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[ENG] RB Wololo Londinium · Start the game already!

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  Below deck by Lantern glow on biscuit hard and peace went
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  slow. We.
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  Filled our balls. And.
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  Raised a cheer for Red Bull Walla.
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  Lowest roaring near. Welcome everyone, Welcome back
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  from London and wherever you were watching the tournament.
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  I am here and I am joined once again by Daniela.
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  Hey. Chris.
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  Feels like whenever I do an intro I always feel like I suck
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  because I always think of Riley and Dash and the likes who do
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  amazing intros and all these kind of events and it's just a
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  pleasure watching them. I don't think you should think
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  that way. I don't think you should compare
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  like, you know, an introduction to a podcast with, you know, and
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  big event hosted by some grand organizers or with a nasty
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  tournament presenter or such like.
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  There are there are different occasions and also I feel like
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  if you would pull some sort of like ultimate introduction like
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  they're doing for a podcast, I think I think that would be a
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  bit too much. Whereas again, like them saying
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  like, oh, hey, everyone, I'm Riley and this is Dash.
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  And then going straight to the to the thing again, it it
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  wouldn't work. So yeah, I think it's different
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  occasions. I think, I actually think you
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  would do you, you would make for a fantastic host, if I'm being
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  honest, Chris. Oh that's so sweet.
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  I'm not sure I agree. I think, well, you don't have
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  to. Well, yeah, Yeah.
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  Let's just leave it at that. I am.
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  I am very jealous of everyone who has who was at the event.
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  And I'm especially jealous of the players and the talents that
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  were there. I felt like everyone did a great
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  performance. But we'll save our overall
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  review of the event for the end of this episode.
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  Instead, we'll start by talking about the highlights of the
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  tournament. Game wise, I think best way to
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  go about this is to just go from day-to-day.
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  I have a few a couple of notes, but not much.
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  And then we'll just well state whatever we think was memorable
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  and was was, was good. We have a different perspective.
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  I was watching the main feed for the whole time and you were
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  casting pretty much everything I believe.
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  I consider everything except the finals.
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  Except for the finals. OK, good.
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  So the goal of this episode is just to recap the event.
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  And that also means that we will be heavily spoiling everything.
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  So if you haven't seen all of the event or if you want to just
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  save some certain parts of the event and rewatch them and you
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  don't want to be spoiled, then this is not the podcast for you.
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  You have been warned officially now.
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  So let's go about it and start with day one.
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  I've got one set I want to highlight and that was the Viper
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  versus Sebastian set. Yeah, the entire day started
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  very, very good with that set. Went a bit like pretty high, but
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  not as much to with the next one which was Anvil versus you.
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  And then the hype dropped significantly when it was
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  followed by Lyra ACCM and Herr Hard, which were both definite 3
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  OS. So yeah, probably Seva versus
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  Survivor was the set of the day. I I agree.
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  I think so too. So there's a bit of a storyline
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  there because Sebastian is still the up and coming player.
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  He's pretty. He was the youngest at the
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  tournament, if I am, if I'm correct.
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  And you know, Viper is a seasoned veteran, He's one of
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  the best players still, but he had trouble to qualify for the
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  event. He came in very late and only
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  because Vincent didn't get his visa, so he wasn't that weird
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  spot where people actually expect him to do well in STR
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  tournaments, especially in LAN events, because he should be one
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  of the guys who has the most experience and who should
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  benefit from this kind of stage. But then again, he performed
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  poorly to his standards during the qualifiers, so it would have
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  been understandable if Viper would have been out in the group
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  stage. But it it's also no surprise
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  that he actually went on to qualify for later stages.
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  So I guess my question to you is, going into the set between
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  Viper and Sebastian, what did you think?
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  Did you think Viper would actually be able to beat
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  Sebastian or did you think that Sebastian would sweep him?
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  Maybe not sweep, I expected it to be to be close, but I would
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  think Seba would win if we take a step back in time and if we
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  remember the second chance qualifier.
