 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is road to the final day on FIFA Ultimate Team. The loading screen is here. Actually, the last time I loaded in, it didn't show. But we are getting the road to the final promotion today. Do we have a loading screen still? They seem to take these away and put the loading screens in. We do have a loading screen. I can't confirm that it was there. I can show you on Twitter. Basically, what the loading screen is. EA Sports FIFA has it on their Twitter today. This is the loading screen that you can see on FIFA right now. I don't know why it's not showing up for me. UCL Road to the Final Promotion is coming out Friday today. We're getting that promo. I want to talk you guys through what I see happening today in terms of some market movements, some general market analysis, market trends that I think we should see today. And kind of talk about how they're doing this promo and talk about Road to the Final itself because some people might need a refresher on this promo. So this promo is basically entirely centered around Champions League. As you guys very well do know, these are last year's frequently asked questions. I assume they'll structure it the same way because it was a big success for them last year. These cards were so fun to trade with throughout the year because they fluctuated so much because people loved Champions League. And these cards that they chose last year were awesome cards that had very good player selection. And the positions that the player selection they were in, they were very usable cards. Fabinho, Domens and Sanchez became one of the very OP centerbacks of the prem. Sterling was a good outside mid. Griezmann, a beast card. Ranao Sanchez, Linguard. For all types of budgets, these cards were very used last year in FIFA. So again, this is what happens. Road to the final cards are not upgraded by their individual performance. None of these guys had to perform good in games to get their cards boosted. It's all about the team performance. And as you see for a lot of the squads in here, a lot of the guys had, from each team, there were two players. You have two Spurs players in both sides of the team. You had Aria in the second team. And Sanchez, you had Sterling and Aguero both in the first team. Who else do you have in here? You have Sanchez and Linguard both from United. So you have multiple teams in here that were multiple guys in this team that were represented by the same team. So they put the big boys in this promo because they know these cards are gonna get updated and people are gonna wanna use them and open packs. That's the whole point. They put in good cards in this promo because they know people are gonna open packs. So you're gonna see some of the top players on foot in this promo today on Friday. So here it goes. A player can receive a maximum of seven upgrades throughout the season. So this is how it goes. The Champions League upgrades, they get upgraded by advancing to the knockout stage, winning in the first leg of the round of 16 and then winning that second game gets them another boost, advancing to the corner final, advancing the semi-final and advancing to the final and winning the final as well. So a lot of players will get boosted the first time or the first two times because all you have to do for the first two is get to the knockout stage or you have to win the first leg of the knockout stage. And additionally, for those players that get knocked out of the knockout stages, they have a chance to go down to Europa League. So right here, what happens if a player's team finishes third in the UEFA Champions League group stage? If the player item will be updated to a UEFA Europa League road to the final, they will not receive a plus one upgrading for advancing to the knockout stage but will continue to receive upgrades if their club advances to other stage of the competition. So basically Homsik and Parasich from last year, they went to the Europa League and they continue to get a couple upgrades. Some other cards last year that were very hyped up in the second batch of UCL lives because they were down in the Europa League was Ben Yetter and Kadogba. I don't know if you remember those cards but they were hyped up a lot because they went down to Europa League, their teams performed well and they got a lot of updates. So it's an equivalent of an informed upgrade each time and the player does not have to play. Again, it is the team advancing that makes them get the boost. And then the dynamic images change as well. And actually it says, how long will it take for the attribute boost to be applied? Take a few hours to update in game. There was some conspiracies with this last year. Sometimes they were very slow on updating the statistics on these cards and that made trading with them and their prices on the market fluctuate a lot and they were so fun to trade with because of that right there. So these cards are gonna be fun to trade with. I'm assuming they'll come out with a graph like this. Again, this year, this is obviously the card design from last year. This year's card design we'll look at in a second. It's a little bit different. But it's basically the same. They're gonna get an informed boost every single time. In this picture right here, it looks like it's plus one each time but I can confirm that if this 82 rated Philip card or an 81 rated Philip card will go to an 84. It's an informed boost each and every time that the card moves up in the standing. So again, this is the loading screen that we have right now. I wanna take you guys over to the actual pack design from Footwatch on Twitter. This is the actual pack design for Champions League. I love the