 Brazil the Brazil offline major here on the Mortal Kombat pro competition for MK one my name is ultra David and I'm very excited to be here with ketchup how you feeling about being here in Sao Paulo and watching a bunch of the players play I mean to Brazil one time American Mortal Kombat scene is the stuff of legends for sure you know there are so many players in this part of the world that live eat breathe sleep Mortal Kombat not just Mortal Kombat 1 by the way I mean we've got some ultimate MK3 legends in the building yeah I ain't talking about myself you know I mean because the legacy is rich and it spans decades and so many players that ultimately it leads up to always the latest game where people get insanely good champions are born the Chilean twins are here in attendance I believe we're gonna be seeing one of them pretty soon yep international players we have King Gambler here we have MK Javier from Spain I mean there's not a lot of international attendees yeah but the ones that are here are heavy hitters because they want the points that's that's a big part of this thing of course it's great to come out here and experience a different scene and and see more of the players from more of the world there's always a huge benefit in that but also of course what this is about for the most sort of direct instance is getting the big points on the MK PK so that you can qualify for final combat later on tons of points here available in the offline major and that is a big reason to come of course so as you mentioned we are expecting to see scorpion prox up on the stream in this pool if you'd like to check it out go to start GG and just search for the Brazil major you know how it works we're looking for that but for the rest of this pool we're looking for lots of very strong Brazilian players and we talked quite a bit with the Brazilian scene here to make sure that we knew a little bit about what's going on here so we're not coming in completely blind right the idea here is to try to bring to you the strong players from the region talk a little bit about their histories and who they play and where they're from so we're looking for players who are going to be playing a bunch of different characters most of these players are from Sao Paulo we talked a little bit about some players who are from Minas Gerais which is a little bit further away unfortunately some of the other regions or regions people couldn't come they ended up getting sick last minute in a couple cases some of them just had work you know but as a result we're gonna be seeing lots of yeah exactly exactly so we're gonna be seeing a lot of players from the city of Sao Paulo one of the biggest cities in the world which has been a blast to just be in for the last 24 hours yeah it's been a pleasure I mean like living in the UK where it's currently cold wet generally miserable yeah yeah I mean there are a ton of really good players the ones that you're always gonna be looking at from a outside of South America side of things you know there's gonna be a lot of the rips arena crowd wanting to watch Javier and everyone's gonna be hearing him on North America you know probably restreaming it looking for his point King gambler there's gonna be a lot of restreams happening this weekend so if your favorite players streaming this join the party you know be a part of this let us know who your favorite players are if your favorite streamer is currently watching it get involved let him know that you're enjoying the show because when it comes to watching all these different tournaments and even muster they believe is actually streaming this as well a lot of people are just looking forward to this next major offline and at the end of the day that's what we're here for we're here for Mortal Kombat 1 recent patch hit not anything that's gonna massively shake up this tournament you know I don't know if we're gonna have a lot of crunchy players that might use that new move there's gonna be a lot of characters you can expect to see I think especially with the twins they like their Luke Kang they like their Raiden they like anyone that's gonna give them that competitive edge and you know what sticking on the first of the twins from Argentina didn't know him personally but we're excited to see his play as well but yeah you know it is it is great to see players here from all over the place again not just for Brazil as we were talking about this is number one see naturally rocks coming in here as you mentioned he's got a few different characters up his sleeve see where he goes probably gonna be influenced a lot by who I'll look hard for this way is over this weekend whether it was players yesterday that I bumped into when it was people here the two names of Nicholas Scorpion Crocs are just on the tip of everyone yeah and I mean that doesn't surprise of course you know you just look at the fact that these two players have just carved out such a rather insane legacy yeah they are some of the number one players that people are looking at with this next war to combat it's easy to forget that war to combat one this game ain't been out that long no Kung Lao what's all about getting those early results Kung Lao Goal Goal Hanging God Okay Prepare So Round Punishing Gaps is Kung Lao however one of the best characters at Breaking Armour is that Kung Lao too You open up a rather interesting dynamic with these two and of course we have the other four combo thanks to Doro and there's one more Doro left to go this should by all means be Scorpion Crocs Ah and sure is That was just a hit and a half away for Alucard not like it was a long road ahead considering the damage potential but yeah I mean this this character along with a few others has that option to just break the armor and if that's one of the big strengths of the team it is interesting to go with the mirror match to try to blow it up Walk in press no button and then an instant armor I mean to start things off we're seeing a lot of just dominance being established from Scorpion Crocs and I don't mean just like even scary not afraid to press buttons is armoring when necessary using stuff on reaction straight away getting this big damage Goro vs. Goro there's two 950 health characters so maybe one or two extra hits that you don't need to land here in this kind of matchup but overall I think you know Alucard doing a decent job of fighting back when possible We wait oh very smart doesn't use the armor straight away Another combo drop though execution hasn't really been the aim of the game so far Yeah you can tell that they're both still trying to settle down here kind of surprising seeing as they have been playing against each other constantly on the set up before we start it Well I mean if you're playing casually vs. if you're playing for the points if you're playing seriously in tournament it does feel different Even the sensation of leaning forward Leaning forward and moving you back in there trying to get your matches good and comfortable Alright what do you got mixed ups Surely want to dive Mania standing 2 No another big chance What is going on with these combos David I don't know it's happening on both sides But Scorpion procs again finds more consistent options more consistent damage Look there's Alright buddy No no no we have to Okay fair enough fair enough We've got to remind the people that we can press the button properly right We've got it 2-0 Remember folks pro competition so this will be 3 out of 5 Oh the way through Back to character select Has Scorpion procs knocked Alucard off of this Now they were playing casuals I think it would have been the mirror the whole time I don't recall seeing smoke Smoke and striker Interesting team A team that is look If smoke's the kind of character that's in the pie and he wants to do what he wants to do Striker grenades are a great way of doing that However Watch out for the gats If there is a character that can say right You're doing something into grenade And I want to try and power through that But there are a couple different ways to play smoke One is real zany and taking big risks But you can also play it away You can play at a distance that's outside of the Armored launcher situation Or right up close playing the mixups point play Man yeah Unfortunately the first time you land that pool with three You get the character in time That's a feel bad and of course defending Smoke's armor This is you know it's a very interesting idea Like maybe in early pools to play this kind of team I can totally see that being effective against What you hope to come in early pools matches Which is a little bit of zaniness And a little bit of expecting people to do wakeups Hey looking for it The high which would have given him plus frames Denied Right now we're going straight into this final match Doesn't commit to back forward two Because that would have been punishable Definitely would have dropped Scorpion procs very warmed up Alacard can't really get the gears turning So the second scorpion procs got more comfortable here And hard ass I think To turn this one round Yeah momentum was just on the side So no surprises there 3-0 to kickstart this tournament I mean scorpion procs is one of the favourites to win I doubt we're going to see the Kung Lao all the way through There are many other characters So as you said I think Early game of pools Going in with a character like Lao Decent fundamentals But the big thing Armor Powering through shaky offence If you have a gap I don't care about it I think it's a dangerous character to start on event Yeah I really like that idea of having that In a pool situation I think that's like strategically A sort of meta game of a tournament It's not just about the actual match in tournament But it's also like how do you approach Going through the different rounds Of pools Oftentimes people have different approaches You may have a certain strategy That you're going to use early on That if you mention Maybe you're not going to use later on We'll be interesting to see if he does follow through With this or with something else So I think we expect But yeah that sort of meta strategy The larger thinking Is a common way to approach tournaments And yeah I do think that was A really nice way to start out a tournament If you're screwing things up a little bit Okay you have already done pretty good damage If you think that they're going to take risks You got a character that is great at blowing that stuff up With the armor with the armor breaker Cool good work Overall a decent start Now a bunch of other players in this pool As and when they come up Obviously we'll know And we'll see them on screen So yeah a bit of a chat about this Some players we're familiar with Some players maybe not so much But that's just the magic of this kind of event Is you always have these players turn up And maybe you don't have as many opportunities To compete Maybe you can't even play online that much Because you know people have real lives to lead Maybe they've got school Maybe they've got work A lot of young players actually I believe in Brazil this weekend There's some players that Some of our fellow commentators Have been bringing up that And not the twins Right because there was a time And I guess they're to a degree still is Scorpion Proctor Nicholas being that That young generation that's really pushing forward And championing that new generation There are other players too that are younger And are still doing very well online And they're here And quite a few players here This might be their first major tournament So there are so many moving parts I think for this kind of event And we've talked about this actually yesterday In just a bit this morning The different layers that an event like this Brings forward because more combat one Very online focused And that is in no small part to The many community members that Are pushing forward online tournaments You know like over in the EU You know Rips Arena, Shouts Rips Arena Recently actually got partner plus I think Congratulations to you over there Lots of EU talent and A means to compete North America Spoil the choice There is so much competitive online activity You go to an event like this That dynamic just switches And it changes massively Someone like M.K. Havier is here in attendance Very online focused First offline with UFA months ago Near the end of last year Very focused here The moment players actually arrive And you can sit down Havier was one of the first players That was on the station But there's one reason I need to get familiar With the setups, the environment The people around me The combinations that are happening The fact that I'm wearing different headphones Maybe you don't wear headphones It sounds so almost unimportant For those that may have never been something like this But it is such a different environment It can throw people off their games in secret Yeah, absolutely right So some of the players who we're watching for In particular in this cool other dance We heard big things about keeping VR He's a really strong player with lots of different characters Is what I was told You can already see a 3-0 in the bracket Yes That says it's with Johnny But there's lots of other characters that he has on hand Is what I was told He, if he was going there I don't know, instead it's going to be going to Little Chronos vs. Tekken Master BR Now, we were told We were That Tekken Master BR Is named so because he looks like Tekken Master And is from Brazil And is from Brazil Little Chronos, we were expecting a Geras actually But it looks like that's not the choice It's a Lu Lao For Little Chronos and Tekken Master BR BR Make no mistake Although I didn't expect to commentate Tekken Master today You know what I'm saying? But we see it's Shang Tsung Actually, I have to say Shang Tsung and Goro The very few Shang Tsungs I've seen recently This has often been the main cameo Not only is it really cool It looks really hard to play Yeah, I want to give a shout to Rothor over in the U First time I probably saw Proton online A reverse sweep Actually against Javier Before they had the inevitable run back But Javier was a huge win, of course But this team It does a lot of stuff But good lord is it hard to pull off Consistently There's like a genius level to being able to play This character in his combo conversion Where you're supposed to be standing And where you call Goro And which part of the screen you want to upflame to come from We saw it drop one of those situations earlier But again, that's just really hard to beat 100% off Starting things off versus Of course Little Chronos using the Lu Kang You know at this point What this character is going to bring forward Strong, neutral Good little bit of zoning That low hatch Just cover your advance A little bit of Not so much the plus frames game Because obviously the low hatch was nerfed Again Shang Tsung though Shang will have some tools here To compete with this range And try to go for a down two to punish But releasing the hatch At a good time of course Full combo This ain't going to kill But it's going to create a scary situation Where one more hit You're in a bad spot Especially with Goro on the other side Yeah I think of I think of Lu Lao As being one of the teams that is This is certainly a difficult matchup Yeah there's Try to clear out the screen Tech and master BR Smartly did not do anything And that's not about here to punish Goro absorbs the flame kick And the punish to follow up A very effortless little Couple of buttons near the end of that But okay I mean This is the basic Shang Tsung That you add Goro on top of And all of a sudden You've got more pressure You've got a little bit more combo variety In fact and it is very Very hard to do The low fireball You hit your armored reversal You go into Goro You swap to old Shang You do a far fireball afterwards And all of a sudden Shang Tsung Get the armored reversal Regardless of form Not that we saw it Another really nice part of Goro That I think is a little bit underrated Is just the fact that you can use him As a body blocker We saw him previously I probably accidentally tanked The flame kick But you know in general Using him as a wall against projectiles As a wall against people Trying to play flipies against you A lot of utility in there It's just the classic Goro problem Which is that he takes it from the sexy Absolutely And that's something that we've actually Spoken about That's something people say yesterday The development of the meta Where you can cool in these cameos To tank hits and absorb Counter calls man This is a versus game Counter calls have always been important In versus games And I'm super excited to see that Is getting developed You'd be surprised how many characters In this game can do it Absolutely I think the basics That we always saw people Originally was like Shijinko And Tremor Very good for that But even people like Serena Pulling in Serena You can do it Like there's a lot of Goro As an example that we're seeing right now Alright, failblows ready We are going to spend it Because we're going to get some damage It's going to scale of course Because of a throw But spending it now To try and battle winning the round On the following situation We're going to have good moves We're going to have cool low We're going to have A threat Maybe of a meter bump projectile No, we're going to just go in All of that aside And then the easy conversion In between rounds We're always going to have Low cameo back By the time we start this next round So we want to hold fire a bit And wait for our low hatch to come back There it is There's a full Goro to think about though All that utility available No, not quite there And we're punished Here comes Lotharono Trying to out a little bit No flawless Safety Back to a more comfortable range Opened up Watch out for that grab Try and do something before you know it You just eat a low mid And that's it 300 damage Oh, that was it Right over the head As it was spent on Alright, full combo Wait a minute Oh, we spent fatal blow again I mean Little Tronos isn't in a position to break So I've got to say I've got to say Something I am so happy about Can't necessarily see it as clear Because of the tournament graphics You can now see How the mash is working Yeah, yeah, you point that out As a commentator That makes the world a difference Oh, it's coming Oh, no That is chunky damage On that amplified projectile And of course You don't care if it's going to be A straight shot against you From Yungsheng Or if it's going to be The one coming up from underneath Either way you're going to blow through it And or get the kill I think I saw a character select Where do we go? Tekken Master BR The Shang Tsung BR Oh, the character is similar No, Reko I think I've seen Tekken Master Play Reko a few times Oh, Tremor of Tors I mean The classic one for this Especially if you're going to be playing Kind of a mix-up Reko Some people out there Used him more as a zoning Neutral Reko Where you might see Strakor Or the like But for this He's still got that zoning He's still got the ranged ability But Now you've got A little bit more Scary up close A little bit fearful there actually We've changed forms That there's something that Reko can do Which is at the right range Throw those stars Cool in the ambush Tremor Half the shock up punch Those stars just became a full combo And it's not something you see often But it is there Very neutral heavy Looking strong Using his excellent Down forward And fireball Classic Jodo stuff I like that choice actually The advancing mid To sort of go over low hot And punish anyway And he's keeping it slow Yeah But this is great Oh I thought he was going to be there in time Not quite Down one plus range Any time you're minus Against Reko You're in a bad situation Oh man so much harassment You could tell Oh little Kronos got a little hurried Nice wait There was no thought In Tekken Master BR's mind Of punishing right away He knew That that telephone Would be coming And he's going to take the round Because I guess that's one of the Issues of the Lu cameo The Lu versus Kung Lao Sorry Is that when he does that armor Do you have no reason to hesitate You have so much time To see that Kung Lao has appeared So I love that Pastions from Tekken Master BR Right in the face Oh no Dash in Forward We've got the right punish Protek Good awareness there Lu Kang If he's grabbing you with Kung Lao Always a one tech Always no matter what Back to patience The body block right there Of tremor Yes Alright mix ups We grind it out Again I really like the screen Clearing stuff In Ayyy Beautiful Oh and that was right before brick I really like the idea To set back up for what he hoped Again He's just going to be the kill And even chip Yeah there's really nothing To be done about that one Other than the pure old flawless block And Tekken Master BR Looking good I really like it Just great application Of the tremor cameo On top of the Rayco stuff You know we saw The stuff you're familiar with Come on grab combos Seen it a million times She has to rewind Just look Being able to call in a cameo To sponge that low hat Has been growing in the meta Week by week And tremor I think one of the better cameos Are doing that I mean it comes out so fast And his penalty of getting hit Is three seconds Versus most characters six Yep So he can do it more And even if you've already Spent him on an actual action call You can still call him out For that Got to hear it a little bit He'll be back any minute There he is All fails for single hit confirmed That factory into dash is Great for the confirm But you're wrong You're still going to eat Full combo for it Okay so that's a nice option Our offense right there By Little Chronos Now it's on Tekken Master BR Yeah my pressure The escape And there it is See the man come out Oh the spacing Makes that jump kick with Full combo Now Try to go for the Try to go for the six side I mean that is hard That is hard Big Uh oh Had the wrong form Can't get a combo However Mita has been spent Oh up or down Up or down He made the call Was incorrect But I mean look That's a 50-50 Either you're right or you're wrong Yup I love the willingness Of players to go for that Even as a grab blood player I feel like I'm scared to do that But I feel like as well As the Raco player It's even scarier To go for the down version Because you have to be brave To just stay on the ground Indeed You have to be And the Raco is like You won't do it You won't do it Turns out It is there Now we are in the crystal informed So Any command grab In any capacity Oh Nope Doesn't spend it Because breaker Yeah We'll get the breaker out first Yeah It is a big bummer to have That mixup be Denied effectively By the breaker Second master Has to either Ship down that health Enough with the stars Commits Okay That has been punished Before Doesn't take any risk On the jump Here we go now Since there was Mita spent He can bring out The bigger damage stuff Put the man back into green And now He's right up close Yes He needs a couple more like that Little Kronos Half life Still needs to be done Against Tekken Master BR Here's the start That's going to scale massively Doesn't spend the fatal blow Keeps it For a more important situation Again Absorb Just in case that allows that And yeah Keep it simple Match point For Tekken Master BR That Raco tremor Looking just so strong One of the scariest So much of it is that It's been a neutral clearing Kind of character Hasn't There had been mixups up close Of course That's worked out well But a lot of this has been Denying Lulau on the easy approach Now speaking of which Using the exact same pair To get ourselves a combo That we've seen A million times over Drops it though Now actually one thing To keep in mind A lot of these players They play online a lot And many players compete With the Offline input delay turned on Because of that With some of these little combos That three frame difference Means a lot Especially in these like First second round matches When you're still getting Warmed up and comfortable Speaking of which Here we go again Full combo Cash out with the flying kick There is no Lulau cameo To set up available Oh Overhead now Big damage Even by that That's big So now having spent that EX Tekken Master Oh yeah I think that's just an error there No No forward dash this day And it's gone too Huge That's it Before the breaker You're dead Beautiful stuff You're absolutely dead And now we will see Who succeeds on the mash Looking like I mean it doesn't matter It doesn't even matter So much damage Tekken Master BR Taking it three to one Here with that Raco change You gotta think that At the end A huge reason Why Little Chronos Ends up losing this Is that he spent that Projectile In neutral Once he had done that He didn't have Quick access to breaker In the same way He had had three bars Before that If he had kept it He would have been able To survive that combo He wasn't Because he wanted to Try to control neutral Where for the most part There was a lot of control By Tekken Master BR With footsies With Getting over The low hat With just the harassment Of the ninja stars Like that That kind of play Was enough that It sort of frustrated His opponent In dispending the amplified Projectile To try to clear out the stars It all worked out Very, very well For Tekken Master BR It's kind of wild How punishing Even the smallest decision Can be Anything like this Because With the breaker Being a three bar resource The amount of potential repercussions Of even a single Misuse of meter Is just like Astronomical I love it Especially because Like Raco Because he's turning More things into A combo than most He's close range He's got that Command grab I think he's gonna grab He's got buttons That he can just confirm And turn it into something If the fatal blows ready I mean He's swinging at the air Or he's swinging at the floor Either way He's gonna kill you for it That's exactly what happened there Excellent work Tekken Master BR Do you think he looked Like Tekken Master Not really I'm not gonna lie I mean Like in sort of The most general sense But like I wouldn't walk by Millions of people In the world Have facial hair And short hair I'm only half of that I have the facial hair But Way too much of this Way too much of this Man, I had the facial hair Until three days ago Oh, did you really? It'll be back in three days Don't you worry I mean, you've been busy It'll be back You've had a busy few weeks My friend You don't need to go into it But you've been A lot of places For competitive stuff So Little Chronos Did we have the names Backwards the entire time? Because this now says Little Chronos moved on Three to one Over Tekken Master BR In the bracket So I think the names were wrong We may have had the names Wrong the entire time You know why Because Tekken Master Barh Rain Yeah Also plays a bit of Raco The BR Doesn't actually help The situation doesn't It really doesn't help Yeah There's probably people in chat That are like The names are wrong And I'm like Can't tell, can we? But I think If they were wrong We are sorry for that Apologies Either way So in the bracket It now says That it's going to be Gie exceptional versus Little Chronos In the next round We're not sure For every king is here But he Got the Ruan of DQ In the first round I don't believe Forever King made it I heard from people That both Infinity and Forever King Didn't make the trip But Having said that Maybe we get downstairs And they're just there And it's like Oh hello It's okay Very possible We'd love to see them The two players that I know And have seen with my own eyes Is King Gambler And Javier Yes So we know that Those two are 100% here Maybe There might be you fouring I saw his name in the bracket I saw his name in the bracket And he definitely travels He went to UFA And I had no idea He was even there Until like The day of the event I saw him at Something I really didn't expect What was it now Was it frosties? It was maybe not frosties But like some place That I just was like Didn't expect to see you That's how I felt about That's how I felt about UFA Because I was like What are you doing here I mean of course You know Early days Travelling Trying to get those early points So nothing really Surprises you at that point Oh it's ECT That's what that's about Oh yeah of course Which makes sense obviously That was a Everyone missed that Major as well Yeah lots of points on the line For that one too So we're looking for Geeping BR versus Y Valentin Who I had heard Is from Argentina So we may get a Nope never mind It turns out Belo Horizonte Brazil Is the Location of Y Valentin That totally makes sense actually With the linguistic aspects Of that name Never mind But that is what I heard before I just had to do the research So that's one that We may be looking for At the moment There are also Of course Scorpion procs Moving through We have A couple other players Who we'd love to talk about too If they were to come up Because there are Some players in this pool That we heard big things About you mentioned The younger age Of some of the competitors And somebody to watch for In this pool Everybody told us Was Murilo Dinho Little Murilo Murilo Who apparently is 16 And is a killer Everybody was saying He's one of the best players And some of them think That he's one of the favorites To make it out of this pool Scorpion procs is on The other side of the pool So okay But yeah He's somebody that Lots of people talk about Even at 16 As being One of the best In the region So we'll see if he comes up If we do It will be wonderful To see it Because I'm always With these kind of tournaments I'm always Looking at right Who are the upcoming players You know Whether it's players That are just younger And they're just Dipping their toes Into this world of competition Whether it's players That you know On the opposite end of things Someone that's Sort of more older On the side of competitive games But they get this new game They play it a lot As a hobby And they're like Oh cool tournaments And then they end up Just being ridiculous Because there are so many Different sides To this discussion Where some players Are Of the Almost original Fighting game generation Especially you know In other games Players in like Japan They played When those fighting games Were first made Pretty much And now they're Just as ridiculous as ever They've just got a couple of kids They're got They're married And they're still godlike How do they Find the time That is the question How do they Find the time That is the question Alright yeah This is the match That we had briefly Talked about before Geeping BR Versus King Won the war tower Series Online tournament Series That happened in Brazil Where effectively each player Needs to pick a bunch Of different characters And you kind of have it In your personal Quote Tower right Where you have Like your boss character At the top of the tower But your other characters To start out So there's very like An MK focus It wasn't About street Wuljoy And so he's got A lot of different Characters on deck As being very Strong Starting out here Reptile sub Sub has a potential solution To some of the Baraka Striker stuff If you have the Vest Vaan Then he can't easily Call the Striker Their names for safety One thing Reptile Wants to try and do A little bit harder To do than smoke For example Is to go invisible And that's One thing sub zero is Almost totally guaranteed When you land that hit You activate invisibility And your combo Is going to be invisible By the end of it This Wow Just a charged overhead That wasn't scouted You know I mean I don't know Out of that all the time So I understand standing up There's a mix-up in there Yeah Punish even the Grenades are not at the right time Reaction Oh you're dead For sure That takes a long time To recover From some ranges It's possible to On reaction jump A lot of Characters Have something Not just fatal That can get through that As well So very nice reaction By keeping Reptile's forceball A pretty amazing Zoning tool Because of its Size and its reward Yeah You've got to stay at the right spot For sure It's very easy to get punished Oh Speaking of That must have been a miss I'm sure Must have been Let's see the meaty situation What do you got up close Just a little bit of a trap Strike throw mix Yeah I love on reaction To that striker Is when he called The ice vest That is so important To have as a counter-call We talked about the counter-call Before Extremely important in the match Oh beautiful timing Keeping yourself safe For those striker grenades I mean It forces So much discipline For a player When Merak is going to commit To something unsafe And just know that Grenade is coming You can't get greedy With your punish Sometimes you have to Either let it rock Sometimes you have to Just down two Unfortunately Missed time The armor Sorry The invisibility I honestly think That a lot of these players Online These first few rounds The different timing Is messing with them Especially that down Up invisibility The ice vest call But it's not going to be enough In game number one I really like that Is a potential solution But there was still a lot Of other stuff to keep in mind Against Yi Ping And his play Even if you on reaction Are calling sub You're still dealing With Baraka up close He just can't get away With some of the very easy Button into spin pressure But he still has Nice strike throw mix ups He's got some incredible stuff Armor breaking stuff Yeah Easy hit confirmed Oh Or bravery I mean With standing two one Is a rather Classic Baraka maneuver Especially at a range Where it's like I feel like I can challenge this Because you're not exactly Point blank Yeah Yeah And that's at a range Where Reptile doesn't really Do super well So I get that Look at that We are just dancing Across the screen Letting that ice armor Disappear Perfect spot Alright Combo Ender What do we do with this Whatever that was meant to be Was not that I'm sure Maybe feigning the drop Reaction again There's a lot of stuff That you can do on a reaction To get through Oh that Should be the round Because we're going to get damaged Wrong range But again You can't get greedy David I told you You can't get greedy Yeah Unfortunately there was No sub He may have like Pressed the sub Call button into sub But the Cameo was not ready yet Alright Dash is in To close in distance And escape the corner But you know you got to be Respectful of the Anti-air Alright Back up to a good spot Oh that's the forbidden technique I mean it's the It is the Baraka Clash Down wanted to spin Because I got a Cammy on the other end If you block it If you get hit Oh full combo For me baby Just constantly Chuckling as the Baraka player I know that's what I do Oh Okay so no striker For a little while Might have been a nice chance To get things going You can't get over So I understand why Valentine Waited now Oh here it is Another ender We have sub zero Confirm if we need But again No he had He did have sub He could have gotten away From the grenades It's gonna be okay for him though As why Valentine Picks the round And he starts off this round With a nice spot on screen Yes calling And maybe an expectation Of the grenades coming Oh Jumping clean Over that one Trying to come in Lovely trade on the down two Okay Fake out Yeah Wake up though I mean do you get any momentum I'm stealing it I'll once in There's no There's no striker for a little while So now it's Potentially time to party The man's back But if you're on offense Oh That is the second time Geeping by the way Has dashed in And just evenly forced I wonder if it's from like armor Or something like that Whatever it is Reactionary block Safe Yes Again Just Eating the force ball That's the third time Maybe even in this match Oh my god What a risk to take Versus Geeping with his fatal ready And we gotta see the match I mean It's the difference between Mashing the fact that Sub gives the extra 50 health I think you survived I think you're right I think you survived But you're at a range where Right You haven't got to worry as much Because you have the ice armor Does Geeping go in Yes he does He called out the ice armor Instantly Very smart solution that The Low striker is not a projectile So ice vest doesn't matter And I think the idea here For Valentin was Well surely it's going to be Spin plus grenades Right That's like a way to Close off Hopefully with chip So he's looking for Grenades to come Understandably That's not What Geeping went for You could just sense it Geeping was going to Go in and do something There's the I know that You know situation Spending our first bar Quite a costly armor Because The hit is absorbed But it does award your opponent First hit However Striker and Baraka With no meter No meter No grenades There's a range where you can be Too close to make that Connect in the corner But no It's not the right time It is ok We hit combo from that though We have the grenades Down one I mean we're going to Down one regardless Happy little accident We get the two hits there Striker Pushing you to Change your timing That down two is so far You have to be pretty surgical With those grenades To make yourself safe Alright no meter On Baraka's side Can't easily get through stuff Keep it up Oh boy A nice attempt to pick it up That's a combo Go Oh we dodged No No The mistake David Again Where's my damage It's all over the floor Huge opportunity You are dead I am sorry to say Man that is a Tough round Right there Not only Match point for keeping But the way that it happened Dropped combo Punished into Dropped combo It feels bad Lovely Dash through Ok Oh yes I mean I do theorize That Seems like it might have been An important part of this team But it's actually the first time That we see It's naturally going to be A nice answer Versus Striker At the very least So you get the knock on Effect To get those combos But Lovely up block though Alright Here we go You have to do it It's now or never I mean Match point down I like what we're seeing right now Let's play mix ups Let's party a little bit No I've got armor mate I don't care about that Yes Confirmed This is before breaker Yeah there it is Now that was only Maybe a final hit Very great The health that's left Or lack of You have to floor this block The varying speeds of force Yeah That was a A confident break You can almost say arrogant But either way It's still match point For keeping And the Striker Locked and loaded Sub-Zero gone for a moment The armor's gone too Doesn't get opened up By that back three Respects after the sweep I mean That sweep into button Can catch people so often Oh What the trade So that means still Trash it for keeping You still got the corner Ooh There are so many of these Risky situations Where it's buttoned to Striker And Sub's back There's a scary situation Early sub-call Not on reaction this time He had done reaction stuff Earlier in the set Very patient defensively Expected a grab I think Eating that standing button Knocked down The problem is Not a lot of damage But you ain't got much health left Yep Over Low Alright Fatal blow maybe Spend it now Look at Have three bars left And give us time For Sub-Zero to come back Yep That was one hit before G-Ping built the breaker Very smartly done Tons of damage as you say Now you can't get over Celest on calling No! That's exactly what I was going to bring up You know that G-Ping Is looking to react He's got fatal Alright We lost the Wi-Fi All is lost No again He's got the other bar He doesn't spend it You got it Oh the Sub-Zero kept us alive Sub I must say G-Ping though He's got the other bar Oh you're right Why didn't we spend it I think that was the game You're right And the set if it had been That was a chaotic Ends that match Very scramble Alright character selects I don't necessarily think This is to change anything I think this is The game ended in a stressful manner We lost the Wi-Fi Couldn't stop thinking about that Absolutely Couldn't stop They got to get the Wi-Fi back It's actually a change It's a big change Oh even bigger If it's Chameleon Because Raiden Chameleon is cheap And if you've got to win one game One game versus Raiden Chameleon Okay I wouldn't want to be On the receiving end of that right now 100% That's it I liked a lot of what the Baraka Striker was doing I don't feel like this is a Necessary change Hopefully for G-Ping it goes well As you said There's a lot of strength there I think it's very strategic It's the one game nature Of this I mean The amount of true Overhead low 50-50s Raiden Has with Milena alone Is insane And then of course We can do storm cell Into the fan lift Lovely punish This combo is going to take so long By the time it's over Chameleon has already changed From Milena Had it not been dropped But it matters We get clicked again Full combo I feel like there is some High stress You can see some of these Combos Full combo Thanks to the lift Yes indeed And we're going to end it With Milena We're going to have just Enough Milena left Maybe not so much after that Now, yeah Hard read Hard read on the overhead me Hey, let's go We have to go in Good block on the low You know that's where the reward Is going to come from Have to avoid it Goes for a punish But again It's really hard to punish that Man, great defensive patience By keeping Why about him Just hoping that there's going to be Something that he gets his hands on Oh no Did he think he had sub He might have tried to put on Sub vest And then dash through Which is A good solution Would have been a great choice He wasn't quite there He stopped around with it Immediately Too far away to cap Wow I mean You're always expecting the hold Into the low I feel like I got hit by the wall Again A little bit of extra damage Thanks to that sub forward throw Calling the armor in between The glaive actually It's quite a smart choice Sub takes the hit But You do have the immunity Overhead Now I get worried Now we're in Milena Every time We're hitting Milena We're actually landing a full combo So we're avoiding The scariest part Of the raiding game plan It's really good Valentin no Ate it There wasn't even an ambush To save him Yeah Safe Oh Wasn't expecting that though Okay Alright Milena time Keep far away Yeah I'm liking the amount of over I know the overhead is unsafe But we're using a really good amount To make that low still A substantial threat Full combo now though Keeping On the map point For another time here At the turn pink Yes There it is Good luck The big punish I mean even the raw roll Is a mix up between that Or forward four Invisibility I have some mix ups Of my own Maybe And last time There was the wake up armor There This time just Okay Oh That was it Nice Up close Trying to get The stretch throw Mix ups going But on that end Has very rarely had Throws It's been almost all Stretch Uh oh Okay It's a forward two That could have been a death sentence We're trying to get To Milena as fast As possible now But the sub keeps us alive Full combo again Just outside of Fatal glow So we have to take the combo To what it is Can't get hit by the glaive The sweep To bypass All he wants