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  Seba qualified because he beat Viper.
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  Yeah. So I even saw a meme on Reddit
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  that you know that that meme when someone is kicked out from
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  a Tavern or from a bar or whatever.
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  And then like Siba thinking he got rid of Viper and then here
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  comes Viper, like I'm back. Waiting for him, yeah.
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  And it was a close set. So Viper actually took the lead.
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  He he went on to lead 2O in that set and then Sebastian came back
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  equalizing 2 to 2. And in the last game, Viper took
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  the win and he got his first win in the on the first day.
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  So seeing that match, I got pretty excited.
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  I felt like everything's possible and it also felt to me,
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  but not only in this set but in the entire sets on that first
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  day, that many players felt a bit shaky.
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  I, I would actually like to to point out something regarding
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  that set. Again, just like you said, it
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  went to game five. It was super close.
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  It was 2 to 2 and then we had a decider match in a best of five.
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  It was the exact same thing in the last chance qualifier as
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  well. So after both sets, the winner
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  said something like it could have gone either way.
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  And I feel that way as well that it it could have gone either
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  way, which is only an indicator of Seba's performance in the
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  last years. How how far he's come.
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  I know Viper is not like playing in his prime time.
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  I think he, he's had his peak and he's obviously not playing
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  like when he was winning absolutely everything and, and
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  such. But I, I don't think that should
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  take anything away from how good Sebastian, his performance and
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  for the youngest player there to, to perform that well.
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  I think I, I, I think it's a big thing.
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  I, I think it's worth mentioning and well, we're going to talk
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  later. His performance didn't stop
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  there. He actually went quite far into
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  the tournament. He did.
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  It's especially exciting for me to see Sebastian perform that
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  well. You probably haven't heard it,
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  but like almost two years ago I did an interview with Sebastian.
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  It was almost an hour long talk that I had with him after he won
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  the first Socracy Cup. That was his first big
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  performance in his first tournament win.
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  And it was so exciting to talk to him back then because he was
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  still that young talent up and Comer.
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  And he was also kind of surprised by his performance.
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  But he was also very proud of himself because he put in so
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  much work. And he was telling me stories
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  about how he tried to like very systematically improve on
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  himself because he, he started off as an Archer player and just
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  very, very late in his career, just just before a fellow
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  Socracy Cup I believe, he told me that he started to practice
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  playing with cavalry civilizations because he felt
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  like he was very good with Archers but very bad with
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  cavalry. And that was like 2 years ago.
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  And now he's on the big stage of the greatest tournament of all
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  time. It's just such amazing progress.
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  Was telling the I was so proud with myself because I was
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  telling people before he want alasocracy.
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  I I think people are sleeping on Siban.
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  I think this is going to be a great talent and when he wants
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  alasocracy. I was like, I knew it.
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  I knew it. See, what did I tell you?
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  Yeah, exactly. So for everyone listening to
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  this podcast, if you haven't heard that interview, I, I, I
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  very much would like to for you to go back in the podcast feed
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  and just have a listen to that because I think it's amazing to
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  see a player have this progress. So yeah, day one.
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  Oh my God. As I said, oh.
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  My God. Oh, let's go.
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  Let's go. Next to my favorite day from the
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  tournament. Second favorite.
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  I I I think the final day was the best.
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  Probably but but. I think so too.
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  They, they too, they. Oh my God, from the groove
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  stages. Let's just say that from the
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  groove stages, Day 2 was by far for me, the best day ever.
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  Oh my God. I rewatched this this games like
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  I casted this games for 8 or 9 hours and then I was so excited
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  about three of these sets that I I sat down with my husband later
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  in the evening. I was like, you have to rewatch
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  this with me like and then I rewatched the main cast of them
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  as well. I can't believe that in a while.
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  Yeah, it's, it was insane. Like that was my favorite day by
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  far. OK, so tell me about it.
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  What was your highlight? Well started with Harry and Bill
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  right? The game, the game Oh my God.
