 What's up, everybody? Thanks a lot for joining us. We're here at ECT 2023 to take a look at the very first big offline major on the Mortal Kombat 1 Pro Competition. That's right. We're here for the MKPK, big MK1. We got a bunch of really strong players. You know that. You know that the major was going to be like that. Of course. You know that they're all going to be good stuff here. My name is Ultra David and with me is Meeseeks. How's it going, man? I mean, guys, go ahead and look at the bracket yourself on Star 2G. You can put in the chat exclamation mark bracket. Look at it for yourself. These are the top of the top of the top players we have right now. Looking to secure those points in the pro comp as they can. And we have some crazy matches coming up for you this morning. I know everybody in the chat already is asking, where's Sonic? Where's Sonic? Where's Ninja? Where's Sonic? Where are they? Here they are. They're going to be up there at some point. I can't guarantee you that we're going to see every match. We have a top 24. Right, of course. And that means we're probably not going to see everything. But we probably will see a lot also. And we're going to be starting off with a strong match in the loser's side. A couple of players who have already lined up there on the stage. This is Splash versus B-Dog, a couple of guys who've been playing for a while. B-Dog especially for quite a number of years at this point. As far as their path so far, Splash has taken out Sheen, Max Ninja, Joystick 3-0, Unbearable Skill 3-0, and then lost to Sonic Fox 2-3. 2-3 against Sonic Fox is a really strong showing. I mean, that happened yesterday also against Dialock against Sonic Fox. I mean, it's showing that we have players here who are like, it's not guaranteed. No one's guaranteed. At this point, anyone could win. Anyone could make that run. You love to see it. Yeah. And then on B-Dog's side, made it past Lunath, and I'm Black James, and I gruesome and quake, then lost to Pulse. Costner then was his last victory. Three games to two. Three to two against Cosner, just to make it into this top 24, and it looks like we are already loaded up and ready to go. We've got the Johnny Cyrax, of course, and then we've got the Laogoro. It's going to be a great match. Hope you guys are ready to hop into it with us. Let's go ahead and get started. I love the Laogoro shell. I think that's so cool. The combination of them just allows for such jerkery. Man, you get to do some jerky things with this team. You really do. The setups are insane. I mean, getting those launches as well, and there it is, right as I say it. Goro comes in. He's like, oh, I heard you wanted me to do my job. Here I am. And look at this pressure on the corner, too. I mean, Johnny knowing for being oppressive in the corner, both of these players are going to be fighting for positioning the entire match. For sure. I mean, of course, Johnny Cyrax lets you do some pretty jerky things as well. Oh, that wasn't one of them. It was a little bit too far away for Cyrax to make it safe, but Splash was looking for that. Yep. All right, Splash playing a little bit more safe, trying to stay away from Johnny. Trying to control some of that space in between them around the big flesh monster. I'd love it if they could just move that guy off stream real fast. No, I kind of love that. I'm going to be honest. It's Mortal Kombat. You've got to get some Goro in there. And Goro just comes in, launches. Look at this quarter carry as well from Liu Kang. Or not Liu Kang. Sorry, wrong shallowing monk right there. Wow. He doesn't use the EX, doesn't spend the bar. Go straight into fatal. Does he catch it? You're right. Oh my God. What a great call out right there. Johnny going to get the parry on the fatal blow and go ahead and give B-dog this first round in this top 24. Making a statement. Hey, look at the camera. That makes me think that there's been a lot of history between these two because to bring that out in round one of a long set, like not commonly done. That is just a full call out. Big read. Yeah. Oh, 100%. He didn't have Sirex backing him up. Oh, no, I'm sorry. No, he couldn't have done that because it was fatal. I just saw Sirex out there because it was fatal. Yeah. And I mean, also Splash had the three bars and would have been able to break out of it. Like, that is a full, like, absolute call out by B-dog. I appreciate it. I respect it. Oh, sick. Look at this movement by B-dog or Splash as well. He's using that dive kick to be able to get in quicker. I really like to see that. Oh, yeah. Oh, the armor too to get through. And why not? He's out of there. Now we'll see if we see, like, a stand for into the hype combo, see if he can go ahead and get that install working for Johnny. But no, the whiff punish here by Splash going ahead and taking that second round and going to take us to a final round in this first match. I mean, we're already starting this fight here. Totally, yeah. Overhead in the launcher. B-dog is just letting it all go. Oh, he had three bars to start off that combo. Chose not to break. Okay. He's going to get excited. He's pretty excited right now. He's going to be able to EX any move you want and not have to use bar for it. Yeah, cancel them into each other. But that's it. He didn't get too much use of it to be honest and immediately after that breaks. So he's lost all resources. Yeah, that really wasn't a great use of his hype meter to be honest. He didn't get as many false frames or setups as possible. But it doesn't matter because now you're in the corner against Johnny and look at this damage. You're going to go ahead and get another setup. Those are the empty jump throw. What a read. Uh-oh. Could change. This is maybe honestly one hit away. Did I hit? Yeah. King confirm and fatal blow. But oh my goodness, that jump in there from B-dog. Taking this first match. The bravery of just holding up forward. It's more to combat, dude. That's what players do. So that's what we do in this game. It is. I mean, we didn't pay $70 to block, okay? Get out of there, you know? Stop out. Make it work. All right. The thing that we're going to see in this top 24 that we maybe haven't seen throughout pools as much. It's first to three same as the rest of pools, but we're going to see huge adjustments from these players. These players know how to adjust, not just to the match up. They're not just looking at the match up. They're looking at the player if they're playing against the person they're sitting next to and how they're playing the match up. And so we're just going to see adjustments and changes in gameplay throughout each match. You're only kind of playing against the opponent's character. You know, that's not a robot on screen. That's a human next to you who's actually playing. Not so matters. Especially because you were sitting literally right next to them. Like, there they are. Guard keeping that safe. Both of them just looking for spacing, but great armor through. Big drop. Could have been damage. Instead, splash takes damage. Speed dog will get the corner too. Most of the way to the corner. There it is. There it is. Gets the throw. Uses the bar so that he can launch a Cyrax. And there's going to be a lot of damage here for Johnny. Go ahead and get the Cyrax and launcher as well in the corner. Accidentally puts himself in the corner after that. And just the throw is going to take a B-dog up one round again. Looking really strong right now. I really like what we're seeing out of both of these players. Okay, the movement comes out of B-dog. Yeah, there we go. We've got the dash blocks. No Goro to call at that point. It does take a while to come back. Yeah, spending that Cyrax bar again. Yeah, get pressure. Get damage while you can. And he's got it. Plus frames. He's full on there. Oh, just the random D2. We're playing MK11 today. But again, no Goro to call. That's alright. Damage here for splash. Yeah, it's a quick 37%. Back full screen though. That's the read here. That's so tricky. It really is the timing on it. It's tricky too. Almost shipped in. Yeah, you couldn't have done a wake up at that point. Yeah, that point would have been a read. And that overhead was just going to catch anyways. Wake up D1 at what it caught on the way down. Splash fighting to get frame advantage for himself. He's got it now. He's got the corner. I was just going to say, let's see if he backs off though. He's been prioritizing this more of a neutral game. Yeah, which I think is smart because Johnny's going to have those close frames and really just absolutely abuse them when he's right in your face. Oh, goes ahead and builds up the hype. Goes straight into height meter raw and there it goes. Johnny, he's going to try to get the most out of it that he can. But who now able to get the setup raw nut punch and not able to get any sort of punish off of that. There you go, B-dog. I feel like this has been close so far, but you look at the score and it says 2-0. It doesn't feel like a 2-0, but it feels like it's really been back and forth. We're back at character select. We're going to see what they're thinking about. Maybe it's just a second to think about what the match is happening, what adjustments you can make, or maybe we're going to see a character at cameo switch. I think I would be surprised for Splash to switch. I know a lot of these players in this top 24 have a gaggle of characters. Yeah, that's true. They have a couple cameos that they can switch between two as well, which, I mean, being able to switch between cameos is going to make a really big difference in a lot of match-ups. We saw yesterday people switching. If they were against Reiko, they would switch to the sub-zero cameo instead of the Cyrax if they were able to get the armor, things like that. But it looks like we're not seeing a switch here. We're just getting right back into it. He needed a couple seconds to think. Yeah, he's been a loud player since back in the last game as well. Pretty dedicated to this. Yeah, it's interesting to see character loyalty versus play style because a lot of the characters play differently in this game than they did last game. Yeah, totally. This guy definitely has a lot of different options. And in some cases, fewer options. No teleporters in the main character. Wow, OK. Let's see. That armor into the Goro launcher is going to give Kunlao some more damage. Not easiest access to damage though when he has the Goro. Nice. Will that be a break? Is that going to bother? OK. Oh, goes for the parry and he gets cut anyways. The timing of it is so tough, man. He thought it was over, but it wasn't. It lasts so long. Super long. And just the last to finish it off here for Splash. Staying alive, working his way back, looking to make that reverse 3-0 here. Now remember, this is on loser's side. So whoever loses this match is going to be out of the tournament. Block. Block. B-Dog's defense there. See if you can keep that up. Splash is without Goro for a little while. He has to come back. And that's part of why he plays a slower style in neutral. Syrax comes back constantly, man. That dude's come back very fast comparatively. So Johnny can do stuff with him, but Splash has got to pick his moments. Yeah, very true. Splash are the huge life lead here. Able to back off, trying not to let B-Dog get in on him. Oh, good armor through again. It's just going to be chip territory here. But Johnny can make this comeback right away. Look at the corner carry. I mean, it's going to be a press of pressure right here. This is one hit away. Oh, was there it? Again? No. Genius. He didn't do it again. Man. There had to be a Hail Mary. That was the chance. There's no way. And B-Dog was exactly right with looking for it. Say cheese to these revs for the round. It's not a point. This is a game show. I didn't even think it was going to kill there. Wow. That was a lot. 950. That was Goro. Yeah, true. The less healthy probably would have died if it was higher up. Oh, and gets hit by the overhead there with that Laohack. Going to get the corner carry again. What's the setup here? Does he back off? He goes for an empty jump and gets called. All right. All these reads are coming out big time on B-Dog's side. Yeah. He knows exactly what's up. Yeah. B-Dog is ready for this. I'm not sure if he knows Splash's play specifically. Maybe he was watching it last night. Or if he's really used to the Koenlao matchup right now. Still got corner control. Yeah. A little early on the jump in didn't pay for. Man. Yep. That was a chance. That was a big chance. Just quick strings. Keeping it safe. Good follow-up block on that last hit there from B-Dog. And again, B-Dog is a hit away. If it's the right hit right now, Splash knows it. He's got to find it. Not going to be a breaker in time. Splash will get a game up there. But man, that was hard fought. Yeah. That was a brawl to the end right there. Splash getting on the board. We're at 2-1 right now. But I love to see the adjustment from Splash. I love the way that he's actually... I see what you're saying about the shell with the Goro. I love how he uses it for that launcher. And keeping things safe. But I feel like Lao isn't able to get as much damage as a lot of the other top tier players are. Or top tier characters. We're seeing more like 35-40% combos versus like Raiden or Baraka. We're going to be seeing like 15% combos. Yeah, that's true. Starting off with 3-13. Oh, he goes for the MB jump again into the down one. Still pressuring. No Goro to call though. He can go on for a throw. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I'm not going to come in and help you normally. But I'll do the throw again. Yeah, I guess I'll just smash his head in real quick. Overhead too. He gets hit by the overhead again. Splash, what a strong first round there for him. Has he made the down low? Trying to take up some space in neutral there. But B-dog is past it. Okay. B-dog right there. Are you going to hold on to this bar? No, he does finally do so. Although he did wait until the Goro call and that's good. You're going to make the appointment to give us some resources. Yeah, there's a smart breaker right there. Oh, and no punish again. Great pick up there as well. Yeah, you just can't pressure allow normally. He's got that armor. He's got Goro especially. Keep it up. Yeah. He's got to always be cognizant of that. Okay, low. He knew, he knew. That's not going to be enough to kill, Splash is right in shift damage territory. Oh, he went for the parry. Splash knew. Splash super knew what to look for. The whole end of that round was him looking for the low, expecting that parry. Oh my goodness. Splash might be making this reverse 3-0. We've got ourselves a game five right now. B-dog chugging the water. Yeah, he's got to take a second. Trying to settle himself down. Think about it. By the way, I love the pixel art of Johnny doing the nudge punch. Oh yeah. It's fantastic. That's good. I like seeing that that was what they decided to go with. I was like, you know that or the split kick. You got to go with one of them. Madame Beau for Camille. Both of them are going to be fighting here for space to go ahead and see who starts off the round. He gets the overhead, but nothing really off of it and that nine frame mid is really going to get Johnny started. Oh, miss call on the Cyrax though. Goro again. Goro misses. Yep. Allowing B-dog to get things going. B-dog got armor from Kung Lao doing so well. And that range. I feel like Splash is a little bit more comfortable right now. He's got a life deficit. Okay. Goro gets comforted. Goro, but not a huge conversion off of that. This should be round. Yeah, right. It's match point for B-dog. And he also has full height meter. If he can go ahead and either stand forward get it off or raw height meter. We haven't seen him get too much out of the height meter though. Oh, and here it is. Powering up. All right, Johnny. Everybody's got their eyes on him. Yep. Oh, hold this. Hold this. Okay. Okay. Yeah. You just don't know if he's going to do another one. Yeah, exactly. He didn't get too much out of it, but that's all right. It's all right. Yeah. I think it was smart not to overextend there. Yeah. Slow play. They both know that the end of this set could be coming closely. B-dog now. If he finds the right hit, he's already a hit away from doing this. Oh, my goodness. Only 30% left up there on Splash's health bar. B-dog looking for his opening here. Being very patient. Down two. Just calls it now. Overhand hit. Goro, no! The big drop! The big drop straight out of the tournament. Oh, you got a feel for Splash right there. Oh, my God. As he has not, there's the breath. Oh, man. You got it. You got a feel for him. You do got a feel for him because that was, that was work. That was so closer to come back. You can see the relief on B-dog's face. Yeah. Hey, pointing the Johnny to the camera. Let him know. Letting him know, you know. Oh, man. Poor Splash. What a result. I mean, B-dog played great, you know. He did. Regardless, right? B-dog played great. But if you're Splash, all you're thinking about right now is that drop combo. Yeah. That's it. That's all you're thinking about now and maybe for the next week. Yeah. And here's our Mountain Dew replay. What the do-over as people have been calling it, go ahead and see some of these plays brought to you by Mountain Dew. Ends the round there. Kisses to the camera. Mmm. A little bit of swag in between. A lot of great play from both of these players. I love the reads. The reads are big, man. The fatal blows and the reads on the parries. That was great. Those fatal blows absolutely blew me away. Yeah. Both showing strong stuff with their characters, with their teams. And it really could have gone down to the very, very last round. Which is impressive for Splash. What we're looking at right now on the top of the screen says 2-0. And B-dog had match point even. It could have been 3-0. I mean, that also really shows the mental fortitude of Splash as a competitive player. All these competitive players you're going to see on stream today, it's going to be really hard to shake them. At this point, they have been down 2-0 before and reversed 3-0 before. They have dropped combos and lost a match and had to shake it off and move on from that. But unfortunately, Splash out of losers, out of the tournament. And B-dog going to be moving on to the next losers round. Remember, you guys can follow along with the bracket on Star GG as well. You can do exclamation mark bracket in the chat or you can go to startgg.com and look at the East Coast throw down. It looks like next up, we're going to be having Samij versus Blue Lynxies. And they're also on the loser side right now and they're going to be fighting to get into this top 16. So Samij is just going to look back at his path so far. Right, yeah. He has 3-0 over Nips, 3-0 over Raqqa, 3-0 over, it is that serious. 3-1 over Zintai, he lost 1-3 to Rewind. That's who sent him to losers. And then he beat Showoff, 3-2 to get into top 24. What a showing for Samij. I mean, not only a crazy strong NRS player, but we've also seen him killing it in Street Fighter 6. Just a crazy strong fighting game player. And Blue Lynxies won DNF duel here at ECT this weekend. So coming off of a DNF duel win. And Blue Lynxies' run was also not easy. He went 3-0 over Auntie Bo, 3-0 over Glitchy Cobra, 3-2 over Zayn. I watched that one, I was close. He had to make a full comeback. It was King Gambler who sent him to losers, 0-3. Starting with the Reign. He's gone through a couple of characters, but Reign is what made him get through that Zayn match. And I think he's been running out ever since. Samij, Molina, Sektor. Yeah, I really like the Molina-Sektor set-ups that we're seeing in this game. Reign, Syrax, of course, great combination between the two of them. Yeah, I really like Reign. I think he's so cool. Oh, I think he's awesome. And good, right? And maybe not really what people thought when they first showed him off. They're good. It was like, oh, this is a pure Zoner. That's what he's... And, you know, you can't zone, at least in some matchups, but he's just as much about offensive pressure. Yeah, and Molina able to get that ball roll if she gets the right set-up of Sektor and keep the ball roll safe. A lot of people see the unsafe ball roll. They decide, oh, hey, I'm going to go ahead and punish that and get caught by the Sektor missile coming down, forgetting that it's about to get them. Yep. And I do have a quote from SonicVox themselves saying, if you don't think Reign is top tier in this game, you're playing him incorrectly. There you go. So we're seeing it right here. Blue Lynx is taking that first round here over Samij. Waiting for head and missile. There it is. Yeah, that's a good set-up. Good blocks to do as well. Nice. Big punish here. Going for distance, going for patience. You can't see what he's doing. What's he doing in there? Yeah, I don't know. He's probably having a dance party for all we know. I hope he is. He's going to also mitigate the size that Malina's going to want to throw as well every time he gets that bubble up. Yeah. And yeah, really, I mean, you know, joking about what he's doing in there, but you actually can't see what he's doing in there. And like, it is actually useful for the opponent to not know what you're up to. Yeah, exactly. Like, what are you setting up? Are you setting up portal? Are you setting up the straight shot? Like, what are you up to? Exactly. It's a lot harder. Like, there's not going to really be a whiff punish or anything like that because you can't see if Rain's starting to press buttons. Yep. Oh, it gets caught by the Cyrax, but no conversion off of it. Trying to set up the portal. Great jump in there. He's in some distance yet again. Sameige on the approach. Overhead. If he finds the right hit, the round could be over. This is safe though. Yeah, one thing I really, really like about Rain and a few different cameos, including Cyrax, is he can make that save. Yeah, exactly. Yo! Went right into it. Goodness, the confirmed blue. Lingzies here is going to be taking that first match going up 1-0 over Sameige here, showing really strong with the rain. Oftentimes when we see Sameige, we're looking at somebody who has, well, a pretty good player in his ear. Oh my goodness. Imagine having Sonic as your coach coming up and talking to you. Blue Lingzies giggling a little bear, like, oh gosh. The way that Sonic's talking to him, too. With the hand, the hand motions. What are you doing? What are you doing? It's like, come on, you've got to do this and you've got to do that. Look, all you've got to do is make sure that you hit the other person more than they hit you and you win the match. I'll understand what's so hard about it. Genius. Madden back from the dead to give us advice. And he's, I mean, he's got such great advice with it. It's not just that Fox is a great player, but also Fox is playing Rain. Yeah, exactly. And is in the winner's side of Top 24 right now with Rain. Yeah, so Fox is definitely able to say, oh, well, this is fake or this setup. You're able to, like, fall this block through here. Things like that, little tiny tech that maybe doesn't quite know yet. We are only a month into the game. Of course. Where's Sonic? Yeah, where is he? Where's Sonic? Where's Sonic? Guys, we showed you Sonic. He was just there on stream right now, all right? Calm down. Okay, setup. Yeah, setup. What a block. Oh, yeah, we see the switch to Kung Lao. I didn't even notice that by some age. Instead of the sector, Kung Lao has going to be great for setups until low or, like, unblock or hard to blockables. Yeah. And also going to be doing that same thing, kind of that Cyrax does, keeping on safe things. You've got to hold the hat to make that happen. You have to think a little bit about it in advance. Yep. You know, you've got to do that with the sector anyway. Yeah, exactly. And at the same time, as we see already, Simiche is using that low hat to be more of a threat on the approach to bug Blue Linky as he moves forward. Doesn't put the portal down. Oh! You know, but if Simiche had held that hat, that would have been a Blue Linky's landing on it. So I get the patience. Yeah, makes sense. Maybe the life lead. Is that going to... That might... It's huge range. No, no. Get to hit by the hat. Didn't get armored up in time. The last thing about that is being also one of the best assists in the game. Yeah, for sure. I mean, Cyrax clearly is up there. Everybody knows this. Yeah. But yeah, I think everybody should be looking at Lau. And I'm not at all the first person to be saying that. Look at that assist. He has low hat. The other stuff that he allows you to do too is a full cameo. It's really good. Yeah, I think it's also really good that he allows you for combo extensions on your throws as well. Totally. I think that we see with Cyrax. I feel like we're seeing a very similar... We're seeing similar utility out of the cameos that are being used. People are finding what's going to be working best. Combo extension, damage, or keeping unsafe things safe. Keep it up. Here's the laundromat. Good work. Blue trying to shimmy there a little. He's still kind of punished. That really lasts a while. Oh, misses the laundromat with Cyrax, though. That's a big drop. That could have been the round. Instead, Symmeeche has another chance. Low hatch there. What a block. Just one more chip with Cyrax here and it could be Blue Linkys. The hat was already gone. 15 on the clock. Okay, cool. And you know what? Yeah, great round. Yeah, smart to wake up when the guys are there. Gonna get a little bit of armor on it. Yep. That's near Cyrax fall. Cyrax has even brought him back. That is tricky. Oh my God. You can cancel the early frames of that overhead. Yeah. I love that they put that in this game for like specific character moves. There's only a few in the game, but that's one of them. I'm not gonna lie to learn what a card cancel was for this game specifically. Yeah. Ancient tech brought that. It was like a card cancel. What's that? And they were like, you can cancel the throws. Like, oh God. It just means empty cancel. Yeah. If you're at home wondering what we're talking about. Yeah, you can. Canceling before the move hits. And it just allows for crazy setup because you're sitting there for the move to hit and then if you're blocking, you're gonna get hit by the throw. Yeah. Like, if you're so good that you see the startup of overhead and you think, okay, stand block time, which is the level that Samir just playing at. Exactly. What a great anti-air conversion. Getting the side switch too. Gonna get the corner here for Samir. Oh, the time. Wow. Both of them have fatal blow. What a duck. Oh my gosh. Back into fatal blow. Blue is taking it again with the fatal blow at the end of the round. Are we gonna see Sonic again? Some tech to Samir. You are allowed to have coaching, but there's a maximum amount of time that you can get coaching during a set. And I feel like that already approached like maximum time. I mean, I don't know. I didn't know. I didn't have my stopwatch out, but yeah, there is. Yep. And you guys can see the crowd in the background. Everybody getting ready. Everybody getting hyped for this. It was a better job. No doubt. By Samir. It's like the way that he was chasing. He was playing footsies with hat, essentially, which I thought was really cool to see. Yep. Would he switch to Katana? Would he switch to Katana? Blue Katana bring in this matchup rather than Malina, though. Maybe a little bit more range with the fans. Yeah. A little bit more of setup play than Malina because she can set up that trap behind you. Not gonna happen. Ooh. But we might see the Scorpion cameo. I don't know, man. I think Laoha was so important to him, even being as close as he was. I was like, don't mess with my heart like that. Scorpion's my favorite. Back to Sektor. All right. We're going back to Sektor. Not sure about that because I thought the Laoha was doing a lot better for him. But maybe he just feels a lot more comfortable with the Sektor setups. Yeah. Yeah. You know, maybe just more comfortable in calling the timings. You can also harass with teleport punch, right? If you think the deep one is gonna be doing something full screen. Mm-hmm. There's a lot of stuff going on there. Yeah. Go ahead and get the back throw here from Rain and gonna get the launcher with Cyrax after the back throw. One of the best things about that cameo is that he's gonna be able to get combo extensions off of throws. One portal setup for Rain. We're gonna see another combo extension here and there it is. All right. It does send it back this time. Nice. Right into overhead, Oki and Blue Linkys can set it up. You can play patiently. Hit a missile there. Back off. Blue Linkys happy to sit full screen. Yeah. Go ahead and set up the bubble. It gets caught by the low side. It gets caught by the Cyrax. Is this gonna be it and Blue Linkys is sitting on match point right now? I gotta tell you I did not see this being a 3-0. I didn't either. There was no part of me that saw this being a 3-0. Like for either side I would have been really surprised to see a 3-0 but that's where Blue Linkys is at right now. He's only around the way. Delayed on it so the arm was already gone. Oh, gets caught by the low. Blue Linkys gonna need to work its way out of the corner here. His defense is great. Blocked overhead on reaction. Steals a turn with that portal and now he's out. He gets hit but he's out. Comfortable spot for himself. Yeah, but huge life deficit right here. He's got kind of a mountain to climb and gets the whiff punish right there. Sameej. What a great play. Just needs one more hit confirmed here. Gonna get the combo extension with Cyrax. No, not gonna be this time. Oh, okay. Good solution. Yeah. Sameej here. Fighting for his life trying to stay on the board right now. Are we gonna see him try and make that push 3-0? He's definitely hoping for it. Oh, of course. A lot of this is him playing without Sektor. We haven't seen the missile in a little while. Yeah, that's true. We haven't seen a lot of cameo issues yet. Yeah, hasn't really been the story. What is interesting because a lot of that was out there a lot. And here it is of what a great confirm gonna be a lot of damage coming out of here from Molina. Sameej fighting back. What an adjustment. Guess the Sektor again on Okie. Okie. Yeah, he's looking a lot more comfortable. The pressure's working out now. Maybe not for long. Here. You gotta jump cancel up for that. Here's Blue Linkys. It's a sweep set up with the missile. There it is. We saw Blue Linkys block that on reaction a few times. Yeah. There when it was really important and the mental stack is high, it gets even tougher. Yeah, it does. And right now Blue Linkys gonna need to think about, OK, while Sameej seems to have adjusted to hit this game. Sameej has already used one assist call. There's another. So that's gonna be gone for a little while. Oh, no. Syrux call? Interesting. And that allows Sameej to get the punishment to get damage. Look at this huge lifelike for Sameej. Also with corner pressure. It's gonna be a lot for Blue Linkys to be able to bring this round back. And here it goes. Get started. You got away from the missile. Classic counterplay with the missile. Just needs one hit. Missiles coming. It's coming. I wasn't in time. And just the ball roll has the antire there. Sameej has, oh my gosh, what an adjustment. He looks like he is so comfortable in this matchup now. He's looking a lot more comfortable than he was in the first two games. He's definitely downloaded a little bit of Blue Linkys play. He's at a really frustrating range for Blue Linkys or was for a little while anyway. Ah, OK. Here we go. Some pressure. A chance maybe no. Actually recovered in time. Sameej now there for pressure. Ah, Sameej didn't believe that Blue Linkys was actually just hanging out doing nothing in there. It was right. Suddenly this is completely a Sameej game. Completely a Sameej set. Sameej has brought it back. We are at 2-2 now. Going into game 5 and just like we had said, we didn't see this being a 3-0 either way. No, no, no. And Sameej heard you and he was like, oh, OK, I got it. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I got it. I'm supposed to win. Exactly. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. For sure. Thanks, John Matt. And we see Blue here. He's going ahead, putting on his blue hat. Turkey. This is the reverse Sonic Fox. Putting on your hat almost as you be. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing will be like when you make Sonic take off. You made him show his own head? Yeah, imagine. Backs off. It has to hold the missile. Great setup in the grab. That strike throw game going to take Sameej. Pretty far right there. Oh, there was another breaker. Oh, great micro duck and has to spend the breaker. Sometimes you know exactly what the opponent's going to do. That jump right there tells me that Sameej has the scope. Sameej somehow had that read just like that. These players have reads and have callouts. And Sameej, it looks like this is his round. He is on set point. He might be making this reverse 3.0. What a bad situation for Blue Linkies. He's caught in the corner. Syrax will give him some space and a chance for slight pressure, but the duck. Come on. Why would you duck there? Because he knew. He knew. Sometimes you just know. And it seems right now it's Sameej just knows. A chance on Whisp on Asheshi is there for a while as we saw before. So decent damage into slight setup. Not a lot. Sector. Oh, great launcher here. It gets thrown back at a really awkward angle though. Both of them. It'll blow. This could be anybody's round. In there. Distance again for Blue Linkies. I'm on the edge of my seat right now. And he's going to whip on it. She's too late this time. Syrax at the wrong time gets the block on the overhead. What a scramble here and Blue Linkies is staying alive. We're going to final round here. He did not even have Syrax to make that safe. He just knew. And now, as you said, getting close to it, the missile though interrupts as it's on Sameej. Close to the corner if he can make his way there. It's by the overhead. There's a grab. He can keep it up. Syrax, please. Syrax. Give it and take it. Goes for the trade with the sector missile there. No anti air, but the trip car. That was huge. That was huge. Getting rid of all that bar. Blue Linkies, I feel like it's more in it now than he's been in the last two games. His neutral's looking good. His movement's looking good. The missile's there and he's away from it. The cognizance. Stealing a huge turn. Oh my God. Is this going to be it for Blue Linkies? He needs one more hit. Confirming here it is. Blue Linkies is taking it three out of two over Sameej, not allowing for that. Reverse three. Oh, he needed the hat. It was the hat. It was the hat. That's all he needed for it. And Blue Linkies is moving on in the bracket. Sameej out for Mortal Kombat today. What a great showing for both of these players. Blue Linkies tapped on the hat right there just to let everybody know. He knows what won him that match. It was like it was the hat. It wasn't his crazy game play or stealing that turn at the end. It was the hat. Sometimes you just got to put hat on. Maybe it was a little chilly. I kind of think it is a little chilly. So I understand. I think we cranked it. I think we cranked the AC today. All right. Well, we're moving on to the next one. We're staying in loser's side and we're staying on the same side of top 24. That's going to be Plural Might versus Big Daddy G. Yeah. This is going to be a big one. Big Daddy G is playing smoke. But first we're going to look at this replay of this crazy set. And look, Blue Linkies got that fatal to close out rounds twice. Just one hit confirmed into fatal. Got hit out there by the Kunlal hat trying to go for raw fatal. But using the Armored Geyser. I mean, this was a brawl to the end. This wasn't even a tale of two sets. This was a tale of three sets. There was the first set where Blue Linkies was totally in control. Looking here, he gets up to match point. Yeah. He looks great. It just seemed like dominance. And then Samid figured something out. I mean, I don't know. The timings, the mix-ups were all in his favor for then set number two. And then in the very last two rounds was Blue Linkies getting back into the game. His head was warm. He could think correctly. Brain freeze gone. Yeah, exactly. Now all the neurons are firing. Exactly. That's what it was. And I mean, we went down to the wire. We went down here to the last round and we see a little pop-up there. Blue Linkies really excited about that. As he should be. Yeah. So we're going to be seeing smoke coming out of Big Daddy G. And then I'm not sure. Do you know who Pluramite is playing? Yeah. I think he was playing Tanya last night. Tanya, OK. We'll see if that's what he sticks with. I mean, smoke going to be one of the harder characters to play against, in my opinion, because he goes invisible and then you have to hold mix-up while he's invisible. And I think that that's just kind of insane. It's like pretty good. It's a little insane. Pretty good to be doing mix-ups while your opponent literally can't see what you're doing. Yeah. Imagine like, OK, well, make sure you block the overhead. Well, you can't see that he's doing an overhead, but block it anyways. Block the low, too. Good luck. Good luck. Have fun with that. I did notice I was watching Big Daddy G playing yesterday when he was playing against Joystick. He took Joystick out of Losers yesterday and he had those combos down to a T, as you expect from anybody in this top 24. But I mean, he would go invisible and be getting full optimal combos without even being able to see his own character. So he beat Gur in pools, three games to one. And that was on Friday. So he had to play yesterday in top 64, but that's quite a long ways to wait. If you haven't seen his pool play, he just, he did some magical stuff with Storm, with this one. With Storm. With Smoke. It was super, super sick to watch. As you said, he made it past Joystick as well. He lost to Gambler, who sent him down to Losers. Looks like Gambler sent a lot of people to Losers. Yeah, Gambler's on Winner's side still. Rebel also defeated by Big Daddy G, and then for Pluromite, made it past Loopy, Roman, 2-2-S, Aztec, three to zero, three to one over Showoff. He lost to Rewind, but still taking out some big names already. Yeah, for sure. All right, looks like they're ready to go. Looks like they got their button check done. We're going to be getting into it. I hope you guys are ready for this awesome set coming for you. We're seeing the Smoke. We're seeing the Tanya. No surprises here. Tanya Goro though. Yeah, just such a natural pairing for her. Like Lau, she gets so many like small pop-ups that are difficult for her to convert into big damage. But with Goro, all of those end up in big damage, big corner carry, whatever she's looking for. Set ups. Also, if you see Tanya get that little glowy circle behind her, it gives her access to an air dash. And that's one of her like power ups that she's going to be going for. Oh my god, the overhead into corner carry. Goro might starting off strong here. Really harassing forward too. That's such a great strength for her. Very confirmable. All parts of it are safe. Huge range on it as you can see. Just a natural big butt. He held on to that thing forever. And now he's gone. Where is he? I don't know. He's doing a lot of damage wherever he is. Someone here in that forest, who knows? I guess instead of the Lau half, I'm going to go ahead and farm her out of that Tanya, out of the corner and said, uh, no, this is your turn. This is your home now. When she's got a Goro, when she's got a bar, you just can't feel safe pressuring against her because she could just do it and get out of there. Yeah, exactly. Good pressure here. Backing off. Goro just low grab. Shout out to Goro. So smart also to use that to keep smoke in the corner, even though Goro threw a smoke out the other way. She has really, really good side-switching ability. Yeah, which I think is huge in this game. I think any 2D game is going to be huge to get somebody in the corner, but especially with less options on wake up here in this game, it's going to be even bigger of an oppressive team to do. It did. You're trying to get out of there, but this is all about forward to pressure for Goro. The little timing is on it. Okay. You know what? I think a lot of people would respect that, but since Goro knows, he could just do that and call Goro and be cool, there's not as much hesitance. Yeah, deadly vapors coming in, looking to get them mixed. Now we see Tanya does have that power up. She's going to have access to the air dash, but it doesn't matter if you can't see. I didn't think Daddy G know that he was there to get that full conversion. That's what I was saying. Man, that's so cool. It's so cool. What a ninja this character is. So sick. Yeah, I love smoke in this game. Look at those cancels. Well, getting the launcher smoke with a long combo into invisibility. Where is he? Yeah, yeah. Where is he? Big Daddy G knows. Yeah, exactly. That's what I was saying. You got to put on your smoke goggles. Oh, and goes ahead and spends the fatal blow. You want to go ahead and spend the bar and go ahead and take the round. That should be enough. Are you going to? It's 9.50. Yeah, that's true. There's a Goro. But it is scaling a lot. I didn't expect it to scale as much. Not enough by just barely. Goro to the rescue. Oh, and just the down one to finish it out there. We've got a G stand alive here in this first round, or in this first match here. Buff on for Tanya. Yeah, as you said, she gets a little teleport action. Yeah, a little bit of an air dash like her MKX did. Really? Against the three? That was ridiculous. Was that a read? Was that reaction? I would love to believe its reactions, but I have no idea. All right, I'm going to give them... I'm going to give them... It was a reaction, guys. Yeah, that makes sense. Armoring through that. Going into the Goro launcher. Just going to find a moment to press a button there. You can't let Tanya harass you forever, but Goro might send a great job for the most part here at finding those moments when Big Daddy G wants to press a button. Yeah, Goro might be smart, too, about backing off, but I mean, the Kung Lao hat set up allowing Big Daddy G to go ahead and get invisible and get behind you. And huge damage, 446. And since it was two quick strikes, that armor didn't matter. Yeah, that was so... And Big Daddy G can't one. It's smart. That's a high, so a lot of people don't go for it, but it is a quick armor break. It's a da-da. Same as, like, Baraka is, like, mid-low. It's a great armor breaker, because it hits so quickly. Great jump in here. Set up gonna be. Holds him on side. Gets the overhead. And now he's invisible. What? Come on. Oh, come on. That was so good. Too good. Oh, and he's going again. Big Daddy G with the cancels. Invisibility. Look at this damage as well. Is he gonna be able to close out the round here? Oh, and he is, but at the cost of keeping himself in the corner, what do you do when you start this close to somebody? Oh, well, there you go. There you go. You get a back dash and a whiff to grab. And here's gonna be a lot of damage to Tanya. Going ahead and getting Okie, but, I mean, look at the side switch here from Big Daddy G. Yeah. He's added it just like that. Trying to play Bootsies, but it's Tanya. He's got the bigger buttons. Yeah, exactly. Big Daddy G doing a really good job with spacing and working with it, because Tanya's normals are gonna be reaching a lot further smoke a lot. One of the more stubby players, and Tanya definitely has a lot of range. Yeah, she's totally on the opposite side of that skill. That could have been a whiff, but it's kind of hard to expect that coming up. How did he get the end today? And know where he was. I love this setup play. All right, spends the breaker. Oh, no. Oh, Poro was nowhere near. It wasn't enough. Oh, wow. All right. Poro might. Taking us to a final round here. He gets the sweep. He's trying to get away. It's interesting about his smoke play that there's a lot of time that him to spend away and then stabbing it just as we saw right there or stabbing it with grenade. Yeah. It feels like he's doing a good job of trying to keep a piece of this game. He's backing off and then suddenly rushing down when he can opens up. Yeah. It's gonna end at 300. Maybe, oh yeah, there it is. Yeah. Big setup on the wake up. Gonna use the armor to get out of that and Poro gonna go ahead and launch. One confirming to fatal blow for either of these players is gonna take the match. There's no Goro and not gonna be one for a while now. That means that she's got to play a little bit differently. That said, Poro might only need one or two hits outside of the range of stand three. Trying to be nowhere near. Oh my gosh. She gets the buff up. Set up and he could just waltz in. Where's he going? Where is he? You interrupted. Oh my God. Oh my God. Stole his turn against the invisible man and found the end of the round. And I mean we see some more coaching going on here. What's better coaching than Sonic Fox? Oh, you got Ninja Kill. Where's that? Where's Ninja? Where's Sonic? Hey, when's Ninja on? Yeah. Guys, is Sonic playing next? Is it Ninja on? We were promised. Super cool set between two really different character characters. Yeah, for sure. And I think Big Air is doing a really good job. I thought this was gonna be a really hard match up for smoke going into it. Okay. Gonna find the knockdown for himself here after ending up with good damage. Oh, that would have been sick. That would have been awesome. Great block there on the overhead. Right back to the corner. Yeah, but you said now you're in the corner and I'm invisible and you can't see me. Invisible forest spirit smoke. Yeah, exactly. Look at the living forest. It's the invisible forest. Oh, and just goes for the armor through interrupting whatever PDG was doing there. Big Daddy G again. Staying away. You don't always need to be harassing as smoke. One of my favorite things about a strong smoke player just like this kind of character archetype of like big mix up character is that you don't always need to be mixing up. You could be patient. You could look for your moment and then get things going at just the right time and Big Daddy G is making that work perfectly. Yeah, what a great fall is blocked there, mitigating the chip as well but I agree, Big Daddy G is playing this really well, playing patiently which you don't see a lot from rush down characters like smoke or mixed characters like smoke. Oh, gotta get there. Not quite. Just goes for the overhead. Gloromite will be able to pressure. He'd rather not. Backs off. Again, outside of stand 3 range allowing Lao had to get set up means that smoke could move forward or pick his moment. Still doesn't need to rush in constantly. Here he goes. Come on. I mean, come on. Oh my goodness. What are you doing? I don't know. Gloromite sitting on fatal blow. So is PDG. Neither of them with access to breaker either. Gloromite. Gloromite. And Big Daddy didn't think he was going to miss. He was playing patiently. Didn't want to risk that. Yep. Just coming down to the wire. Tony with the buff up. A little bit more movement for her. Here's Goro to make it safe. Yep. And look at the chip. So much. Man, steals the time. He did not have a Goro to call in that moment but he was right anyway. Might have just been chipped all the time. I think it was chipped there. I think he believed in the chip. And here's the launcher here from smoke. PDG going to go with the hard knock on. No. End of setup. End of setup at the Coon allow. Tonya switching sides of the back throw. Back throw again. You're in the corner. Goro coming in. Launching you. No. Drop. And she stands there whiffing for so long after that. Big Daddy taking huge advantage maybe for the round in the game. Yo, let's see if it's enough and it is enough that drop. Gloromite's got to be feeling that drop from Goro again. We saw in the last set. You got to feel for players who lose rounds in part because of that. But that is the game. We are here. We're humans using our hands to control these mechanisms. Sometimes you screw it up. Yeah, it's true. Huge part of the game. Even the top players are. Yep. Good tech. Goro though. Gloromite coming back with a vengeance. Look at this life lead. Absolutely rolling over PDG right now. The PDG is invisible. He's invisible. Immediately getting things started. Yes. Immediately 300 plus. 350. I've got the side switch again. Both of these characters with great side switch potential. Whoo. Breaker. Conor not going to have access to any bar right now but PDG also doesn't have any bar. Knocked him out of the sky before he could get there. Great timing. Goro to the rescue. Keeps it safe. It's a good mix up too on throw sides. Big Daddy G's had. Two that haven't worked out. What are you going to do? I mean it's just you just got to make a bad guess. Yeah exactly. Time to make the tough read and Big Daddy G will do what he needs to do to secure the round and go up to match point. Yes. Marge spent the fatal there. Wasn't going to be able to kill without it and it was a little too close. You want to go and spend the bag if you have it. PDG is going to be sitting on the sit point here. Looking to close it out. He killed her. No she's fine. Oh she's fine. She's fine actually. She's just standing up but she's fine. Nobody ever dies in Mortal Kombat. Didn't you listen to Liu Kang? Oh you're right. Maintaining the turn and no confirm. Big Daddy G backs off yet again as we've seen throughout the set he backs off. He tries to set up the situation. Trying to stab in at the right moment that was not it. Yeah good in our good pun. No what can. Goro just whiffing each time. I'm not sure if it's a miss timing. Smoking to get the side switch again and get the cum allow. Oh very nice. The plural might scope down the setup. Yeah it is a high. It's picked plus on block if you do walk it but he didn't need to block it. Yeah plural might here just needs one more hit confirm. Oh you waited. No you waited. And is this going to be it? There's maybe going to be a breaker available. Wow. No that's it. BDG takes it over plural might three to one moving on in top 24. What a set. Yeah what a crazy set here. I really like watching both of those players both of those characters. They're just super fun and unique in the context of this game and many other games too. I agree and it's like I feel like those players are just like not players those characters are huge juxtaposition of each other. They play just completely opposite. Yeah That's sick. Yeah that was awesome. All right well see who moves forward there. It is big daddy G he'll play against the winner of destroyer or girl which we'll get to in a little bit. Here's a look back though first at how this went down with the Mountain Dew redo Big Daddy G coming out with a strong start. Man that was a lot 446 446 out of smoke that's going to be like one of his most damaging combos without fatal hole. Four might was doing a really good job using that armored move though to get through sometimes when BDG was invisible or getting through those kind of gaps in smoke strings. Man look at this so much interesting play the back and forth again I really love that about Big Daddy G's style with smoke you know when you're like on combat league and playing against rando smoke they're not doing that they're not they're not looking for the right moment I mean BDG got an anti error and knew exactly where he was for that full combo so let's see our next expected match is going to be destroyer versus GER by the way we're just this is loser's side have you seen the quality of these matches we're on loser's side we haven't even looked at winner's side which is pulse versus rewind king gambler versus sonic fox and that's only in this side of the top 24 the other side of the top 24 is the mighty unjust versus wise gemini and zombat versus ninja killer where's ninja killer where's ninja killer where's sonic have we seen them yet I don't know I don't think we've seen them yet they were just cameos so far they're cameos and we're not going to see them for a little while either as we're going to go to a quick break I know you'll be back after this welcome back combatants welcome back to our first stop on the pro tour for mortal combat one we are here at ECT I'm miss me seeks joined here by ultra david and we're going to be getting back into these crazy matches so far we've only seen the loser's side of top 24 and it has been a sweat fest we have a crazy match on deck next do you want to let them know about it David absolutely coming up next we're going to have destroyer versus gr the players are already up there on stage two stalwarts of the scene for a long time destroyer a strong player in his own right second place at the MKX tournament that we had here this weekend and deep into MK1 as well you could see he took out Mr. Slaw 3-0 monkey business 3-0 zintai 3-0 fresh 3-0 only pulse has beaten him and that was 3-2 so he's having a killer weekend on gur's side he lost to big daddy g three games only mentioned that before but he's also only lost two games otherwise he beat dialogue and zane among others and unbearable skill among others so gear is loud cameo 4 gear is let's do some pretty cool stuff buffs footsies but also lots of other cool setups and big damage combos with teleport etc yeah and of course we've been seeing a lot of this raiden syrax combination one of the stronger combinations in the game right now look at that whiff punish though forcing a lot of damage for destroyer if he didn't break there raiden going to be able to dish out a good 40-50% whiff syrax and also get a lot of chip to end out rounds and things like that save gonna want to get the launcher in the corner yeah even with kind of a miss it was still a lot of damage yeah it's just they're taking back his team I'm starting to turn as he's in there again hat oh keep it up you totally can yes oh gets the freeze and confirms in the fatal blow you're going to be taking that first round here yeah a couple of erin issues I think for destroyer well those instances hopefully he tightens it up yeah I definitely saw whiff there girl wasn't even ready expecting it to come out of destroyer there I mean girl starting off girl was one of if not the strongest garrus is back in mk11 bringing it back here in mk1 showing what garrus can do definitely a more complex character yeah and it's gonna have a lot of ups but I feel like he played kind of the more complex version of regular garrus in that last game too so that makes sense to me that sand mode right there limited period of time if you get hit you only take the one hit and then get reset back to where you started essentially but you don't get to keep it up forever so teleported back we're gonna see garr trying to set up the sand for mk1 as well he's gonna wanna get at least three hour glasses I mean he doesn't even need it in this match he just took that match just like that he did this character I think has a really high ceiling personally just as a kind of a base character he's got a lot of good options especially with some of these cameos that make him really work well but then you can also set up big wild stuff you can get access to that but you can also just do amplified clock right at the start there it is so now he's got it and he can either do the snap from anywhere into big damage or he can get out of combos for a bar garr gonna know the best optimal depending on where he breezes them look at that call out as well just getting the big throw down get on the ground but raiden coming in here with a lot of damage that's what I'm talking about there it is look at that health you see garr's health right it came back it's like freeze breaker it is it is garr getting the launcher going ahead oh my goodness he is running away with the set right now destroyer definitely gonna need to make a big big difference in his gameplay he tried to teleport in to get something going but not quite he got a copa he xbox already up overhead here nice catch the destroyer is trying to mix things up trying to teleport a little bit more often trying to get in on his terms a little bit more here it is you can try it out if it doesn't work out it's no big deal yeah exactly you're utilizing that too wow what a great whiff punish there but not able to get a lot off of it there destroyer whiffs again that was one of the two chances so far with the launcher breezes and this is gonna be enough to take the match garr is already up to oh 4-4 string is unsafe but if you do 4-4-4 into low hat you're safe on block and if it hits as we saw the opponent gets launched so high that they go over low hat and you can just keep the combo going normally so it's just a really nice way to pressure for garrus you know you gotta think about how to deal with that we see a lot of overheads but destroyer is trying to search deep right now for what the solution might be destroyer is really thinking it through and I make does he have another pocket character I'm not sure I've really only seen him on the raid in cyrax but I mean he's got a show he's got a show I think I'd be surprised if we saw the show we're going to show we're going to general show okay alright he figured I mean to be honest he might as well try it out it was not working for him with the raid in cyrax was getting some missed inputs was getting some missed timings so maybe we're gonna see something better out of the general show but it's not going to be as impressive as raid in cyrax can be oh big chance great conversion by destroyer it's always big damage for this dude that was 300 just like that it's still there yep safety because of the Laohat doesn't matter if he gets hit yeah woo see ya and he's gone a low start oh that's bad he's going to end up right there and he's quite punishable afterwards but destroyer did not get it set up in the Laohat oh my god go ahead and get the confirm there Ger just not even letting destroyer get anything going yeah there it was what a dash under it's not enough hold on a second a chance maybe destroyer gonna go ahead and spend bar oh and Ger is out just like that had it loaded up and ready to go and uses that sand nato to close out Ger here is sitting on set point I feel like nobody in mk11 is as comfortable with that distancey style of Ger as Ger was yeah and in this game that's not really the name of the game for Ger but he can nevertheless do it well as a player right in the setup yeah I feel like Ger is one of the people that we saw stick with character loyalty and change game style play Ger is definitely playing a little bit differently in this game underneath the pie and it's Ger setting it up yet again huge jump to okay he's spending it all yeah spending it all but that was a little bit late he had already got a lot of damage all I'll get to it doesn't matter no big deal take a little bit of damage back he is relentlessly moving forward destroying big trouble destroying big trouble dashing for his life oh no gets stuffed out of the dash and that's going to be it Ger taking it 3-0 over destroyer going to be moving on to play big daddy G in the next round of the losers on this side of that's going to be a good one so our next round of losers matchups as you just said Big Daddy G versus Ger and Blue Linkys versus B-Dog but again we've only been talking about one side of this top 24 we've been talking about specifically pool K3 if you're looking on start GG check it out if you would like to East Coast throw down on there then look for Mortal Kombat and we're in pools K3 we'll talk about it in a little bit lots of players to look for there first going through the Mountain Dew redo the do-over the do-over watching Ger just absolutely show what this character can do I feel like we haven't really even seen peak play of Garrus yet he's such a complex character so much to work with and Ger clearly has figured out a lot of great tech with Garrus making it efficiently for destroyer he's out of there but great run in this tournament congrats to him on that made it deep love to see that and now we're moving on to losers on the other side of things in the other pool yeah we're gonna have turkey sucks going up against pure here turkey definitely doesn't suck he's made it top 24 but you know he likes to downplay himself a little bit had a rough loss yesterday against Ninja Kill on stream and that was after going 3-0 vs. Savvy 102 3-0 vs. Little Zeppy 3-0 vs. Kevo and then 3-2 vs. Matrix yeah turkey was one of the strongest players coming out of MK11 and has definitely made a statement coming here into MK1 he's won a bunch of MKNJ locals he's won a lot of online tournaments and really been grinding out this game love to see it I haven't gotten to see pure's play as much to be honest so pure got sent down to losers relatively early actually in winter semis of his pool by cease okay and then since that happened let's see he's 3-0 over Supercell he's 3-0 over Mike Metroid that might have been in top 64 yeah it is 3-1 over of Violet 3-2 over Diddle and then now here he is here he is on stream remember this is loser's side if you lose this set you are out of the tournament everybody fighting for as many points as they can get in the pro competition we have 4 off lines only 2 in North America and so people are going to be fighting tooth and nail and on top of that I mean this is a major tournament we have not just the regular pot but there's a $10,000 pot bonus on top of that so top 16 getting played getting paid in this tournament for Mortal Kombat I mean it's it's going to be insane watching people try to push their way into this top 16 that's what they're playing for right now winner makes at least 16 exactly or 13th place depending on how you think about it right now if they lose they end up at 17 yeah so Turkey I know has been playing either Raiden Jacks or Raiden Cyrox looks like he's coming in with the Raiden Cyrox and then we've got Pure on the Shang I love watching the Shang especially switching between the two different stances to watch during this game he's super sick what a cool design I've always thought that Shang had cool designs but in this game it's just dialed up well it's just like I love young Shang and I love old Shang and they gave us both and I'm pretty pretty excited about it and Shang can also take the form of the other player so if Pure has any Raiden knowledge or anything like that he's going to be able to switch over to Raiden and go for that mirror absolutely yeah so as the Shang player you got to be thinking a lot of these characters are more complex than others this happens in every fighting game and he's certainly on the more complicated side of things switching back and forth between young and old depending on situation mid-string sometimes if you want that like whenever you want almost and then as you said you can also play as the other person's character to get a little bit more damage while doing it so just a lot of options available to you yeah that's for sure that's tough to keep track of as the player especially when you're playing against a character you want to do something damage like oh you want some damage you want to do the damage output I mean if nothing else we know pure has definitely lapped raiden at the very least I'm sure I'm sure yeah because there's no way that you haven't lapped raiden johnny baraka going into this you're not going to be making top 24 because those are the top tier characters right now and those are who you're going to be playing against getting as much chip as they can look at the flaws blocked there by turkey yeah and turkey's playing patiently until he just suddenly moves forward picks exactly the right moment classic raiden versus zoner play from like almost every mortal combat game yeah which is interesting turkey being a codel player in the last game and it's a completely different play style for him but really showing what raiden can do I like this open set up so I think the low hit first but it was hard to see that beforehand hoping to live for this round and gets hot all sparks coming in pure is going to take that first round we're talking about how complicated shang is and even just for those up skull juggles you really have to be super aware of like which side of the skull they're going to be on and which direction they're going to get flung by it well exactly if you hit them on a certain side they're going to be nice yeah you really got to be aware big damage here out of turkey look at that life leaves from raiden giving a fourth row no need to well long down to it and he can play patiently for a long time he could also suddenly burst in with teleport and as pure you just don't really know what to look for you're going to go ahead and place it on raiden as well backing off and get good stuff old shang yeah and pure with the knowledge to be an old shang to go ahead and get that because a lot of ooh the fatal does it hit really it hit oh my gosh yeah I expected for multiple projectiles to eat through but no shang had five health and a dream and pure takes that first match over turkey going up yeah and I could hear from the crowd ooh coming out when that worked I think a lot of people were surprised that it did as well I mean was that a little bit of a statement at the end making sure that he was in raid and form going with storm so felt like a little bit of statement to me right there we're going right back into it I think shang has an argument to be top tier as well I agree I think he's super good he's as we've been saying pretty complicated and we're pretty early in the game trying to find for his potential ceiling in the future look at all this chip Syrax keeping it safe every single time ooh jumping catching a whip right there breaker here out of pure not going to have access to bar neither does turkey though a little bit of damage there on the chip now just like that it's pure pressuring I think for what could be the round ender yeah pure could just get one hit into fatal pull up maybe raiden already has that buff up taking less chip gets the launcher and that's going to be the first round going to turkey great confirm ooh exactly where that was going to be what okay so like downward angle of bobble in this game cracks me up yeah just knowing like exactly like which area you're going to be in I saw yesterday turkey was trying to get out against a Shao Khan but the horn stopped him so he wasn't able he got knocked down by the horns big damage as we expect to see out of raiden even with the draught good tech yeah I wasn't sure if shang is one of those so there's some characters that are able to punish that electricity carpet such as johnny he's able to shadow kick after it but I wasn't sure if shang has an option I don't think turkey's taking it we're going one to one here against pure more consistently found pressure for himself yeah definitely made an adjustment not fireballing at range quite as much as you can see at the start of this round the idea immediately was to move forward realizes that it's not going to be a really good trade for him he sends the one fireball and shang sends three yeah charges up but those flawless blocks are going to be huge for pure in the long run underneath up here's the setup no nice it's super air fly get in the corner he's there feeling comfy at 72 degrees turkey's got pressure big pressure here a lot more chip and just the overhead one more chip set up yep storm cell on wake up there's nothing you can do about that you gotta be the best and flawless block but do you have time to flawless block on the wake up with the storm cell you can flawless block but it's it's genius timing on strings hold that hold that kung lao hat just jumping back trying to get out turkey pure pure pressure here oh my goodness sick pickup yeah right he pressed at least one button forcing the corner is turkey maybe not for long pure trying to battle out oh you're not for free not for free pure what great magic knowledge to knowing exactly when to send those skulls out just the overhead a couple of individual hits almost breaker for pure again oh boy again that's you really got to know where the opponent is to get that stuff turkey just down one keeping his turn he said he's patient but time's a factor we're at nine seconds here turkey just needs to back off and stay safe but I mean he's going to go ahead and get the electricity carpet and take it anyways going up two to one here against pure trying to stay alive trying to make it into that top 16 it was a time wasting option it was a chip killing option really smart aware play by turkey at the end so we're back to character select yeah and I'm wondering what pure's thinking about does he have another pocket character that you know oh it looks like he does it looks like he's got an offshore offshore what serena serena so this is a character this is a team that like sweeps the stage I feel like better than almost anybody a lot of characters when they find serena boomerang and it hits at max range a lot out of it this character stabs in with a four two from basically anywhere into big damage so just being on the ground is uncomfortable versus her yeah and like serena allows you to fish for those hit confirms as well if you can see her projectile hit ashera with as you were saying those long normals is going to be able to enforce those hit confirms a lot better I wonder if we're going to see turkey I haven't seen a lot of people testing ashera I wonder if we're going to see turkey try to contest that in the air with raiden you're on the corner now good right there on the punish turkey outside of it stabs in no confirm but he's got great chip damage corners carry ashera nodding along and ashera's out of there oh good jump yeah nice work I mean it looks like ashera was a great pick here for pure definitely had control of that entire round maybe the air electric fly get unpunished yeah that's there's a lot of strength for sure ashera also in the conversation group among the strongest I agree and it's interesting we see a lot of people using angel blade and not even trying to use the demon blade as much and not there in time so turkey with the escape he gets to reset the situation he gets the stab back in at his leisure yeah just poking the toes goes for the overhead oh and just gets the wall storm so tries it out yep too close smart matchup knowledge of turkey to know that he's able to low profile in between the serena projectiles when they're on their way back oh okay lots of damage on deck yeah 382 382 for corner carry as well for sure carried over to the motaro bones the sticks are high they both know it they don't want to take the big bet one hit confirmed in the fatal blow Cyrax patience look at the time now 12 running out of time is pure whiffs the down two and a punish will come to tie it up two games to two oh my gosh we're going to another game five here turkey thinking about it I don't know if his other cameo jacks he's gonna get some coaching here from cease also in our top 24 today he's gonna switch to the jacks or if he's gonna stay with the cyrax I mean I think it's looking good for turkey I think he's playing well and maybe he just needs to adjust to this ashura pick I don't know if he has time to adjust though he's got one game only one more one game on the line two to two you pick jacks because you like the big damage output right huge damage combos with him you got you have some annoying unblockable situations for sure as well but you know a lot of the damage that he's gotten hasn't really been about true hicken firms yeah I like going back to cyrax here a lot of it instead has been you know he finds he makes the opponent block right it's block damage it's chip damage it's it's not necessarily true hicken firms so yeah I like staying away from jacks here well pokes to start it off like that already that's like 8% health yeah this is 1050 ashura serena a little bit more life for her I was actually surprising I feel