 Use the hashtag pro competition. Tell us what you think. Tell us what events you're looking forward to afterwards You will be seeing so many of these players at future stops But we have a winners finals to get underway here must we do we do indeed. I can't wait to see it I actually have no idea how to call it. I know hiate has been playing Incredibly well, of course taking over foxy grand part in a game fives earlier on to get here and a Tekken master again much of the same game five against DCT T right both of these players had to really fight this position and while they get through their button checks I just want to say again Yeah, this has been such a fun weekend for just Mortal Kombat But not only that of course a huge shout outs to road runner records for sponsoring the pro competition and Giving us this cool music Of course you see Aquaman rock in the much and see you as a metal fan in me is happy this happened I never thought this would be a thing that we're on a desk talking about Mortal Kombat Sponsor by roadrunner records like if teenage me saw this he'd just be like nah, they that Okay, we're going in this is gonna be the matchup Aaron black versus Sonya blade Oh, so Sonya blade coming out of Tekken master's time. I mean Tekken master collectively plays I mean without pretty much all the top tears We're not gonna sugarcoats that he plays all the top tears and for a good reason He knows how to exploit dirt He knows how to exploit a character's strongest tools and I mean even though he plays Aaron black I doubt he's gonna give the mirror match to hiate who is highly experienced in it running the mirror versus So that's the thing right hiate is no stranger to top-level competition and Sonya is one of the most popular characters in So if anyone's gonna be ready for the matchup, you know, it's gonna be hiate at the same time Aaron black No, we saw shark teeth pulling out the air on black. We know Tekken master himself plays Aaron black It's what he used to beat by a house of yesterday So he's gonna have that knowledge. How much will it matter? And now getting completely zoned out the moment hiate runs out by he's no longer able to really Get through the projectiles the way he normally can Tekken masters keeping his eye on it You're noticing the moment the amplifiers run out He's far more aggressive with his keep away because he's got a life lead. He can afford to take these trades now It's becoming less likely the acid in front of him his back to the wall He's like just out of the range of it as well If her foot is like hairs like the way Oh and hiate after playing so patient the whole time accidentally stands up into the amplified ring It's a crashing blow. I mean Tekken master going as far back as he can I mean he has no part in trying to be within Aaron blacks effective range, especially when the amplified shots disappeared Oh, okay light. Okay, wonderful throw tech and I love it enforcing the barely might the barely plus frames that exist Show me just buffering something there. Oh, okay. Take a bus with a downward ring wash. You don't see that very often On the acid has to be read Tekken master. No, this is instantly playtime for all black This is the ticket master has spent the entire round trying to avoid that. Oh, he got the Wow Three seconds on the clock on the verge of a timeout. Wow, Sonja has one hell of a black eye Look at that. Yeah, that's that's rough So you just walk down and they're on black that has fatal blow with the acid on the screen That took some serious cuts from Tekken master, but this is why he's such a cool player Right, he's willing to make those decisions. Oh, wow doesn't block the other low Down three lots of down threes. They are plus on hit really good at guaranteeing that offense blows block Not gonna be much there for hiate now take a master remaining with the life lead And he's gonna play the school screen game again. The meter is gone But fortunately for hiate the backs of the wall is so significant that there's no way you can Really deal with the acid anyway. It's there. Oh, I got a lot of big mid coming through from hiate Oh, okay You see that happen quite a lot the the second here of that string with our own black does tend to catch people That are looking to throw tech all the walk up into the overhead Tekken master making it work getting this way out of the corner hiate with the day wake up Taking Tekken masters minus frames. He's gonna enforce some block pressure here Job kick dangerous second master this should if hiate plays his cards right should be the round for him Oh, there we go destroyed and now we're back to neutral back to mid screen. It's like the game never happened Oh can't with punish I love the empty jump low actually could he knew that Tekken master wasn't far enough away to enforce back one It is the patient screaming out from Tekken master. You have to be careful I feel like if you accidentally press against our own black not only you obviously can get opened up by a big combo It's just it's it's set up right you're gonna end in that slide. He's gonna get the acid It's not gonna be very fun for you Tekken master trying to play this long range game zoning out air on black I've seen his uh, his zoning game is quite meter intensive If you want to keep up and do damage to you it's gonna cost him bar doesn't get it for free And as you can see his rifle is out of ammo But Tekken master game is a lot more limited He's also making the cool in this final round when when he predicts the the shot that destroys projectiles He's going into the drone drop because it will trade favorably Yeah, the whole point about destroying projectiles is you power through them and then punish But if Tekken master's trading with the drone drop and he's