And it’s always great to see how competitive the teams have gotten. I think that’s one of the main things is so many other regions, so many other teams are catching up in power levels and everything else. And I think we had uh again the best MSSE so far. I would like to say thanks for all the players who performed so perfectly. Maybe not perfectly sometimes but well enough to enjoy this atmosphere to enjoy this performance overall. Thanks for all the viewers and uh it was a great honor to be with you here today and uh with Leola Fellows. Thank you, bro. Thank you, bro. Just fist bump from afar. The story of MLBB Esports is a tale that just keeps on going. But now we are about to witness another chapter added to its legacy as the grand finals between Team Liquid Philippines and Selongor Red Giants OG Esports will be underway in just a bit. Redemption is the name of the game for these two teams. A lineup once hailed as world champions, desperately seeking that title yet again to be able to tell the world we are the best. And for Salomore Red Giants OG Esports to be able to tell the world yet again why they became the giants of the game last year. We’re going to be going off in a break, but hopefully you join us and tell everyone you know, come on in. The grand finals of MSE 2025 of the Esports World Cup is about to begin. That’s standard. 4 3 1 0 Heat. Heat. I do it like that. 4 3 2 1 zero. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Reach your impossible Lenovo Legion. Heat. Heat. Welcome aboard Metro Zero. All souls must remain inside the train at all times. All alone, I thought of weariness inside. Paranoia always following in stride till the day that I became a spirit guide. My purpose won’t be denied from the right. My body started to rehash. Now I feel a heat that scorches me to ash. All this pressure and the energy combined. I’m bound beneath the weight of the divine. just I feel the burning fire. Oh, how I watch the surge of flames all consume it. I’m explosive by a booming with a fire. No more obsession, only possession. Look at how it’s burning through from the ash. I am born a new summoning a storm inside the sacred breath of life. Next stop, Ever Garden Station. And I feel no remorse. Half machine and unsppable. Only in the pain am I alive. My power in overdrive. I’m surrounded by a crowd full of souls who seek a vengeance so shedding shells of spirits who I must defend to break the shackle so they can Don’t take a N I feel the burning fire. Oh, how I watch I search the flames all consume it. Explosed by a booming with a fire only possession. Look at how it’s burning through from the ash. I am born a new summoning a storm inside the sacred breath of life. Now arriving at the terminal station. Ever Garden station. coming. Okay, let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. I think the key of victory today is as a coaching staff that’s what you can help for the players because players does not have the game to review, right? And it’s easy for you to catch rest and game vision if you know the habit of the players. And then Bruce really have this habit where he always position in certain ways. So once I inform that to Ys, Jun can already know what he need to do next. Yeah, he slowly from this because they only slowly behind like that. Yeah, that’s how you play. I think it feels good. It feels good. It definitely feels good to make it to grand final again because we have sacrificed so much, right? Like all these two years that we have been practicing non-stop, we have been sacrificing times. Then we put a lot into the games. Not only the locals that like sacrificing their own holiday like stuff like that. We also have the imports that like sacrificing their times, right? They’ve been in Malaysia for so long. They definitely miss their family a lot. But they still give not only their best, they give their all, sacrifice their all for this team. And then making it to the grand final. I feel happy for them. Feel happy for this team. And then I hope that we can make the dream come true again. Make another grand final win. are your new champions of the men season. Team can be making it to the grand finals. ID boss Chris. No, no, no more curse. No more curse. Chris, okay, coach, I remember you left us on after losing season 9, but I still love you. Let’s fight tomorrow. With the battle for third concluded, Anik Philippines is able to become the third place team here, making Anik ID the fourth place. And now the moment everyone has been waiting for. This is going to be the grand finals between SRG Esports going up against Team Liquid. We’re about to see can SRG OG defend their title or can finally Team Liquid secure this MSE title that has been eluding them for the longest time. And I got to say this is going to be an interesting journey for both organization, for all 10 players, including the coaches where this has not been an easy year for anyone. And SRG, they’re just one step away from putting their legacy here, making history to be the first team to have that backto back glory. Welcome to MSE here at Esports World Cup. This is the English broadcast. My name is Lafell. Alongside with me is Leo Brigita and TX. We got a stack roster here. So, first of all, TX, you’re looking incredible. How are you feeling for the grand finals, man? First of all, you’re looking incredible. You’ve been looking for MSC. Couldn’t get my eyes off of you. Um, I’m excited. Grand finals, MSC, you know, TLPH, SRG returning to try to take the championship. What more could we ask for? Yeah, personally it’s been such a ride for the entire MSE beginning the group stage now and we finally made it to the grand finals and so many surprises happened this year. But if there’s one thing I’m looking forward to see if whether or not we’ll be replicating it compared to last year is that even when we made it to the grand finals, it was still a maxed out seven game series. That is something I might like to balance my expectations on. We’ve seen how Liquid performs, right? And we’ve seen how close SRG’s matches go. I’m just saying, let’s not ask for a sevename series when we don’t know if we’re going to get a sevename series. But as we’re on this topic, we got to look at the STC rankings here for the EWC club championship because Team Liquid already won one championship in chess. And here’s the thing, SRG is not the only organization that is here to make history as first organization back-to-back champions. But Team Liquid, if Team Liquid wins MSC here, they’re going to be the first organization in history to win two titles in the same week. Never happened before, and they’re so close to make it happen today. And it’s so surprising to see the sudden change in rankings because like just yesterday when we checked it overall I believe it was still team Falcons up top. But with that single win, it’s now Team Liquid. And in the previous weeks with how many weeks we have, it’s Team Vitality who’s been there, too. I mean, I got to say Team Liquid this year has been impressive because not only do they have a chance to make record of winning two titles in the same week, they already broken a record with the most amount of points secured in one week, 1950. That’s that’s a huge amount in just one week from number seven all the way to number one. Team Liquid for this year looks like is the club to watch. And like you said, Leo, when Team Liquid plays, they don’t make it look close. SRG, your heart is pumping when you watch them play. SRG are facing now possibly their biggest hurdle yet because last year they got the whole, “Oh, we’re undefeated for 120 days. Oh, we’re unbeatable in scrims.” Everybody was looking up to SRG. But now SRG, they even have to remind people that they’re champions, that they’re the defending MSE champions. All this while Liquid’s found a new way to play. Not just a Liquid Stampede, but a stomped. I would say though, SRG does well in the face of adversity, right? Because even last year, though, they were on that streak, there was still a lot of doubt on them. There was still a lot of, yeah, Malaysia gets hyped up all the time, they never make it. But in the face of that doubt, they still accomplished. Even after going all five games against Aurora last year, almost getting knocked out of knockout stage, they were still able to do their thing. And I think, you know, I’m I have my eyes on them for this grand finals. But now, while we’re on the topic, we actually was able to catch the one man that can change destroyers mind when it comes to Arlet. We were able to talk to Sanford. So, let’s see how he’s doing before we start our grand finals. And we’re now here with 40 Sanford from TLPH. Sanford, pulse check. How are you feeling right now? Uh, I’m feeling good and I’m really excited to play. Really excited to play. This is the grand finals. You are one step closer to putting your key into the totem. How is everyone doing right now? Are they also as confident as you? Yeah, they can’t even sleep yesterday because they’re really excited to play now. And um, yeah, that’s it. Play. So they couldn’t sleep last night. Okay. It was really hard to sleep last night because they were all really excited coming into this match. Now for you personally, Sanford, this is yet another MSSE, an opportunity to get that trophy because so far it has eluded you. MSSE 2023, you weren’t able to take it. MSSE 2024, you were also unable to take it. What is different this time around for you? Well, for me personally, uh I already uh broke the c the curse. So, I’m really happy to to break that. And also, we just want to enjoy the series. No pressure. What What curse? What curse? The semi-finals curse. We always Because this is my third time that being in the semi-finals. Oh, yesterday being the semi-finals. So, yeah, we already broke the curse. Yeah. Okay. The semi-finals curse. If you could lift that trophy today, what would that victory mean to you? Well, it would mean a lot since uh this is the only international uh title that we don’t have like five of us. So, uh we really wanted to get this win for also like um putting goat name in Carl’s name. Gold into Carl’s name. It’s going to be gold in your name as well. You know, Sanford, I hope so. Yeah. Okay. So, Arcadia wants to find revenge against SRG. What do you think is the key takeaway that you guys have over SRG today? Well, I think it’s all about the draft and also like I I I also need to win my matchup against Creme because uh in this kind of meta XP lane matchup is the really important one. Okay, speaking of Creme in the EXP lane, you’re going head-to-head. People are calling you the Apex Predator and it’s not for zero reason. People are thinking that you are the number one exp laner right now. So, what message do you have over Creme and do you also agree that you’re better in the exp lane than Creme? Well, let’s see later, but I don’t want to heat things up. So, yeah, may the best team wins and good luck. Have fun. All right, good luck for the grand finals for you. We’re throwing it back to the studio. Thank you very much, Eterna, as well as Hamford. And now after that interview, this is the MSE 2025 final boss cuz all throughout their journey here, they only lost two games, no series drop and both only to Anik Indonesia. Now I got to ask you, Brigita, now that they have broken the curse, they got all the way to the grand finals. From your perspective, how how does they like mentally how do they feel going to these grand finals? I think even Carl already mentioned it previously in one of the interviews he had that they feel absolutely no pressure at all heading into the grand finals. And I feel like a huge part of that is the way that especially in this year’s MSSE, I feel like they don’t consider anyone to be particularly their quote unquote rivals because in the previous times that they again failed, especially in the semi-finals last year, it was up against their rivals in the entire Titans of MLBB. So now that they’ve gotten that pressure out of their way and that they’ve been per performing phenomenally in the previous games that they’ve played so far, although you could say they played the least games or one of the teams who played the least games here in MSC, they just seem to be so much confident prior to this grand final. Isn’t that the way to take down the Giants? You know, take away strip away the fact that they’re defending champions. strip away the fact that they’ve owned MPLMy for the better part of the past year and a half and look at them as just well it’s hard again they have names they have faces they have stories they’re very talented but what Liquid is doing is saying you know what you’re just standing in the way of our MSE title but also your SRG OG yeah now we’re looking at CRAM Sky Stormy Yums and Innocent I want to talk about my boy Stormy but since Sanford did say the exp matchup is so important I got to ask you TX looking at Creme’s performance do you feel like he has a chance going up against Sanford where again he makes the Arlet look so good. Normally I would say no one has a chance against 40 the kid but Cra watching him play the uh the CC the other day watching the way he’s able to move with his team I think Cra is definitely going to be able to match up against Sanford in that lane and Cra could definitely be a problem. You know what I’m afraid of Cra’s Ruby. I’m pretty sure coach RC and coach Tic Tac have taken notes saying that one right there that’s uh that might be a no no. Cra Ruby, one out of the numerous XP laners he’s already played. He’s even brought out the Dyroth and the likes of that. So I think in terms of flexibility, it’s definitely a given that CRA would also be definitely a be able to deliver and that’s something we would probably expect from Team Liquid because Sanford, he does have a lot of heroes to his name, but so far he’s played five. Yep. Sanford, Carl Tzy, San GP, as well as OHB. These are the players representing Team Liquid. I want to talk about the opposite lane here. OHAB so far in this MSE I would say he’s been playing an amazing game with many different heroes. Traxx Oh looks very unstoppable. But going up against Innocent, that’s going to be a very tough match up for both. What’s what’s interesting about this matchup is both are aggressive gold laners. They’re willing to get in the middle of the fights. They’re really they’re willing to use those flicker forwards instead of flicker backwards. And it’s going to be an interesting not as much in the laning phase, but I think in terms of the big 5v5s on how they react against each other. Yeah, those are I mean these are two clutch gold laners. Like their play style is very clutch. They’re very last minute and they literally do those singular plays which change the entire flow of the team fights and the game. So I think that’s what we’re going to expect from between the coldblooded Filipino sniper and the halfman half beast. Yeah. And honestly while we’re talking about this we actually were able to talk to the halfman half this innocent. So again, Innocent, are you ready for this grand finals? We are now backstage catching up with the half man, half beast. Innocent. Innocent, welcome. Pulse check. Confidence check. How are you feeling right now? Um, good. Feeling good. What about confidence level? Just normal. Just normal. Not nervous, not confident, too. Just normal. Just at the middle. Just in the middle. Okay. You guys ate together today? Yes. uh breakfast and lunch. Okay. So, it’s a good thing they had breakfast and they also had lunch together. Now, a very similar story once again from last year. A lot of people were doubting SRG and now you’re finally here in the grand finals. What does this mean for you personally? Um it can really boost our confidence because last year we didn’t face any PH teams, right? That’s why other fans in PH are, you know, they’re always talking about like you guys are just lucky because there’s no PH team in your bracket. So, right now we already proved them wrong and we’re happy about that. Amazing stuff. I mean, technically that’s true, right? You’ve beaten on PH before, which you’ve never been able to do before, and now you’re one step closer to taking down TLPH. How does this make you feel? Um, I think this is the most more into like fun match for us because we’re friends with TPH. That’s why it’s more into chill side than just competitive. Okay. I mean, Cypford has something very similar as well. Very competitive, but it’s also very chill because you guys are friends. Speaking of them being your friends, they’re still considered the final boss here at MSC. So, what do you think makes them so strong? For me, it’s about their macro and the way they play and communicate with each other. And because they’re using tongue meta jungler, right? That’s why their macro is really good and they know on how they will capitalize it. But you have the secret to take them down today. Yes. Yes. Okay. We’re going to see it today as well. Yeah, for sure. Yes, for sure. I’m pretty sure Arcade also has something in mind here because he also shared that he has a little bit of a revenge story up against TPH. Is this something that you share as well personally? Oh, because we lost against them at Snapdragon. Yeah, that’s why for me, yeah, same with them. Okay. So, also a revenge story here. But in the lane, in your the grand finals, in your matchup, you are going ahead against Ob. Are you nervous about that matchup? Are you confident against that matchup? Um, for me it’s it’s normal because if you want to win the championship, you need to fight like the strongest one, right? So, there’s no choice. Just enjoy the game and give your best. I love this mentality coming from SRG as well as the LPH. Message for OH in the lane. Um, good luck and have fun. Good luck and have fun. All right. Once again, thank you. Good luck. And we’re going to throw it over back to the studio. If you want to become champion, you have to go up against the best. Now panel, I know we always hear good luck, have fun, but I kind of feel like after Carl Tezy felt disrespected by Kar, I feel like no one really dares uh to say much. Now, we already had five games in our third place match. So, while we still have time, I just want to get a base idea coming in from you guys. Like, what do you guys think is going to happen in this best of seven series? How many games? Who’s going to win? The floor is yours. What do you guys think? You asked for quite a bit. I thought we were just going to keep it brief. Um, okay. I think we’re going to see at most five games. At most. Wow. Okay. And I think I can only speak for the team I’ve been watching for years now, Liquid Philippines. I think they’re going to go for a plan A and B type of situation where they know a plan of attack and then they’ll only revert to B if that doesn’t work and they’ll go from there. Okay. Okay. I I did bring up the entire idea about seven games, but personally, I do feel also that we could just go six. So, I’d be 42 in favor of Team Liquid Filipino. I mean, I’m a liquid girly, so yeah, liquid girly. It’s a thing. It’s a thing. Yeah, sure. Move like water. Okay, go ahead. I’m a liquid boyy. Uh I think you just go with boy, but you know, it is what it is. So, yeah. Seven games, one game, two games, two games. Oh, wow. That’s specific. What am I at? Is this trick math? One game, two games, two games, one game. Somebody’s going to win the final game. Not going to lie, you you lost me there, but it’s going to be epic. I’m guessing seven games. That’s I I think I think everyone’s counting down SRG, and I do think they can take TLPH to the limit. I mean, like for me, I got to trust my boys. You know, Slango Red Giants, OG Esport, win or lose, I’m very proud that they made it all the way here. And honestly, when we’re talking about how many games this really goes, I really feel like we got to look at both styles because they play roughly the same way, which is basically guns blazing at the first 10 seconds of the game, which is very different that we saw Team Liquid going up against Sonic ID. So, are we expecting a very fast series? Like it could it could go seven but every game might be fast. Only if it was liquids only if we’re going to see a Stampede or Stampede because if there is something I can say about SRG is when it comes down to the late game they’re second to none. If this goes past the 19minute mark 20 minute mark we’ve seen that yesterday. Liquid is capable of overheating and that’s one of their main weaknesses. So if some way somehow SRG OG can put us into that kind of atmosphere wherein it’s always down the wire maybe that’s how they get those two three maybe even go all the way against Liquid. Ah and that’s been a problem for Team Liquid even for the past season like teams have been observing that there are times wherein they tend to struggle when it comes to closing out the game and that would be so frustrating for them if they’re not able to manage that up against a team like SRG. I don’t I know. I think it’s hard to predict exactly, you know, length, everything like that. I think SRG does have the ability to go to the distance. I think TLPH has some control factors, but right now in the current meta, we’ve seen teams get hyperaggressive, win 10, 11 minutes. We’ve seen both of these teams go the distance against their opponents. I’m hoping we get some long games. I’m hoping we get some fast games. I think it’s going to be a great grand finals either way. Well, thank you very much, gentlemen, and Liquid Girly. You know, shout outs to all of them. Looks like this is a very liquid favorite panel. But now this is something that everyone has been waiting for. The start of MSE here at the esports world cup. We have our grand finalist. And now between both teams, $500,000 US is going to be the difference between champion and runnerup. It’s time to make history for both teams. Team Liquid as well as SRG OG. We’ll see which one will make it. It’s time to encounter the unknown. I’m feeling really happy and proud with my team that we’ve come this far and we want to win MSE again. Down gets yours. Mortality down and now it is just count to defend against five members of the salam giants OG’s porch crew. Count of the flicker. It is dodge it away. Not just me but all of us are like feeling out of this world because uh finally we have broken the semi-final curse and we just want to play again again and again. 53. The Lord is still on the praise. They’ve defended again. One more hit back again. I’m feeling really confident because we won against on reaction from Stormy. Innocent gets a double and he’ll find another. That’s a triple for Innocent. Make it a maniac here on Philippines Town. SRG OG is the defending champion so it would be like easy game. So we need to do our study and preparation well. We’re really looking forward and I hope they have a good match. Onik are on their last legs and call comes in gets the triple team to shatter the dreams of it. We’re ready to face them in the grand final to SRDG. My message is since you guys have won, please give it to us and may the best team wins. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Months of preparation, two weeks of heated competition, a $3 million prize pool, and it all leads up to is the MSC 2025 Grand Final. Ladies and gentlemen, it is our honor to welcome you back to the Amazon Arena for the biggest event of the weekend. And as always, it’s Milos, your host, and by my side, my wonderful co-host, the ever so blossoming Rose. What a time we made it to the final. We have indeed made it to the finals. Over the past few weeks, guys, we have witnessed so many things happening over here at the Amazon Arena and over here at the boulevard. We have seen hardships, heartbrokens. We have seen tears and drama, but all of that had led us to this momentous occasion. There’s a lot on the line. club championship points of the esports cup 2025 and a million dollar for whoever gets to lift this trophy and the glory of it all in only a matter of a few hours. However, the final question before we introduce our teams. Riad, are you ready? Let’s bring them up. Our first team on the docket, it’s none other than the cavalry, Team Liquid. In the XP lane, Sanford. In the jungle, Carl Dezy. In the mid lane, Sanji. On the Rome, it’s JP. In the gold lane, it’s Oh. For so long. The glory of being MSC champions has eluded them. For three years, they’ve tried and were always so close, yet so far. And now at MSC25 and after dominating in both groups and knockouts, they are closer than ever to completing that trophy cabinet. Can they deny the Malaysian Giants their back-to-back glory? They will have to to become the undisputed champions of MLBB. And of course, our second grand finalist, the defending champions of NSC. Let us call on up Red Giants OG Sports. In the XP, we have Cra in the Jungle Suise. In the mid, Stormy for Rome, Yunes. And in the gold, Innocent. Despite a shaky performance to start their title defense bid, SRG was able to channel back their championship form showcased from their success last year. They survived the wild card champions grow denied both CFU and RRQ’s of vengeance. And yesterday they have brought the reigning world champions to their feet. And now the Malaysian representative, it is looking to cement their legacy in the history of MLBB by being the first ever back-to-back champions. Malaysia Philippines in an MSC grand final. It cannot get any better than that. Please, gentlemen, SRG, please, Team Liquid, place your keys. It’s the last time we get to do this here on stage. Take your seats. And I can’t believe it. We made it. A best of seven. No second chances for Guts and Glory Rose. It is going to be a wild and hot best of seven. Only one will be the champion today. And I’m pretty sure the audience from all around the globe is definitely ready. And with that, it is time to encounter the unknown. Thank you very much. And yes, it’s wild and hot all over here. The final match of MSE at the Esports World Cup 25. And again, both teams have a lot on their shoulders. But here’s the thing. This is not foreign land for them. They’ve been on the grand final slot, plenty of time, and heck, they’re even good friends. You know, a little known tidbit about the grand finals. I’m not. Folks, you can correct me in the chat. All right, go into my socials if I’m wrong. Contzy has a 100% win rate whenever he steps foot into a grand finals. Oh, yep. And for you folks at home, make sure you guys redeem the code here. It is case sensitive, but hey, if you want to be safe, just scan the QR code to redeem the prize for yourself. Now, your thoughts here, Brigita. He did say 100% win rate in the grand finals. I remember one now that where you lost, but I mean that’s still very high. But for SRG OG, they also have a very high win rate whenever they’re here in Riyad. They might be 100% actually. Who? SRG in Riyad. Just as a team. No, just as a team. As long as they step foot in the grand finals, they won. Yep. And now we’re looking at both teams on stage here. Now, this is going to be very intense. Doesn’t matter how long it goes. I really feel like game number one will set the tempo here track so far Team Liquid the way that they approach the match pressure their opponents so much they don’t even have time to react. Do you think that’s a good way to start the grand finals? I think game one you can definitely start like that. Most definitely. Game one is going to be a game about pace. Who can get the first win? Who can build the momentum? And we saw when it comes to the mental both teams are very strong here. Is there anything that SRG can possibly exploit against Team Liquid here, Leo? I already talked about it. It’s that overheat. It’s that overshoot. It’s that stampede when you until you run into a wall that SRG could do to try and get Liquid. So maybe they can start slow game one, force him into a false sense of hope in game two, and then go from there. And I mean, that’s how SRG OG does their typical early game. It’s a slow buildup before they actually hit their spikes or spikes and before they eventually be the ones to really drive the entire flow of the game. And now we have a quote coming in from Sanford. He said, “Our chemistry is really solid now.” Funny cuz they’re Liquid. It’s not like before when we felt so much pressure to play for our last series. I don’t think I have anything left to prove. If we win, we’ll be avenging Onyx Philippines and claiming the only title we don’t have. But if we lose, that’s just the nature of the game. Spoken like a real champ. Definitely spoken like a champ. This is a lineup for me, especially bringing OB into it. I do agree that TLP just feels like a different beast right now. The aggression, everything feels synced up for them for this grand finals. And this is the same vibe they were giving off when they won the M4 World Championships. They felt like just kids out on a mission looking to have fun and if they lose they lose but at least they had fun with their friends doing so. I kind of feel like this is why both teams can be very friendly with each other because as much as a lot of stakes are here even in the uh the videos that we saw they still joke around backstage they understand as much as you need to be intense you need to be calm too here Brigita. Yeah. And that was something too that’s a result of them eventually or throughout the years finding each other in such huge stages too. Like this isn’t the first time that they’re going to meet each other in such an stage, international stage. And in the previous times that they did, one might even say that they don’t look like the best of friends cuz there there have been some heated faceoffs, too. But now it’s completely different. for sure they have such a great idea as to how the other plays especially in this meta. And now we’re jumping straight into draft here. SRG OG their first pick. Team Liquid is on the second pick. Instantly batting out that Arlet and Team Liquid batting out that 1-1. If we know Team Liquid, they won’t change their ban that much. Again, this is the plan A. If that’s not working, plan B type of approach I think the cavalry would take. How does SRG OG approach this? Looking at the setup, Lfel something tells me a story you shared with me yesterday is happening here. SRG OG may have won the flip and have chosen to go blue and this spells quite the good ramp up into the series for the defending champions. Everyone has their own superstitions and SRG really likes first pick blue side here. So now Rita looking at the bands here as well as Lanclot ban. Does this look like just going for those comforts of Team Liquid? Yeah, it does seem like it. This is a this is an Arlet that’s been spammed by Sanford yesterday and everybody just kept saying why does he make it look so easy to pull off the Arlet whenever he gets his hands on it. And more than this I feel like this will open up so much of the options that we haven’t been seeing as much especially in the mid lane because in the previous matches there has been a huge emphasis and focus on the mid lane heroes in terms of the bands. I do really want to point out this Granger blue side ban. Interesting. It is right and it’s a great swing back because redside has been very common to pick up things like the Ka Granger, Phobius Granger, something Granger. My only worry for this is Innocent, two of his major picks have been Moscow Granger and if the Moscow gets snatched up on that first snapback from Redside, he starts to, you know, it could be the hurt on themselves. But again, I’m wondering how big Brain is this. They do take the CC which overall has been a highlight pick for CRAM. Yep. And now we’re jumping straight into the draft here. CC pick immediately answered by the Jucinian as well as the Frederan. How do you feel about this Leo? I feel great given that TPH are going down a very familiar route and they’re ready to face off against the CC. They know how dangerous this weapon is in the exp lane, so they stick to what they know. Zushin Frederick. Now SRG pick up the Farsa, a lethal weapon in the hands of Stormy and they get an Akai. Oh, this is how they answered yesterday’s Freder 2. An akai in the hands of Sikis. Let’s talk about how fast the drafts is going. But we got to mention Yunes has played a total of 37 unique heroes. The most among all players in MSC history again in history. But yeah, Brigita looking at the three picks coming in for both teams. This is very fast. They they’ve figured out this draft since yesterday. CC, Akai, Farsa going up against Zushin, Frederren, and Lapu. Lapu. Yep. I feel like a lot of or especially after what happened yesterday, teams have put a bit more respect on the Akai and we’ve seen how capable of is of going head or toe-to-toe against the Frederick, especially in objectives. And even despite the early CC pickup, which could already be a massive threat to TPH. I also like how they decided to respond with a Lapu Lapu because this is one of the best picks you could go up against the CC with in terms of damage. I mean, the Freder has been Carl Te’s most picked hero so far in the knockout stages. He’s done well with it. I do think the CC plays well against it, and I think SRG, I know these drafts are snappy, but I think it’s going more to SRG’s pace a little bit. Whereas TPH, it’s more of comfortability. You get Sanford on the Lapu, you have Carl Tezy on the Freder. Overall though, I think in terms of counterplay, SRG is coming out on top right now. Yeah, Liquid have to consider the Cho and a safe gold laner is still out there given this is the combo SRG did uh yesterday to take down Onyx. So maybe watch out for the Cho maybe you can steal it right now in red four. Can I just say Leo besides the Jin TL’s draft feels very M4 and at M4 oh there it is in the world that just leaves the gatot for Yumes because there seems to be so much pressure in terms of Yumes and the heroes that he’s been playing so far. They’ve taken out majority of the heroes that he’s already picked. Yeah, ban the Gatot here cuz that’s what Liquid wants to do. Liquid also drafted a very similar lineup with Ath here. So what about gold lane though, right? We have the Harris gone, Granger gone, Moscow still open. Does TLP pick that up to steal it from Mison immediately? Does SRG ban it here? You know, it’s kind of I think that’s what’s taking them so long for this for this fifth ban. I mean, it looks like the secret strat is just to go for that Bruno and just play very very fast. Yeah, Bruno uh still Iritel is out there. Uh Beatatrix Claude Claude. Yeah, Claude has suddenly become a breakout gold laner in the span of 48 hours. And they ban the Matilda again. I feel like even in the previous series, this has been a trend. Teams just ban out the Matilda entirely because again, it amplifies the entire idea of a utility jungler. But do they go for gold lane here as mentioned the Moskov is still open or the Bruno or they can leave it for later and instead maybe go for Gat. got taught and that’s in. So this this is yeah this is what they want because there’s a good answer towards the fara. Yeah and they get some counterplay in the gold lane because of the limability of what is left there is some counterplay out there. Bruno Moskov you have a couple options and they get to see as well whatever SRG ends up picking for their roam position here they can also pick a gold laner to kind of play around that. Something interesting to point out as well is the Harve as well as Gringanger very lane heavy very bursty hero. So it looks like they are looking for a comfortable lane for Innocent here. Yeah. And Liquid are comfortable with playing with a lineup that has no burst. So SRG have to account for that. What are they going to put in the hands of the half man, half beast, the innocent beast. They get the Bruno once again. All right, we saw that coming, but there’s no Cho. What does Yumes play? Do they switch up? No, they don’t. It’s the Gro. We haven’t seen Grock. Hey Most most unique heroes 37 for Yumes. Let’s also point out that when SRG takes a a new unique hero pick, a lot of the times they win. We saw it. I mean, a lot of times they’re able to win those games with those random picks coming in. I like it here. I like it a lot. I think SRG looks very clean in their draft. Yeah, I was considering the cloud before this even since it’s also one of the options that was left, but the Grock just answers that so well, too. Even with a single blazing duet coming in, you could just be cancelled by the knockup. So, Team Liquid Philippines might revert back to the likes of the Oh, okay. You know what? Having an extra monkey sometimes helped you out tremendously. Tracks, final thoughts before we throw it over to the casters. When TPH played the Claude yesterday, that was the one game that they lost everything around that as well. Carl Te is going to have to be careful in these neutral objectives pits. The whole draft of SRG is built around that. What about Yuio? Any final thoughts? This is a very similar draft to what we saw from those teams yesterday with a little bit of spicy flavor. I’m expecting I think Liquid’s got this though. All right, thank you very much. And now without further ado, we’re going to throw it over to the castles for the first game of the grand finals. Thank you so much, Lel. It’s great to hear our panelists be so excited for this game because it’s our time. It’s getting a miracle here at the desk to keep you guys entertained for our very first match here in the grand finals. And man, it is such a high stakes match up with two brutal competitors. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the defending champions of MSC, those who lifted the trophy that you see on stage just last year, up against a team who’s been waiting all these years to compete, to contend, and to find redemption for themselves. Now, straight into the game, we’re already seeing that the compositions are starting to come online, right? They want to make sure that this mid pryo is held within their grasp. And then it’s important, so important for both of these teams to maintain this momentum to kick things off, to start off with a fresh impression in game number one. SRG, we’ve been talking about mid pryo a whole lot in the group stages, just in this tournament, how important it is to get yourself pryo tempo around the map. And that’s what the Grock does. We haven’t seen this pick in a while, but it’s so good at clearing waves and you can see it here. JP and Sanji are always just shoved into their own turret. Absolutely. And I think Goth and as well as Gro kind of do the exact same thing, right? They want to make this mid lane two for two fight to be obsolete, but we we were actually talking about this in the back, right? It’s not just about them. The EXP has been such a large proponent of MSC so far, right? Based on the emblems that we’re looking at so far, nothing too out of the ordinary other than the Gro of course, but he’s taking Wilderness Blessing, allowing himself to rotate a little bit faster just in case JP is able to quickly jump into the fight with the AoG. Yeah, this is also a pick technically that we have really uh seen Innocent pop off on. It’s funny how we didn’t really get to see the Bruno on Innocent at M6 when it was bro it was broken. Here we finally see that it’s actually kind of like a final piece of the puzzle for SRG beating on Philippines and now securing the XP crab. This is a big fight for turtle one. Both teams want to play with the snowball early and it really starts here. Could be make or break for both. Let’s see how they skill check each other. I think this is the most important part for either side. Right, this first turtle, we’ve seen a lot of teams snowball out of control when they make that first mistake. And it looks like so far for Stormy, he’s shoved in. He’s going to be a little bit late to the fight, but level four achieved at least for level four. Looking for damage from Yungs already. No regen. It seems for Sanford. He’s going to have to hold it. Great reset. No, the turtle still within the vicinity. Skies walks up with the heavy spin as well. Now’s going to dive over for Sanford. Still able to flicker out though. And Stormy does the same. Heavy spin put him in a great position even with the brave smite. It’ll be a kill over to SRG with the turtle. Take two. Beautiful fight coming in from SRG’s side. The setup is interesting, right? He uses the nature’s barrier. We thought that maybe he was looking for the reset. you don’t find the reset, but it also works as a piece of terrain that skies can use that heavy spin to guarantee some form of stuns. It’s great that Yums also hit level four on time to get a wild charge to extend the lead because Sanford was already so far. It was really just tough. Sanford was chunked in at the start and you got to give credit to Yums to Cra for doing that. He started the fight at half HP. The turtle was put in a tough spot and he technically just had to dive on Stormy with a quarter of HP left by that time. And that’s exactly how SRG need to play this, right? They are looking not only for opportunities, but to shorten the trigger finger of Team Liquid because they’ve been so good. Liquid, when they stampede, it all starts with, hey, do we have tempo on our side? And that’s been the largest problem we’ve seen from a lot of teams. Can we wrestle away that control? Can we get the timings on our side? Ooh, JP’s got some vision, though. Uh, it’s going to be a bit of poke over to Innocent, but it’s actually going to lose out in the trade. Innocent. Oh, doing a whole lot. Oh, lock him down as well. AOG for Salvar. It’s left all alone. Sacrifice to SRG. And a gold crab for Innocent. A beautiful nature’s barrier coming in from Yumes. It admittedly, we haven’t seen this Grock in a long time. And yes, it was shown during the wild cards, but played at the highest level. Especially when the stakes are so high, it can be risky. For now, it’s looking good for the side of SRG. But Team Liquid, they’re not completely out of the water just yet. With Carl’s very first death, it means that the rest of the team needs to compensate for SRG. Everything’s going to plan. Again, they’ve built a composition to really just secure these neutral objectives. And that’s why it was paramount for them to get the first turtle. Now, it does seem like it’s smooth sailing. Cram is in a comfortable spot. They have the crazy CC to deny Carl Tezy of the crazy retry steals we’ve seen from him throughout the tournament. Speaking of crazy retry steals, this might be one of those opportunities. Oh man, while charging the heavy spin coming down as well, but the curtain call locks him down and the back line’s going to be Sanford looking to play, but Stormy is able to fly away. Carl locked in has the AOG to help him out in the end does actually get away with OP dealing damage. Gets what? Innocent still free hitting in the back now as Dax lantern flare bringing him back, but Sanji’s left all alone and Innocent claims the double. Oh my goodness, what a close fight. And it’s not over yet. Sanford’s in trouble. Innocent’s got him under the turret. Sanford kind of in the tough spot. does not have the bravest fighter, but with the help of OH gets to clear the wave and gets to stop SRG at capitalizing with the lead that they have. Okay, they can breathe for just a second. Honestly, Team Liquid, they’ve got a really good moment, right? Sanford was able to not only cancel out the feather air strike really early, they get the battle spell out of Storming, but more importantly, they shove him so far underneath the turret, they lost the majority of their damage. But the longer this fight goes, Innocent, his crits are so important. Oh, the fact they’re air strike again over to Sanji. Oh, Carlos finding an angle to take the turtle, but they’ll still lose two on the board. So, it ends up still being worth it. Yes, Team Liquid don’t lose as much as you would expect, but SRG are capitalizing on this man advantage, too. Going straight for the tier one in the mid lane, and there is nothing Sanji can do. That’s an instant response from the side of SRG. Despite Altezy’s first death, he has evened out the score. Oh, please do not die here. Oh, Innocent cutting him off as well, but it does take a few turret shots. No BMI. That’s going to be the purify to get him a bit more movement speed. Innocent with a solo kill up top against the Filipino sniper. That’s a solo bolo there. And now the now dropping the alt to make sure that JP gets chunked out to half. Let’s pull up the item list real quick here. I I’m I’m curious to see where is Edison alongside his build. No, he goes straight away for the Hasclaw. He knows that he wants to be part of this fight. Sure, but if they drag it longer and longer, the sustain is so important. When he gets that Berserker’s Fury, that’s when he’s got the gun in hand. Dude, when SRG are behind, people are still saying, “Yo, Innocent, man. Innocent.” So, when they’re ahead like this, half the lead for SRG, 2,700, half of that is on Innocent. The men, you really want to have gold at any time. And the fact that Team Liquid with this composition technically don’t really have an answer against them makes it all the more scary. Fathered Air Strike already dropped down. Sanford get in the sun, but Cram is still very healthy. Has a vengeance too, is able to flicker out towards the heavy spin, but will be pinned down in the end. And Skies gets yet another kill to put SRG 8 to one. But what’s Liquid’s response here? They see everything that has happened on that bottom side. They saw the initial engagement. They know they don’t have that heavy spin, so they push out that midside. They’re trying to get OH as quickly as possible to get into that Trinity as Carl Tezy protects the structure down bottom. Now T1 mid is opened which is allowing SRG to have some very convenient rotations on their side. It doesn’t mean that Team Liquid is completely out because look at the lead. Despite everything that has happened, eight in one only a 2.5 to 2.4K lead which is not much. Nope. Which is weird with eight kills and those crits landing. All right, now we feel that lead. It’s crammed in the bottom lane brought back again. It should be a kill over with a vengeance. Not much you can do but just take damage. So it’s a good start to the turtle fight for Team Liquid here for the air strike though. Might be a trade. Sanford able to dodge away from Stormy to try to go for the chase. And now that’s big info. Skies walking up again. Carl TZ looking for angle as Sanji jumps in deep. Heavy spin coming down as Sanford walks up but it’s still going to be Skies wins it out. Innocent with the dive in the back. Sanford walking in and Skies is able to peel. Innocent still free hitting. Casy finding the taunt now. Can he get the damage down? What the hell does Blazing do what he can? A massive shut down with the rat. Oh, still taken out by Stormy. Skies is right there. The goat fighting against three. Skies walks away. Dodges away from a possible st. Oh, Carl. He wanted to fight all the way to the end. He did, but he couldn’t get a trade. Okay, a moment to breathe. Sakai is utilizing the Akai very, very well. That passive shield is saving his life. Let’s look at the replay one more time because off of this we noticed immediately Stormy no flicker no feather air strike. This was such a winning scenario for the side of Team Liquid. And as they continue to press their advantage, it’s just target prioritization from SRG despite all of the chaos. Can you see JP get chunk down first and then turning their attention to her? Did you see Innocent in that fight, dude? He was chain CCD. You saw Sanji straight up go for the Crimson Beacon, lifted him up. It was a combo with JP, but the flicker came in first up top. Life cam view. Oh, head ganked. Everything used, even the vengeance, everything except the heavy spin and the worldy, but that’s a whole lot. It is a whole lot. The tempo is affected as Sakai makes another play. That’s the heavy spin. The AOG to cut him off there to try to stop Carl Teasy from getting picked off. Good taunt to get the reset on the second skill. Dashing back to safety and SRG 14 to three. They’re looking very healthy coming into Lord timers. Mhm. And now without the heavy spin and as well as the wild charge, they don’t have much of a setup. Unless Team Liquid make a significant mistake. They would rather stay healthy, stay alive to try and buy time for OB to get to the point where he can actually fight and that’s when he has that Trinity build. Right. The big issue that he’s facing right now is that every single time he walks up, there’s a problem of am I going to get hit by the heavy spin? Oh wait. Oh man. Well, look at the peel there. JP with the conceal finds it. Oh gets the blazing into a take now. Carl TZ brought back all the way. Curtain call by Cra to take the goat down. JP they know he has no AOG. He’s going to have to go with unbreakable. AoG came back right in time. Baits out the flicker as well. Y caught in the bat going to pify out of the wild charges. Crime goes over the chase but now Sanford walks over the bravest fighter is looking for the stun. will be able to find it, but it’s going to be the power from Yumes with the CC immunity as the lantern flare comes in again for Sanji and they peel back. Look at these low kick checks from both sides. Every single time a play is made, they must be an instant response. They will not get disrespected if they want to make sure that this 1.7k lead doesn’t turn back into that 2.5, doesn’t get a time two multiplier on it despite the kill score, which again very deceiving. It really is 15 to 4. We saw a glimpse of what that lead could do with Innocent doing this much. 52,000 damage dealt uh leading the charge with Stormy and Cram. And then we start seeing Team Liquid, but OB is slowly but surely scaling. Carl on it already. Sanford with a dash back again. Sky