 the first matchup. We're going to be watching X Zane versus L T 100 versus elemental shaman. X Zane is actually, he leveled to be in our guild, fallen LT's gear, not, not a hundred percent here. Wow. A couple of green pieces. Impressive. He's made it to these top 64. Um, but yeah, X Zane leveled to be in our guild on Horde and then this tournament got announced like the next day. So X Zane leveled to 60 and then got like pre-biz. So crazy grind. This tournament got announced and then he re-leveled to 60 for this tournament and I'm just excited to see a gildy in here. I'm really rooting for X Zane here. Uh, looks like he has the gear advantage. Uh, Ellie shaman versus Hunter. I don't, I'm not like extensively aware, but look at that. Mock her off flag as fan dude. I know dude. Like you could just feel it man. You can feel the intensity. You got X Zane versus LT. I mean, I could see, I could see this really going either way to be honest with you. Um, X Zane getting all of his totems and stuff set up. He's, uh, he's ready to go LT. Oh, opening with a charge. Okay. So I think he wants to open up with a charge because I think he's trying to set up to get the, the big open. He's probably going to want to purge him. He wants to clean him and then he wants to go in and hit him with a big chain lightning or a shot combo. Um, you can see he's going here. He wants to get as close to him as possible. And so here's the big thing is he's trying to keep him inside of that dead zone. And, uh, he is, he is a Beastmaster Hunter. So he's, he has a lot of pet damage coming in, but as you can see, he's chasing him trying to stay in that day as fun. Your Mike might have cut out. So that the, what I really like here from Xane is the viper stings seem to be, uh, getting dispelled fairly fast here from Xane. Having said that, Xane's already doing his best job to dead zone the hunter and this, if this chain lightning goes off, LT could just drop major healing potion coming in and the hunter has a lot of manner to work with. That was the nature, swiftness and the tea from Xane. The tea guys is a three use item that gives you a ton of health and mana, a separate cool down from potion. I believe it shares cool down with that health stone instead lightning bolts connecting LT going to the max range here. Viper stings not going to cut it. LT, uh, 15% mana, 40% life. This is dangerously close for both players. Looks like the goblin rocket helmet looks like LT charges Xane right there going for a little reset. Well played. He gets to eat and drink food and water pack up to about half of Xane getting the early break goes for a tick of food, uh, food and water himself. How funny Fra shot coming in and looks like LT is in that dead zone with the arcane bob coming out. It's a five second silence on the Xane. It's not what you want to see. If you're Xane, LT is getting all the distance in the world right now. What is Xane going to do? Yeah, one lightning bolt, but that's not going to finish the job. LT should never let Xane get in the range, but a quick back pedal comes out. Xane closes the gap. The wing clip lands. LT might be able to get a little bit of distance that he needs here. Both players. Um, both players low on HP. It might be down to one last engineering item LT back into that melee range. Once again, who's going to finish it off first? This is dangerously close. Xane 10% life. It looks like Xane is going to fall here. LT finishing it off with a hunter melee that might be only needs the grenade coming in. Viper sting Xane can't do anything. One or two more attacks and Xane is going to fall. But the major healing potion comes off of cool down. He saves himself for the time being, but it might be the same exact result. Just a few seconds later. I don't know what Xane can do. That's the gnomish harm prevention belt there from LT, a big absorption that Xane's going to have to work through. And it doesn't look like he's going to be able to Xane falls and he is dead on the ground. There you go. That's the first death of the tournament. Can you guys hear me now? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, we're good. You can hear me now. All right. I don't it wasn't off on my end. I was looking at it. I was like it never turned off. So but yeah, I mean, that's I was fixing my mic or trying to fix my mic. I forgot what was wrong. But there it is, guys, the first death of the tournament. Oh, sevens in chat. Hats off Xane. Oh, sevens. Thank you for your service, brother. The first of 63 deaths that will occur today. I think that was a great attempt. I think Xane strategy was really, really good going in there. I mean, fighting the last second using the health potion. He I mean, he just got drained down. And that's really what it was. That's really what it came down to is he got drained down. I'm a little bit surprised by that because just being a shaman, you can get rid of poisons and even with all the boys and consumables. I was surprised to see him lose the mana battle a little bit. But he also was fighting against a lot of damage and having to having to heal up against the against the big bestial wrath, the big beastmaster damage. So yeah, that was that was an incredible duel. That was great, man. I think you said it as fan the start of that duel. I love the opener from Xane. He used the goblin rocket element. He charged in and close the gap. And I liked the strategy coming up from Xane. I think Xane also had the gear advantage. Maybe it's a difficult matchup. I do think those viper stings were being dispelled fairly well, but not perfectly. I think the viper stings would get like a tick off before the dispel and then another tick or two off before the next dispel. And then since it was just taking a little bit too long, Xane went um fairly fast. And that's how Ali Shaman's role. I mean, Ali Shaman's do go um fast. They have a lot of burst, but in a super, super, super long game versus like a mage. What you do is kite it out, wait for the shaman to go um and then win. And we have another shaman in this next matchup, a shaman that some of you guys may know. We have Stadman. This is see do. And we have Korean SFMG on the road. This is Savik's. Sedu versus Savik's in such an early first round matchup today is an exciting, exciting game to see. I know players and old chats were mentioning that Sedu is a little upset with this specific matchup. Um, but you know, that's the way the dice rolls. We got that title charm onto Savik's. Who do you give this one to? Savik's is stacked, man. I mean, if you look at his gear, like you said, the title charm, uh, is that a goblin mortar on, uh, on Sedu? Let's see that. Yeah, goblin mortar. Okay, we gotta get our cameraman to watch out for that goblin mortar. We don't want to have that happen again. Okay, so the freezing band tech, uh, Sedu, knowing that he's going up against a rogue going with the dual freezing bands. Can you scroll over that real quick for us, please? Uh, that freezing band has a 1% chance to, uh, to, to freeze the target, the person attacking them. You freeze the attacker for five seconds. So if you have two of them, it's 2%, right? It stacks. And, uh, with a rogue, you're getting a lot of small attacks in a lot of quick attacks. So it's a very high likelihood that you get a big stun off, um, off the freezing band. So I really like the freezing band tech and here we go. We're getting started. Savik's gets the open, uh, opens with a cheap shot on him, goes, he thistle tease and exposes armor, trying to, trying to break his armor down a little bit, taking out the totems in the meantime, burned his combo points, gets, uh, and, you know, here we go. Here's the clean. Yeah. The rocket helm into the purge spam, trying to clean all those, all those buffs off. That's going to be like a pretty typical strat. I think that we're going to see for a lot of these shamans, uh, today is trying to clean them as much as possible. Once again, I love that goblin rocket helm opener. It slows things down and not the opener that Savik's was looking for, but another vanished cheap shot coming out. Here's the cold blood. A lot of damage about to connect here. That man has that kidney shot to go arcane bomb. It looks like it lands. Situ's out of mana already. Oh, there's a freezing man, the freezing band proc. Yeah, that's really great. That's the RNG Situ is looking for. He's down to 30% mana though, post tee. I think Savik's also a lot of big cooldowns. There's the preparation second cold blood here. So much damage connecting. What is Situ going to do? There's a big blind coming really soon here from Savik's. You notice he didn't oil of emulation as well. So he's a oil of emulation in the flame shock. He's trying to keep him from resetting. He's trying to keep him from restel thing, but Savik's is going to come in here and he's going to the blind. He's going to restel. Is he going to make it? Yeah. Nice. Big sprint, big sprint to get in there and make sure he doesn't have time to retaliate between the blind and the oh no. The totems. Oh my gosh. He said he's just going to go for it. He gets caught out from that totem. He's probably kicking himself for not killing the totem a little sooner, but the goblin rocket helm used and that's going to be the reset Savik's needs. This is very close. Savik's going to sit in stealth for a second and eat back up some HP going for the half diminishing return Sapier, opening up with a cheap shot just to build combo points. Going to go for another restel. Savik's praying that there's no heartbeat break here. Situ low on mana, but I think this duel is kind of going Situ's way. Another emulation or a use that might knock him out. Lesser healing wave being casted. Does it knock him out to Savik? Did he disconnect? Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no. The totem, the totem. Did he not end? He wasn't moving. Savik's, he wasn't moving. He's so low that might be it. There's another Tuber. Oh, no. I think at this point, like the duel, I mean, that was too short of a time for a DC. I mean, he logged in really quick if it was. I'm not 100% sure we'll have to get confirmation from admins. It looks like Situ and Savik's have a gentleman's agreement to restart the duel. I mean, it looks like they're both honoring that maybe Savik's disconnected. What great sportsmanship from both of these players, especially Situ because Situ could have taken the win there. Decide to let Savik's restelf bandaged to full. Situ gets full mana. Now the duel restarts essentially, but Savik says no prep, no vanishes and might have one blind. Actually, maybe no blind either. No goblin rocket helm. So Situ, despite not taking the win is probably maybe more in the driver's seat than he normally would be. Yeah. A big shout out to Situ on that too. And that's, uh, there was $100,000 in prize money on the line. $50,000 to the winner. So I mean, these guys, they know their honor and their respect for each other is worth a lot more than a big prize pool. Oh, that's great. Arcane bomb. Once again, that's the second one that lands. I love to see that coming out from the rogues once they lock someone down. Kiddie shot misses. That's not the RNG. Savik's wants here today. He's down to 20%, but gets a nice big major healing potion back up to half. Kind of energy starved and it looks like he goes down. Situ, Savik's goes down. Situ with the victory, man. Well, man, Situ, I know was very nervous about today and it looked like things went his favor. I have to say, I'm sorry about, uh, circumstances. I just think of the bingo part. Yeah, that's unfortunate, man. My dude, I like all the respect in the world for Situ, but I feel so bad for Savik's, man. That's just, that is unfortunate. I mean, the fact that he, the fact that he disconnected is, is, uh, that, that completely blows, man. He, he's been grinding all month and, uh, he's done a phenomenal job and all these guys have, man, but, uh, my, my heart goes out to Savik's, man. That's, that's, that's painful. But, um, but look, Situ, again, I mean, just having the honor and having kind of the, the, um, having the presence of mind to be like, look, I know this is for $50,000, but it would be really, really shitty if I won off of like a, you know, this guy's disconnected and he can't fight back. Like that's, that doesn't feel good. Right. So, uh, I mean, it's, it's the honor and the respect for each other is, it's worth a lot more than that. So, uh, huge shout out to Situ for that. And, uh, coming back and finishing that duel off. So all we get to watch Seaco versus Flixie next, this is that first round matchup where it looks like their cooldowns are probably back off of cooldown. And this will be elemental shaman versus that frost mage. Makarad duel. Uh, this is going to be an exciting one to watch. I think Seaco is very well prepared. I want to see if Flixie has potentially any hidden tech that we might be missing or anything up his sleeve that we haven't seen yet. I think the traditional way this specific duel plays out is Seaco is going to try to oom the shaman, right? And just run around with rank one frost bolts until the shaman burns himself of mana and then you kind of go in for the kill, so to speak, once you find that opportunity. Yeah, let's see. Can we take, can we take another look at their gear yet again? If we have time, or they might just be starting, we might not have time, but yeah, he's got the band talk sash. Yeah, you can see Seaco is just armed to the teeth. Got absolutely everything. Got the, uh, Sorcerer of Flixie as well. He's got the big, big, is that a flurry ax he's using? He's using a flurry ax. Okay. Oh, is he enhanced that? I said elemental. I might be mistaken. Well, he was elemental and his gear is elemental, but you know what he might be doing? He might be doing something with the flurry ax and just hoping for like a big win for you. Oh, open with the title charm into the polymorph. Okay. This is yours. You're the mage guy. I love this opener. And you know, like you can, you can play a couple of ways. You can use title charm as like a something in your back pocket, or you can guarantee an opener with just title charm poly, kill all the totems and you get the opener you want. And at the same time, Seaco dropped combat. So we got to swap shrink it's there to another valuable shrink it. So you get the title charm on cooldown, you swap to another shrink it, and you get the opener you want. So it's a very safe play from Seaco. And I love it. I think it's a great opener. Once again, Seaco is playing max distance and taking it slow. He's, he's using Frostbolt, very mana efficient spell here, trying to slowly DPS the shaman down. The hard thing from the mage perspective in this matchup is the shaman has Urshok to interrupt spells. He has grounding totem to interrupt spells. But the nice thing about the mage perspective. Oh, nature locks. This could be it actually. Wow. The healing potion comes out as Flixie is going to have to use something. He's locked down. You can't heal. That might be it. Oh, and Rocket Elm blocks it. Seaco is playing aggro and magic dust aggressively for the kill as a pseudo interrupt. Wow. This is not normally what we see. Flixie getting caught there on the healing wave. Seaco decides to use the mana pot to just finish it. He's probably just going to go all in here with arcane explosions. Koenig holds, fire blasts. Let's see what happens. So did it break and he got the grounding off? It looks like he got a heartbeat resistant and he got the grounding off before it actually landed. Yeah, that might have been the case. And the issue here is Seaco playing very close is kind of like the kill shot, right? But if he doesn't kill Flixie, this is what Flixie wants. Flixie wants to fight close so Flixie can get value out of shocks. Seaco wants to kite far, so Seaco's kind of going in for the kill here. But there's the ice reflector. Seaco sees it, cancels his cast. Seaco playing very aggressive and if he can't kill, he's going to have to reset another counter spell. That's it, man. There's, I think he's got him right here. Man, what a duel, man. When he got that first lock in, the pressure just tilted, just full, full, full tilt. I think Flixie did as good of a job as he could have trying to stop it. But then the offensive block to stop the rocket helm and then to come back with a sleep and to keep that pressure on and not give him an opportunity, not give him an opportunity to take a step back and heal and to reduce the pressure was insane, man. That was an unbelievable play by Seaco. The thing that a lot of these guys do that's so impressive, a lot of the really, really good duelists, is they can, they can swap between like a defensive mindset and an offensive mindset really quickly, just off the bat. Like they don't go into the duel and they're just like the whole time they're playing defensive. It's, they go and they're like, okay, like I'm waiting for this, waiting for this. And then whenever they have their go, it's just full tilt and they press super, super hard and that's what it was. I mean, that's, that's exactly what happened there. Yeah, exactly. You said it great, man. Like Seaco is so much experience. He knows, okay, I need to run here. And I need to play defensive here or I could go in for the kill. This guy is dead. Let me switch and just play aggressive. And we're taking a look at the brackets. We have Seaco moving on. His next matchup is going to be versus that Hunter LT. It's exactly what Zika wants is to be fighting these shamans, these Hunters, Rogues, Warriors, and that'll be exciting. C2 moving on as well. And we have this next matchup underway. It's going to be another mage versus shaman matchup. This is going to be his vamp versus new Jack, that sage blade. Wow. Svamp is very, very geared here with the title charm. We haven't touched too much on Svamp's gear and gameplay, but he looks as prepared as you can really be. And new Jack looks similar. Ice reflector equipped, medicine pouch, veramondies. This is a very, very min max gear set here from both players. Should be a similar style dual in terms of the strategy both players are bringing out. I'll be curious to see if Svamp pulls what Zika did and kind of goes in early for the kill with that lockout where he wants to play a longer dual and fully oom the shaman. Yeah. I think we talked about this yesterday. I really don't know how the, I mean, I really don't know how the shaman is going to be able to play this and be able to come out with a win here. I mean, this is going to be one of those situations where you almost have to play and you have to hope that the mage makes a mistake at some point and then really capitalize off of that mistake. The way the shaman wins is honestly like a chain lightning NS chain lightning one shot. Right. And the mage doesn't block it. And you can just get like the major one shot. You know, it's so cool, bro. Look at the dead bodies on the ground. We're seeing dead bodies stack up by the end of today. There's going to be dead bodies everywhere on the floor from these macarons. And the dual commences dual the flag dual to the death flag down. Looks like some totems are already chunking down Svamp's life bar and Svamp going in early for the Nova conical and blinks out far. Another totem dropped. Yeah, kiting for that distance. Well played going for the polymorph grounding has been destroyed. Wands to kill the totems. Very mana efficient play here. And I like it. Not not like a crazy action packed opener is the mage once again trying to slow things down. The mage not using the title charm yet, but using it now could have used it to burst. Barov's trinket being used as well. Looks like you might have a strategy wanting to rotate through those trinkets. Looks like both trinkets from new jack used as well. The looks like a Pokemon battle. All these pets coming out. You love to see it and Svamp rebuffing with a bunch of scrolls. It looks like they're new jack though. Closing the gap with the goblin rocket helmet and ice block immediately coming out from Svamp to break that CC and to gain distance once again. Man is looking equal here. I think from the mage perspective, you want to go for that sheep soon. And then well, you can like the shaman a little bit more than sheep and Evo backup. I really like the strategy that he's using to spam scrolls. He's been spamming scrolls. And yeah, I don't know if it's rank one scrolls or not, but he's basically putting up a bunch of trash buffs so that he's essentially burning the shaman's mana with the purges. Dude, yeah, that's that's brilliant. A lot of the times, but here's the Ellie mastery chain lightning. Be careful. Ice barrier put up just in the nick of time. Svamp negates a lot of that damage coming in. Celestial orb level 30 mage quest offhand being used to regenerate some mana there. He's going to swap off of it after that cooldown has been used. Mage blinks out of range polymorph being casted. And now this is not what new jack wants to see Svamp now able to frost over the mechanical yeti bandage back to full and then get ready to set up and evoke it after this. And now new jack is going to be in the situation where the mage is fully reset and he is not. There's the evoke on Svamp. He's going back to full mana now and and jack is kicking himself because this is exactly the majors game plan that he wants to see now jack going for a drink himself with the grounding totem it's going to force Svamp back in to cancel this frost. No, but miss is unfortunately going to cold with the nice frostbite RNG lands. This is going pretty decent for jack here. Counterspell misses grounding totem has been killed new jack going for some more purges and Svamp forced to kite out once again. I think Svamp has a big opportunity here. If if uh or sorry new jack has a big opportunity here if he doesn't get poly good he stopped the poly he can he can get a big burst here. It's another full duration polymorph sitting and uh that's really a great awareness from Svamp. Those polymorphs need to reset off the diminishing returns about 20 seconds for the poly to go back. It seemed like he was at max range when we poly'd. I would it would have been nice to see him be able to range that poly and to come back in but I think he was just going for the full send trying to go for the lightning bolt combo and finish him off just hoping for the best kind of like what you said earlier like he knows that that's that's his his win condition is just get him low and then go for the big burst. Yeah and Svamp's getting so close. I'm really worried for him because this is the range where earth shocks can come out where you can that's the second ice block from Svamp and he's half HP. This is going really well for new jack really. He's kind of low on mana. The mage is playing so defensive trying to just get his resets and I don't want to count Svamp out yet but he's getting dangerously low. There's no ice blocks, no big defensive cooldowns. That's the T. The back pedals are coming out. We can knock that off our bingo card. Polymorphs being casted. Looks like new jack is out of mana completely. He's going in for the pokes with that veramondies dagger polymorph lands and once again it's going to be 20 seconds. Svamp here is going to have to kill the totems. He's going to have to regenerate HP and really though this is kind of what the mage wants to do. Look at this. Yeah I was going to say new jack is completely out of mana here but when he's getting poly I mean he is regenning just a little bit. He comes out with a sleep. This is going to give him a big chance to drink. If he gets a drink here if it doesn't heartbeat resist. Oh heartbeat heartbeat. Oh but he reacted so slow man. He reacted so slow because he had an opportunity to stop another tick. Oh this is it. Here's the big combo. Yeah and this is where the shaman gets in trouble. Chainline even casted. Ice reflector being faked from Svamp. So great awareness there. This is problematic though for jack. He's at 20% mana. The mage has a lot more mana to work with so the mage can kind of just go toe to toe with him and take him out. He doesn't want to eat these lighting bolts though. Mage might go for one more reset. Furbolg's medicine pouch coming out. It's at least two or three off and Svamp is swapped between. This guy has been prepared and ready for this tournament and it's really showing today. Jack though down to 2% mana. This is his last chainlighting. It's probably a low rank chainlighting to be honest. Svamp can go for the first aid on cooldown and create awareness there on that first aid debuff. He's going to be able to tick himself back up and this is kind of Svamp's opening. Like if it was me, I would drink back up right here and take out new jack. Like you can just kill him. You can just you can rush him down. Like the shaman won't have any mana to work with. If there's a mana pot, you can also mana our health pot and kind of just kind of just take him out. If you want to play it slow though, like Svamp is doing with $50,000 on the line for that first place spot, it might be a good idea to just keep taking it slow because there it is new jack with a mana potion back up to 40% since Svamp's finding himself on the back foot. Yeah, I'd like to see Svamp play a little bit more aggressive here. I mean, because I feel like he's playing too slow and it's putting him in a position where he's giving new jack an opportunity and it's having a couple of times here. Oh, but he's coming back with the arcane bomb Frost Nova. Yeah, he's trying to go for the big shatter combo here. Is that a... He's just part spamming him here. Grounding totem into the part spam. And he's just trying to stay close. New jack is going to want to stay close to what's possible so he has the shocks. Big chain lightning. Holy, so much damage. So much damage, but it's not enough. Svamp gets grounded again. Trying to separate, trying to get distance. He's probably going to want to reset with the polymorph here. Gets earth shocked. This might be a finish for new jack. No, the polymorph at the last second. Holy dude, this duel is starting to go crazy, man. So that's what Ellie Shaman's are known for, right? Ellie mastery, chain lightning. Boom, one shot. And we saw Svamp go from 60% down to 20 or 15 right there in a second. And new jack maybe with one more crate would have just killed him. There was no ice blocks left. So close, man. Yeah, that could have been game set. Match and mage once again, trying to kite it out more. And I think you mentioned on this this morning as fan, but the top, top, top clear to your players are going to know when to play defensive, but they're also going to know when to push in aggressively, right? It's like, okay, I can finish this now. The problem is when there is a situation where you don't know, maybe you're just, you know, you just don't know. You're like, can I finish here? I don't know if I can finish here. Then you start playing overly defensive. That kill window might elapse, right? Like you've kind of waited too long. And now the window to take the win is, it has shut. And now all of a sudden you, you can't take that win anymore. And we might see ourselves in a similar situation here. Another arcane bomb lands well played from spam, but he's, he's getting low. And honestly now new jack has the man advantage. He's, he's pushing his advantage, spamming those purges has the grounding totem down, trying to close the gap. Svamp gets a polymorph resist, which is definitely not what he wants here. Another lightning bolt connecting another polymorph resist or maybe it was just another. Oh, is it finished? Is it the space to get resisted? Oh my gosh, the heal, the health potion. He double potted, he tries to build distance. What is he, is he, is he not going to try and sheep him? He's been trying, but it's grounding totem, resist, sheer, not when she are earth shock, another grounding, another resist sheet. Like it's just, it's just constant stops. And, and that is the difficulty from age in the matchup. It's like threading the needle, man. You got to bait all of the shamans, interrupts, right? And then you have to, you know, kind of find your way into that polymorph into the full burst window. And then new Jack going for the grounding totem into a quick shrink. I really like that play. And another reset here from Svamp with the goblin rocket element. I don't know if I'd love this play. I don't know if I would have gone with the rocket helm there. Cause it really is just, I think, I mean, it's almost like he's running out of tools here. Svamp has a lot of opportunities to reset and to get mana back. And he's not really doing it. I think a new Jack is, is playing the, like the meta of the matchup. New Jack is just kind of playing it better. And he's waiting it out, trying to take the opportunities whenever he gets them. Oh, this might be it. At this, this might be it right here on this big lightning bolt right here. Oh, no, no, he's blocking his back out. He cancels it, guys! Oh, he cancels it, he cancels it! Oh, my gosh! I'm, I'm going to see. Well played to new Jack. That's, that can be a hard matchup for the shaman. It's just, I mean, it's hard for, from both perspectives, but really well played to new Jack for taking his time, going for the big burst windows. New Jack did exactly what he had to do to secure that kill, you know, conserve the mana, go for those big one shots. And eventually the crits lined up in his favor, the resist lined up in his favor. And he actually came out ahead in a matchup that's historically pretty hard for shaman. So really well done to new Jack. And to your point, that's exactly what we talked about before the matchup. We said this is going to be something where the shaman just has to try and survive as long as possible until he gets that opening and hope that the mage makes a mistake and that's exactly what happened, to a T. I mean, it was, he actually had two or three opportunities where he got him down really low. I think he got him down to 1% at one point, which is just insane. And then to be able to survive, and I mean, that's got to be, imagine getting a guy down to 1% and then a mage resets on you and it's like full hell is like, God, God, not again. I know. It can happen too. But yeah, man, that was phenomenal, man. That was a great, great job by the shaman there and he goes on to the next round. Man, I've got to say, I really have to just say, I am so happy to be here. Thank you guys for having me and putting this on. I'm so happy to be here. We're watching PS hero versus mez and a Makara on a Tuesday. Like, this is the best day ever. Like, this is the best. We saw the PS hero gear set. There's some frost resists and that's really smart. The frost resists is to resist the trap from mez. If PS hero gets one or two trap resists, it could be the difference, the deciding factor in this matchup. This matchup historically is maybe slightly hunter favored. The hunter does a great job at scatter, feign death trapping and kiting the rogue out. And then the rogue can't really ever catch back up after you're out of sprints, blinds and vanishes. And PS hero knows that. So he's like, if I can just resist a trap or two, I could turn the tides here in this duel. And mez, if he gets two resists on traps in a row, mez will probably just die. Even one though could turn the tides. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, I really like the call out about the frost resist. A little bit of frost resists can actually go a long way against hunters. So I really like that call out. I like that play by Pichero. And it looks like they're starting. He's in stealth is battle. Mez is just sitting there. Oh, okay. There you go. Rip, battle chicken. He like threw the flare and it killed the chicken. Oh, that's a really smart opener. So instead of pushing into the flare, he goes for the magic dust, frost reflector and runs over the trap into a reselled PS hero playing on another level, inventing an incredible opener against hunters. This flare will expire. PS hero will be able to get a proper opener versus a hunter for once. The flare doesn't expire quite yet, but still not a bad opener. There's a scatter concussive shot and mez getting the distance he wants. We haven't mentioned today quite yet, but the Makara dual distance is a lot further range than normal dual. So mez can kite forever here. There's a net insta vanish from PS hero, reconnects, cheap shot lands, string it to reply. Mez and PS hero going at it. Mez, where's mez's pet? Maybe the pet still in stealth because he doesn't want it to die. I'm not sure. There's a second vanish from PS hero prep being expended. There's Fred. I forgot the summoner pet. Maybe we forgot the summoner pet. There it is. There's the blind. It breaks instantly. This is not what PS hero wants. Not at all. There's the helm, the rocket helm from mez. Ceasing PS hero. It looks like it breaks. Kidney misses so much RNG against both of these guys right here that it's almost even. Mez popping the fat. Goblin rocking home from PS hero. Damage connects once again. Mez getting low. Hellstone used from mez. 45% life. Now PS hero is not liking this. Thorium, Nate might land here. Mez looking for blood. PS hero looking for this next week. Stun here. There's the scatter. Mez getting distance. There's concussive shot. Nice RNG. PS hero is going to fall. It looks like it does. Mez taking out the behemoth of PS hero. Dude, absolutely fantastic duel. So the beginning of that duel, I think was was really, really, really interesting. That's not something I'd seen before because a lot of times you don't. That's that's usually a rule in a lot of these doing tournaments, right? Where hunters can't just sit on a flare and wait for you. So I liked the strat of, hey, let's just go and sleep the guy. Let's go and sleep the guy and try and wait out the flare and go for it that way. Unfortunately, the flare actually didn't expire in time. The ice reflector on the frost trap also was a very, very good play. I like that as well. Burn that first trap so it doesn't get distant. So I think PS hero went into it with a really good plan. But I mean, Fred came in, man. He called on Fred. Fred came in for the assist. And next thing you know, it was over. I mean, that that that concussive shot stun proc is pretty massive. I mean, that's one of the biggest things against rogues is if you can get a good stun off of them with the amount of agility they have and between evasion, ghostly strike, just the amount of avoidance they have is huge. So if you can get a stun off on them, then you can just really tee off on them right then. So a huge shout out to Fred and a huge shout out to meds as well. So that last dual man was like watching a master class in classic. Wow, Hunter versus rogue, both players played so well. Such great strategy coming out. And despite RNG, honestly, they both got unlucky with RNG, but that's classic. Wow, PVP, right? You have to to bacon room in your strategy for things like resists like crits, like, you know, just things not going your way. And that's that's part of classic PVP. And that's something that you have to account for in this next matchup, though, we have Bobka on the rogue and Spoe on the druid. Oh, man, I wish soda was here to cast this one. I know he loves that those druid matchups. Spoe very experienced. I would love to see the gear choices from from Bobka and Spoe going into that alarm a box. I'm not actually sure what it does. But it looks like a little alarm about from no more gone or something. And the dual to the death flag drops. Here we go. Spoe having the big armor on his gear, stacking up all that armor to to get the bonus in bare form against the rogue. I mean, Spoe is Spoe stacked up. I mean, so Spoe so Spoe competed in MLG back in the day. Is that is that right? I believe so. Yeah. So that was I that was during the time where I wasn't really playing well. So I wasn't really familiar, but Chance was talking about yesterday how he used to watch all this guy's videos like growing up. He used to do a bunch of videos and like a lot of the content that he made. So it's kind of cool. Like this is like an OG vanilla, like OG classic player coming back. So here's a big open from vodka. Bopka opens up with the cheap shot into a gouge, taking his combo points, stacking it up, expose armor into a gnomish death ray. Doesn't really do a whole lot of damage. Reloads on him. He's got a couple of combo points saved up right now and goes to the blind. He probably, oh, there's a slice and dice. He uses a slice and dice. She's going to try and kill the pet. So he has no combo points. Banana died. Wait, who died? What is that competitor later today? I don't know. Who died? Anyway, this will tea. He's teeing off. He's really going off on him. He's got the cold blood big abyssal rate out of form. I think he hit him out of form. He's low. Spoe is on the ropes right now. He went out of form to use a health stone, I believe. Bobka is using everything. He's got a rupture on him and he is teeing off with the sprint. He's ready to go. Spoe trying to stun him. And I believe it got dodged. So this is reset right here. He's going with the gnomish rocket helm or goblin rocket helm. Excuse me. Going for the reset. He's going to want to heal up. He's going to want to drink, but this is going to give Bobka an opportunity to open back up with a stealth. That fairy fire is going to prevent him from doing so. The thorium native is going out. I saw that would be proud of Spoe right now, keeping that. Those stacks though. I know so yesterday I was like, keep up those fairy fires. There it is the refresh and bear form. Spoe going toe to toe with him and bear that big armor reduction there for that physical damage coming in. Kidney shot though on the Spoe. Doesn't get too much done and blind. Insta breaks it. I don't know if it was a mistake there from Bobka. I don't know if it was an instant heartbeat or if there was something that that broke that there. This is not really what Bobka wants. I think Spoe is playing this really well. I think that's the second blind. The net coming out and now Spoe is in a really great position to just net to moonfire. Keep up dots and like you said, that's a good call out on that fairy fire because he had some trouble with that yesterday. Dropping the fairy fire and he's he's doing a good job of that today for sure. Yeah, the moonfire I don't think he is looks like he's not expecting the insect swarm. At least he's not using it here. Oh no, there is the insect swarm. My apologies. The gouge coming out. Bobka looking a way to set up this kill. But man, how do you kill a bear a full life? Like the kidney shot isn't going to do much at all. Bob is down to 50% now. There's less and less cool downs available for him. I think Spoe is looking really great here. Bobka committing another vanish. Tries to get an opener. Doesn't look like that sheepshot connects though. Bob guns, Spoe evening out here in terms of the total health, there is the T being used from Bobka. Only three uses of that in the whole tournament. And that's one of them stun coming out from Spoe into the entangling roots, hoping for no resist there. And he gets gets that root landed Spoe going max distance using a T himself and mana and health evening out from both players perspectives. Maybe another moonfire insect swarm to connect and it does looks like Spoe is going to want to just max range. This is the Yeti coming out to assist Spoe and his endeavors here today. He's sitting down, shrinking his mana back up and bear form once again committed from Spoe. I think I think Bob goes really in a unfavorable position right now because he's rogues have like the list of cooldowns right and he's burning through. He's trading all his cooldowns in right now. He has a slice and dice. He's going to try and kill the pet calling his own pet up. Is that a battle chicken? There it is. It's a battle chicken coming up. Maybe he's hoping for that haste proc. We'll see what happens. He's now trying to separate. He did just get fairy fired. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what exactly Bob is trying to do here. He's getting teed off and he used the gouge. He can't restelf because he does have that fairy fire on him still and he is. He's got to find a way to stall this out and try and get a bandage off. He doesn't have the he doesn't have the bandage debuff yet. And I think that's what he's trying to do. But I don't think he really is going to have that opportunity and he might just try and turn it around and go for it. Stack up as many combo points as he can and try and tee off in a stun is what it looks like. He is just going to keep that fairy fire on him the entire time and he is just going to keep that pressure on Spoe. Making a smart play with the stun into the heel making sure that he doesn't get too low for Bob to get a chance to tee off on him. Bob because seems to be completely out of cool downs and he doesn't really have an answer for Spoe being able to keep him out of stealth with the fairy fires with the roots with the moon fires with the insect swarms. Bob is in a bad situation against Spoe the MLG the MLG competitor from years ago the OG classic player and he lets the fairy fire drop. Did that drop or is our UI bugged? Because it looks take all the way down. I think our UI bug drops back up. No it did drop. Okay. So the fairy fire dropped. This is Bob's opportunity. Spoe knows it. Spose he's chasing after him trying to get a fairy fire on him before. Okay we got the moon fire. Let's see if he can get a fairy fire off on him because that is huge. That is so important right now. Bobka stalling out long enough to get a big heal big health potion. He's got his health back up. He's going to start getting his cool downs back up soon. Going for the exposed armor right now on Spoe. Seeing if he can get a chance to tee off on him. I think he's jousting with him here to try and build up combat points and make a play try and go in with a kidney shot and try and push him and he goes for the kidney shot there. But it misses. Goes for the goblin mortar and Bobka is just going to try and rinse and repeat that. He's going to try and kite. Going to try and joust him. Build up combat points make a play and I really think Spoe needs to try and push the advantage as much as possible here. Make sure to keep his health up. Don't give Bobka a chance to turn back around on him with a big kidney shot. Obviously trying to get caught out of form but Spoe is really Spoe's got the advantage here. Bobka turns it around making a making a last ditch over here with a kidney shot going for it. Ghostly strike evasion is going to dodge just about everything here. And I really think Spoe just needs to oh no. Oh no. Couch out of form that's exactly the opening Bobka is looking for I don't think oh he gets the kidney it's only half DR Spoe insta-trink at NS nature swiftness heals himself back up to almost full HP and swiftly back into the bear form that was what Bobka was looking for he didn't get too much work done and Bobka looks like his backs against the wall I mean what do you do when you're fighting a bear I think and sometimes sometimes it's good to like scare him if it's like a little bear but like against a grizzly I think you just curl up in a ball and yeah sometimes you just gotta lay down yeah maybe we're sitting down let's say Bobka's doing right now oh but he gets the kidney shot he's going toe to toe with the bear out of form is huge maybe he can oh my gosh huge goblin sapper that could have been the end for Spoe but that goblin sapper could have killed Bobka that was such a risky play Spoe's kiting it out he's almost out of mana Bobka's going toe to toe with Spoe here and I don't know oh there's a T from Spoe immediately back in the bear form well played he does not get gouged from Bobka that was a pretty fast gouge but not fast enough might have been caught on that global cool down and Spoe pushing that advantage once again that was Bobka's opening full kidney shot lands and he's doing his best and I've really gotta commend Bobka here for surviving so long min-maxing the potion cool downs and looks like he's gonna kite out Spoe here Spoe can't use that elixir of poison cleansing because it'll take him out of bear form if he shifts of course that also takes him out of bear form so Bobka knows this and he's punishing Spoe there's a war stop into the regrowth Spoe's getting dangerously low that's 6% life and he goes down finish man you're in the impossible and take it out the bear of Spoe oh my gosh dude I thought Bobka about two and a half minutes ago I thought Bobka was done for that was unbelievably impressive Spoe is a fantastic jurid unbelievable player but unfortunately Bobka just barely inches it away from him I mean I I thought Bobka was completely done for it now the thing that Spoe did now he let that fairy fire drop and some people might say like okay well he had moonfire on him okay he had insects warm on him is that not the same thing no it's not because fairy fire doesn't even give you the opportunity to stealth at all whereas if you have a dot on you you can still stealth but it'll it'll knock you out of stealth whenever you take damage so you could theoretically like vanish cheap shot insta between dot ticks or something and still be able to do something even if you have a dot on you that's why it's so important for druids to be able to keep a fairy fire on a rogue in that in that whole duel and that's why we saw him trying to separate so much also in addition to that fairy fire lasts for 40 seconds as opposed to the the shorter time of a moonfire or an insects form so that's why that was so important and whenever you let that drop I really think that was the turning point because then it got Spoe out of his rhythm and it kind of it kind of gave Bobka that little tiny bit of an opening that allowed him to turn it around that was such a great game I do want to touch too maybe we can confirmation from admins here it looked like banana died at the start of that duel I believe banana is supposed to be up here later today in the brackets I see his name if we can get confirmation from admins did banana actually die prepping somehow for this dual practicing was it some type of backfire we'll have to wait on that and see exactly what happened there to banana in this next duel though we have relay versus bean this is warrior versus hunter and this is a match-up that we can see go either way I think though for for warrior it's not like at least you're not fighting a mage you know from the warrior paw it's like all right this is okay but bean such an experienced player he came second place in blizzcon with Cidu and he is multi multi multi rank one through many expansions relay getting the charge off and starting things off right there's the last stand immediately getting on a cooldown for that health optimization I love it the thorium naid unfortunately misses though for relay big bean kiting it out and I don't know where beans pet is maybe it's starting in stealth once again to prevent the pet from being killed scatter fain death trap coming out and bean looks like he's going to go for a couple ticks of water food make sure he's fully healthy before kiting it out but the the mount comes out and the harpy breaks the trap that's not what bean was looking for at all this is really bad for bean relays teeing off there's no scatter quite yet having said that bean seems like he has a decent positive exchange there relay at 50% using the health stone from the warlock which is allowed here anything pretty much allowed in a mocha raw we have the slow fade from relay and the scatter fain death trap coming up from bean once again that was quite the blunder but it looks like the trap resists and that is oh no unfortunate events here for bean back to back oh no yeah beans uh he's definitely on the back ropes here uh he tried to get on his mount to separate and gain more distance but whenever it resisted and whenever harpy resisted a big problem something to keep in mind in vanilla versus the later expansions vanilla mounts are three seconds so he didn't move for three seconds he was standing in place for three seconds where he could have just kept running but he was trying to he got a little greedy with it he was trying to get as much distance as possible but it might not matter because he's got all the distance he needs right now relay flask of titans sapper doing anything he can to kill the pet and try and get away but bean is pressing him right now oh and snipes him from across the field there it is bean oh man bean with a big win just teeing off on relay and getting the ability to separate after having pretty much as bad of a start as you could possibly imagine in that match up I mean he got greedy went for that mount ended up not moving for three seconds heart beat resist gets him and then he he has the second trap resist so I mean I thought bean was in a terrible terrible position yeah I mean it was just that was something else man that was really good okay so we're gonna update on bananas situation so banana he was a no show so he was dequeued because he was a no show and was replaced in the bracket and he uh his character died unfortunate way to go there um yeah so man that last duel though um just to just to reiterate bean had two or three very unfortunate circumstances happen and still one I just want to emphasize how awesome that last duel was because normally you have your set of things that you're expecting to happen and if one thing goes wrong you know you might be able to make it up if two things goes wrong that might be it for the duel but being kind of playing from behind expecting the unexpected so to speak and ended up coming out on top despite the duel flipping on its head from the get go and the next match up we have spicy versus proxy we have a road versus hunter looks like he accidentally fapped there unfortunate timing I don't know if they're going to be able to wait out two minutes for that cool down or not and we have full almost full shadowcraft set here from spicy spicy did fairly well here in the standings and uh proxie bootstake I like that yeah very nice and a lot of these players opting for that goblin rocket helmet and I mean as they should it's such a great cc but not only that it's such a great gap closer for something like a warrior something like even like a mage that wants to dead zone and push a hunter but having that cc in your back pocket on a separate cooldown then then a lot of other items is it's a really great cooldown to have and looks like the dual flying drops and spicy go stealth and proxies posting up on the flare with the freezing trap I like how you mentioned how the goblin rocket home could also be used as a gap closer as opposed to just a reset because I think a lot of people look at the rocket helm as a reset but there's some what you can do with that with uh sometimes you just want to use it to close the gap oh here we go the dual starting up uh and immediately gets frozen trapped gets knocked out of it I don't think that was a trinket I didn't see a trinket there but uh he's getting scattered here his trap is still on cooldown so he's not going to be able to trap again goes ahead and does the rocket helm on spicy but the rocket helm is dr'd so he's not going to be able to get the full distance and the full benefit out of that I believe rocket helm and trap are is on the same dr if I'm right but uh spicy is going to open up on him proxy isn't a really really bad spot here uh he's he goes ahead in phaps so he's able to get away from the crippling poison prox but uh you have spicy using the blind to go ahead and I don't know I don't know why he tried to maybe he was just trying to get a tick off while the pet was hitting him I'm not sure I'm not sure why he bandaged there might have been a mistake but uh yeah spicy is uh using that as a gap closer I don't know if he's not using his combo if he's not hitting the pet because he doesn't want to use his combo points because I feel like the the strat here should be go ahead and just burn a slice and dice or something and kill the pet whenever you're sitting there because uh I think if you can't restel me you can't do anything else it might not matter though because it looks like he's just able to go in and if he doesn't get trapped which he does yeah there's that full trap that lands on spicy that's a proxy needed I mean look at him she's 20 percent life trying to get some distance here onto spicy spicy has to find a way to close the gap another fat coming in a full blind though to reply that's fat plus blind what's proxy gonna do I mean what do you do I don't think there's anything you can do full kitty shot lands and that's gonna be spicy stool that's it tonight proxy well played to spicy oh wow that's a good one just for clarity to fap is a free action potion fap free action just for clarity yeah so I one of things I was confused there uh I uh I don't know why he uh why why he was uh standing around and not killing the pet instead of like he I think he gouged it and then he uh was just waiting it out but uh I don't know what how did you feel about that I mean he ended up winning the duel so it kind of doesn't matter but uh how did you uh what did you think about that would you have would you've tried to kill the pet there or uh I think I agree with your assessment like it seems like why not at the same time it really worked out for spicy and yeah like you said like you mentioned maybe