like usually serena cameo makes people have a little setup ooh okay did he do anything afterward turkey was patient and he's staying away trying to set things up for himself hoping for the met but a lot of slow play I feel like in the last game he was a little bit more about trying to get the approach yeah maybe that's what his coaching was about hey be more patient make sure you back off make ashura come to you yeah and I think that's a super legit style for raven like this is a character who has excellent movement in the air on the ground he doesn't really need to find a hicken from to deal damage against you although if he does it's a lot of damage but he can just kind of stab in make you block stuff and stay away a lot of the time that said against the huge button from ashura hard to stay away permanently yeah turkey has access to breaker now but I wonder if he's going to choose to spend all of those and spend the bar look at the time this is a very comfortable round for raiden syrax raiden and syrax just have the ability to like play this slow game at the time seven now it's a slight life lead for turkey not a lot for they're running out of time he's got to find the hit fast he's got the grab but it's not fast enough time oh my goodness ran out of time something interesting about this game that I've noticed too is it's not necessarily who has more health it's who has the better ratio of the percentage of health that they have so just because one has ten fifty another has a thousand if they're both at three hundred the ten fifty person or the a thousand person sorry my bad wrong way around big damage coming out here from turkey being able to spend all that bar get the syrax and this is what we're used to seeing from raiden syrax oh my god let's go five sixty so what that means is that he gets to play slow if he wants he can now hang out for quite a while and not feel like he needs the pressure or you can just get the whiff punish and look good that's one way to do it that is one way to do it we're here from ashram the corner now turkey being patient that's huge down to here we'll come back in this round where he lost fifty six percent right away yes and we're going to the very final round between these two we're in loser's side the loser of this round is out of the tournament now here's the thing look at their resources turkey sitting on three bars right now pure sitting on none just outside of the big stab underneath again you don't necessarily need to find hit confirms yep turkey's team he's threatening air fly each of those jumps so pure does not want to overextend because if he does turkey can just fly out here he is he's like I'm gone oh again that's what I was saying I was wondering if turkey was going to go for pressure there but the d2 whiffs ooh nice movement couldn't get a real punish so mixing it up whiff a grab uh oh uh oh launcher another chance another life here for pure goodness it's a way 35 on the block now the patience out of both of these players right now but turkey drops it huge drop that could be it he runs away oh no that's it oh no what could turn up to now this is not going to be enough to kill but pure's going to have the life lead after this and what is the play going to be on wake up for turkey he's got a lot of bar he does have a lot of bar he has enough for breaker he needs to stay alive where does he spend it I think if he gets up close we're looking for him to try to spend it okay here it goes yes one Syrax he would love to do it again pure away 10 seconds on the clock oh my goodness trying to stay away but he could stab it in any time oh my god get the poke in get the flamethrower chip chip chip chip it's 3 seconds he gets a robbery if I can say that that's it's insane a tough one either way that kind of set just grinds you down it's not just grinding your opponent down that grinds you as the player down look at turkey as he walks away oh my god that is like he needs to recuperate for a little while turkey's like I need a breath we see him with his teammates there congratulating him moving on to the next round that secures his spot in top 16 it does awesome great for turkey sucks for pure that was so close what a great comeback for pure as well I really liked the ashera pick super smart of him do that but sadly not enough and we're going to see this in the replay started off with the shang pure was doing well but turkey was able to make an adjustment and able to absolutely start mowing this shang switching to ashera after the 1-0 yeah turkey's pressure was great his movement was exactly what he needed it to be as this team like I was saying as this team you can play big pressure yeah or you can play away and you can move in between pretty quickly and that means that you just have a lot of mobility options you can handle a lot of different play styles from the opponent certainly part of why this team seems like it's one of the strongest at the moment yeah for sure but that ashera like was doing really well giving turkey problems right there like we saw he missed the anti-air on the d2 and both of them were close to timing each other out multiple times both really patient just looking for their openings but oh my gosh this 56% combo was ridiculous like we've been saying all weekend when you have the ability to do 56% damage you don't need to get in all the time you need to get in two times right so you don't need to rush you can play slow and I feel like that's part of why we see some of these rounds time out there's that pop off from turkey definitely really happy about it and on the complete opposite side of the scale pure's expression but feel for him there he is out so as you guys can see our next set up for you is going to be cgl's video games yo versus panthers titanium tigers both have had some crazy runs titanium tigers losing I think in the final match to get into top 24 yesterday I can be corrected if I'm wrong but video games yo I know lost a combat and yeah you can run us tigers let's see 3-1 over Dumas Dumas 3-0 over no one man 3-1 over Jurre 3-1 over the way number one and then 2-3 lost to Zombat yeah as you mentioned and then for video games yo let's see man he had to take out some strong players that's for sure he took out crispy 117 3-0 player 3-0 over Gooby he lost to Dio we saw that one that was on stream 3-1 and then 3-0 over Alcatraz and 3-0 over Alquacui and 3-0 over Ludi I mean that is a strong showing you just named three of the top players that are here and he 3-0 every single one of them now going to have to show up against working this game so far at one point the number one ranked player been showing up big and some online events video games yo came over here from the UK one of just a couple of people who traveled across yeah he definitely wanted to go ahead and be able to compete here in the pro competition video games yo comes over for most of the majors he was a combo breaker as well for MK11 yep so can't you a sub cameo goes for Kenshi in this matchup particularly because there's a lot of fireballs coming at you and if you find the Hickenframe into freeze you get an easy activation of sento right so there's a couple of really big uses for it yeah it's going to be the main name of the game is can we get sento out Kenshi with sento is definitely one of the most terrifying characters but Kenshi without sento also still has a lot of strong stuff trying to get those overheads absolutely running through catching every time Kenshi was trying to dash in and catching him by the toes the thing is that that ice vest absorbs a certain number of projectiles and shang can shoot three projectiles at once which means that he can get rid of the ice vest faster than many characters yeah the ice vest only gets four hits in and so against characters like raco or characters like shang you see Kenshi not able to really use it as much like you were saying because it just takes a couple hits to get rid of it still useful though video games you have slowly on the approach very dedicated to young shang so far it's really been the name of the game for him firing away with projectiles patient up close what attack good attack ready for it and he's denied easy activation of sento there hasn't been a hit confirm into ice into sento for example he has been pestering enough that there's no neutral activation of sento very tough to get away with that at this level yeah go ahead and get the back throw get the corner pressure as well getting sub-zero out of there too sub-zero is going to be frozen for a while access look at this pressure both of them with one touch into fatal blow territory though and the other one wants to make the first move here comes Fijiwai no oh my goodness that duck into fatal yeah nice work he called it up this is exactly what he was looking for yeah I mean both of them of course wanted to go ahead and spend the bar video games you would have gone ahead and taken the first match titanium tigers wanted to make sure that he closes it out oh it's a win doesn't pay too much for it I've got the back throw here goes ahead yeah gets the ice vest on really not even looking for long combos with Fijiwai right now just getting folks poking away at Shang's life yeah he has not a combo yeah I actually don't think he's had a combo yeah I don't think he's done like even a three hitter but it was like super close I guess he had fatal blow but he had a hicken for him in the fatal blow other than that yeah that counts as I guess more than three hits he's twice gonna keep that safe allow Shang to make some space tigers just playing a patient here same with Fijiwai Cyrax for the safety for extra pressure ooh nice every little bit of damage adds up in this kind of gameplay stuff gets shot again oh can go ahead and get that forward throw both of them video games you know sitting on a little extra life right here just play a little bit more patiently get the little entrant this should be it oh no just chip needed yeah video games you know is gonna be taking that first match 1-0 here over titanium tigers again it's possible it's a flawless block that's really hard to do and you've got Arma coming in here giving some advice we have the highest level of people coming in here as coaches yeah all in the same level of play sonic box ninja killer yeah Darth Arma and seats those are all the coaches we've had so far yeah I think Darth Arma could take sonic oh yeah yeah where's sonic yeah where's sonic have you guys seen ninja killer I don't know when are they playing alright getting back into it I want to see a sento I want to see a sento yeah we didn't see that the whole time easier said than done I mean you pay three million dollars for the sword you might as well use the sento alright here come the juggles too out of shang oh into the spikes haven't seen that ender before it's a random d2 here it is there's sento ok so switch over to syrex cameo means that now you don't have to have to hit confirm into freeze to get sento out you can just make them block and syrex then keeps them blocking long enough that you can bring the boy out oh yeah sure enough I think that it might be a really good choice in the long run there for taking the tigers the sub-zero really wasn't giving too much against the fireballs yeah yeah that and again he never found confirm like the whole time into sento alright here's the mix what can you get going about to have a sento sandwich yeah oh yeah he knew exactly what was going to come it was the little tip tap from sento and then kenchi tried to press the button VGY had it scoped good follow spot medigates that chip but kenchi can have to work his way out of this corner not going to be easy with all his pressure go ahead and get sento out and just don't get opened up and here's the big nice pickup guess the sento sandwich too I like that he has the active defense versus sento that's cool oh he was dead the boy came back to play he lives no one knew came in with an overhead off screen again denied again and that sento meter is almost gone you see it at the top left of the cameo bar it's out of there yeah so now you got nerfed oh never mind excuse me oh my god shang switch into the kenchi dude this is so dangerous this is okay okay oh just like that oh and he's going to go straight into fatal blow this isn't no I don't think so either but yeah shang again complicated dude shang as kenchi is a terrifying option extra damage on stuff and at the end on the setup on okie titanium tiger is on the board here with a round good open up we've got the sento out here big damage incoming and slice take a bite the sento sandwich okay close strike and vgy's out of there the boy okay try to scope for that reversal catch shang coming in afterwards tiger's keeping his distance big likely for him vgy knows that there's no rush he's got 60 on the clock and he's trying to be at a range where he's outside of cyrox I think okay on pressure maybe a different story but other than that he does not want to even block to be forced to allow sento to come out yeah I love the back dash right away afterward outside of an easy activation for four tigers to bring sento out yeah that's really smart a video games joke good knowledge and also even once sento's out if he keeps backing off sento's not even getting close enough to shang to be able to do that mix that we're so used to seeing from sento yeah upgraded by tigers not to complete the string that he knew exactly what would be coming up on the clock now yeah it's oh yeah close from fatal to the hit wow it's a punish that hits man this is a ready guy yeah that's gonna be 2-0 for vgy and what feels like a close match but nevertheless 2-0 vgy again outside of easy activation point for sento threw out a lot of that harassed from range when he was up close he tried it out he got some block damage he backed off immediately right away the solution there with fatal blow against overhead ghost and tigers trying to work out what to do next yeah I mean I think the cyrax switch was great from tigers but it just seems like video games yo was so ready to say oh well okay I'm just gonna stand back here just like you were saying I'm gonna stand back here and I'm not gonna let you get those setups of cyrax on me let's go oh man kenshi versus kenshi kenshi kenshi out there too we've got a cyrax we've got two sentos on the screen who's is who's the other one's still asleep and it's gone shang back to his shang form looking about even on life here too pressure on the corner can't run away in the corner from sento got more sento time now he's still gonna be there he's still gonna be he's creeping he's creeping he's creeping he tried it he's making his way back looking for that overhead vision for it he's creeping there he is there he is alright bgy new too of course yeah bgy I was like oh my god let me keep walking forward keep walking forward keep walking forward wait maybe until more cyrax he's got one call available to him both of them playing neutral here just really trying to look for an opening between them yeah as soon as he got close oh lovely balls block that was super important at that moment yeah in just 10 seconds here bgy could run away he's running out of real estate the what oh man that's the sento rocking the fatal you know when you were on the ropes as tiger is right now sometimes you gotta do a little wild stuff I mean throughout the wild stuff they're not necessarily ready for it alright tiger needs to win this around to keep in this match alright sento is out bgy running away as fast as possible trying to stab forward with the range sento options catches that whiff though sento's coming he's in the corner now yes sento's here patience but cyrax for safety smart and here's the mix oh the bot misses bop again launch yeah tiger one game for him two to one now what's that alright looks like he made that made that adjustment there figured out how to get sento in even though bgy's running away definitely just walking down into the corner it feels like he's activating sento closer to the corner instead of midscreen because he knows that bgy does not want to be anywhere near that sento so he's saying you have no choice now yeah and he has just brought out central and neutral like a couple of times at this point so I'm expecting bgy to be a little more cognizant of that that said up close is where cyrax allows you to bring him out oh and here's the sento sandwich tricky gets the bop miss drops he's dropping it a couple of times now pressure calling him back he is out of there trying to keep his own range outside of oh oh no did he not have sento no maybe not bgy with the life lead but not by a lot the boy's running out of time he's gone looking for individual confirms right now both of them access to fatal blow nerfed kenchi here he's got some great normals in this stance yep but he does not have as many options as he does without it yeah and so it is match point bgy potato entire is gonna really have to fight for his life try to bring us to a game five no bar on bgy's side he's stuck blocking for a little while look at this chip damage oh my goodness just keep blocking him back and he eventually gets opened up is in the corner refresh refresh sento sento's coming for you he's coming he's coming for you man I'm coming there he is he gets the overhead punish projected big distance now oh tried to get there in time for the punish not quite yeah I kept it safe at those spikes at the end now so now sirex is available for tiger that could mean activation point for sento bgy knows oh no k break or surely yeah you have to break there and is this gonna be it confirms into fatal video games yo is going no what didn't hit it was too slow but chip is gonna do it anyway oh my goodness what a drop I expected that to hit video games yo is going to be moving on here in the bracket titanium tigers unfortunately out bgy as we mentioned has already had a pretty long stretch of strong players these played against the last like four in a row have been all killers as we discussed 3-0 over alcatraz 3-0 over alquiqui 3-0 over ludi and then there not a 3-0 but still a victory over titanium tigers as he moves on yeah I mean video games yo you could also see seemed very comfortable even in those uncomfortable scramble situations kind of made the right reads made the right plays I cannot believe that fatal drop I did not expect to be too slow and we've got the instant replay here the mountain do over as we say watching vgy watching him get stuck in that net confirm by titanium tigers there I love seeing the back and forth strategy the point of being in and out of these ranges where you know shanksong vgy put pressure of course but then did not want to be in easy button range of kenchi once there was a sirex kenchi to think about which meant that of course sento could come out so vgy was like playing this kind of like in between range of you know wanting to harass wanted to be able to get up close fast but not wanting to be in kenchi's easy activation really really cool to watch right of course and as you can see on screen we have kevo versus cease coming up this is going to be a losers match again cease with the garris kevo I believe I saw him on johnny and both of them have had crazy runs indeed to get here yeah for kevo the person who sent him down was turkey 3-0 actually but other than that he 3-0ed shijinki dink 3-0 over big bird md 3-0 over wane 3-0 over misfit ex panda and now he is versus cease for cease his loss was to wise gemini but he had a win over spork he 3-1 versus pier and 3-0 versus elkokui yeah and I mean if you guys want to follow along with the bracket right now we are in pools we are on the loser's side of pool k4 right now you can do exclamation mark bracket in the chat or you can just look up the bracket on start.gg thank you so much to warner brothers also NRS Mountain Dew for giving us that support I hope you guys are enjoying the show so far I know I am yeah you can always count on the players to play well have a good time show us some cool techs, some cool ideas some back and forth play we've definitely seen that so far right now the players are testing their buttons yeah make sure they have that button check in we'll get in as soon as we can yeah I don't think we have any rules about what shirts you can wear I didn't even notice that oh no right it looks like both these players are ready to go we're loaded up getting some gameplay in and here we go we've got the Johnny Syrax coming out from Tevo we've got the gearis allow coming out from Cease we saw the gearis allow from Gerr earlier Cease is going to be trying to do kind of the same kind of gameplay when I've seen him play he has a little bit more focus on combo and pressure than Gerr so I'm just going to see what changes Keva with the full charge up yeah goes ahead again spend the bar on EX clock absolutely yeah no reason not to especially because it gets you out of so many bad situations let me see cool combos yes using the teleport cancel basically you're bringing out the time stop and then teleport canceling right away as you can see 470 right away from Cease I've really liked that combo that was awesome it's super hard but he made it look easy oh and the fatal blow coming out here from Kevo going to go ahead and spend it it's not going to kill here actually it's not going to kill look at that scaling even with the 950 health on Cease but it's going to put him in a really good spot especially with Johnny's plus frames and his oppressive pressure Cease is going to try to run away oh my god tries to get the punish but gets caught by the Syrax instead and Kevo is going to be taking that round Cease saw the shadow kick and was like oh here's a big punish for me but the Syrax just was like no no not today that's a little foot Cease from Cease let me see it let me see it and you can set up either close or corner carry like this he chooses corner carry stay away a little longer get the clocks up get Lao to come back yep here's Lao clocks are good three of them dashes in goes ahead and tries to make the tackle through great patience yeah there's my guy here ship damage mountain Cease can stay away Cease backing off great anti-air look at that conversion forcing the breaker out of Kevo yeah because even though there was no meter on Cease's side his ability to do cancels means he can still have big damage with Lao yeah Cease just needs one more hit confirm to close out that round and there is just the low Kevo watch your toes but Kevo does have access to height meter now scooting in again Cease gets caught by it Kevo's here full pressure constant plus frames a chance Cease gonna have to work his way out and hopefully he's doing a good job of that gonna go ahead and freeze yep freeze again I'm telling you it's not an easy combo but it's just super consistent it looks awesome I like the last switch okay Kevo with the chance knock down he's got all the resources for himself oh height meter started but misses the combo dashes through what can he get out of this situation Cease is just hanging out he's like I'm not gonna try anything crazy but rising star able to catch Cease and that's it wow great conversion from Kevo and Cease had been playing that defensive play versus really well until like that one moment so the fact that Kevo was still able to convert for the kill is impressive yeah it's really hard when you've got Wise Gemini the one that Cease down the losers being the one coming to coach him but it's really hard when you've got that height meter I mean you can only block so much of it you can only at some point maybe you're gonna make a mistake oh and he does go for the hit confirm there after for the punish Syrax was not ready for Johnny after the shadow slide big launcher freeze yeah that's one of them that's two of them 494 just a casual half your life gone and that is gonna be it if you throw the opponent out of the corner it does extra damage on command grab yeah I think that's pretty cool the developers are like yeah you could keep pressure if you want to but if you are cool with giving up pressure you can do extra damage yeah exactly similar to like kind of the spawn kb from last game he's playing patiently Kevo though is holding it that was great corner push to be honest that was like a third of the stage just by blocking and there you are you're pretty much in the corner at this point moose man behind him okay Kevo he's backing off he is at a life deficit right now I don't remember if he has clocks there's no visual way to tell if he has that you just got to be aware I saw him set up a clock but I don't think it was the amplified one okay there it is the clocks confirm to fatal yeah you could definitely do this there you go it's a slow one but that's gonna be good enough lands big fatal here we're gonna send Johnny back in time so he can watch himself die multiple times multiple ways and get hit by himself on the board we're at one to one versus Kevo here on the loser side of top 24 of our pro competition at ECT I love how frequently we've seen people come up to help out their friends let's just go so Zombat is up here giving Kevo the advice it's in the rules that you can have a coach you can only have one there's only a limited period of time but I really like that, I think that's a really cool role for somebody else to take up I think so too I think it's really cool because they can point out oh he's showing the timer too that's right got to know the rules I think it's awesome that there is coaching allowed because they are able to see it from a third-party perspective that you are something you have to think about these competitors, you're sitting there in these situations and there's like 10 different things coming at you who get thrown, overhead, low, mid there could be a shimmy coming there could be an incoming cameo you're just not sure, so somebody else might be seeing something that you're not seeing in the moment what a pickup just like that you can lose happy life now it's always Johnny's turn now, no more Johnny Syrax holding it gets caught by the throw gonna stay in the corner here defensive call smart though getting those iframes on makeup and you could take into command grab there that maybe what was Kevo was looking for but sees new leveling up the clocks and he has the round has the round, has the corner okay oh my gosh double out great entail doesn't quite get the conversion though oh man, a great interruption that was the start of the 4-4 so Kevo gets his turn maybe not for long try to shadow slide in, Kung Lao hat following up afterwards as long as you have that out beforehand, yeah that will save you just gets a long hot punch in there we're right into pressure see he's not gonna have access to bar now mix him up a little bit okay, again he can just try it out if he gets hit, it's no big deal there he goes Kevo playing patiently waiting for Lao hat to come back yeah no reason not to he has a big life lead here and he like sees needs to be the one who gets in and makes the move okay he's good on clocks he's in, right into the fatal fatal man that might be it actually you see we're gonna have to see, will it kill? say jam let us know oh dude this actually will be close oh it's so close it's not enough Lao hat just let Lao hat do the work that's all you gotta do, let it spin when he goes for the classic at the end oh I'm curious his pose after that oh my goodness, Cease is up 2-1 in this set trying to secure that spot in top 16 yeah top 16 block it get that set up, no reason not to still spinning there Kevo patient throwing his own hat out trying to move forward trying to get in a little bit what snap snap you're frozen if that connects against you from anywhere you are frozen and gear is teleported right in to get the combo that's only available if you have those 3 clocks a little check, interruption finally we see the tick out of that Lao hat vs Lao hat running away, Cease okay setting it up again he's got the clocks good tech by Cease as well keeping this quarter pressure oh goes for the shimmy, gets the open up into the overhead and he did not want to pressure at all this dude was out of there doesn't want to be anywhere near Johnny at this moment oh god what a play by Cease there this defense is looking incredible yeah he was just really right on point Cease being really patient techs it again Kevo not even able to open him up at all there's a little bit at least finally defensive hat call, Kevo breaks and so it's still coming, yep Cease is out of there it's caught by the jump in this could be a lot of damage here, no breaker available for Cease oh there was no bar for Johnny he wasn't able to get his watch out of it Kevo's got to run it again it's the defensive call the spin was there there's no Lao for teleport stuff so no extra damage but still 313 he's still playing super defensive it's got a lot of light oh oh Titanomakia oh cock do you have real stuff that's so hard, one of these days people will be doing that regularly and I can't wait yeah I absolutely love that setup, for any of you who saw that and were like what is happening, Garrus is able to call out a second Garrus and do the inputs before it comes out, go for a mix up Garrus programmed Garrus it's too sick and look at time, time's becoming a factor here they both call out Lao hat 10 seconds on the clock when Cease gets it takes it 3-1 over Kevo securing the top 16 spot shout outs to Cease I think there was a lot of great stuff that we saw from him there, the combos were great the offense was great, what really sticks out in my mind though was his defense, his blocking his throw tacking the up block versus overhead from Johnny and strings, that was gorgeous that was gorgeous and allowed him to get that punish which was a huge huge advantage in that set right there Kevo unfortunately for him is out and now we have one more match, we've been looking at the first round of losers throughout both of our sets of top 24, both pool K4 and K3, and this is our last first round match before we're going to get into deeper stuff we're going to get, and as we said earlier try to get every match on stream for you, we'll see if that works out, there's going to be another block of commentary after this so don't think that we are only doing the first round of losers here, we'll get a lot more up for you pretty soon taking a look back remember Kevo started out with Johnny Syrax, a really strong combination in its own right yeah for sure, but that switch to a low hat definitely gave him more access to be able to get in on gears, because Cease kept backing off backing up and not letting Johnny get in, gave Kevo a couple more opportunities but it just wasn't enough against that defense that Cease had 494 that's almost 700 damage actually, to do that combo right into the command grab out of the corner, it's like 680 yeah that's it that's all he gets out of it man what a great set from both of these players yeah, just let the low hat spin, hit that classic at the end send a little bit of a message there yeah, good work Cease alright so next we're going to have Matrix coming up against Dio see him queuing up yep here they are, Dio on the right side of your screen and for him he had a pretty long road interestingly and there's lots of strong players who he happened to come up against 3-0 over Ironside 3-0 over CT Dom 3-1 over Video Games Yo 3-0 over Diddle Mighty Unjust beat him but it was 3-2 it was very close so that's a tough run for him find himself a loser since you could see on the other side Matrix had some good ones too beat Ray Riazzi 3-0 over Misfit Ex Panda 3-0 over Jurre Turkey beat him but again only 3-2 and then he beat Scar 3 games to do I watched that Turkey Matrix yesterday and it went down to last game last round it was a crazy scramble at the end I love this we're going to see the Natara vs the Asha Natara definitely with some of the best movement if not the best movement in the game but she has lower health has a lot of trouble keeping up with some of the damage and look at this 900 vs 1050 that is incredible what a difference crazy difference we've got the Asha and Serena is going to be putting out a lot more damage on those hit confirms so it's going to be hard for Natara in this matchup 150 health difference not the most that you can have I guess the most you can have is probably 300 nevertheless 150 is a huge difference look at that movement able to just fly up and around I wonder if we're going to see some air to air action here on Asha Natara gets the launcher into the corner gets the buff up big damage coming in here though set up into plus frames Dio just staying away he's got a life lead her movement is not just about creating pressure her movement is also about her ability to stay away or pick her spot and we're seeing that right now Dio taking that first round of Natara just really impressive pressure but really smart when he was choosing to be patient and run away just the one it's underrated it checks you don't get an immediate combo out of it but it comes back really fast and it's just a real fast screen clear both of them have access to a full 3 bars too there's the breaker from Dio and gone are the 3 bars and for her the bars aren't just about getting damage some of her movement options require some bars too yep some of those air dashes do so Dio patient Matrix patient both trying to pick their spot still they're just fishing for those confirms trying to figure out what's facing right now so a little bit of damage and then Dio just backs off hoping to get in blocking there wasn't her turn anymore Dio knew both of them playing so patient playing great defense against each other barely able to open each other up Matrix in kind of at risk is the moment he's got 3 bars he could break he's got a life lead as well 22 on the clock here it is full movement forward maybe looking for the up block nothing came down to one of the better anti-airs especially with that sword going to be able to hit that D2 from further away oh and 5 seconds left okay the breaker was still there and right away Matrix is going to bring it out to preserve the round Matrix just needed to run away there basically at the end keeping that life lead the entire time that is the one thing you're going to see is the more neutral heavy matchups timing out yeah pretty common you're letting your assist do a lot of the work right you're not taking risks on your point character classic versus game play style here in mortal versus combat good work did he even go into the buff here no going to back off forward throw keep Ashera in the corner you have to back it off and reset the situation real tough block right there might get breaker I'm not sure about spending it there that or you die oh I didn't Dio takes the round I don't know why I thought he had one more round yeah no I hear that I was like what are you spending he could use the next round had to stay alive had to try to do something first match going up 1-0 we're heading straight back into it no character select screen for them no coaching right now there's that bar back to the forward cancel the bar cancel Dio just again trying to stay away let Lao come back to life there he is Dio's just hanging out Matrix working his way in slowly yeah I think that's going to be a really important strategy as we move forward here Matrix is hoping to cage Netara and that's tough to do you really got to get it towards the corner but easier said than done as you can see yeah exactly just went ahead for that side switch on the back throw as well and then Dio's able to just start running away again playing really patiently letting this move in the Laohat do most of the work here yeah and not just in damage but he's also used the Laohat with a perfect timing to blow up Serena calls a few times so again classic versus game gameplay and we see the demon plays around here going to allow Asher to hit from further away get that full screen okay that's I like that solution a lot this is a big one no so Dio gets to hang out Matrix away low oh my the fight 10 seconds left on the clock Dio just needs to pull it off but it could be confirming to fatal here oh no fatal even needed for Matrix Dio