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  First of all, how how the hell I don't expect and Bill to perform
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  that well. First of all, I feel like he
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  chokes in big tournaments big time like he's sometimes making
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  the top 8 but then like he's through the 1st ones to be
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  eliminated. But I'm telling you, the moments
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  that he's getting on the stage, their entertaining.
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  Like for some reason, he even said in the in some of those
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  entry interviews as Raghu made, for some reason he's very
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  confident against her. I don't know what's the reason
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  behind that. Maybe maybe he goes into a set
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  thinking like, Oh well, it's Hera, I might lose anyway.
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  Like let's make the best of it. Or like, I don't know what's the
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  reason why. And he he said he doesn't know
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  what's the reason why either. He also said that he's going to
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  probably going to get destroyed by Hera, but still he feels like
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  he has good chances against it. That was very nice.
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  Right. And then he pushes the the set
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  to decider. He pushes that to Game 5.
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  He does. He actually went on to win the
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  first game of that set and on Dorothea Quarry.
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  Dorothea Quarry was my favorite map of the tournament.
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  He's very good. It is it Well, of course it is.
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  It's a it's a it's a land map and there's lots of cab Archers.
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  But MBL, he had different ideas. He just completely overrun Hera
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  with with with his Aztecs pick, which was kind of a surprise.
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  Hera was going for the Persians and MBL decided to go with an
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  eagle rush, extremely aggressive opening.
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  And he was trying to punish Hera because Hera was playing your
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  usual fast castle, well, not exactly fast castle, but you
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  know what I mean, like going to castle as quickly as possible.
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  And Hera was also adding TCS then.
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  So what MBL did was he was just going all in eagles, going to
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  castle age later on, and he was relentlessly killing villager
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  after villager after villager and Hera was just overwhelmed.
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  That's not a sight you see that often.
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  Absolutely. He the hero was just playing
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  kind of metal on that map, just walling, investing the tiniest
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  amount of military and then trying to go up to Catholics
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  into into Cavarchus. Most of the times when I saw him
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  play and he just crumbled against something that that he
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  didn't expect. Yeah, and then Daniela, game
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  three. Oh my God that was so good.
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  That was Bohemians from MBL against Vietnamese from Hera on
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  Thames Thames. And even though it didn't go all
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  the way, it was basically a score win because there were
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  only a couple of minutes left and MBL had an unkillable army
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  of Hussite wagons and helps that Hera just couldn't break.
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  So he at the end had to give up because he because NBA was sure
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  to win by score. And that was such an amazing
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  game as well. Yeah, Just to give you guys, you
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  know, an overview, I just going to throw a couple of numbers
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  here. So NBL had over 60 elite
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  household wagons with Bohemians. I've never seen that amount of
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  that unit in an STR tournament in my life.
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  Especially against. Hera and Hera was just trying to
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  win it with like as man again, like all the fights.
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  So now just to put a bit things in perspective, because I think
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  when when they resign or like when Hera resign rather, Hera
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  was very close to 200 pop, if I recall correctly.
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  And I think NBL was very close to 100, if not under.
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  But just to get an idea where all that score was coming from
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  is because Harold was trying to push that with Lycam.
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  Harold had a hundreds of Lycas. He had 107 bills on food at some
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  point and he was just 8080 like having the Q60 Lycas.
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  It was pouring, it was trying with absolutely everything, fire
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  Lancers. But then he ran out of gold and
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  MBL was controlling gold. The gold.
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  He raided MBL to death. He raided MBL to the point where
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  she didn't have what to raid anymore.
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  MBL had like 50 bills and all of them were Garrison in the
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  castles or around the castles. Like Harold was sending 30 like
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  have to raid his initial base that was a ghost town.
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  There was nothing in his digital base.
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  It didn't it, it didn't matter. It was just absolutely Fiesta
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  like that was. So I said during the cast, you
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  know how Paradox has at the end of the year, the community
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  awards and one of the that category is game of the year.
