 Ultra David Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm excited for this. This is the top 24 We started out with a ton of top players in this event There was such a density of strong players yeah this tournament everybody who entered knew what was up And so yesterday full of great matches some really close matches But a lot of the results I think were more or less what we expected Maybe a couple of exceptions there, but in this top 24 I think for the most part we knew many of the names that will get in but maybe not necessarily where they Ended up in terms of winners side or losers side Yeah, so we'll be following along with that all day today. We'll be crowning the champion later on This is top 24 all the way through. We will have some great names that you know like killer she not conqueror King gambler, but we have to some names of young younger Players like Brian Lohan and we're linear that you know already because last day But I don't know what just what what you expect because because we will see some great matches with some balance Gameplay with all these players. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so the Chilean twins are out here. Yeah They are always there. They're always there and they definitely are here today and In winners side we're starting out with scorpion prox versus Murillo BDS who looked really strong on that shawl awesome to see killer shinock versus king gambler as well in there Two names that everybody in the NRS scene knows well Nicholas versus conqueror again two name what I don't know. Well, that's good. That could have been grand fine Man, maybe it will be ultimately. Yeah Then MK Javier versus Brian Lohan as well in that so again a player that many of us know Well over the last couple of years in terms of Javier and the international scene But here in Brazil Brian doing great work and showed a big time Yeah, Brian is the favorite player for catch-up because of the gameplay style with subzero Yes, subzero and rain and rain and he has a very good smoke too We'll see if we see it then in loser's side, which I think is where we're starting We're gonna have festo Gabi versus why Valentine starting out there Both of those guys ranked pretty high in the local Brazil points leaderboard Mono Phelps versus little Chronos is in there too. So that's gear is versus Maybe Johnny yeah, it was then axioma versus alvarez Yeah, alvarez that have a great match in the last match of yesterday and he he is a strong player And and he will be very very in I don't know how to do how to say that but it will be stronger I'm sure that that we and I'm sure that's right And we will have in the the first match zeus zeus Versus the C-Vogue was ill zeus the zeus player We'll be playing with the rating and the C-Vogue will be with Kung Lao alright So starting out just to continue the path We're also going to get to see Gustavo page versus flame Geeping versus Sangifrio Gea exceptional versus Collapsism and then Agamotto's eye versus chocolate We might not get all of that first round of losers on stream But we'll get at least half of those up there and then we'll switch over to the winter side At that point everything is gonna be on stream for the rest of the day Yeah Great day a big day for you for all mk1 finance look I mean it's not so long from now that final combat happens And what we're trying to do here is figure out who gets the huge amount of points that are up for grab Yeah on the global leaderboards to get into final combat nine players will get into it by global leaderboards Some of them as we'll go through later on in this tournament already have a good number But they're trying to show up their points other ones are hoping to get some points in the first place We'll go through that again as it goes on there The classic rating gameplay is happening. Yeah, but that was nice because he was kind of dancing in the sky above Kung Lao's armor in Tagoro. Yeah Made that meter come off already Did not call knives. Okay, I Feel like whenever I see that man flying the air, there's gonna be knives coming. Yeah. Oh No, what happened to just get there blocking time. Oh What the empty jump it was for a white girl. Maybe yeah No, no, you gotta think there's knives, but no confirm into big stuff But after that he's doing a great job Yes, okay feigned it nice super head again cancel comes DC Vogue making this Button but nothing else However, pretty big life lead and it's gonna be enough very good playing off DC Vogue DC Vogue is a very strong player and Kung Lao and girl seems like to be a very huge fan of killer Chinook It's just a good team. You know. Yeah, classic. It really helps out Kung Lao's gameplay a lot Do you see this combination a lot in the United States? I wouldn't say a lot, but when you see Kung Lao It's almost always cool. Oh, yeah. Yeah It's fun to watch it. It's fun to watch you Kung Lao and Kung Lao. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we do have a couple of Lous. Yeah, Lous. Yeah All right, the breaker finally comes here. There's those We'd love to get things going and he's got one of the best teams in the game at just getting things going Yeah, yeah, here it is the knives on the way in nice jumping Into more again feigning it not doing the follow-up of the string In a way he jumped. Wow. I think he read it I think he knew what was coming, but he wasn't at the right spot and there it goes DC Vogue You know, they both had a couple of extra opportunities. It's the first match of the day first game of the day Maybe they'll settle down a little bit as they go into this Zeus is a very strong player, but I think that uh in loser's side and this pressure He can uh be making some mistakes that he's not used it to do Again Goro for safety Goro for pressure The 50-50 comes oh interrupted Holding onto the Kano And smartly, you know, just again trying to jump away from that big half screen range just outside of it there where Kung Lao could stab in With armor nice on the whiff punish The armor DC Vogue again at that range He's trying to get there anyway areas. Yeah In case of armor the string. Wow, we're super delayed overhead And so what again man, he's he has read it this time better But you can tell he's known a couple of times that that's coming. Yeah Zeus trying to get in If he does if he finds the combo now, he can take the round with the fatal blow. It's over. Yeah He's trying Oh, no DC Vogue is making some good decisions and Zeus is going for for a lot of drops Yeah, unfortunately, he has had some big ones so far in both games. Yeah He looks a little nervous He loses his time there Yeah, yes eating it up Not a ton of damage on that but at least he takes off the meter In the corner brave What a range Yeah, that's quite a button I can't say we're so close Hit by hit slowly winnowing down that left meter Oh sick, okay That was exactly what he needed. Yeah, now we have Zeus that I know Uh, I clear that always is going for pressure Good for his sake to see that combo actually can continue to look good on it and anti air. Yeah, great work Funky little reset accidentally, but it worked out Yeah, again Kano coming out to play pressure continues Oh, he walked He's getting a little funky on the timings No, all right Just like that Zeus. Oh, no, it's all different. He didn't need to he went into the sky. Wonderful You change his side But to see Vogue has no meters. Oh Wow, he's underneath though here. There's a punish after all gotta be the game That's over Okay, very good match for Zeus But this is focus too is is is going in a very good gameplay with spacing and good decisions But Zeus was very good now You can tell he's Getting those nerves out a little bit. Yeah Feeling a little stronger His pressure is looking more normal the knives come. Yeah Always I know. Yeah. Yeah It's a another secret of the game just a secret. Yeah Unveiled for the first time today Ding ding. It's the knives come swinging by Okay, and cancel. Yeah, good work. Nice Ding ding Here we go Keep it up. He had the combo before nice Beautiful combo Yeah, again Not completing the string that you can counter attack through Fading stuff out from dc vogue He lose to change size He come back Yeah, fully 950 health on raiden that's gonna be it I think it might die speak too soon Is this actually not enough? He's alive. Oh my gosh. He's alive. Wow What does he got 22 health up there? Now dc vogue can't easily just throw stuff. Oh, no Chip no he deadfalls blocked He can't throw the hat. He knows Oh god, I'm Another mistake and the same mistake Dc vogue was aware of that. Yeah, dc vogue was not throwing air and projectiles. He's playing patiently. Yeah Great little range to start things off from Today's threatening knives come Oh, can you get a punish not quite? He's not doing this so so much It's been a little less common. Yeah He's always uh spacing in in And running away for operating to cause zoos to to make a mistake He's away Very safety first gameplay right now by dc vogue. It's not want to get close to this raiden But that's easier said than done man. Well raiden wants to get close to you. He can basically do it Raiden can't know he can get in there. Hmm right into it Well, it's you know Sometimes things don't work out how you want Right now it's two to one for these especially when we are losing. Yeah, no doubt Not exactly what this was hoping for But all right, you can definitely tell that there's strength in there. Yeah, it's a very good match And he just tried to finally do superman into ball as well because dc vogue's just been neutral ducking under the knives Dc vogue hot now is more aggressive Yeah That said zoos Here into the corner button. No not into the cage. There it is He's afraid of the The the armor You know, I mean you were right. Yeah, but he did block it He's got a great armor breaking option though. Oh, here we go. Nice decision Oh the drop. Oh, I don't know We'll see That's a lot of chip. Yeah, if you're not flawless blocking there, which he had before If you're not then that's the round so three bars lost and the round lost And match point now as I said ball was the adaptation to see neutral duck Was not there in time actually Do that little angle that bobble a falls from wow Pretty good So he's taking up a bunch of space Back and off. He does not want to be in the easy range for armor. Yeah Oh Let's go. Oh, wow. Okay. Oh, I think he wanted the extra hit. Anyway, it works out for zoos Was the better decision choose to stay away for because of the armor got him. Yes He put a meter on it. Oh, could have been more First time he's gotten real funky with the staggers and dc vogue now looking good match point for him into the corner Yes Got it. Oh, no. Nice work by dc vogue actually Corner rather than risk and break Is it all individual hits now so he doesn't get breakers? Let's see. Yeah, I think so Very good strategy. Oh god, I hold the chip. That's what he was up before and he ends up getting it The secrets always win I like that that he changed up the pressure game plan. Yeah At the end there rather than getting Breakered, I mean, you know, it's not like you're gonna get killed if you get breakered But your pressure ends And he had Zeus in the corner, right? Yeah, excellent pressure opportunities. So really good understanding there from dc vogue I think for for me and for the the brazilian people the the disclassification of zoos It's a surprise. Uh-huh dc vogue is a very good player, but zoos has some great Results he results here in brazil some Championships and seeing here Being disclassified In the top 24 is it's a surprise. Interesting. Okay Yeah, you could tell certainly at some moments that there was a lot of skill there Yeah, we we could see some of the combo confirms looking strong others not as much it seemed like maybe nerves Maybe not feeling 100 in there unfortunate time for that to happen here at the brazil offline major the offline offline always be always will be a Difference for different thing for for the players because in brazil we have A lot of good championships in online and that this this kind of drops and Moments that we see that that that the players are very nervous. I think that is the offline feeling Sure. Yeah, I mean you could see behind them before the match started There's a bunch of people lining up behind them to watch It's an interesting venue that we have here There's a bar with a huge screen above it where you could watch you could sit there You know have a drink get some meals and watch the on this huge screen tv I don't know 20 feet wide huge. It's the whole wall a cinema Yeah, for real And then you could also instead just stand behind the players and watch their little mom and make a note But that's what people do very noise. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I was feeling that until now. Yeah Yeah, yeah, I mean that's been happening forever, right? Like it's always nicer to be like right there Like right next to the players for sure. So that is what people are doing DC bold over Zeus as I said in the meantime We are going to get about half of these matches in loser's side So we may be looking for a geeping versus sanghi-frio. Yeah, maybe looking for aga moto zai versus chocolate We may be looking for as well fessel gavi versus why valentine and again You know what we're trying to do here is get points Yeah, there's a couple ways to qualify for the final combat on the Mortal Kombat pro competition One is through the global points the global leaderboard and in that context You need to be in the top nine and right now Some of these players who we do have here Are in it or just outside of it like very very close. So when it comes to Top nine at the moment. We have in in this tournament Players including scorpion prox is currently fourth overall. Yeah in global MK Javier 520 points. He's currently sixth overall. Yeah, and then we have nicolas Who's seventh overall just behind at 500 and then outside of that players in this event including killer shinok are just outside of that we have King gamblers just a little bit further outside of that chocolate two three eight There's just a little bit outside of that. So there are a bunch of players who are here who Could qualify through global points as well as by the regional points. Yeah, that's also a thing that here in brazil There's a regional points leaderboard. We can talk about that in a little bit A couple of these players are on that obviously a bunch of them are on that in High spots as well. Yeah Now we will have I think that argentina versus brazil Agamotto versus chocolate Yeah, I thought that chocolate was chili the from chili, but no he's from argentina there you go And agamotto is now Playing with raiding that he played yesterday And chocolate with johnny cage that it's a very good combination for both of us. Yeah, man both of them No doubt about that But it's been pretty much all agamotto's eyes so far get in the corner quickly Buttons into immediately taking his turn back One of the best turn stealers right there. Oh wow, let's go. Oh my god all out Into the setup too That said agamotto's eye with the confirm The round after chip. Yeah, it's just a follows block timing But of course he can vary the timing slightly as to when it starts. Good luck That was because of that that he saved in one bar. Yeah Hmm nice. Okay. Oh, he was willing to take it. I like that man That's not only damage. I could see opponent, but it's also making it so raiden doesn't immediately get his turn Yeah, more pressure A chance chocolate's gameplay is very interesting lots of backing off Finding the right spot. He's got great counters to stuff No button out of that No cage out of that Oh, man, they're really mixing it up here chocolate If he finds anything big, he did get that. Oh too close Johnny one of the best characters at punishing that Not just point blank too. Most characters can't punish it, right? I'm gonna say i'm gonna go here it is on with almost there for agamotto That kano was a surprise But chocolate was aware of all of that. Oh, yeah, and if you just take the hit from the ball again, not a lot of damage Yeah, this is what chocolate wants. Hey at agamotto's eye now Trying to be tricky and he is successfully getting tricky with this It's not just the obvious button in the lightning cage. Lots of different timings putting out Oh, he's doing the duck, but he's not believing that no pickup with the kano though Okay, so he's holding it pretty long trying to get that advantage chocolate's denying that Chunky chip Can you get there in time? No, not quite agamotto's eye away Underneath now, maybe chocolate's turn Maybe not for long. Oh, no, no kick Wow super The vacuum of the lightning cage Very good Matt It seems we are we are here watching this through playing for one month But very good match. Mm-hmm I mean there's a Sort of interesting level of play that we have going on here people who Are countering each other constantly and so having to really vary their normal pressure timings Yeah, this time you let it go a little earlier Bad decisions from chocolate Can you get there? No Both of them whiffing big time. Oh trade Chocolate. Yes, man does he does have a projectile. Guess what? It's a low hat Nice grab. Yes this time only the down one. Oh man. It could have been a lot more Hard to get it all right in the moment Again, is you right? Okay, see you important to see the flawless block. However the grab comes immediately after so even so despite the fact that chocolate Has a bunch of the counter play on hand Making sure that he's exing through if the cano balls held too long flawless blocking quite a bit versus the lightning cage Getting shadow kick. There's obvious stuff that he can punish. Agamotto's eye still playing great Yeah, Agamotto is doing a very good job with with the mix ups of the rating lows overheads Cano and this does so no big combo. I'm gonna tank it, you know Okay, he had three bars for both of those combos and hold on to it. But as you know, as we say, that's often a strategic choice immediately Chocolate now with a nice little life lead and not even setting stuff up with the hat Just right into the flasher up close all confirms break. No Yeah Oh, it's a midi one Beautiful. He stepped right back to exactly the right spot. You love footsies like that one to one chocolate is more more patience now and in using this space office in his favor And agamotto looks looks a little nervous when he's pressing his button Sight delay on the grab there just in case the micro dug immediately and back to Chocolate being the one who initiates as he has again the flawless blog again. He never miss That's so important and hat underneath Definitely given some different looks in terms of pressure as well. It's not always the same option Can you get him know the top one? It was chart agamotto's eye again, not immediately Getting it. Maybe hoping to get some chip, but this is the guy on chocolate. He's been doing a great job Yeah, oh Nice decision for agamotto One more time. He saves his meter Yeah, I'm beautiful But Finds the hit. All right chocolate What are you gonna do to set things up here if he even can and he gets the blocking time? Okay. Good work The question is when is it button into cage and you know, to be honest chocolate's guest right a lot of that. Yeah He's blocked or false blocked even he's pressed the button if there's no button from agamotto's eye Just like this. He's done a really good job with that not easy to get those mix ups, right? That said agamotto's eye close to doing it Even chip is huge at this point Underneath well played Agamotto is avoiding the pressure for for from johnny cage from chocolate and doing his pressure He's he's very dominant in this match. Yeah, it seems that way I still like a lot that chocolate's doing. I feel like he's got a lot of great stuff on hand here But the micro decisions from agamotto is very good. Uh-huh very good once it goes away like this chocolate's gonna be The one who's kind of like in a tough spot. Yeah, it's not an easy character to get that against The low string is so important for his gameplay anyway Okay, nice What? Man johnny with that fast down one Gets to get a little bit of extra counterplay that some characters are not able to do all right up close pressure Just like that. No a little bit more Can you get it? Yes, but immediate break Fatal blow for both of them That was nice Somehow it feels like agamotto zai has rarely been in that position to actually have to take that overhead low timing But this time yeah, chocolate got him there here it is firm and of course chocolate's out And the thing is after that grab he doesn't really get anything and agamotto zai can get away or can get set up Of course knives come There's good pressure for agamotto, especially when he doesn't have to worry about ex shadow kick Yeah, i don't have to worry about armor so he can hold that cano a little bit longer to get some plus frames But they're coming now a little bit of attacks underneath not a lot of damage on that so agamotto zai probably feeling fine He only needs anything small. What was that? A bait maybe Maybe hoping to bait out shadow kick. I'm not sure I don't think so. Yeah 2.05 health. He jumps over. It's possible. Oh, it's possible. Oh, man Oh The game plan for for uh from agamotto. This is very good until now Almost perfectly. He's stable. Yeah, very stable. Yeah And we need to remember that he has a very good kenshi And we saw it yesterday Called out the hat timing and now okay. Well, you know that said chocolate gets to the back grab and He's tries to set it up himself underneath chocolate On offense trying to make it count. No agamotto zai is away. So wait for the cano. Here comes No, kano actually. He just saw the hat was coming Chocolate needs to stop using the hat He's really trying to set it up not quite there. That has put him at risk though. You're right Okay, it works agamotto zai trying his best. Can he take it even chip is big now and there it is. Yeah Yeah Man, I think that we will see uh changing. I don't know For kenshi Let's see But we at least see The game five. Yeah, we only saw that once while you and I were commentating yesterday There were a couple of other times when the other other guys were commentating. We were just hanging out watching but There were not a lot of game fives throughout the first day Here already second match Game five today's top 24. Yeah, man. I think it's hardest And we're not we don't see the change. He's still believing raiding. He's played great. Yeah It's I don't think it's a case of either one of them having a character issue It's it's a case of both of them just being really prepared for the other doing great work defensively and offensively That's gonna look even Okay Did you want battle? Hey Again footsies chocolate into the corner now Tech That is good. That's great timing. He's good a little bit more consistently now that he gets that Yeah, again tried to hold it too long chocolate is ready for that So agamotos I Gonna be able to pump out enough damage and get okie afterwards So if he finds the head he can kill but same with chocolate and chocolate's there first match point Man, what a improvement of chocolate chocolate Let's see what what what I got more to have Taking his turn back as much as he can chocolate again back and off And he's gonna try to back off. So maybe getting loud. No, never mind Here's the flawless block yet again again. You can't hold on to the ball Chocolate has made agamotos I pay for that consistently now. You're spending a bar and it's not a lot of damage on it But still yeah, you get to deny the opponent's offense Can you get an answer? Yes So three bars come off for agamotos I very close to losing it here huge stuff Chocolate not breaking out. No point. There wasn't gonna be enough damage on it It's gonna have to be a lot of individual hits here for agamotos I Okay, take this turn on the minus frames from Johnny Chocolate has his meter the thing is very very bad for agamot the stared out comes Again, it's not gonna be quite enough, but it's close extra damage on the loud throw Don't wear something to it. Oh, it was close. Look at the time now eight on the clock He the flawless of course He does not confirm that oh man agamotos It's this classified and and chocolate. We're still in the in the tournament The uh, what a match what a match it really was that was a great way to get the second match going here for the top 24 Really to set the tone That there are going to be close matches today It was a back and forth set both of them displaying excellent knowledge They had the solutions on hand They were ready for stuff and that makes for close gameplay This last match the the fifth match match that looks like the agamotto Was feeling that loss that in the match four And chocolate was prepared chocolate was almost perfect There you go So he moves on again. We're in winners side. That's what we're starting out. Sorry losers side. We're starting out with that today Yeah, we Now may be going to either festival gabe versus y valentine or Gping versus sangafrio. Yeah, let's see How we will continue Uh, I have a question for your ultra david if a Player a person wants to be a a great player of fighting games. How can This be this person Begin I feel like if I knew the answer to how to become a great player. I would just be doing it You're like you are a great player player. You are garrison. It's strong I saw you play. Ah, thanks. No, I mean, it's fun. But yeah, if I knew it's like you asked somebody How do you get rich on the stock market? Yeah, if the person knows then they're doing it If they don't they probably don't I don't know man, you know, we have so many resources in the fgc now it is and regardless of where you're from We have great online resources. It's easy to watch somebody's twitch stream and get ideas Yeah, it's easy to watch youtube content and get ideas. It's there are so many Text resources Discords in many different languages in many different countries same thing for twitter the whole fgc is on there. Yeah So it's never been more accessible. And I think that's true. I think in this tournament We see that we often see this in Many different scenes a new game comes out kind of like players who have Picked up the previous one now. They're on the same footing as everybody else and they start strong young players, right? but in In this Tournament we're seeing exactly that we have two players on the winner's side of top 24 who are in their teens still Yeah, right and and that's Exactly what's going on that they have figured out how to get strong because you can from from wherever you are This is a country a city that has huge history in fighting games and it's it's very doable from here But it's the same way for wherever you live Online play is good enough, you know, there are enough online resources that it's never been better to get in and get good Nice Yeah, note it note it So there you go. That's what you got to do. That's your homework. Yeah Yeah, I mean I'm I'm really looking forward to either of the ways that we go here If it's gping versus zengefrio, there's the two really good players We saw what I'm on stream yesterday and they are friends they Do the training together got you gping it was a little boy. Thank you for you too But gping understand nothing about them k then thank you for you Come here, man. Oh, that's cool. Okay. Let's understand the game then gping was becoming very very strong then Now he they they were facing Uh They are playing together Versus here in pro competition. I think that will be a a hap Uh, a hap match for for then but one of one of them will will be disclassified. I mean, that's how it is Yeah, the rule what right, but we're also already in top 24 You know if you run into your best friend like in first side of winners Sometimes there's nothing you do about that but you know, that's that feels worse Then if you're already in losers on day two, you've already both qualified in the top 24 It's not really too much that you can say at that point So that is that is where they're at and that's something that we got to see a few times yesterday of Close friends training partners having to play against each other in some places having to eliminate each other. Yeah, unfortunately It's the case for brothers too that always face Are facing one And others in the winner side and the loser side And now we will have one of the best players in brazil in this the last year That is face ogabe. Mm-hmm. So gabi has a strong sundale I don't know if that That he he has the strongest sundale in the scene of the mk1 It was really good to watch. I liked in particular how airborne he often is He's really up there in the sky. He always used this base He's one of the highest uh points places right now on the brazilian leaderboards Yeah, I think that he is the first one or yeah, it's right up there So I heard from other people that him losing was actually a pretty big upset that he's down in loser side. It's like Zeus for valentine Don't care about that. Oh Okay I don't think I knew that that's how that worked. That's cool The two of them avoiding projectiles with sub zero cameo Yeah, but I mean I think for both of them sub is the normal pick, right? Yeah, but but face ogabe has a very good peaks for for cameos. He's always changing valentine No points setting up the ball if you know that the opponent's going to put the vest on that side There's not going to be sub for a little while. Maybe a chance He backs off maybe hoping to set that up exactly that but What a pick up into nothing though add to break look at the time now three on the clock Just block you the overheads not going to kill you. Uh-huh. That's great awareness. What a run right there by valentine. Yeah Yeah, again, it's just like a Different kind of approach and movement than many cindels. I see I really like it. Oh no not close enough to get the cancel Nice a block In changing sides Quickly invisibility. What do we got valentine backs off Nice over there into it again invisibility trying to loop it here Violent team he backed off last time will he go in for pressure? No, he was right Faslogabe was right But this gameplay for from valentine is very strong. Oh, yeah Absolutely Put on the vest. He can just get through You just do reptile run through if you see that she's gonna shoot a project though Oh, yeah Paying that little health tax on the way in Duct it underneath. Okay still the turn comes. No whiff and punish Nice decision for ferslogabe. This match is very very good very very different another block Bunking timing on it. I think that was the wrong way. Here comes valentine My god, no buts at all from ferslogabe Again that very airborne gameplay there both with the little micro ducks you can see them letting go of the block No completion of the string. That's been the big threat here comes. Ah Quick break Here it is big on the train. Yes And again Get up close and mix. No, just put on the vest and ferslogabe was right to wait it out I feel like so much of this match has been ferslogabe kind of like running from valentine valentine getting coast to coast You know both sides and yet here's a life lead ferslogabe Running from the opponent is the ferslogabe way I love it. I really really like this cindale gameplay. No He didn't have the vest on Here is where he is very strong He is always using the space the projectiles and the smart is the smartest way is very strong really cool to see like Dedicated kind of runaway zony cindale Obviously, we all know that she has these options, but But cool to see somebody making it work as well as he is But it's very rare in the game. I I think that The only player that do this a lot is foxy grandpa For it. Oh, that's sick. However with the up block why valentine gets the pressure himself invisibility comes again I didn't get it out in time. Okay Has not looked for flawless buck there as far as I can tell here comes valentine again into the corner I don't know man. Well, okay. All right. All right. He doesn't need that right there. Our valentine will take that trade here comes Dude, what a low block. Let's go He looks for the little flash Going invisible will he get the actual mix-ups? I wonder finally. Yes Overhead into the full business Sub our ice armor can't get you out of that big explosion It's still coming. It's still coming. It's still coming. It's still coming valentine was very smart because this run He he's below the Sindel very very good play Yeah, with the ball above him, even if she drops and she lands on you with the kick who cares There's a guy who has no way for for that Really interesting match. No, the ball. Yeah, good work Just waltz right through the ball Into good damage into pressure Into nice little delay too Way out of the corner now Again the frame trap there has been killer for him Very good raw And some of that is turn stealing too. He's not always Going up into the sky with the ex-cancel for the true string. Sometimes he's Stealing a bit of frames in there and getting away with it In there. No not in time. I love the airborne gameplay. I think that's super cool. That's it. Here's the obvious downside Right that you can get up blocked more often. You saw that fizzle guy But he kind of frozen a little bit now I summer on didn't he could have just gone through Very good decision for valentine now. That is big damage No ice vest to put on so okay. Yep. Still no ice vest Soon as he got it back fizzle guy, but put it on but he's Way down in life It's exactly what he needed. He needed why valentine's to come in like this and valentine has no meter He is taking some time up there again big stolen frames up block baited Man, what a pressure. I know nice valentine. What what a patience too Hey No conversion No, I didn't expect it. Can I get anything not quite? Fizzle guy they in now again not the ex-cancel. Oh, yeah Best armor again both of them about to run out. There it is So fizzle guy, but neither is not going to have armor for a little while now at this point neither one will but The way that this is going it has seemed more important. Oh, it's over it actually Maybe one too many up blocks at this point even chip is going to be big That's okay. We just want to take the grab no buttons at all Yeah, you're right. Look at the time now the bait and he waited He stood up then he low as soon as he saw the little flash as Reptile turned into the reptile So awesome defense because of the time he needs to risk everything Fezzel gabi is very strong in the far away game the zoning game, but in close A close game. He's very strong. Yeah, you can definitely see that So one of the first big with punish is in a while here for valentine Pull on into the corner invisible. He did mix it up close last time This time as before not a lot. Can you get there? No So Fezzel gabi instead gets his own with punish and she can really pump out the damage when she wants to And interestingly too, there's been very little comboing into the freeze for him the ice armor It's really the whole reason to be using it. You can tell For the way he's playing occasional cold shoulder, but mostly just armor. That is a great spot on screen right there top right Looks like valentine is getting annoyed because of the projectiles the runaway It's exactly what you want to see if you're Fezzel gabi. Yeah There's the duck No vest on oh, maybe he thought he had called vest because he went in Through the ball Telling you big stolen turns in these moments here valentine has not pressed the button Nice brilliant. What a call. That's exactly what valentine needed And what a level in his need is match. What a players That spot up there on the top right hard for reptile to approach versus Somebody who has ice armor on half the time Yeah, he knows exactly how to play up close there in a way the valentine is not going to counteract So the boy will be back a little bit faster Why did she use those he deserves? This is a totally different match right now. Yeah Complete this is literally the first round who's been comboing into this route and it's all working out for him Huge damages. We know cindal has the frame traps were perfect This was the round of somebody who felt i'ma close it out. Yeah, this is i'm gonna make this the final round We're not going to the fifth game. No, this is it. We're ending it right time totally different story from being so patient and defensive and Chicken blocking effectively up in the sky with the ice armor on two all of a sudden up close pressure big combos mix ups because he is very very strong in all of this type of gameplay He's very strong in close combat and he always Uh Trying to to to do a A corner carry Because cindal is very strong in the corner to a very good very good player that in I thought that that will be in the wind side wind side But in the loser side, he's still very strong and he still can be a problem for the other players Definitely you can see that right there She's a really strong character. I think everybody recognizes that she's Very very strong character. Yeah, so I think fox always playing with her too. Yeah I mean we you know, there are a few out there But only a few Yeah, and for as strong as she is she is one of the sort of more complicated characters to play in some ways Like ashura too I think But but cindal is more difficult to play. I definitely agree with that. Yeah. Yeah So, okay, uh, we as I said are gonna get through half of the loser side top 24 So some of that is already going on And uh, let me let me bring up that pool So winter side, we are going to get to in a little while first I think we have one more on the loser side that we're going to be looking at maybe a couple I guess let's see if that actually happens. Uh, could be giping versus sangue frio coming next And that's interesting story is you are mentioning between these two players who have history between each other Yeah, two friends that training together always training together and and now he'll uh We will we'll see his They facing together here in pro competition And I think that sangue frio is always the favorite but giping is very strong And and in this case when he always training with sangue frio, he can can be aware of the the I don't know the The loser side of sangue frio the weak sides of you mentioned. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, talk a little bit more about that for a sangue frio. Yeah Is he somebody who struggles in loser side, you feel? Yeah. Yeah, when he loses in the winners When he goes to the loser side, he struggles a little bit. Okay, but it's another day He it's another history now. He's Like all the the the guys is and that he's in loser side How all that he needs to do it it's a win Always win sounds easy. Yeah Easy to say. Yeah, that's easy to say for sure. Um in the meantime, some of the other matches are happening On the other station that's not being streamed mono felps beat little chronos three games to one So it will be if there's a guy versus mono felps in the next round that'll be to qualify for top eight. Yeah Also axioma versus alvarez is happening at the moment off stream We also know that collapseism eliminated gi exceptional Yeah, oh man loser side. So collapseism moves on and we'll play against um Chocolate in chocolate. Yeah That beat agamotto's eye In the next round. So we know a bunch of these but not all of them quite yet And here's one that we still have to figure out Now we were going We will go to to see the the friend match But it's not it's not a friendly match. Yeah I Thank you for your versus keeping Thank you for your has a journey case and keeping it It is with the raiding out of there Oh with no striker grenades behind him just with courage That's the kind of stuff I love Whenever you see two good friends two training partners, they're always going to do weird They know each other so well Hey with punish Thank you for you out of that right away So striker is going to be back raiden goro Kind of think if I've seen raiden goro I mean I can imagine the strengths for sure, but yeah, there you go It's one of them But that means you're not going to get as many opportunities as if you had cano. Yeah for the safety of that But that's cool A couple of different takes on things here's the confirm It's working It's the game's too early to be certain about like what what's best, you know Many people have different ideas about cam camios what they like to it's not just about what is maybe the strongest But like what do they like doing? This is the beautiful about them k1. Yeah, they're free them You can put your own spin on your character. Yeah out of there. See you Just flying away. Thank you for you. Maybe just waiting till strike comes back Man comes back pretty fast. He actually tried to get the button there not in time or maybe too early Actually is what it was So all this because of that whiff that he pink took advantage of Oh the crowd coming in What a ship damage They're both false fucking. Okay. He waited forever until the down one again Thank you for you is struggling because the movements of keeping keeping always run away But but in close combat. He's doing a very good job better than thank you for you in thank you for you It's always afraid Uh of of of of press button. Oh, see if you can make the change Striker actually gets hit on the way not gonna have striker for a little while So thank you for you waiting it out keeping to because he has oh underneath versus the high of goro, okay But because he has goro, he's not quite as like gung-ho as some right in our players are With bobbling into knives right away or we know whatever it may be And so because they have these different cameos, it's a much more footsie's focused game Get him. Yes. What a response by keeping Backing in his goro again though butt striker. Okay, but not the turn That is pretty pretty tricky actually. Yeah Confirm it. Yes, you got a lot of time Or again underneath it now there's been I was just gonna say a lot of flawless blocking So keeping a nose the timing right like you can tell that they know each other well Oh, actually on the clock. You're right. Oh, no Can say if you'll get there in time. I don't think so. Yeah, he had to bet on some big stuff. He knows it's over Wow Keeping is is being dominant in this match until now Maybe more grabs could be an adaptation here if somebody's been false blocking a lot If if keeping is really defaulting to blocking what than anything else defensively I like this great little confirm No, not there on the punish I was thinking if you're a big life lead He gets to back off if he wants to just hang out and wait for striker to come back. He can do that. Yeah Striker though. Oh, he just came back. He waited way longer this time. Yeah He's been doing the knee with a much faster timing before this So the adaptations are coming. Hmm. Yeah, you got a plus overhead or low mix up with striker too It's not just like our days Very different looking pressure different buttons used from zangaprio different timings backing off when he needs striker So I really like the game plan. It's very defined game plan. You can tell the strategy and it's effective Yeah, ah, that was the last hit of the combo though again overhead low mix and the grab as well What a match for from zangaprio. He's uh changed a little bit how how uh, he was playing and keeping was the same and that was uh The the way from for the victor for zangaprio Now that is a good way to do it if you know as keeping that the opponent's going to bring out striker right there really waited But you're right zangaprio's pressure looks better The defense the movement looks a little bit better And now that he has pressure right up close. He went for the grab right away So he's really trying to mix things up prepared to how game one looked because he said he did change things And he looked better. We got some different looks maybe from keeping as well, but have not yet Striker could be overhead low. You never know backed off overhead You just don't think that there's gonna be overhead low mix-ups from johnny in those strings Obviously, we know what this overhead low moments are for him. So first for keeping it Defense has got to get stepped up a little bit in those moments. Yeah easier said than done for him Yeah Striker slowly making his way back Here's the confirm no Oh Nice decision Underneath the grenades I love that solution That is what we can expect in a match of two friends close friends. Yeah Mm-hmm. Yeah, hoping to see a button No armor on zangaprio side. However, there's a delay Still got that Yeah, again under goro. He just is super aware. Yeah And why I like some of the goro ideas You know the fact that if the opponent's going to block the low string then they're going to get caught by the grab That's cute. You know the idea that you can put some well. We all know that was the idea right there. Yeah Zangaprio had read that Stuff is some cute stuff. Oh excellent block But I don't know man. You get fewer chances at like Some of the really good rate and stuff. Yeah. Yeah We've kano Is different Again, not always necessarily is it about like what is The sort of Best option you may not want to do what everybody else is doing. Yeah, right. You may want to have your own mark on it Maybe you think that what I think is the best is not the best, right? Maybe we just stood so early in the game even still although it's been out for several months This point still early in the game that can be as complex as this one So we all got to figure out what is the best over time The best for keeping now in her his mind is changing for Liu Kang But seems like the Giping is getting tired In in the middle of the match and San Gifu is getting stronger San Gifu is more Aware of the the things that Giping is doing It's gonna be Johnny Johnny, but it's two different cameos here I'm changing. I'm changing They both get to do slightly different things with these cameos here. Yeah Ducked it, but not the call only the jab I'm gonna free o taking the time. Yeah, because you get strike over there. You get to really spend time flexing your leg out For example, like that's something that you just can't get away with with low hat low hats just a different utility Obviously also really good going for unbreakable stuff and here's thank you for your match point So I don't know how easy it is to get the hat out Okay, that's a great range for it right there because it wasn't easy to react to but there's a huge range here where San Gifu can react especially if he's got meter. Yeah Nice bonus block Everything's working out right now for keeping Oh, can you get a full thing? Oh this I like nice Gipping is very very better now That was his best round and maybe they're set. I love it because grenades hit first This means the Zangafrio gets to get the full confirm Yeah, and the punish went in still geez. He knows Sometimes you know your friend Big flawless block stuff and that's great, but we got to see some counteractions here Two low hats and now Zangafrio with meter. Oh, he just goes in. He had striker grenades. Why not idea from Zangafrio three games to one I really like the striker with johnny Uh, there's just so much jrickery that you can get away with Yeah, you can you can get more plus frames with johnny that he always has. Yeah. Yeah, you know Make up for one of his weaknesses, right? Yeah, actually johnny finally has some plus frames here with I think that's really cool. Again, it's awesome to see players who have slightly different ideas Obviously, you know, not the first cage striker that's ever been out there But yeah, it does it does give you really cool options and for raid and goro You'll never saw that Maybe I've seen it here in there, but I don't think at this level of play and at least not in a while And it didn't it didn't work out all over time. Maybe it would work out in other matchups Maybe it's a different situation, but here Zangafrio knew he I mean once once you are standing up out of the Attempted goro low grab like it's the tricks are over. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to get away with stuff at that point But we have the friend effect here because this this kind of gameplay Of keeping can work with all of other players, but not no not with Zangafrio Exactly. Yeah, you're right the price for the the friend. Exactly So As a result, it's going to be Zangafrio moving on We still have a little bit of work to do his match Opponent next round. We're not sure yet. It's going to be either Gustavo page or flame Yeah, but the rest of this loser side is decided it axioma took it three games to two over alvarez Oh, man axioma is still very strong alvarez Is doing a very good job, but axioma with his scorpion It's a another another mark for him. That's true So losers round two is shaping up to be Fezzelgabe versus mono Phelps axioma versus dc volg Zangafrio versus either Gustavo or flame and then collapse is in versus chocolate. That's losers Now All we've been doing so far in this top 24 is losers, but winners side is Full of very interesting matchups. Yeah scorpion prox versus murillo That is chile one of the chilean twins who we're all looking at as one of the best in the world for sure Versus a player who's 16 and using Shao Kahn Darius And looked like a killer with it awesome to see killer shinok versus king gambler Two very strong players who don't really need an introduction But a couple the best from their respective regions killer shinok here king gambler is down here from the u.s Nicholas another one of the two chilean twins versus conqueror again one of the strongest brazilian players for many years Yeah, and then mk. Javier One of the best maybe the best scorpion player in the world versus brian loran who again 16 was what I was told also very young with Sub-zero and rain so that we're looking for that one to be a scorpion sub-zero Scorpion versus sub-zero in the high level. I know that's those are all to make topic. Yeah, so that's going to be winners side We're going to take a quick break And we'll be back with winners side of the brazil offline major after this That's it. There are a lot of strong guys there Brazilians for themselves are very strong. I still said, hey, guys, you don't trust me. I said there are other brazilians stronger than me In this game, I'm fine. I'm not going to lie, but I still feel that there are other brazilians above me My own gui, the cold blood is my own killer shinok too. So there's a guy there who's going to be helping brazil and I'm very happy For moral, right? Well, guys, there's a proxie champion from evo. I also have veio raviere who is one of the best players in europe Chocolate, so I'm going to give my best as always, right? And you, a player who's always out of brazil playing, has experience in international tournaments, not only in evo, but also in other tournaments And how do you want to play in brazil? It's a little more quiet. It's cool, how do you feel seeing these guys playing here in our country? It's cool because you're in your own country, but there's that pressure of, oh man, people come from far away You have to defend the house, the country, and the brazilian flag is in the game, right? So it's logical that everyone will come and give their best, but we want to defend brazil, right? So it's kind of quiet, but at the same time it's not because there's all that pressure, right? So guys, let's go, let's go brazil! Good luck and let's go to brazil! Thank you, let's go! Hello guys, how's it going? We're going into offline, right? We've got Loser's Bracket. This next block remains entirely Loser's Bracket action And then when Ariel and Ultra David come back in, that's when we go into top 16 We go into who's making top 8, who's going to qualify for that final bracket We're here to find out who's going home Yeah man, it's going to be amazing because brocco petition is not about the prize pool, but it's a global point So it's very important for the brocco petition itself And we have good players, and I'm very excited because we have two young players We have Killerschnock as well, so very excited, let's go! I'm just really excited to see kind of where this bracket is going to take us Because the story of the event that we've had this weekend has been a lot of young talent A lot of talent almost entirely based in Brazil Where in a lot of cases MK1 might not necessarily be their first actual fighting game Like it's not like this is the first time they've ever touched the genre But it's the first game that they took seriously Actually we have a lot of new players who never touched a fighting game before I don't know how they do it Yeah, Brian's like that, Brian Murilinho So young players, young generation, bright future ahead A lot of talent and a lot of time to train Very true, you know, part of the young generation is that there's often not as many responsibilities We don't have this time, right? No, certainly no Not anymore, not anymore But it results in some absolutely ridiculous competition Now, our first match up here on stream Reminder folks, this is all losers' brackets So if someone loses here, they're out of the tournament Definitely, very important So here we go, Fizzle Gaby on your right We already saw the single, very good, very talented young player as well Let's see the cameo It's a striker, so ambush game on the way, catcher The big thing here really is that, you know, Fizzle Gaby we saw had to already sort of work kind of hard versus reptile earlier on So nice and warmed up here, we're going to be going fresh into this first match Starting things off, I mean look, this is the sort of Sindel style that we're familiar with But as you kind of pointed out, not entirely focused on just the Lao cameo The striker comes out with maybe some extra pressure, a stronger ranged game Against Johnny Cage, that ranged game is going to be kind of important Yeah, it's a safe gameplay, so let's see how it goes Life! Okay, the striker, the conversion, nice break Before playing the neutral, let's see This air game is pretty amazing, let's see Okay, nice conversion, I think it's done It's over Absolutely, first round, Faisal Gave, Sindel I mean a character that so many people are talking about right now Just so many options, so many tools, something for every occasion Of course, being able to pair with many different cameos at the same time Even here with the striker, nice little corner combo, ending it early Just to make sure we can get that meaty jump in, and just the pressure The range What's happening? It's like a single player game Let's see, Faisal Gave is just putting the game And we just overhead clean over the low low hat as well But I guess there's one element that Sindel's going to have against Cage Cage has really good buttons, right? He's got a good range, he's got a good basketball Absolutely, however Sindel has got range and buttons that can kind of compete with that So when you add projectiles to the mix, that was a gorgeous wall of stuff by the way Yeah, and she can control the neutral game in that space very well Here we go man, one hole, the first nail The palp spuffy, so really good gameplay The zonis, the controlling It's a different style of striker as well, because when you think of striker cameo You think, I'm going to go ham, I'm going to pet all, by the way, more damage thanks to that up block Striker comes in and you know, makes things safe or plus That's kind of the classic, that would have been a delicious pickup But in this case, the grenades really are being used as a neutral tool Almost exclusively there It's too a lot of turns, it's never your turn, right? Okay, faster recharge thanks to the little snap there And it helps looking much better now The pops, nice work Got to be careful with those defensive striker tools, I mean it's such an underratedly good tool Some people out there might have been mad even calling it underrated But just look, calling in the defensive cameo that striker throws the grenades from behind you Really hard to actually stop him from doing it So the defensive corner tactic is really really dangerous Little low poke there into the hair whip Yeah, end of another round for Faisal cape Already controlling that match once more The striker just makes sure everything is safe Nice vanish Not going to hesitate to steal the turn back though The second you feel like you've got any advantage, that EX armor just comes flying out there And actually Faisal gave me some really master on delaying this measure It's a good tactic because you get so convinced that Sindel's not going to do it That the moment you press a button, right, I'm safe to do it And then armor, right in your face Defensive striker again So many options Let's see if Manoffels is trying to make something Okay, nice combo, I think it's over Not really sure what kind of special move Faisal gave was trying to do there Certainly wasn't the armor, otherwise we would have saw it Either way, I didn't move forward fast enough to get the conversion off that And definitely Rush now is the Manoffels gameplay He needs to go in, he needs to make the dedication gameplay Faisal gave us just a master of controlling the space EX armor straight away Really nice trade, we're not going to get anything But what we are going to do is just put ourselves back to full screen And that's exactly where Faisal gave wants to be Strikes grenade again Ooh, it got it And yeah Oh, the conversion, it's going to hurt a lot Let's see, oh, it's dropping Oh, but ready Reset is happening And it's over, just like this It's not a reset, I'm sorry It's a... I gotta say, right, that was a really smart micro duck Because in that instance, right That's kind of when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade Because we drop the combo or we go for the flip I'm going to assume it was a drop However, I don't think that was the first time that mishap would have happened So you're against Johnny Cage He's going to go for a fast button to try and punish you Probably going to be a standing one I'm now going to micro duck because I'm expecting it And I'm going to blow it up completely Yeah, the layers after layers Ah, that's the striking classic I'm going to throw out an unsafe move But here comes my man, he's got his cap on, he's got his grenade Yeah, man Manofa is really good at using his shadow kick armors And now he's going in Shaking his shoulders I'm running the corner, let's see The hat Nice position Bait out the up- Wow, nice The portal tech here Let's see And it's over, man True, but Manofa is trying to make something here Star power is available Again, you fall into the traps I want you to come in I want you to try something Okay, let's see You're seeing the cops still in the turns Oh Nice Well, whatever that was, doesn't matter Because we've turned it into a full combo regardless Doesn't work, let's see Fezzogabe really going in Try to make this excellent round One-sided round Not going to get a full combo there Sindel still technically airborne Absolutely nothing you're doing about that So here, match point for Fezzogabe It's loser, so It's going to be the last round for Manofa Let's see These matches are going to be really important Of course, after we go through this round of loser's bracket We then move into players that are qualifying for top 8 Those that don't quite do it Will then get dropped into the slightly lower part of bracket Where they will meet these players That you're seeing right in front of you So the job won't be done, but We've got to work for it Up block Nice block, let's see For version, it's going to hurt a lot See the bar? You see the damage? $300 in cash This strong defense at the moment I mean Try and react to a grab if there is one I told you The delay button Once more Making the play Man Excellent tool That very much was a You can only block for so long kind of situation Not necessarily because there were any crazy mix ups at play I mean, Striker was the cameo there But the threat of the grab Or anything else must have just become way too tempting Yeah Way scary, right? It's just like looking at gameplay The grab is so strong There it is Using the good cameo But if you had a good button Man, its strike throw game is really, really shine Overall Just a great display And one thing that I really liked about that match From Faiso Gabe was the use of the Trying to intercept the opponent's cameo That's not a move that you see every day From Sindel players I know it's definitely one of her more Kind of like situational moves Because you know you have to rely on them Calling in the cameo Right as you've done it You've got to have a good read on it Against Kung Lao That's kind of good though Because you know you're full screen You're against Johnny Cage That's kind of the only option that Cage has At that distance And the moment you start to enforce that respect And you make the opponent fear Calling in your cameo Just in case she's you know taken in Intercepted That's just going to give her way more real estate Because Striker, grenades Projectiles, long range The save is a save A game plan, right? But Faiso Gabe have Kung Lao too And I like Sindel versus Lao Because he can make the air game Very well So it avoids the hat Anyone that's able to sort of bypass The threat of that low hat Is another element to how I think the matter of the game is shaping Whether it's people using moves That can like go over the hat Maybe you can hit Kung Lao Before he's even thrown it Like certain moves And the big one that we're starting to see Over time is players that are now Calling in their cameo Excuse me So that they can absorb the low hat And that's like Haven't seen a huge amount of that here But like a lot of the online cups That we've seen Particularly the sort of EU ones When that hat's coming And someone calls in a cameo For the sole purpose of just taking the hit While the opponent's now over committed To something like I guess when a cameo gets used As often as Kung Lao currently is There is going to be just Natural counterplay developing Week after week Because I mean look You gotta fight it You need to fight it They nerf it But it's still really good You know the frame data Was lowered a bit But the low threat The hatched blocks is still there So it's a really A really strong game plan Still But man Faisal Gabriel is really good At this matchup I think And man Faisal Gabriel is advancing He's amazing I told you We saw him yesterday And I'm really excited to see him In this bracket He's definitely one of the favorites That's what interests me Because obviously got knocked into Loser's bracket yesterday Which means that you know You're having to go through That kind of gauntlet early on There's a lot of players here That you know Because they're in winners bracket Does not mean they are safe You know we have So many killers in this Lower side of the bracket That you know You might lose your qualification Match for top 8 And then you gotta fight One of these players Who have just been momentum They've been on a tear They're looking really good And ah Some scorpion Yeah man it's Harry If I'm not wrong Another young talent from Brazil Another scorpion He plays just like Haver I mean the safety scorpion you know A lot of runs away Came out just to make sure Everything works Keep damage You know what's interesting to me though Javier does not like Striker versus Johnny Cage With the scorpion This is one of the matchups That he picks million for Really? Yeah because Johnny Cage Has some pretty disrespectful low pokes That can go underneath a lot of Scorpion offense And then you have the fact That the fast shadow kick Can in many cases punish A lot of things into Striker grenades Scorpion in a lot of cases Isn't very safe Just like this Shadow kick punishing Keeps it nice and safe With the shadow kick with punish Big jump in I mean look Scorpion's jump kick I know we all hate fighting Johnny Cage's jump kick Scorpion's got a pretty damn Good one of his own Yeah the damage is there man Always heavy hitting Wait for the inevitable low poke Tries to force down one That down one to me I think more of a test Is my opponent gonna try And disrespect the fact That they are minus three That down one was to try And test them out Wow Three breakers forced Okay let's see What was that Is a good play too Let's see While the blow is on the screen Let's see Johnny Cage is trying To make it work Oops Striker is out We have a bar We have a grab 30 seconds Watch out EX spin No flawless block to be had Two right Uh huh Really strong I mean that death spin It's significantly easier To flawless block Than like a raid and storm cell However Still in the heat of the moment Can be a little bit tricky Yeah Definitely needs a flawless block This I wanted to take this check damage That was a brave back three By the way No striker in sight You just committed to that one Striker again They're not seeing big combos I mean the players are just Play a simple game No big vanishes so far But now They have a break That break is going to get built On the side of Vogue though Because now that one little hellfire Means that should Scorpion land A significant hit One that he's going to have to be Kind of committed to Without striker Finish Oh bad confirmed though That could have been the round Yeah another one Let's see but now it's dead But definitely I told you There is not big combos here No it's mega difference Even there That round was done But Vogue just had to do Is confirm into EX uppercut right That knowledge down to punish We'll take that favourable trade damage I like that though Axo was a Maybe the fear of the parry was there So just did a single forward three So it's not punishable Let's see A lot of blocks Another A lot of R2 We're punished But we got a breaker Let's see No break No break Interesting I mean if you're going to break If you're breaking You're just going to You commit straight away Oh you're dead now Yeah you are dead Just eat the damage Four meter Yes please Are we going to spend the third Just because we can No Yeah bad decisions You definitely need to Make a choice right It was unfortunate because like You have the meter Your cameo isn't on cooldown You know your cameo hasn't Suffered a penalty So If you're going to break You just took an unnecessary Like 200 damage there Yeah man I don't know the decisions Is that pressure Maybe I don't know Well thankfully it's only in game one We do have more games to work with It's now currently 1-0 to Axima Okay Let's see Another lovely up block That's the second time Vogue has been able to find that one Okay Nice break Oh the spacing Let's see Big damage always That like weird minus frame situation Into just back dash 2-1 has been Causing an absolute nightmare For Vogue so far And like so many of them And like I said man Scorpion have one of the best Back dashes in the game Let's see Again the same thing And another one let's see Always big damage Spend the bar Man Scorpion is Really He's hard The thing is I know 3 out of 5 Sounds like a decent chunk of games But in this kind of situation That ain't a lot of time To make these adaptations Right now Axima has just been All over this There hasn't been an opportunity For cage to really get anything going The second anything is minus There's just been a back dash Into always a 2-1 And we haven't reached that next layer yet Uh oh Okay the damage The item foot Okay let's see Henry's 2 have the bar Escape failed They're trying to protect But of course in that range It's a bit hard to tell Which side they're going Oh no! You're dead again We have even more meter We're gonna spend it Probably Oh he dropped it But now it's guaranteed And it's over But I mean Good gameplay So alright We kinda have to Just weigh up what's happening Right now so The big thing about this situation I think it's why we're We're taking this moment right Is we have to think about it Um The absolute Pain in the backside Has been Any sort of Minus frame situation Back dash 2-1 Johnny Cage has been hit by it Every single time And it has cost two games And Johnny Cage have God like brothers I don't know How it's happening man It's the magic of the back dash Maybe Maybe By I'm curious to see What kind of turnaround We might have here from that Okay two wall Let's see Time to box Make something No confirm We just commit to the 2-1 Let's see Back to back Just back to back buttons Have been a real problem Yeah he's tried to make A single game player here Always stealing the turn Another one Another knee That was just a Lovely lovely Cool out on that Just an individual Staggered forward three And look at that damage Oh my god Like what Counter dollars Plus frames In cash It's over man If there's one thing Scorpion like doesn't lack It's damage Yeah Like he is able to hit Incredibly hard For these good hits Bait the up block I just feel like Akshima has just been On another level He's been on a higher layer Here Yeah dominating the mind game So far Okay the striker Oh god Another one It's very rare in this Kind of match up with Johnny Cage That Scorpion is the one This in control Oh we just do it again Yeah Same thing Always doing the up block To make this bait Wonderful block No hard to blocks there It was just overhead into low Yeah Plenty of time to see it Another A lot of wires in the game Oh They staggered again Always hook Nice bait on the back dash Did you saw that See that Didn't want to commit to the Shadow kick I mean if you shadow kick here And then you get hit You can't breathe So the shadow kick is going to be A massive risk at this health Yeah Step on trolling Oh the dance Dance Striker Keeps us safe Uh huh Oh did not commit Did not commit No no punish What's happening It's the opportunity Does the individual once That's both times Oh god no confirms He's alive I don't know why I don't know how But it's happening And now the ship damage We'll do the trick And it's trio Really good Scarpone I mean it's the classic one It was a There's a strange few situations Near the end there I mean definitely not a perfect match But I do worry like something That might be a little bit frustrating For Volg because Just I don't want to say looked lost But The way the scorpion was approaching This matchup The way we were sort of sticking out Things like the 2-1 for example Even the placements of like The occasional back three When there wasn't even a striker To make it safe But just knew You knew it would work Trying to go in You eat a striker to the face It's just like So many of these weird situations Just worked perfectly For Akshaymar That it was just like And outside of that It was you know baiting the jump in With the up block near the end of it Where it's like Okay I've now reached that Kind of next layer I don't really think That Volg hit that next layer at all This was just all scorpion From start to finish And Kind of looked like A frustrating way to go out Aha That people Nice And man We're seeing a really good I thought the good scorpion here I mean Harry's Man He changed his name So I gotta say That his whole name was Harry And when you know someone Best So I just want to call him Harry I'm sorry We have the same thing With like Formerly known as Sonic Ninja in the UK Yeah man A different game attack these days I can't call him Max I can't call him But man He's a really good player He controlled the match Really well I mean this back dash Made history here And like a good scorpion I mean Well controlled space That's the name of the game For me One thing about scorpion That's insane Is his back dash I actually think Scorpion might have like The best Back dash in the game Like it's so fast And it covers such range And compliments So many of his really quick Ranged buttons You know the 2-1 For example Like it's a really great way to play And of course Why it works so well with Stryker Because you can play that Kind of hit and run game Dance across the stream I played I played a lot Against Harry And he's a specialist in this You know The steel turns And the Stryker is perfect for this Because if you steel a turn It's definitely your turn It's a combo It's hit hard You know Absolutely is And our next match up It looks like we'll be seeing Some more Gustavo Yeah, Gustavo Peugeot Versus Sangifrio I need to say this For our English Audiences We have a history here So just 2 guys They are friends Maybe we will have A mirror match I don't know Not 100% As it's cage and Stryker I gotta say This has been the block Of Johnny Cage so far There is so much cage here And it looks like We're getting 2 more Oh my god We start off immediately They immediately They read You know They definitely They finally I mean let's look at What these 2 characters are going to get You know cage is going to get A little bit more Block pressure Thanks to the Stryker assist Wait a minute What's happening The perfect The side switch What the hell was that Let your friend Let your friend Play too Right So you kind of mentioned history Between the 2 of them Before like Is that history Sort of just continuing here I don't know man Let's see the next chapter Because man Sinking food is playing Really good right now He got the loss Yesterday But he is Ooh here covered I think I do quite like that If you want to Force a side switch And you're called in the Stryker it kind of looks Like that dash is a wonderful Way of obtaining it Nice block Oh Pesitant on the anti Yeah You just jump here I mean it's fantastic Full combo now Stryker That's it Try to make some Really good gameplay Double page Have a little game too Because man That was rough Judge the cage definitely Doesn't work here Hard to decide You know is that really A match up thing For me here Do I need to change Yeah we're going straight in For the rematch When your opponent Was as overwhelming As they were You didn't really have An opportunity to see What to do with it Chubs the berry War Nah We're Spanish This button is amazing Catching Nice ray Let's see Fort Preston Might have had a similar Idea actually How always we have The funny carry It's funny Challenging that jump in Shadow kick Does it say no No safe jump for you sir Side twitching throw Immediately in again With that shadow kick Like we are challenging Right here Much better round For Gustavo Page Now he's getting the pace Of the game Let's see They strike her The conversion support Immediately The ray You can see a lot Of the pieces move When it comes to Johnny Cage And Striker Because It's almost doubling up On block You're going to get stuff Into grenades And it's okay And on hit In the right circumstances Those grenades Will turn things into Full combos As we just saw With the uppercut There from Cage Earlier And look at the patient They're still kidding me Against Johnny Cage They fight to read again Against Cage That is such a risk No respect for the knee Is that right? Even if that's the only one Of those you get away With this whole set It's worth it Just to win a round Plus frames Being read Back up Big jump Gustavo Hasn't had a chance To get anything started In this whole series Right now You're right Catch him He's in the mind Of the right choice Right Oops Another right choice Let's see The drops But it's okay The light leech Definitely for Sange Free is trying to Make this stagger game Down two Out of that I don't know man Looks like Desperation I think Yeah Looks like to me Good defense here Okay Interruption Lovely hit confirmed Okay the auto blow I mean we need something We need to get big damage We need to just give ourselves Even if it's a few seconds Of a breather Just get some sort Of momentum back Because it has been Pretty challenging so far Everything The damage was good Let's see Oh the hat Making work right now And the double page Is alive The cameo Doing the job I kind of think that In the cage mirror Striker's doing some Pretty good stuff To deal with cage In general You've got the defensive Striker grenades You have the added pressure That Kung Lao's not going To give you You can shadow kick No hat situations And maybe cover yourself With a grenade I feel like this matchup Does Even though it's technically A mirror match Does kind of favor The Sangre 3 The strike is really Working well For Sangre 3 Because You can just respect Junkages Is a big deal Counter poke Striker grenades Says hello Oh hang on Okay it's damage One more Significant hit Will do it Flawless block But we enforce the mixup Okay it's over So Striker making work I mean It's a setup You have a 50-50 You have the ambush Man The difference here Is the cameo Even near the end Of the round I only really need One substantial hit Really And okay Well I've got an unseeable Overhead low Because of Striker And I don't know Why Gustavo Page Is going to Do this You know Did you Reversed 3 Did you expect the Liu Kang change Yeah of course Because Gustavo Page Have a really good Liu Kang Really good One of the best in Brazil It must just be something About Johnny Cage But you actually said These two have history Maybe historically He does quite well With Johnny Cage When they play I don't know Maybe Another fairy Bypass those grenades Gustavo A chance to start something And I mean It is now or never Remember folks Losers bracket Is this match Gustavo Page loses This match He's out of the tournament The losers pick no one Okay Nice hammer Nice moment The fairy what What What the hell was this Can only imagine They expected a forward 3 Or something Okay it's right Just respect Just press Archew and wait Right now Thank you for you This is a match point Amazing gameplay I mean Very dominated Totally unrelated But this is the first time I'm hearing a different Language version Of Jean-Claude Van Damme It's a brand new It's a fun time Oh yeah Fun time Oh yeah It's a fun time Let's see Alright Really scary Everything here is scary Into the sweep Into the grenades Into more plus frames Escape failed Going for a reverse throw Technically the smarter Of the options there Harder to read Low poke Any low poke here Any situation Where Johnny Cage gets Plus frames Is a nightmare For Gustavo Another one That one Let's see It's like a field with Huge life leads Uh oh Alright Now or never This is stressful Doesn't get the shadow kick Whoops It's over man Nice And thank you for you Got it 3-0 Very good Very consistent gameplay I mean I didn't expect this 3-0 Really I'm gonna be honest with you Thank you for you It's playing really well When this loses There's a chance That maybe the crowd Didn't either Because you probably Can't hear them on our headsets Because we're in a different Booth upstairs In the venue This crowd I can hear them From up here In a booth That I think is meant To be somewhat Soundproofed I can still hear The players Downstairs There is so much support For players At the moment And it was the same Yesterday night Yeah the Brazilian To cheer a lot You already know that And we are Seeing the replay Man Amazing Amazing demonstration Of the Simple joining cage Right I mean it's not We don't have a Gordo or Kungelao Just a simple Game plan A lot of grenades as well And man Thank you for you It's alive And if I say so Looking incredibly strong Incredibly strong The striker Was just Such a huge piece Of the puzzle In this mirror match Because you know Cage versus cage They both have Ridiculous buttons Ridiculous damage Understandable disappointment There for Gustavo Yeah definitely I mean like Even down to like How things ended And that I think Was an accident I don't think We were meant to Hang on that For his framework Sorry about that mate I'm sorry Gustavo I feel like Yeah it was Just kind of like Falling apart for him Especially in that final round Even something really small Like The chips are down The pressure's on You call in low hat And I can only assume He tried to do Shadow kick But he did like The overhead thing Instead which kind of Just looked That's just a clear Execution error