Official Tournament XXII! (2v2) - Forts RTS - Livestream

[Music] [Music] hello hello hello everyone and welcome to the fort's official tournament 22 2v2 death match we have completed the qualifiers and now we are on to the main event ladies and gentlemen get ready for some of the greatest forts games we have seen to date as we have the strongest players who have made it through the qualifiers to show and play here in today's matches as always we have a delay that is going to be a 60-second delay so feel free to ask questions in chat and the like but do not expect there to be a response from myself while the commentary is going on we do have a great many of the forts players in chat they will happily banter back and forth as do we have the ford's developers themselves in chat that are happy to happy to answer any questions you guys have but for now let's go ahead and join the discord call with the rest of the tournament organizers and we'll get this uh get this party started shall we oh we have incursus who perfect and we have uh romero doing all of the cat herding and all of the behind the scenes technical stuff that we don't want to deal with yes speaking of which the uh observer tools ah yes i believe that's getting updated currently ah okay great in that case uh we can go through the introduction and get all the uh all the teams yeah let's switch over to our intro screen here and uh first up we've got copium uh consisting of noah and now i believe i'm not sure if mack is actually his teammate in this one because i think there's been a last-minute change ah of course i wouldn't be a ford's tournament without a last-minute change yeah yeah uh it might change but i guess we'll see um but yes and also i believe noah is has he run or is he about to run his own tournament at some point in the near future uh he's about to brought in something yes he's got his own uh community run tournament coming up yeah that's pretty cool that's pretty cool um and he's been very active in uh in our tournaments in our official tournaments as well oh yeah for sure i think as of last night he got the top spot in the ranked pool this i think this time oh wow oh good wait very exciting oh it seems to have changed it changes every day it's a teutonic took it back it looks like by three that's good oh yeah god eaton is still at a 95 win rate why are you like this oh yeah he's like a fraction of all the games played in the top five it's amazing oh gosh okay and uh so the other the next team up let's see here make sure i've got this working properly and the next uh team for this uh tournament is danka merkel uh which is consisting of amberullo and finn these are this is a team we have seen several times before oh yeah and uh they they like their name even though it's no longer no longer an active no longer no longer active or true to real world politics i guess they've had this one for a long time they have what do you what do you think their chances are in the tournament this time because i mean they're consistently here they are they are consistently here and they've gotten they've gotten better uh this is something we've mentioned before but we've had a um we've had a lot of new players that have come and joined these tournaments and we saw like for example the qualifiers we had so many players trying to join that we actually had a qualifier this time around to weed out or to at least bring us down to a a quantity of players where we could actually have a single tournament for it and ambroulo and finn at one point were those players and they were the new players that were that just smashed against the uh the more experienced players and had their forts broken time and time and time again and yet now here they are through the qualifiers into the main event yep and i think they actually do have a pretty solid chance here yeah definitely a solid solid team very good oh right here um looking at the next team up uh is eaton's coaches i'm sure eaton loves that name i'm sure probably unlikely that they coached him uh definitely unlikely yes they've made with uh stefan and salzburg yes and i i sol's work is our german streamer tonight as well isn't he yes for those looking for those looking to see the uh see this tournament casted both in first person as a competitor and as a commentator in the native german tongue salsawork on twitch is the is the place to go see that what is it we had a uh we had a bit of a i was recently informed that there's a bit of a meme going on in this community because i get to experience a lot of different languages a lot of different words that go around and i don't know how to pronounce them all correctly and i pronounced the first several times at least for a while i pronounced salzburg as sales work oh right and apparently that's just his nickname now the one who sells work which made me laugh so hard so i i try to make an effort to i try to make an effort to learn to pronounce it better and i'm not i'm not sold on i don't i'm not confident on having and not being able to pronounce it better yet but i'm i'm i'm trying i promise coaches i keep want to say eaton's couches but i'm not sure why that's where they're coaching from yeah on the couch this was one of the channels that's moved ahead in our qualifying event so these were i believe uh the last team as well thank you merkel also moved down from the qualifiers so they were not preceded from the fpl yes yeah right uh okay so our next team is genesis correct now we've seen these guys a few times haven't we oh absolutely yes they are very consistent again oh yeah and i'm okay with this it's nice to have i i say that they haven't been top performers but they've always been kind of middle of the pack and i don't mean to disparage them that is genuinely a compliment because most of the players are so tightly knit at the top that yes just coming so close every time is impressive and it's it's always a joy to watch them play because you know you're going to get a good game yeah they definitely make some uh very interesting to watch my matches absolutely okay and uh next up we have seep [Music] eaton and mateo this is a power couple [Music] yeah they're all right yeah that's a good way to put it is are we supposed to combine their names then and they're like etao or something i can't think of a better way to describe it yeah we have eaton who is consistently the highest performer in terms of skill in force and we have mateo who's known for his laser accuracy his ability to play with what it seems like a ruler and just slice spaces to and fro i think they'll definitely place top seven uh you know what i would have to agree with you i would have to agree with that i think we'll go with that okay and our next team is suscells now these guys just updated their logo five minutes before the the oh no tournament i'm very concerned okay wouldn't be a fourth time without among us reference okay that's that's acceptable i don't know what x but i appreciate they got the nuke in there yes the jury just just the drunken you're missing slightly yeah yeah i'm expecting that to occur oh many many times with alex and firework alex is i think most known for the amount of mods and the content created throughout throughout the years it's he has gone uh pretty ham oh that's a good way to put it he's made some of the more complicated some of the more complicated mods as well so that's i appreciate that he is both a content creator in terms of steam workshop create content as well as actually being very good at the game it's like he understands what makes the competitive play so good he understands balance and he can implement that in mods or just purposefully ignore it for the sake of making utter chaos and that's a conscious decision in his in the things he makes and i i appreciate it i appreciate it a lot welcome to flying forts exactly sorry board shifts there's so many variations in my brain they're all so similar i mix it up every time it's okay oh god and our last team tonight is uh toxic try hard consisting of bowser and enough is puffy or new fridges poofy or cannot figures i like i mean i like that i would like to know the actual pronunciation maybe that's the the thing that there isn't one yeah they're all correct yeah oh jeez uh okay so uh one team had to drop out yeah so there was like a pair of buys yep yep so we have uh team seep i think buying into round two yeah let's have a look at the bracket real quick yep team c has a buy yep so the toxic trihards and copium are up first to decide who goes into round two and plays against uh mateo and eat him all right and uh to clarify for copium noah's teammate is ackerfreak who will be replacing mech 70. indeed i'm uh i'm concerned if that's if what rome said was literal or [Laughter] if that was uh not literally saying that mech is unconscious so let's hope he's just asleep that's probably the case we've had that experience a few times oh yeah all right uh now actually in terms of slots on the server i'm not sure eaton can be in there uh yep oh yeah he can just look on your screen i guess yeah just uh yeah i was going to ask about that but i think we're just so we're just looking for copium team right now i yes i believe so yep okay so it's just uh noah and ackerfreak it looks like excellent i believe they're in their first practice match [Music] why have they done this because one team uh withdrew there's going to be a buy in the first round so instead of having a few matches before them they are up first okay makes sense that that means we could ping them to come into the server to be fair uh most of these players have played together a significant amount it is not like they are completely inexperienced uh just generally you want to at least warm up a little bit before before playing in the tournament oh yeah at least that that makes sense to me gotta warm up the warm up the hands ah there we go we have one we've got one in here the other one is sure to follow oh jeez bowser has so many badges oh god and see is that more than eaten i can't i don't think so i think eaton still has yeah bowser the most it's close oh yeah that's cool mateo has the most second than bowser ah okay mateo has gotten a lot of those community community ones i forgot to mention that we have a special guest with us in the uh in the chat we have joining us oh that voice is in my head it's oh conscious speaking bob oh i don't have one of those yes for those for joining us for those who missed the introductions we have eaten himself here in the voice call with us casters and is going to be adding some insights throughout these matches alrighty so uh yep we're starting to do our bands um copium ban scatter shot it's helpful that they have the name of their team and their their steam name yes that was a very good uh very good call oh yeah oh wait i think noah did noah go first yeah he did that was not quite right okay i'm guessing that would be the same order if they did it the other way around but uh it looks like we have scatter shot and pinch fist band surprises the usual suspects all right so it looks like we are good to go the bands have been completed the teams are configured and everything is ready to go time limit set to 15 minutes observer tools online yep ready when you are all ready all right here we go all good there room indeed cool here we go three two one exciting first match oh yeah and we're off oh boy it's a spooky game ah alrighty on the left side we have kanokies and bowser with the toxic trihards and on the right side we have copium xd with noah and ackerfreak yes and spook that's what i was about to say both teams are playing as spook means we're gonna have a mirror match a mirror match where everyone knows what everyone is doing at all times which is to be fair um not terribly different from a match where spook isn't involved it's just a little bit easier for the players to keep track of things i do want to point out my workshop tech it seems yeah everyone's going workshop tech at the same time and everyone's doing some variants of the rear wind turbines the back turbines so they're able to hard wall and defend their turbines or energy production with metal and yet they still have 100 efficient turbines you see it implemented in its various ways this is a tactic that has uh gained a significant amount of popularity recently and i think rightly so it's one of those what are those strategies that the ford's community didn't figure out for a long time or i guess more accurately one of those strategies where we didn't figure out how to do it cost effectively for a long time and then once once someone figured it out i ca i genuinely don't know who would take the credit for figure it out the first i know i learned it from eaton once once it's got popularized it realized wait a minute this is actually really good let's do this every time and so now we're here i would give credit to merrick's for that he did it and that's where i learned it from mateo as well i think i would have to credit uh yeah yeah he does he does he's it's with a good reason he does a lot of it he actually comes up with a lot of these things this is a very narf thing to do he is the epitome of the fort's r d the r d branch between between him and between him and uh pence oh yeah let's see it looks like surprised there's no seep i really expected if it wasn't to be been then one or both teams would pick it i mean seep is yeah sipa is one of the commanders that's fairly often picked when not banned looks like we're gonna have a little bit do have some buzz saw action going toward team two here so they're going to be uh defending that cannon it was vulnerable to buzz saw sniper was a bit of an oversight there as they are spooked they didn't know that uh a bus saw was coming out from team one um but he dropped everything and protected it with sandbags as quickly as possible yes definitely a good idea losing a cannon now would be catastrophic be not good looks like the laser beam fire beam combo for the lower base of team 2 right on time very close very close indeed that's technically not fully protected but making that shot is extremely difficult and it looks like teamwork not gonna try again you have a bit of a mirror battle here yeah teams are very similar curious all those team two's tuppes has now gotten a cannon our second candidate second cannon and their first cannon is further ahead than team one's cannon so team one is just overall slightly further behind i i did want to notice i did want to point this out a team one's top base with the cannon did not do the the fastest possible possible cannon rush here um i was expecting them to be a little bit more swift with it because they didn't go with the rear turbines they had they technically had the ability to be further ahead in their build order but instead they went with the five mines and in the process managed to get themselves slightly behind by 10-ish seconds yeah i think he bought the bus and if it would have dropped uh team two's top bases cannon it would have been very worth it but now he's just behind because of that bustling that the risk didn't make sense although in the end they're firing almost at the same time dealing core damage to team two's yeah and penetrating all the way through killed that hurts actually that hurts a lot because that's going to reset that that's going to reset their players all the way down oh oh that's not that's not strong enough damage oh he's out of energy that would have been enough that would have been lethal if he had the energy to burn through it oh that hurts so much that's such a huge mistake oh it hurts so much to see only has three rear turbines one not very efficient as we can see all right so it looks like we're at a kind of a stalemate here everyone's pointing cannons at each other and no one's dealt any real damage we do have so we do technically have core damage done on the field team two both of their players have suffered core damage that does technically put team one in the lead uh because in eight and a half minutes when we hit zero on the countdown timer if things have not changed if no cores have been destroyed or exterminated between now and then team one will win in at the at the end of the stalemate as the tie break condition but position wise on the map strategically just looking at the status of every fort no one's winning here it's just a draw or just right in the middle however what's a nice shot yes oh man a couple very well placed shots for team one that does put team two's lower base on in a rough spot but not enough to make the difference yet and i think that balances it out just by a few percentage points very close yeah that actually gives me fire damage oh no uh how did that penetrate did that hit just below yeah that's what i thought i think so uh that looked i'm gonna have to look at that in the replay that looked i'm pretty certain that went below the main armor block and still managed to hit the core i didn't like it i will have to i need i need to see the replay on that one so i'm not i'm not certain okay in either case an extremely well placed shot out of team two's acker here yeah very well placed shot there oh store snipe that's the comeback shot they needed to make the difference here that's one cannon removed oh oh that extra weight all that extra weight on bowser's fork could pull him down if he's not careful this is what ropes are for bowser use the rope looks like he's still going for that mine shot um team two bottom player has defended a bit more around his minds just to make sure that doesn't happen again oh the splash damage it's just it's just slowly ticking away at the core's hp bowser has lost a lot of metal uh in a lot of time just due to those those turbines not being back turbines um being as exposed as they are he's lost a lot and he's gonna try nukes to come back but it's gonna be a lot of time to get those he's gonna need to stall [Music] he does have the time at the moment oh howitzer is dangerous oh yeah that one can