it was a combo point thing like I have five combos if I can get there a kidney I can just end it I don't want to like even mess with my pet I just want to keep up the pressure and kind of maybe just back turn the pet with innovation and just kind of ignore it you know and it looks like that strategy really paid off um now for this next duel Sots Sots is a player we haven't covered uh too much of but he was one of the I believe four players that went five and oh yesterday it was uh sony snuts uh ziko and and and Sots if I'm not mistaken and that's really impressive to go five and oh and a swiss bracket because the matchups get harder and harder as you go on because it forces you into a harder and harder opponent so Sots five and oh on the priest I can't stress it enough uh let's have some brilliant uh you know gameplay in mind to be able to do that we have this match up here I'm not super well versed in hunter v priest but I'm excited to see how this one unfolds and unpacked we have probably a strategy from a little block of viper stings uh so I'm a sweet uh and there it is the viper sting right off the bat Sots trying to close the gap we have cat back with the BM connecting on the Sots in the open or another viper sting being pressed and and Sots doing a great job of not only closing the gap and landing the fear but also removing the viper sting swiftly so it doesn't drain his mana a little box going to come out on the negative side of the mana drain exchange of Sots keeps up with the incredible um reaction time to those elixir cleanses on those viper stings we have some decent rng there on the concussive shot another viper sting coming out by little box mana burning himself because Sots doing so well at the dispel miles ahead in this duel so far stuns coming out thorium nade is being chucked into the air Sots does have the viper sting realizes it takes it off there once again Sots has the mana advantage the health advantage the pressure advantage the cool down advantage to sleep I think that's pretty much it mind flake connects a little bot goes down and Sots looking like an absolute professional in this first round of the day damn yeah the thing is a little buck there I mean he he he had the pressure on him really really heavy right off the bat he tried to separate with the sleep unfortunately he had him serpent stinging then uh I I guess it was just I got I got to the point where you're just trying to oh what do I do what I do panic throughout the sleep can't can't separate can't reset and uh it just it just kind of fell so some of these duels are going to be like that that's that is vanilla some of these duels are really really long and some of them are just going to be like that so um great showing by Sots man great showing by Sots I think a little buck went in there with one game plan the game plan was to use those viper stings hide it out um the priest and then take the win and Sots was like well I have elixir poison resist and had a good key bind for it's probably key bound to space bar or something because he pressed it instantly every time and little saw it there's no there's no cool down on viper sting right so he just re vipered I got dispelled he re vipered he got dispelled he re vipered he got dispelled he re vipered he got dispelled now now all of a sudden the hunter was uming himself dispelled the elixir poison resist cause zero mana viper sting has a pretty substantial mana cost so the hunter umed himself and then the priest took the win cause not only was little buck uming himself but he was also doing no damage because if you're viper stinging it comes at the cost of not aim shotting multi-shotting arcane shotting uh other stings uh you know getting damage off so little buck was doing no damage mana burning himself Sot really just looked like a professional I'm a Sot fan I can't wait to see how the rest of the tournament unfolds for him I'm excited for his next match up that was that was really uh really well played yeah and uh I mean that's that reverse mana burn that we were talking about yesterday too it's like a lot of times you can make these classes that mana burn ironically enough hunters and priests both do that but uh you can uh you can make people burn their mana with uh with dispells or with other abilities putting up rank one buffs and they'll expand dispelling you stuff like that like for like for hunter earlier he shouldn't have viper sting and he's forcing it so um that's that's great great assessment on that I think the uh trying too hard to do nothing basically because it's just immediately getting removed and uh doing no damage it's just you're not going to get anywhere with that and that's going to separate like a good player from a great player um like a a good player will have a strategy in mind a great player will have a strategy in mind and when it's not working change that strategy in real time and here we have this next tool underway it's shadow priest versus warlock generally we've seen warlocks have a slight advantage here shadow priest looks like he's going for early dispells using max range to dispel the priest and to avoid or to dispel the warlock and to avoid a lot of the incoming pressure incoming assault here from mad knocks and futures doing that to quite a successful degree here using shadow word pain building up stacks where the death coil comes in looks like a future is actually killing the the fel hunter here going for the pet kill uh when that second pet comes out he might go for a second pet kill let's go for a long game shadow reflector used not too much value coming in and yeah this might be a little bit longer of a match up here yeah i could see this going back and forth for a while now i mean this is a it's a pretty classic thing that we see with shadow priest warlock they're constantly going to try and separate obviously warlocks have a ridiculous amount of sustain not only for themselves but for their pets with that health funnel so if you're trying to kill the pet they're going to be able to heal it the the life taps the drain life's using health as a resource just large part of their kit and then the priest as well you know being able to pop out a shadow form being able to heal themselves uh so i really think this is going to uh this is going to go back and forth for a little while fuch actually by the way fuch is actually a uh somebody who is in my guild is it was in crusade i actually met him uh a week ago so uh just saw him at twitchcon randomly but yeah he's been he's been grinding real hard so it's uh it's cool to see a guilty of mine getting this yeah that's great i was talking about that with xane too like seeing those faces that you know and like how cool is his health funnel healing the pet mind play damaging the pet it's like you will not kill my pet and knocks notes that pet goes down it's not going to be great for him but future looks like he's certainly on the back foot here down to 20% mana and 40% life is exactly the position maddox is looking for drain man is coming out maddox looking for that long game looks like a potion might have been used mana pot being used looks like future comes out of shadow form gets counterspelled or spell locked on the heel and that might be the beginning of the end here for the priest because it's going to cost mana to go back into shadow form which he does but now he's pretty much um so how are you ever going to create pressure from the position of maddox you just want to keep the priest um looks like he does uh regenerate some mana there might have been a t a health and mana regenerated looks like the need come out the inner focus mind blast connects but it doesn't do as much as future wanted and this might spell out the end form furbog medicine pouch but future drops and maddox takes it rips you're guilty as fan i'm sorry i know i was hoping to see fuch make up make a run fuch is it was a great you play you actually main to warlock and vanilla but i was hoping to see a great run from fuch but unfortunately it did not pan out uh but yeah what a what a great dual man i mean that that was one of those where it goes back and forth for a little bit i actually thought it was going to last a little bit longer but um going for that medicine pouch late it just wasn't enough to keep him up and keep him going so yeah some of these items are man low level quests that like mages for example will use celestial orb i believe it's a level like 30 mage blue offhand and normally like most players will use it for a bit and then like vendor it but for this tournament players have the foresight to be like wait a minute i could get back a couple hundred mana that could be the difference between winning and losing and like once again that medicine pouch it's not like it is it's not like an innovator it's not like it's a uh full heal but at that little edge all of these little things add up right one more resist one more miss one three hundred more mana you know and that's why classic wow so cool like even in pve like warriors going for like one percent more crit like that's a big deal you know and that's what's so cool to see with these duels every every inch they can get they're gonna take and and competitors really went out of their way with such a big prize pool to min max their gear as much as humanly possible we have gripping versus crazy here in this next matchup this is a warlock mere matchup we saw a couple of these yesterday and some of the warlock strategies were to kill the pet and they kill the resummon pet and another strategy is just to go for the kill on the warlock and and see if you can rush them down i'm curious what these two specific warlocks are going to opt for in this matchup we have dots coming out to the pets here both warlocks opting for the pet kill i wonder if health funnels are going to be committed well that's something we saw yesterday in the warlock warlock with duels we saw that at the end too where it was like uh going to kill the pets was uh what was a win condition oh arcane bomb that arcane bomb finish off the pet and the the swift resummon coming out there from crazy and from gripping so one pet down from each warlock second pet is up from each warlock and it's really going to be the race to finish on this on this next pet they're not they're kind of ignoring each other for the time being whatever pet falls first it might be a situation that were both second pets fall in that case it would be a true 1v1 with no fel hunters to disrupt the gameplay here but ralem's pet looks like it's going down yeah so gripping is going to be the one with the pet i believe and crazy is going to be stuck without it crazy is going to be on the back foot for a little bit actually i might be mistaken i might be the other yeah looks like it's the other way i'm crazy has the pet gripping does not gripping at 50% life still needs to kill that pet no it is gripping spend i was right the first time it's like confusing me that health funnel he's trying to save on it can't quite okay both warlocks have no pet summon the fel hunter coming out from gripping that chicken is so annoying dude push back the chicken and the push back from the chicken actually gave him enough time for uh for uh is that i'm doing i'm getting confused back and forth now but i gave him enough time to actually cast the fel hunter as well for crazy to cast the fel hunter as well uh after the uh after not starting until he was maybe halfway through the cast so super super funny the the difference that it made that chicken was actually big time it was man and gripping is really low and crazy might have the advantage off that arcane bomb misses unfortunately but crazy has such a big lead here i'm curious if the warlocks are gonna gotta go for the kill now or kill the third pet looks like both warlocks opting to actually play the game and go for the kill against each other crazy using that off hand spell stone i believe and full fear comes out through it banished comes out from gripping maybe gonna go for a first aid on the banish that was really well done from gripping evening the tides here crazy is getting feared so far i i don't think it's gonna be far enough for the dual to uh expire the nice thing about macarons is the dual range is really far we'll see if that is in or out of range looks like it's in range he's coming back crazy not quite full life yet yeah i think it was i think it was life tapping while he was running back is what that looked like okay okay so he's going for a bandage i mean they're basically going for like a full-on reset here they've both got their pets up they uh they're they're manning up they're drinking up drinking they're drinking up they're uh they're just kind of waiting it out looks like they're going for a full-on they're starting to do all over essentially both warlocks though no fell dom so these pets are going to be extremely fragile no resummons when they die so the first player to kill the pet and to commit after that might be the victor there's a death quail coming out on the crazy and gripping is probably pretty happy with this exchange in this reset because gripping was was definitely on the back foot there and i think crazy might be kicking himself or not pushing his advantage and instead opting for the reset dots coming out and gripping gets the first pet kill now gripping is totally in the driver's seat here and crazy must be super upset with this last minute or so of the dual spell lock into the full fear coming out gripping getting full dots up actually confident enough to go for a life tap into a health stone keeping his health and mana healthy drain life coming out instead of the drain mana just really pushing this advantage barov string it being used it's going to summon three helpers to help the onslaught of crazy but using it defensively like this we'll see if it can turn the tides yeah it's really important for gripping to keep pushing this especially given that they don't have fell down right they they did a full reset but they did lose some of their cooldowns right the death coils and the fell bombs so what fell domination does it allows them to cast a pet really fast but an arcane bomb is going out it misses arcane bomb misses arcane bomb coming back changes in mind starts casting a fear gripping really wants to push this on crazy lands of grenade and this could be it and it is what a finish from gripping who was on the ropes for the entire duel really before that reset they did the full reset and gripping comes back and finishes the job against crazy fantastic man absolutely fantastic job yeah with that with that reset that happened they uh it was a full reset but they didn't have some of their cooldowns right i talked about the death coil the fell down so losing your pet uh losing your pet first hurts really bad that fell hunter cast something called a spell lock it'll interrupt you for those of you guys who are maybe new to classic wow new to dueling it can spell lock you so whenever you lose that pet you lose a big portion of your kit you don't have an offensive dispel you don't have the spell lock and uh obviously you're losing damage as well from just the auto attack straight up so uh huge play man huge play after the reset i know we've touched on it before but with this much money on the line with a hundred thousand dollars on the line it's really easy to succumb to the seductions of a reset let me get back to full life full mana full health let me just play safe let me just get full life and i think unfortunately they're for crazy you know it might have been the wrong choice like crazy could have taken the win but instead he's like you know what let me eat the fall let me get full health and just rega you know go again but on the on the second playthrough he didn't quite get the same rng right the maybe the resist the crits were different and then gripping took that advantage i think crazy he's like oh man right and that's we were talking about with a player like uh i think it was ziko like knowing when to run but also knowing to be like i can't reset i'm 20 live here but i can't reset i have to take the win now or else i'm probably gonna lose and if we get the full reset my class doesn't work in a way where that's gonna be advantageous and in this next match up we have dakata on the shadow priest begins luxia on that restoration shrewd does have a green chest there has quite a bit of stamina another green helm though it looks like luck no this is dakata rather the dakata didn't quite have time to get fully bis gear for this tournament shadow resist gear opting in there for luxia i like that one or two resist can spell the difference here it's really nice though uh to get shadow resist gear that also might have stamina because like you were mentioning yesterday as fan to if you're giving up stamina for resistance it's really just a gamble yeah like you're going for that rng really you're going to uh you're gambling to hey i'm gonna have less total health right i'm gonna have less total health but i'm gonna go for some resistance and hope that i just avoid the damage altogether instead of taking uh a lower percentage of my health and damage so that's right and we have the dual flag down every time this goes down it's just like it's just like you can feel the intensity and i'm so happy blizzard opted for a unique flag design here instead of just a normal dual flag it's like no let's make this one epic so everyone knows what's actually occurring uh when one of these flags drops i know when you're outside orgamar stormwind and you see one of these flags it's like okay you know even if someone declines just just seeing it drop it's pretty cool yeah looks like the dual started here and luxia getting the opener on dakata it's like some bleeds are coming out the full fear connects instant shrink it from luxia luxia popping that broths shrinking and connecting a lot of damage here on the dakata form uh he comes out of cap form to get the moon fire and insects from a lot of bleed damage on the dakata i'm curious on the strategy here from dakata looks like purge spam to start with is pretty standard because there's so many buffs these players prepared and just purging all of those buffs off is gonna drastically reduce the power level here of luxia shifts out of form gets the full fear well played there from dakata mana pop back to full hp it looks like our spectator ui is not updating the the mana quite yet on dakata there it is 60 mana and 50 for luxia luxia opting for wrath spam into the rocket helm to close the gap it's a pretty nice opener for luxia luxia using that early interfaith and spamming those scrolls the low rank scrolls the noggin fogger elixir to protect the innervate from being dispelled i really like this play luxia knows if he can get value from the interfaith regenerate mana that he can win in the long game but if that gets purged not so much that will be that beginning of the end if the interfaith gets purged dakata is not so happy with that exchange and play in an equally long game and with without a water yeah and that's that's the uh that's that's the big deal there i mean especially being able to take the interfaith and if you can capitalize on the interfaith with the with the drink it's after putting up the scrolls was also big like you said uh and the surprise luxia is there we go he opens up on dakata he goes in with a fair spell charge batch combo i think we might have a little hank up there with the the internet or something let's think about a wand five second rule and the fucking is generation works not only in classic wow another arcane bomb coming out luxia trying to even out that mana advantage but what what's nice about wands is the five second rule doesn't get activated so if you guys are unaware after five seconds of not casting an ability you will start to regenerate mana and dakata knows this and he knows it and he's playing into that five second rule by using the wand to push the damage primarily another nice play from dakata drinking with the server ticks using that five second rule to his advantage optimizing wand usage just can serve as much mana as possible so that when he needs that mana to finish it off you'll have exactly what he needs in his back pocket here luxia on the back foot 10% mana kiting it out we've seen luxia come back from worse but interfaith has been expended dakatas in hot pursuit here in sex swarm from luxia mana pot use and i like that nice and early we want to make sure to get the pots on cooldown so we can wait until the next pot comes back up and this could be a longer duel on our hands yeah i mean it looks like this one's just gonna go back and forth sorry about the uh the lag issue apparently i had an issue with the lag uh i don't know where it came from but but it's fixed now so uh yeah sorry about that we're we're uh we're all good i really think dakata is going when and playing the slow game on this like you said you mentioned the uh taking advantage of like a spirit regen uh casting with them uh or sorry saving with that mana uh the five second rule getting his mana for five back from uh from spirit and uh using that wand a lot just to get a little bit of damage in it's not very much but uh just getting that little bit of damage in and not actually casting a spell it goes a really long way kiting out going back and forth with this duel this could be a long one this could be this could be big big big back and forth with another full fear connects from dakata we get a blackout proc and that's kind of what dakata needs right like we need non-stop rng we need the the stars to align so to speak for dakata to actually line up that kale and luxia knows that and luxia is waiting for his opening and and like we've we've mentioned a lot before a lot of the times in a duel like this it's waiting for that first person to make a mistake right you're kind of just staring them in the eyes and waiting for a mistake to happen and boom when i make when they make a mistake you you take your kill and that's exactly what luxia is doing luxia a very experienced player here in the pvp scene and he knows this and he's maybe not in the matchup that he wants here but waiting for dakata to slip up the unfortunate truth here for luxia is dakata is not slipping up he's playing an incredible game here there's that uh that bomb being used silence coming out from dakata aggressively luxia getting very low bash comes out swift men to follow so luxia is talented in that swift men just like yesterday inner focus dots coming out to keep that mana conservation up from dakata luxia uses the mana pot and i really like the early mana pot from about two minutes ago because it probably saved him there to have that another mana pot now here's the thing if dakata presses his advantage too hard dakata will um and then luxia can win and dakata knows this he's keeping that mana around 30 or 40 percent you might be thinking why doesn't he just spam mind flay and mind blast whatever it's like well if dakata goes um luxia doesn't die gets the reset luxia can then keep dakata um and take the win and that's why both players are playing so passively here it's like well you know we don't want to we don't want to get to that situation where we're going in we want to save a little bit of mana to maintain a little bit of healthy hp here luxia though pushing in with that arcane bomb and that could turn the tides for him dakata dotted up that mithril mechanical mithril dragonling doing damage to dakata and luxia has just taken any little bit of help he can get yeah i mean like you said i mean lexia and this is how druids play right druids want to kite it out this is this is their game trying to run around a whole bunch uh chance mentioned it yesterday too i mean that's with the makaraz when you have three times the dual range of like a normal dual that's a huge advantage for druids uh if this is your playstyle if this is your game if this is your matchup where you want to go and you want to kite out as much as possible and you want to stall that out as much as possible possible uh i think the way dakata is playing it where uh where he's just trying to conserve mana and not let luxia go and get that full reset and have the mana advantage over him uh is really really smart i mean you can even see his drink walking towards him now at this point because he knows luxia has the range luxia has that move speed bonus from travel form he's going to be able to just straight up a run away from him and that also is one of the downsides of being a shadow priest right you have a mind play which slows them but when you slow them with a mind play you are standing in place right so they are gaining distance on you regardless it's not as much distance as if they weren't slowed at all but you're still standing in place and they're still gaining distance outside of that you only have blackout procs from spamming shadow word pain or something like that that you can hope for otherwise movement is really really bad mobility is really really a strong counter towards shadow priest like if you can kite him out it's uh it's pretty tough for them so i do think dakata is probably playing this as well as he possibly can yeah i absolutely love it i do want to clarify uh on the rules for flask usage i saw some some comments on it flasks um are allowed but you can only have three flasks in your inventory and players opted into an inventory check before checking uh today so each player will have three flasks if you do use that flask at low mana it'll give you a bit of mana but you have to keep in mind we have a long day of duels if you use a flask in that first duel you only have three for the full day so that is something important for these players to remember but it's like hey if the if you have a flask to use and you don't use it and you die well it's not going to do much you know for you when you're dead so you want to it's like this very difficult balancing act of using enough consumables to push you further ahead in the tournament but not overusing consumables when you don't need them because you might need them later in the day and those harder and harder matchups well they're saving it for the next hardcore tournament they're saving it for the next month girl oh here's a push here's a push from dakata silence you and a bunch of damage mind flay spam he's got a mind blast he goes into the fear he goes and he puts a blanket silence on him luxia trying to get away trying to burn his mana to try and keep himself up as much as possible throws a sleep on dakata dakata has his ears pinned back then he's ready to close on luxia but unfortunately for him luxia sleeps him and gets away and we are probably going to be back in a kite fast for another five minutes i mean here's the thing though like his luxia has luxia ever pushed dakata to feel really scared right it seems like luxia has been on the run really luxia has gone to sub 10 life multiple times now and dakata is really just playing a good mana game he's not ever really that afraid so if luxia is never pushing dakata to to feel like he has to play defensively i mean i don't see how this goes luxia's way having said that luxia might be able to turtle this out all day with with mana potions and healing up and and i mean as i say that dakata now uh you know isn't kind of the back seat here uh luxia uses the mana pot dakata has 15% life he's going for mana burn it will be max range it's well played there from luxia kind of playing that max distance and playing at like 32 yards and whenever there's something casted you could go to 36 yards or same thing with like 24 and 27 yards and knowing that distance in your head has like a pseudo method of like line of sighting or like a pillar to stop that interrupt and very well played from luxia luxia charges in and looks like things have evened out once again mind flabby and cast an arcane bomb it misses missed the arcane bomb because he i think he was predicting that dakata would move and dakata didn't so he ends up missing that arcane bomb that arcane bomb is is terribly difficult to hit because it's a long cast time and you can't move while you're doing it so it definitely throws it off compared to like a thorium grenade or something like that but luxia getting very very very low that's the worst stomp dakata might be able to finish it off here depending on what consumables luxia i don't think has a mana pot available nothing left is mindblast if it crits could spell it out for luxia 5% and luxia goes down huge finish from dakata it was the perfect rng right like luxia is kind of low he's caught out he's trying to reset and that's when the blackout came in that's when he starts seeing the crits no resist it went perfect for dakata at the end and i've really gotta commend dakata here today that was really picture perfect play with the server tick mana drinking with the mana consumption with the wand usage with the consumables he played patient he didn't let luxia you know turn it around he and he just he was persistent but patient and it's exactly what you needed that matchup and dakata came out ahead well played yeah i i think the patience was what was so impressive i mean uh some of these matchups will come down to it's it's like a boxing match where they come in and they're they're they're not coming in swinging but they're trying to tap and and kind of just jab each other feel each other out get get hits on people and see what happens and uh when they get the open they go for it and right there with dakata uh to your point it was he got the blackout proc and he got to tee off right he and he had the chance to tee off earlier didn't finish right didn't finish because of the sleep and and uh uh luxia got to got to separate there it happened again i think really after that arcane bomb and i'll tell you even before the arcane bomb right before that if you noticed uh dakata had low mana started drinking and got debuffed before moonfire i think it was an insects swarm now if you get hit with a debuff it doesn't stop your drinking it you can get hit with a debuff and it won't stop your drinking you need to get hit with something that does damage like a moonfire that does instant damage and then uh ticks afterwards so that's why uh you saw dakata's mana tick up after uh after he was casting on him is because he didn't do that direct damage to him yet so uh so yeah he ended up getting a little bit of mana after that the arcane bomb missed and then it was the tee off so super super impressive super super impressive by dakata that patience and being able to finish i love it this is an important this is an important tool here sony on the warrior versus a warlock warlock actually having a really nice opener someone's the void walker sacks it and someone's another one so there's sony has so many shields to get through yones doing a really great job of kiting with the fap and the sprint boots and sony's finding himself in a really tricky position early on in this matchup sony had that full rage but already expended and now he's going to go max range potentially look for a mount up here the charge was stopped with that cursive agony that was well played from yonas and this this warrior versus warlock matchup i can't stress enough could be the the information we need to see how the rest of this tournament is really going to play out we have the arcane bomb and it lands well played from sony that's a five second silence manager and and damage done on to yones there's a two stack sunder from sony's building damage to really go yeah to really go crazy here the first pet is about to dies hopefully the sacrifice comes off from yones i don't know if he knows it's about to die if sony gets that execute before the pet goes down there will be no sacrifice shield there's the coil in the fear great berserker rage into an intercept lot of damage connecting there's a second shield of summoning another void walker so much damage for sony to get through but not only that is preventing the rage generation because he's hitting into the absorb shields yones going in for the auto attack popping the lip into the full fear no break for sony he's torn no berserker rage available to him and this is the time yones needs to life tap and bandage up this is your safety zone and that warrior gets back on you it's going to be a world of hurt but sony at 95 percent life still and mounting up before he gets hit again look at him avoiding that void walker just just reducing the damage just a little bit little bit and it keeps him out of combat so that he can go and get a charge in huge huge play by sony yeah and it looks like sony's reconnecting and getting a second arcane bomb i mean dude this looks like sony's duel to win here mortal strike comes out another fear being casted a bit of munith berserker rage that's going to be 30 seconds we get to tee off here from sony or maybe you're not quite 30 there's the net coming out yones gets the distance and sony closes the distance with the goblin rocket helmet immediately howl of tear but how is yones going to get out of the situation sony's full life shadow locked here on the drain life it's not going to be enough sony is doing so much damage going for another intercept play potentially there's another pet to sacrifice from yones a howl of tear coming out potentially for those pets as well sony finds himself pretty far from yones here the warlock but i just don't know how yones is ever going to get enough pressure going to kill him and this makes me scared for any warlock in the tournament against a warrior the sack comes out just in the nick of time for the shield to come out and sony aware of that decides to maybe just play defensive and and kite out this 30 second shield and then go in afterwards i think he's going to try and mount up here he's trying trying to uh he's probably going to try and eat mount up if he can and try and reengage he gets back in content in combat so he's not able to uh reengage us here now keep in mind yones does not have any more absorb shields the absorb shields do prevent you from getting rage which obviously is is pivotal pivotal in this matchup did he i think he missed that arcane bomb right there and uh he's just pulling out the crossbow trying to make sure he doesn't get out of combat so he can drink so that one hit of that crossbow while it might have not been any damage or much damage it keeps him in combat and he's going to have berserker rage back up he uses it and he's going to be able to tee off here and this is his chance to finish he's going to get him in execute range and finish right here boom there it is sony winning his first match of the day against yones incredible and excuse me i was wrong i said arcane bomb did hit i didn't see it hit but uh it did hit but incredible dude absolutely incredible dude something really cool about this tournament that i just kind of realized is the winner is going to have what like five or six years just by default like they're going to have this character forever with like five or six years kind of vibe in and everyone will know like what kind of happened here and that's so cool like so sony got an ear there for beating the lock if sony wins today he's going to have a bunch of ears racked up and man if i was a warlock dueling sony i'd be scared like i'd be scared like sony just played that so well so much damage was coming out there was no blunders i mean i must say it was well played from yones i i can't really can't really pinpoint any like large mistakes yeah no i think i think yones played great uh i think it was just uh yones played great sony played great and he he that's a matchup that favors them and uh the favors the warriors and it just it just panned out for him so man i would love to see like a sony versus snot later today or something like that would be a really fun matchup to get to watch but speaking of fun matchups we have rocket man which is perplexity for those of you perplexity fans out there versus exans the shadow priest we've seen matchups like this go back and forth we saw perplexity in the qualifiers yesterday win against a priest and lose against a priest um and today i think he's gonna try to do everything he can to to build up that advantage to not take another loss against the priest exans though knows this i believe has some practice versus rogues as well and is this could be this could go either way it's a close match up here yeah no for sure i think uh i i think seeing what what perp can do against the shadow priest i know perp was a uh he's a he's a bit of a fan favorite he's competed in i'm pretty sure every single dueling tournament that that uh has existed for the cdl and all that so it's uh it's always fun to see perp play sap coming out and perp's patient he's going for a max range resalt the heartbreak heartbeat break does happen there in the favor of exans having said that perplexity gets the restelf off so it's not a massive massive deal here exans kiting it out there's a inner fire refresh and potentially another power would shield refresh exans sitting down for a sip to make sure he's in the best position possible for when rocket man decides to open here another full duration sap cheap shot coming out and another reset just to clarify for for viewership there is a rule that says the rogue has to open within 60 seconds but strategic acts like this like sapping and cheap shotting and running and restel thing to build comma points is 100 percent legal this is part of rogue strategy it's similar to a mage sheeping to to build that advantage and that's that's part of what we're seeing here right now is rocket man pushing every advantage he can as the rogue player with so much money on the line he wants to do everything he can here yeah i mean i i mean it's it's absolutely it i mean he's trying to wait to get his perfect opener um and we're gonna we're gonna wait for him to try to get as many trying to get as many comma points as he can these are classic rugs they're difficult rugs yeah and and here's the thing like what's the old old saying it's like don't hate the player hate the game like i'll i'll see some comments and when a druid is kiting out and people like oh come on fight him it's like dude you can't be mad at the druid playing how druid is supposed to play and can't be mad at a mage for pauling and running when that's how a mage is supposed to play and similar here can't really get mad at a rogue for sapping building comma points with cheap shots and getting that exposed up because that's how rogues are supposed to play like the highest end level um so for me it's just how the game design ended up panning out and the players uh you know with a lot of money on the line are doing everything they can to ensure the victory and and for me that that's how i see it i don't i don't see it as a big deal besides that yeah no absolutely oh that's the arcane opener okay we are yeah we were talking about this from yesterday the sap arcane bomb opener to get that value although it might have resisted i didn't see the silence come through and that's not the opener perplexity was looking for after two to three minutes of preparation there's the goblin rocket helm from the priest to build a distance and dispels but it breaks yeah you got the big heartbeat resist there he was trying to clean him after the uh after the rocket helm but uh excellent really he is on the ropes here i mean uh if he gets up there it is if he gets blinded i was going to say uh this is going to give perp the opportunity to go in and reopen on him again uh if he can last out the uh the the shadow of pain which he realized he couldn't so uh but he went and he did vanish cheap shot and uh here we are full fear comes out shrink it to reply goblin rocket helm to close the gap xn in a world of hurt or about to be 26 life i mean what do you really do perplexity is that full life here building the common points with the cheap shot priest uh uses the no mission visibility shrink it and some sprint movement speed it looks like the skull of a petting doom well nice combo there title charm from perplexity to close the gap blind sand misses vanish cheap shot coming out this is fantastic play from both ends will it forsaken to answer the fear from xn's power word shield used but he's tapped sprint to close the gap cold blood comes in and xn's falls huge huge huge play by perp so the thing we saw there that perp did and we talked about it with fairy fire in the druid duel earlier so he had a dot on him but he got out of combat right so he was able he looked at the dot tick and it's ticking ticking ticking it ticks he stealth cheap shots in between the ticks so he even though he has a dot on him he's still able to reopen on him and uh perp played that beautifully just absolutely phenomenal just uh going in with that blind reset and then the gap closer with the uh uh the goblin rocket helm as well so uh phenomenal duel by by by perp and we have him facing a sony in the next round that'll be a fun one to watch man i can't wait to see how these brackets shape up as we get closer and closer to these uh finals in the next matchup though we get to watch payo and payo if you guys haven't seen him he's a he's a great streamer he's always fun and entertaining to watch and he's just an absolute character he's a ball to watch if you guys want to watch it from his perspective i do believe he's live right now check him out um we have payo versus flop and payo it looks like he has the cold blood pre-pop the goblin rocket helm equipped and and flop probably you know a little little nervous for the burst that payo has prepared here today if the duel goes long though and flop kites it out can be a bit scary um because once the rogues out of those big cooldowns to press and that's kind of what the the druid is turtling for that's it like there's nothing the rope can do but the cheap shot opener comes out there's the cold blood gouge and here's a lot of burst about to happen from payo the bear form though might circumvent that a little bit crusader proc kidney shot lands and payo doing his best to collect as much damage as possible yeah payo the pokemon trainer coming back in he's pulling all his pets as always he's uh so you can see he does have the rocket helm equipped and he's showing it a lot of these guys don't show their helms but he's got his uh he's got his rocket helm equipped he gets it used on himself flop use the rocket helm against him uh and payo is he's getting kind of out here i would have like to see payo just go full aggro and use the rocket helm to close the gap there oh there it is he's there so yeah he goes in close the gap with this pets are not attacking he does have a fairy fire on him so he can't really do anything he uses a t or he uses a uh is that a resto pot i think he used to try and get rid of it but it didn't come off he can't restelf uh he goes he oh it was a moist outlet there we go i was i was just told it was a moist outlet so uh yeah so he goes in and uh yeah he's closing in on him now with a blind he doesn't have anything on him so he does have a chance to restelf on him as long as we don't get a heartbeat resist here he doesn't have a chance to restelf and reopen on him and he can press him and he is out of form keep that in mind he is out of form stunned he's going to go probably take this into he goes into bare form didn't didn't get a kidney shot off it might have been on cool down uh flop is trying to separate he's in cat form he's dashing he's back into travel form trying to get away but it is unable to do that and payo takes the win against flop fantastic job by payo pushing the advantage unbelievable man unbelievable job at payo that was great pushing the advantage there i i love seeing the the aggressive play using that goblin rock at home whenever flop started to get away i think he hesitated a little bit but he he definitely he turned around decided to go ahead and send it and it was great so really really good yeah really really good job by payo there uh great duel great duel we have we had a earlier matchup against bopka and spo in that looked like such a hard matchup for the rogue to finish the druid and i must say payo looked like a pro there he took flop out it looked easy payo is full life the whole time payo landed that kidney shot when flop was out of form flop was forced to shrink it and then payo instantly throws up the blind the fairy fire fell i mean that is just not the duel flop was looking for by any means payo must be feeling pretty good with himself after that one we have under versus warrior up next and man that's just another shout out to the uh the team behind us like the fact that we're getting dual in the tool in the tool is just non-stop action for ours is great uh and we do have some green deer here from from gucars and that's obviously not the optimal setup that we're looking for but he did make it to the top 64 competitors today which is still very very impressive to be here and we have zero eyes of the beast we have those swift boots on we have the furbugs medicine pouch and that nifty stopwatch lots of different items and gear to use and that's the unique and exciting thing about classic world of warcraft is we get those items from random quests uh random turn-ins or random purchases and the fat pre-used by zero on the charge and the charge actually doesn't go through in the rule set anything goes we pretty much have no rules no guaranteed openers nothing it's just it's a mock-up play your class play your game and and that's exactly what's happening here zero getting the opener he's looking for pre pops the fap gets the distance gucars just can't connect at all a lot of cooldowns already used from gucars 50 life and that faps gonna fall from both sides shortly here yeah he goes in i mean he loses a lot of health i think i saw him i think it's on diamond flask but apparently not because his health is uh his health doesn't seem to be going up at all maybe diamond flask without changing his gear uh but he is really just on the ropes here yeah i know it was a diamond flask he didn't have any plus healing on that's what it was because his health is going up now so uh yeah i mean he's completely on the ropes now uh zero g very good hunter he's got the distance on him pops recklessness uh that recklessness is going to make him take more damage i think i just saw a recklessness pop and uh i don't really think that was a good idea zero g is just going to take him out here he's just gonna i think he's just gonna kite him out and be able to finish him uh comes back in with the intercept he's he's on him zero g is probably going to wing clip spam him trying to hope for a proc and there it is there's that wing clip proc that uh improve link up prop gets back out of range out of the dead zone while gucker is trying to get back into it but it's going to be to no avail siroji leaving no doubt making sure he's full health not underestimating him making sure that he does his due diligence getting as much health and stuff as possible as he can gets the trap out gets the distance and make sure that uh there's no chance for gucker to come back and finish the stool zero looking like an absolute pro doing what he needed to do and i mean let's be honest that wasn't close zero looking prepared and ready to battle today gucker's falls unfortunately but yeah man that was a good duel zero just prepped with that opener too i like that prefab like right when the countdown was like three two one he faps in case the warrior gets that charge he could instantly get away without any slow happening or uh that little mini stun from the charge happening um with fab if you have a slow on you and then use that free action potion it's not going to get rid of the slow so you have to pre pop it if you don't want to get slowed and that was really nice insight there a predictive play there from zero very well done yeah really clean really clean i mean zero zero is means a pro man and i think uh having having the um having the presence of mind to to be like okay like look i know this is i'm i'm winning this i'm way ahead this is looking really good i'm not going to do anything stupid and fall asleep and and give the guy a chance to come back on me so uh i think that was great yeah and the next match up we have Steven versus Gordon is going to be a druid mirror i'm really sad uh chance isn't here to cast this one uh just for clarity to you guys uh chance could not be here today he was doing a plan 24 hour stream uh for Halloween uh we're missing him here today with this druid expertise a lot of the expertise of these duels we have Steven and Gordon up after this and yeah that's going to be potentially one of those longer duels chance was explaining how it works yesterday in detail and what he was saying was it was if you go cat form you get hibernated so you don't want to go cat form and if you use uh like moonfire and insect form you can't hibernate so you don't want to like use moonfire insect form and if you cast wrath it's less mana efficient than just healing because someone else will take the damage healing at the mana advantage so you don't want to cast wrath you don't want to moonfire you don't want to insect form you don't want to go pear you don't want to go cat so chance was kind of saying the best thing you can do in a druid mirror just to start hitting them and you just whack them down and that's it you know what i mean and so we'll see if that happens or if some of these competitors have planned out a strategy that might be unique to that yeah no absolutely i mean i think i think you hit the nail on the head with this one and oh it looks like they went ahead and started we are going to take a break a short break after this duel because i suspect that we are going to need it druid versus druid this could last a long time we'll see looks like it might be going a little quicker than expected gordon at 40 percent life already in cat form they're kind of committing stevenson bear gordon's and cat and i respect these players for for giving us some quality entertainment today gordon though coming out of form war stomp into that regrowth 69 percent mana back in the cat once again gordon's committing not that he necessarily needs to but he is and steven playing the long game of just efficiency and bear more armor a little bit less damage but in terms of the trade looks like he might be coming out slightly ahead i don't know steven's exact mana total but since he's been embarrassed along probably close to full gordon just going with claws trying to build damage and maybe gordon has built himself a slight lead here steven at 68 percent mana title charm from gordon out of form on steven very well played looks like innervates being used from gordon not sure if steven has it quite yet innervate from both sides being committed and this duel looks fairly even yeah i mean this is just uh it's going back and forth right now and i fully suspect that this is what we are going to get for a few minutes here i mean even though their their healths are both low i mean they they've got a fair amount of man mana out of form you see steven just hopped out and he's at 84 percent i'm sure we're going to see what gordon's at in just a moment here um yeah 100 so yeah these guys are going to be able to keep themselves up these guys are pros they're uh this this duel is going to take a minute for sure absolutely i can't remember the exact item name at this this moment it's escaping me but there is an item that makes the druid flea if they're flash bomb uh if they're in cat form or bear form and that flash bomb coming in so like pro there and it's like one of those things that the competitors have to keep in mind of like okay if i'm in form flash bomb can happen you know and then that that can build your advantage here looks like arena grandmaster being used here from steven coming out of form getting dots up them back in the bear form and this is super interesting right because we have steven who's opting for a slow bear form strategy and we have gordon who's spent the majority of this dueling cat form arcade bomb coming out in human form such a good play from gordon he's burning the mana from steven with the bash he went bear oh and there's that tweet uh there's that tea with sugar that he just used he just used that tea with sugar that uh mana and health potion another flash bomb used as well the tea would use all of these different items being used i just want to stress that was such a good play from gordon gordon catches steven in human form by going to bear form bashing him out of form and then arcane bombing like plays like that are going to be the difference maker here today especially in a mere matchup when you're playing the same class as yourself steven though replies for them great war stomp yeah that awareness on the resell he gets the war stomp one of the few aoe is available to him the hibernate comes out onto gordon and he gets the hibernate out of form i guess i got batched the tiny little batch one of the that that exists so something else that happened there that was really impressive from gordon gordon separated and he popped a mannipot before he drank and a lot of people might see that as a waste of a mannipot but it's not because he knows he doesn't have enough time and he was able to get to 100 mana before they reengaged super impressive definitely we have the double bear action going on i am curious what's going on inside of gordon's head right now right he spent the majority of the duel in cat form bomb going out again that fear so