 Welcome to East Coast Throwdown. Mortal Kombat 1's first stop of the pro competition. I'm Infinity, and I'm here with Mr. Aqua. Let's go! Mortal Kombat 1 time. It is here, and so is the pro competition of 2023 and 2024. The first pro competition since the very first one back in Mortal Kombat 11, year 1, 2019. Going into 2020, there has been a three-year gap. A blip, just like in Marvel, where what happened in those couple of years? Everyone that's disappeared is coming back all of a sudden, and we're living it live here, Infinity. This is the 2023 pro competition going into 2024. Welcome, everyone. It's the very first stop of four offline events right here at East Coast Throwdown. Mortal Kombat 1 just came out. So many players are here. And if you can't tell, I'm pretty dang excited. Definitely. Look out so many competitors stacked into each bracket. I don't even know who I got getting out of pools, honestly. This is the biggest case of a wild west that I've ever seen because people have asked me for my predictions. I've looked at other people's predictions, looking at the brackets, having the experience of knowing the older names that are from very, very back in the day, Mortal Kombat 9 players and Justice 1 players that are kind of hiding here and there throughout the bracket that are going to be sprinkling on some bacon bits of upsets throughout today's Mortal Kombat salad. I'm excited. This is going to be great because just being out there in the crowd, I see five to six generations of NRS players under one roof. It's insane. You think about how far we've come. Even some of these people have been since Mortal Kombat versus DC days. So it's just very insane. And prior with some arcade guys out here coming back from the 90s. Insane. This game has just been such a testament of the community. It's brought so many different players together. Even some players that only like in Justice are here for Mortal Kombat 1. It's insane. And same with those that kind of skipped MK11. And those like a lot of just MKX players are here. Unbearable skill is in the bracket for one. Haven't seen him since MKX at an offline event. So that's just one of the many examples that we're going to have throughout the brackets here today as we'll be getting into, I believe, A3 and A4 on the pools to get started. A lot of pools and a lot of action here. There's going to be action on the Netherrealm channel all weekend long, all day today, all day tomorrow, and even all day Sunday. I believe we're doing top 24 to top 16, top 16 to top eight, and then top eight on Sunday, which is just awesome. Thank you to East Coast right now. They're giving us a lot of love. It's amazing. I have a first couple of players up right now, or at least they're doing a button check, I believe. Do you see some button checks going on coming into this? You know, there's what the current meta is. A lot of storylines coming in. There's what the current meta is. There's what it's going to be at an offline, in comparison to offline. There's who has been holding on to the tech and saving it for when the most money is on the line. Infinity, that's really my number one question coming into this. Who's got the broken stuff that they've been saving, that they haven't shown anyone, or that they have shown people that haven't showcased it? As we've seen some tech come to light recently before East Coast Throwdown, that's caused some controversy. There's some wildness out there in Mortal Kombat. One, this is a wild game, guys. And this is a new game when it comes to MK. Wild, new, and just having cameos as that little comfort pick on the side is just so important, which is a very vital rule to this tournament. The winner can switch their campio should the loser try to counter pick. That's insane to me. Insane in the first few tournaments we saw it implemented, we saw it a lot. And I think it's going to be a big part of the competition here today because this is our first time seeing it on a broad scale, 299 players signed up for the first offline for Mortal Kombat 1. That's a lot of players. So many. Definitely interested to see the counter play we have. Like you said, first offline, this is where the tech really starts to kick in and people start to show off what they've learned. We've got some dirty stuff like grabs into Cyrax helicopter into. Now you're holding 30%. It's insane. I hope the production has the Vietnam helicopter sound prepared for the entire time he's on the screen. We're just causing PTSD flashbacks as he's coming in. Of course. Get ready, ladies and gentlemen, for all Cyrax here. I'm just kidding with you guys. This is going to be a great time. Look at that. That's the background that we got, Dink. See Saki there in the background? Let's go. Shout out, Saki. Dink, the only Shujinko main in all of planet Earth sitting there in the crowd. The only one I can't think of, a singular other human being that has with the neurons that he's been gifted with up there to think to himself, you know what it's time for? Shujinko, baby. But with a name like Shujinky, Dink, it kind of fits the bill. Like if you didn't use that, like why are you playing? Here on stage, we got 13 captain and one of the boys from STB, simply the best, which is probably like Dink is sitting right there. This is his clan, STB, simply the best. So if he doesn't win, I think he has to change that. Got this general shout on the screen. Mr. Aqua's getting excited. I've got a scouting report for everyone in the chats. Being out there in the crowd, which is behind the players, behind the players for those tables are from Mortal Kombat 1. Four setups per table, a lot of Mortal Kombat going on back there, but when we were warming up out there, I was playing casual with everyone. We were hanging out. I was playing general shout. I looked around and I saw about nine other general shouts on the screen and everyone was talking about it. Why is there so much general shout here? Everyone wants a piece of that general shout chicken. It's just that good. It's sweet. It's spicy. It's delicious. Finger looking good. It's finger looking good. Oh no. And I love to see that, you know, someone who we all seem to be very underrepresented is actually showing out at this first off line for the pro competition. He's a people pleaser. He's got the big animation. He's got the big burliness, the damage. He's a scary dude when he hits you and complimented with what I feel like is his best cameo, can be Kung Lao here. Combo off the overhead, that consistent low pressure, which is hard because he's really easy to mash on not having a quick check at that space, whereas Lao's gonna give him that with a plus two. And then we've got Sub-Zero with Serena, which is one of the few cameras that can give him the damage that everyone's been looking for as well with the changes to Sub-Zero since the beta of this game and this Milga, but it's big damage. Yes, comes off the axe. Big break early. Definitely don't want that moment. Subscribe by the axe though. Gotta be careful. It's gonna slam. Perfectly jumped over. It is a scary slam too. Just a low if you're far enough away and if you're close enough, it becomes overhead low and actually throwing some mid pressure with the back button over commits to the Lao. But sometimes you gotta do that with shout because that is your only low threat without the low head of Kung-A. 378, no damage. What? Speaking of no damage, that's not what Shao Kahn's gonna do because he does an awful lot. This Milga's 400 still has the axe. Hard to blockable setup. Still safe on block. Command grabs a threat plus on block as well. And when is it your turn against the big boy? I'm close out of here. Got the corner positioning. This is looking a little slow. That stand two was too good. He did it too fast as a reactionary anti-air that he used. Trying to wiggle with the up log too. You saw there from 13 captain and guess the side switch. That is just gorgeous off of the back three. And he does the setup. And uh-oh, this health bar becoming a magic trick because it's starting to disappear. Now we're cooking the general spout chicken. Wait. What, why turn? Found his way out of the lock. You know, cool. I'm off just a little bit. Say, hold on. He's only hit this man twice with some 378 in this round. He's got the damage for one more hit to take it with no break or worry about it. And he gets sent to the Netherrealm with that down too. Might hit because of the recovery. No. And oh my goodness. You can just pick a button with the big point. It's an anti-air. Okay, only got the second hit though. So there's gonna be a half of the damage, but there's the low hat to meet him. Even had some extra soft there at the end that would have forced him to jump potentially. Really good opening round. You're about 13. Definitely. And that's just so powerful giving Xiao that green control to someone with already massive range in the neutral. And he hasn't overextended with, you know, overhead teleport. Hasn't overextended with a lot of things keeping it nice and simple. Don't think he's committed to where the brawl has been the back three into the hello. Kung Lao's been every touch. And you notice how he's not getting the axe back because General Xiao players are realizing that this character and everyone's realizing that he is really good when he doesn't have that axe. The frame data completely changes. Oh, challenged an ice glow. And then that is just fighting Sub-Zero 101. Make it read up. Are they gonna do that or not? And General Xiao not having a ton of these things to deal with that other than maybe a lot of pressure, I would think. Yeah, it was pretty tough. Part of the fashion, I think we can happen big air to air, but you can pull combo. No need though. Big life lead. Round two, fight. Even turning that back one, that one ranged mid, that shot possesses a little mixup. Natalie ending the overhead, company with the low. Nice ball of splot there even got the punish. That was gorgeous. Where the damage itself big overhead like I was mentioning earlier. A full catch out to another 300. And this is life alert for a wide turn. This is versus three here in the pro competition and there was a threat of the low hat really catching them with the overhead off the back one. And this is just Shao Kahn's turn, baby. Onto the axe you go. Had so many options. We haven't seen the wall command grab or tick throws come into play once the axe is down. But I love his usage of it. He has a great game playing. A game playing and you see him implement really well. Axe down, Laos set up, follow up because of what the options are once it's on the ground. Beautiful. In the back pocket like you said with the command grab, core the adaptation later on. And we haven't seen much of the Serena assist or any of these cameos out of wide turn much outside of the combos. And here we see make a swap to the sub zero which is really surprising because it's only going to take away the low hat which isn't a big zoning problem. It's more of a pressure tool of Shao Kahn than anything. So I'm only just going to use it defensively kind of get rid of it in block pressure even. And that's going to be the difference maker. Let's find out. Nice armors on. So the sub zeroed up on a Friday afternoon here in the 50 degree Connecticut weather south to east coast throw down. Still straight up there though. Jump jump. No up lock. One of the easier up locks in the game. Look at he had nice armor on. Did the low hat absorb it but he wasn't even ready for the decision. Oh no. This is going to do some mental damage to him but luckily he got the damage. Three elevens on the board. And here's where you see maybe downside of that cameo of sub zero, sub zero. They're open up with a low and no extender here. Let's have the ground freeze. Every touch seeming that was going to over 300 but he just a drop in a beautiful wake up micro duct. The big slide side switch as a well and almost a night thing. Oh he's starting to feel a two meter from the ice armor. Close the gap. Just time to play. But there's a big three from 13 captain. Every read right from Shao Kahn is usually a third of your life in a peaceful acts as your reward. Oh yeah, why turn calling out a lot of these throws of ice armor but wait. Sometimes when you have a 10 frame launching special move, you just do it infinity. And it doesn't matter if it's on block hit, you just do it acts on the ground. Nice follows blocking the down four to avoid some of the pushback right there. Tries to wake up with the knee again. And he call out in the neutral. We're gonna throw it out. And it works. I love that. Staying to the heck of a button infinity when it comes to general Shao. Don't be a hide is a big one. It's an awkward trade. Not gonna get a full punish, but hey, captain needs some respect right there with the throw. So I get down, but not out here. Good poke and we got armor. Hold on. That's the second time he's caught. Why turn with just some good old general Shao Shananigans right there. Going for the over and on with and then letting the full string rock because it does move him forward. That's a really big hit box if you aren't ready. Wow. What a gorgeous air to air. It's still converting off the ground here into the Kung Lao low hat pressure. Big throw. He's smart every time he jumps to throw the one, two, two which is trying to maximize the damage off the conversions. If right in there's finally the call out, but no combo punish. Another one. No, two combo punish drops. He just remembered the special I think right there at the end. Oh no. That's a heartbreaker. This could mean everything right now. 13 captain is hitting on that point. For captain it's Christmas morning right now. So thank you for the gifts. Eat the clone though. That mid has been up for breakfast. There's a low hat and now we're talking. It's the cash out. This is wide turns. Turn. Almost jumped right into that ice clone. That's like a guessing life back throw to try to get that escape fail to the Anakin's happening. Our expected double low. Oh, I had the opportunity. Not like this. Wide turn with ample opportunity. I mean this is it. Stand two into the axe. Shout hits heavy. And 13. Gonna take this wide turn. Had his opportunities there. The end multiple opportunities to close it out. Such a heartbreaker. And it wasn't off of like, you know, crazy things. It was he just opened him up. He just anti-eared really well. He anti-cameo'd really well. Had the great reads against the low hat. And those full combo converges just weren't there in those exact moments that would have gotten him on the board and could have still been alive in this. But luckily this is a double elimination tournament. So you will have another shot in the loser's bracket. What a great match to get a started. General Shao's chicken. Oh yeah. I love the representation already. Two characters that people are kind of writing off in the meta with Sub-Zero and Shao both giving an amazing first game here. And like you said, we've got plenty more general Shao restaurants to visit in this bracket. And stepping up, it looks like we have Black Jesus. Hold on. Why turn with a Serena? It will get a little bit of damage early on. But not much outside of it. I did like to switch to Sub-Zero in the end because that was about to get him the win. Captain. Definitely. Just a couple of reads off. Captain didn't make the counter-adjustment with that low hat. And that was just an unfinished story right there in the end. It was. But Captain's staying strong. He's getting one representing Pharaoh. And this is from Pool, this next one anyway I know is from Pool A3. And here in A3, a bunch of names I recognize. Pulse is in this. Black Jesus that you see here coming up on stage. Someone I warmed up with out there in the crowd. Who is someone I can talk about. You remember me saying like someone that played MKX? Yes. That I don't remember playing in Justice 2. And I don't remember them playing MK11 really is a guy named B-Dog. And B-Dog is here in this. You're right. The fair tour player back in the day. Yeah. B-Dog is here and was killing myself and a lot of people out there in casuals. So that's someone from the MKX days that I'm really excited to see in action. He's here in A3. Zanzoone, one of the new MK11 guys is in A3 here. I grew some who I recognize. Black James I recognize. Fierce is in that pool as well. It's pretty stacked. Wow. So many names. The producer of Fierce. If you guys don't know who that is. The producer of Fierce. Shout out to Offset. Been doing an amazing job. And like you said, there's just, with cameos, so much character diversity. We saw a great example of what it's like to kind of like play around who you're going to go up against when we saw that pick to Sub-Zero cameo. And we just got more of that coming up. Like, I believe Black Jesus, last time I checked plays Liu Kang. Liu Kang comes great with Kung Lao. And I'm so sorry. That is a... We're all scared of the back throw. I know. The throw, the walk back. Oh yeah. The zoning does a full, complete character there. Really good team. Wondering who we're going to see here with this pick. I'm not sure who Britt plays exactly. Rockin' a level-less pad though. We love to see it. Just switched to level-less recently myself. They really tightens up your execution, you know, narrowing it down to just those buttons, taking away all those multiple different inputs in between the D-pads. I love that, yes. On the controller. If it weren't for my risk going crazy, I would play it more. You set things up, so I played China for Sentoh. Liu Kang, and we got Kenshi. There's more variety, that's for sure. Two new characters stepping up to the plate. Where the cameo's going to be, especially for Kenshi, because so many can complement, you know, getting Sentoh out onto the screen. It's just how you want to do it and how dirty he wants to Sub-Zero. Get the hit into the freeze, someone out Sentoh, and then two of you want it. Is the game plan for Kenshi. If you guys are tuning in for Mortal Kombat 1 for the first time, this is NRS's very first public character. Really, that they've introduced a glate. A much different Kenshi than you saw the previous time he was around. Definitely, not to mention Sub-Zero cameo. That ice armor is definitely going to complement against Liu Kang's great zoning. Not to mention with the Kung Lao, it's just giving Liu Kang that extra low projectile here. Yeah, what a cameo to complement Kenshi in this specific matchup. Because you're right, that zoning move, particularly Liu Lao, very strong. It's not gonna matter here. He's got the knockdown on the corners. He's backing off though, getting outside of the range. The pickups I think that he's scared of of Kenshi. Got some of that mean spirit armor. Those ancestors don't play around. Oh yeah, it's cool. White float his voice right now. Black Jesus looking very dominant. Simple staggers and where you're waiting for the low hat, where you're waiting to disrespect on the stagger. So many things, maybe trying to armor. Getting blacked and not believing in that one. Did it on that one. That's execution. Corner combo for Liu excels and that was pushing 50% for one simple mistake of the back throw. 42 biggest combo of the night here on screen. I expect to see bigger. This is Mortal Kombat 1. Get ready for fireworks. And he didn't have to allow, otherwise he was gonna combo off that back throw. Very scary. This is a very stagger heavy character too. All those daggers throws a threat. Bam right there. And he's trying to redo the throw. So terrifying, because you just know that throw comes as a combo and oh, Sento called out Sento, what are you doing? I think he called out Sento as a true last resort right there. Hit or block, help me buddy. Check out. Where's that scar video? Oh, help me. Went right back into it here. And scar is here, correct? Scar is here. A lot of Texas boys showed up actually, you got scar, kevo, ominous song out there. Kevo to man. Another guy that just shows up in the beginning of these games and cooks. So we'll see if that continues out there in the pools as well. Definitely. Wow. That was an interesting drop there. Got the side switch unintentionally. That was not some Shaolin synergy if I've ever seen it. Shaolin monks too. Not happening. Oh, wave down two blocks it though. Jumps out. Nice up block. Have the cameo again before the Kungla extension on the backdrop. But we'll get the side switch. Trying to shoot him when I walk back right there. Not having any of it. Black Jesus is bullying Brit right now with this corner. But let me get into the corner. Oh yeah. She's been a deer in headlights. Big damage and same pressure. Stagger game is crazy. And here we go. The back throw into the combo. So dirty. Especially off of the empty jump where if your opponent is going to try to up lock it. Like that's more damage that he's going to get off of a read like that. Yes. So many mechanics that we'll be going over throughout this as well guys. A lot of new mechanics here to Mortal Kombat 1 and previous titles. There's the back throw and a roller coaster that's not that fun to ride sometimes. Here we go. But can't be holding on back in time. Wait. He did get it in time. No. I thought for sure that it wasn't going to be able to because it was still like right in the middle. Infinity. He's like no I'm a press it anyways. And we'll see what happens. Here we go again. We didn't even need it. Black Jesus right now. And that's what makes this stagger game so scary. It makes you want to try to attack but then you try to attack and you get hit with 30%. That's really pick your poison here. The moment that you read it he's going to forward for you. Infinity that's the thing. He's going to do the four and four. Trust me. Oh no. That lock up was so intimidating. I would have got hit as well. Brit. Yeah. You could see Brit Blink as that low the low hat and Lou King came his way. And now we find himself to the corner. Brit. Does it make the right read out? It's time to armor. No. It's a perfect. No. He was still there. Jumping into it is so heartbreaking. It honestly just makes you not want to even move and look at this. This is going to chip out here. Black Jesus sitting on match point. He's working on a speed run, ladies and gentlemen. We know Mortal Kombat 1s and fighting games aren't known to be, you know, prevalent in the speed running community but they might need to pay notice. Oh never mind, never mind, never mind. Thought we were going to see that big 40% but drops it. If this was a speed run he would have to restart from the beginning because he dropped it. It just daggers the. Ooh, out spaced but Breaker immediately don't even want to give Brit the momentum right now. And there was a time where he had plenty of time what felt like a neutral to get maybe an ice armor on to slow down at least the low hat and establish some neutral. But hey, you know what? I'm going to stop talking because he finally got sent to out and he's bullying him. This is a different game. Oh, sent those gone though. That was his lifeline. Here he is. Oh. No. This is so scary. And there we have it. Two quick mix ups right there. Below the overhead. Incento stance. A little bit different, a little bit different. Completely different moveset. Incento stances. Kenshi, when he has the spirit out even the spirit's own cool down almost normals are actually different with the sword. They are. And has no access to the spirit specials either like the push, like the rising karma, et cetera. Wow, we just do that on block. Black Jesus. He figured the last few kicks hit. You know, why not? No, that was an animalistic down two and Black Jesus is he fishing for a brutality? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Down two brutal? What's it going to be? I hear everyone freaking out. What's he fishing for? What's he fishing for? It has to be a down two. Black Jesus, what are you fishing for? Oh my God. Oh my God. He's trying to take off that. He keeps falling. He has! You can't escape it. All he had to do was crouch and bait it. So toxic and we're showing off the grill. This is a true Florida boy. I love this. And just looking at the camera like, yeah, I did that. Literally used all three of those last breath mechanics on getting that down two brutal is actually toxic. But like, I'm so here for it because that's the spirit of Mortal Kombat. You definitely want to get those Brutals or Fatals where you can. And now we have coming up violets. And this is from pool A4. Violets is someone I'm actually very familiar with here in MK1, place third at my local. Actually, I actually drove out for that. Has been crushing it in my online tournament series Coliseums, multiple top eights. Great results against great players. Has a really cool team. Molina Sektor, if we're lucky enough. Hopefully, I honestly love that team as well. She just becomes so scary. I'm going to borrow, I'm going to teleport and that missile is going to dunk you on the head. What can you do? Coming in hot. Opponent looks kind of familiar. This is A4. Some of the names in A4 that I recognize that maybe you guys recognize at home. This is the mighty unjust spool who I believe is seated number one here with all the results that he's had here early on. King Raj is in this as well. Another player coming back. I recognize from back in the day. That's right, King Raj. Yes, big on MKX, played a little bit of injustice too as well, wasn't seen much in MK11, back for MK1. Another name back from the proverbial grave. Mingled Jester. Do you recognize that name? My God, I feel like we're in the Liu Kang Hourglass right now and all timelines are coming together for this game and I love it. There's another one in this one, Ragnarok. Ragnarok, big and actually, yeah, played a little bit of injustice too, MKX. Not much of 11 that I remember, but hey, back again. Also in here, violets that you see Alcatraz in Zescal. Some other names I recognize here from cool A4. Amazing. Only two are going to make it out and the two that make it out, fight each other in top 64 of this tournament. In sane. You see just how many people are standing around. There's more people standing around Mortal Kombat in the background than there are in the crowd, but it's understandable because there's one, two, three, four. There's like 16 matches going on at once back there. So many crazy sets that we can't fit all on stream unfortunately, but just know this tournament means business. First stop of the pro competition. Everyone's points are on the line. It's going to be insane. The 15,000 was added to this one. 15 or 10? No, 10,000. 10. 10,000 plus entry. Plus entry, which is, you know, if anyone's ever been curious how that works, you know, there's the prize pool bonus and then there's entry fees. Everyone that comes here pays usually $10 to enter the tournament. That $10 times entry fee goes into the prize pool. So $299. So let's just round up the 300 times 10, another 3,000 in the prize pool. So you're looking at about $13,000 on the line here. Give or take. Give or take. I could be wrong. Don't quote me on that. But quick math and this is unfortunate. Oh no, CRs. They're not in the pool. Oh no, CRs watching this just heart broke right now. Unfortunate CR pilots and CR danger. CR, of course, critical reaction. And I hate to beat it, but that dead horse is there. A group that's come back. Literally. From the dead. They were so dominant in MKX. Even a little bit of dust, too. They had Sonic Fox on the team. They had Dragon on the team. Insane. Their roster was so crazy and they're coming back for this game. And that is lovely. I love to see that. Players giving thumbs up. I like that. That's usually a good sign. Yeah, you have to imagine that they play this pretty often. Yes, we got some in the sector. And that was raiding in Cyrax. Did I see that correctly? Sure did. We got a blast with them. Catchable mustard could not be here. They are here in spirit on the screen. And no, it is not Serena. This is a completely different matchup. Serena raiding. There's something that you don't see every day. Oh, that's something that's gonna hit 450 damage if you get caught, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, don't get hit. Make sure you block today, but Malina can be very scary in the neutral. Like I said, that sector missile is gonna cover a lot of her risks. And look at this big combo break, though. Oh, yeah. Didn't want to deal with that rocket. Well, guess what? Once it went this out there, you're dealing with it. You're in a stun from that teleport. You're not moving an inch. Speaking of teleports, but this is scary now back to the corner. But wait. And since they are teammates, I wonder if they have any familiarity with each other. Because I don't have much of a dossier on danger here. Very true. They block some overhead both back to full screen. Rule number one against Malina that I found out, fighting violets is block the overhead. That quick, I think was it a 1-2? 4-1-2? 1-2. 1-2. Second over at Keith. A lot of people up. Oh, yeah. Needless to pick up there? Hmm. Beat in the damage, Malina. Oh, gorgeous this game. Got rid of some of that Tarkot there mid-round. Yeah. And here we go with the setup. Oh, didn't quite hit the missile, though. Oh, didn't get the whiff punish on that block overhead. Looks like you're trying to go for that flawless block. There is a flawless block that you can hit at the last hit of that 1-2 string to punish her, but it is a very tight timing. Yeah, third hit comes really quick. Maybe you're reading just the stagger of the 1-2 as well. Yeah. Oh, full charge. Here we go. Charging up that MK Dragon logo, we love to see it. I want to see how much it did on chip, but he flawless blocked it. I'll avoid all that in Violet's putting on display right now of Dominic's danger is unable to open him up. And the pushback on everything Malina has. Three second neutral, going back to work. Rocket's still coming, disrespected by the down two. That was a great frame, perfect. Grab the dash up throw, but we're jumping back in. Wow, what a callout for the teleport. Violet's all over the callouts of predictions right now, and look at this. We're still gonna flex with the melee combos. Okay. We gotta adore the swag. Flexing on us and getting used to the monitors at the same time, a really big thing for newcomers. And there are a lot of newcomers here in this tournament as well. It's here in offline setting. One of the biggest things that can get you first is the difference in how your setup feels at home, which is how it's gonna feel here and how that affects your game play. That is such a big thing, getting used to the frame, the maze, and look at this. Big patience, just backing it up. That was on him. That EXPOSI is scary. So scary. And speaking of scary, this damage is gonna be if we don't get a drop here. Oh man. Only came with the one bar, but couldn't you have spent another to get it to about 50? Probably. Big 40 free throw, and that was a lot of corner carry here. See what I mean, danger. Don't get it. Hope some stabs, and that sets up rockets so well. Corner positioning, and big armor. Still look up and use your jump. Danger, trying to find an answer for that. Trying to find his meaty timing, up with some of the knockdowns, and he's still gonna get the punish. He's gonna fall a spot. Pushing back so far, and loud, we'll pick up there. Setting up the rocket. Ooh, but we don't care. That was sick. I love that animation. That was sick. What even was that? I forget the inputs for that, but it is all beautiful every time it is. I don't even know what it is, and I'm a professional competitor of the game. I thought they'd be out of a job. We got a new homework. What even was that? And that went down to 11 seconds on the clock. These matches are insane. Sorry, if it isn't the same string going in the styrox, I don't know what this character does. Like, wait, this is viable? We have other strings? Cool, cool, see something new. Another big reason why I'm excited for this tournament is because there's so much that we haven't seen, and there's so much to still take in because of the depth of the game, infinity. We'll talk about that a little later too. There's so much happening in this game. This arena is going to play completely different from a Milena using Serena, or like Milena using Laof. We go about to get the missile back, and that's one thing that I really love that violinist doing. Doing back throw set up into the missile immediate just I'm going to take my turn back. Same thing with the teleport here. Didn't get the missile off because that core got hit, but still. Almost on the punish there. Ooh, that's a low side rip after that. That was so risky. On the line, that would have been a brutal. Playing with confidence. This violets and that play right there. Aggression with the health lead, you know, he's feeling it. Going right back into here, no character switch. And Milena will have those characters that can consistently get fatalities on her combos, which everything kind of leads into one of them. Definitely not. There are a few characters that don't have that privilege. It's like they just knew they wanted her to be toxic online, and I love that. Oh, there was, there's characters in this game. They knew what they were doing. Johnny. What? Baraka. Oh, man. Chow? No, I'm kidding. I just wanted to get a reaction. I'm an up-player infinity. You are. I believe in General Chow. I think General Chow is a good character. I think Rain is a broken character. And y'all are going to find out here at East Coast Throwdown. You guys don't want to know my prediction. I think Rain Syrax is winning East Coast Throwdown. I believe it. I caught Sonic last night. Let me tell you. I was like, why did anyone ever say this character was bad? This is propaganda, if I ever heard it. No, that was the propaganda. Oh, beautiful block there. Oh, this is going into rocket, too. Big rocket set up. 397, rocket coming. Reset. I mean, that still ate up about half of your life. Ooh, did he get punished? We've still got opened up. Looks like we're trying to go for another flawless block. Nice tagger into the row. Oh, that rocket's coming. Oh, wow. Little early buddy still was in a disrespectful mood of a post-rocket to just neutral crouch and still get a button out. Violet's looking really comfortable against fellow teammate Danger there, who, even though he had a deadly duo in Serena Raiden, we just didn't see him get to the dangerous damage that exists in there. Because I love this team of violets and how he plays it. I mean, he even explained it to me really early on. He's like, it's just team not your turn when she gets going. Yes. And I love that. But it's also not just willy-nilly. We were definitely seeing throw or teleport in into the missile to kind of force someone into block spun or just force them into a long hit animation to get it set up. So very good plays there from Violet's. Kevin in the background's up. I know Kevin was here. Shout out to Kevin. So many people have showed up for this event. And we are getting the homies at school on stage. This is going to be a good one, too. We'll definitely be seeing another new character. I think he only plays Scorpion, one of the Loyalists. I am a big believer of Scorpion being massively underrated. I think Scorpion has some of the best screen control in this game. Speaking of Scorpion and massive, Scorpion won massive strike the catch-up and muster tournament yesterday. Point given. I had to make it after you said, oh, both words are in this. And was looking disgusting. Javier Scorpion was hitting for like 550 damage every touch. Go watch that tournament. Oh my god, Javier is one of my favorite players to watch. Just very solid fundamentals. Meanwhile, in America, we're down playing that character pretty hardcore. Yeah, they're like Scorpion. Yeah, Scorpion's terrible. Not to quote them in coming up on stage, but that was the most beautiful shade in the lead-up. Yeah, this person on stream next, by the way. No, but honestly. Jessica, I love you to death, but he learned it from me downplaying, so I can't really fault them for that. But you're the up-player, Aqua. In MK1, I am, guys. I'm no longer a downplayer. Everyone's good. Everyone's broken. If there was a Shao Spirit Bomb, it would literally be you incarnate. Buff Katana. Yeah, Buff Katana, I got you guys. We got you, Star Charger. Don't worry about it. But yes, like I was saying, Scorpion is super strong in the neutral, almost a full-screen sweep. Amplify Spear is a mid in this game. That means you have to be so scared of crouching under. Why don't they use it more? Because if you haven't had a Scorpion just in neutral, and in neutral, it's sort of when you're on a screen, no one's doing anything, and then they just hit you with an instant mid-spear that you just don't even know exists until you're hit by it. It's just not to mention the flames. We got the deception flame move back. It's a lot. Their back, his normals are fantastic up close. 