just wanted to put out low hat and I'll be like hang out and run away but that was exactly when the Serena call came out so smart Matrix good knowledge check right there game check right there Dio moving in maybe her pressure now Laohat in too no he gets sniped so nothing there he was scared just so sick Megan Edo moving in Laohat oh dude the conversion would have been just too good you know for all the strengths that Asher has Asher Serena really to sweep the ground that's not really what Dio wants to be doing he doesn't want to be on the ground this is the gameplay for him is not about like picking footsie spots on the ground it's about going into the air and Asher has great stuff up there down to his gray he doesn't got tools but that's not what she wants to be doing she wants to control the ground yeah but what a great air fireball there from Asher able to get some pressure in on Atara but this should be enough to kill and we're going to be going to a final round here in this second match of Dio vs Matrix big stab in out of resources now what an anti air nothing else though Asher's in not so much that's herself doing some work and just the dash into the back row that feels so sick as the player to get that oh yeah of course like I made you freeze that badly you just let me do that yeah exactly didn't even try to attack wasn't even an escape fail oh plus and decides to steal his turn back with a down one he called out the forward movement he was right matrix is trying to move in after that with nothing here it is though Lanzi is punished Dio gonna get some damage good damage and again he does not need to go in he can stay away but same as before matrix called Serena just the right moment he gets the big confirm it was Serena who tanked the low hat allowing for Asher to still stab in and Asher getting his fatal blow here can allow to make up for a lot of the life they're pretty much going to be even here going into the end of this round again it was the same situation in those neutral timings as they're both kind of like getting up from situations if Serena gets called she tanks the low hat and allows Asher to get the full combo so Dio's gotta be aware of that moving forward I'm sure who will be thinking about it more actively yeah for sure yeah he was just kind of haphazardly throwing that low hat out wasn't thinking about Serena being able to fish for those full confirms full screen and a lot of matches you can just do it and you're fine and even against a lot of Serena it's fine because maybe you know you'll get hit by boomerang a couple times but then the character doesn't get big damage out of it Asher does. Asher definitely one of the characters that can utilize Serena the most in full screen situations trying to go for the low profile to interrupt down to no conversion off of it it's getting a little scrambly you're trying to move fast now it's got a life lead to overcome this is the first time we've seen matrix with a huge life lead and matrix now is the one who gets to back off the chase is on you can tell okay how can I do a lot wrap slash nice punish punish it's a little lead jump combo and next one could be for the round okay setting it up but down to and even she gets hit by hat as I think she did it said punish on that side it doesn't matter the rounds already over what a great down to five matrix there he's made a great adjustment to this Missar gameplay as well making sure to figure out how to fish his way in making Dio have to come in and try to open him up forcing breaker there Asher not going to have any bar and you notice Dio actually waited before putting hat out just in case there was a Serena call so he's definitely thinking about things there yes picked up on the fact that that wasn't going too well for him but Lao hat as you can see that thing comes back almost right away Serena with double humoring takes a little longer they get that launcher into a full combo extension corner carry targeting 34% right there okay okay aware goes for the empty dash Laoha keeps safe getting above it yeah a lot of characters are stuck there have to block not her Dio try to be patient what a wake-up option from matrix and now maybe chase you'd love to one more confirm or a little bit of chip and just dashes over oh my god Asher looking for that overhead to try to come down because hit by the low Kung Lao hat what a setup we're not able to get over at that time a range to be at but to Dio's credit he finds his way out yeah he is a lot more cautious with his low hat calls especially in those neutral situations here up close maybe tries it out yes stealing some turns even again not immediately bringing it out so there's absolutely timing changes from him as he's got pressure if he finds another hit maybe two more because there's a breaker to think about now on matrix's side that's true or maybe not even a combo if you could run it with grabs I'm sure it'd be cool yeah strike throw to death taking off a little gets the fullest block on the Serena cameo that's going to be really good for mitigating chip but it's he just built it oh my gosh tries to jump in but the D2 is going to close it out for matrix they're going up 2 to 1 he hit that D2 I think at least three times throughout that definitely using that long disjointed D2 by Ashera getting atara out of the air okay sonic fox we're sucked where's ninja has ninja played it same thing opening up the ear trying to listen to what sonic's saying there's no rule against that as far as I'm aware of course not if the coaching right in your ear and you're just so happy to hear what they say well we'll see see if we can pick out what the advice was matrix and deo bring into this a lot of patience maybe there's no need to move forward a lot of these times even with a little bit of a life lead you can take the round and run out of time maybe it's also switching up between being patient full screen coming in being really rushed down then going back to being patient switching it up on the character it can be really hard to play against people who do that yeah for sure okay I don't think there was a cancel last time this time matrix brought it out trades beautiful beautiful pickup pickup there it is again both of them with access to fatal blow both of them with two bars neither of them have access to breaker a chance okay deo right over the low crush forward movement deo fighting for his life right now trying to bring us to a game 5 stay in the running for this top 16 he is so much more aware of when he thinks he's going to call stuff low hat though for safety can heal a lot of damage good tech oh so high he ducked it well here's a big punish no breaker available for matrix oh yeah running the show right now is deo into 300 plus again into more pressure into strike throw game breaker that waited for the serena call and now it's his turn to party here comes in just chip needed here and there it is deo is taking us to a game 5 here he definitely did a better job with the assist call timings with when to move forward yeah we definitely saw him like switching up exactly how he was going to be approaching ashrah in that matchup which was the game changer right there yeah yeah well now the question is what's matrix going to do about it what's his change I did see quake come up in his ear say a little something we'll see going out the individual serenas not the full boomerangs and those come back really fast as you could see you just don't get full conversions out of it here for ashrah matrix is the early life lead going to make deo have to play a little bit more aggressive trying to chase in this timings matrix not expecting ok patience for both damage no breaker available for ashrah 35% into the corner and lao hat spinning ok lansy's punish big stuff gotta spend the bar to get out of there good neutral docks on the serena cameo uh huh the lao hat keeps it safe and backs off again oh keep it up no maybe not back off what the lao hat do its thing back its just deo is playing patient looking for the right timings goes for that blockable strike throw and again he's patient here and look at the time time is becoming a factor again in a lot of these matches they have been totally in deo's favor at this moment 7 on the clock and the lao hat is what seals the round its match point love the assist fault oh my goodness what a set we've got right now oh the air to air and ashrah's favor right there but no conversion off of it nice confirm by deo he's a huge damage 386 and he can now play away take it slow set it up again juggle call my god the timing on that and the tech to keep the corner oh my gosh that back flap I guess instead of a back dash and he's out of there deo is able to just be patient right now man you love to see it matrix trying to pressure a little bit up close he's running out of time he's run out of life as deo will take it 3 games to 2 in the end in a very hard fought back and forth match its deo who moves on into the top 16 yeah I mean what a match for sure both of them making crazy adjustments throughout and just changing up their gameplay both getting really good coaching from what it's seen they both were able to make those adjustments ready to head into the rest of top 24 for you guys got some crazy matches coming up yeah so here's who's in top 16 I'll just run it down real fast before we go to a break we'll actually see some matches coming up but we're gonna have turkey versus video games yo we'll have cease versus deo in the other pool we will have gr versus big daddy g and blue linkies versus b-dog I believe yeah so 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stop we're excited here I said I know you're excited everyone out there in the crowd has been gathered around the campfire that has been competitive Mortal Kombat and up first rewind and pulse just to get us started at the top of this top 16 bracket if you guys are following along from home and the first match that we're going to have and every match praise the elder gods it's going to be great yes praise the pro comp is going to be on stream everyone and every match has been on stream for about I believe the past two hours straight we are privileged here to get us started on the pro competition this is just a joy for you viewers at home every match is going to be on stream coming up next gambler sonic fox mighty unjust versus wise gemini the entirety of winterstop 16 and we're getting into the first one rewind drawing first blood drawing first blood getting a huge combo here and of course going up against pulse who is an incredible player just been going out to everything you know competing in every possible capacity here pulse with that patented Johnny cage gets right through there over to the other side to get a nice punish and pushing rewind right to the corner this is where it could be disastrous for rewind if both continues his pressure correctly just right chipping away with that cyrax spin and still want to go so every time you think stager is going to come you're waiting for the spin to come rewinds test of defense comes now which has built some space with it out for and a beautiful uplock to get this massive punish and that is so scary against a character like this that can dish out the damage that right go brings to the table up locks are always so you know it's always going to be a risk but hey if it's a high reward I'm willing to take a high risk cyrax keeping it nice and safe pulse continuing that pressure but rewind with just every single right kick keeping them in check keeping them guessing and rewind taking that first round and rewind's got two ways of taking the health bar it seems he will take it in one giant swoop or he'll nickel and diamond with a quick overhead and low like he's doing with simple sweeps and overheads he's keeping it simple at times yeah minimize that risk and just minimize you know how much you're putting yourself out there little by little yeah the low option look at that safe big pushback overhead super plus on block as well oh coming in like an atomic bomb and that low from a distance into the first scoop that we see Darius coming in and says you know what you need to be the one time I got you yeah that's what it is with that cameo you just kind of wait for that opportunity wait for that that cash out if you will hold on a second pulse showing signs of life a little too late here in this game number one or can he make this comeback gets the amplified on that rising star pushing him to the corner and just going to throw it out there where it comes to super mind game and just guessing right again is rewinding it situation like that up 1-0 to get us started is the previous EVO champ yeah so in that situation pulse thought that rewind might have panicked thinking that you know maybe the unblockable time was coming but or maybe he was going to jump out of there either way rewind keeping the composure and just easily taking that first game I mean that was all rewind I want to see pulse turn it up I want to see the pulse that I've been seeing in all these online tournaments at all these local tournaments I'm waiting for him to land one net armor so we can see some of these type combos get started that's what I want to see and that's why that that healthy didn't look safe to me because one Syrax net and a dream and those nuts are getting pummeled for quite a while that's quite a statement here tons of damage and so pulse opting to go off those three bars and just stopping the combo right in its tracks and rewind is kind of like fishing for a little higher there full screen don't jump at me ever but it's from a great distance where you saw earlier in Kevo in that top 24 I'm using that deep jump kick from a distance that was seeming unantakable yeah that's what it seemed like fun little interaction there with a kind of loud hat I love the back dash on the wake up there from pulse for just a little bit and then canceling into that advancing mid that's neutral here rewind those daggers don't want to play around them plus on block that's that down four checkers all about my rewind as well in the end of that string has been catching pulse off guard trying to reach just a stagger the one two a meeting on the approach as well rewind takes the bar and look at this what pisses me off is Darius coming in and going yeah I did you didn't do a thing that round my friend he made the breaker come out the threat of Darius makes the breaker come out Darius is all about the implication that's that's his gameplay it's not the implication big conversion here coming from poles pushing the corner rewind waking up with those buttons and pulse not really ready for it not really to stuff him out of it and here comes the armor and a nice little side switch is rewind going to back off or is he going to go in backing off just a little bit but just keeping pulse in check to make sure pulse doesn't make any advancements but here it comes none the less Johnny Cage with tons of options tons of normals to just throw them on top of you a rewind's got a little bit of a life lead it looks like he's trying to just maybe get a little bit of projectile game going trying to get any kind of breathing him away from the buttons of Johnny Cage and the plus frames that come in multitude of ways and again it was that simplicity of mix where all of those sweeps conditioned him to I don't know crouch block in a situation finally did he X grab which is a mid and either way you're going to get toasted yeah very very fun to deal with you know just when you think blocking is the right option I'm going to be patient as the right option after I've worked so hard to get in on this zoner here comes come here grab I've been so impressed throughout this entire tournament across the three days of action that we've had here at East Coast Throwdown everything outside of the big damage from Rewind's right go it's been that simple down for spacing use uses fantastic projectile to open up the whiff punishes and everything else that he has and he's just so fundamentally solid on the on the offense of strike throw overhead and low the characters got it built in 50-50 safe plus pushback he's using it all really well just so smart from the ground up this rewind and show him why he's here showing seeing tons of that starting off with quite a statement obviously not going to have enough bar to stop it this time so this time Jerry is is going to get in on the action adding to that now you're about to pop off now you're about to pop off we'll see him on the windscreen if Rewind is able to close this one out super plus and we're going to disrespect his pulse but Rewind had a couple of a couple of spots where he's done that old school disrespectful armor out on the slightly negative or even plus and assume you're going to press an armor it's a degenerate degenerate indeed cutting over the other side again that armor getting through there not the fastest armor in the world but fast enough to do the job pulse getting the back throw but now putting Rewind exactly where he wants to be throwing projectiles one of the best projectiles in this game Rewind on set point here up to games up one round and pulse is looking a little lost here yeah and that's a big knowledge check right there too doing the down four projectiles that are highs if you block them guess what plus and he gets to check you with it all over again pulse gets finally something going here knock down three six this is decent damage with little safe jump option here of course from Johnny Cage Harry going over to the other side cashing in not getting the corner positioning but hey if it's damage I will take it those holes big jump in afterwards just continue this off of every nut punch he gets that safe jump but you see Rewind delaying every single time just to avoid any kind of shenanigans are the blockable or armor break setups that it does bring to the table yeah yeah it's almost like they know regular wake up timing not enough I don't want to get stuffed I don't want to waste armor and then also still get combo'd getting the space that he wants the breathing room giving him a little zoning of his own fatal blow, bars into play, Darius and that was just a clean whiff on his front pulse the dizzy knee coming in look at that knee just look at it somewhere here for Rewind on a match point this is to make winners sign Top 8 very first pro competition stop here that position guarantees you 5th or better so it's a very comfortable spot both these players want it real bad I want to see pulse making it out here I mean we're seeing them on the board we're seeing the rounds we're seeing the full bar from both players the back throw from pulse you know I feel like it's been successful and I think it's again one of those situations where Rewind is okay with taking those throws like hey you know what I get away from you so I don't need to deal with any of this matchups do exist where sometimes your throws really do hinder you because they can put your full screen etc in certain matchups because now you're dealing with this the full screen arsenal the only zoner in Outworld right now very good one Rewind's got that bar amplifying those ninja stars to make sure that you're getting something there he just spent it and he's almost got another bar down there look at that it's insane I mean that's the other thing too is that you gotta spend money to make money oh he jumped over and what a call out from pulse I don't know if that was reaction I don't know if he was anticipating it but it was the rifle doesn't have to help to survive and Rewind what a decision to just stand one scoop right there what a heartbreaker there at the end a heartbreaking ending with just the right call and he wasn't showing signs of like wanting to jump he wasn't looking for it the entire time but he did it in such a perfect timing that he was able to punish the amplified ninja stars and at the end there almost had breakers I think pulse was afraid of finally I thought Rewind was finally going to parry which is why he did that stand one because I thought he read that pulse was going to hold a parry and then take a turn after the nut punch which worked and you guys are going to stay here at the end that was just incredible that amplified ninja stars is a very tough thing to jump over because you're throwing more stars so you're expanding the hitbox coming at you and pulse just clearing it perfectly had he mistimed it it would have been a completely different story and look at the bar there just shy of that breaker so if he built the bar through any other means whether it's like something that he would have blocked or maybe a decision to not waste the bar previously he might have lived it for one more play there at the end but it was just all Rewind Swift 3.0 and earlier in the set some of the ways that Rewind was using armor in those disrespectful situations slightly negative even plus making a read that someone is going to try to disrespect those plus frames feel free to have this conversation with me sure tell me but I feel like this event and you know taking in how everything is being developed you know who is doing well this is the new era it's a dang new era indeed do you feel like I'm going to say this with a little pride I've seen players with the most MKX experience doing really well against those that I know for a fact have less experience with that particular mechanic armor armor reversals armored launchers the entire poke special game poke special launching game I think those older players do have a little bit of an edge right now because I've seen them with those mechanics be more abusive with them that MKX players are more used to when it comes to abusing armor and these incredible plus frames and hard to fund the blockable situations even though we have a block button including unblockables as we jump here and the Sonic Fox hashtag wet boys in the chat it's about to get crazy are there any cumulostratus clouds outside? did anyone do a scouting report? a weather report? well Sonic Fox here is definitely trying to make a statement with this character having personal words with Sonic Fox I was told that anyone who doesn't think Rain isn't a top tier character is completely wrong about them so let's see what the fox can do this weekend one game away from making it into the winners top eighth what? he's got a tough opponent this is going to be a tricky matchup how is Rain going to be able to deal with besides just maybe the armor the pressure of Johnny Cage if he's going to get the hit though because that was going to lead to some fun block situations and there's Sonic every time you see him cancel that projectile as well building an awful lot of meter because this is a very special move oriented character versus others that may be more normal oriented Rain's very much a special scam again it was just Sonic Fox trying to get something going and I felt like that round it was just Fox keeping them away alright, fourth open doesn't work out there, Sonic coming to the over oh my goodness it was the Kara throw and back to the corner Syrax letting it rip, knock knock down overheads coming once more, 4-2-3 block which is a double overhead that is safe for Rain also has it inherently built in low with the back two that we'll see Sonic Fox back at some point Gambler losing the pressure though there's Shadowkick even one of those things that he loses pressure off of so do you want to take it? I don't know you want to take it, you want to see it I mean we're seeing something evolving here yeah, huge risk here Sonic Fox finding themselves in a very tough position here back up against the wall but that's okay Syrax is there to bail them out and all those overheads Sonic finally let the feedback to rip and blocked clutch stuff by Gambler known for one of the most defensive oriented players he's patient, definitely patient King Gambler one of the most patient players we've ever seen out there the back throw bubble here just kind of appears out of nowhere gets the forward throw, opting to use those two bars is King Gambler to make sure that this hurts as much as possible and including this corner position Sonic Fox waking up with the armor here and he gets the side switch off it and everything and that's what I'm saying, that's the only thing that I think Rain's going to have to deal with the pressure of Johnny Cage armor, but obviously easily baitable, but then again on the other side we got Syrax making it safe and that's what makes Rain Syrax in particular so strong is that everything poke special launched right there, if you blocked it, it's plus LOL I don't know if King Gambler finds this funny, but he felt the net, is that going to be it no full hype load here, but fatal it's going to get broken yeah, three bars from Sonic all that momentum slowed down, but he's going to build full meter of a zone that's a lot of sticks of butter he can't even make an awful lot of that flawless blocking from King Gambler that was key to staying in this game the life deficit not too heavily in Sonic Fox's favor and there's still plenty of time left getting flipped there, didn't go for the flawless block at all, that situation didn't find it and he just goes for a desperate shadow kick, obviously the attention was it was going to make the connection with Sonic Fox, he showed a little respect there, it's like, okay I respect it I get it, but I was all over that and you see a use of one of the best down threes in the game of Rain which washes everyone's toes, he is actually doing good, as the high mage of Outworld, it's his high duty to wash everyone's feet that down three is absurd, you see the range of it, and then how he's able to follow up with how much shit he gets off of it, that's his official title, Sindel doesn't like him low key so that's what he actually does for toes and those toes are about to get sucked to another water dimension down there so in a normal match, you say watch your toes when you get clipped by lows, but in this one it's wash your toes Cyrex coming in with the assist adding some damage here but King Ember fighting back, going right back into it a little too late there on that Cyrex call, didn't get anything from it maybe anticipating Sonic to block in that situation uses the two bars, super expensive but I think it's worth it, is Sonic Fox going to wake up on this, waking up no, wake up with the down one and then immediately micro duct it looked like lost it woke up down one, it got blocked which is losing your damage easily, easily and then Sonic, micro duct one one and one wait, one one and one you were alluding a little bit to some mkx strategies back to end, but I feel like micro ducting really was prominent in mk11 I have to say, mk11 made us all good in micro ducts, because every time I go back and play like older games we're micro ducting all of a sudden none of us micro duct back in mkx nobody did it no, definitely, not only the really really good players, but yes I definitely agree with you, going back and explore I know we're going to get flamed for it immediately, we're going to get up and homing, but it's fine guys, give it a little credit, we did get better at certain things because of mk11 and it is transferring really well to this title it's really funny seeing people go back and play mkx, like it's mk11 you know, looking to duct throws, looking to micro duct after like slightly negative, and it works and it works for the same reasons, but it's funny because the meta it never got there it never got there, but like it gets there so fast in this game even though this game is very very deep like the players are just putting in tons of work, this is like a lab monster game, you're seeing all these options all these counter plays it's incredible it's crazy what just the depth of the game delivers in so many different areas of this scene whether it be content creation viewer, like everything so we've come a long way we're both dinosaurs here, we've seen the scene for a long way oh my goodness, look at the meta, Sonic Fox is a battery, already fully charged and here you go I thought we were going to see the setup set play attempt by Sonic, but I haven't seen it one time just doing damage, putting full screen and playing that health lead zoners facing game, Sonic is keeping this incredibly simple and giving Kamler way more respect to know how to deal with those setups yeah, the setups, you know, I feel like people can kind of explore, people can kind of figure out how to get out of them, what's your best option and again, seeing what are the most likely options to come out here Cyrix keeping it nice and safe Sonic Fox forcing King Gamler to come off that breaker if he wants to win this round that's just straight spacing from Sonic, full screen control making it rain, the rain god, you have to guess where it's going to come and no matter where you jump on the screen I feel like it has the hitbox to hit you it just comes at a nice 45 degree angle of death there's the back two, gives you that cool knockdown I think we haven't talked about one time armor that by the way rains jump to un-up blockable that is very fun considering that up walk is one of the most consistent after air why hasn't anyone mentioned that about rain when talking about characters that are fantastic they're downplaying they're saving it, they're saving the dirt love the parry there love the parry there coming from King Gamler, this is do or die coming from Sonic Fox one round away from taking this in a 3-0 set goes for the throw but Sonic Fox wasn't home instead holding up and jumping but that's okay King Gamler keeping this pressure keeping the momentum in his favor Sonic Fox pushing out, pushing him away but King Gamler's just dashing in there the movement of Johnny Cage jump towards himself to the corner Sonic goes to the throw because get the Cyrax loaded the bars that's just be a simple hit right there gonna separate the sea like Moses, that's what's happening off-stream you guys can't see it but Rain's first fatality one of the gems in World of Combat 1, you guys can't see it but I'm gonna describe it to you, Rain is now parting the seas like Moses and just like his opponent disgusting and just like most damage in this game, it did half life half damage I like it so not the result I was expecting to see Sonic Fox is Sonic Fox incredible fighting game player debatably incredible fighting game player of all time across many different platforms no one doubting Sonic Fox's ability but it was really amazing to see players like King Gamler putting in tons of work entering online tournaments and I'm always looking to see forward to the next thing forward to the future the younger generation if you will the newcomers and I just embrace it but there are close rounds very close rounds as you can see here big shout outs to Mountain Dew for powering our instant replay the do over if you will shout outs, yeah big shout outs and there you see the game plan of Rain wash the toes and mix it up with check in with a mid right there so you can just know the plus frames some of those 1-1 challenges were just absurd or a more calculated player where I feel like a lesser player would look to check with something like a down one instead but if you look at the risk reward you look at what you get for challenging someone with a standing button you get way more you get an actual combo instead of just super plus frames so Sonic Fox just trying to stop any kind of advancement there at the end but we do have our next match for you guys that sets up the very first match in Top 8 guys tell me yes that's right is Rewind vs. Sonic Fox are you kidding me what year is it 1997 I think that was before either of those players were born oh my god it was but yes young guns none the less we got the mighty unjust we got the pride of New Jersey the mighty unjust and wise Gemini and wise has been one of the coolest stories about MK1 so far for me using really cool characters he's got the Lu that he's known for two things Lu Kang and an edge lord he's edgy alright and he's got his havoc the lone havoc I haven't seen any others almost in this event yeah I have not seen any others but is that going to be the choice here because we know the mighty unjust will most likely be breaking out the Kenshi yes a lot of Kenshi except for specific matchups mighty unjust you followed his career during MK11 playing literally every character I see in my own mind because I don't know the matchup having maybe an option or two somewhere because of how much armor he has but how does he deal with Kenshi and Cento at all is it an awful lot maybe that may be the choice or is there something about Lu Lao that's just going to do a lot better for him that's definitely something worth pointing out the fact that Havoc's armor move is three hitting is able to absorb three hits rather than the single hit that every other one has 17 so that's going to come into play here but is Kenshi and Cento fast enough obviously you can bait it out you can make it with he might knock out Cento but that's okay if you convert it it's going to be trickier either way the full screen games are probably going to be taken away these guys are homies because he's probably going Sub-Zero on that Kenshi Havoc's getting taken away with that all those little setups so Lu without a hat if he has armor on versus Havoc Syrax a lot better pressure I feel like Havoc's a bully have you seen his frame data go to combatacademy.com there you go big shout out to big shout out to Red Raptor and look at Havoc's frame data and then at me tell him he was right with your conclusion bully here we go not going with Havoc instead of going with Lu Kang and not Lu Lao I've never even seen this particular composition in a tournament lies Spear gets blocked by Ice Armor if not mistaken he does he want an overhead in his pressure and no he wants to spear escape maybe Cento that's right that's right and hoping that Cento doesn't come over oh and here we go unjust the name of the game call this boy and bank his opponent in the parking lot oh baby the Cento sandwich a lot of work here for Kenshi and the mighty adjust as he takes that first round wise Gemini like again a pick a more unorthodox pick but definitely we can definitely see why oh is it going to combo sick disgusting I love it so Scorpion giving Lu Kang an armored launcher off this wakeup a little bit of a boost there it does scale a lot but you know it's it's pretty nice to have that option that extra fear from the wakeup and Scorpion's cameo you know generally regarded as you know the damage dealer for almost every character in the game giving every character an overhead an escape with the spear and that was a lot of whiffing from both love the check here from wise Gemini mighty might have thought a throw is coming in that from that distance the wise Gemini exposing it completely we're gonna best stop and we're not gonna have to worry about this projectiles I got a little space in that a lot of just to get sento out and the blade to the chest I feel it every time that is my favorite animated move I think in this game so far and just went for it I don't know where he is I could have to punish no oh my good to spend a little too much time flipping and not enough time hippin oh man didn't get there in time hippin and hippin and hippin and that's what we say I didn't get there oh my god another sword to the chest it's called blocking full screen you just gotta do it I mean it's one of those things where it's like why not just do it at that range why not just do it I get so much benefit from it ship time to myself you do even if they block you I'm hanging out I'm in no danger here didn't really see the scorpion coming into fruition didn't even see an opportunity where that uh retracting spear cameo attack would even come into play so I don't know if that's the right move maybe just a little bit of an experiment Jack's unblockable setups that was very fun to see in his mouth yes very fun to see in his match yesterday against Mike Metroid but we're not going with that cameo yeah that was a great time if you've watched yesterday's events Mike Metroid wise generalize a classic classic, an