Right super simple But for me Just sort of Spelled how things were Ending Where Gustavo just Wasn't as Just on point Yeah definitely I'm looking For Gustavo Page looking But he's out Yeah Liu Kang The Gustavo Page Liu Kang Is a really good character He played really well With Liu Kang He has a smoke too But Liu Kang Is definitely his main character Okay He played Johnny Case too But I see much more Liu Kang In his gameplay But we didn't solve Always unusual You know I mean You're gonna have the When we finish our commentary block You know you'll have the perfect opportunity To go down and just ask it That's why I actually really like About these tournaments Is This kind of experience Where you're constantly talking To the players You're speaking to the players And you know When there is something Unusual That happens There's a reason Yeah And then going out there But Just being able to like You know Put the headset down And then talk to them And go hey What happened And then they give you some Why you didn't pick This character Yeah Yeah it's a good part Of it But we're loading into Our next match As we speak We'll let you know And we'll see it in action But Just to remind everyone You know That the stress Of losers bracket This is where things get A lot more serious Because we've been here For two days now Energy levels have been Super high Everyone The vibes are immaculate In this venue That's You know A big part of that Might just be South American Mortal Kombat There's tons of passion here But everyone's happy To be here Everyone's enjoying themselves They're enjoying the bracket For the players That are still in That energy I think has shifted It's like All focus Because now we're In that last Lifeline territory You know All the good times That are going to be had today That will just happen later When the job's done You know We have to focus on the now Focus on the match And It's a really intense day Right now I can feel this too Next night Last night We saw a really Good The matches That people was cheering A lot But Like you said People now Is more tense It's a loser bracket So people are Trying to make this Tournament It's a pro Competition So we have A lot of points here In the game We have Of course the prize pool And most important We have The honor The most important thing Here It always will be Like With like Regional events Ah You thought You were done With Johnny Cage Well, guess what? And let me say this This guy on the right Is a really good MKX He's back here In MK1 And He won against One of the favorites Player to win this tournament Call it Gearsceptional Let's see man Because The moment is there We saw this smoke Yesterday I had never seen This smoke And tremor tech I am so glad He is still in this bracket Because this is just for me Like It looks really hard to play But so rewarding Let's see Okay another Johnny Cage On the screen Let's see how this smoke Gonna Make this game plan I mean With the right ambush You know we're sitting here That overhead Becomes a full combo For those that don't know If you have that Aftershock ambush That overhead strike From smoke Oh that's big damage That's big damage He's always proposing The game plan right He's always in He's always in the rush now Minus frames Of the forces here Bates out the up block So that's an empty jump Oh overhead On the up block there Even though smoke's invisible You have a timing For the whole thing Wow We're seeing matchup knowledge Nice defense We're seeing matchup knowledge If you know The smoke matchup And you expect that You know sometimes You can anti air with a button The safest way is To see the start up animation And just jump in With an air straight And the problem is At 20k's you have A really good conversion Doing natural air right Just like this Look Totally neutralizing that situation Interruption Another one Chocolat is not letting Calapsee get away with it Anything There's no gimmick here Let's try to make something Interruption Even when invisible I feel like this is kind of a rough first game Because Chocolat has done nothing But say to you all match None of this will work on you You now need to look at it And go right There's got to be Something totally different You're going to bring Otherwise This is going to happen For the next two games Yeah man The quality Didn't work His smoke game plan right Just He tried But Chocolat Always ready to interrupt Always ready In the The chill He's so ready It looks like they've played before Everything He's ready for everything It looks like they've played This matchup before Like These Specific situations Either that or of course He knows who's in his path And he studied it The night before Which is another strong possibility That's a punnage Okay The conversions That's definitely One way of working around it Chocolat is going to have Be able to differentiate The difference Between EX Overhead And then the regular one Because the regular one Look like it beat the jump attempt Another fall Oh no The game's been out for so long You almost forget that That cancel Like that is unsafe Oh no Didn't work Yeah but The extension didn't come out Chocolat is just ready To make the ship damage Another jump free Excellent Now I have to say That extension Not like working that way There is a sort of Mechanical reason That is the case I just can't remember Off the top of my head I think it's something to do with The opponent Maybe their specific Airborne state Or whatever else The same thing can happen With like Quan Chi's Sky Drop Looks weird But it is There is a reason for it As unfortunate as it can be Damn it All I have a problem here He's not playing The small game plan At all The defense of Chocolat Has been really strong Now aftershock Look at that launch The damage Let's see Okay, the setup Baaap You can't see me Nice Alright Alright, we're partying We're partying Now we're talking Now the blend is here Let's see Alright We've set up into crystalline I feel like there's Going to be an aftershock Ambush coming That's one of the main reasons You'll set up into crystalline First Or in this case Crystallino Now for the shrine Everywhere Let's see Taking a good time Another one The ship damage Let's see The block The block of the loo It doesn't work So the people here Don't set up the shrine a lot I can't hurry I can feel them in my feet Like we are directly above The players downstairs Yeah man, there's a Brazil Versus Los Angeles Of course They're going to be rooting For that smoke Half people carry Smoke Using the tremor there To absorb low hat Impression The life of each Is probably here for Paula It's unfortunate Smoke has got to get going With this kind of design This kind of cameo And you have to make A substantial comeback here And that's going to be hard Yeah, it needs to be a miracle So Chocolate is now playing The neutral game Just waiting Controlling the space Very difficult And now The knee is going to do the job Too old Chocolate Really Is really good on this matchup I am absolutely in love With all this smoke tech I really am But it's just Chocolate's defense on it Has just been immaculate Like really impressive Clever Again Using the tremor To absorb the low hat But then still getting hit By the advance Something about that Is really weird to me I'm not used to seeing that And another good round For chocolate Let's see Oh, there's the armor Just waiting for that Looking ugly for Paula Let's see Grab It's a sad story It's a sad Brazilian story Right here Bulk Messes up the command Again, man The problem is You're going to get In your own head At that point When you have these Execution drops This light and bracket It can be a real problem I'm not saying that's What's happening here I'm not going to speak On behalf of the player But it's a high stress And those cancels Become a lot harder When the chips are down Full combo, by the way Because they're up Let's see Last chance Last nail Still still the command Oh, no! Micro-duck can wake up Mm-hmm Come on We're going to see More of this tremor Let's see it Give us some sauce Actually, call this Strangereal block The hat Unfortunately, though Again, the low hat Is being neutralized and neutral And the choco-latch know it It's just getting hit anyway It's just getting hit By the Johnny Cage Regardless Yeah, the feck is in the working Let's try to make something here But it's not working The shadow kick This can be the last moment Of this Brazilian smoke Hang on a minute No Resets Oh! Resets Went for a reset Into another mix-up And chocolate was still Ready He's so ready, man! I can't believe it! Invisible A block Not as uncommon As some might think, you know Man, perfectly timed It's Amazing That was, for me, like The most impressive thing in this Was Chocolate's defense Like, for real There was so much Smoke stuff going on here That, you know, I've got to say Collapsing is just Super, super, super impressive I had never seen Smoke and Tremor And the fact I've never really seen anyone play Tremor Where they constantly bounce between All three variations like this Like, I saw a lot of new tech From this player So I'm really, really happy with that And it looks very hard to enforce But it also looks kind of hard To block And that is where Chocolate was able to Super, super just Ascend in this matchup Because it wasn't just smoke It was the weird extra stuff Yeah, man The full package We can see in the replay Kola was trying to use Tremor To block the low hat But it didn't work Very well You can see the handshake And, man, it's a shame Because Kola is a really good, really talented player But he's out of this tournament That's a brutal tool And we need to move on So, Argentina is moving forward On this loser bracket And, man, great matches I have just been informed That this initial round of losers matches Is done We're going to go for a short break And when we are back Top 16 Top 8 qualification matches With King Gambler The Twins MK Javier So much more So much killers Sub-Zero makes a return, baby We're going to be back in a few minutes time You do not want to miss the rest of this tournament See you in a bit Bye-bye We're here teaching people how to make combos Also on trips Liga Latina And, man, today is a very special day Our competition in Brazil is very special It's very special Because I think it's the second time That there's an official circuit championship So it's always really cool To receive this kind of championship here And we're used to it You're used to playing with Brazilians Now, meet the people There are some gringos here That you don't know That you've never seen You've never seen playing You don't even know the character How does it look like? It's different because Against who you've already played You know that he's going to do something You're going to wait for some other things You're already used to it Sometimes the guy is using a chemical That nobody uses So you have to be prepared You have to be connected to surprises Because it's going to happen That you take something that you didn't expect For example, look I'm going to speak down here For people to hear Talk to a character there That, I don't know Nobody ever takes it For example, here we have Javier Spanish, who plays Scorpion And Camilion We don't have anyone in Brazil Playing with this team So, like It's going to get a lot of people Surprises Yeah, and does it look like a character That, I don't know Or A character that nobody ever takes? Dude A character very little used It's Aquitana The Scorpion itself That I said If it looks like an Aquitana You're not training Because it's a total surprise The only time I played Against Aquitana Was the one from Fezogabe That I had to win But to be the focus of the game But It's complicated When these surprises appear Good So That's it We're rooting for the Brazilians But Let's see Good luck On your own Thank you This is no time to smile Hell yeah it is Fight a fire god Is coming off my bucket list Bangable monster check out man You think me a monster? Who so enjoy killing you? Hey everybody Welcome back to Brazil Offline major We've been making our way Through the top 24 And now we're going to start Making our way from the top 16 Into the top 8 I'm ultra David Back here with Ariel And we're going to start With winners side Yeah Where every matchup Is an international matchup Yeah And lots of potential For a super interesting game play We will have huge matches Huge players And I think you will You'll see A lot of great techniques The best of the South America MK1 Yeah But even more than Just South America Obviously that's That's where we are But the first one Is in fact South America It's going to be Scorpion Prox One of the Chilean twins One of the best players In the world For the last couple of years In the MK scene Versus Marilo Who is a teenage player He played Shao Kahn Darius yesterday Yeah Looked sick in doing it Not only Shao Kahn But he has a very Good Johnny Cage too Dude Yeah You love to see that kind of stuff Killer Shinok and King Gambler Is the next match That we'll be looking at In winners side We've all seen those players Be top level For many years at this point Yeah Which is great to see Killer Shinok From Brazil King Gambler from the US So again international match And for the points For the major Yeah definitely This is a big match Because Killer Shinok Is on top 13 Yeah They're both up there King Gambler is not too far behind So either one of them Were to win this event You know Maybe they're not qualified outright But like pretty close In terms of points Yeah When we reach this match We will talk more about The points Value for Killer Shinok Then Nicholas versus Conqueror So again one of the Chilean twins Everybody's expecting to do well No surprise that they're both In winners side of top 16 Has been one of the best players For the last couple years Versus Conqueror Who has also been One of the strongest players Yeah The world MK scene For many years at this point From Brazil And then finally MK Javier From Spain One of the best players In all of Europe And also probably the best Scorpion Versus Bryan Lohan Who is playing A really strong sub-zero Yeah rain So here we go to begin with We have Baraka It's been one of a couple different choices Here for Scorpion Baraka's the beginning Versus again The Shao Khan From Murillo It's very fun to watch General Shaw And Murillo Man Yeah I mean his movement's cool His offense is cool The mix ups are fun The little tech he has with Darius too Is really nice Okay Like this And that's not over yet Oh no You know for Baraka's striker It's not just about the Up close mix ups Although those are Super important But he also has a lot of Stage control Yeah Bunky timing on it Caught a button Here we go patients Nice Can we say somebody Actually armored Through the gap I can't believe it And For the kill For the kill That's what I Suck a barrage It's been however money Months since the game came out Thank you for finally doing it Amazing Yeah some characters get Legit combos He's just soft Shaw's one of them So despite a lot of stage control A lot of great pressure By Scorpion procs Murillo And he's using The The cameo striker That he's ambush Dude if you can just deny That approach That would be gigantic Again You never know When he's going to the Baraka barrage One meter on the other side You're not as worried Not going to be armored Through the gap Get it up Nice What a pick up Oh 950 Baraka striker Taking 50 health off 950 I think that's Going to do it For game number one Man the crowd The crowd is insane down there Yeah again We're upstairs And there's a whole crowd Downstairs And we can feel them Rumbling the room They are It's Brazil versus Chile Murillo Who beat Guy exceptionally yesterday In the three games The one Already one game Versus One of the best Scorpion procs Who again That approach is denied But seems to me That Scorpion procs Is delaying This striker Grenade I mean he wants To make it So that the Spin is safe The extra layer To this If the opponent's actually Is that you can Do Grenades to cover The gap as well But they're not Safe afterwards So it's not a great mix Up to get involved in He is round He was very strong Yeah Very strong You can count on him He's definitely going To adapt quickly Oh man Set it up That's tricky Great blocks Yeah a little bit Of different timing On that grenade call So he's already adapting Yeah we've punished Very good Going to be knocked down Pressure already available Building a bunch of meter A lot of chip damage On that too Murillo 16 Patient on the other side Leveling up the axe A little bit Again pick it up It's an easy pick up Yeah had to do it To survive That actually wasn't A striker there No Flawless Damage Trying to get away Get some striker back Get a few blade Sparks in there Too far That's a great movement By Scorpion Brox Yeah Scorpion Brox May make a good match And Murillo Was the same but With the The spacing And the ambush The delaying Of the striker Changed the game Yep So now The sort of Second third mix up Really is that Murillo can Not do the armor And instead Just like punish The Baraka barrage Block But anyway we'll see If we get there Nice Scorpion Brox 350 He's still there He's still got a striker too Nice Now that's not a lot on that He didn't have The The bet involved Yeah Sudden blade Spark Look at all these timings And he finds the hit It's not enough Into low It's not from the earth He tried to get a big turn Slowing right there I really like how Scorpion Brox is Really adaptive Really changing up It's got to be great And it's coming at Murillo But he is changing up His timings How often he cancels Into Baraka barrage The button He starts off with it Yeah Very good options You really got to have The whole mix of options Of course He even waited And still Scorpion Brox is there Love this back and forth From Scorpion Brox His Baraka You just don't know Where he's going to be next That's the commitment But nice Because it's not as much Of an unsafe commitment As some of the cameos That you could get To help you with that combo Couldn't he get him No He didn't have the axe in hand Again Not that he was cancelling Can he get him There's going to build Right here Yes On that hit On that hit Phone you saw that Murillo just needs A hit Almost chipped I don't think he's in range So far Yeah Yeah That is a super far Range fatal blow But it's not Literally full screen So two Games right now For Murillo Against Scorpion Brox Number one seed Came into this As we all know One of the best players In the world For a while Is at risk Of getting sent to losers Before top eight Yeah So what has he changed Not team No Darius called Alright Scorpion Brox Pressure The woods are dead now Yeah Stealing a little bit of a turn Same with Murillo What a block Oh The grenade Yeah The thing about Baraka Striker Is that it's not One dimensional If you let him Be one dimensional Okay fine Button in the span It's easy Even if that is What you First see So it's a Strong team Even long term Gonna make Scorpion Brox pay Sitting up Ah no But Out of there The right time Here it is Still in turn He needs to get To pick it up Because the grenades hit Scorpion Brox This round This game Is going exactly As he needs it to After all the harassment With down four And with spin There finally He hasn't canceled it In a while This is not false nevermind Looking to Flawless block Was Murillo Instead Scorpion Brox Mixed it up with the grab That's the kind of adaptation That gets you as far as He's gone in the MK scene Looks like Scorpion Brox Downloaded the match I think Murillo Is in trouble Or No We have General Shaw again Yeah I don't think that Shaw's a problem I mean in fact Can you get Well there's gonna be grenades Yeah okay Thinking about arm rank That's a good idea They reach the chew and chew They're fast to eat Oh Pick up Yes Look at this damage Look at the corner carries Well the stage Scorpion Brox Put some right back Where that combo started Get up Oh what a conversion You see Darius Darius is almost Yeah here he is The timing It was the different option Man Match point Murillo Match point For Murillo The teenager Both of them young guys Both of them Having started their careers In their teens And that was That last layer Where it was Punishable Baraka barrage Because Scorpion Brox Was looking to cover the armor Here comes Murillo Before this Neither one wants To be next to the other You can see that Neither one wants To over commit The blade spark That mid range gameplay Alright setting up the axe Ah but Murillo Finds Or gets hit As Scorpion Brox Finds it No he needs Slightly more There it is Alright match point now For both Final game Final round Just to make top 8 He has become more grab focused This is going on There it is But runs into the grenades Darius Not anything Yes Murillo Is exactly where he needs to be The three bars on the other side And instead of Letting him take his turn On the plus frames Instead Scorpion Brox is out However now he doesn't Have the bar for breaker The drop by Murillo So even So close It's huge And into what? Before there could be a breaker On the other side And that's a chunky boy 1150 health On the right side I don't think this is going to do it If it does It'll just be barely He lives What can he make happen here He can't get hit by a blade spark The tense play 35 on the clock Plenty of time Three bars on Scorpion Brox's side He doesn't need to do anything He can wait it out Get strikers back He got him He got him Scorpion Brox Makes the comeback happen Makes his way into Top 8 But wow What a set To begin Top 16 What a match Murillinho is always Very very strong But Scorpion Brox When we was Two to one for Murillo He Brief He keeps calm And then He Make the comeback Man What a player What a match What a beginning Man I'm speechless Thank you to Murillinho For Doing the armor through Baraka Barrage That's been like that The entire time And finally seeing it Yeah That's actually The secret stuff That you've been joking That's actually the secret Now it's out The real secret Man What a great match That was Looking back at it Obviously for the Brazilian crowd Not the results That they were hoping for But still You got to be proud of Being a strong player For being as strong As he is already And he's still alive Oh yeah Now in the loser's side Absolutely Great start He just needs to win All the time now And shout out of course To Scorpion Brox Who as you were saying Made the adaptations That he needed to make Yeah Amazing These two The twin brothers Are amazing For sure Taking a look back At some of the differences In pressure Some of the different timings There's so many downforce That were not canceled Stand one twos That were not canceled You know Just stealing turns In there With the threat of Baraka barrage As Marilo was waiting for Didn't always come out Because you can't always do it Sometimes you got to do it Here's an example So again He mixed it up Really really well Grab when Marilo Was looking to fall His block to stay alive So just All angles As you would expect For Scorpion Brox He plays against the player Who hasn't played In his context Like this before Loses a couple of games Strong enough to adapt And get the dub Facing a very good general shout That is not common In the professional What a great response Right there That's so cool to see As good as that These guys have been In the grand finals of EVO Like this is They've been in the biggest Moments possible And right there You can still see the passion That they both have An obvious display In the reaction With Marilo Definitely Definitely Alright cool Well again What a start for the top 16 On Winner's side Next one We're going to have Going from top to bottom It's going to be Killer Shinok Versus King Gambler Man So these two players We brought it up Let me bring up the points Here because They both have A lot Right there Both among The top most Neither one is In Where you need to be You've got to be In the top nine Of global points To get automatically Invited to Final combat Scorpion prox is in there Nicholas is in there Like you know Some of these players Are in there But these guys Are just outside of that So Killer Shinok is 14th At the moment And then King Gambler Is just a little bit Outside of that at 23rd Sounds like a big gap But it's actually Not that big In terms of points So getting A win In this tournament Would be huge For their ability to Qualify Even aside from Win Like just to get Into sort of The top few positions Available at an Offline major Than there are In the online stuff So that would be huge For both To be able to get that But for Killer Shinok That He's a Brazilian player For Brazilian players To Travel To play In other tournaments It's very difficult So to Killer Shinok Wins here Or Being in a good place It's very Very, very important Agreed He's very Focusing One of only a couple U.S. players To travel out here And the only one remaining So of course It's Konglao Goro And it's Johnny Goro Talked a little bit With King Gambler Last night Hey man Like why is it that You're playing Johnny Goro You're the only one doing that And What he said is Oh nice Nice work What he said was That he doesn't like Some of the stuff That other people do He doesn't like Laohat He just is Like not a fan of it Same plan for him How do you practice To play against a Johnny Goro You haven't played against King Gambler level Johnny Goro Nobody has Unless you've played against King Gambler So he was like I think that's a really big Advantage that I have Very clever All that aside Killer Shinok doing great Damage in this corner Setting it up for himself Maybe looking for a button There It's kind of a funky timing After the jump kick Not gonna matter Round one To King Gambler Huge round for King Gambler With the pressure And the Goro Like the other matches Goro Oh man The boy comes back out For Killer Shinok now That constant threat Gambler stuck Okay Okay Pick up comes Shinok looking strong Okay, see ya Needs a little bit more Oh 900 health Johnny Goro Give the whip punish, no Maybe he was waiting for a Goro Just in case Who wants to commit in that range That loud Goro range Yeah Where at any moment The big launcher could come And it comes That scary spot Now with no Goro to think about King Gambler did get the pressure But of course It's gonna be right back to the same position With Goro And a bar on Killer Shinok's side In and out of that range Trying to bait it From Killer Shinok Killer Shinok, excuse me for that Yeah Okay, yeah Nice little normalization Three bars gone That's that danger zone Gambler out Oh Pick it up, yes He blocked it out There's no Goro now However, there's still that bar And that could be big With as much life Never mind King Gambler's gonna take it With the grab Game one Just the first match And man What a level Of techniques and gameplay Yeah, super cool to see Back into it That constant dance begins At round start There it is Feels good Man, what a round Yeah, everything went well For him in that round Yeah Let this come Killer Shinok's so good At mixing up when that moment comes The secret's not the armor It's when he do the armor Yeah, right Like the opponent knows What the option is In fact, I'm talking with Gambler last night We were like, hey man How are you feeling about Killer Shinok? And he was like, you know He's a great player Obviously we all know that He plays a team But it's just like Do you guess right at the right moment? Yeah Like that's literally how he phrased it You know he's gonna do The armor in DeGoro Just when? When? The only question Oh, he really staggered it Adaptations Very huge moment for Killer Shinok Could just be the 50-50s There it is He needs to break Gambler almost there On the whiff punish Not quite But he does get the corner Before there's armor It's his turn There it is The bar is spent For Killer Shinok To tie it up one to one Amazing match From Killer Shinok Amazing He's very strong With his timing For the armor Even when King Gambler Defend that He can still win the match He can still be good Starting by dashing Out of that range You know you only have So long to go though We're in the throne room here It's not like we're playing outside There's a wall to think about You can't run away forever Continues to mix it up Really well Folks, she's not backing off Goro almost ready to party There he is As soon as he moves into range But he needs to go for it It's just not really a range You're looking for Immediate attack like that From a Johnny That unusual team Out of the range In and out, in and out Oh, three bars gone What? What a reaction Reaction Okay Killa Shanak does start in the corner What? What a counter poke Game gambler To get the corner again The hit Didn't think it was gonna hit Okay Nice One of the best moves From Johnny Cage And to confirm again Killa Shanak's trying to Get pretty squirrely On defense here Yeah King Gambler has adapted to it The movement Every time you're in that range Oh no Oh no Look worried, console Three meters, still tempting Man's got three bars and two Goros Yeah Who knows what he's up to There it is The block tons for Gambler But Shanak into the offense immediately Wow, no Too far Now not worth breaking The first mistake won't shut off King Gambler So now back to this Scary neutral game No Using maybe Shanak's understanding That King Gambler doesn't want To be in this range Yeah Using that knowledge To move forward suddenly And get the grab Not zoning really But like Classically If somebody is dedicated To the range game And then comes in for the grab That's gonna work Yeah 80%, 90% So really great Movement by Gambler Really great understanding by Gambler Two to one Made him save Yes Great timing Immediately Gambler comes off of it Way too far It's a big chance for Killa Shanak now Until now Every time that King Gambler Jump Killa Shanak to finish This awareness of that Has been great Oh, that was super good Wow Okay And now with no bar Killa Shanak is in trouble In the corner Okay, match point King Gambler A very strong way A couple of big shows He's hoping that this is The final game here Much more willing to challenge You could tell Now Goro's hit I'm back for a little while So maybe time to party And King Gambler is As soon as Goro Started blinking again You see him back off No, thank you Killa Shanak got it anyway So Johnny with a lot of resources But still Can he find a way to make it happen The hit comes He tried down to Recliner kick From Johnny in the air Now Got it Is that gonna be enough? Gamble looking to take the set And move into top 8 Three games to one King Gambler Over Killa Shanak And here we will be facing Scorpion Brocks now, right? In top 8, yeah Yeah Man What a match What a level It's only the beginning There were definitely moments In this match that I thought Killa Shanak looked like He was a step ahead Yeah He looked really good For a while So Gambler Not that he started off badly Obviously he took the first game But especially in this like game 2 I thought man Killa Shanak was looking sick For a little while But some of the stuff that Gambler did I'm thinking about the counter That was great Versus Lao Goro Super strong on that front He pressed a lot When it was his turn When there wasn't the Goro But he also sometimes When he really didn't think Killa Shanak would expect it Pressed when there was An armor in Goro to think about So the great understanding Of the mix ups It's a great player right there Taken out one of the best in Brazil And Johnny plus Goro Has a very good strategy Like Lao Goro But with the kick Yeah And without meter Yeah It's always danger Yeah it's not the same You don't have armor necessarily But you do have speed Shadow kick even without ex It's very fast Goes very far And tough to deal with As Gambler said yesterday If you don't have experience Against him You don't have experience Against Johnny Goro At his level He's the only one So he's looking good Right there again Making his way into Winner's side Top 8 Yeah Killa Shanak goes to the Loser's side But he's too very strong Oh yeah He never get nervous Because the Loser's side So I think he's good He's good He's definitely still good But a lot of work to do Now the next one Nicholas One of the other Two Chilean twins And Conqueror Also from Brazil So again all of these matches Are Brazil versus somebody From somewhere else Happened to be like that What a narrative It is And interestingly because The players who made The winner's side of Top 16 Weren't all seeded To go there Marilo Brian Like we didn't They weren't seeded They weren't expected To be in this position So it's not like It's sort of crafted in advance To all be Brazil Versus elsewhere It's just sometimes That's how it goes And that's how it went here It's happened And Conqueror versus Nicholas Will be a very great match Because the level Of those two players Are international It's huge And I don't know Who can win But Yeah, no It's gonna be a tough battle Conqueror has the crowd He definitely has the crowd Yeah, he definitely has The crowd You see that in the Scorpion Prox match Yeah Crowd is a buff I think so I think for somebody like Conqueror Yeah, it's a buff Yeah, not everybody feels Like it's a buff Some people can get A little nervous Because of it But he's been here He's been doing it for long enough It's normal for him Yeah, totally And at least for Nicholas He's got the crowd He's got a crowd of one Yeah Behind them But that's enough We saw him rush in After Scorpion Prox won Raiden Sub-Zero Kano And On the other side Kenshi as we saw yesterday What we saw of him Was we didn't even get To watch him for very long Because he was good He made his way through fast This is Kenshi Sub yet again So Sub is a great counter-call Versus Raiden Kano's easy knives approach Of course it could just Be the ball approach instead That said you don't get The same conversions If Bulk happens to connect So Stuff to think about In terms of the counter-play Got him Let's go Here comes the boy Out there Oh he's still there Pick it up Oh it would have been tough But man it would have been sick And there's not even Armour on the other side To think about So you can get away With some stolen turns in here Oh Already seeing A flawless block there And mixing it up As a result With the string Nice rev Flawless blocking No Kano for a little while here Nicholas still harassing Kenshi's still holding the sword Okay He's creeping Very good match for Conker Looks like he is Running away But When he Never expected That Dash forward Smartly holding on to the breaker Until He's in a combo from Sento Very fundamental stuff Versus Kenshi Yeah Sento still out Not for long Okay Overhead now is not Gonna be anything else No spirit to combo with Conker waiting To take his turn Waiting patiently Pick it still Yes The wait comes again So both Kano's spent Very quickly And Conker is Just There's so many flawless blocks here That A lot of the damage that Many people would have taken Versus Nicholas's rate And Kano just hasn't Been damaged so far Yeah And Conker is doing a Very good job Without Sento And the posture Yeah Distance Oh Oh yes It was ball this time Really smart stuff Again, in case of fast Or in case people want to Try to do a low So this whole thing has Been Nicholas pushing Conker Backwards for like The last 60 seconds And now it's a slight life lead Can Conker steal it away He's running out of time He's not gonna get it But in part The reason that that round Lasted so long Was that there were So many flawless blocks From Conker Take some of the damage Otherwise what And a strong game plan And that defense From both of them Yes Another flawless block Got him The confirm will come Now immediately When Sento is out That's when you save the bar For the breaker Again Just excellent Fundamental stuff By Nicholas No surprise on that front Way other side I don't think Sento Is gonna get there Unless you throw the dagger No, it's maybe too obvious Yeah Okay Here comes Conker Knife in hand Still harassing up close Finally one of these Connects But not a lot of damage On that Back and off Three bars on Conker's side And again The tech comes Look at the time 18 on the clock As you mentioned Both of them have such strong defense Yeah That they're making this Go to the distance Look at these harassing buttons Conker Can he Yeah push back With the cold shoulder Great distance On that the advantage It's enough Game one Man what a patience From Conker What a beautiful match I love that game Cause this is These are two characters Who can end the match so fast Yeah If things go right The damage output The mix ups And yet Because they both have such Excellent defense It just didn't go like that This time Forcing his way through With ambushing the cold shoulder Oh dude What a funky mix up Refresh Alright fly Still coming He's slowly walking back there By the way Okay not gonna matter It's Nicholas All the way into the corner Great damage And now it's sword stance Can she Going for the grab And being right out of the corner Just raw into it Wow he's really trying to Give funky looks Overhead Man Conqueror somehow Despite all of that Despite all that potential offense Is just a slice away Yeah With that kind of Game play And the defense That life lead For Conker was Was the difference The difference in the match Yeah I mean you think of Raiden As being able to Nullify a life lead Super quickly If he gets the right chance But yeah as you mentioned The defense is good enough From Conqueror That's harder Easier said than done Even there On the stand block This guy Oh man Coming Terry Coming Terry's first I know yeah But still that's exactly What Nicholas wants 365 Alright the ball Held a little bit too long Trying to get away With something there Still ready Now he would love To get into Cento somehow He runs through No Almost Backing off Look at the time now 20 on the clock And again That could be nullified So fast Conqueror were defined To hit right away But He lives False block he lives 10 seconds I don't think there's enough time This is just going to be Nicholas taking the grabs Yeah he could take Five more grabs And be fine Yeah Very smart play We didn't see Cento at all I think that went wrong Terry is forcing it Great response Got him Oh he ducked under knives That was sick Block I'm just so impressed By the defense Yeah amazing Trying to go for the overhead Nicholas was there first Got the stab Raiden Kano Oh jeez And here we go Refresh Three bars Lost But Conqueror Now with Cento out Oh He still has a couple of chances For that Look at all this stage By the way That Conqueror has been able to walk through Yeah Confirmed now It's not going to be a lot of damage So Nicholas How close Pushed back by the ball Conqueror too far Alright He lives 10 seconds Get again In this match Nicholas will get the confirm And even if it doesn't kill That is going to be enough To take the game Conqueror walks forward until it doesn't matter anymore And one to one Only two games played so far Looks very exhaustive To play like this In the defense Facing the Cento Facing the Kano man That kind of stamina is not easy Yeah Again harassing a little bit with the drop I feel like Conqueror has only been caught By button into lightning cage I want to save twice Very rare Yeah Got him Coming out to play now Cento Into the corner too And there's a couple of bars to think about So can't get away with some of the strings At least not without risk Refresh Can you get away? Yes Oh hit What a confirm from maximum range Amazing job from Conqueror That is Pretty good play right there Nicholas now up close Didn't even pressure in the way that he often times would Okay You got to get the weird looks out there Rod lightning cage Don't make it obvious with button first Is he really reacting to that over here? I mean he's blocked them all Pick up Of course Nicholas is out of there Oh I got him in time No free escapes 