2-1, 2-1, alone, really. Don't give me that look when I say that. Did you guys see that? I said 2-1, and she knew. Because you've been dealing with it. Khanai League has traumatized you, girl. Yes, it has. There's a lot of Scorpions out there in Khanai League. Scorpion and stuff. Good for you guys, though. More power to you, two of my favorite ninjas. So I forgive you. But yes, it's just there's a lot of. And is that King Raj? It sure is. I love to see it. I wonder who King Raj is playing in this game. So according to my notes, this pull may have moved around a little bit. Really? Yeah. I think there was a couple of DQs, so that's probably why. So the winner of this could be on a path to either probably play on just. That's going to be insane. It's what I'm reading down there. Or they're going to be on their own half. Either way, they're in the mighty unjust part. But is it going to be here in the actual pool? Or just outside of pools in top 64? But I'll try to get a closer look at that pool here once we're in the match. But this is a big one. King Raj. And Cesquil, two OGs of a scene, going head to head in pools. I remember King Raj playing 11, really. Not 11, but was really big in X and a little bit of injustice, too, as well. Yep. I want to say that he went off a little bit with what was it? Like Firestorm or something? I believe so. Who was King Raj on? Yeah. What a time. But yeah, definitely curious about King Raj's pick in this game. Got the handshakes up. Let's see what's for dinner. I have no idea who this man is playing. I would have bet. But I know who we played in other games, and it was Degeneracy. So I was going to say Smoke, but we got Reptile. Oh, Reptile. Where are you? Reptile, which is the latest sauce of the Sizzatians? I don't know. That's a Terran race. Yeah, that's a Terran. Sized off, boys. Hunt, well, not hunt 24, but gang boys. Scorpion boys. And Sector back on the screen, starting off with a secret string that I've never even seen a Reptile player use. And that's why it probably worked right there. That's how I know it's loyalty. And in a huge, you know, you had the sneakiest low imaginable in MKX, do you remember the one string that just had the one standing normal under the weird, sneaky low? That shades of that. It literally is. And you know what, Reptile comes out as one I don't see often. I'm more used to seeing Reptile with Polcaro, so I'm a little curious how this will get a compliment for Reptile. Wow, considered on paper, maybe the second best overall cameo right now from a community standpoint. Because of what it gives everyone, which is low hat. He has Teleport, he has a spin, but it's low hat. That's so dangerous right now. I'll tell you guys why once we see it actually used, because it's the cool down of it. A Zescal is cooking up something fierce with the double fire team of that is kind of crazy. Now that I'm seeing what Zescal just put together with that spin into the rocket, even on block, that's gonna be Scorpion's turn again, I think. Yeah, he's ready for either outcome. And that's the ground flame. I like to call that the fire fraud, because no one's ever expecting it. When I saw someone come off that with a Polcaro Teleport the first time, I collectively lost it. And here we go. Oh, try to set up the invisibility there. Really smart by Zescal to shut that down as instantly as possible because of the implication of when he's fully invisible. Oh, yeah. That's when it gets really scary. And look at the pushback on that. Scorpion might be able to punish that, but it looks close, and wow, look at that. Try to up block, and that's gonna be a lead grab. It's a command grab. When you guys try to up block, you get command grabbed on a read like that. It's insane. There's a chip out here's Raj. A fire fraud. There we go. Oh, dashing up shades of MKX, like you were saying. MK9 as well, you know, those dashes right up in your face because it tests your reactions the most in this character. And it's been challenged really well by Zescal with that 2-1 of darkness. That is just the presence on the screen. Definitely, like don't run in my face. I have range, good sir. Checking you with a mini Scorpion spear. That's what stand two is. Look at that thing. Oh, gorgeous. Another one in, got the setup. That's still gonna cop, all ladies and gentlemen. That was so sexy. I'm gonna say it. Zescal. That was beautiful. Putting on a showcase here and a close one to get us started. This is where, you know, we're seeing familiar tournament names, running in familiar tournament names already and the action's gonna get crazy. Definitely, every rest of our action pack and just different scenes, really showing off the creativity of this game. I was, and I'm sure everyone was worried about what could have been on the screen this entire time. You know, I'm not gonna say it out loud. But we all know what could have happened here. So we truly have to bless these players. Shout out to them for showcasing some- Oh, whoa. And this is where the fun begins. Oh, wait. What, invisible so fast off that? I was like, wait, what? It was so quick. It was invisible and then uninvisible. What was that like? Tech port. Maybe it goes away with the throw. I'm unsure about that, but. We'll find out. No punters on the dash either. It's a big test. And now that he didn't punish it, we'll see if King Lodge tests them a little bit more with the raw dashes. I mean, right there, unafraid the EX dash in his face. Oh, yeah. Side switch, gorgeous. I want to keep that corner positioning. Round two, fight. Mountain Dew. And that's really tricky. I know I have aviators on it at start, but I can barely see that asset bubble on the stage. It kind of blends in with the green fire in the background. That's even scarier. You're like, oh, a projectile's coming. Yeah, where is it? Big saggers, wait. We're still backdashing in the buns. Like, oh, you're gonna get opened up eventually. Did he get that asset bubble? We'll see what we can pick up there. And does a pure mix that is an overhead that he's charging and can cancel into the death row as low as it is a mix up for meptile here. And that is so sexy. I love that. Make him as though it hurts. That's cool right now. Well, I don't know what that ender was. Was he trying to, do you think he was trying to swag and continue that combo with a down two up forward right trigger? Potentially, you know, and I can see because you want to keep that corner and be cool at the same time. But it doesn't work in a combo. It needs a punish, right? Oh, and that should be chip. Yes, you cannot escape that sequence. It's got this dusting quick. As some would say, you would have to wake up swallows block like, all right. All right, all right, bro, you do it. Oh, ran right into the spear, got the knife. Now that's a get over here if I've ever seen one. Got you. With a rocket, but the multi-hitting speech on the range of that stand to just grossed me out to edge of that spear. That cool night of death. We'll try to outspace. Almost got outspaced again. But Scorpion said, I am the king of range. Have a secret time. Does we'll take in the two full lead another final round of between them. When she gets cooking, it's working. Definitely on the right track here. I'm wondering if we're going to see a Kameo switch. I know Motaro's best couple with reptile very well. Might also give more of the full screen presence Raj is looking for. Raj is cool under pressure. I believe he's a professional poker player outside of. Oh my goodness, you're right. Competing outside of this. So he is on right now. You know, in these situations, he's ready. Focused like a laser right there. Look at him. I don't even know what he's thinking. And it's a royal flush. I've heard he's really good, too. Like King Raj at the tables. No, I want to see that. That sounds amazing. But he's going to need to reverse 3-0. I was not expecting this. He's going to it. Hashtag wet boys infinity. Let's go! Ladies and gentlemen, the high mage of Outworld in Mortal Kombat 1 is making his debut here at East Coast. Throwdown on the pro competition. It's raining, complimented by Sub-Zero. Two different forms of water. That was dirty setup. Water is fire right now. I'm going to try to extinguish this Nesquil Scorpion. Got the Sub-Zero Ice Armor. I do like that. Nesquil, once he saw it, though, said, OK, no zoning. He's going to jump in immediately. He's getting off a lot of this 4-14 into a stone pressure. That's a mention. It's going to be super scary trying to zone Scorpion as he does have a teleport. Oh, nice punish here, though. Oh, no. That was how it all begins with this variation, too. It's all about getting the hit, getting the freeze. And then what rain can do really well is create hard-to-blockable situations off of certain knockdowns, putting certain things on the screen. And we're going to have to see if King Rosh can access. If he can open up Zescal here, nice block at a double overhead. And now to what? From downtown, Zescal's done a really good job of recognizing as he does it that it's going to hit or believe that it's going to hit, seeing what he sees as it does it, because it hasn't been a hit confirmed in a lot of situations. It's been two, or it was a two-one, and then only the one hitting, and he'll still lose spirit. Talk about knowing your ranges. And wow. And your antires. I taught him that. There's range armor. If it's catching it, there it's not going to hurt. It's so dirty. No one's not getting the throw. When that four or three throws can't come in, this is disgusting. Zescal shows us that with every scorpion touch, half a health bar can seemingly disappear before her eyes. Breaking so late in that combo, though, was King Rosh. Yeah, it's a little scary, because now you have nothing you need. I need to come back, but that power of throw is going to put in work every time. It's not reactable. I'm going to say it. And then there. In the big overhead. And then there was Zescal trying to finally read it. We'll barely misspaces the back two, which is the mix to complement the overhead. No meter to. No meter. Oh, this might be it with fatal blow. Hard to say. We do still have the fatal blow minigame here. So there could be life left, depending. It was very little hit tenuous. So the scaling is going to be well in Zescal's favor. Still, the Azuna dropping so much, creating a self-nuclear bomb. Is scorpion there at the end of his fatal blow? I can't believe that killed. I'm still processing that. I'm not going to lie to you. I thought for sure we're going to have a chip situation. I'm pretty sure that killed everything within a 35 kilometer radius. Big GGs to both players, though. Raj had a great idea with the reptile Kung Lao. Just couldn't close out those games. Both of them going to the final round, had a lovely switch with rain, putting in the car throw work. But at the end of the day, Zescal, master of ranges. Master of call outs is closing it out. Yeah, Raj had his moments. You know, here, up, up, up the lead, had him in the corner. Just a perfect read by Zescal on defensive to read, or on defense to read a stagger, swing and take his turn. Yeah, it's wild, because if you're wrong in that situation, you're going to hit by the second hit of a string. But those are the reads that we do as fighting game players to say, get off of me. I'm sick of you pressuring me, Infinity. I'm in command here. And is that pulse? Is that young pulse? I was just going to say that, but it's like pulse. And yes, pulse versus Mr. KO. What a firegamer tag. Mr. KO. I wonder if this is Professor KO or Jeremy KO. No, isn't Mr. KO right here? All right, let's go. That's Zork is a back. Is it Zork? Yes. If you don't say it in that voice, it doesn't count. We have a member of the insane clown posse there in the back. Let's go. Juggalos for life, am I right? Yes. Feels like such a big family reunion, honestly, for the Mortal Kombat community. Like you said, a collimation of timelines here for Mortal Kombat 1 players from pre-NRS era, as well as NRS era forward, all here, had a chance to win some points in a piece of the 10K prize pot. Some of the WB crew walking around back there as well, talking with players. King Gambler all the way in the left. So much happening here. And I just got mighty unjust in the back, laughing at shipping everyone to death. And here we go. Looks like we're going to see Raiden. OK, here we go. This might be it. You know what? We should have probably said it anyways. Maybe that would have. OK, OK. Wait. No, no, no, no. Well. Yeah, a little, you know, a little something. Here we go. It's a thing. Let's go. We're like low-key speechless, but we're just. Chat knows exactly what we're saying in Infinity. They know exactly what we're saying. They can read between the lines. Mr. KO, we're going to spend the win to get started off of his Cyrax immediately. Johnny Cage first hit. Here we go to the corner. And so much corner carry already. Probably the most plus frames in the game. This is not where you want to be. Pulse all over this right now. Oh, nice. And did he have the audacity? Did he get interrupted out of the low hat? Or did he try to spin for the slower thing? I don't even know. But what's just happened to that? What? Hey, quick round. And this is someone on everyone's radar at this tournament in Infinity. Everyone watching, this is a favorite, in my opinion, to win this tournament. Pulse has been killing people in online tournaments. Let's see how it translates. Definitely one of the strongest Johnny cages right now. And Johnny Cage being an amazing choice as well with the Kung Lao cameo. I think single most plus frames that exist in the game are this duo right here. Because at every low hat, multiple staggers of Johnny Cage. And the rich get richer. No. He just made a shadow kick plus, Infinity. He made a shadow kick plus. No. Release us. Release us. Who blocks shadow kicking goes. You know what? It's still his turning is going to be plus. He owes. Cami owes. Love to see it now. The most nutritional breakfast in Mortal Kombat 1. Cami owes cereal. Oh, wait. We're back at the controls. Don't tell me controls were wrong. I was curious why he woke up with Cyrax when he got knocked down. That's tough. That's tough. Could be a good mental reset to say that that wasn't his fault. What happened in that last game. It's not your fault. I told you, Madam Bo would be a tough negotiator. Yeah. Right back at it. Game two. Plus working on the quickest match of the day so far. Shout out to Madam Bo. He knows that this journey has only just begun as there are three days of combat ahead. I love staring into Johnny's eyes. Yeah. It's like right before your life flashes before your eyes. Now, was it actually loading? I couldn't tell either. I thought they were talking. What's that's all pulse laughing? I was like, OK. That was great. I jokingly argue, Cyrax broke it. I agree. I'm blaming him on every single thing. He's messing with the coding. Come on, Cyrax. He was programmed that way. It's ones and zeroes in his favor. Realizing Xbox path from pulse. It's crazy. It's crazy. This is an age where I feel like this is the most diversity in pads in my control usage as well. Literally, I see like a different controller every two minutes. Some are on PS5, some are converting with the PS4, Xbox, a couple of hit boxes out there, fight sticks. I have a buddy that reverted to PS2. I want to do that, actually. PS2 is, fun fact, my favorite pad use. And fun fact, for everyone at home, the DualShock 2 was the tournament standard, the community tournament standard back in the MK9 days. Really? It was the tournament standard to find an OG DualShock 2 and converter. And that was the optimal way to play MK9. I'm ahead of the curve with that, because that's exactly what I would have done. No one used the DualShock 3. No one. Wow. Yeah, it was pretty crazy. Actually, now that I think about it, no one really talks about that controller. People must not have been a big fan, huh? And same thing with, I hate to say it, but the DualShock 5, similarly, it just doesn't feel good. And now it does not feel good. It hurts a lot of people's hands, and I understand that, too, because I've been there. And that's why a lot of people are finding other alternatives as they should, because something that, you know, take care of yourself first and foremost. Absolutely. And us gamers, we game a lot. Take care of your hands. They are your life blood at times. Hand health is so important. And stay hydrated. Please. We're staying hydrated right now with lovely Mountain Dew, lovely water. I hate that nickname. Oh, water tastes so good. All right, we're back into a 1-0 for Pulse, head on the ground, pressure's already on. This is where KO does not want to be, because... Johnny dashing up just feels so oppressive. He's like, what's coming? Is it plus phrases to grab? I don't know. And the moment he touches you, it can be the case of it's not your turn until your health bar is gone. Like, right here. Now, plus. What's going to be plus? Plus two. Plus regardless there, guess off of it. He did a throw instead. Plus two would have been... Have a nice day. Did he finally throw it a high? And KO is just getting eaten alive by this dagger pressure game. And Pulse not getting put sub 900 HP so far in this match. Oh, that was a beautiful duck. And look at that! We're going to flex for the camera while Kung Lao handles my light. Wait, thank you. But it was covered by that. Those are my favorite conditioning hands right there. Oh, yeah, almost completely up with the Hollywood meter. But wait, hold on, we got Syrac. Didn't get the Superman, though, which is what we got, the corner carry. And I am scared that Pulse gets the next hit. Yeah, that was an extensive breaker. And we're, oh, here comes the corner carry that we were speaking of. And this is where Johnny Cage excels. Hollywood meter almost up. Might not need it, though. This is going to be a lot of plus frames. Oh, we're choking out, though. That's the last block to avoid the chip there. And Pulse taking his turn perfectly. Mounting a comeback of a lifetime here is going to hold that and let him fall onto it for, I think, the third time. There's no escaping. If you try to jump, you're landing right on top. And Pulse is just doing it. Every time he's done it and followed it in, every time he's done it and done nothing, it's worked. Both! Yeah! He's going to follow it in. And you're holding that. You're holding pressure. He has a nine frame mitties about to pull you in. That's why it's so scary, that dash. And understandably, tricky to block. You guys are probably wondering why he's just getting hit by the hat when he's jumping in. You're worried about an early jump kick or something to form an overhead. But it may not be a mix-up. That may be something that we have to adapt to, but that low hat has been eating a lot of people up when he tries to jump it in because they're looking at the other way. That combo, that was so sick. And we're getting the max flex. So try to get that Hollywood meter. Literally only needs one more taunt to make that happen. I hope we get it too. Show off a little bit of pulse. Oh, this might be. I thought we were getting it there. Big throw. Still a thousand. He's working on a flawless victory, infinity. Is that going to be the case? Is it going to be our first flawless? And look at the Hollywood meters there, but. Oh! Went into the nut punch. And even if he pressed a button, it wouldn't have done damage because it's invincible into a flawless victory. I don't even, I don't even know. What happened to pulse? The pulse just like. He vanished. He liked it Kung Lao cameo. He left the scene of the crime quicker than I've ever seen anyone before. He said the job is done, unplugged and walked away. Insanity. And that's just what we were kind of going into with the whole Johnny Cage. So many plus frames. Kung Lao doing so much for him with just only low hat. I don't even think we've seen any other cameo usage outside of low hat. Maybe like one spin. Yeah, I think so. There was one, I don't know what of Johnny Cage's other than maybe like the four, three, two or something that could go into the spin. It's hard to combo in a Kung Lao's cameo spin. It's talked about a lot because of how slow it is on startup and that's why I'm surprised we saw it a little bit earlier too on some people being able to hit it for everyone. And I was like, oh, that's pretty cool because it's hard. Insane, just wow, such a testament of how strong Johnny is in this game. And Paul's just been playing phenomenally, like you said, doing amazing work in the online tournaments. Has both the Johnny Lao, the Johnny Cyrax as well, where he was one of the first where I saw do full life double hype combos. And we haven't seen it yet on stream, but if you guys do, Johnny Cyrax can load a full height meter, get a combo going and almost try to loop it. It's pretty crazy. There's some craziness in this game, but we haven't seen anything too new when it comes to the competitive meta of the game. And we'll see if we get some of that here as we get into the next couple of pools as well. Plenty of pools coming up, guys. We're doing three sets of pools today. I believe so. Yeah, I believe three sets of pools today. Pools are gonna continue tomorrow morning and it goes all the way up until top 64. And I wanna say it's top 64 to top 24, something like that tomorrow night. And then we do all the rest on Sunday. Yes. I'm working this event. I still have no idea what's going on. I believe so, yeah. Sunday is gonna be just as crazy as any of the other ones, which is just so awesome because usually we're so used to only top eight being on Sunday, but like, no, we're cooking all three days here at East Coast Throwdown. Three streams on Sunday. It's pretty great. Crazy. I love that for us. We're reading to East Coast Throwdown. Thank you to the East Coast Throwdown group as well. They've been doing it up here fantastically for the last 700 years because it used to be known as another tournament. Convert to East Coast Throwdown in the last, I don't know, six, five, seven years. They've been going ever since. Great events up here. Move to Connecticut. Always, always, always metal theme too. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah, woohoo. OST Bob's. Anyways, always and forever, the awards here are incredible with the vinyls. It's a great tournament. The winners here, I don't know if it's the same this year. They haven't shown it, but- They haven't, no. But are they the vinyls we'll have to find out? I hope so. It's just, it's lovely. We'll have to see it, guys, but we will have more action coming up. Unfortunately, we do have to go to our first break. So we will be right back with some more Mortal Kombat, but, Nfini, any closing thoughts on those first few matches? I want to see some more Molina. Woo. I'm going to speak it into existence right now. We'll have to see, coming up, guys, more Mortal Kombat, one of the pro competition here at East Coast Throwdown. Don't go anywhere. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to East Coast Throwdown here for Mortal Kombat 1, pro competitions, first stop. I'm Nfini, and I'm here with the lovely Mr. Aqua, and we are going to get into some more hype matches here. First pools of the day, so much hype, so many different characters that we've seen so far. I honestly don't know what to expect. Mountain Dew is amazing. I was just really enjoying some Mountain Dew voltage. It has been a long time. That was a gamer feel of mine going back to- Oh, the nostalgia. Yeah, that's just taking me back to my childhood right there. Shouts to Mountain Dew. Here on the pro competition, and we got violence. You willed this onto the screen, Infinity. Buff Malina. Before we went to the break, she wanted more Malina. She's got more Malina, and we got that. Turn of all shouts. Chicken back on the screen. This is canon. Hold on. I'm here for it. This is a battle for Outworld right now. Outworld Supremacy. Who will reign? Both of them looking- Why are they both up blocking a neutral? Yeah, like- Full screen. What is this? What's going on here? What was the reason? Byleth's do it just because 13 captain did it? I don't know, but I like it. And he just respected so well through the armor. And because he got Kung Lao, that overhead will come the full combo from the general. I love that combo. It just looks so heavy. I'm pulling the pressure right now. It looks really comfortable too. Captain, Byleth's money to get some of the general's auto insurance. Nice amplified side. Trying to kind of control the space in here. Oh, and wow, what a beautiful call-out. 13 captain all over it with the beautiful call-out. And there's so much range on that. Look at this damage into the corner. You've got to wake up, right? No, we're spexing. In disrespect of the plus two of the low hat, we'll see if Byleth can make a real master comeback pretty much happen here. Oh yeah, had the sector lying in wait. This is possible. Wait, one more sequence. Does that fatal blow too? Dashed up and did nothing. Oh my God, four pressing again. That's not gonna be it. Wow, Byleth's putting on quite a display with this Molina sector team, bringing that back from the proverbial grave and that's how you do it here. You can't even see the life bar. What a brave comeback. 1.01 health to his name and a dream to unite and rule outworldly. Who was Yuck? Koto. Koto, huh? Kolen, Mortal Kombat 2? Cameo? Hope so. Mix up and that was, yeah, didn't even get a hit. And that is the beauty of that move of Shao Khan's 10 frames. It's so quick that sometimes it doesn't get hit and if that move has armor, if it hits something and loses its armor and loses its ability to combo, but if it doesn't, if you get the combo, what a unique special move that General Shao has. Some more big damage. Are we gonna see the sector set up? It looks like it dashing up. Had the right idea to get around the missile, but Violet is playing around that and he looks for what you're doing, not what anything else is doing in that situation. Isn't it? Oh, big call out there. Has the breaker though. Still scary. I think Raffaele Bo can kill us. Why put on damage buff and that should be it. Wait, not like this. Not like this indeed. 13, captain. I think he had a route to kill right there. It had a high enough launch to where stand one or stand two into fatal blow would have definitely comboed for the victory right there. Yes. That was a tough one to see. He may have been... Anything into fatal would have been enough. Getting the long combos was just so scary in those situations. And maybe that's what he was banking on, trying to save the resources. And that was dirty. Last second block on that roll, still covered by the sector on the missile. Goodness. That accident looks so mean and into the 50, 50 town population violets into the slam, but not welcome to the jam. And it's gonna be Valet's turn around. 13, captain, has been a little happy with those axe calls, but it's not the most lethal thing in the game anymore. There is no mix up because you can't just block it low or high. And you can just delay or wake up against it. Can we talk about that walk underside switch though? Shot was such a savage. Round two. Get around the board, captain will go. So into the back to that says it's still, it's still my turn was waiting on some disrespect to big patients, sector missiles out. Oh, don't ball roll on me. Hold this armor. You're still in the corner. Oh, and that's mixed on top of mix. Wow, the perfect compliment to the general sauce chicken. And wow, these call outs do not walk forward. Don't poke me and don't even use the rocket. I'm gonna armor it every single time. That's what I've seen. Here comes another one. Wasn't ready for the throw. But we've seen comebacks before. Captain got to be very cautious right now. No, no, no, no, not again. That was a throw punish as well. 176 for Molina woke up with the down one and that's gonna be what takes it. The audacity by 13 captain. I think he read that he was gonna try to meet with a forward one with his high. Really good disrespect to break up down two and we're gonna be creating a beam of energy. Why does he even do that? Where is that in the actual game? It looks so cool in the outro. Let me just, let me just summon a hammer of dawn from Gears of War real quick. He might need it. Just saying. I think so. And I just love that Shao channels Aries in this game. He really does. You could just see the parallels. Oh, wow. That was so nice converting off of the aired whistle. Wait, wait. And a more pressure that moves you to the corner and Shao Khan, sorry, general Shao without acts is a bully multiple plus frames on multiple points of his strings. And hold. Definitely is. Look at this damage. Oh, dropped it at the end there but still on the rise of pressure. Nice back throw, setting up the missile. Not much else you can do. That was either going to be chip or still maintaining the corner position regardless of hit or block. Look at that anti air. That is a heck of a normal right there. Wicked is that stand two of Shao Khan's back onto the acts. Get over there in the corner because I can side switch and a little too early but the teleporter got him out of there, so. No, I'm out of dodge. Oh, good block. Didn't get the full punish. He didn't have Kung Lao, which is what he had in his muscle memory as the combo and punisher. Damage here, so effortlessly setting up the sector missile. No, y'all no ball rolls. I've had enough. And that was for no reason whatsoever. We just feel like it, you know. He may have been afraid of the comeback because he did have breaker. Maybe he was going to break that last hit and then a comeback. But damn, respect. Braids are to be knocked. Oh, that was gorgeous. That was a MKX conversion right there from Violet. Yeah, I hate to say this as a Molina hater, but I do like that she's doing her thing again. Oh, yeah. Like all of her things from MKX. Full combos, 17 side switches. She's a threat everywhere and anywhere. I love it. You excited? That clips you moving wrong? Yeah, yes, the full combo. Slow hat, back throw. This is still possible for 13 captain. But Violet's with a big confirm. They try to get a reversal stand, too, in there. It's been working for him an awful lot. I think Shout Stand, too, is like nine frames, 10 frames. It's been putting in work. Violet's definitely has. It retakes the lead in this one. I was talking to him in between the break while he was sitting on the stage. And he said he was incredibly nervous playing on that up there. Oh, not looking like it. Still playing very smooth. Great staggers. I said, you aren't playing like a man. It does have some general shout experience as well. Oh, so lovely. Big combo here. That should corner carry a decent amount. Oh, big set up 50-50. That's so dirty. And Kaplan knows how to use his plus rings really well. Shout, too. Oh, yeah, definitely. Oh, that's a punish. That's a good combo. He's going to set up the axe. 50-50, shout out. Oh, so dirty. This is chip territory now. And that is, that's his mid. That's his midlaner, gentlemen, the back one. Axe of shout. Eight of bar as well. Ooh, matrix dodge, missile. And finally ready for the overhead, but guess what? That's only going to open up to the other mix. Set up missile is Violet's. Got the corner positioning. Look at that patience. What a call out. Yeah, the armor, and he's interrupted the back two with plus double digits. I think it is flamethrower from Sektor. You don't see that an awful lot, especially in combos in the corner, which can lead to some deadly stuff. Yeah. There's the low. You thought there wasn't more mix. It's general shout chicken. It's what's for dinner. 2-1 now. Wait, is it 2-2? I think it's 2-2. I think it's 2-2 now. This may be a fine game. This is our first game five. Wow, that was a different match. Definitely. You could just see the adaptation in real time. Doing good at avoiding those missiles, too, with all this forward advancement movement that Shao have, save damage here, setting up missile again. Ooh, jump back. And was able to avoid it this time. Probably going to commit on that. He chased down a little bit farther and held low from downtown. And multiple things from Shao going to the spin of Kung-Wao, the back three and the 2-2 that we see. Dropped it with 3-6-2-1, but axes on the ground. And that's still a good thing for Shao. He was in 2-2 range, where the plus frames can be a threat. And that's whether the storm of this Molina Sektor not losing a lot of damage, though, so still a win-win, only getting hit by the single ones right now. And this is going to be the full combo here. We're into the missile setup. Jumps out of it. Ooh! That's a training combo, I just believe. Do overhead works. My brain can't even process it. Like, that was like the craziest sequence. This isn't going to kill, but this is going to be close. This might bring them to, like, evenish life. It's going to be down to a hit, a piece here, ladies and gentlemen, Violet's 13. Captain, with your drill state. And I don't know what Violet's tried to press again. That mid of shouts that we don't see a lot has caught him off guard here late in the set. And those last game layers are just so interesting, because now we're breaking out all the hidden dirt that wasn't in the first few. There's so many trades. That was beautiful with punish. Dashed up to catch that as well. How late in the set, and how big of a read did you just make to whiff that back to from full screen. Nice bunch of Violet's getting him around. What's the neutral ducking for a moment there, too? But then decided against it, got that grab in. And no rocket from Violet's on the back door the first time that he has it. I think that he, yeah, maybe trying to save it. But oh, we're just anti-air on the teleport here. Now we're going to set that up. And that was great. Neutral duck so that the wake up would go over his head. Last game, last round. Arrow 13, Captain. See, our Violet's at that knee. Just ate something up in the middle of that screen. I don't even know. Not with punish. Here comes the rocket coming in hot. We'll just open up on that overhead, but didn't get a full combo into the low side. Oh, what a conversion. Drops the under, though. Sector's going to come back. Calls it out there. Doesn't even down to it. There's another knee. Every time that rocket's in the air, that knee comes from Captain. Blocked the low. Oh, that was nice. This should be it. Big corner damage to add extra. And there we have it. Violet's holding it down with the Molina Sector. But wow, what a close set. Very well played to both right there. Great showing of General Xiao. Molina, everyone giving them claps in the background. Yes, that was amazing. Big height match. Which one's Mighty on Justin? Which one is Elkacui? That is the question. I want to say Mighty has the glasses. I think he does. Don't quote me, though. Man, Captain, as this set went along, really impressed me. He played around the awkwardness of the rocket so well with the awkwardness of the quick movement of Xiao Kong's, especially Knee, the jumps, the back two, multiple things that moved the big boy around. Knee, back two, and even some real good stand two callouts for really the heroes of that set and what a game five. Super down to the wire last round. Both players amazing with their ranges. And there you see the beauty of a character that has a built-in 50-50 complimented by a cameo that makes it so threatening. Knockdown, cameo call, mix-ups coming, uh-oh. And this round was insane. Craziness. And wow. If you would have committed and picked up off of that two and got a two-two knee or just a two knee, I would may have quit. I may have walked off, set the headset down, and just walked up and shaking his hand on stage. Like, please stop. Mid-match. Oh, and this is a big one. Oh, wow. This is, I think, going to be winners' finals, technically, of this side of the bracket, because two make it out of the pool in winners, and then they play each other. Insane match here. And so I think this is for top 64. Leafs home. Mighty and Jess. Kind of the jack-of-all-trades here. Place Kenshi. I have seen a bit of Johnny. Very good with characters all across the board, really. And I know it's late, but do you remember earlier when we had the CR team battle? Yes. I have a correction. It actually wasn't. Only Violets was sponsored by CR in that match. Oh, really? Yeah. Just a quick, quick, quick correctment. CR reached out and was like, I have no idea who that is. Oh, wow. They're like, huh, not ours. And there they are, the Mighty Unjust. In Zesco, Mighty Unjust on the right. Glasses out with a Goro shirt on, and I know he's not using Goro. Shout out to the hype-land merch. It looks so amazing. It does look awesome. Yeah, look at that Goro. Yes. Oh, wait. Don't cover him. Don't cover him. Yeah, there we go. Rar. I love Goro. Goro cameo has to come out now. Have we not seen Goro yet? Honestly, I don't think we have, which is honestly surprising. A lot of people kind of weigh him as, yeah, they kind of weigh him as like the best or like not necessarily the best, but one of the best offensive cameos in the game. So, yeah, I'm very surprised I haven't seen him yet. Just a very good overall cameo that I feel like complements every character in a way. Definitely does. Both statement, but I truly feel that for Goro. He is a universal cameo. Omelette toss does wonders. Not so many punches, punch walk for chipping out. So many good situations for Goro becoming clutched. Any character that has something low in their string? Low key. It's kind of gross when Goro eats you to the sky and you're respecting some insane pressure. It really is, but it's also so satisfying to watch. Goro comes in just reeked. And no Goro here. It's just gonna be Kenshi sub scorpion Cyrax from Zescal. Both great choices here. Cyrax gonna add in that chip, but Kenshi sub, you're not zoning me and you're getting sandwiched with Cento and look at that damage. It's easy, breezy, beautiful. Beautiful. Cento something, I don't even know. I don't know where I was going with that. And he stops the flawless. That's all Zescal needed here. Stop the flawless. Stop the bleeding. You are not following me. Oh, did not get the extension with Cyrax. Like anticipated. He tried to walk and throw. Let's get another, let's get another. Just warming up. Oh, it's the shim. Wait, this might be a comeback. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Ooh, and that was nice. Securing that chip damage to get the round. Back is still to the corner though, it's mighty unjust. And look at that poke into windmill. Where are you going? Here's why he came off of the, of the sector because I haven't seen too much fill from the Cyrax in this one. I'm just one time in pressure was ready for it. You know, it could be mistime too of trying to jail it or be closer to a jail. And wow, look at the patience there. Attack right at the proper time. Gets the breaker, but still a little damaged on the table. Try to go for spear, but no. Oh, on the ice. I get a brain fart right there. It was a sick whiff on us though. We're not to be with one. Definitely was. And that was a lot of spins and a lot of chip right there. It's been the wind. Big damage, and of course, until comes out to play. Try to hit the launch off of the sweep, but a little too late. They're just beating them up. Look at this. It's a massacre. It's a massacre. They're banking them. It's ping pong at this point. This is so insane. Mighty unjust says, hold on. I have more than one cameo. You forgot? There is a, I think for all of us, we all feel it. You've had to feel this too, Fini. How does it feel? How does it feel when Ketchy hits you with a freeze? My heart sinks into my chest. Your life flashes before you real quick. It's a literal jump scare. This is a horror game where Ketchy's almost crazy. Because once sent those out, you're just praying something puts him to sleep. Oh, no, that's a heartbreaker drop. And this is going to be the ping pong match of the century here. That's all in Ketchy. She's just beating the bricks off of them. They're hot. And big overhead. And he resummoned them all. No. It's two of you, one. Help. We're scarred when you need them. Help. That's how I feel watching Mighty Unjust or anything is Ketchy's bully people with Cento. And there's a few favorites here. One of them being a surprise to maybe most, but Titanium Tigers has shown up to an offline tournament and he's here. That's amazing. I don't even know what just happened, but it was so awesome. And it's still going. 