is No To get a chance Wow Skipping Not only stays alive In the round But ends up taking The set Played so careful Up until that one time One button too many And you get clicked By raiding forward four And that's it That was a close Affair But ultimately I was so convinced We were going to a final Game How that was going That was very Guaranteed Again The block of stretch Definitely had a lot of Stretch It's going to be a Misplaced Wow The charge No overhead That wasn't Scouting I mean I get hit by the low Out of that It's the sheer amount That raises Up That is a very Scary team Just makes up for that Because Depending on Even the disguise Reaction Oh, you're there Yeah, I mean That takes a long time To recover Some range is It's possible to On reaction Jump A lot of characters Have something not just Spade all that Can get That on its own It's great It's on a Fan lift Bakes everything Safe It's possible Though He doesn't spend it Oh, the Sub-Zero Kept us alive I must say Deeping though Had an extra bar Right Why didn't we spend it? I think that was the game You know though Great result And A nice tactical Aggressive change One that worked out But Narrowly did not It's just that One down one at the end Getting clipped by Forward 4 was Was all they needed But I was so convinced It would have been a game 5 It was a close one So now because He won that match Geeping BR Will play against Scorpion procs In the next round Now we're getting 4 out Per pool We're getting Yes, that is That's right So on winners side We're not going to be getting To a winners finals Of this pool We're instead of Going to be getting To the winners Semis of each We'll play that And then The players Will make it out One, sorry 6 out per pool So on winners side The winner of that match Will be losers For the next round So then on losers side We'll get Players out 4 players out From that side too 2 players out From that side too So anyway 6 per pool And it's going to be Scorpion procs Versus geeping On one side The other side Will be Murilo Versus either Ge exceptional Or little Chronos So that's where We're looking at Right now We do see Foreverking Has the DEQ Next to his name But here But still Lots of great players Here after all So ge exceptional Versus little chronos Is one that I'd be very curious To see Because ge exceptional Have not seen A massive amount Of him In mk1 But I'm extremely Familiar with his game 11 Mortal Kombat 11 Was just a game That Over the span Of the four years Or so that it was around You started to see A lot of players Constantly appearing In all these various Tournaments That To see as much of them In the recent game Again, just to remind This game is not very old It's been out for a few months And what is a few months In a game's entire life Especially a game With the complexity Of this one It's a game With So many zany options That it's It's obvious To go to the like Easy Quickly abusive stuff Right We all did that I was buying Baraka Assist There's a reason We're all doing that A ton of Raiden At the moment Exactly The complexity In this game We really haven't Unlocked it all yet Nor even gotten close Now I mentioned earlier That I heard that Little Chronos was a Gearist player And now we're seeing At Gearist Lau And the exceptional I had heard Was playing Ostra in this game Very very strong character In her own right Surely among the top tiers And This is going to be The matchup that We have coming up here So both with Lau I love that name By the way The Chronos Yeah I was like What characters I was like I'm Gearist Of course It makes sense I love it Oh Start off with the wrong punish It was true duck on the standing too Or forward too Can't quite remember The high Doesn't quite get the grab Yeah You want to back one too And sometimes you get The command grab Oh Gearist and Kung Lao Shout sticker I bet you're watching it somewhere If not You'll catch up on it It's certainly one of his best parents Gearist and Lau There's a lot of damage output Potential There's a lot of chances To get your free clocks There's a lot of Obviously good neutral stuff That is available here There's safety in it of course Now we have seen A little bit Of the Aushra with Kung Lao Oh whoa Wait a minute I'll finish my sword in a minute Time right away Let's go Mix up Yeah There's such potential in this This is one of the moves That some people have explored But that is not as explored As many others As it's wild Lovely reactionary block On the head And a lovely kind of truth But we've got me to Little Cronus in this round Has gone With the double clones The EX to confirm And get more damage And then had a bar to spend On the reverse This character is oozing resource It's so cool What a cool game Come on We were playing earlier before Getting some games And the Striker in Gearist It's just this character Oh actually He's so cool I'm having a great time with him Okay That's been the second time Each time yes Established that Even things like that dash Right on its own Probably the best armor reversal In terms of utility I think Because of just how Almost immune She is to being punished With that low hat in play It becomes a very easy Getting for free tool Especially in dark stance Actually dark stance and low hat Can be pretty cheap Yeah I agree She has a lot to say from range too This is a chance to get EX blocks That's exactly what she does When she's in dark mode You just can't really Do some of your same stuff Or at least as tougher As Gearist Ticks a bet That was sick What a cool out That was so sick Have these two played They must have played a million times For that to be the interaction Right there That was so smart Of course it is a classic solution The low hat For Gearist to try forward Three over it You can just do your little Summer salt Get over it But he, except you know Knew it That was genius And then The mind games And the layers that are Created from that Is even better Because then you start To see all these Weird arms Again, so much of that is just cool I know I think that Teleport Might have been in the system I'm not sure why Gearist would try and do it There every time The problem about getting A Teleport Should it have been an accident Long cool down And Gearist really wants That low hat Look at how long He's having to take Without any even then Might have been able To teleport there Didn't want to Because we need that low hat Back Again, unreaction now Of course We was looking for the slash And this time is when We did not check it out So again Very good mix ups Whether it's defensively Or up close Not there in time They're a little too far out Lovely block Fantastic block Actually on that low overhead Patience Big patience No, no The error of Backboard 1 Trying to get their weaponish Game going Here's a no Got there in time Can't be chipped out Gotta watch out now Floater's block mandatory I love it If you're going to die In this round you might as well What choice Wow Really back and forth in this matchup It's a shame that Jump kick couldn't really Be turned into anything From the height and angle Would it hit but Had to steal a big turn There was 4 Oh no Oh god What is going on Probably could have turned That down to something But again if you Commit that Probably punishable a wake up Back to range For the exception On reaction through This has been a really strong Range form The fact that both using Low cameo but both have Interesting answers For the opponent's low Is just either We played this matchup Once or twice Absolutely right Full combo Forces the break Of course Must do Lovely block Wow that was sick Oh we're swinging We're swinging There is There are 3 clocks But we have no meter And if you can't feel this block No last breath Is around and right 2 to 0 here It's an uncomfortable match For the 2 right Because they have so many options It's 2 very strong characters 2 players who are very Strong you can tell And who know each other Very well If this is the first time They've ever played I would be shocked My answer would be You could have bloody fooled me Yeah Big damage Damage that will hurt Just that tiny little bit More on gear Is naturally lower health Than most I love dark mode The pressure available The full screen options Available right up close Try to wake up spin there Wanted to hold on to the meter While he is party big Come on punish This is big damage Out of the corner Into pressure right away Looked before they wake up Slash That's when it didn't come The 2 times that Chronos has expected it Are the 2 times They haven't come That is sore in my life Any time you play this game That is just Everyone's felt that before Now the full 3 hit string To finish now Match point for gear exceptional Who is just looking a little bit more Chronos Find back You know he's not going out Without a fight But it just feels like When the chip's down The bulk of these important hits Gear exceptional He's just So much more These defensive options The hat to get away from Or the wake up Sorry to get away from Any of the potential hatch Ends, yeah Whatever else Neutral dump to cool it out Grab My little Chronos Try it for the 4th He's trying to mix it up More strongly you can tell And the exceptional Is still ready for that That was so good To stay in the air Lovely play Sweet Okay Nothing there Got to say Reactions in that overhead Has been sublime A single one is yet to hit I ain't cursing it I ain't cursing it But Waiting that out To where now Against dark mode You can't easily get clocks up Yes Little Chronos nose goes in Here's the chip No it's dead Still pressing buttons Big jump in Anything right Don't get hit No that doesn't count He's pressing buttons Oh but the overhead Is still going to connect By the end And the one time We find the hit It ain't cause little Chronos just didn't stand up It's cause he was Trying to press A defensive button And still Got chewed up there As it will be a three to zero For the exceptional Moving on in this bracket now And overall Looking good Got to say Maybe it's because I'm over in EU You don't see a lot of Ashra with Kung Lao It's almost Almost exclusively Serena Of course we have Fish like Steve Who does like to play A little bit of Striker On top But yeah I mean as the matter Is developed Especially over in My part of the world Lots of Serena You almost forget That Kung Lao and Ashra has some pretty Good stuff here And that low hat Helping the up close game Just a little bit Didn't see as much Of these sort of Low hat charge Into the dash activity I think a big part of that Might have just been Your opponent Giris has quite a few ways To sneak his way out Of setups Because of Various armored reversals Maybe he's got The hour glasses So he could rewind And you know Lots of Little things She's very strong Ashra A lot of people talking About her as being Among the best I agree with as well In NA at least Serena No doubt But also There's quite a bit Of Lao There's quite a bit Of Goro That we see with her too Ashra Goro I feel like she has So many strengths That you can Select from a bunch Of different potential Options With that character And do great Just play a little bit Differently You know But yeah The low hat there I think you could see The utility I think that was nice Just as a way To pave the path For you As you're trying Really really good work We're not Surprised at all To see The exceptional Play great So 3-0 Now it will be him Versus Murilo To get out Of the pool Again one Will get out in the Winner's side One will get out in the Loser's side On the other side Of the bracket Scorpion prox Versus Geping BR One gets out in the Winner's side One out in the Loser's side I feel like Scorpion prox Versus Geping To Surprise us here And I don't mean that As a disrespect I mean that Okay so we've seen the Characters We've seen Raiden We've seen Baraka Right Scorpion prox Plays And clearly can play So much of the cast It's a huge part Of how they Learn the game Both Scorpion prox And Nicholas They too play Their fair share Of top tiers I mean Of course That's like A wise man once said Pick a top tier You're going up against Weirder With Raiden chameleon My thought is that You fight someone Like Scorpion prox It's nothing they Haven't seen before When it comes to Character pairing You're going to have to Bring some Absolutely insane play To like Crack into a player Of that caliber I think the Raiden chameleon Actually Purely just match up Wise Might even be A little bit better To start with Because it's so cheap But weird At the same time It's not like I fight Baraka Striker Or if I'm Super You know Glued into the match up You know I can punish things When I have to If I have to take a trade I'll take it down too You know I'll just try and Watch out for the striker All the time Not fall into All these basic traps Raiden chameleon Is a bit like Alright You know what I'm doing But it's still like If I've got Molina ready It's an unseeable Overhead low You know I've got the fan lift At a moment's notice I don't have to worry About any zone in To care about None of full screen stuff It's harder to punish Very strong I don't know Maybe I'm over-analyzing This in my head I fully agree with you I would love to see If it's the Baraka Striker To see how Scorpion Prox deals with it Because there are ways To deal with it If He's always going to Spin in the same timing It's the same Flawless block timing Every time There's a gap in it That nobody knows about I guess That we'll see if Scorpion Prox also Knows or not That's something I would Love to see That it would be great to have If I could choose the team Raiden Chameleon I'd pick Raiden Chameleon I would do the same I think I'd do it At least for that first game Just to be like, right I'm going to pick this And I'm going to throw Everything at you here Again, like this is The meta strategy, right? If you're playing against A player who you know is sick And we all know That Scorpion Prox is sick You got to give him The weird looks The Obvious stuff Is You got to be a real genius To win With the obvious stuff Against somebody who Is as strong As Scorpion Prox I'm with you It's obviously up to him I'm not sure if we're going to Go there first Or if we're going to see Gi-Exceptional versus Murillo We'll find out In the meantime In Losers It's going to be Tekken Master BR Versus Y Valentine Who we had a chance to see Earlier Little Chronos Is currently playing against Aulacard Gringo Who we saw as well And where are we going Scorpion Prox versus Gi-Pain Okay So That initial Actually, I say Initial character choice We also don't know Who's Scorpion Prox There's a possibility For Kung Lao Do Kang We've seen many times We've seen Raiden Kano Yep, of course Who else is there I mean, I feel like There's always surprises And sometimes it's weird Characters that Maybe not everyone else is Ah, Scorpion Prox Is going to be going In Baraka Striker And Gi-Ping is doing What we had discussed Actually I like it Raiden, Chameleon First game So now Scorpion Prox With Baraka Striker In this match Hello As we Hello everybody As we get into it I mean, Raiden has a lot Of great strengths But if you're caught In the corner A lot of that stuff Isn't going to matter Quite as much It's got a relatively slow wake Up Now the rush down Has already begun To be laid on thick Good flawless blocks But it's not enough to save you Actually, these flawless blocks Are kind of insane Actually Honestly, yeah If you're Flawless blocking Consistently against Baraka You're taking off A quarter of his game Up close Right Jade time Recently added In the patch Just more cues in general And information For when she changes disguises So That does give you A little bit of extra help here Yeah But Scorpion Prox If there's one thing You want to do against this Kind of team Just keep them Either at a distance To prevent them from Applying what they want Or have them Forced on the defense You know The one thing Raiden wants to do With this team Is Be the one in control And if you take that Control away Very limited Alright What do you got Mixups afterwards Keep it pretty easy Oh Grab That is how you know Out of the corner Doesn't matter too much Because you get Okie right away Yes Happy to take that overhead Run it And now it's the chance No keeping Is very patient Sent out the Milena But just did Not work so good Didn't commit Right I mean At least Did not commit to that That would have been Probably the end of the round Very least Probably would have Forced a breaker The backup Just in case We spent here The breaker forced Now keeping Not in a great situation No I think tried to go For instant Electric fly there There would have been Just enough Kitana to fan lift Oh Oh As the grenades Explode behind him And there Is the last hit That we had mentioned before Could have been The dub For keeping In one of his matches Previously This time Scorpion proxies The guy who brings it out Well Shut down You know If you can just Prevent it from happening Easier said than done Of course Yeah It's a way to work around And I mean Baraka striker Very overwhelming pair A great team at doing so Wake up armor You think you have momentum Scorpion prox is just Robbing that from you Right now We're going to go into Kitana after this is done Beautiful Punish Aware there was Scorpion prox Did not expect The commitment To the down forward too So into the full combo I almost feel like I'm more Ready to see spin After That after low poke Than back one Yeah So Gping Wasn't looking for it there Oh nice pickup Spending the meter Just to keep even more Of that And we're going to get Maybe one Off this throw tech Melina It's time to play But again Right away Right away Not giving Any time Any space Now There's no striker For a little while So if Gping Is going to get it Very patient through I don't know Whether it's a coincidence Here David But every time Melina is available Scorpion prox Is just either landing A significant hit Beautiful Where you going Get back here What I was going to say Is just like Before we were rudely Interrupted by that Wonderful reaction Is when Melina's available Scorpion prox Is just going in He is either Making sure Or it just so happens To be the case Uh oh He could take it Again Oh man Now look I mean strikers there A lot of the time I don't think Striker was called out For that He was just Doing the wake up Respectively Taking that jump in Dash in grab Happy to do it Striker Locked and loaded Safe jump Oh I mean That sort of style Is we really saw Tech and master Do that for the first time Where that striker Not really used as a I'm going to just Do what I want And cover it with grenades I'm going to land a grab I'm going to get I'm going to turn that From other hits as well When it has been so Core to this character Lovely confirm Horses the combo break Yeah Out of there instantly Didn't believe in the Back forward three there You can definitely tell Scorpion prox is keeping His eye on the opponent Chameleon You know He's not over committing In situations where Other way Mix up Yes You can be as ready As you can But 50-50 50-50 Using it Too far Whips Oh yeah You're dead Scorpion prox Ends it 2-0 now So Look I mean the We saw more Of raiding chameleon Than we did in game one So keeping is A little bit more active A little bit more aware Some of these situations I still like the pick We'll see if you can stick with it The alternative would be A Baraka striker mirror And you have got to be Confident that that's enough I like I should stick with this But there are solutions That Baraka striker has 2 Baraka striker That I think can be really unique Alright now Renade once more Classic Seen it a million times And we'll see it many more Sweet Into the overhead I mean well Not overhead Back three minutes I don't know why I totally know it's not enough I know I understand Chameleon was not Quite there to save them Okay so now again No striker So if there's going to be a time When you can get things Going a little bit more Offensively That may be it Corp in Praxis Not super aware Right through pick it up Come on Alright overhead That's now bust range This is the offense Now Milena time No Probably might have had to Been forward two Right back Spent right away underneath Break it Corp in Praxis same Corner time though Can raise and escape A huge risk I mean Baraka's going to Have means to chase this down Oh instant jump Oh just roar I mean survived Cause striker actually Kept you alive But Make it Let it go Gotta make this one Fully count Could the fate Would not have been worth it Agreed Having to jump He's threatening the approach Looking for a project I'll know As soon as Geeping was on the ground And not in the air Threatening air Superman Scorpion props was comfortable To throw The spark Here did you get that Yeah you can down too I just feel like there's Almost a moment of hesitation Because if you're going for the Single hit You'd know it's down too And I know keeping those It's down too But you can know all the solutions And still Peer the moment In a bad spot right Peer the moment Is a cruel mistress Absolutely Good block there That is always an overhead Low situation When that roll is available Lovely flawless block Yourself just A little bit more alive It is of course Match point Winning this He's on top 24 Winner side Cool idea Don't punish Right back into it Scorpion props Now Gonna have the corner for himself If he chooses to go And he's got a strike Oh here it is And the conversion Oh The conversion is there There's gonna be a breaker Oh And he chooses to Get the bleed I love this That was super smart Anything's gonna do it Oh no Get down here Oh the patience Very well played The patience I mean a great way to end it too Because I mean like Baraka you spend the meter Get the bleed effect And then at the same time You got that damage Increased damage over time Especially good versus Raiden Because Raiden has that passive That after he's blocked A few times He takes reduced chip damage So I think the The meter spent on that move Is a nice way to kind of Offset that And of course The rest of his history there Just Didn't manage to find a hit Doesn't matter Because you block Here comes the fan lift Got two blades on the hand Got two blades Got some big ones It's not all great Tarkot You know maybe Overall you don't want to get it However It's got this benefit of Maybe you become Superhuman And you get blades on your arms That's not all bad Yeah I think if you asked Baraka He'd be like David Tell you what These blades are They're pretty cool But Maybe there's a big button there You know he used to I want my lips back I want my lips back He can still say bees It's alright God knows You don't need lips For that stuff God knows how But you know what you don't do You don't bring logic into To more combat universe Yeah, I was We were saying this earlier People are like A character that dies And they come back I'm like You can't bring logic into this Come on You gotta let yourself Have some fun Have fun Come on Come on This is a game That is definitely about that On the other side Of winners Gi exceptional Versus Murillo Who we have not seen On stream yet But who We heard Is coming into this As some people's favorite To make it out of this side Of the pool Young player We heard 16 The exceptional Obviously much more established That's what we're expecting On the loser's side It's gonna be Mono-Hua versus Little Chronos To make it out on one side The other side Is Valentin versus Tekken Master BR Again to qualify Out in loser's side And again I just Because we've Just gone live And there's always the talent Later Tekken Master BR Very specific At the end there It is not the Tekken Master We are familiar with It is a different Tekken Master Who actually plays Liu Kang and Kung Lao As we found out Not Shang Tsung And Goro Yeah But yeah So that might be A little bit later But that matchup Would be reptile Versus Liu I will imagine If they play the same Yeah If it's the exact same Matchup We'll see What's that name? LGD Well Tekken Master Yeah LGD Is a local Crew Some strong players Who are on the come up Is what I was told So that's cool Tekken Master BR Versus Tekken Master BH I'm just I gotta call on that Next time I see Tekken Master From Bahrain I have to specify Tekken Master BH You know if Tekken Master Actually went To this tournament There was a Small chance That they would Tekken Master That's right The name battle Man we haven't had One of those in a while Back in the day There were some name battles Out there You know The first to five And whoever loses Gotta switch their name Really? Yeah We definitely had name battles Back in the day At the local we At our local We'd have The furthest we ever got Was a pizza match We had two Two players That Mates Bit of rivals The winner of the match Got bought a pizza Sure Most important match Of 100% They were like Yo a pizza Of my choosing 100% Better than a Money match Which you can use To buy a pizza It's not It doesn't feel as good Yeah it's not the same So here is The exceptional Who we saw With a very strong Astro General Shao Wow And Darius Shao Darius Is what I am here And I have just Picked the player I want to win This event I don't even know If he was alive When Darius Made his debut Haha Haha Haha Alright here we go Oh dude Yes indeed A little pickup That is actually Incredible damage Right So Full screen Darius Massive cooldown Right It is A rather Stressful part Of playing this team Is that You have to make sure What you hit Works Because the penalty Is What do we got Back to a little bit of Corner stuff A little early Set up the new stuff That is that new move From Darius You can call in that overhead Whenever you want It can A bit irrelevant here Armor break wakeups Not something that Astra has to care about Which actually may be One of the things That Meridius Really has to look for Because Those Darius setups A big part of them Might be trying to Force a wakeup Just to get a situation It's not going to be free Taking up huge Spards on screen And he's back to Again This really comfortable spot He's going to be spinning Woop Must be Very careful here This is a good jump jump too And as strong As the jump in As it is Wasn't quite enough To hit all the way against Down floor For a round one Goes to be exceptional Started things up again With just Big neutral control Oh I mean Expensive Expensive However You trade Darius But now So I think You could almost Call that a fair trade here You're going to have Darius back Before Astra gets Three more bars So It's not the worst thing In the world Shao on his own Pretty fundamentally strong Just range Confirmability Big damage Combos Take a hot minute So it gives you time For your cameo To recharge However Anti-air Okay What a nice little Pick up and see ya If you can get Mita out of Astra That's going to make His setups So much more devastating Yep Turn here Full Darius meter Anti-air Forces the break So it's already important Here but that Is going to do huge damage It's not enough to kill Shao Chunky character Plus 50 Thanks to Darius Full as fuck You're dead Wow That was So important The key moment That was A huge swing of Game goes Final versus One to one In rounds Still in game number one The most fuck Full as block We've seen today Absolutely And it's Leading us now That first game Continues Darius Locked and loaded That's going to be Full combo from Grab Overhead Low If I land a hit And don't spend him I can call him Furoki Lots of respect Pick it up Right Could be a Darius Set up here Ah Man yeah Just out of here Really strong Escapes like that Are Really the biggest weakness Of Darius It's going to be this It's going to be something Like a gyrus time rewind Darius is such A committed to cameo How much he costs But if you have an escape Like that Very easy To invalidate him Full combo now Now it's not going to do As much damage As it does to other characters Again Massive amounts of HP Thanks to the Darius And the Shao combine But We're going to go to A range that Even if the exception Has less life It's rather keep Shao far away Oh yeah This is a much better In position for him No he'd rather go in a little bit That half screen range Is where he has big control Whoa That was gigantic Darius he's there Oh Yo Actually I never thought About that Can't get it low I've never seen that Land a projectile That's so far away Darius is Right behind him That was exactly The read he needed Rather than continuing To throw projectiles Rather than harassing That with setting up The low hat Needed to be in the air He had exactly The right time to do so What really is unfortunate Then it took me by surprise Landing that Meep That EX Knockdown Calling in Darius Sadly holding in A little bit too long The point where he ran off That little One of those axe kits Would have killed If He exceptional Was not looking for that That probably Would have run around Either way though Calling in Look for the anti air My break Respect being shown Of course Couple of patches ago Low hat up close Minus now Instead of being Plus three Minus three I think So you have to show respect Like right there Blocks happy to do so If you get greedy Shower's gonna Snerdy Oh here we go That's the round I think Should be Yes indeed Big damage Hey You think it's done Then he pulls it out I know That when he pulls it away There's still more down Drop the axe Right away That jump in Hard to blockable city Right That's probably gonna come back There it is Oh Hicked firm though Right now I'm always eyeing it up What's our setup Drops the combo That's unfortunate He knew it Ah boy Except for Very smart patients Makes the opponent pay And again Here's that Half screen situation He turns it into A little bit of offense There's the drop Low hat It's gonna give a charge Nice and plus On hit still Have you got a witch Free chip damage Unless And Nespirellios was gonna Do another unbelievable flawless block There was very little he could do there I really like that His turn Smartly interrupting Still his turn there Again that's an expensive one Now here we go Okay so off the bar You know for a view For real yo That's probably alright It's a good approach If the Darius gets blocked off Your overhead low mix up You can at least take the plus from him Alright Down into the corner Half of Darius is back A benefit of that new movement For that cameo Is that You're not as reliant And just always having full If he wants to use Darius Here for setup He really can However I think might hold on to it Because He's so close to being Oh No What the hell Overhead as well Into full combo And that is gonna be The game for sure We're gonna take huge damage here We're gonna finish the job Thank you Darius For my overhead And I gotta say Love in what I'm seeing here Micro-management of those resources Landing that hit With Darius being a couple of seconds away You could have been like No I want the setup right now Opted to go for nothing And just held on to it Knowing if I get one more setup Darius can win this game for me To actually With Overhead again That's really cool Uh huh We saw that for the first time Over in EU Because of VGY But that was for New Darius Right Right But he got too rude Oh that's sick That gets over The low-headed With his spinning About four of us Of course play For game stuff It's not really the Main go-to In game number one But much more about here Using the hat As a setup As a move-in Rather than just The cold screen So much of this game I must say actually It hasn't really been about The constant like Axe-less Overhead low This and that So much of it has been In axe stance To out-future Yeah, Arshra To have the with-punish-ability And in fact Darius working So beautifully With the axe version Of Xiao Against Arshra in particular I know there's issues About the wake-ups And stuff But I'm liking it Alright That's fatal blow And look I know you got extra health But it's Arshra's fatal blow There I think You might be dead Yeah You might be right There was about 20% health left Before this fatal start I think it's it Yeah It's still gonna last Oh yeah, you're dead All those hits Exploding into the round God That's a That's some chunky damage Right there Dashing Dashing in between Hoping the low hat Got the low The overheads have been The real success So I can't fault Really as I'm trying To leave the low down Oh, sure Jump Plus on block Specs a button This time Just gonna be a knock down Not a bad answer For when the axe goes down Fall in low hat Eyes patch All combo Jump in The first one That tech Darius I understand the idea Just a little bit of I imagine it kind of messes With the gravity Just a little bit there You really do On that overhead Oh, that was super cool Wow On that overhead From Darius You truly only have a split Second to actually Let it combo twice On the floor All right Back to a range However, you can't really Get hit by anything here No Oh All the dashing Standing too Really, it was back in there Three bars a meter Full Darius No Defensive bar there Exceptional Oh, God But we have Darius For whenever this Finish is Absolutely I don't even know What he's gonna do Get him again It's still his turn I don't think Rilis Really cares about that Because we've done Over half life Oh, what an answer Yeah Oh, man, he's looking good The exceptional now Do you do the wake-up again No, not this time Because he now needs To chase He was almost there The distance game Oh, gimmick Come on That was a good choice I mean, look If the exceptional Wasn't looking For just button Into overhead flip You're only Really getting One of those a set Because the second That's in your opponent's brain Oh, okay I'm looking for that Because you can interrupt it You can armor it Did you know you can Actually, maybe I shouldn't say this Oh, you got secret tech, huh? No, I don't know I don't know If our commentary's Going out downstairs Oh, fair enough Fair enough I'm gonna say After the set Okay, let's do it But it's cool Well, it's sick If you know the tech I'm the Darius master Not as good As Rilis Of course He's there and I'm here This is so rarely I'm always happy to see this stuff Because Genuinely, Darius Is for me Super good And super scary But Just No one really plays him But Oh, look at that Overhead low Plus on block On hit Big combo He's got that new move So you've got even more pressure Oh, it's good And look at it Oh, that's good Wonderful block Good block And a pickup Couple of errant hits Just like that It's a real turn To take the round Couldn't break as well Yeah Spent extra resources Just to make sure By the time you have breaker My final hit has already landed Match point now Really is this general Shao And the Darius Working hand in hand Now, the obsession Has to do something Lots of meter Lots of resources It's just Look You get within that mid range Shao has buttons That match yours Good block Yes, but you're challenging The plus frames Darius ain't done Oh All right, now Really bad spot For the exceptional Okay Throw punish And he can Maybe move out of this corner Yes Hat will help him And he's got to press more When he's had success In the last two games It has been More about pressure than Just mid range stuff Again, using the hat Try to move in Big jump Oh, boy It was very close to work Yeah, my I was very nervous About that one Takes the plus frames And forces the sweep Not a bad choice at all A good throw again But normally Good range for Arshra Get general Shao Not as convinced No, I'm with you I'm with Those down Those down I know that Shao I know he's vulnerable To being disrespected Because he has Like a really fast mid But even now This helps You are in danger Good block Okay, let's turn Yes, try it Whoa Didn't believe in the rest These little taxes Of down four And the like Look at the health core Look at the time Oh, bumper Bumper maybe to take it Oh, absolutely You're dead You are a thousand percent dead And there we go Meridios The general The Darius as well God, this is what I love This is what I Love to see Like Because There is so much in this game That doesn't get used That is just waiting Agreed It's waiting for someone to pick it I had never seen a general Shao Use this team Outside of BGY You know And a huge shout out to BGY Of course I hadn't really seen that team Post Darius buff Where there were some changes Made to some cooldowns How regularly Coming back a little bit faster And of course The new move Yeah, we didn't see the new move General Shao and Darius Scary, scary, scary team And very impressive showing here What I was going to say by the way If someone uses Darius's flip On its own The opponent can actually up block The flip And Darius will not do a follow up He just runs away So it's a way to Avoid him using it on its own And you just avoid All possible follow up Darius will just run off Interesting Yeah Only one person's done that to me Yeah And I was shocked they knew Yeah You know why They were playing Darius Yeah It's just something I run into so rarely This was incredible That was gorgeous stuff right there I can absolutely see why people Thought that he was going to make it out of this pool They were right, first of all He makes it out in Winner's side The exceptional makes out in Loser's side But Again, 16 years old Very strong player You can tell that The whiff punishes were there The setups were there The awareness was there And against a really strong player In the exceptional Who was looking great earlier on And who we've known has been strong For a long time So shout outs to Murillo BDS For moving on In Winner's side So on Winner's side From this pool Scorpion procs And Murillo Now in Loser's side We do have a couple more To Wrap it up In this pool And one side Valentin versus Tekken Master BR On the other side Monoar versus Little Chronos So I believe Monoar versus Little Chronos Is currently being played From what I can see And the next match in the stream Is the Tekken Master BR So Liu Kang and Kung Lao I'm guessing If it is the same character But you never know Different stage tournaments Someone might try something new And then Looks like Reptiles sub Which was really good It's unfortunate that Like I said The last time we saw Wasn't a Game 5 Because it was so close to being one It was just One small little instance And that was it But outside of that Was playing so incredibly well And clutching Keeping himself together There were so many scrambles there The longer the set was going on Was just coming out Way more on top With the Reptile And it looks like That's probably going to be The character matchup But You never know The cameo matchup Right I mean there are players Who pick cameos Per matchup I think it's a great idea Something that I do too Play against somebody Who has grenades I sometimes do Go to the sub As a way to Sort of solve that pressure So I don't know That it's necessarily the case That he would go with sub If it were a different matchup Absolutely could be And in any case If it's Lu Lao on the other side Having sub would be Very helpful too If you think that That's going to be more Of a zoning focus For the opponent You know A couple of ways to go With it there I see sub less Frequently Than I feel like I should My opinion is very strong I really like him As a solution to some Of the most common meta Assist in the game Grenades Knives That kind of stuff He is really strong against And you know We're good We are seeing it more often We saw it earlier So we'll see if that's The call here As we're looking for Valentin vs. Tecumaster BR After this pool Is done We're going to get The next one set up We're going to switch Commentators out And get a bunch of Other strong players Out in pool B We're looking for that Nicholas The other twin Going to be in that pool We got a bunch of Strong Brazilian players Conqueror Is in that pool For example Conqueror plays some Really interesting Characters too Yeah From like Even originally Like Conqueror was using Some stuff where I'm like That doesn't really strike Me as a conqueror Character But then again On the road to greatness What is a New character It's whatever character Wins you the match But how weird I hear that I hear that And he's had He's had different takes On some characters In the past Than other people too A little bit less Mixed up heavy And a little bit more Like neutral focused With the sub For example Back in MK11 So yeah We'll see Again We are waiting For Loser's side To see Valentin vs. Tecumaster Little Chronos Versus Monoar Did happen As you said That they were already Playing Little Chronos Qualifies I'm happy about it Open to see more Super sick character So for those of you That are here We are Maybe you've just joined A little bit later Or whatever the case is We've only been live A little bit maybe An hour, couple of hours Offline combat one This is our third Pro competition stop This one is in São Paulo, Brazil We are Having a great time And Matches are Well underway At this point And this is I believe The final match Of this pool And We will be swiftly Moving into the second group Of a fresh set of faces This one is going to be Valentin vs. Tecumaster BR Does he look like Tecumaster No he doesn't He doesn't That's not What I would say I'm a twin Yeah And even I'm like Nah I don't see it I'm sorry I don't see it Alright So It's the point characters We expect that Didn't see The backup it is Lulao on the other side Quite a lot of stress You know Because we're starting to see Loads of players make it out There's only room for one more That's right Start That's wrong here Sometimes gone into Invisibility after that But there now We're We're So We're We're Big old Combos line And wait Oh yeah Sub-Zero I love the way I love the way that Valentin Your application of the armor With something else Because Not only is it obviously It's good to do that To keep yourself from being Creative and stuff like that A lot of what Rektal Has Visually changes And kind of temporarily Removes that armor For a split second So You're not 100% synced in there You're almost like Forget it He's got it I really like what we're seeing Out of Valentin here Again the sub-call Versus low hat It is a great counter-call Versus lots of stuff He doesn't use it always The counter-calls you see Right there sometimes And waltz in There's also a lot of times When he sees low hat And then Starts the party Classic setup We've been seeing for 100 years From this character right there Back to the rain To be honest I'm kind of surprised We didn't see it at all It's not an easy one But at this level of play It's rather Rektal I don't Oh no pick up I think it was sticking out A low poke or something I think it was low to the ground Not quite sure what happened there Either way Goes for a jump in Respects the poke Oh no Not sure about that one That is going to do Massive damage And that's it First game already gone Let's be Valentin 1-0 here with this reptile Reptile sub I mean You've got buttons You've got whiff punish You've got range You have constant application Of the sub-zero armor For Liu Kang Counterplay That might be kind of hard I agree I agree And especially Some of the easy stuff