got the life lead He can do that until the game and he will out sustain Hayate I actually like the fact that you press the low poke. Oh wow Oh Oh close enough for the down one Into the jump kick Now the time has come to make a choice Hayate two good reads on the jump in Tekken master's not very punishable yet fatal blows in play down to This could be the 50-50 into fatal blow we're gonna see it Fishing oh the block that was crucial make or break Oh, and he pulls the trigger and Hayate was just waiting for it Doesn't even need to use his own fatal blow. He goes guaranteed punish takes damage where he can and Tekken master played so carefully up until the last minute where it came down to two jump ins Respectable a respectable and risky patience from Hayate there If you're willing to sit there and block against a Sonya that has that built in 50-50 Either either or was going to kill when put into fatal blow. So the fact that Hayate was was uh That confidence to just call out. He's gonna go for this fatal blow And I'm gonna block until he does it for that long was very very risky, but paid off massively Trades trades and more trades now as Hayate Losing his amplify and I feel like he is exclusively using his meter on destroying the energy ring And it's a huge part of the matchup. It feels first ring is going to connect So no crushing blow to be had good stuff Hayate And I feel like even though Tekken master is currently in control It is a game of using that life bar as currency to get Tekken master in the corner and then keeping him there to the best of your ability Oh, I really like Tekken master's use of that me You don't typically see it too much with Sonya because it's one of the on the slower side But it's still not terrible and it's decent on block and hit. Oh, okay the anti air ring The moment you try and jump in it's pain town for you But I love it wonderful first round there for Tekken master You can really see how heavily full screen of this matchup is but it is a game of I expect a A projectile that destroys mine. So I'm going to make the call and go for the drone drop But at any point maybe Hayate is going to make it with if he jumps and you can risk skating as well It's understanding each other's options really You're definitely seeing Tekken master playing this matchup like I'm picking this character I think more for the keyboard Right like normally you see Sonya very aggressive very rush down heavy But Tekken master he plays a lot of characters for very specific matchups and reasons And I definitely feel like he's picked Sonya here for the keep away right? She is turning out her own black He's been keeping my arms length and if he wants to get in and start playing his game She can mix them up too So I like this pick with Tekken master He's putting it to work really well big crouch with the grab but just get anything else This game really need anything else Yeah, I mean this game entirely changes the moment Hayate was able to throw the acid where Tekken master cannot understand behind him He has the verge of maybe making a comeback here He's going to get some plus frames from down three But clipped by the back one and a very calculated game number two the adaptation from this Olmerly was just 100% drone drop the drone drop was a game changer We didn't see it as much in the first game and it was entirely based on hey in game number two I'm gonna stop that shot from mattering as much as it did before And I'm seeing some coaching coming out from Aziz Aziz would definitely be TM's designated coach Oh, yeah, for sure. I'll be I'll be surprised if not vice versa I think I think Tekken master was Aziz's coach actually before that took place not again It's not surprising especially when it's easy, but he plays a lot of characters Collectively the Middle East know a lot about the game But that was how they learned that was how they were able to try and level up Tekken master for all the American tournaments that he was sent out to it was the Middle Eastern scene that Would learn the setup to learn the situation and just teach him everything he needs to know On top of his own skill, of course, but Hayate now a little bit of a life lead And yet by the ring and a life lead at this early on when they have these resources or lack of in this case I guess it's temporary because now Tekken master is going to steal it back Now I do wonder how Hayate is able to play around this though Because in the day like this is how the neutral is going to be played I like this is better for him when he has Tekken master to the corner, but can he keep him here Now that button there with Sonya it is ever so slightly plus So if you try and press a poke, she will actually beat you in that situation Oh, okay Seeing some more trickiness from Hayate now going for the down forage of the stud shot He tried so hard to back the back down three to make it with but Hayate gets the jump all the same Very very slow round again knock down Tekken master back in it Oh watch out for that though clipped No break away Oh, is that actually close enough to her? I don't think so it is not no It's not at all just our range unfortunately. Fatal blow is still inflated. Uh-oh, maybe not anymore seven bullets left in the rifle too Get her away Hayate tries, he was like a tiny amount away from that fatal blow actually hitting it smart I love the positioning there Hayate so it's not close enough Hayate's going to take it still three bullets left in the rifle the rifle The rifle seems to be a huge change in the matchup when it comes to like Hayate being able to sit on a life lead But that's a finite resource and it's not going to be very easy for him to reload it against this drone drop Don't drop though Tekken master going to be a lot more