he got a flash bomb off him and it gives even a chance steven was on the ropes a little bit gets him a chance to separate he is majorly losing the mana battle so uh we'll see what he does here he's uh it looks like he's going to try and get out oh nice huge huge done steven using that goblin rocket helmet for another reset steven at 10 percent mana i'm curious of what gordon's mana it says a hundred percent but i don't know if it was a ui uh error there when when gordon leaves combat we can maybe uh see maybe he is just maybe he is just a full mana oh my gosh if that if that's true gordon has a huge huge huge lead right now he can press the hibernates though that's what's tricky right because the hibernates are being casted and if he stays in cat form he eats them but if he leaves cat form it's a pseudo mana train coming in from steven right because he's faking these hibernates over and over forcing the shift and then all of a sudden if look at the gordon's mana down to 40 percent so it's really well played from steven to just spam those hibernates to force the shifts to come out and gordon eventually is going to have to uh to come to the hibernates be like okay i'm going to get hibernated here because i want to have mana to shift forever so then it sits and that's the reset stevens looking for and that's why um chances explanation yesterday was so on point is because i mean what are you going to do if if if you can't go in cat form and you have to shift and really one of these optimal plays might become kind of just waiting and playing uh responsibly to the other druid yeah no absolutely and that's that's a that's a really really good point uh because whenever you're whenever you're in that situation it eventually just turns into this this back and forth that we keep seeing right like it's because they go one one guy does a one-way one guy does the same thing and and they all know what you're going to do uh you got the hibernate going out but it oh he keeps feet changed forms got them to swap forms do that doing that pseudo manager that you talked about and then steven is low but he still has plenty of mana so he's going to be able to heal up here arcane bomb going out massive arcane bomb is he going to be able to do anything off of it no we are in a drug battle because gordon got some of these matchups just go this way and that's and that's classic wow as you know sometimes it happens gordon using the uh got magic just there from steven steven trying to drink and eat back up if we could get a mouse over on steven yep 94 percent mana now and steven going bare gordon gets that restault with cat gordon can uh sit and still for up to 60 seconds if you would like but after that he has to open up uh steven in the mana lead steven maybe even with a slight health lead but we've seen this duel go back and forth um here i i must commend the players i i'm really excited that they're actually you know in cal form and in bear form instead of just auto attacking though this is great i think seeing gameplay like this we will see an end at some point uh very fire landing on to steven just case the restelf comes out and yeah once again i'm really curious why gordon is opting for that cat form and steven opting for that bear it looks like gordon is just taking so much damage i think i think what he's trying to do in cat form is he's trying to put the bleeds up right and the bleeds going they they avoid the armor so i i really think he's trying to go for just damage at the cost of hey i'm in cat form and bear doesn't really do much damage anyway that's that's what i that's what i think he's thinking now you're probably spot on there steven now pushing that advantage with the flash bomb with the insect swarm with the bleeds and steven himself going cat form and gordon now back to bears they kind of swapped roles here so to speak now steven popping up the insect swarm has the bleeds rolling as well from cat decides to kite it out a little bit with the root gordon getting out of that root bear charge into the fashion to another arcane bomb i love the arcane bomb plays here from gordon it's it's great that every every minute or so he's trying to get that bash out of form in the arcane bomb to kind of burn steven's mana and like landing one of those might not be that big of a deal but laying two three four five of those could be the difference in like a 10 minute duel because over 10 minutes you're burning yeah 15 000 mana and that that could be the difference gordon gets stunned here steven kites it out gets nature locked though on the feral charge gordon reconnects damage coming in from steven and that's another t committed from steven so all that hard work from the arcane bomb from gordon's kind of been erased with a big t coming out once again that's a three-use item you can use three times from a quest it will give you a substantial amount of health and mana and gordon committing that second innervate of the duel steven has that innervate back up because last innervate they used about the same exact time yeah i uh i mean you can see both their health is getting low here but i don't actually think it's it's nearly as close to finishing as people might think they're both like neck and neck on health i mean you get that stun out flash bomb oh maybe i'm wrong maybe the flash bomb can finish it hold your horses hold your horses gordon finishes it oh my god wow there we go thinking like is this ever gonna end gordon's like yes yes it will i was so like dear there's no way this is gonna end right here that's great man fantastic with a flash bomb so the flash bomb is a fear but you can you can hit them while they're flash bombed it doesn't break instantly so uh that's uh that's why he was using the flash bomb that way a lot of times in duels you'll see people use a flash bomb it's a it's a consumable that you can use to scare scare beasts they're separate and be able to be able to heal sorry i had production my year uh to be able to heal to be able to reset something like that but also you can use it offensively to be able to to be able to push and that was cool to see so it'll be really cool to see these players kind of kind of figure that out or maybe they have it figured out and have a lot of preparation planned for today in this duel or maybe we're gonna see them just rush each other down skull of a penning doom equipped from flames and that's one of the key items here from the mage so when a mage is trying to turtle out on you what are they gonna do they're gonna sheep you right and when they go for that sheep you have a few breaks you can ice block it aggressive and go for that kill but then they just reshape you it's like okay well you can ice block again you have two ice blocks but then they're gonna reshape you again and to really push the advantage when you feel like okay i have enough mana to kill this guy let me actually push this you need things like skull of a penning doom to break the sheep you need things like those ice blocks off of cooldown so you can push the advantage without them what you're going to do is spend all your mana you're not going to get the kill the mage is going to successfully reset and now you're in a bad spot so it's like having the knowledge of okay i have the skull of a penning doom i have the double ice block i have enough mana let me all in this guy duel has begun and star instantly going for an ice block on the reset uh i mean early ice block there with no mana advantage yet i would say stars is a little behind there flames knows this goes for the polymorph and that's the opener flains is looking for and the polymorph will sit flains might be swapping around his trinkets um stars might be looking to do that same exact thing but flains must be pretty happy with this one the first frost bolt comes in and then another uh sheep comes in right after that's just to hurt the shield and the arcane bomb plays from flains land and then the re uh goblin rocket helm into the ice blocks of both mage uh one ice block down i believe and they're using a lot of fire blasts and kona colts and kind of just fighting this out so they're they're kind of going for more of a rush down strategy here um so we might not see as long of a duel as i might have expected there's a skull of a penning doom from flains it will break the sheep well played but at the cost of breaking the sheep it's going to cost mana some wands coming out during the counter spell you can wand during counter spell which is really nice the frostbite rng flains must be pretty happy with this this duel in its totality so far the nova comes out stars blinks it teas the blink does break that nova and flains misses the cone of cold because of it flains going for the evocate this is good value from flains now in the mage v mage mirror the evocation is very important it's kind of like the innervate for druids you want to stop the evo by blocking and counterspelling it and that is what you want to save that block for skull of a penning doom and stopping that evo that evo sticks that's gonna be big that's really big for flains having said that stars and flains are pretty much even mana and stars is the one with the evocate now stars no ice blocks available that's the second one stars has that evocate advantage we can mouse over stars to see his mana actually it looks like it is updating at 64% so stars might have a slight mana lead with that evo kate in his back pocket this is going back and forth we have that arcane bomb it does land that's the second landed one from flains and that might mean he's he's a little bit ahead here yeah i just love listening to me you're the mage guy i love listening to you this is like your super bowl dude just just watching just listen to you cast two mages this is great i'm just gonna let you do your thing here man and i apologize for being long winded there's just a lot of things happening back and forth we have frost fight prox and frost novos conic holds being exchanged from both ends both mages 50 life and i think uh while we were chatting there the the evo kate from stars might have happened as well meaning flains is the clear uh in the clear advantage here looks like stars is kiting it out they're both mana uh drinking or doing the server tick drinking method polymorph coming out detect magic so both mages can see what buffs and debuffs the enemy mage has and looks like the full sheep on the stars and flains going to drink back up and this is what we're talking about dark rune might have been used there as well flains up to 67 percent mana no evo kates from either side i believe flain as one ice block stars o for two five minutes left on that cooldown frost bolt being casted decides to repoli a lot of the time we are going to see an opener where it's going to be a frost bolt into that ice barrier into a repoli just to kind of whittle down the ice barrier fireball being casted for some efficiency there nova looks like it resists conical does land fire blast being used from stars it's not a super mana efficient way of going about the duel though might be trying to push for some advantage but it looks like stars is in the back seat here first aid being casted here from flains topping himself back off i love them in max i think flains is in a position if he still has that skull of a penning doom um to maybe push down stars stars is that 26 life with no ice blocks and the arcane bomb lands he's at 10 percent mana now title time to reply you can use that well silenced that was nicely done major mana pot used and a blink expended flain must be smiling right now i know i would be if you're flains there's no mana pot from stars no evo and no ice block you've pretty much worked through absolutely everything here stars is going to have to sheep he's going to have to try to go for some reset but he doesn't have many cooldowns to work with yep i'm going to let you do your thing for this one it's been i mean this is a great one to watch man i mean just knowing knowing mage duels go back and forth just like that um yeah go ahead another polymorph from flains connects flains is going to just take his time here stars sitting that full polymorph the thing is if flains doesn't close like we are talking about as fans like if he doesn't close when it's his time to close he could blow his advantage stars will rotate more cooldowns back up right second evo k second ice block third ice block mana potions come off cooldown and then all of a sudden you kind of blow your chance but this is this is it right here frost nova counterspell big shatter combo coming but stars trinkets the nova another arcane bomb and that's the big difference between these two mages flains really pushing those arcane bombs on cooldowns the third arcane bomb to land remember 1500 mana purge after every single arcane bomb that's three of them it's 4500 mana drain from stars and that looks to be the big difference maker flains also only using frost bolt uh does go for the fire blast here pushing the advantage let's see if he blocks aggressively here might be the time to do it he does pre-barraves trinket to keep stars in combat we got a lucky heartbeat from flains what star is going to do kona cold lands not much to use there's the tuber the lip the counterspell comes in flains finishing with scorches and that's going to spell the end for stars one more ability lands fire reflector it's not going to be enough flames looking incredible the mage mirror what a dual man that was that was great man i know i was just want to listen to you do your thing man mage versus mage you're the mage guy that was great dude that was killer i love how uh i love how you pointed out the exact point whenever uh when it flipped from like defensive to offensive and uh i was uh you you killed it on that one man that was phenomenal yeah i think flains killed it on that one man he played that so well start to finish the arcane bombs you know manipulating that in his favor over many many minutes i just thought it was really well done um well played the stars as well it can be one of those matchups i'll just be transparent that can also come down to a lot of rng it's like if you're uh two really good mages fighting and you get a resist and then the other mage gets a crit you know and then you get another resist and the other mage gets a frostbite and it's like okay like you know it can just be a tough rng match so much rng that's built into it because of all the procs and all the uh like getting big crits off of a shatter or something like that that's it yep exactly man so next one we got coming up we've got a rubius and mfb tv mfb we got druid shaman coming up here so is this we got ourselves an enhanced shaman the gear is uh can we go over the gear one more time for the shaman yeah we got some nature resistance we uh blood mail set yeah not a whole lot of stamina using a slave driver's cane now that's a 3.9 second speed weapon so the big thing with winfury is uh it's not uh the damage isn't reduced it's not normalized with uh uh by instant attacks because it just it counts as like a full swing so using a really slow weapon is going to give you really really big hits and that's probably what is going to be going for here so close the gap there he's probably going to go for the purge spam uh we think rubius is going to go purge spam him uh it's something we've seen from the shaman's a lot so far in this tournament open up the goblin rock helm clean him up there's so many buffs that getting the opportunity to go and purge up two buffs per global with that purge is absolutely huge druid shifts out of form and rubius is going to go and he's probably going to engage on him right after this oh he's got an arcane bomb he cancels it because he starts getting away with the travel form it's going to be very difficult for him to be able to hit him with an arcane bomb because he's moving so quickly in travel form and it is such a slow cast druid doing druid things he's going to kite him out keep in mind that in the macara there's a three times uh bigger radius than in a normal duel so he's going to be cutting him out the whole time rubius is going to want to keep those frost shocks frost shocks up he's going to want to be able to close in get earth binds up and mfbt using that medicine pouch trying to get some healing in trying to get some hot sticking on himself while he's moving and kiting away moonfire spam build he's got a net on him but he just shifts right out of the net he's got a lot of mana so it's not that big of a deal rubius using that tea with sugar right there spamming that frost shock and just keep chasing him uh mfbt's health is just going on slowly while he's getting uh oh he uses a health pot right there while rubius keeps ticking him down rubius is probably going to lose the mana battle here playing an enhanced shaman he's not going to have a whole lot of opportunities to heal he's probably going to get some spell pushed back as he's getting right there he is going to try and heal but i think mfbt is just going to be able to kite him out here i think i just saw an innervate go out uh and he's healing himself a little bit yeah innervates ticking on him he's healing himself a little bit he's not going to get out of combat he has the pet hitting him rubius going into ghost wolf and he wants to close the gap but i just don't think he's going to be able to and mfbt is going to close with some moonfire spam here and the insect swarm ticking and down it goes rubius the enhanced shaman trying to stick to the druid but unfortunately he just cannot just cannot do that and we are uh stuck with another dead orc another dead shaman 07 for the shaman seems to be a reoccurring theme with shamans like one of their biggest weaknesses is just going home like we see it in shaman versus druid you know the druid looked weak at the start right shaman ran in closed the gap purge every single buff off it was really well played from uh ruby and all of a sudden the druid ran away innervated played a nice long game in the shaman zoom that shaman doesn't have an innervate or an evocate or a life tap right there one of those classes that like they're really strong when you have that mana and you have a lot of big cooldowns especially in group play like a battleground like alteric valley even world pvp yeah really really great class and classic world of warcraft but when you're in a 1v1 and you just go boom a class is going to know that kite you out and only play once you have no more mana left to play with and mfb tv did a really great job of showing us exactly how that was done and shaman you know unfortunately fell there in the next match up we have dendario who's really impressed me yesterday i thought he did a great job on the mage i'm excited to see him play again but i must say not want to fight a druid as a mage and we were talking about ziko's bracket like ziko getting that bracket he wanted today fighting hunters rogues you know warrior whatever and dendario fighting the druid and dendario i know as a mage it's like oh man that's going to be tough now it's possible to beat a druid it's possible it's just really hard um the way dendario will win this is by bursting him down with like a goblin sapper charge with a six demon bag shatter combo everything for it and you just kind of just kill the true in one hit that can happen it's not like it's impossible like the mage is still a mage but if ek's really aware to not let all of these things happen play max distance stay feed a form and just kill with moonfire an insect swarm depending on what speck ek is then it's going to be a hard uphill battle for this mage yeah absolutely and uh i think him coming in here you can see dendario wants to be aggro and he's playing him close going in with the rock and helm arcane bomb right off the bat trying to make sure that ek doesn't have enough mana to be able to constantly shift forms that's that's what i'm seeing here goes in with a title charm trying to burst him already has him kind of low already uh he's doing the uh the frenzied regen right there in bare form trying to stick in bare form while he generates rage to be able to heal and be able to shift out as soon as he uh as soon as he has a root or something else so he doesn't get shattered right there uh ek getting nature locked huge nature lock this could be a big opportunity he doesn't avoid the war stop but he blocks it offensive block that spell lock is probably going to end soon that kind of spell is probably going to end soon comes in feral charge for his own kick uh ends up blinking out of it and he is keeping ek at bay pretty much perfectly not keeping too much distance to where ek is at an advantage but uh man if he is coming up soon that was close dude i think his counter spells up any second now i i don't know if ek's playing the right spec here ek might be a more of like a feral spec i don't know if he's in sex form i don't feel i don't feel nature swiftness i don't i don't feel any rest of points but if ek is more of like a full feral build uh maybe dendario can do this there's another counterspell in the regrowth what is ek gonna do dendario looking phenomenal there's the sleep does he get willa forsaken though and he still has another block ek's on the run now it's not going to be enough dendario taking him out what a finish from dendario man just i i i love i love seeing that ability to win when that that go is open when that window opens up being able to see these guys go in and they see it like you you literally it's it's almost like uh uh you can see the body language of their character how they move their character it's like they just get more aggro and it's sick i love watching it i love seeing the finish and uh that was uh that was beautiful man yeah i i'm just impressed to see a mage take out druid is some i must say i i do want to clarify ek might have been playing a build that was suboptimal uh you know for the mage matchup maybe it was ek's bread and butter maybe ek wanted that against hunter or maybe against warrior maybe against rogue he's like i hope maybe ek was like i hope i don't fight a mage with this build and it might have been a build that wasn't quite as good in the mage right because normally the druid would just kind of moon fire and run away and cheat a form right that's normally what you'd see but it looked like ek wanted to fight it out um yeah he was he was playing pretty aggro at the end there he was he was getting in in range of him which i thought he was going to be in that's dendoria's advantage but uh no i think i think you're absolutely right ooh fell striker okay dalren fell striker combo here for vanis i didn't see that yesterday i don't recall seeing the fell striker but he's got the the big dagger off hand and uh yeah good stuff can we take a look at uh or they might it might be starting i don't know if we'll see his gear in time it's too far away uh don't need deflector nice like put the harem four piece of the tier zero point five magma forge band here we go big open from the uh from the rogue here he's going blade flurry uh blade flurry he uh is getting kind of here but uh jimmy jimmy switches back to a two-hander huge huge crit off the intercept closing back in on him he's cutting him out he doesn't he's he's jousting him essentially because he doesn't want to have vanis come in and build combo points on him and be able to uh oh get a kidney shot and be able to re-engage on him the pet knocks him out of oh no it knocks him out of the bandage the the bleed from jay broke the vanish and it stopped the bandage vanis is not having a great duel at all and this is jay's duel of his life right now it's just so one sided vanis had the kidney miss the vanish break and the the bandage uh interrupt so jay is feeling good having said that vanis has 60 seconds to kind of sit and stealth and collect himself having like like there there are still uh there's one blind or maybe two blinds and one vanish remaining for vanis so like things could still happen but jay must be smiling right now with an opener like that jay mounts up has they feel the sword and board on probably sitting d stance just ready for this opener we do want to maybe have a clock from the admins running here because this is a situation where vanis probably wants to wait as long as he can like 59 seconds but he has to open up according to the rulebook um after that first day that first day debuff just about ended i mean it's over now so he's he's getting close to that 60 seconds he probably stealthed probably at this but if he doesn't open within the next couple seconds that's 60 oh he's out of stealth oh he's out of stealth back there oh he's oh jay doesn't see him bro he gotta pull out the binoculars jay oh no he sprints back in and goes for the restel jay just didn't notice he was out of stealth there cheap shot comes out vanis maybe like okay maybe i can get better rng this time kiting out with a poison kidney shot does not miss this time trinket in reply there for jay there's the zircher stands big damage connecting vanis though kiting it out with the net but i don't have a backfires if that was just a double net it stopped once again vanis is not having the dual he's looking for we have the sticky glue coming out from jay counter the net from vanis and the evasion being committed here with those overpowers might hit through three seconds down on the intercept he's going behind them excuse my land there's a held potion into the mortal strike it's not going to be very effective blind connects but the mithril dragonling is going to chase vanis down keeping him combat stopping the restel from being able to happen there the cheap shot comes in vanis is just so dangerously low and jay is so tanky execute lands vanis falls and jay takes it and a very convincing warrior versus rogue duel here what an unbelievable showing by jay i mean dude that first open from vanis was was rough i mean that was unbelievably unfortunate that rough is a good word yeah that was yeah the kidney shot miss he i mean it's everything that could have gone wrong he had a bleed tick on him the pet was hitting him he i mean it was just uh it was brutal he lost the stealth he lost the bandage uh now it was i love how crafty it was that he was like okay well i have to get out of stealth within 60 seconds so he just went and stood on the other side of the map yeah eating and drinking out of stealth is hilarious to me that works i didn't see him i was like what's going on he uh needed binoculars or something to spot the rogue there and this next matchup we have gorthax in one hit gorthax gorthax gorthax is my editor for my youtube channel actually hell yeah maybe you can edit his own video here yeah maybe maybe gorthax gonna add his own video here we'll see what i okay let's see warrior versus shaman i mean huh look at that shaman's gear again one more time yeah i was gonna say some of those greens they are green but they're actually some of the time is best in slot these these greens have damage and healing and a stem and ends they're actually very good greens yeah see gorthax coming in he's going uh he's got some uh some hamstring spam on him pops rec so he's going he's going aggro right off the bat i guess one hit but he has jay lightning coming up on him with the recklessness that's a lot of damage he does a tuber major health pot combo and just trying to spam hamstrings on him goes to the world and just going for big damage nature lock gorthax actually might have a chance here our king back with the arcade bomb he might actually finish a huge gorthax let's go let's go gorthax that i love that arcane bomb five second silence like bro if you're five second silence and a warrior is on you and you're in execute range it's just like i mean all you can do is ult at four really like i don't see that's brutal dude popping rec and then having that chain lightning combo hit you was that's so unbelievably scary i thought it was going to kill him straight up because uh you just you take so much damage the the thing is huge to begin with but then you take so much more damage with the wreck and everything else uh that was great to watch man i love watching like bang bang duels like that it's uh it's fantastic yeah that was a good one i like that i appreciate both players just like going in a couple more greens here from le ponds we're talking about uh oh this is uh the uh diamond flash set rather okay diamond flash set just with the plus healing to get himself a big hot and okos is a mage we saw perform pretty well yesterday pops that freezing band for the rng novus we have witch blade furbug medicine pouch a lot is embraced from scullo are some really really great gear here from okos and we all know this is mage favored right um it's mage versus warrior i mean come on having said that warriors in this tournament are allowed uh pretty much anything they they want and skull of a penning doom looks like it might be on for le ponds here which will give him the opportunity to uh take damage breaking a polymorph and other crowd control effects um and increasing movement speed and at the same time you can pair that with a fap and just kind of go hey i'm like right here it's off the bat skull of a penning doom immediately and then uh looks like some type of cc break into the school of pain he hasn't clicked it off yet le ponds just wanting to go in on the mage but no charge or intercept yet but i actually like that because the uh intercept will be able to come in after the mage blinks and that's key i like the skull diamond flask combo because you're getting you're taking damage from the skull but then you're also getting healed from the diamond flask to uh not get cc to the beginning i thought that was uh i thought that was pretty crafty but unfortunately it didn't really amount to much yeah looks like the kona cold resisted and this is probably not the opener le pond wands i mean the mage can turtle this out forever a nice frost reflect there from le the mage wants to obviously kite this out the le ponds going for here is is really ooming the mage not dying and letting the mage go and look at this the mage is 40 and le pond is still full life from all of the magic resistance potions he has on and all of the uh maybe frost uh reflector and frost resists and the heartbeat breaks charge comes out into an intercept no more blink and that's an ice block frost nova resists this is like perfect rng for le pond to win this this is exactly what he's looking for and now the goblin rocket helm instant breaks from the zirca rage this is what le pond has been waiting for arcane bomb sleeping dust though comes out will for sagan if the poly gets interrupted it misses arcane bomb once again is a land that would be huge if it doesn't it does okos popping the mana pot he has the second block available he's down to 30 percent mana that we might see a warrior take out a mage in our bingo game from earlier today we have the frost nova might break a cost so many of these sheeps are resisting okos is probably feeling terrible right about now oh it's the ability device yeah the bleed is going to take him out though le pond getting another charge okos might have to use a second and final ice block in just a second cold snaps another frost nova poly more first aid evo k combo from okos probably coming out here he needs to get that evo k off because he's very low on mana assuming he still has it le pondo had a great stretch in this last minute or two dude this is been an unbelievable start for le pond not right at the beginning right at the beginning it looked kind of bad but then he turned around every single thing was going his way he just he's got to do his best to keep okos from being able to reset this you can see he's drink walking that's what that pausing is and his mana is ticking up le pond goes in gets the charge on him blink intercept okos is going to try and separate here he blocks i'm assuming trying to stall out cooldowns he's going to get his blink up he's probably going to be able to get a nova up here there it is there's no resist resisted again le pond is getting the rng of a lifetime and okos is tapped he i think he has an evo k unless i'm mistaken he used to manage him warrior already used to wreck he won't be able to connect with that either but this is really le pond's dual here like le pond is a hundred percent life he's going to get the mount up he's getting charges he's getting value from intercepts okos is back to 60 percent mana but zero ice blocks he needs that sony he needs that sony digital epic mail that's what he needs yeah le pond is going to have another free action potion coming off cooldown some of these things that were like 30 minute cooldowns and they'll pretty much never rotate back up okos is still in this he has 45 percent mana but these heartbeats the resists the rng is not going okos away le pond must be smiling with that rank one blizzard to keep the combat and it actually was maybe just at a range le pond mounting up despite the blizzard charge comes in once again nice nade into the poly great combo there okos building some distance popping some some fireworks zerker stands charge on that frost bowl and le pond is just so tanky he's using those potions probably on cooldown to keep up as much resistances and damage protection is possible and the mage is trying to burst through it le pond though as i say that dipping to about 60 percent life health stone to top him back off and this is going to be the major mana versus the warrior health bar here there's the will of forsaken on the fear mage going for another reset there's the evil so something something that's interesting for me to watch here is with the majors a lot of times majors you guys have the ability to to reset the duel and you you go until it's like an advantageous situation for you to really be able to go what happens in these duels with the warriors now because it isn't anything goes tournament essentially you're using a greater frost protection potion every two minutes so if you stall too long then they're going to get a massive absorb shield on your next go so you don't really have that same opportunity that you normally have as a as a mage versus a warrior to be able to just stall it out as long as possible and uh it's made it really really really exciting to watch i love watching these warrior mage duels that's a great point like le pond is is getting those cooldowns back he's getting another free action potion another magic resist pot so okos can turtle all he wants but now like let's be honest okos has no ice blocks okos has no evo okos has oh and there's another nova resistant and he's just waiting until he gets the right rng like le pond is walking in just like okay let me get a resist here another resistor to and i can finish him off and okos is he's kind of in a bad spot right now i mean to be completely honest he's he's low on mana now it doesn't mean he can't win it's a mage okos can kite forever having said that the sticky glue comes out after the blink the arcane bomb connects you cannot counter spell that it's going to land okos has no outs and no mana i don't know what the mage is going to do here the polymorph cast and does land unfortunate for le pond that's going to maybe be another successful reset it was well played from le pond there and that and that last advantage it really was it really was i like seeing the uh counter spell there get bombs buddy but uh but yeah man this is uh this is going great okos has to get mana here man he has to get mana you can see him drink walking even though he's so far away he knows every single sip is important every single sip matters and le pond has just a little bit of frost resistance equipped i believe whenever we saw his gear earlier and that little bit of frost resistance is going a massive massive distance in this duel and it is uh it is really looking bad for okos man it really is getting that grenade those good grenade trying to open a little bit here trying to do as much damage you can trying to separate instead of resist on that first one did like no damage he just has so much resistance i see people in the chatter like these frost bolts are doing nothing and that's why with this specific rule set warrior versus mage isn't so one-sided anymore warriors all of a sudden our raid boss tanks mages have their mana pool they can work with and it's like the question is just okos have enough mana to even take out le pond 20 frost resistance on that one ring there there's that spider belt that's going to give him that freedom and get him out of the root break and we've seen that we have the second diamond flask used from le pond we're probably going to swap shrinkage we have that frost resistance shoulder enchant as well from le pond and another five resistance on that cloak so le pond is just buying time till the rng is in his favor okos doing the same thing but he's just not getting that rng he needs le pond wants to connect now these counterspells coming out from okos just to clarify the use case okos is keeping combat on le pond with the counterspell so the charge doesn't come through if people are wondering in the broadcast like why the heck are you counterspelling a warrior that's why and it's very well played from okos it's you know nice foresight there the piercing howl lands mortal straight connects looks like it's a crit with the deep wounds le pond lands another arcane bomb okos it's um once again but le ponds getting low too but the mage decides to fight this head to head he's going to lose le pond have a chance here with a big shatter le pond might be done for there's a zircher stance charge mage has just enough mana to blink here's a tough decision for okos you can sheep the warrior back to full and reset because your um but le pond is already so low that it's like should i just finish and kill him no okos as the decision to make here really soon right do i reset or do i fight le pond at 60 life looks like okos is 40 percent mana 50 percent nearly with the drink walk and it's like okay i think i have to fight him out here i think okos might actually go for it here there's the counterspell to maintain combat to stop the charge and battle stance another frost bolt resists it looks like no damage nearly coming through a frost resistant pot committed from le pond into an intercept into a goblin rock and helm answered with the ice block quickly from okos thorium grenade lands frost bolt being used decides to cancel the frost bolt go for the polymorph reset we get a resist on polymorph another resist on frost so another resist on kona cold that's three in a row my friends and that is not what okos wants he's trying to fake out the polymorph cast and two more resist what is this is unbelievable okos had like five resist in a row there he's not happy with that he finally lands the polymorph and and runs away for his dear life but man with r and she like that it's going to be really really tough for okos to ever secure a kill onto le pond you know what's crazy is i actually think this this duel might have already been over if le pond had an epic mount because i think it's been able to get so much more mana like two to three ticks per one of these resets because he doesn't have the epic mount i don't know what happened uh oh question mark okos has defeated le le pond was that a not a makara it timed out because it was a normal duel they forgot some luck girl guys yes this indeed is a mock garage tournament dual should not time out here this is a dual to the death not a uh normal dual tournament i love how nobody noticed and she anybody in chat said we didn't notice they didn't know literally nobody nobody noticed that's hilarious dude oh my gosh so i i will hear from the admins in a second i think the best thing would be to just replay that get that get into that mock as soon as we can with the current cooldowns maybe we'll see what we decide on it could be a situation where we move on and and wrap back around in that dual properly later but man that was that was cool to see i i really like that oh they are getting into an actual hooker that was all practice guys we were kidding this is the real dual it was cool to see though man like i like to see a really even match up in the warrior versus mage versus this one-sided uh experience that we normally get to spectate uh there we go okay so they're back opened up i mean they did they again they're they're they're empty right now they don't have all their cooldowns they normally have they had like a 30 second maybe maybe one minute break there uh getting basically uh getting their cooldowns back so i do think we're going to see a lot of uh kind of more of what we've seen and i think lapan is is just the way that it has gone so far i think it's uh most likely that lapan is just going to get his opportunity to uh to get okos whenever he's low on mana and he's going to get a big resist and it's he's he's playing for that rng he's playing for getting those resists and he's gotten a ton of them i mean it just looked like just off the cuff looking at his gear and not seeing it it looked like he probably about had about 50 60 uh frost resistance and on top of uh just some other random resists which matter for like the fire blasts or uh even polymorphs arcane magic there you go there's one there's a resist right there so uh it's huge man it's uh it's huge yeah and when you're coming from behind here in this matchup like the warrior is a lot of the times yeah you're just just praying for those resists you land a resist and it's like okay that's my opportunity to strike and and lapan is doing that very well i think the the difficulty for this mage is is like do i have enough mana to even kill this guy like if i have a hundred percent man like okos needs full mana and a mana pot and a mana gem to probably kill lapan if lapan was afk just just kind of sitting there doing nothing because so many of these abilities are resisting and he has so much life and uh even partial resists um and stuff like that it looks like there is a coward debuff we'll need to see from the admins and hear what that was that wait that looks like he fled we're getting word and when you flee from a makgarah there is a three day debuff that reduces stats by 20 percent lapan unfortunately now has that debuff um it looked like it was an accidental flee now we'll hear from the admins on the ruling you can still duel with his debuff like they could go for a rematch but that coward debuff will mean he has 20% reduced stats and that's three days of play time by the way it's not three days of real lifetime so um it's not what you want to see for lapan we're gonna figure out the answer here um we're gonna figure out the uh coward debuff druid wins it to all major upset no i'm uh yeah i'm uh i'm kind of shocked that that actually happened i mean the range is three times as big as it normally is we're gonna get a ruling from the admins here they're working on on the back end we we have a team of admins work out everything uh i would say hey let's message that gm back by the way can roll yeah that's not a bad idea hey what's up man please remove that yeah that would be that would be the ideal situation um yeah i don't know i don't know if we'll actually get that or not but uh we'll get a we'll get an answer from the admins here shortly and uh we will hear what uh what we're going to be doing next how do you think that duel is going to go is are you how do you think that was going to end i thought i thought lapan was going to i mean i i thought he was kind of playing for rng he was playing for the resist and hoping hoping for the best but it looked to me like he did have the upper hand i i think he was going to be able to win that look like lapan had the upper hand having said that it's a mage you know lapan was down to 30 one time in a nova with the shatter okos can turtle that out and kite that out for another hour if he wanted just waiting for uh go where he had no resist at all and lapan could eventually die so i don't want to say it was a hundred percent one way the other i do agree though lapan seemed to have the the upper hand there um especially with how rng was in his favor and okos was struggling to get enough damage to actually take out lapan just with the hp pool so it could have been one of those duels that you know theoretically never really ends until one player kind of just like all right i'm done at this kind of a thing we are going to review that footage from where i'm sitting as fan i did not see any malicious intent from the mage uh there i i really didn't uh maybe i missed it maybe when reviewing the footage the admins can give me more clarity um i don't know if i saw malicious intent in terms of baiting someone outside the dual area and then see seeing them i i don't know if that was the case but we'll have to review the footage and get the final wording on that um and see i mean there are so this is one of those situations in a mock or out tournament where if someone dies or if someone gets that deserter it's tough it's tough right you have to make a call at the end of the day um no matter what lapan has deserter or uh coward right he has that for three days so for the rest no matter what if they replay it i'm just saying that out loud it's such a funny phrase but uh he has coward he has he has coward for three days um but yeah we're uh we're gonna try and find out and see what happens i'm uh i'm talking to some people too uh to see to see what's gonna happen here and then we we will get word from the admins so uh yeah that's uh that's the case and uh that's the current case of what's going on here um oh hold on let's see chatting chatting chatting yeah and what else is great by the way we're talking about it would be great if you know we could we could figure out a solution to this star forge systems man starboard systems our title sponsor is fantastic absolutely yeah it's starboard systems is also great if you guys want to check out starforgesystems.com for your uh new pc you're looking for a new pc you can go to star forage systems we have new custom cases as well the golden dragon the clouded gates the jellyfish crossing if you guys want a cool uh custom case build or uh you can get the plate lights on their own the plate lights are sick if you're watching my streams at uh twitchcon or new york comic con you probably saw them on stream at some point where uh you can actually take those plate lights and you can buy them on their own you don't even 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praying a lot on the keyboard right now to see if uh see if we can find a guardian angel so yeah that would be the ideal situation obviously uh you know it's it's tough to be where we're at but i do think that's that's a great ruling um especially if we're looking at the footage if the mage was already out of bounds the rules do say to be mindful of that dueling if the mage was out of bounds drinking and then the warrior charged him and then cc's him out you know they you know that kind of it could have been prevented it's like uh yeah it's not i don't think it wasn't i don't think it was malicious i don't think it was intentional but it could be seen as like a bait or something that's what that's why that rule is in place that's why that that decision is left up that way but uh i want to say props to props to okos i mean okos being being like hey like i i i get it i see i see how it is and um you know good good on him man good on him for for kind of accepting that because i know i know that's like a tough way to lose whenever it's like off of a weird like technicality like that but uh him kind of seeing how how it was going to play out or whatever i'm accepting it i you know hearts and chaperogos for real yeah seriously being mature about it just be like all right these are the rules i respect it and uh yeah we'll we'll move on and hopefully find something to circumvent that uh coward debuff next match up we have hydra versus saga hydra the shadow priest household name you guys know and love him he's been here since the start of wow pvp pretty much and uh i'm a i'm a big hydra fan i can't wait to see this next match saga the elemental shaman and and we've seen we've we've been seeing a lot of shamans uh in this tournament and a lot of the times when the game goes long the shamans um and hydra ends up you know or the the enemy player ends up building the advantage but wow saga is gear i didn't realize man look how stacked he is yes that shadow reflector over the ogre match i from uh darkmoon tribute there the shell necklace i mean he's saga is stacked hydra though same thing also best in slot gear here pretty much all around hydra has the zoo trinkets on the barabs and the chicken uh necropile robe tons of stamina tons of resistance and of course both players with the goblin rocket helm should be a fun one to watch unfold here yeah no absolutely i mean you can see uh i i like seeing these guys gear out for uh like for the long haul right like getting the spirit and chance on the weapons and knowing that a lot of these duels against other really good players they're they're going to be long naturally they are going to be long duels and they are prepared to play it long uh and it's just having that uh having the the presence of mind to be able to uh flip to like aggressive mode whenever you need to yeah that's right and saga i'm curious if he's mindful of shaman mana and that being a weakness if he has a strategy to play against that like maybe there's dark runes maybe there's an early mana pot ghost wolf uh being casted and the the charge helmets interrupt the hydra saving the mana and using his auto attacks in between the global cooldowns kind of swinging purging and auto attacking down the totem says love to see it full fear coming out from hydra after the full purge inner focus used early to get it on cooldown both trinkets used hydra playing aggressive right off the back grounding totem uh instantly slain there from hydra mind place being casted and saga actually the one trying to slow the duel down with the magic dust on the hydra willa for sakin i believe comes out to interrupt that major mana pot used early from hydra to keep the mana nice and healthy for the long duel and saga seems to be on the back foot from the start on this one yeah absolutely i mean seeing hydra go in and play aggressive and uh he's staying in range of saga for for the whole times to which is kind of odd because you would think it'd be kind of odd because uh saga gets the advantage of his shocks and stuff but what this does for hydra is uh it keeps saga from being able to separate from that rocket helm is huge he was he was absolutely massive by the way trying to get a reset here healing himself up first as opposed to going for the purge spam which we've seen a lot from a lot of the other shamans the whole time uh absolutely huge because he doesn't want to uh hydra wants to keep close to him so that if uh if saga gets away he doesn't he doesn't reset or whatever we talked about earlier with shadow priests having trouble with mobility shamans do have a fair bit of mobility uh between frost shock and between ghost wolf being able to uh to separate like that hydra's doing a phenomenal job man sticking to him really really good and being able to keep that pressure all the time going for a big chain lightning combo that was it that was the one opportunity for saga to win it didn't connect as hard as it wanted to in saga falls hydra made that look easy man hydra was on fire dude he that was that was textbook unbelievable unbelievable by hydra right there really really good i mean start to finish it like he he just looked comfortable he looked like he was in his groove it wasn't like hmm like all these decisions were thought out he just played perfectly like every button just used used used every global expended played aggressive from start to finish shaman when um saga had that one chance like we got like double crits maybe um but hydra had a shield up and ready and doesn't get one shot and saga lost and so yeah i'm just i'm really impressed with hydra i'm excited to see uh who he moves on to next year in the brackets we have big sad and nick another shaman priest matchup after this and man hydra made that look incredibly priest favored in that in that last round so we'll see if big sad is anything different in store for us yeah no that was uh that was that was that was a beautiful beautiful last round uh so big sad is going into this he has a shadow reflector on uh he's running the the acts of the deep woods we've seen that uh we've seen a little bit this tournament haven't we a few times this tournament and uh i think he's got can we scroll over a little bit slower did how much was he was he wearing much resistance gear on big sad it didn't seem that he had much resistance outside of the uh outside of that shadow reflector so um we'll see how this goes for nick and big sad let's see if we have a similar outcome man both these gear the both these guys just put so much time the leveling these characters one to 60 i know we've mentioned it but just to repeat ourselves to gear to hit 60 to get these items all without dying it was a prerequisite today to play in the tournament right you had to level one to 60 without dying which is a feat in itself you had to go for that 0.5 gear without dying which is another feat in itself so every competitor today has played the last 30 days on hardcore mode without dying and without further ado the duel's underway we have nick using the same opener hydra