180 damage Conqueror gets to back off Very slight life leap But the way that this match has gone That is a big deal Absolutely Individual hits 32 Can you get away Punish it's not quite there And Conqueror just harassing with low Overhead there's No combo in sight with these options But the individual hits add up 19 on the clock now It's all irrelevant All the seconds matter here's a Punish yes Okay first time we've seen The summon call With the invul He went past he went past Two games to one Amazing level in this match man I think that's the The best match until now Oh yeah This easily could have been grand finals Then again maybe still will be Okay so it was ball you didn't get to just ice vest through the knives Nicholas too smart for that The pressure now is from Nicholas But Conqueror is still The very good gameplay in the defense Nice whiff Okay yep out of there Ducks as he moves forward Harassing a little bit with Cento he's still He's gone Taking a little bit of damage now when Cento gets hit Like any other assist Push all the way into the corner Nicholas Speaking of push But Nicholas still in a great spot to be able to harass Wasn't nice so he doesn't get a combo there But still it's Nicholas exactly where he wants to be harassed Even at this point with flawless blocks it's no big deal Oh is there enough time I don't know man I don't know Can he get in there I don't think it's gonna have Oh pops up can you really from this range Oh my halfway Conqueror is Well not gonna get to kill quite yet He will surround in its match point Conqueror To send Nicholas down the losers What a p- Man this is not the gameplay it's magic That was so- All you gotta do it turns out is just block everything to have The W against Raiden Kano Taking big pains around that string right there To not get false at the end I mean I looked it up to make sure But that is a 19 frame overhead right there I looked it up cause I was like I'm pretty sure It's like 19 it's 19 frames He's definitely blocked all of them Conqueror was one of the best sub-zero in the MK11 He knows the power of the overhead That's like just at the edge of many people's reaction abilities People will say like around like 16 or 17 frames is where it's like possible Again it's gonna go down to the wire on the clock here That might have been too close and indeed it is punished Nicholas doesn't have big resources though New time again Yes of course eight seconds There still is a chance here he's not gonna have the fatal to steal it But no the grab will mean that the round is over Match point still for Conqueror Nicholas doing his best Oh he really held the whole thing Hey you know he knows that Conqueror doesn't just want to go into ice vest There's other utility for a sub that he needs That might have been the first time he did complete that string Maybe a second Here it is The spirit comes out Ancestors to help him Catches it What a button Okay no reaction this time Heat of the moment, 19 frames Blocks And takes it, okay he's fine with taking the hit to get the... That makes total sense around You need to remember that it's match point for Conqueror It still is Nice Here it is and confirms right away into the biggest stuff he has Right before if you notice at the bottom right there That was right before Conqueror would have had Breaker to get out of that So biggest way to get big damage without risking the Breaker Very smart play by Nicholas, he's still down in life Oh got it, nope Very close, that's key at this moment He gets through for the first time Conqueror so patient, that's too close Nicholas to tie it up, two games to two That kind of match could not be different Two and two and now the last match But the level of the gameplay of those two players are amazing Almost alien Two of the best characters in the game In many different ways But one of them is that if they find the hit They're both doing 300, 400 plus And because their defense is so strong Even if you don't get hit they both have amazing chip sequences But we saw a very great flawless block every time He escaped Again taking a little bit of damage there whenever the ancestor gets hit Alright Nicholas, weathered it, Spirit's gone Oh Nicholas even backed off expecting another button Even without Santos Conqueror it's very very strong Yes, yep he got into it Sword's gone More special moves back now More strings Different strings anyway And he got there, wow that's not easy to get past Nicholas in and out In and out, very footsie heavy play Santos What do you got? The say If he gets hit he's going to get breaker yet And almost a good idea to just take the hit to escape at that point Look at the time, 9, 8 Even as he Underneath Conqueror, can he stay alive for the next 2 seconds? I'm not sure, he did match point Conqueror again Can he make it happen? Can Nicholas now make it happen? He did in the last game Almost did punish Can't go in for a little bit more pressure Just happened to jump at exactly the right moment Over sweep, here's Nicholas with big damage Conqueror holding onto all that bar In a couple of hits here No fall as that time, it is match point for both This is just to get into top 8 This next round one of them is going to do it Conqueror starts it up, caught in the corner There's the defense he needs Again, 19 frames This has just been chase to chase Corner to corner, one treat to the other Conqueror Trying something out, Nicholas doesn't even bother Trying to take the risk My god The defense from Nicholas now is amazing Flawless twice Again The base of that option He found it! There's going to be a break quickly Yes, Nicholas again saving his bar for a very smart reason Can he get there in time? 180 Conqueror with 28 on the clock The way these guys have been playing Enough is the question, setting up the sandwich And the ancestors gone And we're back to Nicholas having control Look at the time now, 16, Flawless yet again Yet again! He wouldn't have been in time Conqueror into losers Nicholas into winners side Top 8 Man, amazing match, man This is the cause of the passion in fighting games, man Wow, what an amazing match between these two There's just so many highlights that you could pick to look back at on it But the thing is that over time What really stood out Is that they both had incredible defense Almost every round Was deciding in the clock Two characters who have the ability to pump out damage Pump out chip damage And yet The way that it went was Down to the wire, as you say, almost every round This level in defense It's so high level So high patience to Need to be Very trained Yeah, this is the game where Nicholas tied it up There just weren't really Many big sento moments He certainly got some chip damage Certainly found some damage here and there But it wasn't really like 400 into 400 as it can be possible Taking a look back at some of the offense here that did work For Conqueror Almost every clip that we're going to show here is Looking back at what the clock is like Look at the top middle of the screen almost every time I think the highlight was the moment when Conqueror The sento overhead and then Is that this? Yeah, this is this Look at this call I know it's far-range like I've seen But that from He started the sky drop from maximum range And he still got the full conversion That was incredible A good reaction and a good game plan I like taking a look at the player's reactions right there Because that was like the sickest thing ever And Conqueror is just like, yeah, take a sip of the drink there Nicholas just a little head nod No big deal, all right, yeah, that was nice Pretty good, coolest thing Okay, so after all that time Look at this Completely opposite reactions Yeah And they held it together throughout that whole set What a grind, I mean we were talking about like How much of a grind that kind of a match is When you have two players who are playing at that level With that kind of defense and patience And rounds going down to the timeout or close to So often It's physically difficult to do at some point Very exhausting It really is This kind of gameplay And for a long time like this In F2-3 And until now Any Brazilian player Has been in the Winner's side It's a problem for us Indeed, yeah, it's not going as you would want, I'm sure Well, there's another chance The next match coming up Which is going to be MK Javier vs Bryan And this is, again, we're expecting Scorpion of course from MK Javier And from Bryan, he played most of yesterday with Sub-Zero He did have the rain as well And the smoke as well is another option for him In any case, that's going to be An interesting character battle Not only that we tend to see at the highest level of play Yeah, especially if you see Sub-Zero And Scorpion, you know you'll be there Let's see Scorpion and Sub-Zero be a show I love the Sub-Zero chameleon tech Yeah, that we saw yesterday A lot of cool stuff Slide into lift, into pressure or into combo A lot of interesting stuff with the Malina ball With the Jade Glaive And also just a lot of patience Yeah, I talked with Javier a little bit Like, is he always going to go Striker? And he said, you know, almost always I'm going to go Striker Obviously, incredible cameo for Scorpion There's a couple matches where he's going to go Chameleon But this is not one of them that he mentioned So here he is, Scorpion Striker Oh, can you pick it up? No, no, kind of awkward Stabbing in and out Javier, very comfortable in playing that slow game He can also find big damage, but Comfortable at range Stabbing out, grenades for safety We saw a lab doing this kind of gameplay With Sub-Zero and Chameleon yesterday too But until now, Brian Has his Fergeny He can get there, yeah And that's nice for him too, because that's underneath grenades Yeah Oh, dude, he's keeping it pretty zany here These timing mixups No flawless buck on that So now with the cage Javier, try to get out He has a breaker here He's going to see what the rest of the combo is like first Ooh, ice cover Two Strikers gone Alright, it didn't seem like Javier was willing to just take the grab The way that he's playing defensively Hasn't really been challenging Hit! Okay, immediately out I mean, again, that's not necessarily safe But will the opponent expect it is the question Here now is Brian Ooh, dang, that was chunky It's getting a pretty chunky damage Of that over time There's not a lot of hit damage on that But it just adds up block damage Haven't seen flawless against it Oh, no Hey, just getting like, I don't know, what is that, like 7 or 8% each time Something like that Javier, oh, he's away! Ah, she got hit, so the rest of it didn't happen I like the idea by Brian Complete it Here it is this time, will there be a breaker? I guess not Only 289, maybe he's not that worried about it Immediately Good for the tech, put in the wrong way And now Javier again Making his opponent pay a little bit of that block damage That was actually hit It's coming, there it is Javier Again, as soon as Striker was back Now look at the time, by the way, 11 All right, well, pauses the timer I don't think it's going to be enough to tie it up though But Brian will be Will be with a chance Oh, and he's out of there, of course Now 8 on the clock, can Brian find his way in the He does? Javier, what a risk! Did Striker get hit? I'd have to go back and look Did he call Striker and then do teleport? I think so And Striker just got hit? I think so Wow Amazing match Again, going down to the wire They're doing a very good job in the defense But without a flawless block Okay, that's cool Yeah, I mean, oh, well, you could have done a lot Breaks it Striker spent And again, that has really been the go-to use of Striker for him Oh, he's mixing it up Funky little staggers Javier Great damage Meterless 375 for Javier That was actually too close That could have been a punish by Brian And Javier, just like that, will take the round Brian Hahn's stuck in the corner Really? Oh, I mean, hard to get that pick up, to be honest Like, who expects that? That would have been sick, though Stabbed under Brian finds the connection Still the turn there Javier, again Using Striker Just to get the extra chip What a block! Keeping his eye on the color of the top right there When you see pink Yeah That's it, because he's got the low starter, too With the way the air size work It's pretty credible 30 now Javier, probably not feeling comfortable yet Backs Oh, no! Over the dash Yeah, yeah Not what Brian Hahn was looking for, I don't think Not the range, exactly, anyway So 1-1 MK Javier He sounded confident yesterday When I talked to him about this match Yeah He said, you know, I feel confident I'm not gonna... I'm not gonna not take it seriously He was like, I think I should win But, you know, you gotta always take everybody seriously I'm not gonna feel like I just make my way into top 8 for free It's gonna be a tough match, but yeah Yeah, he still felt confident Perfect Yeah, it's a good mindset Yeah They're both sides Come on! That is a bespoke combo right there Into corner The connection Immediately Camillean breaks it up Yeah, there's the low option, right? So it is nice that When he has Milena ready to go He's got the overhead ball He's also got the low One of them obviously lots safer than the other Oh! Well, Javier got something out of it Javier's defense What? It looks like he's holding onto it here He's not gonna break it However, Brian finds the next hit Okay, grab Good try 11 seconds now Oh, knock down! Found in part because he happened to have Shade Camillean for the extra damage Wow! Sometimes it works out A little bit of close pressure from Javier We haven't seen too much of it That isn't just button and spin Yeah No save Wow, okay, interesting Ooh, dang, that was far That's alright, cute, very cute I think that was everybody's first idea When you tried out Camillean with lift Projectile into lift And it's just like immediate pressure Oh, underneath grenades! Oh! Two games to one Javier may have been hoping that his grenades Were gonna, you know, break him out Break it out of the clone And then as he was holding up to jump Which grenades can help with But didn't quite get the timing That was a good try Two games to one There's a duck but nothing else Way too far, Javier on the other side Here's the connection And with the low All three of them Damage for Sub-Zero He may have Malina after this The mix-up is gonna be real It's Grav instead! Very smart So Brian with the big life lead here Half the way through this round The way that Javier has often been playing it Hasn't been a lot of damage at once But Scorpion's certainly capable of that If you find the right combo Yeah Oh, that worked Connected Break Ah, gotta be more Okay, flawless As you mentioned there hasn't been a lot of that But here it is And Malina! Match points for Brian Here comes Brian He gets to cage again This is gonna be a long combo There might be a Malina up there again Not quite Here it is though Keeping it low And when Javier sees pink on that top right Oh, okay Javier's out of it Looking for up Javier just waiting it out It doesn't seem like Brian feels like he needs to move He's got a life lead He's got a lot of meter Javier's gotta find some hits And not just some spins He's gotta find some hits Easier said than done The way that Brian's playing right now 30 now Javier bides his time Striker not fully returned yet Oh, finds the hit! Brian is gonna take it Three games to one You guys had four chances to get a Brazilian Into top eight winners side And it wasn't Killer Shinok And it wasn't Conqueror And it wasn't Murillo either It was Brian Lohan Who got it after all Three games to one Sub-zero versus Scorpion Sub-zero in the winner's side in the top eight Brian has an amazing future In the MEK scene He's a very strong player Not only in the gameplay In the game plan But in his mind set His mind game He's always so calm Adapting And we can see We can see in this match That's for sure I mean again Scorpion is capable of a lot of damage At one time Sometimes you gotta take a bet on like Made it to the duckable high Like there's not great options For you to be able to do that in a sense The way Brian played was great I mean you can see the recognition there On his opponent's face Javier on the right side of the screen Not what he wanted Again he's come down here from Spain He needs points He's in a not a bad spot When it comes to points But still Name of the game The reason you come down here Is to get those points He had a couple hour flight From the Canary Islands Where he lives To Madrid And he had a ten hour flight From Madrid down here That's what you got at risk right That's how it always is For people who come from International tournaments To locations Whether it's down here Or people who come to the US Or wherever it is right There's a lot on the line That's not just like Whether you win here It's like you spent your money You spent your time Anyway you're still alive and losers But that's your winner's side top eight It's gonna be Scorpion Prox Versus King Gambler And Nicholas Versus Brian Yeah I'm very strong top eight In the winner's side And I don't know Brian is very strong With the sub-zero That in the scene Of the pro players We don't see so much Very much so Brian I don't know I don't know We'll see We'll see how it goes We still have Four matches to qualify For top eight Kehler-Shenak Versus Fezogabe Murillo Versus Axioma MK Javier Versus Zange Frio And then Conqueror Versus Chocolate Again We make top eight In loser's side We're gonna take a quick break And we'll be back with that After this If you don't know my opponent And when I get to play I'm gonna know how to play That character And also mentally Don't get so nervous Did you see the opportunity To interact Or train with Brazilian players Before this event? I'm with Agamotos I trained with him But you know Other players too? Yeah I know many of them And they're my friends Do you have a greeting Or a message for Chile? Yeah For my family My friends from Chile I send you a greeting This is no time to smile Hell yeah it is Fight of fire god Is coming off my bucket list The first bangable monster Check out that You think me a monster More effort than beating you will I will so enjoy killing you If you are just tuning into this broadcast You gotta go back later Yeah Check out the four matches To qualify From top 16 winners Into top eight winners Honestly those are four of the best matches That I've seen in Mortal Kombat One so far All super close Even most of them were Half of them were three and two And the other half were three and one But even still the ones that were three and one Felt like they were extremely close The whole time Some great tech Some cool characters Nail biting moments In some of those games I mean amazing Amazing stuff Amazing But we know that now In top eight winners side It's gonna be Scorpion Prox vs King Gambler And it's gonna be Nicholas vs Brian The remaining work that we have to do right now Is on loser's side Yeah Where we're gonna have Killer Shinok vs Faisal Gabi We're gonna have Murillo vs Axioma We're gonna have MK Javier vs Sangafrio And then Conqueror vs Chocolate The next one on stream Will be Murillo vs Axioma But Killer Shinok And Faisal Gabi Has a little history We can repeat the history When they We were playing Of course But Killer Shinok Faisal Gabi In the major Offline major Here in Brazil Was in the Barrel Coliseum And Faisal Gabi Win So I don't think so But I I don't I can be sure But I think that That was the last time That Killer Shinok Faisal Gabi Faisal Gabi In the offline event It would be Very fun to watch That makes total sense But as you say Murillo vs Axioma Today Started off Having to beat Alvarez Who Had a very close Match vs Joparin Yes U4ing Yesterday to qualify For top 24 It was decided in the first place Definitely a very strong player But Axioma Made it through Then beat DC Volg 3-0 In the next round Murillo is here Having beaten everybody He played Until Scorpion Prox And then By the nearest of Marges Man But Scorpion Prox Had it He leapt up With his brother Afterward In celebration And for Murillo It's now Loser's side So one of them Makes it into top 8 Here And the general Shaw Murini Murini is making history Here Alright man You know The easy grenade stuff He's shutting down Punch Striker in the face Oh no There's no Striker man Oh no Breaking out of it Otherwise it would have been Incredible if punish You know He really seems Cool with spending his bar In that way Ah Could be big What do you got What do you got Yeah Uh oh Gotta have the safety Oh man Definitely still on turn Now Axioma Down in life Grab is going to give him the life Got the lead Just Barely Oh Very good DC Wow Okay I'm pretty scrambly Even as it went long Pretty scrambly Here it is Too early on jump Too far away Axioma with the punish Still shouts turn Oh he knew that Darius Little setup Ah good work Armoring out Axioma with a nice chance here Again Gonna end up at around 400 Yeah Very good damage With the scorpion It's true And for some characters Some teams I should say Yeah Two of those combos is the end of the road But for Xiao Darius Yeah You know he can almost take three of those On the approach here There it is Axioma again Finding the moment Big moment Xiao for Morillo Holding on to the meter And again I suppose Why not He just has so much health Inside Eat the grenades You'll have to see it Just try to get away from this Not there They both have three bars Could be a quick break Either way It's exactly what comes Axioma found it first Morillo with a life lead Here's again Three bars coming off the deck Ah actually moved in past grenades That's pretty nice Oh my god That's a conversion right there This general shot It became very very dangerous What a cool team She's like a fan favorite to watch Yeah General Xiao And then you put Darius up there He gets even more life He gets some scary setups Conversions as you saw He gets to try out the overhead Without having to do like Mutalo teleport or whatever That would kill him If he gets blocked Here we go Axioma Again She's been pretty good About finding good damage Yeah That hasn't really been a problem Can you pick it up? No Go start Axioma not Getting out of there yet And at this point Not at all worth breaking Shrata No no There was no striker to call And so he's got three bars after all Ah Very clever Genius It's like a range Where you don't really think about it as much Yeah Going for the full stuff That might be too close No Wow that was He happened to be close enough That he only had to get through one grenade Didn't believe He's always delaying this Knee But He's don't believe No I mean you got it It's risk to complete that string Of course Yeah So he doesn't Want to do it very often Yeah again Wow that was a block Underneath grenades Look at the time by the way 31 Yeah Even in this match Striker Very good response Three bars and away Axioma back in Yes And even meterlessly He can definitely pump it out Gonna get up to a few hundred here Again now it will be striker again No striker left for a little while It's time for pressure Oh the confirm will come I don't know Uh oh Into the corner Uh oh No scheming on getting close Grenades beginning of the offense Axioma just like that Out of the corner And he gets to play with his spacing And his own timings It's on Marilo now to try to make this Happen Without the armor Marilo There it is Yeah you can't get complacent No that was a huge chance That was the chance Two grenades Haha Haha But yeah you gotta think back to that moment A few seconds before Where that could have been He's dropping Yeah He has the chance but Not converted Let's start From the low The excellent damage Oh well even still Even still it's already 340 And all the way into the corner That's not the right spot Unfortunately for Marilo Axioma happy to take it Still in there Still harassing Marilo finally Puts it in You know just to guarantee pressure That's a nice little setup right there You're spending half of Darius And you're Putting your plus frames after that Again it's a little bit of stone turn But right into it It's just exploding on top of his body Here comes Axioma He's got the space Yet again Just waiting for striker to come back But grenades Yep you can hear In the background Woop woop Haha Very strong damage Trying to steal too big of a turn there Gotta get away with Oh is this such a quick punish Not quite Not quite Axioma safe He's got 3 bars anyway And when he's had 3 bars He's taken some risks Been willing to Bring in a spear He's been willing to Get a little funky movement Yeah it was a little too close But again He's got I'm sorry a little too far But again he's got 3 bars So I'm saying yeah When he's got 3 bars This kind of stuff comes out Understandably He still needs more And then Wake up armor I think was the idea If I'm Marilo but of course Couldn't absorb the hits That's tricky Overhead directly into the low Plus the Darius starting things off And again as always It's good damage Expecting grenades Just kind of waiting for Darius To come back He's not back yet Not fully anyway In the meantime Axioma safe On that he Jumped 2 anymore He's still there He was still there Oh man That's a setup and a half Again Marilo 2-1 Looks like Axioma is getting Tired of this kind of Gameplay from Marilo Marilo is very patient Patient And the The gameplay with General Shaw and Darius It's annoying for Axioma Very annoying You can tell that Darius just waiting around Is it my turn yet? I'll tell you like over the button That's Oh that wasn't actually close enough Wow Uh oh He has had a couple of drops Yeah Unfortunately Getting out of the opponents Plus frames Marilo hoping to get the corner Yet again He's got a Darius Keep it up Defensive counter-call grenades Not just about offense They're also about Blowing up the opponent's defense And getting your own hit confirm They're Blowing up their offense I should say As Suddenly it's Axioma With a huge life lead And it's enough Great block Defaulting more and more To stand blocking Marilo looks like He recognizes the same However Yeah he's gone for A little bit more of the low That was in range Oh man A lot of nowhere I felt like that combo Was going to drop at any second It's actually not enough There it is low Match point for Marilo He's almost starting to run out of time He's got a mix of the big time In just this kind of way It's not a lot of damage Each time that he does that Oh no there was no striker But he did have three bars And again He has been willing To play risk-ally When he has three That's probably not going To come back in this round Here comes Marilo The mix up in the corner Using the invincibility Of striker Both the overhead and the low Do have Invol AXIOMA Packing off No Marilo again steals it Oh man Nice decision for Marilo Man Marilo Is It's a very young player But He is very respected Here in Brazil So when You are playing with This kind of player That you have Respect For him For him I think that Can be tricky For your mind And AXIOMA For me He He Don't do a Don't do a very Very good job Very good matches So So much drops So much bad decisions And Marilo Always Always a Very strong player Yeah man Oh well you can tell that He's obviously very good Got a bright future But already the present Looking strong Yeah Taking a look back at The final round At the situation Marilo with the life lead here And Able to find the final stuff So again congrats to him AXIOMA ends up at ninth Just outside of that top eight So his Weekend has come to an end The nice little hug And we're going to move on to the next one Yeah I mean look at this That's great Nice Companionship Yeah Off the line Yeah exactly Yeah 100% I don't know where we're going next We have Killer Shinok vs. Fezogabe We have MK Javier vs. Zangefrio And Conqueror vs. Chocolate Wherever we go Just big matches It's going to be good Yep Yep You know I mean this This tournament as we've been saying It's just very dense Yeah It's Even starting at yesterday In the pool stage We had so many good matches Strong players Not everybody who we thought Was going to make top 24 did Yeah And then this top 24 As we have seen They've all been good Especially in this top 16 Yeah I'm telling you If you didn't watch earlier Very good The winners side top 16 Please go back and check it out Later Yeah It's good Until now for you What's the difference in the game play Or in the game plan The Brazilian Players for the The world I don't know that I think That there's like a sort of Brazilian Plan The thing is that It's a relatively new game And there are still people Who have their own ideas everywhere There's players who have like The obvious ideas Like there's obviously we've seen Money Raiden Canoes And we've seen Johnny Lau It's whatever Like we've seen the copy of stuff Yeah I mean obviously So that's here As it is everywhere Okay But then like everywhere There's also Your players playing your Sub-Zero chameleon Or like whatever the Sort of You know local idea is You got your Shau Darius And like it's That's just There isn't like a Sort of game plan That sticks in my mind We've seen Some of the best defense I've seen in this game so far Was Conqueror Right But some of the best offense That I've seen in this game Has come from other players Okay You know The Sindel here Is a different way Of playing Sindel Than I've often seen That Fesogabe has Okay Just a little bit more Sort of zoning And airborne focus So I don't know that That's not Brazil I don't mean that negatively About Brazil I'm just saying like Like everywhere else We're all trying to figure This game out man Even though it's A few months old at this point We don't know Half of it yet Let's go Killer Chinook vs. Fesogabe Fesogabe is always Very strong with his Sindel Yeah I really like watching his Sindel Very different That's what I'm talking about That's what That's what Ugh The striker calls Ooh the duck It's gonna get a little more on this Yeah Ooh This striker was hit And since it's a shared life bar If the assist gets it We lose a little bit of life too That's Come on I was sick I was sick We'll start Denied right back into it Not dissuaded at all By the Grenades room before Oh that's what I'm talking about Yeah you know a lot of the stuff That Fesogabe has done with Button into Flight From right up close You definitely can hit it It's just a question of like You know do you think That you should at the time That's all Little mix up Yeah if you spend meter Then it's not gonna be an issue Just do type lock string But right there right If the killer Shinok had read He could have gotten out of it Guaranteeing himself the round Yeah Yeah it's a unique take Sindel striker Again spending bar You know now that he saw Killer Shinok press the button There we have seen Meter spent each time That he's just trying it out Yeah Maybe that's a change Little adaptation How many times Oh baited Two full Goros On Killer Shinok's side And one meter A bunch of ways to go into Big stuff Actually did stand block there Going for chip Grenades Again this time Spends bar to keep it tight And again Very good decision For killing Shinok I don't know I think that The last hitch of The hair of Sindel That Killer Shinok was Knocked out I think that He Did that on purpose To get far away In a faster way I can see that Pretty confident start Had grenades behind Just in case Grenades again But armor He's got three bars already One of that happened The first each was I mean he got the first hit And then he built a bar Killer Shinok Definitely showing why A lot of the Sindels Will just cancel right into EX Rather than regular Yeah Don't go over the call But still in a great spot Very good ground from Shinok He looks very prepared For this match now He does Too far Okay Here's a confirm Kozogabe Half stage by the way Maybe for the round Yeah Oh beautiful Amazing damage There it is Yeah he's not taking any risks now We're punished In the meantime Killer Shinok Good damage as always Grenades though And again on a reaction To see him strike Or come out The same way More than you Backing off Okay that's some of his confidence He's about to get Goro back as well by the way Even his chip is big Oh when you need one hit left Yeah The armor on the grenade The same way of Murilinho I need to remember that Murilinho is kind of A padawan from For Killer Shinok Well you can see it They know something They found out the secret Yeah The real secret Grenades again Lot of pressure Oftentimes that's been More of Kozogabe's game plan Staggering in Oh my god That is an incredible conversion Yeah the mix-ups there Have just been really strong Kozogabe has Blocked a few of them He's definitely blocked But still overall Killer Shinok Is getting the best of things It's a bar spent Over it He actually didn't even call Goro so good work to Killer Shinok Not needlessly spending resources Nice Yeah I'll say Into great damage Into up close pressure Gotta be the round Kozogabe Choose your for Killer Shinok But always a very close match Yeah I really like watching Kozogabe I think that he's got A lot of strength Although it's a hard road You begin with This game here He's doing that Yeah Both Goro's gone That's whatever Killer Shinok The pressure continues He tried to get underneath No I like that idea of it But Kozogabe Got it He should be able to get the kill It's over So Not done yet Here in loser's side Couple of very strong players Here in Brazil Killer Shinok Still up Two to one That could have been a set So shout out to Kozogabe fighting back Killer Shinok Almost has the Had the 3-0 But If one the If Only in one decision Kozogabe Is still Alive in the tournament What? Cute Man we'll come back a little faster I mean in the meantime Got his butt kick Yep Sindel, Striker Back at the full team Yo-ho That's gotta feel sick actually Sindel there Where you're just like flying at him Completely hit him all the time But Looks fun to execute It does Kozogabe looks different Go-ho These conversions Yeah man And the fact that she Gets to normalize her roots Uh-oh Her roots in the screen Means that she gets to Normalize her Great Oh Where you going Back onto the ground Way too far away Ho-ho Match point again For Killer Shinok Oh that would have been great But not quite Now instead Killer Shinok's turn Armor for Squirrel Turns into pressure Armoring Well Getting through You can tell Kozogabe does not want to Take any big risks He finds the hit though Nevertheless Here comes the bit of luck He may look for Oh yeah you're right Yeah at the end of this here Even if The scale Are very big Yeah But it is going to be enough To give him the life lead Looks like Just barely And on Killer Shinok's side He's got full two Goros So I don't blame Kozogabe at all For just trying to get away Just hope to zone it out No He's trying to be outside Of that armored range And he called out The movement It is two to two A lot of points on the line To qualify Via global leaderboard Into Final combat Before today Killer Shinok Was in a great spot He was 14th in points I'm sure he's Further than that now But you gotta be in top nine So the Result of this game Gonna have a big impact So he does that Yeah A little too late on the Goros But still Killer Shinok Looking alright Nice block You leave a gap And I think we have Another match point For Killer Shinok The third time Yes Kozogabe guys Not dying Yeah Not easily The mortal Kozogabe Ah okay first time He's done it Bates it out Another one I mean Kozogabe does not Spend a bar on that If he doesn't have to But sometimes you gotta Yeah Great patience Throughout this whole Series And it's over Oh big time In Killer Shinok's favor Yeah And I think he's happy To stay away Wait for Goro You know Goro Thanks a long time Twenty seconds To come back For you Here goes They fit up again What's his route No it's not yet Yes absolutely Spend a bar No scream What Oh no Let's point now for both Half a Goro Killer Shinok Trying to walk up Into that range Where he can be scary with it He's there All the way to the corner All the way to the wall No He knows the setup surely I mean look Look the damage Oh my god Wow All because he was antsy On get up And anything's gonna do it Killer Shinok Three games To two Moves into top eight Fezzlegabba I love watching his Sindel It's a very interesting Cool take on the character But that is gonna be that For this weekend But he was facing one of the Best player here in Brazil Killer Shinok He's very strong With Kung Lao and Goro And he stays on the tournament And in the top eight I think he will be Getting a lot of points I'm sure you're right Taking a look back At some of these series here Remember it was 2-0 For Killer Shinok Yeah That was 2-0 But he had Firecock Correctly Match point three times Yeah So he definitely Had his chances To end this quickly But Fezzlegabba Did not make it so easy Some cool combo routes That they both have Yeah That last home From Killer Shinok Man Yeah He spent a lot of resources On that But that was 450 Almost half-life On Sindel Striker Oh boy That series right there Yeah I mean again Like I don't know You gotta take risks sometimes For sure Maybe he had called out It was just gonna be Like empty jump into grab Or something that you could All right through But unfortunately for him That is not the way it went And Killer Shinok With the big smile Same for Fezzlegabba I mean look again He'd love to do well He's one of the strongest Players He's doing great In the Brazil Leaderboard But not in top eight Here for the Brazil Road ends We have two more To decide Top eight losers side Either way we go Again it's gonna be good MK Javier Versus Sange Frio And Conqueror Versus Chocolate Imagine if Conqueror Doesn't make top eight Oh man This could be No no I can imagine that But Conqueror That's possible Yeah It's possible But Conqueror In that That kind of The gameplay with that I think he always Will be A very good Challenge for the opponent But In the loser side I don't know if He can still do That kind of gameplay I think that He can be More aggressive Okay Looking for more chance To do the centro And something like that But The other side has We have a good player A very strong player Definitely I mean look when we saw Conqueror play Yesterday Yeah The Kenshi He did have some rounds That were over Super fast He did get the right series With Cento He did get the big damage He did get Okie Right away Like he had all that stuff Going for him Is that where we're headed Yes Yeah Now Chocolate Is also a really strong player Today already In this top 24 Now into trying for top eight He's beaten Agamotto's eye Three games to two And then collapses And three games to zero Curiosity Agamotto Dropped Dropped the Kenshi To play with the Raiden Yeah Now we can see how Chocolate will be Dealing with The Kenshi Kenshi sub again And actually did have Ice fast on Just Very helpful But for somebody who has The defensive ability of Conqueror This dude was respond He on reaction blocked Almost every 19 frame overhead That Raiden had So we'll see If he feels like he needs The ice fast Man Damn it Isn't that Wow that we just never Saw it like that When Conqueror Was playing earlier against Nicholas Just like the Situations were Just not there really Yeah Oh there's a chance I'm waiting for a share Who comes Chocolate No And now out of the corner Ice fast on Oh man You know Chocolate had that big moment He had that drop Could have all been different Patience Just on reaction probably You still got to guess right after all Conqueror now Maybe chance for offense No he's very light about it Yeah Oh well Another drop In another sento Yeah you got to break right away Again classic stuff To just hold on the meter For sento breaks Still out there by the way You see him swinging He's coming And I'm coming That's it for the spirit though Set it up here Is the confirm Alright chocolate Still got more work