 consistently to this day, have ultimate MK3 tournaments that have numbers that can trump a lot of other tournaments in the world. It is remarkable stuff, but I do believe now we the handshakes come through, we should be loading in real soon. But I mean, this is a this is a matchup where it's going to be defense versus lightning fast offense. And we're going to see who's going to come off better here. Rewind versus Foxy grandpa, losers action of this top eight for the world finals, final combat 2020. One will advance, one will be eliminated. The question is who is going to be who? Original big bad boss, the next generation, allow me to present my qualifications. That was a good intro, way more syllables than she did. Well, just say the older generation, my friend, but now this matchup is going to be upgraded. She is going to leap. She is going to want to have no part in this ground eruption zoning, but the escape failed already trying to go for the unpredictable grabs. Foxy goes for the forward grab because the reverse one in the corner was way more predictable. I mean, he literally builds his game around throws or strikes, right? He has like the epitome of that of that play style. It really kind of forced it to be as prominent as it is now. But I think we're seeing a lot of movement knowledge from Foxy, right? We're seeing every time Rewind is going for like leaps or whatever, that right there. He's going for that big boot that forward four because he's not trying to hit Rewind. He's just trying to move out of the way of the jump and it's working like three for three matchup knowledge right here. But a wonderful tech from Rewind getting clipped by the 1-1 though. And Foxy has to show so much discipline to not add to those chumpings because at any moment, she could blow you up for it. And it looks like now it's Rewind's turn, but now the back three connects all the same. And a breakaway breakaway, but with the fatal blow and play, all it would take really was a fatal blow to start the general momentum. Didn't quite land it, but round one is going to be Foxy's anyway. Round two fight. Now Rewind, you know, he's the kind of player that's going to adapt. We're seeing Foxy has that very obvious answer. Oh, okay. Foxy has that obvious answer for the leap. I'll be very surprised if Rewind doesn't try and figure out somewhere around it. Immediate leap gets the perfect time to go through the corpse drop. It is going to enforce Foxy to go for a lot more prediction corpse drops there. The close ones just in case the leap, but Grease kick as well. It's so many ways Jackie can get combos in this variation. It's right here, Mark will clipped again. Looks like some more Foxy. I think just going for the hard reads of the neutral duck and it's not working at all. Rewind is going to get the second round here. Rewind, that is exactly the round he needed after that first round being so controlling the Foxy. Oh, Foxy tries to get out of dodge by finishing the string, but Rewind chases him down nonetheless. Now this is the scary situation. You just have to wait for your moment to strike, but upgraded. She has a million and one ways to do it. The flawless block again. Really good trade for Foxy getting a little bit of his meter out to break away with punish on the 114. Here comes that ground eruption full screen back. You go for now Rewind. He's just looking for that magical leap. Foxy waits for it. Oh, the needle magic range is on the way for the crouch. Foxy breaks the jaw. See you later teeth, but it's not over. This is Jackie Briggs. We're talking about damage. Fatal blows and play. Oh, no clipped. Are we going to see a leap? Oh, wow, Foxy. I know you want to leave. How about that? You know, I'm going to say I'm on a jinx at first. Foxy normally having such a grab heavy game. He's normally the one that falls victim to the constant down twos. But it feels like today he's been the one dishing them out instead. I mean, that's actually one thing I've noticed is Foxy is known for playing very by the book. Very kind of like by the rules, right? It's very strict, very calculated. But today he's still playing that way, but he's willing to make these big decisions, right? These big wake up jump. These big just hold down and get that, that crushing blow. And I feel like that might be an element of why he's doing so well today, but does not mean that this is done by any means rewind more than capable of bringing this back. It's been one game and a first of three. We have plenty left to go in this set. Now, rare sight. You're going to see, I feel like we're going to see less grabs in this matchup purely because the chances of being absolute point blank, it's just less. Rewind doesn't want to put himself in a position to get grabbed here. He wants to be mobile. He wants to be airborne. Oh my Lord, the block on the dash punch will take it. And now commits to the forward two, four, two, because it just moves Shang Tsung so far away. Hard to win. And now the fresh up breakaway being used means you're kind of at the mercy of it. Rewind tries to be a little bit cute. The reverse grab again. More damage. And now fatal blow and play. Cannot count this character out, especially when fatal blows ready to go. Dash punches the start of it. Can't confirm every single hit here could be a confirm if he commits. Hang on a minute. Oh my God, cork struck. Oh, there we go. Fatal blow, the trigger is pulled and rewind. I should put that to enough. It took up hits first. This should kill right? Yeah, he's definitely dead. An early confirm means it's completely unscaled really. And I got to commend the patience there from Rewind where Foxy went in. Assumingly that was because I've been defensive the whole game. You're not expecting me to go in. That's exactly how the last game ended. Was it Rewind? I don't think was ready for the jump career. Oh, just clipped by the arse end of that. Ground eruption from this range. Foxy two forward dashes. You think you've caught the defensive flow? He just dashes in and grabs you. It really throws off your momentum. Wow, the perfect range Rewind. Recognizing you're punished there. Down one to interrupt, stealing a turn back. Shang