just did use the goblin rocket elm ccs the shaman enslave the totems with the spam purge is a exact opener hydra did i don't know these guys practice together if there's some strats being shared here but uh nick might have a hydra repeat here with the strategy purge is coming out from the shaman as well to return fire shadow word pain being reflected with the shadow reflector from big sad great tech there fear looks like it resists and this is not the same duel uh we saw from last time nick already a 50% life big sad putting on the pressure putting on the heat two-hander comes out from big sad oh it's maybe it's an enhanced shaman that's my mistake from not putting it out sooner looks like that a shadow word pain reflected though bro the goblin rocket elm but nick is one shot bro it could be over nick is 10% life big sad made it look easy the other way around big sad what a play by big sad that's great dude it's so funny because that shadow reflector from earlier bring that rock and i'm not mattering but how funny is that that it's like this one a random thing that it's an ability you don't have whatever it's just it's one random thing it's like oh yeah ends up breaking the rocket home but it's all good because he needed that gap closer to come in and to be able to finish the job so uh yeah huge huge huge oh it's so funny like we talk about these duels like this is favored and this and that or that looked hard or easy and then you see a situation like this where hydra takes out saga like no issue and then you see a shaman versus priest again and big sad takes out nick no issue and it's like oh wait a minute what's going on here yeah i i guess for a bit of clarity i think big sad was in hands and so that is a different matchup to be fair to saga um you know the le matchup you go um you're trying to go for that big one shot big sad just put on that two-hander got some good swings off and nick by the way he's the same opener hydra did it just didn't go with the same form um even though it was a nice shadow reflector that shadow word pain actually broke the goblin rock and elm which was kind of funny too yeah no absolutely i think i think it's uh we're going to be able to see stuff like that happen in classic wow all the time where i said we're going to but we see something that happened in classic wow all the time where you think there's one matchup going one way and uh whenever it comes down to it's like oh well never mind we were totally off so it's it's just gonna happen that's just part of it uh so cool to see i mean i love that we got two two of the same classes and like you said there might have been two different specs right where you had one ellie in one enhance but still it's two two of the same classes going back to back and uh having two completely different types of duels really outside of the opener so yeah and this next matchup i'm really looking forward to another warrior versus hunter jmd we saw perform very very well yesterday one of the top performing warriors of the qualifiers against big traps normally once again it's a hunter maybe well i don't know this i think it's closer to a 50 50 to what we've seen it i think go both ways um and this is kind of going to be a big deciding factor for how the rest of the tournament unravels right if hunters are making it through or if warriors are making it through that's because that's going to uh dictate what the warlocks and the priests are then going to be facing in these next rounds um looks like jmt uh fully raged up ready to go dual flag drops and that's not a dual flag that's a dual to the death flag actually which is exciting to see and uh yeah we have this hunter versus warrior both players with pets here jmt pre-popping the chicken and dragonling and that's probably to get them on cooldown to swap to new trinkets um so when the dual starts you have the pets you swap new trinkets and you can use more trinkets yeah like uh i i i think that's um with hunters in general i remember whenever we were raiding and leveling up hunters these guys just always wanted every single trinket i mean it's always that's the whole me with hunters everything's a hunter item but that's the thing they just constantly want to swap trinkets all the time so they want everything duals under way faps been used from jmd zergostansi swapping to it intercept pre-fapped from big traps pre-sprint as well it's well played to maintain that distance jmd is doing the best he can to close the gap but it's not looking like he's going to be able to do that damage slowly ticking in from big traps but really just looking to maintain that gap jmd changing the strategy and this is what top tier players do and one thing's not going your way you change it up decides to kill the pet back to bril sending him home decides to uh relieve pressure by having the pet being retracted here big traps is going to have his pet die and that's going to be a huge win there for jmd early on yeah i think uh i think jmd really needs to go ahead and push this advantage here before uh and he's he's running away here but if he can if he can get healed up a little bit i think he needs to be able to go before big traps gets too much mana back or be able to get his pet back yeah the revive pet i'm surprised it's not being casted maybe he thinks he doesn't need it to win uh if he gets caught like mid revive pet maybe he's nervous uh aim shots coming through big traps just wants to maintain that distance the trap does land maybe he's waiting yeah maybe do the revive now we'll see yeah good call he's he's popping the aspect of the cheetah decides to go for the aim shot he's like you know what i don't need a pet here screw my pet bore bore died you can say that i don't know thorium nades like that's a long range grenade if that lands that would be insane that would have been sick that would have been sick we have uh we have big traps just keeping his distance jmd removing the poison sting so he can get a couple ticks of first aid well well played there i'm really min maxing that first aid uh bandage tick but i mean it's hard it's hard for the warrior to to close that gap especially with the hunter long range abilities concussive shots you can go circus dancing at that charge but in circus dance of course you're taking more damage so if you're sitting in circle too long it's going to be hard to uh close that gap without just dying yourself another elixir of poison cleansing removing the sting there from the hunter and a diamond flask has been used from jmd maybe that'll be able to top him back off yeah i think the way jmd is playing it seems like he's worried about taking too much damage trying to engage on big traps and then getting a getting stuck in a frost trap which he might get right here yeah he'll get right here and then big traps is going to open on him again that diamond flask is now gone keep that in mind so he did lose some of his healing and it does look like he has a skull of impending doom used so uh he's using that skull of impending doom he's going to want to use that skull of impending doom to prevent getting trapped later he popped a fap earlier and now he basically has a full go to to be able to stick to him there's no wing clips no nothing nothing's going to be able to help big traps separate from jmd so jmd really needs to take the opportunity now to push he switched back to his two hander there's no more uh there's no more skull of impending doom so he is going to sit that trap unless it heartbeat resists which links looks unlikely at this point he's going to open back up big traps was he bandaging uh i think we got out of range of him so we can't we didn't see the update but yeah it did he did bandage right there and huge grenade huge grenade that's going to help him be able to close get back in a range for the intercept he's got the hamstring on him pops berserker rage and he is trying to he's right now he's paving he's trying to parse but unfortunately he's going to get scatter trapped he did get trapped and big traps is going to keep trying to separate now big traps he already uses bandage he has uh he's not able to bandage right now he also has the pet on him so he can't drink so jmd really just has to keep pushing this thankfully he does have the pet following him along he is hopping on the mount so the pet is chasing him he's out of combat the pet comes back he's on his mountain he's going to be able to try and close like this i would assume he's going to shoot him here probably with a concussive trying to open again or he's going to try and get mana he does not because he did not shoot him he was able to get a charge in battle stance be able to get more rage so charge he gets some distance goes for intercept he's got the big stun he throws the net that looks like a sticky glue maybe and big traps is low but he is able to get away jmd also retaliates with his own sticky glue he's probably going to get a combat here back into battle stance and be able to charge but no he gets too close and he gets shot ah big blunder there from jmd but man i must say if i'm jmd i'm smiling right about now it's a very similar match up to warrior versus mage that we were just casting a second ago it's it's that mana and health of the hunter versus just jmd's life bar look at that jmd is just 88 life the hunter has no pet the hunter has finite amounts of mana like jmd is just a tank and he's not stopping his assault just going in over and over and eventually you're going to get a one of these traps that resists you're going to get a look at that a heartbeat break early potentially and that's the rng jmd's waiting for it's just a couple nice resists or anything like that looks like the duelers have have stopped for for a moment the duel might have ended i don't see either of them like coward debuff thankfully um are we getting another is that a normal do i swear i saw the dual flag maybe i'm mistaken i swear i saw a dual flag dual of the death flag i don't i don't know what happened there if we could see i'm not sure the mongrel we're okay i thought the macarons were not supposed to time out whatever they're going for it i guess they're going away if it times out they're going they're going again right away yeah and that i like that it's like okay something something happened with the duel looks like mongrel might have timed out but they just they just put that another flag and keep dueling if anything the hunter got a little bit of life but it's not like not that crazy big because of shot is of course landed big traps kiting in massive circles with no pet available jmd gets that charge that's a three seconds down every intercept and the scatter fain death trap now if one of these resists and it looks like the frost reflector or the resist or both might have come out there and that's what jmd wants to actually finish this off we got sleeping dust we got to resist he's just been waiting for this for so long and he finally has his opportunity to get some damage him but there's a timer there's going to be another scatter trap coming in about 20 seconds or sooner now so jmd has to push this advantage or it's just going to be another trap it's going to be the same thing we have the net come out we have big traps kiting it out with the rent so there's going to be no first aid available jmd pops the free action potion pops zircher stands tries to get the intercept off big traps keeping the cheetah form on uh looks like that rend isn't quite going to take the days jmd mounting up and uh yeah we've seen this duel before right jmd the warrior he's a tank he's running after the hunter hunter is running as far as he possibly can looks like a mortar might have struck the hunter there uh fap is still up for a couple of seconds the intercepts done lands and big traps kiting like an expert i wonder if he was trying to bait out a concussive shop while he was fapped because he went he went out of the dead zone like he was he was going to get hit i wonder if because he had his fap up he was trying to burn the concussive shot cool down or something or i'm almost thinking warriors like okay maybe this is stupid of me to say well another trap resist maybe it's the stupid of me to say but they're so tanky they could almost just sit there and use their bow and shoot back i'm not even kidding they could just shoot they could shoot back and then throw nades and then use pets so they use their own pets their own nades yesterday he almost he almost finished the duel with the crossbow didn't he i think he was about to i'm not i'm not kidding like these warriors are so tanky they might be able to just use their bow and the hunter will um and then i don't know um i i guess putting the pressure on is important though jmd constantly running towards big traps makes jm uh big traps feel scared makes him use more mana on things he might not want to since he's not stationary can't just charge up aim shots though the keeping up the pressure is important i'm kind of half kidding there but um the tea is used from jmd it's gonna be a quite a substantial heal there for jmd topping himself back up to at least 73 life and you only have three uses of that ever and then it's gone so that was one of jmd's teas and after that i mean he only has two more for the rest of this tournament assuming he used none yesterday concussive shot does land jmd though gets the mount up which is really great i'm really surprised uh big traps hasn't made an effort to revive his pet at all yeah i i feel like big traps are making a huge mistake by leaving his pet dead um because it's the the duel's been so rinse and repeat jmd is just trying to charge in waiting for the opportune time to charge in and and be able to make a play i thought that getting the charge in the first place like he can get him in combat and he can stop that charge so it's uh not having that pet up is uh i i i i think that's a big mistake seems like it needs to do it too yeah seems like it uh you know i i don't main a hunter and you know maybe big traps has a strategy uh you know maybe he doesn't want jmd to build full rage on the pet i who knows yeah maybe there's something that we're not thinking of and and big traps has the tech and that nade would have been cool if it landed once again doesn't quite land it's a really hard to land nades at that range jmd going battle stance to try to get a charge doesn't quite land at the intercept though does land big traps prefapping it going with the aspect of the cheetah back to hawk getting more damaging jmd has no gap closers for at least 15 20 seconds here that faps coming off and jmd's just getting teed off on and poor jmd there's nothing you can do in this situation you're just waiting for that next intercept but when it happens scatter trap will be the answer scatter trap and there it is jmd's just praying for a resist there it doesn't happen big traps building distance once again and it could be a nice big aim shot finish here jmd it's not feeling too hot with this a lot of damage 39 percent tuber being used root tuber is a use item two minute cool down that will restore a bit of hp there for for the warrior diamond flask used again might be the second or third time now it's going to restore a little bit of life he doesn't have the plus healing gear on to amplify the effect however yeah just that little bit can help mitigate some damage but it's not going to be the whole uh it's not going to be your whole thing there but he used to get away was that an in this pot no mish cloaking device all right i didn't see it there you go one for a drink reset off the the cloak which is nice but jmd's back to full life do you do you think big traps made a good exchange there like jmd got to get full and big traps barely got any mana now jmd's on top of him i think big traps might have set himself behind with that cloak yeah i think i think he did too i mean so there's a couple things with the pet the pet will allow jmd to get more rage back but the ability to keep him in combat and big traps can just separate from him so well i i feel like being able to keep jmd in combat and not letting him mount up and charge at you constantly uh it's worth oh that was a hamstring now this is bad that was a charge fab so he actually dropped combat there i believe was a heartbeat break free action potion jmd is not going to be stopped for at least 15 more seconds i believe the intercepts available hamstrings being spammed deep wounds ticking down big traps as a fab of his own trying to get out of range mortal straight connects another crit deep wounds there's the intercept three seconds done well and execute connect we have a scatter coming up soon jmd's wings absolute best to avoid it jmd does not want to get scattered trapped of course it's inevitably going to come he's praying for the resist it doesn't happen big traps though 20 percent life 20 percent mana this is the opening jmd's looking for man big traps running as far as he possibly can but the traps going to end jmd might be able to get a long range nade amount up or a charge and i mean this isn't looking good for big traps it reminds me just if lapon versus okos it's the same thing the warriors can get kited so easily but for big traps you can't kill them easily it's really hard you dump in so much mana and so much damage and jmd just tanks it so it's like what are you supposed to do another charge frost reflector comes out on the pre-scattered trap that might be reflected there's a sticky glue a sticky glue to reply it gets resisted that's pretty lucky for big traps and unfortunate therefore jmd we have the opportunity to swap to zerker and to get the charge off but it can cost of shot rng once again helping out big traps there's a sprint boots yeah spring boots from jmd he's coming in with a rocket boots now and no big traps got rocket boots of his own trying to separate he's got a concussive shot on jmd and he's going to keep trying to build that distance on jmd it really was looking bad for big traps i'm assuming he's going to be able to come in drop a trap right there exactly and be able to separate and be able to turtle this thing out even longer i'm surprised he did not bandage or heal up at all before shooting him that might have been a big mistake as jmd comes in with the intercept he's going to scatter it's his trap up it is and he traps him again no way big traps dropping the traps shooting him again not able to get his held up at all he has his bandage cool down up so he's not able to bandage and he is getting chased down by jmd jmd putting on it looks like he's wearing the skull and the one-hander he is and he is getting ready for that next trap to hit keep in mind there's a 30 second cooldown the nade misses there is a 30 second cooldown excuse me he's fat so the maid didn't miss but the uh he's immune to the the stunt itself because of the fat his skull might still be on cooldown never mind he took the skull off and he cannot get out of the trap anymore so unfortunately big trap gets away one more time and he is bandaging again my goodness this is uh this is something jmd hops at his mount if you're big traps like what do you do to win this like you've been behind for so many minutes jmd finally closed the gap and this might be it we have the deep wounds and the rend ticking and the hamstring the sticky glue comes out maybe jmd is oh there it is there is the big bow take him out jmd give him the bow he flasks he flasks to get his health back up over 20 if he can get an intercept here intercept execute it is over yep that's all it's going to take from jmd big traps is so low 15% life there's that a scatter trap oh the trap is on the ground he saw the animation doesn't have that hit by it he has to dodge it he's dodging it all with it he's like a pseudo pillar shoot him he's just taking kink plus him already come on jmd send him with the bomb send him all with the bomb oh this is this is scatter big traps on his last leg he's three percent life jmd try to close the gap another kink cusp of land bro if i'm jmd i'm taking out the bow next time man just shoot him down he won't be able to handle it eight percent life he's tick eating uh with the server ticks that's well done mount is off charge connects this might be it this might be it one execute he's trying to dodge that trap really crafty play there from jmd another fap from big traps could be a fap to answer with jmd is he gonna pop it maybe not execute is all it's going to take here another scatter if this resists he said oh oh my gosh that's going to be it oh the concussive stuff brock no way oh my gosh what is this dual man holy what is this dual this is insane complete insanity dude and he is back over 20 percent he is out of execute range there's another scatter let me get faint death trap there it is there it is we get big traps of the big trap once again aspect of the cheetah jmd is going to have to sit it i mean big traps has been on the run for minutes like jmd despite you know taking a while in this matchup must be feeling pretty good about himself it's like he hasn't had to play defensive once i don't think really he's just been vibing there's the charge with the sticky net i think oh no the sticky glue um from big traps you know that would be nice here's the bow there it is i like those strats from jmd oh the pets the zoo coming on big trap i think the peasant color is going to go a long way in this one yes the pets are going to keep them combat you know it could be great if one of the pets eats the next trap that's what jmd needs he needs pets to to eat the scatter trap another concussive product from big trap i don't think big trap has the damage to finish this or the mana um big trap would to win this big trap but after reset full mana full health i just don't know if it's going to happen the charge comes through oh man jmd he's got the skull on but he doesn't have it used yet he might have put it on there's a 30 second timer one of you use it put on an on use item to where you can't actually oh huge scatter i think he has his trap off cool that's it that's gotta be that is it finally jmd does the impossible and he avoids big trap straps at the end dude what a duel that went from that went from a duel that like i i i felt that i got to a point there i was like good lord when is this thing gonna end to that last like three minutes of that was so intense man so absolutely intense just waiting for waiting for resist we finally get the resist but then you have the stun proc on the concussive shot the proof concussive shot huge man that was uh that was insane that was a huge huge props to big traps making that thing last as long as it did and jmd as well that was a really really good performance from both of these guys phenomenal man really impressive yeah that was a great one it took a while but still a really fun duel and man i feel like the the story for this tournament is warriors just being so tanky like so tanky with all of these potions up it's like if a hunter can just sit there and tee up on a warrior the hunter's um before the warrior dies same thing with a mage and with with that amount of resistance it's like warriors can just be like sure tee off on me all day i'll wait till your room and then kill you you know like warriors just they have it they have that longevity with this rule set no absolutely dude you you you are a hundred percent right like it's uh the the ability to sustain for for a warrior with all the cooldowns all the uh all the consumables all the potions everything that's available to you in the game the warrior doesn't use mana or anything right so there's a bunch of consumes that are good for like spell casters that they don't have to worry about and a lot of those things share cooldown uh like a health and mana potion share cooldown for example so you can just focus on the things that are going to help you sustain whereas a lot of the spellcasters use their cooldown on things that focus on both so it's uh it's very very cool to see the warriors playing at a high level and uh competing toe to toe with everybody in this one i know we mentioned this yesterday but hosito has leveled four characters for this tournament the first three unfortunately died the fact that hosie is standing here today on a level 60 after three deaths with full gear is an incredible feat in itself and and same with any of these competitors this is going to be a shadow priest mere match up um hosie has a pretty big name in the pvp scene you know he's multi multi multi rank one player on retail on tbc on wrath uh he's done very well in classic as well he's just so experienced on the priest um so i don't know if if cib is any nerves going into this or anything like that but this uh expertise is certainly uh on hosito's side here cib's though he's made it here today he's level 60 has some great gear he made it through the qualifier round yesterday which is just awesome to see and we're going to see two great priests duke it out here i don't think we've seen a priest mere match up uh yet today so it's going to be kind of cool to see that one once again it might be more of a manna battle i'm curious to see if these priests are going to go all in or kind of play a bit more passive but one thing's for sure we're probably going to see a lot of dispels to start this duel off so that priests can even the playing field without all of these different buffs coming into play it looks like the um offhand skull of a penning doom is equipped there so it can break cc a lot of pets already being used and committed here from cib's before the duel even begins to kind of get that zoo ready yeah exactly i mean they're they're coming out with everything right out the gate so he engaged on him right off the bat i'm assuming to try and clean him up and that's what they're doing it's a lot of dispel spam he used a shadow reflector actually right now but uh it doesn't really amount to anything going to sleep continuing to dispel probably there it is yeah he keeps dispelling he's trying to get the dispel advantage because it's it's a race really it's a race to see who can get the most dispells off right off the right off the bat and uh from there that's one of the duel actually starts cib's now gets blanket silence by hezito and uh we're still dispelling there's a lot of bumps and a lot of bumps for both these guys doing the inner focus the mana potion we got another inner focus that comes out from cib's and now it looks like our duel actually starts it looked like that was a uh it looked like a fear resist i believe i didn't see the fear animation actually go off so uh now is one of them are the real damage starts you go there's an agm trinket opening up here it looked like a resto pot medicine pouched into a health stone cib's is doing everything he can to sustain as much as possible i must say it looked like cib's is in the driver's seat hosey using that tea to kind of uh even himself back up in this duel but cib's is doing a really really great job if cib's has a tea though now is the time to use it i don't know if he does arcane bomb look i don't know if that resisted or missed mind blast coming off and they're both very very very close duel neck and neck what a great uh duel to spectate here between these two shadow priests hosito uh around 26 cib's 41 so cib's actually in the driver's seat despite the tea this is incredible to see i i was not expecting this cib's is coming out with a very impressive performance shadow word pain is ticking down and uh the vampiric embraces up so cib's is receiving healing and shadow priest is just one of the coolest classes in classic in my opinion i have leveled one to six these these are so fun you get to get to do the damage and the healing as a support class and hosito though getting a ticker to a food and the blackout proc back to back that might be the turn he needed there to take his lead but cib's playing max range on the silence he's not gonna let that happen i'm not sure if cib's still has that tea but cib's sitting down for a drink hosito is in combat from that yeti and cib's is getting a ton of mana the yeti is being feared cib's is getting full health and full mana right now and hosie uh just sat down right now the uh mount came out from cib's he's gonna stop hosie from drinking there is quite a bit of distance and cib's using the helmet the goblin rocket element to close the gap and i think cib's came out ahead on that as well so he's just looking really good in this duel more purges coming through another blackout from hosie into an arcane bomb off the blackout which is really really well played nice five second silence coming in maybe that's what hosito needed yet the title charm too coming out from cib's but i think cib's is really on the back foot here uh i think as ito has every opportunity here to be able to finish this out cib's does have a blanket silence on him there's a shadow reflector oh my gosh the rejuven the renew hosie's got the blackout brock hosie's got this though another t for hosie just to finish off two t's in one duel cib's has eight percent life he's out of shadow form hosie has the pet advantage as well the fear is this on the pet mind plays gonna finish it off cib's falls i've gotta say that was a great duel from both shadow priests what a great showing from cib's dude i'm gonna win that at one point bro let me just say i thought cib's had it let me just say hosito used two t's both t is about 20 health and mana he's two that's about 40 health and mana that's kind of the difference for hosie hosie won from those t's really in my mind cib's played that out of his mind very well played i think with equal consumes i don't know if it would have gone that way um just just well played to cib's and hosie for finishing it off there was some really great plays from hosie coming out the blackout proc and right when he noticed that stun instantly charged up the arcane bomb in that play is what really sealed the deal for hosito jones absolutely yeah i think that blackout really opens up the ability to use that arcane bomb and let it hit and uh i want to i want to stick on the the thing with the t with sugar the being able to use that t it's it's more than just that you know 40 percent total health right like it's it's uh it's about when the healing hits that matters so much too so to your point it's it's even more valuable i think than what people see as like the health difference at the end of the duel because sometimes your your lower health in the duel and that gives the opponent an opening to really finish you off and being able to use the healing at the right time is what can make a huge difference in closing that window right and making sure that that the opportunity for you to get killed isn't there so uh yeah i think you're a hundred percent right on the t's it's a great point man like you can use it as a bait like run away pretending you're low and as soon as they overextend you like t and then health pot and your full life and you turn around on them and they're like oh no i thought you were dead um so yeah it's like using that as like uh hidden tech and the t does not share cooldown with major health potion t has its own cooldown that uh is shared with health stone from warlock and the manage him with mage i believe so it's it's kind of like on that cooldown chain so you can t and health pot without uh at the same time it shares no cooldown you can just like top yourself so pretty cool next up lock versus rogue is a fun one we have uh two of the favorite classes for this tournament um rogue is uh one of the things early on people were like oh rogue's just gonna win undead rogue and same thing with warlock i mean warlock won the last uh 2019 CDL duel tournament snuts won that as warlock and uh you know generally warlock just do really well in dueling tournaments so it's like warlock versus rogue it's about as classic as it gets yeah no 100 percent uh warlock rogue it's a uh it's this is like uh a tale as old as time style of duel i mean this is something that i think people are uh they always have a good time watching this and uh rogues having all the tools that they have at their disposal warlock's having all the tools that they have at their disposal it's uh it's cool to see like the the trading card game of like you know trading cooldowns for each other uh and in vanilla and vanilla you don't see that as often as you do in some of the later expansions like you get to uh not i'm i'm not a retail arena guy but uh czar you can speak to this a lot more where later on it's like everybody has these different like uh like everybody has like a dps cooldown everybody has a kick everybody has this so you see the trading of the cooldowns happen so often later on in vanilla uh you don't see that as much with all the classes but with warlock and rogue you have you do have that so it can be like a really interesting sort of back and forth that you get i was muted there for a second but yeah it's just one of those situations where warlocks have um the sacrifice pet they have another pet another sacrifice and it's like the warlock's trying not to get zerg down so much so that we saw snuts yesterday actually take off spell damage gear and put on defense gear put on stamina gear and put on gear to just help them live a little bit longer just be a tank against that rogue and the rogue is one of those classes that you can just make other class not play like forever we have cheap shot kidney gouge blind sap magic dust do it all again prep do it all again like you know so you can just have another class not play for minutes the warlock's just trying to tank all the damage sack all the damage wait for the rogue's cooldowns to kind of fade and then take them out we have death coil which is one of the biggest defensive cooldowns for the warlock the death coil not only is a hard cc meaning it can't heartbeat break it can't break the damage it like like a fear or polymorph can that death coil is also going to heal the warlock and and that's why that death coil is so important from that death coils instant cast as well so you can death coil into a fear that's not only going to heal you hard cc them but then you can continue your cc chain and so the warlock has those tools against the tools the rogue and not sure what we're waiting on here the the warlock rogue dual they ran up back to the hill maybe there is something that we're waiting on maybe we can hear from admins here in a second um not i'm pretty excited for this one yeah no i think i think this is gonna be a great one and i love that i love you breaking it down like that for the viewers especially because we probably have a lot of people watching who uh they're not necessarily wow players there's a whole lot of people in the audience right now who maybe they're new to classic they're new to wow and they uh they might not know uh all these abilities like some other people do so it's like uh it's good to have people be able to break it down and explain to them what we're talking about right because we'll we'll say things like heartbeat resist or whatever go home is heartbeat resist like which is it's second nature to somebody who's been playing for 10 15 years 20 years but uh for a lot of people that are new and that's something that i think people gotta realize is there's always going to be new players you might not think there is but there's always new players coming to wow and uh kind of welcoming those people in the community and and being positive towards them and being welcome to them is uh a pretty important thing i think so yeah dude it's hilarious like a lot of these uh words that jargon being used we get that korean stuff there i don't even realize we're saying it right as as veteran wow players i remember my dad would be in my room when i was a kid playing wow and i'm like full polyhealer and he's like what language are you speaking what what does any of this mean and i'm like it's a full as in not half or not quarter or not fully dr'd polymorph on the healer dad obviously but we have the we have the war loggers the druid on this next match up uh there might be some connection issues with the uh other competitors so we're we're just moving on um and this is a great match up here that shrew is going to be opening up with that thorium grenade it looks like it misses and we have the death coil landing the insects swarm and moonfire kind of ticking them down arcane bomb will it connect yes it does that's impressive nice aim there from four and he's pretty happy with that opener yeah absolutely i i i think what we're going to be able to see here we're going to what we're going to want to see here is uh i think the warlock is going to want to be close and stay stay close to the druids the druid can't separate and really take uh take advantage of the distance between the uh him and the warlock being able to kill the pad or anything like that i don't know if the druid is going to want to kill the pet here i really wish chance was here to be able to kind of speak to that a little bit better but uh i i do expect to see the warlock try and play it a little bit closer uh outside of trying to go for a reset and trying to keep his health and mana up which he's doing right now actually yeah that was well played the the moonfire like one second left so it did interrupt that bandage stick unfortunately but i mean look at four's hp and mana it doesn't even look close arzon uh does get a nature swiftness crit back to full life with the healing touch but he's down to 35 percent mana i mean if you're four you're you're feeling pretty good here you get the full fear drink it immediately from arzon to reply with a corruption the agony the emulates are ticking down the arcane bomb again off a cooldown i love this play from four just using those bombs on cooldown to mana drain arzon i mean what do you do if you're arzon you're gonna need consumables you're uh there's an intervate great maybe the pet can purge it does he doesn't get purged i think it might have got purged from the pet on the on the devour it might have gotten devoured yeah it looks like yeah because it's made of them it's made of them took up yeah wow that's huge that's massive yeah so another fear being casted from four arzon really on the back but i mean he already was but the intervate looks like it got devoured from the fel hunter and arzon is just fully feared four's just chasing him down looking for blood here another devour coming out on cooldown i don't see a world where arzon turns this around i really don't he's too low there's a t that's good that's a consumable that that we were talking about earlier that gives health and mana off of a separate cooldown than potion arzon trying to get more debuffs and buffs up with the nogginfog or elixir just spamming those low rank things arzon does have 63% mana now a little bit of mana to work with but there's like a zero pressure coming out from arzon and yeah you have the insect swarm in the moonfires ticking down four but that's that's not going to be anything that the world i can't handle with health stones with potions with death coil heals with drain lives so i feel like four isn't worried at all he's just pedal to the metal on arzon yeah and that's exactly what we're talking about earlier is seeing him try and make sure that arzon doesn't separate and this might be it for him man i if you can get this regrowth off it might be able to delay the inevitable but i don't see a world where arzon comes back from the current situation he's hanging on barely the arcane bomb misses so it's not quite enough to finish just yet he's redotting him up putting up the mla it's he's got the corruption ticking he's got the curts of agony ticking and that alongside the pet he's doing a nature's grasp to see if he can stop the pet from following him but it's just not gonna be enough and arzon is finished oh seven another death another death another one gone fours advances to the next round congratulations fours really really good play by fours i think he i think he did a phenomenal job of making sure that arzon really never got a chance to to separate really got a chance to go away so i like watching casters i think for new wow players especially you see a caster and you you play a caster and it's like oh i'm a mage i'm supposed to stand over there and they're supposed to be over there right or i play this yeah it's like that's not how in pvp dude like these guys run in and xar you can attest to this dude it's full blazing blinkin frost nova cone of cold the whole nine yards like it's it's very uh it's a very different play style than what would it be intuitive to uh to people who aren't familiar with it i know this goes without saying to guys but i just kind of forgot and re remembered so i want to mention it again this is indeed a makara tournament every time someone loses a duel they are dead on your screen they are like all of their hundreds of hours gone down the drain dead every single duel and that's just so epic to see and uh yeah thank you to all the competitors taking the time to level up and gear up and doing that it's just yeah every every time it's like it's almost like we're numb to it because we've watched so many duels like we've seen like 20 duels or whatever today and it's like yeah okay he lost he won no they're dead dude they're cold husk of a human being just like oh he's dead who cares next duel next duel that's why see that's why we did this is a horde tournament a lot of people don't know this we did this is a horde tournament because see we play alliance means are you so like you know we're not we're not animals okay these horde players the horde are going to kill each other for sport we're not going to do that okay that's the thing we oh my gosh that opener that opener was crazy so vatochi goes in with the goblin rock and elm but it gets scattered mid helm to get so he got interrupted so vatochi never got his like gap closer he was looking for and peace is going to be able to maintain distance poison elixir cleanse there from vatochi well done and the fact to combo it getting into the dead zone in a big shatter combos coming out frost nova gets trinketed from peas to stop the shatter combo and vatochi the mage is looking to kind of disrupt the the frost resistance potion here from peas to the frost potion scatter fain death trap combo coming out from peace if i was vatochi oh it gets resisted great that's really good for vatochi frost nova gets resisted as well polymorph coming through and this is a pretty good opener for the mage we we could go for an early evocate here and he does the pets though are going to knock him back him a man a shield could have been okay there to stop the knockback we have the frost bolt being casted here big conic called the follow mages he's vatochi explains perfect this is exactly what you want to do run in on the hunter stay dead zone sticky glue jump all over him if you let the hunter get away it's over it's over like you there's no you can do frost reflector from peace he knows that he's trying to stop as much damage as possible pets are everywhere man we got barabs we got the yeti we have the hunter pet trap comes out in size block from vatochi as he should do peace finally uses the goblin rock and helm to disengage here gets max distance does look like the diminish return is on from the trap vatochi gets viper stung insta dispel on the viper sting well played and vatochi blinks in yeah no this is this is great to see from vatochi i mean peace blade normally a paladin player picking up hunter for this tournament it's very cool to see him uh him come in and being able to compete in the finals here vatochi is a uh he's a multi rank one isn't he in retail and he just started playing classic not too long ago i i don't know if he's a rank one i think he might be a gladiator talk like high level retail player decided to try out classic and he actually got world first 60 in hard core which is a very impressive fee the arcane bomb gets blocked but vatochi still own well there you go yeah i think uh i think vatochi losing the mana battle here is uh is pretty rough peace blade is doing a great job of maintaining its distance and uh i mean he gets he gets uh goblin rocket helm here i don't know if he's gonna get a heartbeat i mean this is lasting a little bit oh it does heartbeat resist scatter trap and this is looking kind of bad for vatochi peace is a gamer man and like if he's not doesn't mean a hunter i wouldn't have never known i would have think i thought peace has been playing a hunter for years he's he's kiting well it's using his toolkit well i would have never known i'm really impressed here with peace i think uh unfortunately for for vatochi like that was a big shatter combo right not really it just resists like one frostbolt resists kona cold doesn't crit vatochi's doing almost no damage in the burst windows where he should be like one-shotting the hunter and once again i sound like a broken record but that's what casters have to deal with this in this tournament with so many items not being banned like there's basically no rules in this tournament you just show up in fight vatochi no ice blocks left low on health low on mana at this point peace could maybe just finish him off with the melee melee yeah that might be what he does another flask coming out from vatochi doesn't want to die the damage coming another ice barrier so vatochi has a little bit of health to work with another flask there's three flasks available per day my friends and that was two of them vatochi bleaks blinked the wrong way he's gonna surely fall and he does in a second area there goes vatochi he's played let's go paladin brother let's do this well like that was really impressive from peace she's really gamer man he's a gamer he's uh he's like he plays a lot of rad he plays he's like me he does like all the paladin stuff so uh so yeah peace is uh uh peace is a uh much much better hunter than i would be that's for sure but uh he's he's like a big paladin fan so i'm really happy to see peace played do well so that's uh that's big time he's a fellow crusader is that somebody else who's in my guild and vanilla so oh man that's yeah i'm i'm super impressed if you never told me that i would have been like oh yeah this guy has mastered hunt over many years you know looks like he was prepared um we have a couple matchups we have that warlock rogue matchup that we might be getting back to i know we have snuts versus that mage we might be getting back to and cheila versus cheerios looks like it might be up next uh the cheila cheerios matchup very big very big right this is uh one of those swing matches for the whole tournament uh so to speak because cheila is one of the best warriors in terms of rankings in this tournament and he's undead meaning cheila is the warlock killer every warlock is scared to fight cheila cheerios fighting cheila first round today is just not what cheerios wanted to wake up to in terms of news here so it's kind of unfortunate i was looking i was watching snuts stream last night snuts was saying cheila is kind of like the number one person he's looking out for uh so cheila is the warlock slayer well see i mean it doesn't mean he's going to win against cheerios cheerios is an incredible warlock very prepared this could be a very close duel one way or the other um but if cheila makes it through this bracket um and goes against snuts like that's another crazy duel that we could see curious to see what cheerios is going to bring out here absolutely and cheila gets the open here he opens up with a charge and he is getting there he's trying to get seduced immediately they're trying to seduce him but no he's getting those crossbow shots in throwing the grenade to stop the pet i wonder if he's going to go kill it and he does he goes to kill the succubus and then he's going to go tee off we get a fell down for the void walker getting that void walker ready to sacrifice for the absorb shield that absorb shield being really really powerful against war warriors because it stops them from generating any rage whenever their attacks get absorbed jaylock come back in he gets uh he does the goblin rocket helm to close the gap and he gets the net backfire on cheerios which is absolutely massive that is an 18 second i believe net on cheerios cheerios cannot kite because cheerios try to cast the net and it backfired so they are both netted on top of each other right now so he gets full go he gets to fear right here but it probably isn't going to matter because i believe he has an out he does he has will of the forsaken into an intercept from jailaw laying into him that net backfire was so huge and that might have been the turning point in this whole thing he is shadow locked he can't cast a fear he can't cast a drain life the pet is back in range i expect him to sack it anytime here he is silenced are we going to see a sack we do there is the pet sacrifice trying to cast a fear without any spell push back the pommel is back up the pommel is used the fear is blocked goes for the steering pain tries to cast another fear jailaw does not get hit by it and this is his chance to finish right here this is textbook from jailaw damn damn damn unbelievable performance by jailaw holy cow man that might have been unreal dude one of the biggest turning points of today we have jailaw taking out cheerios which means like here is an incredible warlock given there was maybe some rng things that play with the the backfire but jailaw looked good there man if i was snuts i would be a little worried if you look at the bracket jailaw next is going to be against peace the hunter if i was snuts i'd be like peace take him out for me man i don't want to fight jailaw because dude jailaw could take out peace could take out snuts could make a run up and then all of a sudden yeah man that's that's crazy i was really looking forward to that one player man jailaw is a great player i mean i remember peeping against him ranking against him jailaw is a very good warrior so it's it's cool to see him do well he's he's competing tournaments and stuff before so yeah good to see you man for sure good to see and we're back to nz versus investors rogue lock duel from earlier the connection issues are probably resolved about now the magic resistance potion used increases all resistance by 50 i believe something like that and makes it really hard for the warlock to actually land anything against the rogue it does share a cool down with potions meaning there's no phaps for two minutes health potions for two minutes and it only lasts three minutes i believe so nz popping that at pretty good time there but the dual flag needs to go down because that's ticking also the pets from investors are ticking as well so both players are probably like go go go go you know start the duel rogue goes in stealth flag has been dropped and we've seen i believe we've seen this dual go both ways and this is another good one where it's uh you know i don't know if i would call it favored one way or the other but i know a warlock isn't like excited to duel an undead rogue as they would be something else and a sapper coming out immediately i kind of like that because it's like if you use the sapper early there's no chance for it to just kill you you can kind of see the damage that it's going to do it doesn't do much full kidney shot the death coil was reflecting with a shadow reflector big play there from nz title charm coming in from investors into the full fear no this is absolutely massive i mean this is this is a very very aggressive duel you see nsz he gets gnome netted ends up vanishing it coming out reopening with a cheap shot let's see if he falls that up he's got a gouge he has combo points as you go full kidney he goes full kidney into it he's going to be able to lay into him but he doesn't really do any damage here gets the blind out let's see if he does anything to the pet he doesn't do anything to the pet i don't know how many combo points he has up here instead he tries to vanish and he's going to try and re-engage here hellfire doesn't get hit by the hellfire opens up with a cheap shot gouge he's got the combo points does he go into a full kidney he does full six second kidney shot ends up getting sent out to a fear i'm not sure what that fear was oh it was oh it was the death mist proc very good thank you camera man very good camera man owns two piece or that death mist uh yeah four piece excuse me prox the second set bonus prox huge huge huge huge turn around there for infester but let's see if he can keep it up pets about to die he's going to have to sacrifice soon the arcane bomb comes out he does get the pet sack even while silence because it's not his ability the void walker coming out he fakes the kick on the void walker well played from both of these guys i'm really impressed drain life being channeled nc on the back foot infester going to the full blind but those dots are going to tick nz is going to put himself into a worse and worse position the longer this blind goes on trying to wait out that uh shield after the blind he goes into the goblin rocket only just waiting out to shield it's 30 seconds of of wait time here cross cc goug and goblin rocket held into the bandage well played from nz he does more damage after the shield fades and infesters have 40% life we're waiting for a big crit to come here kidney probably soon another health potion from both players death coil though putting infesters ahead life tab to gain the man unnecessary to finish the job full fear coming out nz must be pretty scared to