borders of this card. So now instead of just cards, we have borders on the cards as well. Look at this, we have the star from the Champions League star around the outside of the card design. It looks dope. I like what they did with this card design. It's pretty similar to last year but it looks sick in my opinion. And then the Europa League card design looks a little bit different. It's very bright. I mean, that is very, very bright. That's gonna stick out a lot in people's squads on foot. I mean, it's gonna kinda look like a gold card, I guess but it's gonna look a little different. It's gonna spice it up. So I think a lot of people are gonna like that card design. And of course, the Premier League one looks really good as well. So I'm a fan of that. I'm a big fan of that. So again, I wanna talk about some of the things that I think we can see on the market today because of this. At the moment, if we go on foot and check out the index gold, which kinda tells us how the market is doing in terms of gold cards today, you see rewards happen right here. The market dipped and the market kinda slowly rose back up during the day. But a lot of the meta stuff, a lot of the stuff that we invested into flip for Weekendly Rewards, it stayed stagnant or even went down. So there was a lot of people that broke even or lost coins on tax or just lost coins in general today from Thursday flipping, which is very unfortunate and it doesn't happen very often but people knew this promo was coming and they anticipated it and a lot of people weren't buying today for whatever the case was. Probably that repeatable SBC has something to do with it as well. So I think prices are gonna, again, stay pretty stagnant, leading up into the promo today. I would be on the lookout for some panic. Stuff that you would look to buy before the actual promo comes out today, Friday at 6 p.m. would be some of these out-of-packs informs and out-of-packs special cards because if they fluctuate a lot and they go down a lot, they're out of packs. So they're not gonna get packed today when these new Road to the Final cards are coming out. So watch the panic leading up until the promo release at 6 p.m. UK with these cards and watch their prices. If you see some big dips, just kind of know their prices. Like if you see Hamas Rodriguez, right now he's at 310. If you see some panic tomorrow and he's like 280, that would be a situation, excuse me, where I would say that might be a good look for that card. He could very easily rebound back up to 310 in no time. Because he's a hype card in this game, he got the big pace boost with the Scream card and stuff like that. And scroll through the informs as well just because a lot of people like informs in this game. Some of the most popular meta-informs, Wynaldum, maybe a Lucas Dignay, maybe Lewandowski. Some of those guys that are the most popular informs that people use, Ducorre, 9-Golan, Vanieter, DeMaria, Griezmann, Debala, Samedo, stuff like that. Just watch the most informed prices today in the pre-6pm release time panic. See if there's any price movements there. Maybe pick a few up to flip after because I think that cards will go up in the nighttime after this promo. People with all the panic selling today and yesterday, they're gonna buy their teams back at some point for weakling, right? So tomorrow after the first couple hours of that promo, I think you might start to see some of the buyback and cards going up after the promo into the evening. So watch out for that. Watch out for these one-to-watch cards as well. Obviously, if we have some panic on some of these, some of these guys play on Saturday. Some of these guys play on Sunday. See some, if you see some panic tomorrow, could be an opportunity to pick some of them up and flip them on Saturday into the pre-game hype when people buy up one-to-watch cards because they think they're gonna have a good game or whatever that may be. So pick a few out, maybe like a Holler, maybe a Lozano, maybe a Joe Wellington. One of the guys that fluctuates every week is somebody that you're gonna wanna focus on, maybe Brandt as well, maybe even Coutinho. Just look at the games, the matchups they had this week. Watch some of those cards, could be good for flips leading up into the 6 p.m. hype. Now I wanna look back at one thing really quick. Over on Twitter, I think, let me find it really fast. They're going to be releasing these cards during the reveal of the live stream. So as it says here, the exclusive reveal of the road to the final players will be on the Foot Champions live stream tomorrow. So they were having the pro event tomorrow. I don't know if you guys realized that. I talked about it in my video yesterday. There is a pro event going on this weekend and they're gonna be releasing those cards during the actual live stream on Twitch.tv backslash esports FIFA. So make sure you follow that account and you'll be able to watch some of these cards be revealed. And this last year, I think with Team of the Season, it was they revealed some of these cards that they were gonna put out during Team of the Season via a video type format on a stream. So watch that again today. That might cause some market movements depending on if those cards coming out are really hyped up. They have good stats and stuff like that. So watch that and of course, stay tuned to Twitter. I'm sure they'll be having people tweet out those cards that are gonna be released as well. So stay tuned to that. And I wanna talk about a few more things regarding the market later in the day. This SBC still concerns me here in the store. The 81 plus UCL double upgrade. A lot of people are doing this SBC and you can tell because if you go on the market and look at the index 83s, a lot of 83s right now are like 2,000 coins, right? 