Is effective versus sub-vest Obviously You can't just throw projectiles Your setup of low hat Into dragon kick Into pressure Isn't going to work out There are differences there That you have to play around Now that doesn't mean That you can't do that stuff But you just got to keep your eye on Whether there's a sub-vest call or not However There may be a change Oshiro what Serena For Tekken Master BR Very projectile focused team though Yeah I was just going to say This is It's a matchup for Valentin He feels comfortable It seems to be Not always counter-calling With sub He often times will just do Sub-vest And that's kind of how You use Serena to A lot of people use Serena anyway Just the random counter The random call Invincibility Invincibility this time So the way that Valentin Plays around that I think could be really good For Whiffin That dash was to try For some kind of movement Charged Overhead Joe Valentin The Valentin we're seeing here In terms of just execution And just On-the-spot decision-making Looking a lot more comfortable Than we saw last time You know you're in this pool A pool in essence Is a miniature tournament And it's alright You get through these matches You get more warmed up Maybe you couldn't have played casuals Before you start to play Your first matches in tournaments We're playing a pretty tricky Fiddly character here With Red Star and Sub Like I'm pretty impressed Is what I'm trying to say Yeah no no I'm with you I like it a lot Again invisibility Right Here we go Where am I Regular neutral stuff However stabbing in Was Tekken Master VR not along You know I actually really like The standing there doing nothing Into forceful Because of Tekken Master VR Stuck out a button thinking No I've got swings You would have just Ate that projectile For sure But here we go again Same situation Do you wake up What You uplocked that What a genius Oh that was smart That was so good Man What a way to Get damage out of you 400 And now Pressuring up close There's no more sub For a little while Right poke Stuck is it Oh wait We go fake blow We go fake blow Game two Look I mean Valentine Play great We saw a lot of the same stuff From him in this match As we saw before But as it went on I liked more of what we saw From Tekken Master I was not enough in this game But he did seem to be As being a little bit more aware And uplocked What I didn't love the most That was so bold Great work So maybe something to build on Extra two is The understanding of the situation Valentine has been spending A lot of this match Constantly covered in sub armor And a lot of what Astra and Serena likes to do Is button into the fast projectile Not even the double one The single one There has been a very immediate understanding And respective I know I can't do this And is playing quite well up close Without it However Looks like you might be going For one final character If that's what we We truly have got It's gotta be something that doesn't Just get countered by Ice vest Again you can certainly play With Astra Serena versus Sub You just have to pick your moments And it didn't seem like You found them So maybe now To A different team Will it be Laugh Okay you know It's clearly comfortable with it Less limited up close I suppose You know you're not going to be able to do stuff like You can't throw out low hat With the armor active And stuff like that But you have other buttons You have some Plus frames built in Sure to For example So let's see how This one works out We know It's tying off strong I'm going to Cool out your ice armor Because Clearly our goal is I have to keep you As often as possible Not Double enough There is a perfect example He just gets to run through Even though it was Amplified projectile Really Staggering at a big time Now Is Valentine Yeah he has established it enough Throughout this set That he feels he can get away With big stolen turns And he's absolutely right Upon that Visible Wake up or not There was enough Lock In there Back to back Absolutely In Full Control Is Valentine Just so in charge Of the situation And not having to spend Much resources On it We can use EX dash We can use EX full spools If you have one I can master BR Maybe just from Forced of habit Still had Pat Still had projectile Versus ice vest On the other side Here's a chance for him And blown up Immediately Sub is ready Immediately sub Called out You just can't There are projectiles Again Something you can't do But there's no utility It rains like that Another full combo We can't throw projectiles Maybe we'll try One more mix What do we do Dash in button I'm not mad at I'm not mad at Dash in button No It was the first time he tried But that's also one of the reasons That Valentine was constantly backing off And doing full spools Was to beat Buttons like that But If we saw that Exact kind of reptiles The first time we saw Valentine We might have had a game 5 Who knows what else I definitely think that No disrespect to When we like Last saw him play He just looked Way more warmed up Agreed Yeah, we saw him earlier on Of course Did not work out That was a 3 to 1 That he lost Versus keeping Who then had Lost Versus scorpion prox After that What can you say about that So our Qualifiers from this pool Now that the pool is done In Winnerside Scorpion prox And Murillo And from Loserside Gping The exceptional And Valentine And Little Chronos Make it out of this So Six through As we mentioned There are four pools We're working today Towards getting to the top 24 Which will be tomorrow That will be all day tomorrow So we'll get a great chance To see everything on stream Is the idea And now in this pool It's done We have made our way through it Quarter of the entertainment Is already complete It's kind of wild When you look at these kind of tournaments How quickly things can unfold For sure It's just that you practice You practice You practice And then Snap my fingers An hour later Results have happened And some of them expected Some of them not so much Personal highlight For the group for me Was The general Shao Darius Oh yeah It's just like I'm a huge fan Of innovation And Those that Are not afraid To go with stuff That works for them You know Versus What a lot of people say I've only seen Two general Shao Darius VGY And now That's it You know That's it And who knows how far that can go But of course Plenty of talent made it through But just one piece of Many groups we're going to get For the rest of the day So there you go For pool A We're going to Go to a quick break We'll be back with Pool B After this Don't go anywhere For more of the Brazil Major here on the MKBK It's Ninja killer I want to fight him I got to I got to Get to see Rewind I have it in my pool So I get to go up to Hey Please let me hit you Please let me hit you I'm just looking I'm just trying The beauty in competition Is truthfully The fellowship from the players There's just no better feeling Than sitting next to People you may Friends with through Mortal Kombat Because these memories Last a lifetime What people are missing Whenever they're Sitting at home Playing on wine Is they're missing The energy levels Whenever they come To an offline event Such as ECT right now The energy levels The intensity It's definitely A lifetime type of feeling This is my first time being here I was supposed to go to The last one But I wasn't able to Make it to that one So being here This is another experience Right here I love all of this I'm not going live I came towards the tail end Of the last pro tour So being at the actual Pro tour Is really exciting Because I don't know I love the offline feel It's an amazing feeling Definitely come to the events Live events I mean online is great But offline is where It's really at So you get to see the people Playing next to somebody You can't recreate that Online With these memories The tales can be told From the diamonds That Sonic Fox And their skills have shown To Ninja killer Taking his towns as an Online warrior To being the biggest Threat sitting beside you The new era Will be promised This is the one That's blocking the lightning cage Cyraxman in the wind Flollus blocked forward Dash And Sonic with rain Is your first Pro competition Champion This Is pro competition No time to smile Hell yeah it is Fight a fire god Is coming off my bucket list You think me a monster But then beating you will I will so enjoy Killing you Combi finito It's a channel here in Brazil My English it's okay But ultra David Ultra David said to me That my English is better Than her big streams like this Feveritas US, France Wherever we have them Is to learn more about The players who are there Yeah Who they play What's their play style Even in that first Pool right Such cool stuff to watch Some of it People who are international Viewers are going to have known We know Scorpion proxies Here from Chile We've seen the exceptional Before right But some of the other players I wasn't as familiar with Or not at all in some cases And it was a blast It was super cool to watch So I'm excited to see more Of that in pool B As we get there Yeah we have a great Names in the pool B Like the pool A And we will see Names like Nicholas From Chile It's one of the twin brothers We will have Mano Phelps Mano Phelps is a great player We will have Conqueror Conqueror is very known In the world Of course It's one of the most One of the greatest players Of the Brazil In the MEK11 For sure And we will have names That you don't know yet Like Flame But let's see What can he do It's exactly what I'm looking forward to In this pool Look I mean As we talked about before With the previous pool Scorpion Prox Was the number one seed in that pool Nicholas is again The number one seed in this pool Many of us are looking for them To make a deep run In the bracket overall Obviously we all know That they're fantastic players So I'm looking forward to seeing What Nicholas does naturally But what I'm most excited for Is what I mentioned before I just I want to know more About the local scene And get to know the players Here a little bit better And see different ideas To the Xiao Darius For example Yeah Morelinho Yeah Morelinho is one of the greatest Players in Brazil But he's very young You can see that Yeah But he is playing Very, very good with Xiao With General Xiao It's not a common character It's not a top tier character But he is doing a very great job Agree Alright so starting off We're going to have Mono Phelps Versus Mateus Saakola Mateus Saakola Is like Mateus bag Mateus Something like that Okay, gotcha But Mono Phelps Will be playing with Johnny Cage It's a character that he Is playing about Even the day one of the game Mateus I don't know how Mateus Is playing But we will see Sub-Zero Sub-Goro even In Goro Not a pick that I've run across personally But we'll see I can imagine that there's some utility there There's certainly some pop-ups that Sub has That could probably be useful and mix-ups here Into converting with the Goro A punch What can he even get there is the question Because Johnny Lau is just a classic Pressure team Right You get to set things up very nicely Your pressure up close You get to steal times Even after the balance patch Lau is one of the best cameos That we have I agree Still very good It's my favorite Yeah Oh man, you're in the blender Yeah, a little bit of stolen turn in there Just a funky timing put in One of Phelps with great pressure It's the kind of the gameplay that he has Yes Okay, now the question is What does Matheus have? No, instantly interrupted Right back into the corner Yeah Matheus Until now he is not playing Just one of Phelps Yeah, you can tell that And look, I mean, if you're having success as Johnny That's what you do, right? Yeah, that's the game plan The pressure is the key for the win with Johnny The mix-up is It is in Sub-Zero DNA Alright, what do we got? Up close again Confirmed, yes, out of there The break Oh my god, the corner here Into again, pressure Right back into the mix Man, you are not out of this town One to steal turn, into what? One of Phelps has all the meters And one is That's the name of the game versus Johnny It's just calling out what buttons he's going to have In his strings there You know that he has options that are put plus frames You know that he has options that are slightly minus But because he has low hat He still gets to add on another hit there Just in case Or he can throw a weird different timing in there That you may be not expecting Because it's those slight differences in frame timings That can really make a big difference For getting out of the truck The decision of the opponent Needs to be perfect in a game with Johnny Cage Yeah, definitely You're now OK, out of there Oh, thank you You know, Mateo's has had a couple of conversions Of these and hasn't had any of that He's dropping a lot You can see that there are ideas here I'm definitely figuring out more about why he's gone stuff, Goro I think that he's nervous Because all the drops, all the chances That's what I was thinking of, yeah, that's cool That makes sense Now we have a full call He did have Goro there, by the way Yeah Oh, man, he's big steal in terms right now Mano Phelps does not miss That was even a dash before that Oh, great one I think it's there You may be right Almost there But you gotta be... Oh, he lives actually Oh my god No, Goro, Whiff And 2-0 The magic pixels was not enough Mano Phelps is doing a great job It's the kind of game plan that he has That he has And I think that we will see Mateo's changing the character Oh, wow, that's a huge change Oh, wow In Laos Astra Laos from sub Goro Which, you know, now that I've seen it I understand that there are some reasons to go with that But Astra? Like Astra Very strong But I think that she's stronger with the Serena Yeah, that is more common But today already we've seen two people who have Astra Laos But with Laos, you are never wrong You are never wrong Yeah, that's a good way to put it It's just a good option So certainly one reason to have her is for that armored move To get through the stuff But Mano Phelps Right back into the mix The hat The low hat Really bad spot Yeah, good work So match point now, Mano Phelps I thought it was starting in the corner as well The hat It feels bad as a player to get it Oh, no cancel, interesting You know, we have seen more defensive play There have been some successful down one out of the pressure We had the lightning slash to get through Okay, I mean, that's a fine trade Yeah Oh Let's go The fatal blow Oh yeah, all these little funky timings, they're adding up All Johnny did it was the trade Mano Phelps perfectly with three matches And I think that Matheus was very nervous And I don't know Looks like that he is not familiar with the Johnny Cage match Even if that Johnny Cage is a common player A common character Even in a combat league Or the decisions of Mano Phelps With the plus frames With the pressure was very good I think that's a big part of it He did have some timings that If not unusual, we're still effective And he put some good variation in them Which is he having successful offense as Johnny As anybody naturally But if your character is as strike throw based as Johnny is Then that's a really important way to do it Good to see that he does have that So he will be moving on Looks like we're gonna maybe have Conqueror coming up next We'll see if he gets to play Maybe down here at the bottom If Axioma and PS Flash If Axioma will be the next We will see Scorpion with Striker In a game plan that has a very strong patience He plays with very patience But he is very strong He was a champion of line event here in Sao Paulo too And I think that he is the favorite for this match Interesting It's rare to see a Scorpion at a very high level Naturally We do have MK Javier here who has come down from Spain Obviously also in that same boat I really like Scorpion Striker I feel like that lets him play to his strengths In this game And helps him cover some of the risks of his game At the same time It's not button into chip necessarily Although obviously you can do that But it's making the huge low more successful It's letting him zone a little bit more It lets him walk around in a little bit more of a patient way But looks like Scorpion only works with Striker right now It's the common combination with Scorpion That's it In talking with Javier he said that he will be playing Striker But in some matchups it will be a chameleon Oh right So that makes sense She's obviously a very strong Jameo as well No doubt about that one But we'll see if that's where we're headed Could be Axioma vs PS Flash A few different routes that we can go for here We'll see which players come up on stream soon I'm sure But yeah Lots of great players that we've already seen in pool number one Yeah In the pool number one What was the player that called your attention? I would say Murillo I was really impressed by the Xiao Darius You mentioned him before That he was somebody to look out for And you were totally right about that What do you think about Giping? You saw Giping? Yeah we did Yeah I mean dude He only lost to Scorpion So if that's the only person who takes you out You can still be sick That's a very high level And the exceptional loss to Murillinho And Murillo BDS I think that Murillo now has the great position But the exceptional in losers Will be very dangerous for the other players Sure Absolutely As we mentioned earlier Six players make it out of each pool So on winter side Only a couple more win after this To try to get into the top eight But for losers side There's a lot of work to be done After you make it out of the pool We'll play that tomorrow It's not going to be today Tomorrow yeah that is still going to be like a long path Yeah Try to get into the top eight And into the finals after that Yeah we will have a long journey Today and tomorrow I mean it's great You know we are getting to see a lot of matches On stream Yeah Definitely happy about that As I mentioned one of the best things about Seeing tournaments around the world Is that you get to learn more about the players Yeah So rather than just seeing that like Somebody beat somebody else in the bracket You don't learn about them really when It's great to be able to see their character choice And how they play A little bit more of who they are Well we'll get into the matches As soon as we can And in the bracket we have A match here For Nicolas Nicolas and the lab I don't know if we will see in the stream Man of Phelps with Flame Versus Flame Flame Three Zero on Suarez Yeah And Conqueror is still Waiting for his opponent And Sanguifrio too Yeah Let's see Yeah that's a tough side of the bracket Conqueror Yeah This bracket is very strong Yeah Very strong names here Sanguifrio, Conqueror and Nicolas They are a favorite for All the championship here And the three of them Is on the same bracket Yeah Yeah I mean that's It's a dense tournament Yeah There's not a lot of extra fluff here Everybody who signed up knows how to play The MK1 scene here In Latin America is very strong It's very very strong I'm glad to see I'm happy to see this kind of tournament Happening here Axioma Let's see Ice Carpio And do you know P.S. Flash? P.S. Flash I don't know How he plays But he will I think that he will bring Eshra Eshra as well You know Serena Maybe Yeah going back to Serena So a couple of pretty common pairings For their characters here Yeah Scorpion Striker Eshra Serena Both of them can sweep through That half screen of neutral pretty well If you have options that can definitely cover stuff there Serena breaks the neutral all the time And it could be a really slow matchup Just thinking about Yeah These two teams They both definitely can make Slow play happen Striker P.S. Flash Oh okay That makes it up a little bit Right back to this buzzing bee on the other side He plays a lot of the ambush Ambush side of the striker A little bit of dark mo- Oh Forward Yeah that was probably going to add up to a lot of damage there So flash out Whoa Real funky timing on that one P.S. Flash is playing very well until now But the Now AXIOMA It's making progress Kept it mirrorless on this Oh yeah Plus frame over Another one Yeah And I'm happy to see that Striker is about more than just grenades He's got a ton of options Yeah Overhead, low Yeah man Restan Yeah Wakeups A very good restan Oh maybe he thought that would kill But not enough That was probably going to be down four into the spin But the kick was enough Very patient play yet again Yeah he's defense of AXIOMA is very good too All the way into the quarter now The question is does he pressure here? Yeah very light Oh they didn't actually connect Oh the new P.S. Flash Yes The reaction for the overhead man He did get that stolen turn before this time AXIOMA button in between And back to a range He can play very comfortably And he's definitely learned some important stuff About how P.S. Flash Is not ducking in some instances Where he could get punishes Could be getting a little bit more damage Here and there Yeah And AXIOMA has now Striker I would think learned that Could probably pressure a little bit differently himself Oh that was a chance No the conversion He's losing so many chance Yes That's it still a life lead for P.S. Flash Yeah you can cover yourself with grenades Another big reason to have this team The striker is gone Now it's the time for P.S. Flash to Oh my god What is that? That was a really interesting choice Maybe hoping to just make him land on the spin But that will come up Now ten seconds That's not enough Oh no Enough Just going for the chip kill And that was not enough Four seconds Oh my god P.S. Flash If that he Take more patiently In this final Seconds That This costed the match Yeah and thinking about it I mean the opponent had A couple of bars a meter still There was not going to be An easy chip out Even with that So yeah I'm with you If that had been A little bit more patience As there had been largely Throughout that game It was a pretty interesting game Four seconds in that round Yeah That said You're on stream You're in tournament here Yeah It's not as easy to be patient As it might be If you're just at home In your pajamas Playing online Just for you guys Know What's the players In the left Side of your screen AXIOMA Is the It's in the bottom And P.S. Flash Is the Upside of the screen Gotcha Alright now Is there going to be a Character change Or back to The same There'll be a character change Will he do it? Lee Mae Thinking about it it looks like Yeah Lee Mae is not One of the strongest Character She has Oh no Forget about Forget about it Never mind yeah Don't even need to talk about it But I'm sure Serena Definitely is strong Yeah Huge damage Output Big neutral But AXIOMA Always waiting for that Yeah And he has A character in a team That can Dance around Some of where Serena likes to control You know He has big buttons himself He has safety With grenades himself Just like this He gets to stay away Let's see What P.S. Flash Will be doing now Different from the The first match Great block on reaction Yeah This is the third time Trying to go for that There was just a down one Previously to interrupt This time AXIOMA is ready For the full combo Sorry Let's see a little bit A different take on that Yeah From P.S. Flash If that comes up Ah P.S. Flash looks Afraid Of everything That AXIOMA is doing Out of the corner Oh jeez That was in range Nice Okay The full three bars Come off That's good for P.S. Flash Yes underneath Now Pressure Pretty light Serena's back Excellent stuff He's playing more aware Yeah But Striker It's the main Of the match Yeah You let Striker do your Hit confirms for you Yeah You can certainly Play him like that In neutral The grenades If you see them connect You get a pretty easy Confirm into big damage Yeah Right into the launch Series Gonna get a few hundred On this Very good combo Oh Nice decision Yeah Yeah That's the perfect moment As this goes on I feel like there's More awareness in P.S. Flash Oh yeah It's the big stuff No Oh He's more aggressive In this round Oh my God He's lost a chance Here Yeah Yeah There were some moments Maybe to build on for the future Yeah Grenades Yet again So grabs have been huge Really grab Or mid has been the mix-up Of course that is A huge part of the mix-up First character Oh nice But the Defense of Axioma Is really great Boy that anti-air If that had worked That might have been the round Instead because it Wasn't enough Yeah Axioma gets the game for himself Axioma is doing It's doing a very good job here It's the kind of match That he likes He's doing some pressure When he has the striker When he lost the striker He comes back And then we repeat that P.S. Flash In some times That we saw that he is More aggressive More More But the conversion The lost chance The micro decisions Is not there Are not there Are not there As it goes on I feel like there's more of it Yeah There's I feel like if He wasn't in tournament On stream and all that stuff I feel like there's enough skill That I'm seeing here That like maybe If he's in a comfortable position You could see More strong play So hopefully as the set Goes on And as the tournament Goes on Even if you were to lose here Hopefully he could Have a little bit more Of a display It could be the The first tournament That he's playing offline That there's a difference Absolutely The timing Yeah, literal difference If you're just to the Online, that's true But even on top of that Even apart from The gameplay itself Being in person just feels different Feels different to play Next to somebody Feels different to have people In your head Your side Let's go Game three We'll see if you can Get a little bit more Maybe who's looking For up block Didn't come And grenades You understand Not quite there in time I love these delays Honestly, defensively So far he's looked stronger In this round than he has previously Yeah He needs to be That was sick That could range Yeah, a better round Until now from B.S. Flash Definitely Can he I wonder Almost There was a chance to convert there Ooh, he has The weave punish But he's not Press anything B.S. Flash Definitely looking stronger Very good deck The striker Always the striker Absolutely right You're not going to press that big button Unless you have striker for safety or Yeah Unless you're taking a real big risk Hugely minus But B.S. Flash Is better now Oh no What he's doing now Not a big penalty Yeah, patient again Striker Now there's another striker To think about Yeah He's using the Serena I think it's Forward's Cameo And I think that Axioma always Is awareness about that He hasn't been hit by one Well, there it was Just as I talk Pick it up Nice work Nice conversion So it's going to be good damage For him into Okie if he wants Yes, that is what he wants Oh, again Same moment to get out But Not expecting the delay And that'll be match point Match point for Axioma So even as P.S. Flash Does look better in that round Than he had previously It's still a round win For Axioma Which is a great sign For Axioma Yeah, the adaptation Of Axioma During the match Is very good So now No striker For a little while It's a chance To make things happen For P.S. Flash Striker back And any of these Could be Button to spin You know, something else When he knocks down He needs to do more pressure But He stay away Nice defense There's another striker Yes Okay, so again Now there's no striker For a while Some of the easy cheap stuff Is not going to be available For Axioma At least not without big risk But he's still in But he's still in Yeah, he is And he pressured enough And he has striker back Yeah Underneath Oh boy, there have been So few throws Oh no Speaking of throws Axioma One throw away from Killing now Just a couple of hits The patience Striker as soon as He was worried defensively Oh The idea Was great He's out of there Underneath Oh man, P.S. Flash If he can find the right Hit Because she has huge Damage potential 90 seconds The grab Although that Is a useful mix up It's just too much time And that is The time is over Yeah I would love To have seen that earlier on Yeah More of the grab If you're going to play A striker game Which you kind of need to More pressure More throw Yeah So at the end He did do that But his opponent Axioma already knew That if there was A grab there Fine That would be safe Yeah Effectively the time runs out Because I got that The life lead And all this stuff But Axioma was very great It's a very Strong player Here in Brazil Even if He's playing with Scorpion And now You will see Conqueror versus Q-Roy Conqueror Is a very known name In the world One of the favorites here He was playing Until The last patch with Kenshi I think the little Chains in Kenshi Will not change His game play I think he will play with Kenshi In the past He was playing with Havik And He has A phase with Baraka Baraka He has very Very good choices here When I saw him play I've only seen him play This game once or twice It was with Baraka Okay Time Havik Interesting Havik In the beginning of the life Of the game He was playing with Havik Interesting Okay But not anymore No Not anymore Kenshi Is a nerf Where now If you hit the ghost Takes a little bit of damage That's basically how Assists work In the game So I think that The idea was Just to make The spirit A little bit more Like an assist That you could Take damage against In most instances Damage is limited A lot Okay Things that do more than that It's okay He's too One of the greatest Character in the game Yeah So no If I were a Kenshi I don't think that I would be Put off by this change But I do like it I think that it's Like a nicely targeted change As the Opponent of Kenshi Now If you're Playing against him Now it just feels More like most Matchups Like if you Find a hit against the Cameo It does do damage Conqueror is full Of surprises I don't know Sure Yeah I mean As we were saying earlier In the previous set Brian and I were talking Even thinking back To how he played in MK11 It was a little bit different Than most other players He's such a like Strong neutral focus Yeah The character that Was a big mix up Machine Sub-Zero Yeah It's not always How he played In the end of The life of the MK11 He was playing with Scorpion Because This kind of In the neutral In the pressure He always Think Differently And I Think that He's doing Something like that With Kenshi too Cool Looking forward to seeing that We'll see if that's where we go We're also expecting To see Let's see Nicolas We'll see if that's where We're headed Inglis Versus Ulebar Looks like And then On the other side Of the bracket Eventually I suppose A great match Yeah So We're just waiting to see Which one We end up with Yeah And The twins The Scorpion prox And Nicolas Always favorite Always very strong But I Think that We have here A change of a game Yeah MK11 Was a history Now It's another history It's another Type of gaming Even In this Position Of Top players They need to be To be careless They need to be Always Safe When he When two When the The twins Are playing with the Brazilian guy With Brazilian people Because in the In the team Oh We have here Nicolas too Nicolas now Are we No, we're not playing For real yet The testing button Yeah But don't check I'm just looking at the teams And just thinking like Man, it would be super sick To see Lou Syrax Yeah I'm sure that's not where we're going So we'll go back to Character Select And get into this Yeah Aha, the handshake And now we get to see The true characters That we'll be going with When we've seen Nicolas play As with his brother Oftentimes it has been Baraka Baraka Common choice for them Blue Lau Common choice And it is Baraka's striker Versus sub Man, I'm seeing a lot of sub today Yeah The The beginning Beginning of the game Nicolas and Scorpion was playing Camille If you're going to establish Yourself right away Like Look, Nicolas You're going to have to watch out For some real zany stuff That is the perfect way to begin Yeah Now Nicolas has No idea what to expect We have sub to zero always possible And sub Chameleon too Chameleon, very good Yeah One of the Maybe Yeah, maybe the strongest character Oh The strongest king Yeah Oh Oh Oh my god Well Nice damage Striker Mileena Currently about to change There it is Jade in And now we can Actual a little bit more And putting on glow means That it's not going to be an easy Just, you know, Striker into Approach for Baraka I think all that It's It's thinking that Being Near Of Baraka Of Nicolas is not a good idea Yeah, I mean You do not want to be next to this Save And he's really keeping his eye On the Camille meter up there Oh, striker Chose not to spend bar Surely would have killed if he had Doesn't even matter I was looking at the clock He was Good luck Nicolas It's gonna hurt Yeah, you can have a lot of good Ideas about how to play a neutral And what kind of offense to set up But if you're just caught In the corner If you're knocked down As quickly as he is here In this round I don't care what team you are You're in trouble Packing off Oh The equalizer's been a patient Patient's here Okay, so now No Striker left for a while Which means Maybe time to get things going Nice Hey Keep it up Yes It's gonna hurt you And he chooses OP Yeah Pressure rather than a little bit Of extra damage Could be significant Extra damage, to be honest Here it is big punish Yeah So, you know, Nicolas did a great Job there Of seeing at the very beginning Wild start Yeah By Ole But then after that Nicolas did a great job But just playing Baraka Striker's game Hey Where he wants to be Pressure Patience Pressure Ole in this kind of Changing position Changing sides He always Losing damage I don't know if it's the Good decision The best decision Yeah, you can tell He would rather Get pressure right away Than But it's not working No, it hasn't been Yeah Striker's back Oh And he really calls And again, if the opponent Oh, here we go Huge moment Oh my What's happening He still has Molina No, no longer Yeah, that was a moment For big potential damage The neutral game Playoff of the lab is good But The opportunities I don't know What a pressure I'm with you I think that I liked his defense He's been very patient Defensively He's done a great job In some hard situations His neutral has been fine He's found hits Yeah He has found hits He just hasn't gotten This striker This striker It's the MVP of the match Yeah, okay Oh What's that What? Nice He's finding so many hits And yet Not even half life gone yet For Nicholas Yeah, could have down two Nicholas right back Into the swing of things Swinging in Almost a corner carry How can defense Is not the problem Yeah Oh Gotta make this one count Gotta make Oh What? No, I'm with you I'm with you That's the moment Where, look, I mean, Sub is Under the right circumstances Has big damage potential But in the way that he's playing it It's certainly not there And after the change That he's changing positions Changing sides He's not using Lower overhead I hear you That said He gets He agreed There was no striker Even the call So if that had been blocked That would have been the round Well, it's not been the round But in any case Nicholas was right Well, that's a surprise Not looking I mean, look Like if Sub doesn't have The right cameo The right sort of combo route He's not a character That does as much damage As many others Yeah But Oh, that does He does have a cameo That can really be really helpful With that And there are combo routes That he's Who it has been able to Run into That would have led to more damage And he's prioritized other things Here we go Another chance With Chameleon O'Leppes Not doing a very great job Until now Nice, I chair The first jump Oh, yeah That was sick Okay Suddenly A totally different story As well as combo routes Are going You wake up Pressing button No, he's fine Oh Yeah, he saw the blue Up in the top Right, he knew That was going to be the cancel Of strong Baraka striker play Yes, up close You get to be a maniac But in neutral You got to be pretty patient A lot of times Nicholas is doing that Oh, no, no, no No, no, no He O'Leppes It's Kind of Very good in defense But In this round In this match He is not doing a great job Let's see now In the corner And you know He's been playing In such a way That Nicholas does not feel He needs to come off Break or two And Nicholas is very comfortable In this match Yeah That said He's down in life Oh, maybe not for long Oh Almost keeping it up in life He's not the spam bar He might have been able to be Yeah But he knows it's maybe One hit away Nice decision O'Leppes has the chance now Nice Game play Coming off the bar Very confident breaker Again A very confident slide He doesn't have striker He can't be quite as wild He's looking for the chip damage What? He's gonna get hit Finally Finally, O'Leppe wins one round Oh, get him, yes What's he doing? The huge switch Of what could have been Significant damage And corner pressure Instead of him getting punished Again, though We see good defense We see him blocking well Flawless blocking A lot of this He's using chameleon In another way now Again, he finds hits He hasn't found hits He's even avoiding The grenade of the striker He's doing a really good job Of a lot of this And yet Is that Nicholas's match point Yeah Next hit he'll need to break If he chooses not to do this one here Yeah But I think the chip damage Oh my God Again Straight on it, man A lot of characters If you see button into ice cone like that Even on hit for many characters Just straight up do whatever you got Your fast move Your armored option Whatever it may be And Nicholas saved that Until the very end And he got the W Very good job of Nicholas It's the kind of gameplay That we hope to see When he's in stream He's playing the MK1 O'Leppe was very, very Nervous, very reckless In some times But I think that this kind of decision This kind of decision that you see now That you saw now And changing the sides And not doing more damage I think that's not a good decision And this caused the match for him Enough on this But it's Nicholas It's Nicholas Losing for Nicholas is a common thing Yeah You're absolutely right about that So we'll see if O'Leppe can make it through In loser's side Yeah I'm sure follow along Let you know what happens there Even if we don't see it on stream Now Nicholas will play against Mono Phelps That is in winners semi-finals Which means that both of them Have qualified for the next round We just don't yet know Whether one will be in winners or losers Yeah That's the only question I'm sure we'll get that on stream In a little while And on the other side of things Looks like Sangue Frio And Axiomor may be already playing Yeah And we may be going to Conqueror versus Kilroy Yeah Very good Chance to see Conqueror playing again He is the favorite for this match And if he wins I think that he will win We can see He is playing against Sangue Frio Or Axiomor Do you know Kilroy? No I don't remember Kilroy I don't know how he is playing I see Liu Kang Liu Kang in the bracket here I don't know We'll see It will be a surprise We will see From Sao Paulo Yeah, he is from Sao Paulo We have very good players In all parts of Brazil All parts of the country Some players Are still unknown For the scene Being here in the pro competition Is valuable for this kind of player To gain more experience And play offline events here Like this is very good for them That's how it always is It's great to be able to play online We all do it It's a lot of fun There are tournaments online You were saying that But playing offline It's different It's a little different Always the best It's great to come out here And see people doing good work I think they were looking for Conqueror vs Kilroy You get to learn about this player At the same time that I do Yeah, Kilroy But Conqueror We know Let's see if Conqueror Knows how Kilroy plays One of the things about Kenshi As a strong character Is that if you get into your preferred situation The matchup is less important Once you get into sento Knocked down into pressure Everybody has a bad time Defending that Difficult time defending that Everything changed Now the question is How do you get there in the first place I think Kenshi is very strong I do think he's got some matchups That are on the tougher end You have to be able to play You have to be able to play differently But the thing is about Conqueror That he has always played things A little bit differently Yeah, he changed the rule Fantastic neutral stuff For sure But I don't know if he's still playing with Kenshi He's full of surprises I think he will be playing with Kenshi But we can see he's playing with All the characters It's very good Yeah, heavy Try to hear about that for him That's good It would be a surprise seeing him Playing with Heavy again But I don't think so Yeah, probably not You're out here to win a lot of points Yeah, here That's ultimately what this is about Here for the offline event There are more points on the line For qualifying for Final Combat Than there are in the online events So important to be able to do well At this offline event If you want to have a good chance To be able to make it into the finals So there's Conqueror And Kilroy on the left side of your screen Yeah, it's the same configuration The same character and cameo that he's using Until now Conqueror with Kenshi and Kirai with Liu Kang Yeah, sub is a pretty common A safe choice Or Frost Just something that lets you combo easily Into sento activation You're not as worried about Projectiles versus Lu Lao Also not uncommon to just go sub As a counter call It's the best choice In the MEK1 The counter character is the cameo Yeah, exactly Okay, now all that aside The question is How strongly do you get to play Look at the damage Starting off with the low Very cleanly into it I think this is it Almost there Yeah It would have had to have been A perfect flawless block to survive Yeah Very difficult Man, he's used that twice already It's not something that I see Many Kenshi's go to But it's I mean, you see the utility of it To be able to run through It was best if he's using Sub-Zero for that Yeah Yeah, that's what I expected this sub Pick to be in part about But it actually hasn't put the vest on In response to You know, the low hat Or projectiles Oh Oh Hey, little duck The corner will hurt Yeah, I'll say Oh my god And that very hard situation Defensively Nice On the other side He started off with the low In the previous one This time Goes for the over And solves it Very quickly Once he went into the sento activation Very good match of conqueror Kirai Was not Was not there Conqueror Been playing alone here The two rounds Well, that's what you want As Kenshi has many characters Of course, right? If you can get your win Conditions set up Yeah He's defining the rules Of the match Yes Now, because Conqueror was able to get through The zoning before Please make him Hey, yes, here's Killroy I'm happy to see Killroy Play more of an offensive game here Yeah, it's the key Of the victor for him I think that's right Yeah, do not let Kenshi Set things up Don't easily Gonna let him run