will for sake and it's not going to be enough there's nothing he can do at this point the dots are going to tick infesters coming out ahead and nz dodgeball what a dual man jeez unbelievable unbelievable finish dude i a i thought nz s had it dude i thought i thought nz had it for for like that whole like middle portion of the dwellers like damn i think he's actually got this here but fester turns it back around and finishes getting that death coil off how about that shadow uh that the shadow reflector on the death coil that was so sick man bro if you're the rogue nz and you reflect a coil and still lose i'd be like oh come on i know you must be pretty happy with that like nz if you're watching you must be happy with that performance you that was a good dual from both ends it was back and forth plays were being made i was yeah that was a great dual spectator watch i i hope he's not too upset with that one that was great yeah we have this is one of those times where look where we're in the finals and i believe was that a i don't think that was our last match of round one but that was all of round one so we're taking a look at the bracket now and uh we're looking at the entirety of the bracket now to see where we are so you can see right there we are going to go with uh lt versus ziko next dude that first round was a long that was uh that was a long long long first round but we got ziko and lt coming up right here i can't wait to see the start of round two i can't wait to see this dual like we saw mage versus hunter from the tochi and it seemed hard the dual started i wonder if ziko is any hidden tech title charm sheep opener to close the gap he's gonna go for the pet kill i really like it so it's gonna be a nova shatter it's gonna be frostbolt fire blast uh kona cold another frostbolt another frostbite aren't you great aren't you here from ziko and a resheep in case the heart beat comes out uh nice and safe there from ziko and now ziko is gonna kill the uh chicken he's killing all the pets kona cold there's a yeti there's still one more pet to go and he kills the yeti too i think another nova coming out uh the pet eats the trap from ziko what a play ziko uh is aware of that frost reflector doesn't cast into it kona cold will not be reflected uh because it's aoe another frostbite proc from ziko and this is looking really good from ziko i love the pet kill normally in the metagame it's too slow all the arcade bomb gets blanked ziko is an absolute legend and he's showing you guys why magic dust connects on the lt and ziko with an early evo cake closing the gap i really love ziko's gameplay here he slows it down sheeps the hunter with the title charm sheep swaps the trinkets after that kills the pet opens up on the lt now lt still full life but no pet to help him out here beautiful feigned death the pseudo interrupt the frostbilt being casted there lt just stuck in the dead zone forever forced to use the goblin rock and elm ziko instantly replies to the ice block another frost nova coming out on the cold snap ziko's going all in here with the arcane explosions it's a desperate move for more damage another viper staying ziko's aware takes it off instantly with the elixir blinks on top of lt kona cold connects there's another wing clip to respond ziko's in the driver seat this entire duel what a showing here from the big z kona cold keeping lt slowed at bay mechanical chicken and the fab helping lt a little bit ziko once again using the elixir and uses the helm to close the gap once again not only that he's getting to get the opportunity to wait the fab out the free action potion is ticking away it's a two minute cooldown it lasts for 30 seconds so he gets that helmet off and do the fact that this has not heartbeat resisted for this long this is the best rng in the world perfect timing the fat falls off right after the frost bolt everything is in ziko's favor in this duel this is absolutely phenomenal another magic does in the sleep ziko is so aware of these viper stings he's not letting them tick all like zero viper sting value if anything it's helping ziko that he's using viper stings because it's wasting damage that could have been used in other global ziko looking like an absolute professional as he is the sixth demon bag and the arena grand master to finish it off ziko is just going to stick this fight him head to head here casting the frost bolts there's nothing lt can do fame death he's not dead yet there's another flask it's going to be a little bit of health from that titan ziko completely tapped but he could finish him off with wands at this point if he wants to and that's what it looks like he will do ten percent life here from lt maybe another scatter trap ziko might have another ice block rank one cone of cold just for the slow ziko staying on top of them finishing them off with the wands revived panel think that's going to be the move there who really knows counterspell comes out though three percent lt oh no what a performance from ziko scatter trap though it's a block don't worry i'm made to finish it off and misses another wand viper sting there it is there's like 30 seconds left dual was just like two guys just like just exhausted trying to smack each other what a dual man dude ziko not only uh not only did uh uh ziko play that perfectly but the the orange he had like the the perfect like the goblin rocket helm like not heartbeat resisting for like the entire fap essentially was insane unreal dude unreal yeah ziko that was like a master class mage hunter master class like you could you could put that uh in a textbook you know what i mean and have people review that footage on exactly how to play the match up ziko excellent play there i wouldn't expect anything else it's not like i'm surprised it was just cool to see it it's like yeah he can do that that ziko next up we have a shaman mirror we got cdoo versus new jack cdoo playing in hands big two hander arcanite reaper fully enchanted and ready to go that's the stadman his opponent new jack i believe he's playing the enhancer ellie i can't quite remember uh the spec here we'll know in just a second looks like it might be an elemental shaman with the spell hit fan thawks ash new jack also looks pretty darn ready to go ice reflector on i wonder maybe to reflect a frost shock maybe that's a big deal in the shaman match up a lot of resistances here shell necklace from stratt live probably means he is playing more of a caster focus build and the shaman match up enhance versus ellie i don't know if we have seen too much of this yet so it'll be kind of cool sure stadman is going to be running a new jack new jack attempting to kite look at all those totems down by the flags so many of them yeah i mean this is like uh i mean this looks like the shaman training area right here you got enhance you got ellie you got a billion totems so you even got a macara flag which looks like i mean it's like a how come all the macara flags or oh i guess macara is a horde thing isn't it so yeah i was gonna say why is it a horde theme i was like oh yeah more okay big open with it with a rocket helm uh with a purge spam right here cdu does get the leg up on the first rocket helm i expect new jacks to try and get the opportunity to do the same be able to spam those purges try and clean all the buffs off as much as possible comes in with a storm strike and gets to chase him down frost shocking him and trying to lay into him as much as possible new jacks is going to want to try and get the opportunity i mean this is an ellie shaman so we all know how ellie shaman's work they want to set up for that big massive chain lightning so a lot of this actually has to do with the consumables in this matchup shaman versus shaman what do you want to use your potions on are you going to be using a nature protection potion or are you going to be using something for your health and mana or otherwise so uh that's uh that's a lot of what we're going to get to see here obviously for seidu that's going to make a bigger impact nature protection makes a bigger impact huge huge rocket helm to stop the arcane bomb as well get in the first aid get in a reset seidu is almost out of mana and new jacks is sitting at 40 percent mana he's going to go for some heals here pop a mana potion and let's see if he tries to heal no he's not risking a heartbeat trying to go for the big dam and seidu comes back with the the uh with a t to try and get his mana and health up seidu is by nature going to have less mana and more problems with his mana in general because he's playing an enhanced shaman versus an elemental shaman uh because his gear is not designed for that he doesn't have as much intellect so seidu really has to take an opportunity to press here whenever he gets those opportunities as you see he's been doing and uh he takes the opportunity now to try and reset a little bit so uh new jacks is low on mana we'll see if seidu actually presses off of this maybe get some mana each tick of mana that he drinks each tick of water that he has is a higher percentage of his mana than new jacks's mana and that's because his mana pool is so much smaller so seidu is coming in he's pressing new jacks is very very low he's not going to have the opportunity to uh to to do some damage you're probably going to see him down ranking some heals and try and rely on shocks and totems to do as much damage as he possibly can gets the frost shock up on seidu right now and going for that chain lightning with uh might have been a rank one chain lightning i believe because he had so such little mana it gets grounded and seidu is trying to press him gets the storm strike and here's his opportunity and it's there seidu takes the win takes down new jack and goes on to the next round seidu dude we get to watch seidu versus ziko in the next round because right because ziko beat the hunter seidu beat the shaman we're gonna see ziko versus seidu that's gonna be great dude yeah yeah that'll be so fun beautiful dude that's crazy because man that this very well could have been an entirely different i mean this could have been that that ziko savics rematch so either way either way this could have been uh this this was going to be a big match up coming up in the next round with uh ziko and seidu uh man i uh i really wonder what's going to happen here man ziko seidu is going to be a uh a duel for the ages that's for sure yeah i must say it's it's a little mage favored unfortunately for seidu's and fighting is uphill battle today man against rogue and then ellie and now mage seidu's probably like come on man yeah um but it'll still be a fun one nominal player these that ever so long that i feel like we're going to get the best showing that we possibly yeah against a mage yep and i think that's gonna be really fun to watch i completely agree yeah if it's if it's mage versus shaman we get ziko versus seidu what uh what a treat we have bobka versus mezz speaking of treats hunter versus rogue bob got a great showing against the last hunter um i believe uh in round one moving on to the second round mezz awc champion multi rank one one of the players with the most amount of gladiator title titles in the entire game i don't think he needs much of an introduction bobka classic andy through and through rank one player gladiator throughout tbc and wrath on the classic relaunch uh plays a lot of uh classic era so experience so good decides to go in at the frost reflector uh opener that we saw ps hero do earlier today with the magic dust frost reflector eat the trap and then open up with the gouge evasion i really like it looks like mezz trying to use skull impending doom that was bobka skull impending doom for the impending scatter to land but there was no scatter there well played on mezz on the hold vanish comes out for the sticky glue scatter to reply from mezz looks like bobka and mezz going toe to toe for now blind connects mezz is sitting it for the time being for robs beating up that chicken poor chicken it's coming back to bobka bandage ticks for a few seconds there the heartbeat might have broken that a little soon net inside of the flare bobka's in a tough spot with the vanish because the flare will instantly break the vanish there's a trap he's avoiding it quite nicely however mezz kiting around that trap using it as some pseudo line of sight like a pillar something like that second blind comes through is a very close duel as found yeah i mean this is uh this is going to be like this i think the entire way through i have no idea how it's going to pan out let's see if you can actually avoid that trap you got two flares down uh like right after another to uh to try and keep bobka from being able to vanish keep him from reopening on him now he will have that opportunity uh outside of flair but uh let's see if mezz is going to be able to stick it to him keep him uh keep him out of uh keep him without an opportunity to be able to reopen because bobka does it just about as good as anybody and this this is what mezz wants right like that was bobka's done two blinds two vanishes bobka unfortunately has nothing left really i mean yeah there's nades there's consumables but in terms of rogue cooldowns bobka's kind of out of cooldowns mezz made it through the ring of fire so to speak and this is the other end it's pretty hunter-favored there's bobka connecting but we're going to have a scatter trap very soon here and once that scatter trap comes through mezz will gain clip just hit two that's the r and g we're looking for for mezz bobka must be pretty upset because of shot right after the improved wing clip bobka with the stings i don't know how he's going to make it out mezz looking like an absolute pro bobka using the flask it's just nothing left another concussive shot and a t to reply from bobka but what are you going to do even if you reconnect to mezz he still 70% life bobka has zero cooldowns left i think mezz might have done it bobka falls and mezz will move forward wow unbelievable showing from bobka in this tournament this week or these two days i should say bobka he's done a phenomenal job but mezz bests him right there i mean mezz played that pretty much as well as you possibly could have i mean not even pretty much i think i don't know if there's a single thing mezz could have done better he didn't allow bobka to to reset on him he shut him out of everything every single cooldown that bobka used there was an answer for it immediately immediately had an answer for everything and that's that's something that uh i mean when you're when you're a player like mezz at at that level right you know you're 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guys that everyone in the back end the admins the volunteers as fondon i are just we we have the easy job we're just here and spectating and watching the game so a shout to everyone making this event possible next match out we have another hunter v rogue bean versus spicy and uh we've seen a couple of these now and hunters seem to be doing pretty well although we saw a rogue win in the first round spicy not opting for a cheeky opener here just goes in pops the skull of a petting doom to try to break a a scatter coming in doesn't quite get it though bean too experienced to scatter into that skull there scatters a bit late goes for the faint death trap skull now used from spicy bean getting some distance big aim shot there's the hunter's mark and the flair and the slows the fax being used before the concussive shot lands though and the vanish so spicy is going to close a little bit of a distance but the hunter's mark player yeah really great flair the the goblin rocket helmet from bean ceasing spicy though on the gap close the fax is already over that was a quick 30 seconds it's probably what spicy is feeling too sprint comes through it's the last sprint i think there's a blind advantage there's an evasion oh goblin rocket home from spicy and he gets back on top of being being no 80% live pets doing work there's a gouge cross cc from spicy in the bandage really well done vanish that's a second vanish from spicy and that's the re-opener oh man instant reply from bean these guys have thought all of this through if this happens this is what i'm going to do if this happens this is what i'm going to do and that's the fast reflexes that we're seeing here from bean he's thought all of this through right when the blind hits there's already a plan right when the vanish hits there's already a plan and we're seeing that today the preparation is paid off for being here we have that no mish harm prevention belt from being just putting up a pseudo shield form as well not a pseudo shield an actual shield spicy is getting very low this is the last big cool down from spicy the rogue no bandage it's on cool down here and the full blind re-stealth the pet was cc'd so doesn't quite get to land with a big flare into another scatter trap and bean isn't working with much man i can cussive shot proc to finish and i don't know if there's much spicy can do the nade he's gonna do a little bit of damage finish him off four percent of life being finishing it off classy to boom arrow to the face spicy goes down and bean moves on and once again guys we're gonna have some fun matchups coming up here pretty soon and we're gonna have bean versus mezz and oh that's gonna be a good one yeah it is man that that last matchup was great man brother bean he's uh he's coming in in the clutch he did a fantastic job there man great place one of the flare in the middle of that duel whenever he was coming to re-engage he put that flare down right whenever he was about to re-stealth and then he put in uh he was able to get that flare out spamming it whenever he was whenever he was blinded so spicy unfortunately did not come back in and i thought he was gonna sap him there but uh he he gave him just that little window of opening and and uh oh apparently oh i'm hearing it was he got stun resisted he got orc stun resistant so he went for it but uh unfortunately he uh he didn't have time to to try it again after he got resisted so uh yeah big play big play orc racial coming in the clutch big time so congrats to uh to bean moving on and we've got a mirror in the next round mezz versus bean so that'll be uh that'll be fun yep that will be there's oh man mezz and bean it's just gonna be great we have sots versus mad knocks coming up pretty soon here as well sots maybe not as big of a name but bro washing his last duel i'm a sots fan out of nowhere like this guy's five no he's six no so far in his duels um you know it's kind of cool whoever wins this is basically uh no losses right it's i mean a single illumination it's it's macara which is pretty rad but sots versus the warlock mad knocks and it's a mana battle man it's a mana battle uh we have trained mana we have uh mana burn from the priest and we've seen this matchup go both ways it feels like the warlocks that were generally doing pretty well into the priest and and i think that's the way it's supposed to go so we'll see if sots can uh outplay himself to a win or if mad knocks it's gonna just crush it as the warlock yeah it's gonna be it's gonna be fun to see we've seen we've seen a fair bit of warlock shadow priest in this tournament haven't we yeah we've seen a lot of rogues we've seen a lot of uh hunters we've seen a lot of warlocks we've seen you know we haven't seen like that many warriors but the warriors that have shown up really have shown up and it's really the top of eight class and that class distribution is pretty even and uh so here we go we have an open here sots came in uh trying to go and he's he's probably gonna try and dispel spam here but i think he's waiting for the right opportunity to do so he drops the blanket silence goes into a fear get stopped title charm going into an arcane bomb mana burn so he's probably going with the strategy of trying to burn mad knocks mana as much as possible and he's doing a phenomenal job look at that he's at thirty three percent mana already mad knocks dropping the curse of tongues and it's making a huge impact on sots while he's feared away uh is that fierce active it is and he's coming back in that ui is updating he's coming back in following him in mad knocks is going to want to reset he's life tapping and using a medicine pouch to get his health back up and his mana at the same time uh i really really like sots rat of going in with a mana burn yeah that's huge and put mad knocks on the back foot immediately right there we got another big mana burn in and mad knocks is having to burn all of his consumes to life tap and to heal up and those cooldowns are going to add up so yeah this is like the new tech we haven't seen any shadow priests really utilize mana burn into warlock normally the shadow priests warlock matchups the warlock is trained manning the shadow priests just doing damage and sots is like you know what two can play this game you know like two can play this game let me mana burn you and see how it goes and i really like it from sots sots has that mana advantage and not gonna have the ability to life tap but sots might have the long plan of like let me just keep mana burning this guy so he is forced to life tap and i'll kill him through his own life taps and just make sure he stays um or you have to life tap and then you'll eventually die looks like it's panning out decently for sots um but mad knocks is warlock there's a lot of cool downs to get through that fell hunter is going to be purging and with devour you have so much damage coming through you have the ability to you know hellstone and uh life tap with that hellstone you have the ability to major healing potion and then life tap more so it's hard like warlocks to some degree have like this infinite mana pool where you can tap and then drain life and then tap and then drain life and now you're you're pretty much uh sustaining yourself forever and we have the first aid coming up from mad knocks and that first aid is going to allow them to tap more sots though in the meantime gets another tick or two of shrink and he looks like he's it back up to 80 percent health 60 percent mana silence comes through into the full fear will it forsaken right away from mad knocks arcane bomb will it land looks like it uh did that land the coil might have interrupted it full fear comes out from sots will it forsaken um on the fear sots is in a world of hurt here he is managed to work with but shadow priest are one of those unique classes where it's like you don't want to come out of shadow form to heal but sometimes you just have to there's the major healing part of the life tap drain life is exactly we're just talking about sots going to the spell like what are you gonna do it's gonna be enough flasks in the clutch he's back up to 18 percent life but there's no man to work with this does not look good for sots one or two more ticks of damage another flask there's only two or three flasks allowed per day and sots that was two of them you can maybe use one more that's the last one flask and mana pot he's a little bit of mana to work with but it's not going to be enough he's at one percent there's a shield but it's going to break and sots is going to fall mad knocks really well done really really well done great performance by sot i think that was uh that was great insights are you about the uh uh the ability to counteract the the mana burn i think it worked out really well at the beginning but he just wasn't able to sustain it he had to over commit and uh and it didn't work out for him because he was able to sustain out sustain it so uh great point there great great great play by mad knocks being able to uh withstand the barrage of the mana burns and the uh the different ways to try and get rid of you with arcane bomb and everything else so uh great job great performance by mad knocks and i i think it was it's been a great performance all tournament from sot as well so uh look we're getting to that point in the tournament we're in the last few rounds you know and it's not this isn't like a double elimination you know a lot of tournaments this is a single elimination when you die you are dead best of one everything so i saw a few people in the chat maybe not today but like leading up to the tournament of like is it going to be double elims are i'm like this is a makara tournament just for everybody from tuning in from home once you're dead you're dead your character is gone you have to restart at level one and so these are all best of ones because of that nature of the makara's we have another shadow freeze versus warlock here dakata versus uh gripping i mean if it looks anything like the last duel as fan i i think the warlock is is just looks favored in this like it's not like it it looks like super one sided at first but a minute or two in it's like dude that's how are you gonna come back over time yeah just saying that the warlocks kit kind of just the system the world brings the table like their their kid is just huge so so you have them come in here and actually the warlock is starting with the drain manna even though he has such low mana right now he's going with the drain mana strat uh trying to drain dakata's mana because i i do agree i think that the what we've seen so far in this tournament the shadow priests whenever they run out of mana they are pretty much done for mobility is a huge issue for them it's hard for them to get away it's hard for them to chase people so they need to stick to their target as closely as possible gripping is going in with the plan of hey i'm going to beat him at his own game i'm going to drain his mana if i'm draining his mana i'm i'm absorbing mana for myself and he is not going to be able to burn me on top of that so uh good strat from gripping coming and uh i it's it's working out great so far working out beautifully dakata coming in with a mind blast trying to lay into him gripping actually going for the shadow reflector going for the shadow fleck and we got a flea fear going out on gripping right now and dakata is trying to mindflame trying to get his damage out as much as possible i think dakata realizes that he is running out of time and he needs to try and make a play if he can misses the grenade the arcade bomb comes in and he actually got stunned himself earlier on that shadow reflector and it is over that shadow reflector ended up backfiring for him so bad or so unfortunately i guess but uh yeah that's uh that's great so whenever you uh whenever you got the blackout procket end up hitting him so those final moments were just like hard to watch like gripping was already really far ahead and he just does some dirty by chucking the arcane bomb and once it's in the air it's like oh you got to look away this this freeze is just screwed man he's no man of no health andy silence and then the damage ended up killing like add insult to injury that was a tough position to p in and i guess we can kind of confidently say that the warlocks do pretty well in in that match up i mean she's next up though on that on the next bracket we have the warlock me or madnox versus gripping and that'll be fun to watch once we get to round three for now though we're in round two and we have sony versus rocket man it's gonna be a great duel great duel sony needs no introduction uh rocket man is perplexity perplexity is a classic era og also rank one uh tbc year like just really really experience rogue i don't know if we've seen a rogue take out a warrior at least if we have not very frequently warriors have been crushing it in this tournament with this rule set against rogues because of the elixir of poison resistance the rogues are having a hard time kiting warriors out and when a rogue and a warrior go head to head the warrior generally wins so how does the rogue win then well the rogue would kite with poisons right crippling poison run away don't kind of dead zone the warrior don't want to get intercepted but don't fight too close and then restelf and then open up and then crippling kite but you can't do that if you remove the poison uh slow from crippling and that's why we've seen rogues really fall here in this match up yeah no hundred percent i think we uh i think we're probably gonna see more of the same here i wouldn't expect uh to see to see anything less but both of these guys are at the top of their class they're both unbelievable players and uh it's gonna be very fun to see sony is a uh og uh burning crusade i think he's a vengeful gladiator i think it was a season three rank one that's correct yeah so he's been playing for for many years as has perp playing on uh perp playing on the private servers and stuff for many years coming in with the sap opening up sony has the draconian deflector out playing defensive to start out in case he gets stun locked and trying to mitigate as much damage as possible sony turning around with an intercept getting his bleeds up getting kidney shoted by perp perp goes and he drops the blind on him there's no dots or anything ticking on sony this gives him the opportunity to kill the pat and hopefully reset that's what he is trying to do he's trying to kill the pat we haven't seen that from all the rogues but some of the rogues have tried to kill the pat and reset here uh sony putting on his mount or getting on his mount excuse me and trying to reengage as quickly as possible alarm a bot in hand sword and shield in hand and trying to make sure to keep his health up as much as possible i mean you mentioned this earlier man how tanky these warriors are it's actually insane it is it is absolutely insane how much damage these guys can really mitigate with all the consumes and everything on the table so i i don't believe i saw sony use a diamond flask or anything yet so that's still on the table as well and uh it's going to be big time i don't think there's any class in the game that can go head to head with a warrior in this tournament if you want to beat a warrior you're going to have to kite them out you're going to have to play the long game and you're going to have to slowly kill them but if you just if the rogue just opens up and fights the rogue will lose right so you have to be very clever on how you're going to engage in this matchup rocket man opening back up there is a rule that states we have to keep the duals going so 60 seconds is the longest you can stay in stealth if anyone was wondering vanish comes out on the sticky glue cheap shot to follow sony taking some damage finally there's the zircher stance he's trying to dead zone but does get intercepted full kidney though sony's actually taking some damage here he's down below 60% cold blood lands might be a blind after this that i believe is that the second blind i believe i think is the second blind and sony's at 60% life man 61% i mean already though that's so much of perplexity's damage and sony's at 60% life how do you finish we haven't seen often yeah but no mish death rate it's gonna be a big burst combo here hoping for some crits oh okay okay so this air before he gets rockin elm yeah the rocket home goes off i think the oh the rocket helm to follow this actually really good so that was the fear from sony will it forsaken coming out and the heartbeat break that's not what sony wanted full uh re stealth sheep shot looks like the sheep shot i believe is dr i think that was a sap that got dr'd by the rocket helm i'm pretty sure yeah that's that seems right sony down to 44% life this is the lowest we've seen a warrior against a rogue yet perplexity playing out of his mind intercept coming in though and sony's not out of this yet i mean the rogue is out of cool down 60% life here for rocket man no vanishes no blinds not much to work with there's the sheep shot he's trying to dead zone elixir poison resists and the sticky glue comes out title show counter it but it's not gonna be enough trinket comes out full kitty shot but flexing is an absolute monster for this play there's the kidney sony's at 37% live rocket man's trying to dead zone but it's not gonna be enough oh no sony's at 30% oh rocket man's gonna get executed there's the magic dust the final lifeline for rocket man that's the tuber magic resust breaks the re stealth cheap shot comes out this is very close full kidney shot coming out but rocket man 27% life dangerously close to that execute range sony getting rid of the poisons once again i'm just anything rocket man can do but sony following the 12% life sony's at 8 oh my gosh what a duel man what a duel holy hell dude i thought sony was dead that could have gone any which way that was unbelievable dude absolutely unbelievable matchup perplexity playing out of his mind and sony just barely barely holding on at the last second absolutely unbelievable performance by both of these guys unfortunately perplexity falls to vengeful gladiator sony digital and sony moves on to the next round to face the winner of our next match which will be payo versus zero g hunter or rogue that was probably my favorite dual today man what a duel i've got to say well first congratulations to sony because that was so close and so epic and just so many great plays from both players but i really have to give a shout out to perplexity as well like we haven't seen rogues take out warriors that was probably the closest uh dual we've seen where rogues going to beat a warrior and perplexity just played like there was just so many plays being made there i i need to go back and rewatch the vod of that it was it was just really well played from both sides um what a close finish i mean one more perry one more crit and anything could have changed that um yeah what a duel next up we get payo versus zero payo is such a joy to watch to watch him duel he gets really excited and passionate about each and every one and don't think he's going to be very excited or passionate to fight a hunter in his next match up yeah man payo payo's it's going to be great to watch him play against zero zero's been performing incredibly incredibly well all tournament uh so i'm excited to see how he goes up against payo here and uh i'm excited to see how payo opens up against eroji we saw what uh poshero did earlier today uh to try and counteract the flare let's see if ah okay it's doing something similar right here for uh frost reflector to walk into the trap after the sleep summons all it summons the entire zoo here uh bfa was better comes to let payo know that classic was not good bfa was better and uh we've got another rocket helm i think he's gonna try and wait out the flare but it doesn't work out for him so payo burned a lot at the beginning there to try and get the proper opener unfortunately he didn't get it but he vanishes and goes into a full kidney so we got a full kidney shot on zero zero's actually taking it right now payo's got the upper hand of for sure zero trying to lay a wing clip on him but payo is dodging everything seeing if he can get a wing clip on him however payo has a fap up so it's going to be ineffective he needs to wait this fap out with that ice trap scatter trap and he's going to drink up and try and reset the duel hopefully he can re-engage on him before payo has a chance to get out he drops the flare payo does not have the opportunity to restel gouges the pet gouges bma was better and he is going to try and close the great gap here on zeroji using whatever he needs to to remove the poisons and he's at about half health right now getting concussive shot in and payo is things are looking rough for payo from this distance yeah zero's playing this well is exactly what he wants to happen payo gets in distance of blind though and that's all you need to get that 10 yards to blind the pet is going to be moved away because i don't think zero wanted payo to slay the pet there gets the resell cheap shot though i don't know what's going on with the pet full kidney shot on the zero this is this is really good crusader proc payo doing a lot of damage into the kidney zero though i'm sure is going to have that scatter oh prep second blind from the little payo you love to see it gouges coming out on the pet once again don't know if he's going to be able to get the resell probably not first aid damage coming in scatter though from zero into another trap payo is playing this really well it's just for a rogue it's not the matchup you really are looking for hunters to yeah well i was also going to say specifically an orc hunter so because because you have all that stun resist absolutely one stone could be the difference you know win or loss and it can cut some shop frog as well more rng coming into play zero doing so much damage at the end there great performance by zero unfortunately payo falls to zero g the hunter great performance by payo this tournament really really great performance by payo and a great performance by zero g and all the rogues have been eliminated out of this tournament one of the one of the pre tournament favorites to win the tournament was rogue people keep talking about rogue but we have two rounds to go and all the rogues have now been eliminated so we'll see i'm sure there's going to be a determination of who's going to get the prize money because they were we had multiple rogues fall in the same round i don't know who's going to get the best in class prize money yet we'll find out from the admins how that's going to be determined but uh but yeah so uh congratulations to all the rogues who competed but unfortunately there will not be one of the finals dude there was more rogues correct me if i'm wrong admins but more rogues than any other class in this tournament and they're all gone and there were so many not only just i should have just say rogues we had savics we had bobka we had ps hero right we had uh perplexity we had pale like these are all big names spicy uh had a great showing as well they're all gone we even we even had i mean we talked about showback earlier show showback didn't make it showback showback another very good rogue vanis played really well nz with the uh the place against the warlock infestor like they're all they were all really good but with this rule set rogues are not coming out on top in the rule set being there are no rules it's a makara anything goes so with this with this open system maybe rogues aren't the uh dueler we thought they would be i thought maybe none that rogues take the whole thing but looks like i'm wrong we have druid versus mage and it's a hard one it's a really hard one for the mage having said that we've seen druid versus mage once today and the mage actually won so gordon uh maybe he'll go in at the different game plan here get slowed shifts out cap form again wow flayne taking a lot of damage that's furbogs medicine pouch misses the kona cold blink to follow insta uh what charges that the goblin rockin helm may be resisted but the charge worked oh no goblin rockin helm now two different charges from gordon early intervain love to see it gordon looks dominant in this match up and this is probably how the druid versus mage should look yeah this has been a this has been a huge huge start from gordon uh getting up on flayne early flayne is definitely definitely on his back heals he just gets title charmed right there after the blink so he's not able to get out of it and gordon has a real opportunity to try and finish him here but he might not be able to between the ice barrier and then getting title charmed himself so gordon continues on keep pressing flayne zaru is there any chance for flayne to survive this absolutely not so here's the issue the mage is normally with sheep and reset you can't sheep a druid boys you can't do it flayne can't reset okay so you can use the goblin rocket helm and and ccm you can use the magic dust and ccm but you can't sheep mage's best spell is sheep you can't use it against the druid at all how do you reset against the druid you can't once you're behind it's over the only way to win would be just to kill the druid from the get go but once you're low you can't come back there's no coming back there's no sheeps you can't even know about you're just gonna power shift you can't look at that gordon in and out of cat form running flayne's down he's doing the best he can do but there's not much the mage can do in this position 10% life another nova gordon's just finishing him off one tick of evo could be a mana shield or a blink um uh maybe another consumable a flask what are we working with flayne another uh okay an ice barrier he is holding on for dear life man i don't know how long he can hold on as fan i don't i don't know how long you can hold on i i don't know either man this is this is not looking good this might be it we get the kona cold out he slowed he eats the the whip root tuber throws that a frost nova doesn't matter gordon can just shift out and shift back in and he just keeps chasing him down he's at 13 hell at this point i would just just moonfire spam him or something like just start sending the moonfires it can be dangerous though because he doesn't want to make a mistake you know you can burn yourself fire so if gordon goes um from moonfiring um and then can't go back and just completely um then the mage could actually win so it's you know flayne flayne should have played like this from the from the start just spamming frostbull and not letting the true get distance now he's so far behind oh he kites and turtles back up for the health potion he has no evo and he's low on mana so i don't see him necessarily killing gordon but that's gonna buy him a little bit of time um i like the the rank one frostbull kiting i mean this is if we saw this from the get go would have maybe been a very different duel i don't know gordon's exact spec it looks like though he's not opting to just moonfire insect swarm like we would normally see so gordon must be more uh maybe he's not uh playing rest of it all for that insect swarm but flayne's doing a good job this last minute or so uh regaining his ground gordon's probably kicking himself as fan for not moonfiring earlier because now he has some hp to work with it probably is yeah i uh just from looking at his build it looks like gordon is is uh playing like a feral resto hybrid i haven't seen him cast an insect swarm it could be wrong uh so yeah i think he's playing some sort of a feral resto hybrid and uh yeah i mean he's uh he's he really just just cannot finish like he just has to find a way to to do it i think there it is ferocious viable do it i just finished dude yeah a great duel from gordon man great duel from gordon and uh man flayne did a phenomenal job keeping it away as much as he can't let not letting him finish so uh really really good man really really good yeah i can't give flayne too much uh you know hey here he it was mage versus druid and you know he lived a few minutes he kai did it out he did alright it's just your mage versus druid and that can be tough uh in the next round it looks like we have another mage versus druid maybe dendario who's by the way done phenomenal so far in this tournament in the last round he took out a druid let's see if he can do it again here versus mfb tv yeah this is gonna be uh this is gonna be great to watch uh i mean mfb tv did a fantastic job in the tournament so far we didn't get to see him much yesterday uh but we but we saw him today i don't actually know if any of his uh any of his duels got broadcast yesterday or not i think they didn't but uh we'll see i mean it's the same match up as last time not i don't think they're the same specs i think mfb tv is playing the uh the moonfire spam balance hybrid spec um so uh yeah but i do think we'll get more of the same just like you mentioned earlier you can't sheep a druid because they can just shift out of it they can shift out of novus it's a really really tough counter for mages and uh we might see more of the same here just in a little bit of a different way the the way we normally see this dual go is the moonfire and insect swarm will do the job and the druid will max range and cheetah and keep running and won't even engage the mage and the mage is in this position where you slowly die to the insect swarm moonfire and the druid never does anything except she does in runs that's normally what we see um we'll see here what spec so it's the moonfire uh insect swarm looks like it resists there and mfb tv decides to run and she says this is a very standard mage versus druid dual it's going to take a little bit longer but generically what happens is the mage will go out of mana the mage will never be able to really start much on the druid and the druid will never actually go bear or never go cat the druid will kind of just go cheetah and whenever the mage blinks in like this you just kind of feed a form away i don't know if the bear form here is even necessary because yeah you get the bash but who cares you just cheetah and keep running and in the long game the the mage kind of goes um and the mage doesn't really have the normally you can't really pack a punch as a frost mage unless you shatter combo and you can't shatter a druid who's just max range and cheetah and cheetah also doesn't cost much mana so the mage blinks in arcane bombs the druid it does land very well done from dindario the problem with the the mage um strategy here there's the inner bait coming out early is blink is actually a pretty expensive cost for the mage yeah so if you if you're spending your mana blinking in like that it's it's great it's kind of all you can do but it's a lot of mana i think the bear forms might be a slight misplay here i mean it's not like you need to use bear for absolutely anything the evo coming out and here is uh mfb tv's chance you kind of just let that insect swarm and move fire you know do the job and this is normally what you see and it's just it's a tough spot for the mage like it doesn't look that bad like right now you're like hmm okay it could kind of go either way but you fast forward five minutes and the mage is just oom and dead and the druid is still just healthy and the mage it doesn't have the longevity um so the only way for the mage to win is to burst the druid down which can happen with the right rng but it's not easy to do yeah i mean you you you know this better than anybody right you've talked about how how difficult a match of this is how how impressed are you so far by how this match is going i feel like compared to the last match dindario is holding on really well he is he's doing exactly what he should be doing you know he's blinking in on top of that druid and and getting burst when he can the issue is um every time the mage builds momentum with like frostbite that sheet of form which is a very low mana cost comes out and the druid is just going to run and run and run and that insect swarm moonfire might not seem very scary but if it's if moonfire insect swarm is on you for 10 minutes straight like it will kill you it will it's enough damage to to kill you and and that's kind of what the druid is is banking on and it's not that it's a very quick way to you know get to lethal here on the mage but the the druid um is never putting himself in danger he's never pushing in to get no vud to get shatter combo there's an arcane bomb and boom that's what dindario is going to need i love that combo it was uh it was a thorium nade into an iron bomb which was very well played those are the types of out-of-the-box thinking combos that we're going to need from dindario to finish it off yeah any any blink the blink that arcane bomb coming up right after it now i did see moonfire beam actually did uh he he actually faked the uh the counterspell on the entangling ruse but it didn't matter because he got blanket cs and then on top of that after getting the arcane bomb it was another blanket so uh that's why he wasn't able to cast even though he faked it yeah i i must say dindario is really holding his own here in the matchup the druid's already used a t already used a mana pot and already used evo and dindario is at 50 mana so i'm i'm pretty impressed like the this is going uh more mage favor than i would expect for sure so like hats off to dindario i think these clever use of items um with the nade and arcane bombs are evening this matchup out and to be honest like yeah dindario is looking great yeah i mean i'm very very impressed i mean from what we've seen so far from druids and mages uh in the druid mage matchup in this tournament just historically uh dindario is he really is doing phenomenal and it's very much a battle of attrition like this druid spec is there trying to take you down the whole time that was a big big big arcane bomb uh from dindario and he is he's trying to press moonfire beam dude this is like he was in bear form for the arcane bomb like correct me if i'm wrong but if you're in bear form it's not going to drain your mana but mfb decided to go cheetah to avoid the arcane bomb which made the arcane bomb drain his mana because he went cheetah right if i'm understanding that correctly so another arcane bomb coming up from the druid counterspell goes out but counterspell does not stop arcane bomb a lot of players like almost panic hit counterspell on that arcane bomb uh because it looks like a cast it's not a cast it's a grenade you can't counterspell it so dindario unfortunately does get hit with that arcane bomb and now mfb tv's back in the driver seat there's no evo kate dank dindario might have an ice block but now it's going to be moonfire spam um how's he getting the moonfire dot off rest of pot must be rest of pot maybe yeah that's what it looks like to me and then that rest that rest of pot is going to go it's going to go hard because they're going to remove so many things periodically um and it's uh it's going to be big because dindario right now no mana uh very little health and that battle of attrition that's coming in is uh look at the poly excuse me it's really starting to hurt yeah and that's what that marvels think you might have just used a marvels any item he's just looking through his bags and just clicking everything like throwing at a man everything on his desk oh dindario it hurts it hurts yeah witness me yeah there you go i mean dindario what a great showing this tournament from dindario yeah yeah what a great showing man it hurts right i'm a mage i've been in that position and like i want a route for dindario because he's a great player you know he had a great showing and you know i want to see mage just do well but like in that situation it's just hard just hard um that's why i was so excited this morning when i woke up and i saw ziko's bracket no truids no locks no priest i'm like bro this this is ziko's tournament man i i'm saying it i'm saying it again dude i'm saying it again his his bracket looks really good that bracket rng is big time hey speaking of bracket rng uh let's talk about the rogues again man i mean all the rogues did get knocked out but somebody mentioned this earlier uh and and they're right pretty much all the rogues uh i think it was i think i saw sarathan chat say it but um yeah all all the rogues ended up facing his hunters at some point and that the hunters are a very tough counter for rogues so that bracket rng does come into play you know except for uh yeah except sony sony went up against perp so uh but even throughout the course of the uh throughout the course of the tournament you know we saw that hunters have trouble against rogues or excuse me other way around rogues have trouble against hunters so um so yeah it's uh a lot of it is bracket rng zico has a very nice clean bracket he's he's got a he's got a nice uh nice path potentially to uh to the finals here so he's got cd next and then he has the winner of mes and bean which is going to be a fun mirror to watch absolutely definitely i think in this next match up uh we have j versus gorthax warrior versus warrior your body gorthax yeah editor right yeah um warrior versus warrior is it's just a fun one to spectate because you know in a lot of these duels you know you look at it and players are like oh this rogues resetting all the hunter is scatter trapping or the mage is pollying or the druid is running and the warlock is running and fearing warrior every warrior man it's just as down and dirty as it gets two players pressing buttons until one of them dies it's always a short duel i mean it can't really go long one warrior is going to kill the other warrior at some point and uh it's just a fun one to watch yeah yeah this is going to be a great one man it's going to be really really good suck suck we have gorthax at 50 percent rage they they trade charges here and it looks like the goblin rocket elm is going to make it on top so well done from gorthax having the premonition to use that sunders from the side wow i love this opener i love it what a great way to open he's not breaking the dam the cc because sunders don't do damage he just builds up three sacks of stunders before the rest of the duel even starts brilliant play from gorthax and i think i saw recklessness from jay so this is big damage retail into the recklessness let's see if gorthax can hold on the onslaught with the retail oh no it's gonna be huge big this is close this is close jay's backing off he's backing off it looks like retail and rack are about to fade both warriors are about even here forty percent life we'll see what consumables come into play here as they're both thirty percent whirlwinds coming out from gorthax going to one percent and falls jay what a duel getting the right damage at the right time with the right crits and the right executes well done what a fun one to spectate