actually just end the game here if that completes is bowser's to need to sustain a lot of or a lot of uh aaa to take care of that howitzer i don't know if he's gonna be able to do it bowser does have access to the additional minds of both players so it's it's got a lot of economy right now a lot of income but the howitzer with the canon follow-up is devastating that is cannot be underst cannot be overstated oh oh very nice shot resetting the clock on those swarms as well as breaking one of them is uh might just delay it beyond the time limit here very well place shot by uh by agrifigure indeed that's a second laser that's done ridiculous amount of damage so far out of backer freak i wonder if i don't think bowser's cannon has an angle on those lasers [Music] the shots out of acura freak here wow gg very well played shots for macro figure not missing a beat no we're just suppressing with more cannon fodder waiting for that howitzer to complete oh the desperation turbines doesn't have the energy to do things it's just putting them up there hoping they survive oh no it hurts so much and now the howitzer is coming online yep noah's going to destroy bowser here oh some nice cord damage but i don't know if it's gonna make a difference he does not have enough in front of his core to defend how it's our cannon no it's going to go deep like no it just goes straight to the front there it is yeah no it just goes straight to the front here and there it is oh straight to the core pg there we go the team 2 curse oh yeah it has been broken yeah straight away first step maybe maybe it'll be only team two this time switching roles all right so i'm checking this replay because that that first laser shot was just disgusting and i need to see it disgusting oh man i think it took us all by shock they must have been secretly warthog or something no that just went straight through the armor that just went deeper than i expected that's he didn't replace the city so the fire beam damage all the wood yep and there is a downside of the back turbines uh unfortunately sometimes you have to undefend your the front of your core which which is uh dangerous as we yeah there's so there's i believe there are some two elements there one the yes there was a layer of wood on the inside that was removed to allow the rear turbines to function also there's a layer of wood on the outside in front that would normally be present but was instead background bracing it looks like at some point the sandbag replaced two entire layers of like two boxes worth of foreground bracing in front and that meant there was almost nothing in front of the core just a piece of metal and a couple pieces of wood in front of it where where the laser struck so yeah that just went straight through there was not there was not a solid wall there okay yikes shot yes wow alrighty and with that copium xd moves on to round two and uh the toxic trihards go into the lower bracket just a reminder this is double elimination so the teams that do lose do have a chance to come back and win it all excellent [Music] all right um yep so it's going to be uh sussel's versus eaton's coaches looks like it and how much did these guys coach you uh eating uh they didn't i'm not sure where they come up with that name i think they beg to differ like we don't even speak the same language i don't understand it what's the translation for canon [Music] alrighty guys we're just waiting on alex and firework i believe everybody has fireworks i believe team one is uh team one is hustles okay so we'll need them and we're still missing yep whatever they're wrong team two oh yes he's uh he's streaming his point of view right yes indeed make sure to check him out on twitch that's uh that is salzbach hey german stream i believe indeed and there we go are these teams right i believe suscells is team one switch firework and stuff yes all right there we go excellent just waiting on commander brands here there we go scatter shot is bad or scatter shot never gets to play never gets to play oh no they didn't bend seep oh oh oh oh on stalag tights uh oh well this is the interesting one yeah let me see how this one goes you might see some missile action here can't wait all right everybody readied up [Music] oh that would be good if i did it looks like we're ready to go okay here we go three two one and we're off there's the seep oh boy and so here we have it uh last time we had a mirror match of spook vs spook this time we have a seep versus spook with the socials team on the left side picking up seep facing against their opponents eaton's coaches going spook so to their advantage they will know that their opponents are spook or seep i mean indeed so see that is one of the features of spook spook does get to immediately reveal who the opposing commander is so the right side team will expect missile-based shenanigans out of the left team here or at least missile-based play so they're they're going to know to prepare for that and i think we're seeing that in the form of the armory being placed down for both sides i would also like to see team 2 play for some map control as missiles requires at least some notable amount of map control in order to uh in order to work properly otherwise they just get shot down out of the sky these that is some tiny door that is that extremely tiny door and it's definitely only capable of sniping that one sniper sniper position from his opponent directly across which you know it works [Music] very true yeah that sniper is just gonna be there to counter snipe the snipers yes and that that is exactly what i want to see make them fight for the map shout out shout out to this little trick up here with the salzbach putting these two tittle little triangles on the inside and outside of the door just to make it invisible oh yeah okay i don't want to jinx it but i think firework will shoot below the core with his swarms and kill top base uh i think it's shot entirely possible he's gonna have limited time however as sal's work will be that should trigger yeah okay i was gonna say salzburg will be putting you some additional goodies below by goodies i mean wood because that's where sal's work intends to put his lasers yeah just definitely a scary shot that you have to be careful of it's like stefan is getting black here as well definitely a good idea is once those nukes get out and the active starts getting used those uh armored armored swarms really do a good job at distracting aaa oh yeah quite good black door is angled a bit too low that's all right well the flack the that particular flak is able to shoot at the missiles from above coming from the first player and it because of its tiny door it does actually keep it protected significantly from snipers and counter play which flac are notorious at uh being vulnerable to so i do like it even though it can only shoot down half the missiles it just means they need additional flag sources which you can see the one the one who sells work here has a flag all the way in the back uh so for the sole purpose of protecting a stiffen here yes and that that's that's what i like to see we have teamwork we have the lower base protecting the upper base we have the upper base protecting the lower base and it's gonna be very difficult for those missiles to make it across oof top base rod is fifth mine that's bad he is going for lasers so if team two can hold out here uh and they get their laser shots out that will be helpful but the nukes hit hard we have to repair bill there especially not connected to his minds now you can see his metal just draining his ability to just figure out what's inside team one's base here he notices the fifth mine there and builds it immediately yeah with the with the nukes repair bill here gotta make sure those are you have all the money mines you can absolutely and remember both players don't have to survive on the scale the late game team two just to have just needs to have one player get their lasers on the field so it's okay if cells work in their top base here gets pummeled out of existence as long as their second player is able to gain the heavy weapons that they need and yeah if sal's work is fast enough uh he can use the laser as a defensive weapon to defend against the the lasers or the sorry the uh the nukes incoming oh it hurts oh geez poor stefan doesn't have the money to repair not actually doing serious inter uh serious damage to the integrity of the base but enough splash that the repair bill on that is almost untenable yeah oh we have the fast the fast missiles oh geez uncontested completely wow there's not enough map control going on here the flack are offline there's no real counter sniping out of team two i'm interested i'm curious to see team one's investing fairly significantly into anti-air it looks like it i that those aren't positions that you would expect machine gunners to be in if they were expected to be upgraded to [Music] two miniguns oh the nuke snaked so deep into the sniper nest i think the a is because they're afraid of a howitzer because the house would hurt much more than anything else and they haven't seen what weapons team two has yet so that's that is true that is a preemptive i didn't think about that it definitely has a valid fear at this point the lasers for team two are just coming online firebeam in the second laser is placed but not not done yet oh man seep nukes getting take completely cleared out of this guy oh that flak oh my gosh very clutch black right there yes two birds one stone team two is doing very well here uh team one is about to be in a world of hurt and they know it oh target target spotted that laser position has been revealed it's going to get nuked it's going to get booked a lot looks like he's accounting for that and building out just in front of it just to make sure it has the proper defenses team one has a decent amount of uncontested aaa here um although that could go south very quickly if team team one was to get uh miniguns or any sort the nuke it just keeps going so deep like the nuke going deep doesn't necessarily cause some extra deformation that's gonna break the base it just means that the nuke deals more splash damage to a larger area of the base which is it costs a ridiculous amount to repair that much splash damage it's you cannot be taking hits like that and expect to proceed oh it's going for a straight up shot just want to point out how nice that follow-up was both players sank their their lasers directly into the same grid slot space of this from opposites unfortunately unfortunately for team two that still was not enough they're going to utilize the fire beams there yes although now that team one knows that they're going lasers um they're gonna definitely specialize their their defenses first nuke it's shot down second nuke is shot down very nice defensive defensive laser nice defensive and offensive very well played nice looks like some of those machine gunners are being upgraded to mini gunners now that uh team one realizes that it's lasers and not howitzers um base does have one just to remove excess gunners from team two here anything to help their nukes get through is what they need to be doing right now that is priority number one yes who he's going nearly ten minutes into the match no core damage not something you usually see with nukes in the match another nice follow-up if only that fire beam managed to land first it was a nice shadow on the buzz sauce uh that buzzsaw could do a bit of damage um no matter where fired well they have it they have it aimed down so if you just use the five being a little higher and then they both do the plasmas it will probably kill alex very true oh another seep nuke shot okay airburst nuke or airburst missiles that's good for team two stop base that's for sure team two's top base has built so far forward that when a hit like that happens on the inside it that the whole thing nearly crumbles oh not enough energy nearly getting the tech the tech while not terribly important to team one anymore uh is expensive and would it did deal quite a lot of damage to team one's economy nukes going for top base lands interesting team two spamming that ability as much as possible to get as much eco out of uh out of team one here it's working it's not oh yeah enough to take the lead but it is it is working team 2 struggling for energy uh surely you can add into those you can add to those rear turbines over here yeah stuff on space only having three turbines probably not at 100 efficiency is gonna not be enough for laser laser fire beam combo there especially considering that there are rockets now being fielded yep although that emp can get through it could open up some spaces where lasers were not viable before just saving the lasers for the uh the actives not a bad idea yeah not a bad idea at all it is terrifying especially if you also have the lasers lined up to also deal damage oh yeah oh very nice shot on stefan's fire beam there are working alex trying to step up their sniper game it seems to be working out for them ah yeah oh that was a close to uh if that emp had gotten shot down in his base would have been a bit bit unfortunate for him oh the nuke air burst just before it gets in it still scattered all of those swarms in which is painful a lot of damage it did that was surprisingly uh that was all swarms very surprising there i think it was close enough that the nuke air burst because the nuke when it is destroyed by minigun by machine gun fire it still explodes and still deals its aoe damage uh i think it was close enough that it actually dealt some damage to the base just the front of the base and then the swarms came from within dealing even more damage which to be fair was less damage than if the nuke had made it deeper and and detonated on its own yeah i think i think team one is going oh oh man what a nice laser shot yes he's firing that second laser just to be sure no core damage gets done in the last one minute and 15 seconds here yeah there's very little time in nukes too much more damage than lasers oh yeah i'm thinking if no core damage gets done or nothing major happens team one might have this yes for those who are unfamiliar with the rules if they're in in the case of a draw in the case of a tie the winner goes to the team who has the most remaining core hp and if both teams have the same amount of corey hp then the tertiary uh tertiary tiebreak is on damage dealt so the team with the most damage dealt will win i strongly suspect at this point it is team one however we do not have any way of seeing that until the end game screen 20 seconds left in this match tim two needs to pull off something pretty good here second laser just finished uh stefan here he has the energy for it he's probably gonna go for a hail mary shot going for the buzz sauce one more oh not enough not enough the dense bracing is too dense there we go he's well played very well played team one with the victory getting no core damage dealt uh in a seat match is very impressive yeah that was i'm genuinely impressed with salzburg and stefan here that was extremely well played oh yeah they just couldn't they just couldn't get the damage done once they brought their weapons out and i just i'm actually surprised by that typically the way that matchup rolls the way it goes is if the seat player is unable to deal damage or unable to end the game or at least get so much damage that the defending team is effectively out of the match then usually the heavy weapons players get a few shots off and that's just it the the seat players the aggressors the early aggressors do not they just don't survive because they're at a disadvantage going into the lake both teams both teams uh surpass their expectations that's for sure absolutely i would say i would say not necessarily because the new players once they deal a lot of damage they slow the heavy weapons players down and they can just build a lot of armor and then just tank all the heavy weapons for a while while also slowing down the heavy weapons players with their nukes especially when you don't know where it's gonna paint yeah if they had gone cannons and howitzer maybe because that's much more eco damage and actual core damage but they went for lasers so didn't really work yeah i think i usually do cannons in a scenario like that or at least i would the lasers did help team to survive however and that's worth pointing out yes of course but surviving is not enough in the tournaments you must destroy your opponents alrighty well very well played by both players there indeed we have cecil's moving on to round two and ethan's coaches going into the lower bracket uh let's see up next we have danke merkel versus genesis looks like the players are here yeah that was really quick they got themselves ready that's good teams are correct yes i think so yes team one band scatter shot and team two bands spook families they've had enough of the spook shenanigans only pinch fist now poor scatter shot yeah scatter is never going to get played ever scatter sniper is too strong maybe we'll have another scatter v scatter shot uh match up all right looks like we're ready to go cool here we go three two one uh my game just crashed uh well that's bad ah all right it's for you i guess i should be able to rejoin as a spectator yes uh yes i should be able to okay so we we won't have to interrupt the players here i don't think so all right one second chat all right then here on the left hand side it is duncan merkel as the pinch fist commander facing off against genesis as the phantom commander we saw this in the qualifiers last week we did yeah we saw some very good phantom play i have no idea how it's going to turn out this time uh last time it was on a larger map where they could get away with more things and be a bit more defensive which spook which uh phantom enjoys because that's it was more space for them to play with uh more distance they could cover with the spooks passive ability and feature of moving moving weapons around