through Or put on vest And walk through Back to the zoning game The space that Killroy is doing now It's very good For this type of The life lead that he has Now Like very patient even still Yeah And I think that is The kind of gameplay That Liu Kang needs to do That's it, Conqueror, still Pretty patient Doesn't feel like he's out of it Oh Did not expect that hit Oh Yeah, sure That's it, Killroy Honestly, excellent round Excellent round Conqueror Needs to do more pressure To give Cento another chance Well, he spent the full meter On ambush crawling to shoulder So that he gets Cento out before He's got to wait a little while now Oh A little scrambling Nice Killroy and Conqueror Is gonna hold on to full resources I mean, you could tell He's holding on to sub-bar So that he could get activation And ambush crawling to shoulder As an activation Or combo into activation And to freeze into activation I should say But that's clearly the big Sort of Yeah The game plan Nice Well All of that aside It worked out He got down to the win condition area Now And Killroy blocked not for long That's the name of the game You know, you Killroy spent so much time 35 seconds Maybe 50 seconds On the other side of the screen Or pressuring and it was good form But as soon as he got knocked down Into the corner That was all Conqueror That's true He needs to be more aggressive And Not Allowing Conqueror To do this kind of game plan It did seem like in the beginning Of this game that was working out Yeah He didn't have any meter there for Amplify Here it is Oh I didn't have extra bar Got what he could Now Uh-oh There could just be Ice fest into The Shoulder Oh It was still whipping actually Conqueror played a little bit safely Until that one Yeah Nice decision from Conqueror Here it is Yeah, exactly what he set up before Now Oh The overhead starts it off That's it That time That Kilroy spent with Yeah This round The previous round And the round before that Ends up Not being enough As Conqueror When he found the mix up When he found The knock down final Yeah But nothing to knock down If it was close enough to the corner That he could just get Ambush into The Cold shoulder Into Cento activation That was what he needed Then He needs only two combos Two To win the match Right So I'm For Kilroy I like so much of what he's been doing Yeah But he's against Can she I don't know If he's going to work Ice fest In neutral For the first time Yeah Well, he really waited What? Now Sub is way back So he can get into Yeah He can get into Cento Just like this Another time Another combo Let's go Kilroy Let's see the defense Let's see what you got Oh, boy He never tried to use the armor When he Waking up Oh, man And then just when He thought that Conqueror Was going to chill And wait on the other side Yeah Exactly when the sword came up So that's the point now Conqueror Alright, Kilroy No shutdown Again setting it up You can tell Conqueror Feels like he gets to be patient Yeah Kilroy needs to To win the match Conqueror He will do his His rule He's gonna set up a sandwich Here he is Nice That was sick He didn't spend any bar on it though And so the Ancestor Is gonna be creeping around there Yeah, there he is There he is The boy's still there Okay, not long He's summoning Oh, my No, look at this From Conqueror He's giving so much space Still Nice Conversion Is that enough? Is that enough? Yeah He ends up taking it 3-0 That to me was a classic It was 3-0 But it was close Yeah The way that that set went Because there were definitely moments in there Where I thought that Kilroy was doing great And yet Not enough is Conqueror's game plan Of being patient throughout the most part As Kenchies will do And then Harassing you to death Once he gets the Ancestors out As Kenchies will do Was perfect It worked out great Kilroy Lose Losing the match In the mind Mind game Conqueror always Sings to be aware of All the moves of Kilroy I think because Liu Kang Does not have mix ups Or this kind of movement You need to play Far away With the magic With the projectiles But with Kenchy and Sub-Zero This kind of play Game play Is not effective And even when he did have success playing that style Which he did for a little while here and there Once Conqueror found Either the knock down Or just enough time To call sento out That was it I mean it's a very difficult situation Obviously we've all been in there That situation Having to defend against Kenchy with the Ancestor out It's hard obviously That's the sign of the character Is to have him wait for that moment And it was executed perfectly By Conqueror So Conqueror moves on Now in the other side of this Bracket Axioma beats Sankfrio Three games to one Axioma wins Sankfrio Beats Sankfrio And will face Conqueror Nice You're surprised You're surprised yeah Sankfrio is one of the greatest Player here in Brazil But Axioma is very dangerous Because of this kind of game play That you In the position of the opponent Of Axioma You need to be patient I think that Sankfrio was not patient Was not patient Sorry Okay well that sets up The Winner's side matches To be EcoBus vs Mono Phelps And Conqueror vs Axioma And then in Loser's side Not a lot of work to be done We'll talk about that later on It hasn't made its way very far through yet But again Since there are six people Who make it out of each pool What we're playing for In the next couple of matches Here on Winner's side is Who makes it out in Winner's side And who makes it out in Loser's side Yeah That's what this is about But we know that these four players Will have qualified already Just a question of Where in the bracket They'll end up afterward Mono Phelps is another player That he is very young But you saw in the first match In the stream Mono Phelps do It's doing a very good Pressure game play But In the other hand Nicolas will change for Raiden That can deal Very good with this kind of game play And you talk about young players It's still the case Scorpion, Prox and Nicolas Are young players They've just been killers for years already But they're still young So right As you mentioned It's the choice to go over to Raiden Kano Another really really strong shell Really strong team It's a counter pick for Johnny Yeah I'm curious to see What about this is the counter pick for him We've seen this match a million times But Nicolas Switch away from Baraka into it The mobility is part of that I suppose You can set up the projectiles Of course versus Johnny If he's on the other side of the screen He only have the Laos hat Nice defense Okay Mono Phelps is definitely contending here up Defensively and offensively Really staggering Oh yeah, staggering it well A lot of weird little funky times That's what you need It's still coming Oh Kano If he's doing an electric fly from the other side You can guarantee there's going to be knives Or a ball coming at you right away But no Kano for a little while Yeah Nice decision A lot of meter for Kano back So he can get back to Well just confirming it turns out They didn't even need to get easy pressure It was the straight up hit confirmed For Nicolas for game one Mono Phelps does not save meters For defense And this is the kind of gameplay of MK1 You need to choose If you will be playing with more More aggressive way using these meters I know Was it close to the down two Obviously Mono Phelps there Had predicted that knives were coming He just wanted to get the down two As a punishment yet he wasn't in range So now again no Kano for a while What do you got Mono Phelps Setting it up Nicolas know how to play against Johnny Cage He has definitely game planned this before Oh didn't believe in it though No follows block That means that he was in kill range And just a couple of hits Nicolas is almost perfectly in this match Johnny Cage of Mono Phelps Oh my god they're with Yeah that's genius So cautious it seems Right nice No too far This is a huge chance Mono Phelps gotta make this one count Good damage all the way into the corner Pressure comes Nice He died Oh my god Nicolas was so ready And if you're not follows blocking Ok nice work Then you know you Oh It's over It is over Two to zero Mono Phelps is thinking about the This time the present of the match While Nicolas is thinking about the future of the match He's always ahead of his time First coach we didn't like that And yet Nicolas was ready to block Was a back dash Yeah he sure did Finally finishes Oh no So it's just like that He's gonna be able to build pressure Yep the knives are there Nice Yeah yeah yeah These are the timings that you need Down one Call this block Set it up Ok Nicolas this time ready to block Nice What a range Harassment And that was all without Kano So there wasn't much of a threat of Button into Significant damage Yeah false block super important at the moment Oh god He does get the kill Mono Phelps it's alive It's still coming Oh no he actually His counter call actually worked That was cool The head He did Kano He did Was really looking for that Nice Now the last time he didn't really get much pressure out of the situation This time yes Nice decision Defensively now Oh Nicolas's shoe has meters Yeah probably looking for him to hold on to that And see if he finds a kill moment Oh Tried to counter poke it wasn't there These individual hits are starting to add up big time Yup That's why he was holding on to that meter as we mentioned Mono Phelps Yeah different looks False block super important at the moment There's no more Kano Nice What a jump to take the round by Nicolas Mono Phelps responding to the lack of Kano from Nicolas at that moment Thought that he could just get a grab taking Nicolas would stay still As I wasn't going to be Buttoning to storm into plus frames anymore And as this goes on I like a little bit more of Mono Phelps neutral game His pressure game Only question is whether he can make enough of it happen Because it's already match point everyone He needs to be careless Nice flawless block Oh he did not bar Taking sides And now he's got a chance to set things up again But Mono Phelps again He's movement the timings are a little bit different Where he tries to attack in a little bit different All that aside Nicolas gets great damage here He's going to get pressure right up close again He's got two Kano's One Two Well this block is not working now Oh! Not enough Oh they grabbed For Nicolas So although as it went on it was closer Nicolas takes it three games to zero And as a result He's in the next round Qualified out of pools in winners side Again as I mentioned Mono Phelps also has qualified out of pools But in the losers side Losers side Nicolas It's done for today And this match looks like the last one With Conqueror Playing against the Q-Roy Because the patience With the punishment of the Nicolas And the range of the heat I don't know I think this is the degree of the rating It's very good and very annoying for Mono Phelps Certainly in this last game Mono Phelps had more to say If that set had gone on longer Maybe he would have had a little bit more But it's the first of three Nicolas did what he needed to do in that moment You're definitely right that when it comes to Nicolas's play as with Conqueror's play before And Scorpion proxies before These are all characters we see all the time It's not like it's a mystery What Raiden Kano is going to be doing You know what he's going to do But still when you see somebody like Nicolas play it You're looking at particular moments that he chooses You're looking at different ranges that he started off from You're looking at him like defensively Playing it a little bit differently You can still absolutely see the player in there Some actuary that he's doing When Mono Phelps is putting the hat on the ground And then air to air And Nicolas always in the front Nicolas is an amazing player And he's still a lot of time to do more To become stronger But now he is one of the strongest player In the world for MK1 I mean, you're right I'm sure he will get stronger Because he and his brother He's very young Yeah, I know They're already in... They're already multiple EVO topic Yeah It's like it's already... They're doing well And we have in your house, in your home Another great player You can practice all day, all the time And become stronger, stronger, stronger That's what they do They choose like... It's like Goku and Vegeta From Dragon Ball Yeah Yep, yep Conqueror Conqueror It's a very good match Because Aksyoma It's coming... It's come from 3-0 in PS Flash 3-1 in Sangifrio And now he will facing Conqueror I don't know Conqueror in the common sense Will be always the favorite But Aksyoma looks like he's in our... In a very good day The fact that he 3-1 Sangifrio is great I mean, we didn't see that match on stream You can get the sense that that was probably a great play by Yeah And Sangifrio used to be very angry When he loses in winners I don't know what's gonna happen now with him Okay So no change in terms of characters here Yeah Same teams that we were looking at previously The best of people And this big mid-range right here Definitely gonna be a point of contention between the two Already called? Yes, there he is Nice This is one of the best moves of Spark For sure No meter on that end It was 3-19 Pretty good, still his turn If he wants it Got him Nice again So great start by Aksyoma And again, back to this mid-range He's got Striker And immediately he calls him For the safety after a bunch of shit Look, that's how many times in the last set that we saw Conqueror Did he just need to get that one chance to get things going? Very smart Very smart The chip damage Very good Backdashing Up close Aksyoma always very strong in the defense Very patient If the opponent is very good in the defense, can she? It's a common character Without Cento, he's a common character Now the change, the thing will change Well, but think about this from Aksyoma's perspective Oh yeah, he gets to break out He went in for a mix like one time after 30 seconds of not, and that's when he got Ducked into all this damage that he's taken into the pressure he's about to take No, the ancestor goes away Turn a bit, nice work Conqueror was aware of Striker That's not enough? No Oh jeez, he just wanted that to be the chip kill And it was a huge opportunity for Aksyoma Huge But he lost it And Conqueror seems to be different The first round, more safely Jump out, no up block, no anti-air He's getting going, yes Low Maybe holding on to the breaker in case Yeah, nice work So he actually did buttons out Now he's still got to think about the ancestor behind him This Cento E shot KG That's what, that was sick Nice Defense from Conqueror And He got that thing No, this Striker Conqueror lost his meters There was no Striker Yeah So not a lot of damage, but still Now Aksyoma has Striker back He can pressure if he'd like That's exactly what he's going into The empty jump Yeah, hoping to see something else come out The damage is very good Can she spin in the stands like the whole game? Okay, nice Try to put a delay in it Is there an answer? No, there's no up block either It's Conqueror who's out He doesn't have to think about grenades Not for long though Aksyoma finds the hit And with time running out Oh, is it a no? No Cancel What's happening? Oh, no Aksyoma has the chance Oh my God, I don't know What he thought there, but Conqueror Has the win again What a round What? I mean, honestly Quite a scramble at the end That absolutely could have gone either way And that was a game where We saw some great defense from both sides Yeah Choices from both sides The adaptation of Conqueror For this kind of gameplay of Aksyoma Was great Just backed off Conqueror knew that there was Going to be a striker coming out It was going to be an easy punish chance Yes And great damage All the way into the corner Full pressure up close Oh, the striker Knowledge, that was beautiful by Conqueror He picked the damage shoot And now it's a tough spot for Aksyoma Let's see who you had the defense before Descend to his shopping she I love the idea Yeah, sister's gone, ran out of time This striker Striker's saving Nice jump No, he's He's losing his chance Oh, no Down two almost going to get the kill It wasn't quite enough Oh man, he's just not worried about a mid With Punish at that range That is tough for Scorpe right there Conqueror gets to back off Maybe not for long Here he is So that has come up in three Huge instances so far for Conqueror The duck under the grab and to punish Reason was up blocking before That's when it finally came out Aksyoma looks nervous Into the sandwich afterward And now Conqueror Up close We got to see some defense here Nice decision So although that was great work by Conqueror Great damage that he got out He's now stuck in sword stance Doesn't have a bunch of his options He otherwise might And yet when we saw him before He did play in this well Oh, way over it Oh, just strike it again But there's so little health left on Aksyoma's side He just can't take that kind of risk at the moment Yeah, there you go Conqueror A very good match from Conqueror Aksyoma in the second round Does not look the same But Conqueror Seems to become stronger In all the rounds But think about this If Aksyoma had had Three combo conversions It could be a different match Three? Okay I mean it's a lot He found those hits And he didn't get the big hit Yeah, he's lost the chance You're right It could be a different story If he had actually had those all the way through Now he's got a chance to make it happen again In one combo Now one combo Conqueror took half of the life of Aksyoma Tell us what you got a budget for You said the nut obviously But you know how can she work with this one There it is, the delay first Into the overhead Oh, here's a big one Strike it again Conqueror may get out of it Conqueror always has meters You didn't need to take that meter That's a damage, excuse me But it worked out as he gets To get the round, I think Yeah, match point Conqueror Aksyoma patience As he tries to move in We know how often he's been trying Yeah Strike it, here it is Yes Yo, we've punished Was very good And again Half of the life of Aksyoma Was gone Let's go Oh, he's still coming No, boy I think this is it Oh, no Well, he had to do it You got to get your one chance left And maybe He needs to hit I would say three more times Okay, so he's gonna Okay Make Conqueror get out of the bars But still We can say that Aksyoma has a cream Oh If he finds one more hit Standing reset instead If he finds one more hit They come back Grenades Nice grab In the corner Change sides Oh Oh, man Duck under grab was so key for Conqueror Yeah I think that Aksyoma needs to go to combo To another thing Because grab Again No He certainly did try a lot of the Different options that he could bring out But Conqueror's defense overall And those situations Was enough Often enough Yeah He got to get big stuff by himself And of course once you Lose your offense Versus Kenshi If he gets to activate It's a completely different match right away And even with the 3-0 Aksyoma Had a good job But It's Conqueror Conqueror It's a problem He's pretty good Yeah So that's what Winner's side looks like Conqueror moving on Nicholas moving on And Winners Losers so far Amano Phelps and Aksyoma Qualified for the next time Losers Now we decide Two more Two final ones In this pool Our last two matches Are going to be Flam vs Ole Bar Who we saw earlier on Didn't get the dub And we're finally going to Get to see Sengifrio On the other side Versus Blackstorm BR Let's see how he will play He He just played with Suarez He did 3-0 And now he will face Blackstorm BR Blackstorm He's a very known player From the MK9 And then He's coming back To MK1 That's very cool That has been Not an uncommon story Across the world That people who played In the MK9 days Have come back Into MK1 Which has been great to see It's been the case In my local too Some of the folks Who I hadn't seen in Literally a decade I have now Have been seeing A few times again Which is great What's happening here too And we have some similarities With the MK1 and the MK9 So I think that This kind of play And now they're zany games You get to do pretty nutty stuff In both games Which is fun That's a huge part of Why I love these games Yeah, exactly But Blackstorm Is a very strong character A very strong player too It will be a very good match Flame in the lab Flame is a very good Player too I don't know How he's playing In the MK1 I saw him He's playing MK11 A lot of times And O'Leb He's from the From a team Called Ro Baturnos It's like Steel turns And he He's come from From a team With so good players So many players That are good And I think that he's He'll be a problem to Flame too Okay So we have four good players Ending up at the end of this pool In loser's side In loser's side, yeah Again, every pool is pretty stacked Cannot lose Yeah Or that will be it We're Just trying to decide Who the final two players are To make the top 24 We won't see that today That will be tomorrow Top 24 So win here And you get to Rest and hang out For the rest of the day Obviously we have Tournament going on There's actually a pretty Significant Casuals area Outside in the back as well People are getting A bunch of games I saw you playing with Ketchup Yep, we were getting Game clear earlier With your gearers Very good gearers Thank you It was a lot of fun Yeah, and Ketchup With a Sub-Zero With Darius I've never seen that That's actually why we were playing Because I know that he's been Playing Sub-Darius I've seen him play that And I've certainly Seen him talk about it Certainly a lot And I've never played Against Sub-Darius So I was like What is this about? It was a lot of fun Yeah More mixed up For Sub-Zero Oh my God Alright Coming into one of The final two matches In MK11 Flamie was One of the best Players of Sub-Zero Okay I don't know If he's With Sub-Zero now Or If he's Ashra Ashra, okay So Flamie is Ashra And Olabi is Sub-Zero Let's see how it's How it's going now I'd really like to Sub-Zero in a second What? Yeah Into Milena If they're a mix of Supposed to be scared But even from far away You can get big combo convergence Patience Nice Sometimes it works out Oh the overhead No cancel though This This move is so difficult To defend Nice Flawless block Big whiff And not punished He had it Yeah He actually had Camille just at that right moment Shout out to Flamie For recognizing that So he had Milena At the end of this Question What do we got? No Declone It is really hard For Sub-Zero to get away With buttoning the phone Like that If the opponent knows what's up Oh nice Flamie Life lead He's not going to be Sitting easy though Comfortable No But the time Again if Milena hits They're no longer Then set Oh That happened twice Where he went up there And did the DP And was correct about it Very good move And he goes to a combo After that I really like that The very tricky behavior Yeah I remember a lab now He's doing a slide And Kitana Camille Even if it's on hit Or on block He's doing And let's see What's happening Yep You just got to keep your eye On what color the Camille meter is If you're the defender So you can know What his options are going to be When I'm watching Or playing Versus somebody who's got Milena My eye is up in the top Right of the corner Like every half second You just got to Constantly be looking At what the color is It's a very fun Camille You got to be very active On defense too Not just Yeah If you're using her She forces a lot of attention I was playing with her With Koishi And it was very fun Very fun I can see that 28 on the clock is Trying to move in Yes And he's got Milena Will he mix it up big time Nope And they say He's at the big top low Oh Okay Big clip confirmed We got to see those matches Up there Yeah New feature This is still game one Man, they're really back and forth Yeah The first round Ended with 11 seconds And now 7 seconds That is Pretty good I'm not going to lie I like that a lot Oh, tried it And now Because of the block You get whatever you want When you're point blank like that Maybe you'll try it Because we have three bars Maybe we can escape But Olaf is Always doing Some kind of Unsafe gameplay And I think this is very dangerous Well, maybe so But Here he is With a life lead In game one It's working Double attacks Just throwing out the double discs Nice Okay He didn't have the assist, by the way He didn't have it in time Okay What a range W Yeah, the damage will be insane Yeah, yeah, yeah It could be a game change Well, it's got the life lead Because of this Definitely change the game Nice again In those instances That happened three times Yeah When Flame expects For Olaf to try to press the button At that range he has had EXDP of course You can get Air cancel out of it And big damage Not exactly into safety But at least you get to play a mix-up Sort of afterward And working like Like a shoddy okan for him Right, right With combo Oh, wow Stable option You don't get the Huge upsides Yeah Of the best stuff that Kameleon has to offer But you can be sure about it Right, you don't need to Constantly be aware Of what's going on Nice Plenty of time for this Oh, this is cool You know, he's the only person I've seen through this setup That's cute Yeah It was already pretty good damage And you get to get Looks like I'm not sure if that's a safe jump But you definitely get To get the pressure Looks like it might be But Olaf Always choose for The option that Has no more damage He wants the pressure Yeah That's definitely What he's looking for Oh man The hack I did just like that Again Again Oh man Their best move It's fast The damage output's great Again, you get to Sort of play a mix-up defensively Yeah It doesn't work out Not the best for you, but Olaf breaks Lose his meter Again, denied Nice choice Oh, wow That's a bummer for Olaf Back to a little bit of distance play And once you're in about Not anymore But about this range You got to start thinking About this tool He's the He has the best in chair Again? Oh no Just trying to play a mix-up Surround flame Very good use of Serena now Yeah, denying breaker Yeah Stuck He's got A bunch of meter He can set things up He would love it If she just got frozen But they're probably going to need to be more than that You could say that He has a dream He does still There's plenty of time on the clock He's got resources He's got fatal But the more he blocks Ah, the single one through It's very fast It comes back fast Yeah Very good choice From flame A very good match A match with Good opportunities Good decisions Oh yeah Olaf is doing great But Flame is doing A very good job until now I like this chameleon I'm being honest Yeah, this is I think This is the way for him Yeah Look That was great We all know he's good But the upsides Of when he gets things right For his style Yeah I see chameleon being More effective Just in the sort of zaniness of it And the sort of Attentional Sort of deficit That it creates in the opponent He's clearly very aware with it But he always using the chameleon In defense I think that he is using The resource In the way that Is not too effective The idea was to get the more Yeah So we've seen more That's the danger zone Where there's been EXTP Into the big damper Yeah Way too high But again, really trying to put Mixups around what Flame is expecting defensively As an anti-air In the defense The flame is doing A very good job until now Almost In the calls Oh, no conversion Oh Time that that's worked out And he picks up now Oh, now it worked Finally It's the first time that This thing worked Backing off the floor hand He's got slide into this Yeah, again He just do Always good damage If you can find that Nice Hware Nice And a huge damage No cancel, oh boy Could have been a lot Isn't it? Very difficult position For a lab No I understand Yeah You gotta take a risk To get damage To try to get the round Just a bad spot to be in I think that worked You haven't seen that Quite combo yet Always He always tried that But it's not working Right So that tactic Looks like it is Not long term Probably as As a sudden surprise In the first Couple rounds I get it It seemed like it could be Effective there Now that the opponent knows What's up Not as much The pressure again What? Now Very good gameplay He has the corner And Going Yep, underneath Flame only needs one hit If a threat hits If he finds anything And Alright All I knew That sky was the idea Of her flame Try to get past The boomerang On its way back So okay Going back to chameleon Here Definitely paid off Yeah The chameleon Is the best came For this type of strategy That he's doing It's a Very crazy strategy But Now Now working The first I think that was The first match That he wins Today Yeah, on stream In stream, yeah Flame gets to settle it down A little bit Jade So no point Calling out Serena For a little while Like some stolen turns Is here Denied right away No Gotta make her pay At least a couple hundred Out of this I don't know if he's gonna get That much more depending On what he looks for Yeah, 280 That risky spot We've seen DCs that's for Ole just All hanging out Defensively Trying to be patient Nice Of course But the Very good Did not pay off Yeah, great work by Ole To just hold on to it He wins the round And Flame lost Lost his meters Nice overhead Still a little bit of damage 150 Still has Malina The first big hit In a while Denied On the slow chase There it is 238 Just like that And he gets the pressure If he'd like Out of it Slowly getting cornered here Yeah, and he's fully stuck Back against Three not for long We've got Malina on deck We'll leave her on the risk No Can't explain Denying the meter And not quite getting the round Hold on Okay Match point for flame And he's starting out in a great position Yeah And that was a huge Shits for damage He needs to do this more Oh Yeah, I think that was the first Malina overhead that we saw Nice Okay Pretty cautious stuff Actually not really trying to take Much of the risk So Blow Looking for up lock Nothing came That, it's cool I mean, it is A cool idea It's beautiful But It takes Little damage Yeah, you're right Got it Oh my Oh nice However Flame's still gonna get A ton of damage A lot of damage This is Like 500 damage Yeah It might be 520 if I recall It's dead It's dead Yeah Why is that actually It's over All the knives are coming through 31 for flame To take it Three games To one All that was a warrior But Not enough Flame was very, very good All the rounds Olev has his moments I think that's fair to say Yeah, we saw stuff from him That I liked here and there Yeah I liked some of the mixups that he had It's fun to watch It is fun to watch I agree with you He was unpredictable Yeah And I can be really valuable With Sub-Zero you need to To do this kind of the gameplay But Was not enough Not enough Not enough Yeah This game one Really went down to the end A couple of those games Went down to the end Really could have gone either way I think this is DP Yeah Yeah This is the trick This is the way of Flame doing the The gameplay of Astra It's different The Gearsceptional Is playing with Astra and I don't see He's doing this No Yeah, I would say that This is the most that I've seen The DP in neutral in that way Yeah In the first four Astra So interesting idea Obviously paid off Here he is Qualified out of pools Into the top 24 Yeah The loser side On loser side It was a great match Great Very fun to watch Yeah Yeah And cool to see too That as it went on Flame Got like a better understanding Of what All these options were Yeah Slide into Lyft is cool Like that's a sick idea Yeah By the end of it That was getting punished Almost every time So as it went on We definitely saw more Understanding and control I think that That long match That change I think that I think that That I don't know how I say that But Allab If he Is still with The chameleon It will be another chance From here Yeah, I think that's right Yeah Again, Lao Is great Yeah Excellent cameo He's stable Like you know What he's going to be doing Same thing for the Offensive and defensive player You know Like what his options are And there's utility in that Yeah To know that And to have a dependable Assist to call Can be useful But yeah The way that Specifically he As a player Likes to play I agree with you The crazy thing Chameleon The crazy way Was the way to go I mean When I see a sub Laohat I've seen a couple of times But more often Other cameos Entirely Syrax Is common for Syrax I've seen Serena Serena I've seen a bunch That we've seen But when it comes to How he as a player Played Chameleon Was definitely fun Yeah In any case Not quite enough It was enough to get Top 25th 25th Yeah I mean that's good Very good run Very good run And then now The other side of losers Which And I think that Senki Frio Senki Frio is the It's the Favorite here But it's like I said to you Senki Frio When he's Lose In winners He's A little nervous In losers Right But He's came From now Now win With Suarez True 3-0 Yeah 3-0 Suarez Is a very good player Own team The Dream Killers Cool But Senki Frio Is very very good For him So Senki Frio Versus Blackstorm Will be Very very fun To watch you It's the The last one Of this pool It is This is the last match Of the pool We're gonna get the switch We'll talk About some of the players To watch after this In the next pool But Yeah In this one As you mentioned Blackstorm An MK9 player Has come back to play Which has been a blast And then at the same time Senki Frio Somebody who's been strong For years on his own Yeah A lot of Years of experience Coming in here He is very young too But In MK11 He has So many titles So many championships I remember And He traveled to Chile To play In a tournament And He faced The twin The twin brothers From Chile Scorpion Brox and Nicolas And I don't Know Who He He won And Who He lost But He won One of them Okay, cool And he lost In the final For one of them But The experience Of Senki Frio Is Amazing He's A very good Player I think That he's Still playing with Tanya Tanya is A very good Character with Goro For sure Always Improving His gameplay With these Characters I think That he's Still strong With Tanya And he'll be A very Strong opponent For Blackstorm Since I had Seen his name So many times Back in the 11 days I realized That he was A young player Still a young guy Yeah I don't know But I think He's 19 I didn't really That's cool Okay And he will Play with Johnny Cage Mmm Okay See some of the crowd Hanging out behind them Yeah It's a unique venue That we have here Yeah Unique place Johnny Striker A classic combo And Oshura Low Yep You get to hang out Yes So So many Oshuras She's really good Yeah For me One of the Pretty common take Yeah She's really good No doubt Big buttons Big damage Big range Yeah One of the best Well The best way Yeah That said Oh Sengafrio on Wow Nice What a conversion Into just Straight up the meeting So really good start By Sengafrio Chase from one side of the stage To the other He's not He looks nervous As soon as he saw the low He's had He shadow-picks twice He actually shadow-picks twice Nice Okay The movement's good The pressure's looking great Not way too close Oh man The weird looks are coming out The movement of Sengafrio Is very, very good I agree He's gonna get more of it If he wants I'm hoping the whiff punish Not there Again Excellent What a defense That said Black... Oh what? Can he get something out of it? He did What's happening? Wow That was Incredible stuff That was enough actually Oh jeez Super good call By Blackstorm Very good round Yeah I'll save back and forth There's the duck Into the pickup Into big damage Oh, why is it a block? That's a BX actually If that happened Not in time Here's the forward movement from Blackstorm He's looking great Looking great Stealing some turns Nice duck So it's a final round Might as well just go into it Yeah He needs to use everything And to be honest Like in the mid-range Neutral gameplay As much as I think that in general Serena does great In that Yeah Sengafrio's reactions have made it So that it hasn't really been that easy Yeah, here's the mix-ups now Overhead Walked forward No Okay Blackstorm has a chance He's got the life lead He gets to set it up Oh, the hat Had to get over it No Nice Played for a very good round Of Blackstorm Actually a very good match From Blackstorm Because the second round too Was very strong And I have to say That I'm surprised He played it great Because in that game Sengafrio also played great Yeah He also had really good pressure Really good movement His grenade pause Just says here Had been really strong And now he's Exactly where he needs to be As Johnny down one So he turned into A little bit more Okay Got his conversion Grenade It's kinda screwed it up A little bit Got it in big damage The pressure The pressure is still there Yeah, good work So even stronger Of a round Honestly for Sengafrio right there Yeah And the high meter Almost Into Grab His pressure just seems On the ending He's got the corner yet again The way You need to play with Johnny Cage Oh yeah Oh Blackstorm Gets out of there Sets it up And now who moves first Because we've seen that Sengafrio has been able to react Again As in the last round We've seen a couple times already His grenade calls are really good Really good It's not just about You know Button into unsafe stuff Button to grenade Yeah That's great Lots of characters get that What I really like Is grenade calls in footsies Yeah Like an ambush That's what it is That's exactly what it is Yeah And you let them do the Hit confirms for you This is another utility of it Right You get to do shadow kick In the grenade Fine That's also very good Yeah But I love those mid range footsies calls too Okay Yes Actually she's one of the tougher characters To get it over Yeah Not everybody's got A nice little starter You know And we don't see Black Storm doing that That Upper cut With Ashura like claim No, that's rare Yeah Okay, yeah This means that Black Storm gets to get back To a more comfortable range Yeah, I don't know how long though Because the grenade Nice Again Again The killer grenade calls This striker Is the best Cammy Oh my God Again Now that was he That actually got past the grenades Yeah Really get awareness by Black Storm And great damage in the meantime Thank you Frio He's making a good decision And he's very Very focused on this This round Now keep it up, yes Okay No Got past the grenades This is all Black Storm right now Maybe I just thought What What Oh What was that Going for the chip Made total sense as Black Storm But man Zengar Frio Made him work for that round Man, too close to the corner Maintains the corner Zengar Frio's still here Hype meter is full Got it Nice The back off into the counter focus Been huge for him too He's in general I really like the neutral game he plays Yeah, that'd be true Into a little bit more pressure Even now Black Storm out of the corner But the question is Can he find the hit No, so far No Frio finds it He just needs chip Although there's three bars to think about So not gonna be easy Nice Did you Zengar Frio That's the one Yeah, Zengar Frio Looks like he's learning How Black Storm is playing with Ashura And we see more pressure But when he's far away It's not Johnny who Who became the dangerous For Black Storm He's striker Absolutely Big chance on the left No It means that when you see That there's no striker on the other team Yeah You have to play a little bit more confidently Neutral Now he is bouncing Got it Oh, that was cute Tough to get around that And Ashura has a very good damage If you take a nap here It goes across Hey Zengar Frio What do you got Another one Black Storm is still Very, very strong in the match Let's see how Zengar Frio will react to that Past the grenades And Zengar Frio's reactions too Are super strong He's able to get through a lot of stuff on reaction Not even as a mixer Seeing it all Oh Great normalization of this combo Went into a familiar route After a couple of stand ones He's still here Okay, deny grenades He's using the grenades Always To close to that Ashura Oh He needs to run He needs to make some risks The flame style So two to two Is this actually the first time we're going down to a Fifth game? It is, right? I don't know if in the first pool I don't think it did I think this is it So last game Here for both One of them makes it out in loser's side First time he actually held on to it the whole way Yeah Oh the duck Zengar Frio thought it was his turn Nice Put the grenades off of the grenades Always the grenades What Huge Huge opportunity The duck again Has been absolutely key Nice down two And now Black Storm has matched point Zengar Frio needs two rounds in a row He really tries the grenades Again 300 in the corner Yes He gets not just good damage here but great stage carry Still put the grenades, he's got another one All the way out of the corner now Nice, very strong And all going down to the final game Final round of the pool Whoever takes this next round survives in loser's side Keep it up The version comes Zengar Frio is exactly where he wants to be Grenades again, way too close He's got another grenade Even still Black Storm has just been caged Plus frames Pressure plus frames, oh my god Still finally a button from Black Storm And yet immediately after it Zengar Frio Who gets back Grenades, okay now there's no grenades to think about for a while Time to set it up It's over It's over Super smart conversion by Zengar Frio To end up taking it Three bars remain on the other side as a result What on, he gets to move on into the next round Top 24 What a great match, oh my god Black Storm was doing a very good job But the reads of Zengar Frio was amazing, amazing He's a very strong, very strong player And this type of adaptation You need to be alive in a loser's side He needs to be cold blood You can see that Well named Yeah Again, what really stands out to me is the grenade calls Because it wasn't just all the easy You know, I do a shadow kick and call grenades It was that too But he found a lot of great hits in neutral Just from calling grenades at the right moments in footsies And that was really, really cool to see He also had great reactions He was able to shut down a lot of what Black Storm would like to do Because he was able to react with EX Shadow Kick through low hat On reaction to whiff punishes as well That Ostra has from the other side of the screen almost So great stuff That said, of course Black Storm played great also Down to the final round here He had great defense a lot of the time His offense looked really strong Huge damage that that character always has It was a match with a lot of technique of MK1 Very good to watch Oh, just unfortunate that worked out there for Black Storm He was hoping Zengar Frio would stay on the ground Not a bad bet But that's happened to be when Zengar Frio moved forward up in the air And that was it That was ultimately what it came down to So awesome pool That was sick Our six competitors who have qualified out of this On Winner's side Nicholas and Conqueror Maybe no surprise Doing the best here Then in Loser's side