instinct classic Mike Metroid so it looks like he's going to allow the shallon monk duo if you will here Liu Kang is the main character and Kung Lao is the assist and now Kenshi's got his assist out the whole movie snow blind it's in effect it's the early shallon monks versus snow blind right now here live and he's going to throw down pro competition this is for a top 8 winner still ladies and gentlemen and sento is out and the beat him up stance has occurred so what do they say, how do you deal with sento just don't get hit dodge dive dodge you dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball if you can dodge traffic you can dodge a ball pushing him back here of course the mind game is how long he holds that regular push here it looks like wise jeb and I just a little too scared to really get any kind of offense going even when he was right next to Kenshi a little bit extra right there and you can make reads if they're going to hold that for the less the frame reduction and try to challenge it what a mind game there is definitely a little bit of a mix up here right there you can see that mighty did escape but just escaped in the wrong direction the demon drop and that's a clean little punish here but didn't get a lot as mighty was able to hey it's okay I was just super negative and I can still attack here comes the sento sandwich here it is mixed town population wise jeb and I oh no it's him alone at a bar eating a sword two oh the mighty just when he simply gets to hit into sento it's not the game you were playing moments ago it's no longer more combat one it's too clean it's too clean the struggle here you're showing the power and the mighty unjust the 922 time ESL champion I forget the number every single time but it keeps growing so I'm going to keep making up a bigger and bigger number every time I say it he is a multiple time champion and this is what we're talking about the crowd starting to get high back there they go out with a bang these bullying characters are people pleasers the habits of the world the general shouts chickens of the world we want to see the big beef we do we all want to see it well some of us I think you can speak for everyone I think Mr. Ackerman is a lot to speak for everyone okay now I'm liking this I'm seeing a lot more from wise jeb and I got the tether in play is he going to snap the neck or is he going to fade out the wake up didn't fade out the wake up instead got a little too aggressive there and mighty in a great spot here whoa you don't have to worry about sento when you got all these projectiles circling around and did that projectiles give it a nice armor I'm pretty sure which I don't think it does I did yeah I was going to say so many interesting interactions that was well sento was out so there was a lot on the screen and all wise jeb and I in this one and what did we say earlier about this character a bully we're seeing it right here why didn't wise go with it the first game maybe a little not as confident with it maybe it's something that you know he assumed might he just knew about the matchup and maybe might he doesn't know they both enter a lot of these IFCFs of the world I'm sure of ITV all over the place oh and there is all of the armor that exists in the game in one special move I said 17 hips it was pretty close it's a lot of moves there a lot of moves getting just beaten up and there it is again sento taking a fiver that might be one of the only things that you can maybe try to safely do against the sirexman as well I like how smart wise jeb and I wise to get out of there that combo I don't even know that combo that combo yeah I was like what okay I'm just is gonna say hold on guys stop talking about havoc I got this the kenji show not the havoc show it was about to be that mess got him look at sento slowly walking down with the stance one dash at a time and then there's a half screen overhead to clip him what a minute sento overhead and he does the back do I mean look mighty how to come off that fatal blow had to set up for the potential comeback 141 and he did it early I think reading that that wise is gonna be trying to have a versatile armor right there which would have been smart to call out that's a smash point for him and he has everything he wants on the screen right now ice armor and a dream sento sandwich not where you want to be wise jeb and I jumping right out of there nobody home to check them and keep them in place but that's okay mighty adjust finds a nice hit instead of getting more damage instead ops to go and reload the center but wise jeb and I finding the straight hit getting the conversion and setting up the tether is he gonna snap the neck yes he does unblockable boys keeping them close to the corner what's gonna be the next setup because that is a very expensive setup so we're not gonna keep seeing it that does cost two bars even though it is an unblockable you know kind of a reset thing there just a lot of damage just all the 160 and coming in with a big buttons of sento stance is mighty unjust to end the winners run of wise jeb and I GGs to both unjust in winners top eight will join the upper echelon of players of rewind and sonic up there as only four will make it in to that round now was that was that three back to back three ohs yeah what's happening very dominant performances I mean this is could be players that a little bit more players that prepared a little bit more didn't want to just go in with nothing and coming out on top last winners match coming up right now and this this was a this is a final combat match d'artharmo this is a final combat match that was probably one of the best matches in that that entire final combat for combat 11 this is a world championship caliber that you guys are seeing that could be the world finals these two and let's check out our instant replay or do over thank you to Mountain Dew let's go do it enjoy enjoy enjoy your mountain but you can see you know I really think we would have seen a completely different set had wise gone with havoc the entire time that's kind of the character that wise has been known to play for a long time and it was really cool to see that that armor come in the play yes yes because that was a pure I had no idea what was going to happen I'm like it's just going to zone out the whole time is going to get destroyed but right and and when he was able to establish sento not on the screen he was playing the game just fine yeah yeah no problem I mean again that's the thing is can she get that sento set up life's a lot easier for him blind and everything this is zombat formerly known as combat going up against ninja killer two incredible players I was actually talking to sonic fox this morning and asked who are you training and playing with the most and he said zombat by a lot he plays with sorry sonic plays with zombat way more than anybody else and you can't count them out that there's no no amount of money can buy you that kind of and and has I believe going back to when you know formerly known as combat back then came on to the scene in injustice to yes and like it was a very young player really young really online at first yes and earned the top players respect so quick like it was crazy yes was it firestorm firestorm and what's crazy is is I thought everyone like hated like hated fighting them because all they did was just get hit and mixed in you fifty fifty to death and when I blew came out you were toast I'm getting flashbacks back I'm getting terrible ones of health bars disappearing but that is that is the skill of this young player that has now through across multiple titles you know in injustice instantly made it to the top and first Mortal Kombat game world finalist yes first Mortal Kombat game and here's the second one for zombat love seeing the also love seeing I want to shout out zombats YouTube a lot of incredible guides on there like really breaking down like everything about characters like a lot tons of detail like breaking down the frame data how to approach matchups how to you know strings to look at and just giving you an awesome idea so so big shout out to the zombats YouTube channel if you guys want to learn more about all the characters in place tons tons of information there go check it out such a knowledgeable young man and of course go check out his YouTube where he's just beaten the bricks off of with no explanation off of people with no explanation you just you start the video he's beaten the bricks off of someone and then the video ends and he's like yeah yeah one it's one of those like it subscribe see the next video that's Ninja that is that's 100% it and what he did in the video was like you know this this Michelangelo art piece of Mortal Kombat this like the most highest the highest damaging combo done in match first try ever dropped the whole match was one change some combo yeah it was awesome here we go guys the last match of winners top 16 we've talked them up and now it's time for combat baby read it zombie it was the Johnny case that we knew more than MK 11 in that match in particular he was smoking and it's going to be the Raiden from Ninja killer which means that he's coming out swinging we saw some other characters early in the tournament nothing but seriousness today yes yes I mean this is you're not you don't want to play around with zombie as you can see right now putting on a clinic for Ninja killer Ninja killer in a bad spot is he even going to okay gets the throw escape there showing signs of life at least getting out of the corner and it's just not the run back from evil as well where they played I think in top 16 somewhere like that they met around this time as well where Ninja wanted really close and hello lightning cage hitting everywhere keeping him in the corner it's been to win excellent negation of the chip but not a stop of the pressure don't want to lay off the pressure whole whole big wave punish here and it hurts when Raiden finds that wave punish and Ninja killer is one of the best at them I mean Ninja killer's neutral is phenomenal insane like the spacing from this player you don't want to give an opportunity up and if there's an ounce and I mean one maybe even point zero one extra damage that you can find in a combo Ninja's going to find it and do it on on stream trust me and say is that part is that supposed to be hard yeah is that hard although Sonic was flexing on us with those jump cancel combos yesterday that was a little that's a little insane yeah I saw Sonic doing them like to warm up and I said how are those combos actually like really really hard and he goes yeah they're hard doesn't push that right in front of you you know Sonic they have this ability to just be great and that's what it is it's making up 518 more from Ninja on the day what a way and that would I don't like to see yes my heart my heart drop that was a close one right there that was super close that could have been an entire game the entire round and you hate to see it combat starting out so phenomenally against Ninja credible just just the control that he gives you right there and every time he tried to jump out it was right into a lightning cage right into a lightning cage no problem I mean you're not going to Johnny Cage doesn't have anything to really mess with the trajectory there obviously nothing like a teleport once you jump so that's clean plain and simple jump in here comes the lightning cage you're going to land on it you're going to get hurt and you're going back to the world and now we've got some I've never left fingers it feels like a challenge from Zombat that says you know what buddy it's let's do this no let's do this it's going to be a 5-5 we got the same tools the same options I'm going to try to beat you at your own game no excuses it's a very tough order to tell someone as talented as Ninja I can beat you with your family and Ninja's saying so far no you're not that's what I'm seeing that's definitely what I'm seeing I don't know if that was a flawless block attempt trying to let go and then hold on to blocks and negate all that chip there because there's plenty of chip and it does add up here as you can see here Syrax coming in to make it nice and safe and you kill a flawless block in there just at the end right as Syrax comes in for the clip gonna opt to use those two bars to make it count it should be plenty enough plenty enough now's the time to kill him that was it that's all you get back off he's a fair fighter I'll let you get up block again just to sit through all those blocks then again back in the grinder we don't know how that feels staying low the Raiden special Raiden not only Earthrealms but also Earthrealms limbo champion that's it he gets low let me tell you he gets low nice I'd love to do that work in the fields and work in his opponents block go to carrier but that was so smart to not finish a string there wait for the Syrax and then get Syrax out of the picture and then continue your onslaught back escape playing to the corner but that's okay we're out of here on the other side if it didn't work one way I'm gonna do it the other way this is a match that we're gonna see a lot of the passive ability of Raiden come into play as the more that Raiden blocks you see his eyes light up that means he's taking a lot less chip damage almost acting like an auto almost blocked for ya almost almost there still got a flawless block though that's all that remains in this match with all of this health it's been mostly blocked all checks and balances now such a quick check by Ninja a reaction that's something that you do not want to test against him with 3 seconds remaining gotta pick up and that is gonna be in 2 to 0 for Ninja with 1 second remaining there's a time that perfectly it seemed like it seemed like those first games when you're playing against somebody you kinda figure it out you figure out their tendencies and how aggressive they want to be or how defensive they want to be and I think combat gave a lot of information there to Ninja Killa in that first game I don't know if Johnny Cage is the way I was seeing combat making the adjustments a little bit more towards the end of that second game I would have liked to see him explore it a little bit more that second round pretty close a few different hits away it wasn't even here now he just hovered over Syrax some more and he's going back to Lao here which I believe is a change up from round 1 where he did have the Syrax, Johnny now he's gonna have the low for plus frames a little bit more for Ninja to worry about full screen in comparison finding something to worry about full screen so a little bit of a change up about like this I love the aggression after recognizing that the Lao low had hit knowing how plus he was and saying hey this is the opening for me good throw escape here from combat Lao hat coming in as an anti-air as a very convert easy to convert combo and Ninja Killa going for a ride now we did see this the first time around and Ninja Killa just laid down that first round and then turned it completely up on the follow up it's almost like he likes to take in the information and then activate in round 2 which I have heard stories of sitting up from his chair old Street Fighter 2 players that would do that one intentionally just to see what you do and then play long, long set here as you see he's down to regardless if not the best down to in Mortal Kombat 1 upper cutting the sky looking at someone a thunderstorm with that thing a few times we've seen him go ahead and watch yeah, because it's very fast and again it's the risk reward versus all babies so smart or bold I can't tell sometimes when it comes to this I'd say big brain big brain is really good because you know what that covers both of them a little bit gives them a little bit of benefit of the doubt he's full charging almost circle goes behind the hat immediately when he saw it took away the mind game instantly and there's the mind game himself charging at he's gonna try to jump it he interrupts it there but not really getting it much out of there the back dash from Ninja Killa opening him up completely he's going for a huge combo here has the corner, has the Cyrex assist and this is a dangerous spot for combat just playing with us Ninja just one for the plus frames on that string great, great to space and this is it for Zombat he's got the hit, he's got the resources let's see if he can use it he baits it, let's go gonna go into the fatal blow he's got a whip forces off the meter Ninja he's fully charging the projectile you got to come to me right now put down the loud head and that's gonna be it Ninja Killa takes it three to zero in winners top eight man you don't want to go down in that fashion on a stage like this against an opponent like that it's just again just heart wrenching to see and that was for top eight we're sitting here like that should be in top eight yes because again these two Titans normally you see incredible down to the wire sets here but Zombat it's gonna be hard for us I definitely said combat throughout that set combat's in our DNA it's literally in the name of the game changing his name for the trademark I understand that I get it so are you just officially apologizing I will apologize I'm sorry Zombat your old name was half of the game that we literally say and play every day but we love you regardless still in this tournament is Zombat going down to Ninja just like at EVO Zombat was still able to make a massive losers run there expected here Big match is still to come guys that was winners top 16 through so later on in winners top eight Rewind versus Sonic Fox the mighty unjust versus Ninja Killer that is none of us can look at that top four in winners side and say none of them don't seem to be there almost what we expect to be there and who we expect to be there right now there's a scene in the new era and there's tons of talented players who still couldn't get there and that's just a testament to how heavy the competition was here this weekend all the killers came out I mean in it's just too much it's overwhelming you guys have been hearing us all weekend talking about it it's in front of us you guys are witnessing it live as well hope you guys are giving your thoughts and coming up is going to be the losers side of top 16 every match is streamed so just sit back and enjoy hope you got everything ready your snacks hope you got your mount ready on the losers side we got B-dog versus Blue Linkys going up against Gur we got Turkey going up against video games yo and we got Cease going up against Theoxys yeah it's going to be incredible here I'm most looking forward to the run back of Gur versus Big Daddy G it came down to the wire just like this chug is going down the wire I thought you were going to keep going I know it's a lot I was but it's too much of a risk a little bit of carbonation sorry production that was right in there here I apologize guys I love it Mr. Aquaman it's been an honor a privilege every single time to commentate with you Mr. Aquaman is going to take a break so he can get ready for top 8 I'm going to be joined by Tencho for the rest of this top 16 tons of great matches including Gur with the run back against Big Daddy G coming right up we're going to take a quick break don't go anywhere we'll be right back we're back with ECT action this is the first stop of the world tour for the pro competition my name is Tencho the sexy man next to me is none other than Dark Armour and guess what matches underway already we got to get back to it it's prime time it's prime time let's go let's go I can't wait to see this match Gur versus Big Daddy G the run back that incredible comeback on the winner side Big Daddy G it was like an 80% the man was just kicking down to nothing the last breath mechanic kicked in kept him alive and Gur let me tell you Gur really needed that streak in the 12v12 last night because Gur was not feeling great about that and there's no nice way to put it he choked he choked against Big Daddy G you know took his hands off the wheel and just let Big Daddy G come back and it was just wrong decision after wrong decision but I think he was reborn he was reborn last night in the ashes of from the chaos that was the tri-state not the chaos the bodies that that man laid out he took out like six people to take out I ain't gonna say it was seven I ain't gonna lie to y'all I left early because when I saw Gur smiling I was like I gotta leave but he's definitely riding off the momentum right now so we're gonna see at that momentum we're gonna be able to take out G G1 is remember this is a double jeopardy match G beat him 3 to 1 to take it in the winter side and this is the redo so let's see the adjustment being made the instant you see the clock you see one clock coming into play here Gur so someone explained to me that when he exes it that's not one clock that's three right away so he actually has a rewind time instantly right here that's very fun I'm sure you guys saw tons of that last night in 12v12 let's see in terms of it right now here comes the low hat scoop oh wait the overhead not gonna be a punish it's a side switch back in time baby back in time the warden of time love to see it Gur I'm trying not to laugh but bro this man is really gonna as soon as he gets to hit he's gonna right back in time I don't know I heard this character is one of the worst in the game but I thought what I'm seeing when the hands of Gur go for the bro but duck right underneath it let's get full combo oh wait a second it didn't hit him so that was a punish and it should be deaf into fatal that's 950 help on the side of Gur uh oh uh oh it's fake it's gonna hurt it's gonna hurt is it gonna be a nothing I think he lives smoke so weak this little stab look at it nothing stab to your skull that's nothing as literally 1% on the health bar oh my gosh teleport oh you called it scouted out even though Gur getting so many things right in the beginning of that round still fell but it's a long set ahead of us it's definitely gonna be another close one nice that man's face is twisted pushing positions back in the screen went right in front of him but didn't do anything well it gets a lot of trouble frozen in time you gotta lose no way right just getting some pretty good damage a little bit less than 40% neutral jump punch coming from Big Daddy G that of course is gonna land and be perfect going invisible where's the mix you can't see it you can't walk it that's what I always say you cannot see what this man is doing like what is this Big Daddy G taking game number one Gur's got that patented murder face on oh yeah those Manson lamps just looking so determined here and that's just going down one game and that that look develops over the set that look develops over time this is a loser side this is do or die for both these players you lose one more time you're out of this double elimination tournament and you're not gonna get to that top 8 you're not gonna fight for that shot in the top 8 this is my favorite point of tournament because you see the make-up break moments for a lot of players to break through is in their clutch factor and as well as that emotion for our free remember this is not only for the money and for the glory but it's a pride on the line too this is the first pro competition you want to do well so you can be in the spotlight and definitely bring in those eyes that's what you're looking at you know first impressions very very important now the winner of this set you have to get through this right in front of you and then king gambler right after it's so crazy against these matches when you get to top 32 everyone in there is a top 8 player you're just like brother way more than 8 players deserve to be in top I'll say that only the best investment to survive right now is doing the best at mixing the fact that you know that you're still right there I mean to me I was literally going to say the same thing the fact that he knows like hey here he is jumping I'm right here but here does find the follow up hit charging up the clock because he's going to slip back through time whatever he needs to there we go that's what it is slipping back through time what are you going to do about that while it's blocking the end to minimize the chip minimize a little bit of the block too long and the conversion wait he's just jumped back jump back hit why not he has nothing to break here on deck one bar variety overhead might sneak in I think he was looking for teleports there every patient here not go crazy going to another mix what are you going to guess for game gets clipped and that should be it he had another rewind we're out of here chip last breath not going to come into play in this first round getting on the board here and just walking down big daddy that was confidence that was confidence for big daddy second call first but that's going to be a big pun the man just can reach a mind while invisible I thought the purpose only you can't see him Garrett was trying so many things he tried to jump last time and got anti-air tried to block, blocked wrong he tried to armor attack got blocked I don't understand big daddy is on a completely different level I just don't understand what he's doing Dave is going to get a side switch let me break this get to the board all he went for I respected you still got a whole plus brains I don't care if I can't see you or not you still got to respect me I like that it worked and maybe that's the answer but he has the ball back to working the clock oh got clapped wait a second though back to patience going down the hat getting up from blocks gets clipped by the low but misses the cancel Gerr you have a chance plus brains and guess what the low hat is going to seal the deal Gerr needs to take this match he does not want to go down to 0 right now he's riding a momentum and he's doing pretty good with it that was pretty lucky by Gerr to get that hit in just in time and an easy conversion for Gerr low hat that missed he was behind him and guess what you're over there now the corner plus all got called but didn't believe he didn't believe in it just wanted to go for the stagger but that's okay keep it going here we got tons of damage dropped out a little bit there at the end though oh no but then commit to it why would you try to throw G for the game you know this is the worst guy to try to jump with the down bore, the staggers and gets clipped by the last part yo hide up one to one his brutality I wish we want to see it you guys can find it also somebody has all the whole brutality in every single different costume there's tons, tons out there tons out there for real Gerr showing signs of life tying it up getting off to a better start than the winter side yes it's thirsty he's absorbing that water that man was parched that's why he squeezed that bottle he's pretending he's pretending it's Big Daddy G wait till I find that invisible smoke wait till you find out what I do alright yo instant jump back Big Daddy G all over that reed ducking right under he punishes for a nice 37% combo nice blocking over here but no I'm not gonna give me that hat going back into my rabbit hole he's out checking him there, I like it you can't let him get away with things that aren't plus ooh stab him and twist it that means Jericho leaves I don't know how you believe in this much but somehow someway you'll make it confidence confidence is what I'm seeing here trying to compliment that low with a little bit of pressure and I think that breaker hindsight not a good idea very tough position here it looked like he got the string a little mixed up there and probably that was going in the opposite direction got him to get me cooking a lot of soul but wait a second you're gonna be lost by the overhead because he's probably going out of the low and guess what the stagger is in front of him no it's minus five with those cancels I can read that my guy both this clock, please follow the time until you stay in this corner well when I talk over here punished but I can just win it back this clip has a full combo BG plus frames and backs up that was a stiff golem I'm trying to see Big Daddy G constantly pressing on the custer but hey if you're not checking with down one just down one oh my god you grabbed G again that was so risky this time with the tech set of the duck but guess what make some spin the bar and get clipped by the sweep this patch right here is insane it's so good and yeah coming off that bar is going to be a slight little moral victory for Gur I love to check there with the stand one make sure he's blocking and then go for the throw speaking of throw as Big Daddy G he's getting the back throw here the toward escape Gur all over the corner positioning knowing which way he's getting thrown towards little staggers in the front of the face try to go for shim but with none of that big jump from Gur and he's going to be frozen do you have the loops this time no another clock this is going to be a bad news bear from Big Daddy G right now Rev is up and guess what I don't know what this does but just know he was invisible somehow some way he was just a sand of time he was pieces of sand he's in many pieces here I don't know where he's going to be in the next second give me your dream oh my gosh no this ain't good G this is down to one Gur showing off the clock showing off the rewind timing K-Mac is coming up to whisper his man's here hey let me tell you something he gets them clocked for he rewinds time for that one bar if you don't read it you're going to die that's it that's 100% what he's saying no doubt about it maybe he's telling him to try to use the headphones everyone else's G likes to listen to crowd though the energy G is a very passionate player these are two very passionate players actually what you really think about it and G is one of those people that feeds off the crowd Gur needs sound though Gur needs sound yeah we're not switching it up at all we got Kung Lao hats for days we got smoke teleports for days G is going back in the sand of time forever and ever and ever learning it up oh right back I don't want to deal with the hat it goes right back I'm over here now oh did he do the overhead to get over that no way but guess what I got to redo I think he did he hopped right over it and again it's so hard to see because he literally doesn't get anything for it beautiful flawless block there at the end and a nice little punish here coming out of Big Daddy G oh my goodness he's going to slide in nice this man is going to do enough I guess no way disgusting and he's right in front of him again tries to go just for a regular sweep and Gur willing to press the buttons as he's getting up on the ground and just trying to use that Kung Lao hat to keep him at bay while he loads up those clocks the chip is going to be the issue there that 4-3 is coming those multi kicks that's going to chip out that light bar Big Daddy G striking first blood in the game number 4 oh nice auntie out of here oh guess what the hat was there for coverage a little bit of insurance if you will we love insurance agents that's the one thing right now it does everything for you you know he stays and runs back good block and he did the up block too no Gur is a god how did you know to up block right there there's no way boot 407 oh no that was a mistake indeed gets clipped by the overhead guess what out of here teleports nothing out there though the hats on deck oh the wrong time for sweep my guy look at the damage armor look at the damage armor it's not fair literally 50% of his health gone just like that this is the conversion get some if he shouldn't drop it he spends fatal he's not even going to worry about using the bar he just wants to secure the kill the crowd says hold the hat and we got a potential last round coming out of Gur the crowd screaming let's go Gur let's go maybe this is a good time to put the headphones on armor he said he was feeding off the crowd there are players throughout history of fighting games that have fed off the negativity of crowd so Big Daddy G needs to tap into that toxic that toxic crate inside his body no misses the punt oh no it might have just cost him so much he's going to get another clock out of this back to the corner you go this time to the fire side oh my god what is he doing right back there this is such a steep deal to cloud this oh my feet is definitely in trouble wait a second this happened last time well come back guess what he's back to this time he's prepared he's got the clock loaded up and I think Big Daddy G he needs to go in and don't even give him the opportunity to load up guest to punish where was he he didn't get clipped that time around and this time Gur has to guess for his life guess what game he backs up smoke is going to be ending in a second smart move by Gur get some guest to cancel I don't even think that was a punish I don't think he pressed a button on the way down that's not going to be enough I don't think I'm going to be oh no it's not enough at all I know for a fact but Gur is definitely in trouble what is your final bet you have a bar you have two bars to work with so what are you going to do with is the other side plus frame chip is the issue last breath mechanic coming into play here guys could be it oh my goodness the chest bump if it wasn't a double hitting low there at the end we could have survived to see another day the crowd the crowd is divided we got some big daddy G chance we got some let's go Gur chance two to two I wouldn't have it man this run back is all I want to see I'm not going to lie to you this is the run back I wanted to see the most on this Sunday I didn't care about any other matches but this one I'm glad I got to be a part of it this is the final game between these two to find out this any of the top eight this is to advance to see who can make it to get to the 9th place oh my god and getting clipped again side size with the bar we have to wonder about using any Kung Lao assist that isn't the low hat because it just loads back up so so slow so big daddy G going to need to rely a little bit on his own just for a little bit and as I said that it loaded right back up man it's so fast don't get the armor on the other side that all hit two plus rings plus rings again he's chipping he's chipping he's chipping it's plus it's plus and Gur keeping the composure and just saying he's eventually not going to do it again he's eventually going to check me he's eventually just going to not do it again so much you have a bar to work with got tons of his health back too oh it gets right over the low head with the overhead while it's walking and getting that chip I smell it over here coming out of BG smell what the rock is smell it oh how did you know it's to get over that hat both of these guys over his gets over the low hat and wait is that it? no way right? it's a ton of damage it's going to be close no he dropped it he missed the stand one that's so unfortunate no they're nervous they're so nervous sweating sweating all over their pads sweating all over their head nice a block BDG big daddy G on set point here trying to steal this trying to solidify that dominance over Gur both sending him to the losers and out of this tournament but Gur's not out quite yet blocks the overhead doesn't get anything afterwards though oh my gosh there's so much to look out for I'm gonna be honest with y'all this pop off might be legendary oh my gosh BDG might be able to complete the double jeopardy right here right now set up the low hat get off me says Gur I can still check out here it's the other side full swing into plus range the down jab gets clip oh the spacing here from Gur he's got the corner positioning he's got damage to do and again it's just gonna take maybe a throw and a really big combo to do it nice a block but he has rewind insurance oh my gosh pokes him and twist it low hat chases him down flows blocks don't flow his blocks so much pressure the anti air BDG should be able to close out the pop off I'm him that's what he says ninja congratulating this teammate and Gur unfortunately the man tried to mount it tried to make sure it didn't happen again but it's going to fall to BDG my goodness