2,200 coins, they still continue to go up because people are doing this SBC a lot and it honestly makes me sick because people are paying, this SBC costs you like 20K, over 20K to do because you have to turn in an 83 rated squad. Footbin says that this SBC is 20,000 coins. You're spending 20,000 coins per SBC to get like an 82 or an 83 rated UCL player most of the time. This is not worth it. But people are continuing to do this because people are addicted to SBCs man and they love testing the packs and trying to get something good out of packs. The fact that this is still in packs for one day, 14 hours, it scares me a little bit for tomorrow and I think that could hamper the market rebound tomorrow in the evening because some people are gonna put money in for packs for this new promo and they're gonna go use that money to go open more of those upgrade packs. So that might hurt some of the rise in the market tomorrow, I still think the market's gonna rise up in terms of those meta players. Players that people use all the time are weak in league, you know, Verran, maybe some other guys like Ling Lei could be a decent shout. It's gonna be rebounded, of course. We talked about him with the PK hype. Verran is rebounded nicely just because he's a very, very meta player in this game and he's higher rated and used a lot. Maybe somebody who else, another person who could rise, he's maybe like a Firmino. Of course here guys like Kevin De Bruyne, like a Conte card. Right now Conte's actually up a little bit. I think he's like 400,000 coins, which is rarely, usually gets to a week in league. You might see this dip back under 400, but then probably go up above 410, 415, Friday night with those cards. But to be honest, I'm gonna say for the most part, try to stay away from the gold cards. They might have a lot of fluctuation and a lot of movement, but they're going to be in packs. They're gonna get packed a lot tomorrow and that just increases the risk on them that they could dip in price. People could panic sell them more and stuff like that. So I would say if you're gonna trade with some cards and look to buy up some cards tomorrow, I would say look in more of the team of the week area. Again, look at some of these guys that are very popular in the team of the week. If you wanna flip some cards, maybe you see if you can find some Decorys for like low 60s. Right now I think he's right around always above 70K. Wow, how high is this man? Decorys like 75,000 coins, unbelievable, 77K. So maybe if you see this guy dip under 70 and there's not like a road to the final so soco that is in packs, even if so soco gets a road to the final card, people will panic sell this in form, but if that road to the final so soco is like 150 to 200K, like really expensive compared to this card, you might see some panic selling on Decorys right away when the so soco gets announced, but then Decorys price would probably rise back to normal when people realize, hey, okay, that's a soco card is pretty expensive compared to some of the other ones. Is this gonna get bought right away? It is, nice little undercut right there. So just watch some of the panic on these cards tomorrow morning as we head into the promo, stuff like that with the substitute investments. Again, if you're looking at icons, a lot of icons are gonna get used in this weekend's promo, or the pro event this weekend, especially this Carlos Alberto. A lot of UCL cards are gonna get used this weekend as well. I've seen a ton of blues in people's teams. So just watch some of these icon prices. If you're somebody who wants to get some of these cards in your team, tomorrow at 6 p.m. UK with all the packs being opened is probably gonna be a great time to look into maybe trying out some of these cards. Maybe you wanna try like a Del Piero or something. You know, try to get those guys tomorrow. If you be on the market and look for the fresh listings at 6 p.m. UK, like this is the filter that you guys can use depending on your coin budget. If you just wanna trade or if you're looking to actually buy an icon for your team. Look on maybe a filter like this. I'm gonna sort 500K with a max by now of a million since I almost have a million coins. With the basic chem style, it's gonna get me to 59th minute faster and it's gonna find me cards that people are just freshly packing from opening promo packs to save the rewards or whatever. Boom, we see a right card there, 6.85. That's not too bad of a deal actually. Actually, it's not that great, but it's probably a fresh right card back here. It is a fresh right card. So stuff like that's gonna be where you might wanna look tomorrow if you're on the higher end coin budget. But again, stuff that is out of packs is gonna probably rise the best into tomorrow night as we saw again today. We saw Delaney rise a lot today. Delaney's team of the week card was 70 something K. It was, I bought one when Brandt came out for team of the week on Wednesday. I saw Brandt getting team of the week, or excuse me, Thorgan Hazard. Saw Thorgan Hazard get into team of the week and I went and bought one of these Delaney cards for 57K. It was like a 2K undercut, got it on a snipe and it sold for 67K and now he's all the way up to 75. So if you see this card tomorrow, maybe get down into the 60s again, maybe mid 60s. He drops like 5, 6, 7K. That would be a big time bang and pick up in my opinion. It's in out of packs in form. So even a guy like Nine Golan, people are using him. Just watch and see what happens this weekend in terms of what cards come out, links to some of those cards. The road to the final cards are gonna