389. Even if you don't get hit, that is so much chip from both Cento and Ketchy. Oh! What? Oh, that's what it got me to. I think, somehow, someway, who... His ancestors are extra angry today, community, they are on another level. Zescal. This is combat reparations right now. Cento is putting in so much work. I've never seen nearly the ability for Zescal to play the game be taken away from him. And just look on Mighty Unjust. I just... I don't even know how to describe what, like the look that he just gave the camera It was cheese. He's like... Calculated. The glasses just start glowing. Oh, wait. He's like, yeah. Was that his brother? Yes. His brother definitely walked up and just like lifted the earbud and went, just keep doing that. I just wanted to laugh with you. Tough one. A sex whore. I can agree with this pick. The chip is very good with Cyrax, but at the same time, you kind of want to be able to wow out and still be safe, especially when Cento can be so oppressive. Yeah, I think that this is going to be better when he gets the hit. If he gets the hit. Let's go, Zescal. Start off getting him off the Sub-Zero and he immediately got a insane back dash cancel with a back two. That is some big stuff, big brain stuff from Unjust. One of the best mids in the game. A back two, or can she... And now we're watching beat him up live. Oh yeah, Cento's still alive. He can come and get you, even if can't she can't. And a back two. Being the overhead threat, right there is how you have, how he opens up at the low. There's mix in this as well, ending into the sword toss. One of the sexiest animations I have seen in this game is that Cento's sword toss. Definitely, and there's so much damage. Match point now for Mighty on Zescal. Has truly been deer and headlights here, but haven't we all once Cento gets going? You know, there are only a couple of opportunities for you to do something, whether it be armor, whether it be poke, mostly not. With art, you know, spots to armor and ways to just get a hit, get a block, get something to put this, the spirit to sleep in areas. That was a broken combo. Oh, he's back. And it was still 40%. Ooh, here we go. And that's, this stays out so long. Oh, here we go. Look, here we go. We're getting something started. This is an, I believe, I believe in magic infinity in the heart of the cards, in everything. Try to blink, just throw a set up and I think you wanted rocket right there. I may be wrong. As well. Falls, three over the mighty unjust in winners will still be, I don't know if he has to play again to make it out. He may have made it out already. I want to say that was the last match for this poll on the winner's side. I believe, don't go beyond that though. I think Violet still has to play his winners match out because there is another side of the bracket where that Violet is on. Yes, for this side, I apologize. That Alcatraz was also one that players like Ragnarok were also one. I believe a couple of more. Is this the one that B-Dog was in? No, B-Dog is in A-3. So we're actually gonna go back to A-3 and who is he gonna play? I'm excited. Oh yeah. Because Fierce is on the side, Zanzun's on the side. Gruesome, I think it's B-Dog versus I-Gruesome. I think I-Gruesome made it through, I think you would have had to have made it through Fierce to get here. Such a lovely blend of different eras here in both brackets. B-Dog, the Mortal Kombat X specialist, the one of the only ferretor mains in the game's history. Big salute to the ferretor mains out there at Huffman. Big salute, respect to all of you at your annual convention, you know, at a table at Denny's. Salute to you ferretor mains in the world. At one table at Denny's, that's it. Literally. That's the convention. Not even a full table. And here you see really what the match was about. It's get something in the freeze, sentos out, and it's a different game than it was prior. Not to mention, you're trying to flawless block something and then you miss time that even a little bit and you're opened up and look at that sword toss. Oh, it's slow motion. Gorgeous. Thank you production for giving us that, that move in slow motion. And B-Dog is who I warmed up today with. I was out there in the crowd, played him for, I don't know, about an hour straight. I don't want to fight him ever again. It was a little scary. He is a very, very, very aggressive Johnny Cyrax. Oh, yeah. And he's got the hype stuff down. So I'm actually really excited from a spectator standpoint to see if he can pull that off on stream because he pulled it off on me every single round anyway. The hype setups are indeed hype. It's just so much damage, so much oppressiveness, not to mention coupled with Cyrax, even if you don't get opened up, you're holding a lot of chips in salsa before you can attack and take your turn back. I grew some here, don't have a dossier on who he might be coming this with as well, but representing HD gaming. Looks like it on the shirt, let's go. HD gaming group. Oh, yeah. And a name I'm familiar with with online events as well. Seen him in a ton of brackets. I grew some here. Another Xbox pad, like I'm saying. There's so much controller diversity. Just a true testament about how this game is bringing across so many borders. Got the piece from B-Dog, let's go. Are we getting Baraka? Baraka. No, it's some more general shell chicken if that's the case. Yeah, I don't know. Could be Baraka. I think we highlighted Baraka for the controls. Yeah, Baraka and Cage. Okay, now is the time. It has to be time. It's 100% time, I think. Yo, yeah. Oh, yeah. Here we go. Prime time. Strap yourselves in ladies and gentlemen. Look at that. Even he was strapping himself in on the stage. He was like, all right, double Cyrex. Let me tighten the belt up a little bit. Let's sit up. Plus 10% concentration right now. Plus 10% concentration. Plus 10% lean forward in the chair. Got to check your posture here. It looks like they're button checking as well. Always smart to do. Oh, yeah, and this is not a ladies' end, gentlemen. This is going to be a battle of it is not your turn. It's mine. And even when you try to take your turn back, you're still going to hold lots of chip damage. It looks like they're ready. B-Dog, Vinyl Labs. Vinyl Labs being the sponsor. For I, Bruce, our first debut on the pro competition, of the most talked about team in Mortal Kombat 1. Oh, yeah, teams. If you guys have looked up, seen Mortal Kombat 1, even heard of it, you know Baraka Cyrex. Has to be one of, if not the, it's debatable. One of the most oppressive teams in the game. Probably the heaviest hitter in the game damage-wise. It's going to be insane in luck here. Here we go. Not only is this a ton of damage, but it has enormous corner carry and look at that a clean 51st cent. We started off with the biggest combo of the night in an execution error from B-Dog half-life. And if he didn't break, I think he was dead. I think he was two-tap. That was two mistakes. Bruce, it's not a two-tap, I mean. Oh, no, both barrels loaded. Two mistakes into GG, thanks for coming. I love this. 500 to start. But that's how you optimize. They go overhead, but we block those. Seen some nastiness from reducing two with some of the things I do on block into setting up the whip on issues as well. Nice chip. Lots of plus frames from Johnny. He's going to want to keep you blocking, but we're mashing out. Try to go for overhead. He was scared to take his turn right there. It's like he was fearful of Baraka and his negativity because he had a bar, because he armored the last one. He's so scary. See the hug? Staggering like crazy. Maybe too much to know. Oh, nice. Big ol' arc kick. And you know, they both have the same idea there. Like, just back up and press. See what happens. Wait. Oh, that could have been. That could have been, honestly. I could have killed next hit, definitely will. So much chip damage there. Oh, went for a throw a little too far. He's getting ugly. And thought a stagger may have been coming. What stagger happy that entire time? I like that he changed up there at the end. Full string rip into Cyrax. So it's not going to chip out. That's the leader layers. And look at that. How do you re-throw after what you've been hit by already? Literally. I'd be too scared. About to hold up another 500. And that height meter is dangerously close to being full as well. Back is going to be to the corner, though. And that back throw is going to be a full combo with Cyrax. Good staggers. Nice little chip damage on the board as well. A good reaction to that overhead. That's a tricky sequence to block the two. Trying to parry, but couldn't get through. 2-1 next to Gianni. You mean this goes knock down? It does. Beautiful throw. Didn't have a meter to launch. I think he's full on height, but I can't 100% go. And a 4-3 will do it. Oh, yeah. The dizzy knee and the top. Stylish cash out right there by B-Dog. But he even told me it's a quick way to end the match, just like a sweep. It's one that will go to the end screen really fast. Very true. It did accelerate to the end very quickly and get a little culture in here. And I know a lot of casual viewers like to ask the question when they watch competitive Mortal Kombat for all of you that might be watching. A lot of people ask, why don't we see fatalities? Where are they? For these guys, it's all about getting to the next match as quick as possible. Because the less downtime, the less time there is to think, you know, there's back to just this. Yes. Oh, wow. Try to hit that shuttle to get the end. Good, not good. Or you do it for the middle. Yeah. Game 1 fatal, nothing gets under someone's skin more. Let's see if that comes to the play. B-Dog's putting that. I'm sorry, Bruce's putting out the 2-1. But you're going to hear me say, a lot of kidders 2-1s and 4-2-1s. That's the bread and butter. They're so good. They cover so much space. They're very quick. Goes into full combos. These parries just aren't working. Baraka's just getting way too quick enough to mention the helicopter Cyrax coming in and look at that. That was absurd. It just looked absurd. That is a parry, though. Waits out. Even called out. They cancel out of it. Grew some. That was a quick way action 2-1-2 if you're wrong. You die because you swing an available. Yeah, that was a big call out there. Oh, try to go for the throw. But no, we are going to get this full combo and keep you in the corner. Cyrax on them. Oh, wait. You're some savior for late in the pressure this time around with your armor. Beedle, Beedle does a lot of those raw nets because you'll be surprised. You know, one mistake just lends you to the net into the worst time of your life before the breaker. I don't know. Beedle tried to anti-air that, but those speed up the Tarkotans are hard. Oh, this damage there. Oh, big throw. Sorry, he's not even Tarkot in this technically. The Adenian with Tarkot. And that would be it for the kill gruesome. All right. That word can be used to define the round. And it failed. Wait. Wait, wait, wait. He forgot it. Oh, I thought we were going to move list. I'm like, oh, we really want this. Toxic. And was it? Did Beedle just stop him from doing it? He might have done that. Did he just? No, you're not going to. Did he just ice the kicker with? Count on your toxic with my own toxic and cancel you from doing your veil. Or did he cover himself from the embarrassment of it timing out and he went to rematch? Because who did that, Beedog or Grusel? Chat, let us know what you think actually happened there. Was that? These layers on the finish of screen is great. Who was avoiding embarrassment there? Because both of them had opportunities. That's great. Some more big saggers. Spending that two bars for the launch to get some more damage and gorgeous corner carry. Expensive, but worth it here. Look at that chip. Oh, tried to armor out, but no, sir. Stay in this corner and look at the damage. Not done, though. This might. Oh, no. I'm only giving them more meter at the end of the day right there for Grusel. And then this crazy, how much you build meter. The man spent two bars and build a bar and a half in the sequence following. Not only building meter, but also building a pipe meter up. It's active now, but might not need it because of damage. To close out, maybe. Yeah, what are you going to do? It's all going to be invisible pressure, cancelable. How are we? Oh, multi-shot. They're doing it. Did he ice him back? Oh, my goodness. What is this, a savagery? Imagine having layers on finish them. They haven't even said a word to each other. It's all been acknowledgments that this is insane. Actual insanity here. Who's going to get the first fatal? You've got to type it in so quick. You have to get the final, or you're done. It's giving MK2 timing. Yeah, I drop that every time. Peedog. These guys are edibles. I love it. And here we go. Quickest lightning, already back to the corner. Look at the damage. Peedog, living his best life right now. Momy put someone in the corner. He knows he has a multiple-fuga plus ring to mess with. I said it's the side switch. No side rise, though. Opting for the side switch instead of the damage. Oh, that is such a good, that's such a good poke-up I got this. Try to dash back and get something started, but couldn't there? Some of these stackers and a lot of pressure. Not a solid open up just yet, but might not need it. Look at all this shit. He's dying from blocking. Bag of Tadinos right now. Ship damage is killing quicker than a Tarkot is. The smooth punish there. Match point now for Peedog. Who you would have thought maybe would have played one of the more outworlding characters like Baraka playing Ferretor back in the day. But I think this is a different Peedog. You said I'm not. You said no more loyalty. I've already lived that life. I'm going savage. I've already lived the low tier life. And that's been put up so high. Too high. That's a big punish. Peedog looking real comfy right now. And still picked it up. That was gorgeous. That was gorgeous. Peedog smooth finish there, Dan. And you're right. That was a different launch. And hit the shades. You've literally throwing shade. Let's go. Quite literally. Best pun intended ever. What a game. Peedog taking it in a really close one. That was awesome. So that was guys the last match of that set of blocks for us here at the pro competition. That was awesome. Well, no better way to close it out. You saw not only the energy in the game, but you see it outside of the game as well, Infinity. And that's something that's really come back to life here for us as a community. And just the past year, as offlines have come back, talking about the last time the pro competition went down was 2019 or 2020. Years ago. We've all missed this. We really have. Just the energy in the room is vibrational. Yeah, the energy in the game, the energy outside of the game, in the crowd. I mean, we're back. We're back. We're back. And we're better. We're back, ladies and gentlemen. There's so much passion from so many different spectrums of the community. Like you said earlier, another realm community being split between several Mortal Kombat and Injustice games, and so many are reuniting for this tournament. That they are. And guys, coming up next is going to be Pools B3 and B4. Oh, I'm thinking about doing that. So let's just. Thank you, Mountain Dew, indeed. They are one of the lovely sponsors for this tournament. And we are here for it. Thank you so much. Yes. And coming up in those pools, guys, look out for players like Titanium Tigers, King Gambler is in those pools as well. Gur, Scar, Vanity, so many others. Jur, so check those out. That's going to be coming up next, guys. But that's it for us, Infinity. Do you have any closing thoughts here in the first couple of pools for everyone watching? Yeah, Buff Malina. That's not what I saw. Were we watching the same game? The guys don't go anywhere. More Mortal Kombat 1 to come. And I want to give a last shout out to Mountain Dew here at the pro competition. Now through December 29th, guys, you can purchase specialty marked, specially marked Mountain Dew products. Receive a code for a free one month subscription to Xbox Game Pass, which is not like the best thing in gaming, the best deal in gaming. It's beautiful. That's out there. So many games to play on there, guys. It's a free month. Definitely tap into that. Additional purchases and codes will add more points for participants. And the fun doesn't stop there as well. Keeping an eye out, there's more drops and even more rewards coming later this year. So shout out to Mountain Dew, shout out to the pro competition, Mortal Kombat 1, baby. We're back. We'll be back with more action in just a moment. Cheers. As long as I've known you, you've dreamed of leaving Tenja. Is it so wrong to want some excitement? Was near for the Grand Martial Arts tournaments between Earthrealm and Outwards. Let's begun. Take your place. She should replace me as your heir. Your race can shape shift. Join me. And I will. Ladies and gentlemen, what is going on? This is MK1 Pro Competition, ECT, our first stop in the world tour. My name is Cento, this handsome man. Next to me is none other than Darth Armand himself, Dad Armand. Congrats to you. Man. Thank you. Good to see you. How are you feeling today? I'm feeling awesome, man. I'm just really honored to, you know, what I'm very honored to be at your side. I know you've been putting in a lot of work. You're one of the most amazing up-and-coming commentators of this generation. And, you know, me and the rest of the community have been noticing. So again, I'm thrilled to be next to you for your pro-com premiere. I mean, this is it, baby. We're alive. This is East Coast Throwdown. Super exciting. The pro door has been announced. A lot of money on the line, a lot of points on the line. And this pool is just going to be insane. It's just going to be incredible. I believe this is going to be King Gambler and Wise Gemini's pools, respectively. Those are the higher seas in each of those pools. Both really good players. Heavy hitters. We have plenty of heavy hitters here. Your online warriors, as well as the people you know prior to Ninja Killer, Sonic Fox, Scar, all these big games. Kevo even came. But when I saw Kevo, I was like, all people are in for it. Treat. Yeah, it's always really cool to see Kevo come back out of the woodwork because Kevo's just such a deep-rooted veteran. But the ability, the talent, it's all there. Kevo's putting in the work. Like, he is a force to be reckoned with. Always, always. And then you got to worry about the new talent that's coming in. Like, we're at a point in time where now, when it comes to competition and competitive play, where it's not so much like there's too many beginners. Like, the beginners are very good off a rip. And you have to watch out for them because, like, honestly, in a matter of months, they can be up there with the top dogs. We've seen the upsets happen. Yeah, definitely. And I think that's more because, like, we have so much access to, like, information, frame data in the game, you know, all these different guides that, like, come out on YouTube, like tech that's going on on Twitter. Like, everybody has the potential to be a great player as long as they're putting in the work. It's not easy. It's definitely not easy. It's not easy at all. But these guys have been putting in that work. And we have each other, like, thanks to Twitter and for us all coming together and finding that tech. Like, people be trying to hide it, but you can't hide it for long. Someone's going to post it. And it's always like the top level players, they be trying to hide it. And then, like, one of the newer guys, they post it. Like, oh, look what I found. They're like, I could have won. I could have won. I could have won. If only I knew. So it looks like on stream, we've got Jer coming all the way down from her. Yeah, so I'm not sure if I have the pool assignment right, but Jer is someone who's been in the community for a very, very long time. Oh, my gosh. So I think, yeah, the pool I have is should be Titanium Tigers and King Gambler's pool. So Jer, veteran all the way back from the MK9 days and kind of kept going, popping up in different NRS games as the time has come up. And I believe this is Triclops, which is Jer's first opponent. Triclops and Justice 2 player playing atrocities from what I remember. My gosh, bro. Like, we got so many throwbacks. What I love about MK1 right now is that we have so many callbacks from the older players and the newer players coming in. Like, a lot of players that came up, like, literally a lot of players that came up during MK11 are going to be playing to MK9. They're like, who are you? Oh, you don't even know. This is like your uncle. You don't even know, bro. You don't even know. You don't understand. Shoutouts to Forever King, the MKXL champion at the community throwdown. He posed for one cue. And then we have to check. He just knows. What does Witte do, bro? And then I have my family sitting right behind Triclops. You can't see them. But that is my wife, Chelsea. And Noah is around there somewhere. My fun little three-year-old who just loves being in the environment, loves being in the atmosphere. He's super excited to be at his first major tournament. And that's so great. The family's important. And they had another one on the way. Congrats, you, Armor. Thank you, man. This is a father and a full-time consecrated trying to do his thing out here again. Must respect to Armor, man. He's gave me praise. But I've learned a lot from him as well. So it's great being in this moment with them. And these boys have been talking for a little minute. It looked like they're trying to figure out what the button's doing. Yeah, they're trying to figure out. So Jer, I haven't really seen a lot. So Jer is a little bit more low-key. Yes, he has been. That's really streamed. But I don't doubt that he's been grinding with longtime friends, first-to-death player matches. So I don't think Jer's going to come into this unprepared. But I'm really glad they picked this match for our first stream. Because even though it's a first-round game, it's going to be sweaty. It's definitely going to be sweaty. And that's why I tell you that competition ceiling is like, everyone's at, I would say, the 70% mark off-route because the tech that's being shown and how good people are becoming that much faster. It's not just like, you have to worry about the randoms in the bracket because they can be very solid. It truly is going to happen. And I just, I love Upsets, I don't know about you guys, but I love seeing a person like, oh, you thought he was going to win? No, whole brackets ruined. Bracketology out the window. Man. I agree with you, 100%. I'm always rooting for the underdog. I want to see the Upsets. I want to see that person take it to the next level. We're going to see a lot of that this weekend, especially if you look at the way that the seating was structured. It's very hard to seed super great players like Sonic Fox and Ninja Killa, who haven't specifically done anything in this game yet, but their presence in Mortal Kombat 11 and all the games prior are so dominant that you can't say that they don't have a chance of winning this entire tournament. Yes, like too strong. Yes. And on the other hand, you have players like Pulse, a little bit newer to the scene, a little bit, especially newer in finding their footing, their dominance in this game. But Pulse has been entering every Mortal Kombat one tournament online, offline, coming to MKNJ, going as much as possible, and he's been putting in the work. And that's what you're going to see. You're going to see those different types of players clash this weekend. And I can't wait to see it on Pulse. Truthfully, like Pulse has been, in my opinion, he's definitely top five in U.S. right now. He's been so consistent in the online tournaments. And just, it's really great to see those online worries. I love this camera. Look at that angle. And look at the kid. There's Noah. That's my son, Noah. Oh, because the Toy Story Hoodie is, oh, oh my God. Look at him. Pop on camera. Look at him. Yeah, so he's excited to see some Mortal Kombat action. Raiden versus Shao Kahn. I didn't see what cameos were picked. I want to say, I would assume that Tricops is playing Shao Kahn, big body boys. We're loud, though. I'm assuming we're loud, right? He has a sub-sector. OK, interesting. So we're going to have some missile setups. We're going to have, and on the other side, we've got a little bit more traditional route with Syrex as the cameo. Yeah, Jir is going to be on the left side, hailing all the way from, I believe, the Montreal area. Oh my God. 44 to stop force. OK, Jir, he's always the only one. Like, he's on the quick way. He needs to get this match done. Because why did you just lose almost 50% health in the fight? We're making a statement here. Watch out for the Oki. OK, good blocks. Jir, as soon as I say that, he does get opened up here by the overhead. Oh, man, you really hate to see. He teleports out down to, oh, that's a big boy trying to hit you with that big button. He's swinging no missed. Oh, I think he thought he was going to swing a little bit more afterward. So he was anticipating more of a whiff to get the whiff punish. Love the sneaky tech there. The poke getting canceled into a very annoying move that can be backed up by Syrex. Comes a sector missile, forcing you to block the second onslaught of offense. And he might be dead, actually. That was a couple of hits into Fatal. And this Fatal does a decent amount. It's close, man. I feel like the Fatals usually give you around 40% depending on what combo, depending on what Fatal blow. Oh, he's alive. He's still alive. 43% not enough to do it. Trying to chip him out, but no, he's out of there. Oh, he does it again to Chip. Chip is the problem. Look at it. Syrex coming in. So much chip, and no, he gets clipped. He's not going to be able to break, and that's going to do it, yo. Jir with the real master comeback. Just off rip. That was good. That was pure just patience. Like, yes, I'm in a bad situation, but a few right decisions can turn this around. And it all started with that Superman to keep him in the air. But watch out. Speaking of the air, it comes the missiles to keep the offense from Shao Kahn going. I'm sorry, General Shao. General Shao, he knows all about the missile, but he does not know about this war. That's this ban. It's about to start. Another back throw. He is one more. Tryclops is big, because this we put him in the corner. But the problem is Jir knows how to get out. I'm a right back at you. Second to keep him locked down. I like that when a guy's when the missile goes up, it's coming down. So you got to be aware and he can call it in front or behind or on top of that. Right. You have to think about the mind game. That I know it with. And there's a Raiden's passive coming into play with his eyes blowing up, meaning that he's going to take less chip damage. But that might not be a situation. I thought that was going to be a punish when he got up. No, this could be bad for tryclops. Don't let it be come back two times in a row. Don't let it be a come back two times in a row. How is he alive? How is he alive? No, he just does it again. He didn't care. He thought Cyrex is going to come in and save him. But no, the helicopter parent isn't enough. You need more. That was like split second, like slow mo. Like I saw that in slow motion as it was happening. Cyrex just helicoptering towards you. And I'm like, is it going to be fast enough? Oh, no. But yeah, that's the thing with Raiden. With just one bar, he can just destroy you. Decimate your health bar. 44% for having one bar and the fact that you don't have access to break away. I'm sorry, it's a breaker. I do the helicopter parent doing the thing by one more time. Hey, it's a lot of fire over here. I would like to go back midscreen, too. No, OK. I guess we stand over here there. It's plus. Oh, why do you try to press? Oh, he tried to come in, grab with you with the overhead. Blessing this cadenza, pushing midscreen. Oh, he poked out. You got to trade somehow. Somehow in his favor, he got the trade. He's still alive. Never mind. Wait, what, .3? I mean, he had. He must have just earned that bar. There was like nothing left there. There was nothing left there. And again, in this game, like, yeah, you can fall this block to reduce the chip damage. But when you have, like, all these different special moves from Raiden, all these different special moves from Cyrex and the cameo coming in to help you out, like, it is so hard to keep track of all that. And eventually, you're going to get tagged. Now watch your toes. And you're going to hold 40% like that. Was it worth it? I want you to ask yourself, was it worth it? I don't think it's ever worth it. So, one, think about the throw when you're fighting Raiden. Or, two, think about the overhead too much. You want to block the low. The low is what you're going to hit confirm into damage. And, you know, the overhead, you can kind of see it. You see it coming your way. And you try to react to it. But that's the main thing you want to watch out for. You don't want to get opened up by either one of those. At all. And overhead coming in again. Remember, he can actually get a full combo from the overhead, which is very scary with the Cyrex, so it can become a little nuisance if they can actually know the timing for it. Because now you've got to worry about the overhead low and the throw. And he can hop again. Oh, my goodness. Again, watch your head. You have to watch out for that low. That's going to be that main route to damage. And then once Raiden is like, OK, this guy's not letting go low, I'm going to go with either the harder to react overhead that doesn't lead into too much damage. Or I'm going to try to cash out big time. And it looks like we're going into the next game right away. It might be these triclops not taking a second to think about that. He's going right back in, but he's going right back. Yeah. Yeah. And then the score is 2-0. One game away. So this is triclops. He's character locking himself here with Chau Khan. Yeah. Big change you guys do now know. If the loser does change characters, the winner does have the option to change characters. Yeah. That's also another mind game to think about when you're switching your characters. Exactly. Yeah, you've got to anticipate it. And it's just going to add utility whenever you go to a different cameo. Yes. Pretty good damage here, corner carry. Let's wake up. Let's wake up. Why not? I'll be tired, but no, you've got to get up the tops. Got a good one. One second. Show me some of the sauce. Interesting choice of juror to hold on to that. He had the breaker available, but just opted to wait it out. Maybe think we need to drop something. Hold on to full charge. I think that's it. What are you going to do? You can follow us, Block it, maybe. Maybe? The pressure right there. When you see Cyrus coming at you sometimes, you get weak in the knee, you know? It gets kind of terrifying. A little unstable there. Your mentality. Oh, that's a time to drop. No, he interrupted that. I'm the fucking god. I don't want to see it. Oh my god, the rocket was still there. I forgot all about the rocket. We all did. It went up. The shout didn't know. That's why you beat the combo. Look at that. 3-13, and he makes out the arm. Good punish. Good punish here. Forcing him to come off all three bars in order to access that breaker. Air to air going to go in favor of juror, but doesn't get too much off of it. Flawless Block to reduce the chip damage. Good stuff by tri-crops. Let's go Block it. That's a great amount of time. I guess the throw, yeah, like I was just saying that Flawless Block in this game works a little bit different than the last game. It's kind of like a bonus for a period of time. You're just taking no chip at all. No, he gets the dunk, but he didn't get to finish. Oh, boy. Tri-crops. Don't drop it here. Oh, no, it's a fatal. Oh, you know, kick it to launch. I'm not going to get a regular launch there. So much chip damage he's holding. Tried to dash it for a punish, but nothing out of that. No, he bumped up in his face. How disrespectful. And look at the chip you're holding. It wasn't enough. And that's going to do it, yo. Tri-crops. 0.43 health armor. 0.43. Nothing left. Literally nothing left on his health. But Tri-crops lives to see another round. It was a chest piece that did it. That's that level 12 armor. Indeed. Ha, ha, ha. Wait a second. I want to put it on him one more time. Oh, he dropped it. It dropped towards the end. Tri-crops, you got to make this happen. You got to make this count. You got to make this hurt. Throwing him on the ax, picking the ax back up. And here comes the sector missile. Respect him with your. That's plus three. We don't care, though. Bye. The low, the low. And wait, big punish. He's going to need a bulk of this damage before he can breathe. Oh, he goes for the restance of command grab. No, even with a plus. I like it. I like it. I love it. I love it. Yeah, no access to that. No access to any kind of armor move right away. Did Tri-crops really turn this around? The missile does get hit out of the air. Oh, my gosh. That could have been a big whiff bunch of notes. My clops is going to stay alive and put the set at two to one armor. He might make this happen. He was on the verge of getting three O's. Like he had 0.43 away from getting three O'd. And I think what would really happen here was the Tri-cops picking on the fact that when Jir is getting comboed, if he's not in a huge life deficit, instead of going for the breaker, he's like, I'm going to hold on to the bar because I want to wake up with it. But when you do that in this game, when you wake up with your armor moving cost bar, that means you're not going to have the breaker, which means it's going to hurt when you get punished. You earn your back pretty fast. If you use that bar, you're going to take the cost of that. You're going to take that full combo in this one. Oh, my God. That's a big whiff, but it's with no commitment. There's some of your commitment issues, Jir. Not like this. Someone's shift. That's it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure if that's a punish there. I think he just wasn't walking. Yeah, I think he was trying to let go. Maybe he's still ducking. Something was going on there. Breaker does come into play here from Tri-cops. Jir still does have access to it, but I'm not going to really see that come into play if Tri-cops goes for throws. If Tri-cops goes for really short combos. He went for it. He doesn't have the bar to extend, but wait, what's the move here? He wants to throw. He wants to throw. He's too far away. Helicopter can't save you. He tried to get Sector into this. He tried to get Sector in the mix there to try something. And then at the very end of Cyrex's helicopter, it clipped him off the screen. So I'm not really able to get that offense going. Oh, that's good, man. Try to wake up a bunch of things. You missed time, you're meaty. Try to do some off of it, though. The ax still on the ground. Oh, he's out of there. Yeah, that's the super frustrating thing about fighting Raiden is when you do get him in the corner, they're just going to air Superman out of there. But you can anticipate it. If you've got the right moves, you can punish that. Sure, I'd like to have to break so you don't take the both of these. He doesn't break. He doesn't break. He's thinking about that wake-up option. Yeah, down two and like nothing. Raw down two out of the wake-up. Good shot. Locks him down with a rocket. The passive is active. But guess what? It's still plus my guy. I don't care. Counter hit because why are you bashing my plus rings? Hold the ax and you're standing in the corner. Yo, try gloves. I'm seeing the adjustments being made real quick. Huge adjustments, and it really comes down to respecting Jeremy when he's on the ground and kind of managing that meter and understanding, like, OK, he's got this meter. What is he going to do with it? Why is he holding onto it? Why is he refusing to break it? And I don't know if I really agree with it. Again, he's still doing it. He wants to wake up like that. So I'll do the rocket without the recovery, but plus rings, it's a more chip. Side right coming in one more time. Watching the toes, that's good. The armor's right through. Guess what? I want to see the side of the screen now. High clumps. He's with us. All right, he has a break. Let's see what you'll do with it. The EX1, I believe, or the enhanced version is safe for the most part. Yes. Minus 12 with so much pushback. Yes. The down one, the nose. All right, we only hit that mid swing. Nice. Oh, if he combo'd up that, I would have lost my mind. It was almost like it messed up his own combo, like he wasn't anticipating the rocket and kind of forgot about it himself. Oh, yeah, I sent that out. That's it. Oh, wait a second. I had to meter the break. Jerry, what is your move? You teleport? Rocket got out of the way. The overhead. One more mix is all that's needed, but he wakes up with the button. Tryclops has now tied it up. Game off. Do you think the fact that Jerry knew how close he was to making this 3-0 is eating him right now? Nothing's more terrifying as a player, I do admit. When you're up 2-0 and then they take that game, the automatic, the first thought is back ahead, like, I can't get the first 3-0. And it does play a factor. And now it can actually come to 3-0. Don't give him a 3-0. Yeah, the score is tied up 2-2. Jerry looking a lot better this time, though. Getting a ton of damage, very reminiscent of that first round where you just get, you know, you get that opening, you get that bonus meter, and you're just in a great position. Too much of a good position. What we did talk about is that Shows was one of the characters that gave the extra 100 health. He has a base, so that's why he's been able to take a lot of these hits. This is the big boy. And he deserves to know this a lot. He got all the armor, he's very tall, and he has a big axe. I don't know about you guys, but I can't hear his axe around the bush. I don't know that thing, said. And he's looked the whole human with it. What? It's a very fitting, very fitting extra 100 health. Wake up Superman from Jir, and he is on round. And I'm sorry, it's set point. If he does win one of the next two rounds, it's all his. But this was close, either way, no matter what happens when you're on out here. I feel like Shrine Claw actually wants the first round of every single game they played in here, but he just made the adjustment. Yeah, it's kind of a slow and patient game plan getting a little disrespectful there. And I don't know if he was trying to expose the gap. And if some character's in back dash during that string, I don't know, Shao Kahn being a big boy, I don't think he can. Oh yeah, no, he ain't got quick feet like that. He can't move like the others do. That's why you need to help assist the second move. OK, a little sneaky there with this sweep. Jir wasn't counting on it. Just lift, open the festival, and again, push through on the board. This is tough, because he's not going to build enough breaker. Yeah, I think he's good. Yeah, he's literally quite literally cooked. Oh my god, that electricity was so much worse. Jir, say, OK, I am not giving you a real, that's not a good look to me or my mental. And he's going to screw that. It was a good set, though. The fact that, again, like, that kind of just shows you the mentality of a seasoned player like Triclops to be in that situation, to be down to absolutely nothing and saying, no, I'm still in this. I can still do this. Although Jir did give him a little bit of that in that first game, I want to say it was, like, second round. He did, like, wake up Superman to avoid, you know, the low hit that's on the ground from Shao Kahn's axe. But, you know, it's it definitely takes a little very, very strong person mentally to be able to fight through that. Because it's it's very easy to call it quits. Very easy to call it quits. And, like, that's it's the mental fortress who we talk about a lot. Like, as we get this, it's beautiful. It's to replay the response about that Mountain Dew. Thank you, guys. But look at the axe being thrown, the fatal being hit. Ooh, we the damage. Yeah, this was the situation where the where Jir, like, survived that and, like, somehow made the comeback. And Jir, I thought it was going to be a 3-0, like, steamroll. I thought it was going to be, like, nothing shifting back, especially after that second game, Jir, super dominant. But this is where Triclops started waking up and catching on to Jir's wake-ups, baiting out more things down to nothing. Look how much health he had, nothing. He thought that was going to chip and it didn't. The .43, I'll tell you that 1,100 health really does add a factor. That's true. If he was any other character, he would have been dead a long time ago. But it's just so much you can do. And, like, this is, like, I expected this type of match from these two veteran players, because they've been in the scene for just quite a bit. So, like, they have that mental fortitude to go through these brackets and, like, you know, beat down and, like, got a dig deep to get to that. And the same thing with Jir, like, on Jir's side of things, about he had to back his mind, I'm about to give a verse for you. That's the mental thing you've got to get past, too, not just when Triclops was doing this thing. It was tough for both players to endure that. All this match right here, all happy. This is Butter from the lamb versus BDG. Oh, Butter is a MKX, really just a strong MKX. And he's been doing his thing for a minute. BDG has been going to come up as a reason to do an MK11. He picked up MK11. He liked Sonya. He says, great. Sonya's not in this game. Oh, my God, I am so sad. But he's found his way with Smoke, and Butter has found his way with the Johnny. OK, and it looks like, according to the way the brackets laid out, Butter won over Wolfie935, now facing off against Big Daddy G. And I don't know how this is going to, have you been keeping tabs on the training regiments of these players? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. BDG trains very closely with people like Ninja, with people like K-Mac. That's quite a privilege to be able to train with Ninja. People like Schiezer. Like, BDG has always had that confidence. However, Butter has also played with people like Ninja, but trains heavily with unbearable skill. Unbearable skill, if you guys want to know, is a very strong MKX player and has some success in MK11 as well. So Butter is one of the, in my opinion, Butter is the underdog in this situation, but the underdog you must look out for. He is very strong, and he's been showing that through past experiences as well. Again, it's just kind of, it's very cool to see players utilizing those resources and getting to that next level. Yeah, getting to that next level, and I think that's what we're going to see here. We're going to see Smoke facing off with Johnny. You ever think about playing Vegas? I think Big Daddy G is playing Smoke in this scenario. Yes. And Johnny, Johnny with Cyrex. We've kind of seen a lot of that. Oh, yeah, we've seen a lot of that. A very stable, very go-to pick for a lot of players who are versatile in being able to play multiple characters. You've got to have at least a pocket job. Always, always. The Kung Lao is actually one of the cameos where people argue that it's actually better than Cyrex. Interesting. Because he's so strong with the utility of the low hat being plus two. And you holding this, you're facing very hard to block those situations. And with Smoke, Smoke has over-hitted lows. Oh, yeah, he could definitely mix them, but this is from his corner right now, holding the block low. He's doing a good job of keeping the patience, though. And I see the fuzzy guarding attempt coming out of him. So I think Butto needs to kind of change up the timing a little bit if he wants to throw Big Daddy G off. The Kansas right now, he goes to business since tomorrow. And guess what? I don't know about you guys, but doing a Kansas with Smoke costs no meter, just like you guys know about the worse. But doing it while invisible is insane to me. Oh my god. There's no visual reference. You've got to go completely by field. That Kung Lao was just doing so much work. Why? Because it could cover all your gaps. Oh, he almost ducked that though. You saw that? He ducked it, but his knife just didn't reach far enough. It was very close. That could have been a really bad thing for Butto. I don't know if that was intentional to put himself in the corner there. The taunt? It gets a regular taunt. Did that man just taunt really? That's full screen like that? What's he on? I don't know. He's going to caulk you. Right now, he's going for a ride. Big Daddy G looking great. Trying to get that. I thought he was going to convert from that. But he's trying to get that hard to blockable setup going, where the low hat comes in right around the time that the overhead comes in. And you want to transition between both of them to keep your opponent guessing. Of course, Cyrix going to keep Johnny Cage's Shadow Kick super safe. And unfortunately, not safe from this throw. I thought that was going to be enough. But no, the down three is going to take it. Yo. Yeah, the back throw is doing only 11%. So had that been a forward throw, I think that would have been enough. But I don't think Big Daddy G was in a position to be really sweating it. Oh, nice blocking overhead. He messes up the cancel. And guess what that means? Big damage for Butter. You guys don't know. He mess up that cancel. That's minus 15. And that's definitely a big punish. Nice armor break, but didn't commit. Yeah, it kind of was. I think he was just anticipating staggering. Beautiful up block here from Big Daddy G. Very easy way to anti-air somebody. But very easily baited out. Go for an empty jump and you get that with punish on the recovery. But it's going to two bars. No, he decides to save it. Just has to hold to 10%. Oh, try to go for it. But it's a no is coming through. Next, but he's holding it for another throw. The back was right this time. Man, Johnny, he's just trying to defend his own. Why is it strange for him to come into his home trying to think he's doing anything but to smoke? They were much right now. Does Follower's Block to avoid all that chip damage and still stay in this? That Follower's Block was crucial. He's still invisible all about the state. Was it just a chip? Or was it just an easy Cyrex net? But that's OK. The Follower's Block that led into that. I'm not sure why he didn't hold it there. It looks like Johnny Cage was going to fall right onto it. But that's OK. We're going invisible. You don't see me. I'm going for all this damage here. Kung Lao set up. Where is he at? It doesn't matter where you're at. Look at that knee. Whoa, whoa, whoa, this man's taunting just like this in the middle of the Buddha. You do realize this is serious, right? You're at East Coast Third Down. You're playing on the stage at East Coast Third Down. You're on the Netherrealm screen right now. The man doesn't care. He gets another cancel. He'll be easy right now. He's definitely putting another grab into another setup. Oh, it was so much. And the cancel afterwards, he'll be easy. Keep taunting. So I love that setup there at the end. He doesn't complete the combo. Instead, cancels into the Kung Lao low hat to make sure that he doesn't do anything on that wake up. And I believe Smoke was able to stuff any kind of armor if it was coming that way. Again, all these setups are brand new. I mean, this game is super new. Love the whiff punish. Love the whiff punish there at that back three. Gets it with a nut punch closer to the corner. And this is where it's really scary to fight against Johnny Cage. With your back up against the wall, no wiggle room at all. And you just got to, like, fearfully poke for your life to get out of here. He's trying to do that now. Oh, it goes for the up block and gets blown up for it. Yo, he's going to have to break this. But you have a huge life lead. Don't mess it up. And oh my gosh. Lesson, BDD's head. And that is going to be a tie up one to one to walk down. I love to see it, man. I love to see the back and forth between these players. And again, the adaptation jumping over. And just like I said, up block is very easy to pull off, but also easy to break out. If you guys do not know if you up block and they made it, they can go for a low to get a full combo punish. Or if they throw you, the throw does more damage. And that adds even more damage to sudden command grab. I'm looking at you, Lyco. Yeah, it's a ton of damage is possible there. So you're always taking a huge risk going for that up block. That's the man canceling while invisible, you can say. You can say. Oh my god. Low. And cancel the kick. The low, the overhead, the low, the overhead. One of these things is coming out. I mean, that was insane. And now, obviously too much. I think that was a flawless. I don't think butter got his hands anywhere on smoke. Just constantly going for a ride, going into mixed city. That's OK, though. New game, new round, no problem. Jumping in big kicks right to the face. Gets the throw after he's a little bit negative from that block poke. It was a set shot to jump out, but none of that. You still got a guess for your life. Nice down one. He knew he was there. He knew he could feel him right next to him. Sinked him. Nice flawless block negating that chip. Yeah, really timing it well. Every time Cyrix comes on the screen, flawless block, minimize that chip. That is a super high level tactic that you're seeing right before your eyes. Oh my god, that was a cool combo from PDG. I think he's going to go for another setup after this. Oh, yeah. Where is he? Where is he? I don't know, but I knew where he was. He just poked him and he's going to switch positions with him. Buddy, you need to take this. Very nice. Keep him locked down. The staggers. And what's so interesting, that whole sequence, none of that did chip damage because there wasn't enough time between the staggers strings because Big Daddy G flawless block that first one. Like there, right there. You have to give him time to breathe or else it's not doing anything. You can still see all this flawless blocking. It's not doing anything. Oh, guessing with the force, PDG going up 2 to 1 over Butter right now. And I think I'm seeing the frustration coming out of Butter where he feels like I'm doing all these things. I should be opening you up. You should be panicking. But Big Daddy G keeping his composure solid, solid, solid foundation here in this defense. That's what he is. Guess what? How's he? That's overhead, right? That's overhead. I can't even see it. I don't even know what he hit. I know PDG. No, XPDG don't know what he hit. All he knows how to do the cancel. I'm going to take this. How do you see? How do you navigate through that? It's another hedge. It's still plus. Oh, we don't care. We got the invincibility. I like that. Oh, misses the cancel. But he just gets hit instead. And this actually, yeah, this is looking like a mic to the PDG. Just to make sure that he has it over Butter right now. Yeah, and he's running away with it. OK, gets out of there. But again, he's holding that Kung Lao hat so long that even if you get out of there, it's like, OK, you still have to hold it. And it can at least apply pressure where you're going to crumble and you're going to fall apart. He's putting in so little work right now just to cancel off the hooks as well. He reads the throw and he has to break. A little too obvious. A little too obvious there. A little too desperate in that corner. He's going to toss and Kung Lao popping out of his hole and going right back into it. What does he go? I wonder. So, hey, it doesn't matter. He's right back on the screen. Goes back once again. And that might do it. So PDG not dropped the combo. No problem. No problem at all. Big Daddy G advancing the bracket over Butter. And man, that was a very close set in the beginning. But I think once, I just I could not see for breaking away from that mentality where it's like, Big Daddy G was flawless blocking all those things. And he wasn't getting anywhere with it. He wasn't poking out of turn. He wasn't trying to jump. He wasn't trying to throw these crazy reversal throws in. He was just like, OK, I'll follow this block and I'll just wait it out. My goodness. It's just so much that was going on. And it was like, Butter was going like, just really, he was just getting overwhelmed by that hat. Like, the hat being on the screen, like you saw that when he jumped the mix up. But the hat was still coming in. It's plus two. It's still his turn. And you still have to decide what is your next move. Yeah, it's really cool to see how the Kung Lao low hat complement. I feel like he barely used any other cameo attack. But that low hat really complements Smoke's easy access to overheads. Whether that's just like a regular jump, whether he wants to keep you frozen, so to speak, in fear of that hat. So he goes invisible. And Big Daddy G just seems so natural when he was invisible. Like, he wasn't dropping anything. The low conversion. But over. Yeah, it was good. It was really, really good. That's a practice man right there. The muscle memory is kicking in. And G is looking like one of those places you guys need to look out for. He has been prominent just practicing. Like I said, he practices with Ninja, K-Mac. He has the talent to make sure he can get far in his bracket. And I definitely see him going very far in his bracket. No, definitely see. Yeah, he's, I loved it. I loved all of it. And I feel like Smoke was one of those characters that were, I feel like a lot of people are like, oh, the overhead's reactable. You see this cloud of Smoke come out before that. I'm sorry, man. I get opened up by that overhead all the time. Man, I'm sorry. I'm not. You can't see it when he's invisible, OK? That's true. That's the bottom line. That's even truer. It's too much you've got to look for, man. The throw and, like, that's when it comes in. That's what the method right now, guys, is the cameo. Like, use the cameo to blow that up. That's why I see not just Kung Lao is a great assist to do that, but Sector as well, because you go for a mix and then you got to worry about a muscle coming down on your head, especially if it does a homing one. So is there so many elements that you could play when it comes to what cameo you guys use to cover up those situations like you just said? So it's awesome, man. It's really cool to see all the different things. I believe this is Titanium Tigers on stream? If I am. No way. Yes. Tigers actually coming outside. In the flesh. In the flesh, Titanium Tigers, who is the high seed in their pool. Let me see which where we're at here in. So it looks like it's Dumas. Dumas. This should be one of the round two. CT. This should be round two of winners. Titanium Tigers getting the buy, of course, because they are the high seed. Tigers doing a lot of stuff with Ashura. Oh, yes. Look what he's doing right now. What's he doing? The cancels. Show me the Ashura cancels. Yeah, Tigers is, I believe, at one point, he was number one seed, one of the online. I mean, number one ranked player, yes. Online for MK1 on the PS5 side of things. So definitely been grinding. Definitely is a strong player. This is my first time seeing them offline. Yeah. And this is why, like I'll tell you about, the online warriors finally coming outside. This is why I want to see. Yeah, it's really, I loved seeing. So Titanium Tigers did go to a combo breaker during Injustice 2. But for the most part, MK11, outside of that one Texas Invitational, it was pretty much online. And what was really interesting about Titanium Tigers' content creation, he went in hard on streaming when MK11 came out. And what was so cool about his stream is you could go into a stream chat and say, hey, I'm not that good with Baraka. I'm trying to learn Baraka. Can you play him? And he's like, sure, no problem. Could play any character so early in the game at such a high level. But in this game, I feel like I'm seeing all Ashura coming from Titanium Tigers. Yes, yes, yes. Tigers is, like you said, a pass. MK11, you played a Plethora of characters. Jacks were not quite at the doorstep like that. But like, a Plethora of characters. In this game, we see him most of the time with Ashura. But the kimchi is still polished. Don't forget about his kimchi. It got into a lot of high-end places. The news harassment in the corner is insane. It's still plus. What are you pressing for? Hello, help him. Somebody help. Somebody go tell him. You've got to interrupt. Oh, doesn't get the chip out. But not really much of a punish there. Down one, not going to be enough. But it does get the throw to get a little bit more corner positioning. And of course, Tigers waking up to switch the sides again and going to this next round to try to clean out this first game. One of the best armor wake-ups in the game is off the slab like that. And those are plus. If you just throw them in the face like that, Tigers, don't be too disrespectful to the specter. I know you'd be disrespectful online. I don't get much off of it. Oh, my god. OK, hold on, hold on. Don't count them out yet. He's got some Jack's unblockable setups. We'd love to see it. Here he comes again. Wakes up right through it. Wakes up right through it before that raiding jump kick can even make contact. Poor string, because it's out of hook through. But guess what? It's all that had to be missed in hook, but the down two? Let's charge right through there. And it's such a great interaction. Oh, no, you were pressing. Don't press after you block that yellow projectile. She is plus a billion after that yellow projectile on block. The mind game is you've got to interrupt it before it even comes out. But you just don't know when she's going to cancel into it. White steered the down one into the immediate throw. That was good patience there by Tigers, too. Snipe that out of the sky. When we go, armor is white, too. Yes, Black, he spins it again. He's as low as he in the superman, I'll respect that. But a full combo coming out of Tigers right now. We're going to the sky. We're going right back to the corner. Yo, Madam Bo, you got a lot to clean up beside this building. I'll let you know that right now. Oh, boy, getting clipped by that low. Oh, he reacted to that overhead, but didn't react to the follow-up. He was trying to punish. Yeah, that Kung Lao, let me tell you, that Kung Laoist does everything. It's a low. He's the Texas. It's a low. It's a set up all of it off. Go ahead and talk about it. It's a low. You can end it with any of your strings. It's to leave you at plus two. You can leave it there to get that easy pressure to come in. And as we just saw there at the end, it can also serve as an anti-air. Just hold it when you think they're going to jump. If they jump in on you, keep holding it. You get an easy combo conversion right after. Jax, get out of here. Kung Lao's a little bit quicker than you. He doesn't want to deal with it, and guess what, we're getting another corner carry. Oh, no, he decided to use a Superman. I guess right there. He was trying to go for a wig punish there, but didn't think he was going to commit to the whole thing. Wake up Superman at a dodge. Not fast enough to really punish that teleport, but Hitingan Faggers was thinking about it. Oh my gosh. So Rasmus IV II was in the catch field. Bro, it's so disrespectful. Like, what is this? Bro, oh my goodness. Oh, he had it with the high ground, but none of that. He's going to get a full combo. Yo, he's getting it right here. Oh, he broke that towards the last second. No bar to brokling either side, so you got to do this the old fashioned way. Gets the high ground, but he's not Anakin. Oh, didn't do anything out of it. He's just putting in all this damage. Mohat, and guess what? I know you were going to jump. I have a stiletto to meet you in the air. Easy. Easy peasy. Air to airs, instant jump kicks. I mean, even though the health was low on Titanium Tiger's side, kept it calm and flawless. That's what happens when you jump in because of the low, but that hat is still there. Insurance? That hat is insurance, too? Like a good neighbor, it's always the old way to check. Oh, boy. You've got to just respect it. That hat forced you to block the projectile. And once that situation happened, you have to respect that projectile. You block that, you're going to keep blocking. Another hat, more plus frames. I guess the overhead, but nothing afterwards. No punish, either. I guess he thought he was going to go for the follow-up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So again, a little bit of a mind game. Kind of reminds me of Sektir back in the MKX days. Oh, man, I've never seen that guy. He's going to seem to cancel afterwards, but no, I'm not falling for your mannequins. OK, can he make this comeback happen? He does have Jax. Jax with Raiden does leave him with a lot of damage. I don't think he wanted to swing that way, but he can't. He can block, literally, one more thing and stay alive. But that's it. Oh. Right into the hat. It was still coming. He charged it up like it was a Hadoop in the game, right at his legs. Coming right for him. Coming right for him. Like a shock-smelling blood and water. It was a steal. Yeah, and again, it's you're trying to stay out of that situation. You're trying to stay out of anywhere where you're forced to block more than one thing. So not really much, you must, could have worked with there at the end. It's rough this time. OK, that's enough of the plus points, OK, my guy? That's got you. 3-4-1 to the corner, but no, you're not throwing. Oh, it's still there in that combo. You can't. You can't. And I love how Titanium Tigers is spacing out the projectile, like just outside of that range of Raiden's hoax, or Raiden's, you know, Stan Jabs. And that's a true matchup knowledge here that you're seeing. I almost do, but that's where it's not too good. He has armor of all, and you do not have the health to take it. Yo, Titanium Tigers, a metal axe, is about to take it. You know, right now, it's such a very troublesome battle. Yeah, let me connect the overhead there. Titanium Tigers is probably looking for like a full combo in that situation, gets the trade, and that low has been doing so much work for Tigers. And you just got to adjust to those things. You have to see what's coming out when it's a second hit of a string. You've got to learn how to recognize it. He was just trying to get anything on the board. Anything on the table, but it's just so hard right now. Oh, wait a second. Took a few to wait. She breaks immediately. Expensive, but that's that. Stagger into the low, and guess what? You're back in block stunts. You don't want to deal with this. And I get the idea to back dash in that block stun because you're just like, I feel like I can't press anything, and maybe I can avoid it. No, Asher is going to hunt you down with that sword. It's the low, but no, it was max range, so it didn't work. Hey, I got a superman going to the side of the room. What they cooking over here? What they cooking over back there in the back now? What about the two of them? They're focused on a big launch, and that should do it, because you spin jacks and not dropping. Hey, I'd love to see it. And again, playing around the fact that Tigers was not going to get access to that breaker. So smart stuff here gets the launcher, but doesn't see the armor coming his way. Oh, no. That's not fun. Jacks, I'm on your team. I don't see right now. Wait a second, though. Big launch. Yo, CT, looking like they trying to set it up. I'm sorry, at least getting one game before. Come on, let's go. Oh, the congladoate hat. Kicks the anti-air. But then commit to it. Don't tell me you got commitment issues, too. That had to be missed input, but no punish. Get out of the way, out of the way of the hat. But that could have been dangerous. Had titanium tigers blocked that, that could have been a huge punish. Still, we live to see another day. Is going to have enough bar to go for the breaker? Oh, gosh. You could kill him right here. Don't drop it. Yes. Keep it nice and simple. All right, CT, putting one on the board. Hey, this is not going to be no 3-0 on stream at all. That's what I want to see. That's what I want to see. It's four. He barely put him in that fatal blow territory. Just that one little hit. And the fact that Raiden gets a little bit more health, that one little hit was enough. He had a little bit more than 30%, but did have access to that fatal blow, making it nice and easy. Tigers, you think he's going to show us a new character? Or are you going to stick it out with Astra? Stick it out with Astra. But definitely in the back of his mind that CT is making adjustments. And this could turn into something kind of vicious if he doesn't close out right here right now. And I am. Oh, Mike. Yes, that's disgusting. It is disgusting. You know what? I'm not doing Turbo Taxi, you know what I'm saying? After the loss, I have to do it. Thank you. At this point. That hat is a menace. Yeah, I guess he was just still in the hits done. And he was anticipating him to block it. The low, double low. Of course, Mike, you've got a depth goal. The low. We'll catch them. Oh, no conversion, though. That throw again. Yo, CT is making adjustments. I'm liking what I'm seeing. So we go for the 4-4. Close video. What? You know what? Day plan makes it right now. Oh, he missed the conversion. Superduper plus. Don't, don't, just don't, don't do anything. Yeah, maybe jumping back is the answer, but not teleporting right behind Astra as Tigers was ready to just check you with down one. Didn't need a punish. Just needed you to not block in that scenario. Mike's better. There, there. Superman. Just to begin. Oh, he didn't punish that. I think so. I feel like a lot. I've seen, like, Paul's dash up and block that, or even just Shadow kick that. I think Superman might be fast enough. You're going to see, and so he tried it. He got counter hit instead. Teleports the other side. Astra's there, and gets with you back to the corner. Oh, no, you can't do it like that. You have to break. Tigers smells the blood. But you're going to stay back real quick. I'm not sure what that Jax came here was. Definitely an input error. I don't think Tigers is going to jump in that kind of scenario. I think he just wanted to show off that, you know, Jax is on the screen. You can use him here and there. Moral support. Jax came in, and he's like, come on, baby. Oh, boy. Wait a second to commit with the low and get to the get. Broke, broke. The commitment issues with some of these guys. Look, look, look, let me tell you. That was, that was some stagger pressure that he was going for. He was teasing the idea of throwing, never committed to anything. And Tigers just never let go of the idea of, oh, he's going to throw me. I got punished. Oh, he's going to throw me. I got punished. And on the third attempt, he kept saying, oh, he's going to throw me. And it was the right decision. That's what, what Tigers, the game there. So you got to, you got to give it to him for sticking it out. Yes, you have to, you have to show the struggle. Tigers is going to advance on in that bracket. And guys, remember, you can look at the bracket yourselves and get an update on everything that's going on as well. We got plenty of matches going on off-stream as well as on, but the replay. Yeah, big, big shout outs to Mountain Dew for powering up our instant replay. It was just a good set, you know, between the two players. Again, showing, you know, tapping into that, that, that final life force in that player, like do not go out 3-0, like fight back. You can do this. And a lot of great conversions coming out of Dumas in that game number three. And that's the thing that's so scary about Raiden and his high damage output. If you don't have that break, if you don't have that breaker ready, you're going to die. Oh my gosh. Raiden with Jax, you're holding 50 on the Optimus with one bar and one cameo. Like it can be terrible times for your health bar. Yeah, yeah, it's insane, especially like, like they love to, you know, that first combo. They just use the Jax, don't spend any real meter. You know, he's fake cameo meter that regenerates and then make them break. And then the next time I open them up, that's when it's going to hurt. Coming up next on stream, we have Scar, Scar with a C. I don't think we have to differentiate that anymore, do we? Scar with the K, otherwise known as, you know, Scar C, you know, I always say Scar Texas and then Scar California. Okay, okay. But this is Scar from Texas. Scar from Texas. Now from Seattle, though, is going to be up, going against Wayne number one. Wayne number one. His smoke is actually ridiculous. Wayne has definitely caused some harm on the online side of things. So I'm very interested in what he puts to the table. However, you guys know Scar, your combo breaker 2019 champion as well as a very strong Kenshi. Super strong Kenshi in this game. Scar's roots go all the way back to the Mortal Kombat. In the last nine days, Scar being pretty much the only competitive Scarlet in the Mortal Kombat 19, you know, took a little break during Injustice One. Like a lot of people did, came back from for MKX, putting Demosonia pretty much on the map. Oh, he got that character nerfed. Yes. Everyone was like, Demosonia is not that bad. And then they played Scar and they're like, actually. I take that back. Why did y'all give this the okay? What is the negative edge? What is this team? Why am I holding three grenades into mix? And then Scar, you know, continuing the onslaught in Injustice Two, he was on Echo Fox along with Sonic Fox and Theo on a great team, had incredible performances at both Injustice Pro Series Grand Finals 2017, 2018. And, you know, you can never really count a player like Scar out. Not really big in terms of like the online tournaments. And again, we started this theme of, you know, the new school online player versus the old school offline player. And this is folding out right here in front of us. Scar, you don't, there's no one who's more of a veteran than this player. Yes. Trying to put in so many situations, but it's gonna be smoking. Can't you go on pretty? I need it. You say you need it. Sent so? Yeah. Of course you need it. Sent so. I don't like that pop-up on the top right. I don't know either. It's kind of scaring me a little bit. Did you read it? I'm a little scared of that. It says suspending. It said suspending in five minutes. Let's make sure. You don't want that suspension in five minutes to happen in the middle of the set. So. Like you just get in the middle of a game with a combo. Just kidding. Not connecting. The console just turns off without. Well. So it looks like we might have to, again, we're just taking precautions. We don't want any, we want to keep the integrity of the tournament. So big shout outs to, you know, the state manager catching that right away. You know, you don't want that, like I just imagine an incredible set that gets ruined by something. So that's why we have the people in these positions to make sure that, you know, we're all smooth sailing. Everything gotta go smoothly as possible. Big shout out to production and big shout out to everyone that made this ECT happen, honestly. And yes, like we don't want any hiccups when it comes to the system. It really pains, you know, when you're chilling, you're watching the set. And if someone's controller goes off or someone in the crowd turns on their controller by accident. Oh yeah, not funny. So we just try to make sure that minigates as much as possible as we can have a smooth tournament. And these players are definitely going to be, I couldn't even tell you who's going to call this, like I saw Wayne playing Sonic. Yes. Casuals last night. They were doing a great job against the rain. Really? Really holding their own. I feel like Sonic, Sonic's making a lot of noise about that rain. It's a character. It's a character, but very bold claims were made. Oh yeah. But not just for that character, but like tons of characters in just a span of a month. So like, is rain really that good? We're going to find out. I feel like only because like within the span of the month, you know, people was kind of right off characters immediately because they, you don't dig deep into the purpose. Sure. Like a lot of characters like, you know, Liu Kang, Baraka, you saw him at the surface level say, okay, these characters crazy. But then characters that got to develop like rain, we made, you look at them deeper. I'm like, wait a second. You got to use them this way to get this. Yeah. And get this damage to get these setups. And that's why I feel like that's why you got those bold tapers or something after they put a little time with them like, oh, they are stupid. And we need to use them. You guys are crazy. I think these guys are not being able to use them. Do you think it's more of a response to all the instant downplay? Yes. It is too much downplay, guys. You got to learn. Look, I mean, like, I get it. Oh, this is real match. Are we going into it? Listen, this is real match. I mean, I don't usually see a lot of reversal. That back to look a little bit personal. I'm not gonna lie. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think this is a real match. We are on the. No, no, no. What was with that back throw? Remember, this is the interest classic. When they do the button check with, you know, when they really get into it. Who needs to reversal back throw? I mean. Who needs to reversal back throw? The sword, I told you the sword was personal. Like, it was definitely personal. He's trying to make a statement here. Trying to make a statement here. But yeah, the downplaying, I feel like, is a very natural thing in a game where the developers are listening very closely to, you know, balance suggestions. So I don't blame people for downplaying. It just gets. Desperate. Yes. Don't complain, guys. Just go to play. You're going to find it out. Everything works out. You're going to be a better player for it. The teleport on the action. Yo, but hey, it's just the cold showdown where it's the bomb assist. That had to be a missing foot. Right. Never seen this someone say, hey, you know what? Sorry, I need you to self-destruct real quick. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say the bomb assist is usually, like, great in the corner. After, like, a hard knockdown, you want to keep, like, more, I don't know, a hard knockdown, but a very plus knockdown. And you want to keep more pressure. Not sure, but right now, Scar's going for a ride. Speaking of the corner, we are here. I love that. People don't use second play through enough in the corner because it's how automatic recent it is. That's a terrible situation. Yeah, do you know how plus it is? I mean, it's got to be plus enough to keep pressing afterwards, to, you know, not give you access to armoring back out of that scenario. Because you don't need to wake up with special moves anymore. Like, you can do it just by blocking. You know, or in the middle of the strings, you do have access to the enemy. What's it called? Central, I like to do it. He immediately got shut down. I thought that was a very smart way to put a safe button through Central. Keep it making contact with Kenshi to not put himself in any real danger. And this is also another thing when it comes to the Kenshi matchup. I'm starting to notice a lot more people who are like, you know what? I can hit Central to knock them down. People are starting to do that a lot more. Start to throw those down three to do this. Oh my gosh. Got to tell them which other side is. Nothing over there. I don't know why you threw your sword. Was it to say, where did the sword go? And then the sword came back. The sword's still here. Nowhere. Oh, the pocket. So much covers. This is what I'm talking about. When you have second one to swing the smoke, it just becomes that much more threatening. Yeah, so that's the player you were thinking about when you were suggesting that cameo. And I'm seeing it here, especially because that smoke move on block normally is unsafe. But sector keeping its back means, hey, that's a free way for me to get in. Another throw. Oh my goodness, wait, if I have a good time to get a star. Another throw? He's getting gripped. Help him. Rockets on deck, and this could be two. Wait. Last breath. Last breath coming into play here. Oh, he calls into a front of him. Is that a hit? I'm not sure about that. I feel like that was a tough position to be in, and especially when you're going against a character as movement versatile as smoke. Like smoke can literally put his hands on you wherever he is on the street. Instantly teleport in there, smoke dash cancel in there. There's tons, tons you have to be worried about. So much you've got to look out for. He's canceling so much. Sinto's back down again. He's been underneath the entire time. Yeah, very unfortunate for Scar. Not going to be able to call Sento out for quite some time here, slowly building back that cameo meter as he's blocking this onslaught of offense. Gets the forward throw for 11%, not bad. OK, we get the back throw from Kenshi. And he gets a combo from and gets sent to the ground again. Wait a second. Can he get in there? He's trying to get the Sento sandwich to go, but not happening here, armoring through that string. He gets the low crush with the overhead, yo. Wayne, how's it work right now? The cancel once again in his face, the poke. Trying to tip this man out and gets it. It's so much coverage. I really feel like that Wayne is just doing such a good job of shutting down Sento. The matchup changes because he know how to handle Sento. And that's exactly what he's doing. Yeah, and this is also interesting that a lot of Kenshi's love going with sub zero for that easy confirmance of freeze and easy. It wasn't easy, but you know, Sento's coming out to play, and you're going to have to deal with it. We haven't seen any of that in these first three rounds at all. See, nothing but awe's why you can get rid of Sento one point. Look at it. Sento has not got a chance to really get it. We haven't seen a small combo. Nothing. Not Sento at all. Nothing. And that was also like the timing from the Wayne number one waiting for Sento to come back out before he throws that smoke teleporting because he knows it's going to stop Sento and then also let me do what I want to do. Oh, my God, go for the overhead. Nice block. Garg is the over it itself. Bro, get off me. I'm a ninja. Again, he's going to call. No, he doesn't call, but he's not going to go in again. I mean, you know, you've got to have enough cameo meter to really feel like it's going to be worth it. He has to go version of this. Oh my goodness, Wayne. He stabbed him and twisted it. That's so cruel. He's already lying. The cat's broke. Chill. What was you supposed to do? Wayne right now. Fast, a fast 2-0 there. Not a single round from Scar. Not even a single, like you said, a single Sento sequence. Not even blocks don't see Sento sequences at that. Like we didn't even see that game. Like we didn't see the rhythm. We didn't see the sandwich. We didn't see none of that. And I think it's just a testament to the movement of smoke, like how he can just be wherever he needs to be, whenever he needs to be. Scar taking a second to think about this. Kevo whispering in his ear, hey, bro. I'm going to give you the buck with you. You're getting mixed, and I'm going to need you to do something about it. Block better armor through something. Sento's not working, all right? That's all I'm going to tell you. Sento's not working. You need to go loud. I would just tell him to go loud. Go loud? I will go loud. Loud Gorill is, I feel like it's very decent as a match up, simply because armor go myrrh, and he can have a good time. Yeah, armor through. Never mind. We're not going loud. He's not even, is he switching the cameo, though? Because I feel like Cyrix hasn't really been able to do what he normally does in control of other characters. But it looks like we're sticking it out here. I would have looked to see maybe a sub-zero. Just to get rid of that. I used the armor so you could get through the missiles. Yes, I'm going to stick on that. Or even just freeze him so I can get the Santo sandwich going. I'm not seeing any of that from Scar, but obviously knows a little bit more than we do. Sitting here in the commentator's room just criticizing as much as we can, trying to break down the action for you guys. You guys don't know, I have a saying. There's a reason why I'm not commentating on playing. So I'm going to shut up and let them do their thing. I'm going to do it. Wayne right now, looking like he starts off just like he started. There's the missile. And mixing it up a lot more, I feel like Wayne is just going with throws after throws for this final game, essentially, just to kind of close it out and just try to break Scar mentally. Oh my gosh, the armor just twists him the knife afterwards with the duck, the duck. Yeah, and I think Scar picked up on that. Oh my gosh, can we get a Santo sandwich? Can we get a Santo sandwich? Bricks the armor, but he got rid of Santo in the process. This is so good for Wayne. If he could push him away for Santo, it gets launched. Another rocket that's in there. Like every time it's caught, it's a second. He says, no, just take Santo out. Oh, it's not going to do anything. OK, good check there. He doesn't let him get away with that. That is negative. Good neutral jump here coming out of Scar. And we're going to get a nice combo from Syrex, a nice combo from Santo. That's not fair. Three on two. We're finally seeing it, Santo. Oh, 418. It's a guess for a more pressure. Lots of pressure here. Are we going to see a dirty overhead coming into play? Yes, we do, baby. Armor, why you got the foresight like this, my guy? Put the crystal ball away. We only have Mountain Dew in front of us. This is what he needs to do. The Santo has to come out. And I know it's a lot easier said than done, but it's very tough to play when Santo comes out. Oh, my, he almost got a full combo for that question. This Drew, a rocket is there. Where is he? He was blocking because he was scared. I was scared. You saw him just putting blockies going up and down. I don't know, the overhead and low coming. All I know is that he's on his way. But like he also didn't even want to hit down one either. Like he was terrified. Kenji, cameo meter coming down to absolutely nothing. The smoke teleport does get blocked, but not being able to get punished because of that sector missile coming off of that breaker, coming off those three bars, super expensive. And this is scary right now. Just Gar is senseless. He doesn't have sense at all. All he has is a sword and he's blind. How does he even see? Oh, that's a blocked punish. That's a lot of damage with this throw. Tons of damage. Punish. Wait a second. Scar, you just know that's gonna be chill. Wayne number one is going to take it over, Scar, with the smoke and sector, the two midges teaming up. Just like that. Oh my goodness. That was, I mean, we were seeing a lot of signs of life coming out of Scar there at the end when he started challenging things a little bit more. The neutral jumps that came out in that second last round led into that onslaught with Cento. And it's tough, man. Like even the greatest players have a tough time when that Cento pressure is real, that Cento pressure is on you. But I can't sugarcoat it, man. The Wayne number one, full control, that whole set. Like we're not sweating it at all. It literally was just that one round that Scar got and