comfortable using it when he's far away There's a less chance of a jump in Hayate almost gets one, but Thankfully the meter was ready for the energy ring to do its thing again Look at how close Tekken master is from the acid stepping in it just to try and fight his way out the corner Yep, had to use the breakaway there There's a breakaway from Tekken master there But I feel like Hayate wasn't that likely to actually end in the slide because he would have cornered himself And he seems to try so hard to keep Tekken master cornered. Oh, that's an answer We haven't seen yet. Is that the first time I've actually seen him go for that big move? I think it's one of the few fatal blows that we've seen about 20 of them by now I love it Using it on reaction to energy ring the 10 frames start up on the fatal blow there from Aaron Black will eat up any projectile thrown at him First time we've seen the Aaron Black fatal blow coming through but absolutely perfect time So it said right it's the 10 frames. It's the speed it hits multiple times. It's full screen One of the better fatal blows in the game hands down Hayate, you know, it's going to be feeling good about that. We did see a canadian player win VNLT last year Now I actually I'm pretty confident that the VNLT crowd Hang on. I feel like they've thought by listening to the crowd. So we've got a european crowd cheering for Hayate Oh, okay. They're saying he's basically french. That makes sense. I understand that makes a lot of sense So does that mean if Hayate wins is this still a win for europe? Does this mean that europe's going to win VNLT if Hayate wins it? Yeah We'll say that Hayate is one of ours now Officially claimed dude claimed but oh, no, we're seeing a character change coming out from tecumaster now I mean, he's not he's not shy of it Uh tecumaster when he when he truly believes that he needs to make a drastic change often a changed character is what he chooses to go for Um, I mean, this is a series that we saw him take out dizzy with so, uh, it's definitely it's definitely worthwhile And he's not shy of making those big plays and in the infinite warden that sand trap will I won't even trade with the projectiles that will just chew through them But if you're hi, I say and you play in north american tournaments You've fought a gear or so too in your time and he's going to be so familiar with this matchup Is tecumaster as versed in it as a punish? So there's a great start crushing blow and a guaranteed situation for tecumaster. Wow. Oh, okay. Still I say with a big crouch Oh, no combo though. That's the drop unfortunately jump kicks going to get out of dodge Be and get through the acid puddle He actually went for the flawless block that's some knowledge and a bit of information for tecumaster A good grab tecumaster score game with his gear is before was definitely one of his strengths Well the wake up down one from hiate He knew a tecumaster would mistime his meaty the four two didn't even begin to come out by the time the down one happened I mean, don't forget to sometimes challenge the opponent their meaty timing will not be perfect all the time I can't believe he didn't out here that I think he was looking for it Well, there was an empty jump hiate. So they keep realizing he jumped out. Wanky still had that Escape failed boys. It's going to be match point For pg hiate. She needs one more round now. It's gonna be our first grand finalist of the night Go throw tec. Okay that down four again. I arranged that don't think you're on black can punish it Oh, there's the fist Oh tries to ante a big mistake Escape failed. I love the reverse grab tecumaster happy to put himself in the corner They can't make the beat Oh, okay, you know any of this time from hiate good block on the overhead Tecumaster, I think it's gonna be happy with his life He's not gonna risk it for a chocolate biscuit off that low But he's gonna go for the one one one. I think he was not ready for it to hit I don't think just excited Knocked down now no crushing blow left. So that's gonna be the round still left to go I see tecumaster such a fan of that that down four into the sand trap He knows people they see the down four on block they want to move and he's like absolutely not Gonna catch you for it my friend and there we go the grab tecumaster getting another round It's still match point hiate but tecumaster is fighting back He has plenty of crushing blows left to go is yet to use his fatal blow very much still in this just Maybe not where he wants to be on the screen per se Let's jump kick but a bit too high up to capitalize back to back down three coming out from hiate I think you can do a hind. How about that? Spinning the apple fight gets another down three tried Oh, he almost gets it too, but a bit too slow with the down two coming out there That's in now and a wonderful position no punish, but still has called a positioning Of course erin black one of the characters that if he sees that his punish is late He can go to scud shop make himself safe no matter what Oh poke game exchanging definitely about a pokes right now Venus hiate is only really pressing the advantage when he sees a poke connect All right, and that's what's going on He hits a down three and there we see that back to that fast bid tries to add the other down one But it doesn't connect tecumaster again with that down four The back down four Oh, oh, oh He's in big trouble now. There's even have health. There's even have health to use fatal blow. He hasn't even got the chance hiate This is his game and he gets the apple fight shot And he's going to be grand finals on the winners side taking over tecumaster who now lies in weight in the losers fight Hiate pop one off pull into the crowd. He dares. They got his back