holding on to it. Carl TZ doesn’t want this to be reset. Crimes coming in again. Shredding him down. A brain down as well with a stayade. And it is going to be a kill back. Sky with retribution win. Sanford going to be pinned down again as Innocent just gets a free hit but the back line. The blazing duets doing a whole lot of damage over towards Yumes who’s so tanky and gets away in the end. Sanji forced to use the Crimson Beacon. That’s got to be heartbreaking. Team Liquid fans are looking in disbelief. How does he survive that? He flickers out of there at the very end. The fact that he held on with Power of Nature alone could have chunked out more targets just wasn’t enough. But look at the Emperor’s Eye, the zone from Team Liquid as well as SRG OG Esports, right? They know exactly what they’re doing. first secure the lore. Next thing you see skies quickly jump onto Lapu’s side to ensure that Stormy has a better time. All of this just using a small margin of their lead in terms of items to stay alive. Hey, Gra aggressively while charge, but JP gets away. Is there a heavy spin angle here? No. Looks like Sky is not going to take it this time. They’re walking with the Lord at the very least. If they can take an inhibitor, that’d be great. No wild charge. They still have the heavy spin, but they got to be careful because they need to peel for Innocent and Stormy. So, no base turrets taken down here for SRG and I think it’s a smart move. They lost CRA. There’s no reason for them to push in forward. They still have a 4,000 gold lead. Yes, there’s that risk of OH scaling up to becoming a monster, but it could be even worse if you just dove in there to give Shutdown. So, yeah, gold lead still roughly the same between the gold laners. It’s a 1,000 diff for Mr. Innocent, but we’re getting close closer and closer to OH being a real problem. And he’s already got three items on top of the winds of nature. He’s in a phenomenal position. The same can be said about Innocent, if not better with the maleific gun. But then we start looking at everybody else. The anti-heals are finally in for the side of Team Liquid. We got two Domesis that they can work with. Din also with the sky piercer, but Stormy going for the full damage build. Genius one into glowing one, which is why they’ve been so decisive in these fights. So no stacks on the sky piercer yet for Sanji. Yeah. Why hund strike this time for the side of CRAM? He just needs want he wants to deal more damage. He knows for team Liquid right now. They have so much sustain. That’s what they’ve been playing with, right? Even with Sanji just playing around with the brave smite coming around with the blood wings. It really comes down to TL wanting to go for a bit longer fights waiting for the cycle of abilities to be used up by SRG. H I would have imagined that if he wanted to greed out, he might even go for Queen’s Wings or at the very least maybe even take a more tankier approach to the scenario. I mean, considering that his role is to not only sustain but slowly poke out his opponents, right? He’s already got the brute force breastplate. He’s already got the war axe. He’s got more than enough damage to kite against his opponents, but his big issue is dealing within specifically. If his yo-yos are hitting the wrong targets, well, guess what? Zushin can either peel him away or forcefully just wait for him to leap and cancel it out. So, it’s back to a setup game. SRG doing a good job at manipulating the waves, playing for the neutral objectives, and Team Liquid. It really just seems like all of their fights have been brute forcing away to maybe gambling out of this massive win for SRG because again, it’s so difficult. You kind of have to take the gamble every time you fight for a Lord. There’s no way you get a proper 50/50. It’s an Akai and a Grock to stop you from retrying. Yeah, I mean Cas despite everything is still maintaining level 15 to level 15, right? It’s a 50-50 retry battle. More in favor to SRG, but let’s see how Liquid plays this out, right? This 3.1K is actually not as big of a lead, especially since they’ve already passed the 42k mark. Good damage overhead there. Carl T coming with the taunt. The heavy spin comes around, but Sanford dies in the back with the brave spider again going to be cancelceled out by Skies. It’s a shot down. Skies wins a red tree battle. It’s a place to do it, but Cram is able to stop him from happening. AoG defensively. Cram looking to chase Yumes right there too. Sanji pop the Crimson Beacon as Stormy flies by, but SRG know they’ve gotten the win already. They’ve gotten the Lord’s got to be careful. They don’t want a repeat of what happened earlier. Yeah, I mean, if he wants to sustain, there’s a wave coming up top side and now they’re looking for mid inhibitors before that Lord even reaches, which is perfect for the side best SRG. Look at this siege as they apply more and more pressure. The crystal able to find those crits. Oh my lord, the damage. Can they clear it out? JP walks up in time, but they have a whole other wave to play with. GG as Sky spins around to zone TL. SRG get game one. What a fast game one as well. This is one of those moments where you’re like, okay, what happened to us? And Team Liquid understood that they went straight for the joints. broke their formations and therefore these neutral setups were a lot harder to pull off. Something to think about. Blue side has been doing very very well. I’m expecting a switch. I’m expecting some very specific bands. SRG versus Onyx Philippines to just give you guys the bigger picture was 100% win on blue. It was the same I believe for the match against RQ Hoshi. So SRG, they really have just been leaning on that. They’re like, you know what, if blue side keeps getting us wins, let’s just play with it. It’s a best of seven, so we need to see what that tempo breaker is going to be. Whoever finds their first redside win might just change this entire game. But with that being said, we’re going to be throwing it back to our panelists. What do you think about the games much and Gideon? And what I think is that when you put two teams that really wants to start the game off fast, it will end pretty fast. And honestly, this is an amazing game coming in from both teams. But SRG brought this roughly the same draft that they did against Onic Philippines and won that one. It looks like the same strategy works against Team Liquid. So this is the opener where SRG took first blood against Team Liquid being the second team to get a game win against them. The previous one was only Anik Indonesia. So now looking in this situation uh I believe a lot of people are surprised. A lot of people are flabbergasted trying to understand what really happened for this one. So, I feel very honored for the grand finals. We’re going to have a little bit of help here because welcome back to the English broadcast. You guys are watching the English panel and alongside with us will be Kid Bomba all the way from Team Spirit to help us break down that match. So, first thing I I got to ask CC first pick. Why is that so damn strong now? Uh, I don’t know. I’ve had like a lot of success with GC myself in scrims and it’s a super strong hero in my opinion. It doesn’t have any losing lanes and as soon as you get the Warax, if you play against a tank jungle and you have a tank jungler in your team, you’re like one of the strongest heroes on side lane as well. So, it’s very very hard for you to compete against the CC. Yeah, cuz honestly like the start of this month, everyone keeps questioning why do you want to first pick the CC? Are you trolling? There’s so many other great picks. But as we saw for the past few days here in the knockout stage, it has been absolutely amazing. Yeah. And even way back in MWI, if you guys would recall, this entire CC first pick trends started happening. I believe it was even gaming gladiators who started at the time. But even me, I was a bit shocked to see that. Oh, so this is the case now. It’s a CC first pick. And it didn’t happen immediately here in MSE, but now you see how effective it is actually. But yeah, honestly now looking at the game, I kind of feel like everyone was surprised by how SRG was able to have that commanding of a lead. Like what do you think, Dex? Watching that game, is it all just because of the burst? Was it a drive? Like what was it? Well, I think they came into that game knowing TPH likes to bring early game aggression and they decide, you know what, we’re going to take Gro and Cuss Blast. We’re going to take Farza, have one of the quickest clear lanes on any combo you could pick in the mid lane. Quick rotations with wings by wings. And I mean, even in the first minute or two, they were always on TPH’s side of the river. They were controlling the map from the beginning. So now, Kit Bomba, looking at how the meta has been shaping up, do you feel like teams that get all these early leads, we need the first two turtles, did that give a lot of advantage for for the team to eventually secure the W. Um, I think it’s going to be really important for both teams to understand that they should make the rotation move more to the XP lane uh, as the series goes on cuz I saw that Sanford lost a lot of HP before the first circle started and there was a big problem for TPH. They had a hard time because of that in my opinion. And for me, it’s just going to be the team that understands first that everything goes to the XP because for me also CRA versus Sanford is a key factor in this series. Is going to have a very good time and just leave the gold laners. Let them let them battle it out one v one. That’s terrifying though because they did leave the gold laners. They did let them be. But what happened to Innocent? Innocent on the Bruno was just going crazy. And maybe that’s what SRG wants because they understand that Innocent is pretty good in lane. Now, honestly, I agree with your point, the EXP lane. Even an interview with Sanford, he said that the EXP matchup is is so crucial. So, before I go to strikes personally for you, do you think it was a mistake for them to pick up the Lapu Lapu because we understand it’s to fight against the Farsa, but let us let us know how is the matchup between CC and Lapu Lapu? Is it favored or is just a 50/50? Um, it is favored for the CC. And I think every lane is favored for the CC cuz you can always decide to just push the wave. You don’t have to fight. You can always just push the wave and the enemy XP can only look at you. He cannot do anything versus you cuz if he comes close, you hit him with your first skill. It’s super hard. So, it’s always favored for the CC. And that’s why he’s such a strong hero. And specifically, the Lapu can win if he gets a level four. But that’s exactly why they have to make the rotation to the XP. I think I think it’s a really solid point. I think overall the CC is uh the the power pick of EXP lane right now. And I think just in terms of total draft for TLP PH, it was a lot of comfort. Sanford on Lapu, Carl Tezy on the Fred Ren, just around the map. I think we said it when the draft was going, this feels like, all right, let’s let’s warm up. Let’s get into comfort picks. And I feel like even beyond the entire CC Lapu matchup, whenever Sanford does try to do what he has to do, which is to dive into the Farsa, there’s a potential heavy spin there. There are other sources of either crowd control or burst damage that will make it so much more difficult for him. So, it was an overall hard game for an XP lane Lapu Lapu in that situation, even though we did say it was supposedly meant for the fara. Yeah, honestly, a lot of disruption. So now kid Bomba, looking at the first game of that match, what do you think that TPH really needs to adjust to equalize against SRG? Um I think on first pick they should really try to play with all the bands. Maybe give away the one one try to do something with that. Try to counter pick it and just try to play around with that cuz as we just saw the CC is really hard to counter if they don’t get the correct XP laner at this point. Is it like a banable or is there a way for you to play around that? In my opinion, the way to play around it is to force the enemy to pick something different first. So, and then you take it, you know, so open something juicy up like I don’t know. That’s a lot. Yeah, you bait them. You bait them, right? Something like that. Yeah, fair enough. And we’ve seen a lot of teams take that strategy overall. SRG though, they favor. I think the the best answer against SRG might be the ban because CRA has done so phenomenally with the CC that I don’t know if they’re going to fall for the bait overall. And now that we talk about the entire draft, the fans and the picks, this is actually, if I’m not mistaken, the first time Team Liquid lost on the red side so far because they’ve been with I’m color blind. I cannot lost in general. So we don’t have too much statistical fact. So that’s that’s a that’s that yeah that’s a side the fact but it just goes to show that team Liquid are supposedly very comfortable with the red side but or the right side for Lel but SRG have found a way around it. So, that’s another thing. It seems like they’re definitely well prepared heading into this matchup because honestly, like if we’re talking about leaving the CC open for say either SRG or Team Liquid to possibly not pick it up, then that becomes the question, what is so juicy that you would let go of that CC? Cuz at this point, what is it? The Yu Shin, is it the landslide? SRG, they really like the Kalia. So, maybe that. Who knows? Like what’s YSS? I think YSS is is it. You leave the YSS open. Maybe they go for it. Um, I do think next game most likely TPH will take that blue side. So, the question on my mind is does SRG ban the CC or do they throw out the kid bomba bait tactic? So, the kid bomba bait tactic is again Oh, that wait that’s what they’re calling. Is that the new is that the new name? Hey, it’s the bomba bait. Bomba bait. Bomba bait. But now honestly like I just want to switch it up just a little bit because my boy Stormy performed really well on that Farsa. So just want to ask you like do you prefer just having more burst damage coming in for your mid or more control something like a Jusheen cuz we’ve seen success with both but at least for SRG looks like this burst damage has been helping them out a lot. Um, I think he did phenomenally on the Farsa and it’s a super good pick versus the Zushian. I feel like especially together with the Grock the way Yumes played this game. I really really liked it, he did really well for me. He’s also a key player in Sogg. So, quick question, Baba. I am on I am on totally on board that Farza is the better pick against Zushin. Do you think it’s the counter pick? Do you think it’s overall the superior mage in mid right now? Uh, no. Zushin should still be better and it just depends on how you play it. All right, I’ll Eve is also good versusian. You know, Eve is good. Eve is good. I just think the range in the burst right now, the Farza just seems to be winning more games, at least against the Zouch overall. I see what you mean, but what if Zushian wins the sword? That That’s fair. That’s fair. I think the Zushin goes good against the utility junglers. There’s There’s some use there, but still, I think the Feather Air Strike is the superior ulti. I kind of feel like this is all about MLBB philosophy. What do you like to play? Do you like to pick up your opponents or do you just want to smash them? First for me, I’m uh you know, Farsa is a birdie baddy. I like that burst damage. Okay. I But that’s me. What about you? Should I Should I Should I hop in this? Um Yes. I mean, up to you. You’re You’re the analyst. I’m I’m going to apologize. I’m going to have to go with Farsa. No. Yes. Yes. Farsa, maybe. Are you a Valentina girl? No. No. No. No. I mean, if it were Sanji, yes. But I mean it because for the Jin I would be leaning into it more if you see it alongside certain heroes similar to the Arlot and if you get to pair it with those kinds of combos but uh the Farsa overall I mean this conversation has been going ever since. Damage definitely is the way to go if you want to establish that momentum and that early lead or pressure up against your opponents in the game. The fact that this can be a debate shows that this MSE at the Esports World Cup, the meta is quite wide open. Sure, there are S tier picks all around, but there’s there’s multiple ways to play uh with this. So, it’s crazy that we talked a lot that we haven’t touched on the Gro. You know what? If the Gro pops up again, we’ll touch on it. Trixs. Now, going to this matchup, I really feel like for for Team Liquid, if they do pick up blue side first pick, that is going to be a a major win condition for them. Man, just want to ask the opinion of Kipoba. Why this first pick looks so strong now? Cuz before it is it looks like red side is pretty good, but now it looks like first pick is just superior. You really don’t want to give the one-1. You don’t want to give the YSS. It’s hard to play versally. Uh there’s a CC. There’s just too many picks that you go for. And as long as you ban the OP heroes, then it’s really easy to just pick one hero and you’re confident. You know, you’re good with it. You’re fine. Honestly, that kind of sucks being second pick cuz you don’t have a band. You You legit don’t have a ban. You got to take out the one one etc. But looks like SRG OG changed the script a little bit. Banning out this early respecting Sanford. They’re showing that they do have a ban. They’re showing that they do have options and maybe they’re going to throw out the bait for the first pick to try to secure themselves the CC cuz so far TPH hasn’t banned it out Phobius Fanny. So still some uh power picks on the field and SRG. So to answer our question, this is indeed respect from them whether they be on left or blue side or red side. They’re going to ban out that Arlot and that just makes things so much more easier for Crown, but the question again on whether or not they’re letting go of the CC still remains to be one of the biggest mysteries heading into the first pick. Okay, here’s the thing. SRG, they really like the Kalia. So Bulma, do you think like it’s still a fair trade for TLPH to pick up that CC and then SRG picks up Kalia plus one? I think they’re throwing out the Wis’s bait here. They’re throwing out the Wis’s bait here. It looks like they’re trying to take CC and Kalia right now, but Team Liquid did ban the CC. So, I guess now they ban Wises, but the lance is also open. So, they might trade those. I’m not sure. Honestly, the trade does seem seem very viable. I don’t know if they want to see Carl Tezia on the Lance a lot. I think whatever ends up happening, if the Ka’s open, Granger’s also open from last time. Let’s see what the last man is. Guin. So either Lancelot YSS from TLPH Ka plus one Granger or the YSS Lancelot. I don’t mind early far so not going to lie. Uh and are you going to be comfortable with letting Yumes get his hands on the Ka too because that’s going to be another option that SRG can pick later on since they have the next pick after this. What do you think? Uh Bomba here first pick for TL. Personally I think the Wise is the strongest hero in the meta currently so they should pick it up. But I really see the vision that they don’t want to give Yums the Kalia. So you either steal it or you take the YSS and fight it with YSS Gatwood versus Kalia. And looks like they do pick up the YSS. Not going to get risky with it, but it does look like SRG. This is part of their plan. Ka Farza. The Zucian’s already gone. You get a powerhouse in the mid. You get the KA. You can save your jungle for third pick. You don’t need it right now. I think that’s the way we go here. Okay, there you go. Looks like we’re reading the draft quite well here, gentlemen. And should be the Gat and Lucy Lady. So, the Gat mentioned by Kid Bomba here. I Yeah, I do feel like it’s going to be a great answer. And might they want to reveal or pick up their OAB hero now? The ranger to match up. Yeah. With the range. That I was thinking along the lines of that. But then that’ll reveal much of where the damage and much of where they’re going to play around for the draft if they do decide to go that route. I mean, seeing as they have the YSS, they could maybe hold on to the marksman pick because they already have so much damage. They don’t need to heavily rely on burst from a Granger, but it’s more about do you want to give the Granger over to SRG on Innocence Hands. And as expected, the Gatka got picked and this time the Lapu Lapu as well. So, uh I don’t know what were your thoughts on this opener coming in from TL. The Lapu is still flexed. Believe it or not, teams do play in the Gold. Wait, what it is? I don’t know if OH does it, but it is flex with the YSS, so we might see some experience bands coming in from SRG, but I’m not sure. I think I don’t think OH plays it. I just wanted to say that. No, you know what? You know what? You’re already giving people ideas after the grand finals. Be careful when you’re in rank games. Is this going to be a Lancelot pick or an Akai pick? Cuz I kind of feel like both does work well with the draft. It looks like they go for that Lancelot. is going to be carry in the jungle. Now, I don’t know, personally for you, Kiba, is there any hero that SRG really needs to ban out to make sure that they don’t get punished? For sure. The Selena, in my opinion, is going to be a super good pick for TPH is going to help them uh be able to fight easier at the start of the game. And I think it’s going to be very good. Yeah, I think Selena definitely could be a pickup with the ban. They take out the Ruby though cuz there’s that the gold lane. It’s definitely possibility. Quick note to that, OHB back in the M3 days was known for playing non-marksman gold laners. We saw things like the Alice back then. We’ve seen those picks. It beat BTK way back in the day. So good old I’m just saying double fighter off lane, you know, all that kind of stuff. So yes, I don’t think we can completely count OAB out. I just don’t know if TLP wants to run it. But you know what? This ruby ban by SRG, it makes me think about what Kid Bomba said because the rubies too can be considered like yes a flex and we want to think of it as a gold lane ban but if kid Bomba presented the entire idea of the lap flex then might as well but yeah so they go for the Lui last ban two for Sanji but then the Selena that’s open the Valentina that’s open. Yeah. And so now looking at the Esmeralda as well as the glue band out here, is there any more good exp laners to deal with this Lapu Lapu? Um the Esaban kind of tells us that it is a rap XP and I don’t think that OB is comfortable on the fight. I do I do think that he’s going to go for like a purify marksman versus the Kalia something like a Har like a Claude. I am really waiting for that pick and I actually don’t know what experience he can take versus Lapu anymore cuz the glue is a really good answer. The SMA is a really good answer and four XP lenders are banned currently if you guys didn’t notice. Yeah, we have seen things like what the Akai get picked up in EXP as like possible answers. Just something that can work. Oh, is that a Hyos? Yeah, I don’t think that’s a good pick though. You don’t think that’s a good pick? I don’t think that’s a good pick versus Lapu. You think he’s going to get punished? I do. I do. I don’t like Hyos either personally. It might work. We don’t know. We don’t know. Hey, anything can happen. anything can happen because here’s the thing. First pick is just overall superior. So now Briggina, we’re looking at the final two picks here for Team Liquid. Looks like they do pick up the Harif and they do pick up the Valentina. What do you think of the overall composition coming in from Team Liquid? I feel like they’re going to be much more comfortable with this aside the fact that Sanji did get his hands on the Valentina again and there are just so many ultimates he can steal away from SRG. And despite the the Granger still being open for Sanji, that’s just another option. Like the death Saratas can just be picked up by the IMU and they have ways to reach these heroes in the backline for SRG now, especially that they have or they don’t have the Akai and the Gro in their lineup. Yeah, I think you definitely just pick up I mean you pick up what just the Granger here, purify, flicker, whatever you want to go. You could go for something like the Claude possibly if you really want to play the safe route because of those dive heroes. Oh, that’s a bea. Oh, Beatatrix. Yeah. So, now Kibomba looking at both drafts. Any final thoughts before we go into game number two? I love the draft of Team Liquid. It’s the YSS together with the Valentina and the Gat. I feel like they’re stronger on the mid lane cuz Gat is a super good pick against the Kalia. For me, it’s going to all depend on the first turtle and I have