but here in vanilla the bases are close the income is is low and team one i could have sworn was going for an aggressive build looks like they're going mass cannons whereas team two is oh look at that those are fake minds oh oh no they're feigning a late game play where okay so team two is doing doing something we haven't seen yet in these competitive matches they're actually using the phantom's mind games ability these are fake minds they are effectively free to put down in place but they appear as regular minds the opponents this if the opponents are looking at this correctly means that the opponents are saying oh this is this is a late game build we don't have to worry about early game aggression if they see these additional minds placed here whereas team two is instead building three upgraded heavy mortars and it's gonna portal them horizontally and is gonna try to knock out team one in a single shot and team one knows this is coming and is already fully prepared for it oh they just given it away and firing that's one hit they all hit what odd bases they both players have here what is happening well so team team one saw this coming a mile away and defended against it but team one was already going for they were already going for a a super greedy rush so they had these kind of deformed pinch for style bases that they had to immediately transition out of in order to survive and it looks like they're trying to do the pinch fist thing of i don't you know they were doing the pinch fist thing of they're going to build extra batteries and metal struts around just so that they can sell them off later once they actually stabilize things um i genuinely haven't the foggiest idea what the whole rope bridge thing is for are they tech sharing that's that's gotta be it right oh yes yes they're tech sharing the canon the canon tech oh man oh my god storage as well that is the longest texture i have ever seen all right interesting now he can just sell off the batteries and place a cannon looks like he's giving it back for a second there they're sharing metal as well yeah since they are pinterest they get full reclaim on that oh looks like he's deleting something this is a meme strat and it's actually capable of dealing damage it's not fast and it's not worth it for sure but is it useless and i'd love to see it this is such a weird weird game it's like straight up both teams are being cheeky and being unusual and they're being cheesy team two is just doing it for the sake of having fun all right team one's doing for the sake of having fun uh team two is actually just trying to end team one here using the cheesy strategies and it looks like so cool though yeah that's i've not seen that before they have to be careful of deformation though as that bridge could easily fall oh yeah oh yeah unfortunate i do want to point out as i've said this every time the reason we don't see phantom a lot is because phantom specializes in these mind games we saw here some extremely strong mind games out of team two and team one just saw right through it as if nothing was going on yep that's why we don't see phantom most of the time duel howitzers on team one here oh my god yep i mean he built seven batteries and i was like what is he doing geez i was what's happening here fully expecting those batteries to be sold off the moment the tech sharing was complete just as a way of storing extra uh power and extra metal because you get your resources back when you sell the batteries looks like the fire beam laser beam coming out nice shot goes deep but not deep enough team two's top survives the bridge survives oh god here we see the laser weaponry removed from their firing positions this is one of the concerns out of phantom in a in a base this small with such low economy you really don't have a place to move your fire beams or to move your weapons other than your explicitly placed doors for your weapons to be so like sure the weapons are safer than being behind their doors but not so much not enough that is usually not enough that anyone really considers it worthwhile interesting a lot interestingly enough uh team one's bridge design here could have been used by team 2 as well they could have moved things onto that platform and shared it and then moved it into each other's bases uh yeah sharing and all that stuff weapon sharing all all of that is possible with uh with phantom yes which would be interesting to say the least but you know they could do it good lord someone's gonna do that now oh oh yeah i i think even if they did have the defenses for this duel howitzer is just kind of a death sentence oh the weapons oh that howitzer is on fire i want to point out both of those howitzers were fired at the six minute mark which two questions is not yeah the slowest it could be which is not the fastest they can be fired so this was not like a perfect canon howitzer timing but it wasn't slow six six minutes for howitzer especially two howitzers is not slow at all oh yeah i believe highly for pinterest 440 is the fastest you can get for for two howitzers yes remember they went maximum oh my gosh oh gosh and remember that team one got two howitzers despite going maximum economy and having to face tank the early aggression out of the phantom triple heavy mortar like that's that's wild geez i mean the benefit of one player having all of the big weapons is they don't need to coordinate it's just yourself which sometimes just works the best just pummel through the front door because you have two howitzers gifted to you by your teammate oh yeah it's ridiculous and the funny thing is too they probably did that specifically for this map this would not work on i mean other vanilla maps sure but ones that had to be like this it's a uh a definitely specialized thing that they did yes oh god what are they building oh i think it's gonna end it yeah oh geez the among us doesn't get to finish no construction perfect what a game beautiful that was a masterpiece of a game all right well gg like i can't i've never seen that before and that was beautiful so duncan merkel moves on in the upper bracket that means the next match is going to be the lower bracket rounds so eaton's coaches versus genesis will be our our next match up here looks like it oh very well played good lord the winner of this first down lower bracket we'll be moving on to fight the toxic try hearts yes i'm i'm still thinking about the tech sharing like oh my i've never seen i would think i would think if you're going to do that it would be so much easier to texture from the lower base to the upper base but that's not what we saw they've cast a tendril of a wood struts through the upper base without interacting with the upper base so they could stab it into the lower base and inject inject technology into it like oh my god it was very simple too very refined uh they definitely put a lot of time into that yes they were on top of another time i've only seen that one over the time and mateo shared his tech with noah it worked well i would like to point out watching that replay that uh team g was one more volley away from uh taking out the lower base if it uh i think they re-fired one time right after it saw and they deviated just enough to avoid the opening it created ah i saw that i'd gotten pretty close i didn't notice it was that close it was a very close opening yes um those those fan that phantom play with both both both teams here executed executed their builds very very well very worried both very impressive already like we said we so we have ethan's coaches versus genesis here the first lower bracket of today let's see what the bands are scatter shot is waiting yep i was waiting for uh a last person to join the lobby i'm like wait what's happening no it sells nobody's coming where are they nc oh there it is let's get her in seep already okay it's nice to still be surprised in this game after 2 500 hours still seeing something new that's what i love about forts it's just got so much you can do all right our players our teams are ready the match is made let's do this three all right let's see if i don't crash this time ah that'd be nice and we're off and the shenanigans are afoot already oh geez so here we have on the left-hand side it is eaton's coaches playing as the spook commander they will have access to see their opponents technology choices their commander and siphon some resources away from them every so often because their opponents genesis their commander revealed it's shocking ah oh yeah definitely a i well well uh well thought through pick for this map i'm sure so the lacking seep as an option we're not expecting too much in the way of smart missiles was smart missiles are still good you can still use them but without seep there are just more powerful options you can choose shock and awes gimmick well shotgun has two gimmicks one it gives them access to oil barrels which oil barrels allow you to gain remote control of of sections of base so you don't have to have connections direct connections to your expansions you connect once you build an oil barrel and for so long as that oil barrel exists you don't have to maintain the connection that means that we're gonna be on a map like balls here you can get some much more easily defensible expansions of course we see swarm missiles out of both sides despite neither side being seep sore missiles are good enough to be worth doing that though i suspect you won't see a uh dramatic over-investment into them and one of the reasons for that is shocking second ability uh shocking second ability temporarily converts oh oh all right yeah that's 500 metal lost and all the building time that's going to throw off team 2 extensively [Music] does that actually make the difference because team two so shocking i'll continue what i was doing before so uh excitedly interrupted um team two's commander shocker not the the active ability converts fire beams into plasma lasers and it converts 20 millimeter cannons into standard cannons for the duration of the active which means that you can build a lot of these cheaper hybrid weapons do a lot of damage just scattered about and then use the active ability to do very deep focused damage very quickly and it's actually quite strong you just have to survive long enough to get to there which i imagine was the purpose of team two going swarm missile opener uh which of course has been delayed by the removal of these swarm missiles yeah team two's early aggression ability was uh our hopes of it at least was killed with that swarm missile that's a pretty rough setback team two is gonna have to rely on their late game weapons from from top base here eaton i think uh you did a fairly daring chorus wing on this map during a tournament once oh my god that was wild we still talk about that by the way was it again it was against mateo and he lasered your core and it didn't blow up because it was left so close the warthog active got through yeah oh geez that was so good i'm so upset i want to point out i want to point out something here real quick if your core is destroyed you lose control of your base because you don't have any other way of the the core is the source of your control however with oil barrels they are also a source of control so if you lose your core as shocking and you have an oil barrel you can still control your fort typically you don't have anything meaningful you can do because you can't get resource income because you've lost so much of your base however it looks like team two's top player is preparing for that eventuality they have a battery they have a metal storage they have turbines behind protected as long as not all of team two's uh top bases mines are destroyed even if his core is destroyed uh we can just straight wow and core damage toward image there jeez fire beam penetrating and igniting the igniting everything meaning even more fire everywhere oh no the sniper again oh no okay he did defensively oh god oh one gets shot down oh second clears massive damage bringing a team two's lower core down to 41 we have the active ability charged and now shutting down all the turbines on team two and most of them at least actually have all of them and there you can see the firebeam plaza beam combo coming out of team one despite team one not having any plans beams must be hacking welcome to shocking ah nukes coming out again this is scary oh the gunners gunners are good and trench gunners very good until they're not then we yell at them yes and we get first some of the some of us yell at them more than others i want to appreciate that that nuke has not been repaired and is again exposed still flaming oh what a shot well that wasn't that wasn't very good player eliminated sal's work is out of the game that puts team he had a barrel would it have been enough he doesn't have a metal store it wouldn't have mattered uh so team one is actually in a very rough spot here uh team one's last remaining base does have does have the laser production facility as well as a fire beam but lacking a plasma beam of their own they really aren't capable of dealing significant damage here so team two is just in the lead in every way at this point well if you can even get to the new because you can try to land them with firebeam and that could be good bro team two does have some really good uh trenches here yeah that's the problem though oh you fired you need to get smoke of some sort or something to help well the fire beams are good they're still i don't know if they're gonna be enough for the the distance that the trenches are from where the nukes would be you needed to fire but it's not going to be enough oh protecting the swarms i might get the buzzsaw i want to point out that the nuke from team 2 has been hardwalled uh was unable to fire that during that last volley it looks like it's being uncovered now luckily he can't accidentally fire it yes oh that'd be bad oh okay very well played those sauces are all right i saw a a we've seen that at least looks like team one's top base has managed to get a plasma laser a plasma beam uh mostly mostly completed at this point i still have six minutes left in the match to make the difference shut down taken down we can see stefan here building more batteries just to be able to handle the two nukes at the bottom he wants to fire them both at the same time but just doesn't have the storage currently does now didn't before he does now yes oh i don't know there are a lot of gunners yeah that's just a lot of fancy air oh yeah if you could get a nice angled shotgun maybe or some sort of uh mini gunner something that could take out a lot of a in one swoop that would be good but i don't know if he has the capability of doing that right now i am surprised to see they aren't using the sniper to try to deal with that nuke again i used the buzz saw on it and then didn't snipe it well now he doesn't have an option oh we both know that sniper's coming right back oh yeah oh nukes for the eco damage it looks like yeah not a bad idea oh wow despite that short range it still gets taken out entirely both teams have good gunners right now very good gunners it would seem he's getting ballsy with the oh oh this could be bad very bad bringing the core down to actually kind of surprised they didn't do more structural damage that that was an internal that was secondary explosions with the batteries yeah a nuke touches now that could be very bad oh it just snuck through wow oh my gosh all right well i guess i'm gonna stop talking now welcome to uh oh yeah welcome to forties this uh this happens sometimes well stefan has avenged his teammate here i that actually puts team one in the lead i want to point out that team their lower player still has access to control these these nukes and the machine gunners but they cannot be used because they don't have any energy to fire their weapons those gunners are unable to do anything that would be helpful at this moment but oh oh and that's it team one member is officially in the lead 69 core health that's rough team two really only able to do offensive damage when they have the active uh limits their options although they do have a singular laser um but really not the energy to support it interesting that wasn't a full energy burn but the double newt coming out there's no very well played i am i am impressed i am very impressed yeah that was a great thing coming back in the 1v2 we have team eaton's coaches moving on knocking out genesis to go on to the like the loser loser of round five which is up next it sounds like eaton has to get busy all right so i'm going to i'm going to go vc with my teammate good luck all right good luck thank you interesting caverns good map i'm waiting to see if team seep goes goes seep or if it just gets banned out right because yeah because copium knows they know no it has been hurt so this is going to be a this is going to be a power match here um oh yeah this is noah and ackerfreak versus matteo and eaton these are some of the most badged players in the game playing against each other um it does not matter the outcome of this is going to be a good game oh yeah be very good this is uh um everybody's being very friendly in the uh lobby that's weird usually they like to talk to each some passive aggressiveness no there's no smack talk yeah i know kick your butt maybe that will throw them off it genuinely might it genuinely might eaton and noah are notorious for constantly insulting each other it's great i love it oh yeah oh yep there's seep band scatter shot not bad looks like pinch is is left uh to be chosen have to see if anyone uh anyone goes for him everybody ready i believe so looks like we're good to go okay here we go time's up three let's choose one and we're off to another mirror match we have spook vs spook here on the left hand side of caverns this is the seep team some of the best players the forts community has to date facing off against their opponents copium xd also as spook commander ah we already have i've seen this build this is