Arma I felt that one I felt that one in my heart I could see the mood just changing for Gur so close going up taking a huge lead in that set and letting big daddy G come back there but big daddy G absolutely deserved it played super well at the end and of course we are all good sports rivalry demons aside we are all here to play connect and have fun as you can see Gur switching it up from murder face to you know that was good you got to respect it these boys are all passionate Gur definitely you can definitely see the adjustments from the last time I played to that one it was a lot closer but BDG keeping that composure he said you know what I don't care I'm down to one I'm going to make this happen like if you see the comparisons from their winner side to the loser side set you wouldn't think that only a day has passed you would think that it was like a month of meta at least hyperbolic time chamber type of trainer right there like I said Gur did not take that loss yesterday too well you know but you know I think he's okay with this one you know he knows he played well he knows he didn't joke you know BDG just played it a little bit better and then there's no shame in that there's absolutely no shame in that just a better play in that moment it was definitely some nerves coming out of both of them and this type of stage armor are you seeing this time and time again you've been seeing it what the drops these players can do in these moments it happens man it happens it gets the best of you and you know it's crazy because there's not much you can do to train yourself to stop getting nervous on stage other than just exposing yourself to that just getting yourself out there playing under pressure even like you know you could be great you could be one of the best players in the world but if you're doing it just casually it might not translate easily definitely might translate easily at all but man this guy we're getting our next set we're ready to go again big thanks to Mountain Dew for the instant replay BDG vs Blue Linky oh my first off tell me so I was um I had just you know woken up kind of late you know I was getting ready and then I was walking downstairs I thought well yeah I had a fun night indeed I had woke up um you know stretching like getting ready and then preparing myself and downstairs I'm like alright let me see the break what I missed and I see BDG beat splash I was like yo whoa that set was intense I heard and I missed it and then Blue Linky's taking out some beach yes yes two names that we are very familiar with in the NRS scene going down and not to say BDG is not you know a name we know in the NRS scene but not really at that level previously but what I saw how many times he baited out Splash's armor attack by just simply neutral jumping making sure that Goro didn't connect either BDG meticulously lab that set up BDG did his homework time and time again and a hundred percent deserved that win over Splash Blue Linky's again Sameej no slack at all one of the best NRS players from many previous titles since MKX when he was anti-airing with Molina's down one all the way to now it's an incredible win there for Blue Linky's and I love seeing again you know I love seeing our guys do great in other games but I also love seeing you know other game gods doing awesome and giving the NRS games a chance. Truthfully like Blue Linky's if you guys do not know like reminder Armour was alluding to Blue Linky's one DNF duel this weekend for ECT so like yeah anime god anime god anime god right here playing our game and again if you guys if you love fighting games give it a try any of genres that you can pick out of any areas you can go in different play styles I mean you know if you like it you know I'm not telling you to play something you don't like but give it a try I'm pretty slippery when wet hey Johnny be careful this kid's watching a little inappropriate dialogue from Johnny Cage wouldn't have it any other way BDG phenomenal really good super patient when he needs to be I say that as soon as he decides to jump in and kick and get punished for it I'm coming out of Blue Linky's butt gonna go and speak this is the thing I've noticed from Blue Linky's rank compared to Sonic's rank Blue Linky's uses the dirty bubble Sonic does not use that dirty bubble at all I've noticed that Sonic uses portals a lot but Blue Linky's uses that dirty bubble and it's so good because you do not know what he's doing behind that thing I don't get it yeah it's a little bit of concealing the secrets there good block of BDG recognizing that low puddle and just blocking the low on the wakeup nuts 227 just like that we're in the corner and we got we got sidewraps and we got more pressure ohhhh trying to catch up with that shimmy taking this turn bash and another throw no two bars to launch so it's gonna hold 2% sidewraps are keeping safe no you went under I'm telling you he like again you know that you're not gonna get a full combo punish normally but hey you're at least gonna eat this button and it's still gonna be my turn you're not getting out of here for free guess what that's the worst and gets clipped by the overhead he got mixed Blue Linky's denying the comeback out of BDG BDG was making that happen it was and hopefully not too much momentum was spent there he's got enough save for the rest of this grueling long set what what you're dying that's just dead guys hey this time I gotta keep my control y'all but like that time right there was like bro what what just hit him there I guess the mage got a shield you know the imaginary shield we didn't know about let me find out about the hitbox let's go try to go below that's a big punish can't be doing that hey hey that's 351 ooh looking to bait something out there but hey sought and recognized that bait didn't take so it says it's my turn to start swinging away Johnny Cade's wave dash in his way closer and closer to Blue Linky's and this is where he wants to be Ray's got some great special moves but I will say it's not downplaying with saying his buttons are a little bit more on the slow end buttons are definitely tapping on the slow end but that's when the side right assist comes in for coverage coverage ooh you gotta break that that was O.D. I don't think that would have killed but it would have looked very cheap we put you in a very uncomfortable position considering Blue Linky started to run around I definitely agree with that right now going for a round I think he got fatal just in time on him like literally doing that like man if you guys do not know the middle has a 10 second timer before you begin after it's broken and blocked yes so if it's blocked and it didn't successfully connect it will cool down and come back and that's just the hyper-awareness that Blue Linky does understanding that rule right there that Tentor just told you guys but also just being aware of everything on top of playing a fighting game at the same time you gotta look out for those resources Nancy's ridiculous right now Blue Linky stay composed tried and true he's been in these positions before in other games and he's in that position right now B-Dawg as you said we're not a newer face but definitely newer to the big stage side of things yeah this is probably one of the final moments for him so I'm expecting big things you know B-Dawg played in the Justice League oh yeah oh yeah love playing joker not enough to lock him up bro it's just a border mage dude okay oh he didn't care anything about that dirty bubble puts the elbows right through and he's going coast to coast oh we got all of it air combo and if you burst him off of it too B-X enough punch being invincible and wake up is crazy very fun very fun in the getting right under there no they get the jump cancel though unfortunately the helicopter parent is doing right there nothing you're gonna save anybody out of here B-Dawg trying to come in and you know he doesn't want to get too close he doesn't have too much to work with here washing the toes wash your toes neutral jump kicking and that's going to be his invite to bring in the PsyRex to bring in this pressure nice 12 bucks he's getting all that shit and that whole thing is coming out of B-Dawg but wait a second he finds this straight moment is he going to get a breaker he does portal's on deck by the way that's under PsyRex who's there but coverage oh my goodness I mean not only coverage but literally bait thinking hey you can but it's just getting PsyRex coming in and you continue the combo afterwards this is not good this is not good you're in the corner we're getting hype we're getting absolutely hype here hey hey hey nuts nuts I like that reset right there yeah you already did the damage it's gonna scale more from there and you might as well go for the reset at that moment plus frames on plus frames oh my goodness go for the low good block good block blue link is surviving in the corner but B-Dawg with this onslaught the man's been holding block but for about good 15 seconds finally gets opened up and this can scale very disastrous form the sweep down towards the back we're gonna take it B-Dawg guys time it up on the one on the one baby we got a real set here B-Dawg always around was always around in the NRC and again like I feel like when the game initially came out always put their best foot forward trying to display tech trying to show new ways on how to approach matchups and I love seeing that B-Dawg is utilizing a very good character this time around oh yeah Johnny Cage R to be in top one in the game very strong character oppressive plus frames and with the right camera you can do things like this hello Togo's right under that downward which is so low negating pretty much side right and beautiful up block this is the combo I'd like to see that but that's okay still feeling good nice down one for the anti-air tried and true nice and simple the throwback easily done here Winkies gets the shot a kick for his troubles it's challenging there with that stand one is Johnny Cage trying to just come in with that advancing mid oh that would have got him if he was a tad big closer I like that I didn't knew Winkies just couldn't perform but guess what the back throw to the corner we go oh that's a big finish we're not gonna break that he knew the life depth so he had to overcome and there's almost two bars inside of B-dog that faces and you know what I got you next round he comes in that but not in time able to block is blue Winkies but he gets thrown for his troubles his back up up against the wall and here comes a B-dog here comes Johnny Cage that's going for a ride instead trying to go for the cancel the overhead to the throw but misses it the back throw coming out of B-dog instead and another trip guard he has really been spacing his back that's quite nicely but then jump kicks the whip and him to get a beautiful trip guard punish oh once the back three and perfectly spaced they're not really get a big punish from Rain but doesn't see the forward throw come in Sirex and there's two bars there's tons of damage here to push him closer and closer to the corner with Winkies he's gonna set up here he does have one total activated has the second one here but there goes wait a second wait a second what's up Harry I knew the poke was coming and one more hit oh that's neat he's got two bars oh he's so lucky oh too oh my god I thought he was gonna clip him in the toe but guess what Rain had the high ground he learned from Ennequin mistake and guess what he's got the whole state to work with yeah there's a little bit of a desperation move there coming out of B-dog that's kind of a Hail Mary with you I'm not even gonna talk about that he's getting hyped and guess what that's a full target he's just first oh my god he's going in skip back up armor armor to get out of there I don't want none I don't want none of that superstar misses the punnest and guess what he still has a little star power to work with this room no he's not he's gonna be all about it Armors get Cyrax a little combo for but chases him down all these pit-to-fire would have been so much more that's gonna be enough here B-dog love to chase down there on the back dash a very common option when you are getting a little aggressive on the back dash and anticipate a down one or some kind of check and then go back and whiff punnish now let me explain what's going on here the hat the hat is being summoned back on the blue linkies tell me the lore please the lore apparently I was filled in by big birds you see here coaching blue linkies when blue linkies was playing against a meege when it went down two to two they decided to play Native American rain music for him okay well hopefully it does with the ruck right now because his nuts are gone he's getting put to the corner once again daddy doesn't care about any rain noises you know why he's a movie star been there been there done that less than 30% left and the Jimmy the rain music was not enough he needs a thunderstorm look at it he's building height full hype full hype on deck is not what you want to see that's not what you want to see as your Johnny Cajun is on a magic point love the patience blue linkies knowing that the hype giving him access to do the shadow trick again they're just kind of waiting for a guest opportunity to go in for a bonus two dog right now trying to get him rushing put him to the corner blue linkies trying to look for his moments to stop this momentum because you really need to try to get a combo for this yes but Mrs. A went the other way gets a low into the launch but breaks it immediately you dog didn't want to see none of that beautiful outspace more geyser and guess what side ranks for the win it's getting him that round Cyrus keeping him nice and safe in all the scenarios and just complimenting a lot of the things that Ray throws out there I don't know what he was waiting for he was holding down thinking the net was going to be a high maybe just kind of a little bit of a rain noise it must be too loud but guess what the launch isn't clipped with the low here really didn't convert anything too dangerous let's find the hit let's find the follow-up the back three that could have been so much worse for B-Dog if Linky's impreemptively decide I'm going to mash down one I expect you to show them that hope there's right now full of strength good blocks Anties but nothing off of it though Halt B-Dog not blocking not going to be at a breaking time going to hold the book of this damage and guess what you can't see a thing behind that dirty bubble Cyrus got a save dirty concealed secrets here blocking good job B-Dog getting challenged Blue Linky's two to two the crowd is going wild he's got that whole front row cheering for him you guys didn't know that's TGC that's the Golden Coalition right there you see the guy in the sunglasses that is the leader Kevin M. Cologne that's right right there the whole team got the squad back to B-Dog just by his lonesome but hey don't care about that nose that's why you got the earphones for taking over outworld television yes check yes oh yeah what they're doing they got the TGC who's just an amazing thing as well as Kevin is an amazing person but we're in a game 5 situation and he got rid of Cyrax instantly I don't want you to make a cameo appearance get off my screen but it was also crazy how he was still in that summoning stance animation they got a big appendix if you got it in time I have to do a couple characters cameo you could actually they would be in this summon animation for quite a long time and I haven't seen anybody actually get a real big punch on this I feel like nobody's ready for it and somehow B-Dog was ready for that conversion they're back three connecting perfectly here trying to block this onslaught of buttons from Johnny Cage B-Dog with a double down one check that is got to take some nerve let me tell you that play the space cameo the royal flushes are down portals are up there's so much water on the screen there's hundreds right it does get slippery on the web but this is a sidewrap but the knee shout-outs to Dizzy is going to close out and it looks like B-Dog is one round away for a message in the future 16 run away but B-Linkys does have three bars to work with yes the first combo getting cut completely short here the neutral jump any kind of whip it doesn't matter B-Dog getting the best of this world and this is going to be the pressure he does have a bar to armor with but is he going to do it and is B-Dog going to sniff it out it must be Canada doesn't do enough damage but guess what you tried to anti here and you held that man's $500 shoes for it this could spell the end for blue Winkys right now it's tough but the duck on the throw did not get the jump cancel and it's going to be a big shadow kick and B-Dog would puff up the handshake the blue hat was not enough the ritual wasn't enough man not enough but big shout out to the Winkys for making it so far in this highly competitive event I mean all these killers in this bracket and you know you really got to say that these guys deserve all of it it's a ton of work over the weekend and B-Dog moves on B-Dog does move on off against Pulse yes Pulse is definitely a big demon that you have to go against but you got to go through the killers you want to make that top 8 and if you make top 8 that's even more of a battle to get to there and right now we got VGY and Turkey getting to the stage but first big shout out to Mountain Dew do the do and we got the redo Blue Winkys definitely he was definitely trying his best to like stop the momentum B-Dog has so many good moments where jump kicks were connecting of course he was rushing down with beautiful weapons using that knee so well but Blue Winkys able to stop that momentum then again at the end of all of that the hype meter I feel like played a decent factor keeping Blue Winkys on his toes and then making B-Dog rush with that approach and any drop that ended up happening on the side of Blue Winkys B-Dog right here that was so unfortunate could have been a change of pace but B-Dog recognizing armor immediately kicked to the chest watched the foot and the pop up the fist bump yeah and I think that was that was B-Dog 100% doing the homework around what to do with Rain's armor move when he tries to back it up with Cyrex in the corner we saw him even just getting the down forward to knock Cyrex out still apply pressure to Rain for the punish and then it's still his turn which is exactly where Johnny Cage wants to be and even there at the end he knew all I need is one shadow kick if I can get that in there before Cyrex even comes to the picture and that's what I'm seeing I'm blown away by B-Dog and all that preparation that we've seen so far yes he's making that loser's run and he's going to continue to make that loser's run but before we see everyone else's loser's run we gotta take a quick break but we'll be right back don't leave ladies and gentlemen fans and combatants welcome back Mortal Kombat 1 here at East Coast Throwdown 2023 the first stop of the Mortal Kombat 1 Pro Competition Tour I'm Darth Arma this is Tento and we've got some great matches for the rest of this loser's run in the top 16 let's throw it right there these guys are ready to go these guys are these guys are ready to fight VGY international player coming from across the pond to go up against what I would consider a hometown hero not too far away from here and always coming out to MKNJ Turkey take it a Turkey Sucks man that's a good boy not sure that is Omni Turkey right there Omni Turkey is going he's in the match he's in the match VGY like you said one of the lone representatives I think it's only like we had a couple of people from across the pond being humanism VGY I believe we have one more come to play we technically had JUR internationally from Canada but that's not too far away not as far as the UK not as far as VGY and Ireland for humanism but they are both here and VGY is definitely trying to get points when he can he's always said I think the first time in the world was combo breaking okay and he wants to do it again Hungry Hungry 100% always gets a 9 to 13 and he wants to break past that and big shout out to CGN for making it happen and VGY wouldn't be here without them so again this is going to be a crazy set now VGY playing a character we've not really seeing a lot early on or I'm sorry this late into the games met a Shang Tsung and was talking to Nip a little bit about it and he said it's because he can form into the top tiers and just do it right back at them for more damage overhead right afterwards my goodness this is looking very troublesome but find the hit find the hit find the hit turn it around so wake up yeah and that's again the Cyrax depending on the timing you know you can or cannot do things about it and you guys don't know Shang has this unique ability in this game and oh so he has different normals between these two and different special attacks between these two so the fact that VGY is doing such a good job or remembering how to use which one is great insane it is insane look at that walk down he didn't even hesitate for a second he was so sure that he smelled the fear from Turkey of backing off but Turkey going in right there with the armored Superman at the perfect moment coming off that last little bar remaining on VGY's health bar and that wall block is on the back oh my god the meter burn on the triple skull no I'm denying the entry on the teleport you're staying right there hold the two bars and I got loops now you don't want to see those I bet you don't oh whiffed it out the teleport coming in in most aggressive manner but a Cyrax goes a lot way a block of push frames you don't care about push frames though I got Cyrax it's just like it's so much chip damage so much go in there and go for her free overhead no problem more and more when change mid is so long two projectiles more chip more trouble for VGY did not get the flaws blocked so he's holding the bulk of this this is so much damage oh my gosh the overhead is going to seal it 8% was enough Turkey striking first blood oh he's locking he's poking y'all see that face super close he's even like he's trying to he's trying to get tunnel vision yes trying to eliminate the crowd trying to forget where he is right now trying to just get past the pressure and focus on the task at hand and that is an incredible player in VGY so again even though VGY went down that first game don't count him out just yet we'll get clip whoa wait what he kind of like knew he was going to fall into that last whiff the damage is too powerful that's almost safe we'll take it away that's it please oh wait there it was he being arm on top of that it was just brawl superman oh my gosh the three year combo oh which is a rating I have how do you like it I love it hey like down one it's a special I love it give him a little taste of his own medicine here can you best find the opening in time it's like the same thing but more Timmy yes and you're using the same assist so double the triple and the double nice walls oh my god getting hit by the better spikes and the triple skull breaking the armor turkey teleports and that's going to be chip at this point no the clip's lawsaw the gayness and turkey should get the kill should he not drop the combo he ha the double hitting fatal blow there to a lot of people when they don't expect the second it's a combo with force aggression and everything in between turkey coming out the coming out the big also a really strange thing about the I think it's one of the few greater blows that have two hits so if you build the breaker on the first you can actually break the second no I don't know yes two hits before the animation yes yes insane insane yo that was getting out of here always taking two bars hard wheel I'm an after that too you didn't know that scale but not too much go to the wrong way and no not a big enough punish though to Chicago punish the Chicago class right there as you're looking to live for it go to the other side of it yo he got the conversion off that that was so good but misses it nice wall is blocked plus three clap them up electricity bay oh we got a combo no average was it close enough but he gets the discharge guess what another four combo on the first one up to go trades push nice wall he's showing a lot of knowledge being that I think he actually beat if you're getting here well to play Shane yes and we saw that a lot in that matchup where you pointed out the Superman a lot of times most characters aren't going to have anything to deal with it because it recovers relatively fast and you know he recovers on the other side characters that can summon the rising fireballs upspills if you will in that specific old man variation where that old man stance of Shang Tsung BGY taking a second to think about it BGY plays Shao and Shang Tsung looking like he's going to the other bad guy beat the man with the axe he destroys the boss guy he's like he's like he's like he's like thought of a buster man crazy listen it's crazier I don't know if you'd use it in the fighting scenario but it's definitely a statement oh no he's got clip then guess what going to get conversion no he misses the sarkar but Sarkar is always there nice armor through and axe raised too clip there is turkey and turkey trying to figure out the matchup again it's probably been a while since we've had a fighter shout out I forgot, I forgot the ground pound is full screen and then the axe was there behind him. I would have been confused when he got hit. I'm like, what's he doing? Oh, my legs. Yes. You got to watch out for the low. Full chip damage there. And that was a punish. The stand two reaches far enough. Yo, VGY. It's fast. It's fast. It is a fast high. It's high nonetheless, but it's still incredibly fast. This is what I want to see. I want to see VGY getting in there, getting on the board, getting that round and on his way to our first 3-0, Turkey feeling it out with that down four, trying to see it hit and trying to say, it's my turn to party once I do see this hit. Video games, yo, trying to, trying to basically chase Turkey down to the other side here and the Serena. Now, VGY said Serena is probably one of the better cameos for Shao because, you know, you have the damage output, which has complimented so many far reaching things for Shao. If that Serena double-rank hits you at a really far range, Shao can still connect and still make it hurt. So if you can hear the P in the way, it starts getting low, but it's axe and smoldering it out of you. After you got stabbed by it, the command grab is dead, going right under it. I wanted to just do four, four, four, four, four, standing here right under it. But hey. So that's what, that's what, that's what Big Bird was saying when Turkey was fighting against, I want to say, it was a, it was someone else using the same Serena Serena cameo, it's like saying you could just forward forward and you will get a ton and The rings as they come back, but that's one of those things where like it's a pretty big risk if you mess it up Like that's an easy combo easy-hicken for for the other More discharge Did he just throw this man under the axe is he dead off of that? Oh my goodness little clips there at the end But there's only six seconds left. He did not stuff on this man. So it's a fatal to get the game Bgy put some self on the board. No way That last little it was just enough you're like am I gonna eat these words it's something gonna come and turkey You know, we've seen so many games of turkey come down to the cloth come down to the wire And even that one did and although technically didn't go to time out It was one of those do or die moments those desperation moves that we're gonna either make or break Bgy And he just went in there's no way that was a hit that was a hundred percent. I'm going in I'm gonna hit this low. It's gonna hit if it hits I win if it doesn't hit I lose and that's it and he did have a round to work with So so not a huge risk all overall definitely worth the reward risk reward was definitely in his favorite in that case As you said he was up around like it don't hit it. So you got another round of work for it but does game GGs And that was definitely a gg moment and to the one is now the score But bgy is locked into the general show and turkey I don't think it will happen But he does have the opportunity to switch if he does lose again We saw a lot of scenarios your showers and so tall that even blocking so many air superman There's some cases like this man gets clipped by like low-air fireball from Luke hanging is like, bro Why did you make this man 8 feet tall? It's the horns. It's the horns. It's definitely the horns. He looks so deal. He's a beautiful poking back and going right into the storm cell Cyrax keeping it nice and safe and adding a little bit more chip damage to it poking and this is Raiden's down four has such great range such fast recovery for you know, the tempo of the strings or the pokes in this game Oh blocks the low ready to swing back Sane in this game. Are you serious? You're willing to do that. You're willing to double down What by the overhead yo turkey kind of getting exposed in this matchup right now bgy applying the pressure where it needs to be and not He's not letting up You don't have you don't have the opportunity to this is do or die for bgy Oh boy Not done this combo is so long. Oh my god, it's cabezza Watch over has you got a stand block for those Oh my god get clipped by the mid and is this GG is this it is turkey gonna go down I'm sorry. It's gonna be tied up to the two. Yes Two-to-two tons of damage potential coming out of Shao Khan and again that character that evil that you're not super familiar with definitely something that wants to go into play here and Vgy wasn't feeling it with with Chang wasn't feeling it at all of those first two games Shao turning it around completely 100% can we talk about how? majority of the characters on turkey shirt Were made before he was even born, you know, I was But like Turkey's a young gun for this game. You don't know I want to say just turn 20 I mean clearly does I'm not I'm not doubting it. He definitely don't know about Doll and he don't know nothing about no Johnny problem I'm not gonna go as far out to say that but I just think it's funny and I love seeing it But The section of it that the health inspector definitely didn't look at and say, okay, you need to This is this is a health hazard 100% please stay away from whatever that thing is. I know I don't even fall in here I How much money would you need to walk from one corner to the other barefoot? Okay, we're going back to the match here. Oh getting clipped. Let me talk about that jump to from Shao Khan. It's probably it's Stupid let's move on it's dumb No, so good very tough to anti-air and you can do it instantly with your jump and it you can still combo afterwards Such a good Those a cat coming in with a cameo appearance lemon to the corner It's really been like also the big factor plus 50 health Serena give Shao and he has the most help in the game That's a big boy. He's got a lot of chip damage and he's been with them in the storm and getting punishes Just like that that stand so far. I believe it's eight rings. Oh my gosh, the low and that's it No break no break With just 10 seconds left Vgy was able to secure that round Turkey in a bad spot here. It was a slight meter deficit as well Chopping down the axe But guess what for chip with nice balls bottom game that the throw just to show up because guess what? And I think Turkey's just like playing a little bit out of his element like Turkey's very passive wants to you know Again go to timeouts constantly here and Vgy's okay with that because the Serena's this does take a long time to load back up So hey you want to wait it out. I'm totally fine with that. My Serena's coming back anyway But he overhead Just walking down just walking him down here comes the Serena and again not really good There's no reason to not do it if he's not giving you a reason to stop throwing that Serena double rang out Like just keep doing it if it hits awesome if he blocks it no big deal Give that man a haircut cut off the ponytail as a matter of fact a surprise the hat didn't fall off It was right there, but he's just like so low profile when he down boys that boomerang action So insane but wait to jump back Superman wakes up with the armor Turkey baited it out Should he not drop the combo armor? We're going to a final game fighting around between these two one of these boys getting eliminated and remember this night Even to make top eight. This is just to get to my place This is literally just to get the to move on to fight wise Gemini for the top eight But that's okay right now We got to focus on the task at hand the Serena says coming out there getting at least the down for check But hey, that's fine I get the down for and I get to apply some pressure the breaker coming into play here Bgy's got no bar at all but doesn't have a nice punish and he has a cameo to a symptom to big launch Needless leaderless here. That had to be a misinput. Yo try to interrupt the follow-up the overhead nothing Bro, bro, bro. I'm scared for him. I'm scared for both of these players here So much pressure coming down on both these Titans. I was blocking the game that chip double time Cyrus the road the backwards variety still no bar for Bgy, but he has Serena sister work with Don't throw once not going through it twice, but oh my gosh He bumped up the axis red and he's looking mighty scary right now. Don't want to touch it You don't want to touch that or if that was double rang that would have been it But he was just kind of feeling it out and saying I'm just gonna go for the short one here 30 seconds Looking to talk full stick of birdie from Turkey side of things Ah The overhead and this is looking very bad for Turkey the overhead clip some and that is going to be Bgy Completing the reverse 3-0 taking down Turkey and the young man from UK is going to vessel a CGL nips the man You can really see the passion from nips and it's really great to see you know him rep You know getting the representatives for CGL because you can see that nips really cares about his players always Always and let me tell you I don't think there's another sponsor out there That's in the front row the entire time ready and watching your matches Cheering you on and just making sure you're in the right headspace in between them. So so big shout out to CGL Big shout out to jail nips is very cool. Do CGL part of the Texas boys Always just really open arms and just being so cool and yeah definitely make the things happen But the instant replay power about mount to do Turkey was definitely in control that entire time But that shout change really just switched up everything and this is why I tell you guys I really encourage you guys one character is very strong But if you can learn a team of three in a fighting game is very good for certain matchups and that just showed right there Yeah, just to cover those different options cover You know the weaknesses that you have either as a character as a player and you know You can see Turkey was getting it there at the end You know we did come down to the wire Yes, I would want to say it was a it was rolling over him But it was just so close and it was such a good set big shout out to both players for just playing their hearts out and Bgy aka video games. Yo, it's gonna be the one advancing forward into losers quarter finals Or they're gonna play wise Gemini, but coming up neck on stream. We do have a cease versus deoxys Oh my goodness sees the meticulous lab monster Another gear is player extraordinaire, so if you didn't get tired of gears while Gerr was up here cease brings a little bit You know even though playing the same team plays it a little differently Ceases a lab monster through like that's what I love seeing and that's what really stuck out to me about this game Is that it really? caters to the people who want to Go into training room and figure out all the ins and outs all the strategies all the counter strategies the counter counter strategies And