a feeling that the Lapu is going to make the difference in this game. So, let’s see. Yeah, very solid picks here coming in from Team Liquid. The SRG looks like they want to go for the old combo of the Khali as well as the Brix. So, thank you very much panel, but now we got to throw it over to the casters for game number two in this grand finals. Thank you so much. Everybody on the panel is absolutely right. We love the words coming out of Kit Bomba. He and Mira definitely agree. It’s going to come down to this Lapu here. The matchup is tough, but we’ve already seen what game one looks like. That tempo is important. These neutral fights are high stakes as we get right into the land of dawn for our second game in this best of seven here at the grand finals of the mid-season cup 2025 here at EWC25. Let’s get this show on the road. TLPH on the blue side facing up against SRG. OG on the red side. So, we’ve seen a composition where SRG basically said, “Nah, Carl, you’re not going to win out those retreat battles.” Now, we’re seeing more of a brawl composition. This is what I think we’ve come to expect from SRG more so than game number one where it was really it was an unorthodox SRG. We didn’t expect that kind of strat. So, let’s see if they can actually do that. Again, Bomba mentioned this matchup going to be very good for Team Liquid. Turtle one very important for both these teams. That guy knows a whole lot about the game. I think he should go pro. Yeah, I think he should also turn maybe turn into a talent or something afterwards. But it’s the way that we’ve seen this game play out. We can tell from the drafting phase alone that SRG have kind of doubled down on the strategy of the pickoff, right? Really utilize that tsunami slam. Whoever they pick off, they have to instantly kill because Team Liquid, they see this Beatrix and they’re like, “Wait, she doesn’t have the purify.” If if we can get that battle spell out, that’s a huge window for us to punish our opponents. If they went Granger with a purify of his own, I think OH will be a lot more confident into taking on this fight, especially if the Granger makes a mistake. Based on Emblem, so far things are looking pretty normal. Nothing too unorthodox or out of the ordinary. Only notable thing is probably going to be not only the weapon master from Innocent, but the wilderness blessing coming up specifically from Cramp. He wants to be part of these fights. He does a whole lot more mobility to already a very high mobile hero here with the Glorious Pathway. Again, uh also the firmness of the pull yourself together here coming from Yum. So he wants to go for those big ultimates, but also he wants to respect how much damage Team Liquid have, especially around the first turtles where it’s very important for them to secure it. It comes down to the snowball again in the mid lane. Stormy feathered air strike over to Sanji taking him so low and that’s just so much more pride to play with. Sanford already there, but the glorious pathway is going to stop Carl’s teas in his tracks. It’s going to be tough. Sanford diving with Raven’s fighter onto Stormy goes tries to predict the flicker move. Wings by wings was a bit too much for him. Car the move again. Mountain Shocker predicting the move from Skies. Zanble the jump one more time over Stormy. Good peel from Yoms and Sanji now has the glorious pathway with a render apathy to turn the tide around. Sky fans of execution. The taunt dodged away from and it becomes another hunt. He’s playing out of his mind now. Another feathered air strike. They’re going to get it this time. Oh, JP the next to fall. What a start coming in from SRG OG Eastport. They’re not done yet. Give him another one. Mine added it. Holy. A three and one start for Innocent. Innocent on a Beatatrix. This is a big gamble to play this in a grand finals to be landing these shots. Oh, you could even see. He sees Innocent move into position and he’s like, “No.” Dashing in trying to protect his teammates, taking at least the shot. Sacrifice my HP, sir. Unfortunately, too late. The angle is good and you can see Grammy’s happy about that very first fight. Now the tempo in control as you can see by the live cam view. Sanford taking the brunt of that damage. Unlock cramp from his lane. Yums chill out for a moment. Once we get Beatatrix in position we will be able to clear out these waves and not interact with them. Wait a dodge away again. Jumps in. Physics dodge away from able to get the stun or the dashes here. There’s a mind force coming in as well. Skies with the thorn rose unable to get in time, but the sustain comes through. Sanji walks up and it’s oh picks up the kill. Stolen tsunami slam over to Yum. The turret lands a shot, but he gets away. Oh my goodness gracious. Stop this man. Someone. Okay, innocent. He’s still He’s still making plays of his own, but this time JP is like, “No, already tried to die for our sins. We” and he already outplayed the botside gank. Now he lifts his hands up saying not this time I’ll protect you. Now Team Liquid have pulled this back despite the score being two to four. Slango Red Giants have a minor lead. It equals out on both sides. But let’s look at where the advantages actually are with all these fast rotations that we’ve been seeing from Cra side. He did lose out on a little bit of exp, which is why you’re seeing Samford at full level and more on his side on Lapu Lapu. He’s also helping to pick up that midwave to allow Sanji to alleviate his pain. Now Yoms, wait, hold on. That’s a genius one purchase coming in from Stormmy side. They want to snowball this game out of control off of this next fight. Both junglers are level seven. Innocent walking up to the mid lane already. Carl TZ holding on to the bush. Got to be careful. Walks over the damage again. H going to be caught under and it’s going to be the red tree from skies. Ao with JP walking to the back for solo still doing damage. Will fall in. Yeah. No, he actually survives for a bit longer as Stormy walks up. Gets better air strike over from Sanji, but he gets away in time. turtle for Yomes and Sanford. Not too bad for SRG, but it worked out. Team Liquid, they walk in, they get the turtle of their own. Where else can they find the punishment? Right, they’re looking for invade options, but I don’t think that Carl TZ is comfortable enough to walk in just yet, knowing that Innocent is nearby. And but so many resources haven’t already utilized now that they’ve spotted Sakai down on the bot side. Should this be a green light for Team Liquid to try and extend Carl’s lead to try and get something over Sakai? Could be, but it’s just Mm. Yum is saying no. He’s like, “No, he’s checking it every single time. Don’t invade. Don’t try. This is our territory.” It’s very very difficult for Carl to invade here up against the Lancelot. And again, this is the reason why yes, Een Shin is really good in the meta, but just in the third place match, we’ve been seeing how Lanclot could take over games. Cr of the glorious family against Sanford jumps out the bravest fighter over to Stormy. Tsunami slam there, but it’s not going to unpack anything. Sanford gets a stun, too. And that’s a capitalization from Oh, into CRA now. It’s Skies the puncture. Car looking for a shot. Skies with the puncture one more time. Terrified in Sanji gets away. Gets the help of the revitalize. Oh, with the chase. Can he get the last shot onto Skies? He gets a turtle buff again. There’s a few more minions. He buys some time. He He’s going to go down. Skies knows he’s dead for sure. He’s got no more mana to puncture or even Thorn Rose. And you can see that the TL TL fans are happy to see this happen. Now 1.7K lead for the side of Team Liquid. They’ve evened up the score and even found a lead of their own against SRG OG Esports. What a fight to turn things around. Now majority of this gold is leading into both TZ as well as OH. But that fight was won by Sampert and JP’s combination. Great synergy knowing Innocent. Hey, you get hit by any CC, it’s over for you. Dude, I thought when Innocent got three kills in the start, it was over. But it just goes to show you how good Liquid are at recovering. That’s Sanford who gets caught. He still had the flicker. Has the bravest fighter. Saves it. Good damage with the Demir’s passion over to Ohe going to be at half. That’s a big There’s air strike not landing at all. They want to actually go for this. It looks like they’re going to try. He’s already in doing a bit of damage. Taunt over to skies as well. That’s a sun dodged away from again. Sanford caught in the midst of it all as the revening on JP. AOG canceled out as Sky jumps over to Thorn Rose. Oh, here for still jumping back and forth. Another shot from Carl. Red tree battle on the turtle. Yo jumps in but won’t be able to find the range. Sanji guiding away now. It’s a retreat. Carl Tezy secures the turtle. Crazy 3v4 and Carl Tezy making it known he’s not going to lose another retribution battle against the rising star of sick guys. War axe already purchased by Crozy and that’s great for him because now he’s got true damage in his kit and he’s going to be able to sustain in his own jungle even if he takes a bad trade against SRG. Oh wo wo on force there. Sky luckily able to escape but it will be a turret down below. They’re looking for more. Sanji has an innocent force to flick around. Sanji with the tami slam can use it. JP gets caught. Feathered air strike one more time on him. He’s a bit too tanky. Mhm. Too tanky for now. All right. for now. There is a there will be a time where JP is going to take more damage, but that revitaliz saves him so much. The execution was good from the side of SRG OG. But now that they don’t have much of a lead, and technically they’re playing on the back, but Team Liquid are more than confident to make these plays. Yeah, sure. Take JP of all people. As long as you’re not taking Sanji, as long as you’re not taking OH, we can make this work. And don’t worry about Carl Easy. He hasn’t missed the trace list just yet. It’s been on point. Oh, too, man. And again, he had to lane against a three. Innocent has been doing it really well up against a matchup that is still very skill reliant before level four, right? So, Innocent had a lot of that advantage, but now I would want to see the items again to see if OH is going for the Starleium build or the enchanted talisman build. He’s going for Starleium if he’s very close to a holy crystal. That is going to be the massive power spike for Team Liquid to take control in these team fights. If we’re talking about punishes in terms of the item build, Team Liquid, they’re aware that SRG OG, especially for Stormy going for that genius one, it’s like, yo, wow, it’s huge if you have the lead. And now that they taken that lead back, yeah, that genius one can do only so much. Purify out of Zami Slam. That’s a Nami Slam over to Skies as well as unfortunately popped in. JP holds the back line with the Hanover with the Raven Fighter, but still Oh, Slord gets a stun again. And it finds Innocent in the back line. He’s still alive. Ti walks up again. Might be over. Zealous now gets all of them positive purify and gets taken out by the thorn rose. Sanford look for the kill. Oh the purple buff gets it away as Yums disengages and it ends up being two for two but Sanford wants to go for the raven fighter one more time over to Yums. Oh has the M force and they get Yungs 10 to 10 3.3K lead and an important fight for TLPH to now take the lord convincingly. Sford has been so monumental for this squad. The Sansen duo still connected as ever as SRG OG. They cannot have these extended fights against a team like this. Two bravest fighters were used in that fight. Two of them. Goes to show you how balanced the cool down is on that. I mean, hey, it is also Sanford signature pick from when we saw him at M4. He did wonders with that pick and he is doing it here too. I really just seems like the KDA isn’t doing it justice, right? three, four, and three. He’s looked very, he’s not invincible on this pick. SRG have been able to punish it a lot of times, but they have to be very careful once those flickers have been spent. Stormy and Innocent are so so vulnerable when they don’t have those flickers, and it just makes it so hard for SRG to play the frontal back that they want to. That’s why we keep reiterating that tempo is so important, especially with like these high execution style of compositions. You’re playing a pickoff composition. you start falling behind, Team Liquid can just force resources out of you and it always feels like you’re playing on the back foot. These leads are so big in terms of their two, maybe even 4k swings, but look at them just zoning them out, right? Come on, throw something at this. Team Liquid is asking SRG to do something about him. Yums try to go up and it will be the Holy Shield in the mid lane taken. Team Liquid 6,000 gold lead. The scoreboard isn’t looking as, you know, crazy as it was in game number one. It was SRG dominating here. It’s 10 to 10, but still the gold lead for Team Liquid. Take a look at Ohe now. He’s building towards, I believe, a Divine Glaive. He’s almost 2,000 gold ahead of Innocent. Again, something to remember is the fact that Innocent went for weapon mastery. So, once he gets these big items, it will be a massive power spike. I mean, the blade despair is already pretty huge for him, which is why you’re seeing him, you know, try and get some really important damage, but just notice the item builds on the opposite end, right? We’re seeing blade armors come on through. No maleific roar just yet. No, oh, a malefific gun. Sure, but you got to walk into our range, and that’s something that Innocent doesn’t really want to do just yet. Worse yet, Carl Te’s damage is through the roof. Three items complete and a winds of nature. I’m expecting him to get a little more uh a little more snowbally. He’s running the killing spree, right? So, if he reduces SRG’s health down to at least 50%. He might be able to start chaining kills one after the other. Massive lead for um a whole lot for Team Liquid. Again, those are some big power spikes that we were just talking about. What was going to be built up? See Halbird, Divine Glaive? Now, what for? Does he go for CE? Does he go for immortality? Maybe winter crown to just survive the burst that’s going to be coming through from Innocent and Stormy is the big question. Cuz JP, he knows he’s taking a lot of damage. She would much rather have the immortality so that he can be back up when he gets taken out which is by the way the main condition of so long red giant Sanford with the bravest fighter walking up again as the AOG coming through. Flicker in for Sanford going for the stun finds Stormy in the back line for it to flicker out and now it’s a collapse for Ohe Sanji in the back li again. Tsunami slam to bring Cra to give a mega kill. Big plays big plays being made by the side of Team Liquid ID but their timings are immaculate. they’re doing. They’re forcing these fights against SRG knowing that they can get something out of them. As long as they don’t trade one for one, this is going to be an absolutely free lord in their hands. 13 minutes into the game, Team Liquid are making a statement to SRG. Game one, that’s just a one-off thing. They’re going to time it, too. They don’t want to take it right now. They know they need to take it after 40, I guess. 40. Yeah. So, they want to play with the next wave, not this one. They want to have time to build up those big waves because they know how good the wave clear is for Salango Red Giants OG Esports. And it’s especially dangerous, right? Because if Team Liquid want to siege against SRG, JP has to commit the AOG. And that’s not something that they want to do. They want SRG to launch feathered air strikes to use the tsunami slam first so that Sanford and JP have an easier time to pinpoint the locations of the backline and where that battle is going to flow. Sanji, I think, is probably has to take the brunt of the damage, right? He can’t really get into these fights just yet. And I think stealing away Stormy’s alt has been a big problem. When he does get it, it’s a heavy win for Team Liquid. When he doesn’t have it, he’s just chilling, waiting. Maybe Crroll runs a little too far forward and he can slow that peel down. If he can terrify Sakai, it’s already a big win. Gideon, they know the timers. They know Stormy and Innocent won’t have the flicker ready by the time the Lord comes into base. So, they’re looking for the punish. Sanf with the brave spider over Skies in a 1 v one situation. Good Thorn Rose. Oh, a battle here in the mid lane as well as Lord is able to charge down and get the turret, but Skies is so far away, but he’s baited in the time. He’s already distracted. Team Liquid, they couldn’t punish Stormy and Innocent without the flicker, but they will find Skies. It’ll be delayed. Skies is doing a good job at just buying time. Red coming in and the Phantom execution tool, but it is inevitable. Last shot. We get a display of those clean punctures before it happens. AoG flicker up and it’s down again. So good. So very very good. That’s why when we’re talking about the Emperor’s Eye, we’re talking about just a full view of the map. You would imagine that with those phones that they can only see so much, but Team Liquid, they see everything on the map. And the same goes for SRG. These punishes are huge because now that Somi doesn’t have that flicker, no huge plays are going to be made. Here we go. Sanford again with a brave spider wants to go for it, but a tsunami slam locks him down a tape. He goes for the taunt. Sanford to flicker backwards again. Turret deal done with already as Carl shoots out the mountain shocker but it doesn’t land on anyone. Ooh, that damage. The horse is down. And no, I’m not talking Liquid. I’m talking Creme on a Hyos. Oh, Cra, he’s not he’s not having much of a game right now. And Team Liquid are having the time of their life. 13-10, 11k gold lead. Most would say that this is or what I would like to call it, the checkmate angle. However, SRG will hit 42k of their own. But Team Liquid have so many more resources, so many more options when it comes down to the fight. They can start swapping out their immortalities midfight if necessary. Winter crowns might even come into play, but for the time being, it just looks like they just need SRG to make that first move. Ooh, Sanji going to be completing the winter crown first. There’s a chance he might make a play of his own. I think it’s just for survivability, right? He’s been placed in very tough situations. This Valentina has really just been mostly utility than it is damage. Yes, he is doing damage, but for the most part, you see the glorious pathway. You see the tsunami stam. It’s not much of the feather air strike being still allen over by uh from Liquid. And I think it’s for a good reason, too. They know they have enough damage. They just need to peel and give space for OH and Carl Tezy to dish out that damage. So now it’s the Lord dance. Bottom wave good for Liquid. Choose the conceal. They’re going to try. Cra takes it first. There you go. That’s the damage. Cra should be falling here. goes in for the sun as skies walks up to CRAM actually surviving the glow pathway 1 v one. The goat goes in and wins it out against the prince. This will be free. SRG are running back to base. He got hit by the turtle boats. The guy’s unable to outplay it. Carlzy, he’s probably laughing to himself. He’s like, “Come on, come on, land. Lancelot Lancot, I’m the Lancelot guy. I am the guy. I have a skin after me, sir. Please, please show me some respect. You can’t one be born.” Yep. Sanford, you’re pretty good. Very good. Tsunami slime coming out. Oh, Heb on force. Carl Tium. Oh, wow. That’s actually a full dive over Traceless to get away. Oh, Heb still doing a bit too much damage. Jones will lose his immortality tool. Carl handling the mini wave. That’s two members down. Skies will be back up in one. Innocent holding it down, but without Sanford, can they still look for the siege? Um, they could try. Innocence still has alts to work with. Ooh, they’ve got feather air strike, but they need a stall. JP take very low bit. It’s Rage. Oh, clips him. Innocent in the back trying to cut away. Oh, gets it. And with the godlike Sanji freezes up, pops the winter crown. And the answer is yes, they can. Woo! The Liquid Stampede is already gearing up. They’re looking for that momentum on their side. The gallop has begun. Let’s see if it turns into the full run. Holy, that was a good game. Oh my gosh. Hey, the Liquid fans in the building are brutal with him, man. They’ve just been emoting all around. You can see them here. And if you guys that guy have an NXP, he does. Hey, shout out to Midnight. He was NXP. He was. He was. This has been a fun game so far. And I mean, both sides have really shown their true colors in terms of, hey, you give us control over this game. you give us a little bit of lead, we’re going to be running away with it. Oh man, it’s just crazy to see the early game pan out the way it did. You know, we expected Turtle One to be massive, but maybe not that crazy. It is getting two, three early kills was ridiculous. But then the recovery, we talked so much about the Stampede that we forget how clean they can be even when they’re behind. I mean, their fights have been looking a lot better this time, and I think this draft definitely allowed Sanford to have a much better time. I mean, let’s not forget the one thing that I was a little concerned for is innocence item build. He decided to go for the Halbird as a third item. I was thinking maybe a Hosclaw might have kept him alive in a lot of these fights considering that Sanford was like gunning out. He was looking to line up both uh Farsa alongside with Beatatrix in one line so you can knock him down like bowling pins. Yeah. So, we’re going to throw it over back to Mr. Lefelon. Thank you very much, Mr. Marco. Um, it looks like without the Akai as well as the CC, Sanford can finally be comfortable in its own shoes cuz he had a performance of a lifetime. And I agree with the casters like the KDA doesn’t really do justice on the things that he did on the game just now. Hi. Yeah, I I can’t help but agree and I I love the point that you made that it just felt like Carl Tezy could do whatever he wanted in so many of those fights and even though it didn’t seem as flashy as you would normally see on a YSS, it was still overall very dominant in that game. Yeah. I mean, even the timings after he does make use of the bravest fighter. I think that’s another thing, too, cuz typically when someone goes in, you’ll find an immediate punish through the tsunami slam, but the Lapu Lapo does not seem to be the best target to do that. And he gets to immune himself right after land the land shakers with such well timings and precision towards the Farsa. Often it happened towards the Farsa against Stormmy. I kind of feel like we got to go back to what Kip Bomba has been saying throughout the draft. He feels like Yenshin is too strong. you got to ban that out. And he really does not like that high loss going up against the Lapu Lapu. But to be fair, it looks like this was all planned because again, you waited for red four to get Crazy and at that point there’s really no other options. They pick up the hyos. They themselves bent out the ruby so even that option was not there. So I don’t know TX looks like first pick blue side is still superior. Definitely still superior. blue side just overall I think from today to yesterday it feels like the favored side but TLPH just was able to control that draft so well and you know what coming back to us now we have a series we say thank you to Gibba but now welcome back Mr. Leman, how did you feel watching the second game? I had so much fun, not just watching the game, but also leading up to it. My patron, my avatar, Kid Bomba, did so well again repping the bombatics from Manila Toiad. He he he spoke of how these picks determine what these two teams are capable of doing. And watching game one, watching game two, I think there’s one thing that SRG kind of leaned hard on despite some factors changing around the draft, and that’s range. You look at their game two draft and they committed so much to range. They got the Farsa, they got the Beatrix, but after that, what do they have? They were forced to play passive in the XP lane. And that changed the dynamic of effective range cuz once you got in your face, once 40 got there and once JP jumped the gun and once OH is in your face, what do what now? And that’s what made game two so winnable for Liquid. Yeah, honestly, it was amazing game. Uh, looking at both strengths, Liquid showed their strength. SRG OG short strength. By the way, while we’re here, I just want to say I think we’re all in agreement. We love Kip Bomba as a player. But in case in case he wants to, it’s all right. I I kind of feel like being on the panel. It’s