not a new build and this one is actually nice to see out of team two's lower base i like this one uh it's a little bit of wobbly to start both of the lower bases are doing something very similar yes is that just gonna be is this just the the meta play now for for this match for this particular map it looks like both lower players are going two different tech structures team two going for the armory route and team team one going for the workshop route interesting guessing bottom player on team 2 is going to go for heavy weapons rockets really do the only thing here but i have also seen a variant of this where you go mortars which i don't think are gonna be used here given its caverns yeah especially going for armory you know getting mortar is a bit trickier then well the uh the counterpart in team one is going for uh going for the workshop tech i i wonder if because in this particular build pattern um the buzz saw is actually quite good this build pattern goes eco-heavy and then eventually builds up using a lot of wood to place your heavy weapons behind um buzz saws ruin that pretty hard because there's a huge time frame between the placing of the initial turbines and the placing of your heavy weapons where you just have nothing but wood making up the intake making it up the a large a large amount of the integrity of your base yeah it looks like team two is panicking now uh team one player got a buzz saw team two player knows about it because spook and team two is going wild with the wood span oh yeah i'd be very afraid losing a 400 meter there in turbines is not something you want to be doing absolutely especially this one especially considering team 2's player has actually uh sold off all the metal around their core and surprise called it yep that gives charging active there team two is able to see what's happening inside of team one's base fully for the first time as well as draining some resources that they're not really utilizing both both players on team two are floating there for a minute although howitzer has fixed at floating issue as they typically do yes team two going for the fast howitzer the typical howitzer rush even getting rid of significant portions of their own base to do so geez they're really going after this oh the panic medal oh well you say that but that was a single buzz saw from each player and one of them hasn't even rebuilt the buzzsaw this is not a heavy investment in the uh early aggression here i lied they just added a whole line of motors which i didn't expect them to do but you know it is an option yeah he's in here is not really able to invest more in buzz saws he's out of energy as it is two two turbines is not gonna be enough to support that type of uh that type of buzz saw anger yes especially not with a swarm missile behind oh yeah and the mortars as well which probably will be heavy if they're not already uh they're just incendiary for now but we'll see does not save his buzzsaw or avengers yep now we're going uh starting to snipe which is definitely good uh most of e10 stuff is all exposed it's just the load it's just a matter of time before those heavy weapons come out it's gonna be noah taking hits from eaton for the next 30 seconds or so while the top bases rush their heavy weapons and it's gonna be close it looks like the plan for noah here was to go lasers eventually but uh seemingly unable to uh to get those out as he was really kind of harassed there a little bit at the start harassed he nearly lost his base a few restraining orders were put in place you know yeah very nice beautiful counter attack all three mortars are removed i'm giving that to spook there yes oh nice nice shot noah is on fire still not repairing there we go what is he doing come on repair it's not enough oh he loses the flex he loses both and the metal door it hurts so much that's rough well luckily for noah here he is floating uh since we this is me look at it there yeah well now he's got certified yeah he did lose a considerable amount of stuff is mateo come in with the follow up no why is mateo not firing his laser okay here we go do it does have the energy for it why are you strange he might just be waiting for eaton's nuke to come out i'm not sure i don't okay i'm gonna get to it if it makes him happy like those waiting for the laser at the fire being possibly he's that active cancelled that was a good active right there he's waiting for the door snipe i think very possible team team two is not really able to do door snipes at this point so keeping your keeping your doors open is not a huge threat until this cannon comes out yeah but uh still risky nonetheless it is i mean if he nails the shot finished oh geez nope saving the flack nice porter still lands but much better than a nuke once team two's cannon is revealed surely what happened what this self collapse [Laughter] oh and he gets the doorstep oh gosh that was right that was a cleanup that was a class act oh my gosh showing their superiority there yeah oh yeah it looks like noah tried to have some sort of um stability attack but never got to finish it it was probably being constructed while he was being harangued with the uh the mortars and the buzz saws oh no well that's unfortunate oh yeah he just built so much out on the front yeah he just collapsed oh jeez and that door snipe that was beautiful oh man yep wow yeah that was great oh geez [Laughter] well a series of unfortunate events for team two there but that's how it goes well then team two knocked to the lower bracket [Music] next up it is the sussells versus donkey merkel that was extremely well played like oh my gosh that's unfortunate for noah there he uh probably meant to get some stability attack further down the line but just never got to it yes it was too late noah does love his uh stability tech unfortunately did not save him this time because he didn't have it i'm still impressed like mateo was sitting there waiting for the howitzer to fire she's sitting there for so long and just the moment the howitzer fired it was over just immediate game winning move if you remember the last 1v1 tournament mateo had that happen to him on his first howitzer shot and he did come back by the way with sniper spam yes it's just i just love seeing that especially when it's planned like sometimes it isn't planned it just happens or it's like an off the cuff that's flick and click kind of thing when your strategy involves i'm going to door snipe this and end the game it isn't i just happen to land the shot it's i'm planning to remove your strategy from the game and when you are sitting there planning it for 30 seconds and then everything goes according to plan it's just so much more satisfying that's for sure all right suscells bands first let's see well played by seep and kopium goes down to the lower bracket to fight eaton's coaches later on in this round so kopium had to fight eaton and then now has to fight eaton's coaches let's see if he has better luck this time uh i i i kind of expect to see that matchup again in the finals that would be good give them i i kind of expect to see the rema if i if i were to have any expectations i would think that would be the rematch in the finals coming from the lower bracket i want to believe all right we have scatter shot bands and pinch fist band so we might have a we're not good i don't think we're going to see seep this time given abyss as the map but i play an odd one probably spook maybe architect architects is another good choice here a lot of possibilities for for purpose absolutely all right looks like we are good to go time zone let's do this three two one and we're off it's a spook mirror match ladies and gentlemen here on the left hand side we have team sussels coming in with the mungus memes facing off against their opponents duncan merkel hot off the back of some meme based victories dr merkel i wonder if they have any strange strategies for abyss abyss quite an unusual map given the verticality of it definitely i haven't seen any particularly strange strategies out of abyss recently abyss is known for its i'm going to say unconventional strategies but there hasn't been a grands revamping of its strategies since i don't think ever and i don't i don't know if we're going to see anything like that today as today would be the time to to bring out the big reveal of some game breaking or some defining strategy and to wield them against your opponents looks like we just have some basic sniping and pressure out of team one applying some damage the turbines of teams you here but nothing particularly eventful um [Music] i'm not sure what exploded up here but there it is oh no that costs so much and the emp lands and it takes out the machine gunner oh no shutting down the workshop tech there as well that's uh basically unable to build anything for the duration of that emp that's pretty yikes that one was that's just unfortunate there's no other no other way to put that sitting there losing energy with no energy production it's gonna reset them so hard oh no well the uh spook commander does give team two's lower base a little bit of energy to play with but they don't have any energy production for so long as that core is shut down which means that they were draining energy out of their reserves for a significant period of time looks like team one despite opening with the the emp is gonna be switching over to the laser tech i wonder what their plan actually is is it really just lasers at out of all fields they're not particularly swift about it is definitely late in the match for that but i guess they're just going to try to suppress but got rid of all their weapons so i mean i guess it's an odd match they tried they tried to suppress but they're not even team one isn't even really ahead of team two here are they are they actually behind i think their tech is behind that's for sure yeah i don't i mean economy-wise too i think uh i think they're auditionally behind as well yeah so team two uh their players are on maxed minds except for their top most base who's missing a single mine uh team one it's does not have anywhere near maximum economy here uh their technology is in sync ish about a quarter of the way left to go for each of them on their laser tech whereas the right hand side their tech is finishing up right now and has access to all of their mines and additional turbines so team team two is just ahead economy and is about on par technology so i don't despite all the aggression coming out of team one they really haven't done enough to make the difference here yeah team both both teams coming up with their tech their tier two attack uh pretty equally here uh team two's lower base is munitious plant just coming out now just what makes this even more interesting is that it's already canon o'clock that the heavy weapons typically would already be firing and yet team two just placed their first laser yeah definitely that's for sure on team two their top player uh i think forgot to make storages because you don't start with storage on this map and that really set them back they were floating for a while that would explain that actually i didn't notice that that's a common mistake common blender indeed i guess that's just unfamiliar the lack of familiarity with this map i suppose it's usually the cause of that the sniper going back and forth hitting the same tiny door through tiny tiny doors yeah ah geez constant struggle curious i do appreciate that both teams are actually using their snipers through their tiny doors just give some kind of pressure onto the opponent have the threat of damage even if nothing has really happened that's beautiful shot at the firework by the way landing two shots directly on the tiny door almost immediately it's very close very very close hmm i don't know what to expect that howitzer is gonna do a nice chunk of damage once it's finished from uh from team two here indeed and it's going to be finished not terribly long after team one's weapons so team one will get off a volley or two before that howitzer completes it's already in the danger zone as umbrella fires the first heavy weapon of the match at the seven minute mark yeah yikes it's uh very late i'm uh i'm guessing finn's finn's uh howitzer here is going to be the target for a bit i'm just hoping that it doesn't fire from team one here i absolutely or the defenses to handle it cut the sniping this sniping out of both sides oh oh geez team one loses just like it's ricocheting everywhere yeah it's like every everyone knows that all the heavy weapons are under construction they're not ready to fire yet so just nothing to do but wait until the snipers are out to play the strategy is revealed the hands played time to micro replacing the sniper for a turbine interesting [Laughter] interesting here we can see amarillo using open doors um instead of just regular armor or bracing to to support his more stretched parts of the base this is attacked we have seen several times throughout the years oh team two activating the commander ability just in time cutting short team one's laser burn wow a lot of damage dealt with that one oh yeah alex receiving a lot of damage while not being able to repair it uh as easily now having only one mine uh yes slight problem laser from above cutting deep and into the economy of the top base whereas the howitzer from below just causing ridiculous damage bringing a massive repair bill oh going straight for the core now oh the counter laser oh my gosh nice technically not a door snipe as it went below the doors but did the same job removing team one's laser very nice shot snipers are still sniping just trying to clear the clear the skies for the howitzer to get through looks like he's making room for a second and is uh gonna have a second house or soon here saving up metal as well it's only a matter of time the laser oh the double laser oh my gosh oh luckily he didn't go down yet yeah he had so many doors would do a lot but the bus saw reflecting off the energy shield going right back from whence it came oh it's disgusting now oh trying to do just some damage while they're not connected trying to get any anything done that they can additionally those shields uh when disconnected from the core shut down so they take time to come back online allowing team one to uh deal a lot of economic damage to team one's lower base yes that is here that is by far my favorite way of disabling energy shields just because players don't expect it it's a good way around the problem that's for sure and usually pretty easily done too oh my gosh firework taking a page out of matteo's book the uh howitzer gets door sniped removing the entire segment of team 2's howitzer position very nice shot excellent yes we have more lasers flying to and fro oh no are we going to see the swarm missile placed for team one it looks like it wait for it there it is there it is yep interestingly enough though the tech was placed as such a way that it was uh in the way of the swarm missile yes i mean i guess yeah once it's once the swarm missile is placed you don't really need the tech anymore you can simply salvage it i am surprised to see team team two let the upper place base from team one make a comeback from that oh massive damage a little bit of a self-reflection there buzz saws out of both teams he rebuilds the tech the lower workshop tech squishes it over a little bit a bit of uh the foresight would have been good remember team one is not pinch fist so they do not get 100 reclaim it is expensive to sell and rebuild technology core damage has been dealt a little bit down it nope keep going there we go all the way down to 81 geez that's going to put team one in the lead at this point seems neither team able to really deal significant damage or actually break the defenses of the other i suspect this match is going to go to the timer yeah only a minute minute and 50 seconds left oh indeed minute and 40 seconds left team one is in the lead by means of team two losing losing some of their core hp a shot like that could uh really deform alex's bait for um yeah alex's base up here oh like that oh man yeah if those struts go he is i think done for yes yes that would cause a uh chain reaction of him ripping off the side of the of the wall here and falling into the abyss going for the shot again but there is metal there strategically placed by alex definitely well placed oh oh oh it's happening again oh the nuke is discovered and it's gone with it any hope of that nuke ever being launched this match geez those those pieces of metal are so blue they're still blinking despite being metal oh yeah that is scary that's uh any amount of deformation onto onto the upper base here will result in the end of the upper base like just just causing doing structural damage nothing too serious but i i think team one does have this i think so that uh that fire spreading was that the nail in the coffin for team two here there it is yep team one with the victory gg if only the nuke had survived if only if we could have seen it launch at least once yeah could have but it got sniped yeah the sniping that round was uh very good very impressive i just like when every player has the opportunity to sit down and just participate in the sniper wars very ai battle-esque all right so now we're moving on to the lower bracket second round looks like it will be copium versus eaton's coaches next up so very nice so yes we have cecil's moving on to the semi-finals to fight team seep e10 and mateo should make for a good match and we have team copium in the lobby just need stefan and then we'll be on to the next match or at least onto the bands hypothetical question what do the rules say if someone's core is at 100 but in free fall as the match ends we've never seen that situation it has never arrived yeah i don't i mean even though at that point i think it would still go to technically it would go to core damage or overall damage but yes that would be a tough call to make the official rules say we all go wow yes i agree