warrior warrior man fun man that was really fun dude that was like dude two heavyweights just going at it i love the opener the strat at the open was so good go with the goblin rock and helm and then try and stack sunders to try and get an armor advantage was so crafty i love it i that was that was so good unfortunately it didn't work out uh jay going with the uh going with the recklessness into the retail and then backing off whenever we realized the gorthax popped the retail just fantastic man fantastic dual and uh yeah really really good showing this uh this tournament man i'm just so happy to see warriors showing up and doing well it kind of sucks to see a warrior eliminate another warrior doesn't it a little bit it's like we're on the same team we're on the same team here next up we have another warrior we have lepon uh who i believe might be at a slight disadvantage here versus hydra as the shadow priest um i don't have we seen warrior versus shadow priest i know uh is i think this can go either way hydra though just so so experienced you can see the debuff above lepons head you know it's there we'll uh recognize that oh man unfortunate circumstance um there was no ability to remove the debuff unfortunately and that you know it's just one of those things and like we knew something like that would happen we did tell the competitors ahead of time that like something like this can happen it probably will happen unfortunately and so that's the situation we're in uh there's nothing we could really uh do we did we did reach out to try to circumvent it but we know we're here and we have that uh debuff so for those of you guys that don't know uh earlier lepon unfortunately had a situation where he got cc'd out of the dual area got a debuff called coward this coward debuff last three days in game and it decreases all attributes by 20 all damage by 20 all armor by 20 and all resistances by 20 so i mean we can root for lepon here you know it would be cool if you want a makara you're no longer a coward maybe we could have blizzard hot fix that in that would be cool that would be sick actually yeah if you are a coward and you win a makara it removes the debuff i would love that anyway duals underway lepon does have that disadvantage maybe we could see lepon win anyway hydra getting the nice distance the net comes out or the sticky glue from lepon fear immediately breaks there with the zirca rage lepon connecting damage onto hydra building up some rage shadow reflector comes through doesn't reflect any damage though hydra too smart for that pops the potion kiting it out with the power word shield pops the inner focus to conserve mana lepons having trouble connecting here maybe uh just hard time building rage because the warriors hitting into the shields of hydra intercept comes out looks like hydra just keeps jumping around there's the hamstring hamstring proc on top of that that's really great for lepon lepons getting dangerously low here fear comes out the shadow word pain is ticking the mind plays ticking hydra must be feeling pretty good about this one f's in the chat for lepon thanks for coming out and playing it's unfortunate but it happened yeah we're there that's how that's how it goes it's an unfortunate situation lepon uh falling to hydra hydra hydra another great player lepon a great player so oh seven harsh the chat for lepon it's uh it what are you drinking i just know it's a it's a protein shake yeah i was like i can't eat all day so we're just going to be drinking our food i do i do not what i all i had was that one little sandwich so i'm not starving but yeah bro look what i got for later look what i got for later sick nice but yeah no that uh it's an unfortunate situation for lepon lepon is a he's a great player uh you know he's he's been playing uh been playing classic for a long time retail for a long time and uh yeah it's it's unfortunate we had to lose a warrior that way but uh harsh the chat for lepon and uh and hydra advances to the next round so there it is next match up we have uh big sad versus j m d s man uh we have a lot of warriors in this tournament we have jayla jmd lepon gorthax just lost we have jay moving on and sony we have almost all the warriors doing really well today like every warrior is winning the only warrior that's lost is the warrior every warrior which you know obviously a one warrior has to lose and the only other warrior that's lost um is again zero g the hunter it looks like yeah uh yeah the warrior the another hunter versus being yeah the warriors have have performed uh tremendously well uh there's been a ton of warriors that have been part taken their tournament to which is very cool there's also a ton of streamers watching this event and uh if you are a streamer watching this event and you are interested in talent management you guys can check out mythic talent at mythic talent dot com uh that is uh for sponsors for anything that you want to be repped by to uh to be able to get more sponsors and and do events and stuff like that uh check out mythic talent dot com and uh we'll uh we'll get in touch with you so you can either you can either reach out to asman myself uh whoever and uh we can we can get you in touch with the right people if you guys are interested in talent management so cool we got our next one up here bro i was looking forward at these brackets too and this is a bunch of warlock like warlocks are doing really well and warriors are doing well later on today once we get closer to the grand finals it's just gonna be a ton of locks into a ton of warriors and that's just a hard match up for both of them so we're gonna see a lot of these uh big names collide in a little bit here but right now we have jmds versus big sad um i don't know if we can get an inspect i i'm mixing up a lot of the gear sets these guys have four specs and stuff like that we do have a very prepped jmd and he's going in hard with the goblin rocket helmet to get that gap closed right away he's going to build rage by killing the mechanical dragonling and some totems but the heartbeat break early is really unfortunate for big sad hamstring coming in mortal strike to follow jmd trinkets out of that sticky glue as well big sad purging down to even the playing field here has the shield equipped to reduce incoming damage taken but after all of that shaman's doing pretty well big damage coming into jmd wow this is the best i've seen a shaman fair head to head big chain lightning coming in oh my gosh 40% life from jmd big arcane bomb it looks like he cancels because it looks like it was going to miss big sad popping the t regenerating some of that health and mana this is a huge huge huge open for big sad jmd fighting for his life right now trying to stick to him that fire nova hits gets the man or the health potion off excuse me health potion off trying to survive and get out as much damage as he can but big sad is able to finish him off with the frost shock oh my gosh jmd falls to big sad what a duel man that was high octane dude big damage coming right out the gate elie shaman versus warrior oh man huge huge huge huge huge huge we just spent a bunch of time covering about warriors not losing it i know big sad is like watch this not gonna let it happen uh well played it that was some big uh elie damage i must say i think big sad did use the team they don't know if i saw a t coming out from jmd so it could have been a preparation difference too but big sad showed up prepared and ready to play the next match up we got hosito versus infesters we got another shadow priest warlock here here we go one more man but that's another thing you talk about you talk about preparation i think uh one step beyond preparation this is this is a long long tournament this time yesterday we were getting pretty close to finishing up and we got i think two more rounds left they were like two and a half rounds left before we're done with the tournament a lot of the duels are done the rounds get smaller and smaller but uh yeah this is uh this is a long long time to be sitting here waiting in between duels your cooldowns come back up and stuff it's easy to to kind of fall asleep a little bit on on oh wait i need to have this i need to have that and kind of being focused for that long it's tough man it's props to all these guys for for sticking through it yeah it's like playing a tournament and you show up and you have like one match at like 9 a.m and the next one at like 4 p.m and you're just kind of waiting around you're like come on let me play you know and uh yeah these players have to have that longevity the mindset of longevity and uh yeah can be tough and uh just to clarify a little bit on that last duel big sad is not a pure elemental shaman that's why we're trying to figure out what specky is uh we got insight from the admins he's actually a trispeck so a little bit of resto a little bit of ellie and a little bit of enhance and me personally i love that about classic to me that's one of classics biggest selling points is that you can make these really unique specs like i know druids do a trispeck i know mages do a speck called elementalist which is half fire half frost and see that from a shaman and and not only that not to only see it but to see him perform so well with it it's like man classic is so cool for that reason yeah no i i love it the build variety that you have in classic a lot a lot of people think that uh like the old talent system is not good because it's too cookie cutter or whatever but in reality especially when it comes to pvp it's wide open so people will put talents wherever they wherever they want to be able to kind of fine tune their speck to be able to play against certain matchups people might have looked at the brackets today and inspect like you might look at the brackets look at your group and you might speck a certain way for that in a dueling tournament or something so um yeah pretty cool to uh pretty cool to see that in classic man this is uh this is a little scary it's one of those matchups that we've seen go in the warlock favor nearly every time and hosito is uh you know it's a he's a friend of mine he's a good priest he's a good player i want to see him do well and it's just like it's against the lock can be hard if anyone can do it though i know hosito can i would love to see some tech come out we've seen we've seen priests maybe uh go for mana burns uh unsuccessfully we've seen priests try to raise them down at damage unsuccessfully maybe hosito has something up his sleeve that will actually work here as he's uh logging back in might have been some lag or something like that looks like he might have disconnected again so we'll see if there'll be another matchup or if we're gonna okay hosito's having some connection issues we're uh allowing a couple minutes due to the rules he had just three couple minutes and if not we'll move on um to the next one okay i'll do a quick little uh i'm gonna do a little uh drink break i'm gonna grab a drink really fast perfect okay if we don't get to see this duel we have a lot of really great duels to look forward to we have four uh versus snuts that's gonna be a warlock mere coming up next and then we have peace versus jailah and and the winner of this will be a big deal too because if it's jailah the beats peace snuts uh has been saying jailah is one of his hardest opponents out of anyone in the bracket because of the nature of undead warrior and the expertise of jailah himself and the preparation of jailah so it's like snuts was saying if there's anyone he doesn't want to fight it's jailah if jailah beats peace snuts will have to fight his biggest fear here in that round of c8 um after that we're going to the round two so we have hosito versus infesters four versus snuts peace versus jailah and then we're gonna really be uh back to the top of round three and once we're there we have ziko versus cdo what a great way to start round three uh it's gonna be a classic matchup an instant classic then mez versus bean shortly after that hunter mere matchup versus two big names we have another warlock mere mad knocks versus gripping and warlocks have been slaying all the priests now they get to take each other out after that we have sony versus zero oh man zero's been slaying the rogues he's been slaying the warriors i'm sure sony is not looking forward to fighting zero because zero is one of those players that has so much expertise against those melee classes and he's shown it today next up gordon versus mfb tv it's gonna be a true admire matchup and the true admire can take a while so we'll see which one of these truids wants to play the slow game versus the fast one but jumping into the round hey and we have hosito versus investor dual to the death flag dropped i'm very excited to see what hosito has in store for us what he has planned what we're gonna see coming out it's it has to be something novel has to be something different a new strategy a new item or maybe some great rng a great shadow reflect on a death coil you know um something like that because if not we know how this one goes the dual has commenced corruptions and shadow word panes being traded out hosito not opting for many disbells he's just spamming that shadow word pain fear comes out instant will forsaken into a reefer into a will forsaken to follow looks like the pet goes down and the second pet fell down comes right back up if you're being casted from investor that's a shadow reflect on the fear well played from hosie hosie 80 percent mana really strong start to the dual hosie opting for disbells now about a minute into the dual instead of right away but investor knows how this goes pop in the train mana keeping hosito on the back foot there full fear coming out and i don't think hosito is too mad with this opener i really don't i mean he's 83 percent mana investors use more mana than that but the train manas are gonna slowly tick down hosito there's a title charm from investors into the arcane bomb great combo i love that combo being able to guarantee that mana train hosito pushing back in the fear does land shadow reflector used hosito sees it stops cast for the time being so it doesn't reflect unfortunately the reflector does not work in the aoe abilities like that psychic scream from the side of the shadow priest so that does work through that reflect silence coming out onto investors dots ticking down shadow priest dot stacking up three stacks of shadow vulnerability here hosito in hot pursuit but investor seems to be the one in the lead hosie realizes that turns around in its tracks fell hunters taking devours every few seconds here taking big chunks out of hosie but the fear connects fear lands with no line of sight available i don't know what hosie is gonna do mana pot being used maybe uh hopefully that was the second mana pot of the dual if not if that was the first it might have been a bit late death coil lands to interrupt hosie's plan though into the full fear once again may it might have been a resist corruption agony drain mana fear coming out hosie's on the back foot we might have a t available from hosie i believe he might have used two of them earlier today i could be incorrect they're the health stone from investor coming out keeping a nice healthy health total has that arcane bomb number two misses this time no title charm to pair it up big fear coming out on the hosie once again and that's the name of the game for the warlock life tap into drain mana there's a tuber from hosie to restore a little bit of that life 26 percent mana fell hunters still chasing them down they're getting close to the edge of the dual arena they need to be aware of that that is written in the rules can't run away hosie 17 percent if he leaves shadow form it's going to be the beginning of the end though if he leaves shadow form to heal he's not going to have enough mana to go back in and that's pretty much forfeiting the dual investor completely tapped has to life tap and he does the diminishing return of fear resets full fear lands investor going to get the train mana not looking to push it too aggressive just wants to slow roll it till it's done another fear being interrupted there from hosie will it forsaken the answer from infester well done arcane bomb from hosie kind of evening it out a little bit in terms of mana but the problem is the warlock can just life tap another rest of pot expanded from infester the dots ticking down hosie has nothing left he falls infester looking like a pro gg well played to hosie and that's pretty much going to be it um there's only one priest left i think in this tournament and that's hydra is that correct maybe i get all the all the warlocks are to slay in these priests man uh it really you know it's painful to see but part of the tournament that that is correct i'm getting it from the admins all the priests are gone all the rogues are gone guys we're left with warlocks a lot of warlocks a lot of warriors and we have a couple uh shamans and one mage i think is eco so um moving on to round three soon but next out we get to see snuts play and it's always a pleasure against the warlock match up here we have four sfm g versus snuts and like the warlocks are slain and all the other classes but when you see a warlock mirror there's one guarantee that a warlock will lose and a warlock will win so uh that's what we know for next round so you said welcome back i'm back i'm back sorry about that yeah so we saw we saw the warlock versus priest match up hosey lost so warlock just slain all the priests yeah really okay well it's the same story like you it's the same story we've seen man like the priests go in they lose on mana after a while um yeah and that's pretty much it like it just gets scary you know and then after the priest is um he's just running warlock just keeps live tapping train mana and the warlock wins the long game but next up we have lock mirror lock versus warlock and that'll be fun okay here we go lock mirror coming right up no i was not people keep saying i was playing the warlock i was not playing the warlock i was always that way you went to the other room no all that actually makes sense okay i i didn't pick that up thanks thanks sure i was uh i was putting things in another portal uh that gets flushed down okay so a little different than the warlock yeah a little different than the summoning portal okay unbelievable cheese all right there we go we got snuts versus four snuts versus four lock mirror match up double fell hunters out we're underway dots being traded corruptions agonies back and forth emulate being casted and ah it's nuts i just can't wait to see what he has in store for us and four man could you imagine if four just takes out snuts right now can you imagine like like snuts just gets eliminated like that would be insane maybe it'll happen so i mean dude after after all the expectation yeah if fours ends up eliminating snuts that blows the thing wide open man snuts shadow reflects lifetaps early on tries to get value out of it for well played cancels the cast fear gets interrupted with the death coil looks like four is maybe in the lead so far snuts though don't want to count him out he pops the lifetime in the furbog medicine pouch a lot of damage coming in here to four another fell hunter being uh summoned so it looks like snuts killed the first pet and it looks like snuts is going to go for the second pet kill we saw this yesterday in the warlock mirrors before the qualifiers the warlocks who played the long game and killed the pet started off weak but in a long game came back because the access to that fell hunter snuts hiding out brilliantly killing the first pet and the second pet force is going to have no pet for the remainder of this duel now snuts looks like he's behind but he's slowly going to start coming back here especially with the hellstone the drain lives the lifetaps the shadow bolts it's all coming together and snuts his damage is going to start crippling for he's not going to have access to the soul link from the pet he's not going to have access to the devour from the pet he's not going to have access to the damage from the pet snuts is pulling ahead slowly but surely and force is crumbling over time absolutely snuts is playing this matchup so incredibly well force is going for the banish on the pet to try and mitigate the fact that he doesn't have one and snuts does however i don't think it's going to make a difference in the long run snuts is doing a phenomenal job of separating getting back to his pet first dating his pet is at full health so he's not going to need a health funnel or anything to it force is probably casting another pet here it looks like he is and he gets spell lock oh he gets spell lock doesn't get it off and force is on his back heels right now for is it is not looking good getting wanded down snuts finishing him off right here man what an incredible play by snuts like you said it did look like for had the lead to start off it looked like four came out on top of the very beginning but snuts played that matchup so incredibly well uh the the meta understanding of knowing that match up what he can do what i can do it's all the same so what like it's you're trading cards here you're trading cooldowns and uh seeing how it plays out killing that pet we've seen in the warlock warlock matchup time and time again killing the pet is uh is a key key factor especially when it's a fell hunter because with the fell hunter you lose the devourer and one of you lose your fell hunter you also lose your devourer which is a dispel you have buffs stacked up all on top of you so you lose that the ability to remove somebody's buffs you also lose the ability to spell lock the opposing warlock so you have no counter no no counter spell no kick type ability to be able to counter the spellcasters and it's a long play too you know like in four's defense like you want to you have to kill the first pet and then you have to kill the second pet and by then you're really far behind because if the other warlock was just focused on killing you so it's like one of those long term strategies like long plays it's like we you really have to think out like four or five minutes like okay the first minute or two i'm gonna be down second minute of the minute or two after that will be kind of even and then i'm going to pull ahead and snuts had the the forethought for that one and it really worked out for him here we have another massive matchup i can't stress this enough shaila versus peace the winner of this is a big deal and the the tools already started scatter don't know if he's gonna have time to make it for the trap fain death trap oh my gosh it looks like um yeah i think it resisted but he did have the uh shaking there oh yeah he had that place before he has the improved trap so he got the uh he got the root on top of it and it ticks again he gets two of them in a row he ends up shrinking out of it shaila is now pressing peace but peace is doing such a good job of kiting them in the ice trap keeping him slow as much as possible keeping that applied to him the entire time and he is just getting rooted over and over again peace dropping an ice trap on top of him right there and separating let's see if he can get some something oh it looks like we got a uh is that a heartbeat but he can't really do anything he can't move because he's rooted right that is so unfortunate the gap is closed with the goblin rocket helm i did so peace is not playing with a pet right because he doesn't want him to build a rage is that what's going on and like i haven't seen a pet this whole duel unless he killed it without me noticing um scatter to another fain death trap more distance being created and we keep seeing this we keep seeing this we see warriors being kited forever but no one can pack a punch to kill a warrior like jail is like you know what kite me all you want i'll wait till your um and i'll wait till you're out of cooldowns and then i'll kill you and warriors just seem so tanky that like yeah they can be kited for like half an hour but but you can't hide a warrior forever and you know once once you're out of cooldowns once you're out of mana or you can't even that resist yeah batters this oh look at that we got the uh whatever that is it's that chest piece that turns him into an ogre or something like that i would love to see what item that actually is it's really cool looks cool at least yeah let's see a piece blade can uh turn this around i believe it's from dire mall i don't know if it just looks cool or if it does anything but i'm scared thorium naid going in it lands what a great grenade goes for the title charm piece uh to answer that so trinkets the intercepts done into the title charm on the jay law piece needs to get out of there man is there a scatter there it is scattered trap but it like if this resists okay it didn't resist but if it did that's jay laws opening right like what do you do if your piece at that point right and that's kind of what jay laws waiting for is just like the right rng to finish out the dual and piece and is hoping he just doesn't get unlucky and slowly take out jay law for many many many many minutes and warriors just are those tanks and piece finally pulling up the pet and this is what we are talking about um should you dismiss the pet on purpose yeah we saw we saw this a little bit earlier with the pet is do you want to keep the pet on him or do you not the idea being that if the pet is hitting him he's generating rage but also if you don't have the pet on him you have a harder time keeping the warrior in combat and keeping pressure on him so uh it's it's really like a trade-off that is uh i think the best way to play it is is not to just not have the pet all together but to maybe send him whenever you need to and that's something we didn't see earlier in the uh in the dual earlier but man this is close jay laws in is in the danger zone right now and what that does is so that's the that by the way that's the gordak suit from from dire mall and it actually this is something i didn't know i was just told by admin it actually increases your hitbox so your attack range is bigger i did not know that this is so close jay law almost an execute range but pieces to jay law i might finish him first oh the pair scatter if not it's over for peace jay law first aid there's just an execute away bro jay law is going to win this that means jay law versus snuts is going to be next let's see it oh the ogre taking out peace snuts has to fight his worst nightmare coming up next oh my gosh wow jay law is so impressive if someone's going to take out snuts it's going to be jay law like it's going to be jay law snuts snuts set it like if i was snuts it's like that's it's a one match up we don't want to get and and snuts is getting it so if snuts wins this like it there's even more glory in it you know yeah no absolutely absolutely and and peace dude peace played phenomenal dude he really did this this whole tournament i'm i'm really really proud of peace played uh you know at you know taking a taking a break from the paladin for a little bit whipping out the hunter and uh doing a phenomenal job doing it so uh yeah making making the crusaders proud good stuff so really really uh really good try here next matchup i think we're moving to round three we're seeing ziko versus seidu i believe it is round three yeah dude like ziko versus seidu in 2023 on a tuesday what a treat man this is great like this is great um so seidu is playing enhance ziko is playing frost and i i mean i've got to say i think the mage is favored in the enhance it you know we've seen this this matchup play out what's so cool though is we got to see the top top top end of mage gameplay and the top top top end of shaman gameplay and we just get to watch how it unfolds with all consumables pretty much no rules and see two of the best players in the world get out yeah i mean this is this is going to be incredible i mean these are these are two of the most highly decorated wow players ever i mean uh ziko uh i actually done some casting as well hasn't he i know ziko is also a legendary legendary caster and they're getting started right now title charm into the polymorph to start it off as ziko and it seems like he loves that opener and i love it too it's so safe it's so clean you just title charm sheep and right from the title charm sheep you get to kill all the totems change your trinkets and get a nice clean opener um looks like the net backfired for ziko uh if i'm not mistaken there which is like really we don't want to happen if you're ziko but yeah it worked out it worked out for me he got the distance once again and the the frost reflector from cdu is great um but once again like see it's going to be an uphill battle for him the nova comes out shrink it immediately on the nova uh sleeping dust from ziko and the totems are being slain so what ziko wants to do in this match up is wait till cdu's out of mana he wants to wants to kite out cdu let cdu use a lot of mana kill the totems fake the earth shocks kill the groundings keep kiting and cdu will run out of mana cdu is hoping to rush ziko down pops the sprint has the free action potions you know as much damage as possible ziko if he plays patiently uh you know should be able to kite him out and wait till cdu zoom to really start doing damage yeah no i mean you're you're absolutely right trying to trying to take an enhanced shaman and and make him burn as much mana as possible is is key here because enhanced shaman is again because the build because the items in vanilla that they will use they don't have a lot of intellect they don't have a lot of mana and uh really cdu is uh he just has to try and close the gap here man uh but ziko is just i mean he's he's one of the best man he like he you you have such a hard time just trying to catch up to a man getting those false bolts off just tagging him and just stepping away tagging him stepping away and look at cdu's mana though i'm really impressed with cdu's mana really like normally in this matchup you would see this the enhance go um like super fast and cdu knows that ziko is trying to um him maybe he put on more spirit here maybe change his set around um but cdu is really impressed i mean like if cdu never goes to him it's going to be tough for ziko to kill why well because there's going to be non-stop groundings non-stop urshox there's the arcane bomb from ziko to train 1500 mana from cdu really like it but if cdu can keep up his mana ziko's it's going to take ziko a long time to get through the defense of shaman yeah no you're uh you're absolutely right and uh cdu is uh see he keeps he keeps getting close you know he gets he gets that frost shock off and he's trying to he's trying to close on him but he just can't quite get there and uh he's really feeling it man this has got to be brutal man this has got to be one of the most frustrating things to do is trying to chase down a frost mage like that and you know you have some counter play right you have the urshox you have the grounding totem you have the frost shock but sometimes it's just not a big counterspell on cdu so he can't cast anything right now for another couple of seconds and that puts him way behind and he's in the danger zone as soon as he was able to cast he tried but then he got hit with a big big rocket helm and this might be it for cdu this might be it ziko he's going to go with the arcane bomb to seal the deal oh healing pot being used from cdu yeah ice block coming out to break the cc cold snapping cone of cold it resists lesser healing wave coming through urshox coming out lesser healing waves to follow ziko has no mana but he has evo he has no manage him for about 30 seconds and no mana pot for about 60 seconds so ziko kind of has to wait for those but he sells the evo too i think so he can also just re-sheep to full and evo so it's not like ziko's in trouble by any means but cdu lived that onslaught and ziko played that pretty safe too with the arcane bomb silence and everything like that so i really like how ziko has done it but cdu managed to hang on for another little bit and you can you can just see the respect that ziko has for cdu i mean he knows that this is a very favorable matchup for him class to class but he has so much respect for cdu he does not want to give cdu a chance to do anything i mean that you you mentioned the the patience on waiting for the arcane bomb trying to cover all his bases to try and finish right there i think a lot of people would have gone into that duel of seeing a shaman at 16 health and just try and go for the big dam right and just try and finish him off right there but ziko he's oh he has the ability to just take it slow and finish him off right there and down goes cdu amazing amazing showing in the tournament i mean that was uh cdu has been a i mean he's been a great player for such a long time man yeah it's been a great player for such a long time and it was uh it's great to see him compete in this tournament and do as well as he has yeah i mean it's sad to see it's sad to see but i mean ziko played textbook um and it's so cool to see a play out the arcane bomb plays from ziko i thought were brilliant the opener with the title charm sheep i thought was brilliant um and cdu you know staying alive as long as he did and conserving mana for as long as he did and like ooming ziko to the point where like that was once the mages oom and out of cooldowns then it becomes a duel again like the shaman ooms first and it's scary the shaman could die but if the mages oom then it gets back to serious business ziko first player in the first seed to advance to the fourth round semi semi finals if that's a thing i don't know mezz versus big b nex we have the double hunter i'm excited for this one man like bean and mezz need no introduction right bean uh second place uh blizzcon mezz first place blizzcon well and bean um normally is main feral but in classic wow goes on that hunter and mezz normally means death knight but in classic well also plays hunter both players so experienced they're used to the big stage they're used to the pressure both picking up the hunter and doing very well in this tournament both players obviously have a loss today because it's they're still alive and they're standing there in in front of us and uh hunter versus hunter is is is not a matchup i have like a ton of expertise in i would uh probably expect to see is a pretty decently fast matchup here you can't run against another hunter uh too long sleeping dust from mezz to start things off just the sleeping dust from range and looks like he's gonna get that big aim shot to start but it might have heartbeat broke yeah uh i mean i i think this is gonna be one of those where like you mentioned earlier is like bean and mezz are uh very both very well known players and uh it's gonna be exciting to see how this one fares out to see who plays ziko the next round double viper steam coming out they're both 60 mana mezz has a slight favor in the health and scare beast coming out from big bean on the fred mezz taken a bit of viper sting damage so it might be more of like hunters kite each other out to viper sting whatever hunter's oomphers loses it could be a situation like that and if that is the case big bean is 40 mana mezz up to 50 so bean is is losing this mezz has the health advantage as well but anything can happen rng can happen classic wow can happen mezz using the elixir of poison resistance removing the viper sting from himself can cussive shot rng onto bean on lucky and wing click through right after oh look fred gets ice trap oh no see that's what i really want to see today it's being in mezz is a great match up i really want to see who does better fred or uh grason over there yeah seriously we have can cussive shot rng wing clip rng we have crit rng resist mezz is we'll see how it plays out it's very close i would maybe dare to say mezz is slightly in the lead both pets are just cc forever hunters are in melee range going for the wing clips bean might be the first one to get the other hunter oom they're pretty much both oom at this point they're both within five percent life of each other this could be anyone's game bean fighting for his life another improved wing clip from mezz he's all over bean now both pets connecting fred and grace into and work bean at half life no mana for scatter or feign death or trap or anything like that major healing pot used doesn't look like it does almost anything though um for bean i wonder what consumables we have left if we have teas if we have flasks now is the time to bring them out this is a duel to the death whoever loses will fall yeah big big trap avoiding the pet i mean this is uh look these guys are completely tapped they have no mana i mean they're just sitting here standing ten paced apart and shooting each other maybe they're getting in melee fred trap now bean has gotten some unfortunate that's huge he gets to first aid got the cross cc yeah he traps one and magic does the other bean is going to be able to first aid and drink this might be the momentum bean needs to turn the tides here oh no cross cc on the two players the viper sting is coming out beans taking the lead mezz is trying to get back in the range he's not quite shooting beans getting a massive lead from this there's the healing pot mess is not shooting he's just running in now he finally gets that viper sting off but bean now is a 10 or 15 percent health advantage mezz uses the magic dust and it looks like it resists he will not be able to pull that same play that bean just played can't take it from his playbook today the viper sting and the sticky glue connecting on the mezz another concussive shot rng on the bean and i think oh this could either way but it's a race it's a oh bean with mana bean with mana it's a dps race oh the flask the plastic it has helped back up just a little bit mezz looks like it's going to be fred or gracing oh that's the tuber and the flask to gain more life bean pops the tape to gain more life and mana trap into the scarebeast it might be a bandage cross might be a bandage the first date on the dot dude right as the bandage drop right at the d-bump dropped he was able to get just enough healing off viper scene coming out from both ends both hunters are pretty much tapped mezz is on 10 percent bean trying to finish it off but so is mezz it's as close as it can be bean's kiting it out there's a scattered trap gracing connects and mezz goes down mezz mezz takes down mezz what a duel oh my goodness man holy if this tournament started when this tournament started yesterday if i told you bean was going to take out mezz what would you have said i mean i would have said i want to see that and we just did that was great what a duel that was amazing man that was amazing the last like two minutes of that they're just out of mana and just trying to just shoot into each other non-stop just 10 bays apart like an old school western dude that was crazy yeah that's a perfect analogy i like hunter mezz i would love to see more hunter mezz that was a fun duel to watch like some mezz are just boring you know like we have that druid vs druid or whatever like hunter mezz i would love to see more of that man like yeah what a fun one next up we have another mezz we have the warlock mezz and this is a mezz where we've seen a lot of strategies differing strategies come out like pet kills or just going in for the kill more damage and seems like any warlock that's gone for the pet kill strategy comes out ahead so i would probably be willing to bet a gripping and mad knocks might both go for the pet kill strat because like that just seems to be the strategy that is winning the warlocks duels every single time yeah no 100 percent i mean that's that is the key the key is for sure to kill the fell hunter we've seen it time and time again and uh i mean now one one thing's curious is seeing the banishes go out because what i've noticed multiple times is one one warlock killed the other warlocks bet and the other one starts banishing it but why uh i i'm kind of surprised is to see why they don't just go for the banish right off the bat and try and uh make them choose like if they want to go for the pet or not i mean they're they're railing that they're railing the pets right now real hard so let's see how this one plays out it's a good question you know um maybe the banish gets spell locked and now you're locked in shadow and you can't fear and then the next banish you could maybe fear their banish you just stop the banish over and over kind of a thing and then all of a sudden you're in the spot where your pet's dead you can't stop the banish and now you're just behind uh maybe that's my best guess yeah i'd love i'd love to ask them yeah it might be a a weird interaction with soul link or uh with with how it works it might be like giving them free 20 percent mitigation because also a big reason to kill the pet is to stop that soul link right and so yeah there's the second pet coming in from gripping mad knocks secures that first kill gripping kind of kiting it out pretty well here fear coming out looks like yeah it's hard to tell he's ahead i guess guess the warlock with two pets is ahead still but both pass about 50 life mad knocks gets a full howl of terror there for bog medicine pouch coming up from gripping health funnel onto the pet they're trying to keep the pet alive at all costs and i don't blame them once that pet dies he lose all the classes utility both pets about to drop once again and we'll see who's pet gets re-summoned i can't quite remember it it's hard to see who's pet belongs to who yeah right now there's no pets but we're doing a it looks like he's going for a full summon no way there's a tongues on him but it was after he started he gets coiled he gets coiled at the last second yeah so it looks like both pet no mad knocks has the second pet so mad knocks is super a far ahead of gripping here huge yeah the arcane bomb could even out but yeah mad knocks um with the pet he also has the mana advantage i don't know what gripping is going to do here as fend yeah i i think this is a really really bad situation for gripping i mean you you're a pet down your fell doms down uh this is really bad that fell hunter is such a big part of the warlocks kit again with the spell lock with the devour with damage they have a lot of magic resist they're hard to kill in the first place but um and even if you're melee and you're trying to hit the fell hunter you have a stacking debuff that reduces your attack power so uh the they have a lot of mitigation and uh once it's down it's like oh man this is uh this is a rough go so we'll see if uh we'll see if he can survive but i think it looks like it's about over for gripping i agree let's get the fear off i was going to banish there's that there's that last second banish that he's trying for saying maybe if he can cross cc and reset is that a fear he's going for he gets it off three percent life well maddox successfully killed both pets as it stands right now that seems to be the most effective warlock strategy killing the fell hunter killing the second fell hunter and then winning with your fell hunter supposedly still up and and uh maddox showed is just that very well and advances to the next round yeah no no absolutely uh i think the uh i mean i think the thing that that we've seen time and time again in these warlock warlock duels is exactly that kill the pet fell down kill the pet again usually both of their pets die at some point and then somebody uses their fell down and or they both use their fell down and then it's once that second pet is dead it's just so hard to recover yep so uh yeah you you really got to get that lead early on and it just snowballs off that so oh seven another another valiant effort and uh maddox moves on so for sure another big oh go ahead sorry sorry before we head into the next one exactly uh before the next little guys i apologize this came to clear up something real quick uh no pun intended going back to the coward debuff situation i just want to give a big shout out to blizzard they were actually going to be able to remove the debuff for us there were some crossed hairs of communication with us internally as well as some different interpretation of the rules blizzard was about to help us out we fucked up behind the scenes on our end i take full responsibility for that so guys please don't blame blizzard i fucked up on the communication there they're willing to help us i owe lep in a big lunch and again super sorry about that guys we're trying our best this thing is crazy to manage but we're doing the best job we can so yeah i mean no thanks thanks for clarifying for that for us tips i mean that was uh i mean obviously this thing and production the admins everybody behind the scenes has done an unbelievable job and hearts in chat for blizzard to uh you know being uh being willing to to fix that i know there's a lot of there's a lot of things people say i mean i saw it in chat a little bit too where people are like oh well you know typical blizzard typical this typical that but uh it's it's cool to see blizzard has been so welcoming of community events and letting us us run a community event like this especially something with such a big prize pool and so many eyes on it like this is a massive deal right and uh blizzard has you know what chat you know what you guys are right historically blizzard might not allow this stuff but it's cool to see that over the last couple of years and especially more recently blizzard has really been uh they've really embraced the community and they've embraced these kinds of events and stuff so uh we just hope to see that them continue to do it in the future so like we appreciate that absolutely and thank you to tips in the back and man it things happen but you guys are crushing it man this is so fun i'm excited to jump in all these games so it happens it's all good yeah you guys are killing it thank you guys so much for supporting this event the casters are killing it everyone's killing it the duelers are amazing i'll go back to uh doing a shitty job see you guys later keep fresh bro you know you know what you're not doing a shitty job at tips is actually uh being being an owner of otk and an owner of star forage systems yes star forage systems dot com uh sponsoring this event as well so if you guys want to check out star forage systems mods if you can spam that link the odds are gonna spend that link they have the new custom cases and plate lights they are phenomenal they look gorgeous you may have seen them in person at comma con at uh twitch con i think we had some at packs as well you might have seen them on my irl streams whenever i was there so uh check them out star forage systems dot com there's also all kinds of builds from all kinds of uh all kinds of budgets we've got more uh more affordable builds we've got more expensive builds and of course there's a big halloween sale going on right now as well so if you're really teetering on whether you're looking to get a new pc you're not now might be the time to uh to check out a new pc star forage systems dot com it's definitely the time and it's also time to hop back into sony versus zero hunter versus warriors is another big matchup and we're underway starts off with a scatter trap and the uh off hand here to break the cc uh skull of impending doom being used from sony it looks like a little chicken being used in the intercept lands now this is uh big because of sony advances he's going to be fighting a warlock of zero advances be fighting the warlock it's very uh dependent on the winner here for the next matchup for mad knocks now uh sony gets cc and he's drinking out one of the free occurring themes we've seen in this tournament is warriors being so tanky and hunters doing a great job against them but not being able to finish it and seal the deal and that's that's kind of what mages have been struggling against warriors hunters have been struggling against warriors warriors just are so tanky like look at this so sony's barely touch zero sony is full life zero is 50 percent this is the situation as a hunter it's like okay my pet's dead almost the warrior's on top of me warrior is full life the rest of pot my oh sony free rest of pot of this if the trap goes out it's going to be dispelled sony's all over zero he's already been used circus dance coming out sony might be able to get that intercept off to zero and if not sony's in a great spot anyway intercept lands sony looking like a professional here today sony is teeing off on zero g right now and zero g is no slouch i mean this guy has been on fire all tournament and just like that sony pops the hell off on zero g who has been putting on a clinic all tournament long wow wow unbelievable performance by sony unbelievable performance by zero g in this tournament so far this has been absolutely incredible absolutely incredible job uh by sony in this duel and wow that ended quick just for context zero guys finished very high um on the hunter bracket yesterday into today's first matchup was a warrior zero took out the warrior no problem next zero took out payo as another melee player no problem next zero uh you know it's going into sony and from zero's perspective it's like oh another warrior business as usual let me kill another melee player and sony has a whole different game plan zero just wasn't ready for it sony took him out i mean it wasn't even close next up we have uh the druid mirror uh but before or in the next round we're gonna have sony against maddox and once again if i was maddox i'd be like damn it i have to fight sony man tough one man it's a tough one it's a very very tough one um in that next matchup we have the druid mirror i am going to go take a quick restroom break as well so i will drop it to you we are back go right ahead yeah man to to see sony uh perform as well as he has and to see warriors perform as well as they have all tournament has been absolutely unbelievable and we've got a uh we've got a druid mirror here gordon uh going with what i believe is like a ferro resto hybrid versus moonfire beams uh moonfire spam build the balance uh hybrid build so i really wish we had soda here for this one because he he knows this better than anybody but uh we'll be uh we'll be watching this right here so uh gordon is in stealth waiting for moonfire beam uh to see what they're doing moonfire is just sitting in bear form and just chilling just chilling i wonder what the strat is going to be here seeing two it's it is a mirror but it's a it's a mirror with two different builds gordon opening up with the pounce the fairy fire into the bear form moonfire coming out with a war stop into a hibernate gordon shifts out and whenever he shifts out he avoids the hibernate but of course he does burn mana doing so he gets slept moonfire coming out and hitting a regrowth trying to heal up keep his health high and he has uh he has the bear off peasant collar out and he's casting a starfire trying to kill the pet it looks like or no it's excuse me he's uh he's engaging on gordon here gordon uses his uh title charm gets back to him and you are not going to be able to kite really moonfire strength here is going to be the ability to uh the ability to kite in most duels whereas now when you're facing another druid they're going to be stuck on top of each other constantly so moonfire doesn't have the same ability to be able to get at range get get a range advantage against gordon and gordon being a uh a deeper feral hybrid hybrid build with a resto uh i think is going to have an advantage here moonfire is starting to separate a little bit but it's not going to be quite enough moonfire's mana is looking low he's under 40 percent already it looks like he popped a mana potion and was able to get his mana back up gordon's mana will see whenever he switches out of form and moonfire sitting in bear form he has the bleeds ticking on him he has the he has the uh the bleed damage ticking through from cat form which is going to cut directly through his armor whenever moonfire goes into bear form and he is just ticking him away with dots keeping that fairy fire up for its physical damage hitting the moonfire as whenever he can just constantly ticking away at his health getting the big bash getting into the arcane bomb stunning into the arcane bomb is going to allow him to hit it it's very hard to hit an arcane bomb on a druid and moonfire is low he is currently at 22 percent with a rocket helm and gordon is ready to tee off on him he's probably going to go for a restyled pounce out of form let's see what happens here is he able to finish boom there it is great job by gordon ramsey great job by gordon ramsey just like we suspected he was going to have the advantage in that duel against moonfire's uh balance hybrid build not being able to take advantage of his ability to kite which he normally can against the other classes however not in this case against gordon ramsey's uh feral druid build oh my gosh it's already over i was expecting the druid mirror to go forever well i think it would have if they were the same spec okay because gordon was playing that feral build so that uh so he wasn't able to get away moonfire wasn't able to get away wow so gordon just slayed it so gordon moving on that's pretty important for the bracket as well um you know seeing a druid up there is great because yeah with a lot of different warriors and warlocks and stuff i'm curious how like gordon's going to