Our Axioma and Mano Phelps And then as we just saw It is Flame and Zengar Frio From the other side as well Into Loser's top 24 All great players Strong players I'm happy to see that We will see They playing again Absolutely right So that's it for Pool B There are still two pools today We're only half of those pools today We are on the half of the event Exactly right So we're gonna take a quick break We'll be back with Pool C after this We're gonna have some fantastic players Ready for you up here Who have made the top eight As you would expect We have some of the very best players In the world Welcome to pro competition The pinnacle of Mortal Kombat 1 gameplay A role paved for challengers and conquerors A test of might As players fight towards a spot At final combat Players from around the globe Are looking to show off their skills To those watching However If you talk to competitors at events There's something more to pro competition Beyond the search for a champion It's my first time seeing a lot of people Because I used to play them online I used to talk to them all the time In the chat, Twitch chat So really with the pro commentary It's the community aspect Of bringing everyone that we never got a chance To really see in person And really build that relationship From that point on It feels good man After COVID You know everything shut down And everything pretty much stopped So you know it feels good To be back out here in this environment And everybody getting back together And enjoying the new era That is Mortal Kombat 1 Pro competition is more than just the gameplay It's the sense of community And for players who've been waiting for its return It's equally about sharing a passion For Mortal Kombat through competition A lot of guys live for this Including myself I competed for over 10 years Did it for the love of it And a lot of people love this You get to build that relationship Talk about tech Exchange ideas And really you just get that vibe Being with somebody who actually likes the game As much as you do For players who've only experienced competition Through the online battles and combat league The one thing players want you to know Is that they're always welcoming new combatants You know I can't find them nowhere But you might know number one It's Ninja Killer I want to fight him I got to Get to see Rewind I have it in my pool So I get to go up to him And be like hey Please let me hit you Please let me hit you I'm just looking I'm just trying The beauty in competition is truthfully The fellowship from the players There's just no better feeling Than sitting next to people you may friends with Through Mortal Kombat Because these memories last a lifetime What people are missing whenever they're Sitting at home playing online Is they're missing the energy levels Whenever they come to an offline event Such as ECT right now The energy levels, the intensity It's definitely a once in a lifetime type of feeling This is my first time being here I was supposed to go to the last one But I wasn't able to make it to that one This is another experience right here I love all of this I'm not going live I came towards the tail end of the last pro tour So being at the actual pro tour Is really exciting Because I don't know I love the offline feel It's an amazing feeling Definitely come to the events Live events I mean online is great But offline is where it's really at So you get to see the people Playing next to somebody You can't recreate that online Always come to the events With these memories The tales can be told From the diamonds that Sonic Fox And their skills have shown To Ninja Killer And his talents as an online warrior To being the biggest threat sitting beside you The new era will be promising This is pro competition This is no time to smile Hell yeah it is Fight a fire god Is coming off my bucket list Think me a monster Who so enjoy killing you What's going on everybody Welcome back to the Mortal Kombat 1 Pro competition Here in Brazil Biu How's it going man Yes we have been Talking about Quan Chi For two days Two possible only Quan Chi players In the building They're sitting right here We're sitting right here But we're not here to talk about Quan Chi We're here to talk about Everyone else Because As you've clearly seen There's been some ridiculous matches already Only half of it Half way through Because now we're about to enter Our third group of the day As a biased European We have one Specific player in this group MK Javier That I will be Keeping a very close eye on All day Keep there Professional All day has just been sat down In the casuals area And has just non-stop Just been sat down Grinding Playing Getting as comfortable as possible But now It's game day Yeah so We are here live and alive If you don't know me My name is Biu I'm a Brazilian caster But right now I'm living a dream Because I'm next to you I'm a big fan of you You humble player We have Quan Chi players Man it's going to be Amazing I'm a Brazilian Brazil I'm very excited to show the world The Brazilian scene We have some good players We have Kalishnok Right now is for me The best player in Brazil But we have so many fights To watch We have a good Sub-Zero player It's a hiding Okay Don't spoil that But We had some good matches right We had a Shao Kahn Yes It was amazing Shao Kahn and Darius Shao Kahn is viable General Shao General Shao We've got to keep it General Shao I cannot let my 30 years Of nostalgia overtake Yeah General Shao I'm sorry But then Shao Kahn is really good Versus Which Was Shao Kahn Versus I don't remember Oh, Oshra Oshra Yeah Shao Kahn is really good On this match Because he can Finish very good The armor Buttons as well Yeah He's got range to compete But I mean like A fresh new set of players Sitting down to play And of course I don't know About it But The big thing about Pro competition The offline stops This one being You know, we're live From Sao Paulo Here in Brazil Gorgeous city Yeah Lovely weather Which I much appreciate As anyone that Currently lives in the United Kingdom knows That the weather Ain't so lovely Right now I made a joke About mustard Earlier I was like He's still At home Having to struggle With that Getting rained on Could really be Of all the players That we have in our group Mk Javier Is one of the main Heavy hitters Am I not mistaken That there is a certain Very good Johnny Cage In this group Actually There's a lot of Johnny Cage players here Johnny Cage is a good character Right I mean There's a lot of Johnny Cage's We had Sanga Frio On the tournament as well But Man, I Really looking forward To see Kung Laos Because we have Two good players Playing Kung Laos Kung Laos actually is A good character In my opinion Because Kung Laos have The best Armor The best Special move In the game That's it Your opponent Has a taste For a split second Of hesitation That arm is coming out Right And then there's Four more arms On the way in Because You need to fight Look at the bar And look at the Camel All the time All the time But one thing We're sort of Just staying in the same place And We're sort of just chatting About the game and that The biggest concern That Javier has In this group Is the sheer amount Of Johnny Cage players Because It's actually a bad matchup It's a matchup After talking to Javier At Johnny Cage We never match, right? Not every Not every match You know Not every match But He's good at punishing Certain scorpion Things that involve Striker You know He's got Advancing buttons He has low pokes He has really fast armor And if I'm not mistaken One of our Possible bracket Threats Sits before you With Johnny Cage Right here One of the players That Javier has Actually been The most concerned about Chocolate, right? Yes, indeed Yes, a Player from Washington Very good player He won A lot of tournaments In Washington But Now Let's go, baby High time I mean Perfect example here You've got the Baraka Striker We've got Johnny Cage And Kung Lao But I mean What is this matchup? It's pure aggressive Characters And that parry I mean I feel like that's gonna Have quite a bearing In this match And even then Breaking up the offense There with the teleport Not a bad way to Start things off That way So You're bleeding your finger Oh, the knees We're already looking Bam! Try to go for Maybe That could have possibly Been like a cheeky side Whatever But look If these drops happen Make them happen Now At the very beginning And not later When it matters Yes So Life lease for Shockwave He's going down I mean Striker Is definitely The issue here Right? Oh, yeah I mean He is the machine That allows Baraka to thrive There are other Ambitions You can pair him with But The utility of those Grenades Yeah I mean Those kind of moves Are really important Against Striker Because if you Have the ability To just Ignore those grenades It can Totally swap a match up However Side-twitch grab To start the round off Chocolat now With the First round And importantly Alex Kind of near The corner a bit So it has to There EX projectile I want to Create distance And get away From there As far as possible Classic Kunglao low-hatch Shadow kick The Eternal Oh Cops Nice damage there Nice conversion Nice which we saw Here we go Safe job Right In this position now All about the corner You know If we can establish it Great However Baraka There's a lot of Meter to work with there The Striker We're going to Try and go for a grab We trade But it's not the end of The world Simply to kill Unless we spend meter He's dead Oh He's fucked Now he's dead Tried to set up an Almost total checkmate Situation You know Even if you survive there The meaty button's coming You got a Striker behind you I like this door Baraka is a Very good play Very good character The Striker Make everything safe Some situations Advantages In others Armor break Kind of everything An aggressive Baraka could possibly Want here Virtual game Low hats What's going on? We're punished again We're just going to Not play around here You know You can stick out a button That kick's coming The breaker Getting a little bit of Striker away too So not the end of the world Baraka Blockable 2-1-2 Oh The damage is there Let's see Plus Less That was really cheeky Actually You know they're going to Enforce the 1-1 And it finishes the string I mean if that third hit Hit The game was over Very difficult run For Alex And it's over man 1-0-2 Chocolate Very good Virtual game play I mean it's Johnny Cage With the best camera In the game So And at the same time Even that final moment Baraka enforcing The overhead Johnny Cage has a Six frame down one You know Just being able to squeeze Out that down one In situations Other characters Might not necessarily Be able to do it Check it every time Absolutely Nice confirm The shadow kick ender Put us back to that Mid-screen situation The threat of the corner Is definitely here though Get out of here striker Had enough of you Fan down Okay if that was going to be him I'll take this corner Oh they're coming Okay nice break Let's move on Just grab So the position is very good For Okay Not an amazing situation For Baraka at the moment Wow No real commitment To the punish though Here in Brazil we call this School like potote Oh yeah Yeah They're micro ducks Oh I see I understand Well I'm sure we'll be hearing And seeing that A lot more throughout this bracket Cause that's such a common strategy Plus frames Court pressing buttons Presses at a down Down one of it What Oh look Not punch It's not a drop Not punch Side switch And then End with the star power That was an optimal ender right there I was ready to screen the drop But it There's a method here Oh punish is it Goes in for a jump in I mean You go for a jump attack too early And you are going to be vulnerable On landing cage With those advancing buttons Another big jump in here I can't It's really working here Okay the hype meter What's going on Let's see The choices stuff Oh You want to press mate I'm invincible None of that And the first hype meter Gameplay here On the parry Oops It's a damage hand man Very clean Very good gameplay I mean It's a very well played Johnny Cage And it's the kind of It really for me Is the level of efficiency That In this kind of bracket It's always going to be dangerous Cause Johnny Cage The thing about him is He's a common character Almost hypocritical You're always going to say that Oh and speaking of which The mirror match Ask Parallel Now receive However not a hundred percent A mirror match Despite the fact that They're both playing as Van Dam It's Kano versus Kung Lao So an immediate difference Will be less health And Kano definitely have Good conversion right Absolutely The question is How is this match up Going to fair Because Cage and Lao And it's kind of like Match made in heaven Kano is going to give you A lot more of that Ambush utility But the cost of Significantly less health Where 900 versus 950 Versus Cage Can be a pretty big deal And there's another Combo there That's a big deal Good deal Goodbye for Alex Oh The water Bit of a mis-time On that anti-air unfortunately Old string coming out Keeping your shadow kick Nice and safe Thanks to Lohat 2-1-2 Okay No confirm there unfortunately Time for the miracle Maybe Alex can do it Oh the carrot Oh the carrot Now the reeds Big root here The damage The carny-carry It's happening Doesn't get the end of though Kano those knives Should have been The end of the round And importantly Opted not to use Fatal Blow either So Oh The shadow kick man On the nipples It was an important Round to win Because if you had That utility And chose not to spend it And then you lost the round That was your game to win Let's see If the miracle is happening Or not Well Starting off with an up block One of the characters You're definitely more inclined To up block Because that Johnny Cage Jump kick is just So strong It's a risk to anti-air Button it Get a good pressure Let's see Alex trying to Make a comeback here Maybe Armour I mean Almost checkmate here Try to get the extra chip Oh It's I mean screen positioning wise Yep Match point for chocolate And even better Considering your opponents Back against the wall Whiffs it Get greedy with the punish So quite rightly Just let it rock However Alex Push this way Back out there The mid-screen we go Hang on for it Take a second to play Okay, the cat A lot of respect here Good neutral game That's how it goes A lot of folks Respect, respect But now We have a conversion But It's a break The shadow kick Ow Versions Hey Alex Show me the moves Plus Tries to go for another risky parry Those parries haven't worked so well Since the character change Although I'm a bit of a liar there Able to escape However And okay Alright Okay Chouan We have a game here Maybe Is happening I don't know I mean if anything It's just a complete Change of momentum You know You quite dominantly lose Those first two matches Edel said it well Because the parry was a problem Yes A lot of parries Good grid by Alex Another one But now Oh What What's happening I mean The threat of the cameo The loud teleport Always there to mess up your punish Over commits though And that's a clean Salsa damage there Broken out Hard to blockable though Unfortunate Has equalized the health Bit of a micro duck Underneath another reverse throw though Get out of here Kano Nice D1 A lot of D1s We're checking But now we have a confirm The damage is there Very good house For a shuffle H Let's see And it's over Match punch again In that situation When you get hit by that low poke You have to either Perfectly flawless block Or hope your opponent Somehow Just doesn't press that button right Because I mean There ain't nothing you're doing Match point now though Yeah A lot of this Yeah Difficult situations Good choice to forward throw Have a life lead here You're gonna have more range present Wow Rare footage of the eye laser Being used on purpose Okay Solid gameplay here The parry again But now It's a burnish Oh Drop it That's a lot of damage to leave on the table In this situation So On the screen Let's see Oh Grab Stop going good for Alex A trade But When you have more of a life lead Cannot recover What It's a conversion That is sick I'm so used to seeing That kind of combo Only from nut punch Whereas I guess If you do land The overhead end of there If you break it from the first hit The opponent's still on the ground And you can still get yourself A nice little chunk of damage In that case It's gonna close out the match And that will be Chocolate now Moving on As we've only just started The bracket But a good show It gets me every time I mean it's a drop No it's a combo Sorry You're wrong But man Nice gameplay I mean Alex Did a great job Fighting one of the favourites On this bracket We've seen a good conversion As well And Definitely Johnny Cage Was a better character Right It just Allowed you to fight Fire with fire A little bit right Because like The thing about the Baraka Striker there Was that Just wasn't really having An opportunity to play the game Just getting out Neutraled You stick out a button And that launching kick From Cage Was hitting like Every other time Which sometimes It's reaction Sometimes it's just good Prediction Because you know The opponent's gonna try And stick out a button Like I don't know If this Baraka is standing Two Maybe you're down four Or something The ambush gameplay Right Do the The combo start Yeah Exactly At least when you were able To force the Johnny Cage mirror You all of a sudden Have access to The exact same tools With the exception Of there being Slightly different cameos Where clearly the Kano Was still kind of working anyway Because Whether it was things on block Into Kano Ball Whether it was the knives It was Different but similar When it comes to Johnny Cage He wants to play the same game That cameos just Gonna change like One or two Small things He's gonna Change your play style Yeah The character is good So you can choose Whatever you want But definitely it Changed your style And strategy But that's just one way To start the show When it comes to this Third block anyway I mean there's a lot of people Were sort of talking about Players that are in this group I saw I saw a chocolate's name Appear quite regularly I think he's definitely One of the players That people are looking at In this bracket and thinking You know Definitely top 24 Potential More than likely Further beyond that Because you know Once all of our players Make it out of their groups And you start that top 24 They're really Insane matches Will begin And that's where You can see The return of You already have the twins On the winners Definitely the word Is watching right now The twins They want every set With trio Every single set That's amazing And it's a great Confidence boost If anything Because I mean The twins don't need The confidence Because like They kind of know How they shape up Yes That's not surprise here Yeah They know how capable they are In like South American tournaments But then When they do travel To the North American events That success Is very much Just continued You know In MK11 The only player That was able to Put a stop to it Was Ninja killer Ninja killer He was the only one You know That Evo was And the final was amazing It was the perfect story Because they had They had just been So dominant for two years And it just looked like No one could touch him And then obviously the final And the people Talk about it Yeah, they do Everyone wants to see him Let's see There's a reason Going into Mortal Kombat 1 Scorpion, Prox and Nicholas Were just Instantly people are like Right How are these two Playing the game You know What characters are they Playing What their play styles like A lot of that For me is expected At the moment All the strong characters They're there Using common characters That everyone else is playing But they're still managing To squeeze out this like Extra couple of percent Of optimal damage And just couple that With ridiculous fundamentals Yeah, actually we are The first stage of The competitive lifetime Right So we are discovering Who is the stronger And actually This is the first year So we are having Good surprises here We have a lot of Young players as well Right here in Brazil We have Henry 16 years old Very good And people like this You know The young players They don't care about Win or lose They don't have the pressure They just having fun And the twins are Just like this They don't want to Compete You know They just Having fun That's the problem Because it's a danger When your opponent It's a danger A guy in the record When your opponent Is playing And they're just having Like the time of their life They are a scary opponent Because they're not going to Feel the same pressure Yeah Because everyone else And their pressure really war Is on tournaments Yeah, players may I think a lot of community Can sort of like Really Put players on a pedestal And they almost force That kind of pressure But as long as The player themselves Isn't feeling it There's not much to worry About Looks like we see Sindellao The first one I have seen today One of the teams That many people say Is a real contender For that top three Reiko But Reiko Darius Normally thought As a thing of the past But looks like The Darius being kicked here I wonder What is there that Tremor can't do better But man This guy Fizzle gave One of the best players In Brazil Just check it out Because The pedestal By far They play strike And from the right So You're going to see A bullet Ending it with That nice little Knockdown from the air Projectile That's the first Ooh Not sure About that Reiko though Definitely Bars was Just gone The problem is You're now going into round two Your back is still against the corner You would have had To make an insane comeback And Unfortunately It just didn't work out So now you're going into This next round You've got nothing to fight back You've got a path Reversed Excuse me Really Controlling Fight Did not expect that Projectile Absolutely Very good round Very good match Just controlling Just zoning Just searching the trades But it really Needs to Step up And make a rush down Cause It's a physical game Yeah It's going to take a lot And it's there The second you trade projectiles That low hat is ready Here's the problem And when I see Reiko Darius these days I'm just not that sure In the team Because What a lot of Reiko Wants to do That was working With Darius Tremor Really does Do it better Now The problem is We didn't get a chance To see Darius Used A single time In that match And at least When you have the Tremor here And you're fighting Someone with these projectiles In the zoning You call in Tremor Just to like Tank some of these projectiles You know If you know the opponent Is going to throw a Sindel projectile And you call in Tremor He's going to absorb that And your Your stars are going to Go through and win the trade Right Like We're almost a A complete game and a half And I haven't seen Darius once Definitely Darius is not working This hasn't had the opportunity That's the problem Darius Like this Is built to get close And combo off things But The chance hasn't arisen Yeah Oh There's the click Sindel's Going to call back Kung Lao Much faster now And that's I think about it there Because She can play Every single time Of playstyle She can rush down She can zone She can do whatever she wants Alright I mean Instantly going in For the wake up movement To eat the crab I understand that Because like The opponent hasn't had They would go for the biggest reward However Oh All of it All of it All of it gets spent This combo ain't going to kill But it's a setup And the setup will The hot block We need to see this The first one Exactly Now Do we go straight in For that third game These have been I think we have An instant rematch Yes, indeed Faisal Gabe is a Really sparkly To To wall We already want A legal attune And he's going Again Gonna see the same move I guess Lovely block A really good block To keep yourself alive But you are still going To be vulnerable to that pressure Caught pressing buttons I mean Are you going to try An armor at some point Or is that going to be too obvious Yes Wow The sepo game No confirms here Just Really good Oh That's a lot Another unfortunate breaker Because By breaking To understand Right I can't get hit again Lovely low poke Again Challenging the grab And that's why that Advancing mid Was able to connect The life league is Working Because the game is Just controlling the match Now Very good Very good Faisal Gabe And now It's match point Has just been looking So solid This whole game And the guy is amazing Another jump in I mean Just most of the time Challenged And Just kind of unfortunately I mean We haven't really seen a bad display From Reiko here But Sindel Lao Can be just Such a one player character In the right hand It really does give me Shades of like that Mkx Like Summoner Quan Chi You know Heart to block Restan Set up Okay Heart to block again Oh It's not going to work Therefore And it's over That trio Very clean From Faisal Gabe This guy is amazing The best Sindel person Definitely unchallenged There by Raphael The problem is just like You know The thing about the Reiko That we saw there was I don't know how much Of a believer I am In the Reiko Darius These days because And Reiko definitely Need a good camera Right He need He need the camera Just exaggerate things You know to let him Do a little bit more And the Darius Can work well But It's just We didn't see Darius Used once The only time We saw Darius there Was in a combo breaker So it's You're in a situation Where okay So Tremor has very much Kind of overtaken Darius With the Reiko utility Because at least If you're unable to You know Land a command grab And get like a full combo From that sense You can at least Use Tremor Like in your keep away You know Your opponent's going to Be throwing projectiles At you So I can Cool in Tremor Who's going to Flex to change variation I'm calling him Because while he's there We can tank a projectile If I throw My own projectile Actually it's a high attack People use Tremor To block projectiles Yeah It's super common And it's something that Reiko can use to great effect But Sadly we just Didn't really get to see Any use from the Darius there But But I like the Reiko Reiko's a good character I think he's good Yeah I think Reiko Tremor Is exceptionally good I think it's A really really strong team Very good Sony As well Man the rush down The command grab Is there So It's a Really a threat In every match You've always got to worry About it That's the thing You know The threat of the grab Even the two significant hits That we did actually See there From Raphael was I landed knock down And my opponent Is holding up Because they're afraid Of the grab So I do hit these buttons That I confirm into something And that was a really nice Couple of opportunities But Two small hits Over the course That wasn't really Going to be enough To make a substantial difference And of course We got a perfect demonstration As to why Sindel and Kung Lao Is so good right now Yeah For me Sindel Definitely is a top tier character I think so She's really good And like I said Sindel can play The keep away The rush down game Everything works She played Very good with Kung Lao She played Very good with Another cameras Like strikers So you can do A ambush game Or you can do A hatch block game But overall though So we've seen I think so far We've had a pretty Decent representation Of kind of just like What Competitive MK1 Can kind of look like At the moment You know We've seen some super Good Johnny We've only just had two matches Right And we've seen Johnny Cage We've seen Baraka With a striker We've seen Rayco And we've seen Sindel and Lao I think that's just Very much a Sort of taste of things To come Because like We've seen Nice different characters Even on our last block We saw a decent amount Of Sub-Zero And I believe I think we're going to be Seeing Sub-Zero A little bit later today As well That's always something That I've noticed About South American Mortal Kombat Is that You definitely have your Kind of like Expected characters And now We're going to see A very Very good smoke And you get Different stuff That you're not used to And what I was kind of Getting to Before I even saw this Smoke and tremor Yes That's not That ain't coming Yeah Here's a caller Some follow here Very good Smoke player Very aggressive Let's see how it goes Because this guy Is an MKX Legend Smoke If you like MKX Smoke has definitely Has that He's got some elements I mean Let's not forget Smoke in MKX Was a bit of a mix-up Machine himself But now Do something Opposite side there With the Raiden Kano Combat You kind of know What you're in for here Right Okay The Bazz is here A little mix-ups Oh The before Gonna hurt The latter Opps to hold on To the Mita Which I really like You know You can spend that Mita To extend it If you need some afterwards Because you had A breaker If you wanted that Instead In this case We're just Spend two Bazz Because you know And let's us finish Things off nice Superman That's because There's a Kano on the other side You know he's coming If a Kano If a Raiden Kano Does teleport Or Superman In the neutral There's always a Kano On the other side Yeah The turn Unfortunately That's unfortunate Going for the Wake-up invisibility And then Cooling the The crystalline armor I thought that was A cool idea actually Okay That one Yeah Good armor Let's see I can't make this comeback Wow Interrupt those cancels though We are offline here Those cancels Are going to be Significantly easier To interrupt Oops I mean Unless you flawless Block here You're in big trouble Lovely flawless Block to start No profiles What's happening Okay Teleport One life Okay The Kano Teleports Oh my god Wait Hang on No I mean Surely it must have been deliberate It must have been deliberate Oh no There was like The beginnings of A really good comeback there And it sort of Was there It just kind of fell apart Yeah The gameplay There's more gameplay Is like this I mean We've already seen Even in that first game A really impressive amount Of just the Weird sort of Tremor activity With armor Once again Let's confirm The kind of carry On this gameplay Cancels Tried to interrupt More of the Tremor stuff Calling it I mean I do always wonder Where we are going to be On the other side Yo Full combo from the overhead Yeah And it's killed well Because the damage Was Just For what Oh the damage Good round from Zeus Never I have never seen a smoke player Ever do that overhead Into Just Aftershock Ground pound into full combo Absolutely Make sure you're low A little bit more plus there With the aftershock punch The late down one there I have two bars Two bars Pretty stressful character pairing I think You'd be constantly so aware of What variation of Tremor You have active Anyone that's played this Cabin in an ocean Can easily boom sight Of which one you have In the heat of the moment Oh my god They're now there Grading Damage Let's see Oh This moves you The ball The down shoot Not connecting Let's see The bottle blows on the screen It's a problem Oh my god It's happening Maybe Maybe Aftershock launch Ten seconds The bottle blow It's coming It's gonna be a good damage Alright the clock Ten seconds on the clock It's gonna do good damage And importantly We're gonna have full Tremor now I kinda have a feeling We're gonna see something wild Into one of the ambush Tremor Okay And there it is Wait no Wait Oh he survived He survived What is this Because honestly That bowling ball was so close I would have been convinced The bowling ball would have hit Raiden Before the armour activated But I guess not Yeah that It may have What club was doing The crazier stuff He went for something that it seemed Like Tremor might have been able To make you safe with And unfortunately there with the fatal blow Maybe Just The armour was active And that's all there was to it I think a couple of frames off Maybe that bowling ball Would have beat the armour Before it started But Just was not meant to be Oh man it's too old But that ball is playing well It's always the last read I'm really liking this Tremor Stuff with the smoke I mean I know it hasn't been Enough to win the game yet But Has come close But just the final moments of clutch Fate would blow through the armour Just getting through it Okay So Let's see While I can make this game work Oh I look a bit too far away To get the armour unfortunately so The ambush comes out And Tremor loses his whole gauge But You didn't get no benefit Tries to punish But the canoes Always coming You gotta be so disciplined Conquer the damage Always tasty Always sweet Look at this Look at the red buff There was a death Wasn't able to flawless block though So it's still alive This isn't really in threat from Chip Just yet Confirmed Fate will blow I don't know No we hold on to it Let's see one more Oh the grab the whiff The ship damage Make or break Make or break flawless block right there So match point for Zils A very solid gameplay Zils is one of the best blows Here in Brazil as well He's just been playing around with this stuff Impressively You know he's been playing this Fundamental game of raid and cano But against this kind of team Your defense is massively going to get tested Because you know Not only a smoker mix up character anyway But you're now fighting an uncommon cameo Who's doing some really weird stuff So the fact that Zils haven't been able To defend against a lot of this The way he has Very very impressive Now overhead Full combo I'm going to have a confirm And there's more of his uh His heart That grab Let's see Almost kind of a Baraka strike I think that we reverse throw Oh hang on Armor Do you want The armor's good actually Because the armor does mean You're not going to be as punishable Oh the punishable Let's see The round Okay Qualum Take the first round Let's see It's too old Full combo Drops it Another one Another one Second time We've seen that Interruption though The down one There's that one again Oh he misses Delayed low Good break Let's see Oh Keeps the teleport much safer this time With the uh Wait a minute Wait a minute Does that off Does that combo The metallic I'm sure it does That must do Although he wouldn't have gone for it The color's fighting hard Strike Just a second Low punish Tell me about the cameo The breaker Oh that's right It's too long We have a game here Maybe Faller Can't do this kind of thing I am just Honestly sitting here And just enjoying the show I have almost never seen Smoke and tremor And seeing all of this wild tech That you're constantly bouncing Between different forms And Getting various different Rewards and situations It's just Really really interesting And clearly working Albeit Looks kind of hard To enforce All the trades Trains everywhere So now All this drops The combo That would have been Really big damage It's unfortunate The combo dropped The way it did And you can already see there The utility of being able to Hit that grounded String on the floor And just turn it into An aftershock launcher I'll have the life Lager strike Must be But now Must be Must frames into The action with brawl Has just been The enemy In this Yes So Zeal's keeping a sequel Oh Impressive All is in problem Oh Down one Wait a minute Keeps it safe A free side switch it was Tremor's not going to be Available for the rest Of the round though So this is now On his own That's it Yeah So definitely A match point for all Zeal's That's it But man That's how I say He came out there Hang on a minute Almost We almost got an aftershock Launcher from that telepore You have to be pretty confident That what you're going for Is going to work Because spending the entire cameo Thankfully the recharge Time of Tremor Even with both Isn't that bad And another one Red game Make this low Good reactions See it work All the low Could have been a full combo But it's a weird situation Oh The match point Let's see It's going to hurt a lot Let's see Cano's ready So it's going to be More down back three It's only a matter of time There it is Good blocks Good blocks Hot or block or follow Couldn't go for an ambush There but not I don't think it really Would have helped All that much Two bars Shit damage 21 seconds It's the overhead You know The second that back Forward three Was the attack And not the cancel And we saw the change I kind of wonder I wonder if Tremor after Shock might have turned That into a combo I don't know I've never seen it I've never tested it But every change To Tremor That we saw there Looked so deliberate That I was I was so convinced This was the heart Breaker because Yeah If that bowling ball Was just a little bit Closer to Raiden I think that would have Hit before the Fatal blows Armor would have activated But That was a good set Right there The game played Definitely He tried I mean you love to see New stuff And this is Winner's Bracket too So You know If you're a fan here Of just A sort of Collapse It Isn't going to be The end of the road Just yet This is just the first First part of the Bracket And there is still Loser's Bracket Actually He's the only one Playing smoke Right now in Brazil Yeah And tournament I mean But he tried Man Actually Tremor Was a very good Camel on this situation But The confirms Using Tremor Is You need to be Very precisely To make it works So it works In the same way With Qwenshi You really need to Make the Things On the right time Because If you don't It just looks Very demanding It kind of reminds me Of like When you see We would see Shang Tsung With Goro And some of the other cameos Where They can work Really well together They are just Very specific You know One small Little mis-imper And the whole thing Can just fall apart And It kind of seems Like that With smoke and Tremor I can see And definitely The Consistence Is really important In this game Just keep rolling It has to be Because you know If you mess something up In a game like this It's not only missing out On damage But you're missing out On like Significant setup potential As well You know If you are going to Have I'm trying to remember All the different situations We saw there From smoke We saw the overhead From I think it's the down back To Aftershock turns that Into a combo We saw The low Into the sort of Knockdown And there were a couple I'm certain That would combo It's really hard to play In high level With this Camille In my opinion I definitely I can't play it Tremor Yeah I like it I play Qwanchi And Tremor It bugs my mind Every single time You get used to it It's definitely A lot more stressful Than some of your More standard Cameos But With enough Gameplay Just pure matches Where you Kind of just get Familiar You get comfortable You got a train Yeah Yeah you do I'm father I can train That's true That is true Real life Is harsh sometimes Yeah Gets in the way Of our video games By time Just passes man But man Definitely Congratulations to Zeus He's a young player as well He's only 18 years old So He play Raiden And play Johnny Cage So He's very good That's just what the young Up and coming Mortal Kombat players do They like their top tiers Definitely And it's an important Mentality to have early To be honest Because you know If you are playing in tournaments And you want to win Like The best characters do Tend to be A pretty good option Now I mean it's a weird one Because Mortal Kombat 1 Compared to Sort of Sort of Mortal Kombat Historically A lot of the older games Always have that Rather distinct Difference between Like absolute bottom tier And absolute top tier And there's a huge margin Between them I always find that later As you go From game to game And I kind of notice this Around MK11-ish Is that Finding like The difference between The undisputed greatest character And the undisputed By far worst character Kind of gets harder And harder For people to agree on Because the gap Between them Just doesn't feel as big Like some characters Are better than others Absolutely But It was You're right A bit more tricky So this will be the next Stage of winners So Chocolate is back here With the Johnny Cage Sub-Zero And Chameleon Not the first time We've seen it today Oh, Brian's playing On this bracket Brian's the Sub-Zero guy Oh my god So this is The mysterious Sub-Zero player The Mysterio one Oh my god It's really good Let's see Sub-Zero onscreen Right now There have been whispers I tuned into Mustard's stream Earlier Because he's restreaming this And the chat was talking about Oh, if you're in Looking at block C There's a Sub-Zero player there Yeah You want to keep an eye out On a really good character And there we go Instantly Square wave from that low Turns it into a full combo And now I mean Those clones They will force Johnny Cage To spend his meter And already I expect you to press a button And when you do That forward one Is coming out Oh, good damage Absolutely Sub-Zero But the thing is though Is that Chameleon in this patch As well is Actually The damage has been slightly lowered There's a little bit more scaling Than they used to be But he still gets fantastic damage Regardless He's still a really good cam Oh yeah, absolutely Still one of the best cam Here's the game Reactive ice clone From Loha We're seeing some tech here Bit slow on the reaction There though from the slide Let's see if we get Blocked and Punished I have the corner right now I love that Knows that Johnny Cage Is now minus off That Loha low-hatch Is trying to force a mix-up In that case the back three Did get blocked But the idea was there Could block That's a mix-up Overhand That's a mix-up If you block back three And Melina's there That's low or overhead And both will combo Alright Punish One Two Three Alright This combo's going to take a long time And what it's going to do Is give time to the cameo To come back Plus Okay, the safe jump Oh, he missed it Drops it! You know that was fatal blow That absolutely was fatal blow That's it Oh, hold his light Okay Okay Oh, ice clone Classic one Nice You're not getting in Surviving As little health as a character Can physically have in this game And the sub-zero chameleon Yes, man Amazing Brian's a really good- Yeah Brian is a Seventeen Oh! And you know That slide's hitting When Katana disguise is ready Oh, that's a full combo, mate In the corner That combo's a bit harder to hit It's a tutorial I'll catch you Punish Okay Oh, and we're timing our back too To make it so it hits At the same time as Glaive So it scales less That is some tech right there Oh, you didn't know Okay I'll try to get my comeback Classic coin carry Get off break I'll try to push my back in But The flash is really pushing the rush down game That's the two-one-two rock I mean, there are instances here Where Cage can armor But is Chocolate going to want to Like part with the armor When you lose the breaker Oh! Almost Oh, this was fun Let's see The damage And the fatal blow Nice break What? Oh, hit before the lift could apply Okay He tried It's not safe like this It was a good attempt I mean, if the slide hit That was a full combo There's that backboard too That clone push So good at hitting The