Tsung getting a couple of percent of health back, but commits to a projectile and that's a jump in. Every time, every time Foxy does a single projectile, he is dancing with the devil here. The damage for upgraded is so insane and Rewind making the perfect reads. Oh my word. Speaking of which, the floor spot comes through again. The Foxy plus frames. Oh, short hop. You look like a floor spot attempt to me perhaps. Oh, no, the counter hit. That was really smart because Rewind could see that Foxy had like very clearly mistimed that meeting for two. So he just woke up with the optimal punish. Wake up with a crushing low launcher. Absolutely. You're going to mistime it. You will pay the price. Rewind takes the game back. We might have a really good set on our hands here. You can see some adaptations. Rewind. He's not being as crazy offensive. He's just looking for the moment. He's trying to catch the rhythm of Foxy's projectiles. He's being wise to it quite a lot, but now the ball's in Foxy's court. He's making the little, what? Get back down here. Oh, that was such a quick micro duck. I would argue whether she actually entered the ducking state at all. You know what I mean? Where's the grab? That's going to be another one. The damage of these grabs on a perfect read. It looks like a matchup that's a little bit tricky here. She has the answers to the momentum. Should be a full combo. But Rewind definitely doesn't deem it worthy to go for a breakaway there. Might start now. It's crucial to get that health back here when you're this low. Every percent counts. Oh, hard, yeah. Hard dedication to just dash in and grab again. It is a big payout or a big disaster. You kind of just have to roll that dice and accept it. Rewind is playing out of his mind so far. He's just the way he's being so much. Yeah, like even though Foxy is like avoiding all the jumps, it's not deterring Rewind because like you're avoiding him. You're not punishing him. And if he hits that leap, he's doing like 300 damage. So of course, like there's no reason not to. You can see the care. Foxy's having to place a lot of care into every single projectile he throws here. Dash punch. High speed from Rewind so far. No flaws. Foxy's up there from Foxy. Has been quite successful with that so far with these leaps. Momentum is the magic word in this matchup. Reverse grab into a turn. Foxy has to hold it again. Tries to challenge it with a down two. Big mistake. And Rewind continuing the pressure. Foxy just wants to get out. But can he? It just feels like Rewind relentless. There's no getting away. Well, the thing is like it's one thing to just avoid the leap every time you're at a distance. But when she's point blank, you are just having to deal with it like the rest of us. Now, if you're in Foxy's shoes, do you stick with Shang? Or do you go to a Kung Lao or something else? I feel like the matchup just isn't working. It's hard to say whether it is clearly a matchup thing though. Because Foxy, he won the first game. It's not been too complete blowouts. But the big question is can Foxy keep up? Because playing Shang-Stung in this matchup clearly requires you to be like absolutely playing at your perfection, right? You have no room for error. One projectile gone, gone a skew. And you get jumped in on and you take like 300 damage. You have to be flawless blocking. You have to be doing all this really difficult stuff. The question is, is there a character you can pick in his arsenal that maybe isn't as quite high maintenance but can still get the job done? But then Rewind plays many characters. So what's to stop him from just changing should Foxy manage to tie things up? You have so many questions to ask and not enough answers in the heat at the moment. Well, Foxy, he's going to ride the wave with Shang-Stung to the bitter end. And we'll see if he's going to be able to adapt to it anyway. But so far it's Rewind, who's just been in full control all the way through. And it looks like, again, history's just repeating itself. He's point blank and that's where he's going to stay. And the reaction says no way Rewind's off to get blocked on that overhead. Nice little micro dash doesn't need to jump in, but Rewind answering back with an immediate dash punch. Oh, hits him, but wasn't confident in the ground eruption. This is a scary position for Foxy. Going to be quite the miracle comeback to make. Has to hold all of this and grabs. I mean, they've become extremely dangerous when you're this low on life. And now it's going to be either hit match point for Rewind and he's just riding all the momentum. This matchup is so heavily focused on Rewind looking for that one opening and just sticking to him like glue. He's playing the matchup perfectly so far. Foxy just has no room to breathe. Oh, just try to just raw jump from point blank Rewind. He wants to end this now. He's got somewhere to be. Oh, just a straight up slap on that forward too. Such a long range punch. If he can only just keep all that like a bait to me going. He did a short one. That was really smart. And he can't do the short leap and he canceled it immediately. He is wise to this plan, but no breakaway for Rewind means this one's going to hurt. 37% by Rewind. A leap, a dream and a fatal blow can totally win this round still. Foxy doesn't want to over commit. Oh, especially if he threads the needle and gets over the ground eruption. Here he goes. Scary times here if you're Foxy. The low Rewind risking it all, but all he needs now is one clean opening. Foxy defending for his life, but all it takes now is one clean hit. Oh, no, just like that. Wait, was that a trade combo? That looked like a trade combo. That was high. Is that actually might be it? I think Rewind's taking it. That was so clean Rewind. 31 eliminating Foxy ground by her in this top eight. Oh, a display of knowledge. It's just the fact that Foxy is spent today being so insanely fast to crack into with that defense. Rewind just fighting the magic over every chime. It's all over it. Decision making and playing the matchup perfectly at no point rigged that Foxy looked comfortable outside of game number one. Rewind found his rhythm and that was a win.