we have deoxys here on the other side playing one of the most unique characters in this game in Natara Yeah, and it very you know, I love I love harping in on the past, but it reminds me of the blue beetle days so much Man loves to fly around. He loves to say that the floor is lava There was achievement that in a rescue name for him It will be just like don't touch the ground for eight seconds That would definitely be the achievement and deoxys would get that in no time because you guys don't know The man's an achievement hunter and overachiever when it comes to all thing video games as well But we're gonna talk about one actually and cease definitely a surprise a lot of people I know a lot of people do not know who this guy was but he came up doing MK 11 during the quarantine times That's one of those online players that really showed that he had high potential and right now You're gonna know his name make it into the top 16 and going this is actually what him and girls so far If should he get eliminated right here. Yeah, they were into the exact same point That's how far does the gears ago, but They definitely put gears on the map Yeah, definitely putting gears on the map and just kind of putting those those ideas of Gears is a bottom one character You know just kind of far away I Don't think so and I think again I think so much there's so much viable potential throughout the whole cast just to kind of see You know if you pair it up with the right cameo if you pair it up with the right player And the right play style you can make things shine Yes, you just got to put in the work like not every character is gonna be as easy as some And that's that's normal that's very natural in a fighting game with you know variety in depth like you can look at any fighting game And say yes, some characters are very easy to get You know you got your easy hit confirms your easy combos tons of damage And then others are gonna take a little bit more time to finesse and really you know get ready And definitely so it looks like the players just make sure those buttons are checked to make sure everything's locked and loaded But got the nod. Yeah, that's a nod But cease and deal one of these boys sadly have to leave and We're gonna find out who it is on the way. It's gonna be Natara. And like you said with cease and Gurr both say in the plan the same cameo They always is always a mind game of like do they use a cameo the exact same like do they always go for pressure? They're always going for a setup are they always trying to get well Actually, both these boys are just trying to get clocks Bar snap to go back in time. Yeah, I would definitely like man throw it on the Kung Lao hat It's a dare you to come over here stay over there Why load up this clock and that's that's what you're gonna see Oh my god, he has a one bar breaker And he gets help back. Not fair. Is it really one bar crazy work. Just back there with a tombstone. What does this do? I Get bored here ducking right under or maybe just didn't think that I'm not sure if he did it too early. I mean he was feeling it. It's done from the from the but I again I just feel like it was just so clearly you know a Hitting conversion situation that was gonna present itself. We use the Kung Lao at hold as an anti air. Yes And deal one thing about deal we don't talk about too much But um deal Movement with the power is actually so bad the time I have seen the pool is actually get the wrong input of a special Because they're on the other side. Yes. Yeah happens a ton of times here Nobody has the mobility like this character to just take to the sky and be able to just shift around left and right up back up forward Right now. We're not seeing a lot of that here I think one of the strongest attributes to Natara's is she can kind of as long as the opponent doesn't have something that can like Snatch her out of the sky. She she dictates the pace And yo, that was a beautiful Probably going for a little bit of a throw mix they want to be too Obvious to sees in which direction that they were going through but looks like cease didn't even go for the tech either way Deoxys coming back here one round of peace in this first game He's gonna take the lead who is gonna keep going and trekking on through here She's pretty patient when it comes to like the approach of after you block something seeing a lot of back dashing Doesn't want to really like press buttons doesn't really want to get in there right away That harker block was actually insane Yes, he was to get away Yeah, and instead of going for like any kind of like regular pressure Cease is looking to get out of the corner doesn't want to be trapped here So to speak where Natara can just freely move wherever she wants Oh my god big punish, but as we want time gonna get another clock. No doesn't have quite a bar yet, but the over There oh my god, he tried to up block Other side once again is plus the staggers low hat more plus brings but gets with the back Beautiful where no punish no punish wasn't ready to press buttons at all back it off They're super plus on that cougla hat and deal a KD ox has taken that first But towards the end I'm starting to see cease like man I got to get a read on this guy's movement because Yeah, it was kind of like that fake like I'm going to the air just kidding you thought I was going to the air So you went to the air. It's that I landed in anti air Love to see those split second decisions happening Of course love to see this execution here from the power as she just dances around in the sky You don't want to see that you don't want to see that as here is the animation and just no connection at all Great reactions here by Cease recognizing she hit the ground recognizing the low is gonna be the more probable thing to come out here block Brother brother brother changing the timing he's changing the timing here So it depending on when that overhead comes depending on when you let go that come loud It's either low overhead or overhead low, and that is so difficult to block a fun blockable if you will You know actually I think about it probably wants to get here simple at the most like that's fine I Thought it was just I thought he was just made of same This little she just gets like you know when you go to the beach and you drop something you really want to eat And you said I think it's fine if I just bring it off. It's never fine. Just leave it That's what he's hard guys, that's what you guys have to steal their for coverage. Oh my god Very yes, girl risk here is being in the hands of Cease. That's okay We play it off here. The ox has taken the second game to a lead and a little shrug of Defeat from Cease. He's still in this. He's just kind of like what do I do? Is there literally anyone in the building that plays Natara anyone in there that can help Cease because He's looking a little lost That's not a good look at all when you when you get a shoulder shrug And you look to your teammates and no one's coming up. That's like oh man Oh, we got to oh my god Zork actually did play Natara I think for a total of one week and then he said this character Yeah So this is literally probably the only other person in this building that could play Natara at a high level shoutouts to Zork and shoutouts to Everybody who's just here watching and enjoying this top 16 He's talking to him. He's literally he's giving him some dirt. Give him some dirt indeed I'm pretty sure he's just talking some heebie-jeebie and deals just like they're like I don't know about you guys, but like if your opponent after they take the loss Just shoulder shrugs, you're definitely up. You're feeling it. Yeah, you're definitely up Like you know that you have to match up that and they don't know what they're doing I mean In such a short amount of time without an actual like setup without actually any kind of gameplay I can't imagine what Zork could tell sees to to turn the tides around But maybe just a little break is all he needs. Maybe he can you know Duck under the throws keep it nice and simple as a deoxys love the sides which they're deoxys going for a ride Hey, I guess he's just like I don't know when I'm gonna get the throw again So I might as well. Yeah, I I saw a little bit of that before from season's previous match But that's okay up walk get the punish no problem Zork might have told us some sauce. You might have told me a little sauce Just a little bit And with the overhand that was max range too in the chip out kill with the sandpillar. Okay, see Showing it each by the time he wins it if you should realize what's how the step is gonna go and he's okay. I got that More overheads That's what you need overhead It just wait for her and again, it's it's I think it's it's very dependent on the life The tower doesn't really have like a projectile To really force you to to come to her or force that life lead it like slowly dissing Oh my goodness almost for a hundred damage for that 386 to download That's a big bloody clock coming at you. But we're trying to come out of season two High in the gravity was not going to get a curtain off that but the low hats is late and the clock as well Oh my god almost cross commands up the low hat coming through a beautiful once again Spongebob gets them in here the low has sees can answer back right here right now the command grab That's that death Okay, what happened to the shoulder shrug what happened to the lost look I'm seeing a determined player that might have just needed a few wise words from a fellow friend teammate player Whatever you want to call Zorick big shout outs to Zorick for that guest appearance there is right now We got a set here. See strong signs of life. She's getting on the board Seeing a lot more command grab See it was still turned around the other way and I like way to charge like all over that Pre-pun is kind of hard to block go afterwards the breaker immediately think you can allow for the assistance. I need the hat steal Oh, I got shim too. I'm not gonna lie to you It's not it's not easy not an easy thing to see that throw or throw animation coming when they just go up shoulder to shoulder and say Just kidding. Oh Weeping them Got to block it. How's that bar to work with you can't rewind time The reaction Jackson boy blocked in time Yeah, it takes a little bit of time to get over to the other side and again, it's the the kung lao hat Just recover so fast. Yes Cover so I think it was kind of like a a test and it took both those things I'm not the bike I would buy the sand The sandwich the sandy sandwich Double overhead Oh kung lao hats top some brightness tracks. This is not where you want to be against the oxes Oh never mind. That was a back throw to get out of the corner Love the challenge from season I'm going for a ride Oh baby Okay, that's enough. That's enough. That's enough. We're all okay. It was enough. Thank you Oh, that's insane. Not fair. So much damage. Nice. I'm seeing a lot more armor when natara gets in that ambiguous spot Oh one of this. I forgot she has air mobility Most people are expecting the character to drop down with kung lao even after an attack But natara can't get out of there that combo Is that death? Very close Over there that's a whip and that's going to be a punish Deal with a slight pop off. I don't want to see too many pop-offs to deal. He said yes It sees unfortunately is going to be the other gear is tying for 13 place scratching the head But hey sees don't pick that up at all, man. Definitely a good job this weekend Did a great job showing some people the light. I know I know a lot of great matches on stream a lot of You know good victories and Respectful respectable losses and that's you know at the end of the day guys It's only one person who's going to win today's tournament and everyone else is going to be Just a little a little upset about clapping it up, you know Yep ggs. I didn't get it, but you know, we'll get them next time. We'll get them next time And big shout out to the mountain dew for providing our instant replay and big shout out. Yes. Yes again Love it. Love seeing the back and forth between these players Diox is getting a little bit of that download, you know did go down in that early round, but understanding where Cease was going to be and You really got to admire the change up between those setups with a Kung Lao hat You know the overhead coming first and the low complimenting afterward and then vice versa Just adding to all the fun fun blockables in this game and you know, it just wasn't enough You made Cease made those great adjustments there at the end and I was seeing a lot more armor coming out of cease every time Natar took to the sky right above him, but unfortunately just wasn't enough to Keep that momentum going and at the end there came down to deoxys Recognizing that here's my attack that back for I believe it's back forward to just coming in close the gap and Seal the deal Oh my gosh just matched right here pulse versus b-dog the mirror of Johnny cage This is to make it into topic. Yes, it is loser's quarterfinals We saw pulse going down to rewind a little earlier in the winter semifinals And we saw b-dog making an incredible run so far on the loser's side Taking it over splash taking her over blue linkies and now Facing off against one of the most consistent players We've seen in terms of online tournaments, you know Tencho you were there. Oh, yeah the whole time pretty much We're talking kalo we're talking iK fk big shout-outs to spooky and tenno productions and you know pulse just Getting ready making a name for himself and you know in preparation for east coast throwdown Definitely didn't want to go down the way he did against rewind that was That was pretty free We got to call it how we see it guys it was pretty free And uh, but not out of it yet still still able to make that come back here for the top eight on the loser side But he's got to go through a very determined. What is letty doing over there? Wait, wait, what does what does letty got over there? Can we get a zoom in? Let's get to I don't I don't know if we have access to that, but I don't know what he's holding up But like um a sign it's some type of sign. I can't quite see His phone's dead anyway. Oh, he's still holding up. He wants us to see it says, uh, can I repeat it? That's fine. It says kill side racks kill side Side writes never dies. He's just keep he's gonna simply just rebuild himself and cyber linkway initiative is too strong And forever twirling twirling towards freedom. We got Johnny cage out here though. All smiles between these two Yeah, this could be an interesting mirror. Um, I I can't remember last time post some b-dog. I actually met up in an online term inside of things I mean But I feel like they play pretty frequently So I don't remember a lot of b-dog during mk 11 Definitely. Yeah, not like I I I remember b-dog. Yeah, occasionally here and there But I remember b-dog being a little bit more prominent During the injustice two days And I don't know if it was just like taking a break or focusing on life or whatnot But you know, that's what's so fun about a new game finally being released is that you get to You know get another crack at it, you know the even playing field Everybody's just starting the games do the meta's not really developed and you know, he's starting with his best foot forward In johnny cage. I don't know if he knew johnny cage was going to be a good character But looks super duper comfortable Has Johnny cage ever not been a good character? Like mkx. Oh, no, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I just remembered the roar crowd I'm so sorry that is out there laughing. Remember that infinity. He found like a week two, man. I'm so sorry I help me. I figured it out. I was thinking like late phase of mkx, but yeah, he was still strong DJ I know but like the uh, uh, the fisticuffs. That's right. DJ T This the commonwealth just uh, yeah, I was like, what's this character? Oh, he's having a great time Just tons of chip, but yes, johnny cage always a fan favorite And of course he's going to be great in the game where he's the main character mkx Not going to be and I guess he's technically a main character in this We saw a lot of johnny screen time when it came to the mk1 story Definitely so the walkup actor still got it and showing That's some big damage, but this is going to be a mirror all the way around is johnny cage Tunglao for both players Holtz is going to be with the pink shirt and b-dog is going to be in the blue one. I'm sorry is that black? It's all right. It looks black to me. It looks black to me. I thought it was a little navy blue at first But then it was just stating my fault my fault guys. It's all good I mean, there's a lot of blue in the background. These beautiful snowy mountains good uplocked air from b-dog Holtz going for a ride here Holding on to his groin as he's just gasping for air the forward throw cunglao coming in with the assist Swiping him with the hat and saying i'll see you in a little bit when my low hat is back, which is always The movement between these two the neutral is going to be insane why? And it's just like a constant. Oh, baby the back three taking them for a ride here But does come off that breaker They slowly try to build that meter up little by little and it's just constant checks with the low cunglao hat It's it's it's very hard to call out like you can call it out as you've got like a bar You maybe amplify the shadow kick to get through Yes Yep Oh, but he said I don't want to deal with none of that you consider with the shadow kick weight frames And that's the difference between holding it and not holding it, you know not holding it throws it out way faster Obviously, and you know one option definitely beats the other The back dash from polls feeling himself drops the end, but that's okay. We picked those right back up and We've got such a life lead. We don't have to sweat it It makes sense. This is four top eight. This is four top eight. These boys are definitely nervous People hurry and go come around the clip too Doesn't get the follow-up there on the second hit of the string You hate to see it just didn't dash enough here I'm gonna be honest guys expect to expect some drops because these boys are definitely nervous super nervous I wonder if a jumping kick would have been a little bit better Speaking of kicks Another one. All right, it's a throw. It's gonna allow the same real bad. He touched my breath. I'll get back into it He didn't make a phone call. I'll be right back He's been with what's just so matched with back three How to deal with four three use back three. That's nice, too. Yeah, you use the very unsafe back three Don't worry. See how that ends up Oh, we go right right now hype right back at him You should have did it. It would have been so it would look so good double Oh, you had to break Hyped it up hyped it up. Hyped it up hyped it up hype it up. Hyped it up Do it Oh my just back three has been causing so much damage to post B dog out basing this man. Sam. What are you whipping for you're gonna get launched Uh color's not even like a crack or a smirk Johnny just stone phase ready to go right back into it. What are taking that little second? We got a sign for Pulse in the crowd. Ramos Pulse. Big shout out to Pulse's brother, Christophoson in the crowd. Oh, I just heard there's a brother. Yes, there was. Christophoson is the older brother and he gets really offended when people assume he's the younger brother. Well, I could only assume why in short of that, by the way. So, yeah. Down four, keeping him in the corner. Pulse feeling the crowd. Feeling the brotherly love in the crowd. Powering him up back to back forward throws. Just keeping him in check in lock constantly here. What the Kung Lao hack came out in time. That move is too fast. I noticed something right there actually. So that he did that in the last match where I saw that the Kung Lao action did activate in time, but just didn't he got the hit. He used a different button. So that time, I think this is actual tech where after a pair, if you commit to the low hat, you'll be fine. And Pulse, definitely doing the homework here. You can't be with him. He's always definitely going up there. Comes a shadow kick accompanied by a Kung Lao hat that you are holding that's going to make pretty much everything safe. Backing off. Very different. Yeah, good awareness. You've got to keep your eyes on the screen all over the plate, on the ground, in the sky, your meter, your cameos, everything. Oh boy. Super duper plus on hit. Doesn't get in there in time. It just lets Pulse jump out of there. Big kick to the face. Oh, he's definitely trying to wake up with something, but he got blown up immediately. Yeah, no armor. No armor on whatever he was trying to wake up with. Back three. What is with back threes and beat off? That's what the beat stands for. Yeah, beat three dog. Beat three dog. That's the name change right now. No answer, but just a little hat. Antire, baby. Easy peasy. Antire. The crowd is getting loud. And by the crowd, I mean three people who are really, really pulling for Pulse here. Both taking the secret ones. Drink awarded to synchronized drink. So Pulse not using the headphones, but he's got his own headphones. Always listens to music when he's playing. Always. He'd be jamming. He's jamming. I actually didn't know until Pulse has a great list of music. If you're a fan of like early 2000s alternative rock, go into his stream. That's all he plays. It's incredible. And I'm like, you were born after a lot of this music was made. So I double respect it. Pulse is a very calm individual. He plays a high level character, but the height, like intensity character. Brother, if you throw out another back three, I'm just going to walk to the stage and ask why. What are you doing? How are they hitting so much? So good. He just feels it. He knows. It does help. They play the same character. I know all his moves. Thought maybe a throw was coming in that scenario. Let go a block instead. Here comes a mid. And it's been like a constant check here on that wakeup. Down fouring. If they get a little disrespectful, yeah, they get hit. It's your turn. You're super plus. And if they wake up with that shadow kick, it's going right over. You've got to punish the other way. And that's true for French and Hoda, the knee and have to be a decent amount of damage. Or set up afterwards, then get the combo. But he waited. But didn't get the punish. What's going on? Oh, the first one blocked. Whiffed it out. Whiffed it out. Poles smelling the blood in the water like a shark. Nice block with a low minus four on that one. A low hat is plus two. But he poked. Nope. I was going to say, neither player wanted to press a button. Nancy's to jump over to the side. Who tried to empty himself? Pulse is success rate with jumping out and kicking. Like 100%. All over it. Nice down four into more plus frames. What are you doing? It's my turn. It's never yours. Wait a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Poles going for a ride. I don't like this. Anties. Love it. Love it. Love it. They're anti air stand one. No problem. Yeah, you're going to jump because you're looking to apply some extra pressure to solidify your turn. Stay hydrated, my friends. One more. Vamanos for Pulse. Vamanos Pulse. Vamanos Pulse. Got the Peruvian flag on there. Shout out to their heritage. I love seeing the representation there. Latino. Latino Heat. Yes. Latino Heat, of course. My back into it. Yes. Two one in favor of Pulse right now. Armors right through. That's what I want to do with it. Oh, getting a lot of it. Oh, that down one didn't get like checked back. Instead decided to go for his turn and that spelled disaster here for V-Dog. He finds himself in a bad spot. Very bad spot right now. Pulse is definitely cooking and he's on a full momentum shift right now. So that was an empty jump. Trying to bait out an up block. Neither player decided to commit to either thing other than just jumping there. That's a couple once again. Pulse. Trying to fight it back out in the water. He's looking very troublesome. Stagger's in the back up into four and three. Pulse is one away from making top eight. Loser's side. Our first stop of the pro competition. But V-Dog is the reason why he got here. And he's about to show off. Why? 355. That's right. V-Dog has been tested time and time again. Don't count him out just yet. Oh my, he did not duck. He ducked. He ducked and punished it perfectly. V-Dog coming off that bar of breaker. Tons of resources spent there. V-Dog fishing out that shadow kick. V-Dog getting a huge punish here. Trying to get the first round in this game. Number four. And he does. Very well complimented with the Kung Lao low hat. V-Dog showing that he can still do this. Pulse needs to close his out right now. Because I can see V-Dog taking this all the way back. And this is exactly what Pulse is doing. Shadow kicking him and keeping him in the corner. Keeping the pressure on. Didn't get there in time. How? He has two bars to work with misses the conversion. But he gets to pick up this time around. V-Dog. Nuts. No. Big punish. No. This is it. Doesn't get it. Low hat. Oh baby. V-Dog misses it. But no. He got the punish this time. Got the second hit to connect there. This is not good. V-Dog not going to build enough bar to make that breaker. And the throw. Perfect opportunity to go there when he's just holding onto block for a dear life. This is where Pulse can do it. Oh my God. But no. Get shimmied. Gonna break three bar spin. We're about even on life. Two hats on the way. Had to block because there was another one coming. Good blocking. You over here. He does spin. Does it connect? The Perry Pulse makes top eight here at ECT Loser Side. Let's go. Pulse loved to see the representation here. Yes. We didn't have a great start here on the winner side. But definitely making waves on the loser side. And the max is as far as Pulse can definitely go. He can definitely do this. Taking it all the way. This is someone who is very well practiced, very well versed in all these different matchups. And I want to see the redemption story of Pulse coming through here on the loser side. I love to see it. I love to see the guys who just come out and support everything, making it as far as possible. Pulse, man. Pulse. It's best coming from you because I know you watch this man time and time again at MK and Jay's practice. Right? Practice, grind and try to get better. And seeing him make a big stage like this, I know this means a lot to you as well. Oh, yeah. But Pulse, like I said, one of the favorites of the tournament, like I said, it's been so consistent on the line. Made it top eight. It's on the loser side, but nonetheless, it's top eight. And he's there. Top eight? Top eight? A ton of points. Some great cash to take home to say, hey, this was all worth it. And we're going to the instant replay. The Johnny Cage mirror, of course, Pulse rocking the Johnny Cage and the pink and B-dog, the Johnny Cage. Not the Johnny Cage wearing the black, but the Johnny Cage going for the back three over and over and over. Damn. He was making sure that little bit extended. It was close. And Pulse is the one who came out on top. I feel like B-dog just didn't really adjust towards the end when it came to a lot of the jumping out that Pulse was refusing and not stop doing. And he just didn't bite. He didn't bite on a lot of things that B-dog was fading out. There was the up lock that B-dog kept thinking about, kept saying he's going to do it this time. He's going to do it this time. But Pulse kind of kept that composure. And that was really key here at the end. I love how it just warps him down. It just goes right into the animation. Tons, tons of damage. And just enough, I saw it. I saw his whole body just shift into the air. You can even see Ludi jumping in the air in slow motion. I'm definitely going to represent the boys. Oh my goodness. He's going to goons. He's going to goons on the back. It's King Gambler going against B-D-G. Big Daddy G before Gio. I want to say Big Daddy G is one of the only smokes I saw this weekend. Dwayne number one. Dwayne number one also. Yes, right. He actually took down Scar to lose us. That's right. Dwayne number one. I wanted to see more of that. And I don't know who Dwayne number one lost to later on in the bracket. But Big Daddy G, the only smoke left to potentially make this top eight appearance. He's got King Gambler in front of him. This is a tough one. Definitely a tough one indeed. So I think being the smoke player, everyone talks about how Raiden, Baraka, and Johnny Cage are just so overwhelmingly good. But that means that those three characters are immensely on everybody's radar. Yes. I don't think anyone was really labbing against Gears. I don't think everybody was really labbing against Smoke. Not to say that they didn't put the time in or even know about it last night, knowing that Big Daddy G is still in the tournament and making it this far. But I think he's got a little bit of an edge coming into this matchup. Definitely. But you know, Smoke is one of those favorites in on-line KL side of things. Smoke is arena. It's a classic that we all hate, especially that's on the on-line side of things. So you have that experience. But yes, at a high level, the Wayne number one and BDG are playing on a level I have never seen. Yeah. Definitely. And BDG is in this position for a reason. But the most is ever going to be high for this matchup right here. Ninth place is nothing to be happy about. It hurts. Like, I wouldn't say that. Hold on. Nothing's worth to get in ninth place and then top eight happens immediately afterwards and you're just right there like that would have been me if I didn't make that mistake. Tell me that's not a good thing. Tell me that's actually not bad though. If I didn't drop that combo. You're going to think about it the whole top eight. Then eventually you're just going to probably walk out of top eight. Oh, fun, fun, fun. When you just strive for so much as a competitor, that was so well calculated here. This easy stand one to anti-air him as he threw the smoke bomb into the air. These boys are going to be gaming the entire time. But this is going to be tough. I would say G because Gambler is one of the best defensive players that we have here in the scene. But as soon as I say that. As soon as you said it. As soon as he said it. Bro, I didn't know what to deal with either. Man, just threw him while invisible. Nice challenge. One thing you guys need to know at home. Never grab these. This is not worth it. He's always looking for it. Man, the man stuck a lesson. Check with the knee. Exactly right there. That's it. That's the way it works. That's really out of the gate player tendencies. Obviously, it's not beyond Big Daddy G to slowly adjust during the set and start blocking a little bit more. But I feel like everybody has that core starting point of how much am I going to be looking for? And Big Daddy G is very hot. Always looking for that. Bro, you cannot see what he is doing. Please tell me how do you block what you can't see? I'll just turn off the PlayStation 5. Wait a second. Another knee. More frames. That's what's unfortunate. He's dead. Wakes up with the shadow kick. It's amazing. Wait a second. Siren's going to help him out. Then get the full air combo. But the armor right through. Put it in his neck and twist it. And that is going to end. Yo, BDG tied us up in rounds. Yeah, I thought that was a complete wash in that first round before King Gambler. But again, the adjustments are not beyond him. Didn't see the wall. Didn't see smoke. Saw the hat and said, I don't know what to do here. Do I just sit here? Do I jump? And we're seeing the cycle of options going through. Like we saw it earlier in the match of BDG versus GERD. And King Gambler is experiencing that right now. He gets to pop up there from the overhead. He's blocking a lot more right now. Yep, he is. And gets flipped by the poke into the special. There's going to be so much chip damage in the air. And you guessed throw, but a 4-3 was coming and said that 9-3 need being at this point. Oh my goodness. King Gambler's like the first place. Not fishing out the throws. Not fishing out the throws. And again, every throw attempt in this game always going to be a big risk. And BDG lives that. Definitely. Lives, breathes it. Like please try to throw me. Wasn't looking for it at that time. Instead was looking to just poke back. Poke it up. Fixed the sturdiness. It's too much money. Nice blocks, but you can't block forever. But wait a second. Making a block while you're visible is insane. Blocking the overhead. Nice down poke. Checking immediately. 4-3. Try to down two for Dick Halt. And guess what, Syracuse saved with a bomb. Wow. Goal phases right through. He's got to get the sweep momentum right there. Big jump. Oh, the Kung Lao hat. Just let go a little too early. Probably because of the force cool down. Oh, big work button is coming out of BDG. Look at the damage. Look at the damage. 10-2. 43% nearly. And on top of that, more pressure, more chip gets the trade. But of course, right up close, the trade always going in the favor of Johnny Gage. Uh-oh. The throw doesn't have two bars to spend. This is a huge comeback. He has a mount. It's definitely not going to help him out. A whiff shadow kick in front of that man's face is an easy punish for BDG. I just wanted to make the connection. Keep him a little closer to the corner. Low crushing under that. Down one. So Gamble are going to be a little bit more hesitant on checking the next time around most of the time. Bringing a little closer. Yes, right on my feet. Nice little delay wake up from Gamble to kind of mistime any of the open setups that smoked out going. That was a reaction to the overhead, the follow-up where he goes completely invisible. Plus frames, more plus frames, more plus frames into a low. Yeah, the low is a nice little check there. In case you think, okay, you might try to loop the cross plays again. Here's the low. That means tons of damage. Next thing, the stagger. Nice poke. Sideways locked down. Armors through. I tried to press something right there with Gamble. I guess he would have thought that it was the one we used here in invisible and not the armor type. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely confusing the two just slightly. It becomes the Cyrex net, but nobody's biting. Nobody's taking the bait. Nobody's getting hit for a full top open full screen. Oh boy. The anti-air from smoke especially very good. He lunges forward very slightly with either the stand one or the four one. They can do so much work. But here's Splash coming up to say, Hey, brother, I need you to focus. King Gambler finding out that Splash might play smoke. Splash playing anyone else besides Kung Lao. Not sure, but could have a little bit more knowledge looking into this matchup. Certain things that he might not be respecting. Certain things that he needs to start disrespecting. Something's not noticing, but it's always raised like from the crowd. You might notice something that the player does not notice an in-match at all. You can just tell them, it doesn't just switch right then right there. It always reminds me of like tennis at a high level. The coaches aren't really allowed to say anything during while you're playing obviously. But that insight of what you see from the outside can mean a lot of difference. Focus to throw. Brother, survive on you. Focus to armor this time. All right, the low hat to low. The stab demands kneecaps, left hands. Right through the fabric. No, it spins into box. Gonna get the light off this. Also, max damage right here. Oh, no, he does the hype, didn't he? Oh, no. That is so unfortunate. Luckily, BDZ does not have fatal blows, so it's not gonna be to kill. But look at that damage. Tons. He's got armor. Tons. Oh, he went into it. He was so sure he was gonna let go or it was gonna cool down all the way and then let go on its own. And he was like kind of trying to follow it to close the gap here. Very unfortunate for King Gambler. Cyrex gonna keep his rising star nice and safe though. He's just making the runway with the smoke right now. Because of so much trouble. Oh, this is slightly... Oh. I almost feel like BDZ doesn't want to play in that close range. Normally, he did against Gerr previously, but again, Shotty Cage just says, I don't really want to be in down one range. Don't want to be far away. I want to come in for mix and I want to use my longer range button, so I don't have to really contest against your super good daggers. Oh, poking the special. Yeah, you got to keep blocking, my guy. I don't care if you're invisible. That doesn't give special purposes. Nice flawless block. But man, the impression is on for Gamblers. He doesn't want to turn him invisible again because you got to guess for game, the throw. Oh, my God. He blocked the lunge over here correctly. Go, Gamblers. The hack coming in here. Gets the anti-air conversion. Going into the fader, I'm assuming, but it's not gonna kill, but definitely gonna put some pressure on King Gambler. King Gambler, I think you should get three bars by the time his fatal is over. Yeah, should be. You get tons of the bar game is very, very big correlation with the damage you're taking in or outside of the blow. Blocks the Cyrex net. Get in. Oh, he's gonna get stuffed, baby, stuffed before the parry properties come into play here. Big Daddy G making a huge name for himself right here on the stream. Man. With a amazing character. I mean, a character that, you know, a lot of people are like, you know, it's online only. It's only because of the lag. If it was offline, I'd be able to react to these things. But Big Daddy G playing it very methodically. Definitely is, and he's definitely showing that smoke contained offline. And he's now one away armor for making top eight with smoke only on the loser's side. Man, that's definitely some determination. BDG is, I will say this all the time. I won't say this to his face. One of the most determined players I have ever seen and one of the most hardworking players that I have ever seen play in a fighting game. Remember MK 11 was his first game. He won in NA West. I mean, in the East. That's right. In online events with only Sonya. That's right. That's right. Sonya always seen, you know, throughout the life of Mortal Kombat 11 after she got those initial nurses. Not so great. But BDG, a player, you know, to add to all those characteristics of the determination, also willing to travel to so many offline events, even when it was outside of the pro comp, just to get that experience, because, you know, you could see that they're here right now. You could see that they're embracing this, this lifestyle, embracing this competitiveness in them to want to try to get out there, want to try to, you know, do the best you can. And, you know, you really got to admire the players who are willing to to test out their skills and try to represent those characters that they love. Like, we saw that a lot with Sonya before, MK11, like you mentioned, but not a lot of smoke players out there. Yeah, not a lot of smoke players out there. Only three prominences that we really see are the Wayne Number One, BDG, and Jess Nasty, who hopefully we get to see him in an offline event compete very soon. Very young kid. I believe he's 17 years old. Wow. He does damage in so many online tournaments all people know of him. But, right back into it, Gambler, you got to guess for your life again, all pressure, mashing on the plus frames while you're invisible, I think, yeah, that's definitely you. You can kind of like go off by like the little block animations there, that yellow that you see on the person's body. So, like, once he sees that, he's like, okay, it's my turn to, my turn to poke back, my turn to challenge back at some staggers. Once again, Gambler making a mistake of trying to grab BDG, and it's going to pay for it immensely against the back throws, and this is no fighting out for Gambler. He's got to try to find his way in. Ooh, a block. Easy. No problem at all. A nice big conversion. As soon as a person lands, not able to block right away, and Big Daddy G, recognizing the successful a block and saying, here's my time to shine. One round away from taking this 3-1, can King Gambler fight back, though? King Gambler fight back, we shall see what the smoke is looking so incredible right now for G. He has all the momentum. This is the conversion of that 4-3, but look at the corner, the corner, the armor right through, Syrus can do a thing about it. Gets the 4th throw. Pull out. The hat. Grab it. See you later. Got plus frames and some more plus frames. The double dash to the corner. We're playing Mario Kart now, hello. He's pushing him. He's pushing him a little bit closer to the corner, and King Gambler did not like that one bit of fighting back, finding the successful hit. Looking for the throw, and like you said, we cycled right back. BDG always looking for the throw. Always looking to expose that and just duck right underneath, because the reward is so great, boys. Oh wait, he didn't do the armor right. He's just waiting. He's just waiting. Oh, is that it? Is that it? Oh boy. He's going to get baited in time, right? Yes, he should right here afterwards, but he cut it short on purpose, baby. Gets my air. Gets the throw. No way. Has two bars to work with. It's not going to be to kill. Not going to be enough damage. But BDG, he might wake up. Oh wait. No, no, no, no, maybe. Wake up an armor. No way. Oh, the only chance there for BDG was to potentially fall his block it, but didn't happen. Now we're going to a round three scenario. Armored right through to get that really advantageous knockdown and get that great corner positioning here. King Gambler fighting back with various standjabs, not completing the staggers. Big jump. Oh boy. Oh no. Hamano, please. Oh boy. Hamano, please. Oh. Anti-airing? That down one. He's like, I didn't even know that was an anti-air attempt, but I will take it. Getting him knocked out of that invisibility. Damage off this almost 300. Yeah, I love the stand four and just keeping him in that Cyrax helicopter. Oh. Can you tell me? Oh, it's still clipped. I thought he's far enough away. It's the other side. One guess for game because he can go into fatal. He did a parry by accident. Cyrax is just there. They're both scared. I'm scared. What are you doing? The cancel. Oh my God. Wave dance in front of us. Why are you trying to grab him? Why? Why are you trying to grab the man? He's dropping. He dropped it. He dropped it and this is going to be King Gambler tying up the set two to two and Big Daddy just hanging his head in shame. So, so disappointed in himself. He let it go. It was right there. Your top eight was in your hands and you let it slip through your fingers. Big Daddy G. And going right into it. I don't agree with this decision at all. I don't agree with this decision at all. Just for your own mentality. Just, just take a little breather. No. He had all he had to do was I think, I don't know what went, can we contest him to fatal? But like, he did not have to go for that complicated combo. No, no, not at all fatal blow. Very accessible for most of the characters. Definitely accessible there in that scenario in some way. Oh, no. This ain't good. Oh, no. We told you to take a break. We told you to take a break. Big Daddy G. You went right back into it. Right back into this ass whooping from King Gambler as he's trying to make this comeback. He's trying to solidify his spot in the top eight and he is gatekeeping you right now and the Cyrax to cover all those unsafe options. Even those unsafe input errors coming out of King Gambler. As we saw last game, the overhead Big Daddy G doesn't convert into anything afterwards. That's going visible, but getting right knocked out of there. Oh, my goodness. Armored through the words right in my mouth. This man is getting whooped in the worst fashion. You closer. Take that second. Never go right back in. Please take that breathe that you're allowed up to a minute, especially after heartbreaking loss like that. And you're seeing the effects come under way for BDG going corner to corner. Gets the armored through. But what are you going to do? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Go to the other side. Can you block what you can't see? You can poke what you can't see. That's for damn sure. King Gambler go for the throw, but BDG all over it gets the throw tech, but still finds himself in the corner, finds himself in a bad spot, jumps into the Cyrex helicopter. That's a miscalculation there. Gets the back throw. Scary. Scary stuff here. Oh, my God. Gets the knee. It should. Gambler not dropped this. This should be it. Gambler shall make top eight with the pop-off BDG. I am so sorry, but you should have kept the combo simple. This is why we tell everyone back at home, never go for the big stuff. If you can secure the kill, take it and now BDG unfortunately. I told you about that ninth place. I just told you about the ninth place, Harman. Oh, my God. I didn't believe it till I saw it on the face of Big Daddy G, the heartbreak, the head shake, the head hanging in shame before that game five, but I want to say it was 100% a panic decision. Panic decisions can happen outside the game, and it was a panic decision to go right back into rematch. You should have just said player select, change the stage. Let me take a few breaths because King Gambler was feeling himself. King Gambler was feeling hot there at the end of that set. He said, oh, you're going to drop this combo. Bet I am just biting into it. I am taking my spot in that top eight. I feel like I cursed this man, Gene, because I literally said that combo you dropped when you could have been on the stage, and it just happened. You spoke it. I literally feel terrible right now. We got a little bit of the shining in you and you just knew it was happening. It happens in this main stage so much. As you can see right here, BDG and Volt were dropping two to one lead. Yeah, I want to see. I want to see the drop. We didn't get to see the specific drop here, but there was a drop. Oh, actually right here. Is it right here? No, it just shows when BDG actually after he dropped it. Yeah, yeah. So the drop happened beforehand. But again, either way, we still love to see the round enders big shout outs to Mountain Dew for the instant replays. And you can just see it. You can just see the hype from all those players wishing for King Gambler to claim that spot, claim that victory here, and still be in the fight for the top eight. But hey, guys, the sooner we go to the break, the sooner we can come back with more, more matches. Love you guys. Don't go anywhere. We got more Mortal Kombat 1 action coming your way. No, I won't. As long as I've known you, you've dreamed of leaving Tenja. Is it so wrong to want some excitement? Draws near for the Grand Martial Arts tournaments between Earthrealm and the Outwards. Has begun. And this has mega-hit written all over. Fight tomorrow. The symptoms of your take your place. They're already whispers. She should replace me as your heir. Your race can ship shift. Fang Song, join me. And I will. I found my destiny. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, what's going on? Welcome back to ECT Top 16 action for the first stop of the pro competition. My name is Cento. This is Armand. He's enjoying that beautiful amount of dude. If you guys are not really big shots, he might have to do out here sponsoring us. But I believe we get down to the nitty gritty to find out who are the last two people that's going to be in top eight. That's right. We are solidifying the last final two spots. It's going to be going in the first match here. It's going to be VGY versus Y Gemini. Gemini. They're almost rhymes. It is why. I see you did that. Kind of clever. I love it. I was feeling it. I was feeling it here. These guys have gone through a lot. VGY with a nail biter set up against Titanium Tigers. One of the better sets that we've seen this whole weekend. And I don't want to guess Turkey. It's the worst we know. Yes, that one was a really, that was also a super duper close one. But you also got to give credit to someone who is so willing to play with a character that you don't really see as much here. Love seeing the Shang. Love seeing the zoning options. And of course being able to get creative in all these different stances and even form changes. Form changes. Now, wait a second. The big thing about, you have to realize when it comes to that man who came, his GX Fireball has a very special property where it absorbs other projectiles. That's right. And will negate Shang's zoning. That's right. In this case. And you just saw a right then there. Absorbing those goals and going right to Shang's face. That's right. He's going to go right through everything as he is the keeper of all exists. Oh, doesn't finish the string. The string that is, you know, flawless, blockable and punishable. So that's really why you don't see a lot of the things finishing that out. It also pushes you back on block. So it's not really going to give you a huge advantage here. Vesting up, but it does go away as he does find that first hit. Nothing gets a punish. The chip out though should be the problem. I like the attempt right there. Wise did duck the first part of the Cyrex assist being a little high and it didn't gel completely into it. However, he got clipped by that last place in Cyrex and know what? There's a reason why I'm nicknamed the helicopter parent. I got you. Always there, ready to catch you when you fall off that high playground jungle gym. We're going to play time here. Volleyball game, a solo match between Shang and himself. Oh, baby. Getting checked here. Not getting under that. That does come out as a mid, I believe, when we amplify it. Wait. Wait. Do the spikes count as a projectile? That is huge. This matchup sucks. This man Wise can hit and abuse and this matchup sucks. What is happening? Oh, man. And it's so weird because it's not like it's not a traveling projectile. It's just something that he summons from the crowd. It's weird. Yeah. So many things to be explored. All these different little properties. Yes. Last night from the 12V12 people were tweeting that the Sub-Zero vest ability from the cameo can negate a lot of things that Gears does and nobody on the team. Yeah. Yeah. This one you guys know. So when Gears does that little rewind time, that is technically a projectile. So you have Sub-Zero, the ice vest. Oh, yeah. It absorbs that. And it absorbs his time stop move where he appears behind you. So. Yeah. It's just basically the best stuff. You negate like two big things apart of his game plan. Instantly Havoc. Havoc. He's not playing no games. We're going right to Havoc. Watch out for the cold shoulder of Sub-Zero's cameo. Push in back, throwing his head off and just sending those projectiles his way. But he was ready to just armor out of there. Once he was blocked, he said, you're going to try to advance. So I'm going to fight back. I'm going to fight back. I'm going to fight back. I'm going to fight back. This would be pretty bad for wise because he can't get the ice armor up in time. But this time he's going to have the approach. But immediately, I noticed VGY throwing out that great downfall from Shane. He's transferring over from last game to this game because he had a pretty good downfall in MK11 as well. To negate that ice armor. The ice armor does negate projectile hits. But if you hit them physically, that means the armor will go away. Oh, my goodness. He's looking down once again. Good blocking the overhead. The projectiles underway. VGY is in full control right now. Tries to roll under, but it's not going to work out too well. Nice block on the down three. But why is it the low? Check it out. A lot of having to complete that string. So what they do, it's always a little bit of a surprise here. Now this fatal blow is going to do a ton of damage. But is it going to do enough there to do nearly 50% to have what it takes? No, it does not. Unfortunately, 441 kicks them off. 462, I'm sorry, but the trade with that back three breaks the neck. Considering how little health he needed to chip away, that was a totally advantageous trade here. I love that armor. He's just really gets a full combo from that. Nice block. A lot of wise. Not their time. It's a slow button. When you do the uplock, you usually want to use your fastest jab button. It's going for a mid is a bit risky because it's not going to be fast enough. Armors up, but guess what? I don't care about that because I have armor of my own. Swinging for the fences is wise. The plus frame is going to be abused, but the fourth throw is going to be a bit aggressive. Best stuff. Not going to have to worry about those Shang Tsung projectiles when that best is on him. He's just trying to pressure him in the corner. Havoc trying to fight back here. Sirex keeping him close to the corner. That should have been a big whiff punish, but Shang Tsung's buttons were just not far enough to make it there in time. I just realized that I forgot. Do you see why I actually played a little havoc too? Oh, it was this matchup. But wise, everyone plays it a bit different. Let me break your neck real now. I'm going to be only 20% off this because that unblockable, all the scales, well, scales quite a bit and only about you. It doesn't really let you go over 20%. No, yeah, just scales so hard, but again, that wouldn't really be there. I mean, hey, if you're telling me two bars to add an almost guaranteed 20% to your combos, I think that's great. Definitely so. Switching back and forth for a young, old form, looking like Zeku out here at the overhead. You're not going to block that. But after here, huge factor here four seconds left on the clock. Oh, no, he caught the wrong. He gets both it. Guess what. Wise getting that little straight hit. Look at that man. Lean back to the chair. He was like, thank God. I thought he was going to fall out that stage. The relief of him just letting go of that pressure. The focus that he needed in that moment to just get that little edge off. Fireballs, one deck down. She to get under and one mid. With that of spikes with that of spikes. Just trying to give a little bit more breathing room for Shang Tsung but here comes that having button pretty slow but hey does the job right swinging back and forth complimentary Cyrex to just keep it nice and safe you don't have to worry about getting punished no problem not a lot of things are for hitting and fast in this game nothing outside of like baby Baraka but just absorb absorb absorb get launched you guys know Havoc's armor move right there absorbs four hits armor if you do not break the armor it adds more damage to the move and he just held 25% because of it that's a lot tons tons of it just giving it right back to you is having but doesn't get the round and said bgy staying composed staying fine knowing that hey you just gotta bait it out a little bit more I'd like to see some more jumping over in those opportunities where you know the armor is more likely to come out but we'll see how these guys adapt is very smart of wise Gemini to back off when he sets up that tether because Shang's armor moves don't really go that far so once he's back away even if he does armor move he's gonna clip the recovery Syrex for spin to win guess what we're back to mid screen going to see the challenge must fight me what over there it looks so cool back there by the way it reminds me a lot of the pit two again all these amazing throwbacks throughout this entire game this game is a beautiful masterpiece yes it is oh I kind of messed up right there but nonetheless it's gonna get a decent amount of damage those up on the man's face punch them to the corner that's home it's there oh they're all there coming they're coming it could have been a disastrous combo ender get the low is this death no way right no he's got a bar oh boy that's two bars that's it especially if we go in the fatal yes it is gonna scale but it's gonna do a ton of damage I want to say it's pretty safely there's no way he survived he's got a bunch of stabbing to do he survived me no he turns them into like Groot for a second and it just pushes him away messes up the fatal you don't have easy fatal expose who this man I want to make those tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes all of that man can't even do a fatal at the looking it up you're terrible so much pressure okay like it's so funny nobody knows it's a completely different kind of pressure from like competing it's like yeah you can do one-frame links you can do all these complicated juggles but even after pressing start you still mess that up it's hilarious pro players are very good excuse but when it comes to the fatality oh they messed up so bad I'm looking at you MIT but like this is my team will take 30 seconds to look at the fatality screen on the stage make sure you look at it how to do it and then still press jab the killer press by the way one of the smartest fighting game players out there in the NRS in the NRC but yes a very funny way to press start mess up the fatal I might see the last we love you man hope you don't have to pick out so you guys switch it over to Luke hang and let's see the shall in monks boys we're gonna go with low Kung Lao hat gonna be being able to open the door so to speak for me that right there yeah on top of the throw leading into pretty much double damage here with the use of just one came over half your cameo bar hey man it's looking really crazy right now for this man wise yeah the Kung Lao assist compared to the sub zero makes the strike throw between that much more efficient why because it's a combo with the throw as you guys just saw and I can be very dangerous to think about nice better spikes to get anything off of a big whip you know what happens we get whip punish you get lost you go for a lie that's what's happening right here Shang Tsung tons of damage here 37% and a huge you know position in favor of Shang Tsung video games you know no need to really go in why why go in just up school get the anti air conversion and you are golden VGY one round away from moving on into the top eight wait a minute why I said go to wise first and wise with the setup but couldn't get the conversion afterwards really interesting thing I have noticed about Shang Tsung EX fireball because the fireball has that weird after one of them it actually gets on goes over the EX projectile from Lucane and it won't get ignored and it gets against it yeah yeah that is interesting again all these different like interchangeable things all these different properties from all these different moves so hard to keep track of all of it well okay now I get it forward for three problem I got back to you stop with the EX back with his own move force rain didn't care that time oh wait a second that was a little scary that that's very unsafe move yes that is a very unsafe move nice ball about the game that ship going through the gas all once again the bed of spikes tries to anti-air but doesn't get it yo the bed of spikes doing so much work right now oh he's looking for he's looking for something here come in all the way from across the pond to represent CGL and getting that spot in the top eight on the loser side what what a story man grueling set after grueling set and playing one of the most unique characters in this game with so much flash so much finesse you really got to give it to me why big shout out to the homie Jordan he's right there it might be little tears show right now I'm not gonna lie to you that man's very proud of myself did it had an impressive losers one is going to secure his ticket into the loser side top eight where I think he fights the winner of this yes I believe that is that is a terrifying dog so our final top 16 match for the night and again guys get ready to not go anywhere because we have on a ton of MK1 it is coming up right after this instant replay big shout out to Mountain Dew for the do over here as we get to re-experience all the clutch moments here those round winners the armor the Shang Tsung volleyball game throwing up on this man's face disgusting the snapping of the necks everything the moments that we all shared that the crowd loved rooting for their hometown hero rooting for I guess the farthest international player to make it out here and we got an international player in the top eight but it was not easy definitely not an easy feat look at all the bodies left behind him wise Gemini turkey titanium tigers and way way more that just fell little by little VGY among the top eight to solidify all those points all that money and all the glory yes and unfortunately for wise gonna end off at ninth place but I expect to see a more about the pro tour definitely looking strong with that Luke hang and having has a great team to work with but guys this is like armor said it's gonna be our final match of the top 16 deoxys versus the man zombie that is going to be on the screen right now to see who is going to get that final spot now this is this is a heartbreaker because I know both these players play with each other a lot I love these guys actually this is me but I mean yes just you and I'm sure a lot of people at home love both these guys and not maybe not everyone knows but these guys are training partners they play a lot together they share tech they test tech and you know it's gonna make for an interesting set because you have to kind of take that in mind that you know even though I know he knows all the dirt that I have on my character you can you can try to withhold something try to do something a little out of the ordinary like he knows I'm always looking for throw in this situation he knows I'm always looking for anti air or even like something like up block tendencies so whatever level of Yomi we're seeing here is way beyond just level one two or three it's probably something up in like level 300 Yomi as these players just kind of constantly have to adjust to each other as they learn to play the game but it's gonna be right now expecting anyone else uses that bar because hey why not I get the bonus meter for that first hit and some good damage I'm just going to chasing them down this is a full combo that is a logic yeah and that's not usually rated to like I don't have any consequences for jumping and supermanning out of the corner but the Tara says something different so many projects out in the screen and the Tata try to get in but walk them down nice blocks chip they just caught I guess what we're back to the corner oh my guys hot over here with the green party got it and bar to spin bouldering hot over here you don't want to be anywhere near this and the Tara poking out here deox is trying to find a little bit of breathing room trying to finish up what that tiny little bit that's left I love the pose she's just like she's a little I don't know why she's a little cold she was covering herself up with her wings oh yeah she's right next to the fire no way she's checking the wings oh my god had him over the fly over said no this is no flies on hold the shocker but we had a vlog about this almost got the full MK logo with that charge of hello and the Tara not really putting herself in any kind of danger there I think that might have been an input error that does happen sometimes you want to hit back cameo and you get neutral cameo as an ambush and you're like come on now don't touch me I'm trying to whip on it try to take it to the other side of the screen that's what the overhead through some bad with the like you might be able to take this with chip and sirex coming in to seal the deal yeah when you go right into that lightning storm there's really not an opportunity to flawless block to negate that chip so that's kind of what you saw there again what's the risk of sirex is going to keep you nice and safe yo now finding nice little conversion here pushing him all over the corner but we all know Raiden is one Superman away from getting out of the corner or teleport away from getting positioning goes in for something here but Raiden recovering just in time and able to punish him when Raiden punishes you he hits like a truck and it is such a somo chip and look at this the life lead being changed so quickly because of that one mistake Dio in trouble the fourth row into two bars into a car wheel and because she has not drops it drops it drops it but that's okay we're gonna pick it up American resets here goes right into the lightning storm what are you gonna do Dio finding himself in a 1-0 deficit sound extremely confident in the zombie taking that game number one deal has to make the adjustments in order to stay alive and I'll tell you one thing armor tell me not want to go down to look at the rate in the side right that's a tough field it's gonna be a long set let me tell you your thumb is gonna hurt well whatever finger use as a block when you have your map it to it's gonna hurt so we're moving back here oh that dive kick from the car yeah foot dive to what into what indeed that's hard just jumping out of there and you could see how much respect is coming out of the Zombat not even trying to like ansire just saying I'm gonna rely on my defense to not get opened up by any crazy air things you do there's no way you knew that was gonna work I'm telling you these like no one's gonna know this match up more than Zombat so you're seeing things that you're not gonna see in any other Natara match this is the highest level possible in the world I'm confident to say oh no you got caught brother brother what do you do got hit by the storm seal and sideways for me to all right close range that's over had easy opening up of someone who's so scared terrified of that low because the damage output from him the back throw I didn't know I think that was a miss Superman and guess what the ox is gonna definitely make him pay for the damage off of this get out of here no you're not manning out out of the sky you're staying right here you're staying in this corner you're not coming out without taking a big risk but never mind Superman no problem as Natara just trying to fight for the what little real estate she still has left Dio throwing out that Kung Lao had to help out help with the pressure help with the onslaught and though the throw getting teched here by Zombat he was like almost no throw attempts this whole time but Zombat was ready for it definitely made the most of it and got a heck of a break that dive kick had his meter on it was gonna be a lot of damage but no I'm gonna try to get this job and yes they don't want deck one confirm is all that's needed don't watch oh my god his feet almost got full string here trying to ship this man out of the sauce but wait a second it's the low hat is that the armor's through and that should be it storm cell oh my goodness Zombat with the clutch after the electric fly with a little bit of arm on it into the storm so as you said it's hard to get that flows by timing if you do it on wake up yeah yeah just do it right on top of them it starts up super fast whereas like you know a lesser player would have maybe done something like doing a string first and then canceling into it if any part of that string gets telegraphed and they flawless block it it applies to the entire thing including anything you cancel into and even includes a second stagger if you don't give it enough time in between staggers so flawless blocking really comes in clutch when you're gaining chip it's not just you know a lucky block it's literally like just getting it almost perfect deal you gotta be late perfect for the rest of the match if he wants to take this set it's currently Zombat is up to over there's a good start the neutral jump on the whip and we get this one which yeah you definitely want the quarter positioning here just down to out of here no problem at all get the hell away from me down to a mega fox is crazy but it's the backdrop back throw yes as you see her getting shocked with electricity and holding it there that projectile one of the most unique ones in this game where you can hold it to wait for more projectiles to just summon but that's always the mind game is he gonna hold it or is he just gonna throw it out immediately both ways need to get punished in a different manner right now we have nothing but zoning and space control coming out easy to working with the there's only an option and as well as that allow a hat and doing the most work with it but it's what another foot dive and we have to break why always have bars in case of any insurers that is needed lucky to have sirex right there but gets clipped by the load sirex here this time and that should be the kill and now deal is on his final final stand between him and getting eliminated at night gotta do it he's gotta do it right here tries to get there again second time that's happened in this set and it just makes you feel so bad for Dio as Zombat just taking full advantage of that full advantage of those punishable brains and just making sure it hurts pushing closer and closer to the corner amplifying that to make the damage packed up so easily is this gonna be a tento is it it the sirex assist into oh my god the combo wasn't even done this man I know I could relapse and that man said what was I supposed to do what was that what was I supposed to do in that moment I could feel him saying I had no options you know and it really kind of like not that not to downplay Zombat at all in terms of player ability but it really makes you think about do you just need more experience against Natara to understand when to attack when not to because this is the person who probably has the most Natara experience as in fighting against Natara than anyone else out there and Zombat made it look so clean and so easy like he wasn't playing against someone who killed so many killers on their way here and by that person I mean by Dio or deoxys if you will so very one-sided very one-sided it was that man was holding block button for eternity I think he only got literally the one round and but like even even the the special move using it as an anti-air when Natara was right in that special sweet little spot like that was that was matchup experience truthfully through and through I mean it was it was just so good and so well calculated I don't know what he could have done differently don't know what he was definitely holding the block button he was trying to he had the flaws blocks here and there but then that's when it came to what was I supposed to do you can tell these guys are really really good friends definitely no you know no bad blood no no bad blood nothing but respect again for all the players who made it to top eight and of course a shout out to the players who fell like just short of that but we're still a part of this amazing production by giving us this high-level gameplay with all these different varieties of characters it's just just amazing and Zombat's gonna be taking that last spot there on in our top eight and that's just at the top 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wrapped up post versus King gambler a Johnny mirror and VGY the only long representative from out of the States will be going against Zombat another potential mirror by the way that could possibly be because VGY does play Johnny as well but we didn't see it too much but you know I might be reading too much into it but that is your top eight bracket and now we happen it at 630 Eastern standard time yeah so that is that is pretty much it there it was just I can't wait I cannot wait for this top eight it was just the blood sweat and tears and it is not over it's not over these guys like there's going to be more upsets there's going to be more comeback situations and you guys don't want to miss this at all tento it was absolutely pleasure a pleasure to do this top 16 so many hype matches so much that we learned and you know so many so many fallen friends along the way so many friends but guys do not go anywhere we'll be back on this channel at 630 to see that top eight we're going to take 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