opponent And Kung Lao at the same time Yes Let's see This bolt Punishes the down one with his own And Cage Down one stapled there Alina available Will we have a chance? Launching armor Look at them Let's see They're quiet, they're safe Oh, they're not chill That's definitely one thing I'm noticing in Brazil this week That is The emphasis on a meaty neutral jump On the opponent's wake up They just don't have time to up block No one do this here Yes, it's really common But I just don't see it much elsewhere Yeah Didn't want to over commit That would have been a rather obvious up block I think, so I'll go for the empty jump instead Let's see The flash is now trying to make this Neutral game works Let's it go There's a fence Oh, the jump free Let's see Brian's defending Has to flawless block He's alive Down one Punish Survives It doesn't work Let's the whole thing go And you put yourself minus Yeah The second you were minus there That was a very different story But EX clone To make yourself not as punishable Unfortunately Couldn't get anything from it But it brings us to a one One, okay And it was an EX clone It doesn't work like he came to use Up block Jade Glaive Again Get that back to it It's kind of tight But you can get certain hits When the Glaive hits Ooh Safe jump Not so safe Addier Down one That's a good match here Well played Careful There's like significantly more Rushdown from chocolate When he notices That Brian has the Glaive You know, just cannot Allow superior to establish That range And then back forward too That clone push So good in these instances The mix-ups this time is correct Full combo Nice break Oh, the mix-up Let's see the point of care is the damage Are we going to spend the meter to kill? One Only one needed But it is more than enough To get that job done That first round But very clean gameplay by this So good Lovely up block From that ban lift, however Drop to combo Ooh, tries to punish Bit of hesitation there Glaive Yeah, Glaive not really as good I mean, I'm sure in this patch It is a little bit trickier to Get around Oh, ban lift Wow Nice confer Let's see We are going to have Malina But by the time she's ready It might not have time to enforce It's Jaden now Right, reverse throw Glaive Just checking And a very good round By chocolate Need a bit more The dash in throw Reverse throw in this case So Brian Need to miracle I like that standing one actually Oh, let it rock Nice Great, try to press The break Okay, we'll have a fight here Sub has fatal blow To bars He's fishing for it Oh, the overhead Nice block Wait a minute Right, that was scale That's good of scale Nice use Alright Scaled a lot Yeah Definitely the life lead to see it We're just going to scale like mad But we're going to end this combo With a life lead And full chameleon Let's see Last decision One-one The glaive The clone There it is And it's over Two-one What a choice Fatal blow To make sure we have Entirely Like the whole chameleon back We know it's going to be Jade Because we just had Malina So that's going to be two glaives We have clone push Which is mid And if you trade with any of these The round is mine Too many things to think about I love it Try to turn it into a armored launcher But chocolate not quite ready to Get something significant from it Not the reactionary block Alright, the glaive pack Oh, the berry It's going to be full combo Alright, on wake up we have Malina Oh, I had a feeling I had a feeling it was coming It's the minus frames Again, it forces a button The backup just in case I think chocolate has learned a lesson right Not to be too button heavy there Because you press And that forward one just Shoes you up That mix-up once more Works out And the benefit here is Sub-Zero's combos take so long But it's just so much time For the cameo to come back How sad Now these fundamental mix-ups Like the back three and back two They haven't worked so good The real mix-ups have come from When Malina is there And you get the threat of back three Yeah, that's all fans And speaking of which The ones you can't react to Are working wonders The ones you can Chocolate has been on it Yeah Minus But not unsafe Enforces the throw from it Believes in the round No! The hat Forcing a jump And ready Pull the trigger on that shadow kick Two-one, Brian Nice work on chocolate We have a fight here It's not over yet Alright, the down one Acknowledges the low hat To a little bit too far away And I am invested in this match I tell you what How often, I mean There's been a good amount Of Sub-Zero today And the level just keeps climbing And climbing Mix-up Okay The overhead So many back three fours Of hit It was only a matter of time Until that overhead was coming And it was, again Oh, might have considered it The back dash into forward one Has consistently beat that down one Oh, so much good damage You hit the clone push And come out That's confirmed That's the round It's over, no! The reset, the reset Interesting I don't think Chocolate would have broke that To be honest No! Oh no! Now a fatal blows a real threat Okay, Brian Still have the bar to break But They're very different Match point here For Brian That Sub-Zero Melina There is one Melina ready But will you have time? I don't think so It's Jade Full combo Let's see No break This is a scary game To play Not breaking this Yeah, the damage is good No versions Mix-up Mix-up Overhead The break Down one again Overhead Let's see It's a punish ice clone So if you want a clone here Cage cannot stop it So Upon a pressure Let's see Brian Try to make his work Such a good throw Forward throw Go for the less obvious direction Melina Uh oh Low hatch Keep that Melina at bay You do not want to deal with Another unseeable mix-up It's now time for Jade Do not get hit, my friend The version though Oh, he tried This is a combo Let's see The drop again Grab Three bars for Brian And Chocolates Don't do the full combo tool Good block That low Kept him in this game The block on the low Allows Chocolates to stay alive Again, the throw He's respecting the bars No break so far We are getting good chip regardless The ice clone To keep us safe from the low hatch Slide! That's it! That's it! That's combo Uh Uh With the conversions So, man Three-one Sub-Zero and Chameleon is a match Made in heaven And played at that level Ridiculously good stuff You play Sub-Zero? A little bit, yeah Really? Yeah I play mostly Sub-Zero Darius But Was one of the first things I tried Was when Chameleon came out I was like, you know I kind of think that Sub and Chameleon's kind of nice And there's a lot of other Sub-Zero players You like to use Yeah Fast cooldowns But the fact that all three Of the disguises Will give Sub-Zero a significant upgrade That helps his kit You know Meta-less combo potential Doesn't need to spend resources on it Way more mix-ups One of his weaknesses before Back three versus back two Kind of reactable at this level of play The second you add Melina's ball roll She gives him so many Unseeable mix-ups Yeah And of course A lot of layers Just layers upon layers And a lot for the opponent To have to keep track of But man Well played by Choclatch Is now in the loser's side Of the brackets I consider this an upset Not necessarily because of You know I know that there were Whispers of Brian People were saying I was watching Mustard who's Restreaming this right now And there were people in the chat Saying There is a Sub-Zero player In this bracket That you need to keep an eye out on And look no further But just Sub-Zero Being able to perform at this level Versus a character like Cage Played by the likes of Choclatch It's just Choclatch is one of the players That people were looking out for A real top eight contender Someone that players are worried about Sub-Zero with that upset In one of the first rounds In this group stage This character is just So much fun to watch I know people can't decide Whether we think Sub-Zero is good Or bad Or whatever Clearly Sub-Zero can compete At this level Otherwise we wouldn't have seen that result And just in the right hands as well Like with that level of just Being able to juggle this cameo The way you have to At the cable management right The most difficult part of this gameplay Because you need to keep an eye Keep an eye on the bars On the life lead and So many of those sequences Came down to Absolutely knowing right I'm doing this now And by the time this combo is over Or by the time this fatal blow has concluded Or whatever it is I know exactly what disguise is next And how long I've got And what I can do with it Like if you mistimed any of that By a few seconds The whole plan just falls to pieces And man Milena is really good On a rush down game Because she creates everything The openings right They love the overhead Really work it really well So the 50-50 is there The scariest 50-50 That she was giving him Was the back three Because back three four low low We've blocked that a million times Who cares? The second that roll exists Back three overhead Unseeable full combo Back three four The low option You can just square wave it Now we have the Spanish hero Versus From sub zero to scorpion It's now time for MK Javier Yeah man What a pro comp So we have different characters A lot of hype We have Zeus once more On the string Which would confirm that Javier won his first match Because this is the next round In the tournament So Javier would have definitely won his first match To be here Zeus versus Panther's very own MK Javier Okay I believe the sponsor is misspelled There is Panther Not Panther Okay Let's see Scorpion the screen Now these matchups And like these situations Javier A combat league demon But also highly successful In our very own pro competition With the intercontinental combat A lot of these matchups He has played Hundreds of thousands of times To the point where He's ready for the overhead He's already preemptively doing the up You know And this is just him Showing Zeus And the damage man Scorpion really hits high He does And this round is Javier telling Zeus Whatever level you want to play at I'm telling you I'm already here Right? Yeah I'm already at this level So man Look at their lifeline Really good Javier really playing the neutral On the match The folks Yeah I mean just keep yourself nice and secure A striker we have Out of the world Another flawless block Keeping you alive But you do challenge Forcing a 2-1 to land Nice and clean Javier off to a Fantastic start Just keep it simple right? Use of the striker very well Down one Always a bit of a mix up I mean the threat of the low Of the storm self A raiden is so severe He is going to be able to do Back to back pokes Because you have to respect Down that drill The moment you release block That move is blocked I'm in! Alright But now it's the damage The conversions Let's see The damage Oh my god Crazy No need to use Kano Kano would have added Like an extra 20-30 damage Why? You can get that in chip later Overhead Ground by the Brazilian The low Ship damage And now Really solid Almost perfect ground Reverse of momentum Very same thing Happened on the opposite Effect In this case it will be Just the mid Javier Okay They keep that back free As safe as possible Not always Wow Downwind Check the momentum Overhead Javier Now going to be forced On the defense A good floor block On that storm cell though Forward throw Don't have to care about that Because the cameos Still in play Okay So Javier Now controlling the game But this is the element Of Javier That's so good His backwards movement Scorpion's back dash It's one of the best Back dashes in the game It might even be the best His backwards movement Is so fast It's so hard to chase him down He's good at controlling the lightning Absolutely Because if he has that lightning He has these ranged buttons Wow Actually You're going to build a breaker But how much damage Are you going to take Before you can even do it Yeah I mean 100 health left Strikers ready You have got to Get ready to floor block You know The death spin is coming Man that's very difficult here It's a miracle Javier doesn't He knows he hasn't got Go for extended I have the bar Oops The jumping That's great I don't know why Nice break So we're ready And Really good around I mean Good control right Patient That's the big thing Javier can be A explosive player However Can be Crushingly patient Like if he has the life lead And he is constantly Dancing backwards Backwards backwards That's a good strategy Bladespark Yeah I mean It's a huge part of the character It's why it's back to It's teleports Good anti-air You know If they do jump At a bad time You can take damage there Forward three The death spin Doesn't have to use strike You can seize a hit Get back down here Oh my god Spend the meter 111 They're blind Okay The bombs The pressure Let's see Javier's trying to grab But nobody's home Keep it nice and simple With a forward throw Meet standing two Wow Excellent run by Javier That's the thing It's like Scorpion doesn't have The most oppressive buttons In the world But what he does have Is range And damage man Yeah He has the range where You think you're safe To press a button And all of a sudden You're eating A stack of two Or a back three Or anything That's it Go Scorpion Can't run a shit Tries to get the dash In standing two Nice and confirmable Okay You know Let's see the Double shift Here Nice break Start up the combo Javier's trying to Make something here I mean not the worst throw That you can take In that situation A few more knockdowns And you are in big trouble though Just raiding with All that meter He's going to Chip you away To confirm It really works Wow Okay He's trying to Here The chip damage And now it's over So nice throw By Zeus I can hear the crowd There is definitely going to be A significant home At this point Definitely People are cheering a lot Javier was able to Experience that himself At UFA A few months ago But now definitely On the other side Of that crowd Definitely So Let's see So No break 40% damage That's it Like doesn't really Want to establish Much corner pressure Javier doesn't Really have that So Land the knockdown Dance back to a Sweep distance And just keep playing The distance game Because this is where You're comfortable The class can hit you Entire Let's see Oops Stand in one Okay No bar here It's possible There's meter There's Kano Never say never Okay All right Oh no Ah That is a One decision Mishap Yes Yeah That's the worst I hate it when that happens to me Yeah This romance Copper is really good Yes It's happening In front of me You said I've seen a top cheer character Born You said to me Before we started this block We talked about the possibility Of Sub-Zero And we know Javier's there And you're like Yo If we can get Like a Scorpion Sub-Zero Thing Or I mean The dream The dream Is currently alive Is the same bracket Is it the same? Oh Give me that damage, man Give me that damage Striker Red bar I'm calling law enforcement Okay Put the boots Where's the grab bike Javier Let's see Bars Uh-oh Uh-huh Ah It's a weird one, yeah I know in the corner Javier's like Just doing three, four On it's own Maybe just a little bit Of an accident there Striker Striker Just Take sure Bars The pressure Woo Nice I mean It's not going to be worth the break They're not even going to have it Even if Zeus wanted to break there It's like you've got One bit of health left Match point A three-zero Would be insane Yeah Does it like A three-zero Let's it rock Wake up Rare footage of the wake up Coming out Javier But when it really matters Okay, done one Let's see Pressure Damage The me timing for Zeus Has been Kind of off in this set There's been so many Just a little bit too early EX spear Wanna shut it down Oops Get some damage Knows Kano's coming But we can maybe trade favorably Just trying Let it rock No strikers coming There is one benefit You know Raiden's armor Is going to be a little bit too slow To kind of find the gap between that Oh Your blade is nicked Nice break Let's see That random spear Is the hardest hitting weapon In the arsenal of scorpion It's always ready And I'm never ready Okay, three bars Alright We're almost blocked though We're shutting it all down Wait for the down one Striker Reverse throw 15 seconds on the clock Three bars Another one So really A really good situation For our behavior Let's see The striker I mean have you just Yeah Not really No reason to do anything else Yes man Excellent game play by Javier Really good Really good Controlling the match Controlling the life lead The resources The cameo I mean it's perfect This is how You win using scorpion You know what is Is going to be just Insane If we need to double check that bracket Let me see here Javier was worried about chocolate Because I think they were in the same path However Actually Javier is already in the top 24 Alright So we may see them later Yes There is a chance I was thinking so Javier was talking about chocolate In his bracket I'm not I'm nervous about this Because I know he's in my group And he plays Johnny Cage And I don't really like that matchup That's why it's one of the matchups He picks cameo He picks cameo for cage So I imagine they were in like the same path So I'm like Yo if we saw sub zero move forward The chance Watching Javier go up against A sub zero of that caliber Would just be like Such a treat for the audience But all the same though A three zero I mean That's the first time we saw Javier today Would have been playing in his group The entire way through Obviously we only have time For so many matches on stream But Javier Making the most out of his stream time For sure But now we have an excellent match We have Lay it on me Bryan versus Fezzel Gabe So we have Sindel versus sub zero Sub zero is going to have to He's going to have to work through the top tears Yes He's having to work through the top tears And it's a really difficult matchup for me Because Sindel came to win the thing in this game Yeah Kidzani I don't know how Bryan's going to Approach And make this rush down game Sub zero don't have this neutral game I'm not going to lie though I'm happy that Sindel's really good In the Mortal Kombat I say for once Because you know She was She was pretty good at MK11 But I think it's fair to say That she was definitely more online oriented A lot of her stuff was kind of Harder to react to online and offline He had to have like a different style She had the best measure The best button in the game MK9 She wasn't so hot However Actually God I'm really upset There is a Sindel player That was like legendary In MK9 From South America If I'm not mistaken I think I think I'm right It's been a long It's such a long time ago But I remember You remember online? I wonder if the player's name Was Oscar Broly I think maybe I don't know The name is It's on the tip of my tongue But it was so long ago I just remember Sindel And it makes me think But my point yeah Was that Sindel and MK9 Was kind of She was a hard character To win with You know what I'm saying So now we're in MK1 And Sindel was like Real good Real good I'm fine with that You know what I mean Like she deserves to be Really strong And at least one game Yeah it definitely Fizzle Gabe is the best Man It's the best of Sindel We have good Sindels here We have another player But definitely Fizzle Gabe Is the best And he played Striker too We don't see Striker on this tournament With Sindel But Kung Lao and Sindel For me is the best duo I feel like If we're talking like I don't want to get too hung up On tier lists Because that's obviously not What we're here for But like I feel like If I'm looking at like Top three strongest teams In the game I feel like Lao and Sindel Is like in that running Definitely I feel like It's just right there But I mean We're talking about the strengths Of these characters Because It's a matchup We're about to see But also We're going to be treated To more of that sub-zero And I know that people at home Will be excited to see that Because people are always wanting To see sub-zero He's just not Very common He's really common online But he's not really common Like in tournament You know what I mean He's a weird one If you're in combat league There's like Low to sub-zero Yeah People just enjoy play sub-zero But here We play tournaments So People need to make money And such And we have to have results Right Hey look I mean I think after After seeing like Sub-zero like that I mean It's I know there's going to be A few people that are like Yo, hang on a minute Let's talk about this Sub-zero character For a minute You know The chameleon has just Added so much To this character's Yes Ability To compete You know Are many of the weaknesses Have been Not like Fixed as such But they just kind of Give him a bit more To work with However This is going to be Another difficult match To conquer Okay Another hill to climb It is It's not just the matchup It's the player You know It is the player Absolutely Because Faceos We've clearly seen Immensely talented So Let's go man Rayon vs. Fezzel game Alright We activate the glass armor Because we wanted Kitana Instantly Sliding under Projectiles Excuse me I'm getting full combo Yeah Fezzel game is playing with Striker Let's see the average game point The square wave From Molina To compete In the zoning Play full combo Okay 2-1 No 1-2 Maybe trying to get That corner carry The low is back That instant square wave Is going to be Pretty powerful against Sindel She's doing a lot of those Instances Yeah She's jumping So she is going to get Kind of sniped Out of the air by Molina She's not careful Second Alright Clone Give me that world's longest Combo please Because I want to get My cameo back But the Striker is there Absolutely Defensive Striker One of the best manoevers In the game He throws things Now Bri is controlling He had the lightning Let's see Get off me He's trying to make something Works Oh Dive kick Let's see the conversion I think it's bad Let's for Molina go Because we don't need To spend any meter We'll just get the launch Without it We go into the next round 3 bars a meter Thank you very much And now it's Katana time again Really solid game Play by Briar And it's Molina next Two Oh yeah Okay Let's see No breaker Holding onto Peter How is it good? Kind of carry That one It is going to be so much more Full screen Focused Whoa Hello it's me Sub-zero In your face Your friend Yeah we're not going to have Like the crazy setup Of the loud Everything else But what we are going to have Is just way more full screen Presence Understandably Right the glow Shots down everything at range That's the danger Back to the hook a lot Let's see Book breaks No confirm But we are still going to get Good damage A lot of work required The striker grade as well Let's hit rock Alright hang on Okay There is an idea here 11 HP Let's see the mirror No It's not happening Even if that ice ball Existed That EX fireball Chew right through it Get out of here striker Really good Kick him in the head Knock his cap Let's see Rebars Dry it Really Alright Have to end it early Because we are going to Quite have the corner For clone Oh the striker man And you can't break The cops By the time you can break It's no longer worth it Oh With that one No burnish Oh Wow He missed it You have to watch out For that clone There is no one bad jump Or good jump For the opponent I suppose Yeah brain Always have bars To break you know There you go One Try to micro duck Good work Bad confirm Oh The game is really not Not confirming well Striker The late button There is a game now We have fatal blow Let's see Oops The confirm I think it's dead Now you have to break Get the breaker out But now Okay Fatal blow Ready for sub zero as well The pressure Oh the different block Let's see The first throw Possible chip incoming Whoa With the fast Oh she tanked it She tanked it Stop lives Oh Oh That dive kick almost worked If it beat the low poke That was one two Or two one fatal blow Give me that round That decision You know it's crazy how that was Only game one Yeah man We got so much more To look forward to Sounds like forever I hope it is Give me more sub zero chameleon Please What What the hell was that I don't know Love it All four characters on the screen at once On it But man Fezzolubi's now Really good at defending this Make sense He will Like it's like That defensive striker has just been shutting down So much of that sub zero Offense Look at the damage Uh uh With the red bar And striker's back That defensive striker has stopped So many opportunities of Brian Just going in Establishing one of the disguise attacks And whatever else Like you have to respect it But to do so neutralizes your entire offense Uh oh Working Okay Right By the time this combo's over There might be enough time For one Molina attack Depends on the delay There it is Okay It's weird to time that in the corner It can drop quite commonly Hey Pick up It's a big damage Oh no Whoops Let's see Brian I have a chance here Am I right in thinking This matchup is to make it out of group Uh the pool Yeah So this is a Winner side Make it out Make it out You're lacking these program Just for pulling this match There's a way to strike something here Another big jump Okay the jumping The clone push So good but so Thunderable to a jump What is he doing My palm ball There's a way to strike To make this miracle Can he do it Floorless block again But even then Doesn't do much These jump pins Bit of a nightmare The floorless blocks Counterpoop Not his dad Definitely Very bad Right Meter department All sub zero But the striker The launch What a choice Let's see The clone push is so You want to do it But at this range Even this range it's risky Freshly here Nice that one Always Always ready to check The clone Oh You go for a bad jump into clone Yeah Oh Hang on The trade Let's see it's a big damage And we're going to squeeze out a little bit Yeah We're going to squeeze out a bit more Thanks to chameleon And we have a katana We're going to enforce overhead low Oh We wait for the defense Striker Make him play It's a really clear Adjustment that Brian is having to make Because the moment the striker is available You just cannot over commit You need to play different Yeah you have to Oh Okay Oh punish Good bar Knowledge Let's see Great Two bars for Brian Start making him play Down three Another down one Overhead I got mixed up to my own My friend Oh no Brian have bars Just patient Let's see Brian Defending the slide Oops Nice break Here's the last No it's not going to work Too far Too far Oh Too far away Too old Good man It's It's not like too old I mean I can't believe it It's one of those matches It's too old I can't believe it It's a 2-0 But it's been a really long 2-0 Because of just how long These games have been Yes I can't believe it Now Brian no choice but to make The reverse sweep here You know Rain Yeah he's like He have a Rain and chameleon I mean you know more about This player than me Yeah he have a good Give me the scoop Good pocket character Actually Rain was The first character Yeah Yeah but Now Let's see man I don't know if The Rain can do it I don't know if I like the change But Brian really knows How to play Rain The sub-zero was working So well It just came down to Some small details Like for me The big one for me Was like I know it sounds Really dumb but When a Cyndel Is constantly like Jumping like that And everything else Even trying it One single time You can't jump One two with sub-zero Instant jump in To sort of Meet you in the air To say You can't just Fly around in front of me It sounds really dumb But even that one tool To meet her airborne Totally important Unfortunately I don't know If I agree with this Rain pick The sub-zero was doing Fine And you've broken Your own momentum With a different character I feel like This was a mistake Man It's a different match Because I gave it Now it's On the match point Let's see I mean look I'm absolutely Prepared to be wrong For this to be like Right this round Goes in Brian's favor Wins the game Takes the set All the way back But it's Armour breaking Lovely stuff And again Climbing that board 3 To try and reduce The damage scaling For the combo Right the range But range Ain't going to help Us much here Actually we have A much better neutral game As well Let's see True but she's going To trade with you Nice Need a finish Taking for a ride The strike Down 2 Down 1 Push back And now Brian is alive as well Still match point For Faiso Still match point Can this rain do it It's a much better neutral game You have more options To compete at range You're going to have way less mix up But that's not really What you're going for 4-2 Good luck So much pushback on that Delay wake up Intercepted it Side switch True but for Brian Dashing grab Alright, hang on Wait, wait, wait Trying to make a play here There was a small change Made to rain And patch wear of his Big water jet dial has become active It will not vanish Alright Give me that launch Invisible wake up Ultra David has a giant grin On his face somewhere in the venue How it works Let's see Try to make a comeback here The miracle The bet confirms Brian's defending Has to find a hit The low poke Down 1 That's plus 3 Rain Rain is here After that first round That looked like a classic I change character And it just falls apart I was so convinced that was happening Although Ah, so do we now go from Striker to Laos perhaps Makes sense I don't know man Yeah, looks like it I mean Striker was giving us more stuff In distance But Rain now has more options That rain Rain has that Attractive wake up armor That the low hat is going to just annihilate But now we have half the blocks The bubble's not going to be as prominent too Because the speed of that low hat The bubble can be good for it But it's only going to protect you Again so much Let's see Winner side The bubble's working But now Alright It's really hard Look at the damage The setup I mean We escaped We did escape the situation there Honest Okay Big launch right Knockdown We don't get much combo extensions here But we go back to a range we want to be To establish more Rain god Right now we're controlling the match Down 3 That down 3 is so good Yeah Down 1 again Take the momentum Uh Advancing mid Good way Oh it just misses Narrowly misses Okay Let's see, Briar Two bars But now Excellent Confirmed by Fatal Gate But now have the break Absolutely had to break that one Gotta be careful though Can't get hit now You just used our break Okay Pressing after the minus frames That was very bold Bold Bold Maybe even disrespectful You minus 3 after the hat Try to press Rain stand in one in the face I don't know how But Briar is still alive in the game One more round Another round Antia Meterless combo Save that meter One bar I mean that's an armor if we want That's another EX launch If we don't have Milena Full combo Okay I'm liking Alright Here we go again The safety That down 3 Pressure One Confirmed though But good Absolutely Faso was expecting That one one to be a confirmed Got him to waste the meter Hovered away Out of range The back forward 4 Yeah, because the game Don't have the bars But it's gonna hurt a lot Let's see the hat Hatch of luck Nice The low did not even hit We were just looking for it And the overhead just connected Yes Let's see Briar fighting for his life Jewel one Oh my god the mix That's Fatal Blow It works Boom We're looking for that reverse sweep The rain I was not a believer After that first round It just looked like Almost not a panic choice But one that was too fast You just too quickly went No I'm changing character I was all going wrong In that first round But somehow I was just bringing it back Constantly time and time again And with chameleon A cameo that when I see rain I don't see chameleon with rain You know what I'm saying It's a brazil attack And you know earlier today I was talking about Right before we saw The smoke and the tremor I was like You get your fair selection Of players using all the top tiers And they're super talented And they're super good But South America And like Brazilian tournaments There's always some players That pick weird stuff Weird stuff And they're doing really well And look no bloody further Than this match And he's thinking about the cameo He's gonna change again To striker Good decision in my opinion But rain Is saving the credits Right now I don't know how But he's alive However We are still Even In matches This could go to Either player But when we're talking momentum Brian got that momentum right now On the way Maybe I don't know Alright That's the range Anti-air Can't let Sindel party too hard Fan lift Having the fast cooldown So really Who cares if it doesn't work Anti-air Jump 240 Jump to combo The bombs The nice break Brian's throw techs Have been disgusting All set Meterless confirm What All go for a second one We're gonna cash out here And save that meter Nice Like always Brian always Decent distance That downpour Doesn't let the whole thing rock Because there is a gap there So right now, Brian Really comfortable On this match Like I said Up block Punished down two It's a moment here It's Belina next Are we gonna see a mix up? No need No need Match point A reverse sweep With the rain Man, Brian is playing Really good Really good I don't know how I don't know why I don't know But rain Is really clicking right now Rain gone Okay All right Now we might break Hold on to it I don't know why I know I mean to constantly go For the chameleon stuff To save your meter Punish Nice down two All good jump Really good jump Wonderful block on the low As well 114 Let's see Keep it nice and safe With the lift Melina is ready But we try to anti-air Now we break Hold on to the round Keep that meter That's it in those real games The blade Oh you watch Watch your feet No pause to break Let's see The blade Good the fan Really good block on that overhead That would have been the end of the game Fatal blow is ready On both sides That's it That's it The reverse Reverse sweep With the rain They didn't think it could be done And by they I mean me Talk again about this I have never been so happy To be so wrong So wrong I was so wrong I'm sorry Brian If you're watching this on replay I'm sorry Now I'm gonna go downstairs And give him a formal apology Because oh my god The sub zero was looking good It was looking good I understand You're a sub zero fan Fan right So we need to cheer But man Rain Save it You know what's actually weird I'm a bigger rain fan Than sub historically So I wasn't even sad To see the change It just looked We see these matches right Where players They are playing a matchup That's so close And they're doing so well And then they basically Waste no time To swap I think I'm mostly thinking Of foxy grandpa right Players that They are playing a matchup And it's totally fine And sometimes Some will just go right Instantly change And then that game is like It's a really difficult thing It's a wasted game On the tournament Because you're changing Your mindset You're changing everything How Brian was able to Bounce between Not even two similar characters Rain and sub zero Have opposite play styles Even their application Of chameleon Is very different Different Really different Insane result Insane result Neutral game is really different Because rain Have a much better neutral game And sub zero have the 50-50 right But man it works And if I'm not mistaken That does mean that Brian has now made it Out of the group In top 24 Winners With sub zero And rain Maybe we can see A sub zero In top 24 I don't know I mean It's gonna be Either of those two characters Maybe some other I mean I don't know If he plays any Other characters Or is it just those two You play a lot of characters Yeah A lot of characters And of all the characters Those ones It's weird It's weird Always the mid tiers Always the mid tiers But good enough To make it work And that's what I love That's my favourite kind of player One that's like So you're my favourite Player right now Oh yeah My favourite player I've seen today Definitely Brian And that's a contested list Because we also saw Gau and Darius In our first group of the day Do unbelievable things So it's Yeah I mean Brazil is Bringing the absolute pinnacle Of Mortal Kombat 1 today As far as I'm concerned Yeah man I really like Camille gameplay Because like I said It's really difficult To play this Camille Yeah Really good And Brian just Dominated the Camille I think I have the feeling That Brian can put Any character With Camille Camille It's gonna work I just love what Camillean's done to the game Like We've seen these cameos In the game at the moment And With the right character Tremor makes a significant difference And Is doing something that No one else is doing From the cameo side Camillean is Exactly the same kind of situation Like Camillean Is bringing something new Camillean is Really tricky to enforce But when she's working It's like Again No other cameos doing this From what we've seen From Janet Cage From the combat casts And everything else I like it She's got all this Really weird stuff as well And it's just like It's a really different Strategies You know You have a 50-50 You have a A lousher You have A Anti-air control You have Like Combat extenders You have everything With this Camille But the problem is You don't have this When you need So you need to play Accordly You need to think a lot You need to control the match To watch all the time Where the cameo is I like it Really Man What a block this has been Already Do we have any other matches Lined up here Or have we just been Having too much fun Right, here we go Ah Loser's bracket Yeah Right So is that A chocolate again So no doubt We'll be seeing Some more Johnny Cage I assume Is who we're going to be seeing Yeah Yeah It's chocolate Definitely Cracking out the Van Damme Cracking down the Van Damme To another Johnny Cage Let's see the picks He's fighting a guy called Jilo Erbach Natara Interesting What? Cano as well For beating character So we're playing We are playing A risky game here Pairing Natara with Cano Because this is an 850 health character To make a lot of difference Definitely will against Cage With the damage that he's in But we start off already Going underneath Below that Like this Okay Okay, let's see Alright Me to you with the Cano knives How well We're turning this one around Just fighting Way back into the mid-screen Natara And it's funny We're talking about Chameleon Another character That with Chameleon Can actually be Kind of ridiculous But Again Really hard to play Let's see Like to lose for Jilo Nice block Chocolate's not trying to make this Stagger game Kung Lao Entice Chocolate's not trying to make this Oh, that's it Oh, it's over Nice Right for chocolate So, many of these hits in this match up Are going to mean So much more Because of a lack of health I mean, look at the lifebar Every single hit Look at how much it goes Look at it Look at it See, good fight Okay, nice break So far it's not straight 4 Nice pickup Plus frames Basically Super примерно Let's see Yeah, man. One all excellent gameplay by Chocolat. Vitala started well, but... It's going to be a demanding team, because if you're Nittara, yeah, straight back to character side, probably if we are still Nittara, maybe a different cameo, or maybe a different character. Back to the picks. Molina, Molina. Yeah, the thing is, oh, Molina Kano, though. Okay, so we're sticking with the Kano. A very uncommon pairing. I do know that there are some cool combos that Molina can get, shoutouts to Nugi. Probably watching this tournament right now. A bit of a lab monster with Molina combos. With some cameos, finds these really cool, like, sort of not re-stand combos, but ball roll into knives, and the opponent's still standing up, and it's really weird, but it looks really cool. Shoutouts to you, Nugi. But Molina, actually, for me, is a very good character in the game. You just need the right cameo to work. Dependent on cameo to thrive, depending on matches, I feel. But it doesn't work like this. A low profile. I mean, we have seen Delos, quite a lot of party in hard at the moment, but no real, nothing significant has been able to land besides what was it, that advancing kick in the first round of the first match, and outside of that, hasn't really been able to find anything. Okay, let's see if that's really good in this round. Uh-oh, that's the round. Okay, it's over. The complete combo. And, man, Chocolat is playing really well. Let's see if Delos can make something. When you find yourself in Loser's Bracket, chips are down. There's no do-overs, no more second chance. Good times. That's a nice Molina catch. Knocked down. Telly kick, love it. Instantly in there. Oh, man, cameo stuff works. Not a way to make it safe. Oh, wow, actually quite an expensive parry there. Spending the second meter just to maximize the wake-up. Yeah, that's unfortunate. We're playing around with a lot of possible damage now, and good block, lovely block. With punish. Oh, the with punish. It took like four rounds to recover. You probably watched like the first Mortal Kombat movie back in the 90s and come back and that movie is still with it. Yes. Chocolate actual. Really sudden gameplay. Delos maybe is trying to make another change, I don't know. Straight back to characters, like it's unfortunate because this to me really sort of screams kind of like doubt. You know, like we've sort of picked a character, lost the first game, gone straight into the next one, lost it, gone straight into another one. Constantly bouncing between these characters. I have no doubt you can play them all fantastically well. That's why he's where he is in the tournament at the moment, right? At the end of the fruit stage. So he's clearly been playing well to be here. But, and it's been Kano the whole time. Always Kano cameo. I just fear that that hasn't been... With Kano is a really good tool. Yeah. Uncommon, but I can definitely see it working. Yeah, Uncommon, but it's a really solid and safe gameplay. Yeah. Let's see if it works right now. See? You put yourself minus still though, as that's going to be quite nicely capitalized on by Johnny Cage, the parry. The parry. Full combo again. I don't see a lot of cage players, though, for that specific thing. Yeah, it's a... Change position. Change position. Yeah, combo. I like what I see. Nice. Oh! Okay. Good grab. Chocolate made train. I'm going to make this come back. I don't know. Let's see. Oh! Nice. Oh, fatal blow. You're going to survive this, but again, it's the situation that follows because this combo is not going to kill. What it is going to do... Wait. What am I calling you about? You're dead! Bad man! You're dead! Oh, you know what I got mixed up on? Oh my God! 543. Nice. You know what? Johnny Cage, baby. It's the 950 health for Liu Kang. I'm not used to seeing Liu Kang with 950 HP. Take what I said and disregard it because match point is chocolate who has been absolutely just on a tear in this game. Lovely up block. Wow, they're black. Nice. See what you got. It's now or never, mate. This is your chance to stay alive in the bracket. Make it safe. They traded. Oh! It doesn't connect. I don't know why. The MK9 sector player fell for that. The second hit. No! The big jump kick. From Jean-Claude Van Damme. Ah! Okay. I'll go blow for him. Heal us, baby. That one. Last moment. I don't know. He's defending, but now it's nothing more. So, 3-0. Chocolate now is passing to top 24 tomorrow. Top 24. And, man, amazing gameplay by Chocolate. He's a very good player from Argentina. You're playing under a lot of stress in these situations because you get knocked into the loser's bracket. That second lifeline is all you've got if you lose. It's over. Players have traveled great distances. They've spent a lot of time practicing, preparing. We are on the sort of later end of the groups today as well. So, you know, we've had players that they've been sort of sitting around and playing casuals and trying to get warmed up, but they've kind of had to sit there and watch everyone else play their matches. And when that happens, sometimes, like, the anxiety can build. Like, personally, for me, I'd much rather play earlier in the day than later. Because later in the day, you've had to watch everyone else. And it reaches the point where you're just like, all I want to do is play my own matches. And then when you finally sit down, then it's like, oh, God, okay, well, I'm here now. It's time to go. If I mess up, it's over. I'm the same, too. I'm the same because it grows on me. I keep watching the guys and I just want to play my game just like you. Well, I have just been informed. This block is done and dusted. We have more Mortal Kombat to come, however. We're going to go for a quick break when we return this wonderful qualifier of Mortal Kombat here live in Brazil. We'll be right back. Yes. Bye-bye. Mortal Kombat 1 gameplay. A role paved with challengers and conquerors, a test of might as players fight towards a spot in a final combat. Players from around the globe are looking to show off their skills to those watching. However, if you talk to competitors at events, there's something more to pro competition beyond the search for a champion. It's my first time seeing a lot of people because I used to play them online. I used to talk to them all the time in the chat, Twitch chat. So really with the pro commentary, it's the community aspect of bringing everyone back together. I never got a chance to really see in person and really build that relationship from that point on. It feels good, man. After COVID, everything shut down and everything pretty much stopped. 