with that one oh yeah all right scatter and seep have been banned or scatter shot what are these times scatter won't be banned and then we will see a scatter mirror match i hope so i never liked him that much before but now he's getting banned so much i just want to see i just want to see it now it's the snipers every time they're so strong okay must be getting close let's do this here we go three two one and we're off slight change of pace here on the left hand side with copium xd we have the warthog commander warthog commander known for its synergies in the late game with the heavy weapons they're facing out against their opponents eaton's coaches here in the lower bracket eden's coach is going with the spook commander so as is part of the spook commander's benefits team two is aware that team one has chosen the warthog commander [Music] heavy weapons here out of team one most likely absolutely team one on the other hand has not been officially revealed has not uh had an opportunity to officially see what team two's commander is although given the uh strength of the commanders and play you can they i'm sure have a very high suspicion of it being uh but being oh yeah spook interesting notes for missiles being built so are missiles extremely popular on this map just because of especially from the lower position due to the uh closeness of the match as well as the relatively low economy makes the early game scraps just a little bit more dangerous oh yeah especially with uh warthog as his missiles fly a little bit faster not fast but somewhere in the middle the warthogs the warthogs benefits also apply to the upgraded swarm missiles the warhead which means extra explosions all around at least extra explosive power very scary for team two that's for sure now team two should be aware of this uh in part because they are spook in part because team one is not making it any effort at all to hide the nuclear aggression here they're uh they're loud and proud about it yes yes they are and it's about they can actually launch their first swarms right now and indeed they will targeting turbines looks like team two will successfully defend their turbines yep just barely though but now i wonder so team two is just going double double heavy weapons here whereas team one's got one early aggressor with swarm nuke and one late game powerhouse with the laser technology with the nuke now or with the nuke uh however team one will be able to do that additional damage with the uh warthog active so yes those nukes are scary especially with the speed upgrade yes i think more importantly uh team one will will deal damage team two with that nuke unless team two responds in force it gives a heavy reaction here like the the warhead out of team one especially as well cannot be ignored team two will take damage if they don't react appropriately take map control get up a heavy amount of anti-air or in otherwise slow themselves down to spend resources on dealing with this dealing with his warhead oh what a buzzer critical damage dealing core damage as well oh my gosh oh what's happened here he's just left oh that that throws the wrench yep so that's a little extra greed goes a long way uh buzz saw chopping off the good bits of team one hey that nice neighborhood okay good damage dealt all around team one very suffering very suffering oh yeah not much hp leftover that was i'm surprised they let that happen this isn't dangerous they are very dangerous that he had both lasers down that's two explosions on the foundation on his core that's just how do you come back from that team two pretty rough he might i at this point he might just go for firebeams just to support uh the one bottom player here firebeam just to block aaa as the nukes go across the field which they're about to do i think he has to be active oh that's a lot of damage yeah as right now right now acker freak here is single-handedly suppressing both players on team 2 with his sniper which is impressive in its own right but his time is limited because team 2 hasn't been really stopped and now is gonna be fielding their heavy weapons and is going to return fire with a vengeance greater than anything acro freak has been able to deal right now i think while a single shot with the howitzer would hurt team two or team one here i don't know if it would be lethal to either player um it would be very painful to the bottom player here on team one but i don't know if that would kill him i apparently if it goes right through one of those gunners it hits near the foundation where the batteries are like you don't that's not that's not an acceptable hit oh wow the nuke went all the way through that through all of those gunners oh oh massive damage nice core damage shot and it takes out the sniper so there's nothing to defend the mini gunners the mini gunners failed to defend themselves this is an entire fire beam to take out the sniper oh that's great just to try to save the gun i mean he did he he sold off the gunner and got the money back for it i just want to point out that was a manually aimed preemptively fired mini uh gunner round to defend against the howitzer well they were nice shots that's for sure yes yes they were happy active you have the active we have the energy and a bold move firing at the upper base with that oh letting them on fire as well massive damage critical damage not enough to see that they fired the nuke at the upper base like i understand that it was the closest to destruction but team with the the closer base was clearly the bigger threat i guess they were trying to get greedy with it but now nuke into those tiny doors in front of the howitzer would have been very very painful for team two yes and almost indefendable like that was a a near free a guaranteed hit yeah well i don't know what team what is here yeah i don't i don't know if you can i can't even defend the howitzers um right now at least as it is oh the fire beam yeah so now we just end up with team one no weapons uh nothing but a chip damage of hp left on the base on the core and he's got okay economy but team two is fielding multiple bases of heavy weapons and has just brought the howitzer cannon combo online this is surely how it ends oh geez yeah noah's gonna have a hard time coming back from this especially with his opponents draining his eco that's not gonna be easy noah running out of money not even able to repair the damage dealt to him in that last volley and the next divali is reloaded and ready to go and they're getting a swarm missile to add insult to injury oh no instead of going for center master just going for the weapon expansion just scouting to see if there's anything up there i mean why not yeah nice job gutters the sniping from team two without their god tier sniper team two ruins oh oh my gosh that's a sniper just a clean cut that's that's something you don't see every day uh the gyro stabilized sniper that was that's satisfying every time are they gonna try to end it with the nuke i think they're gonna try to end with the dude that howitzer has been ready to fire for a long time he just hasn't fired it all right nope he's not firing it yet and he wants to snipe some more okay keep the gunners at bay where where's the did they not have an army they don't have an armor so we're not going to see any flack out of team 2. oh oh and we're gonna miss howitzer dealing massive damage to cannon follow-up not hitting where it needed to still dealt a huge chunk of damage with both of those hits the cannon slamming onto the energy shield which is uh an extremely expensive repair bill and totally worth doing every single time it just missed the core where if it had hit the core that would have been an immediate game over team one on the back foot here for the most of the match after losing those uh that's the initial buzz saw shot pretty hard to come back from that you can see noah struggling here that's about the best case scenario for nowhere there no court damage dealt but with zero funds left in the bank noah is not able to repair and the fire beams off cool down the nuke it comes in he's selling noah's just selling off his storages just for any amount of extra income here we see a downside of wart warthog here once you lose your heavy weapons there's not much point to having him he doesn't provide any type of uh ability to come back oh the the fire beam it the fire beam the anti-synergy burning the cannon shell out of the air that looked like that would have been a lethal shot too i think so it looked like it would have gone through like that looked to be aimed to the core at the perfect timing now we're just spamming for his life at this point yeah i'm pretty certain noah doesn't have a pact a big path to victory here just wants to hold on as long as possible and there it goes gg team two with the victory he did hold out for such a long time there he did a good job very very well played that is team toxic triar uh team eden's coaches moving on to the next round warthog's losing image it looks so sad okay so it's uh tonka merkel versus tox's toxic trihard yes the last of the lower round two bracket indeed moving on to see who goes up against the eaton's coach it's defeating copium xd the round two matches duncan lyrical on team one i have bowser and other teammates there we go we have scatter shot band okay and phantom oh oh no can't use phantom this round how dare you oh god that's that's funny i i appreciate that i appreciate that but stalactites 2v2 we're probably going to see some seep play this time then will be very scary very very scary all right only so many commanders you can ban alrighty here we go three two one let's do this and we're off ladies and gentlemen here on the left hand side it's dunk and merkel having selected the pinch fist commander we're going to see some cannibalized bases and well that's already happening but their commander choice is revealed to the other team because team to hear the toxic try hards have selected the spook commander pinterest is going to make for some oh god interesting plays that's for sure oh absolutely here on this map even on this map already we have seen the rear turbines cause some damage by that i mean be the direct cause of destruction of the players who are using them so it's uh you know that is that is the downside of them especially from a especially from pinch fist perspective where pinch fist specializes on catalyzing your own base definitely a risk reward thing here oh yes i am curious as to what strategies will be employed we haven't seen seep selected in this particular match so it is unlikely to see a an unusually high amount of swarm missiles given the position of the rear turbines it's actually safe to say no one will be going for swarm missiles in this match period at least not in the foreseeable future common strategy on this map if you're not steep obviously is um going for a howitzer and a cannon on top base and bottom base supports with either double fire beams or laser combo yes i wouldn't be surprised if both teams do that looks like we're uh leading up to that that's what i was going to bring up because we do have well the canon tech out of both top bases and the energy weapon the laser protect on the lower bases one thing is team one already has the storages yes one thing worth noting uh team one both of them are a good 20 30 seconds ahead of their opponents here which is par for the course given that they are pinterest they can cannibalize their base more effective more efficient effectively efficiently and turn that into a faster rush of heavy weapons where team two they can see it coming they have spook but they can't go faster than pinch fist yeah knowledge is only only so important if you can actually do something with it you're doing a mirror battle and they're faster than you then there's not much uh not much you can do yes and that is that has been an argument against against spook it's fairly common and uh with good reason here we see exactly the howitzer and the firebeam plasma beam a firebeam plasma laser already placed and uh that's a quarter of the way completed whereas look at that their opponents place down doing the same exact thing but that's just a solid 30 seconds behind which is expected so i'm curious to see how it's going to turn out i i suspect this is just going to be team one finishing their weapons 30 seconds faster than team 2 firing and dealing critical damage before team 2 has an opportunity to do anything about it you see regular lasers come a regular laser coming out from from team two here interesting setup for those lasers there i uh the doors are gonna be a bit funky yeah i'm not sure what that's about um i suspect they had a mishap uh box sizes too small and had to redesign and instead of redesigning just elected to put the laser somewhere else i suspect is what happened there well to see how it works yeah all players like the laser with the door snipe the uh the fire beam as well yeah actually it would which is unfortunate very unfortunate all players involved uh spending their time getting defenses ready as it is coming up to canada clock and everyone knows they need to be able to take hits and so they're going to do that right now furlough shooting the first shot caribbean follow-up with the laser runs out of energy before it completes its burn not perfectly aligned with the fire beam plasma beam focusing weapon convergence uh nicely timed spookability took the rest of his energy so he couldn't do the full plasma indeed one of my favorite elements if your opponent's doing a swift timing like that a very sharp timing and is using every amount of energy as pinch fist often does just use the spook ability cut it down in its prime oh the sniper nice type doors sniping the fire beam instantly removing it from play oh my gosh oh wow defense is hanging on by a thread oh the the howitzer he's got a fire he has to get that fired he's got to put a turbine he has to turbine it oh god the turbine didn't break the camel's back there and make the whole thing fall over and that's it fire beam forecast there it goes player eliminated very nice shot or combo of shots at least into the wall with that one just as i said so this is about panning out as i expected the pinch fist rush it just comes out faster they had more time they had more resources to get the defenses ready they just had a faster timing and sure spook was aware it was coming and they had about the ideal defense against it but it doesn't matter if they get a whole extra volley free against you yep oh that was a nice snipe but uh jeez wow that was such a good shot howitzer strong oh he almost did himself in almost i want to see that last shot again of the replay because that was a satisfying laser slice at the end there well that's what happens when you go chunky defenses against a uh howitzer type build kafki's had a good defense there but bowsers was a bit i think to uh tighten it just did a lot of damage a lot of weight all in one spot too yeah and once the once one forward brace broke it just the weights chain reacted all the way through the rest and just ripped it off yeah those those early volleys from pinch there really gave team one a commanding lead team two had no no real chance of i think coming back it does make the argument that spook should not try to match a late game rush yeah i uh yeah spook is not exactly tailored for for that kind of mission there so we're doing uh the lower round uh round three yes lower bracket round three darker miracle versus eaton's coaches alright no oh yes the map will be eyeballs balls all right uh team two remember you guys can see the bracket for yourselves using the brackets command in chat whoops that's right written firework and there goes pinch all right all right scatter shots and pinch fist band on the map balls i suspect we're going to see seep play yeah that's oh it's scary it is very scary have we seen has scattershopping banned every match so far every match in the tournament yes uh the qualifiers scatter shot did see two matches played i think i know there was a mirror match i think that was the only one uh i think there was one i would have to look back at the qualifier matches again but today we have not seen pinch scattershot played and scattershot has been banned every single time big sad all right i believe we are about good to go here yep here we go just whenever the players are ready looks like they are here we go three two one oh and we're off i am not terribly surprised i am surprised to see phantom but i am not surprised to see phantom because dr merkel has been using phantom at every possible opportunity so far and here we have donkey merkel on the left hand side doing exactly that facing off against their opponents eaton's coaches using spook spook another fan favorite or should i say a player favorite unfortunately for team one here their uh phantom shenanigans are no match for uh for spook yes he's all spook does see through phantom's gimmicks through the mechanics the fake devices are not fake to spook and spook can see inside the bases of their opponents during their active so all of the weapon shenanigans and the base invisibility stuff is null and void so it is not impossible for phantom to gain some benefit from their commander well abilities it is just mitigated strongly yeah at this point they're kind of just limited to just using the uh the move feature exactly moving things to and from inside their bases which are still very good but yes and they do lose a lot of versatility there with going against uh spook let's be real here even when the phantom commander players have been trying to do brain games mind games of various kinds even against opponents who are not spook it's fallen completely flat they've seen through them like you do not need spook to deal with phantom commanders mind games you don't need it at all and every time they've attempted it's just not worked and it's only ever worked against them so i i don't see the spook i'm sorry the phantom