to do Sub giving that extra health To Kenshi 10.50 Transient point No he has the ice fast on Take it around though Oh man Very good decision for Conqueror Chocolate could be More pressure In that time But Conqueror He won Neither one looking perturbed at all Yeah Totally ready to go No Oh chocolate In each round so far there's been a big whiff Got a feel for him on that No whiff punish Not quite there But chocolate does have the corner at least Oh again The defense is so strong from chocolate The reaction Alright here's the setup Chocolate this is exactly where you want to be as Johnny Got the full on corner Ice fast again So not Any point in calling the hat for a little while But the vest is gone Conqueror is pursuing that That ending with fatal blow And he's got the life lead Just by a little bit But it's enough with 13 on the clock A bit of a trade Cold shoulder for some Oh my god Oh man look at the clock 7 Life lead For Conqueror No that's not going to count Can he get there with the kick He can He can One One Man Immediately it breaks of course He's still got a sword to throw He's still got the man coming as well Tonight he's got to play out with sword Chocolate setting it up Gonna hold it quite enough to get the hits done Afterward I guess And here comes Instead Not dropping stuff this time Important to see Yeah Safe stuff man yeah For sure Oh it feels like it's coming out of the wire again I'll tell ya Here comes the break For it that was super sick And then the low start From Conqueror That counter call timing I love for putting on the ice vest After you block the kick The opponent thinks that the low hatch Gonna connect afterward Sorry man I got the vest on Not now Actually went in with it Pasturing Pasturing Into it yet again No Here we go Chocolate's out of there You still gotta think about it No he didn't Okay got a little scrambling Here's Conqueror He backs off A little late on the sub call Chocolate's gonna take off a chunk of life As a response And a little time to thinking about What he's gonna do after that For 10's a good start You still need a lot more Punish is there And chocolate We've seen him before But this time he does get the right combo All the way through No drops And it's 1-1 Yeah Very good match from Chocolate Conqueror is 2 Very strong in the match Let's see what's happened now Immediate ice vest You really need to be worried about Oh just actually at the exact moment That the ice vest goes away No armor there Alright man You know as this goes on I like more chocolate's gameplay Yeah He's putting himself in good spots He's completing his options He's mixing it up well As we see Yes Break it No he's not gonna bother He's mixing up super well And the grabs which were all teched In the first game or so Now I've really opened up Chocolate is breaking all the chance For Conqueror to call the Sinto Yeah he never got that moment Here's the break Strong pressure Hard to get that whiff punish there It's a fast one Conqueror buttons out A little too early And the question is How does Conqueror Get an easy sento out here He couldn't force the issue with Oh he's not gonna need to Not gonna need to Dashing Not the worst idea though For Conqueror either Because this is putting chocolate Into the corner Yeah So okay Nothing directly out of Sinto there But he actually Still had a really big impact Which is Huge Positional advantage for Conqueror Sure Makes sense No Conqueror trying to stay away Oh that was dangerous What a stared out Chocolate out Two hats He got there in time No Oh man He had a huge opportunity Conqueror gets hit It's life lead chocolate He didn't believe any of those times What's going on Oh Again the recliner Kicked two games to one Chocolate One game away from Top 8 And loser side Yeah Conqueror One game away from elimination Before Top 8 Yeah But the gameplay of chocolate Was Was one in the beginning Now it's other type of gameplay Is spacing Looking for the whiff punish In Conqueror In Conqueror It's blackout You know he's guided him To make the full comeback happen here Yeah A little bit too far for sweep Still doesn't really need to worry about that low Yeah Start Oh okay nice Too far Chocolate Sitting pretty on the other side of the screen Can you get a whiff punish Beautiful On the Lansies Here now as Conqueror And I think it was game one That we saw like the 400 plus damage combo Finally after a few more games We're seeing it again Yeah Oh two big series With one cento for the round That is the kind of round that you want Obviously As Kenji Like that's ideal situation First time he's had it I think in this whole day Yeah All the whole Top 16 Yeah he has been holding a lot there Johnny in there In there in time And he's pressuring Chocolate coast to coast Question is again Conqueror find the hit Chocolate Just waiting for the Laoha to come back But he's doing a great job Just holding on to what he needs to Break it of course Now cento We saw the strength of that Before Chocolate Does not want to see that again Doing a great job defensively Oh Descendish No Yeah almost there Instead Chocolate away As Conqueror tried to chase now Stuck with the sword 22 21 Time running out here in the round And chocolate's in And he is at match point To eliminate Conqueror Before Top 8 What's the battle back from Conqueror here Trying to be at the right spot It's just not been easy Chocolate's done a great job As you said it was spacing Yeah over these last few games Very strong in this game play Nice We've finished from Conqueror Here it is And there's not going to be Three bars on the other side yet For this next one Conqueror Gets to party Where's he going Low Great block Overhead Conqueror just needs the chip of it all Again not taking any risks No up block No anti-air attempt He just wants to block it out Probably happy to just get away At the moment And he can be patient now Chocolate Can't be for too long Oh boy that was why Conqueror didn't take the risk Before chocolate Got the corner Three bars on both sides There it is Conqueror is alive And the crowd Definitely into it On that one Chocolate up here from Argentina As you could see And Conqueror One of the best in Brazil For many years Yeah He's very concentrated He just never looks like He's too worried When he's playing He just has a great Expression about it You can't really get Much of a read on him Again low hat Coming to the rescue In some of those situations Conqueror would love To get things going But doesn't want to over extend Same exact thought For chocolate right now Here's the chance It's not a great trade Actually for Conqueror That's here it comes up That's your game Get it out And obviously you know That there's going to be a break Coming You still want to get sent And that boy Sento still One chance to do something No Directly into grab Not taking any risks On stuff with gaps At the moment Very safe gameplay Yeah He needs to Yeah I'm with you Still extremely close in life With 20 seconds left Yeah Exactly at the right moment Nice Alright these individual hits Maybe add up 13-12 Antire Yeah Low Yeah match point for Conqueror It all kind of fell apart for chocolate But those were like I don't know Five or six individual hits That added up Had to set up with hat yet again Stabbing in Stabbing out as Johnny Versus the man with the knife Can he get there in time? Yep Great range on that Nice He's going to get this out No I thought he was going to Maybe let it drop in favor Of a reset there But no So three bars gone Which by itself is really nice He blocked it out And he had the spirit do the work Sento with the lands he's punished Now He's gone but still Up close Conqueror slicing Chocolate's in exactly Where he wants to be Though he's got the corner He's got the wall Stab again How many more What else The low hat buzzes in He walks forward Yet again Three grabs now Four grabs now Chocolate out of the corner To try to get the mix up going And as a result Now he's got a chase Conqueror won it Stuck there Yet again too far for it Chip And it is going to be Conqueror Making it into top eight It was a close one Close man Close one But he does do it Chocolate Eliminated What a match man Oof That was Super close Chocolate himself Coming into this weekend with At 19th In the overall Global leaderboard For him too Getting points would have been A big deal And yet Not quite into the top eight Where the bulk of the points remain Everything's close All these matches are close Almost all of them Literally are three twos by the way There was Morello 3-1 over Aksiyama Still in the exception Yeah So we're taking a look back on this There were long stretches Where I really thought that Chocolate spacing was Like exactly what he needed His pressure game was looking great He blocked well It's hard to maintain that Versus somebody like Conqueror versus somebody like Kenchi But against Conqueror You have to beat him And the clock He always with the defense The clock is his friend Yeah The clock is his friend The gum should be able to play like that Is so impressive Cause it is To drain It's a Drain on your brain power To do that So consistently Yeah We're taking a look back At the very end of this thing Chocolate couldn't quite Get the whole way into the top eight And there you go Great match between the two Beautiful One more One more One more To see who gets it into the top eight In loser's side still MK Javier Versus Zangiefrio Yeah, Zangiefrio One of the best players here in Brazil That lose very soon In the winner's side And then here Here comes the very strong Loser's journey Yeah, he's keeping Keeping earlier today And then he beat Gustavo Page As well Really strong players That he got through here And that was a 3-1 And 3-0 Actually over Gustavo Page Yeah, very strong today Cause it's another day And another phase So I think that he will be A strong opponent For Who is the player? MK Javier MK Javier Oh man Oh man Yeah We keep talking about the global Points Again, we're Trying to get into Final combat There are two ways One is global points One is regional points MK Javier is here It's not his region Here to get those global points And he came in today In a great spot He was in the top 9 To start things out today So he already Like has a good spot It's just You want to shore it up You want to make sure That there's not going to be Somebody coming from behind So In getting into that top 8 And for his sake Hoping that he goes further That's what he wants It's about getting those points Yeah To secure his spot In a final combat Later this year But I think that against Scorpion Sang it through It's prepared Mmm Yeah, I mean you guys Have a strong Scorpion here Yeah Who we saw earlier Ended up in 9th place And it could be the same For MK Javier here If he were to lose He is ending in 9th place His wife will come back one day It's easier for him to freeze Let's go Let's go Playing with no headset on Is Javier Who needs to hear it I'm kind of the same way I don't really use sound either Here it is But Javier was playing with Striker right Oh yeah yeah yeah He mentioned that There were a couple characters That he would play Chameleon against Okay okay Yeah yeah This was one of them It was only a couple He said almost all of them I'm going to play Striker But yeah If it's Johnny A couple other people Chameleon Classic Javier style Kind of keeping his range Uh oh Three bars gone Doesn't bother Javier Again right back to the same Idea Very slow Patient Not taking big risks Sangabria wants the opposite This man wants to get in there Striker Nice Yeah out of the way Grenades obviously Javier knew it And that is mega minus Even from full screen Some characters can punish Like minus 18 or so Grenades again doing the work That means you don't really Have to worry about up block It means you guarantee your entry Yeah Confirm comes No Thank you for the drop I don't know Here's Javier No he didn't believe in the rest Hard to have known it would hit The foots is off this too Yeah absolutely Here's the bop Backed off Javier finds it first Oh Cute And then spear Oh very nice Little cameo Specific combo route Variations I mean like The sky is specific combo route Sangabria here Javier held onto the bar Oh Demalina You know it's interesting Javier still willing to take that risk He was up block Before I guess he had three bars So it wouldn't have been the worst Yeah That is good That's, I like that Very good damage That really makes Sangabria need to pay attention When that blue guy's up there Yeah If she's in katana mode Like Yeah okay Oh my god What was that Javier Javier just Are doing a very Different job with Chameleon and Scorpion It's quite a different Gameplay loop Quite Different combos Yeah The pressure is different Opportunities with Kitana Man Trying it out on cleave What? And again I think that Sangabria is prepared for his Corporate but not for Chameleon It seems that way Yeah On the other hand He's got a couple of games To learn still Yeah, yeah Every patient is Sangabria Javier finds it Into the full series Into Okie right up close He actually dashed Up into it Wow You know I could see the utility As Scorpion Somebody who's Not often pressuring With a hit confirmable mid Not uncommon To just duck against him Yeah Oh Pass Sangabria Needs to chase a little bit And here's his chance Up connection No He has The corner now Got him And it's Javier Out of there Again, trying out cleave Setting it up on the approach Three resources Three bars On Javier's side So Sangabria gives him Some pretty different looks Okay, yeah, yeah Sure Slow approach He was paying attention Alright And here's the big punish Three bars on deck There she is So, you know You may not have experience Against Scorpion Chameleon I don't know how many people do But as the set goes on He's gonna have more of that Yeah, yeah Almost We've punished Sangabria All the way into the corner Bless frames Javier's in trouble And there's Sangabria No! He chose for the mix up He just didn't confirm it He was doing it anyway Hard to blame him Here's the connection Got a flawless block He does Man Wow Javier is so good, man Yeah, I'll say Back in With Chameleon And they pick up right away Sangabria's here He's already got the corner Just in case he put in A little bit of moment there In case Javier wanted to Take his turn Ill-advisedly And PASCHERATES Oh, man That was all Sangabria Not letting Javier Try it out at all And now as we said before If you are running away And playing this distance game And then you are all Of a sudden they're point blank Yeah Who's looking for the grab Of Javier Let's grab Yeah, he's chasing in He's got three bars in case Things fall apart too The mix ups are starting up close It was only Molina So not a lot of damage on that 20 now Oh, okay, it was safe Good time The timing I think was Sangabria Having a little bit of life advantage Molina's there Oh! Javier is unpredictable Javier is unpredictable There it is Javier Didn't have her to call For the breaker So I had to take it And now Sangabria's right up close Oh, really? Quite a challenge And he was right about it 340 without spending a bar Not bad However, again The defensive counter call It's not all about the offense There was Stryker Lot of defensive ability too Sangabria He just gets to be patient For a little while That was two assist calls For Javier She comes back quickly though Already there Alright, it's pink Got to watch out for the overhead No, it's in soap Maybe he goes for the low Because of that, I wonder Yeah Oh, this This break Ah! Somebody finally did it The threat has been there Yeah She got kicked in the face And again, that's a little bit of damage On Javier's life bar When you see the grenades explode That means you got to hit confirm friend And here's Sangabria Doing good work After that Now he has He had done that before Having seen the wake-up armor So Javier really catching on quick In terms of the mix-ups Too far Stryker wasted Oh! Who's looking for that? Oh, another time Okay, yeah, yeah Now that is basically denied So that idea It's pretty cool It worked once really well It's been blown up with it down too Ever since Here's Sangabria Oh! While he's blocking Goes in! He had the grenades for safety Just in case Two games to one For him Hoping to send Javier Out of the tournament Before Top 8 Certainly one of the players That was looked at is A favorite to make Top 8 Yeah, but Sang is too Yeah, I mean obviously We know the Brazilian scene's good There's no illusions About that in the rest of the world Sang is here with His best friend And his parents So the positive TV energy That's great, yeah Love to see that We call his father Sang father That's cool Sang pai here, Brazil So back to the more comfortable stuff You know, some of those tricks that Javier had gone with With Chameleon Kind of weren't working out over time Back to the comfortable, strong stuff That you know and Striker not there But Sang and Frio used to face Discombination here in Brazil Yeah, you can tell the experience is there Oh, what a chase It is a match point Sang and Frio one round away From sending Javier out Get there Striker was dead during that whole combo So no breaker available Now Sang and Frio, life lead Round lead, game lead And match point A little stab in for Javier Gotta have some change about the gameplay here What it is, we'll see what a duck Three bars gone Very good moment for Sang and Frio What a perfect Flawless block Slow chase all the way into the corner Striker is now back Immediately he's out to play for Javier Who swings in And even though he has been getting Down one, down four underneath it This time he goes back in for the strength Amazing chase Let's go, no Sang and Frio not surprised their patient Javier for his part The mix ups are working out more strongly Just consistency For Striker rather than having to play differently Every few seconds The game plan for Javier is getting close with Striker And getting far away without Striker Sang and Frio Doesn't want to take any risk there Maybe not with trading He doesn't have a lot of life left It might be the idea here though He's got the corner Javier healthy in terms of his bar No flawless block He was too close actually, oh boy Could have been big Down one What patience by Javier The idea of Sang Frio was very good But Javier is very aware Very good match watch All the coaching Yep, you got a few seconds Alright You don't need to do that, do this Into two to two One game To decide who makes top eight losers side Three out of these four losers side Matches to qualify for top eight Have been three to two And this is going to be the same Say what? And Striker a little bit of damage on that too So tough start for Javier Still his turn As Javier surely knows But sometimes you got to take the risk Oh, Sang Frio Overhead again He's still in there He's still there, look at this round What a fantastic round by Sang Frio Whatever that guy told you Sang Frio is working Absolutely ice in his veins What's Javier got What's the change at the duck that comes out Three bars gone for Javier Just like that His weights Doesn't want to commit You can't blame him Here you go though Just like that It's a nice little life lead The low Just in case grenades for safety And Javier has got the life lead He can play the game He wants to play most of the time Which is this rangey game In and out Yeah Slow stuff Not over committing at any one time And it is match point Javier Match point Sang Frio Who makes top eight And losers just barely the kick got there Oh no He didn't have striker Striker had gotten hit And although half the bar was there He couldn't be called Defensive counter call yet again Yes, beautiful That kind of defense A chunky life Versus 900 health Johnny striker Here it is Oh boy Sang Frio is in trouble He is in big trouble even versus Chip So trying to stay away But it is Javi games to two Who moves into top eight losers Well played by Javier Man, what a player What a scorpion His patience His movements and decisions Man, what a player But Sang Frio has done a Very good job too But Javier was better It was an awesome team to watch I really like what Sang Frio was doing there Johnny striker Not the only one on earth But I really love his ideas And I loved seeing Javier too With Scorpion Chameleon That was fun Yeah, it was fun And he could see some strength in there But you could also see Why he went back to strikers Well, he definitely felt More comfortable on that More consistent pressure You could kind of decide What you want to do in the moment Rather than letting the disguise Decide for you what your options should be But the changing cameo You can change the reaction Of your opponent too And that was the call for Javier Yeah, he played it great Sang Frio tried to back off here But it's kind of like You know that he's going to do that But it's just a question of Can you get the flawless bucket time Or can you be out of the way in time Or you can jump or whatever It's not easy Not easy So again, good work to Javier That means that we know The full top eight finally Yeah It's been a whole weekend Only great names in the top eight And you will watch here today Until the end That's right We are going to look for Scorpion Prox vs. King Gambler Nicholas vs. Bryan Lohan Murillo vs. Kailor Shannock And Conqueror vs. MK Javier You are right Those are all good Yeah, all good Three Brazilian players against the world We'll see if they can do it Yeah, we're going to take a break We'll be back with the top eight Here at the Brazil Major In a little bit I've already played a lot with the Brazilians And about the Brazilians Is there any Brazilian player That you admire especially? I admire Conqueror a lot Yeah And are there any notable differences In the style of the game Between Brazilians and Brazilians? I think that Brazilians Are more confident in their reading In their laughter And the Chileans play more Like safe Do you have any ritual to concentrate Before the games? Nothing special Just to rest well And to mentalize who Is going to play in the pools And all that Well, well, well It's about that time It is the Brazil offline Pro competition Major, major event With the players here We're down to eight players left My name is Ketchup Joined by the wonderful Ultra David Hello everybody And it is going to be an awesome top eight I hope that you've been enjoying The top 24 all day today so far The top eight is full of Interesting matchups Interesting characters And players with very interesting Storylines to follow Over the last couple years It's going to be a blast But before we start this top eight We have something to talk about And something to mention For those of you that are looking forward To where this all finishes Final combat of this year It just so happens We have a little announcement for everybody One of my favorite cities Toronto It is a blast I'm super excited for final combat To be coming up in June Just a few months away I noticed a little extra Was on there Than I had thought was on there before So an increased prize pool for final combat It's going June 14th to 16th The important thing about The last chance qualifier Is that if you want to get involved You can sign up for the LCQ Right now Start.gg I believe is the link But don't quote me I'm only a mere commentator That's what they got out there How would you know? I don't know You can play Ten seconds ago That's the whole thing Is that if you want to compete in LCQ Now is the time to sign up Get practicing Get ready for it There is of course More characters on the way As we've seen in the combat pack We've just had peacemaker release Over time More and more of those characters Will become legal So peacemaker Definitely be legal by then Janet Cage as well So you'd love to see it Let's talk about the bracket Of today At the moment Scorpion Prox versus King Gambler To start things off Then it's Nicholas versus Brian Loran So already in that top half It's heavy hitting players Three players you kind of expected to see One surprise hit Not a surprise for the Brazilian scene But when it comes to sub-zero and rain At this level of play A surprise for everybody else Well Brian getting through The really really strong Sindel player Fezagabe in the first place Well some folks Although they think Brian's great That was still considered An upset by them And then after that For him to get through MK Javier Three games to one It's a great weekend For him so far Then in Loser's side Murilo has been A blast watch All weekend Shao Darius And not You know he is here In Loser's side Having made it past Axioma in the end But right before that He had an absolutely Incredibly close match Versus Scorpion Prox Scorpion Prox took that Three games to two Murilo versus Kailor Shinok And he himself Lost down here To King Gambler Had to make it past After that A good buddy of his In Fezagabe Then Conqueror Versus MK Javier It really seemed like It was possible For both of these players To not make the top eight The way that Their qualifying matches Went in the top 16 Conqueror Three games to two Over chocolate And for Javier Three games to two Over Zangiefrio I've got to say Being here in the venue It has been An electric atmosphere I mean it's kind of expected South America is such a hub For Mortal Kombat And the story of that stems You know 30 years As long as the franchise Has existed And that passion Has always been here The crowd The players Everyone's been supporting Everyone There has of course Been a lot of bias Towards the Brazilian players That's where we are It's what happens But Let's talk about This first match King Gambler Versus Scorpion Prox King Gambler is Speaking of final combat He's here for one reason Points And top eight Puts him in a great position He's going to see How much further he can go Immediately That Johnny Cage Goro With the Armored Punish He was saying to us yesterday You don't have experience Against Johnny Goro At a high level Unless you've played me I'm the guy Nobody else has that And that is so Like Classic of King Gambler I mean King Gambler Whether it was down To the Green Lantern Of Injustice 2 The brood mother Devourer of MKX Like He likes strong characters But he likes it When they've got weird stuff Yeah For sure Interesting start for both Forcing the issue yet again And King Gambler Willing to take off Some life and a bar To get rid of that Oh, that said And a little keep up here Because of the knives I love the conversion Now of course Talking about Scorpion Prox Anyone that's been Evo's will know of the Chew Can he get out of there? No, not at the time He'll survive this But To be fair Oh The Kano did the trick Oh, he got him Wow That little extra damage From the Kano At the end of the throw I love that I cannot believe He squeezed out That Kano That was great Really hard to time The throw with Punish No one home Oh, we escaped We're just getting out of there King Gambler Other side of the screen Just like that Stabbing in on his way through Scorpion Prox Doesn't want to over commit Any of those standing buttons That Johnny Cage launcher Is rather significant Sadly, I think that was meant To be a shadow kick Didn't quite manage To squeeze that one out Would have been a full combo Oh This happened to work out A lot of work to do For this comeback Especially with Raiden Two Kano's Locked and loaded But there goes Goro Gonna take a while For the big man To come back though That's a chunky recharge time If Gambler gets One correct combo here He's gonna do it already Alright, wait a minute Throw us here No! Not gonna get it Scorpion Prox With the buttons Faster For game number one King Gambler Trying to dedicate To that slow overhead But I mean Raiden's 1-2 One of the fastest buttons In the game really Especially with What it leads to You got that EX shocker For a full combo I think good awareness there Just knowing that My opponent's not Like point blank Like my chances Getting this button out And it worked It was absolutely right Just because you were knocked Up to the floor Does not mean that your opponent's Turn guaranteed Too far! And unfortunately For Gambler He gets punished As you say Scorpion Prox Always at where Fully in the corner That's the whole thing go That's gonna be a storm Selling to Kano Big chunk of damage A knockdown Situation that King Gambler Definitely rather not have Alright Kano ball Big jump in It's Johnny Cage Right? He's got probably the best Jump kick in the game So strong Hard to anti-air with a button But the up block The old reliable Feels like all the mix-ups So far had been on Wow! He was way far away Scorpion Prox Was at the right spot Always looking to Just get the most Out of that shadow kick It's one of the reasons That King Gambler Likes having Goro Getting a full combo From your shadow kick Is something that he loves Instant That looked like Pro-duck or something Either way Lovely side switch Something that I've noticed From just being in Brazil here So many of these players Their combos are so heavily tied to Whether they want a side switch Or not The corner So paramount for winning around Or in some cases Losing it, right? Sure Oh, get them on the punish So Scorpion Prox A combo away from going up 2-0 Gambler's in big trouble here Even on block if there's no fall Oh! That's good for Scorpion Prox And Gambler Way too far Yeah, I think looking for Gambling again Yeah That's two times He hasn't been able to get A shadow kick Which is unfortunate Oh, yeah And the ball You're not neutral ducking under that As you could under Knives So 2-0 quickly For Scorpion Prox People have often said We see this Striker meta How is it with Raiden That we see Kano Why don't you just pick Striker instead Really is the existence Of two fantastic Yes, cameos That just so happened To work perfectly You can crouch The knives Yes, of course Kano balls are different beasts You know, it doesn't give you The same utility It just gives you safety Can't crouch it Got a flawless block Or armor Or something else And it's just the perfect pairing Gambler so far away He couldn't get the whip Under some clothes Really trying to play it A safe range And yet Scorpion Prox is there And again very quickly Got the corner 15 seconds into the round Fully wall behind him King Gambler stuck I don't know, man It is looking kind of rough I mean, Gambler Isn't really having many To really start the Johnny Cage That we're familiar with Right, you know The constant pressure The buttons, the plus frames You'll then do something Maybe rising up a cut We just haven't seen any of that It's been all Scorpion Prox It's been Raiden, Point Blank, Storm Cell Kano, Pushback And then it's I don't know, I land the next hit Yeah, and it's nice to get Kick into Goro Into a little bit of extra damage But it really is A little bit of extra damage And Scorpion Prox has not Been dissuaded from playing As he has been Because of that Match point for him I mean, it's an important Top 8 for King Gambler I mean, he has I would definitely think It's safe to say that With the North America The hardest region for online Because there is the most players There's a huge concentration Gambler has been able to do Pretty damn well for himself In offline as well But this event is important You just get as many points As possible with With these kind of opponents Lying in wait It's easier said than done I mean, just look at this In the corner Kano isn't even available But give it a few seconds I'll be fine, yeah Chase down with the Shadow Kick Not the worst punish I'm gonna go real after that Gotta be careful Scorpion Prox again Taking off a bunch of life Gambler can't Really absorb Many more hits even He's trying it Here's trying it All three games This is the first time We've seen even A shred of Johnny Cage pressure And it's working Scorpion Prox What's he gonna do here He tried some big stuff And he's willing to Bet three bars That this is the round With Kano locked and loaded Chip alone will kill And now Big trouble for Gambler OH Gambler He finds the round I don't know how 0.09 0.09 Is one of the lowest numbers I've seen throughout The entire time I've been playing MK1 0.09 That's really low Uh oh Unfortunately though All momentum being Taken away here Oh no Immediately as well He can keep it up here Beautiful Gambler has to do Everything he can To make the most out of this Absolute miracle of a round He pulled back But looking kind of hard now Low poke into storm So here comes the Kano All of this chip Getting caught That's a launcher And although there is a breaker Now Almost too much of a hill To climb I fear A small chance It's gonna be very difficult Scorpion Prox is in a Comfortable spot He can just throw projectiles He can be safe He can call out Kano Yeah and even that is Very important chip At this time Waiting for Kano To come back now On a stab in as Gambler Felt like he needed to Over extend Understandably so Scorpion Prox Is gonna run away Get another Kano Get a little bit more chip And it's just a tough situation For him Because Scorpion Prox Came out of this gate Just running as fast as possible Gambler was off to a good start The moment this series began Uh it's just the The way this matchup unfolded You know Cage Especially with the Goro It's built around Constant pressure You know the plus frames That Cage has on his own Being able to throw out extra Special moves on the end You know the Goro Is gonna come in Probably make it plus To continue even more Most of the time It's a 1-1 or something And that's kind of the Staple Cage pressure That we know Gambler for But with the Raiden here And the fact that So many of those long range Kind of low to the ground Buttons were always Had a storm cell on top of it Which always had a Kano Which always had pushback There was just never Really an opportunity Besides a couple of instances That comeback was Absolutely gorgeous There was just no instance For Gambler to You know frankly Do what he wanted to do Yeah Textbook stuff from Scorpion Prox So he secures his birth In winners finals on one side And now We could have the chance For something that's happened Many many times Over the past couple of years In the MK scene In international tournaments Where Scorpion Prox And Nicholas Waltz over here from Chile Directly into the winners finals And that's what we could see It's Nicholas versus Brian Lohan And that is a very interesting matchup He presents stuff that is just rare to see Some of the things that he's been doing With Sub and Chameleon I haven't seen other people do before And it's You know we have now seen him Play it for the last day and a half So it's not like Nicholas I think is going to get caught off guard By all that stuff But still it is A very interesting set of ideas And he's taken out big names And doing it The big thing about this tournament Is that the twins Have definitely had to work hard To be in this top 8 You know both matches Resulted in just unbelievably close You know game 5 Last round In some cases last hit If anyone watched the one with Conqueror For example So it was no easy ride Getting into this top 8 But now we're here It's like right Is history going to just kind of Repeat itself We've seen them play against each other A lot in League of Latina They have fought many times In that They play much like MK11 Play a lot of the same characters They like to do their mirror matches Lots of Liu Kang And Kung Lao I think when I see them play online But yeah I mean We've got to talk about Brian here So if I'm not mistaken 16 years of age Mortal Kombat 1 Is not Brian's absolute first fighting game Ever But it is the first game That he has taken seriously I spoke to him a lot yesterday Like six months ago Yeah I spoke to him a lot Yesterday evening Actually after he had made his way To the next day And he was saying that You know He played a fair amount of 11 casually And he really liked Rain Which is kind of one of the reasons That he ended up playing Rain in this game And has also moved into Sub-Zero Sub-Zero The kind of character that You know The community really cannot decide Where this character lies Some people say that he's undisputed Bottom 3 Personally I do not agree I think that maybe he's kind of Sitting around that mid At highest Yeah He's not a broken character Right He's far from the best But Especially with the introduction Of Chameleon Yeah This character has just Started to have more potential There's a lot of prominent Sub-Zero players online That are very, very talented In tournament we don't see As many Sub-Zeros This kind of event Is the exact kind of showing I kind of hoped we'd always see Someone that has that know-how With Sub Understands the character The Chameleon certainly helps Because all of a sudden Sub becomes kind of cheap Yeah He's got some really interesting stuff Credible overhead low mix ups Into big damage either way He's got great movement potential He's got punish potential He has full juggle potential If you catch somebody jumping with size I love the conversion into slide That he had from like Two-thirds screen was great Just a lot of stuff That I feel kind of opens up Things about the character That individually are good But that like Didn't deal damage before Yes Like didn't really give you Pressure before But now they do Because you have the right Chameleon there to make it happen It is a combination You know Sub When you look at Sub-Zero And we're talking about Sub We might actually see Rain I was talking I was actually talking to Brian Earlier When he made it into Top 8 And he said to me I think I'm using Rain here And that is I think that's if Nicholas goes Raiden Kano Okay If he does go with the Raiden Kano No, he's doing Sub-First So possibly a story for another time We'll hold the Rain information For you know If it happens But I mean The Chameleon pairing here With Sub She fixes the issue of Giving him A lot of meaningless combo conversions She turns his slide Into a launcher Which is just great For mobility and punishes at range The overhead low mix up We ain't talking about Back 3 and Back 2 We're talking about Back 3-4 Which has an unseeable Melina ball roll on the end Wake up Hey And that's one way to start things off here Wake up launcher Uh-huh Not bad Oh, tonight actually Nicholas out of there Any unreactions? Actually, that was incredible But nice chase by Brian as you say Now how far is this Sub-Zero Going to be able to go Oh, the pink one The pink one's up there And instead he goes for the grab Knowing this fear That that instills And for those that don't know That Melina throw Is very, very plus Yeah It does less damage than the others But it's the most plus grab in the game Oh, the fan lift Doesn't quite hit its mark Unfortunate The punish happens regardless And now Melina is back No wake up this time There it is Back 3-4 It's Back 3-4 Or Back 3 overhead roll I believe both directions 18 frames Unseeable Same speed The glow No more Kano here That breaker has been forced With the benefit of chameleon We don't need Meter to get combos Speaking of which It's Melina time The pink one Oh, great block this Oh, no, not close enough for the punish It's quite unsafe But there was range there That's one big thing about constantly Playing this chameleon cameo You have to be on it Just knowing the rotation Of those disguises Knowing what your options are going to be Try to individually go for that back too Oh Patience from Nicholas though Ready for it Yeah, excellent A little read by him there As he gets to dash up Feel a little bit more chip Excellent flawless however And again It glaives back If you have the Jade ready There's just not going to be anywhere Near as much risk now Yeah Someone like Nicholas I do find it highly unlikely That just a roar back too Is going to hit him Okay, here we go Here we go David He has been blocking Almost every single one Yeah, I think that's why Brian started out with a grab When he was first on the pink Nice punish All the way into the