It’s kind of good for Bomba. He looks great. He’s I mean, we we got a seat ready and warm for you whenever you want it, Bob. Several. Several. Any region just pick just say so. Imagine the entire idea about the Lapu flakes. It’s like he and honestly like I kind of feel like there’s a lot to digest even for us panel. So we’re actually going over to the stage where I heard we’re giving something away. So you know what stage? I hope you’re ready cuz we’re throwing it over to you. Hey guys, welcome back to the Amazon Arena. Now what a series it has been so far. It is currently one to one. It is very hot and everybody here can feel the intensity of the matches. But because everybody’s so intense right now, we went around asking the audience if they want skins. Do you guys want skins? And because of that, we actually have three lucky audience with me here today for the Metro Zero skin giveaway. However, before that, I want you guys to take a moment to look at our beautiful cosplayer. Hey, so what hero are you cosplaying today? Hello everyone and I’m cosplaying IA and her commander invoker skin. Ooh, very nice. I’m pretty sure everybody thinks it’s very pretty and you look so pretty today. Thank you so much, Rose. Hello, Simon Filipino John. Let’s go. As we can see, our cosplayer is rooting for Team Liquid. However, over here we have our three lucky audiences. Hello. What’s your name? Marta. What should I call you? Tang. Tang. Okay. So, are you ready for your first question? Yes, I’m ready. Okay. I will give you four options and you pick one. Okay. Which of the following heroes is featured in the Metro Zero campaign? Is it A. Beatatrix, B. Exorg, C. Ling or D Martis Xborg. Are you going to lock it in? Locked it in. It is correct. Congratulations, Kuya. That’s that’s pretty good. You know, we got apparently two Liquid fans and SRG fan here. So, you know, things go as they do. But I have a question for you. First of all, what is your name? Uh my name is uh Alejandro. Alejandro. Alejandro. Well, let’s see if you can wow us today, Alejandro. Our question is, the Metro Zero set is set on which mode of transportation. Four options. A airplane, bus, train, or a spaceship. It’s a train. Oh, and it is correct. There you go. A second win with us here. There’s still one marquee. Yes. For our final audience, we have over there he is wearing an SRG OG jersey. Hello. Hi. What’s your name? My name is Sas. Okay. Malaysian. Yep. Malaysian. Hello Abang. How are you? Good. Aloha. All right. Abang is very, very good. So Abang, your question is, which of the following heroes is featured in the Metro Zero campaign? Is it A. Cho, B. Kimmy, C, CeCe, or D. Roger. Roger. Is it correct? It is correct. Congratulations. Now, all three of them will be walking home with a Metro Zero skin. That’s a cool time. That’s a fun time. All three people got their skins. We have wonderful cosplay on here. And our grand final, best of seven, is tied one to one. Riad, are you ready for more? I can’t hear you. I’m sure you can get louder. Are you ready for more? Then let’s send it back to our panel. Thank you very much. We’re ready for more. And now we already have two games, a maximum of five more. And and here’s the thing, we’re going to be jumping into draft very, very soon here. So again we have to assume that uh SRG will be picking up blue side again. Now the question is will we see an adjustment because in game number one CPH they ban out a Kalia will they change that out banning out the CC? I think there’s definitely the possibility. I don’t think they let the CC through again. At least first pick for SRG. If they do then they might not pick up Fredin. I don’t know. I think we’re going to see a lot of different ways this draft’s approach because for the first time in the meta, it’s so open that you can take so many different avenues. The question is if they do open the CC because since the meta is so open, you might as well find solutions rather than avoid the problem entirely. Does Sanford have a pakito in this current metag game? Can he do that? Or are they willing to roll the dice and say do lapu wait till level four then get out of there? Yeah, cuz even Onyx, even teams yesterday, they’ve been trying to pull off the entire Pakito into the CC matchup because it does do well and even Kid Bomba like behind while the game was going on. We did ask that to him too and he did say that Pakito, yeah, is such a good pick against the CC, but it hasn’t been as effective yet in terms of converting it into wins. I don’t know. Personally for me, I tried to punch a yo-yo before, I lost. What about you, Trix? What’s What’s your thoughts on this? I think we might be heading too far into the CC. I don’t think that was the only problem completely in game one. Like I said, I think the Akai, the Grock, Carl TZ had no play in those turtle pits. By the way, right now, looks like we have a quote coming in from Innocent. It’s hard to defend your title because every patch favors a different team. Even throughout the tournament, the meta changes. During the group stage, it was about team fights and it was about tank junglers in the knockouts. So, we’re lucky to make it to the grand finals again, which shows even in a span of two to three weeks with nothing really changed in terms of patches, the mannequin shift. Even in 48 hours, the innocent beast could have added one more line to that. And now in the grand finals in the last day, it’s about the exp lane cuz that alone might be what dictates the team that gets the win in game three. I would like to think if that’s solved, the next problem is indeed, yeah, we were on the way to this anyways, the jungle cuz the Akai is so good against the Fredin. If the US is not open and Cont defaults to the Freder, do they ban the Akai? Is there room in the draft to do that? I mean teams or at least based on what we’ve seen don’t necessarily bring out the Akai in the first phase. I I think it happens once. Yeah, it did happen once. One happened. I feel like SRG is the only one that makes it early. Yeah. So SRG is a team who might be confident enough to introduce this entire idea of the Akai countering the Fredin whenever they do like. So yeah, it’s going to be tough for Team Liquid if they want to stick with the entire Fredin jungler for Carl Tezy. What if from red they ban everything and only allow the Fredin for SRG and do red three Akai cuz Carl Ty plays a mean Akai. We know that. Yeah, we’ll see because personally for me, I’m actually in a different angle. I agree with what you’re saying, but instead of the Akai fighting against the Frederick, I kind of feel like it’s fighting Sanford. I feel like that’s the one that we’re really looking at here. SRG betting out the Arlet and now TLPH betting out the one one looks like the landlot getting banned still. So at least for SRG they want to go back to what worked. It is quite crazy how we’re in a meta right now where you have to literally think about multiple lanes and how you’re going to counter them from mid with the farin with the CC and exp with the Kai Fredin. I mean all around the board these teams and coaches have to think multiple steps ahead for this. I like it cuz this shows that this is indeed the best of the best. Yep. The Lapo will be banned out too by SRG. Talk about EXP dominance. So much adjustments in the draft. So this just means that the wide will be open for SRG. Not just even the Kalia, even the Farsa, the Freder, Akai, Baksha, like these heroes are all out in the wild now. And Liquid denies it. Coach RC wagging the finger. Nuh-uh. No can do, Coach Arc. So they do get at least that comfort on Yumes. So do we think we see the Bosa pick up from TLPH plus one KA’s the comfort pick. Um with Lapu already gone, what’s next on the prow list for EXP? Honestly, CC Lapu gone. I feel like it’s a much more open pool now, a safer pool at that at this point. We might even see a Charisma. I mean the phobius has been one of the considerations too previously but it hasn’t been that high in priority considered the other XP laners which came into play recently. So now they just go with the Baksha and Josen. I would like for this Baksha to be flex. Uh, we know that it’s most likely going to be in the jungle, but I like red three as that stopper for Sikis cuz again, the Akai is such a game changer. If they go and leave red three here and then don’t attack the rest of SRG’s first three, then I think they’re missing out. I don’t know. I think they could just pick up the Akai maybe again. I think it can also do okay against the Basha, heavy spin, dominate in the turtle pit, put a fara behind it right here. Um, I think overall solid. If you get the counterplay against Zucusian, I think it’s comfortable. I think you might even consider an early glue perhaps cuz that is one of his signatures. But looks like they go for the Joy as well as the Farsa here. So SRG, they still want to go for that assassin. Yeah, I I like the idea simply because it helps the Kaa be able to perform a bit more. The Joy can be the one to potentially dive in first, force out the purifies, especially from key targets like the Duchin. I mean that’s the only one revealed for now for Team Liquid and then the Ka would feel a bit more encouraged to land those skills, those crowd controls. So last pick on the side of TLPH, they got a jungler in possible flex to roam mid laner. Do they lock in gold lane here to at least have advantage there? The Granger’s been getting tossed to the side, but I still think it’s very solid. Yeah, team feel like Mosov is a consideration against the Joy. Yeah, unless they’re planning for another Har. So they save their gold laner for later and pick up a Hayabuza. Oh, such a great counter. Don’t need to rush the gold laner cuz again you’re red four. You get red for immediately after the bands. So now it looks like is it is going to be Assassin going up against assassin again? This is two teams that really like to rush the tempo here. So TX looking at the composition, what is Team Liquid missing at this point? I think I’m I’m still so the the Hayabusa pick was so clean, man. I think SRG either didn’t expect it, they pick up the joy and maybe the joy was too early. At this point, TLP just has such an advantage, I think, coming into second phase. The first phase alone, Liquid are playing off of the axis of effective range once more. Sure, you have a Farsa, you have the wombo combo with a Kalia, but what do you do when Liquid is in your face? Like that’s the thing that Liquid is missing right now. They need a hero on Sanford that punishes that short gap that that within your face kind of range that SRG just haven’t found the answer to just yet. So if it’s just in terms of that then the likes of the glue as mentioned previously are also still open. Yeah. Glue and har like these are the two heroes that I think SRG should take out. Yeah. So that’s might that’s going to be a problem for Team Liquid if both of them are banned out. But even for even for Creme I feel cuz they’re slowly running out of XP lane options. Creme still has a Ruby by the way. Ah, it’s still out and untouched. Now the question, what if that’s the only thing left and red for suddenly Sanford steals it. We haven’t really seen much crazy picks from Liquid say for the alpha and the high loss yesterday. But what if here they start to do that in pursuit of the trophy? If they steal the ruby here, it’s a very clean pick up because honestly the the pick would work for either side in multiple positions. Um I like it. I think if SRG gets it, it’s a saving grace possibly for themselves, but Bang ban on the blue side. Finally on to red four. Yeah, I kind of feel like that’s a pretty good ban as well because you don’t want that disruption uh going for SRG. So now Team Liquid, this box is still a question mark. They want to keep it flexible. They can choose their gold laner here. But again, that’s going to expose them to SRG. So instead, they’re going to take away that glue instantly. And again, this is a good pick for them, but also a very good deny. Yeah. And the Ruby still looks like a good option like especially in terms of just sustaining yourself overall considering that the glue can split up into a lot of mini glues. But the beauty of this is when SRG picks the Ruby, if they do pick the Ruby, Liquid has last dibs. Oh, can protect himself. He can pick a hero that doesn’t care about said Ruby in Cra’s hands. I mean, I still I think at this point SRG, you do something like the Ruby. Hilda got banned out, so that’s not there. The guitar. No. Yeah. Yeah, I mean Ruby Granger, I think I think you pick up the Granger maybe here for a little bit of range and just try to play a safe to stay out of the range of the uh the lantern and the Hayabusa. Not unless it’s Innocent who wants to play it. So, we hear they pick up the Fobious instead and the Granger. Okay, we’re going back to the Phobia for SRG. I feel like it’s still going to be a decent matchup going up against the Glue. I would still say it’s a bit glue favorite here, but now seeing the Granger, Moscow, Iritel, basically everything except Harav is open now. The world is OH’s oyster. Mhm. SRG played on the defense while in blue that I think is the genius of this draft. Liquid have found that hero that lives in your face, rentree. It’s that glue. Now they just they can pick any of these heroes. I don’t think they need to really go out of the box if they want a bit more dive the back line. the clouds there. Although they have to really consider the joy and a purify hero. So they go for the Moskov I think. Yeah. Yeah. Moskov is a good pick going up against this uh Granger as well as the Joy. So TX final thoughts looking at the draft here. I think that Hayabusa picked completely threw wrench in SRG’s plans and at this point TLPH definitely from macro to team fight control. I like the draft. Well, thank you very much panel. You guys have been amazing. And now we’re about to start game number three in this grand final. So, we’re going to throw it over back to Gideon and Mirao. Thanks, panel. One to one, the current score between SRG and TLPH. Nobody’s broken the curse of red side just yet as blue side reigns supreme. We go into match number three, hoping something will change. If not, it might just be another blue side victory. Welcome everybody. The grand finals continues here today at mid-season cup 2025 at the esports world cup live in Riyad is showing us everything we’ve wanted so far. Let’s bring it back. It’s going to be SRG on the blue side facing off against Team Liquid on the red. For anybody just tuning in, let the battle begin. So guys starting on his orange, Carl Teasy on his purple. Yeah, you can really see both teams starting to respect each other in the drafts here. come together and really just forming a composition that definitely we wouldn’t see in like game one. Like they’re letting go of a lot more picks. They’re opening up so much more, but they’re also denying so much more that we’ve seen in game one, game two. So at this point, yeah, I agree with Blofl. I really like the glue into the Phobia. Thing is though, all Phobies need to do is just win out the early game and set SRG up for a good early game is just weather the storm cuz like again TL want to snowball with this composition with the high boost. Everyone on their composition really wants to just snowball and take control over after turtle one. Yeah, I mean that’s why we’re seeing a lot of that struggle come down from the exp side. Like Cra, if you look at the emblems, he’s decided to take concussive blast cuz he doesn’t want to interact with Samford, right? and Sanford, he’s like, “Okay, sure. You clear decently fast, but I’m going to try and freeze underneath my lane, and I’m also calling JP to my side of the map just to make sure that if we if you are going to hit level four in time, there’s going to be a brass tax on your HP.” He’s hoping to chunk him out at least 50% of it. Okay, taking a look at the emblems here. Nothing too crazy. Tenacity, vitality for Sanford. So, he wants to be very, very tanky. Just knowing that this has been a pattern when you’re on the Glue 2, you’re very vulnerable. you have to go for the flicker and KAS usually punish that very early. So having a little bit more sustain will be great and team liquid are already on route to that first turtle. Pryo over for Sanford. Pryo for Sanji in the mid lane too. Oh, let’s keep in mind Stormy also took the wilderness blessing on his side. He’s not going for the tenacity. He’s not going for pull yourself together, right? It’s all about rotating fast across the map as soon as possible. First turtle now contested. Yeah, Sanford put the sacks down on Yums and Creme. It’s fully loaded on Creme. He will lose it now on Yums. Puts the stacks down and Carl is still taking it slow. Meanwhile, Skye’s over there. That’s going to be the jump forward. Sanford to play again. Has a fully stacked up. Mount and he will be able to go for it onto the Phobia. Although has dark wave able to go back and forth to Oh, lands the SOD and comes into the fight, but Innocent does the same as he walks by. Grabs going in with the infernal pursuit. Sanford still in the midst of it all. Now Sanji picks up the kill and that’s the retry from Carl Tezy. M a long long rotation. Oh, the shadows are close. The shadows are very very close, but it’s so clear. No, he’s not going to kill him here, right? He’s used the quad shadow. Sanji’s nearby. Oh my god, Sky just ran him down. Knew there was no quad shadow. Carl went a bit too ham and he pays for it with his life. I’m surprised that Sanji didn’t immediately show himself. Even he was questioning like whether or not this was going to happen, but it’s not over. Stormy gets picked off in the mid and now they’re finding a trade back into JP. It’s not the best of trades though. Still great for Liquid just because again Stormy was taken out. They only got the ROR here. Rome for mid. Liquid still with Pryo. But SRG they have the kill lead in this game and Skies should have a bit more to say now as he was able to take Carl TZ down. So more space to farm to get that lead for Turtle 2. I think there is a bigger argument. It’s time to rehash the Farsa alt or are we going with the Jian al because right now this 2v2 is heavily in favor in Sanji’s all because Boxia is part of this equation. Oh, okay. All right. Gets the alt out. Okay, this time nothing too crazy. At least he’s going to expectations, but I want to see whether or not Carl TZ is going to be able to develop a lead of his own. Right with that turtle on on his hand and also picking up an exp crab. Good sacrifice coming in from Sanford’s side. It allows that full level lead from Carl. Mhm. And now we’re back to just setting up again. The old game of just waiting for neutral objectives here. Ram is going for it again. Skies walks up, but there’s no kill threat here. At least there shouldn’t be. Sanford can just walk away with the long longs. Back to turret. It’s just big chunks looking for anybody to make a mistake in lane. And there we go. I mean, SOD as well as JP. The fact that they’re pressuring so much. Wait, did they spot Stormy out? They just really want to deny that. Oh, blinks away. JP popped the revitalize and innocent is able to get his hands on the cannon minion. Now it’s the invade down below as they’ve seen a lot of those members from SRG rotate up top turtle. Yeah, I’m surprised that Stormy was willing to sacrifice his mid his mid wave for this. Okay, CR’s out of the fight. He’s done for walks up. Sanji still has Crimson Beacon will decide to pop it in now. Skies going to get away. Oh, Seno with the lock down and the flicker already. now pops a long long tunami with the shadow kill coming down too and it will be in the backline target down sky still able to survive. Good peel from CRA as Innocent goes for the shots. One last one with that Sonata finding it there. Sanji unable to get the kill back and it is Innocent with a double. Look at the instant response. They knew TPH understood, hey, it’s too late for us. Innocent’s already here that you’re not going to be able to run away. They quickly steal over that purple buff to enable Carl Keyzy to maybe snowball out of control for the next fight while OB helps him out and even gets a free push on top side. So take the turtle, take a couple of our members. We’re not falling too far behind. But now it’s getting real dangerous for TL. Innocent has secured sky piercer. We know what he’s done in the past when he gets a sky piercer early. Oh walks up, stunned up. Purify comes down. He dodges away from the feathered air strike, but he can’t from the dead sonata as JP brought back by the dark wave. Just as I mentioned it, it’s two on the sky piercer. Make it three. It’s Sanford who buys a little bit more time. What? Maniac as well. Oh my lord. Innocent. Tell me, tell me that this man can do no wrong. It’s in his name. Maniac this time. Oh wait, hold on. Car’s trying though. He clears the wave with the help of the SOD as well. OH is able to recover a little. Luckily, nobody dies just yet. Oh, I was ready to eat my words. I was ready for Cra to go down just randomly. Oh my lord. Ob. Yeah, way too aggressive. The snipe from Innocent. And then what happened next? It was JP all alone, but the rest of the team wanted to follow up. They knew OH was down, but they just wanted to stick together. And it ended up being so brutal, dude. I mean, the timing could not have been more perfect for me to say, “Hey, Skyers are innocent.” And then that yums goes in. Tsunami slam locking going to go down. And it’s another for Stormy this time. Not Innocent who picks up his fifth stack now. It’s It’s Stormy. Okay, it’s Stormy. It’s 11 to three. Okay, we’re getting a little bit of game one here. But the gold lead again, the gold lead doesn’t seem to be like slipping away from Team Liquid. It’s 1.8K. It’s not that big of a deal. We’ve seen them turn this around. We need to see if SRG can close out the game and maintain this lead. I think a lot of that really depends on whether or not Yumes gets his fleeting time at an early pace because once he does, that engine is ready to go. All it just needs is gasoline. Thing is, Innocent is massive right now. 60 and2 Four kills on the Sky Piercer, you got to remember. So, he’s at 40 stacks here at the 7th minute mark. And it’s going to be tough cuz TL kind of want to prolong the fights, but how can you prolong the fights when Innocent always has an execute threat ready like you get low enough and you just have to back away? You just have to back away. He’s also got the maleific roar as well. So JP’s got to be careful. JP pops a shield in dark wave landing skies now looking for stacks again. Able to get full stacks on the elect beats and so landing too but it will be a turnover. Sanford already in there. Car winning the rectory battle locks it down but he still has the quad shadow back. Innocent unable to get the executes down as cra walks it forward. What can by shadow kill with a jump in the back from out of nowhere and the game is turned on its head. Woo! What did I tell you? Nothing to worry about. Kill score in favor of SRG. There’s not enough gold in the bank to turn it around. Samford, what a play. Two for two. His flickers have been immaculate as you see TL slowly cover the map and turn it red. Let’s look at this fight one more time, right? Because everything looked like it was going well. They even found the tsunami slam on the correct target, which was Carl Tezy. However, when you’re crumped up this much and especially since Innocent was looking for an angle with no energy whatsoever, Carl Tezy does amazing here by baiting himself, absorbing the shots, and then going in quickly with his OI shadow kill. Sanford saw the angle and it was perfect. That was Oh my lord, what a flank. I mean, he literally saved the fight. That was looking real bad for Liquid. It was looking like Innocent was about to get four more stacks. You know, everybody was so low. They were within the threshold of getting executed. But now they have recovered again. Liquid out of nowhere from sheer team fighting mechanics have gotten themselves back into okay zone. Yes, there’s still a lead on Innocent, but the 40 stacks is now it’s it’s down. I don’t know how much he’s standing on now, but it’s not again that that snowball number that you were expecting. Yeah, I think he should be down to at least 15 to 20 stacks at this point. 28. 