commander's abilities here being used by donkey merkel aside from the weapon moving repositioning mechanics and that isn't affected by spook so yes sure spook hard counters mechanically everything that phantom does but practically it has no effect because you can't use those abilities on phantom anyways not at this level of play yeah very true although the the team won here not knowing that team two is spook they're gonna try to trick them anyway just to see what they can get away with but uh as being team two they can't see everything being the observers yes us up in our a bird's-eye view we see here that team one is building some fake swarm missiles just to try to uh play some mind games against their opponents their opponents are not respecting this at all because they know that those are fake also additionally they can see the fire beam uh being placed at least on team one all the weapons being placed that are hidden for team one are not hidden to team two they can't see those get placed oh sorry not a fire beam a magna beam oh i was gonna say yeah they're probably gonna do their cannons again oh boy the last time they battled their way out of the qualifiers with this build exactly they did it with style oh yeah they're i'm sure they're hoping that it'll it'll have the same effect here yes and it's on the same map as well yeah balls balls is very good for this the uh the defenses above and below the core at least on this map are are often uh lacking they kind of sort of have to be yeah they're not particularly stable you have to cut defenses somewhere and considering you would have to defend top and bottom usually like split half and half which just means you're not fully defended against much of anything on the top or bottom and given the magna beam cannon combo that's a lot of firepower coming from above and or below oh yeah on maps like uh vanilla or usual hanging maps like that there's just two axises of axes of defense uh with this there's three sides that the weapons can come from so it's uh pretty brutal to try to defend all three of them oh dual nukes here both are technically hidden just by virtue of background bracing so it looks like the mind game has worked bottom base is making a for no reason interesting i mean technically they haven't used their um they're active yet so they haven't really seen that they're fake but if they were paying attention close enough they would have seen it those were ghost swarms being placed curious well i guess they work slightly i'm wondering if i'm wondering if there's another reason for the for the machine gunners being placed and i can't think of a reason why i can't either i don't see a howitzer anywhere or anything like that yeah i don't think that they're afraid of a howitzer maybe they are afraid of a howitzer potential howitzer we did something you guys can see topics can see that he doesn't have enough storage for howitzers even if they did a trick with the sandbag it could be just like i don't well it seems that they know about the the magnitude at least they are defending all getting a lot of sandbags on the upper sides it does drunk nuke things drunken master all the way through okay here we go oh god oh what a shot in from below i i almost just tried to slow down time there because i was expecting something cool to happen oh god i'm sorry for watching him in slow motion team two's top face killed one of the cannons though with this plasma that was a very good shot from both players there both teams doing a lot of damage although i think i think uh team two took the got the worse the worst end of the stick there indeed yeah laser attack and some batteries oh yeah knocking the core all the way down to 23 percent which is 77 poor damage done and that's a lot of damage they cannot sustain another hit like that but there is a perfect example uh top base defended from the top expecting those those shots to come from above they just came from below and nearly ended the game uh could potentially have ended the game if they were slightly better aimed but that's not really something that you can expect nonetheless they did top base quite a bit um oh yeah is still able to fire his weapons but it's gonna be rough if he loses a laser or his core you know those things are important damage being thrown either side but no coordination nothing that's intended to truly destroy just trying to keep each other in check do as much economic damage as possible we have missiles coming out from team two's top base here just trying to uh possibly help his lower his lower companion try to get those nukes through i mean so far the nukes have been fairly successful team one does not have much in the way of anti-air especially from that low angle uh under the ball it's uh it's hard to have a that can attack from down there and get there in time oh oh core damage that is scary i am surprised to see [Music] team two's top base has not gone over and above with the defenses around their core here they go again i'm not sure they're gonna try to fire this time yeah because the cannons are off he used the cannon up just before the active was uh was used so i think that was a i think this is just maybe just a massive yeah just trying to survive while they do some base reconfiguring and defensive yeah they didn't try to attack during that oh wow zero percent very close [Music] oh yes cannot take any more damage that is scary you do portals to make sure it doesn't die yes i don't think this is i don't think we saw any portals in the qualifiers either we haven't seen portals in the qualifiers either we haven't seen portals in a tort in it with the exception of the horizontal mortars we haven't seen portals no no defensive oriented portals we have yet to see defensive oriented portals although in this in this case right here this would work very well unfortunately the way the missiles are placed uh top top base on team two is unable to fire them unless he wants to risk having his core touched which i even breathed on i think it it's gonna it's gonna go uh kaboom yeah you see he he could also just portal those out too portals are they are a thing that i think a lot of players especially at this level forget about them because portals are just so inefficient and deeply sub-optimal in so many different ways that considering them is just like blasphemy yeah he is he is building a lot of turbines back there just to ramp up energy productions for the nukes but he still can't fire the last one oh this is gonna be an aggressive play activating their cloak spook firing blindly to where the cannons were meant to go but the cannons are replaced elsewhere going for the trick shot kind of misses the misses the mark there i bet they could have killed the core just straight on yeah i think if they just sent both of those cannons to the front door a straight center mass it would have it would have done enough splash damage to end him of course team one doesn't know how much hp that core has left at least not nor does team two well well technically they do but yeah i'm sure it's uh still terrifying a little bit yes no way nuke the nuke going between the bullets team one does they can see that smoke just pouring out of that core so they know it has to be close oh yeah no they can they could totally see that it's close and for me that would trigger my just just touch it response it seems to not be that it seems to not have an effect duncan merkel seems to have a little bit more reservations on the matter yeah very interesting he opened up the defenses which is oh here it comes again the trick shot would be afraid oh yeah just going for the there it is nice shot trick shot not even necessary this fake swarm has been deleting for this entire game he won't connect to it it's driving me crazy i keep seeing it on the corner of my eye like oh what are they doing [Music] oh the duke again they keep hitting that nuke is too much going for the cheeky buzz shots everywhere on team one lower bases just everywhere is protected by metal i don't i don't see a way for team two to come back in this at this point as much as there are there are nukes and nukes deal ridiculous damage a team team one is not relying on machine gunners to defend as long as as long as there's enough wood to just face tank and rebuild then those nukes aren't going to be game ending we see a double cannon here oh what a follow-up shot eg just some deep penetration time and again is enough to make the difference very well played gg all right dinky miracle moves on to the lower bracket round four there it is eden's coach is knocked out i'm super i duncan miracle moving on here makes me happier than makes me happier than you guys know and why is that well in part because salzburg is in it we can have a winner pov in first person view and in part because they're somewhat newer players to the tournament scene as we've seen like stefan doesn't have badges salzburg has one badge season 14 1v1 top 20. but no tournament victories before this is this is what i think it's the wrong way around what did i yeah eaton's coaches uh is sal's work and stefan yeah yeah duncan merkel is uh you're right i'm brutal and finn you're correct i've misspoken and i've i've misspoken very harshly we'll take out the post we'll take that in post it's fine it's fine it's fine they are new though uh relatively new yes in this similar situation they too don't have tour demand victory badges and it's nice to see but even then they still uh they got pretty far eaton's coach is there yes all right so i will be back later all right good luck good luck all right uh we have team one here the map is caverns the map is caverns so can sussel's defeat seep is that his question yeah yes oh it's gonna be it's gonna be rough all players involved have multiple tournament victories and this is going to be a good game regardless of the map regardless of the outcome there is a lot of metals in the lobby yeah oh yeah it's uh jeez matteos oh my god potato is so many 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty one twenty two badges on uh on matteo my gosh and there's so many community badges too it's wild wait a minute if ethan and matteo win this eaton won't get any closer to you super mateo is for most badges sabotage sabotage [Laughter] oh god all right so team one band scatter and team two vince poop i guess they don't even need me whatever they know they have been hearted enough they are learning oh yeah all right it looks like our bands are set up the map selected our players are almost ready there we go time's up let's do this it's all work there we go yep there we go all righty three two one and we're off already on the left side playing as pinterest we have eternal mateo all right we have firework and alex playing a seep oh god oh boy this is gonna be uh this is gonna be rough uh indeed it will both of these commanders known for their early game or at least their aggressive potential i expect we're going to see a lot of damage dealt and not a whole lot of ability to recover from it yeah team 2 here is probably just going to go all out missiles all out nukes probably as well it's gonna be very dangerous that's a good way to put it i mean why not you've got the seat commander ringing heavy eco this is a relatively recent trend in the pinch fist build orders where rather than just rush out weapons as fast as possible uh you go up to five mines and three turbines and then you kind of sort of eco it out and you abuse pinch fist being pinch fist to still get out weapons and tech about as fast as physically possible but have the economy behind to back it up yeah before having the not having the eco late game was uh pretty rough so if you don't get it sooner than later it's uh hard to get it later yes uh yeah it's and having having no eco is not fun you could have quick weapons but no core that's kind of par for the course for pinch fist even with the economy that hasn't changed much oh yeah it must be a good balance so nice about the commanders they really do add a nice a nice dimension to this game oh they really do and i appreciate that uh with the the bands system it actually enables for things to get uh mixed up even more as opposed to just being pinched versus versus pinch fist every time or scatter shot or both turbines going down yes remember at this distance you can't really react with wood structure this structure will not complete in time yeah if you're architects you can use wood to defense true but uh not knowing where it's being painted to is uh very rough don't know where to defend so you just kind of spam the most the most vulnerable places and just hope hope it's going somewhere else that that's the bit that gets me every time it's like well there it goes there goes my opportunity but where is the question oh turbine's going again that second one's probably gonna go definitely gonna go the sniper clean through yeah the sniper guarantees the kill on those every time it does so that's kind of losing his turbines twice there matteo in a rough spot matteo the player that typically goes heavy weapons of the pair oh jeez i think that's a thousand metal and turbines gone yeah that's gonna put him out of his way additionally he's placing a lot of sandbags which is eating into his already energy starved eco rough and it's only a matter of time before the nukes come out for team two and then it's only gonna get worse yep this is how you uh this is how you work your way into nukes with seep you keep the pressure on heavy with uh with swarms and a good a good target for that is uh is the the turbines yes rich people they're very vulnerable to swarms and very hard to protect and um a great way of slowing down your opponent here eaton has been largely uncontested so he's going to be getting his howitzer up in about the expected time frame uh oh oh nice shot but that was about the best case scenario for team one here uh the moment those nukes got the moment those dukes didn't get shot down by the flag where the moment the flag were got bigoted to shoot at the swarm missiles and those nukes were guaranteed to land um that was a rough position to begin i'm surprised automatically assuming he was gonna get hit by the nukes yeah safe assumption to be fair i'm surprised to see mateo putting middle there and i would like to see matteo expand backwards perhaps use ropes so that he could [Music] drastically lean his base further forward to get a little bit more extra space yeah eaton has a really really nice base here for defending against uh seep everything really the back turbines mean that there's no early um early kind of cheap shots on his turbines um and he has big big bucks big big bucks everywhere yes definitely a good way of defending and kind of knowing that your teammate is going to get hit instead of you which uh that knowledge is pretty helpful how would you expect howitzers like this well i say late game uh a bit more later than the nukes from team two here they were expecting i want to eat their own medicine oh yeah it doesn't help that the howitzer is fired at a very low power which it kind of has to at that angle in order to hit the lower base but it does mean the howitzer physically flies slower and is less likely to hit the target it gives the anti-air far longer to clear to clear the howitzer out oh oh the nuke it makes it still no car damage but oh no more turbines oh god poor mateo matteo is nowhere near getting his laser up and ready eaton's doing his thing now just sniping with an exposed sniper out there slow velocity again but i think it's going to make it it does turbine's destroyed and as well this is a sniper a few little goodies good damage but nothing that's going to really slow down team 2 here additionally that that uh damage kind of recoiled his base forward a little bit looks like he's having some some weight issues possibly on the front those load bearing struts are kind of uh kind of exposed not defended super well if they get hit by a howitzer down there could be uh could be lethal or the incoming lasers from mateo here the lower base already has stability tech in place i would not suspect there would be a credible threat of collapse but it is something to be concerned about yeah the defenses are a bit weak down there just by virtue of having the gunners oh oh nukes oh well that makes a difference that didn't go down further yeah these the newest yeah that's uh kind of a downside of this map additionally with the snow leopards as well maps have a have a hard time with that oh the howitzers he's able to get through it's able to get through not much damage being dealt oh no the cannon going to fireworks top base hitting ground and dealing no damage only he was warthog if only if only i hate going with the active again uh it's scary trying to get them to hold their flack as much as they can so they can fire the nuke hopefully uncontested for team two oh the speed it makes it through i just want to point out eaton is doing eaton things again and by that i mean he's got no defenses in front of his cord he's got two cannons adjacent to it with very with the most minimal amount of defenses around him it's just this is a true pinch fist base right here look at that he's got there too he's got a batter he gets door sniped once he's gone like his entire base falls apart it's just direct to the core he's got nothing defending his base right now they're just not shooting he's got tech like this is what eaton does every time and he never gets punished for it oh no he hit his own brace luckily for alex here firework is coming in clutch with the gunners the same shot i think he's trying to aim for the economy there knowing that if he hits those those mines then firework in this top base is just done yeah matteo had a nice shot there on fireworks core if if firework did end up going uh or did them initially have back turbines and that was all open that could have been a nice shot yeah but firework is by virtue of having missiles not done that so slightly unfortunate man eaton