that was it. And that's the restam there that you pointed out. I wanna see more sector players using that because I feel like that's very underappreciated. Extremely underappreciated. This matchup just really shows, like if anybody's struggling with Kenshi, let this matchup show you. If you give it a Cento, what is he gonna do? And that's what Zach, what Wayne was doing. He was just making sure, no, uncle's gonna be on the knee the entire match as he's doing right there. And I'm not doing anything else on offense. My goodness, Wayne. I was gonna show him. And it was also great Cento management by Wayne. Not necessarily like the bar of Cento, which is doubles as your cameo, but also just kind of like where Cento is at what point, what buttons are gonna go through Cento and then also keep that momentum to make contact, to make sure I'm not getting punished for this. Making sure those buttons are safe, making sure that they're at least covered by sector. That was full matchup knowledge from the Wayne number one. Like it was definitely where, that's when we talk about like the cameo. Like that was a moment where I'm like, I want Scar to pick a different cameo in this case. It's obvious that Cyrax is doing you some good, but you're not getting much utilization out of it. That I feel like Sub-Zero, like we just talked about. Sub-Zero, they're getting the missiles and getting that freeze. That's true, that's true. Get the freeze so you can use, like you said, Cento more that could have played effective, but unfortunately. It could have been a huge change in momentum. I mean, maybe that's not really, and I feel like in this game, you can't, I feel like you have to, as the whole community like evolves, like you have to play multiple characters, at least different cameos for certain matchups. I mean, I just feel like he could not hold smoke down. There's no reason. And like even with that Cyrax helicopter, you know, when you see Cyrax helicopter accompanied by Raiden, you're like, man, this is broke. Like this is doing a ton of chip damage, but I didn't see any of that in that last set. I didn't see, so like, I don't think that's the move with Kenchy. It's not the move with Kenchy, but we're going to see more of that underway just in the big guys. We're going to take a small little break, but don't you worry, the MK1 pro competition, ECT first stop is going to be back with you soon. Gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, fans and combatants, welcome back. This is East Coast Throwdown 2023, the first stop on the pro competition tour. I'm Darth Arma, joined by the one and only Tento. And we got a great match coming up for you guys. We have Gur versus Big Daddy G. I saw you shaking when they told us we were getting that match. Let me say something about this match. So these guys have been going at it for a little minute now. And this is BDG's demon. He actually sent him to losers at Evo this year. Okay, I can see that. It's been, honestly, I know this is a big match for G, because this is to get past that mental fortitude that he asked, because this is definitely one of G's demons. And he was definitely told me that he was worried about this match before. So we want to see what he brings to the table. But this is the first time we see it. Oh my God. This is Giris, yes. Not as overwhelming as he was in MK11. I think Gur told him to let the intros rock. So the intros were being rocked. Giris has seen a lot of people's tier list. People are putting them like bottom five easily. I don't know, man. This guy's crazy. Character has a lot. I think he just takes a little bit more. Right now Big Daddy G going for phenomenal onslaughts here, getting that Kung Lao set up in the corner, making sure Gur does not squirm a good back throw to go for the throw mix. And Gur trying to get something going here, but just getting mixed up. Overheads, lows, the throws, all of it just taking him for a ride right now. Brother, he can have QC mixed at you. Wait a second. No way this happens, right? I mean, don't put it past Gur. He can do some pretty good damage. And Big Daddy G doesn't have access. Good block of the low. And then the overhead doesn't see the throw coming his way though. Can Gur make this happen? And I feel like the throw, you let go of so much pressure. So you gave him so much breathing room to just set up that low hat. I don't think it was the right choice. And I think Big Daddy G was fine with taking that throw. Definitely was. In the case, you guys know what in the bracket was. I believe this is to see who's going out to the winner side, the top 64 in the pool. So we're going to see what happens with this. What I'm seeing right now is this man G mixing this man while invisible. But, Gur with the rewind time. I didn't even know he had three clocks. Wait a second. Four string. Big jump for Gur. We can get off of this. Now we do the break. Oh, he gets to find a place to launch. That was actually so smart. I would not have even thought that through. Engine with the power driver. Ridiculous. Oh, no, he got baited. Gee, how do you know? How do you know? There's no way. Another big launch. And Jesus having a field day with the cancels. Gur kind of reels back in his chair. Just like, man, just careful. He's something nuts. And that was definitely a brutality. One thing about BDG, he loves to show off the bruises as much as possible he's going for. You got to show the love. Show the love for the people who want to see the violence, who want to see Mortal Kombat in its full glory. So we're about to see Gur against some words of encouragement by Coach Steve. Big shout out to Coach Steve. His coach is Coach Steve? Oh, yeah. Double coach. Double coach. Coach Steve. Coach insane, if you will. There you go. The callback. Back to the days. The first time I ever met Coach Steve was back in 2009 when he was playing Street Fighter IV Blanca. Oh, my God. But he couldn't do the Blanca electricity, so he had to wear a glove to move his fingers around, because he didn't know how to piano. And this was a very young Coach Steve. So a little extra information nobody asked for. Hey, we love the back stories out here. This is what makes the FGC special, you know? That's true. That's true. Did you see him just smoke dash right through that Kung Lao hat? I mean, he's so aware of what's going on in front of him. It's the knowledge. And the knowledge that we're being checked right here right now. And the hats are coming in. Oh, wait a second. What? I still, I need to understand gears, because I don't even know what happened. What did he do? What did Coach Steve tell him? He told him a little back in time? He told him to turn up. Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right. He told him, he said, Gur, just turn up. Let's go. Don't push on that. But the big jump in the hat was still there for coverage. Yeah, it's so crazy how like the hat, you can't combo off of it if you're still recovering from something else. So like you can't over commit to things and expect to get a ton off of that hat. But that low hat is just so good. You're like constantly in control and constantly putting your opponent in fear. And right now, Big Daddy D going for the biggest ride through time. Thanks to that Kung Lao. When does it end, bro? It doesn't. What is happening? And he sets up another behind. It was five for the dance before he sets this up. And now he's back in place. What did he just do? And he just swapped them off his feet. The adjustment. I want to know what Steve whispered in this man's ear. Did he really tell him to turn up truthfully? Because that's exactly what we just see. That's what we saw. Play by play. You guys saw it. Gur just decided to turn it all on. Goodness. More hats being on display. Hey, you can't do rematch when you're in business. I mean, that's what it is. And here's an over-commitment, I think, by Big Daddy G. Using that Kung Lao spin, now his cameo bar is going to be recovering a lot slower had he not just kept using low hat. And now, again, even though he's using low hat, it's still recovering very slow if you watch the top left of the screen. That was ridiculous. I didn't know how he had that much pushback when Gears is down for it. Because it definitely got an outspace in his feet to see what it did afterwards. Did you see him react twice to that overhead? You can't react to it when he's invisible. Now, guess what? Back in time. Back in time, baby. We're out. Double low into another hat. Step down for what's so good, another overhead. Are you doing it again? The reactions. He's everywhere. But it doesn't matter where you are. If I'm going to armor through it, I don't care if you're going for low. I don't care if you're going for overhead. It's going to hit. I wonder if that was a back to overhead because it only pops up in the air. That was a beautiful anti-air for BDG. I think if he goes to fatal, it kills 950 up on the side of Gears. It might be the scaling you're going to see. It's close. It's very close. I want to say he's alive. He's alive for sure. I forgot. Fatal. Look at this. Little stab. He's going to walk it off. He's going to walk it off. Getting stabbed right. I mean, it was pretty close. Oh my. He killed himself. He killed himself by throwing himself on him. It was low because I think he was trying to time it so he could go over the hat. But then again, I think because he goes backwards. He's going to get smacked either way. Yeah. I like the attempt. Yeah. It was tough. I mean, it's not. Your jumping is not fast enough to stop anything. And that is really what Kung Lao is at. It's just so good. Sometimes you just got to hold it. Next. Oh my gosh. So many hats came on the way. He took all that damage and ship. Just refusing to do anything back. No command grab coming in. But wait a second. More hats. You can see the other side. The bad one on the other side as well. Good block on the overhead. More hats. And that was a punish. Oh, he didn't know. It's minus 30, my guy. He's got enough time to jump in on that. Oh, flips. That wasn't the last frame. But guess what? I have a clock so I can turn it back. Good chance. Yo. I'm out of here. See ya. He doesn't care. Nice low block. Oh, what could be big damage? See ya. All right. On top of him. Plus. So many kicks. I mean, it's a little slow on the start up. Like you said, super plus. So you've got to keep respecting it. Hats. Hats. Hats. Who was making these hats? How does he get them back? They just fly right back. They just teleport right back on his head. This is ridiculous. He just keeps happening. Well, let's walk in again. We saw a little bit of that from big energy before. We lost time. I'm out of here. It is so. Look, it's insurance. It's insurance. You getting opened up? Get out of there. You don't have breaker? That's okay. We call it hourglass insurance. Hourglass. Hourglass insurance. And this is the headquarters too. That's even more powerful. That's even more insane. Broke. Broken. It's white. Big con. Set some up. Wait, wait, wait. Where's he? Where's he going? They both teleported back. Out of here. I know G's slightly a boy. He has to be. He has to be. There's no way that doesn't get under your skin. I feel like the spawns bombing. Didn't we have to teach you this lesson again? Oh, man. Oh, boy. He's going to launch. Let's do it again. I think he didn't have a huge life deficit. He's still got a good life lead. So he's okay. He's hanging on. First not sweating. Watch out for the Kung Lao hat. Watch out for the overhead. How are you going to block both of them? It doesn't help the fact that you can't see one of them and smoke. Smoke is just completely gone. The mental awareness though from G, why he was invisible to get that anti-air in front of them was actually crazy. Because I wouldn't know where I was in position wise. And B, D, G. Whether in the storm, had enough of the rewind time. You see I'm shaking and shaking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sick of the clocks. Okay. Look, man. It's not done yet. It's not done yet. Big Daddy G, you got to keep that mentality strong. Gure, not someone you want to sleep on. Gure, huge improvements in terms of when the game first came out to the most recent MK and J. If you look at both events, one, three days, the game was three days old. The other one was a month old. Gure made huge strides, went from getting ninth to, I believe, getting second or third place at the most recent one. So Gure's been putting in that work. Gure's been putting in that work. Same stage, same character, same cameos. This time, Gure being a little bit more passive, backing off at the start of the round. That's why I want to see more man grabs coming in. Because he's been, BDG has actually been doing like the up block. And remember, if you command grab with an up block, it does more damage. That's the serious damage that he gets. I mean, I just feel like he's just not ever sitting still. So I feel like he's just like, how do you grab someone who is not sitting still? It's crazy. It's kind of tough, you know. When somebody's teleports from the screen like at all times, like it's kind of hard to come down. 100%, 100%. Okay, Kung Lao hat coming into play. Good jump from Gure to just kind of mess with the timing a little bit from BDG. Definitely will. But, just hope for another lower hat. My goodness, the close line. He did it. He did it. Gure coming out here on top. Trying to tie up this set. Big daddy G. Little shook right now. There's no way you're blocking that. Oh, he missed the cancel though. There's no way you're blocking that? Yeah, blocking that. I'm out of here. I'm out of here. It doesn't matter. I'll see you later. Oh, goes under the high. He didn't commit to that stand jab. There's a lot of pokes going on in the throw. Kung Lao coming out of the magic rabbit hole and going right back in. I love it. Give me the overhead. Give me the flip. Give me the flip. You're scared of this low hat. Here comes the overhead flip. They're blocking the low hand, the overhead. But he doesn't continue to keep doing it. Yeah, like, I can't. Like, how? Get aside. Catches them. Oh, nice conversion. Yeah, more for a setup. You know, weird little anti-air conversion, but that's okay. You can do it. You can get whatever damage you can, right? And that's it. The Kung Lao hat is just freezing the other person. Is there scared? It's going to come out at you. So you've got to just respect and let them do whatever they're going to do. Whoa, what? Whoa, he's so lucky to confirm this with a kill. But guess what, Gurr? He's going to advantage right now. He has the time. Oh, he used the clock. He tried to go over back in time. And the anti, the clutch from BDG right now. That's going to be the kill. And guess what? We're going to a final, a pitch into the final round. The BDG can take it. You need a one. And yo, that was crazy with 10 seconds left on the clock. I mean, it was grueling. Everyone talks about how they Kung Lao hat just like compliments offense, but it can also compliment defense. If you've got something that you can do with full screen, like setting up the time from here is, you know, it's, it's, it's, it can be a great attribute either way. Kung Lao hat, let's do what you want. Whether you want to go on offense or whether you want to go on defense. And I was just about to ask this man, Gurr, did not use the 401 at all. And I finally started to see him use that button because it's a little too late. Plus frames. It's a mis-input from BDG. Don't like seeing that. Don't like seeing that at all. Continuing the mix, the low hat into the overhead. That had to be a mis-input in D. Yeah. On top of that, your Kung Lao hat is also going to be coming back super duper slow. Is this over? Oh my gosh. I think it's over. It's Chip. You're going to chip him out. He's got to literally put one. He's got to put one down one on him. No way this is happening. It's 0.10. He's got nothing. He's in last breath territory. What are you going to do? Oh, the throw. This is crazy. He got three bars to work with you. I mean, but is he going to do anything? No, he's getting stuffed. He's getting stuffed. Oh, he's stuffed again. And to pop off again. BDG. I don't need none of this. I have about four and three. And I have my specials. That is going to be it. Three to one for BDG once again. He promised it to me. The last breath mechanic coming into play there. The last breath mechanic being everything to keep BDG alive. And he still had one more bar. Decides to use it for some offense. And it was just a great combo before the breaker even came into play. A great throw. Great buttons on those wakeups. And I think a few bad decisions there by Gerr. The wake up fatal blow. Armor doesn't activate until around five or six frames. And trying to armor when you had no health. Also a bad idea. Too little, too late. I think he was thinking about the breaker too much. And big daddy G just one step ahead of him. The entire way through that entire sequence. It was actually ridiculous. It was really, you saw the nervousness come in from Gerr immediately. Panic mode. As soon as he saw this man going visible he got hit. He was like, oh Christ. And as soon as that happened. Don't panic. Don't panic. Don't panic. He made the very smart call with the four or three. He was like, I know this multiple hits. And it's going to start the activation if he did fatal. And that's exactly what he did. And man. Panic. Panic and D. And he's going to take it. Like I said, that pop, you saw that pop. That meant a lot to him. The girl has been a demon for him. And that he was able to overcome that. It's huge. Yeah. I don't think that was necessarily like any shade. Or anything like that. I think it was more of like the emotion of him conquering something within himself. Because it's very easy to fall into that rut. And this is the comeback that we're talking about. The throw and where Gerr kind of just panicked here. Fatal blow again. No way. You're not going to fool anyone there. And then in that situation, I guess, you know, down ones are punishable. All Gerr had to do. All Gerr had to do in that situation, block that down one, punish that down one. And he would have won. All he had to do in that situation was just block. And he didn't. And it's tough, man. It's tough to be in that scenario. It's stressful because like, especially, you know, the pressure is on. This is first competition. Like even veteran players like Gerr. Sure. Like it gets tough in that moment. You're like, oh, my gosh, I'm going to get come back on. And it's the worst. I'm sorry. If you see 0.10 health and then they get a hit, the first thing that's going to be playing in your head is that guy over there. You don't want to hear that guy over there in your head. It goes to everything, but you don't want to hear it. You don't want to hear it, especially when it's happening to you. And that's what ended up happening to Gerr. Unfortunately, he's definitely going to be at Highlight Reel on Twitter later. That's the worst part. It's rough. It's rough. But you know what? That's what the game is. Everybody is subject to that. And when you're playing at a high level, the higher you go, the harder the fall. The harder the fall, indeed. But I don't feel like it's the last time we're going to see Gerr. No, definitely not. That was for winners. So he can still, I believe he does advance out of losers, but we do have to see that bracket. You guys can follow the bracket along at home. If you go to start.gg slash ECT 23, you guys can see this bracket along with all the other games here at East Coast Throwdown to kind of see who lost to who. And you know, just kind of wonder what paths are going to be created for your favorite players. There's so many paths going on right now. Speaking of favorite players, up next on the stream, we have King Gambler. I want to give a big shout out to King Gambler's family. He is watching the stream right now. Let's go to Mama Gambles. That's right. Mama Gambles. Big love to the whole Gambler family. They're coming up next on stream. Going to get Kyle coming. Yeah. Kyle coming. I want to say they play well. I feel like I've seen his name before, but don't call me anything, guys. I'm the number one person you never call because I truly don't know what's going on. I just talk about the same thing. So King Gambler, when did he come out of the scene? Late Injustice 2 a little bit? He was in MKX because I played his Brue Mother. Okay, you did. But like Injustice 2, when he started like making the name, you know, they started putting himself out here, but then late MK11 popped off. Yeah, late MK11. I mean, he was always there. Yes. You know what I mean? And I loved, I want to say like early MK11, Gambler was playing like one of the only Scarlet players. Yes. And then Nightwolf came out. Then he was one of the only Nightwolf players. And then he was just like, I'm just going to be a degenerate and play. Police to shackles. Yes. Sub-zero. Pick a top tier, y'all. Stop it. Stop. I want to be a low tier. I don't want to hear it. Pick a top tier, just dominate. You don't have to deal with the BS. There you go. Pick a top tier, famous, famous words. King Gambler really, yes, like you said, the end of MK11 everywhere. All these online events. Top 8 at Evo. Top 8 at Evo placement. Yeah, I was just going to say that. And you know, just really hungry for the competition. And you love to see that in these young guys. You love to see that in these new players, just trying to carve a name out for themselves. And that's what Gambler is doing. But Cal Common, you guys might not know him, but hey, he can best show some things going on right now. And remember, there's so many hidden killers that we just don't talk about that we don't even know. Because with the new game coming out and more competition being at the ready, more people trying it. Even people from other games have been trying it, like your Razzos, your Tempuses, from the Guilty Gear community. There's been so many other players that's been trying to try this game out. We're going to see more tech found and more new faces. And that's what I'd love to see. Yeah. It's all about growth. It's all about the community getting bigger and stronger, more things, and more opportunities for these players. So, you know, let's support everything we can, whether it's on a huge scale, a small scale, an online scale. Just get out there and show some love for the people that you guys appreciate. Because this is really awesome to see all of this come to fruition, all of this come together. It's a beautiful site. It's a beautiful site. Players, I'm pretty sure they're getting their buttons checked, you know? Just warming the fingers up. Hey, one thing, you know, it's getting cold outside. I don't like playing with cold fingers. That is like the number one worst thing to do. Like, I feel like I can't drop. I'll drop every single combo in America. It's terrible for me. You've got to get in there and warm up. You've got to get the hand warmers. It's like something because it's terrible. I feel like I'll be moving in slow motion. I want to say, I want to say, I remember Hayate carrying around at hand warmers back in the day. Back in the injustice two days. And that man's from Canada. Yeah, he has to make sure those hand warmers out there. He's definitely cold up there in Quebec. All right. Looks like we're highlighting Johnny Cage and Raiden. Oh, Lord have mercy. Oh, boy. Syrex, you ready? Mother of Pearl. Ready for Syrex? Ready for helicopter parenting? Stop here, man. The helicopter parenting. 101. It's going to be displayed in this match, guys. Let's do it. Our buns are being pressed. But wait a second. This man, Gamblez, is moving. Yeah. I love seeing that perfect movement there. Just like seeing the block dashing and, you know, really utilizing that to its full potential, amplifying to get a little bit more damage and forcing that break, that break from Calcumet. Oh, that is not a trade that you want to take and build up the height, too. You got enough time to do it. She's so much time. Man, you can make you a sentence. You can go, you know, take that. Go back to your mansion. Go to that with the pool. Change the sunglasses on the duck that's in the pool and then continue to come. It's been in the two bars. Yes, sir. Not going to kill for my goodness, but Calcumet in a very tough position. No kills. Oh, Delay wake up to kind of try to mess with the timing there, but that safe jump is just too good from Johnny Cage. Oh, out of there, though. We're out of there. No corner for us. But look, Johnny Cage doesn't have enough for a breaker. And we've seen what Raiden can do. He just whips the force. Oh boy. He could have went right into the fadeaway with the kill, but he didn't. Now you give the gambles a chance. You travel the electric field. I don't have that. I got a backflip for you. Hope that's true. Yeah. Just so panicked and so worried about the chip damage that kind of oversees that throw coming. Wasn't ready to tech. Wasn't ready to duck. And unfortunately finds himself in the back of the wall. Ball is blocking him. Minimize that chip damage. Gets opened up by that overhead, but it doesn't lead into too much. This is about getting him out of that overhead and seeing your head out off of like the ground is like insane. We got full height. We got it. The crowd is going to love it. We're hyped. We're going to get some A's in the corner. No. Pushing him away a little bit farther. Gambler with the flawless block there at the end to try to just get as much advantage as he can here. Punish. We've punished perfectly there. It's a scary because if you did hit, you'd die. Yeah. With full hype activated. Oh my God. That was it. That's the punish. He didn't do it. Just get the throwing set. That's okay. Gets the corner positioning. That's fine. Only goes right into it and gets flipped. This is the hiya, but wait a second. Let's get Jim. The parry was so beautiful. Not going to kill, but man, look at his damage. Yeah. Tons of damage here. Is that a lie? What did you say? Did you say not going to kill? A lot of, a lot of, yeah. So if you didn't flawless block anywhere in that sequence, whether that was flawless blocking Johnny Cage or flawless blocking Cyrex when he comes in, you're not survived by him. You're not, you're not. Flawless blocking is, I'm telling you guys, it's key to fight the Cyrex. Otherwise, you will see your light bar go away faster than it can. Yeah. It's not some really interesting tech on Twitter for Cyrex versus Cyrex, where you can dash in on Raiden and making, it's kind of negating the Cyrex all together with your own Cyrex, but it's very specific, very tight timing. So there's a lot to uncover in this game. Lots to uncover in the, but wait a second. The chin damage you're holding, I think I would have missed up the Flawless Block right there to his end, but you could have got a big funding because there was no Cyrex at all. And that's the right subversive funding right there. Eight frames being dashed, I don't think, by the way. Why? Normally that, that, that, that sell storm is, is when you amplify it, super safe, but Johnny Cage's a shadow kick just fast enough. Cyrex gonna keep it safe. Good Flawless Block by Gambler. You can. Yeah, minimize that. Minimize everything you can. Using all the defensive options. Walking down, more electricity, and that's gonna be a big funding. You didn't have a Cyrex to assist you, but you got a Cyrex to put that breaker. Yeah, I guess he was just kind of, you know, maybe he thought like, oh, he thinks I'm not gonna go for it because I don't have Cyrex, but I'm gonna go for it anyway. Wrong move here. Fatal blow. Yes. Gonna connect perfectly. Cyrex coming in with the assist, and Johnny Cage gonna finish it out. That first round going to Gambler. It's a no. Listen, listen. Everybody voice lying with a no is like, I encourage everyone to listen to everyone's voice lying with a no. I think Liu Kang has the funniest. Like that is too funny to me. Just seeing the camera just drop on your head. Like, man, it's really about to happen to me in 4K in front of 2,000 people. Not sure what that was there. A little switch dance to maybe bait something out. But Gambler not fighting at all. Gambler keeping the composure completely solid here. Backing off. Not trying to commit to anything too crazy. Always trying to get four weapons right there, but he's just turned into a walking plank when he does that four-course ring. Was Gambler just going close to the corner so he could throw him into the corner? You know what? There's layers that work. Oh, yeah. I get the Superman of a big jump. Oh, my gosh. That's pleasant. It's not your turn. That's a nice ring. Oh, yes. Not the net you want to be trapped in. Oh, my gosh. Hold on. That's two for punching. Was it worth it? Was it worth it? Definitely not. Finding the wrong side of that. And I think that was more of, like, maybe he thought the throw was coming, decided to let go of block and say, I'm going to try to duck. Gambler's like, no. Why would I go for a risky throw? Let's keep it nice and safe. Check out this knee. Check out the dizzy knee at that big shot. The dizzy. All right. Are we going right back into it? Or are we going to care for some luck? Oh, yeah. Looks like we're going character select. Raiden Syrac's not working out. Let's try Baraka. Team Spent to Win is the official name. Spent to Win is Baraka Syrac. And if you guys get dizzy, just look away. I'm sorry. Yeah. Just don't keep your eye on Baraka. Keep your eye on a solid point on the ground here. Baraka, great range with those moves. And amazing damage output with the right cam. I want the combo though. He's going to get launched forward. That's more than 20%. And to guess what? The Wade Dash is looking so crisp in the pink shirt. Ron's going to poke it to top top. He's going to make you fade with the three bars. It's expensive. He's like a boy. He's waiting for that boy to pull off. The low clipping on there right at the end, but not ready to commit to anything else and not committing to anything that will lead into some real damage. Like that one right there. This time he figured it out. Look at the combo. Look at the combo right here. Almost upward to 400 damage. Boom, and none of that. Good blocks by Gambler blocking that overhead. It's been a barge, yes, sir. Not going to be a kill, but it's going to be the life lead. No kills. Or wait, it's more. That's a ton of damage here. Right on top of him. Got to be meeting him with some buttons. Little lay wake up. Making Gambler miss time. Nice. It goes through the gap. He knew. Oh my gosh. Don't put it past Gambler. Don't put it past Gambler and not know. That's why you see a lot of Baraka's leads and not playing against Johnny in this matchup because he could carry through that. Perry's frame one. Yeah. It's so good. Cool combo leads. Oh my God. That's big deal combo. That's almost up to 300. He's on fire. Put him out. He literally on fire. Just throwing out some projectiles. Trying to make any kind of contact here. But Gambler just moving back and forth. Again, he's moving a lot, but it's a very passive movement. Like not trying to over commit to anything. I kind of see this drug as the most polished and it's definitely going to cost the cow so much. It spins the bar so he has the most of his damage. But I reckon he's there for the assist. Yes. Could be more like a slightly desperate pick here. Goes for the breaker, but I think it's just going to be too little, too late. Oh no. No approval. But man. Man, Baraka just takes it so much dirt. Keep Gambler free. Oh, over cow. Cow, you guys have time to make the adjustments and move aside, but Gambler is going to move on to that. Yeah. Going to move on. Looking real good. I believe the high seed in his respective pool. And it looks like coming up next, according to our stream docket, we've got Jurr versus Titanium Tigers. The way that panned out, I think that should be in winners finals of their pool. I'm going to kind of double check there. Again, you guys can follow along at home. A lot of great stuff to see in those brackets. If you guys want to see what you might have missed or could anticipate to see on stream, definitely going to be looking there. And again, huge shout out to Mountain Dew for this instant replay. And so replay is too clean wide because we get to see all the action just like that again. And you can see this man get demolished in the corner by the chip damage. Let's say no one's half of the camera from your rating. Oh, yes, sir. All for Johnny's fans. That was really messed up. Like when Johnny loses, you know he has a crowd watching them, right? So like he get brutal on a fader like the crowd just watching there. Like they're fainting stars getting demolished. Hey, man, sometimes it's a dark ending. Oh, yeah. Sometimes it's a dark. It's all a movie. It's all make believe. So I'm looking at the bracket again and it looks like titanium tigers and juror are not meeting in the winners finals of their pool. It's actually winner semis of the pool, at least from the way that I'm seeing here on my on my start. Is it so people make it? Is it so people make it out of each one? I mean, it is four. Oh, yes, four. Yes, four. It's two up and one is in two. Yes. Yeah. So I believe the winner of this will make it out of their pool in winners. And the loser of this will make it out of their pool in losers, unless that's in winners finals. But again, on start, Gigi, you guys can follow along at home. We're just trying to update you as best as we can here. Titanium Tigers, which we saw a little bit earlier with that impressive Oshra. Oh, yes. The Oshra was amazing. But I wonder what he, what can she do better in the rating matchup? Oh, like if he, I mean, I feel like when I see Tigers playing Kenchi, it's like more experimental, maybe, maybe you're right. Maybe it is more matchup specific. I don't see jerk coming into this, into this match with anything that Tigers is not already used to. Yes. You know what I mean? Like a player as seasoned in the online world, these online tournaments as Tigers, you know, one rate in Cyrex is the same as the next rate in Cyrex. Definitely. Definitely so. Definitely so indeed. But we're going to see what the character choices are. And if this is a button check, I don't know. We're going to find out. So look at King in the front row flexing that MKX medal. Look at him. He earned it. He better not pose again. Like I swear, like he just knows to cue sometimes. It seems about that guy. He's looking. Molina. Ooh. He's looking. Yeah. There you go. We've got more people looking and having fun with the camera. I believe those are Jur's friends who, one of them drove him down from Montreal. Big shout outs to Canada. Yeah. Big shout outs to Canada. Big shout outs to everyone I know in Montreal. Big shout outs to Somiere. I don't know if you're watching or not, but that's OK. Oh, Somiere. Big love to Somiere. Big love to Somiere. Yes. I got to meet him at Combo Break, I believe. Nice. Nice. Yeah. He was a Combo Breaker that one year. Yeah. He was representing all the OGs, all the veteran players who can just pick up a great character and say, yeah, I know when to, I know when to push buttons. I know when to throw. I know when to block. I got this. No, but seriously, Jur is super fundamentally solid. You can never count it. Cyrax. Serena. That's what you get. That's what you get when you put in the time. You get those fundamentals, you know, locked into your body. You get those locked into your brain. And so is that prime and practical? What's with Titanium Tigers liking Madame Bo's T-Shop? He's just like messing it up hard. Hey, let me find him on some here. He's got some hidden tech. This is just Serena assist this time. Yeah. I was going to just point that out. The Serena assist, I feel like it's like a, I don't want to call it autopilot, but I feel like it's one of those assists where you're just like, you know, let me see if my opponent can deal with this. It's very good in the hands of Oshun. You know, the trick really did that boomerang. You clock the first one, duck the second one, and then just try to get a little punish in whatever you can. Whether that's a Superman, whether that's, you know, a down two depending on the space. That's another Serena assist. It could be. He's dead. Yeah. Super dead. Super dead here. Super dead. Yeah. Gerr not getting enough to build that breaker, but I think even if he did build that breaker in that little slivery at left, I don't think it would have been worth it to, you know, spend those three bars to still lose. I got that. Four, two, three. It is so good with Asher. It is so good with Asher. Yeah. A little mis-timing, a little mis-calculation there with that spacing, but Gerr wasn't really ready to make or pay for it. Watch your feet for that max range. I said it doesn't connect. It is so much what you do right now. The armor through after the minus six is a classic here. And guess what? He drops it. I don't know if that was like a down forward three, and he just got like an up three by mistake. Like it definitely an input error. Not what he wanted at all. Get off me. Okay. We're not having none of that. Oh, went towards you early. I like that down to just get all the damage you could in that moment and get out the corner. He is. You're holding plus range on plus range as well. Yeah, but Gerr is doing a really good job of respecting the plus range, but you know, you can see that he is like, I don't want to be in that projectile range. But then Asher was like, that's okay. I got Serena for this. And Serena throwing those boomerangs at, you know, just outside of that range. And there's really nowhere to go. We're at all nowhere to hide. Gerr doesn't care why. He was put in the corner. I'm just too well on the pressure. Good. Good. Good defense here from Akra. Never mind. As I say that, she thinks it's going to be a stagger. He's going for full string, the overhead opening you up. Pretty tough to react to. But again, doesn't really lead into much other than an obstacle. He's a breaker. He does not want to see that. One thing I noticed Gerr is doing that I really do like, he's starting to, traditionally a lot of ratings is like, you know, a poke into their storm sale or just like the full string. But he did stand one and two to throw up the time so he can't get the full spot. Yeah, yeah. Super smart. Again, you want to kick it up a notch when you're fighting Homo like titanium diamonds. This is not, it's not too many things that he hasn't already experienced in the online realm. No way. She recovers so fast from that. I'm surprised that didn't lead into more damage against him. But this one definitely is a double boomerang coming out of Serena and Tigers looking to run away with this, looking to start this set off with a 2-0 victory. Can Gerr fight back here. Please fight back. Very much about new ones for him. He's trying to walk him down, but look at him. He's just walking back. He'll tumble. Oh, he waited for him. He thought he was going to go for the cancel. But where is he going to cancel that move? Oh, my God. The convert. An anti-air on top of being super plus on block. It's an anti-air. Wait. Oh, that 4-3 actually hit him. He took the damage before he left out. And that's actually insane. The cancel. Oh, my goodness. Purple stuff. Purple stuff's on the screen. That means those projectiles are going to hit his lows now. And he has access to the cancel, but he's still on the stage. Oh, my armor's cool with the... Oh, my God. Yeah, I feel like the Serena tail, if you don't see as much as, you know, hey, I want damage. Hey, I want a ton of combo potential. Yeah, so you think combo potential is not right with this, but yes, you are right. You don't see as Serena too much because a lot of people are like, oh, is this the online thing? No, she is very strong offline. Not because it's the boomerang, but that meter steal. Yeah. And I think this is probably match-up dependent. You know, I'm sure Tigers set to himself. You know, if I run into a raid in Cyrex, I already have a game. I already, you know, worked out this match-up. I know how to approach it, and Serena's gonna cover all those little gaps that I have. It's, you know, I'm like trying to theory craft here. I don't know what raiding can really do to get under that Serena to make it punish. To make any kind of punish on this side. It's definitely something dirty. Like, kind of getting exposed here. Like, it's like, man, how do I deal with this projectile or how do I deal with Serena? And it's just been on my field just trying to get in. Oh, that was all he's doing. We got him here on the way back. It baits out the armor. Oh, my goodness. Tigers. He's having a ball. He's having a grand old time right now. Oh, my God. It's because another bar is here. Wait. I'll chip him out as best as he can. He just did a cancel in the air. Yeah, looking right as he was landing. So, like, it didn't, it didn't. I heard the screen. I heard the screen too. Yeah. It definitely sounded like Cendil was on the screen for us for a second. I got kind of scared. I got PTSD. I got flashbacks from Mortal Kombat 11. Flashback was so terrifying. Yes, you see, that's the thing that a lot of players and characters have trouble, you know, making her regret. Yeah, I can just throw Serena out there. So, you know, you got to duck under the second boomerang and just input your special move. I think a Superman is all you can take. Yes. But we're not even seeing that. I think it's the punished easter. No, sir. I guess I think I'm having this opportunity to shine. Can he make this something, can he make something happen here? Okay, be overhead. I'm going to do it again. No. Cyrex, keep it. I'm safe. No uplock. Because he's out there for free. Because with a low, it's like shock to the other side. And that should do it. Yo, jerk. Staying composed. Staring stuff. That's going to be a quick big jump. But no, that didn't work. She went for so fast. That's why it's buffed and she recovers so quickly. It's fast. Still start up on that. It's about 45 when we start up again. Yeah. It's plus, but it recovers. It's insanely quick. With the bunch to get behind it. Nice jump. No comparison in the other two. Guess what? Get back to square one. Good luck getting to me. Oh, wait. You got to me. Got to me. We're here. That's okay. Just folks. Yeah, and it's so weird. You have to challenge her when you see that projectile starting up right there. But that forward, I believe that's forward three. So much blocks them. You know, and then walking is the the better situation. If you get hit, you got to just hold it. Well, just chipping away at the help right now. That's a pain in the tiger. Jordan needs to find one. Hit. But he has no more to work with. If he gets hit right now, it's urgent. Oh, I was right doing this. It's a very tough right now. He has the whole stage to work with. All the real estate in the world. And oh my goodness, folks. Wait. Sure. Make this happen. Make this happen. Please, sir. Make this happen. Make this happen. Make this happen. Make this happen. Please, sir. Make something amazing happen right now. Get some. But didn't have time to say, Hey, guess what? Yo, just do storm sale. Okay. He did it three times in the world and it worked. He said, you know what? Let me activate my one brain sale. That's what it was. I mean, again, you got to throw those, those obscure, like, you know, out of nowhere place, like titanium tigers is so methodical. You know what I mean? He doesn't want to poke out of turn. Yeah. He's doing some crazy stuff, like, you know, doing the projectile over and over again. But, you know, he just kept thinking, okay, I can finally swing. No. Okay. I can finally swing. No. And he lost all his health that way. Never your turn, my guy. You got to think. We're playing chess. Not checking. Oh my God. The whip. The damage is still in the meter. Please, sir. I'd love for you to do that. Jumping back. Jumping back. We're going to play back to you. Oh, it goes under. And it fades out the armor. Just, you know, just a scare for a punnish. What are you doing? Causing Serena back to projectile war. Now, let's do it again. Hey. Get the gym. Leg it down. Oh, the cancel. The cancel. Not committing to something, but this time it is getting punished. Forcing that break. No bars on the side of titanium tigers. Oh, faster way. He's about to get Serena's suspect here right now. If he finds a hit and swim assist, it could still be a very bad time for Jir. Yeah. But the patience right now is accurate. Those are the ones for the first time. Let me get it back a couple seconds. And he's okay with just flawless blocking and getting nothing for it. Like, I'll minimize that chip. And look, there's only 10 seconds left. Ha! Caught him on the head post. That's a storm still. And just what? Jir. Oh. Oh my gosh. The adjustments. Oh my gosh. The adjustments here from Jir. We're seeing it live right before us. Don't count the man out. Oh, he knew it was going to whiff. And he just wasn't the right button. The time is on it correctly. I guess we're doing a string early. The one storm sail in there early. People are just so conditioned. You see the full string hit storm sail. But let me throw off your flawless block timing. Yeah. And I think he was also like, tigers was like armoring through that string a lot. So I think he was trying to bait that out. Look at the damage on this. Hello. Almost 50. Just 4. Bip out again. No, the flawless block is so clutch. But throw it whiffs. I'm going to make so much more. But the conveyance of being blessed. Three bars of work on the side of Jir. That's when we punish. No, he wasn't close enough to the point. Oh, that's so unfortunate. More storm sail. You let your carpet. He's a little frustrated right now. Can see this is approach. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, he's, oh gosh. Oh gosh. He's going to go, of course, to break away. Even if he popped the fatal blow, still able to break that. Nice flawless block. Minimizing this tiny little bit of health he's got left. That sucked. And it just works so well. I'm going to bring you in on the fatal after. I love it. Yes. 2-2. 2-2. 2-2. Especially after those very dominant early games. Like charges bringing it back. A little disrespectful move here. Going with the fatal blow. Give me a little bit of time to think about that. I mean, is that the thing too? Are you forcing yourself to get more time? Oh yeah. Step. Okay. Let me breathe. He's trying to figure it out. I mean, I don't know, man. Those were some grueling, grueling moments for Jur. And he came out clutch and on top in both of them. I feel like the victories were a lot more tolling on Jur's side than they were on Tigers. When Tigers won those games, complete rollover. Jur, oh, he barely got him by the skin of his teeth. Yes, yes. But look, this arm, it's going to be kimchi on the screen with the Cyrex to back him up. You were theorizing this, and we did see this same duo coming out of SCAR early on the stream. But let's see what Titanium Tigers can do with this. Oh, drop it. Oh, no, I don't like that. But that's okay. He sent no sandwich. It's all good. Oh, he gets it again, but gets what's left out of there. He can't be due. Oh, that, yeah. I'll just back up. He's getting launched, and that's just it. This hurts. This hurts, man. He walks away. Sentos is where I see him. Almost right through. Big gaps in that board. Titanium Tigers going to break. I respect that, yes. Wait until he's been to bar two. He's one of his resources. Big jump. Company's nice. Out of there. Oh, yeah. He wanted to get away to Sentos. That was so smart. And he smacked Sentos in the process. He's over here coming in. Guys, if you do not want to know how long Sentos will be on stream, just look at the cameo timer at the top. The cameo meter is actually the timer for Sentos. He was about to swing at a peak. Oh, man. That was a jump scare. You saw that. I was scared. I was terrified. He's about to, I'm not going to get... Jared keeping the composure here, taking the throw. Letting the Sentos come out, not seeing the overhead coming his way. I like that. Get rid of him. Poke him. You know, and I don't think the approach was to... I mean, I guess he got on the other side, and that's fine. He did. He traded. And that's totally in his favor. He's going to do a lot of damage, but he has a little bit more than 40% of the health. He did. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. I don't know, man. He did. No way. He died. It literally came down to the wire. A difference of like one or two percent. Oh, my God. He was mashing. He had to be. Hey, it's on by default. So it had to be. It had to be. Oh, my gosh. Mashing those buttons. He's going to fall to Titanium Tigers, Titanium Tigers, thugging out the reverse 3-0, and switch to the Kenshi to overtake the Vick. You know what was... I think what played a big role in that matchup, the more matches he got with Ashura, you could see how much more comfortable he was getting. So smart move by Titanium Tigers to just like throw it all on Kenshi. You know what I mean? This isn't going to be a situation where I have to go through another three out of five. I just need one game. And every time it was the game out of the gate, I rolled over Jer. So yeah, let's switch it up. Oh, my goodness. And that roll over was great. They talking about it right now. I expect to see some more of Jer. Me too. Definitely because Strong, you know. Me too. Definitely have his... You can just tell he knows the stuff. Like he almost made that reverse 3-0 happen. Yeah. The Kenshi was just a little bit too strong in that case. Titanium Tigers going to move himself on to that winner's side and just going to have a great time. Man. Yeah. I think Tigers is one of those players that a lot of people are looking at. You know, we're in 2023. Online is super prominent. You know what I mean? Like, online matters a lot. And you know, you get great matchup experience. You get to play, you know, the best with each representative character. You know, as long as you've got those connections, you've got those resources, you want to play against the best Raiden or one of the best Raidens? No problem. I'm sure Titanium Tigers has been through all that. And that's why he knew a lot of things coming into this matchup. All the ins and outs. Yes. Man. Just look at this. So, again, big shout outs to Mountain Dew for powering this replay. Yeah. That drink Mountain Dew though. It definitely powers you up. Okay. Like they found this replay there. Yeah. Like, you see this just when you're making it right now. Just... It was definitely looking like, oh man, this is looking very bad for Tiger Tigers. Like, you know what? Centaur. Centaur is the end. I need to talk to my favorite sword right now. That was, I mean, I didn't even see him playing with that Centaur coming out. And, you know, you could see him kind of like dancing around it. You can see him like Superman-ing over either side to try to avoid it. But for the most part, it was this. It was Tigers in control. The Centaur coming in opening him up and, you know, minimal drops coming from Tiger's end. Whatever the kill. Oh my goodness. I'm telling you, it was close. It was close. 45 is up here. 40, you can see the lines. You can see the breaks in 40 and 50. It was like right in the middle. So it was close. It was crazy. But guys, thanks to ECT and the Bracker Runners and our sponsors, Mountain Dew. If you guys do not know, Mountain Dew is actually doing a little thing with the Xbox Game Pass. You can earn some points now to December 29th and look at our... He's enjoying it. He's enjoying it. I love it. I just like seeing the floor bottom here. I love it. It's just an amazing thing just to look at. But yes, you guys, Xbox Game Pass, you're going to give all your game reports towards your rewards that can be happening with this Mountain Dew. You can look at it as special things with the participants. You can do those online rewards in the marketplace and you can get more of that action and more of the content with this at Mountain DewGaming.com. Please check it out, man. Yeah, man. Check it out. A lot of great rewards out there and there's going to be more in the future. So keep your eye on it. Make big shout-outs to ECT, the Bracket Runners, and lastly, for the last time, our big sponsor, Mountain Dew. Don't go anywhere. We're going to take a quick break and we're going to let more commentators grace your ears with their lovely voices. Tento, it's been a complete honor and we're going to see you guys next time. Time draws near for the Grand Martial Arts tournaments between Earthrealm and Outwards. It has begun. This will be your last fan. This has mega hit written off. By tomorrow, the simp to take your place. They're already whispers. She should replace me as your heir. Your race can shape shift. Join me and I... All right, everybody. Welcome back to the MK1 Pro Competition where we're getting to some more of the C Block Pools for all of you at home. My name is Spooky and I'm joined by Ms. Meeseeks. Welcome, Ms. Meeseeks. How are you feeling today? I'm feeling great. I'm feeling happy to be here. I'm ready to watch some crazy high-level MK here at the ProCom at ECT. I'm really excited to be here. How about you? How are you feeling today, Spooky? I'm super hyped. I know that you guys might not be used to seeing me here at MK along with you guys. You might be seeing me doing some other stuff, but I'm extremely excited to be here, of course. Joining Ms. Meeseeks and talking to you guys about some great MK1 matches coming up very soon. In fact, we already have lined up a matchup for you guys, and it's going to be Joystick, representing the TGC squad up against K-Mac. Yeah, this is going to be a crazy set for any of you who are familiar with either of these players. K-Mac, one of the best spawns to come out of MK11, and Joystick was showing very strong at the end of MK11 and has come out of the gate, swinging with MK1. He's got the gearers. Woo, let's go. Yeah, he's got the gearers, and we've got the raid in here. Oh, he even knows the lore. You used to be a god. Yeah. Now you're just a regular human. All right, so we're starting off here, just getting hit by an overhead. I'm going to go ahead and get that sector missile going so that gearers is able to make his coming in on Raiden. He's got some good pressure strings going on a nice throw as well. The main thing about this is that for Joystick, he's used to fighting the typical monsters, the Johnny cages, the other raidians out there, but K-Mac coming at him with discuses with the sector is going to be a little bit of a unique challenge. Yeah, a hard thing is to, with this Raiden Syrax, is going to be the amount of damage coming out of Raiden. He is going to be getting 40% to 50% on any hit. Gearers is going to want to make these Sam Cymaculums and make sure he gets at least three of them loaded up so that he's able to use the snap and he's able to use the timer. That's an important point. So gearers, when he has the three stocks available, he can spend one bar to get out of combos. It's kind of similar to a combo breaker. You have to kind of know the right timing and the opponent's combo to use it. You've got to use it well, you've got to live your life back and you escape. It's a pretty good way to counteract some of Raiden's big damage, but he's got to use it at the right time. Yeah, it's definitely going to be a knowledge check of does he know how to use this against Raiden. Luckily, Raiden is one of the more used characters right now, and so he's definitely had a lot of Raiden matchup knowledge should know exactly where those moments are. So far, Joystick, he's playing a real patient kind of game. He's chilling. He's letting K-Mac with quite a lot. He's looking for his big spot. K-Mac with a nice combo now. Oh yeah, good freeze there. And Raiden not going to have access to breaker yet. Oh, he got hit by it. So the grab did not work, and now Joystick is going to reverse the situation. I do wonder if he took that hit on purpose. It would be extra smart. Yeah. Got some good damage going. A lot of people also try to flawless block if there's a gap. The Raiden does not call the Cyrax right at the right time so they can mitigate some of that chip. Oh, but look at that freeze. Oh, that was crazy. What the heck? He got mixed. That was nuts. Garrus mixed himself. I know, but he still got the hit. Oh, and there's the freeze. He should be able to take this round. Fatal blow. Very smart fatal blow so that he cannot break her out. Yep. And there we go. I love this one. It's time for a rewind. I love that he sees it happening. Yep. We're going to smash him together. Oh, he's cold. Oh, no. My goodness. All right, K-Mac tying it up in rounds. Joystick were a lot of meter available though. He didn't get to use the break at the end of that last round, but he's definitely going to have it ready for this one. Yeah, definitely. And Joystick dug ahead and getting that whiff punish there on the Garrus. Not quite meeting at the right time. And look at this damaged spooky. He didn't even finish. He could have gotten more. He could have gotten way more. All he did was spend one bar and one cameo and he got 35%. I don't think Raiden is a mystery anymore to the people at home. Raiden Syrax, you guys know what this launch is all about. And Joystick, the missile's in his way. No conversion though from K-Mac. Yep. I'm going to have to eat all this chip right here. No flawless block on the storm cell or on the Syrax. Nope. But nice grab. Yeah, good grab. Moving. Three. What the heck? Oh, good breaker there. Good breaker. Because that would have been the end of K-Mac right there. He's got to watch out for all this chip. He's within chip range. He didn't get one flawless, but it's not enough. Yeah. So, basically, you've mentioned quite a lot about why you should try your best to flawless block against Raiden. So, one thing that's really important is against the chip block strengths when he's going for the Thunder into Syrax. If you flawless block just one hit of that, then for the next several seconds, you don't take chip damage anymore. So, it's a good way to just, you know, patient it out and try to outpatience what they're doing with the Syrax until he has no more cameo Syrax available. Yeah, and I mean, it's a lot easier said than done. Raiden's will just throw it out and then have the Syrax to keep them safe. But Raiden actually gets that passive ability whenever his eyes start glowing. He doesn't take as much chip either. He's the chip giver, but won't take chip himself. That's really valuable too, because you're playing this strategy of you're picking away at the other guy. But even if they try to do the same thing back to you, then Raiden has that natural defense built in to stall them down. Exactly. We can see his eyes glowing now. He's all powered up and he goes ahead and gets out of the corner too, not allowing K-Mac to trap him in the corner there. Nice. And a conversion. He has a lot of meter available and he has the cameo. He picked the right time to escape. There you go. So smart. And now he has the corner pressure here on Raiden. What's he going to do with it? Nope. Back into the same situation, unfortunately. And he's in a lot of trouble now. Joystick with the corner, picking away. Didn't have the Syrax available. That was close. That was very close. And that's going to be around the Joystick right there. Okay. Match point for him. He's in a strong position now. Step down. Oh, get launched. Time freeze. This is going to be a lot of damage. He's got to eat the setup after two. Yep. Grabbed. Grabbed. It is a guess. Whether or not it's the grab or the strike. That dash back with Punish was amazing there by Joystick. Had to spend breaker there by K-Mac. He would have been eating 50 plus percent. Yep. It's good to stay ahead too. And you can build that meter back. The overhead is clean. Another. Cracking that skull. Do it again. Oh, good block. You went for it again. Again. Again. He's just cracking the skull. One of the fastest overheads in the entire game. Yes. So much mix. So much shift. Man, if he had done a string instead of just a down one, that would have been sick. But instead, Joystick is going to close out the game and he's going to finish the job. Yeah. Joystick going 2-0 against K-Mac. What a great job. Maybe first to three. I think it's first to three. It should be three out of five. I just meant he finished the job as in he got him with a little sweep at the end, you know. Oh, okay. I got you. I got you. Just kidding. All right. All right. So 2-0 right now in favor of Joystick. K-Mac trying to make something happen. Yeah. K-Mac going to really need to make an adjustment here. I feel like he's been struggling a little bit with some of his, like, situationals. There's a couple of spots where he looked like he could have had a juicy combo instead. He just dropped and let himself get punished. I agree. And look, just as you're saying that he is making, getting those pickups, getting those conversions, making that adjustment. And here we go. Grab the knife. Yeah. Just to cash it into the big damage thanks to the enhanced. Another. It's a side right. Into a launcher. 40% right there. Oh, but K-Mac almost had that survive. Go ahead and set up the missile. Get the tackle through. Nice. Again, another tackle. Floorless. And the punish. He's seen enough of those. Yeah, definitely wanted to break there before Joystick could confirm into fatal blow or just finish with damage right there. Chipping away. Oh, he got a clean hit. It's very close right now. 120 versus 107. Oh, my God. Down for it. Oh, my God. That did a grip. And just flying at him. Superman right there. Joystick is sitting on set. Oh, the conversion. That was a nice freestyle. Joystick. OK, Joystick. 220 for that. Corner carry as well. Oh, he had to wake up. He's just like, get me out of there. Time to go for the overhead again. Down for. I'm surprised that he's not doing the two-part string into the side right, the sector thing to push him out like he was doing before. Yeah, I am surprised too. But maybe there's a follow-up block gap that we're not aware of that Joystick could check for. But I feel like you have to earn that respect. Ooh, there we go. Almost 400 for that and a nice block string. Still going to have his quarter pressure though. Did he take that last hit from Syrox on purpose? He's done it twice now. He might be trying to duck under it or something like that. Try to get up at the last possible second. Missile hit. Oh, he didn't leave. Back throw. Oh, forward throw. Even more dangerous. Yeah, going to go ahead and EX that. And that's going to be it here. Should be for Joystick. The skilling man. With the chip, Joystick is going to be taking it 3-0 over K-Mac. What a surprise right there for such high-level players. But I mean, Joystick played so well. K-Mac was starting to make those adjustments towards the end and it just wasn't in time. I think it just wasn't enough. It seemed like Joystick was just prepared for that type of matchup. And the same deal, he had a little bit of trouble too. K-Mac, I feel like with his situational, so many little binder combo drops and things like that, it's almost like Joystick kind of had a static on him. You know what I mean? If he was at home in training mode, he would hit those combos every single time for 400 plus damage to his cool setups. But because he's up against Joystick, who's so tricky and so oppressive, his hands just become like jelly and all of a sudden you just can't do your combos anymore. Yeah, and I mean like this happens to everyone, but K-Mac is one of those players who has so much tournament experience and you just don't expect it to happen to him, but today it just, he just couldn't get those confirms. Sometimes your hands just don't work anymore. Alright everybody, so we're going to be setting up for the next series of matches. Once again, if you're just joining us, we are here at the MK1 Pro Competition. This is the first all-fine event period and one of only two that we're going to have here in the good old US of A. So we have lots of killers all here looking to show their stuff in the early portion. Okay, at the beginning show what they can do entertain you guys at home and also get some very nice points as a part of the league. Of course, that's the important part here is a lot of people have come out. They like last minute made sure that they got here on time so that they can get their points. A lot of the competitions are going to be down in South America or other places in America's and it's just, this is some of the cream of the crop right now that we're seeing here in this competition to this. We hope you guys have been enjoying it all so far. So we're going to have our next match shortly. In the meantime, guys, don't forget to also check out the bracket if you like, so you can follow along at home and see all the players that we're going to have. We are in right now the C3 and the C4 portion of the bracket. So you're going to see quite a few excellent killers there. Also a big thank you to WB Game. Thank you to our friends at Mountain Dew and thank you to East Coast Stowdown for putting it all together for you guys at home as we're lining up the next match right now, as I can see. In the meantime, guys, let us know what you think. Hope you've been having a good time. Mortal Kombat 1 has been an amazing experience for all of us so far. It's been very fun, you know, seeing all the different events that have sprung up even before the MK1 pro competition showed up. Almost every day you go on Twitch and there's a major tournament or event happening with all your favorite commentators and some of your favorite players too. But the best part about this one, the big offline, the first pro competition, okay, is even those secret killers, okay, the ones that have been hiding, like Lord Sonic Fox, like the Fox, the ones that have been hiding. They're all here and they're all here for you to see. So it's going to be extra amazing and we're going to finally answer as far as, like, the month one. Who's the best month one of Mortal Kombat 1? We're going to answer that tonight. Now, here is one thing, right? We have in our brackets tonight for you guys. We're going to have Kevo, and Kevo always comes right out the gate on NRS Games. He is always placing top 8 right away, and I'm really interested to see who he's playing, how he's playing, et cetera, because since MK9, he has been absolutely putting on a show right at the start of the game every single time. True that. We also have Turkey coming up to the play. It looks like TGC Turkey, all the TGC people are going to love in this portion of the bracket, I see, and they're going to be up against a little Zeppy, so stick around to coming up shortly. It's going to be another good one. Turkey has been competing quite a lot in the online events. He's competed in the IKFK, and he's competed in pretty much everything that was out there. So this guy has a lot of great, high level, top 8 tournament experience. He also has been playing offline. He's been going to MKNJ. He got a second, one of them, and third at the other, I believe. And he has been playing with Raiden Jax, which is one of the really top tier teams. I know we're used to seeing Raiden Syrax, but Turkey's definitely got a lot of setups. I don't know anything about little Zeppy. I'm not sure. We're going to learn today. We're going to learn today. I'm really excited to see what this person brings. That's the most fun part about this type of event. We know the old schoolers. We know Turkey. We see him all the time. We know Joystick. But what happens when you see little Zeppy? Who's that guy? We don't know who that is. Who's little Zeppy? You know, they could be a secret killer. One of those ones I was talking about. I mean, it could just be, like, Scorpion, Prox, and Nekoloss. They came out of nowhere. No one knew who they were. And there they are. They went all three majors one year. I feel like the Twins almost came out of nowhere to me, like NK Naira, who were those guys, right? And then right around MK11, they had the whole street going, where they won every online tournament, or something. That was insane. I mean, twin and brother meta is kind of broken. I can't lie, because you always have a training partner right there. And not only is it your training partner, you want to beat them. Sibling rivalry. You know, you want to beat them. Absolutely. All right, everybody. Once again, thank you, everybody, that's been tuning in. I hope you're enjoying yourselves. This is East Coast Throwdown 2023 edition. It is the first stop offline on the MK1 Pro competition. It's in the heart of the tri-state, where we have all the Mortal Kombat monsters and a huge Mortal Kombat history. And I'm definitely looking forward to seeing even more exceptional matches than what you've already seen. Yeah, so am I. I mean, we have people coming from all over the states. We have people from Texas, from Florida. We have people from the West Coast. We have people from overseas who have come out here for this pro competition that Warner Brothers is putting on for us. And it's just, it's some of the... I'm so hyped. I'm so excited. Some guy nobody ever heard of is going to end up in top eight. Yeah, you know. The sponsors are all going to be island. Who's that guy? Exactly. And then, you know, we're going to see hidden tech where people have not shown online. They haven't posted a clip to Twitter. They haven't posted a YouTube video because they saved it for this tournament. I'm so hyped. Let's go. They had, they had to stop stuff. We had to stop the Sindel, the little mini infinite. We had to be like, oops. Yep. We're getting right into it. That's how you know they're discovering the tech. Oh, it looks like Turkey has switched to the Raiden Syracuse instead. Oh no. What a surprise. Yeah, but we are seeing the Shaolin Monks here from Lil Zeppy, who's also a top tier team. The Kung Lao Hat making it plus two on unsafe strings is ridiculous. A total reversal of rules. Liu Kang, the god. Yeah, except Raiden said, I still remember I'm the god. Another one. Oh, he's going to go ahead and use that armor on the bicycle. He's out of there. Why would I, why would I stay close to you? Yeah. And there's the Kung Lao Hat. Liu trying to make his way in. Usually you don't see Liu getting zoned. Great punish there by Turkey. Getting Liu out of the air and just the Syracuse. I'm not, I'm not going to lie in this. I think that Lil Zeppy might be looking a little outmatched. This might be a mulling that we have coming up. Yeah, it might be, it might be a little bit, but we'll have to see. We'll have to get Lil Zeppy fares against it, but Turkey is just absolutely falling right now. 375 without a cameo. And now you're in the corner against Raiden. Oh my goodness. Do something. How are you going to get out? Zeppy. Oh no. Oh no, he tried to jump out. He's trying to get out here. Do something. Do something. He's saved. Tried to with punish. Didn't quite get it. And Turkey is just compressing him in the corner. Goodbye, all your meter. You might have needed that. Yep. Just going to go ahead and throw out the Kunlal hat, but doesn't hold it, which you can hold it as you approach, which is going to make it a lot more useful. It gets hit by the last hit of Syrax and just the carpet right there. It's going to be enough for Turkey. He's going to go ahead and take that first match. Lightning up the behind. 1-0 Turkey. Yeah, 1-0 Turkey. And Turkey is strong. He is looking strong with those confirms. He had a couple of with punishes in there. Turkey is looking like he is just ready for this match. We just saved from the jump that Turkey is at the vet already of MK1. I know it's crazy to talk about someone as a vet when the game's only been out for approximately a month, but for real, this guy probably plays this game every day. Oh, for sure. And he's entering like three tournaments a day and he's doing everything he can to improve at the game. Yep. Compared to that, is Zephy's a little homie that he probably loves his MK. Loads of combat league every now and again in place for a couple hours. Yep. But the struggle is real. It is. It is. It's hard when you're going against these really top tier competitors and you're just not used to it and you're not ready for it. Oh. Turkey with the down four just pushing them out and then he plays the runaway too. He's looking for little Zephy to make that wrong mistake and make his job even easier. Fuller throw. Didn't even bother spending the two bars. Yeah, I mean right in here. Oh, the weight. Yeah. And there it is. Just we've crossed the screen. Cyrax is like You're so cheap, Turkey. There's some kid watching this at home right now and they're like, Mom, I hate this game. Look how these guys play. There's some kids in there. Oh my God. This is not my word for combat. This guy's hitting for 40 percent. When do they do the fatalities? Yeah, exactly. Then there's that 40 percent in the corner carry as well. He had to break. He had to break. He was going to there was no way he was going to survive that. But I mean Zeppy. And here comes more chip. And here comes set up in the more chip right there. And Zeppy is just not even going to be able to block at the end. Turkey going up 2-0 right now. Looking to make a quick sweep of this. Hey, it's in the name of the game. All right, Mortal Kombat. You ain't fighting for funsies. You're fighting to the death over here. Oh yeah, for sure. And I mean, you're fighting for your life right now. It's a tournament. It's a competition. We are seeing them go to character select though. So I'm wondering what Zeppy is thinking. He's shaking his head. Shaking his head of camera. He's sticking to that scene in the story mode. That's what he's thinking. Liu Kang was like, don't worry guys, nobody ever gets hurt during the tournament. Nobody ever gets hurt during the Outworld tournament. Yeah, nobody. And then, you know, Motaro just comes running in, rips your arms off and goes running away. Molina and Kenji had this whole thing. All right, we're going to see how the Raiden or how the Kung Lao appears against the Raiden this time. We're going to see Kung Lao Scorpion cameo. Interesting. I really enjoy the Scorpion cameo. I've been seeing it a lot with Molina with Scorpion himself. Oh, and starts with an overhand little Zeppy getting hit right away. Get over here. Yeah. Scorpion has that great armored pullback on his cameo as well, which is so important if you want to get out of really tough situations. It's really good mid-screen. You know, we think of, like, reversals that are good when you're in the corner. That's like a good mid-screen reverse. You just, whoo. And you're just gone. Yeah, for sure. I'm wondering if well, Zeppy's going to try to use the overhead here with some mix. He's getting mixed. I'm sorry, Miss BC. He is. He is. There's no mix for you today, little Zeppy. You're getting mixed. Oh, no. All right, Turkey. Negative reinforcement. Set point. All right. Here we go, Turkey. Jumping over empty jump. Nothing after either to follow up. Oh my God. Your toes. Yeah, watch your toes. Somebody help this man. Zeppy, don't get launched. This is revenge. This is for all the time that Kung Lao beat up Raiden. He says, I never lose to Raiden. Yeah, exactly. He was like, maybe pick too many cabbages. All right. Oh my God. I forgot about that. They were picking the cabbages in the start. Yeah, they're picking the cabbages. Raiden, which is like, I'm made for more than this, man. Come on. Turkey doesn't want to pay at Madam Bose. OK, little Zeppy is going to have to pay at Madam Bose tonight. Oh, man. All right, little Zeppy. He tried to get the. Oh, OK, there we go. OK, there we go. We got something. Sorry, we got no overhead. Oh, the reversal. He's out. Yeah. Armors wake up right there. And Turkey can be able to close. Oh, right away. Oh, Zeppy had it. Oh. I mean, even the chip there would have killed him. No flawless block. Turkey. He used to go by Turkey sucks. Now he just goes Turkey. Yeah. I guess he doesn't suck anymore. Yeah. Pretty good. I tried to talk to him about that. I'm going to be honest. His opponent disappeared. Yeah, his opponent. He was like, oh, never mind. There he is. He's just wrapping it up. He's like the quick glitch list. How quickly can I get off the stage? All right, man, you got me. Where's he shaking his head? You got me, bro. I'll go in the training mode tonight. You got me, man. Yeah, exactly. And again, thank you to all of you who are here watching these awesome matches with us. I mean, we are seeing some of the top level players. You can kind of get a little glimpse of how packed the whole MK1 area just by looking at the shot. But legit, you can't really see it, but right behind there, there's nothing but stations of other players playing out their matches and they're chatting up with each other and hanging out while it's all going down. This is looking amazing so far. Yeah. Those casuals going on. We have over 300 people in this bracket. It is great to see so many players just showing off what they have. And I mean, I can hear the crowd sometimes through this curtain as well as they see certain whiff punishes, et cetera. It's great to be at an offline again. Here's a run back of Turkey with the Mawlink. This was the closest thing to a brutality that you'll see on stream, but I'm actually being a brutality. Yeah, exactly. Turkey just... Wow, he absolutely ran over. Is that being that match? All right, everybody. So we're going to bring in you more of the pools matches very soon. Once again, this is the MK1 pro competition. Bought to you by our friends at WB Games. Thank you so much. Another Rome Studios. I love you guys. And of course, Mountain Dew for being a part of it. We're here at East Coast still down. My name is Spooky, and I'm joined by Ms. Meeseeks. Yeah, Ms. Meeseeks. Thank you guys. Again, so much Warner Brothers putting on this great show, Mountain Dew, for allowing us to do this, adding to the pot as well. And, I mean, thank you to all players. Thank you to everybody watching. Seriously, this game has grown so much over time, and the FGC has grown so much over time, and I'm pretty new to it, and I know that you're a veteran here, and you've watched it come up. Thank you. You have watched it come up, and I am just so glad to be part of this golden era where we have new games coming out. We've got new players coming in, and it's just, I mean, it's great to watch. Yeah, just so you know, guys, Ms. Meeseeks, I'm sorry, she's new to the whole commentary thing, and the FGC, she's been joining in and being a part of it, and you've been seeing her in some of the streams and everything, doing commentary stuff, so she's hoping to entertain you all and be a part of it. So, definitely support her. Ms. Meeseeks, and support me, Lord Spooky. Of course. If you're happy to see me doing some MPK for you guys. Stick around, don't go too far because the hype is building. Okay, I can definitely feel the intensity. Oh yeah. We're lining up the next match for you right now. One of the players is going to be Kevel, who you've been talking quite a lot about. Yeah. And the other is going to be Shujinki Dink, who has been around for a long time. I don't know. I'm sweating already. Yeah, I am too. I think they're going to be sweating already. Kevel versus Shujinki Dink, this is about to be a match of matches. I mean, Kevel, like I said, he has been coming out. I was talking to Aquaman about this earlier. Aquaman was saying Kevel, right from the start of any NRS game, is able to pick up something quick. I don't even know how high Aqua is, by the way. Super high. Yeah, Aqua was like, yo, Kevel's playing? But also, yeah, Shujinki Dink on STB, one of the stronger teams out there as well. They have a lot of veterans on their team, competitor, et cetera. And I mean, I don't know who he's playing in this game. We'll find out. I have surprises. That's the best part about this. You have some expectation of who some of the people will play. Okay, this guy used to be a Zoner. Right. So they'll probably play a Zoner character. But MK1, and then you have the whole cameo system too, which is so flexible. So you have people who actually would be like a Zoner type. But now they're like, okay, well, I'm just going to pick Sub-Zero. And if you use Fireballs, I'm just going to walk right through them and keep on doing what I do. Right. It's really interesting. Like a lot of people, like who are like character loyalists, haven't been character loyalists necessarily in this game, just because characters are playing so much differently than they ever have, especially with the add of the