corner Nicholas just setting up The lightning cage immediately All right Even more of this pressure I mean anyone that's Hey Mortal Kombat You know exactly what Raiden Lincano Is going to be doing here Again, stands up on reaction There it is Yeah, there's There's a ton of things in this game We just get right on through that See ya At least we're out in the corner Brian Hey What's up He's blocked a lot of overheads But you can only block for so long When it's true Oh no Trying to meet him With the overheads But that delayed wake up Made the whole thing punishable And his cameo got hit Yup So no breaker Only flawless between him And the end of the round And that wasn't enough But we're going straight into Restart match So happy with the sub zero four now But we shall see what happens here Clone push yo Projectile into fan lift Is just such a good strat Yeah Hit confirm that forward four three Though full combo here for Raiden Trying to stagger it a little bit Brian with the With the flawless by I keep saying perfect up there In Portuguese I'm thinking it's called perfect block Flawless block Nicholas up close now As he has been Brian in trouble Okay, well his techs are still on point Now I mean one of the saving graces Of the pressure for Brian has been Right As long as we have Molina on screen And I land I'm within back three range Oh We can get something But he's going to have to be relying On that one disguise The second katana is available It hasn't been as good Safe jump there for Brian Something that he in particular Loves with sub zero With those safe jumps Yeah Ah yes Chameleon was getting hit on that too Nicholas still looking strong A lot of resources on both sides Just a tricky match here against Raiden Kano You know Raiden Not going in with Kano Understands I can probably hold fire On this I'm not going to get punished You understand If sub zero slide punishes you He's only going to get mileage If katana's ready Punish Hey the Flawless is They're pretty oven for Brian Lo he tried it again He's seen that work a couple of times And Nicholas again Gets just stab In here and there Definitely wasn't expecting that Final hit There it is Clone on block being punished By storm so every time That is going to be difficult Here for Brian If you can punish clone Removes a lot of that Defensive capability Definitely Forces you to go for the clone Into EX Which is meter intensive Not that great Well Brian's in huge trouble He finds himself in the corner The Flawless is there But the grab Is going to come immediately Afterward Just like that Is two games to zero As the twins March Incessantly onward To winners I have a feeling That we might see rain now Yeah Character change So yeah When Brian was chatting with me earlier Said I really think I might use rain For this matchup He was talking about Some possible punishes For the storm so If there's not an airtight Gap between them But going in with the sub zero first Kind of leads me to believe That in this game Probably prefers the sub And the rain is there Necessary rain was used yesterday To make a reverse sweep Yes To move forward in bracket Make it into the You know next day And win a side So clearly the rain Is still capable and well Practiced But I think sub zero Is just probably the favorite And you know we have The comfort of The loser's bracket Is there If we need it And now We'll see If the rain Is going to give him What he's after It was Kanzogabe Who he was down O2 against You made the complete Comeback with rain Well the idea was there But if the Awareness of Nicholas To punish on reaction With Superman Is like that the whole time Some of those ideas For putting stuff out there On the screen are going to be A lot tougher I mean one of the issues Is that rain You know he's not necessarily A zone but he's More of a range focus character Up close He's got fast armor But it's jumpable It's kind of with punishable Now the chameleon Is a different idea Because I don't see A lot of rain And chameleon So how it's going to work With this matchup I guess we kind of Have to just wait and see Yeah I'm in the same boat It's going to be a lot of chip Though the flawless block Keeps him alive A good throw tech But even that was A bunch of damage on The percentage of his health bar That's cute But I mean it is Nicholas He's not going to get hit By those right ahead That is a mix up Yeah but even on block Still alive just barely Ends the string And his text Still there How is he still alive? The backup respects The plus frames Look at his patience by Nicholas Getting hit by the low Oh there's so much That needs to be done here Oh yeah And again on reactions We were saying that's the second time That he's seen that come out And on reaction Get the fly Alright let's have a look here We have seen some Rather incredible stuff From this rain yesterday And chameleon was the cameo That let it happen How did he know And punish on landing however Not in the much Not down to reading Such a crucial button Yes excellent range on that All that aside Again as his sub was He's caught in the corner He's getting harassed here Confirm will come And he's in big trouble Nicholas is looking great Everything firing on full cylinders For him A little bit of extra conversion Doing all the work he can Is it It's not going to be And I'm surely But anything is going to do it now Didn't get the storm so I mean that There is a small percentage Of a chance But I mean Unlikely I mean you're fighting Raiden Kano If you get within storm cell distance You're in trouble Alright can we back up Just a lot of excellent patience By Nicholas as well Not taking any risk on this Stuff the ball Point nine Help And there you go Nicholas Three games to zero Both of the twins In winners finals As we've seen before Both of them Three to zero In their winners top eight Match The thing is The twins Were the favourites For a lot of people For a good reason Yes Anyone That has paid even Slight attention To sort of the last Couple of years of competitive Modern mortal combat We'll just know Nicholas and scorpion prox A lot of you Probably saw them at Evo Was the year you know But you know They have been in other North American tournaments Which many of us Saw them For the first time And then Evo Was kind of like Their big As far as the FGC Goes breakout performances But That means That going into Mortal Kombat 1 Those two players Have had quite I mean look You can see Just you know Winners finals You know we get that Minimum third place Oh yeah It still means A great deal to them The thing about the two Brothers is that They have collectively Done quite well In their region Of legality So point wise They're doing Pretty good They're doing great Nicholas is currently Seventh We're coming into this Weekend Seventh in points Of qualifying range For final combat On the global leaderboard In addition to doing great In their regional Leaderboards too So both excellent chances To make it in To be honest Might be Might be wrapping that up With how they do this weekend In terms of the global points So we'll see I mean if the two of them Can get grand finals here That's going to be Just only a good thing Yep Yeah we do Still have combo breaker After this So combo breaker Will be that final Opportunity to get The offline points Yep And then obviously After that But there's still You know there's some players In the running here That would very much appreciate More of an injection Of those points So of course Scorpion, Proxxon, Nicholas Two prime examples King Gambler That's why he's here MK Havier That too Is why he's here Yeah Because this is a great Opportunity And I've got to say The level of play We have seen this weekend In Brazil has been Every bit As superb As I was hoping to see Agreed Absolutely agreed Yeah it's been a blast To watch For the strongest players Who I thought Coming into this weekend Would do great Are in loser's side Now well I guess Everybody is except For Scorpion, Proxxon, Nicholas But to start out This top 8 Killer Shinok is there His opponent will be Morello And on the other side Conqueror and MK Havier Both started out This top 8 In loser's side Certainly those three Names were people Who I thought Would make a great run Now top 8 is great In this context But nevertheless On loser's side You know David I just had a thought It's another Top 8 For the pro competition And another loser's side Top 8 match Of which we will see Shao Darius Versus Laogoro We saw that exact same Matchup at UFA Shoutouts to Video Game Joe and Bokey Two European legends They had that exact match At I believe It's either the same part Of the tournament Or it might have been Like slightly further in But it was a hell of a match And I did not think We would see that Exact character match Of course Halfway across the world Of course Of course But that is what it's going to be And Morello has had I mean what a great weekend For him Another 16 year old player Very young Comes into this weekend Very highly recommended By all the players in Brazil We had heard I had heard about him Even before things started It was 3-2 for him Versus Scorpion prox Extremely close match High tech On either side And then he made his way past Aksyoma Now we've got Kilesh Shnok Had to take out his buddy Fizogabe on the last Way on the way Into this top 8 Here we go Loser's side Kilesh Shnok Long time One of the best players In the region Morello On his come up And there now With the general Shao and Darius A team that is Very very dangerous And even Morello So close to getting Top 8 winners side Yes Again versus Scorpion prox Number one seed Even that is disgusting Calling in Darius Then doing the overhead low mix And if they block the mix You get another mix And it's the first one hit It's a combo Ah Darius Ah it's really good Man get all the way from the PS2 What a jump back wave No punish That's it Morello here Still pumping that damage out It's gonna be enough General Shao There's one thing he's got It is beefy damage Yeah And it's even more so Thanks to Darius And it's You know he can give you these Massive combo extensions If you want He can give you the full combo Oh no Wow Dropping it Look at this Just like that Morello takes his turn back Kilesh Shnok Had this whole combo With agoro and 3 bars And shows not to do Anything about it Now those of you That will be paying Some close attention We'll probably see it Throughout the course Of the series It's a variation of his Overhead heel kick This one doesn't launch The same way the old one does However you can use it As an ambush On knockdowns And it only costs Half a bar So keep an eye out on that Overhead Crouches Challenge is actually The mistiming of the Goro Make it high Added there's Morello No armor to have to worry About but still Very close Both players with a fatal blow Any substantial hit That you can confirm into That's the end of the round Yeah And we have seen Morello Boy Darius out to play Hold on He missed it He missed it And killer chinook Is not even going to Have to spend the fatal To take the round That is absolutely tragic Landed the hit Opted to go for the Darius instead of Anything else That is unfortunate But it's again Okay Yep See agoro Goro parting behind And raising the wrong roof He skipped Goro He is a legend Oh Another hit there with a low The patient's there I mean You've got to be so careful At any moment That armor could just Boom out of nowhere And killer chinook I mean he's all about Those mind games Just because he doesn't Have Goro That doesn't mean He's not going to armor Like it's still safe Yeah Right Only about three characters In the game Can punish minus seven A good first game However A huge swing In that first game Not to be that Master of hindsight We have to talk about that round Absolutely That mishap Mis-timing the Launcher there And just dying for it It very well could be One-zero marilla Absolutely Up block or wake up Maybe expecting an overhead perhaps Oh there it comes Keep it up Killer chinook Oh okay This combo is going to Take a decent amount of time So it's going to give us Time for Goro to regenerate Oh man All the mix ups Are working out for him He's got Goro back Any button Anything is going to give him The armor There it is Wake up down one Good block on the overhead And now that It's going to have Significantly more recovery Than the low So just because you call in Darius Doesn't really mean You can get anything extra Really a lacking tube He's trying to prioritize Having the Darius kick And then use the plus frames Rather than take that round house And commit it Into something else Like the back Or the forward cameos Oh he actually moved Past Darius Funky Yeah So if the opponent Does nothing in those instances You can move past Darius But if you wake up there It will armor break Right So a lot of those early Darius calls are done On anticipation Of the opponent's armor Especially against Kung Lao Nice overhead That's a full combo No breaker for you Not that I think Killa Shanok was going to Break there But one round apiece I really like that Marilla Went back for the overhead After Killa Shanok In that sequence Right before it did Wake up a block Just in case Then Marilla was like Ah that's what you were Thinking about last time You won't be thinking You're going to be outside Of that danger zone Here it is Oh David I can see Darius I see him ready Are we going to use him Yep Oh That is going to be One of the issues You will have with This kind of cameo All these long armor Can power through Hits are working Grabs are working Oof Could have been A lot worse For Killa Shanok there So I'm sure he's happy To just take it down too Boy those mixers Have all been Working out it feels like There you go Immediately break Would have been in big trouble Otherwise armor Available for Killa Shanok No gore However and we are Just about to get Darius back Axe goes down Way far away You don't want to be there Outside of command grab range Okay No No you were right No No No was the right No Two games to zero And in two Extremely important moments Marilla had combo roots That either didn't work Or unfortunately Were dropped If he loses this set He's going to look back At those two rounds And just You're going to training mode And just remind yourself To hang on Wait no I'm doing this You'll probably do it Ten times Blindfolded You know what I mean But the second you're in Tournament and things are Stressful To say the least It can all fall apart Unfortunate business But it ain't Killa Shanok's problem Who is Styling on this round And plenty of time For more gore To come back It's all him Even here as the block Happened Okay jump early too Huge hitbox on that Get back in there Fully on the wall Okay Marilla with the conversion He's got two bars left Now Killa Shanok with a bar And a goro And Marilla No thank you He was trying to get out of there Killa Shanok with the Futsi's on reaction Match point Just like that Three zero Is on threat Right now Marilla was around Away from getting into Winterside over Scorpion procs Here's Killa Shanok Trying to play spoiler for him I absolutely would not have Expected a three zero If that's how this goes But Still a chance to stay alive It's just The hardest challenger player Can have You have to reverse sweep But you'll also Match point down So there's a lot As much work That can possibly be needed In this situation Never say never however And we always see Wonderful things And these pro tournaments Lovely Low overhead low And the axe to come down How are you going to block that axe? That's an axe Can't block that Strong forearms, mate Strong forearms Alright, match point Still remains For Killa Shanok The EX confirmed Side switch Smart stuff Wake up Ah No follow up hit though We absorbed a hit there Watch out for the armor I get so nervous I know there's no goro But there's two bars No I hear you man Good block Great defense right there It's his turn And right on cue Now that goro is a threat He wanted the overhead Trying to get away He just does not want to be In that dangerous range Where there could be an armor In the goro Oh no That is not just damage though That is corner carry That you have also missed out on Overhead Wait a minute We're going to spend more meter We have goro And we will spend Oh hold on a sec But even chip Even chip 4.17 left for marillo He needs to get Everything right And he did not It's Killa Shanok 3 Games To 0 As close as everything was In that top 16 Almost all of those matches were 3-2 Everything so far in this top 8 Not exactly like that 3-0 3-0 So far That has been This round it's almost Oh no It's almost painful to see it Oh Because the thing is I'm not going to speak on behalf of any players The thing about those kind of mistakes is When you're a young player And this whole experience How long realistically has If there's a young player who's 16 How long realistically have they been playing In this competitive environment You're in the top 8 of a major event Oof Your first game goes down to You can see the frustration The frustration is there How much of that stays with you How do you get away from that Still playing really well But just those tiny mistakes That cost you games You need to have absolute mental stack To not be thinking about that Even a little bit Throughout the rest of the match And that last resort there Tries to stick out with advancing button Just in case it connected Good sportsmanship from Killa Shanok To sort of comfort and say GG Well done I mean I think that's great He's coming from the sort of Elder statesman position In that relationship right there You're right that Marilo is As 16 year old Relatively new to this stuff And there's a very high ceiling Obviously for him If he wants to stick with this If he's been playing competitively For 6 months And he got into 7th place At this offline event Where countless killers Did not make it It's already looking good It's gonna sting in the moment Of course But I think the future's looking good For Marilo Now we go to the final Losers round 1 match A huge one A match that could have been grand finals Why not? Could have been It's not It's losers round 1 in top 8 One of them's out after this Conqueror and MK Javier So Conqueror was Another player that very very Nearly made it into Top 8 on the winner's side Versus Nicholas And it was the closest match I think I've ever seen In Mortal Kombat 1 I feel like it statistically May even have had the highest About of timeouts Which for me was a testament To both of their defense And of course their flawless block Because it was Raiden Kano Versus Kenshi So that's a lot of chip damage In theory Yet somehow there were a lot of timeouts I don't know how that works I'm not gonna do the maths Both of them have the ability To get huge damage Not just chip damage And that happened almost never When Javier Won his match in losers side I spoke to him Immediately afterwards And his hands were shaking You know that was a game 5 The whole of Brazil behind you Wanting you to lose Because you know You're against the hometown hero It's the same thing with Conqueror Javier is going to have to Block out this crowd Because they are going to Back Conqueror here And very interestingly That he plays without the headphones In that kind of context As he did last time too Now actually interesting Hey! Talking to Javier Before this tournament even began Like on Friday I think it was And he said You know I actually have all the top tiers I like fighting Kenshi as Scorpion Okay Curious to see how much of that We see here Because Conqueror of course Phenomenal Kenshi And has all of the conversions The weird situations And everything else How much of a Scorpion of this caliber Has he played with Because I know there's a really good Scorpion here in Brazil as well A lot of patience right there By Conqueror That said you know Excellent start by Conqueror It's actually pretty close in life After a full Cento combo Into Okie after that Javier survived And gets to play this distance game If you'd like Certainly what he often times goes to He can stay away as Striker comes back Again That's not the kind of trade he wants Yeah great Good job by Conqueror Activate that sub armor We do have a rather clear Disadvantage for Conqueror Not having the Cento stance active So we are just in our regular normal stance Oh wait he found it He found it Fatal blow That's it That's the round Javier the master of just that When that fatal blow is ready I can't tell you how many times I've commented Javier Where he just finds the hit He just finds a way To get that fatal blow To get that game changing damage It's a great round to take Because again that was one where Conqueror had the full Cento combo into pressure And he had lost it anyway No he's fine Ice vest That ice vest is going to help Massively versus Striker In most situations Forward throw here Keeping it nice and simple And that is sort of simplicity Is the aim of the game With Javier Not a flashy player With this pairing I mean it kind of tends to be With stuff like you know Chameleon Or maybe the pre-patch Cyrax But with Striker It's all about efficiency It ain't pretty But it gets the job done And again a lot of the time Is spent away Just waiting for Striker To come back Very cautious Very safe Oh Interesting He didn't press a button there really Yes In the meantime Again Conqueror is willing To take his time too We saw that many times In many rounds Versus Nicholas As you said it went down To time out Who knows how many times Hey big We've punished into the boy Coming out Javier Just got Striker back So if there's another hit Look for break Big damage And we set that into the unseeable Overhead low He called You know He called out defensive Counter call Striker grenades Okay that's helpful in some cases But unfortunately Striker Got hit again Which meant again No breaker available Look no further than Possibly the greatest Comeback potential In this entire game I don't know if Peacemaker's gonna maybe Replace that mantle But right now Kenji that sento It gets going And it hits hard He was not there Oh boy Hesitation Wow Reed on that standing too Was ready for the duck Straight away Conqueror Can he chase us But again Doesn't need to over commit We do have Striker ready Keep yourself safe We're not gonna get chipped Those flawless blocks That is one thing about Conqueror His defense Has been incredible All weekend And those flawless blocks They shut down chip damage They prevent me to gain Striker finds his hit though And how the air finds Whatever he wants Up close please No he backs off A clear game plan You know Absolutely right I don't wanna be anywhere near you mate Just mashing the back dash I've said it all weekend long I think Scorpion has the best Backwards movement in the game You know they really leaned into The like Zonary angle Of Scorpion It's always been Kind of been there As like a pestering Full screen guy He's always You feel it You feel it more here though He's had mobility To be a hit and run character For many many games Oh Hesitant on the anti air Oh That was a genius solution However Did not bring out Centaur It's by losing enough in time Oh my god Hit it As he did in the previous one He had That he lost to get in the top 8 He just Somehow pulls it out Uh By the way You won't know this stream But We are kind of sitting Above the play area Like where the commentary booth is I can feel the crowd In my feet Literally rumbling The building Yes Yeah When you're taking a look At the camera And the crowd there That's just like a really Small slice Of the venue And the crowd Yeah honestly It's huge down there I gotta say though There has been When it comes to these On-the-spot conversions There's been some real Hesitation here From heavy air Hasn't that really Anti-air As much as I would have Expected He's hitting those jump ins That's normally 2-1 spear all day Just isn't really going So I mean if you could see How much his hands Were shaking when he Qualified He was nervous Hard to get Great pressure after that Forcing switch Nice work Oh wow Heavy air That was sick And this is A ton of time On the center bar As well So is this This is Excellent pressure And so the boys Added No more spirit Can't really afford To take too many Of those down to When you're Out of the corner Jumping away Oh That was Fully punishable but Hard to expect The grenades to end up there Yeah with 50 health left Conqueror did not Want to take that risk No of course sir 15 seconds on the clock Again Conqueror Forces the slow match And he's happy to play At that speed Oh my god Manages to go under But the 1-2's going to do it Heavy air Takes around It's a lovely confirm On the down one hit Into guaranteed pressure Conqueror just Engages your endurance With how he plays this game You need to be able to play These long games If you can't He's going to just Win the role of attrition It's so hard to know When he's going to challenge In these defensive situations To these little scrambles Where you're staring At each other Had to do a bit Of a weird conversion there If you do the 4-3-2 at a strange time They kind of like Fly over your head Heavy air of course I think more hours Loaked on scorpion Than possibly anyone Else in the world Right now to be honest I mean this man Does combat league Hours and hours Every day Any European tournament He'll play in it Well here's his chance So the strong has got A lot of resources Conqueror now Has given up his ability To do a breaker Lovely throw tech Heavy air away Heavy air He has meter That he couldn't dare He spend on meter Here it is Forcing it Forcing it Does he break He's got a break Surely yes Defensive strike It doesn't hit its mark Oh But no follow up on it I don't think conqueror Really believed from that range Who would expect it Heavy air Striker getting hit Means he has to wait A real long time Just to throw Striker But this ain't over He can't break Any fate will blow Push And 13 on the clock Heavy air Is there a flawless There's not Heavy air We'll tie it up One to one No rumbling in our feet This time As the Non-Brazilian player Won the game I love that dynamic Though Because anywhere in the world There is that regional support In South America That noise Is like Times 10 They love To cheer on their players And I love that But conqueror never feels Prater In moments like this No I mean Very experienced Found his competitive feet In Mortal Kombat X With Shinok MK11 Really the Original FTSE Sub-Zero Of MK11 Way too far And heavy air makes them pay Now that That third launcher Always indicates That there's no interest In any other kind of Combat part He had no choice Obviously there was no meter But it's the highest Meta-less alternative Any any Runs away Runs back Making it difficult For conqueror to get Easily activated Into center And even still The defensive grenade call Means that you just Don't know when it's Your turn If you're conqueror Patience grab And he's chasing Same idea That was a full combo Either side No matter who hit that one Good for both of them That they traded Even Stevens on the meter Almost completely identical actually Instant block on that EX telly EX teleport will guarantee A jump kick So you have got to respect it Oh they hit All hits are so big Right now including that Eight seconds on the clock Can he get there The bounce We've seen this before He's close enough to make it happen Conqueror freezes the clock And he gets the life lead Now this round is not over Even still Javier Does he save meter Or does he spend it on EX teleport Does he EX telly He has to try He's plus Oh conqueror The patience To just wait He knew that Teleport was coming But he knew it was Wise to block it Spear Alright we spent Different rune here Yeah We won that damage We won that situation And now we can go back to Midscreen and try and win Surely at some point It's only a matter of time Until Javier tries to Up block that spirit So he can spear punish Scorpion can do that And I know Javier knows that Oh he picked it up Almost like he was going to miss 1-1-1 Conqueror takes it all Javier So content To be at this range Oh Command run in Yeah that's exactly where Javier wants to be As soon as Strikers back Is willing to contend With this button And then he's back Waits Or another back through Or whatever it may be Good awareness from Conqueror Blocks the down three Knows that we're not going to see A death spin from that angle Tactical side switch Using Oh Javier Hesitant to whiff punish that grab Just a very safety First game plan From Javier Again as soon as he had Striker That was there A little bit too far away For just walk up to You have to be patient 19 There's a reason Javier Is doing exactly this style Because again You take one hit from Kenshi The round could be over There's so much set play And Javier playing Oh the jump What? He didn't even take a risk Again absolute safety First game play And Javier Conqueror just Building meter right now A teleport from that Anti-air as well Would have side switched And that ain't what Javier wants There's just so much care Being Put into this match From both players Yes Again that's both Striker's gone He's not going to be back For a little while No risk on the follow up Here's Conqueror A grab To what end though He hasn't really been Able to get much going In a while now There is a clear reason Javier has been playing At the distance he has This is where Kenshi You're just forced it Interruption Yeah And now you're forced There's no Cento Javier Happy to wait Cento's coming in though Can you pick it up Not quite Whiff punish No takes it down one Instead Another one Hitting people all weekend But it can be Kind of obvious sometimes Yeah yeah sure Alright Bit difficult for Conqueror What Fights the hit from somewhere Whoa Pick it up please Nice work Javier The grab The grab and he gets To play the game he wants To play now Stab in for a little Bit of chip grab Conqueror's trying To put on the vest He can be a bit risky Yeah for sure Throw tech Those grenades are going to Make it difficult Another throw A reverse throw here The smarter direction Does he save me Or does he spend it At the air attack He's out of there He's out of there And now Javier Strikers back He tried him Right away Backed off the Conqueror We are entering EX Hellfire territory 11 If he does just Two more bits of tech Can't conquer or find it And I'll be enough anyway Javier To the one The second I saw That death spin I was nervous I was nervous right there I was thinking Is he even going to EX Hellfire Because those last minute EX Hellfires It only does 60 damage But it can kill Now One more game for Javier But I ain't going to say This is over No Easily be game 5 Final round Absolutely I've just never seen Two players Force a match To a Crawl The way they are Both of them The player gets too aggressive Neither player gets Frustrated or bored No No They both have their Clear strategies They know what they're up to 50 opponents picking theirs No big deal You kind of wait yours out Just like this He dashed forward Because he knew That they were grenades But wanted to be a little closer Conqueror Tries it briefly It's tech Javier gets to go backwards And play the game All over again We remain Midscreen Striker About to come back He spends it instantly Oh Hang on a minute Weirdly Here's a great chance Yeah, instantly There's one thing Javier Always make sure To pay attention to though Is when Conqueror Activates Cento That's when you break Yes, for sure You don't break before Because if you then get hit You've got nothing He's been saving His meter for a good reason Look at the clock Again It's at 15 Tech Even that down one Is so big Oh my God You guys Eight on the clock Down and square David Absolutely He got under the grenades Hold on How many timeouts Are we going to see From Conqueror this weekend Match point Javier If they're not stressing Right now I don't know how they're not Because everybody else In this building Is stressing right now Here This is exactly What Conqueror wants It's been a while Since a regular Old Cento Conversion started He gets pressure There's not three Bars yet On Javier's side There it is So he lost a bar And he lost a little bit of health But Cento pressure's over That's the thing Interrupting Cento pressure With an armored interrupt With Striker grenades Does Even if you get hit Kind of neutralize The whole situation It's not the combo That's going to kill you In this matchup It's the What happens next No, I really like Striker As a defensive counter call Versus Cento for sure You can tell What Javier means I definitely don't mind Fighting Kenshi with Scorpion Because you can constantly Force Kenshi to play At the one range He doesn't want to be Which is absolute force Lovely Breach Now Ice Vest was gone So Conqueror did not risk Javier Holding onto the cage No confirm on that two hit Overhead Individual ones now Still there Still there Okay Slices through Conqueror is not Out of this thing yet I heard that crowd From downstairs That round gets won There's a big murmur They need to let their They need to let their boy know You know Let him know Hawaii The chase begins Javier still remains On match point here Not looking too bad From a resource standpoint Two bars a meter Striker has just been spent As he does Alright Javier Tries it out a little bit here Dash Finally grabbed That works Javier had unreaction Been teching and progressing Correctly as well Defensive Striker Conqueror having to be Very surgical with that pressure Wanna over commit One bad striker And there's a full combo For Scorpion He's got the tools to pick up From it Nice striker He tried it And he's gonna pay for it With big life One, two No we save the meter Smart Save it for Cento That's all he's been Spending baron Gives me such Almost like MK9 Cyrax vibes Where that breaker Is more important Than anything else You might have That breaker keeps you In the match Who cares about Doing another 50 damage You gotta stay alive Absolutely That spirit 20 seconds on the clock though What other number would it be? As Javier gets the grab He's at match point still Striker Yes 14 now Conqueror Running out of time Here it is Javier He can't He can't do anything now There's nothing There's nothing That's gonna be that all It's gonna take us The blocking throw He's happy to take As Javier Even as he gets His butt kicked By the sword on the ground Is gonna take it Three games to one Over Conqueror Eliminating Conqueror In seventh place At the Brazil Major If there was one player In this top eight That Conqueror was going to fight That was absolutely A-O-K With playing at this Snails pace It was Javier And We kind of just saw Exactly why That is the case He's just so comfortable Keeping you at a distance You don't want to be in Especially as Kenshi He's gonna frustrate He's gonna just Bide his time And again So many timeouts It's just a testament To the patients And I think the real Skill set evolving Over the time Javier's not had A lot of offline appearances But the fundamentals remain And the more comfortable He becomes in this setting The better he's gonna get Frankly Man this was still You know this was The game that Conqueror took And it was still As close as it could possibly get It's always a timeout I know just look at the clock And all these clips Look what the clock says They're all gonna be 20 or less Every time Every single bloody time But we have to absolutely Use this opportunity To give those shoutouts To Conqueror Oh yeah I mean Legend of Brazil Absolutely legend of Brazilian Mortal Kombat And You know many of you Saw him for the first time Globally in Mortal Kombat 11 He did start before then However Always respectful Very very focused I mean that talent just Can't be ignored No doubt about it But unfortunately for him It wasn't enough As Javier moves forward This means that our top six Still waiting in winners finals Of course Scorpion, Prox and Nicholas A story we've seen before And on the loser's side Brian Lohan and Killer Shinok Are the two remaining Brazilian players And unfortunately for them They're in their same path One of them is gonna Eliminate the other In a little bit And the other side of losers King Gambler And MK Javier The two players who came here From different continents To try to shore up their points Are gonna have to battle through Only one of them Will make it forward It's a classic story You know King Gambler And Javier are not the only Internationals we did Have you four-ing yesterday You know we got to see him Sort of briefly near the End of the street Yeah almost qualified for Top 24 Yeah was very, very close to it But it does now sadly mean The two remaining players Are not from South America Are gonna have to face off And they have been playing Casuals against each other Over the duration of this weekend And they've been sort of Chatting and hanging out As it often happens When internationals Kind of attend the same Tournament So either way that's Gonna be a really really Fun matchup I am just very curious To see what happens Between Killer Shinok And Brian Lohan Because for me This is that classic tale Of two generations You've got The more seasoned veteran Of Killer Shinok Who has been around For years and years and years Many of you saw him For the first time In Mortal Kombat X With Johnny Cage And he's still here You know still kicking ass Clearly here in the top eight And then you have Brian who is 16 years of age This is the first major Mortal Kombat game That he has been involved in Only one of them is moving on Is it the old generation Or the new generation It's an unfortunate path For Killer Shinok in some ways Really for Brazil in some ways Because he just had to take out Murillo Another player who is in A very similar position As Brian is Young Strong Huge future Ahead of them If they want to keep it up And already Looking great Already in this top eight There are the two Remaining Brazilians left Starting off strong That was a very tactical Swap To make sure we can get Jade immediately So I kind of wonder What the tech Oh my god What is happening That is not how you want Your round to begin Absolutely not Yeah Okay, so either way We are still alive In this round So it could always be worse Here for Brian And the longer he waits The closer Goro gets As soon as Goro Was ready The bar is gone Now, okay Brian Oh, he barely did connect All right Jade now Gotta watch out always That armor That armor is a punish Even without Goro All right Full combo No breaker Goro chooses to break instead A little bit later He lands That's wise Oh, smart Are they going to expect it Overhead low Well, here comes my grab Gleave, he's back Goro spent again Right away Chameleon getting hit Did mean that the Glaive Was not going to return So could the Genok survives He may be waiting For the pink one To come up No, it's the end of the blue 12 seconds We're hitting 10 seconds On the clock Oh god I'm cube Did dash up He has the connection Look at the time now These are all Down to the wire Incredible set of matches We have today Oh Goes in for the fan lift Early So we're not going to get A full combo there Brian Not being as on it From an execution standpoint Okay, finally the low All right, here we go This time he's close enough Full combo here For sub zero Right, we're going to end it Again, safe jumps This is a huge thing About Brian Playing sub Crab combo That is tight It's normally jump kick EX Dive kick If I'm not mistaken Under it Blocks it correctly this time And Killers should not Backs up the threat Of that range Brian does not Want to be in it Landed on it perfectly Classic ice clone moment Opponent jumps in it At the perfect time Molina now Mix up It's difficult It's difficult You know the mix up Is coming And by the time you've Delayed wake up So you know You have to hold it One thing about Brian Is that he's not He is not afraid To go for the different Glaive directions To catch the