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It's an amazing feeling. Always come to the events. Live events, I mean, online is great, but offline is where it's really at. So you get to see the people playing next to somebody who can't recreate that online. Always come to the events. With these memories, the tales can be told. From the diamonds that Sonic Fox and their skills have shown, to Ninja Killer taking his talents as an online warrior to being the biggest threat sitting beside you. The new era will be promised. These are what is blocking Lightning Cage. Cyrax been the one. Flow is blocked forward. Dash and Sonic with Rain is your first pro competition champion. This is pro competition. Hey everybody. Welcome back to the MKPK Brazil Offline Major in Brazil, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I'm back. Ultra David here. We have Aria with me. And we're going to be going through the last pool. Tomorrow is top 24, but the last pool to determine who gets into that finals day, we're starting it now. We've got great names, great, great players from Brazil and around the world. And we'll begin with Agamotto Zai, that player, that know of his participation in Evil in, I think, last year. And he's a very good player. He's playing with Kenshi. And he will be facing Carol. Carol, it's a woman that will be playing in MK1 here. And she is bringing a Liu Kang. Very good. This is also the pool where we're going to get to see Killer Shenok. Yeah. That's the biggest name of Brazil. In here. Champion of Combo Breaker. Absolutely. One of the best. Euphoring has signed up a player who lives in the U.S. who's very strong. We'll see if he's here. King Gambler, also from the U.S. is here. I saw him earlier. Okay. Yep. I saw him getting games in, actually versus Scorpion Procs. Yeah. Pretty back and forth, actually. A very good training. Yeah, absolutely. So there are very strong names throughout this as there have been in the previous three pools as well. Once we finish this out, we'll talk a little bit about what to expect tomorrow, who has made Winner's side and Loser's side of the top 24. But yeah, last pool to determine who gets into it. Obviously, this is all for big points on the line for the Mortal Kombat Pro Competition, trying to make that final combat. Yeah. So much pressure in the minds of the players. But we have some greatest player here that can be in the final combat. Sure. So we always be thinking about what can they do now to surprise their enemies, their opponents? Yep, definitely. And in that last pool, we saw some cool stuff, some very interesting results. I hope you guys were watching that. But we saw a couple of subs pop up. Very cool. Rain was in there. Sixndale player was in there. There was a lot of fun stuff to watch. In that pool. And I'm sure that this one will be the same on that front. Of course, each of the pools has a lot of different strong players. But it has been cool too to see that there's been a very interesting character spread. More subs arrows than I had expected, for example. Which is always cool to see. And even when it comes to some of the more common characters, some of the high tier characters, even still it's been... Any cage? Yeah, of course. We had the cage. We've had the radens. We've had the Kenchies. We had the Sindel in the last one. We've had the Asheras. Obviously that stuff's going to show up as well, right? Naturally. A lot of people trying to win big stuff here. But yeah, it is cool at the same time to see that there are still these kind of off-brand characters down there. With Kirishinoch, for example, we will see Lao, Kung Lao with Guru. It's a very strong combination. And it's not very common in the other players. Kung Lao is not the favorite for the other players. But with Kirishinoch, it is. In a very good way. I think that's cool. Starting it off. We have Agamotto and Carol. Agamotto is very strong. He's from the T7G team. And Carol, she does streams here in Brazil. Cool. On the Twitch. And she will bring the Liu Kang. Liu Kang. I think your sister is cool. Agamotto from... Rich Kenshi? Well, if you're gonna ditch Kenshi, it's for a pretty good reason. They go up to Raiden Kano and Liu Kano on the other side. Although we did see that not long ago. It's a relatively rare combination. I mean, I think very highly of Kano. Since the game has dropped, I felt like Knives have been one of the best assists in the game. So I'm happy to see it pop up more often. We'll see what she's got. Putting up the Knives is a way to try to move out. Try to find some spots. If you want myself, pull yourself. Or both. Immediately into the ball. Okay, so she wedged the storm. Oh man, a little back dash around it. Yeah, that was really strong. Confident in the round still. Chase! Oh, that might have been it. Maybe that was a chance. The ship damage. Kano is a kind of cameo that brings some save gameplay. But Carol does not have these in the first round. Interesting. Okay, cool. Yeah, I was thinking to myself, what is it that she's gonna be using Kano Ball for? Oh, she sniped Kano with the low dragon. Ah, interesting. Nice conversion. Interesting in the corner. Kano Ball. Okay, here it is. The confirmed finally comes. She gets all the way through it. She can set up Kano again. Yeah, it does exactly that. Ooh, the little turn stealing. All right, so there's no Kano left for a while here for Agamotto's eye. Kresha's gonna have to change a little bit. Here he goes. Carol. Trying it out. Yes. I'm so used to seeing Lu Lao that whenever I see the grab, I'm like, oh, that's gonna be a combo. Nope, not with Kano. But man, she is fighting back here. Yeah. Oh, got him. She's very patient right now. Oh, break. Just had it. Just had it. Oh, from the sky. And you know, knives were behind or ball was behind, whichever one it was gonna come out was gonna, the idea was to make him safe. But she was very confident in this round, but it's not enough. Yeah. And Agamotto is a very clever player. And the way that he's finished the round shows that. Okay, so what's her idea? Switch characters. Johnny or no? Oh, okay. What? He's thinking about it, I guess. I liked a lot of what she did though. Yeah. She's playing very well, but the other side that we have Agamotto's eye. Yep, also very strong. Really trying to set the tone right away. Defense, patience. No, she had tried a challenge there previously too. And I did it at the beginning of the last one. Oh, Agamotto's eye, not too much out of that. He had just gotten to Kano. There it is, firm. Had a bar. He's looping with low net. D1, south, Kano, pressure. It's very strong. It is. No doubt about that. He just don't know when he's going to go into storm zone necessarily, right? So that lets him steal a lot of turn. Yeah. Because you do not want to get touched. Not that it's a lot of damage on hit. It's just, you know, you don't want to get hit. Yes. Huge down one that's nice. Liu Kang has. The damage? Not so good. Can't get out of the corner at least. Yeah. Back to a Rangie kind of game. That seems like what she would like to play. Kind of a patient, Rangie game. Waiting for Kano to come back. But she came back to the corner. The Moto Zai looking really strong. Got the corner for himself. Uh-oh. Nice damage again. Yep. The, I mean, as you mentioned, that is obviously a huge part of why Rated is so strong is that right there. If you can get the flawless blocks. Yeah. You know, it's a little different. But still, he's taking up time, right? He's still pushing you. There's still utility even if there is a flawless block. And even on top of that, Rated's got a lot of stuff going for him. Still one of the strongest characters he's ever seen in Siphon. Yeah. Yes. Nice gameplay. Oh, I wonder if, I almost look like he could get through that. You could have got that Kano existing. Right back into stealing a couple turns here. Here it is. And Carol all tried to get in there. So instead it's Agumoto Zai. He's going to have full Kano by the time this combo ends. He gets a couple chances for pressure if he wants. Exactly. Number one. Trying to take up a bit of time. Nice. She does not need to spend any resources to get that round. She's not using Kano with this kind of pressure. But in the combo, it's not common to see this. Oh, beautiful back. There was a little micro backbashing. Super sick conversion. And now, again, back to this rangy gameplay that seems like she likes. Agumoto Zai has another Kano if he'd like to get back into that. No, he gets the confirmance. She's out of there. Oh, there was no Kano. Yeah. A huge chance. And now Carol in big control. Huge life lead. Trying to stab in. Maybe just a grab to take it at this stage. And she's still kept going. She always do one, back two, and then the combo. And Agumoto is accepting this. She's had a couple of nice timing mix-ups for that, you know? And again, I'm thinking about that micro back dash, so she was just outside of the range into the little whiff punish. She's definitely playing around when it comes to frame trap and strike throw mix-ups. It's the right way to play with Liu Kang. Yeah, yeah. So good work there. Agumoto Zai, oh, denied. Not a lot of damage on just ball by itself, though. Yeah, I mean, in fact, it's not that uncommon to see people take the ball at the end of this so that you're not up close anymore because there's a lot of damage on it. Agumoto Zai with the corner. Oh, she waited. You could see the little micro duck that was in there just in case there had come a throw earlier than that. So Agumoto Zai definitely tried to put... Oh, my God. Is there a whiff punish? No. When do you counter-attack? Yo, really? Oh, man, yeah, barring flawless block right there. That was match point now, Agumoto. Really good run for him. She's getting confident, but Agumoto is doing a very good job to stop this kind of run of Carol. Yeah, I mean, obviously, Carol knows that Agumoto Zai is going to be bringing out storm cell. You know, button storm cell at some point. The question is, when exactly is that going to happen? And unfortunately for her, she's been guessing around quite a bit in this game. So Agumoto Zai would love to keep that up. Three bars on the way to Carol. Could be threatening if she gets the chance instead they're all spent moving back. There's Kano, so there's no Kano for a little while for her at this point. But that hasn't really been the linchpin to her game plan. Ooh, the stair down! Agumoto Zai, he finds the confirm and the conversion will come through three games to one for Agumoto's eye. So much patience for Agumoto. And Carol was a warrior too. Oh, yeah. But Agumoto is very strong with Raiden too. Yeah, he had a great understanding of when she was trying to take her turn back. At some point, you got to take your turn back, right? You can't just let Raiden bully you forever. You got to do something at some point. The question is, when are you going to try to press the button? When are you going to try to back dash? Whatever your idea is. And he was consistently getting the right read on that. He was guessing right in some times, but not every time. I mean, her own offense when it came up, her strike throw timings, her movement around it, I liked. Just wasn't quite enough of that stuff. Obviously easier said than done to, hey, just don't get rushed down by Raiden and Kano. All you got to do is just don't get pressured by Raiden. Oh, it sounds easy. Yeah, it's easy to say. It's easy to say. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so it's going to be, let's see in the next round here, we're looking for Killer Shinok versus Alvarez Jr. We're looking for Euphoring versus the winner that we just saw, Gamoto Zai. King Gambler, I mentioned. Saw it downstairs earlier. Yeah. Looking good. Playing the Johnny Goro as he does. And it looks like it's going to be King Gambler versus DC Volg. And then Gustavo Page 2 versus Wanzin Show. Yeah, Wanzin Show. Wanzin Show. There is history in this match. It's two players that usually play together in the live stream of the Gustavo Page. And Gustavo Page is very strong, very strong. But Wanzin Show uses to use a new cane in a different way, a smart way. So I think that will be a great match. Cool. Well, unfortunate for them that brackets happen to get matched up like that. Yeah. So it goes. So it goes. Yeah, exactly. I don't think that we're starting off with that. It looks like we're going maybe to look for Killer Shinok coming up. Saw him downstairs too. Practicing up earlier. Yeah. Looking good as usual. Killer Shinok with Kongilaw and Goro. And Alvarez looks like he will be playing with Tanya and Goro too. He is a very strong character. We have a very strong player too. Oh no. What? Ashra. In low. Okay. I feel like this is maybe the third. Ashra. Low that we've seen. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. But I think that that is the score or yeah. 40 for Ashra. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool because she's very strong. I mean, although we all know that she's super strong. It's just not a very common. Yeah. A few players who use her like that. It's really cool to see so far. Yeah. I think that she's very difficult to play in comparison from other characters. Well, Killer Shinok is exactly where he wants to be right away. Setting it up. And that's not a comfortable range right there. That, you know, in general, I feel like Ashra is comfortable in that spot. That kind of half screen, one third screen. But if Lau has meter and Goro, you can't. Yeah. There's no limit for him. Yes. Oh, no, but it had already committed to fireball. Nice. The armor. This is the secret. The secret, huh? Nobody knows this one trick. Really? Goro there. Okay. Unusual timing. He is mastering this combination. Oh, beautiful work. You can count on somebody like Killer Shinok to have knowledge. So now there's a bar. There's a Goro. The question is when... I mean, you know it's going to come. And the thing is that so does Alvarez, right? He knows. The question of when it's going to come. Okay. It's a hat. The defense of Killer Shinok is amazing. Yeah. I mean, and not just the defense, but his understanding of when to take up that space and time. Yeah. All of his attempted armors worked. Yeah. And on the one hand, you can be like, well, like, it's not that hard to do armors. But on the other hand, for them to all work means that you know your opponent's timing, that when they like to press buttons. So having seen that, I'm not surprised to see the switch into Brazilian Tanya. Yeah. Eshra does not work. Tanya is a character that Alvarez is playing even to the day one of the game. Cool. Cool. Yeah, she's really good too. With Goro. Even so. For sure. Yeah. Here we're seeing part of why. Great conversions. Oh, geez. And now Alvarez has the same secret. The armor with Goro. Yeah. Pretty much. Lots of resources on Killer Shinok's side. Oh. I can't. I'll see. Okay. Goro. Nice. Oh, huge chance. Very smartly going right into it. 950 health of course. Looking for that to be the round. And look, I mean immediately the character switch comes and absolutely you can tell Alvarez looks like he's more comfortable. For sure. Definitely has more experience. Okay. Chunky damage. Goro. Okay. One Goro spent. That is a precious resource. The Goro. 20 seconds until it comes back. You don't want to let it go without good reason. Uh-oh. Let's get a Shinok. Just got to make a bad guess as the opponent. Shinok again. Into the corner. She's stuck in the gold. What a read. Come on. What a... Did you really read specifically that she was going to do the spin right there? I think... I thought that... I think that everybody... I didn't see it. Yeah. So they played it together a million times? Yeah. In the tournament. Yeah. Yep. You can tell that. Cool to see it. Now, I mean, right. Like, who would go in versus Kongla, who has three bars and two Goro's? Maybe you do it now just for the directory. I mean, he did try. Oh, man. But Killa should not do. The micro-deku was very fast. It was. Amazing combo. Goro though. Yeah. There's still a bar. Right. So Alvarez is not taking any risks right there. Oh, the two damage. Yes. Very good round of Alvarez, Tanya. And right away, that character switch. The character switch, mate. They paid off big time. Yeah. And at the end of the game, like that, she's got some of the best chip options. Yeah. So, great start here for Kalashnikov. It's not just good damage on this, but it's also excellent corner carry. It's a cap stage. The lop. The lop player needs to use it. Kalashnikov is not looking for that. So, great damage. And then away... Oh, gee! It's cool, dude. Yeah, it is cool. Oh, before! No! Okay, Alvarez. They saw Blue. I think he's looking for one more hit first. Oh, there was no Goro. Oh, my God! See ya! The best way from runaway. Talk about forcing the issue right there now. Oh! Another secret. No, the jump timing was perfect. The dive kick not denied. Keeps corner. Excellent read by Killer Shinokite again. We love seeing players who know each other well, because they do things that in other matchups versus other players, they just wouldn't. Yeah. What's happening there? Nice vision. I don't know. Yeah. Really hoping that Killer Shinokite presses buttons in some of those situations. In any case, finds it. But the life lead is very, very good. And Killer Shinokite has meter. She did go in and challenge! Oh, what? Okay. So the obvious thing to do was to back off, right? Expecting for a low armor plus Goro. But that's exactly why that worked. That pressure worked. It's just the right moment. For sure. This time looking for the armor. There was no Goro. Yes. Stolen turn. You really... I mean, clearly Alvarez is cautious looking for armor in many of these situations. There it is! Is gonna be able to do it. Yes. Nice conversion. True one. Yeah, really interesting match with the watch. I mean, not just because of the characters. Although that's interesting too. They both have this option for armor plus into damage slash safety. But even on top of that, like their understandings of what they do as players is really interesting to watch. Yeah. Trying to call out movements here or there, call out buttons here or there with the area or whatever it may be. Huh? Oh, no confirmed weapon. Looking off. No thank you. Oh sick! No! They always changing sights. Yeah, yeah. Alright, fully in the gold. What do you got? Killers shun off. Safety. Nice bait. It could just be 50-50. Oh! No! Wah! The armor, the secret. Nobody knows this. One of your trick. Oh, he's worth it. Oh, he wanted it. No, the drop! The situation. Wow! Okay, that is a funky read right there. Calling out that Alvarez is going to try to block low. Yeah. Another armor. Got a break right away. Alvarez in big trouble. Killers shun off can back off. All he needs is a couple of hits. Right. Okay, so she has the same kind of mix up and that's exactly what Killers shun off was expecting. Yeah. Yeah, really interesting matchup to watch. Obviously two strong players. Killers shun off, we know, is one of the best in the region. Continues to look that way. He was very patient in the kind of the gameplay with the armor that Alvarez was not. I got to think though. If Alvarez had started out with the Tanya Goro instead of Asha. Yeah. I don't know that he would end up winning. Maybe. But it... More chances. Probably so is my take, yeah. Because his Tanya looked much more experienced, much more ready for situations in any case. Not quite enough. So Killers shun off, moves on and we'll see him in the next round. We don't know yet who he's going to be playing against. We'll see if it is Agamotto's eye or you four ring. Yeah. A very good match. You four ring is a very good player. Oh yeah. I think he's from Colombia. That's my memory, yeah. But he's living in the United States. In the US. Okay. Yeah. Good work. Cool to see Lao Goro just in general. It's not common. It's really unique. Yeah, it's not. Yeah. In Brazil in combat league it's very common. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. In the US, really rare to run into randomly on combat league and even when it comes to high level players only like maybe one, maybe two significant players I can think of who are doing it. So cool to see. Obviously you get some dudes out in Europe who are playing the same. But really cool to see right there. Killa Shanak moves through. So we'll see which matchup we go to next. It may be you four ring versus Agamotto's eye. It may be King Gambler as well versus DC Vogue. It may be Gustavo Page versus Juan's and Sho. Yeah. And I mean anyway anyway we go. It's going to be pretty cool. Look at four to that. So much players with so much techniques and different kinds of gameplays and different secrets like the armor of Kung Lao. Everybody's got their little secret. Yeah. You got Kung Lao has armor. Big secret. Big secret. You got Raiden Kano. You know he can do chip damage. Yeah. Big secret. Don't tell anybody that one. Sub-Zero has his light. Big secret. Interesting. We'll see if that comes up. I mean yeah it did come up. Previous pools we saw that. Again not sure which one of these player matchups we'll get but we'll get into there as soon as the players are in. Yeah it's always a surprise for us. Yes. Yeah I mean while we were not on commentary I was going hung out down there where everybody is playing and like I said I watched Casuals for a while. Bunch of Casual setups as well as tournament setups going on. So that was fun to watch but yeah I also spent quite a while just watching the tournament setup because there's a huge crowd of people who are gathering around it. We are upstairs that's sort of the physical layout. That's where upstairs that's going on downstairs and even though there's this huge screen with a bar where if you want to you can sit at the bar watching this like giant screen up on the wall with exactly the same thing going on a lot of the crowd is behind the actual players watching their monitor like it's you know making noise. Yeah definitely making noise. Definitely making a lot of noise. Yeah no it's been cool to watch. Yeah it's the offline secrets to make noise in the way that the players can feel this in their blood. Yes. Yeah and for some players that's really great. Some players feed off that. Some players not so much. Some players it's a little tougher to get through. I mean I know that obviously Killer Shinok's been around for so long it's something to do with this too as he moves forward in that last one and now we're moving into the next one so we're going to Gambler's match. King Gambler versus DC Wolf because I mentioned I watched a little bit as Gambler was getting some casuals in versus Scorpion Brox. He was playing this team as he actually does and yeah pretty back and forth I didn't watch the whole set of course I don't know how it ended up game-wise but a couple that I watched pretty close. Two Johnny's with the same skin. What do we got? Black Shorts, Red Belt and then Black Shorts, Yellow Belt so keep an eye on that. Now we got two different takes on the cameos. More common to see Lau maybe a little bit less than before the hat got to be negative but even at that time Gambler was experimenting with other looks, other cameos and he's really settled on K and Toro for quite a while at this point he's the only one I can think of. Who's Johnny Goro? I think so. But I really like his Johnny Goro man like Johnny's the character who you know his neutral cameo needs are not really the same as other characters because his movement is so great his pressure is so great even if you don't have a neutral assist. So the fact that when you have Goro some of his stuff he comes bigger combos or just combo confirms it all he gets safety in some different ways yeah he was a perfect example of that. Like Striker, he's using for pressure and bush. But unlike Striker you can call him out on to any part of the screen well you know any of the few different spots on screen in any case and there's a big benefit to that again the classic Goro problem that takes 20 seconds to come back but if you do find the right moment he's really effective. Nice work. Uh oh. Not the rest of the combo though. Oh my God. Setting it up the hat on the way in. Gambler immediately saw that his opponent was at minus frames he immediately went in. Not letting DC Wolf take any turns. I eat. Make it count. And into the setup there it is. Oh boy. Gambler had block. Nice decision. Three bars right there. Will he get the round after all? Oh wow. No he needs one more. Down to the very important read. Staying away. He's got another hat back. He's got the hat. Yes. Big crowd. It's crazy down there. I mean we are again we are upstairs we're in a solitary room. There's an air conditioner going on in here and yet we can absolutely hear the crowd exploding down there at the end of that round. That's cool. We were just talking about how big the crowd is. Alright yeah. Whiff Punish. Well that's when he just like that can't force the corner no instead it's DC Wolf who made it happen briefly. I mean Gambler has done a good job of turning defense into offense very quickly. Whiff Punish was not there. Maybe looking for the last hit. We have a winner. Yes we do. Even if there had been a wake up armor it would have been the round would have been the game. So King Gambler takes it in game number one silence from the crowd. Yeah. No reaction from the crowd. The Brazilian crowd is cheering for the DC Wolf. Of course. I think that clearly DC Wolf is getting trouble with this combination Johnny and Goro. It's not common. I think that he he's not practiced this against this combination and the change for Lau and Goro I think that for beating him in this kind of combination. Oh see if he looks more confident. He's already got. Yeah. But he's got another bar still. Yes. He's reading all the secrets. Somehow he knew. How do you think he found out about this? I don't know. I think he was watching the last match. Oh man Goro's in. And it's always legit damage and pressure right away. Will he break? Okay, yes. Nice super head. Oh man. He can maybe try to run it. It's not going to work out for him. Lovely defensive choice by King Gambler. And he uses one bar. Yeah. You got height later on. Yeah. DC Wolf is scary at that range. I really like how Gambler played around that. He was really patient. He was outside of the armored range. And one thing about Lao Goro's, if you don't have a lot of resources and you're just trying for those individual mix ups they can be effective, right? Yeah. You have an overhead low for sure. But there's not a lot of damage on that unless you got more going on. But he's annoying. It is definitely annoying. Definitely annoying. It's another secret. Oh my God. His own pressure again. I think he was trying to wait but just attacked a little bit too early. Finally, the first big armor through into combo in a while takes the round for DC Wolf. DC Wolf is getting better and the way that he moves is very smart. Still in the turn right back. With three bars, a lot of damage potential on deck. He backs off. He does not want to be in that range unless it's for a whiff punish. And part of Johnny's strength is that he has such fast movement speed that you can get in there for a whiff punish so quickly. I dropped this pressure. It's amazing. I was going to say got a break but excellent understanding by King Gambler that he knew exactly what was coming up too of course. And at the Shadow Kick as the solution. EX Shadow Kick as the solution. So he's done a great job at playing around the strengths of Laoguaro. Still getting hit here and there, right? DC Wolf is definitely playing as well. But King Gambler is for the most part outside of this easy launch of armor into launch range. He's on close when he's turning right now. Holding onto the bar actually is easy hold. Yeah, I mean look against most Johnny's. You're not looking for that. To end up in big damage. That's King Gambler, you got it. Match point for King Gambler. He looks very comfortable in this match. Again, whenever they're in that range King Gambler is just hanging out blocking, waiting for something to come out, something to whiff punish. Even there! Because he knew there was another Goro. He knew there was armor to think about. So now different story. You may get hit by the armor but it's not going to be a lot of damage. So immediately as soon as those resources were different he started things off. And the resources of the assist being back makes it so different. Now that the overhead was tried I think King Gambler is going to play a little bit more offensively yet again. Force the issue a little bit more. Three bars. A Goro. And exactly at the right moment King Gambler blocked. That's somebody who knows exactly what to do. That was so perfect. What an end. Perfect, perfect. King Gambler, it's an example of what a fighting game is. Fighting game is not only combos and beautiful sequence but patience. The scene. King Gambler, amazing. He knew exactly where he was. Whenever he was in range for armor he blocked or he backed off so that he could get whiff punishes. He looked at whether there was a Goro to think about on the opponent's side and if there was, patience. Even if they had offense. Even if it was his turn. Even after minus frames from, wow he didn't want to take any risk. No big deal. But then as soon as there was no Goro in the armor, totally different story. It's my time. So very well played. He had a strategy obviously and he played it to a T. King Gambler moves well. Yeah, NNA has been one of our best for quite a while at this point. And he's trying his best to get those extra points. He can make it through into the final combat. And this Evog is a very good player but in facing King Gambler in posture he's not the same. You might as well hold it for hype even if you're not going to cancel into hype at any point. It's an amazing character, Johnny Cage. Yeah, I feel like you can really express your offense with him as a player. I like to think about characters and how they allow your expression as a player to come out. And if you're the kind of guy who wants to have your turn if you want to press, press, press but even more than that he has such great movement that you can play footsies, you can play this kind of patient. As we saw throughout a lot of that match was patient, mid-range you play staying away, looking for whiff point just looking for the opponent's turn to end then coming to town big time. Yeah, and even without projectile and things like that the whiff dash that Johnny has it's a very strong kind of gameplay that we only have with him in the game. Really, really good character. You don't need me to tell you that. Yeah, yeah, obviously, yeah. It's not another secret. No, not a secret, no. Now as far as who we have coming up next again I was down there for a while I didn't see you four-ing walking around. No, me too. Yeah, we'll see. The last second round match if it's not that one, will be down here in the bottom. Gustavo Peuge and who was in show. Yeah. Gustavo Peuge was a champion of one tournament here in Latin America, but I don't remember the Dominican Republic I think so. He was the guy, he was the champion. He is playing with Johnny Cage, but he has a very strong Liu Kang too. But he is this kind of player that can be can play with all the roster. He is very good, very strong. And Huanzin is it's only a Liu Kang player. If he's changing this I will be surprised. But he's very strong with Lao has a cameo and I think that we will have a very balanced match. Well, that's cool. You love to see that. I mean, it's a bummer as we mentioned for them to have to play against each other in the second round of the tournament. That's how it goes sometimes. We've all been there and I think that is where we're headed after all in this next match. Yeah, it will be Gustavo Peuge on the right on the left. It is Huanzin in show. Huanzin with Liu Kang and Johnny Cage. Interesting to see how much Lao cameo is still here. When I watch the NA scene, when I watch the EU scene not that he doesn't show up, he's strong. But not as he did before the slight nerf so that the hats minus went up rather than plus. Here he's still all over the placement. It's always cool to me how different regions have their own thoughts about the games. Cameo is a very different way to play in the key one. In the key in general. Yeah, as you mentioned, that's a big part of counterpicking in this game with cameos. Yeah. Waited for? Can you get it? Gustavo has a very good reaction. We can see that. Kicked up exactly when you mentioned it. He did just build it if he wants. Okay, he's gonna try to preserve the round. Will that pay off? Just a question. Yeah. Ah! And a really strong anti-air that Lu has as well. So those three bars all gone. Didn't get anything out of them. Backing off. This is exactly that kind of like, rangey, waiting for whiff punish gameplay that we talked about. Yeah. Gustavo Page has both of the spinning. The hats will come back. But we can see a different way of Johnny Cage gaming with Gustavo Page because he is a little slower than in Gambler. Yeah, starting it off in different ways. Yeah. Gambler's a big part of that. Oh, he really walked. He moved the wrong way. One thing she'll not ready for that. Three bars. Will he try to save this round? No, he's not gonna play the hero himself. Oh, it's a tough decision. I have like that, like as much life as he had. He had like a third of his life left. Should you break at that point? Yeah, I never break. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's exactly what we're talking about. That rangey gameplay. And whiff punish. And whiff punish. Again, waiting a very interesting amount of time. That kind of spunky scrambles and also in regular pressure. And now you'll have the grab and the combo. Yes. Wait about ending the rest of the string this time. Can you get him? Ah, not quite. Allowing Gustavo Page to set it up yet again. Nice. Oh, can you get him there? He was still whiffing. Geez, that took forever. Another fatal blow. And that was pixels before Gustavo Page built the brick meter. Has a little bit more work to do, but not a lot. Enough. It wasn't enough. That was either way. If that wasn't enough life, then he would have EXed through and killed his opponent instead. Wait, one of them was going to die on that interaction. He definitely tells us there's a lot of experience on both sides. Yeah, they know each other. Even in those situations really varying the timing about the presses. What kind of stuff you go for. But what's more aggressive now is converting a lot of more, or the combos that Gustavo Page is doing. He definitely seems much more active. He seems to be hitting from the down one. I'm barring a follow-up block that was going to be around. Gustavo looks nervous right now. He uses to be nervous when he's losing. I can't blame him for that, but it's going to be a tough road through if that's how he goes for it. Excellent anti-air. Ornzin is still looking strong on the approach. He really walks again. This time, the first time he actually completed the string. He waited so long, too. Both of them neutralizing each other's hat by holding on. Here we go, Gustavo. What do you got in the corner? Okie comes up, just save jump. Oh, it happened to work. I don't think he was expecting that to work, but the ticket from him. And that was way less close. Then game number one. Game one was as close as it could get. Game number two, much stronger. Ornzin will force him to change his character. I think that we will see a mirror match. Or just a cameo change. Gustavo is thinking. A mirror match. The crowd pops off. I'm hearing the crowd. Wow, that is a start right there. Oh, jeez. Again, two players who clearly know each other very well. Unfortunately, the jump kick whiff, that's alright. Gustavo is going to get his chance. And the combo will come. Into pressure up close. He did it! That's obviously why he had completed that string so rarely. It was the fear of that right there. Got to do it sometimes, though. So suddenly, Gustavo with a big life lead. One mistake. Like this? Will he do it here? What? I'm not sure this is going to do it either. Because there was a lot of scaling on that. It was grabbed to start. That said, maybe he could get enough chip afterward to make it count. Wallace. Beautiful work. Gustavo Beix was very, very aware of the whole zing we were doing. It's funky timing on the hat. Back into the distance game. If you want, drag, and it's a cool matchup because they both have these different options to counter zone the other. Yeah. This is the gameplay of the new king. Projectiles, projectiles. Unchill your enemy, your opponent, miss something, and then we punish or punish him. Right back to the comfort of the spot. A little two-piece form here comes Gustavo. Gotta keep it up though. He still has a couple of hits that he needs if he's going to take this game. Will he do it actually? Maybe. I don't know. Here it is. No. There's already the breaker on the other side. He's trying to play around that. Not quite. That said, right back into it. Surely that's enough. It is. Gustavo takes the game. Gustavo is alive. The change was good for him. The mirror match with Juanzinho could be the way for the victor for Gustavo. I don't know if Juanzinho likes to play a mirror match like this. Like this. He gets to zone, he gets the harassed range if that's what he likes. Keep it up. Looks like he's trying to make that happen. The gameplay style of those two is very pretty same. The mirror match? There's definitely some pretty defined options. Uh oh. No. However, right back into it, the confirm will come. No bar on this. Yeah, good work. Gustavo just hanging on to it. Hoping to play for the next round. But it is match point for Juanzinho. Alright, here comes Gustavo. Now, yes. His own confirm. His own. Good damage in the corner. Again, he's got a huge chance. He can really pump it out in the corner. Yeah, another one. Oh man, what a round. And you are going to spend it? Oh jeez. That's a lot of resources to nothing. Yeah. It was not the time. Looks good for Gustavo's page. However, it's maybe not for long. It was an intro now in the corner. Horrastic still, it's still pressure, still pressure. Oh man, it's all grabs. Lowes up the break. Trying to run it. Finally the tech. Okay, okay. They confirm. No. Oh man, I don't know if that's what he was looking for. If not paying too badly. Gustavo, he's going to need to find another hit before he's going to spend the big stuff. Oh, too close. What was this? I think this was a missing put. Oh man, and he pays for it. Big time. Wow. Two to two. Now, I mean, surely you're right, that was an executioner to get point blank low dragon. Yeah. That was the cause of the defeat. But I think that Gustavo's page is going to have this... What? What are you up to out there? That's great. It's a show to the crowd. Yeah. Looks for his smile. Look at it, I was going to say. Just let the smile loose. Obviously I can see you're about to smile. Looking right at him too. Okay, two in a row. There hadn't been that executioner. Who knows? Hats coming, there it is. If Gustavo's page loses this match, the WhatsApp group of more MK1 in Brazil will be on fire. Underneath. Really looking for the chair to check out a lot here. Guanzin Show again hasn't left yet. I mean, a lot of this, even in the Lu mirror over that last game. Still had a life lead for a pretty good chunk of time. Gustavo's paging the corner is very strong. Nice. Didn't believe in it. That's alright. No break. Match point now, Gustavo's page who has been at Guanzin Show's match point a couple of times all the way back into a great position to be able to take this set. It's coming into the corner. Oh boy. Oh, tricky, tricky. It's a great break. So enough life to make it count. I don't know, man. So again, as has happened so often, Gustavo didn't need to make a comeback in the life part here. He's been able to do it. Really harassing the game with the lows. It's a weird one to get the follow spark timing on. It's that little dragon bouncing along the ground. Yes. No, that it actually. Oh man, the forbidden combo into the corner pressure into the ground. The complete reverse 3-0 by Gustavo's page after he went to the mirror match is enough to take the set. Like I said before, a very balanced match. Yes, it was, it was. They know each other and Gustavo with New King is very strong too. Even with Johnny Cage that I think that is strongest than Liu Kang, but with Liu Kang he's very smart, very strong and Juanzinho is going to the loser side now. Now what is that? As back and forth as it gets 2-0 Was this actually 2-0 and match point? No, not quite, okay. But there were a couple match points that was Nisho had. And yet it was not enough the fatality was another secret for the win. Yeah, I wonder. I wonder. That can get under some players skin. Yeah, you can get through the mind of your opponent. It's one of my favorite things about fighting games. It's just the sort of arbitrariness of it. Like who cares that they did a fatality? Why does it matter? But we all know that what that means is jerkery. Like you're being a jerk by doing it before the final game of the set. Well, we all know that but that's totally arbitrary, man. Like why do we let it matter to us? But we do, we totally do. Like a tea bag. Exactly, exactly. The fatality, that's the original tea bagging at the end of a game, at the end of a match. I've been doing it for 30 years now. So there it is. Only Mortal Kombat. So that means that it's going to be Gustavo Page versus King Gambler in the next round. That will be well, they've both qualified now to make it out effectively, but as we've been saying, gotta see who makes it out in Winner's side versus who makes it out in Loser's side. That's what their match will be about. I gotta think that U4-ing is here because otherwise this would have said DQ for Agamotto's eye past U4-ing already. So we may now be going to U4-ing versus Agamotto's eye Winner that will play against U4-ing. We are almost there. Lots of work to be done in the Loser's side still so not worth getting to. Remembering that today is just the first day of the pro competition here in Sao Paulo, Brazil and tomorrow we'll be here for the top 24. It will be very, very fun. We'll talk about all that when it gets to it, maybe at the end of this block. We'll talk a little bit about who to expect for tomorrow. It's already been a good one. Most of the way through the day half-ish of the way through this pool and I think that we're probably looking for U4-ing to come up here. Somebody who has interesting ideas about some of the characters that he's played. Back in 11 he had some really unique characters that you rarely saw. In this game I haven't seen him play quite as much to be honest. I watch a lot of the weekly stuff that's going on and I see him relatively rarely. I'm curious what we're going to be looking at. I remember in Mek 11 he was playing with Aaron Black and he was very strong. He faces Conqueror here in Liga Latina and he loses for Conqueror. He's a very strong player too. Agamotto's you? Of course. So we will have a very strong match to watch. If he's here. Yeah, if he's here. I'm still on the way. I didn't see him walking around but that doesn't mean he's not here. Oh, he's here. There you go. He's pouring on the right side of the screen there. Agamotto's eye on the left. So it's Reko. You mentioned Aaron Black. He played Terminator sometimes too. Yeah, Terminator sometimes. He is like funky characters. Now with Reko. Yeah, Reko with Tremor so very calm and blowed out and can she Cyrax? It's one that there are great ways to have him spin out so you can get Cento going. It's just like being old. I'm going to set the tone right away. Get the guy back to green so you can easily call after shock stuff. Nice to micro there. Yeah, spin in combos too. But you can also make that happen with the horizontal spin on block into Cento. It's very chip focused actually. There's not a lot of mix ups in this. It's just he has really narrowed down the life bar even still. Oh, he's looking for overhead. That's a specific read. Agamotto's eye over. It was the end right there. Big blow up from the crowd downstairs. You can hear it. All this block all the time. Mutual jump again. It's been a go-to. Tremor back in the crystalline. Dude, the mix ups are all working out. Oh, that is unfortunate for you. Lucky break for Agamotto's eye and now he's got full on Cento pressure. Midscreen sandwich looking for armor through before I'm not giving in. Man, his defense was excellent there. Agamotto's eye not break. Very strong round of Ophirine. Yeah, because not just about the offense, his defense was a huge part of why he took that round. The perfect block are so good. Nice armor. He's prepared for facing him. This is a tough conversion. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. They're finally the man has rarely done the overhead low mix and directly back into it. Is he going to resummon? No, no. Having a contend now. Back in regular stance. Back in and dude, Agamotto's eye. In and out of the stance the pressure, which is a little unusual the way that he does it, but has been great. Even if you are just making the opponent block, you're still doing good damage in terms of overall. The ship damage is very, very good. Okay. What do you got, Euforum? Very quickly back into this. Baraka. Ah, Baraka's striker. Oh, yeah, I think I have seen him play Baraka. That's right. I mean, I liked what he did as Rekobo. Yeah. Very strong team to go to, of course. The second round was amazing. Yeah, it was. It was. Maybe with Baraka he's more confident. I had to be worried about the grenades. Can't just get the easy punch, of course. Now, again, even on block some of the big strengths of this team. Did he do the sandwich? No! A little funky, a little weird. Wow, strange there, yeah. Oh, the answer was so good! Stolen turn and Agamotto's eye takes the round. Back in regular stance. Euforum is doing a great job until Sento is called with the Agamotto. I don't know that I've never seen that combo before. Even as somebody who myself plays the team, that was cool. Here it is, finally the breaker of beautiful movement into exactly where he needed to be and, oh man, Euforum, what a round. Without Sento Agamotto's not doing well, but with Sento he changed a lot. Now he's got to watch out behind him. There's going to be a creeper. No, unless he just keeps getting hit. Three bars gone, there's going to be a creeper behind him. No, he has, he never let go. Get out of the sword stance, I don't know. Easy there on reaction! Yes! Well played. This is time to get full Cyrax back. He's going to be sitting a little bit more comfortable. You know, obviously a lot of work to do, but much better off than he was right before there. Boom boom. He finds it! Oh, the one time he chose not to do the spin. That said, it ends up working out for Euforum. With the pressure, Euforum Euforum is going very well. But if he is far away of Agamotto, and the Sento becomes a really, really problem for him. Again, spending two bars on this. Getting the bleed, the extra chip. Excellent follow up. Yeah, the unusual timing to bring it out. Not surprised to see Euforum get hit by that. Not a common look for it. But the grenades! Okay! Grenades again! Yes! And he goes back right into it. The dagger. 180 on that. And even Chip's going to do it. Yes. Would have had to have been full flawless block versus Kenshiu with Sento pressure. Good luck. We hit just before. Rare to see the break if it's not versus Sento. A try for the Invo wake up that is an option for Striker, but the timing just wasn't right. It ends up being a game for Agamotto's eye. Two games to one. What a back and forth set we got. And again, to character select. Is there a third option? I wouldn't be surprised. I think that he will come back to the Raco. Kenshiu. What? Oh, okay. Yeah, Raco again. Nope. Who knows, man. I mean, again in 11 he had some pretty unique character choices. Okay! I think he's a good programmer. Although he didn't get a game when he had it in game number one. He definitely still had some strong stuff. Yeah, we but I could chew. Yeah, definitely. The character is not the problem here. Agreed. Yeah, I really like the Kenshiu Sairak shell. Into the green right away. So that if he can find the command grab, he can get the stick and burn. Yeah. Yes. I mean, that's legit right there. 418, what a way to start for Euphoring. The damage into the confirm. Agamotto's I knew it would not be for the kill. No resources on Euphoring's side. So now, maybe send him out, yes. Into the bad spot for Euphoring. Good luck. Gotta try to block it all out. He did in game one when they played. That's the full spirit. He's gone. So now it's sword stance for Agamotto. Zai is he in time? He is? I think he's dead. Usually it's about 350 if both players are matching. Looks like what we're gonna get. He does live actually. It's just under 350. By 13 health he has and he takes the round. Oh, geez. Agamotto is in trouble. Huge jumping moment. Yeah, costing three bars. The commitment this time. Shut down very quickly this time. He's patient. Only a quarter of the center left. Man, his defense, active defense too. It's not just about blocking. There's also trust buttons at great moments. He's on armor at great moments. No, too far. He's not gonna let Kench easily get things started again. You really? All these individual hits are adding up big time. And here we go. This is the name of the game. What a counter by euphoring. Two to two. What a courage. Yeah, you are right about that. But there are some moments where if he had been patient there, two patients, and blocked it out and Agamotto Zai got the offense started, he didn't need very much. But help green, recover. Two and two. You haven't really seen the overhead low mix. It's a big part of the offense. Really more aggressive now. The overhead came out. And man, euphoring again. The defense into the offense. Sentos still waiting it out on one knee. And that ghost is gone for now. Tough spot for Kench. He doesn't have a lot of his stuff going on. Still with sword out there. Okay, okay. Cyrax doing some work for him. All right. No! The conversion from Agamotto Zai thinking to himself, man, how can I get the kill on this round right away? He's instantly into his own fatal. He's going to be at match. Huge swing. Could have been match point euphoring. I think that Agamotto could could save the... or should save the fatal blow for the next round. I mean, maybe he could have gotten the kill without that, but on the other hand, it's nice to just be sure. Right? Not have to worry about it. That went through. And that has left Agamotto Zai at a range where euphoring has been able to press buttons. But again, the route that Agamotto Zai has chosen for pressure are pretty unusual. Sentos stood up for half a second. Not even. He sat down right away. Okay, here we go. Bar spent. And he's at it! Genius. Oh man, that was great play. That said, Agamotto Zai still on match point. They cautiously paged me on the other side finding these individual hits here and there with the drop. No conversion. Is that enough? Agamotto Zai does it. Three games to two, sending euphoring to losers. Oh. The crowd erupts downstairs. He's erupting right now. Euphoring is very strong. Agamotto was better than him. And again, with some pretty unique pressure ideas. With Agamotto? Yeah. Looking for the ship damage instead of the mix up. And euphoring with more of the green vest that I've seen in quite a while. Yeah. Almost never saw that. Never seen that. Yeah, it's rare. It's got some interesting properties. Funky like fixed hit stun stuff. But not enough for you Euphoring. So he'll have to battle it out in losers. Now we know on Winner's side that on one half of this pool it's King Gamler versus Gustavo Pei, excuse me. And then it's Killer Shinok versus Agamotto Zai on the other. Killer Shinok and Agamotto are players that know each other too. Another match that could be very, very balanced. But I think that Killer Shinok is the strongest player in the mind set. The game that goes in the mind of the players. But we never know. Yeah, we'll see. He definitely looked great whenever I've seen a play. He's been no surprise on that front. Yeah, for sure. I don't know which side of these we're going to go to first. Maybe King Gamler versus Gustavo Pei. Yeah. And in losers there's still a lot of work to be done. That was good. What a day with so much matches, fun matches to see, to watch. We'll see if Brazil will be the win in the Gustavo Pei and King Gamler. Like Agamotto and Elferin, the crowd. Yeah, they'll be there. Yeah, I mean, of course the Brazilians want Brazilians to take the tournament. No surprise, obviously. And they have a great chance. No doubt. So here we go. King Gamler and Gustavo Pei. The twin brothers are there. Yep, I saw them all hanging out downstairs, again, playing a bunch of casuals against each other, talking up the game with each other. Just getting ready for stuff. The handshake to get things going. Now, for Gustavo Pei rather than starting out with the Johnny mirror this time, goes right to the character that actually won the last set for him, which was Lou. Yeah. He was very strong with Lou King against the Juanzinho. I think that the best choice for him. But if he loses, I think that we will see Johnny King. Why not? Immediately, Gamler. Taking the turn back, some plus frames into more stuff. Yeah, I mean, again, because he has Goro, he gets some extra ways to pressure and turn into big damage and significant damage than everybody else for the final hit. Here it is. So three bars spent right away. Gustavo, without a lot of resources, not a lot of damage on that, but still you get what you can. Okay, Gamler. See ya. Gustavo with trouble in the corner. So much pressure. Man, he's taking them. Perfect. Oh, down one right afterward. Classic. This kind of pressure that King Gamler is doing, very, very strong. But Gustavo Page took this with the Johnny Cage shoe, but he's not against the Johnny Cage. I think that he's not prepared. Not over committing with that pressure at all, King Gamler. He did try that before, this time it worked out. Knowing that low hat was likely to come up next. Gamler still. In there. Wallace Block, but that's all right. Time to make things happen. And that's exactly what Gamler was hoping for. Gamler with the best decisions in this round. With the armor in the hat. This this movement of Johnny Cage it's very strong too because the enemy they opponent always a negative way. A very, very good match from King Gamler. Gustavo looks looks preoccupied. Yeah, he's not sure what to do next if you go to the Johnny. Yeah, okay he does. But King Gamler looks familiar with the match against the Lao Lao cameo. Everybody's played against Johnny Lao. No doubt about that. Maybe for armor, I don't know. But King Gamler, okay now that there's no Moro and it won't be for a while. Wow, all right, Gamler. Time to make Gustavo page still uncomfortable with Gustavo finds the hit. Can we look for armor in this? Got him right over it again. Good work. Nothing to break with in big trouble for the round even. 425 as King Gamler made him pay. Conversion. Well, not a lot of damage but still pretty cool. Who wants to press first? I mean, Johnny fights out of Johnny's pressure better than any other guy. He's got that six frame down one. Other guy just stuck with some slower ones. Right back in backed off maybe just in case of a whiff low poke. Nothing like that cameo. So much pressure right now. Nice, the decision of the Gustavo page now with the fatal blow. He may have done that because he was trying to get that damage in before Gamble had a breaker but Gamble didn't build it on that. Nevertheless the armor didn't go underneath harassment even chip a big deal and he didn't have Goral. Nice. And he loses the round because of it. Wow, huge one. Goro is so important. The way that he's accustomed to pressuring. Yeah, absolutely. He goes out of there this time he spends it. He's getting stronger. Be away enough that he could get the low hat out safely. Yes, indeed. But after slight pressure it's Gambler right away taking his turn back. Yes, smart solution to that. Just sleep to make sure. And Gambler now has a big life lead. He's at a range where he can respond to this. That is sick actually. He can just get the trade. That's a great reaction. So now how do you get the hat out? No, yeah. Denied right away. Chased it. And that's going to be Gambler 2-0. Very back and forth. But still, Gambler showed some stuff that really denied a lot of the easy low hat pressure. Yeah. But all the decisions and micro decisions from Gambler was on the right time. He made it uncomfortable for Gustavo to get out the hat to start the pressure. And even once pressuring, he feels safe about it. Again to the rescue as Goro. Hey, what do you got? What's the pressure and denied? Just like that. Only a down one, so not a lot. And it's Gustavo backing off. Oh, not for long though! Again, that was right before Gambler was going to build the breaker. So good timing. Bring out an excellent awareness of the resources of both him and the opponent. Not enough in the round quite yet. Nice. There definitely wasn't enough life left for King Gambler to do some of the things that he's been doing. Yeah. Just go in. Just sweep. Save the stuff to do in that moment. Sweep again. Wow, okay. Goro still, King Gambler's turn. Taking turns. Confirm will come. He's got good damage output available. Oh, the tech's there! Gustavo trying to chase. Again! Down one and again back to the throw. King Gambler, I feel like this has been so close and yet it's almost a 3-0 right here for King Gambler. Gustavo Page is doing a great job, but the same way when he goes for the 10, King Gambler is always in the front. There it is. So his own turn into grab, into can he get anything going? Goro was there! The wall of war. Gustavo with a great chance to take the game. Grab! And he will do just that. So it's not over yet. Two games to one. The crowd's still into it. And he made a complete reverse 3-0 in his previous match. But King Gambler's always unpredictable. This is a problem for Gustavo Page. Of course. They're not ready for the reaction that time. One of the few hats that he's let get out. Not in the time for Gustavo Page. Oh, the idea there was to whiff punish. He wasn't quite in range. All these little options here. A couple of plus frame strings. The six frame down one. Steal it. The mids. Deadly game. Another one. Gustavo with the life lead. He kept it light very smart by Gustavo Page. Not a big commitment. Uh oh! Here's Goro. I like this thing now. Fighting back really well in that round. Gustavo's understanding how King's Gambler is doing his stuffs. The adaptation is real. I think so. Whiff punish game going. Damage by Gustavo. He only needs one more of those hits. Man, alright. Plus frames on that. Gambler. And we have full Goro's after this. He's got a lot of resources here. And the corner. Yeah, he's definitely in control in that sense. He's still a slight life deficit. Yeah, he is. Is that a tile, man? That was... Oh my... No! Hold on a sec. It's not enough. It's a high, so he ducks. And lazy boy Johnny in the air recliner kick. To take the round. Oh my God. Come on, folks. What's going on there? Out of the sky. Probably not going to be a lot of damage on this yet. No breaker from Gustavo. A fully cornered. Two Goro's spent right away. Wow. Spent two. Looking for anything to Whiff have Whiff punished. And he batches this time. This is something that they both tried before this time. Finally, it works out for Gustavo. Into the setup. He walks! Oh boy. Still no Goro back for King Gambler. Immediately, right back into it. Grab! He did hit! Oh my God. What a scramble match. Yeah. And even though it's going to say three games to one. On start GG. Yeah. It did not feel like three games to one. That's amazing. In the jumping kick of the Johnny Cage is very good. And Gustavo tried the anti-air. That was not the time. But in that situation I don't know if I can judge him. No, yeah. Yeah. Very good match. Absolutely. Super back and forth. And again, sometimes you wonder what if he had started with Johnny instead of Louis? Yeah, you can. What's up there? Yeah, you can't blame him. Yeah. But just the question in retrospect is all. Yeah. Another timing line. Yeah, Johnny Johnny is an interesting one. Because they both have this very fast way to get out of each other's pressure. Their parries work against each other better than for most. They have worse solutions to when they respond. When they see the attempted EX counter. Then most characters. Or then many characters do in any case. A funky match. I think that's the grab. Look at this. And then he ducked it because it's a high. Oh, just great play. Great scramble is really what it was. So King gambler. Winner's side. Very strong man. Very strong player. And we have another one. Killer Shinok versus Agamotto's eye. Very good. Very, very good match to watch. Yeah. And I think that will be we'll have another one. So DC Volg has already played. And taken out Wanzin show. Three games to one. So DC Volg is in losers. Made it out on that side. Well, I'm sure play the other winners side. Killer Shinok versus Agamotto's eye. But then after that, there will be one final match on loser's side. That will be euphoring versus Alvarez. Who's battling all the way back. Who lost in the very start of this pool. And has been playing. And now Killer Shinok and Agamotto's eye. We will defining the last match of the winners side. No surprises here. Killer Shinok with the Kunglao plus Goro and Kinshi plus Syrux. The Agamotto's eye. Setting up the sandwich real quick here. And he started off with the low. Again, he did it so rarely versus euphoring. Boom, there it is. Oh man, he made that count. No! Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Next tick to be the kill. And yeah, armor is not going to count at that point. That was he just needed to find the mix up. That was all. But that overhead. Almost there. There was a lot of resources. Neutral jump. Get him out here. Here comes the boy. Time to party. Ghost party all the way into the corner. No! Not exactly what he was hoping for. Man, what a pickup! That was cool. Not a lot of damage on that, but still super cool. Big turn. Out of there, no meter on Agamotto's eye side. No Goro on Killer Shinok's side too. So although he's got the armor meter. It's not a huge threat. Ooh, nice decision. There it is. A different way to confirm into the round. Sword back in the whole throw, man. But before Goro could make it safe! Great block! And taking out the ghost on the way. The boy? No. Yeah, we're the secrets. Killer Shinok doesn't really have the resources now, but still they're on the other side. Attention. Stuck in a bad spot. Sword still out. Crab! Okay. He's got Cyrax. Yeah! As a result, he can get the refresh. Oh man, that was a great anti-air. Very aware. Killer Shinok's know how Agamotto is playing. And the Agamotto's too. But Killer Shinok is more patient. More patient than Agamotto. Oh, here's a lot of patience. On both sides. Right back into the mix. Here comes Cyrax, here comes Cento. And there goes Killer Shinok. Yeah. Alright, he's back, he's back, he's back. Yes. Gotta make it count. He does great work. Hello! Wasn't looking for it. Had come rarely. The corner now, the mix up. Agamotto? He's defending all the overheads. No meter now for Killer Shinok. Putting out the net. Yeah. I mean it's good if you find the head. Good even on block to be honest. Oh! Not working. And that will be the round. He did what he needed to do. Let's take the round. Gonna be big resources on Agamotto's eyes side. That said, yeah, I really like how Killer Shinok has had these moments of patience. Not always barging in there with armor plus Goro. Sometimes it is, it's gotta be that sometimes. But a lot of this has also been him navigating smartly safely. Even with the mix up of flower, low overhead. Chase! No, not quite. Would have been a cool pick up. Sentos meter is gone and now it's Killer Shinok up close. Oh, denied. There it is. Yeah, that's what we've said before. He needs anything to seal this even on block. Oh, the flowers come! Oh my. Not enough. Agamotto is trying to understand the timing of the armor of the secret of the Killer Shinok. And it's working now. Let's go again. Mix up on that. Here it is. Grab! Okay. Refresh comes out right away. Copy is to Agamotto's eye now on the other side. Sword in hand. Definitely has some great buttons still on the stands. The absolute patience! No meter on Killer Shinok's side. Still no Goro even after this. He ducked the part of the spin after he landed, which was great, but he just didn't get any solution to what Agamotto's eye was doing. Otherwise, Cento already coming out. Agamotto is better now, of course, but yet he has to deal with this kind of gameplay, that kind of gameplay. But he's defending all of that and overheads and lows. Yeah, he's been blocking great. Again, you got to pressure sometimes. Even if you see that there's a bar down there and a Goro sometimes you got to do it. Patient. Yeah, we have seen Killer Shinok try to stuff out of that. It did work once, but ever since then, Agamotto's eye has kept it a little tighter. Goro's back. EX is back. This is just patient blocking. Let's go. Oh, not the full way. Man, but that was a long time spent on defense. That was great work by Killer Shinok. Be overhead. Nice conversion. The positions... It always feels good to get that kind of blocking going on against Cento. Whenever you are up against an opponent with extremely strong mixups and pressure, in my opinion, just block it out, that's one of the best feelings in fighting. You feel like the most genius that you can in situations like that. And that becomes the victor for you. Yeah. You can get the rest of the game plan going on defense versus Spirit then. They're in a great spot. This raises the rule. Agamotto's eye is in trouble. Chance on the whiff? No, not quite. Yes! And you can get Spirit out exactly what he does. Here we go again. And which begins. That was 369 just like that. Here it comes. There is EX. There is Goro. He's definitely putting in some blocks here. Yeah, there's an example. But the moment was picked perfectly by Killer Shinok. Nice did you. Man, he's still actually... Again, to have two rounds where the opponent gets what they want. Pressure with sento, mixups happening, chip damage happening and you still win both of those rounds. You still block that out. You still had the defense. You armored through it exactly the right moment. Genius. Not much feels better for me than blocking it out like that. And now he's being very more aggressive. But it's the same movie. The same scene. The same narrative. You've got to play him in a different order, right? Yeah. Exactly what Agamotto Zai was doing. We hadn't seen that sequence from him before. He mixed it up a little bit here. Spirit's gone, but still great work. Oh, man. It's one of the round where Killer Shinok takes it despite Agamotto Zai doing some great stuff. And you get it going. And Agamotto Zai finally... None of the meter. Jesus, not to break. Maybe hoping to block it out one more time. And he comes in. And all three of them are gone, just like that. Oh, not quite there. That would have been cool. Yep, still swiping in. There it is. Let the ghost do the work for you. And he really turned that into a big damage. Oh, nice. 407. But now the Spirit has left. And it is Shinok. He wanted it down too. Would have done it. Instead, Killer Shinok finds the hit. I think this is it. Only question is whether the mashing is going to be enough. But I think you're right. I think that's going to do it. Yeah. I think that's going to do it. Killer Shinok. Oh, he's got him on the final hit yet. No, he lives by 1.01. And he takes the round with it. He has 1.04 health left. And it was enough. Agamotto Zai never let it go. Keeping his eye on the ball. Oh, we've seen that before. Now the question is, can Agamotto Zai take the sword out of the sheath or not? Yeah. Yes. Pages him again. There it is. Killer Shinok. Is that it? No, he needs a little bit more work even still. This comeback would be incredible. Not going to happen. Killer Shinok was very strong in all the rounds. But Agamotto Zai made a huge improvement in the middle of the match. But it was not enough. Killer Shinok with his Kung Lao and Goro and his secrets. Very strong and you will be continuing the winner side. Yeah. Tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow. He gets to hang out. But I loved what he did. He has all the classic Lao Goro stuff. He's definitely stealing turns into damage. Yeah. He's definitely playing the mix ups and the movements there. What really stands out to me is also the defense. He had excellent defense in very important series. It still was close ultimately. But very important series where he blocked it out for long periods of time. He chose exactly the right moment to armor through even against Cento. So really, really good defense for him was a huge part of why he ends up taking this. And the defense against Cento and Kenshi. I think that the difficulty of this is very high in the other moves of the game. Absolutely. Yeah, I mean that's the design of Kenshi. Although he's not weak exactly. He's not weak. But once the name of the game is take the boy out of the holster. Play the games with the spirit. He's pushed the Cento, he's normal. Yeah. But after that he's the best. Very, very good. So really, really good job by Killa Shinnok to weather the storm. As you mentioned, winter side. But for Agamotto's eye, loser side. Also disqualified for tomorrow. Now we got one more match. Not just for this pool, but also for today. That's going to be euphoring versus Alvarez. So Alvarez lost earlier to killer Shinnok. That was three games to one. Yeah. That changed from Ashura to Tanya. Made some improvements, but not enough to. But against Elferin and his style of the gameplay. I think that Alvarez will be in trouble. Well, we'll see how it goes. Euphoring definitely very strong. I mean in his own set versus Agamotto's eye, three games to two. Yeah. That's definitely legit. But another chance for the crowd downstairs to cheer for the Brazilian. Brazil again, against all the other parts of the world. Euphoring with Colombia in the United States. Yeah. We'll see how it goes. And then after that, we'll talk a little bit about what to expect for tomorrow. Who's going to be in there tomorrow? You're not going to want to miss that. It's going to be a lot of great action with strong players from all over the place. Players who did well as we had expected. Yeah. And some other players who are going to be in there, especially in the loser side, who are going to be really cool to watch. Some surprises. It's going to be fun. It's part of the experience. Yep. Definitely right. So as far as both of them, I would love to see Alvarez just start out with Tanya this time. Yeah. I think he will do that. Or some other character. In the beginning of the game, he was playing with Liu Kang. After that, he did Liu Kang for Tanya. And then he was always playing with Tanya. But for me, it was a surprise to see him playing with the Ashura. But I think that it was some kind of experiment for him. Tanya. Tanya. Right at the time. Tanya Baraka. Oh. He would begin with Riko. Then he changed for Baraka. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I like the Baraka. It's not both that and the Riko, and they both look strong. He's very impressive, of course. He's in there. Yeah. Inmediate. In the beginning. Inmediate. Dropped on the root. Oh. Baraka's definitely got range in this game. Yeah. So in the corner. Now he's got a great armor break option right there. As good as that is. Baraka, you can definitely blow it up. Again, you know more neutral jumps from him than I tend to see, right? Yeah. Previous set was the same way. It has been effective. Neutral jump is a very good movement to do in this case of the armor with the Goro. And then you can pursue him after that. Nice in there. Breaks it towards the end of the combo. Maybe just prioritize and try to get away. If so, it didn't last for long. Alvarez has a chance on offense. There's no striker for a little while still. Yeah. Alvarez starting out on the other side. Off slightly. He's got a great projectile for sure. His low movement is the key for him right now. Still no Goro well. Yeah. That's all right. I mean, he's on the other side. He's safe. He can wait for Goro to come back. There he is. Out of the sky. No. The grenade happened to whip. Nice pickup. All the way into the corner. Grab comes. Now Alvarez does have the resources. Another one without Goro. To the rescue. Is this going to be enough? I don't know. Yeah. 170 left or something at the beginning of this. You got to think this is it. I don't know. Actually, I'm not sure now. The scale. No. He's super lived actually. Wow. That's a lot more health than I thought you would have. Got to have. Yes. Super important to see the flawless. Again. Underneath and his own ship picks the game. Man. These flawless blocks saved him. Yes. Yeah. Great work. The defense that turns into offense now. Now flooring back to Raco. Yeah. Of course. Back and forth. Ping ponging through the two options. Raco tremor comes out right away. I can't even though it was about as close as it gets. Yeah. At the end it's not like Baraka got dunked. Baraka? Very close. Was very close. But maybe Raco he can do a zoning more often. We'll see if you can make that happen. Oh. Extra on this. To right away start out at 418. Neutral jump. He's got his idea about how to counter some of this. Now Alvarez has Goro. Oh man. Right away. Break dancing underneath. Again. Neutral jump. This is a character in Tanya who's got some great anti-air options. Yeah. Oh. The scale. It's almost nothing. Yeah. You flooring will still be in this. And Moro will be back maybe. Yeah. Back here. So harassment can't come. For big chip. For big chip. Oh no he was too far. He was just too far away. Alvarez was grabbable, inter-grabbable state I should say. But not close enough. Yeah. Nice with Gamma Crush's safety. Nice actually. Definitely giving some different looks. Huge width. Second time that he weaves that. Now what's the mix up close? There hasn't been much. Hasn't lasted long like you might want to feel like because of the concern. Expin plus Goro. She can get in there. Yes. Use it right away. Duck but nothing. No punishment. Huge lead now. Alvarez on the other side of the screen. Huge risk. Bayou flooring and Alvarez. Not only not in range but also was crouch walking anyway. Yeah. Nice. Was very careless. And I think that Baraka is more effective than Reiko in this match. Against Alvarez. Yeah. And it looks like Baraka again. And right down to the wire in Game 1. Not in his face. But Elferin looks nervous in his gameplay. Now in his face too. Difficult. Well the question is whether he can make it into the top 24. Yeah. Loser side. Loser side. Yeah. And a big reason to travel here is to get all those points. Yeah. Would be tough to go home without that. He is close to doing exactly that. He has a great and strong team. No doubt man. Nobody thought that that wasn't the case. We all know that Brazil is legit. Big chance on the win. This one was amazing. Very fun to watch. Yeah, I agree. So right away the Baraka comes back and looks stronger. Yeah. Immediately. Nice. The jump movement was perfect. The crumple because of air projectile. Air yet projectile. However again right back speaking of air. Huge jump too. Over committing in the sky again. As he has. Finds exactly the right moment. Couple of strikers. There's one. Whereas chooses not to even get involved. But the chase comes. Euphoring. And he does chase it down. So Euphoring not out of this thing yet. Euphoring has a cop in his team. The chase is natural. But he makes a very strong match now. And Alvarez looks the same. But I think that Euphoring is very, very good now. Yeah. We're seeing a lot of the same stuff that we saw in game number one. Yeah, there's that factory to blow up the armor. Euphoring exactly where he wants to be. We'll put a patience. Alvarez waits it out again. Again. It's been so big for him. Oh. Lot of resources spent. No Goro. Alvarez is in trouble on this round. He's got a lot of work to do. Yes. No huge whiff again. He's looking for the neutral jump. But after that, nothing. Oh boy. No button on the way down. Could have been different. Firm comes from him. Nice. What a duck. What time? So when he back freeze there. That was cool. Alvarez in for pressure again. Man. How many big hits has he found with that? Yeah. Just like that. Two and two. Knowing Alvarez, I think that he will get in trouble now because in the mindset, I think he's not going well. He's thinking, yeah, yeah. He's thinking, let's see what he's doing now. We have one more match. I think Alvarez will be staying with Tanya. That time that he was thinking, I think that's the cause that now he's a little calm. Goro. Oh, the jump was ready. Nice gameplay from Alvarez. Nice entire. What a moment for Alvarez. Another entire man. What a round of Alvarez. Man, his gameplay is very strong now. It's match point for Alvarez. Now he's doing from zoning, nice. For Alvarez to break, losing his meters. Nice wake up from Alvarez. Nice entire again for Alvarez. Man, Alvarez is very strong now. He's looking really good. Backing off. Suddenly, euphorians up close. There's no meters still on Alvarez's side. Goro immediately. Can he find it? Even chip matters hugely at this moment. Yeah. Found it. Alvarez. And the crown goes crazy. So does Alvarez. You can see him partying back there with everybody. Amazing. He has made top 24. He deserved. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he played great. And when your opponent is making that kind of a comeback, it can be easy to crack. Yeah. If your opponent wins two in a row, and it seems like everything is in their favor, to then take that final game, two rounds to zero. Not easy mentally to get right back into that state. He used the time for rematch to thinking to calm down. And then, man, what a match from Alvarez. Yeah, look back at the final game. Man, he's doing a very good entire. He is playing with confidence in this final match. Yeah, you could tell that. So great play by Alvarez. We're taking a look back at this. Finds it right there. There was no Goro for safety, by the way. He just was sure about it. Let's do this. He was just right. That's all. For you, Forin. That's it. He's not going to make top 24. The tournament's over for him. It's great to have multiple characters up your sleeve, right? It's great to pick your matchups, but there's also this potential downside of playing more than one character, which is that sometimes you can get in your head about which one you should be playing. And if he had just run with Baraka, not saying he would have won, but the Baraka games went much better, even the ones that he lost, than the Raiko game went. So Raiko's a good character. Don't get me wrong. But the way that it was going for you, Forin, specifically, the Baraka definitely looked like it was stronger in this match. Against Agamotto, I think that Raiko was better. But Baraka was not the wrong choice, because even against Agamotto, Baraka has done a good job. Yeah, you're right. Absolutely right. So that is the pool. But it's also all of the pools. And let's chat a little bit about what we're going to get to see tomorrow. Got the old bracket right here. And it's going to be a lot of great stuff. So Scorpion procs versus Murillo, which will be right at the top. That's going to be Winner's side. That's to make it into top eight. Again, we're starting with top 24 tomorrow, which is basically top 16, plus some of the other losers. So that's at the beginning. Pretty good. Killer Shinaka versus King Gambler as well. That's going to be for that one. Then Nicholas versus Conqueror. My God. Also great one. These are all actually international matchups to start on the top 24 Winner's side. And then MK Javier versus Bryan Loran as well. Bryan Loran. Do you see... I did. I watched it. Yeah. Bryan Loran is another younger player from Brazil. Man, he's very good. Yeah, it was great to watch him. So that's what the Winner's side looks like. Then on Loser's side, Fesogabe versus Wai Valentine. And I think that was Sindel, Faroqa, correctly. Very good. And Reptile. Yeah, totally. I really like the air movement in Brazil. That was cool to watch. Mano Phelps versus Little Chronos in Loser's side. So we're looking for Little Chronos. Had Giris and somebody else. Liu Kang. Liu Kang. And then... Mano Phelps with Johnny Cage. Johnny. Axioma, I guess, plays against Alvarez. Alvarez, yeah. Yeah. Which we just saw happen. Carpio and Tania. Yeah. I think it would be very fun to watch. Looking forward to that. We're going to get Zeus versus DC Volg. Very good match. It's one of the best players we have here in Brazil. It's... Of course, he's in the Loser's side. Yeah. But because in the Winner's side, we have monsters. I mean, yeah, for sure. But he's very dangerous, very dangerous. Gustavo Page versus Flame in there as well. Another match that Gustavo know his opponent, but his opponent know his... Of course. His play. We have Giping versus Sangue Frio as well. Here we have history because Giping and Sangue Frio always training together. And Giping becomes stronger because of Sangue Frio. Very cool. Okay. Unfortunate way that it goes, but that's how it goes sometimes. Especially if you're in Loser's side in Top 24. Yeah. There's no way to have a plan for that at this point. That's how it ends up for them. Then we also have Guy Exceptional versus Collapsism. Yeah. I don't know Collapsism. I didn't get the chance to see him earlier. So it's going to be a surprise for me as well. Yeah. But Guy Exceptional is a very strong player. Definitely. The last one that we're going to have in Loser's side round one is going to be Agamotto's eye versus Chocolate 2383. Another player from Chile. And very strong too. But Agamotto is doing a very good job too. We don't have a single match that we can miss. Yeah. Tomorrow will be B. Yeah. That's going to be the whole day. We're going to do this Top 24 tomorrow. So we're going to take a look at all those matches. You're not going to have to miss anything. And again, the fact that it just happened to work out on Winner's side, that this is all international matches. Yeah. Right? Chile, Brazil, the U.S., Spain, all in here. And I'm very, very, very happy to see Mourilinho and Brian Lohan in the Winner's side. Because he, this, those two is the future and the same way, the present for Mourilinho, M.E.K.1 here in Brazil. Sure. Yeah. I mean, it's great to have people who have been strong for a long time, like Kailashinok and Conquerorins. Yeah. Also great in the same tournament to have not just the veterans who everybody knows, but also the new blood who's doing good work already. Going to be very cool to watch. So we're going to start out at the same time. Tomorrow it's going to be noon local time. That's GMT minus three. So do the math based on wherever you live. Man, great first day. And we will go to the end and to the champion. Yep. It will be a great day. All right, everybody. Thanks a lot for joining us today. We'll catch you tomorrow with the end of the M.K.P.K. Brazil Major. See you then.