cameo system. The cameo system is basically variations, but it's giving that variation to every single character. Yep. And then we get more variety because as they add more characters and more cameos, you get new options. In fact, we have the Tremor that was shown in the latest trailer. We're excited about that. That's going to work. Omni-Man looks awesome. Very excited. If you guys have not seen that trailer yet, you should 100% look it up. Omni-Man and Tremor, the next to be released here on Mortal Kombat 1. Coming up, everybody. As we said, Shujinki Dink up against Kevel. It's going to be another epic matchup here in Mortal Kombat 1 as a part of the pro competition. Once again, this course throw down is the first event of all the offline series. There's only four in total. You can only get points from three, I believe. So you got to pick carefully and try to get a strong performance out there while you can. Pick and choose, figure out which ones you want to do. And a lot of these players, this might be their only opportunity to get points. This might be like, they might only get to go to two of these and they have to make the most as they can. And it looks like our button check is done and we're about to be getting into this. I hope he picks who he's button checking with because if so, I'm extremely excited. I feel like I've gotten mixed by the button check too many times. Oh, they absolutely, they mixed you up. They're like, okay, I'm going to push Shang Tsung. Oh, yes. Yes, he's locking in. We're seeing the Shujinko. Let's go. Wake up. Wake up, guys. Guys, we have a Shujinko on stream. Let's go. Oh, my God. This is so high. Wake up, guys. I'm not going to lie to you. As someone that's been playing this game almost every day per month, I barely know how this camera even works. I'm really hoping that they're going to teach us tonight. I'm going to be honest. He steals turns from the other characters. That's about it. That's about it. I know he hasn't meditated to do it. Let's go. All right. We got the Laohat with the Johnny Cage. He's just hanging with the Syrax. But the Laohat, you're going to have to show that it's also going to keep him plus two on a lot of his stuff. And Johnny just, he needs more plus strings, you know? He's only plus on about, I don't know, kind of strings. Yeah, true. So, you know, all the plus strings in the world, but also what you mentioned before is about holding the hat and taking control. So, you know, you're going to have to take control of the screen because by controlling that particular spot, you make it so much easier to approach them. Yeah, that's very true. Especially again, Shang, it's going to be able to do two different types of zoning between the old Shang and the new Shang. Oh! Great air to air conversion. Look at this. No, unfortunate. I was going to close that out. Yeah, very unfortunate. Oh, stretch the leg. Yeah, he's got to build up that height meter every single time. Johnny, access to EX moves without having to EX them. Basically, he gets the star power, which allows you to do specials into specials with three total. Great jump in there over the fireball as well. And look at this corner combo. Going to go get Okie jump in. Your plus. See, jumping it. Oh! That was a miss input. He didn't want that. There's no way that he mounted that. Welcome to the life of a Shang player. Oh, there's the Laohat there on wake up. Going to go ahead and get some mix going. Throw two as well. Oh, mix. Oh, my God. He was like, oh, you thought you were going to get away from me because I threw you. No, Kung Laoh is like, nah, we're back over here. I love those the Kung Laoh little throw tricks. Yeah, exactly. I love it so much. I mean, people always talk about the Kung Laoh being a low about the mix about the plus. But I mean, Kung Laoh also has a great wake up. He uses the spin on wake up particular strings that you might have trouble with that for real that Kung Laoh cameo just breaks out of. Yep, exactly. Go ahead and block the shadow kick but Kung Laoh comes in to save the day afterwards. A block. A block and a huge punish here from Shijinkidink. What is he even doing? He's just juggling. No, I mean, what was Shijinko doing? Oh, Shijinko? He has to meditate and then he's allowed to get there. Oh, not get hit for a long time and now he's going to have an accident. Then he steals your stuff. I see it. Okay. He's got to meditate and think about it. How do I do these plus moves? So far, this is still looking pretty good for kill but these ones are getting closer. Oh, no, two and two. He had to break. You can't take that. Nice. Since you're no conversion off of it and Johnny's just going to whip punish there. Almost. And actually Shijink is free. Shijinko. Oh, good jump. Whoa. But he had held it. Expecting to have to be sent. Round two. Fight. Oh, nice freestyle. Great switch as well. Got to go ahead and get Shijinko out and he's got to think about it. He's got to think about it. Kick them out of the way. Get out of here buddy. You see there's a fight going on. Yeah. 412 full convert. This hurts. Yeah, this hurts a lot. Johnny who has a ton of plus frames. You're against a two mile hat with a ton of plus frames and you got to get it on the corner. Yup. And even the strings that are minus frames can just become plus at any time just like that. Whoo. That's what Johnny does. Shijinko fighting his way out one poke at a time. He's doing alright but he's so low on health he has to break. Goodbye meter. Yeah, but now no meter and he can't dish out that damage with the juggles as much and Kevo it's just going down the pipe meter right at the end. Bring it. You got to get that stretch. You know, he's got to be able to do his midair splits. You can't just do those out of nowhere. I still feel like such a tense there, man. I want to see some more of this. Yeah. No, I've come on. Shijinko is one of those players that would be able to make this adjustment. But I mean, Johnny is just such a massive pressure over and over again. So hard to get out of the corner. He managed to get out of the corner. We've got Shijinko I keep mixing up Shijinki to get Shijinko's name. He is Shijinko right now. Yeah, he is. All right. Quick, 38% right there for your troubles. And look at this adjustment that he's made. Look at the zoning. I'm going to go and build that pipe meter. He's got a pipe. He's getting really high. Take this back door, buddy. And just chip needed here. He does have max hype though. He has max hype, which is scary. Jonathan max hype is a scary moment to be in. Yup. The question is, why is he going to go to the top? I am low. You got a block. Quick. The hard to block. Switch. Oh. That's okay. Man, that can be just gone for a long time after you use that once. Huh? Yeah, it is. Crap. Takes a really long time to load up. Can be really strong, but I mean, it's really hard to use. Understood. It's got almost nothing to work with. Yeah. That was just looking so strong. Kevill could have just saffold screen there. Just chipped away. Yeah. Had to make the move. He looks so comfortable right now. Yeah, he really does. He doesn't seem worried about this matchup at all. He's definitely just doing his thing. All right. And that has got to potentially the last breaker push you, in this set period. Backdoor is going to get him right into the corner. That was a good way to high crush. Oh, good sweep right there. Got him. Rising star into a full launcher in the corner. Waystand, probably called for a while. No, he doesn't call him. 4-1-2. This is close enough. He might be able to use the star power to do it, but it doesn't like he's going to go for it. Yeah, he hasn't gone for the hype, even though he built it up. Nope. The optimal way to get into the hype mode is you use your basic standing four. Kevill is going to take that one good job, Kevill, with the 3-0 extremely clean. The optimal way to do it is to somehow do stand four. Yeah. You can do standing back kick and cancel that into the star power. So some good ways involve just having some type of capture move like the Cyrax net. You just do the net and then boot free star power. But some other ways that are pretty easy involve the basic 2-1-2 launchers. You do your basic 2-1-2 and then if you have them in the corner you can do standing four immediately after that and then you still can get the star power. So two good ways to activate and get a real combo. Yeah, that's actually like a really good setup. I have seen the Cyrax setup with the net and the fact that he can build up and help so long in the net. Full of max star power. We got a replay of Kevill doing so much good work with Johnny Cage. Mostly abusing the things that are strong about Johnny. Really good string starting from the forward 1 as well as from the standing 2. And then he has the 9 frame mid the forward 3. It's a very quick and the main weakness of it doesn't have a lot of horizontal range but it's still great for keeping that pressure on and making it so that they don't want to duck. It was so important. It makes those highs plus strings are highs. Is there going to try to duck under neutral duck under or mash D1 under to try to trade but as long as you mid check those you have to make the person respect your plus frames. Yep, and that's why the forward 3 is such a powerful tool and part of why Johnny Cage is considered by many of the best players to be one of the strongest characters right now. MK1. Yeah, for sure. All right. It looks like we've got our next match coming up for you guys as well. We've got your boy Rio and we've got representing ELG. I am not familiar with Mario. I know your boy Rio. He was a really strong player. I cannot remember for the life of me who he played but I'm interested to see who both these players play. I'm really enjoying seeing like the variety that we've seen so far to be honest. My favorite part about coming to this type of tournament is you just see so many people that for all you know by the end of this weekend one of these two players is going to be the one that pulls off something crazy against like Sonic products or something or someone who found tech that none of us know about or they maybe found somebody who like is considered one of the worst in the game right now and they make them work and make them the best based on the cameo pick based on how they play them etc. I love his shirt the Kodak shirt that looks cool. Oh yeah. I like both of their outfits to be honest. I like that jacket that he's got on nice and shiny. All right already once again if you're just tuning in this is the MK1 pro competition is the very first offline stop here at East Coast Store Down in the heart of Tri-State where we love Mortal Kombat and we're about to have another great match of coming up once again is your boy Rio versus Mari very curious how this is going to go down. I see a Kenchi. Kenchi we got a sento sandwich coming up. Maybe. Hate the sento sandwich. Love to see it. Hate to be in. If he's playing Johnny I don't mind. You know what this is. Yeah that's true. That's fair. That is really fair. Looks like they are playing check in real quick. Yeah quick fun check about to get into it with you guys. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with us too as well. If you want to check out the bracket you can check out the bracket on StartGG follow along with us we're running the Seapools right now and also like make sure that you are following the stream you know. Yeah please definitely follow our lords and masters WB games to our friends at Mountain Dew for being a part of it and hope and making as hype as possible. It's going to be another super good one. I love seeing all these great little crowd views. You get an idea of how it's kind of that front area where Mortal Kombat is right now. It's just so packed with all these monsters and this is only Friday. We have three total days of this break it down to that Sunday Top 8. Many amazing matches coming up and I'm sure it's going to be talked about far and wide after this weekend Mortal Kombat or next NRS game. I mean it's going to be wow this is the person who won that first offline. This is the person who won ECT. This is the person who won that first pro-cop. It's looking like Kenshi sub-zero and Johnny Cage now again. Okay. Yeah Johnny Cage, Kung Lao Johnny Cage, Cyrax both very popular combinations and Kenshi he's also good with several different cameos. With Sub-Zero he can do as well and he can also sometimes ignore the Kung Lao like that. Yeah exactly as long as he gets that armor when he is able to ignore the Kung Lao hat you don't have to hold that as much but it's going to be hard for Kenshi to get the sento out against Johnny Cage just because he's so in your face such an oppressive character it's going to take a little bit for Kenshi to get the space to hold the sento out. He's the right man for the job chasing down a Kenshi player. We're going to go ahead and go and use that forward throw now you're in the corner Johnny and he's backing off trying to get that back to get a couple of punches Breaker Kenshi is that Breaker? What an anti-air. What an anti-air. One anti-air conversion into the corner as well. Oh and he used the enhanced version to keep it standing and then chuck them out with the throw. So what a great play there from your boy Rio. Let's go for the second very strong round number one. Yes he is. Mari's looking like he's struggling to find his footing here with Kenshi of how he's going to be able to play it against Johnny like this. Missing a couple of his with punishes. Oh he's whipping too he's got to be careful. Yeah he's shadow boxing a little bit. Alright there we go we got the freeze from the sub zero and now sento is out it is party time. Time for a sandwich oh no we're just going for the max sandwich he has to break that's a point and that's really good because now he does not have the enhanced counter available which is one of the best ways to get out of those strings. Johnny with no meter he should approach if anything oh don't let him don't let him get attached that's fair Mari whenever Johnny does not have barred as Kenshi they should probably approach yeah just get in there yeah for sure because Johnny's not going to be able to do as much for sure I mean he's still going to do as much damage and he's able to get out there yeah he doesn't have to feel the counter that's the scariest thing two out of nowhere he has one chance he's got to make it happen right now he does they're about even on life right now I want to jump out when the rager he's still alive he goes for the fatal raw fatal didn't work and that is an excellent punish from Rio yeah Rio really just ready for that raw fatal not getting hit by it it's a little bit harder to land your fatals here just out of nowhere in MK1 versus MK11 there's that flash there's time to break you can break out of the fatal blow there's just so many more options yep it's an interesting change compared to how the fatal blows used to be before where they were you know big difference basically yeah fatal blows they're useful in combos and things like that one thing that is really good about the fatal blows is that if they don't have breaker available they're still an excellent way to finish off a round yeah exactly and we've got the Cyrax switch here we got a cameo switch by Mari he decided he wanted to go top tier Cyrax instead okay start some block strings going maybe something like that yep exactly try to maybe get some unsafe things going and there's the Cyrax and he's able to pull out Cento during the Cyrax that's such a smart choice cause he was having trouble getting Cento out now you're on the sandwich you didn't guess right for the ATO guess again for the pressure mix hold this oh if that can't he's running out if he can just survive oh reset reset it never mind this ghost is just never going to win this place is haunted exactly Johnny like get me out of here I need to get back to my mansion good chuck alright Mari waking up man I guess the Cyrax has just made a big difference already yeah I mean huge difference if you're able to pull out that's just like something that he was really missing in that first round go ahead throw Cento to do some stuff full screen panning fun got separated from Cento time to toss this sword good tack there from Mari as well overhead clipped him again get the back throw oh you're spying you see the reaction he does oh yeah exactly good breaker there this is looking really good for Mari they have lots of meter available if they build the three bars they'll have a breaker which is a big deal against Johnny yeah agreed and Johnny is meter starved right now this is looking good Mari yeah Mari it has a huge set up here as well on the throw you're going to be hit by anything he's going to hit by anything that's the only way nope not going to happen one on one one on one alright one one I love the adjustment there from Mari one adjustment Cyrax such a smart switch for him because bringing that Cento out is what made the complete difference oh double Cyrax now fight fire with fire spin to win you go Cyrax I go Cyrax we can both have helicopters spin to win well the fingers how dare you wow what a great conversion there from the anti air alright oh try to go for the Cyrax net and gets caught Cento is out he didn't even take the combo he just called Cento yeah he was like I just need Cento I don't want the combo I just need Cento and now I'm going to make you block all this and I hope that you get the overhead and the low this guy can't go outside without his friends ever oh my gosh doesn't spend the EX bar for the launcher there I think it's wise to keep a breaker I agree I agree completely it's really hard in this game to choose when to break or when to dish out on damage meter management it's just so much harder in this game hit the other Cyrax 2-1-2 this is big damage he should have broke that you could die now oh yeah you could definitely die this is getting scary 2-1-2 it hit it hit clean you still not going to break are you serious break wow that's insane you're going to be dead from that what the heck I'm flabbergasted why didn't they break I don't know maybe he thought he could get out of it maybe he thought he could get out alive and get to keep his bar I'm so lost right now he could have prevented that whole situation just by breaking the first combo yeah that's all he had to do but then he got caught in the corner against Johnny and decided not to spend the breaker but now I mean you're in the corner against two people okay he still has the chance cashing out oh goes for the rising star but uses Cyrax to keep it safe oh sent to run out sent to run out and he punched sent to on the course how could he do that I don't know either he's a ghost he's a ghost how did he possibly do that I didn't know ghost had that alright you know what I mean one round of peace yeah what a fight we have here this has been great this is one of the closest matches we got the entire block both players lots of meter available yeah both of them almost have three bars right now both are going to have breaker he's slicing the legs jump kick oh he tried to that was a very good check on the hop excellent work sent to us here help me out buddy yeah send her please my three million dollar sword send her please now he's ripping those legs off those long disjointed buttons are going to be really good against Johnny just because he's so in your face what a micro duck look at that and then Johnny breaker smart to use the breaker there doesn't get caught by the net very patient here from Mari and from Rio both filling out the space he's probably going to have to fight through a breaker at some point Mari the jump kick but it's not enough pull me through to one he converted it Rio well done a good check from there with the mid finishing it out and Rio's going to be going up to one here in this crazy set you can see also you can see the seats filling out behind them as these sets are getting more and more hairy oh yeah just getting into the night hours alright the chaos hours the world hours your boy Rio starting off here with a little bit of damage that was and then he converted to a full route oh my god I haven't seen that yet Rio oh yeah why not bam stand up buddy I'm not done with you yet yeah you have where the head Mari's a big mountain to climb right now true but they do have the corner to start with and they do have center come here buddy I need some help overheads and loaves or they high low mid baby that's the system whoa that was sick we got full corner optimal we got 44% here I'm scared back up to the word again double two one two oh my gosh he's keeping us standing for the mix but he didn't reversal what's it going to be here what's the choice going to be oh just for crazy what a crazy that was such a sick combo that Mari did in the corner close it out anyway oh oh no not a good way to start off the round your boy Rio looking to close out the set oh my god Johnny please stop Johnny he's hitting him with that particular set of skills oh my Johnny stop please break away from me Johnny alright there we go your boy or Mari's going ahead and getting started here with Cento you're not going to count your way out of it no you're not going to go for the counter nice throw Mari looking to stay alive still got the Cento out bam the back of your head he just he just put it away he said I need my sword back yeah he was like oh it's my sword Cento get out of here alright Mari backing off here with the life lead but it's just going to take one hit confirm because Mari does not have access to that breaker that's true he can fatal blow to make it even easier two one two missed oh he missed that was so rubbish Mari he's staying alive the clutch factor too he was ready for that oh my gosh it should have been it should have been over that should have been done good on Mari to keep his composure on that true I would have almost been putting my stick down already like alright you got me buddy yeah exactly sim I would have been like alright so it's over but I mean Mari fighting to the end here I'm going to take us to 5-2 Mari looking really strong in this round so close no anti-all block nice free up block oh my gosh Mari ready for the jump Johnny it is such a commitment to up block you're stuck in that animation production better watch I'm going to start breaking the equipment ooh the jump punch oh no your boy Rio's coming for violence right now though we finally went for a wake up yeah first time he's used it try to go over the sandwich didn't quite get it sword the wake up sword and Mari's taking us to a game 5 what an adjustment by Mari I think that's freaking 18% 180 it does a grip it's ridiculous look at them talking too they're just laughing that was amazing for real they're both so they're legit giving each other props because the match is so amazing that's what I love to see about the fighting game community too is like people love to learn from each other they love to talk I mean some people are going to be salty after they lose and stand up and wrap it up and Gigi shake my hand but these two players that was tight they are definitely like respecting each other they're like wow that was sick that you did that oh that was sick that you did that I didn't even know you could do that later on they'll go look at the Va and they'll both be in the comments talking to each other or something like that oh yeah of course we've got a little coach in coming in here assist me please the ELG coach coming in the real life cameo yeah exactly he has to run off the screen the same as the other cameos oh yeah or fly over something like Syrax nah yeah I need him to helicopter right off the top of the screen right now the funniest is when Syrax comes in because he doesn't even start for him it's like he's just exploring it's time to come together yeah there he goes where'd he go alright both of them sticking it out with the same team your boy Rio it's gonna stick it out with the Johnny Syrax he had an option to switch there sticking it out didn't want to go back to the Kung Lao hat let's go X-Files the class oh he's got the shades too oh of course who's Johnny without the shades he's got like the wacky shades though those make me think of when you buy the shades from the 25 cent store or something oh yeah or like when you're at the beach on the boardwalk just like those oh no oh you like great blocks here yes finally I was waiting for him to do that and he had to break of course but you know Cento's still here and he said it's time for a sandwich yeah still now he's got to be very aware that the counter's coming the score is 2-2 I believe by the way Rio and Miles 2-1-4 into the overhead he blocked it 5 get some sweep and you go ahead get the great tech sweep again watch your toes chipping away oh he flawless that helps yeah helps a lot wow Mario he's bringing all the way back and look how good of a round that was for Mario he barely took any damage there definitely has it made huge adjustment to how your boy Rio's playing his Johnny Cage 4-3-2-1 just went for the shadow kick though got him big damage super unsafe string there from Kenji especially from that distance Syrox quote to extend and Kenji's out of the corner and Johnny's out of the corner hopping everywhere yeah we're just jumping I wouldn't want to be on this floor either this looks gross yeah it's disgusting get me out of here these are my guns everywhere oh my gosh nice low talk about corner pressure though oh Cento's behind me now break it right back he's still got a Senso no he's gone he's gone he had it for like half a second his old buddy's gone neither of them with any meter really but your boy Rio has the star power yeah he's got that install ready to go that's the coolest move to be he takes shades off and just puts another pair on where those come from you always gotta have an extra pair of shades do you not have an extra pair of shades in your pocket? no I don't have an extra pair of shades I got one pair those break I'm done can't be in the sun anymore after that oh that boat bunny happened like crazy and we're going to the final round between your boy Rio and EoG's Mario yeah I hear the crowd screaming in the background he's been so good at that and Cento's here here's the pressure here from Mari huge life lead reversal didn't work he could have gone more than that two and two huge damage he's gotta extend as far as long as possible why not that Kenshi meter he's got no meter but if he can get stand four into hype that would be huge no two and two he can do it right now yes right when you said there it is oh my god is this that's so crazy don't check on Mari that was so crazy he gets launched drops it what's it going to be oh just the throw to finish it that's so cool we got the pop up here that was an incredible match everybody that was an insane set oh my god the crowd was giving them props yeah the crowd was screaming I don't know if you could hear them they were like screaming at the end there that was so sick could have gone either way these are the moments I live for right there oh man so your boy Rio takes that one a crazy close set whoo man yeah oh my goodness that was insane they were countering each other the only thing that I'm still wondering about still like three games later why didn't he break her and that that one round two I don't get why didn't he break her there that's so crazy I'm gonna be up at 3 a.m. wondering why he didn't break her there for real I'll be honest maybe he was thinking saving for the round three but he had like 900 HP left or something he could have broken there and he could have I can't even English that's how crazy that was he could have broken there and been fine I'm trying to rep alright everybody yeah but I hope all of you guys out there in the crowd enjoyed that insane set here that we had we're gonna get some replays of these matches here tried to throw out that fatal blow with Kenshi and just nothing that was the end of the first game this is that crazy combo in the corner this combo was so sick it was beautiful he had the one where he did the the jump extension something like that that was incredible yeah I mean what a set 4-3-2-1 the launcher on that trade and that was it for El Mari and that let's go he was really they were really good about changing it up to they started at one series and then they ended up in the double Cyrox by the end yeah I mean it was really smart adjustments from both of them when we started off the match it looked like it was gonna be another like quick quick set from your boy Rio he came out strong against Mari but Mari props to him for making those adjustments and taking us to a final round game 5 true man that was incredible stuff everybody hope you guys all loved it once again if you're just joining into the stream we are here at the Mk1 pro competition the 2023 edition the newest stuff hope you guys have all been enjoying it my name is Spooky and I'm joined by Miss Viseeks and we've been having exceptional series of matches so far for all of you at home a big thank you to our friends at WB Games of course NRS we love you guys we love each other on studios and Mountain Dew for being a big part of it and helping be a part of the tour of the hype it up thank you so much also to the community for you guys who are supporting us and watching and I mean thank you to like actually every single person out here we've got people working behind the scenes we've got everything to bring you these awesome hype moments hype sets and I don't think you guys are ready for this next one but I'm not gonna let you know who's up next yeah yeah alright so guys before you see the next matchup which I promise is gonna be another amazing one if you've all been enjoying yourselves so far it's been great stuff we are gonna take a very short break and we'll come back we're gonna have even more amazing matches for all of you in the C3 and the C4 pools so stick around and we'll see you all shortly everybody yeah we'll see you in a sec alright everybody what is up and welcome back to the MK1 Pro competition we're continuing on with the block of C3 and C4 pools it's been so exciting so far once again I'm Spooky and I'm joined by Miss Viseeks and we pretty much have a match lined up for you ASAP so we're gonna jump into it very soon it's gonna be an amazing one between Splash and TGC's Joystick I mean this is a Hollywood set right here these are people that you could have easily seen in winners finals anywhere in any tournament I mean we've got we've got Joystick flashing the TGC right in front and then we've got Splash I mean he has been tearing it up at online tournaments everywhere I'm a huge fan of the work he's been doing with Kung Lao yeah very cool I think that he has been using quite a lot as oh is it a mirror? oh uh no that's Raiden I'm blind no no you're not blind that's the whole thing they look identical it's bad it happens to me all the time every single time I'm like it's Kung Lao Kung Lao and then I'm like oh wait no Kung Lao doesn't have electricity oh yeah so Kung Lao Goro one thing about this is that he has this one reversal attack move I think it's around 7 frames or 8 frames it's super fast it has armor and it's safe with the Goro cameo behind it so it's a really good way to be an offensive bully even against someone like Raiden who loves staying in your face you can just at any time when he feels like taking the turn he can spend one meter and he's in it okay yeah I have not seen the Goro really in action yet so I'm excited to see what this cameo brings to the Kung Lao obviously gonna have that overhead oh drops the combo coming in though that's the Goro for Joystick picking away Starwax behind it ooh he tried to get under it it looks like yeah he tried to get that so the thing about the Starwax can be a call is that the timing that you call it makes a huge difference if you call it too early then the block string is a little bit loose and if you call it too late there's a potential for them to get underneath it or even use a reversal attack yeah you also have to hold it for the right amount of time because if you don't hold it he's just gonna straight up in the air you get the other version yes that's a good point thankfully you can kind of control that while doing everything else you're doing but it does take a little bit of practice I think yeah for sure and a lot of people have learned to notice if the Starwax is mistimed and go for that flawless block in between the storm cell and the sirex great anti air what's the conversion here oh my goodness spending some cash just to get the big damage yeah no breaker either 43% just like that and wake up into chip oh he got through nice splash he did splash with the knowledge right there took his meters poked the toes that was almost a whiplash oh the bully through it but he didn't get the combo again oops some rare misses there and because that joystick is still in the game yeah aww I didn't neutral duck for long enough there it's caught by the hat I wonder if he can can he like change the timing of it but you know how you can control it make it go up and down I wonder if he can kind of make it go slow yeah I'm not sure if he can do that in this game I'm gonna be honest I know that it has a different like trajectory trajectory sometimes like sometimes it'll go down kind of hit your toes oh and look at the launcher with Goro here nice okay splash alright splash gonna finish out that first match looking very very very comfortable here against joystick yeah that's the number one thing that joystick is gonna have to overcome is that whole that whole bully tactic that he has and that it is a make or break tactic for splash because if he's building with that he's getting hits he's getting free damage he's getting pressure but if you block your way out of that he's giving himself less access to breakers and less access to potential combo damage later on mm-hmm that's very true just the down one pokes there your plus hold that oh gets hit by the last head of sire he's trying so hard to get out he knows that he can get through yeah he does he's just looking for that timing to be perfect yeah quick thing 20 sitting back full screen oh missed time overhead gets the launcher yeah he just went for it keeping full screen right now oh those definitely have different yeah he definitely has different hats gonna go ahead and charge up there for Raiden look at them feeling his spacing out little pokes here from joystick splash is definitely a one combo kill territory and there it is yeah there it is splash taking that first round both of them with barely any meter nothing to spend right now oh great anti-air but doesn't make anything of it he was extra hungry for it yeah he was like I'm ready anti-air and then just could not juggle off of it he's hit by that overhead overhead string that string is annoying that string hits me every time yep it's super good it's also good when they always delay wake up they delay wake up every time it's a good string yeah for sure it's active for a really long time so those active frames are gonna get you to understand it just goes for the launcher oh no punish there I'm not sure what he's doing there I think he was trying to do a dive kick originally that's how you got the up kick oh okay okay I see makes a lot of sense he's just trying to be sure and now he's doing a couple oh it's time to bully that's what he's doing he's sending you up when you think it's time to press up on you get bullied jumps in great micro duck underneath that throw and look at this damage that joystick is gonna it's gonna be dishing out is he gonna be able to no he almost that was close that was getting very dangerous and splash is running out of life to work with especially gets chipped right in right there joystick fighting back here good neutral docks here just patience in it out wants to mitigate as much damage as possible false block there from splash and you see how for a few seconds after that he can block the side racks and be just fine what an interrupt not gonna break huh splash yes why are you breaking you just a 35% of your life he's gonna try to bully that's the only thing left yep he's gonna do he's gonna do three palm corals what an air to air conversion from splash this is gorgeous here we go it's time oh got it the toes bring it back you must guess go for it again and there's the corals again forces the breaker now joystick can do this 46% damage he's got splash three bars he's trying to fake him out but through like that splash going up to out now see joystick is making a big change in his gameplay here he's gonna take a second he's gonna think about it talking to his coach you know getting getting some advice here but I'm wondering if he's gonna be able to make that adjustment he's definitely one of those more experienced players and he's able to make those adjustments on the fly not gonna like absolutely get tilted or think of the sets over I do think that's what splash is bringing to the table here with this Kung Lao girl is a thing that's really unique and so I can understand kind of an apprehension towards approaching it like hey I can't overextend because he's gonna armor me and he's gonna do his girl thing and he's gonna either combo me or B plus right but at the end of the day like it or not the rules of Mortal Kombat still apply you gotta kill the other guy that's how you win yep that's how you win it is Mortal Kombat and it's not fun combat no this is this is to the death no nobody's ever gotten hurt in a Mortal Kombat tournament what are you talking about you listen too much to Liu Kang nobody gets hurt in our world tournament only Liu Kang will say something like that yeah of course and now Raiden did send Kung Lao into die let's not forget that you're like Scorpion you're ready for that alright back into the match here Joystick being able to splash a little bit catches him with the flame carpet and is gonna get a full conversion off of that that's a lightning carpet if anything I call it the electricity carpet I don't actually know the name for it I'll be honest that's alright of course throwing him good damage for this both of them with theta blow oh and Goro of course he tried to crouch block because he was straight up the low oh no too good the blacks I can see why you said you love this he's got Goro mixed up I'm telling you it's so fun I'm really enjoying watching this game of course he's going to crouch block he's scared of the load that did 30% life twice in a row exactly doesn't spend the bar there to get the launcher tries to charge up Raiden full screen but ends up getting punished for it fully timed oh my gosh the crowd's getting so into it oh yeah the crowd is screaming right now actually a great spot to close out the set does have to work keep those three meters with Joystick that's the final hurdle he's got to force Joystick into a situation where he needs to break you can just spend the bar that's what's on that there we go and Joystick doesn't have that bar he's going to have to build it back up and he's not going to be able to get the damage vulnerable right now oh and one great trip it's over splash boom boom oh just chip look at brother chip and he's going to get it there it is three takes it three oh over Joystick moving on here it was a clean sweep Joystick was looking very strong early in his performances as I said what Splash is bringing to the table right now as far as the Kung Lao girl is as we can see on another level even for someone like Joystick crazy and to be honest I think we're going to expect to see Joystick later on in a lasso run to be honest he is a very strong player but splash really just showing how well he knows that let's take a look back at it let's take a look at Goro pounding right inside in real quick throwing right in across the screen I think Goro is the main character in this one he uses the Goro that's really good it's not that people were sleeping on this cameo because people do try it out but I know Malina Goro is often used a lot of times but I feel like people don't use Goro as much as they should maybe we see what Goro can do the biggest weakness of course is that you lose that 50 HP so you got to be aware of that yeah that is true cameos are going to change your HP as well as which character you're choosing to play with here guys we've got another crazy set for you we've got TGC Turkey used to be Turkey sucks versus