airborne Kung Lao just in case Uh oh It's Molina Got a little weird It actually broke through And Brian will get Full corner pressure Against a scary opponent And Killers should not Grab combo That is a hard time Yeah that seems tough Having a hard time with it David Tried it Now that is an Involved frames there But not enough Killers should not again Pressuring Cancel Safety Plus frame Brian's defense right now Just blocking it out Both Goros gone Oh Fatal blow is ready Molina is here Got him alone One zero You have so much To juggle With a bloody cameo Yes Not just you But your opponent I think that's huge It's a huge part Of her As a cameo Is that you force As much mental stack On your opponent As on yourself Oh Tried to reach out And pat the clone On the forehead Decided it was Not the best idea Molina time The moment Molina happens That was when Brian went I'm waiting You're expecting a mix-up I really like how He plays around that Expectation Ah yes Should not get Nice damage for himself Pressure Pressure Oh too early Nice little delay by Brian Alright The two back twos We're going to jump to one Clone And this is another Safe jump situation Overhead Good reactionary Block Oh They traded They traded That is Interesting tech Right there I'm going to finish out With more damage Get this though Not quite But that's going to be enough Who even needed That to hit overhead It was just enough chip Got him Another full combo And with no meter Opted to take the back 3-4 Knockdown That can serve for a nice positioning For clone With punish With punish as slide By the end of this combo There might be time For a Molina But I think he might want to wait Yeah he's waiting it out He still had it Jeez Good lord Yeah I thought that was gone Or it's going to be gone Alright Killers you're not Has an opportunity here To fight back It's just been so much craziness From this sub-zero The glass armor All the dash Lovely crouch Into the corner again Killers should not cost the cost Gorilll Brian's out of there You know who's next After Katana though All unfortunate The mix up is not blocked I was about to say After that Katana You know the Molina's coming In between rounds though This is going to run out It's Jade Uh oh The combo Brian with a nice little confirm He gets to take off a bunch of time On this as well Worth noting actually For the people at home In the latest peacemaker patch They added a little bit Of combo scaling To some of these chameleon combos But they still hit hard As you can see I'll say yeah Alright again Are we safe jumping it I guess against armor Oh god What on earth is going on I sure have intended Armors it through Killers should not now Again into pressure He's carried his opponent All the way He backs off No What a mistake No What is happening That's all those bars gone Killers should not Has a Goro But he's got to get up close To play the mix ups now And he's not going to get The chance As Brian goes up Two games to zero What was that About the dash Into it I'm not sure There are some real moments Of chaos in this set Yes But I mean When this is happening Is regularly it is It just comes down To who's able to rise Has been Brian I mean if he was trying To dash block He just barely missed it Putting up a little bit Of a wall Here's Brian again Even more Literal of a wall With that clone Killers should not Get swift punishment Not for too much Brian's still pressuring Malina time Oh that's cute That's a cute little idea Anytime there is a low That sub-zero has Quite a few in his strings There's always the threat So devastatingly strong Launching There you go And the added benefit as well Is that these combos For sub-zero take quite A significant amount of time Chameleons regenerating The whole time And there's another mix up One, three, four In the air Finish it with the hammer And now Brian around This new generation Sub-zero On the verge of three-zero In Killershenok This would have been An unexpected result In my opinion Yeah Yes Killershenok Makes it happen for himself Brian has My hat, Malina Couple of different ways To wake up there Actually it's the low And into combo He could have also done Wake up overhead roll That is tricky And using the clone Into the EX extension Just to keep yourself safe From the armored interruption So much match-up knowledge Ooh Grab combos again No armor there From Killershenok He almost got the Sniper Oh man those Sniper size would have been Sick And said it's Killershenok now here Wait man It's not going out Without a fuck And low Brian gives up the bar It will be enough It will be enough This is a stressful match Brian not even getting involved In what there was going to be there Just back dashing No thank you Right the respect is shown Good block on the mix-up Backs up Ways for the button Didn't have the EX But still gets something here Alright Brian With a knockdown By the time He'll have Malina He'll have Malina Jade now Oh This is typically a range Where Killershenok feels comfortable That range where he could get the armor But By jumping By staying out of it He doesn't look comfortable Brian's looking great That is a delicious antia By the way 270 damage Killershenok Possibly a last chance here To get something happening Mita Two Goros Mix-up No breaker No breaker He's Surely Yeah okay yeah He's broken in much stranger times Than Adlo That wouldn't have been the end of the game Killershenok would have built breaker But Oh nothing on wake-up What was this from Brian He woke up standing there I don't know what that was But there were a couple of just strange decisions Right at the end of that match If you're going to break You know breaking Right at the end of the fatal blow First of all See taking a bunch of extra damage Hit the slide But just called the fan That's just a little bit too early It wouldn't have won the game Because Killershenok would have built breaker But Who knows where we could have gone from there Hopefully Brian doesn't kind of get ahead of himself here Mix-up Yeah nice work Into point blank stuff The sweep for the first time Blow Killershenok makes it happen Looking for that corner Oh yes Lovely Armored through that was sick And he hit the assist so no breaker Melina is here Uh huh Tried to go back to it Is this a whiff punish yes Killershenok no bones about it We're going to try to preserve the round Glaive is going to get used Establish some kind of pressure on block here Wonderful block on the low Good choice knowing the low That's where the reward was Absolutely right Melina is ready But no range to do anything Brian's slow Killershenok waiting it out He'd love to get a gore Failed blow Failed wait are you too high No we're not I was nervous there for a minute That has definitely happened to me before Where I've hit up at that height And he's just missed him completely But it will not be this moment As it's match point again For Brian LaRanne Almost three bars of meter Chameleon's good to go Yeah She's about to blink into the next line here Oh what the what I love that challenge from Killershenok Just not going to let you stick out Whatever button you want Melina now Oh the punish And we have time for one more mix No we do not But we'll still take Jade Cause that glaive is still going to give us combos And pressure Plus three Oh the stuff we love Cutting off the screen there as you move backwards And now Melina's on deck And immediately tries to snipe Got another chance for the review once Okay Looking for the up block Yes he gets to continue here Oh baby Does not get the back two That is unfortunate because Oh another one The mistiming Brian Calm it down mate Oh he just wants to be away Here you go Killershenok Walks up He's going to get fatal on this Going to do a bunch of damage Just before his opponent could break You know that's a great combo root choice By the looks of the mash It's looking pretty split down the middle So I think we're going to get some standard damage From this fatal blow Now Brian still in charge Technically because of the resources But Killershenok just needs one armor Around Unfortunate for Brian Again two instances Oral misses There still is another one You could try it out He's trying to be Oh locks it out Slide Is he safe I can't believe it He came all the way back down From the sky To take it three games To one Brian on Versus Killershenok Eliminates the veteran The young man Moves on Man said You think I'm unsafe Think again Fan lift off the slide Got hit actually Chameleon was the one that got punched And then the dive kick to come down That's the first time he even tried That trick And it was the time that won the game Who knew Sub-Zero could get this far In an offline pro competition event Thank you very much Chameleon I would say so Just in watching this That's so sick We've been watching this guy For a day and a half now And each time he plays There's a little bit of Additional tech that he shows off There's something else where I'm like That's actually really good That he gets it Oh that's actually also really good That he gets like I just felt myself saying that Internally like the entire time You watch Chameleon and just think Yo she can do that I just think the interplay of the options Wake up slide into size As a wake up option with the low Versus wake up Melina roll as well Like just That's great She's over Who else gets Exactly Wake up overhead Exactly Into big damage either way Who else gets to do that And it's just There is an amazing tool For every occasion No matter the disguise And that is why Sub With this pairing is so good The one drawback is that Oh come on That's still good She is hard to play Yes for sure Especially when you're playing a character That has so many options From these different things Than the different disguises that she has It's just like The amount of brain power You need to make it work Is ridiculous And here comes Brian 16 year old Brian Yep Showing us all how it's done Absolutely right Yeah, yeah So he does move on Kayla Shanock is out of there He came into this weekend Pretty good in the points That memory serves I think he was 14th So outside of where you need to be But he's going to get a pretty good chunk here However not as much as he would have liked Of course Now the other side of Loser is King Gambler and M.K. Javier Pretty good matchup That we find ourselves in And Loser side For me this is definitely more Of a matchup That you may have seen before You know there's a lot of community activity You know like Rips Arena For example Instantly Springs to mind That very well they might Have played against each other In something like that in the past Either way Offline is a very different beast And one thing to definitely bring attention to Is that you know Javier Doesn't like fighting Johnny Cage It's a matchup that he just does Not like for Scorpion I think that Cage in general Has quite a lot of options For dealing with Scorpion in the meta The fast shadow kick The very very low to the ground Pokes that you can use to kind of Disrespect Scorpion Because Scorpion hasn't really got a decent mid And all these small little details Fast buttons to react to things like Air Teleport or whatever else And actually The more I think about it David Good chance we're probably going to see Chameleon I was just going to say Yeah I remember talking with Javier About when he would go with Chameleon And this is one of the matchups that he mentioned He did try it earlier And it didn't work out So he went back to Striker But yeah I wouldn't be surprised to see Chameleon What I'm thinking of The main reason that Javier Does not like fighting Cage with Striker Is Punishes on Shadow Kick He is going to try the Striker I mean again he tried it earlier Didn't work for him He had to go back to the Striker Possible danger Is that Goro gives the Shadow Kick a combo Yeah so it might actually be An even better anti-scorpion Striker PC utility Here we go Let's find out We'll see EU vs USA In Brazil Yeah that's right yeah Here's that distance game That you know Javier loves to play And that King Gambler Is great at getting through Oh it actually didn't connect No confirm King Gambler had a chance I've seen Gambler in training mode Like in the practice subs Practicing that confirm as well Like it's clearly a core part of his character Woo boy Come movement there The whiff punish there A little bit too early Underneath Really nice to be able to stab Underneath grenades as well One of the many reasons That Javier is not Javier's favorite Combo Breaker Forced out Into the corner Trying to escape it Yes Alright confirm That's the round Give us that star power At the same time King Gambler I mean good form Playing the match up well so far Oh yeah Yeah clearly looking prepared Trying it Goro's still Javier of course Waiting it out And grab this time Ready Or not ready as Javier He's back to the corner He's spent the last round and a half year There it is Alright Breaker has been forced Which means no EX Shadow Kick No Combo Breaker No EX Launch For a hit confirm It's all going to be dependent on Goro at the moment Now he's got two Goros Side switch into the corner But does not even want to contend it all He picks it up Goro again for more pressure Bit of a hesitation there too Now Gambler may have expected a low poke Could have expected perhaps an arm With reversal attempt Those grenades Low profile to the down one Missing Back to where Javier wants to be Trying it out a little bit Oh the tic What a funky timing on this Sorry, Striker had gotten hit So that Breaker had to come late Thirteen even in Johnny As a matchup Timeout Gambler hanging out Five seconds He doesn't need to do anything He can just hold on to that block button Dash backwards a little bit It's going to be more than enough As King Gambler waits it out And gets game one Difficult there for Javier by the end Because at least if there was like One bar for EX teleport You can force a situation But without it You got nothing Now I fear I say fear I feel this might have been a Change for Chameleon And it will be Now this is often the variation That Javier likes to use For Johnny Cage It was a reverse situation Qualifying for this top eight Different cage players Different tendencies Different cameos required Now where do we go Starting things off It's now Javier Oh here we go We got to the other side Javier is going to add even a little bit more to it My word Pretty good Three sixteen And he backs way out of there Combos that take so long He's already got Chameleon I was thinking that Yeah Oh, Chameleons Yes Rare to see the Goro Not come out there We are going to spend our meter once more Now we do have Katana ready And as you've seen from Javier Loves those ground flames Before I've even mentioned it We're back to Molina Knocked down Situation here for King Gamble Oh, I believe that would hit Got hit? Yeah Hard to have seen that coming Gambler up close And all three bars are gone For Javier now Oh, full combo Beautiful Wait fatal blow Not needed The forward three's enough I was just eyeing up that breaker And he got the hit Just before it was available Yes That's another hit Breaker has been forced With Punish But still Oh The downtime Chameleon got hit I think when the Glaive came out Underneath King Gamble The trade Still gives him more pressure With Punish time Big buttons hanging out there Gambler now Looking strong No Javier Pretty important for those blocks Especially with all these plus frames And Goro coming out the other side Plus A lot of advantage King Gamble just backed off Oh, did not expect that final hit Beautiful throw tech Javier Yes, immediately comes off the bar Still a big life lead Goro Stabbed him in his little feet Jumping over It's still doable for Gambler But He's got to find something quickly Those back-to-back low pa Oh, sure, sure Javier In part because of Chameleon Definitely made it happen There were also some with Punish That he got that I don't know if They were cameo As a reason But Certainly the Chameleon helped It sort of changed the pace Of the neutral affair amount The very least in this situation The Glaive Being a huge thing about just forcing Movement out of the opponent Movement of Scorpions Very, very good at capitalizing on Okay, that is sick Javier with his eyes open And the full root to this Is adding a big time Look at this And this is a not That was off on reaction All of that, that was genius Versus a 900 health character as well Okay Gambler The walk-up throw Enforcing the respect Getting you to worry about it Into the corner Javier where he wants to be Safe away But the movement speed That Johnny has actually moved him into Where Javier was and wanted him to be And I'm fairly certain the spear Is unbreakable I've seen Javier do that in the past Okay Here we go again Forward three Full combos incoming Are we gonna try and get extra damage? Looks like we will The bulk of the damage had been done there So I guess it doesn't matter too much Alright Jade Jade has been where the real heavy lifting Has been done If this is something that King Gambler Can get consistently though That might change Yeah, for sure That armor through the glaive Text again Two Yeah, way too Oh, hold on Drop the combo Oh Waits for the meter to get spent And then chooses to break Glaive coming back To Katana's fan lift No whiff punish there Javier wasn't ready Back throw Hang on a minute You're dead 900 HP Johnny Cage That is a dead situation From the grab Now 2-1 This change to Chameleon Has given him a very, very different edge In this matchup Yeah, taking up that screen A lot more effectively As you say with the Jade Glaive Has been huge But even more than that A lot of combo conversions That Striker just doesn't allow Couple of glaives She comes about fast No big deal He's in there with the teleport Into a throw Piece by piece He tries it Ah! Did actually kick Chameleon So she's gonna be out of condition For a little while Gambler Up close These frame traps He's definitely taken off Some chip there Have not been a lot of Big hit confirms coming As I say that There it is Confirmed comes Not expecting the Throw out of the corner Really? Okay Just dash in Malina over here We are gonna get a re-stand Just let it go The Glaive Unsure if that was intentional Or whether we're just gonna Take it either way I mean we're out the corner Could be worse Gambler In control Goro available Shadow kick He's trying to be in that range Where he can Yeah, unreaction Yes, Shadow Plus frames But plus frames, Gambler Not gonna be able to have anything with Have yet backing off Back to that mid-screen Throw tech again Yes, out of there surely Now again He tried to meet him in the sky And instead Gambler had to come off His own bar 11 Goro now And he finally gets the grab There have been so many texts Not this time Absolutely game-changing Throw is have yet Not on match point yet The trade Can't combo from it Oh, that's a full combo And there Yes Back to this rangey game No, not for long Have yet trying to stab in In harm's way And what a pickup by Have yet That's so much damage Actually to tick Oh my God The low-profiling down three To make the jump kick with Gambler has to fight Oh Have yet what happened there No button The down one And then the parry That was the only thing Gambler could do Besides a flawless block That was smart Big jumps Wait a minute Throw counter I believe that was But it is gonna send you full screen So you gotta work All that way back in Even glaive Oh It is enough Yes I know He's flying off-screen Match point for Have yet though This switch has been it Switching to chameleon Big down one there To interrupt that grab attempt Wonderful read First time he's tried that And King Gambler already blocked Point blank again These frame traps Have not really been super effective Nice hit confirmed Have yet by the time he can break It might not be worth it No he does choose to Oh This has just been momentum On the side of King Gambler I'll say Huge life lead Oh He happens to get hit on the way back And huge opportunity now For Have yet Now there is a fatal blow And he spends it It's gonna give you full chameleon It's gonna give you a little bit of meter But it does mean that after this fatal blow Is done Any substantial combo With even a single bar Can win the game for Have yet here Yeah, sure He just needs a bar Tries out the glaven on reaction As he did once before King Gambler EX's through It's tied Two And just like that One more game And only one of these players is moving on The other one is out Of this tournament Another reaction That really changes things up However Have yet finds the hit real quickly after And happy to spend the meter at the same time Molina No chance to spend anything Because that wake up shadow kick with the goro Trying to steal any amount of pace That Have yet has Manages to stop it from returning Is gonna hit chameleon in the process Lovely Here comes the goro Oh Well, okay In any case Have yet here was there a break? Yes, quickly No, not there in time Steer down There is no goro That's it That's the round Have yet finds the mid And brings himself Once again On match point here Versus King Gambler Gambler is just about to build a goro Oh, no, can you get there in time? Not quite Real funky timing on that grab And that's gonna give the range 130 on the Jade grab Of your life lead There just hasn't been too much out of that Backs off, here's another chance for gambler More of the goro Straight in there from the uppercut Forward grab though Have the air putting us back to the range The hit rather stay Three bars of meter for gambler This time gets a full combo Forces the breaker Should he go for a shadow kick? Is he gonna hold on to the meter for a tech? I mean, we'll find out soon But he's doing a good job Of building away this health at the moment Oh, here we go Gambler looking to tie it up He'll need one more big series after this Alright, he'll need a little bit more Plus frames Here it is! And we are going down to the final game Final round here, losers Best way for something to go One round, one players moving on One is going home The plus frames Yep Doc's under A little bit of damage on goro as well And a grab An unusual trade off there Between those two but Three bars of meter for have the air A lovely little throw tech The tech's in the grave Reaction again That shadow kick has just been the one He's shut it down, no glyphs At least not from point blank Here it comes Oh, breaking right at the very end I don't know about that one I don't know man, yeah, we'll see Alright, this is gonna be really difficult for have the air He is at a scary range He is gonna get forward three But it trades, so that's not what you wanted At least he's out of there He can be a little bit more comfortable at range But he can't easily throw the glaive What's he gonna go for here? A shadow kick into goro probably kills him You're very right Javier's worried A spear here wouldn't work It's not worth the risk But what does he do? What does he go for? Yep, there's the point blank one that you can't really react to Okay, yes he finds it Fatal blow Look at this Javier Very much in this He's got the life lead And he's bringing back By the end of this fatal blow Chameleon's either gonna be back all the way Or just about No, I think we're back The whole thing is back We got a couple of goros We got a couple of chameleons on deck Where do we go from here? Javier three games, a tattoo Being able to find that the way he did was so So unbelievably bold Because that teleport could have been It could have gone very wrong The grab at the end, I mean that grab is always a risk There was no breaker for Javier in that situation either That was a pure commitment But one that worked out Because now Javier moves into top four Where it will in fact be a rematch Versus Bryan Bryan was the player that defeated Javier To get top eight winners side And it was rather comfortable Might I say So the run back will be happening Before that though I'd like to give a huge Shout out to King Gambler I mean, 20 hours of travel I believe On the way here It'll be another 20 on the way back I'm sure Javier just dedicated, passionate And is looking for those points And we'll get a good amount of them today He had three flights Two layovers, three flights And both layovers were five hours each So he had dedication in coming here And in this set too He had to stay dedicated Javier had a big life lead as you can see And then in that final game Big back and forth stuff Gambler had more success on the frame traps In this corner than he had throughout most of the rest of this set A couple of big ones worked out here There it is It was just as much of a perfect back and forth That you could have possibly wanted Okay This situation here Boy, huge life lead by Gambler Javier found something that would not have been available With Striker into big damage And again, Gambler had a big life lead He was playing cautiously Javier is the one who needed to make something happen Actively and he sure did Almost any other cameo Is going to make that hellfire Like whatever Who cares I think Lau can turn it into a combo Motaro can For the most part though If that hellfire connects to that distance It's more of an irritation tool All of a sudden Chameleon with the Katana fan lift That is where it massively, massively changes Disappointment in King Gambler Because he's always pushing Disappointment right there You can tell it very much in his face That's over for him King Gambler eliminated As you mentioned we have our top four Still waiting in winners finals Scorpion procs and Nicholas The two twins out here from Chile Terrorizing like always Looking fantastic like always Both 3-0 in their winners side Matches in top eight And in losers side Brian Lahan and M.K. Javier As you mentioned a rematch It's going to be a fantastic set of matches So for I believe a short break If I am correct And I'm going to just roll with it Just in case and if not I'll just embarrassingly go never mind But on the off chance I'm not correct Why I am right It's getting late in the day I'm tired We'll be right back With more Mortal Kombat I love this job I hate myself See you soon It's all down to this Here at the Brazil Offline Major On the Mortal Kombat Pro Competition My name's Ultra David With me and we're back for our top four To close it out It's always wild to reach this part of a bracket Because there are always so many players That just countless matches So many hype moments And then all of a sudden Four people are left Four people And within like the next half hour Or something it will be three Maybe technically not Because we're starting with winners finals But I wish that point made more sense We're going into It's going to go fast We're going to be going into Our winners finals first And the winners finals Is not a shocker It's the twins Two twins from Chile Who have been dominating Most of what they've entered For the past couple of years Have done so on the biggest stages And are doing so again here In Brazil They both had tougher battles To get into the top eight Yeah Than they did here But they both had narrow three two wins To get into top eight And then once they were in top eight Three two Sorry three zero Scorpion Prox over King Gambler Three zero Nicholas over at Brian Lohan Here's a look back At what's happened so far in this top eight Winners finals As you mentioned up there We'll get to the losers in a little bit Brian and Javier in there There are so many questions About what we're about to see We obviously can talk about this Upcoming winners finals Match with the twins Which very much they are Not the hometown heroes here either The entire crowd has always been Rooting against them Just natural in Brazil Of course yeah There's so many Brazilian players And so many of them highly talented Only one of them left in this top four With Brian there as the last Brazilian Alive And that's actually crazy to think Because yeah I mean young player Sixteen years of age Dude if you were to say In the top four There's only one Brazilian first of all I mean I don't know if it's a huge shocker But like I would have maybe Thought that half of them And then if you were to say It's Brian I would have I mean it's not Conqueror It's not Killer Shinok It's not Gustavo It's not Sangue Frio I mean there's like So long with the players It could have been It's Brian Lohan We'll get to that one Later on We're first going now To winners finals And you know We've seen them play A bunch if you guys Have been watching their region In this Oftentimes Lou We've seen Lau They've been playing Raiden All day We've seen Baraka Quite a bit from both Johnny it is Baraka Striker And Johnny with Lohan Yeah I just really want to listen To those intros in this language I like it yeah Baraka sounds sick However Oh my Let's go what I Either way Two teams I mean incredibly Incredibly meta As you've seen Scorpion Prox does Seem to lean towards The Baraka a little bit more Nicholas We've seen almost exclusively Raiden Kano This is the first time I've seen him Play Johnny Cage this weekend Oh but two Better press Better press two and then Two one and got one afterward Yeah the two probably came out Too early Too early I'm Oh wow That safe jump Just got Disrespected And the fatal blow Is going to do massive damage To boot It's going to put Baraka Into a pretty interesting Position here Because we're going to have Tons of meter We have all of our Striker ready to go Are we going to keep The range No doubt Got him To punish Kung Lao I mean he was there Way too late He was there Just to be involved Wasn't he He was watching Sorry boss Alright Forces that break One bar for three Crouching Johnny Cage Is so I know That's how we started off This game Dash forward into that More of the striker Just happy to go in And continue to pressure Nice That's it Dude did back one Nothing Into immediate Stand one himself These guys Might know each other Pretty well Now get away with stuff That you wouldn't do Against other people Kind of have a feeling That we are Just going to rematch here Because I think pressing Start there Might have been to Possibly Try and restart match But are they going to go for A possible character change We'll have to wait and see No We're going to run it back Same match up Baraka versus Johnny Cage Not really a huge amount To break down from that match Besides sort of The really sort of standard stuff That we've seen From these two characters All the time A big thing was I think just the bravery Of Scorpion procs The fearlessness to do Not one microduck Versus Cage But two These flawless slots Yeah I know Defenses Pretty incredible Ooh There from Nicholas Wake up with Abari again Slides all the way into the corner So much of the striker With Baraka Existing To just continue That setup on knockdown Keeps you safe there Hesitation on the with punish Getting clipped by Johnny Cage It's coming Hard to block Good little pickup from Nicholas Back dash Out of the range Holding onto the buyer Scorpion procs Into the corner now It's still his turn Oh boy break No I mean surely you break now Okay And this is still first round So no loss Wooo That's as close as it gets to the ground But The striker grenades Not there in time That was truly instant airspin Yeah I was actually kind of surprised To see it not work Alright knockdown into setup Lovely block That is not easy Managed to squeeze out That down two trade in between Down forward two The striker grenades Plus frames Oh Oh Okay Nicholas trying to move around Getting caught And that is some stage carry right there No parry for you Says down four More of that Scorpion procs in his use Of these Baraka buttons Has been pretty interesting to me Just so like At the very tip of its max range Every single time However it's kind of hard to challenge Yeah so many people when you see Playing Baraka Are just doing like button in the spin And it's so much more than that for him He has that of course But Yeah he's very often at like Max footsie's range Or he's at distance He did blade spin Nobody else has done the spin The entire weekend It's just not something you see very often In the meantime Nicholas Takes the game one to one You know it's going to be Closed between these two It's so uncommon that one of them Just dominantly defeats the other Yeah I mean even this though They're playing in their tournament But still smiles all around And you know of course They're taking it seriously but Yeah At this point you can always tell And I've said this before The two of them are just happy That they've both made it up Yes Well you can see that When they both Did make it in They've Popped off big time Knowing that they were both in there Way too close To the corner There it is Howie Full confirm Here we go again We're trying to get A little bit more optimal here One to one knock down An unexpected amount of knock down Advantage for a one to one By the way That's a lot to work Yeah you can get safe jumps out of that In many matchups You can set up a guaranteed Cyrax self destruct And meatier button after Because it's insane Shouts to Mustard I know you're watching at home Jeez Just slicing in With the down floor constantly I mean be fair Look at Jean-Claude Van Damme's shoes I mean he's going to be Kind of vulnerable to those slashes Look at that yeah Blood all over the place I wonder why he's Even wearing shoes Did he wear shoes And blood sport I can't remember Do not recall I don't remember His shoes Right anyway One to one again So much respect being shown there It could have happened to Jordy K just six frame down one Oh He still gets it though That's a cute idea He may as well just Take in that grenade And slap him in the face with it I love it There's definitely counter play Around Baraka barrage plus grenades Here we go again What interest to be in that Situation is how a lot of Baraka players off that launch Tend to try and prioritize Just a single hit of back three Because it's easier to do the combo Yeah Scorpion procs his timing So he always gets both hits Yes it's harder But you get one extra hit of damage So It always kind of goes to show Like looking at Scorpion procs In Nicholas here Something they always did In MK11 was just optimal damage With very common characters And they can somehow still Find these weird little combos That most people don't go for Yeah But it can be the difference Between the round and I hear you yeah Good punish Got him Yes Nicholas By the stairs now Very light though Another armor Not the first time Scorpion procs his just Armored through the 1-1 Oh okay Nicholas waltzes up Again Back in the corner Ah Very smart Very good stuff there Can you get there in time No not quite That works though Scorpion procs He's gonna try and get this Knockdown side switch of course As we won Good block on the overhead That Baraka trick Has worked Just for as long as I've seen the pair exist Overhead into striker The opponent just They can't help themselves But press a button Not so much effect on that hat Here's a big chance for a whiff punish Alright Oh He thought there was grenades coming Actually we're none Under the grenades Oh Stair down Match point Let's go Scorpion procs This is actually the first of these games That is not 2-0 In rounds for one or the other Let's the whole string go Commits to a throw That the one time We've seen such little grabs From Scorpion procs It's just crazy how the one time You do Opponent's already there With the crouch They know each other so well These two It's almost like The biological twins Or something Oh Pick up Still his turn Obviously Nicholas knows He tried to get away Down one for down one But you have to break No Knows my opponent can't Oh my God He walked forever And Nicholas was still ready To duck And Get the conversion It's like at the end Of one of those band-dams The villain just gets way cocky And does something to you Yeah You're a dead soldier No I'm alive Alright Trying to play around That stand to distance Here's a Ah Is that in range He was in range Was that in range Wow Well, we know the result Everybody Yeah, and they've already paused it That's a W For Scorpion procs Three games To one One of the fastest And farthest fiddles In this game Is the solution that he had But yeah Still incredibly fast reaction The hat was not out yet I feel like La was running in I honestly feel like I heard the assist Before I saw the assist Like that's how quick that reaction was I mean, you know We're offline There ain't nothing getting in the way of that No three frame delay No No nothing So if they do know each other that well I mean Barak's fate will blow Having the range that it certainly does Yeah Great series all round And Scorpion procs I must say over the course Of this entire weekend Scorpion procs has just Looked like If like Both of the twins Are performing at like 150% Scorpion procs has kind of Looked a little bit 151% Yeah So marginal It's so almost non-existent But there's just been a couple of instances Where Scorpion procs has just Looked that tiny Tiny tiny Tiny little bit better this week I think that's right And I guess being reflected in it He was not even He was not on the ground yet Literally his feet Were not on the ground yet And already The fatal was Freezing the screen Incredibly fast reactions Right there How do they do it By Scorpion procs How do they do it David Pretty good Wow Just realized We got a run back So we are still in our top four Yep But we are now going to move into the Loser's Bracket once more Brian Loran An MK Javier For those that may have only just been Watching this from the top eight First of all welcome Second of all When they fought each other It was to get into Top eight on the winners side Brian Loran won that It was Scorpion versus Sub-Zero But played at the highest level And It was a pretty comfortable win For Brian Now the big thing about that match was It was Scorpion Striker all the way And Brian came up and chatted to me afterwards And he said You know I was When I was fighting Javier Especially after that second game He was like I was so convinced He would pick Chameleon But he didn't Like Brian was Like confused as to why Javier Didn't change And when I spoke to Javier After Javier also said I feel like I should have gone Chameleon at some point Oh wow Okay When they run this back now As this is a rematch I reckon it could be A Chameleon mirror But Scorpion and Sub-Zero Dude that's so cool In top four of an offline major here Last time Three to one For Brian As we mentioned The sole remaining Brazilian Let's go In the Brazil Offline major It is the matchup That we thought it might be Sub-Chameleon I love the options for that character What a cool team Scorp-Chameleon We saw how cool that can get When Javier took down King Gambler What we're in now And these two characters Use the same cameo In very different ways General saw combos there For Scorpion But he's going to get more utility Out of the flame From the fan lift He's going to get more Jade Glaive To kind of neutralize The neutral And then for Brian And then for Brian A lot of that is just Conversions And crazy combo mixups Yeah just making a lot of the stuff That Sub has Dangerous Rather than single hits You know what the real test Of this match is going to be Anyone that's ever played A chameleon mirror You'll know what I'm talking about It ain't that hard To juggle your own chameleon But when you're having to keep A mental timer on your opponent's One as well That's really hard to do The fact that they're not Synced right That just makes it super difficult Yeah Alright A full combo here We're going to get some damage The safe jump Defense here from Javier Does get clipped by the 4-4 But he blocks the mixup Correctly Can't punish Oh he actually tanked it with play That was cool Now the comeback is still possible Oh for sure Our combo Yes Yes indeed Wait fatal blow We're spending this I mean fatal blow We're