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  I said, you know what, I will never want to forget about this
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  game. In my head I was like I I don't
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  think there's going to be another game to top this, but
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  I'm just going to literally write it on the post it and put
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  it on the wall to not forget about this until the end of the
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  year. I have to.
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  Little did I know that by the end of the day I would change my
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  post it. By the end of the day.
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  By the end of the day, yes. OK, well, yeah, I think it was.
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  It was just an epic side because it it's not like MBL was playing
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  extremely defensive with that army composition.
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  He had parked his whole army of 60 hazard wagons inside the base
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  of Hera right in the middle of his farming economy.
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  So it was crazy that Hera was unable to to destroy that army.
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  But yeah, amazing game. But then what?
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  What other game topped this game for you?
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  Your versus heart on glaciers. That was romance versus you're
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  playing as. Yeah, yeah.
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  OK, So tell me about it. Well, I, I thought heart was
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  completely dead. That was a score win for you.
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  The second one for the day. I thought there's literally
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  nothing that romance can do against the Europeans league
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  game. And honestly, I, I, I think you
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  was under the same impression because he was simply just not
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  migrating a lot of the fights like he was.
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  He had a big ball of military, 60 Ethiopian arm blasters with
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  four or five bomber cannons behind with torsion engines.
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  What do you do against all of that?
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  He pushed it. It was on glaciers.
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  He had pushed up until the the hill that Hart was on up until
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  middle of his base and Hart is losing a castle and I say like
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  OK Gigi let's go next. I I don't that was game 4.
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  I believe I was like there's no OK, let's go decide there to
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  two. It is what it is like no, Hart
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  doesn't have any chance and that was like minute 30.
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  So from that point with the Romans against this from 20
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  military to 80 from yo with a sieve loss for the game to end
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  inside Yo's base with everything raised in the middle, to me that
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  was unheard of. I, I, I would not believe anyone
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  that would describe the situation to me as in like, oh,
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  this happened in that game. I was like it's impossible with
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  a sieve that doesn't get racer that has shitty scrims and yes
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  they do have last armor but it's Ethiopian arms.
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  Like if you don't get to launch your shot in time it doesn't
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  matter about your armor they're going to kill you fast.
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  And and like Oh my God the amount of scrims that he fed to
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  the tortion and engines bombed by cannons.
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  They were just carpets of red throughout the entire map.
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  Thus again, the score win yo ended that game under 65 pop and
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  Hart was 200 for the last 20 minutes of the game.
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  Constantly. It didn't matter.
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  Like the score gap was impossible to close.
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  Because of how? Because of the KD, because of
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  the resources destroyed on the map, Because that that game was
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  absolute cinema. I think it was because of
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  torsion engines right? Just because of how much damage
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  yo did to the endless amounts of skirms that hard put on the
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  field. But he had a fighting spirit
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  like ACCM does. That's what I'm saying like that
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  that was there were a couple of the the games that you know, I'm
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  saying, oh man, I wish there would have been a score limit.
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  But then again, in the same time, it's so nice to see how
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  they react. One thing I will say, they react
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  way too late. They they think about the score
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  way too late. They think about the score, I
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  don't know, 5 minutes before the freaking one hour and 15, the
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  time limit, I don't know. For instance, I think in that
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  game Hard managed to push into that ARB mass and try to snap a
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  couple of the Walmart candidates with sea Drams.
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  Sea drams was researched after the one hour mark.
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  I think if he would have had I, I think he could have afforded
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  sea DRAM earlier. Maybe, maybe he has.
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  Like a torsion engines. True, I understand, but like at
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  at least that in front of your scrims, at least they the they
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  will focus for a bit on the C drum.
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  Like I, I understand that it's also a soak of resources, but
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  maybe in that time when they're focused on your C drum, you can
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  push a bit with your scrims and like you can try to go around
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  and snap the bomber hands with the with the lycaps you can lose
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  1 unit instead of six other ones because that shot is targeted
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  towards your C DRAM and not towards your scarms.