really likes hitting that one spot oh he did actually get the energy shield this time so he is aiming for he is aiming for that economy position makes sense it's a good place to hit matteo using his gutters offensively now it's a very good way of using your gunners when they're not doing anything oh yeah gunner's one of my favorites he placed a repair center but why though i'm guessing it was a misplaced uh sandbag i am confused with it i'm just aiming at now he could be going for the nukes as well if he could get rid of that sandbag he the sniper would have a shot over the over the turbines but i mean it would be a uh a tough shot to make oh the nukes oh oh oh the air burst i still love that sound it's so good oh yeah if that second nuke had made it through his laser probably would be gone right now oh right through there we go over penetrating going all the way through the base removing the turbines and with it fireworks energy production it's gonna slow the nukes down still holding strong yeah i think i do feel like though it could change quickly if uh eaton decides to get upgrades in there like he just did oh the new the nuke okay that makes it team one in a dramatically superior position over team two at this point we've gotten to the phase where swarm missiles and nukes just don't have the damage output of the heavy weapons being fielded by team one here but you can never count out the nukes because there's just a chance that they end the game every time they're fired there's just a chance yeah sandbags coming in clutch there matteo taking some revenge on alex for what happened all of his turbines [Music] looks like eaton is getting an upgrade center probably going to upgrade one of the flex and just into shotguns just to get rid of the aaa as it's all exposed on team two definitely a good idea and a good way to get the uh the howitzer through for once and for all i am i am amazed you still got those cannons there and they haven't been i can't like surely they try to shoot at each at some point yeah i mean with the nukes knowing that team two only has nukes there's not really any penetrating weapons so having having cannons they're well while risky um getting hit by nukes they're kind of more likely to fall or just be disconnected i mean still the forward cannon it's it's got it's sitting on a piece of wood that's directly exposed to nothing from below that could be shot by anything a swarm missile and this game ends oh yeah that's true like that's what this is he's gonna he's gonna sell it off there's nothing stopping him from immediately losing the game right now if just like a pair of swarm missiles hits that position which sore missiles are very good at doing i'm sure if if team two's lower base had like lasers or something like that aimed up there properly uh eaton would definitely not be leaving that exposed but i think he's willing to take the risk right now yes and it's it's a risk that is paying off oh there goes more damage everything out again the non-sea player dealing core damage good lord matteo has so many gunners i mean good yeah he really went full aggro mode here he really needed to though yes those gunners helping a lot eaton's just getting ballsy now he's getting exposed flack oh not this map oh a laser there it is all right firework officially out of energy with that last volley and with no production ah he's not going to be firing his weapons for some time 60 seconds left in the match really showing here a little bit of wood that goes a long way when defending against uh some rogue nukes yes i mean very well at defending looks like e10 is just building wood now just a tank for the last minute he knows they have car damage uh so he's just kind of going for the mines again he gets one this time surprisingly he goes for them now the economic damage is usually seen later in the game uh like after the nukes die or after the mines die but i mean at this point i think it's i think it's over yeah mateo is selling all of his minds oh i mean 15 seconds left in the match oh and there it goes and just building a whole new wall even though he's got nothing they're very confident selling his turbines as well yep gg team one with the victory played nearly the same damage though damage inflicted there good oh no very well played very very well played and there we have a team seep moving on to the finals knocking suscells down into the lower bracket to face off against their new opponent don kim merkel indeed so last last match in the lower bracket of round four we have cecil's versus danke merkel like you were saying so we have we have one team already in here very good and then we have the winner the winner of the losers bracket going into going into uh the finals here against team seep and then that is a best of three i believe well it would be if this is a double elimination so right now has two lives remaining or should i say one extra life remaining and the winner of this will be going into the finals with no rematches available they will have no extra lives so they will have to defeat that seep team twice in a row or get knocked out [Music] oh southern crossfire uh let's see team names is team one this time here we go on wingman this is a clarification no i thought both teams uh banned scattered shut there for a second i was like wow there's seep all right we have seep and scatter shot band excellent just said someone points out this will be a rematch of round two's sustainals versus donkey merkel where indeed the last time they met dunkin marker were knocked out yep uh dr mcgraw has a chance to redeem their redeem their honor here we're ready are they gonna choose phantom again oh god choosing phantom again oh there we go that was definitely an interesting match the first time so hopefully uh we have something similar but i think it was no it wasn't wingman it was just vanilla large all right let's do this three two one no tech sharing this time sadly they managed to texture on this map that would be more impressive than anything else they could do absolutely amazing oh surprise phantom once more on team two dr merkel on the right hand side has once again selected phantom facing off against their opponents it's the sustains as warthog this is a was it warthog first it wasn't warthog versus phantom in round two it was it was i'm not sure i ah i don't remember what commander they chose i don't either it's probably pinch fist or seep probably yes it was because they did the full metal reclaim with the uh the tech sharing yes as well that's right so this is this is oh and they're go opening up with the um the swarm missile aggression so team one is going to be getting a little aggressive i imagine the team wants second player going to be going for a heavy weapons tech of a kind here although their timing is a bit off looks like firework microwaving his micro and not his macro is going to have to sit here and wait for some time delaying his technology somewhat we need a book of like uh fort openings like uh like chess openings ah selling off a mine as phantom interesting could there be a swirl missile going there you're not putting a swarm missile there oh god tell me you're not putting no okay he's going for a candidate okay interesting i don't i mean it's a it's usually a weak point for that uh that base design up there yes it could make sense that he's deleting it it's usually a weak point but i mean it's a starter mine like that's just good you don't have to pay for it yeah he could have just moved it well yes so this is a fairly standard 2v2 opener where we have swarm missiles and heavy weapons coming out of team one and on team two it's heavy weapons all around are they gonna do the the magna beam combo again they're gonna get nuked they might they might do it here if they do go lasers um they will have a nice defense for the the warthog missiles that could cause for some uh for some good uh some good interactions between the nuke and the laser there well i guess only one way to find out we'll find out here in um how is that going to be another 30 seconds well not even find out 30 seconds or so if they're gonna go for that strat whereas the nuke is coming online in about the same amount of time that's gonna be more death uh the problem team two is gonna face here is their lower base is gonna have to go for magna beams if they're going for that and that's just gonna be rough because energy is gonna be an issue due to the impending amount of explosions yeah they're gonna need to protect the um i mean if they put the magnemium on the bottom of team two it is there's a magna beam they're trying for it they're trying to go out they're they're going to meme or they're going to die trying i think we saw this last time and i think on this this map as well this team tried this uh they had the backwards flax and everything and actually worked surprisingly well in the qualifiers it's the effort that counts yeah until it doesn't here comes the first heavy volley with no smoke though it's gonna be enough to defend especially if they get a oh massive damage here we see another use the backwards flak that's just the deepest entrenched gunners possible double entrenched interesting putting a repair center down good yeah again seriously to see where the uh the weapons are going to go the magna beam because i'm sure they i mean there's really only a few spots it could go during the active so team one is accounting for that and does smoke block um the movement of weapons and anything like i'm guessing you can't build stuff in that in that area right i've never attempted to phantom move reposition a weapon or something into a smoked area i assume it does not work yeah that would make sense these tournaments really bring up some nisha so nisha counters yes there's actually several positions that magna bean could be moved to during the active anywhere along the front let's go below across the top yeah so team one during the active when the cloak is happening it could go really anywhere oh oh [Music] wow comes a bit lower both players look look at this they're defending their backs it's very uh very interesting to see adapting their strategies to make sure they defend everything they're firing where the magna beam was welcome to phantom oh yeah yeah if they wanted to have a magazine in a permanent spot probably below would be would be very nice down there in the big wood just having uh having some angled shields up or angled uh doors upwards that would do well i'm cur the thick defense is back here you get a piece of metal that's i mean you kind of have to you have to otherwise bad things can just happen but with the warthog active we could expect to see some extra damage output here with the warhead which should be fired now if it wants to okay there we go yep t-mon's lower base has more entrenched uh more entrenched flex oh wow gets taken out i didn't expect it to get taken out there i expected that to land the re-fire though oh yep we have the re-fire the flex are i mean they were prepared to fire but he uh just opted for defending it anyway yeah that was in my opinion yeah much the much better call additionally the smoke could block the magna beams uh site a little bit late on the magna beam firing okay i'm surprised team one hasn't tried that yet uh blocking the magna memes uh beam with smoke i don't i don't think they're just i think they're just not prepared for it like it just comes out out of nowhere and if they try doing that it's just gonna reappear somewhere else oh wow that was very nice shot even without the active from inside it explodes causing some deformation that that that that uh that flak will get shot i think i think there's just barely an angle i think that actually causes enough deformation that putting the magnet beam there is uh difficult now i just realized the turbine that was temporarily placed there has been moved well at least they're lower oh no an energy shield at the wrong spot oh yeah i'm surprised i haven't gone for a lower base uh right now they're top base i mean has one fire beam which is really just it's all that's there as far as just supporting uh team one's lower base well that time they did try to go for this yeah the energy shields reflected the magna beam back to themselves and so it didn't actually hit lower base oh oh oh that's it oh man in there yep oh yeah they hurt a lot more than anything else of course my ping turned into someone's telephone number just as that happened but oh no that's uh this geez yeah that's rough at least at least team two has the ability to make direct fire cannons which they appear to have been uh developing for quite some time because they're not out of it with that uh that fire beam doing quite well oh no i wonder if the news can get pulled in it does oh no it finally detonated after it burned down and timing and the timing on it was strategic it was strategic yes repositioning that cannon at the perfect oh he has triple cannons and they're exposed that would be very deadly oh one more he doesn't have the energy for three but he's gonna have to move the other two at least before he fires a third oh fire there he is he's ready and move it oh a bit high but jeez a lot of damage though yeah that wouldn't have been lethal regardless but that's extremely good damage if they can dip those shots in there right next to the core where those that broken piece of metal is that would be uh definitely where he wants to go those shots oh yeah a triple cannon like that again can absolutely just end the game here i released end that core in particular uh oh oh it dipped in time at least a lot of weight all those amber low sport is doing handling it well it seems nice guys he's got a stable for it's very defensive oh the cannons shot oh and oh that cans i think he's gonna die they still don't know where to shoot oh no the cloak is so strong moves the cannons out of the way just in time but i mean oh jeez alex really only has defenses on his fort right in front of his core so i mean below three cannons really could get through and deal some critical damage there and then new glands again the warthog firing nuke that's an exposed core here boys 31 oh but it's not in fire so here we go that's it eg wow very well played strong last stand but sussel's takes the victory this time around super well played all right then we have suscells moving on to the finals it's going to be our last a potentially last match of this tournament if seep wins this sustains will be knocked out and the seep with eaton and mateo will take another badge to their name but if socials wins seep will be knocked down a life and will have to win once more take him out on top all right so e10 and mateo go to team one on this side firework and alex team two down very nice man something about this map is very nice saving it for the finals i believe i just want to shout out to dr merkel bringing phantom and actually being powerful with it in ways that phantom is uh phantom they were utilizing the strings of phantom in a way that cannot be utilized by any other commander and they did extreme damage with it yeah they they did very well uh moving the things around the turbines all of that stuff is very very good in all the matches so it's not just a fluke they have some serious training with phantom there firework and alex i think i know what they're doing here we have scatter shot and architect band interesting i think i think i know what's going to happen this time why not ban seep because they want you to use seep okay i think everything's set we have our map we have our commander bands we have our players all they must do is ready up and then we'll get going into the finals so just as a reminder if firework and alex to lose this one they will be knocked out and team seep eaton and matteo will be the victors of this tournament i think i think it mateo is so thrown off by the obvious mind games going on in the lobby screen they're redoing their strategy or talking about it because they've not yet readied up they're like oh that's definitely important yes yes like okay they're doing something weird what are we gonna do about it everybody's ready just they're just raising the tension that's all here we go three two one all right let the finals begin and we are off go ahead and take us away alrighty on the left side teams with team uh team seep here we have e10 and mateo playing as oh boy we have seep and on team two we have alex and firework playing also is seep uh oh we've got a seep mirror match going on here boys and girls ladies and gentlemen in these finals it's gonna be a mirror match with the same strategies the same build orders all the way through as this lower base is definitely eaten right like oh yeah don't worry you're not crazy yeah like that's that's this is the identical basis here um everyone going for very similar ideas as we i mean as we can expect everyone going all in seep the missiles will be a flying it's all in sync it's almost like these players have done this hundreds of times before oh yeah so at this point i don't expect to see anything unusual it's just going to be basically a missile rush and whoever lands the first hits on the turbines is going to be in the lead and it's just gonna spiral from there now mind you when it comes to swarm missiles and the uh inevitable upgrade to warheads the strategies and these weapons rely very heavily on rng so even if one player or one team seems to be in the lead it can change very very quickly and almost without warning like you have no way of knowing what's going to happen until it happens and that's just kind of how this match is going to go so we're going to see the first war missiles launched in the next 10 or so seconds turbines are going to be targeted some players are going to have sandbags some players are not sandbags may or may not help looks like we they're just preemptively selling off turbines look at that it's like they know it might be a good idea yeah it's it's it's gonna happen although a uh interesting