trading a little bit Of damage For full chameleon And the chameleons How we're going to win this round That may be the idea Slam's in there And as you say He's got more up to do Just in case We are going to go from Melina To Jade Oh No pickup far afterwards though He may have not wanted To allow breaker I don't know Just for the overcommit Oh No Jeez Somehow that slide Found its mark And that round goes to Brian That whole sequence The tactical use of the 200 damage fatal blow Somehow worked out Good block Enforces the mid A lot of sub zeros Do like to crouch After that string Myself included Ah Call out from Javier He plays plenty of chameleon Themself and he has actually Fought against a fair amount Of sub and chameleon Thanks to combat league Putting up the wall Javier said okay fine I'll back off You don't have to ask me Twice to back off Oof Didn't want to commit Actually no sorry Couldn't commit You didn't have it Yeah yeah yeah I have 100% That's already happened to me Twice with both chameleon And also meter in this match So Big jump in Lots of respect again Strong defense And this time though Yeah did just let the back 3-4 rock on its own It's now gonna be Malina What we gonna do We're gonna spend the roll We're gonna get some damage That is big stuff 400 looking for the up block And that is extra damage As a result on the punish Oof Because of punishing up block With the throw Seeing that re-standing grab To 140 just feels weird Lovely anti-air Back off Javier with the punish Bryan Lohan taking it Wake up Involve frames Alright It's gonna be Jade for Bryan Trying to establish those plus frames Keep that pressure We're gonna be moving into Malina now for Javier Now Malina is not gonna give Scorpion those mix ups really But she will give Meatless conversion In this case Here we go Finishing this combo now With Jade for the pressure Are we gonna go in for the Glaive? Possibly There it is Yeah, tried it out Bryan with the same idea Tried it again She comes back fast Oh what a catch! She knew exactly what was up Where you going Scorpion Come back The idea that that's like A forced mix up is so sick You know the opponent could So quickly grasp onto that I love that stuff Another free jump in Those jump in are gonna start to hurt here 111 HP for Bryan That really isn't much Breaks through Can he get away? Punish he didn't Big Punish You lose You hit Chameleon No breaker And one of the first Maybe even the first brutality I have seen All tournament long And it's Scorpion versus Sub-Zero One of the original fatalities as well Not from either of them I mean look That's great I love being such a nerd for this game Yeah I love it Sick dude, yeah Alright First blood scored by Bryan Loran In the second game however Oh not at all Denied So Chameleon Gone for a little while now For Bryan Standing twos collide No commitment I'm playing just outside of that range Standing twos Didn't want to commit to a Katana I see the air, yeah Had so much time Wow This is a strange exchange Over the last kind of 20 seconds Very scrambly Wow Here it is Yes he's got it Has to break quickly Something that Javier is very content to do Is often hold on to that meter I mean the utility of breaker Is just so important In this stage of the bracket No attempt on anti air The extra damage on Jade Out of the sky I mean Full combo here We're gonna fatal blow You have to break Yeah Hoping that glaive hits We've seen the ice connect in that situation before 9 seconds now Bryan with a very slight life lead He's trying to back off Hoping to have seen Javier in the sky Javier is Is that enough? Now it is Now it is We are just flying Wow I wonder if Bryan thought Well that wasn't the cancel last time Maybe he's not gonna lift this time either He was wrong about that if so We're spending meter here We're gonna start this round off strong With some big damage Javier this change to Chameleon Has just been so huge for him in this matchup This is not how the last match went at all When they played Just matching a little bit of chaos with your own I suppose All the way through Maybe in Molina after this Yeah, Molina It tries that for a low That's a full combo Full of three glaives Thank you very much Jade Appreciate you Alright Yep That's so cool Oh my god Javier patient He doesn't really have too much use of the pink one On that range So Trying out a couple of glaives Chip damage of another ounce Try to punish with a slide Yeah I think that was the idea Javier Once more Full screen I'm comfortable I'm happy Oh what a jump timing It was exactly right He jumped right before That projectile clone came out It was like exactly perfect timing For me David Interesting position though Because now Brian's in the position where Right, now I'm the one that's considerably down here I was expecting him to change cameos The last time we fought and he didn't Now he is It's kind of going a little bit different There is a rain available Do we think he's going to change to rain here? I mean you're banking Your whole tournament No I like that he's not changing Yeah he's had so much success with Sub One time he did try out rain and another match It wasn't successful so Yeah And there's certainly nothing to stop him from Coming back at this point He's looked great throughout a large chunk of his matches And in parts of this match too I'm going to get even more damage here The exact same conversion we saw before Tried on lift punish Not quite there A couple of attempts at it Javier backs off He's the one who finds the three bars gone for Brian I gotta say if this ends up being 3-0 That would be a huge shock for me For sure How crazy it was for Brian the first time they collided This being currently 2-0 for Javier is just Impressive I super agree with that As Javier again plays the distance game As soon as he gets jaded out he wants to try glaive Clear strategy in terms of when to spend Here it comes out again Oh he did try it I mean that's going to do huge damage We have bar to spend Guaranteed Javier on the verge Match point for him Glaive Brian's turn And he's trying it But Javier weathered the storm And now he waits through Milena As soon as jade comes Now he's still patient Ah interesting that he would go for Both of them actually with the purple Counter glaive as they both had jade at the same time They were at the time What a very similar rotation Size versus fan Incept I really like that he could punish In that way that's great For Scorpion Javier just needs to bide his time Very little has happened in this possible final round here With punish Chameleon was hit And she's back but after the combo It was over wait He gets to pick it up anyway Brian has got to make this one count Yeah this is the chance Back against the wall The last Brazilian player left in this bracket That crowd down there is itching to make noise They haven't been able to have throughout this whole set Decent damage but the crowd That's mad Again we're in 20 seconds left Can Javier again Find it no Oh the break he believes Javier believes He believes Why would you believe Four seconds And underneath it is Brian Even if he hit that throw He still would have lost the round Yeah you're right He didn't have enough time That's a long grab Oh that's such a good start For Javier Forces the breaker Try to chase down No one home Breaking through the ice clone With that reverse glaive Patience Just dash and grab Okay we're happy to take it But now we're at a range Where Melina probably won't exist that much Outside of maybe that airborne sigh But alright Brian Showing us what he wants to swap Uh oh Again extra damage on that Brian Trying to move in Trying to find something yes low And he does have Melina's size Good damage on him He's up close now He's got Jade Could be overhead in the glaive It's not going for it yet Low is the idea Katana time So that slide becomes a lot more dangerous The grab combos start to open up We're both about to transfer Over to Melina Again it's the distance game Javier feeling comfortable He jumps over no big deal Happy to see that the chameleon Is wasted on the other side And while we're at this distance That Jade is going to be the best disguise For Javier We want that range Again in sub 20 seconds Now it's Brian The one who needs to make the comeback He doesn't get it Individual hits He's running out of time Overhead of course it is He just has to block David Javier is looking a-okay Three games to zero To move on into top three Revenge is a dish best served cold Because he was fighting sub zero Look I could either do it either way Because it's scorpion versus sub So this really cringed ad joke Has two different avenues to go But look that is one hell of a way To run it back Lost against Brian getting into the top eight In rather dominant fashion To be honest Brian was looking so comfortable But was confused even then Where was the chameleon I was expecting to see it We saw it And it was a very, very different story Yeah just the way that Javier is playing With that cameo now I'm not sure what his idea will be Going up against Nicholas I suppose part of it is going to be Which character will Nicholas use But I loved so much What we're seeing out of his scorp chameleon There's so many tools He gets to play how he wants to play At that distance he game He gets to stab in now and then He gets to get big damn Say look What an awesome showing 100% What an awesome, I mean that is fantastic 16 years old The world comes to look at MK in Brazil Here in São Paulo For the MK Brazil offline major Everybody's eyes in the NRC are on this And it doesn't get a bigger showing Than to do what he did At 16 To make it all the way here Over many of the players that we had Expected the established folks Who have been so strong in the scene For so long He's the one who got the farthest Congrats to him The Brazilian scene will no doubt Be proud of him for this result I mean you know I've only known him for two days And I'm proud of him I'm sure that is reflected by everybody Probably made a lot of new fans Over this weekend So you know Plenty of opportunities to continue to grind Whenever there is South American Mortal Kombat online I mean keep an eye Yeah look at League of Latina Brazil Like this You know you can definitely watch This dude play in the future That's it for today though for him And we're gonna have Javier versus Nicholas In Loser's Finals Coming up Javier being minimum third place Is such a good result for him Even before we play these matches Because Javier is the kind of player That he's been pretty good on points He did very well getting top three Actually this is his second minimum top three In the offline He comes into the sixth in points What's interesting is actually that These top three that we have remaining We're all already great in points Nicholas came in today seventh in points Javier sixth And Scorpion procs fourth So all of them are gonna shore it up even more In a way For some of the other players who are on the outside Looking at Killer Shinok and Gambler and stuff It's actually okay That the players who are already up there Are even gonna get further up there Because it means that nobody else is leapfrogging them So there is actually Of course they'd rather just get the points Now a fun fact This is the second major offline That Javier has competed in And this is another opportunity Where there is minimum top three He would have to defeat Nicholas here To be his current highest placement Of which he got third at UFA Losing to Kanamani Where Tekken Master won that tournament A matchup he has played so many times But the twins are at the highest Highest caliber However We must remember I've seen Javier fight against Kanamani many times In this exact same matchup So he's as ready as he can be He finds himself in a tough spot To start things out here This whole round has been him Just getting pestered in the corner Nicholas all the way through There's one thing about the twins It's always optimal Efficient, optimal With this kind of character That's really scary Because they will so rarely make a mistake And be so overwhelming all the time Got him! That's one of the few instances Probably the first in the entire game That Javier has had to say right It's my turn now That could have been broken the whole time But Nicholas, you feeling comfortable? Must be happy to hold on to the meter I suppose Yeah, we'll see what he does with it Possibility for armor Some different hit confirms Maybe a little bit more damage EX down back 3 opens up Did he wait for striker? I wouldn't put it past him Man, that defensive counter-pull of grenades We've seen how important that can be Hang on We just straight... Aino's out of here There's no Aino Javier Making it add up And look at this! Oh, smart stuff If you jump the flames The grenades hit That was basically a checkmate Oh, okay Alright, we confirm 3-4 3-4 Give us a nice little ender We have Kano coming in Breaks the throw though Get in the counter-call Oh, he was close enough And no Kano there Yeah, without Kano, Scorpion's 2-1 If you're at the right distance A really nice punish on that storm cell Okay Into the corner as a result He's underneath You know, the way that Raining can Pressure in that way Under grenades is very effective No, boy! He was a tried It was a valiant effort If you ask me But it did not work No ender Mid! Just hit it Alright We have a spear What are we doing? Spending it Sure, find a round In these instances Especially with Scorpion's fatal blow Being kind of slow I feel like a lot of the time Javier will spend it in a sense of When else am I going to get that opportunity? Yeah Even then, look at the damage It's good It's good Full striker Nick, let's just waiting it out He does need to make a comeback here With plenty of time Oh, it does connect underneath Oh, boy Floorless block Really early too Delaying it to try and make the floorless block No, it's still activated It's still here Grenade! Oh! Look at this game One Javier That to me Looked very much like Javier vs Kanamani I mean just The same degree of All the little things That Javier is looking for He is as prepared for this matchup As anyone can possibly be Not that it makes it an easy task No You're against Nicolas for God's sake For sure But he just looks I've seen this from Javier so many times You know And he's keeping that form And that consistency Offline A different environment A whole different country Halfway across the world Yeah A lot of growth as a player I'm seeing A lot Got him! Oh! I gotta say during this match You know, I've definitely seen people In the past sort of referred To have Javier as kind of Like an online warrior Sure, yeah Someone that, you know Online is his home This level of play I mean, we're talking top three This is Luz as final as you fight In Nicolas That may have been true for a while But as you say He's been top three In the couple of times He's been to offline majors Uh-huh Scorpion Got him! Yes! Those jumps have been A pain in the backside And we're gonna end it Don't even stop the round Javier He had 31% health As it looks like Up there And full resources But again, Nicolas chooses Not to break Ah, it doesn't quite Get the flawless block there Flawless blocking that storm So kind of tricky And if you miss time it You do kind of just Get hit by the whole thing Down one Mid Lovely flawless block, Nicolas Now we have to remember The days of MK11 Nicolas and Scorpion procs They're flawless blocks In that game We're just out of this world Punish! No! We're a little bit too far for two And Nicolas is still Holding onto this corner The cage he has set up Still active Still here! And the flawless block The very first major patch This game introduced Not only does flawless block Prevent the chip damage But also the opponent's Me to build For a strong duration So that is a bit of a change For Raiden Overall nice duck Full confirmed Trading one bar for three Javier now No safety net Not even a striker No, he's just waiting Trying to get that Striker back He's back I think he might even Have let himself Not an uncommon tech Just get the distance back Not too much damage on that But not very many seconds Left on it! Oh boy Oh boy What is happening is When Nicolas just so happens To repress the button He's done it! Punish! Nicolas Tenacious right there He is sticking to you You're always just outside Of effective range It was only nice Oh boy Not the ball Spending both strikers there Very expensive Three seconds What! An anti-air The full readiness Of Nicolas coming into play Yeah, taking it Javier stabs in Stabs in And back off To where he can feel comfortable Yet again However, almost at the corner On the other side Or if that death spin Just create that space Forward throw Raiden's passive Is activated So he does take reduced chip Now anyway See those eyes glowing Boy, he's gonna naturally help you Vest to someone like Scorpion My death spin With strikers are pretty dangerous Tool Defense Grab again Hit confirm Has to break this He has had weird breaker timings But this time There it was There's the big duck First time that Javier had tried That one in a while Nicolas was ready for it He had hoped that doing that Into spin would have caught Nicolas Blocking it out But not this time Very difficult for Javier To find this fatal blow Because you are in A horrible situation The down one doesn't quite work Trades The down one again Very little time 10 on the clock I don't know how Javier's gonna find This just grabs Are not gonna be enough It's not gonna be fast enough There's no built-in mix either That's not gonna be fast enough It's gonna be one to one Nicolas And Javier Playing as close as it gets Scorpion Not the kind of character That's gonna be able to just Have that explosive I need to land A significant hit Situation I mean right there It's not really the kind of character That has an overhead low Just grabs Just physically would not have Had enough time You know who might be able to Open up other tricks Is chameleon Yeah And I think that's one of the reasons Yeah, I think this is A strong call here Clearly the utility of Striker's obvious And dependable But He has had a great showing Over the last couple of sets With chameleon It's the time to go for it See how This weighs up for it Really the moment chameleon Was introduced to this game Javier was in there Straight away I mean Really could just sense Wonderful things with this character I'll take a little less damage I guess One hit So I guess we saved ourselves Ten damage Plus grab That downfall That downfall Gonna be a really important Tool versus Scorpion At that range The only tool Scorpion has At a distance to that standing too It's a hide A downfall will clear it Forward fall With punisher That's it At that range He's always sticking out that button Oh Javier close now He does find it This time to confirm Alright It's gonna have to be very simple There's no chameleon ready And there's no meter either afterwards Alright Those flawless blocks Have been really good That down one He's been challenging that Every time He gets hit by a ball And he doesn't seem concerned either way I mean if you block You're vulnerable to overhead low You're vulnerable to more chip You're vulnerable to more storm cell So I don't think the down one's a terrible choice No I'm in I think it's cool Nicholas as we've said He has sometimes just like tank damage It's almost the same exact life that he had When he did this previously No breaker there by the way Yeah so I'm saying He does not Always break in situations Where he could stay alive There it is That's the one to get out of Yes Super Serena That's all that glaive is It's mid Better for combos I mean you can't drain me Or anything that Oh so good Right Big jump in now The delay on the forward four That one all hits on its own Had only Nicholas committed That would have been a full combo Down one Underneath I don't know Is that supposed to have been glaive I'm not sure Either way I mean Got away with it Oh pick it up And this could be huge stuff for Javier One one one Back to finish Yes indeed Unsafe spot Yeah I mean It's risky as scorpion Because there is no low to combine it with There's that distance Nicholas on the chase And he's ready Absolutely ready Yeah kind of throwing a lot Of that momentum away With that meat email Maybe could have armor broken a bit I know Raiden's wake up Is kind of slow It's pretty slow yeah Bonnie plus frames Again Two launch Breaker has been forced Javier Punish The electric fly Dash in grab as well Now Javier Wait a minute Just glad meter Dash in a grab of our own Plus frames my friend Again Plus frames Still Milena The sequel That's what he's looking for Throwing where Nicholas didn't expect That one hit Mark Flawless block once again And he's away That's it Okay wow Had to get out of there Alright both no more meter Uh huh The glaive is ready Using that glaive to move out of the corner I love the utility of that Impressive cooldown I mean he's about to have the Katana available Does he commit to something like a ground fire Goes for a big jump He just went in Oh wow Milena is ready Underneath the knives Yes he took a little bit of health And he's back off Here comes Nicholas Trying to chase down And he gets just too far Chameleon got hit off screen Oh no raided Uh Kano did sorry I heard it It was miles away 15 on the clock And Javier's out No he's whipping Oh my God it's getting real scrambly What is going on I'm so confused All he's gotta do is block low And overhead's not gonna kill That's fine Confirm on down one Into guaranteeing the round Rumble these guys are in But I gotta say Javier has been on to something With this down one stuff I'm with you I mean if you sit and block that He's just gonna get all the chip again Yep But if you get out with the down one You take the turn If you get hit by Kano I'm far away I don't give a damn I like that a lot I'm gonna steal that I played Qwantz So it's probably not fast enough Oh maybe not for you Not fast enough Yeah Either way What is this Result 2 to 1 Oh Full combo David First time he has done that He was successful He did happen to have the Malina At exactly the right time 350 Narrowly did not trade With that glaive hit I mean if you didn't break You were losing the round Woo He ducked under the knives Here we go Look at this guy The preparation The readiness Nicholas now is on the chase Still going Flows interruptions It's risky though I can't believe I'm saying that About Scorpion That it's risky to try And deal with his forward three Malina available Malina being used constantly for a Re-stand What we doing Big jump in Down one A chance now for Nicholas Yes big confirm 328 into the setup yet again He's here exactly where he wants to be It's denied Alright We're going into Malina now Is that gonna be just to buy the time Do we have an opening I mean jade's next And that's the objective here Another one Forces the break You have to break this He's not breaking You got it man Kano is full The full Kano's there The full meters are there Almost Nicholas I mean we know He wants to saw himself Kano ball Can't duck that Oh my god So he will take the round anyway Even after voluntarily eating Almost 400 That was a Bold grab But those grabs have been paramount For Javier For opening up the threat of forward three Without those grabs That mid is not dangerous In his mind this is the last round He's bringing out the tricks now Yeah It's now or never Pretty sick to be honest That was a very Maybe a maneuver If I say so myself That was sick Now Resources gone Nicholas Both cameos The down one Again I mean man He's onto some Oh a duck Nicholas Ready for it And now All that aside He's exactly where he wants to be He's got a couple of bars He's got a Kano ready to go He gets the chance We're just going back to a safe distance Again Javier much more comfortable here Oh yeah Nicholas chasing Chasing The down one Again Into instant overhead Kano is hit Kano is not going to be there For the breaker There's Javier Nicholas In losers finals Making it into grand finals Here With some of the most Insane Scorpion That we've ever seen He has now surpassed His current best Offline placing No longer third place At UFA Now Minimum Second place And one half Of the twins Conquered Wow Nicholas for his part Put up a great fight Even still He had a lot of great series He chased well But you gotta say The story is Javier With the down ones Through that pressure Willing to take the hit On Kano ball No big deal But if not It's his turn And he confirmed that Into pressure or damage Multiple times He had excellent tech Man even more tech With the chameleon That I had seen before And right at the end Right at the end Interrupting the Kano ball With the down one Is what hit Kano So that when the mid Connected There was no ability to break I think we're going to see It here actually Or close to Can't quite remember It was about here There it is See ya Kano Take the turn Kano's gone You can't break now And I hit the instant That was very much a You know what You got me Good work I mean honestly What can you say It was really good work So now it is up to Scorpion procs To hold it up He starts from winners side He's got a great advantage In doing so He only needs to win One, three out of five set He's been here before Right I mean He's been in these Grand Final situations You gotta say he's looking strong But even still The way that Javier Made his way through that Some of the tech he had That I hadn't seen before Just a real great job At continuing the development Of this games meta I don't want this to sound Disrespectful in any way Because I do not mean it as such When I saw That level of like The Raiden Kano And all the stuff That Nicholas was doing Just super, super, super Super, super powerful But it's a matchup That we have seen A ton In the past Alright Here we go We are starting things off This is Yeah, this is tournament So The match has begun The Grand Finals MK Javier, Scorpion procs And kind of What I was talking about before A matchup that Javier Has played a bunch Baraka Striker Is another one of those Exact matchups So if Javier Is playing it is absolute best I tell ya There's a chance he could do this Scorpion procs Legend in his own right The competitive pedigree Very few players can match it Now we pressure him with a Striker The down one just to steal the turn You'll notice immediately Javier has wasted no time Sticking with the chameleon However, down on life here Scorpion procs doesn't need much Dash and grab Alright We're starting to work on it Anything substantial into fatal blow Scorpion procs will not have time to build a break Aww And he commits to the throw At a bad time as well Round one for Scorpion procs May as well quickly mention this For anyone at home that doesn't understand The double elimination tournament format And what it means by You know, L next to Javier Basically long story short Scorpion procs is still in the winner's bracket Has not used the lifeline So if Javier wins this 3 out of 5 It will essentially send Scorpion procs to losers And we go for one more set Scorpion procs wins this 3 out of 5 That's it The tournament's over So really, Scorpion procs has half the work His reward for being The strongest player so far Starting off the game looking pretty well Continuing the string Aye Scorpion procs The fast one Javier out of there Punn it No, but the grenades were there still Of course they were The grenades are there still Chameleon Yes Oh baby, probably Yeah, here we go Now although this is a 950 health character Baraka is definitely going to survive this But again, it's that It's that classic where We're gonna go to an interesting range Scorpion is gonna have about a bar of meter Just shy of And Chameleon's ready Glaive toss or Yeah, Glaive It's been used for him Maybe worried about the reaction Oh, it kicked No, the idea would have A cool idea, but unfortunately For him Does not work out Right, game one In the books Scorpion procs Yeah, the idea of comboing glaive Directly into that It's cool, but Just not quite there Spear whift Baraka striker Back in with Chameleon I wouldn't be surprised if Javier Sticks with Chameleon For the rest of this entire tournament Yeah, I think you're right With how this has been working for him I mean, you're in the zone With this pairing Hey, punish Javier looking good Scorpion procs, not too worried About the damage there Not enough to break Oh, no, he's not there Wow That was pixels away On those blades Try this again, yes, of course Wow Those scorpion anti-airs Kind of missing them up No He tried right pecking the EX barrage That was a You're gonna try and press a button here? I know, yeah, yeah, yeah I dare you, mate Is that gonna work? Yes, indeed And the standing one as well Just to prevent Because you know, meter build Is based on damage that you've taken Yup The standing one doing a little bit less damage So it gives you less meter Boy, that is incredible optimization Yeah Yeah, okay, yeah That is a Oh, four characters on the screen I know, yeah This is a team fighter Breaks it And again Grenade's always there to the rescue Just in case Connection Doesn't even want to see the follow-up hit Okay Nice aggressive situation here for that Baraka Yeah, it's not really like the movement That Scorpion procs is showing The back and forth The insistence on pressure In ways that are not what Other Baraka strikers are doing Here it is, though So, like, individual button focused Yeah, very rarely finishing In loads and loads of staggers to trade Okay Scorpion out of the trade animation Okay God, comedians are cool, Kami Absolutely, absolutely Back and off To that range Okay Javier actually took more damage than he dealt there Looking to get a chameleon back On the blue one right now Yes, and as he was there He comes in We're gonna spend the bar 1-1-1 14 You have to watch out Out of the sky Okay One round a piece in game two I rather pivot all round this Because the difference between 1-1 and 2-0 When you're on the loser's side of Grand Finals Is a big mountain Absolutely Okay, funky timing Javier there already Glaive And he does break Wanted to see if Javier would get the confirm But he did I guess silver lining to being hit by that It took Javier out of the corner But I think it'd rather have the health at this point Man's looking a little bit tender Oh, good lord Blade charge Keep it up Yes, he knew it, he knew it Oh Javier was ready for that too Yeah Javier didn't do the pretty little shit stuff actually Jeez, 3-18 Alright, back to the glaive The glaive has been really the miracle move Yeah, matchup Really, against both of them In general Yeah Very patient Javier slowly walking towards the corner Okay, pop pop as the grenades Knock him out of it Oh Chip, can he get the flawless knot in time 2-0 Now, scorpion procs Okay So An interesting next match This is either gonna be the end of the tournament Or the start of what has got to be A reverse sweep to even reset this bracket That is so much work for Javier If any Javier fans at home I mean, now is the time to Oh, I don't know Just give him the best wishes or something Scorpion procs would take no prisoners Oh, man, I really like that The movement that that allows Really opens things up Okay Aw Alright, scorpion procs is gonna let it happen Yeah, definitely no reason to break When you've got this much health down Man, so just hold on Oh, micro duck as well No grab to be had and we'll take that Javier, one round on the board I mean, has to keep this up Otherwise, scorpion procs 3-0 in grand finals Interruption Okay, cool Yeah, good to see somebody blow up the gap there Scorpion procs gets the bounce Juggling to always legit damage as Baraka Underneath! Ooh, that was barely in time There's definitely something about scorpion procs He's really not afraid to do strings into that I believe it's down back 1 or something like that Whatever the slash is The two slashes Not as vulnerable to gaps as the down pull would take Right, exactly, yeah Forced to stand so that you can make sure That they block the grenades at the right spot If they block Oh, he had 3 bars I guess Why not party? The Javier special Give me that spear We're going to do decent damage here We have Molina ready Is that something that we're even going to use? Ah, he sure did Not there until, oh no! The game, that is the game right there 2-1 punish And Javier brings a game on the board Making it 2-1 Wow He even had the two buttons first It was 2-1 They were on blocks early and Unfortunately, the missing firm was so Confident It seems that that was good Put it in, right? Dial that in Alright A game on the board for Javier Smart down 2 I mean, it can look kind of ugly sometimes Down 2-ing in between the grenades and that But it's the best way of punishing something Get more damage than them Get greedy with the punish And those grenades turn into a full combo So Better start here for a swap And Prox, whoa! Alright He was not at 3 bars And was willing to take the risk anyway Alright That glaive is consistently being good there The up block It's rare that Javier is finishing that strong throw I was just gonna say how did he even finish it before Oh! That was sick! He covered it That's not gonna kill, I don't think It's gonna come close to it though It's gonna be close Yeah, I don't know here It's 1000 health Down to mash, possibly But I'm looking at the fact that Last breath won't activate Because it's the first round Yeah Instant jump kick Oh! Wait, he actually might get grenade anyway No, he ducked it! He ducked it! That hit before the grenades did The random animation of Scorpion Just happening to duck when he does his fatal blow He just happens to You don't need to That's just how they happen to make it And he got under the grenades Unbelievable Alright Well, Javier continuing to surprise A surgical armor in between Lovely up block on that jump kick Those Scorpion Prox Not phased by that Oh! This is exactly what Scorpion Prox is looking for Pressure in the corner Frame traps in the corner And still his turn even, Javier Not gonna bother with the breaker here It is match point Tournament point, Scorpion Prox After all that After all those moments It could just come down to this next round And it's like nothing happened Right, dash and grab Scorpion Prox Laying this pressure on alarmingly thick However, the reverse of momentum actually Oh! The grab combo Because we threw him out That is so sick! That is pretty sick Even more so with the Molina I have never seen that combo in my life Alright, that's a conversion Get back in that corner Mm-hmm Pressure still continues here Javier does have three bars Yep, connection No grenades to interrupt this time He has consistently just not been afraid To pull the trigger on that armor And we're doing so many throws now Every mid becomes risky No up block I was maybe half expecting it Uh-huh Bad trade That is not the damage you want to take At this point in the tournament He's running out of life Throw tech Scorpion Prox is exactly what he needs to be If he finds anything big And he does exactly that Scorpion Prox is gonna take the whole games to one Ending it off First place again Scorpion Prox That was just a Thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyable way To close out this tournament Javier at the end Getting kinda overwhelmed You know, he's been playing hard all days Had countless matches Right near there when he went for the instant jump kick I do wonder if that was like meant to be a teleport Or something But Scorpion Prox was just at that magical range Where you might jump But I've still got ranged out Space you I'm a little bit further away than you're down three So that's gonna be rough I've got Striker to work with I've grabbed you a bunch of times So who knows what I'm gonna do next I mean, just the perfect change of tempo To close out this tournament So Scorpion Prox, a well-earned first place But I think really the talk of this tournament Besides the performance of Scorpion Prox Is gonna be that second place MK Javier finished Because that is one that I'm sure All of EU is very proud of Javier's gonna be over the moon with it Because the number one reason he went to this event Was because he's doing good on the leaderboard Is to keep his place as secure as it can be In the leaderboards Yeah, although, oh man, that was great Look at this, look at how you see me move It just moved downwards Oh my god That was too good How low can you go? That was too good Yeah, I think, look Obviously Scorpion Prox gets number one here But I think it's gotta be considered A winning result for a lot of these players here For Scorpion Prox, for Javier, for Nicholas Coming into this All three of those players were already In the guaranteed spots where you get Invited to final combat To final combat So the fact that they Still a lot of those players I mean, look, Gambler would have loved to have gotten more points Of course, he ends up in fifth And Killer Shinok ends up in fifth Both of those players Just outside of where you need to be To get invited to final combat Something like 14th or 13th Something is where they started out before this So they'll get some points, surely They'll move up a little bit Not exactly what they wanted But they did still get stuff In any case, I think a lot of these players Can be happy with the results Even though only one gets first place It was a great story There were so many stories At this tournament actually I think the biggest one to take away From the event as a whole Is just the new generation Of Mortal Kombat players There were so many younger players in this bracket That were just absolutely sublime World class And it's like, you know, this is their first Major, major Mortal Kombat game They might have played a few dabbled in the past But this is the one where it's like, right I'm taking it seriously I want to get involved in tournaments So, yeah, so much Excuse me, to break down As you can already tell My voice is given out anyway Because it's been a long weekend It's been good There's been a lot of match-ups But it's been a bloody good time So, overall We appreciate you all so much for watching Thank you so much for being here with me, mate It's always a pleasure Blast what? Shout out to the local boys as well That's just been It's just this kind of tournament Is exactly what I love And why I love Mortal Kombat Also Baraka Baraka's cool Doing pretty well out there In those offline majors Yes, indeed Having taken first place as well Under Tekken Masters guidance at UFA So, yeah, awesome tournament Overall, have loved being here In Sao Paulo Awesome to hang out with people It's a huge city We don't get to see much of it But it's really nice to be able to see parts of it A little bit more about the culture and the players here That's been a blast as well On top of some of the absolute best MK1 action that I have seen so far Some of the most creative Some of the most interesting Some of the closest matches If you didn't get to watch the whole thing Again, I highly recommend going back To at least the start of the Top 16 And checking out all those matches It was awesome Check the tapes That's the best way to go But I do believe we're finishing up here So my name is Ketchup Joined by Ultra David Shouts to Ariel Shouts to Buu It's been a really, really, really fun tournament Shouts to all of the local commentators as well There's actually a separate booth here That's been going out to the Brazilian accounts If I'm not mistaken There's been a lot of people working hard The hard-working production team Behind the scenes Combat Club WB, NRS All the usual people You suppose at this kind of tournament So we appreciate everyone's involvement Everyone's support And more importantly You at home for watching And I hope Enjoying the show We're going to peace out here Celebrate for the night Wonderful tournament And we will see you next time Goodbye