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  I think the the way he pushed on that hill was because of the C
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  DRAM and maybe C DRAM a tiny bit earlier could have gotten him 5
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  more minutes maybe. I don't know.
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  I I don't. Know maybe maybe I think C tram
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  is a good idea, but I I think I would have utilized it
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  differently I would have tried because Yo's army as as strong
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  as it was, it was very stationary right?
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  You have your arbs and you have your torsion engine bomat
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  cannons and they need to be close by.
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  They need to to, you know, help each other.
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  So yo couldn't be in different places at once.
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  He had to always be with his death balls.
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  So if you have a siege workshop on the other side of the map and
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  you just have a couple of siege ramps taking down buildings from
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  Mr. Yo, that's not going to win you the game, but it's at least
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  it's score wise. It's going to help you maybe a
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  little. But then again, you say they
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  invested or they looked at the score win condition too late.
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  But isn't it also very dangerous to consider the score win too
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  early because then you your priorities are wrong you need.
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  I feel like Yo was always forcing Hart's reactions in a
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  way that Hart didn't really have that many options to do.
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  I will, I will also say something what you said about
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  the the siege workshop. I 100% agree.
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  Looking back to the that game for the second time that day and
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  listening to the main cast, T-90 actually brought a fantastic
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  point that I agree with. And when he said that, I was
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  like, yeah, true. Like you're 100% right.
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  He was saying, and he was describing how a bit tunnel
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  visioned players are when it comes to the wall.
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  So on glaciers, you start with, well, your stone walls already
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  built, but they're on top of a rocky terrain that you usually
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  would not be able to build on, and your base is not fully
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  closed. So because there's like a wider
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  gap, it's not like you can just unite the stone walls in between
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  and and close your base and just treat it like a close map and
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  boom and whatnot. So that's exactly where players
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  would likely want to defend from the enemy.
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  That's almost always where you want a castle.
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  I don't even know why I said almost.
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  It's always where you would want a castle to pick up on the raids
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  to to stop pushes. Because it's on the hill it can
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  be pushed harder of course, since you the traps or the siege
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  does less bonus damage etcetera. So there's like 10 minutes left.
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  Hart has 200, Bob has sidrum and there it is, yo, with a castle
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  on that exact opening on the hill, camping there with a mass
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  of arbalesters and two torsion engines, bomber cannons, and
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  Heart is trying to push through there.
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  Why? Why not breakthrough the sides?
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  Because why are you trying to push from downhill under the
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  castle fire and under the bomber cannons when if you try to push
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  on the sides, players cannot rewall behind because it's
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  rocketeering. You can't put buildings on that.
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  They literally can stop if you're going through that wall,
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  but it's some sort of blockage for the players.
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  They they see those walls and I haven't seen anyone try to touch
• 24:48
  those, which is crazy. Yeah, yeah, Come to think of it,
• 24:54
  that never happened. I believe there was one game in
• 24:57
  the qualifiers, actually. It was the game Sebastian versus
• 25:01
  Viper and and Sebastian won that game because he was putting
• 25:04
  outposts all around that Little River, right.
• 25:08
  But that was because he wanted to to spot Viper docking or
• 25:11
  redocking. That wasn't because he was
• 25:13
  afraid of somebody going through his walls.
• 25:17
  But yeah, maybe in in in later stages of the games, maybe you
• 25:20
  could have even build just a like a like a siege ship to get
• 25:24
  through the walls. But nobody did.
• 25:29
  Was the river. Oh my God, could was that
• 25:32
  terrain? Was was the river that kind of
• 25:36
  river that units can walk over all the way?
• 25:39
  Yeah, they can. They can, They can.
• 25:40
  So I can understand them probably not wanting to.
• 25:44
  The siege ships are quite expensive.
• 25:46
  But now that you said about the siege ships, I would like to, I
• 25:49
  would like to tell you a really funny thing from that game.