28. Perfect. Now looking at where the gold leads are actually being developed. Cartezy and as well as OH. Ohead already has his third item. He’s finished that Trinity build, right? He is so prepared for these upcoming fights. And with that reset on Innocent, he’s less scared to get involved in these fights. Obviously, he’s going to come in last, of course, but that’s not the only thing you should be worried about. Carl Tezy having a solid two-level lead over Sakai. These neutral fights are not easy anymore. And the worst part is like you don’t know where Call is half the time. He comes into the fights super late and he’s not even the executor here. He’s like, yes, he’s an assassin. He’s but but for the most part in this game, he’s just been dealing damage. Mhm. It’s Sanji, I think, who will be the guy to execute members. I believe he will go for the sky piercer just like he has done in the past. And that’s the winning angle for Team Liquid if they can go. There you go. Sky Piercer already. I don’t know if he’s actually gotten any stacks on it or if he’s still sitting on at zero, but that’s the winning condition. Again, if Team Liquid can dish out enough damage for Sanji to be doing what Innocent’s doing, picking up those stacks and executing members, it now becomes tough for Salango Red Giants. OG Essports. Yeah, even the worst part is the fact that Sanford wa he’s already got two tanks. JP is going to open things up though. Cran walking up again. The dark not landing. JP the back line is called easy secures the neutral objective. That’s the tsunami stamford, but still able to flick around now. Goes for the bomb down and Brazio’s back to the team. It’s so much damage. The piercing damage. Oh, still there. Skies doing all that he can. ML jumps in with the quad shadow and he gets Innocent now. It’s to Stormy. It’s too clean. Team Liquid, it looks like they might just be able to break the red side curse. They’re going to get one more into Stormy as well. Wings by wings. This and Carl just taking his time playing with the food. Holy shield threw a web back. That could have been real bad if he was able to cut Stormy down. It’s not an end angle just yet, but it’s massive for Team Liquid. They get everything on the map. This Tier 2 will surely fall to Yes, OB will get it. And now it opens up so much more space for a composition that was already deadly without all this tempo. Now with this tempo, brother JP on the Hyos against Onyx, he came from the side to kill Sans. Now he can come from any angle. It’s crazy. It’s crazy how Team Liquid are playing these fights so perfectly. And I think the worst part is that Samford is making it tough. I think a lot of this fight boiled down to whether or not Cram can get some effective abilities down. And I think that his positioning, more importantly, his tap on the infernal suit into the middle of the four of Team Liquid definitely cost the Langor Red Giants the fight. He should have taken his time. And if he’s looking to jump on somebody was probably Samford first, which he didn’t use his alt just yet at that point of time. He knows he’s going to get pulled out of position. You might as well start peeling for that front line. 1,200 gold lead for Sanji up against Stormy and Sky Piercer should already be I don’t think he got a single kill actually that fight but still they got proper shutdowns. Kills over now. Carl Tease. He’s a very very uh good amount ahead of Skies. 2,000 gold lead already with endless battle and he’s looking for his last item this game which isn’t going to be defensive. Yep. It’s very He’s very very strong. If he catches anybody by themselves, he probably one shot them without much of an issue. You can see that they’re slowly opening up the map with JP. And I think that’s their biggest problem right now for the side of SRG OG Esports, right? Coming for a flank angle is pretty tough overall. Ooh, the Shurikens did not connect to reveal canceled out his recall. But even so, JP and as well as Sanford are the two biggest problems that SRG are facing right now. Sanford way more deadly, but also it just doesn’t feel good to commit too hard onto JP. Yeah, just farming up. It’s very hard to commit on any of these members. Like you said, damage dealt ranking is all Salonor Red Giants OG Esports. It’s Innocent, Cram, Stormy, and Skies before we see a single member from TLPH. Oh, oh, lands the SOD. Goes for the spear of misery. Oh, didn’t quite get the angle. But even when you’re so far away, the fact that you’re able to push in and put in the threat down and now utilize that to take purple buff is good for Liquid. Conceal skies walking up over to JP. OB no SOD goes in spear misery as well. The defender air coming down with the revitalizers right there to provide the peel. And now Liquid have an angle. K with quad shadow jumping in. Cra lifted up thrown back to the ground now. It’s asking the mount down again. Sanju the crimson being Sanford jumps into the back finding them as Om tears them apart. Car with a shadow kill. Oh, and he cancelled it out. But in the end, it’s still Sanford mounting him. He will find the kill. It’s Graham against OB and JP now. A tsunami slam over. San Oh my god. It’s ridiculous. He’s crazy. Oh my goodness. Sanford straddling them. It is over for game number three. Red Cycl broken wide open by Team Liquid. They are going to make sure that this is going to be one hardfought battle of SRG Esports are even going to try and climb up this mountain. What the hell, Sanford? God was that two resets, two full resets. Like, yeah, amazing plays. He got the triple, but how the hell did Sford just do all that, dude? They just facilitated everything. They gave him glue. They gave him flicker and that was the end of it. That’s all he needed. Just the battle spell and glue’s kit. He turned the game around. He was able to get the two in the back. He He’s assassinated. Innocent. We were expecting Hayabusa to be the man. Glue is the man. Glue is the man. All right, we’re going to be throwing it back to our panel to break it down for us. What do you guys think? Is it too early to say if Team Liquid becomes the champion, Sanford should be the MVP? I mean, like, what a performance coming in from the EXP? I mean like to be fair, the entire series it is all exp, but Sanford clearly shows how how strong he is on this picks. In this game, the ecosystem, the food chain was very clear. The Apex Predator stands tall on top of everybody and you stand his way, you’re automatically prey. The innocent beast in that last sequence here, you’ll see it now. Stood no chance. I Well, he did kind of like he got away with that until he’s like, “Oh, no. I have stacks on me.” And then it 40 wasn’t done. Yeah. And I feel like for a majority of I mean we did say the entire focus on exp lanes and we put so much emphasis on their performance especially when they’re okay. Okay. Okay. Especially when they’re ahead. But in this case, the way Sanford played it was through plays that changed the way the game goes and it favored their team suddenly just after those one or two plays that Sanford did coming in from the back lines and just surprising them with the flickers. I I mean even with the fact that SRG started strong that game, Innocent started strong that game and TLPH all it takes is one big play to flip the table. Like I love what Gideon said. 2,000 3,000 gold is not enough gold in the bank to topple TLPH in a game. Either ways, right now whenever you’re thinking about a draft, you always have to think about that exp matchup because at this point I feel like you’re in the grand finals, you just have to be honest. Cra, can you deal with him? And if you can’t, someone needs to help because even Kit Bomba said looking at all the rotations, you got to focus going on to the exp. Well, this is two big organizations. TL, they’re just a few wins away to become the first organization to have two straight title wins here at the EWC in the span of 24 hours. Last night, Magnus Carlson took it home. We are what, two games away from Carl Tezy taking it home. Big four here for game number three. Ob big money, big pockets. Innocent though, still dealing a lot of damage. It’s not like Innocent can’t do his job. It’s just what does the rest of SRG do with what he’s bringing out? It’s It’s I would argue he couldn’t. Dude, that’s Sanford was too much. No, he will do a job, but he’ll die and the rest of them will die, too. So, it’s not enough cuz like it’s not just Sanford that goes in. It’s also JP. JP. And that happened one time. I think it was in the objective which spawned in the upper portion of the map where it felt like SRG OG were the ones ahead. Well, they were ahead, but just because of that single play done by JP and Sanford, they could not position themselves at all. Yeah, half the time Sanji is the one who’s willing to die. That’s how beautiful and how well Liquid understands their dynamics. Half the time Sanji will be willing to go, “All right, crimson beacon forward. 40 you got the stacks. 40 got stacks. All right, let’s go.” That is what makes the whole 3k 4k is not enough to make Liquid stop. That’s literally putting a pillow between you and a stamping cavalry. It’s It’s tough at this point after game one. It feels like TP has kind of found the way to win that EXP lane. Have found a way to conquer not just that, but in multiple lanes. You know, we saw it as well in the jungle. I feel like overall TLPH has grabbed the wheel of the draft once again. I can’t believe the ban on the CC changes the entire flow of the game this much. I mean like to be fair, I would say the entire draft change as well because the other thing that happened in game number one was that Akai and even Kip Bomba said there’s no way for the Lap Lapu to play here because there’s so many peel making it so that if you’re being obvious that you want to chase off the fara, you’re going to get punished. So maybe that’s something that SRG just has to respect. as strong as everyone from TL, Sanford is just leading the charge. And it’s not like they banned the Akai. They just created an atmosphere in the draft wherein the Akai would not flourish. And they gave Sakai, they gave SRG an ultimatum and saying you pick Akai here now and we punish you. That’s how powerful red three is for Liquid. How does SRG get out of this maneuver, this trap, this chokeold? I think most importantly, I think the big whiff on that last one was picking the Joy that early. I don’t think the Joy would have ever got banned. I think they could have saved that for second phase. Um, and they immediately opened themselves up to the counterplay of the Hayabusa. The Joy essentially could do nothing in some of those matches. It was completely on the shoulders of Innocent there. Yeah, honestly I think that’s why I brought up they should have picked Glue as well as Farsa because it was still open and at that point there’s not a lot of good counter matchups against the glue because we saw even craw strong hero sure but it is very glue favored. I hate to say it but slowly here in the latter half of the knockout stage Fobius is slowly becoming the fall guy. teams that have nothing to pick for EXP, which has suddenly become maybe the lane to draft for pick Phobias and then suffer the consequences. Like that is the discourse online. That is what people are saying like, “Oh, it’s the Phobia.” B, blame the Fobious. So, first he didn’t get a skin for years and now he’s the fall guy and now even the team is like, you know what, we need an excuse. Someone picked the Phobias. At least people can say Phobia is like the new Eve on the international stage. Yeah. I think one of the things we’ve really learned is you can’t whereas in the past fifth pick exp lane was completely okay. It was the meta of drafting, right? Save the XP lane for counterplay. Now it’s like you better get it in in the first phase or you’re going to be left with Phobius. Yeah, cuz even in the second phase bands like they went for all other options. Even the Hilda was taken out there of course cuz they already picked up the Hayabusa. So they needed to make sure that he would have a great time in terms of jungling, but the focus was the only one that was left there. And usually it was even the immediate response once you’re in redside. But that’s not what we’re seeing anymore. Honestly, yeah, that’s what I want to touch on. Remember back in group stage, everyone bans out the phobias. Everyone bans out the Arlet. And I was like, “No, no, no. You you you take it. You take it.” No, even Liquid bans out the Phobias. They did this to be able to set up for the Arlet Gambit, but now that SRG is on that too, they’re like, “Okay, we’re not going to Arlet. You ban the Arlet, you can have the phobias.” So, it’s a it’s a chicken and the egg situation now. I wonder how coach Veggie and Coach Arcadia are solving that. At least can I say I appreciate that now we’re in a meta where exp is so important cuz it I feel like it’s been so long where EXP is important, but it’s never the highlight. It’s always the jungle. It’s always the gold. Now finally looks like EXP is having his time. Yeah. I mean, and again, I I don’t completely blame the exp there. I think it’s you can have one counter on the enemy team, but when your exp loses, your joy can’t win against the Hayabusa head up. Um I think there’s multiple kind of cracks starting to show on the line of SRG. And it was the same thing in game number one when SRG won. They had multiple winning lanes. You know, it’s if you’re just losing one, that’s okay, but you can’t lose all around the board. Yeah. And that’s why they have to be very careful about their picks still. Even though the XP lane has opened up so much during instances wherein we saw teams previously, even in the group stage or wild card, pick up the likes of the Benetta, it still hasn’t been going too well for those kinds of picks. And you would essentially think that maybe it is damage XP and it is their era right now. But there still has to be, you know, you need to be a little more particular. It’s not just pure damage XP laners that matter. And this isn’t just a assumption or perception kind of thing because CC and Lap were such big picks. Even Glue now after game three, archer analysts watching at home, you guys can check the stats. Even heroes like Ruby get banned because of the uh side lane, the exp lane, Pryo. Heroes like Uranus who have always been, you know, ever since that patch 1.90 has been a big pick, can still somehow rear its ugly head in the ban. So already there’s half a dozen heroes you have to consider. Half a dozen heroes that are dictating what you can do. I’m not even mentioning the Esmeralda which got banned last game. So do we think, here’s a question. We saw the Lapu and the CC both get banned in first phase last time. Do we think that if the CC is banned, SRG could leave the Lapu open and first pick it on blue side? with the CC. Is that good? Is Lapu Lapu have enough value of first picking up front? I kind of feel like if SRG picks up the Lapu might be a bit dangerous cuz I kind of feel like that is Stanford’s hero. I’m pretty sure he’s played that I don’t know at least 4,000 5,000 times. So, so he would know what he likes to use against the L. even got into a scuffle with his very beloved coach Tic Tac cuz there was this video going online wherein Tic Tac was asked by uh yours truly when I say Lapu Lapu which player comes to mind he goes Edward and then Sanford took that personally Sanford took that personally for a good couple of months he was like coach why he felt betrayed he did you can only be betrayed by those people that you love maybe that’s why Carl was so upset about Kyrie comparison season is the uh death of happiness. I shouldn’t have asked that. No, it’s on Tik Tok. It’s on coach Tik. Yeah, I mean you you threw him you we all knew what the answer should have been. You could have said you didn’t say Benadetta. What’s with the players and the coaches nowadays of Team Liquid? Even yesterday Carl was like, “So, do you think RC is the better coach?” Uh, excuse me, sir. Which child do you love more? Dude, that other family scared up. Coach Dick, come on. either ways right now. Looking at the match up, the score is 2 to one. Team Liquid has the advantage here. SRG, even though they got first pick, they were defeated in the previous matchup. We’ll see which pick they decide on this time. But folks, looks like the big question really is on that expram versus Sanford. This is the This is going to be the biggest conversation we’re going to have all throughout the grand finals. So at this point if it’s a tough spot my question is now that TPH has won blue side and red side it’s a huge advantage right we know that blue side has essentially I think been the stronger side for a lot of teams but TLP has shown that we can outdraft you either way so SRG really has to think of something big here but it’s always what because I kind of feel like Yen Shin CC and one should not be led through and so Far their priority has been Kalia all the time. Will the priority change after this? Herbert TX they already opened up the series with a surprise. They showed us the Grock and that was a game changer. They brought back the Akai, answered the Fred and answered Sanford. That was big. Is there a way for them to go back to that? That’s what I’m looking for. I think there is. I I think the Akai could be clean again. I think Grock, things like that show that they work very well. Um, again I for me the last draft the big mess up was the Joyce. Okay, if they’re going to plan to go to that same draft or something similar to that draft, then this is likely going to be the Lancelot ban next for SRG because I believe that was the same pattern that they had in game number one. But Team Liquid Philippines, I wonder if they’re planning to change things up a bit too because they could also opt to not let SRG get their hands on their expected pryopix such as the likes of the KA. And there you go. So SRG very telling it’s them switching it up, bring it up. This is this is a surprise to you, a surprise to many. And this is what Rex was asking for a different approach to the draft. some way somehow make Liquid second guess themselves. And in the spirit of the Gro in game one in the hands of Yumes, put a wall between you and the stampeding cavalry cuz that’s one way to stop them. Make them slow down. Make them play at a pace they’re not comfortable with. Well, I think what’s huge about this KA ban is we’re we’re telegraphing. We don’t want KA first pick. We want to switch things up. Um CC is banned out. Lapu still banned out. Somebody’s getting a YSS or Lance. Yeah, looks like Lance. Do you first pick Lance though? Do you first pick Lance? I feel like you only You don’t give it if you have to. You only first pick Lance if you don’t want that Akai cuz I feel like that’s the big conversation. Do you want a carry or you want a utility? Because carry lance line is the best. But if they want to play utility, the Akai is the best. But then yeah, something else is going to be first pick. Is there any priority exp right now? I think I think go lance. Yeah, you have to take the lance cuz I was you can dash through the glue still if it gets picked up. It’s a lot of glue dashing, man. So, TPH, do they take the high boost or do they go the Fred Run here? I think they they maybe just go utility here with the Fred. Do you risk the Akai flex from Yumes? How likely is it that we see it from Yume? But that’s Yumes, though. I’m not even I’m not even discounting the fact that maybe Cram has a pocket. Akai, who knows? Y does have the uh largest pocket here. Instant glue pick against the Jin SRG. They only had minutes to think about how to deal with Team Liquid. If they have an answer for the glue, it has to come out soon. So, do you miss in first phase? I was going to say, do you miss first phase or uh honestly with the changes in glue, I don’t think that’s that’s counter because you guys saw the very last moment how quickly Sanford got off of Innocent and then immediately got onto Stormy. As a Pyramis player, it’s so hard to deal with that. It seems like he always gets to mount on a certain member in that last fight or in that last game. We don’t have to be so absolute about it. It’ll slow down the hop in from side to side, but instead they’re not falling for it. No Pharaoh mice, not around here. Instead, it’s a stormy special, the fara. And then for the first time in a while, a Uranus. So this this is this is your XP lane matchup. The glue versus the Uranus. I wonder how Kid Bomba is going to feel about the Uranus. Let’s call him cuz like he disliked the Hilos. He disliked the Hilos earlier. I like this better than Hilos. Yeah, but that’s that’s true. So cuz Hilos has four legs, has none. Yeah, he just floats around. just you can slow right to the back lane and harass people. Oh, but the thing is like Cra did it once in the group stage. I hope it doesn’t happen again here where he just cuts the lane too far in and there’s no way he’s going to, you know, die first blood again. There’s a Uranus specialist in the crowd. The general Delar is watching. Oh, so he he would he he would have come here let us know very strong opinion about this matchup. So what’s his opinion? I’ll check in with you. All right. Thank you very much. Shoot a text. Shoot a text. Figure it out. Or I’ll check your phone. So, B’s coming in red four after that. Honestly, this is a good time to flex any exp friends you guys know and just bring him onto the panel. Uh batting off the Harif here. Yeah, I kind of feel like they got to slow TL down a little bit. What was that? The Bruno. A good ban. Maybe they want the Granger. Yeah, and that’s one of the I mean the Bruno I think. So, what SRG, you banned the Granger at this point, right? the Bruno ban. You’re kind of showing that that’s what TPH wants. Then you just have Moscow left. Earl, the pool gets small. We saw Innocent on the Beatrix. It looked good. Even though they lost, it looked good overall. I mean, like to be fair, Innocent has been making everything look good. I mean, that’s fair. But here though, there’s no Ka. I feel like they’ve been pairing the Beatrix always with a kind of hero who could make it easier to land the ultimates, the Bennett’s rage. I mean, not including the Rener’s apathy, though, because Innocent feels too independent when he tries to snipe down heroes from Team Liquid Philippines. And they banned the Granger instead. So, yeah, it’s either the Moskov. Moskov up front or Claude. All right. TPH’s Claude win rate isn’t too great right now. There’s an There’s an Ah, cuz the Lancelot makes things so weird for heroes like the too. I’m wondering if they’re So, they do get a Hilda here and this is it. Oh, wait. That’s a Rome Hilda. Wait. Oh, it’s an in-your-face fighting lineup from Liquid. I mean, I kind of feel like when you have a Jian, you need someone like that, right? That’s your best friend. So, now SRG after seeing the Hilda, how do they respond? I They need heavy crowd control, I think, at this point. I think they need something that can either slow down the Hilda, something that can I mean there they have zero crowd control currently other than Farza. We’ve been talking about the Ruby for a while. Could be a possibility in the hands of Yumes. Um Ruby Gate. Oh no. Oh yeah, the gate’s still there. The Badang’s the only one that’s banned so far. So Oh, is this gold? I’ll be damned. It’s a gold lane, Kimmy. What’s interesting here is they blind picked this gold lane Kimmy cuz OB can do anything. But I don’t think Oh, should I cuz he’d be dead or at least half dead by the time he’s in effective range. Kimmy has been looking good at mid, but this is new being in gold. I wonder how he’s going to turn out. Yeah, so it’s I’m I’m not crazy about it. I don’t know. I like the claw here. I think at this point it’s like, hey, OB, what do you want? You know, just pick whatever. So breaks, final thoughts on the draft. TM TPH does seem like they’re going to be able to keep themselves safe enough. I mean, the Hilda definitely going to be leading the charge. Always going to make sure where SRG is going to be planted and especially OB. We’ve seen several plays with the BMI. We have some word from Dar. He says the Uranus should be at the advantage. All right, so now we got to see does that translate in game. Thank you very much panelist. In fact, thank you very much Delar. But now we got to throw it back to Mero as well as Gideon for this game. Thank you so much, Lel as well as our panelists. Once again, we’re going back at it one more time. Match number four in this best of seven series. SRG unable to win on blue side. Have TLPH figured it all out? Is this it? As we go into the land of dawn one more time, looking at the compositions. I mean, me and Miracle, we already called him. We were like, “Okay, oh, he can go onto his claw. He has reason to.” Yep. But that Gimme, is that necessary? That Hilda as well. What? And there we have it. First blood achieved as they cheese on the top side. Gideon, I know we want to talk about that match up in the gold lane, but we have to talk about the Uranus. Like, all right, we got info from Mr. large general man who’s watching probably right now in the venue. But the pattern for Clam every time he goes Uranus seems to just be the same. It’s a template got level one and TL just read into that. This is what Mythic Seal also did to SRG in the group stage. They saw the Uranus, they bullied him in the lane, stopped that level one cut, and I hope it’s not