be popular because people are gonna wanna put them in their teams, they're gonna wanna try them. They're gonna be another set of boosted cards coming on to this game and stuff like that. So that's what I would be very eerie and very careful of, is just watching some of the prices on the market, the possibility for them to drop with the gold cards. If we get lightning rounds tomorrow, you're gonna see a lot of the guys like Lucas. Rashford and some of the 83s, 84s that have been holding a higher price range, even Galaxy Soco, I think Lucas is like 30K right now. You might see a guy like Lucas really, really take a hit tomorrow if they do lightning rounds, which they haven't done lightning rounds for this promo in the past. First lightning rounds have come during Black Friday, but if you see that happen, keep your eyes out for some big time dipping of prices on some of these 83s or maybe even like a Furlan Mendy, something like that, as these cards are still pretty inflated for their rating. Mooses to Soco is like 30,000 coins as an 81 rated card, which is still pretty crazy in my opinion. So watch out for some of that as well. If we get lightning rounds, these guys will definitely get hit in price and watch the prices of the road to the final cards when they come out in the game today. So I remember looking at this team last year, I remember vividly that these road to the final cards, nobody knew how to value them right away. Davenson Sanchez, when he first came on, I was looking at this card on stream just a few hours ago before recording this. If you look at his graph, he was 167K at his cheapest point before he went out of packs. Davenson Sanchez, when he was first pack, I was on the market at this time. I remember seeing this card listed at 120,000 coins and even some cards under 100K on snipe because people didn't know how much these cards were really gonna be worth. It was, yes, a boost, but a lot of people had saved packs and a lot of people were open them right then at 6pm UK. Ton of supply was coming on the market and the packed weight seemed, the pack weight seemed pretty heavy. So we're gonna have to watch some of those cards, watch and see the pack weight again. Some of the trading right away in the first hour or two of these cards is gonna be fun. They might rise overnight, but again, the pack weight is a big thing to look. So tomorrow when we get promo packs, go in here to the promo packs, click on the options button and look at the pack weight and see what it says for the road to the final cards and really take that into consideration with how you start to trade with those cards because the screams were very rare. The screen percentage was less than 1%. And if it's that way for these road to the final cards, which I don't think it will be because last year they had a lot of supply, but if it's similar, you're gonna see a lot of these cards on the market. Maybe they're cheap, they're low at first as people realize what's going on with them, they could rise. Depending on if you're on the market, these cards are gonna fluctuate a lot. I mean, it's just the way that they are, they are live items with Champions League. So we're gonna start watching these cards really soon and you're gonna start to see people talking about investing in them out of packs because a lot of these cards boomed out of packs right away. But also I think the rise this year is gonna be a little bit less because like you look at the run out of Sanchez who's 123K, you hold them for a couple of weeks and boom, all of a sudden he's 209,000 coins. I don't think the rises are gonna be as significant this year because last year was the first year for a promo and people didn't really fully realize what was going on with these cards or exactly how in demand they were actually going to be. So obviously this year we know more about them. I doubt that the rises will be as drastic concerning the market this year and stuff like that. But we'll just keep an eye out for them, we'll see what happens and we'll be ready to adjust to whatever this market and whatever EA brings us. Other content I think we can see today in terms of Road to the Final content, I think we'll get a player SBC today. They have been releasing player SBCs on the first day of the promo. Basically every day for Scream, the first day for Scream, we got Draxther for the second week and we got Jesus Navas and Milner, right? Was it Milner? On the first day of the first week of Scream. So they've been putting out SBCs on the first day of the promo every single time. So I would watch out for a Road to the Final card. If you wanna do a club stock with some of the low rated, you know, 82 through 83 or 84, 85, 86 rated golds, be my guest, go do a club stock, get a few of them in the club just to be safe. And we could see player the month again in the morning as well. So be careful with that. If you're some of the guys who have played the month investments, watch your informs. If you're selling on the hype, which I think is a smart thing to do, go ahead and do that. But it should be a fun day tomorrow on foot, man. Road to the Final is here, very fun promo. We're gonna be watching these cards for the rest of the year in foot. I mean, until Champions League is over, these cards are going to be used in teams and it's a fun promo, it really is. So I'm hoping for a fun day on foot tomorrow. If you have any questions, drop them down below in the comments. And if you enjoyed this video, smash a thumbs up on it. Thank you guys for the continued support on all these YouTube videos. It is mental, all the support that you guys do show. All right, boys, it's been Nate, the Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.