Kevo and we saw really strong performances out of both of them earlier in the C-Block Kevo is just absolutely oppressive with that Johnny and then Turkey with the Raiden as well man incredible matches to a far tonight everybody at the Mk1 pro competition East Coastal down 2023 hope you guys been loving it don't go too far because the next one is beginning shortly we have a couple other ones lined up for you as well your boy Rio is going to be coming back soon against unbearable skill and also this is the first time we're seeing them Misfit Panda is going to be up against Matrix very soon as well yeah very true and I'm excited to see unbearable skill in this game because unbearable skill did not play Mk11 really as far as I know he is an Mkx god he played Mkx all the way through Mk11 he played Mkx all the way through Mkx and I would say in this game I mean like just as far as like little technical things go the way the amplification system works and things like that it's also a lot quicker of a game than Mk was a lot more offensive than Mk11 was true so I I think what I find the most interesting about this if I was to compare it to kind of that Mk9 Mkx Mk11 era is that characters have way less midst than I'm used to yeah there used to be so many like okay you knock them down there used to be mid string that has overhead and low and everything else and then in this game you know some characters have an exceptional mid like Johnny has like a forward three and that's for real like his best mid like most of the other mids are only situationally useful and it can be the same way for a lot of other characters so because of that number one it encourages you to go for harder reads because if you read they're high and you get under it then you know you can check duck and get a combo or you can uppercut them something like that but also you know it just encourages those mids available all the time and you gotta always thinking about that well if I go for my high here and they duck they might get me so I gotta keep checking them first yeah and I mean like you have characters that don't have access to things that they had access to like in more of the MK11 era that I'm more familiar with like as far as wake up goes your wake up options are completely depleted compared to MK11 MK11 you could wake up with up to up three you could delay wake up you could jump out on wake up there's just so many like so few checks you could just mash down one all you wanted on wake up but you will get checked for that every single time in this game yep so the one great thing about it though is that it's been lots of fun seeing a new experience in the Mortal Kombat I really love the cameo system we've already talked about how we're looking forward to seeing Tremor you know shake things up Tremor I'm excited for Tremor Omniman I'm not sure if you caught that Omniman trailer but I loved the reference to the subway station from MK3 at the end yep but it also was a reference to the Omniman cartoon as well I just absolutely loved how they pulled that together NRS doing a great job here Warner Brothers thank you so much for putting this on for us as well and Mountain Dew for helping sponsor out this tournament for us they're calling it the do nation I think that's kind of what I like that a lot keep an eye out the do nation Mountain Dew lovers out there yeah of course we've got some hype sets for you here absolutely so turkey coming up soon versus Kevo you see a nice little view of what it looks like in-house you can feel a bit of the tension and the amazing atmosphere so much competition here high level players and monsters and you know newcomers and just old blood looking to get back into the competitive scene and see all their friends and see them get a piece of that 255,000 dollars I mean as a part of the pro competition and on top of that as well just for this tournament there is an extra not just the normal payout there is an extra $10,000 on the line for top 16 for this tournament as well that was put in on top cash yeah that is some cash these players are spending and they are ready to go you know that they're competitors you know that they have been practicing day in day out they've been competing they've been playing against their friends they've been watching videos they've been learning their own tech labbing and we're just going to see this is going to be amazing turkey vs. Kevill I'm so excited to see how they're going to break it down yeah I now do a bulletin check oh they're going into it and we're going into it here we go we got the Johnny Cage vs. Raiden here looks like Johnny Kung Lao what he shows up based off against the Raiden Johnny Lao but we know that we did see turkey with the Johnny Cyrox earlier so we might see a cameos which here if he finds that it's going to be better most of the high level both those cameos in their pocket because although the Cyrox does add exception to his damage and his corner push the Kung Lao is good in a lot more situations especially against strong projectile characters like Raiden yeah no uplock there be careful we know that he's good for those okay you think it's flipped not short okay yeah we'll have to see all the splots on the Raiden balls as well I'm going to get a chip but caught Johnny trying to dash him he's out he's out again he's like I don't want any part of this he's like wee I'm going to go oh I'm gone again what are you going to do about it Johnny are you going to get it on me no overhead no low oh my god so ready for that got it I'm going to go to the height meter oh my god he calls him out full screen he was like you're going to run away from me alright I'm going to take the height meter alright well he does have the mob but unfortunately he's out of time oh yeah I didn't even notice the time was a factor there that was a long run something really interesting about this game too is that it's not necessarily who has more health at the end of the game it's who has more percentage compared to their health so if you have a 950 person against like a 1050 health person it's based off of the ratio there we go so looks like we got those flips so it is Kevo confirmed after Johnny and Turkey asked Raiden which I'm sure is the most old of you at home yeah great and look at Turkey oh my god showing off 50% just like that half of your life is gone he did that the perfect angle he did that's such a rich because they do have in the block like that right there oh my goodness huge punish on that never gonna be said call that psychic network right now exactly I can't believe you said that he should do a star power combo and he actually did on the right you were like he should do 212 understanding 4 and he just did he was listening to me I was getting some coaching on the side alright back throw back throw yep gonna be able to back off as well if he wants oh here's the chip just needs one more confirm or is the chip enough no it wasn't what's gonna be the play just the down one that was close danger oh my gosh that was terrifying Turkey you can't do that to me Turkey gonna be taking that round one over over here against Kevo rematch no cyrox pick oh we got we got we got we got coach we got coach hey bro you okay yeah I mean like that I didn't do it but Turkey he's fine with that he's like alright get some coaching I'll sit here and think about that match a little bit hey so first you got a zig alright and then you got a side and then duck and uppercut and then you just got to get out the way call your camera at the right time and you'll win you got this just make sure that you hit him more than he hits you yeah and you'll be golden you have to win two rounds before they win two rounds exactly easy as easy as that if only alright let's get things started we've got Turkey going ahead and calling out oh he's going for hype bro yeah he's building up that hype maybe that's what the coaching was make sure you get that hype meter yeah I mean if he's able to get that hype meter he's gonna be able to get in on raid and not let Turkey run away as much as he did pick the the Cyrox the conversion as well into the corner carry with the Superman okay Turkey he's just gonna keep again do it a third he wanted to I was like do it again bam the back of your head no breakers available exit right it could happen right now just like it happened before it could go stand four into hype meter we'll see Turkey definitely gonna be looking out for that confirm as breaker now you do not want to be against Johnny in hype mode when you have no breaker taking away the Cyrox goes right over his head but Turkey's gonna go ahead Turkey yeah Turkey taking that first round okay we'll still on full hype oh bad idea my friend yeah that is just the thing that he didn't have an enhanced meter because that would have been 400 damage or something yeah exactly that just you can't just throw a shadow slide like that against these top level players ready for every time and use the armoured superman to get out of that situation as well and more medius for Kevill but he does have to hit for that corner push he has hype meter he doesn't need a regular meter he's got hype meter because he doesn't need the EX good jump again no up lock Turkey all able to open him up here is he gonna have enough to finish it out of course he is it's rain rain and cyrox 479 more than enough he said here is 48% here's your inflation guys hey you guys thought there was not enough damage no there's more don't worry rain and cyrox you see how cyrox looks so proud of himself too oh yeah he's like he's going for a random satellite somewhere and I helped that's how I always feel every time the camera helps out every time it's like the ending screen and the other person like comes out like Kano just comes out and puts his hands on his hips it's like and I helped forward throw I made sure exactly exactly here we go turkey looking to close this out three against kevo if he can kevo looking to make this adjustment he did go back to the character with select screen thought about it a little bit he's been very good about breaking through kevo's body yeah he has been turkey knowing that match up really well in showing here overhead clean go for it again time to guess went for the legs you thought it was an okiko but I only do those once get strong jumps a little his projectile game is very strong but kevo's in conversion into nut punch goes for the hat instead of the safety and he's in 2-1-2 this is big damage yeah and now turkey's in a tough position optimal combo route turkey not enough to break he waited for it he waited for it he didn't have meter he did have meter he had meter what the heck maybe the shadow of a game on the meter yeah that might have been it he might have thought he wasn't going to build enough time that happened so quickly alright we'll have to see if he had hit that combo he would definitely poke oh my god turkey with a read on the teleport down one poke carpet just pick away yeah chop that off he don't need to swap anymore get away from me the hat kind of messed him up a little bit there good spacing there from turkey as well being able to whip punish jane here still got the cyrax extension my god even more damage than last time kevo with a mountain 2 climb right now this is looking close to impossible turkey so strong he's accidentally whipping stuff and it does not matter because he's going to take the set 3 to 0 that was another clean one turkey with a clean showing there he was right on top of all those confirms and he like definitely was fishing for those confirms a couple times you would see him step back kind of go for a little bit of a shimmy and it was working there against kevo the thing I like the most that he was doing was how he really kind of neutered kevo's offense you know kevo was doing all the right things that you should do with john you get in there go for your 4-3-2-1 call your cyrax and keep moving but he chose excellent times he used his reversal attacks and he also chose excellent time to kind of block it out pick a back dash create space and it just was looking so slippery yeah it looks like we're going to have some kind of use of the blow ups yeah I hope you guys enjoyed that set look at this replay turkey dishing out the damage oh yeah they loved that one raiden cyrax that's the chat's favorite combo which one do you want more chat let me know raiden cyrax or johnny cyrax or baraka cyrax oh there you go hey actually we haven't seen one baraka what the heck I mean I'm not complaining you might have summoned a baraka just now oh no oh no what if I did I apologize it's okay I apologize to whoever has to play against it you can have one baraka guys I just feel bad if your boy rio has to face it you know like if unbearable skills coming out here with the raiden cyrax that kind of sounds like a character that unbearable might pick not for nothing no right exactly high damage character that you could just play smart I mean like here's the thing right people complain about top tiers but they're top tiers for a reason and competitive players choose them for a reason they want to win they do envision a world where they've considered the current balance and they'll be like okay well the balance is like this now but guess what when the rest of our cameos and our characters come that balance might look a little different and I kind of exactly yeah I'm curious to see where this goes I know a lot of people are calling for nerfs and buffs already we are only a month into the game guys let it cook I feel like I barely know what's going on I feel like I see a string and I'm like from this tournament from these players I mean they are just really on top of it right now alright everyone so once again the C3 and the C4 pools you can follow along at home by checking out the East Coast or downstart.gg check out all the amazing Mortal Kombat 1 competitors that you'll find here at the pro competition your boy Rio versus unbearable skill coming up momentarily yeah exactly I hope you guys ready for this crazy set right here unbearable skill just an MKX god I'm curious to see what he brings here it doesn't I mean I'm looking at the button check right now if they're sticking with their button check maybe yeah they're sticking with their button check I did not summon a Baraka thank goodness I've seen this movie already commentators curse would be real it would be confirmed geez alright everybody once again the pro competition I hope you guys are hyped if you guys love Mortal Kombat and you want to get more involved don't forget to follow WB games and follow NRS Esports so you can check out the online and the offline stops you can check out one of those offline stops is near you if you want to try one have a good time we only have four this year but two are here and good old US of A and you can also check out all the offline events if you want to have a chance to compete get some points and have a good time so look forward to more news on that I hope that you guys will join in and show us all what you can do in Mortal Kombat yeah for sure I would love to see some new players and it looks like we are heading in with the Raiden versus the Johnny like you said we've seen it we're seeing it again we've seen this one quite a few times yeah but we're going to see how they play it because they could play completely differently depending on who the player is a variable skill here maybe he's not going to play as patient as turkey was he's going for a lot of four at once wow early break nice he's ready for the draw oh and he said get out of here alright he just went for it and it works that is crazy but you know sometimes you've got to do it and then go ahead and get the launcher on the corner we'll see it bam the back of your head he's flowing right now it's training mode time let's go yeah boy Rio's like hey I've just been in the lab I know all these combos he was in the hotel room practicing exactly this corner stuff just like this and out of stuff that was clean what a round there from your boy Rio complete rush down on variable does have the three meters but he needs some momentum yeah he really does we need to get something more than chip here he's got something started but we know that raiding can dish out that damage if he needs it no way that was not shit that's crazy yeah that was all good dang one hit could pass so scary raiding is dangerous yeah raiding is scary alright oh just the empty neutral jump jump trying to bait something out there maybe notice how in the lukang new realm or the earth realm guys don't make a powerful Johnny just going ham with 2 on 2 since a humongous damage I mean yeah that's what happens when you get a biased person you know creating the universe he definitely he definitely loves the earth more than our world you're not wrong yeah he was like he's like I'm sorry Shao you're no longer a con you're just a channel oh my god he had to break there was no no chance there if he didn't break oh down one pokes gonna go ahead and chuck jail there off the down one for the aim small miss small but again I'm like oh almost got the convert from the shot off 4-1-2 he hit it this is big damage it's not enough for the kill but it's gonna be close oh sick conversion he almost did it that was tight oh and just the forward 3 to check on wake up there that was very cool I like what he did there with the forward 3-4 string which is a very good way to kind of reset a grounded situation it's not something that I see people using long combos a lot but that was an excellent way to extend I haven't seen that yet but boy real clearly knows what he's doing there absolutely good start for unbearable checked oh and there's the rising star but it gets that weird side switch all of the sirex yeah it all has to do with the timing on what you call the sirex or where they'll end up out the house yeah a lot of these top level players that will be able to convert no matter which way the sirex goes because they've practiced that every single time that's a good point they've seen it happen so much that they can tell the subtle difference completely change up the game plan delay get up get some variable out of there for a little while he's got a nice little respite to work with he's getting oh my god this chip that was all chip right there that's so powerful unbearable he's flying now yeah he's like get me out of here that's a turkey do this I did my job already I'm going home now yeah exactly I dished out my damage I got you out of here and let's see if he can finish out this round just home with plus frames but he goes ahead and gets that storm sell into sirex unbearable skill is fighting back here storm so now you got me thinking about foxy stream yeah when you go in foxy stream everybody you guys know about this you get to make all the cool sound effects it's one of the most fun streams oh my god you get those channel points he's got all the rage and my wifi is good that stuck in my head the good wifi got oh let's go oh no extension extension yeah quick 40% right there reading something only one bushing out damage in this good tech slap pulled him right back in he caught in the vortex he caught in the vortex he didn't convert nice punish here comes your boy Rio looking to close out this round he's got it I think I think he has it yeah he does have it taking us to a final round right now yeah oh my god 41st these characters dished out some pain I really do and that's that's the whole thing like do I want to keep my bar to dish out the pain back or do I want to keep myself safe from the pain I'm saying that that breaker starts sounding pretty good you could prevent 400 damage exactly but like when you can dish out 50 back who knows oh he tried to keep it safe with the cyrox but Rio oh my god a variable skill so much pressure and so much meter he's out of cameos and excellent punish with the reversal but huge so yeah on that electricity carpet Johnny with one of few characters that can punish that kick but unbearable skill is on the board here he's going to go ahead and finish it up for us he's going to swag it up for us you know he wanted to show us what he's got we're going fun to fun here unbearable skill versus your boy Rio that Raiden Wimples is so awesome he's just making the electrical arc I love it so much I like his also like when he's blocking that he's got this electrical in between his arms yes I really do enjoy the design of all these characters who catches Johnny trying to make his way in watch your toes watch your toes again you're going to eat damage for it now you're in the corner he acts as it gets the launcher he's working on a get a wallet no you can't do that buddy I've seen that trick picking away oh my god he's almost dead just a chip my goodness unbearable skill has made this adjustment against your boy Rio we'll have to see how he fights back plus range plus hold that oh my god get over there buddy yeah it's going to start this strike throw game for sure teleport good time yeah smart watching those dash blocks from Johnny ooh what a good interrupt on the rising star just pick it pick and pick strategy is working super good for unbearable skill and that's the one he dropped earlier he's set and he got it this time this time he's got it down my prediction is pain Rio with the corner rush down he's spending the cash forget about this breaker I want damage not going to keep him standing though going to go ahead and go with those plus frames try to shimmy here excellent break and excellent flow this time unbearable skill was forced to use their breaker bam again the two meters looking for it he's so close pressure's on he's trying to bait those up blocks oh my god couldn't confirm into fatal blow there here's the chip what's the setup oh my god look at this chip spooky that was ridiculous unbearable skill with an unbearable amount of chip right now you are not lying that chip has got to hurt because I mean you don't call us block that that's the end right there it was set up into chip into set up into chip and that's just going to like I mean you have a hundred health or less Raiden pretty much can chip you out the more Syrox cameo he has available the longer that he keeps you in the vortex alright we we got the coach cameo coming in here talking we'll see what adjustments are made here hey man so when you do your combo if you call Syrox you can do even more damage don't forget okay man yeah just so you know Syrox can keep you safe too and he can push him back oh and we got double coaching going on here alright alright Johnny was that coaching or was he making his next mix tape he was like yo this is how you need to pop off if you win alright this is what we need on cam we're going to have the video out yeah exactly we're going to put it in black and white we're going to make it look super cool you trying to take him out in his own house that's crazy yeah imagine that imagine going into a man's house buy his pool where's shipping where's the door man to stop this guy and just bust in yeah I mean shipping away I'm pretty sure Syrox probably used his bomb broke on in that makes so much sense door man was like it's not a bomb I'm out exactly he was like I didn't get paid enough for this Johnny Kate don't got no money anymore yeah exactly he spent her all in Cento terrible skill looking really strong right now but Barrel still has a pretty juicy lead yep I'm going to go ahead and catch up he's trying to keep this corner so this is an opportunity but a dangerous one for one I wonder if there's anything that Raiden can do where'd the cameraman go somebody find that guy look at the picture oh wow is that guy okay take a selfie hahaha oh that's underneath or low profiles it rather and here's the chip here's the chip it's very dangerous but he he had to just one chance two and two he went for it it didn't work very good and clutch overhead block indeed oh my goodness unbearable skill here is sitting on set point right now fighting for his life anyway if you're having trouble dealing with that have a Johnny the two and two which is overhead or the two and four which is the low option a technique that the players like to use like unbearable skill it's called fuzzy block when you kind of block low first and then you kind of wait to see the overhead and stand up at the last second you see it and it's a good way to block out both options if you do it right so convert low comes out quicker than the overhead does so it does give you time to stand up if you have those reactions yes go wait to do both the options on the string and really nullify some of Johnny's big damage reversal didn't work big damage here we go unbearable skill looking to close out this set two and two and block to overhead it's close enough unbearable skill unbearable skill he did that in the cheapest way possible I respect that I respect it too I think use the tools you have use the characters you have and make sure that you get that win no matter what it doesn't matter how it gets done get the win he picked away and then when he smelled the frustration he finished the job that was amazing for sure alright everybody so your boy re-over some bearable skill you saw an excellent one by unbearable skill adding one more to that earth realm raiding army for you guys at home yep of course and I hope you guys really enjoyed that one we've got some great matches coming up for you still at least one more set coming up for you still and yeah we're gonna go ahead and I don't know get a look at these players coming up we're gonna have misfixed panda versus matrix but not before we look back at this unbearable chip unbearable beat down at least real guy real was very strong the first game I almost forgot the rest of the matches the first round he completely destroyed them in the corner yeah but unbearable skill I mean he's got that tournament knowledge he's got that adjustment and to be a top player you really need to learn it's not knowing matchups right it is knowing matchups and knowing gaps and everything but when it comes down to a tournament it's about knowing how to play against the person sitting next to you yes the player versus player matchup that's something that's so important and it's something that we maybe have even forgotten about a little bit in this era of like us playing online a lot and that type of thing but you know there's some things that you tell the other person whether you realize it or not your attitude and your mood a little bit is kind of reflected on them just because you're in close proximity to the other person and sometimes they can smell that mood they can smell when you're getting frustrated a little bit and they can really fine tune their attack based on your emotional state yeah that's very true I mean you can you can kind of see if your opponent's tilting you can tell online sometimes if they start throwing out some really unsafe stuff for no reason or they're trying to just kind of do something crazy but here offline I mean you're going to know you're going to know if your opponent's tilting unless they are they might even tell you they might just swear under their breath like what you just said I was watching somebody play earlier he was in the middle of a set and he just goes in the middle of a combo he goes oh my god that's when you know you know you got him you don't like when I do that huh exactly you get the oh my god out of your opponent you know it's done everybody once again if you're just tuning in this is the MK1 a pro competition here at East Coast Store Down 2023 I thank you to all the amazing players that have all come from all over the place to come play thank you of course to Miss Beastiex for coming to join me on the mic our friends at WB Games thank you NRS and other Rome Studios and of course Mountain Dew for making it all possible we're looking to see who's going to get the most points of course this weekend so many exceptional players here and really get themselves high up on those leaderboards trying to earn a piece of the $255,000 prize pool available for this year's pro competition exactly looking to get as many points as possible looks like we've got we're going to see a completely new set of characters that we have not seen at all during these sea pools we're going to see some I'm ready for a change in life yeah I'm ready I'm ready for this change I'm excited to see it I mean we're still playing top tier but we're playing different top tier we've got the Molina we've got the Oshra now Oshra is going to have access to that Angel Blade and that Demon Blade as well we'll see how Matrix uses it here using those Angel and swiping away yeah she's going to be plus every single time she does that fireball oh it's safe it's safe Tricks oh my god I didn't even realize that I got mixed spooky I was like oh that's so unsafe nope sector missile sorry buddy sorry just might be a nice one oh it's still safe it's still safe I have tricks oh my god I'm getting mixed guys these missiles are hitting don't put me against a Molina sector please oh my god there's someone right now in the Linquai Factory all they're doing is making nothing but missiles right now yeah they're like alright get out there open up your chest and launch it oh get off okay good knowledge on knowing that she had enough time in the gap oh sick that was a green answer this fit no we're out of there I don't want to take any of your overhead or low strength yeah Oshra was like I'm good wow what a great anti air into conversion as well and she's going to get good damage into a set up a 31% with the delay get up help a little bit there matrix trying to play on but this part is a bit too dangerous yeah matrix full on health there goes with a low sigh on the end there and good breaker as well oh my god just gets hit by the sector missile gotta watch out he forgot about it he's hiding in the corner we're having a drink and then when is his time here we go alright we've got demon blade out that's going to give access to the low attack for Oshra goes with a juicy combo 358 and we get some nice pressure hats she's also going to get more damage here with that purple on Malina got stuff matrix very clean with Oshra Kung Lao very close to flawless as well I mean matrix is that adjustment right away he was like he wasn't working with just angel blade we're going to go with demon blade we're going to see what we can pull out here and mix it up on him that's one nice thing about her is that you don't ever really have to use the stand switches but you're encouraged to do it when you stand switch you get a power up for a short amount of time and it also encourages you to use your full move list rather than just using the angel moves which are very good mind you yeah just angel blade I mean like we see a lot of Oshra's not even used the demon blade for that reason because I mean you know the other fireball though that she gets a demon that one's pretty nice the one that you just swipe the floor oh yeah the little low one I never see it coming are you supposed to see this like a little dog you just have to get used to when they like to use it exactly okay nice conversion maybe it's looking good once again going for the lows man her downwind has a lot of range because she has the size that's mad useful yeah the size actually have a huge hurt box compared to like what you see on screen versus what's actually happening her stand one is a great judge her down one satellite Milena's down one is pretty much useless being minus 10 got her this is a big combo yeah big combo this could be a big finish out the round yeah there it is she does the Shaolin the sword swipes that looks so perfect that looks like something out of an old martial arts the block the floor they tried to punish but it was too far that's brutal she's going to get too well had in there plus plus that was a bad she got out of there man nobody punishes that right I don't understand so when she does that swipe why does nobody jump up and then air punish I don't get it just jump up and do your best air combo I'm going to be honest spooky I didn't know that you could do that yeah when she does that uppercut jump up and attack her I'm telling you no offshows ever written okay okay I'll paint that attack for sure jump up and do jump 244 and then land and get a whole round of combos oh my goodness I feel like I never see any players doing that they're not calling it out I tried it against a good offshower plays just make sure it works and yeah they don't know how to get out of there that's a committal two then she can't know when she goes for the forward three into the swipe that's not a hickory front she has to go for the uppercut swipe after okay has to go straight into the launcher she wants a combo just overhead you if he sakes it that way but she's not going to get a lot of real damage that way yeah exactly she's not going to get a lot of mileage off of it but they're just a swerve to the next Matrix looking excellent right now yeah Matrix looking great looking to close this out up 2-0 right now we're going to see what misfit panda can do here against this this oppressive sticking with it we're going to see what he can do he mostly he mostly let Matrix just do whatever he wants like this for this long range game he's doing five rolls and even jumps not working I think that misfit just relax a little bit he would do a lot better right now yeah I agree flawless excellent punish that was one of the weaknesses of that one-to-one string the second overhead is very good but if you close by the last it's your turn yeah I'll try to get it out of the corner a lot easier than a lot of different characters and that fireball hitting airborne characters as well flipping the toes very tall for just down yeah oh good teleport no combo they tried for it yeah just believe swiping away overhead block das dasi oh terrible punish I'm so sorry misfit panda probably wasn't ready for the punish right there I guess not oh great conversion they're off the sector missile but misses the end of the combo and matrix is literally every mistake that matrix sees they're capitalizing on a medium yeah matrix is ready pretty much for every whiff punish every like drop combo every everything matrix is right on that fireball missed missed that was too far down the drain too because the fireball follow up missed yeah both of them with pretty low on meter right now usher's still gonna be able to put out a lot of damage without the meter though that missile radius my goodness more like a nuke that's I was about to say that and I was like you know what oh confirming the fatal there it is all right misfit panda staying alive yeah fighting for his life looking to make this the first deal oh you look tasty my goodness chomp chomp see that that's what that's what we're here for that's what Mortal Kombat's all about right there you know when they do the pull out then that makes me think of when you eat gummy worms oh god I appreciate that I don't know if I can eat anything gummy ever again hahahaha missile had to block trading holes at the mid screen a block says no that's another thing that Matrix has been very good about he's got a lot of counter Malina strat score he's blocking the last of the one to one he's up blocking those bad jumps punching every reversal properly and just looking all together like someone that's ready to destroy a Malina yeah for sure there's pretty much anything she's got 0.1% HP and that is a cook by Matrix 3 to 0 well played and extremely skilled yeah Gigi's to Matrix I mean was on point with every single one of those whiff punishes was ready for every single mistake that was a great showing of what Ashera can really do to be honest but I mean guys you gotta start calling her out like Spooky said call her out I mean that's the number one thing that people don't try to do something to make her come down and do whatever she wants or fly away or everything else but jump on up there and challenge her make her like miserable yeah exactly make her pay for it all right don't just let her get away with it guys yeah right guys hope you guys have been having an excellent time so far once again this is the MK1 pro competition as we're going to take a look at some of the action Matrix and his amazing Ashera doing a great job against Misfit Pandas Malina yep exactly he did do something unsafe Misfit Panda didn't really answer it so he got to do whatever he wanted yeah Misfit Pandas did like have the answer a couple times but dropped the combo or didn't quite believe in the confirm and wasn't able to capitalize on them yep once again guys I mentioned this before but this is you know I think when coming and playing these high level tournaments mostly Misfit Panda at home in training mode does all his Malina combos the legend that's got your number it almost makes you look like you don't know how to play the game anymore exactly and it's just like that will shake you to your core too when you feel like oh wow I really was not ready for this matchup what am I supposed to do you only have three games to adjust true that true that everybody please don't forget to let us know how you've been enjoying the pro competition you can send Ms. B. C. some tweets you can send me a lot about this and you want to find out when some of the online events are nearby to you or even want to attend one of those four big major offline events all the details are available for you to check out you can also see the bracket for this weekend's event on start.gg just look for start.gg east coast throw down follow along and you can see all the matches and what they're all going to do yeah I mean you guys should definitely get involved there's going to be some like online competition yeah I mean I suggest definitely playing it trying it out it's fun is like one of the most fun games there's so much variety with the cameo system with the new players with the new characters et cetera we're getting DLC soon MK's on a great spot right now yep absolutely so guys I hope you guys have been enjoying yourself so far we might be lining up some more pools matches for you very soon in the meantime don't forget support our friends at ECT make sure to check out everybody else and everybody else and I hope that you guys have been all enjoying yourselves alright sounds good alright guys so it sounds like we are going to take a little break soon before that I wanted to say thank you very much to everybody that tuned in to watching day one of the pro competition thank you guys yeah hopefully like I said follow Ms. B. Seeks if you enjoyed being here with me one of her first times doing these type of major events follow me because I've been loving all this stuff too and you know don't forget to support our friends at ECT thank you very much to NRSE sports now last but not least I do want to give some love to our friends at Mountain Dew who have been a major sponsor of this event and they do have some things they want to talk about with all of you so first off throughout until December 29th you can purchase special Mountain Dew products to receive a code that gives you a free one month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate that's actually six so all your Xbox Lovers pick that up also additional purchases and codes will give you more points for participation and more chances to win those codes at Mountain Dew Gaming.com that's M-T-N-D-E-W Gaming.com if you're interested and all of the donation of course if you're looking for more information on the pro competition as well as the amazing Xbox and other giveaways that Mountain Dew is doing make sure to check them out and keep an eye on them so you can see even more of the rewards that they have coming for you as well as some fan favorite drops coming soon try it out yeah make sure you do alright guys I believe that's the conclusion of day number one which I'm sad about yeah I had a great time with you Spooky thank you so much for being on the mic with me man no doubt no doubt that was awesome that was great man so once again follow us if you enjoyed it check out the pro competition look forward to more coming tomorrow but for today it sounds like we are signing off everybody as much as I regret to do it we'll see you all soon everybody thanks for joining us have a good night yeah great man guys as long as I've known you you've dreamed of leaving Tianjiang is it so wrong to want some excitement martial arts tournaments between Earthrealm and the Outworld place me as your heir your race can ship shift