do against a super great warlock or something like that but it's good to see his name so high we have hydra versus j up next hydra got that win against lepon with the you know unfortunate circumstance but hydra gets to kind of prove himself against another warrior here j up in a second seeing if he can have that same type of strategy with no debuffs or anything like that so we'll see how it goes yeah absolutely and the winner of this duel will face gordon ramsey yeah and that'll be another great matchup if i'm gordon i could either fight a priest or i could fight a warrior i don't even know both of those seem hard from them from the druid paw but uh man warriors have just been doing so well in the tournament i don't know if i'd want to fight a warrior especially as feral like going head to head with that warrior as the feral so maybe i'm actually rooting for hydra here dual flag has been dropped competitors 10 yards from the flag as per the rules we're going to start it here shortly looks like j has 57 rage probably wants to start any second and there he goes improve hamstring right away arcane bomb lands i love the opener we have the shadow reflector pop and the enrage for the fear so the fear breaks instantly hydra just turtling and shielding himself and waiting for the next fear to give himself a relief from the unrelenting damage of j yeah i think with jay a lot of what we see with warriors uh is similar with uh or sorry with with warriors to warlocks is a little bit similar to war warriors with shadow priest uh being able to avoid those fears that psychic scream is is going to be a pretty big deal but these blackout procs are brutal man the blackout procs stacking up against jay allowing him to get so much allowing hydra to get so much distance jay closing the gap getting in there charging in there and being able to stick to him as much as possible hydra is just spamming dispels trying to make sure jay has as few buffs as possible he gets his mind flay pummeled shadow locked and he will be able to uh fear again very very soon uh very shortly he will be able to fear again i think jay is playing undead despite looking like a human currently there's the tuber the the kick looks like either missed or actually missed and then jay's at 15 percent life already wow hydra is just mind playing him down is that it's oh my gosh hydra came to play look at that he's just killing him in the opener i was expecting insane a lot different dual than that hydra i mean i was gonna say earn my respect hydra you already had my respect but now he's the warrior slayer taking them all out hydra is going to be making it uh to the next round congratulations that was a master class of a shadow priest it didn't even look close hydra was like you know what i'll just pretend i'm uh pveing here and and mind flay the warrior down they got the you know the casters say warriors are raid bosses will all treat him like a raid boss and min max my you know my my pve damage unbelievable yeah that was that was amazing i mean the fact that he just stood in there the entire time and just was spamming mind flay and he like it was it was a dps race and he was not able to uh jay was not able to out dps him straight up i mean that was that was insane no no need to kite no need to do nothing it's not what you would really expect right like you would expect okay if a priest is going to stand still against a warrior the warrior is going to rip right through the priest and jay had trouble building rage and jay had trouble connecting damage i think that the pommel did it just miss i don't know if it missed or if it like missed right like oh and yeah it didn't land and hydra strained them down it was crazy um that the shadow priest have that shadow form which is physical damage reduction i believe 20 and just tank the damage and kill them next up big sad versus infesters both of these players had a great great great showing today um we've seen warlocks just do really well in general strawman's going on pretty fast if we can get an inspect on big sad it'd be great to see the uh the talents and the gear looks like that two-hander is equipped we have that shadow reflector on the glimmering mithril insignia for the fear immunity for 30 seconds we have big five set or six set pieces uh here on we have the 100 hp libram that mithril insignia from the black smithing makes all the difference as fear immunity for 30 seconds into a warlock i mean that's the item you want if you're big sad yeah no i absolutely i mean that thing is that thing is so so strong i mean i've had it myself when i was playing classic and uh i mean when i was playing vanilla and it's it's just such a powerful tool and the goblin rocket helm charge right off the bat from infester killing all of the totems building some distance as well looks like the warlock will probably want to swap the helm so drop combat swap off that helm now that it's on cooldown no reason to keep it on so right there he probably swapped we get the fear casted with the curse of tongues fear might have resisted curse of tongues lands not what you want to see you have the tidal charm connecting from infester into the full fear this one doesn't resist 19 second cc from the warlock of course the damage and the heartbeat will make it break a little sooner train man is coming out looks like infester sticking to the strategy of burning the mana of the shaman and uh trying not to die in the meantime yeah i mean the big sad as you can see he's trying to stick to him as much as possible trying to stick as close to him as possible not only for uh uh but this is as excuse me this is he's in the handshaw man so he's trying to come in trying to get that big win for your procs on him trying to do the big burst damage that enhance shaman's trying to and uh really just keeping on him or he fakes the he fakes the earth shock able to get the fear out right here nice coil into the cc combo wands coming down to kill the totems another arcane bomb drops as it land it looks like a vasion from big sad on the bomb which is great another arcane bomb though onto the warlock this one lands as a five second silence that kind of turns the tides hellstone to top him off a little bit there lifetaps will surely have to come out big shane lightning from big sad infester popping the was a nogginfugger elixir earth shot coming in big sad looking to close it off infestors pet is dead he fell down summons another one almost expected a uh a void walker for the shield to come out because infester is so low there's another lifetap almost no man to work with big sad and hot pursuit infester is going to fall it looks like he's going to fall as a flask push them back to seventeen percent life three flasks allowed per day infester gets earth shock he fakes the cast refears big sad's not happy with that fear breaks early infester on the run curse of agony ticking down big sad i mean it is closed for our shock lands big sad closed the gap a couple more auto swings could finish it off infester at two percent off for the lifetime are you kidding me another fear oh my gosh infestors one percent i can't believe he went for the lifetap there infester you gotta run i don't know how he's alive right now man this is nuts if if if infester takes any damage at all he's dead the pet is running after the shaman shaman mana pots back up instead of the health pot which is also another crazy play the shane lightning being casted decides to fraud shock it's gonna be it no magic dust magic dust oh it breaks it's a tremor he trekkered the magic dust as fan he trekkered it the tremor totem breaking the magic dust huge man he pre-tremored play by big sad unbelievable dude holy hell dude big sad taking out infester one of the top war logs in the tournament wow magic dust is an instant cast ability just for context for everyone in the chat it's not like the warlock was casting a fear and you threw down a tremor that's not what happened magic dust is an instant ability you get it from uh the elementals in westfall all right it's a 20 second sleep the sleep can break to the tremor pulses the shaman had the foresight of this magic dust could come if i get cc the warlock can reset let me throw down the tremor on the instant cast it's similar to like deathing of blind really well played from the shaman there definitely deserves to advance to the next round we do see a warlock indeed fallen oh my gosh dude we have snuts versus shaila next this might be the biggest match of the day this could spell out like this could change the outcome of the entire tournament this is uh i believe is this the first warrior that snuts has fought no second i think but second warrior but uh it's a that's the first today and jaylaw is a is a top flight warrior i mean this is going to be one hell of a matchup snuts one of the greats jaylaw one of the great warriors i mean this is going to be this is the one to watch man you do not want to miss this duel right here so i know i know ziko's tuning in right now you know why because if jaylaw wins ziko has a great shot of winning this whole thing if snuts wins ziko has to uh fight snuts you know eventually probably and this this the whole tournament hinges on this match if the warrior takes out snuts here it is dual flags dropped i can't wait snuts trading the opener the um pet is out so we can sack the pet for the shield no fell hunter here okay we have the charge being expended from jaylaw and the helm being expended from snuts not dropping combat swapping helms keeping a jail on combat charge with the fab death coil coming out to respond beautifully played and responded to from snuts here if that death coil didn't come out jaylaw is gonna start shredding through snuts his life now snuts brilliant positioning staying far making sure jaylaw cannot connect for even a second because if he does snuts is going to get ripped with that jaylaw damage this is uh dude he was so far out of range we lost sight of him uh literally draw to his farther than draw distance right now so he's mounting up he's going to get back get on this and he's probably going to get in combat i would expect him to be getting combat before he's able to charge but he may have to go with an intercept which is exactly what we see intercept into a hamstring and he pops wreck he pops wreck right onto him so he's he's trying to tee off on him right now gets title charmed snuts trying to keep his distance as much as possible continue to keep his health up he does sack the pet and he casts another one there's a lot of absorb sorry there's a lot of absorb coming up uh and does not sack the pet yet but uh he continues there it is okay he did sack the pet there it is he did sack the pet right there and then he uh is absorbing not allowing jaylaw to generate any rage not allowing jaylaw to generate any rage while jaylaw is trying to tee off on snuts pops berserker rage stops the fear hamstring continue to stick to him as much as possible this is one of the biggest duels of the entire attorney jaylaw with an agm uh grandmaster train get being able to go with some absorbers we don't add some absorb to him gets feared away wills intercepts back sticking to him there is just an onslaught from jaylaw and snuts is standing tall hardly taking any damage avoiding everything he possibly can dropping the sleep and disengaging snuts use the first tee of the tournament he's zero tees yesterday to go five and all the first one expanded out of three snuts would only pull the tee out if he felt like he needed to so jaylaw is a really big opponent here for snuts there's the magic dust from snuts to reset and the magic dust from jaylaw will forsake and immediately another death coil coming in jaylaw getting low and snuts takes him out that could be gg we have another pet sacrifice a full fear from jaylaw jaylaw is looking like he might fall another health potion used he's back up to 30 percent there's the drain life coming out jaylaw is so scared another fate coming out from snuts well played there's the mortal strike drain life taking snuts down the mental dragonlings not going to be enough jaylaw falls and snuts advances that's amazing man wow what a duel what a duel dude snuts to be able to stand strong and just beginning absolutely railed by jaylaw and not even skipping a beat it was speaking of be like what's my beats per minute right now i'm not freaking out over here we need to talk to ziko we need to talk we need to get ziko in here and see how he's feeling i think we should i think i think absolutely we should let me see if uh let me get out on the field there let me have a word with him perfect that last game man my my my breath i'm like freaking out over there man oh so like oh we have a live interview out on the field looks like as font oh he's actually going to go and talk to the competitors yes hello i'm uh i'm out here on the field right now can you guys hear me zario can you know i can hear you oh hey we're here how's it going ziko hello all right it's going well that's fun wait let me let me walk up to you there i'm being a little bit shy here oh yeah don't don't be shy don't be shy ziko how do you feel uh i feel amazing you know we've had a great run so far had a couple of tough games but overall it's been pretty smooth sailing i gotta be fighting off against beam you know the man does have a hundred percent lose rates against me in tournaments but uh anything can happen today you know so we'll see wow wow no that's crazy now if uh when this when this tournament started if we were to tell you who do you expect to face in the tournament is it beam or mezz at hunter who would you have said well that's a tough one uh it's a really tough one i think bean has a little bit more classic experience but mezz he's been putting in the work too i think i would have to go with bean though um yeah he's he's just a little bit better i would say because of that experience so how uh are you are you afraid of this matchup coming up at all do you think uh do you think bean has an opportunity to uh to take you out i mean you can never count out uh bean but i i feel like uh yeah you know statistically speaking it's not looking too good for him ah okay well how about we talk to bean right here bean yeah go ahead and come on over here bean don't be shy oh he's muted bean get your ass over here do my buffs i can't can i be sony do your buffs okay my but dude there's no more like this look this guy right here this guy here he's dude ziko just talks so much shit about you dude yeah yeah listen ziko we've never had fucking pots buddy all right like just wait but fuck oh yeah you're fucking old mage ass with two fucking blocks can't be cc'd ass like motherfucking ass sorry ziko you should have heard what bean said about you before the tournament privately to me oh my god yeah it was always bad oh what i oh my god that you know bean he talks a lot but at the end of the day he had the easiest bracket out of anyone here so oh dude don't fucking warlocks in your bracket what the fucking hell i guess you're by bracket really oh yeah we love a bracket we do love the bracket sometimes you get lucky with the brackets don't be mean you can be mean to the bracket another time but today's you go i don't think you can be mean to the bracket because that bracket is uh is not that you need it but uh it's doing you some favors isn't it it has been doing me some favors this far it does far but like you know it could it could be better right it could be worse as well like you know my break has been good but has it been snot level good you know getting a buy in round one fighting greens like i don't know dude uh i had a decent bracket i had a decent bracket you heard it here first folks ziko's words exactly snot does not deserve to be in this round that's exactly what i just heard him say that's word for word what he said so we'll uh we'll see if uh he has the chance to back it up later and uh you guys are about to face off right now so or here soon excuse me soon you guys are is it right now or soon zarya can you hear me in the studio i can hear you as fan i looks like we do have a ziko versus bean match up coming up next this is going to be a big one beans pretty confident so is ziko we'll see uh see how it unfolds all right well uh back to you zaryu we'll uh we'll see these guys on the battlefield good luck to bean good luck to ziko thanks for that interview that was great uh mage versus hunter is uh it's going to be a good one you know it's it's going to be one of those duels where the hunter is looking to escape and the mage is crowding the plate and what's so cool about this duel specifically is mage is always the class that runs away mage is always the class that turtles it out and in this matchup it's the opposite mages are running in and the hunters the one running away and we have the mage playing very aggressively how's it out on the field as fan is that crazy out there what oh oh man it was crazy in there man that a lot of blood flush and it was a whole it was a whole thing man is there a lot of blood out on the battlefield no there's a lot of blood let me tell you oh man it was brutal i did i did not wash my hands either all right we have ziko versus bean coming up what a great matchup and man it was great to get that interview and hear their thoughts beforehand both players uh very confident going into this bean has lost to ziko in the past uh in other dueling tournaments it sounds like but in the past there's been rules in this tournament there's pretty much no rules it's a makara tournament so anything will go and bean thinks that's his advantage beans gonna have free action potions beans gonna have uh flasks and other items that he normally wouldn't have access to in ziko looking for that same game plan i can't wait for this duel because in a minute or two from now one of these players is going to be dead on the ground yeah it's crazy 300 hours of played time going to these characters roughly roughly 300 hours each and it's all going to end right here there it is full sheep to start things off well played from ziko pops the detect magic trying to find the pet in stealth if you can find the pet in stealth he was going to kill the pet he couldn't find it so he's just going to open up on bean without the pet there's going to be a scatter trap and bean looking for the reset ziko instantly knows to block magic dust from bean after the block magic dust will forsaken from ziko ziko blinks in there's the vibrasting ticking a lot of stuff happening uh magic dust to reply from ziko ziko elixir of poisons the vibrasting off goes back into range in the nets bean very beautiful exchange from both players but bean though short end of the stick big frostbolt is coming in frostbite rng going ziko's way big frostbolt conic cold connects that's big damage ziko's trying to raise bean to the finish this is exactly what he has to do there's the second scattered trap ziko is going to have to block this one looks like the trap resists bean sees it resisted uses the helm instead is the backup cc incredibly played from both players being probably swapping out that helm there's the vibrasting ziko can't quite get rid of that because he's in the cc there's the elixir of poison resists now ziko's playing the max range very well pushing into bean but he's going to have to close the gap he's going to have to push in somehow some way beans pad is out in the middle of the field getting slowed beans pulling it back beans has the chance here to potentially kite ziko out the blink into the goblin rocket helm to close a hundred yard gap what an aggressive play by ziko coming in to cc bean and try to take out the pet trying to get the pet out of the picture entirely and make it a one-on-one mano imano no pet fist to coughs let's see if he gets this trap off and he does oh but he has the he has the poison on him poison oh no poison breaking the trap there is huge if that trap didn't break i don't know how ziko i mean ziko might have had that second ice block the magic dust resist so a little bit of orange ego in both ways ziko out of mana pop in the major mana pot going back up to 34% bean landing some swings big frostbolt connects but bean is very tanky bean waiting for that three two one for the poison to fall off for this next scatter trap play let's see it happen there's the corner called scatter trap right when the poison falls feigned death to drop combat trap lands that's the last ice block of ziko it bean can make it one more dr one more scatter trap bean will win this ziko will have nothing left the viper sink comes out but ziko's boom there's the full poly in the evocate that ziko's last defense bean though ticking every second for that next scatter trap ziko has no cooldowns remaining bean doesn't look super healthy either though but 34% mana he can still do another scatter trap here that scatter trap can land he can kite ziko out if he can do that bean can actually win this duel and we'll see if he pulls this off here waiting to the last second on that frostbolt combo counterspelling to a corner cold gets the scatter off sleep will no we missed the trap you can't trap well counterspelled so ziko pre-cs the scatter that was an mlg play rank one play there if you didn't do that ziko might have lost now bean needs to wait for the next trap the chicken eating the trap ziko playing out of his damn mind this is insane to witness we have the frostbite proc bean trinketing out ziko is not letting him escape there's the magic dust once again ziko getting back in range this is amazing ziko once again knows he's in the lead but doesn't want to blow it drinks just for a second for another little bit of mana tick there's another counter no man out of his mind this is incredible the trap does go off though bean needs to reset this he doesn't have much time he was cc the gnomish cloaking device comes out the brakes he goes insane and will not let bean go oh no ziko i'll lower him how is bean not gonna die here a magic dust half dr comes out remember magic dust shares dr with the trap if that oh no bean won't be able to get away i think ziko has done it 20 life another flask has been used bean has 16 and bean is gonna fall another flask back to 20 but what is bean gonna do what is he really gonna do the frost nova comes out into the conic hold ziko is a master class mage wand after wand bean back into the sleep ziko gonna drink back up and i don't think there's anything bean can do to get himself out of this one i i do i just love the respect like he goes and he's like look i'm just gonna play it slow i have the dust use it finish it off what an amazing duo man what an amazing and that could have gone that could have gone so differently if bean was able to land that trap off of the counterspell oh it was able to land that one i think definitive turning point where it's like boom it is done it is it is over immediately full tilt ziko was just driving into bean and bean was just on his back heels just taking it non-stop so i mean that was a really really really good play by bean up until that point that's whenever ziko took over and ziko moves on to the next round unbelievable i don't think ziko would have won without landing those clutch counterspills i really don't 100 the counterspell made all the difference if ziko didn't pre counterspell not one but two of the scatter traps in the clutch he lost and there was so many mechanical things happening in that duel like it was scatter trap and then when the scatter trap was ice blocked it was magic dusted from bean but then will forsaken from ziko and then the rocket helm and then another cc break which is back and forth it was like it was like seeing the highest level chest match it was so so great there was it was amazing it was absolutely incredible man they uh that was an unbelievable duel it was great to watch a huge huge play by ziko at the end there and uh yeah i mean that's that's part of the course that's what we expected out of this bracket we thought that ziko was going to come out on top we thought that he had a favorable matchups all the way up the ladder and uh we're here so our next match coming up we're gonna have an interview coming up as fan get back to the field bro i gotta i gotta get out there with my microphone we have sony versus mad knocks this is the next match up we're gonna see you guys in the semi semi finals we have warrior versus warlock up next and as fans going out there to speak with them live in person and kind of collect their thoughts can you guys hear me barely yeah what's up they're barely uh there i left my i left my microphone on the on the desk that's what happened hello i mean in yo in the in the broadcast truck that's what happened how are you guys doing good are you i'm i'm good so this is what i heard before i heard there was a lot of smack talk between you guys is this true dude i tried to like half heartedly smack talk because i got the vibe he was like a nice guy and then he just started like complimenting me and just saying all kinds of stuff like i don't wow just hanging out honestly mad knocks would do that mad knocks yeah me too how do you say those terrible things to sony yeah i don't know i'm just born that way i guess wow man you can just hear the hate and vitriol in his voice this is obviously going to be a very very deep-seated personal match between sony and mad knocks i don't think either of these guys like each other i don't think either of these guys will ever like each other nope i hate this guy man yeah i'm just kidding i'm just kidding this guy's been super respectful he's a really good warlock we faced off in the qualifiers and i'm excited to do it again yeah sony was my only lost in the qualifiers and now we're meeting again so let's see that's fun ready brother ask mad knocks if he learned anything from watching the duels today i'm hearing in the studio we have a question for the studio did you learn anything from watching the duels today mad knocks um yes and no i feel like it's really hard to do some of the tactics that other warlocks try to do versus warriors snuts is like really good mechanically so he can pull it off but yeah it's hard it's hard right uh sure wow significantly better that's amazing that's that's quite a word mad knocks let's do it all right well uh we'll see you guys back uh we'll see you guys on the battlefield here shortly we got mad knocks and sony coming right up zore you back to you in the studio great this is such an exciting match up to see right once again it's a big one warlock versus warrior um sony has played quite a bit of warlocks it sounds like these guys did face off in the qualifying rounds and sony did win see if we can see uh sony take him out in a similar fashion i was asking mad knocks maybe if there was anything he learned because uh you know we have seen this duel go both ways it does seem very difficult and seems like an uphill battle for mad knocks i know mad knocks you can still hear me can't you buddy good luck on your duel still hanging out in here that's great good luck on your duel in just a second you can i want to distract you in this upcoming duel though uh if you want to mute me i'd be maybe advantageous we have a little flag about to be dropped sony's full rage here and uh looks like he's ready to go man yeah this is uh this is gonna be a good one man sony's uh i mean this is a good match up for the warrior this is the warlocks worst match up actually from what we've seen so far and so you know sony's coming prepared sony he definitely i think he came out of yesterday with uh with a target on the back of the warlocks so he said look if i can i've got everything down if i can compete well against the warlocks then i'm going to be doing uh fantastic tomorrow so let's see it he opens up with a charge right here charge into an arcane bomb you've got the improved hamstring proc while he's silenced and he's really getting a chance to tear into him right now mad knocks has got those absorb shields up preventing sony from building any rage getting feared out getting separated from him berserker rage to stop the fear and he's going to go and he's going to re-engage on him while he's getting dotted up you got the curse of agony taking taking you have the corruption ticking and uh sony is wailing on him mad knocks goes and he fell down so he does a sack fell down with a void walker to get even more of an absorb shield up and as you can see sony is running dry right now he's hardly generating any rage with those absorb shields running he finally got some fun they got through that absorb shield and we can expect to see mad knocks go in after that fear he will probably be using that uh that pet again to get a pet sack he has almost a no mana already running drain lives i would expect him to sack the pet here soon you're being casted from mad knocks sony not going to get faked here another berserker rage coming up preemptively arcane bomb silenced for five seconds not what mad knocks wanted second sack coming through as you mentioned and sony's gonna have difficulty building rage sony's getting very dangerously low waiting for those dots to fall off maybe he's going to be able to get a first aid or a bandage tick off here mad knocks though not happy yeah oh the diamond flask said that's great he gets the charge really well played from from sony here mad knocks that shield's about to follow the life tap coming through because he's close to out of mana the fake on the pommel from mad knocks very well played but the mortal strikes coming in it might not matter he's a couple percent away from getting executed here from sony 21 percent shadow locked and that's going to seal the deal sony moving to the semifinals huge huge huge lockout on the pummel pummeled the fear he faked it and then tried it again sony got it right away on the second fear huge huge play i mean sony is uh sony's on fire right now man this is a this is sony's redemption arc a little bit getting to uh getting to come out and getting to perform you know he you know we've talked about it before but the warriors have not really gotten to uh to show how good they are in previous tournaments and previous classic tournaments because of uh the rule sets and not being able to use really a whole scope of the game and you know sony is going to take advantage of every damn inch of it that he can i mean he is here he's here for vengeance he wants to show that hey he's still got it okay this guy's been a gladiator since he was about 12 years old so he uh he definitely wants to show out and put on so it's all very very exciting to see next matchup sony has a ziko mage versus warrior i mean i can't wait to see it and we're talking to sony yesterday during the interview and uh it was potentially going to be a situation where where sony was like i i think i could do it i would love to see sony show up against ziko like a mage versus warrior duel classically very mage favored but that's going to be for later right now we have gordon versus hydra and i do believe we have the pleasure of interviewing them as well beforehand as fan if you want to go back to the field and see what they have to say yeah we do we do let me uh let me let me go have a word with them perfect i know we're gonna have a lot of great questions for them hydra guys he needs no introduction one of the most decorated players of all time absolutely incredible shadow priest and it's just a pleasure to get to watch him play in gordon classic expert he's done incredibly well in the qualifiers and um up in this tournament so far uh to us fan yeah thank you thank you zoryu i'm here with hydra right now i'm here with hydra and gordon will be short joining us shortly hydra how do you feel about the tournament so far oh awesome man yes um my main goal was getting top priests which we've done so pressures off a bit i think we didn't waste our time uh pretty much never play shadow so yeah i'm glad to hear that man it's you know you've never you've never played shadow you're performing as well as you thought you could perform so uh what made you decide to go shadow priest i tested all the specs and shadow made me the most moist oh there you go that's so so your moist meter was high yeah well that's great to hear man that's usually that's usually how i determine what i want to do on any given day about anything so uh you're facing gordon ramsey do you hear what gordon said like 20 minutes ago about you what i just i just hope he doesn't start sharing with me mid duel man there he might he might gordon what do you have to save yourself in context of what what it would what's the context here oh he said he was a great guy and you can't wait to do it oh yeah he's the best man look at him stand next to me he is just looking like an absolute you know his his wallet is looking mighty thick right now too i'm not gonna lie wow hyzer can you believe you would say that about you that is so crazy yeah i'll take it i'll take it i'm not saying i'm not gonna yell him okay i can't get banned all right guys i'm not gonna pull a gordon all right we respect our competitors i want to i want to hear this uh so you did you go with like a feral resto hybrid build what build are you i am deep feral because every other jude build is so boring there we go that's it going for uh going for the uh the style over the performance that we've seen from other people so soda yesterday said deep feral is stupid and nobody should ever play it but here you are deep into the star forge hardcore mac gara finals so how does that make you feel well just let me remind soda that i beat him in a duel to qualify for the first ever cdl as feral all right all right soda no i'm kidding uh i generally think though for this tournament format that feral just is overall better just because of the rulings for like protection potions and whatnot so it kind of fit my niche already because i made feral forever so i just wanted to roll with that and prove it wrong or prove everyone wrong playing to your strengths so we got two different strategies coming up in this next matchup hydra trying a new build for the tournament he's never played shadow before and gordon ramsey on the other hand playing his tried and true deep feral spec despite uh other other druids may be saying it's not as good and winning uh winning some mirror matches and stuff too really really showing up and playing late into the tournament so we're excited to see what's going to happen next and uh back to you as r u in the studio great uh that's perfect i also just wanted to congratulate gordon i believe he is the top ranked druid in the tournament and uh to hydra for being the top ranked priest which guarantees them each $6,250 of that remaining prize pool which is pretty awesome to see uh we have warlock still battling out for that top warlock spot maddox and snuts of course still in the tournament and uh looks like ziko is that top mage big sad is that top shaman and we have a couple other spots that might have some tiebreakers or or something like that but for some of these players that is awesome man especially like hydra was saying you know for a priest it might just be the goal not to win the tournament but to come top priest and hydra's like that's that's what i wanted to do maybe hydra's goal was to never uh you know win the entire thing but if he could be that top rated priest that's why you picked priest and looks like he did and so congrats to gordon and to hydra and we're gonna see these two uh behemoth battle it out here in just a second gordon without full deep feral spec hydra with that shadow priest spec and i think hydra was being a bit humble he says he's never played shadow but i he is such a priest legend that uh i know he could pick it up real quick and and gordon with that familiarity with that feral spec it'll be really cool to see how it goes out hydra though in his last few matchups slaying these melee players like they are barely uh a threat you know he's so tanky he's doing so much damage um that if i was gordon i might be a little scared here you know what i mean i might be a little scared if i was gordon to just to face the mind flays of hydra absolutely absolutely uh yeah sorry i took a little bit longer to come back i was dry i was like dragging some sand into here but uh yeah no we we are back uh yeah no i think i think this is going to be really exciting to see i mean we're probably going to see more of uh so what we saw earlier with that match up was we saw the shadow priest trying really hard to stick to druids which was very difficult because uh the druids have so much mobility and that's a weak point for shadow priests so they really got a hope for the blackout procs uh even even if they mind flay they're slowing you a little bit but they're not uh you're not moving while they are moving and they're moving faster so that percentage decrease isn't really that strong uh gordon's build is the opposite being that deep feral build he's going to want to engage on hydra and really fight him toe to toe and uh i i think what we're going to see here is going to be something probably different than any other priest druid matchup that we've seen and we might see a little bit of what we saw with uh with the with the last shadow priest matchup where you're just standing there toe to toe and just spamming mind flay at some point even who knows but uh i don't necessarily think that's going to be uh what's going to happen but it could be interesting to see it'll be it'll be a very different matchup yeah i'm looking at these brackets we're really getting there man we have the semi finalists uh ziko and sony and gordon and hydra and big sad and snuts are going to be battling it out for those final two spots in the semi finals well after that we see ziko versus sony the winner of that will uh advance to the grand finals and then from there we're going to have uh you know the winner of gordon versus hydra versus the winner versus snuts and big sad also do duke it out for the grand final spot so we're really getting towards the end of today and some of the best matches we've seen yet are about to happen like we said next up it's going to be feral druid versus shadow priest the top priest versus the top druid and the entire otk hardcore makara tournament here today and then next up we have the warlock versus shaman matchup and there are still two warlocks fighting it out for that top warlock spot and some of these other ones will have to figure out exactly who's coming out on top but here we have duelers moving into position here just to remind you all this is a makara tournament what makara means is you're dueling to the death one of these players will die momentarily here today gordon and hydra have put in hundreds of hours into preparing and leveling these tunes and classic hardcore world of warcraft and one of them will fall yeah no absolutely i mean this is uh this is going to be a big duel it's going to be an exciting one to watch very very very exciting to watch and it looks like we're getting started right here gordon's opening up on the hydra pounce coming out goblin rocket helmet from hydra probably go with the spam purge is here make sure gordon has absolutely zero buffs to help out you know his duel here hydra after the spam purge it's going to be a little bit lower mana but it's definitely worth the trade a full fear would be likely to come out here in a second um looks like a mithril dragonling and barov shrink it so and and a shake and a lot of different pets here from hydra blackout prox exactly what hydra's looking for fear still off of cooldown and a mindblast mindflake combo connect gordon just taking so much damage and the shadow reflector isn't going to stop as much as gordon wanted it to wow yeah no this is exactly what what we mentioned we might see it's really just standing toe-to-toe a lot of what we saw against the warrior matchup of the shadow priest where hydra is just able to to tee off man oh my gosh this looks so one-sided hydra standing his ground with the mindflakes just like he's done to all the warriors and gordon's gonna meet the same fate it's not gonna be not going to be too powerful pain we'll finish him off hydra taking out all of the melee players with a single mind flay very impressive man if i am any of these players i'm scared to fight hydra for i mean he just stands his ground and just kills him it didn't even it looks so one-sided so well played man yeah that was that was absolutely wild i mean we mentioned it i i didn't know that was exactly what was going to happen but uh that was i mean that was exactly what we saw happen with the warrior so uh no that was very very impressive i mean these guys so shadow form actually has massive physical damage reduction uh and uh even though they're cloth wearer they have like something like 15 physical damage reduction when they're in shadow form so against any sort of physical class like that they're just avoiding so much damage so they're able to stand tall there and and be able to take those hits and uh dish out a hell of a lot of damage you know shadow shadow priest melt faces in pvp you know everybody knows that everybody set up for years shadow priest melt phases in pvp and we just saw happen there against a very very good druid the the winner of 62 sixty two hundred and fifty dollars gordon ramsey is so congrats and for that but unfortunately his character has been slain today next up we have big sad versus snuts snuts has been slaying everyone he has not lost a single round yet same as ziko ziko has not lost any rounds in the qualifiers snuts has not lost any rounds in the qualifiers and it's going to be snuts versus big sad coming up snuts uh just so well prepared and so well practiced for this i would love to see what big sad has in store for him i will say big sad just took out infesters the infester being the the last warlock to be eliminated so big sad does have practice recently for killing warlocks um so we'll see if he can uh dish that same fate on over to snuts i think we might have uh snuts and big sad to talk to shortly here as well okay they're gonna be joining us here very very soon yeah we're gonna be joining us very soon uh again so the guys we had that were undefeated going into today were were snuts ziko and sony is that right did we have anybody else who's undefeated going to today i i don't believe we did and the shadow freeze thoughts oh salt was on oh yeah you're right he was salt was also undefeated going into today so uh yes the uh if you were undefeated going into today this is a single elimination so those those guys who are still alive are still undefeated so they have killed a lot of people they have won a lot of rules and i mean like you said earlier in the day zoryu these characters are going to have like a collection of ears whenever one of his tournament is done one player sick yeah one player sorry excuse me one player is gonna have a collection of ears when this thing is done so um yeah it's it's very cool to see very cool to see and one player is going to walk away with this with how many years like how many rounds are there five rounds plus the grand final so it's one player is going to walk away with six years and we'll see if we can uh use advanced technologies to talk to these players uh using some type of radio cell phone instead of going out to the field if that's right with us fan uh yeah i mean i can i can head back out there so i just cleaned up in here and um oh uh i'm gonna go back out on the field that i'll talk all right as fans going back out on the field uh we have snuts here and big sad uh chatting with as fan here uh yeah i'm excited for this next matchup can you guys hear me over there hello am i not okay no i know you guys are shy and don't want to be on camera but uh but no i'm just waving at you guys from here we can just talk from a distance sounds good doing you guys ready for this duel yeah a little scared a little scared oh no i'm that's not what i heard earlier i heard you say man snuts is going to be a joke i have practice against warlocks and snuts is going to be so easy is that true sort of so i i got to level 39 in the tournament and i uh died and i'm usually renamed as big sad but i usually go by emco and so that's kind of where i'm at right now nice nice very good well look it's good to see you perform here today you have some practice warlock snuts is shaking in his boots is that right snuts hundred percent hundred percent yeah after i saw that last duel against the other warlock this is not going to be easy snuts is terrified and again i i know you guys are hiding off camera right now and they're you're shy so please if you guys are watching at home in the studio please uh you know show some respect to our competitors they don't they don't want to be on camera uh they said they want to get in the shade it's very hot out here in the sun so uh yeah what i mean what are you guys going to do with your prize money if you guys win and take snuts to vegas all right snuts what are you gonna do i like the plan of that i'll take i'll take emco to vegas hell yeah we'll hang out we got a deal well great so this is a little bit of collusion going on they're taking each other to vegas all right so look i'm gonna let you guys stay in the shade let you guys relax a little bit before your duel and we'll go back out to the studio zoryu uh back to you there it is first no matter who wins this next duel snuts versus big sad they're going to vegas it's going to be a good time and snuts is fighting for that top warlock spot i do believe if he makes it then that means he gets the top warlock guaranteed uh to meet ziko and sony in the grand finals and hydra uh same with big sad i think big sad is the top shaman no matter what so big sad might be able to make it to vegas all on his own no matter what win or lose and hydra is awaiting the victor of these two we're going to get started here in just a second and that warlock versus shaman another classic matchup players have logged in looks like that dual flags about to be sent down as soon as these players get all buffed up yeah it should uh this should be a great great duel this should be a really good one uh coming up it's uh it's going to be very exciting these guys are about to drop that muck gara flag uh snuts and big sad a lot is on the line right here a whole lot is on the line and they're uh they're about to get started here shortly definitely snuts looking good he has that weapon in shant the fell hunter by his side and look at all that corpse is out all around him man it's a battlefield of blood dual has commenced big sad running towards snuts fear coming out he's trying to fake cast the earth shock but big sad knows better he's not going to get faked he does get faked there as i say that full fear lands no tremor totem down snuts is very happy with an opener like this full fear big sad 40 yards away casting that ghost wolf to try to close the gap in one of snuts is strongest assets is his mindfulness when it comes to positioning he is always using positioning to his advantage he's pre-kiting he's staying max range that's the difference between a professional or someone that's good or someone that's great and snuts knows this he's making sure that shaman can never play never get close to him he's very careful on where on the map he's positioned title shaman in the full fear train man a combo coming out big sad and he feared right through snuts snuts is going to have to get a reefer going off big sad landing a fraud shock and a two-handed swing onto snuts it's the first point of damage big sad is done done here from second fear comes out looks like it breaks might be that elemental trinket thirty second fear immunity about the big sad zoom and fifty percent life job i was about to say snuts has done a great job of burning big sad's mana so i mean he's really just kept him he's kept him at bay keeping his mana low i mean snuts has played his resource management is just impeccable dude and warlocks more than probably any other class have the ability to manipulate it big sad is trying to do whatever he can but he is completely dry he's low on health he's getting slept and snuts dropping the dots on him sending the fel hunter he knows there's no chance and lightning because i just tried the chain lightning as he goes down and it's just not enough and snuts snuts is the victor big sad tries his best but he is unable to sustain and survive the onslaught of the mana drains burning his mana down all the way and then taking him out so great great job by snuts great job by big sad emcl was what he normally goes by but he named his character big sad for a tournament because he lot of lot of big things just happen there snuts secured himself in the semi finals it's top four time it's really exciting and not only that but snuts secured himself six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars by being the top rated warlock in today's tournament as we take a look at the brackets mad knocks did not make it to the semis mad knocks is that second place warlock now if i'm mad knocks i want snuts to win right because if snuts wins mad knocks will be the top lock and get paid 62 50 and snuts will take the 50 so mad knocks is hoping snuts wins right now for big payday but in the semi finals we have hydra versus snuts we have ziko versus sony and the winner of each is going to be placed in that grand final spot for the grand prize of fifty thousand dollars now one thing i want to i want to confirm here maybe maybe one of the admins can help us out with this but uh i i'm pretty sure big sad uh was the top shaman in the tournament now at this point so big sad does get the 62 50 or yeah big that is true okay yeah so big sad goes home with 62 50 at this point which is a uh to be honest that's i mean that's a big payout you you end up being the top of your class in this tournament you're getting a massive payout i mean six two hundred dollars is huge uh so the first place is just unbelievable it's fifty thousand dollars but uh even first place or sorry even top of your class gets 62 50 so yeah and next up we have ziko versus sony and i'm and we're gonna we're gonna chat with them first and then after we chat with him we're gonna we're gonna get to see that matchup ziko versus sony coming up soon and mage has traditionally favored in the warrior but there's a lot of different things happening here one it's not any warrior it's sony the top warrior of this tournament so no matter what sony's getting that 62 50 once again for that second place warrior your hope in sony wins right for that payday and sony has all the all the potions and all the buffs in the world so like sony is is as prepared as he can be but so is ziko and we've seen mages being taken out from warriors today we've seen warriors take out hunter today for the sole reason of warriors being so tanky we'll see if ziko can handle the tankiness of sony or if sony will be able to 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got that egyptian blood in me so the heat it's not a problem it's more about the cold so i'm glad you guys picked this location it actually gives me kind of a a bit of an edge i think over over the other competitors oh very good yeah i'm the same way that's what i've been i'm dipping my dipping my toes in the sand here a little bit kind of getting getting deep in here because it's just so comfortable and uh yeah you're gonna be facing in sony and uh sony's around here somewhere sony sony is coming in soon yo oh there he is yo sony sony how do you feel about facing ziko right here honestly i'm chilling i'm like just zen it's been so many huge matches and such a long tournament that i'm just like i'm excited to play i'm excited for the this exchange of it's like just this exchange in this battle in this moment because like we have i'm not on any drugs by the way i'm just in five in pitch like no it's just like it's really cool like i was thinking about it i like went into my backyard and put my bare feet in the grass and took a piss and i was like this has been such a cool day it's like whenever we're ever going to have this moment again of like all these consumables all these big names makarov battle to the death um and the fact that it's on classic wow the game that i love and grew up with and like we're all coming back to it it's just i mean i'm sure you guys feel the same way it's dope i'm excited i'm excited for this fight no absolutely absolutely man i mean this is this is something that like i mean we first started talking about doing this event and when we heard about the hardcore servers being a thing we're like dude we should do this i mean tips obviously like you know tips tips was real bullish on it i mean he was like the vince carter like he's trying to come back he's like man i i'm getting the itch to do like a cdl type thing again i'm like dude i'm down but i want it to be an event where it's just no holds barred i said no rules at all effort yeah but then as we kind of started thinking about it and planning it some more it's like okay well we got to do a little thing here a little thing there and i think this is probably ended up being probably really the best dueling tournament that we've certainly that we've done in classic wow and uh hundred percent it's been amazing yeah no yeah it's you guys are having fun i'm glad that uh i'm glad that the viewers hopefully are having fun and it's been an absolute blast putting this thing on production it's been killing it everybody's been killing it our volunteers everyone so a hundred percent and i