• 25:53
  Oh my God. Like every time when I remember
• 25:58
  about it, I just laugh alone about it because I was casting
• 26:03
  the game. I see heart docking forward and
• 26:07
  Yo's lake and I see him starting to make demos and I'm like
• 26:12
  jumping on my chairs like, because, you know, I, we talked
• 26:16
  about this, I'm rooting for heart usually.
• 26:18
  Maybe that's why I, I'm biased of it when I to think that that
• 26:21
  was the best game of the day and I rewatched it like I, I, I
• 26:25
  really like watching him play. And I was like, oh, that's my
• 26:29
  streamer. Look at him remembering that
• 26:33
  Romans now get access to demos because they didn't before.
• 26:37
  But now only the ships with only the ships with a unique ship
• 26:42
  don't have access to demos anymore.
• 26:44
  Romans now do have demos. So I was like, Oh my God, look
• 26:46
  at him remembering that. But then as soon as I finish my
• 26:50
  sentence, he kills a medium worship instead of demolition
• 26:56
  ship, which are now two different upgrades.
• 27:00
  Demos are not affected by medium worship anymore.
• 27:03
  And I was like, oh. My God.
• 27:05
  This guy, it felt like it felt like from that point on
• 27:08
  everything went down from heart. If I like yo was pushing, he
• 27:14
  wasted the resources into that. He was probably giving himself a
• 27:18
  hard time seeing he just sank a bunch of resources, pun
• 27:24
  intended, but. Oh my gosh, I found that I.
• 27:29
  Found that too funny. I found that way too funny, and
• 27:32
  it probably isn't, but to me it really was.
• 27:39
  OK, so great games overall on day three as well.
• 27:45
  Oh no, that was day 2. I'm sorry.
• 27:47
  Day three. I think day three was probably
• 27:51
  the weakest of the whole group stage, but I got one game on my
• 27:56
  list that was from the set, Hera versus Yo-yo took one game of
• 28:01
  Hera that was in Game 2, and he did so by walling off the middle
• 28:06
  in Loch Ness. I think what's remarkable about
• 28:10
  that game is that Yo won because of the clear strategic win, not
• 28:17
  because he had a clear sieve advantage playing as the hunts
• 28:21
  against the Saracens of the Hera, because Saracens should be
• 28:26
  actually a hard counter against the hunts.
• 28:28
  So Yo was at a sift disadvantage and I believe that in in in a
• 28:36
  completely different way compared to other games.
• 28:39
  This was an amazing, absolutely amazing game just because Yo had
• 28:46
  a strategy prepared that caught Hera by surprise and he
• 28:50
  outplayed him with that. Yeah, that was, that was a solid
• 28:56
  set overall. Like and also I don't know I I
• 29:01
  don't want to start the the rent Reddit complaining about Loch
• 29:06
  Ness because it's a water map. Did they complain about Loch?
• 29:11
  Ness like after the first day? Come on guys.
• 29:14
  I think after the first day there was a pose that all the
• 29:18
  living proved that if you win water did like water maps are
• 29:24
  just win water win game. I would like to point.
• 29:28
  But that's not true for the tournament.
• 29:30
  It's not. It's not but.
• 29:32
  We've seen that multiple times actually on Loch Ness that it's
• 29:35
  not true. Yep.
• 29:37
  I. Agree.
• 29:38
  Yeah. So I think for a water map, Loch
• 29:40
  Ness was actually pretty good. It was also refreshing because
• 29:42
  we had quite a lot of land maps that played out kind of like
• 29:46
  Arabia. So if anything, we had just many
• 29:50
  Arabia versions. But well, I think we shouldn't
• 29:55
  go too deep on that. I think the map pool was pretty
• 29:57
  good overall. Yeah, so in that set, game 3 was
• 30:01
  also absolutely great. That was Tatars by Hera against
• 30:05
  Megaras and Dorothea Quarry again of course, because Cavajas
• 30:08
  were Opie on that map. And that was yet again another
• 30:12
  game that was won with the timer, this time by Hera, even
• 30:16
  though Yo had played better in my opinion and he would have won
• 30:20
  if there was no timer. There were epic Cav Archer
• 30:24
  versus Hassab battles all over the map and Yo was often the one
• 30:29
  with the initiative despite Hera being the much faster player.