going to be the same story because that was a stomp from Mythic Seal. It was it was a stomp from Mythic Seal’s side, but SRG, they have to play on on their strong side, right? They have to go towards where Kimmy is. And JP right now opening up the map perfectly, knowing exactly where to go. Forcing out a very early flicker as well. Innocent unable to land the Starleium just in time. At the very least for Sakai, he’s not going to lose. He’s not going to walk away from his jungle with that brass tax that we know that Hilda likes to apply on assassin style junglers. Quad shadow not landing. That will give Yums a bit uh more space to play with. We’ll recall back again. And yeah, the Arena is going to win out of this matchup, but that early kill will definitely set him back quite a bit. And it’s again quite important for Team Liquid to get the early turtle. That’s going to be Oh, walk. And I’m actually dodging away from the skills. JP. Oh. Oh, there’s going to be a flicker burn down. Innocent has the flicker will save it. The quad shadow comes in and he’s not even given the chance to go and flick out. He was done. He knew it. They knew that the jungle rotation was down was going to be finishing his clear down on the bottom side of the map. They should have been a little bit more aware here, but now the guys looking for something back here. Oh, still finds the resets. Yep, just that. Sanford has a flank already. Oh, it’s going to be the all in over Sanford. Creme picks up the kill. JP in the back line as well. Skies fans some execution backwards to defend Stormmy as Sanji pops in a crimson beacon to get away. Now pops in the lantern flare as well. It will be the kite back here as JP continues to bully Stormmy. Unbreakable cancel call. He walks up. Shadow kill and the retribution securing the turtle now. And that’s the lantern fire with a blazing duet finding Stormy. He bounces back to the BMI and it is a win for team Liquids has the AOG. Can he get out in time? No cancel out. He gets out with the AoG. He gets to walk away for free. A great rotation coming in from OH side to participate right at the very end of that. And honestly catching out Stormy. Great communication between OH alongside JP. JP already mentioned, hey Stormy, he’s already flickered. has already used wings by wings. If you see him, you can jump on him for free and OH said say less. Flicker’s right on top of him. Now, Team Liquid like their win condition is on. Like very early on, it almost felt like they kind of knew the Kimmy was coming cuz we were here talking about the hill of Rome. We were like, “All right, I’m not a fan of Hilda Rome feather air strike. That’s a taunt.” Sanji just gets away with the crimson beacon. But then you see the Kimmy after the Hilda and you’re like, “Wo, wait a second. Did they just read through that? I mean, maybe. I mean, but why? Especially when Moscow was available. So, it’s it’s a little strange to see a big bomb to start things off. The quad shadow lands. So, he’s basically as good as dead shadow. Oh, innocent. Good timing again. He just doesn’t miss on a flicker. Hey, Yogi. But Sanji has another blink. They have to communicate here. SRG OG cannot let this lead. Spiral out of control. This is what Liquid did to them so many times already. And with OH already purchasing a DHS, it’s going to be really tough for Innocent to win out in this matchup consistently, especially when he has to rely on his passive so often. And you can see that OB is just double waving at this point. Yeah, really wants to get OH ahead. And it makes sense if he does get ahead uh even further than he is already right now, it’s going to be really tough for Salo Red Giants OG Esports cuz they want to play a clean front to back. And how do you do that against a composition that can dive you? And it’s not just pure dive. It’s a dive that’s so random. Oh, pops in. The blazing duet has the BMI. Won’t be at any threat to die here. But in actually going to go for the traction pulse, but it won’t quite land. Demobilization landing there. Obi backwards again will give the turret over and it’ll be a trade up top as Carl gets his hands on the turtle. It doesn’t seem like Sky is going to even contest for it. Lantern flare almost fully stacked up. Cram just given a bit more space and Carl’s actually not interested in the purple buff. They’re just trying to delay Skies as much as they can. That’s a very good idea here. They can do this for basically forever with JP being so unkillable, right? Like come on, use your retribution, Skies. We’ll force you to do it. Oh my lord. The mount down too. They out a few of those skills. All right, it should just be Yeah, Sanford backing away. JP still in the bush. Oh man, Sky not giving any space. JP wants to make him walk back to base and it is Sky having to walk back to base. Innocent in the bottom lane caught by the shadow kill. This time no flicker. Smoke and mirrors once again. Innocent, they knew it. They knew that Innocent Flicker was going to come back up. They had a window that they must punish Innocent and they find it once again after having full information. JP on this Hilda so far has been disgusting. The amount of pressure he has applied, the pure vision they are getting off of this is more than enough. And all in again fully stacked up. He can go for the bounce out but Skies gets away just barely. And Sanford didn’t actually have the ultimate up. Obottom lane continuing this push. Look at Sanford. He’s not going to give Innocent space. He knows Innocent has flicker. He wants to take it away from him. But luckily this time Serg have two bodyguards to guard him in the bottom lane. And Seph’s like, I don’t even need my top wave anymore. We’ve already unlocked the bottom side. Let’s just let the split pushers do what they do best and start split pushing. Get neutral objectives, get structures. Watch shadow landed. He’s going to hold on to it now. Oh. Oh, last one there. Good move by Skies. Evades from a possible kill over, but he just walks into his jungle to recall again. He’s not finding any gold. He’s already fallen behind, man. Three levels behind. Such a whopping lead 6 minutes into the game, especially for Cally of all people. Hey, it’s a good fraction. Pulse skies with walk up again. Has the puncture, but they’re they’re a composition built to withstand assassins. They’re very thick and they can keep on fighting for as long as they want to. Now that has the golden staff, he doesn’t mind these fights. Oh no, flank again. The meltdown comes in and JP has already split them up. Sanji in front has a crimson beacon still. Thorn rose coming down as OM jumps through with the blazing do the shadow kill as well. Yo with the AoG back but now he gets immobilized by Sanford and mounted off brought back again. Skies gets killed by Sanford gets rid of this game’s already done for right you can see how much of a lead that TLP has. It is difficult unless we see a major mistake but they don’t even have the goal to press that advantage. The fourle lead from Carl Tezy says it all. The fact that OH full level ahead of Innocent with two 0 and three as well. What are they going to do about this? No way. Now Cran, that’s a tag. Uranus able to flicker out in time. Sanji caught on the feather air strike, but he does still have the flicker. Will hold on to it. Sky blocking up. Sanji flicker is out and he survives. Baiting skies. Now it’s Carl and Ohe going in as Sanford brings them back. A complete wipe out for Team Liquid. This might just be the fastest game here. There’s still the Holy Shield that they have to get rid of, but they will get at least one inhibitor off of this. Three minions all still alive. And they crush it just in time. The lead is just too big. Team Liquid Stampede. You can feel the ground shake beneath them with a 9.4K lead 8 minutes into the game. Gideon, we’ve seen Stampedes. This game right here, this is a stampede. We got a glimpse of that against Aurora Turkey. And we get to see it again in the grand finals. JP. Oh, he’s healing off of the damage from Skies. He has more exp than guys at this point. He is They are just that far ahead. Look at the player level ranking here. 14, 11, 11, and 10. Nobody on the side from SRG OG are breaking into the double digits other than CRA. And if you ask Skies to explain how he’s so behind, he just goes and says it’s JP’s fault cuz it really is. He keeps on going in. This is the classic kill the match up against the assassin. Dude, you can see Sanji flexing. He does not care. Oh, Sanford’s joining in as well. They know they know how far ahead they are. This is a checkmate angle. It’s 11k lead and there’s no contestion for this upcoming lord. They’ll let Carl teasy do the work. They’re allowing OH to already not only finish the Trinity. Wait, hold on. Beacon. That’s an all in over to Sanford, but it’s a bit too What happened up top? Oh, getting a kill on Skies again. JP zoning them. And Yums brought back by Sanford. Oh, the quad with a dive getting two of the carries. No Edison, no Stormy. Liquid want to end it right here, right now. Oh, OB, he’s making this look easy. The Filipino sniper does it once more and they completely wipe them out. They’re going to conceal and close this game. I mean, you can try, but it won’t even be remotely close. Team Liquid Philippines bring it all the way. They are currently at match point. the dominance that we’ve seen just earlier can be explained but in the game as Liquid’s opponents like Salango Red Giants OG Esports could they even explain how dominant that game was they didn’t know what hit him until they lost in that moment they were just wiped they had no answers they really didn’t they lost as soon as that first blood came through and just the raw dominance from JP’s side melts down from exp all the way to the gold and you can see that compounding interest in OH alone. Every smoke and mirror that was thrown up by the side of TLP, they took advantage of him every single time Innocent used that flicker. Beautifully done by Team Liquid Philippines and Salo Red Giants OG Esports, they got to go back to the drawing board. They got to pull off a crazy comeback here to stay in the grand finals. Maybe our analysts have an idea. Let’s throw it back to the panel. How do they break out of this? That is going to be the question because they only have one more opportunity to survive in this grand finals because as of now, Team Liquid has match point. And like our our casters talking, the game just keeps on going faster and faster and faster. At this point, SRG, what else do they have? It seems like Liquid have reached maximum velocity and this is the cleanest we’ve ever seen him. Even OB saying that’s absolute cinema. That’s what we want. But there is a weird part of the script that I don’t think any of us expected. The gold lane Kimmy. What was that? Yeah, I have zero words for it. It It threw me off. And you know, we saw in game one they were willing to throw us some picks that caught us off guard, but they were for a reason. They had a job to do. And the gold lane Kimmy just didn’t feel good for me. It made my insides hurt. Yeah, I kind of feel that because Kimmy, you don’t actually auto aim. You got to target. And going up against a Claude, it’s pretty fast. And overall the lineup usually where we see the Kimmies come in, even for the midlane Kimies have to have people who could literally guard for the Kimmy or stand in the front lines. And I feel like it doesn’t just matter for SRG just because of the Kimmy, but also because they needed something to stop TLPH and the speed that they were going at the way they just keep they just kept pushing in towards SRG. And based on their lineup, they had absolutely nothing to do that. Maybe at most Yumes, but that’s just the unbreakable or the AOG, which you still have to channel before you get to land. and he had to use it several times to get away from the the stampede of Team Liquid. For the last raw here, this SRG OG has to consider to just go back to utility. I think that’s definitely a possibility. Um, if they’re going to pick a Kimmy, they need utility in the front line. I think they need to go back to having a hard crowd control setup against a team like TLPH that wants to be all around you and attack. Crowd control is going to win games right now. Look at TPH. They’re focusing heavy on being in your face. You need something to stop that and put them in their place. And as of right now, so far, the most successful is with that Akai. We’re going to see if they’re going to be changing it up because again, this is their final opportunity for them to defend their MSC championship. And Team Liquid is just one win away from making a lot of history, a lot of records, completing their own trophy cabinet, making Team Liquid the first organization to win two different titles in the same week, I got to say right now, if I’m if I’m, you know, the bosses of Team Liquid, I I’ll be smiling. You would be more than just smiling. I think the energy in the arena is palpable. And I’m wondering how is Liquid keeping their energies managed because that’s one of their problems, right? Overheating. They have to also watch out for that. And right now, since we’re talking about breaking records, the goat Carl, he broke a record as well, a personal record for himself where I believe this is his 100th turtle on MSC. Talk about breaking records. Carla has been in three MSE’s the three past MSE’s and that’s where they fell in the semi-finals each. That’s what Sanford was referring to as the semi-finals curse. So imagine the consistency and the skill involved in doing that 100 turtles across three years of competition. As of right now, everything is looking good for Team Liquid. SRG again final chance here. We’re going for a short break, giving opportunity for both teams to really think about their own strategy before possibly going to the final game. So, don’t go anywhere. After this, we’re going to resume the grand finals. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Level up your gaming experience with over 8 billion playlists only on Spotify, the official audio streaming partner for the 2025 esports World Cup. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. You This land is calling. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. At this point, Team Liquid is at match point. SRG only has one point for their team. 3 to one is the score. Four is needed to become the champions here. Team Liquid one step away. This is the English panel here. Leo, you were the one predicting that it doesn’t go more than five games. At this point, looks like you’re on the money here. That’s a lot of pressure to put on me, but that is nothing compared to the pressure that the defending champions are under. SRG OG now. Yes, they get to pick their sides. Yes, likely they’re going to go blue. But when you’re faced with a force of nature such as Team Liquid Philippines, playing the way they have for the past three games, what other options do you have? This feels like, all right, we went from a feel-good underdog sports film to now a horror thriller where it’s Liquid chasing you down and there’s nowhere to go. I mean, for the past few games where SRG has been winning, I think the plan was to work around a favorable matchup for Innocent, and that was something we did not necessarily see in the previous game. The Kimmy clearly struggled to a certain extent, and they weren’t able to really play around their gold lane. So, I feel like that might be one of the options they can consider, but Team Liquid 2 just feels like they’ve already solved this entire idea that SRG OG might be wanting to play. And I really feel like that’s the idea. Stormmy and Niss can do damage, but if Sanford’s on them, then it’s like, well, good luck dealing that damage. Like, maybe Sanford will die maybe. But then so is all the damage along along with everyone else. Yeah, I just feel there’s tons of problems that seem to be mounting up around the draft. Um, you add that up with just the pure raw skill that TLPH brings to the table. And again, we I came into this thinking SRG are no slouches. As long as they can get a nice even draft, they can put up a great fight. If they get a better draft, they can win a match. So, I think that’s where we’re seeing most of the problems arise here. And that’s the issue. For the past maybe two games, they’ve gotten subpar drafts. There have always been one or two picks where we’re like, but why? This is that game we’re in. There should be none. Every single pick, one to five should be yes. That works against what Liquid wants to do. And now we’re jumping straight into draft here. Possibly the final draft of the game. SRG OG first pick. Betting out the landslot. Team Liquid batting out the 1-1. At this point, TL should not adjust anything here. But here’s the adjustment coming from SRG here. The Arlot has not been banned yet. The Lancelot, the Lapu, we are sticking a little bit to script here for them at least and what they’ve been doing. But are we maybe looking for a possible Arlot pick up front, blue side first? And if they go for that plan, then SRG OG, we might see another situation where they bring out the likes of the Akai because the Akai and the Arlot, they do well together once you put them in a single draft. But if if they don’t ban the Arlot here, I see Coach RC leaving the Ka open most likely to at least get some sort of response or throwing out the the Bomba bait for them to take it. Honestly, I’m more worried here because honestly, they are setting up for the Arlet. But if you first pick Arlet, what’s stopping TL from picking up Akai? Yeah. So, is this is this SRG OG? Is this CRAM team captain taking the raid? Say, coach, we got to switch it up. We got to first pick Arlet. I think even beyond the um Akai Jin that can be picked up. TLPH might also consider the Fredin if that’s going to be the case. If Arlot is going to be prioritized here by SRG just to limit the combinations that we can see from them. Oh, that’s it’s got to be an Arlot up front. Yeah, that’s I don’t think first. Who knows? Maybe maybe the Akai is the bait. Sorry, maybe the Arlet is the bait. I wouldn’t respond to Arlet with Zush and Fred because then the Akai comes in two, three blue. So there’s the Arlet. So this should be a here something else. I don’t know if I see TLP PH picking up the AAI immediately. I just don’t know if it’s like in their repertoire to first to first two picks on red side. Put that in. I think it’s good, but I just don’t know if it’s coming. But do they have answers to the Akai if it comes out again? Cuz I It’s not just the Akai, it’s the Arlot too that gets or that can potentially set up for Team Liquid. So I think they’re really digging hard into what they want to pick up next for these upcoming two picks. I think we’re in agreement with Zuin, right? Zuin. Yeah, the new still flex. Yeah, still very much flex. So SRG, they should go for the Akai here and then plus something. The only thing is what is that something? So far they’ve been prioritizing the Farsa. Oh my god. I don’t know if they want to change it up by picking up something like a Granger. Far Akai sounds good. Yeah. And then suddenly Yeah. Suddenly the question swings back to the cavalry saying, “Have you solved the Akai problem? Do you have a response?” Hey, Frederick. Frederick. Oh my goodness. Wait. Are we going to see an old flame from Carl Tezy? He’s going to bring it back. The Akai. Akai Basha. I’d be so surprised if is that overkill? I mean, they went Akai Grock last time. They go for the glue. make sure they lock in Sanford against the the Arlot. Still things are This is the most leveled playing field in terms of first phase of draft we’ve seen in the past three games. Correct. Again, one to three so far for SRG. Check. It’s a equal draft. Liquid even throwing out a few curve balls. Again, prioritize the boxer this early. What do we go for? Banwise. There’s the Bruno. All right. So, even Liquid, they’re so comfortable with this draft. They’re just saying, “Okay, let’s just take out comfort picks for Innocent.” Yeah, and it might be another situation where Innocent is just forced to pick a hero he’s not entirely comfortable with or that doesn’t entirely fit well into the lineup. But there are many gold daners you can play around because this is a Fredin jungler. Yeah, championship point ain’t where you bring out the gold Kimmy, man. I think still SRG if they’re going to ban Bruno, you got to ban maybe Granger here. They banned it last time on first and at least it doesn’t open up. If you immediately respond to their band, then at least you have another possible response ban after. You’re not banning something random and then have to come back to the Granger after. Angela. Oh, that’s a good read. Again, I think in addition to the principle of one to five, everything has to count, even your band. So, no cheese. Block it out. Oh, but even the I almost forgot was still out there. Does he have an Arlet? I’m sure he does. Uh, I’m sure he does. I’m sure he does. But is there a possibility? What are the odds? Is that is that a last match hurra kind of thing? Ah, right. Cuz unless you have an answer for the glue that is not the Arlet, I don’t see this Arlet going Rome. Yeah, I think I think Arlott XP is clean. And then you still you pick up I mean honestly once again they could go for something like the Grock here in the Rome. It worked really well with the fara. You get the concussive blast. You get quick wave clear. And if this Bosa ends up in if TLP sticks with a utility jungler then you’re doing well in turtle pit. Quick the deadible like a minur. Did we hear that right? Why is it not showing just yet? We we they banned them. They banned Minotaur. That is the hero that Liquid used to take down Onik yesterday. So they’re convinced that we haven’t seen the ROR yet. SRG OG are on Coach RC and Coach Dictac. Or could they be setting up for the likes of a Claude or a Har because you do not want that knockup to cancel you out once you do go in with either the Zammon Force or the Blazing Duit. But it’s a Oh, what are they going to go for here? I think this definitely at least this should telegraph that Basha is a Matilda pick. And all they need now is a gold laner. So SRG has a good read at least how they can pick these last two picks. Kind of feel like if they don’t pick up the cloud, Yeah. Team Liquid will probably pick it up cuz again, what’s stopping them from picking the claw again? Yeah, it once you do the double laning again, you also have an immediate answer to shredding down the tanky heroes if you do go in for the claw. But they pick up the choso. Could they consider another Beatrix or something? The world is uh Innocence Oyster cuz again there’s a lot of gold laners left. But consider that OB will be able to answer to it. There’s the Moskov. Granger’s wide open. Claude is wide open. lapel, I’ll be damned. Harth is open, but you’re lacking physical. So, this is 99% sure of physical. How do we like the cho here? It’s one of those when all else fails, you pick up the cho cuz does it win when all else fails, though. Yeah. Yeah. That’s that’s Yume signature. But again, there’s a time and place. This is going to be a hard game for the chill. But sometimes you just got to throw it up to fate, you know, like this is my best hero. If I win, I win. And if I lose, at least I have no regrets. So honestly, SRG, it does look like they’re just going for their final strongest pick. Works or not, this is their last possible chance to extend the series. So, thank you very much the panelists. And now I’m going to be throwing it over to Merco as well as Gideon to call this game. Thank you panelists. Match point for TLPH. They figured it out. Red’s side is now their side despite having hearts of blue. They challenge once again the defending MSC champs. They’re not going to let them take it that easily. They’re looking to stampede. They’re looking to roar. They’re looking to charge into this next game. Good luck to both of these teams. Whatever happens will happen. SRG Slango Red Giants OG Esports playing from the blue side. Team Liquid Philippines on the red side. Such a dominant force that is now or never for SRG. They got to show what they’ve got here. But the composition, yes, it’s a strong composition. They have now played into the Arlet pick that they went for very early on. But is it really SRG OG? We saw a weird one with an ID yesterday against TPH when they were put on a in a corner. And now it does seem like we’re seeing the same skies on a utility jungle. A whole lot of the picks that we wouldn’t really categorize as comfort. Mhm. Yep. I mean this is it’s an interesting composition to play, right? Especially when we look down to the gold side. But now Yumsen as well as Stormy thanks to this choke pick. They don’t have to interact as much, right? They know that JP is relatively nearby. They want to make sure that Cra has a better time in lane. Unlock him out. Worse comes to worse