hope you guys take pride in the fact that you brought it full circle right like you guys went off and did your own thing after 2019 classic but for tips like we all knew tips is like the private server guy right he was the warrior you put together cdl then you guys popped off with otk and then common it all like all the way full circle and putting a hundred thousand dollars up for classic wow players out of all games that's just sick man so shout out to you guys like this you guys got some good minds and good hearts this dope shit i appreciate it dude i mean you remember like back when we were doing like i mean you you came on classic cast with us you know that on that one episode oh yeah those new tips and stay safe and we're talking about classic cast and those were like the good old days and like the thing is like i think if you love classic wow you will always love classic wow regardless of what you're doing now what you're doing tomorrow i mean there's there's always going to be like if i have a chance like i think i think all of us feel this way if you have a chance to like uh feed into the community and to give back and to be able to host something oh yeah like that's how all of us feel so it's it was something really cool to be able to do and i really do appreciate that so yeah so jim said about you he was talking mad shit so this was he oh dude mad shit dude i can't help myself yeah no it's all good bro oh man i can't believe the the bad blood between these two guys is going to be unbelievable today i mean this duel is is this is going to be one for the ages it's warrior versus mage sony's got something to prove he's like look everybody says warriors send no chance against the mage but i'm going to be the guy i'm going to be the guy that stands up against the majors and not only that i'm standing up against the major beat the defeated ziko and ziko is ready for it it's going to be amazing zoryu back in the studio i'm going to kill ziko i'm going to kill ziko today for all warriors around the world i've been getting kited for 20 years all right boys this is for you guys here we go zoryu back in the studio well guys you heard it here first sony is going to be the first warrior to take out a mage in the history he's going to be fighting for all warriors and take down ziko we'll see if that comes true or not i know ziko is very well prepared for this up and coming match and i myself can't wait for it guys this is this is the best of the best of the best one of the best warriors ever to do it one of the best majors to ever do it clash in a head to head warrior versus mage but this time with no rules you can fap you know a free action potion you can you can use flasks consumables no hey man get back here you can use anything you want all right and it's it's going to make it into a duel of the century i can't wait to see this one um because like i said normally mage does have that uh advantage but we've seen warriors do very well sony has uh that tauren uh increasing his hitbox sony has every piece of gear you would want every inchant you would want every consumable you'd want but same with ziko so these guys are really going to put these two classes to the test and see with no rules who is actually favored in this matchup that has normally been considered a very very one sided matchup from the start of time oh and here we go we have the duel flag going down here shortly sony looking good in that tear set and ziko has that human consumable on sony has that full rage so i know he's probably like come on let's get the duel started come on ziko was prepping up with buffs here getting fully consumed up and dual to the death flag about to be dropped any second now predictions as fun i mean obviously normally mage but predictions into this one dude i think that if there's anybody that's going to do this match up right it's going to be ziko uh and i think if there's anybody that's going to do this match up right it's going to be sony yep so this is going to be a tough one man this is uh this is going to be the big show and it i was just going to say i think ziko is going to take this but man it'll be great to see sony win this there's the skull of impending doom to break cc right away sony popping the trinket kona cold to follow ziko kiting out fear comes out will it forsaken to respond well played from both ends full polymorph does land sony was very low it heals him back up and ziko knows he needs the distance here frostbull going off drinking back to full hp or full mana rather 86 percent so he gets that charge on the heart beat break that's now ziko is looking for frostbite comes out sony breaking the nova there zerker comes out as well a little a little preemptive though because the magic does uh sony now has to sit that uh sleep there from the magic does ziko is going to get some distance from this another frostbull coming out heart beat break not in sony's favor this time frostbull lands and a frostbite connects as well ziko's happy about that we have sony bridge in the cab ziko insta ice plot cancel into the frost know about kona cold think that kona cold resisted it was just a rank one though ziko's fighting for control here he's not fighting the kill sony he's fighting to not die rank one frostbull it's coming out ziko very prepared for this five stacks of winners chill pretty shortly fire blasts for a little bit of damage big frostbull on the sony here sony's on a 75 percent life he hasn't really connected quite yet there's the blink on the intercept ziko keeping distance another frostbull coming out ziko popping the early major mana potion i love it arcane let's see if ziko can avoid oh it lives very nicely aimed arcane bomb there from sony huge huge huge arcane bomb uh sony is trying to build some distance back i mean he's definitely hurting right now getting kited it's something that he's uh obviously had nightmares about in the past but sony does have everything in his disposal to be able to come back on this and to be able to try and finish this thing out he's trying to get out of combat he did switch to battle stance i think he was trying for a uh trying for a charge but unfortunately he was unable to without getting back into combat again he does have a detect magic on him and he is getting that winter chill stacked up the charge gets blinked immediately afterwards and sony is feeling it right now this is a this is a rough one man sony is going to pull out all the stops to be able to follow up against ziko and uh he pops the fap right there seen him do before he uses that rocket helm to try and wait out the time of the free action potion the free action potion is going to keep oh heart beat resist big heart beat resist so he does still have his fap however he falls it up with a sleep right afterwards and he ends up waiting out the entirety of the free action potion and falls it up almost immediately with a frostbolt and sony is back getting kited once more just perfect timing from ziko there's a net coming out this could be the second ice block drinking instead in a renova perfectly played there from ziko he knows the timer on that's a frog calm down there it is man kona cold cold snap second kona cold fire blast it all happened so fast we could barely see that huge burst from ziko and ziko secures himself a spot in the grand finals today what an incredible run from ziko well played to sony as well i mean i mean it's a hard match up one way or another well played to sony sony still gets the top warrior but ziko not only is he the top mage but he is the grand finals the first grand finalist today look at sony guys in your macarons every player that loses is dead incredible look at that dude i mean sony sony did a phenomenal job in this tournament man he really did and he deserves all the props i mean he was he was my dark horse pick you know not because of it being sony at all but it was because he plays warrior and historically people count warriors out and he he played there right up until the semi finals getting a chance to uh to compete in the big grand finals and he does go home with 62 50 he does go home with $6,250 and he deserves all the props in the world for preparing for this thing coming out hot and uh performing big time big big big time yeah that was that was awesome to see so i guess mages do indeed beat warriors matter no matter what oh man it happens um what a what a fun duel to spectate as well but looking at the bracket next up hydra versus snuts man if you're hydra i mean you've made it to that top pre-spot it's really uh exciting hydra said that was his goal and he succeeded in his goal of course you never want to stop fighting and hydra's up against snuts next and snuts i mean uh sorry historically warlocks in this tournament are taking out every priest we have not seen a single priest i believe take out a warlock today just every priest fall into warlocks and it's not a warlock it's nuts having said that it's not just a priest either it's hydra there's a priest to do it it could be hydra i'm excited for this matchup it seems to be warlock favored oh man who do you have for it as fan man i i i don't see how hydra pulls this one out i mean hydra's an unbelievable player but i feel like whenever you have guys playing at the highest level right at like your your min maxing playing your class to a hundred percent of its capacity like these guys will it's going to be really hard to see a shadow priest beat a warlock pulling out all the stops so uh it's going to be cool to see it's going to be cool to see how it finishes up but i think we're setting up right now to see that uh that zco snuts final i mean hopefully uh i mean i would i'm going to be honest i love snuts it would the storyline of hydra beating snuts would be sick but the storyline of zco and snuts in the final is also sick so i mean that's it's been a this has been an amazing tournament so far everybody has done an amazing job all the competitors everybody working on the production everybody on the back end the volunteers the admins running all those duels yesterday i mean i couldn't even imagine uh how hard these guys were working to try and keep track of everything keep that bracket updated counting tallying every single thing and uh and you too is argument like you you have done an absolutely phenomenal job uh co-hosting this with me unbelievable play-by-play stuff man your your you've been killing it i really appreciate you being here man hey back at you man this has been such a great treat to be able to just watch this like i said uh earlier today and yesterday if i wasn't uh you know a part of this event i'd be right there watching it with you guys there's nothing i'd rather do than watch a bunch of the best players to ever do it get out and duals to the death doesn't get much better than that and we have snuts versus hydra just man both of these names we have uh have known i mean i've known snuts is named since i was probably 14 and same with hydra watching their montages on warcraft movies watching their montages on youtube watching their streams watching them in tournaments and to see these two legends legends do get out today is just such an absolute pleasure um like we said snuts on the warlock might have that slight advantage there and the dual commences hydra getting some early purges off dots being shared and spread around snuts once again at the positioning he's known for running away instantly using that max range to his advantage against the shadow priest fel hunter being called back acic dust used and snuts wanting to slow down the dual yeah just going in right at it he's got that sleep up he's uh going for the drain mana strat we saw this earlier from the warlocks draining mana is uh if you go toe to toe try to drain each other's mana it looks like it's not going to work out for the shadow priest even though that's one of their strengths uh the warlock sustain is so high that it's uh it's not going to turn out well for them uh snuts going out reducing his mana as much as possible but now he's separating now he's running away kiting him out a little bit reapplying dots putting that corruption back up he's got that curse of elements on him as well and uh going back out with the drain mana as soon as he gets in range both players so experienced using the major mana potion within the first minute of the duel and you know if you're tuning in today from home you might be wondering why would you use a mana pot when you're 80 percent mana well because it takes you to a hundred percent mana and starts to cool down on mana pots you could use that second mana pot sooner both players did that within the first minute and i just it just goes to show how experienced these two players are i must say hydras holding his own 72 percent mana and still full life against snuts we have not seen a priest versus warlock duel this close yet snuts using a second t that snuts his second t of the three for today that's only one t remaining in snuts is finding this matchup so close that he has to use that t hydra using the t of his own as well there's the magic dust coming on to hydra once again here from snuts and man this is looking great for hydra the early heartbeat break onto hydra shadow reflector from snuts hydra stunning himself with the shadow reflector reflect on the mind blast he gets the proc that's very big for snuts huge for snuts and following up that fear with another drain mana separating from him dotting him up and just working him down just like that that shadow reflector was absolutely massive i mean having that blackout proc on a shadow on a shadow reflector is insane rng insane rng and uh really snuts using uh really the thing that hurts shadow breeze more than anything is is movement mobility and using that strategy was advantage keeping him moving not allowing him to uh just stand tall and be able to tee off so there's a blackout proc on the snuts right there following it up with a death coil or returning it with the death coil again working that drain mana draining his mana getting his own mana back not losing the mana battle managing his resources impeccably against hydra hydra's doing a great job at snuts is pulling ahead in the long game the shields are starting to get purged from the fel hunter the fel hunter starts to hurt after a while hydra using another mana pot he has nice and healthy mana but once the priest drop shadow form to heal back up it's the beginning of the end right because then you have to heal back up use all your mana and he drops shadow form right there he's using mana for renew maybe you're going to use more mana for a heal and snuts taking his time to first aid he pulls the pet back expertly to drop combat that's for snuts to swap gear sets out of combat snuts swap trinkets there and surely swapped helmets as well maybe even a belt swap shadow reflector and title charm maybe not so snuts putting the pet back in curse of agony connect same with that corruption and hydra still not back into shadow form hydra 40 life 50 percent mana and now goes back shadow form but hydra doesn't get to top himself back off there there's another T that's a second T from hydra probably the the third T for today so i don't think hydra is any more T's it's every consumable use but hey why not you're in the semifinals if you don't win your dot you you lose and you die and your characters deleted every single item in the bags should be used right here you want to leave nothing on the table you want to put everything out in this duel and snuts and hydra are duking it out for this win yeah i mean this is this is just i mean this is something where they're going toe to toe back and forth i'm very very surprised at uh hydra's ability to be able to hang on i mean obviously he's an unbelievable player uh incredibly well known but it seems to be that he's on his last leg right now he wills the fear going for the mind play is just sending whatever he can for this arcane bomb might be too much for him the mana drain into the silence let's see if snuts can finish snuts is low mana but he is he has the patience to not life tap that's it and finish him with the wand incredible we have a grand finalist oh my gosh at the start of the day i was like the number one matchup i want to see today is ziko versus snuts in the grand finals and guys we get to see it this could not have been a better grand finals game to get to snuts versus ziko i mean come on you can't script it better than this you just can't i can't wait to watch i must say though congrats to hydra on a very well played job during this tournament pop priest and hydra i mean did a great phenomenal job in that duel it's just it is a very difficult matchup and and hydra really fought to the end yeah i know that was that was the unbelievable man it was unbelievable from hydra uh coming out and uh i mean he had an unbelievable run he normally doesn't play shadow like he said uh but he's he's a big time pewpeer and uh actually we're gonna go have a uh i think we're gonna have a word with his uh with his spirit i'm gonna have to uh i'm gonna have to find a way to get out there yeah sounds good move to the move to the graveyard and i think hydra will be somewhere around there but yeah that last duel is just an absolute pleasure to watch i think in a momentarily we're going to be able to find hydra's hydra's uh corpse here there it is uh to you in a second here as fan i think i think we found him oh we found him uh i'm not feeling too good bro i'm seeing that do you need to see a doctor uh i don't know i think i might need more than that if we've got an exorcist all right i mean look the way your skin's looking we might need two exorcists i mean what's your job i mean it's a beard bro that's my stubble that's your stubble i mean yeah looks like it's rotting off the boat i mean i mean it was stubble once it was stubble okay well how are you gonna recover from this uh i guess we go again bro hey it's time to go again so maybe uh maybe we'll do another one of these in the future and you can go again yeah man maybe the next one could be on e you i think there's a lot of lads on e you that want to play but they didn't want to want to continue with the us paying it to be fair it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be so i had a lot of fun maybe if we can get me a passport i can get out to the uh EU calendar and we can figure yeah let's go with you yeah okay how'd you feel about your performance in the tournament uh i was knew wallet was going to be hard um i practiced a lot for it it came down to rng a little bit but like he kited really well like he he basically has to range uh my fear as much as possible if i get fears on him then i have a good shot but my fear in the open are resisted and uh after that he just kind of really well so i got i basically need to get the blackout on the rank one pain spam to try and push him for the fear but if he's good and cs is me then i can't get a fit anyway so it's it's a rough matchup now absolutely well you performed unbelievably all tournament you uh you really put it on like you said you don't normally play shadow but you've been performing an unbelievably high level and uh i think EU is very proud of you you know you put on for the EU boys and uh you're going to be going home with $6,250 yeah i hope my boy z can uh can avenge me man i wanted to face him so bad in the final dude we were talking about it i was like it was like if we've meet in the final it'd be like the best thing ever and i was so i was trying so hard for it but yeah it was uh wasn't meant to be hey next time when you go again sounds good man thanks for uh thanks for the end all right we'll see you later man hey back to you Zorya man what a great guy absolute legend and that was just such an amazing duel and man speaking of european versus na one thing that i just realized is once and for all after today's grand finals we're gonna see if na or europe is better we have snuts from na we have ziko from EU once and for all we'll know the answer to the age old question na versus EU it's gonna be great ziko versus snuts coming up soon oh my gosh i can't wait this is for all the marbles and i think right before it we're gonna take a look at all the blood that's been shed on this battlefield oh what a day look at that 63 competitors were killed today look at the body too we have one more to go oh excuse me 63 will be killed today 62 have been killed so far well 61 somebody did it was a no show and got the cute but lots of bodies lots of dead bodies today oh sevens in the chat what a beautiful beautiful sight to behold fighting for honor fighting for glory and fighting for their share of a hundred thousand dollar prize pool the biggest prize pool in classic wild history this is one of the things from day one i was excited for like this final spot we knew it was going to be the resting place for 63 contestants and one player will be able to last long enough to stand in front of all of them with all of their ears gathered up in a string around their neck so damn cool and ziko versus snuts couldn't have scripted a better ending like either way it's going to be mage versus warlock i must say it's gonna be a little maybe warlock favored but it's ziko if any mage can do it it's going to be the big z look at all these absolutely corpses man this is going to be a big one man this is going to be exciting to see so uh and again a huge shout out to jay the bard i don't think jay the bard's got enough credit for this but jay the bar is the uh this is his song he he wrote us a mot garas song so uh hopefully we'll get to be seeing jay the bard at blizzcon uh friend of the show he's uh he's been on loop goblins and many many things that we've done in the past so uh huge shout out to jay the bard for this lovely ballad of mot garas man all these players corpses all the gear all the hours every quest every dungeon every boar slain to level up look at those shoulders it's just like man that i was what i was so excited for for this tournament man all the professions the goblin rocket helms they're all dead on the ground every single one of them except ziko and except for snuts they have the most blood on their hands so much blood has been shed today it's gonna be the best grand finals ever i just can't wait to see it yeah it's gonna be amazing man it's gonna be amazing man i love seeing all those dead horde there's just something about it man that's just beautiful that's a sight to behold yeah absolutely man i'm really curious i don't i don't know if we're gonna have the opportunity to speak to ziko and snuts before this match or after actually we're gonna be able to jump into a ziko snuts interview before the match what an opportunity i'm really excited to see what's going through these uh guys's heads right now yeah maybe head out to the field and see if they're out there getting prepped for the duel because yeah i mean i want to see specifically if ziko has anything you know up his sleeve some hidden tech maybe saving for the finals i know snuts is almost out of tea uh to you as fan oh thanks for thanks for having me so are you i'm out here on the field it's uh it's getting hot out here i mean this uh like i said the sand is getting hot and hopefully it's gonna cool down here pretty soon it is getting late in the day uh here on the na side of kalim door uh and we are ready for a massive massive grand finals snuts versus ziko and uh i think they're gonna be ready to join us here in a second are you guys uh oh i think they're over there hey can you guys hear me i can hear you what's up hey what up what up how's it going these guys are real shy they're they don't want to they don't want to see each other before the wedding so like they're they're standing off camera so how do you guys feel i mean this is it this is a big show whichever one of you guys wins this duel will win 50 thousand dollars and the loser takes home nothing plus 62 50 how's that feel um you know it's been a long time coming for sure me and snuts you know we were talking about a little bit earlier but since level one basically we've been talking about how uh it's been a lot of banter you know when i'm leveling snuts has been grinding and you know it's like four a.m my time and i'm like yo snuts uh i'm not feeling a little tired bro go take some rest man like you're doing good like you don't need to be playing right now and he's been he's been kind of hitting me with the same lines every time he gets an item he links it to me to get something with frost res on and he's like oh this could be nice i'm like i don't think you need that it's been it's been fun you know we're old friends and uh yeah we played a lot together in the past and yeah i'm excited to uh yeah to to play him wow so that's crazy even even at the early age of level one these guys have been uh training together since the very early days and now they've made it all the way to level 60 and they've had banter they've had it back and forth they've had a very uh serious intense but loving rivalry and it all comes down to this snuts how does that make you feel yeah like zico said we've been back and forth for the last month now i think both of us are just happy for this to be kind of be over um well like today for it to be the last day because it's been on our minds a lot both of us put in a lot of work and um yeah i'm just i'm happy i do get to play zico one time this tournament going back and forth yeah it is it is the finals so so what kind of storyline is this you know we're opposite brackets and we just somehow both sweep our competition and we make it to the finals so make it all the way to the finals the only two remaining players who are undefeated in the entire tournament now i gotta ask are you guys going to have any sort of uh personal uh hate towards each other after this duel no no no why not are you glad well the way i see it at best snuts get his revenge you know after the last otk tournament where uh you know uh things didn't go exactly his way if we put it like that um and uh you know i'm okay with that snuts a good player you know losing to snuts uh many you know there's a long list of people who have lost to snuts so you know it's it's no shame uh if that happens but i'm gonna try i'm gonna try okay so i mean it's crazy that both you guys say that there won't be any uh hatred towards each other after this duel because both of you guys sent me private messages telling me otherwise but we can talk about that later uh sorry you back to you in the studio let's get this duel started perfect man i can't wait guys one of the pop orlocks and top mages of all time about to duke it out in the otk hard otk hardcore muckera finals i can't wait we have a bingo card to look at after today jukin interrupt yep level 40 green gear yep duals timing out yep snuts versus ziko yep payo is late yep like almost all of these things oh that's great lose this is not checked off bingo that's amazing we actually got a bingo very good very very good oh that's great i can can you believe the like the the amount of drama that these guys have between each other it's just it's second to none i've never man i've never seen two guys be be so uh just passive aggressive i mean you heard that whole thing right yeah i mean i they sent me dms too like it's crazy like the crap talk going in between these two guys and like they don't want to say it to each other's faces though um but let's just let them battle it out to the death instead and whoever wins this you know is going to be alive and whoever's dead will just die forever so it's fine yeah i mean that's just that's just how it goes i mean this really sets it all uh to rest puts it all the rest it's going to settle the whole thing so i mean hopefully you know hopefully the things that were said to me were uh you know it was just uh it was just in passing maybe it was just the heat of the moment thing and they didn't actually mean it because that was man some things were said that i mean i didn't even know what half those words meant so it was uh crazy the stuff i heard man all right well in this matchup guys it is historically warlock favored you know like we saw ziko talk about that a little bit um there are plays that could be made the death coils one of the strongest cooldowns on the side of the warlock and that's snuts and snuts wanting to land this death coil for many reasons one it's a hard cc that's instant so you can fear off of it two it heals the warlock and three it actually deals damage ziko looking to shadow reflector the death coil or ice block the death coil um those plays could turn the title a bit for ziko right if we see a shadow reflector on the death coil the the death coil reflects back to snuts man i'm going to freak out like that those are the types of plays that need to come out from ziko to win this we're going to need to see ziko piting it out and killing the fell hunter and then like counter spelling the fell dom so he doesn't get a second pet on that point two second cast and then re cc snuts for the remainder and then snuts is stuck without a pet like we're gonna have to see miracles being made here from ziko but if a miracle is going to happen i think ziko could perform it he is absolutely the guy to be able to pull it off so now i'm very excited to see this i mean we're gonna i think they're gonna pull out all the stops i mean you mentioned earlier the uh the secret tech that ziko claims he has up his sleeve that he uh did not tell us about and uh i'm hearing that we are getting ready for people's cooldowns so we're waiting for their cooldowns uh to pass so i wish we had uh i mean really i wish we had quinn here to help us stall because i mean that you want to talk about a master class we had if we had quinn here it'd be great but in the meantime i'll go ahead and tell you guys more about star force systems dot com so uh star force systems dot com uh new custom cases and plate lights of course i've talked about it before if you guys want to check out star force systems that's the golden dragon the cladded gates and uh the other one that i'm drawing a 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merch uh just came out a little while ago so there is still some merch left some things are sold out but there's still plenty of merch left if you guys want to check it out now uh that's available you got some scan those qr codes and help us pay for this hundred k uh price pool so that's uh we need all the help we can get so if you guys if you guys want some merch if you guys want something get cozy for uh for the winner uh go ahead and check that out absolutely and like you just said as fan this tournament would not happen without the sponsors and without all of the admins and volunteers in the background making it possible as found that i have an easy job we just get to watch the games and talk about them all day but uh people like tips out pulling all nighter after all nighter and these admins and these you know the players leveling up and the viewers at home making it all possible so huge shout out to everyone for making this happen we just uh we get the best seats in the house you know we just get to watch it live some of the best tools of all time play out and it's been absolutely a pleasure i can't wait to get into this yeah no absolutely it's gonna be it's gonna be amazing man uh it is gonna be absolutely amazing do we have a uh do we have an ETA oh okay we got about a minute coming up man we got about a minute coming up until uh until we get these guys started quick predictions quick predictions in the last 60 seconds as fan who do you got it's it's hard for me to go against nuts i'm gonna say it's it's nuts oh man i mean so from day one you guys asked me my predictions i've been saying snuts the whole time i can't say snuts but let me say this all right i can't not say snuts but let me say this i i would love ziko to win like how cool would it be to see ziko on the mage take out snuts oh here we go oh here we are boys the final moment here it's all kind of come down to this we got ziko and snuts both fully vest and slot out they had the time the preparation the mindset to get into this tournament they've made it here each player concurrently has five ears nuts with five years ziko with five years the winner will have six and fifty thousand dollars mage versus warlock here we got the arena grandmaster and that ice reflector equipped from snuts dual flag has been dropped and we're about to get into the grand finals today as fan absolutely this thing is going to be massive i cannot wait to see how this thing goes imagine they draw it's like a sapper that kills and poe oh my gosh oh here we go it's coming out we have the corruption to follow snuts doing what he does best and running away with that positioning ziko has to chase him down in a super long duel the the warlock is going to get more and more and more and more value and ziko knows this i wonder if ziko is going to go for a pet kill strategy or if he's just going to try to just kill snuts in a burn strategy fireballs being casted with with the curse of tongues it's a long cast time for not much damage arcane explosions coming out and kona calls the pet already half hp and snuts popping that rest opa which does share cooldown with other valuable potions a big rest opa right there trying to uh trying to stop everything curses everything the whole nine yards curse magic everything uh it's going to be huge it's going to be huge in this duel so hopefully it pans out you know going the decision to use that instead of using uh like a health or mana pot yep there's the goblin rocket helm from ziko ziko's looking great so far still two blocks plenty of consumables flasks teas but so does snuts there's a death coil no blocker reflect on it but there's still time ice block on the fear snuts knows he has to get it done that way there's another thorium nade it lands on the pet and the snuts the pet goes down that's pet number one snuts uh sleeping ziko with the magic tusk fell doming the second pet huge sleep huge sleep it allowed him to be able to cast the pet without worrying about a counterspell so let's see ziko is probably going to try and separate and maybe he's going to try and kill this pet right here i'm thinking ziko goes for two pet kills and if snuts isn't careful that second pet will go down and then the mage will have uh you know a chance in this and that's exactly what we're talking about if both pets die the warlock is a lot weaker it's just hard sometimes to kill that second pet ziko if there's going to be someone to do it it's going to be him another rank one frostbolt lands that's trying to devour those buffs off of him with the pet dispel ziko getting the remove curse on himself as well health and mana have been pretty much equalized ziko has one block remaining snuts no fell dom left there are tons of consumables though from both ends and snuts just playing the max distance game like an absolute legend not letting ziko bridge the gap here keeping him dotted up just one or two dots will do all the works nuts needs he does not need to overextend here yeah i mean this is uh i mean this is like two gladiators going at it man these guys they're just beautiful dude they're doing the dance they're going back and forth perfect kiting snuts taking the pet in and out is uh this is a master class man on both ends that is fake from snuts there on the counterspell the blanket might have resisted snuts being able to successfully cast that fear although ziko's going out of the dual range i wonder if he's going to make it back in it's he's so far out looks like he will make it back in polymorph being casted drain mana from snuts and this is not what you want to see from the side of ziko snuts full health full mana ziko on the run there's the manager the cold snap one ice block remaining ziko definitely on the back foot right now fell hunter in hot pursuit ice barrier up snuts pushing his advantage the fell hunter devours a spell unfortunately not the ice barrier but the ice barrier breaks anyway so much damage from snuts second rest pot used here it's going to dispel a magic ability every five seconds grabs the nova it's really well played from snuts the spell out comes in it acts as a blanket silence there on ziko for three seconds the drain mana is ticking ziko lower and lower in the last and final defensive cool down from ziko has been used that's the second ice block and keep in mind none of these guys neither of these guys have lost a duel in the entire tournament they've undefeated today obviously but also in the qualifiers they have not lost a single match so this is huge absolutely huge one of the things that makes this match up so difficult for ziko is not this so tanky it's he's done it $50,000 look at his face oh my gosh he's so excited congratulations to snuts we're gonna have to grab him in here for an interview momentarily what a moment what a moment that's incredible well played to ziko as well still securing himself that spot as the top mage but just so well played here from both players what a master class of a warlock from snuts the kites the patience the fell doms it was just beautiful to see well played congratulations and i think as fans going to go out to the field momentarily to give uh snuts a congrats and a quick chat absolutely i'm out i'm out here on the field right now do you have me can you hear me hello hello sorry yeah yeah hello snuts how are you looking you're i thought you were much taller i'm five five king man oh well hell dude you're playing like a like a seven foot five just a bigger king congratulations man you have won $50,000 here in the otk stars forage hardcore mock carot tournament the classic wild mock carot tournament the biggest prize pool in wild history how does that feel dude i'm in i'm in disbelief right now man i'm just a lot of emotions it's a long long long month man very long month bro yeah absolutely man i mean you you got $50,000 i know you talked about vegas is there anything else you want to do with this $50,000 uh i i might have to send a blizzcon i originally i wasn't planning on it but we'll see we'll see how we feel i i'm definitely gonna need a break after this after this uh tournament so we'll see we'll see what happens we'll see what happens absolutely man you've been grinding for 30 days straight if you want to take a vacation you want to go to blizzcon i think you absolutely deserve it you've done an unbelievable job not just this month but in the past you're one of the most highly decorated players in the history of wow and uh to bring it full circle doing it for many years in retail and all the later expansion but also coming back and doing it in classic and vanilla as well that's got to feel special doesn't it it feels great man and i want to say thank you to you guys for putting on the tournament uh i mean obviously this was the biggest classic probably the big one of the biggest tournaments we've ever seen um and also on top of that just shout out to all the competitors too this has been a very long and draining month for all of us so at the end of the day i know it was just one person that won but everyone put in the work everyone put in the effort and everyone deserves a shout out because this was just an absolute insane month to grind and and try to try to prepare for this tournament absolutely dude i mean is this something that you guys you guys have done a phenomenal job getting ready for this thing just like you said you've done a phenomenal job everybody also everybody on the back end we've talked about production and and how how much work has gone in this we have volunteers people working on the back end as admins as well i mean radar i o helping set up all the tournament stuff all the bracket stuff everything dude it's this this is a this is a big community event right and it takes everybody from from start to finish and uh for me like i'm super appreciative of you guys for competing of everybody who's put the sleep was nights in getting this thing ready and uh for how amazingly well it's gone it's it's super cool so congratulations to you snuts you've been incredible you've done incredible today you've done incredible in the past and you're gonna keep doing incredible in the future man i'm incredibly proud of you and uh hey i'll see you at blizzcon hey i'll see you there thank you again guys thank you and thank you to everyone that helped me out and uh yes like i said man shout out to all the competitors every single one um gg's to uh to everyone gg's we're going back to the studios are you i think we might also have a few questions here for ziko but before we hop into that i just want to say uh congrats to ziko for becoming that top ranked mage player in second of the tournament ziko um i don't know if you can hear me from uh from the desk if not we'll have to go back to as oh you can yes sir oh as fen might go talk to you there in person oh that's great uh if you can hear me ziko we're gonna shoot over to as fan for a quick interview oh absolutely oh no ziko i uh yeah how are you feeling down there well you remember how we were talking about how it's too hot uh that's definitely not the case anymore it's kind of cold down here bro oh yeah i can see that i can see that you and look you played phenomenal all day bringing it all the way to the last second i think the sun is going down i think that's why you're feeling a little cold i'm feeling a little cold too my feet are kind of getting cold here so i'm going to put them in the sand maybe maybe that'll help a little bit so uh look uh hey unbelievable job i know it sucks that you know it losing never feels good but you still go home with six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars which is amazing that's that's still a lot of money it may not be the fifty k but it's still a whole lot of money you you competed at a super high level for the entirety of the tournament and uh you should be really really proud of that thank you thank you so much uh for those words esfan i appreciate that and uh i feel like i had i had a pretty good run uh made a couple mistakes in the last match and uh you know when you fight somebody as good as snuts and and you're playing uh you know against uh kind of a counter matchup as well you can't afford to make a single mistake uh so yeah fair play to snuts uh grass on the wind to him and uh um just massive thank you as well for to you and czar for the incredible casting to soda you know i guess he was okay too and uh yeah just in general the otk gang and all the admins and everyone just for putting this on it's been an absolute blast uh to to be doing uh this event with you guys so thank you so much thanks dude i really appreciate it and i said this earlier too but but i'm appreciative of you guys right like the the tournament is is great everybody's done everybody's done great right but we have the best players in the world the best players in in the history of wow competing in this so uh it's it helps a lot when you guys are the ones showing up and and putting on for the tournament yeah absolutely i mean uh the competition made it really funny and uh exciting to be here and uh you know uh there's a lot of people you know it's always bittersweet uh when you when you make it you know all the way to the to that last finish line but uh there was a lot of great players in this tournament uh and uh it was it was fun to just be a part of that so uh you know shout out to all the the competitors for uh putting in the work and it was fun you know this was really a unique event because um you know first of all it's hardcore so it was always like a little risky going into groups and doing things like that and also working as a team with the people that you're going to be facing was it was really a unique experience so i i really love the this event yeah man well you hey look you absolutely killed it are we gonna see it blows come uh sadly no i i can't make it this year i would have loved too but uh next year hopefully i'll i'll be there okay well hey well we'll see you next year then but uh but until then thanks a ton for joining us man and uh we're gonna head back to zaru in the studio thank you too congratulations again to ziko still placing number one for mages in the tournament and i mean same with like hydro went into this thinking like i want number one priest and it might seem like oh a loss or whatever but dude ziko got number one mage that is awesome and of course congratulations to snuts as that grand final champion proving why snuts is such a household name proving why he is so good if you guys don't remember um historically 2019 cdl snuts won four years later makara otk hardcore attorney snuts wins again just i can't speak highly enough of snuts such a good player congratulations to snuts for taking home the 50 thousand incredibly well-deserved such yeah there's the winner guys go check him out he streams on twitch he has social media snuts just go google snuts twitter snuts youtube follow him absolutely everywhere go show the man some love i mean when you think of like wow legend i mean snuts is always up there take a look at there's a stream right there go say hi to him go support him go show him some love and and man he really did put in the time the work the energy the effort to play warlock to its absolute max level and it showed today yeah and and it goes upward all these guys man go go throw these guys follows uh make sure to go follows are you if you guys uh if you guys are new here make sure to go follow follow everybody man uh this has been uh this has been a great tournament everybody has done a phenomenal phenomenal job uh for this whole thing and uh i'm super super thankful and appreciative of everybody putting in on this man even uh even like tips man tips is uh you know he's he's been working all the back end stuff for otk lately you know with with our whole otk crew like everybody kind of does different things has different roles and uh tips is like to varying degrees tips basically completely doesn't stream anymore and he just only works on back end stuff so i'm super appreciative that uh tips kind of you know he put the cleats back on and ran out there to help organize this whole thing just like he did with a cdl with um helping get the rules situated and managing all the admins and all the staff and everything like that so huge huge hearts and chat for everybody man they they all did phenomenal you're the man as fan honestly you killed it those interviews are hilarious are you much props to you we owe you and man you were amazing out there and i'm just gonna pop in real quick i just want to give some shout outs to some special people that made this event possible so i appreciate all the kind words there were 30 people involved in putting this event together we had a team of 30 behind the scenes scouting out dueling locations organizing you know the competitors we had 2,600 people register and play in this tournament only 130 made it to the qualifiers and 64 today with snuts coming out on top so shout out to everybody that participated over 45,000 hours of dgen lives were lost to this tournament so uh uh 07s for those i guess also just want to give a few special shout outs to space who stayed up with us two nights in a row to scout out these awesome dueling locations big shout out to him sarin zulace prestige and lemmings in particular the past couple of days we haven't slept just to make sure everything was as smooth and perfect as it can be big shout out to the raider i o team for setting up the entire registration process and the back end for this tournament the mythic talent team that helped us coordinate both duels yesterday as well as helped us facilitate this whole thing the full production team rockman who's been doing the camera work today and yesterday big shout out to him kandu and his team who set up the website the bracket that you guys saw today as well as yesterday and they made that awesome cinematic transition that you saw today the super like highly produced makar animation jay the bard for the awesome makara song big shout out to him much love to jay he pulled that off in like 24 hours it was amazing shout out to wowhead as well who wrote a couple of articles about us and of course blizzard for letting us put this event on you know obviously this was i think this was an awesome event i hope you guys all enjoyed it they took a big risk on us letting us do a hundred thousand dollar tournament so big big shout out to blizzard and if you guys enjoyed it let us know and blizzcon's a couple of days maybe they'll let us do do more who knows and finally sorry one more i'm so sorry i haven't taken so much time but one more shout out to lepin who i totally fucked over today and i'm never going to live this one down but twitch.tv slash lepon he was the warrior that got the coward debuff totally screwed him over today guys if you could go check out his twitch channel if you could have some mods span his twitch on the chats twitch.tv slash lepin please give him some love he played awesome today he just he he was super brave going in that duet hydro with that coward debuff and just want to say thank you to him and thank you to all the competitors that competed and all the staff everybody thank you so much this was so awesome and i'll shut up now yeah i think uh you know that's funny somebody i saw somebody when lepin was going i think somebody goes oh lepin that's the twitter guy so if you want to follow him on twitter it's lepin dk i always see his tweets in my four years so i think i could follow his twitter too i had to i had to double check i was like wait is it lepin or lepin dk i was like no dk on twitter so there you go yeah no it's uh it's it's very i don't know this has been great man so thank you guys for watching man viewers i'm i hope you guys enjoyed this this was uh i'm kind of like this has been like this whole thing has just been like uh like it's just been on my mind since and before we started even because obviously we're organizing it and everything and we got we got blizzcon blizzcon coming up and i'm so like i think i think we all want it's so bad man this classic plus like we're all so passionate about classic wow and and uh i'm i just hope that we get i don't i know what's not gonna happen but like every time somebody talks about it it's like it's like a progress bar and like i'm just please like you know like so we'll see we'll see what happens at blizzcon we know there's gonna be some classic news but what it is i don't know man i mean what we're just we all love classic wow we we want classic wow to get the the respect it deserves and uh it's been super cool to see that it's it's getting that so i'm really really appreciative of everybody who's watching the stream and um and supportive of everything that we're doing i mean we're always just trying to do our best and and sometimes our best is sometimes our best is good and sometimes our best is really good so and sometimes our best isn't so good so that's how it goes man but no matter what we're always just going to try our best here so we really appreciate all you guys man and and everybody who's re-streaming this everybody's watching this appreciate you guys watching i hope you guys had a good time i hope you guys chats had a good time watching the show and uh yeah it's uh it's been great sorry do you have anything else i want to say a final thank you to you as fan for uh fun you crush it today too for for having me on this whole event it's just been such such a great time uh thank you to tips for for having me i've got to say this has probably been the highlight of my entire career like today's been great it's been really cool if you guys enjoy the stream uh follow and uh yeah thank you guys so much for having me the whole otk crew's been great peckys in the background's been great and uh all the staff the admins the volunteers and the players and the viewers so uh thank you guys for having me 100% dude they i think thanks for coming in you you absolutely kill that i mean i keep telling you this but you you absolutely killed this play-by-play guy uh that's not my strength play-by-play is not my strength i'm i can i can watch something and i can decipher it but you're you just you got the comms dude you got the rank one comms man like it's it's you're you're so good at it so i'm really appreciative of you uh of you coming on and being our play-by-play guy dude thanks for having me yeah all great uh i think do we do we have anything else i think uh i think that's it for the the tournament i mean i was just kind of like like i feel like a white slipped it off my chest i'll stick around i'll hang out for a little bit tonight this went a little bit longer than i expected i do got to get ready to go to to go to blizzcon so i'm not going to be around for too much longer but um yeah we gotta we gotta do some blizzcon prep i gotta i gotta get my my stuff situated for it but uh i hope everybody enjoyed the stream i hope everybody enjoyed the show that is uh that is it for the show so if you guys want to stick around and hang out uh you're more than welcome to uh if not we'll uh we'll catch you guys next time so thank you guys so much for watching the otk star forge hardcore mock garage tournament huge shout out to everybody involved we'll see you guys next time if you never want to miss another otk show go to otk.to four slash calendar choose what platform you use the most and you'll get live updates on show changes and now it's worth it where to watch your calendar your content