interaction here with both players playing seep um normally the the target painted would be hidden uh however both both teams can see where the target is is technically painted for the um for the missiles so as a caveat for being seep you get to uh or as a benefit you can see see where those missiles are targeted so it's it's less hidden than normal but still it's uh it's hidden and then us being the observers we can see we see all i just appreciate that they sold off sold off the turbines knowing full well they're indefensible at this point oh yeah oh wow team two's active is already charged team one's active has already been used oh yeah it's the the warheads are partially upgraded the swarms are flying the turbines are dying mateo seems to have a bad rap this whole whole tournament so far uh four turbines he just gets targeted a lot it's mateo if he doesn't get targeted he's like some nonsense for the lasers and you lose the game oh yeah looks like eaton is reconfiguring his defenses in the front just making the big bucks for the preparation for uh for nukes coming in definitely a good idea like matteo's didn't ever get an upgrade center uh so i'm guessing he's not he's not looking to go into mines or upgraded upgraded swarms in the nukes mateo never had the uh material never had the money to purchase an upgrade center it's been constantly rebuilding and getting exploded over and over again the struggle is real that's the joy of serving turbines yes looks like alex and firework here are holding off on their active ability until they have the nukes like now and there it goes this is going to be pretty painful for team one here they're both oh both targeting top base wow wow only they had a blood saw oh the swarms oh oh there it goes and it's gone eaton has been destroyed if they had used that active ability beforehand they would not have gotten that oh yeah no definitely not please there's not much in the way of the answer for either team here they've been defending by just having big chunks of wood in front of their base which is usually the preferred way of doing it it's very good tactical use of the of the commander it just goes to show that's uh spamming the commander ability all the time is that not always the best option just pummeling him now knowing that mateo is no a yeah no aaa and with that kind of damage no money to repair let alone fire i tell you it was probably going to tell you why they chose that location to target with that little opportunity there why not aim for the core i i imagine just because it's one of the most likely areas to deal damage as if they target that spot then they can cut off the economy and if he fails to defend that then they win and it's a harder spot to defend you're gonna seem to keep aiming for that yeah yeah i mean they might just be trying to disconnect the nukes uh just in case he is able to fire which uh unlikely to happen but you know trust trying to kill the minds as well like that yeah country is as little of an advantage as possible that expansion is mateo's is team one's best opportunity at victory if that goes away it's just matteo is in a really bad spot it's in an untenable position from there so they can either target the top expansion or they can target the ex the extension from the top or from the bottom to the top using the active team 2 has a lot of a at this point though i don't i don't see how matteo could come back here using missiles yeah that's a near complete shutdown of everything even the swarm missiles barely made it across the airbus missiles from from the nukes they're getting shut down that's how you know the aaa is strong mateo has to transition out of missiles if he wants any hope of doing damage and that's just that's not going to happen oh boy this the sniper existed for one second oh last known last night location oh jeez that was a quick match oh yeah welcome to seat mirror matches all right so with that uh suscells actually suscells actually takes that one and knocks seep down a life so they go on to the next round yep into the decider round oh yeah this is the big one don't see eat and lose very often yeah but here is a rare example and now it's with no lives left no redos we're on vanilla large scattershot has been banned as has spook so the winner of this one will i'm afraid to say anything whoever wins this round will win this round there we go yeah i i have i still credit eaton and matteo as the stronger team but just barely like obviously if last round was was anything to go off of it it is obvious that firework and alex can absolutely knock out ethan and matteo here so this is this is going to be good and i am excited to see could you switch oh you did yes the teams have been switched cool all right uh rome needs to ready up there we go here we go three two one i just got word that someone put fifty thousand channel points on a eaton it's kind of nice a lot of channel points i mean he's usually he is usually the um the safe bet you know preocho he's like the several of forts for those who are familiar with the starcraft community all right now well on the left side switching sides here we have we have team firework and alex sussell's going up against team two which is consisting of uh mateo and etan interesting cecil is going for seep here again and uh mateo and eaton going for uh pinch for this time i mean pinch fist is the tried and true to the meta the meta for very long time regardless of what team one does team two can do it faster we have seen the devastating effects of a pench fist rush especially when the players are going for the same builds in a mirror in a mirror match of builds but we're not seeing mirrored builds here we are seeing swarm missiles and well it's gonna be swarm missiles into fast nukes out of team two but also what i can what it's going to be a heavy weapons rush so we're going to have out of team two it's going to be swarm missile early pressure into laser tech into uh well that's gonna be fire beam plaza beam follow-up whereas team one is just gonna try to end the game they are seep they have missiles and they will let those missiles fly yeah team two here looks like bottom players going for lasers i'm guessing that's mateo and uh e10 up top going for missiles to see how it works oh yep there we go matteo loves his uh his laser beams oh yeah of course team two they are fully aware that there are missiles on the way uh so they're preemptively prepared very speedy as well mateo oh my gosh look at mateo's base oh he hears the missiles fly and he's like oh god i want to point out he got all of those those sandbags placed almost within the same frame it was just a click and drag of sandbag placement this guy's a camera a camera hot point right there oh yeah oh yeah i want to say this time mateo successfully defending his turbines uh i should stop talking ah it's gotten to a point where we just sort of think it now and it happens eaton lost his turbines this time but uh mateo also lost his turbines which is kind of par for the course for swarm missiles to be honest i'm this is one of those maps where you can't get rear rear turbines so there's no saving them there's no safe place to put them yeah which does make commanders like see uh more powerful as killing turbines is fun yes and there's one of the reasons why seep is so present on maps like these uh we're not complaining though that's why he gets banned a lot oh eaton opting to not protect any of his stuff losing a sniper in the process sniper and they shot only chance who needs turbines when you don't have snipers that's a very that's a very forced thing to say despite all of that matteo is did manage to get a plasma laser a laser beam placed this is not terribly delayed so that's gonna put team two in a decent position i wonder if alex is gonna start targeting the laser um probably they probably know that some heavy weapons are coming out of bottom base at this point so they're gonna have to assume that there's something big somewhere i imagine so although mateo's you know arming it to the teeth with defenses oh yeah the moment those missiles are launched in his direction he's going to be getting and another swath of sandbags in front oh yeah i think i think any direction yes uh oh we have firework coming out with some swarms of his own just to overload the sandbags it looks like there are the sandbags placed is that a nuke incoming have the active indeed it is heavy hit wow what a diff diving deep on into the depths of the fort before detonating 37. oh eaton has his nuke out the swarms are there to protect it but i they really don't have enough aaa in general anyway uh the nuke doing a lot of eco damage that's a little bit of a massive amount of splash damage oh yeah although knowing nukes it could have been much worse oh yeah for sure oh we have the buzzsaw very nice mateo is punching bag for this round you did call it matteo the big threat this time around and so he is being targeted team warner is aware of the laser position oh i don't think e10 can target the lower part of the base as unfortunate his sniper cannot snipe the gunners on uh fireworks base oh at least the lower ones he takes it out he takes out the nuke with a sniper round oh laser is ready that was not a laser shot or a nuke shot yeah could have been bad we've seen that many many times in the past where the newt gets touched by the plasma laser and then uh dips back down into the fort straight to the core that would actually have been game ending there oh yeah poor eaton getting bullied by snipers team 2 does not have map control at all yeah at this point that laser is going to be their one true uh good defensive weapon i think at this point once that flag comes online possibly not but at this point they're gonna need that uh that laser is gonna be need to be used to defend against the nukes indeed but mateo doesn't have the energy to fire it he's not even close it's poor turbines just heavy here we see fireworks getting a nuke as well just to just pile on top remember that team eaton as well he could turn those flags into shotguns oh there it is there's interesting additionally he could get ap snipers here to kill the uh the snipers behind doors but it's a bit of a takes time snipe why not that's that's an expensive investment as well when there's plenty of other things for a normal sniper to do very true looks like he's just poking around oh that's a lot of gunners removed is it gonna hurt i think so oh wow the nuke defense the sacrificial armor that was very lucky they they definitely can't count on that for every every time now that's gonna be both nukes taken out of the sky wow that would have potentially ended matteo's flat laser if that if those head of those had made it through there's still seven minutes match left in the match this is we're only halfway through the timer oh geez things have escalated much higher oh oh oh oh it makes it oh the nuke another heavy hit no car damage i'm amazed i didn't do any core damage uh very close to the core ah it's only a matter of time oh yeah oh the nuke makes it makes it through the shotguns repairing i wasn't able to fire both holding up a really strong fight here yes both teams relying on sacrificial sacrificial armors to take hits from the nukes to mitigate the damage yeah oh oh still no core damage my gosh man just how he's surviving that i is fascinating yeah team one has rngs is on their side right now oh my gosh the laser survives the laser survives all that team 2 cares about right now yes eaton loses his shotgun which is unfortunate that could be rebuilt though for not to not too much the laser would be would possibly be game ending though yes oh okay so team two is getting desperate they've just upgraded their swarm missile to a nuke that's their concession saying we can't beat you down consistently so we're going to rely on rng to do this and to be fair there we go it's extremely effective indeed they have to really hope that their their shotguns can take care of everything all of the gunners from team one here it's a it's a uh s could be unfortunate i wonder if mateo is waiting for fireworks nuke to fire so he can laser it again oh he's surely doing that as a d but the turbine row on fireworks base is not very protected at all uh additionally he only has two so i'm not surprised here comes the issues yeah he's using laser use for defensive purposes oh what a nice dip in fact the machine gunner caused that because he made the troll yeah the new trunk just before it hit at that point it would have been better if each base if eaton just didn't have any gunners oh we have smoke oh can they snipe them in time uh-oh uh it's not almost in time for the dual nukes if only they had kept those uh if only they had kept the uh the smokes for a little bit longer those dual nukes coming in would have that could have been game ending for either one of the bases i just want to point out firework and alex are so in sync and on par with their sniping oh oh this is potentially lethal luke's gonna make it through oh my gosh the splash damage doesn't touch eden's core just barely though i jeez very close both eaton and mateo their cores are on their last legs here i think another new kit to either would would be bad oh doesn't converge the shots but the sniper the sniper takes its vengeance and removes the fire beam but there's no laser to stop the nuke here comes the hail mary duel nukes oh there's so many gunners though they don't make it he's hail mary is not in the building i guess at this point i'm thinking they've got a eaton and might say we've gotta aim for firework here as much as alex is a bit more damaged a bit more vulnerable firework is just at a position where his fort is easier to hit to get any amount of damage done oh there's not much there is very little a on the field on team one side but those have no coverage it doesn't matter the manual the snipers and the buzzsaw are enough to manually bring it down they were both on top of that yeah who needs machine gunners when you have snipers oh that's that's what's going on here oh have been bad both nukes taken down very nice shotgunning from from eaton here matteo opting for smokes behind doors this time definitely a good idea if they can get more smokes up which they do have two currently it is entirely possible for them to do this they need to wait until eaton has 8k energy or i guess 9k energy and then they need to fire at the same time oh they're not ready oh oh oh the smoke is a bit too early oh the flack the flag does self self damage the coordination is not there yeah mateo's mateo's smoke went a bit too low there they didn't lose anything critical in that they can do it again in a short amount of time in fact the moment everything comes off reload which they have now they have the commander ability available they can fire right now if you try oh there's one smoke oh just barely shotgun the sniper there it is that's the perfect that's everything they needed right there these are landing this is what they needed massive damage and the follow-up with the laser eaton and mateo pull it off oh my gosh 50 seconds left in the match oh it is still possible for alex's nuke here okay no no i think at this point it still touches those core down oh my gosh core damage wait they collectively have only 44 core damage team one still wins this in 30 seconds oh my gosh they've done enough core damage okay team one team one has to not collapse himself first of all but if he can if he can stay alive for another 15 seconds eaton is going to be so mad if he wins my core damage i [Music] oh god oh my god it's amazing everybody's oh my god there you have it ladies and gentlemen eaton and matteo have been dethroned here we have team what a game what a final congratulations with the victory taking the finals my god i must change it uh let's see seeps profile picture was uh uh foreshadowing of um who uh who they'd lose to yeah that's right my gosh what a game oh my there you have it congratulations firework and alex tournament champions once and again that was awesome as usual but that was actually extra awesome that was a very good game that's why we love our tournament competitors here yep they're so very skilled they put on the best games and we love to see it do we have the winter screen up and running gosh we do yes we got the lovely logo the lovely cecil's logo oh man complete with the manga spin in the dipping nukes perfect man perfect all right then i want to say thank you for everyone involved thank you to noah's head one of the main developers here of forts for being here with us putting on this and sponsoring this tournament getting it set up thank you for barbarito my co-commentator here keeping us entertained throughout all this and showing good games for the fans thank you to knight sinclair the newest member of the ford's community and the person actually in chat bantering with you guys and helping you guys out answering questions thank you to romero for doing all of the behind the scenes the cat herding and the management so that we don't have to and we here can just be the voices and then put on the best show for you guys and thank you to salzburg who's also who is also streaming this to the german community in the natives thank you to you and curses for doing all of the thank yous my pleasure thank you nose head for thanking curses for doing the thing and once again congratulations to firework and alex for taking the fort's 2v2 championship for themselves and earning themselves another badge congratulations very well deserved absolutely all right is there anything left to say uh thank you e10 for uh coming out and commentating and having a nice insight for us as well yes and also good good work in the games that was very close all right all right then with that i'm going to say have a good one everyone and i look forward to seeing you guys in the next tournament indeed see you then later see ya

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Published: Sat Feb 26 2022