if Innocent has to play on that weak side. That is why the Moscow makes a little more sense because we were thinking carry so many tanks on the side of Team Liquid. You just need a little bit more burst. Maybe even a Beatrix would have worked as well. They needed something to go through these tanky boys. And you can see for Team Liquid, they’re playing into it. They know they’ve got so much tankiness so they build on it. Tenacity for Sanji, tenacity, vitality for Sanford, firmness for Carl Tezy tool. Oh man, it’s going to be rough. Especially if Team Liquid are able to win out turtle one because that basically guarantees second turtle again cuz they’re too tanky. There’s too much to deal with. Yeah, there just too many boys. Cra is going to safely hit level four on time now. They have to quickly get Stormy into that level four position as well this entire time. Ohead trying to punish innocent as hard as he can. But let’s how see how they play out because Carl, he’s about to hit level five. Yum’s going to go for Sanford goes in. Final slash already used up by Cra, but it’s going to be the mounts back up again. on towards CRA who’s brought back and it’s Sanji with a lantern flare to throw him back. First blood to Team Liquid just way too tanky at this point. Sky is going to get pulled back for now, but Team Liquid can out sustain. They can keep on doing this. That’s why Caltezy went for the instant invade and they want more. And again, the meltdown ready for Sanford, but he decides against it. takes the guiding win. Y of the J damage on the G Kundo, but this will be a free neutral objective to Team Liquid. They had to give that up. They knew that once Crit didn’t get an effective final slash, that’s where you call it quits. If not, look for a disengage. But it’s tough. You’re playing against glue on top of the Zushin. It’s like trekking through mud. You aren’t going to walk away with clean shoes. Oh, okay. That was just All right. I guess he just takes it, you know. just eats it. Hey man, Stormy needs to dish out damage. I guess that’s what they were doing. Innocent in the bush is going to be zoned away. Oh. Oh, Spirit of Misery actually getting a bit of damage back onto. And if we are talking about Miracle’s comebacks, Innocent has done that at M6 against CFU on the Moscow. So, he’s going to have to channel the M6 Innocent to try to get the comeback here. Sanji has a purify. Has C beacon as well. Yo with the way to dragon, but Sanji doesn’t even use the purify. He just walks away or rather blinks away. Nicely played. Nicely played by Sanji. Making sure that most of his resources aren’t wasted. Yums didn’t use that flicker as well. Innocent now getting attacked. No way. The dragon so there’s no risk of JP actually getting picked off. Gundo Spear of Misery. Still too much sustain. Has the purify. Still will soak in the gold minion cannon up top. And it’s just a slow build up for the next neutral objective. Mhm. It was a good initiation from the side of SRG OG. They understand that, hey, we forced two people to actually go for an early recall. We know that OH is too low to go back into the lane. So maybe we’ll use this timing to take away JP and JP knew you have no way to lock me down. I still have the purify. Worst comes to worse. I still have a Circling Eagle if necessary. I can just take the damage for now. SRG, they’re looking for scraps. They’re looking for anything right now. But what can they get? They look for picks, but there’s a purify everywhere. There’s a guiding win. If Carl Ties does get taken low, he just gets saved by JP. And then there’s multiple peel angles, too, by Sanji throwing people back by re-engage from Sanford. Oh, he shooting them down again. Yum’s trying to go for the pick, but it’s difficult knowing the purify still intact. Carl with the shield unity. Sky already dashing in forward and the turtle. Pryo moves over. Shield Unity over to Yum. Stanata on him too. That’s the circle. Eagle side for to jump on. Innocent gets a full stacks on him. Will be pinned down to the wall but is going to zone him in the back. Carl kicked out with weight of dragon. Sky able to get a kill and the turtle. Grab walking back and forth but it’s Sanji who pushes him back into words. Innocent gets the kill on Sanford and all of a sudden hope is in the air for Salango Red Giants OG Esports. Okay, so they turned that around. That was not looking good initially, but the fact is Tommy is extremely careful about where Samford is now. He needs to not get cancelceled out as soon as possible. That’s why he’s a little hesitant to just rip his abilities right off the cuff, especially when this exp ler is missing on the map. So, guys held out well, but Creme at least he was able to make the play and now they make another. Can even go for it though. Ta on Carl. He just takes it. The guiding wind gets him back to safety. So, it’s back to even on the board. Innocent needs to scale up, but SRG know it. They need to play for it. Sanford a bit overzealous in that team fight on the glue. Went in, did an amazing job zoning Innocent, but then Dove with the mount. Yeah, almost immediately as well. Cra, he’s just trying to control this lane. It’s been stacking up. He lost a He didn’t lose too much. Not a substantial amount of minions, just one. But at the very least, he’s recovered after those two happy kills before going down. In terms of the gold lead we’ve seen, it’s really just between Stormmy and as well as Cra’s side. Innocent is going toe- to- toe, but he’s 370 gold down against OH at this stage of the game. We need to see Team Liquid quickly try and converge, right? Because SRG, their power spikes, it’s coming on the horizon, but it will come in two phases. Stormy’s first and second item, depending on whether he goes for the Genius Wand into the glowing wand or just straight into the glowing wand. Creme honestly, you don’t really have to worry about him for the most part. But Y if he’s a little too tanky then it becomes a bit of an issue. Oh again it’s going to be the initiation on Carl. More of just poke actually see Red Giants OG Esports have the advantage when it comes to making it to the late game because they have so many more damage dealers. Meanwhile, Team Liquid are really just overly reliant on OH for the late game to deal damage for Sanji to maybe also get executes down if he goes sky piercer. But seeing the Granger don’t really think it’s going to be a double sky piercer angle here. Wait the dragon over to Carl TZY for the air strike as well. Everything used with guiding wind gets him to safety. Sanford gets a threeman immobilization as skies get thrown back by the crimson beacon and lantern flare. And oh is right there for the taken. It’s going to be Sanji with the kill. Cra mounted up. Sanji still with the lantern flare again as Sanford jumps in again but gets the death sonata in. Sanford immobilization and the chain CC keeps on coming. It’s cra dashing back and forth but in the end will be lifted out. Paul jumps with the shield unity. JP wants to go for it. It’s a threeman dive and it’s Oh, the Filipino sniper with a triple kill. What am I telling you, man? It’s about that conversion and Oh, finally finds it. He’s already got a maleific roar in the bag at this point. Sky Piercers going perfectly fine. But the worst part about it all is the fact that Samford, these initiations, these long fights work out in his favor. You can see that Innocent, he can’t just auto attack him for free, especially when Sanford is on top of a crucial team member. He doesn’t want to hurt his own team, but Sanford doesn’t mind. And this is costing Innocent free auto attacks for him to eventually reset his own dashes, which he can’t do, which is why OH gunned him down. Look at the gold lead already for the Granger. For Obanger, it’s building up so much and everywhere. It’s a lead for Team Liquid. even for the lane. Maybe you would expect it’s also an odd build, but it’s a desperate build and they kind of need it right now. Cra’s going full damage. Fury hammer into the sea halbird. Mhm. He’s going to have to try his best because at the end of the day, it really boils down to can you kill Sanji? Can you kill Ob. Everybody else is uh well, basically for free. Oh. Oh no. He’s going to try for it at the very least. Oh, went a bit far. Look at that. Yum. Oh my lord. are not even given the chance to do anything. Carl walks in the jungle. The stampede is looking good for Liquid and for Salango Red Giants, OG Esports, hope is all on Innocent. Can he save SRG? The team Liquid Riders right now are just holding strong. If they play, if they keep up this momentum, this 4.4K is eventually going to 2x very quickly after this mid tier one. And they know it for the air strike to clear out that wave and a genius one finally purchased. But it’s 9 minutes into the game. They’re so far behind. They really are. Sanford again with a jump on Skies and with it fully stacked. You can’t really walk up because that’s what’s going to happen. Meltdown. Sanford flickering in again. Y cannot go for the way the dragon gets lifted up again by the juice. Hit up Sanji and will fall for the fourth time this game. from Team Liquid. This could be a free lord again. Sanford is taking every shot and he gets the guiding wind back to safety. Carl gets the lord and sod landing, but there’s no way he takes it. Sanji again giving Oh, the space for now. Another crab falling to the bullets of O’Hare. There’s just too many of them. They death and Team Liquid are bringing it back. Triple kill making this game fall out of control. Yums cannot find an initiation. They’re too closely knit together. Two turrets off of the take. And now even the holy shield cracking under the pressure 10 minutes into the game before the lord even spawns. We knew coming into this tournament, Team Liquid were the favorites. We knew that the meta really looked to be molded to their strengths. But what are we seeing here? Losing game one. We thought, hey, there’s a chance SRG get it done. Now the only chance is if TL make a mistake. We’re going to have to see because now the siege is going to begin. And for OAB, he’s just shooting fish in a barrel, right? They’re so close to that checkmate angle. 9,000. They crack one inhibitor open and that second wave might just end it for them. Innocent down to 50%. Going back to pace now. Feathered air strike in the mid lane, but look at how Team Liquid are managing the waves. They’ve dealt with most of the holy shields. They’ll finally have the Lord charging up top, but they’ll go into the bottom lane instead. Sanford play again. That’s going to be called TZ walking up. Skies taken very low. That’s a base turret. Very low to bottom lane. Follow last effort as Innocent goes in for the damage, but Sanford still surviving. And oh gets the kill on Creme. Creme was willing to sacrifice himself, but that second wave that was the big problem here. They could look to siege one more time. OB, he’s got the resources. Samford, he’s pretty tanky, but the feathered air strike looking to clear up these next waves alongside with Innocent with a full Trinity build. They might have just botted themselves just a little bit of time. A missing inhibitor, but at least it’s on the bottom side. It’s not on the far lane. 52 more seconds until it happens. And OH is going to look to seal the deal. That winds of nature 10 and two. Max stacks 690 for his passive. He is undeniably the Terminator. He is destructive. Full items at 12. Fully stacked at 12. What do you do? You got to start questioning yourself right now. How do you deal with him? They got to catch him off somehow. And even then, the purify is such good insurance policy. And if not that, they’ve got JP, right? He’s paying premiums on this insurance to make sure that he survives. He’s got so much peel on his side. Samford refusing to make too many mistakes and even initiating for the sake of buying space. Look at the damage deal. Ob right at the top. Storming is trying his best, but that genius one came up so late. Lethal wander take two. They want to get everything on the map. Not giving any space for SRG OG. YS with the shoo. Sanford just chasing him now as Carl goes to the wheels. Yums circling eagle. That’s a jun. No over. Damage innocent now as Ohead gets engaged but he has the win in nature and creme will fall to Ob who is legendary. He’s having the time of his life. Head shot after head shot after head shot for the Filipino sniper. Once again, he’s going to try and end this game with a perfect score. Unbelievable performance coming in from Team Liquid. And now Slango Red Giants. They have to deal with the upcoming wave to push into him. Cra again. It may be a last ditch effort, but he’s got to make something happen. These purifies need to come out. We know that OB doesn’t have a winds of nature. Can Innocent pull it off. Sanford walking up again. Good feathered air strike. Team Liquid still have the lord that’ll be spawning right now. So this is yet another siege for TL where SRG could defy the odds one more time. Feathered air strike should be back up. They have a Moscow. They have wave clear. Creme. He’s going to need to do some crazy stuff on that Arlet damage. The insurmountable wave. The pressure. You can feel Team Liquid building up like a tsunami. And the charge begins. They’re going to continue their siege. They’ve got the lord on their side. Lord in the bottom lane looking for it. Sanju with the crimson beacon as Carl jumps in to Stormy. That’s Sanju lands her flare again. Call him off. Sanford jumps in and it will be three members immobilized. Forcing away to dragon. Oh very low still able to go for it. Sod landing. That’s going to be Cra looking for the play. Oh losing immortality. Has a turn and he turns it around now with a death to Natada but he falls to Cra. Sanford still alive. cramming a bit of it all there. A base threat falling up top as Sanford still zones it back. Innocent fighting for his team’s life. The circling eagle takes him down. And there you have it. Team Liquid taking all four members down with Stormy the last to fall. And you can see that they know it. The fans, they see it. Team Liquid crack open the base. Forged in heartbreak, fueled by hunger, the cavalry charge shatters the throne of the defending champions. And now they ride into the glory of completing the crown that have eluded them at the esports world cup. every step of the way. Domination from the cavalry. They’ve only dropped three games in total this entire tournament. Dreams fulfilled for SRG making it to the grand finals against a team like this. They dared to dream again. A phenomenal performance. The cherry on top to complete the last missing piece in their trophy cabinet. The only one that they had been waiting for for the longest time that they had to go through. MSE 2023 losing to Onik ID in the semifinals. MSE 2024 as the champions of the Philippines coming in strong again but falling short. Now they have done it. Now it all falls into place. They switch one legend for another and now it is complete. They have 100%ed this esport. Ladies and gentlemen, watching from around the world, this is the crowning moment. Team Liquid have done it. They’ve made it to this moment. And now it just comes down to this final final lift. Team Liquid are finally MSC champions. In their journey to encounter the unknown, Team Liquid has proven that nothing is granted. Everything is earned. Once again, congratulations. Steve Liquid is your MSC at EWC 2025 grand champion. Guys, an amazing journey. And with that, Carl, come here. How are you feeling right now? Finally, complete trophy cabinet. feeling tournaments. He said he honestly cannot fathom how he feels right now. He’s insanely happy and the feeling very much different from other tournaments that he has won. Carl, I have a question for you. At the beginning of your journey, you said that winning MSC this year will officially make you the face of Mobile Legends. Bang bang. And now that you have won, are you now the face of Mobile Legends? Bang Bang. Yes. And there you guys have it, the GOAT. It is Carl Teasy. An amazing best of seven grand finals, but it will not be complete without another trophy. So, let’s call on my co-host, Milos. Hello, Rose. Hello. It’s been a while. It has. What an incredible matchup we just had, but we have one more trophy to deliver. Our Sony Finals MVP. Do we Do we have an idea of who it will be? Do you guys have any idea? The crowd chanted, “The decision’s been made. It’s Sanford.” Sanford, congratulations. Our Sony Finals MVP. Here you go. You’ve deserve it, my friend. Congratulations. A good flex. Hey, question here. Look, you used to be known as Baby 40 back in the day. You’re not a baby anymore. It’s been a while. What do you owe to that evolution over time? Well, I owe it to my teammates and thanks to them, I’ve grown a strong fighter. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you so much to everyone. And look, let let’s count together how many things you’ve won so far. You’ve won M series, right? You’ve won MSC and MVP. You’ve won MPLPH. What is there still left for you to win? What’s your next challenge? Just repeat it again. Repeat it again. One more time. And your MVP, your Sony Finals MVP, Sanford. And again, please give it up for your MSC 25 champions. It’s Team Liquid. However, guys, the day is not quite over yet because as you all know that once you win over at EWC, you will have the honor of picking three keys to be placed in your trophy. So, I’m pretty sure an internal decision has been made amongst these bunch. Who wants to choose your three geese? Carl. Carl, come on up. Come here. All right. So, official official decision. Okay. Which are the three keys that you want to be placed in your MSC trophy? Let’s go. Um, SRG OG, Onik ID, and Onic. And there you guys have it. SRG OG, Onyx Indonesia, and Onyx Philippines. However, I had a special request from Coach RC just now that he said he wants to give a message to everybody before we wrap this up. Coach, um, thank you so much then. Special mention coach coach Alro family wife helloion. Congratulations once again to team liquid. And now let us show it back to the studio. First time in EWC history, Team Liquid have made it, winning two different titles in the same week. Chess and now Mobile Legends Bang Bang. First of all, what an incredible series. Let’s talk about Sanford being surprised. Let’s be real, he shouldn’t be. He definitely shouldn’t have been. The guy was a monster from start to finish. We were watching him as MVP I think from that second game forward and he did not disappoint. So every game Liquid won was off the back of Sanford’s efforts. Sanford’s ability to dictate the pace of any fight he’s a part of and a majority of those games he played glue. I mean SRG did not let the Arlet through at all and that happened in as soon as game number one began. So from the very beginning they knew they had to respect Sanford. But the other thing that we do have to announce finally Carl Tezy has admitted with a resounding confident yes, I’m the face of MLBB and I got to say he deserves it after years of discussion. The debate is done. TLBH are your champions. Take a look at how the knockout stage bracket of MSE 2025 at EWC concluded. Maybe mix up a few results here and there. And this is my forecast. It’s the wrong equation midway, but it’s the same result. I saw this Liquid Stampede from light years away. Yeah, I think none of us I mean a lot of us didn’t doubt them out. They came in swinging strong. They ended strong. I mean overall TLPH have earned their win here. I mean like when we we read the patch notes, this looks like a exp’s dream and I got to say Sanford really fulfilled that dream and uh it’s not over yet. The fact that they chose both Onyx as well as SRG as part of that trophy every single time something happens like look at this. They’re going to be choosing the keys. This is exclusive for here at the Esports World Cup. first taking SRG OG’s key and of course taking both Any Indonesia as well as Anik Philippines. You could see how happy Carl is. He said it in the interview, “This win feels so different compared to all the other championships he’s won in the past.” And it hurts to see the key crush every time, but this is different. They’re picking keys as champions, as as memories, as proof that they’ve beat these teams who again, everyone we’re also looking forward to see heading into MSC. And now to solidify history here, we’re going to be looking at the club championship presented by STC with the win here. Looks like Team Liquid is up at 3,200 points, followed by Team Falcons 2,700. Team Liquid has a big lead here. I mean, and we still have multiple weeks to go of EWC. This is This could honestly just be the start for Team Liquid for all the Liquid fans at least out there. I mean like their investment worked really hard this time and I I got to say this is a big win for for Team Liquid’s fan. By the way, congratulations to both of y’all to all the PH casters here. Team Liquid made it happen. Unfortunately, SRG didn’t get the backto back. But here’s the thing. As a Malaysian still proud and I feel like for all the Malaysians watching, you should still be proud because again going up against Team Liquid, that’s a very hard series. But we know they give it their all. SRG definitely played well and that is an understatement. I think there’s definitely a nuisance to their run here and showing up in the grand finals going 4-1 against Liquid. I’m sure they had more in the tank. It’s just how did Kyrie put it? This competition, this contest, it’s mostly mental. So, I’m I’m hoping that SRG they’re able to gather themselves after this match and, you know, recollect and say, you know what, guys, we can do better. We we can come back. And again, MPL Malaysia season 16 is just around the corner. Yeah, who knows? They might be the ones to turn things around in the upcoming M series, too, because that’s what they failed to do as well in the previous M6. and the way they fought against Team Liquid Philippines. A bit of tweaks here and there. Definitely the draft was a question, but I believe they still have it. SRG still has it. And now to make sure all of this is recorded to let the world know. Right now, we see team Luca Philippines with his Royal Highness Prince bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud. They’re going to solidify this by putting their key on the totem for the whole world to see that they’ve made it. The story it began months ago, heck, years ago. And now, Team Eliquid. This is their moment. This is their time. This is what they have earned. MSE at esports World Cup champions. Looks like the goat, the face of MLBB rising up and putting a key. Team Liquid, the champions of MS. Not more than 24 hours ago, the chess man put his key on that same wall. Now tonight, the chessman Carl Teasy puts one up for Team Liquid for MLB. Yeah. And now again, big congratulations to Team Liquid. But that’s it. Concluding MSC and for you guys, let’s check out the Kadilla top plays of the day. Super heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. It’s a playground safe plays and my face comes better and my ex come on better music like come on new we mix no grabber fraud like scammer that’s a real pass when gets real so the real don’t scatter got bread and butter hands on the bread like platter said it’s cold out they packing beef got the Watch where I sleep when I roll around. Guess I’m ain’t even there when it goes down. It’s a playground game like my new playground for my new my new ones. That’s my baby. You let me shine and never shady. Girl say cute but I don’t fade me. If you ask me then let me say you got a queen and she crazy. Please never play me. He said, “Please never break me.” Switching station to Mercedes me. I can love you for the dog and all my days. Just never me. Watch your man. See play game like my ex playground. See some play game. My piss on playground got a ring and feel safe now. You see a pretty but I don’t want to. It’s a playground. Tell them mine. I don’t play. I kind of rise up. I lost a couple on the clim’s bad ain’t entertaining. Don’t move like that. Tell them move right back. Put shots over time to shoot right back. Robots. You can tell how we move like that. It’s a playground. got a ring and feel safe now. I see a pretty bird better want a cage out. Let’s games on the road like a playground. Like a playground. It’s a playground. Watch your man game like my ex. It’s a playground. See some big game like snakes and my ex come on. Water. Water. Running as fast as you can. Slow down. Can’t keep up. Don’t think I have any more left. Out of breath. Out of breath. Tired. Tired. I can’t take the pain no more. Yet you insist on laying puddles on the floor. I came.

Two matches to mark an EPIC end to such an INTENSE tournament.

Four teams, ONE CHAMPION among them.

Who will be crowned the MSC at EWC 25 Champions?

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