• 30:34
  Overall I think great display of both players skill, but once
• 30:38
  again a timer win. So what do you think?
• 30:41
  Did you? Yeah, like.
• 30:44
  Because of the timer. No, because he had water and
• 30:46
  he's not using Canon galleons to destroy resources from the water
• 30:51
  to gain more score. You have water, how do you not
• 30:55
  have more score? Water gives you so much and I
• 31:00
  was just sitting there. I I agree that if you invest too
• 31:04
  much then you're absolutely just dying on land to Hera's push
• 31:07
  because Hera had a lot of military but you can spare to
• 31:10
  pop for two Canon galleons to just shoot buildings.
• 31:13
  Like all of Hera's building houses were on the shore and
• 31:18
  like you're forcing him to to react to get house to replace
• 31:21
  his houses in the bag where he doesn't have space because he
• 31:24
  has full of farms. I think he also forgot to cancel
• 31:29
  his queue and he had quite a lot of units in his queue, yeah.
• 31:32
  Yeah, you have to cancel it. Can I just sneak in a
• 31:35
  commentable Day 2 before we Yeah, I would like to point out
• 31:39
  that Liri Seibat was also a banger.
• 31:41
  Especially the game on Volpine that I rewatched again at the
• 31:45
  end of the day. Because by the end of you start
• 31:49
  on Empire Wars with what, 28 villagers?
• 31:53
  Or seven. I'm not 28, probably, I don't
• 31:56
  know, something like that. The sum after 30 minutes between
• 32:01
  their villagers was less than 40.
• 32:05
  That game ended at minute 30 something.
• 32:08
  There were less than 40 villagers on the map.
• 32:12
  There's just so many games to highlight, it's crazy because of
• 32:16
  so many different reasons. I wanted to say that before we
• 32:19
  move on because I do think that that is worth is worth
• 32:22
  mentioning. Yeah, that was actually one of
• 32:25
  the even best games of the whole tournament, just because it was
• 32:29
  so damn aggressive and also because it wasn't one sided,
• 32:32
  right? Because both players played
• 32:34
  aggressive and they both had maximum value from their army
• 32:38
  but also heavy losses in their economy.
• 32:43
  OK, so move on to day #4 so this is when the group stages ended
• 32:49
  and when the quarterfinals and with that the players had
• 32:52
  started. Day 4 was all about the
• 32:54
  quarterfinals. Semi finals were on day five and
• 32:58
  the first quarterfinal was Sebastian versus Hart.
• 33:02
  That set, like all of the playoff sets were best of sevens
• 33:07
  now and that set went until Game 7.
• 33:11
  And at times it felt like it wasn't Sebastian against Hart.
• 33:16
  It felt like Leary was playing against himself.
• 33:19
  Especially in Game 2 when they played Hunsworth, Saracens and
• 33:23
  both played full crossbows, not kavachas and microed multiple
• 33:29
  groups at the same time to a an extent that I can't micro one
• 33:36
  single army. It was mind blowing to see them
• 33:40
  play like that. I firmly believe they resembled
• 33:44
  Leery in that set. Both of them played much better
• 33:48
  than people would expect from them and showed that they are on
• 33:53
  a. They are just on such a high
• 33:55
  level when it comes to Empire wars.
• 33:59
  Absolutely. It was I, I, I, I don't know,
• 34:05
  heartbreaking to some extent to see.
• 34:09
  Pun intended. Heartbroken quarterfinals.
• 34:15
  Yeah, yeah. Wait, didn't you say Lyri Seba?
• 34:20
  I thought you were already. No, no, no, no.
• 34:22
  Semis. Yeah, I get why you're confused,
• 34:25
  but no, I was talking about the quarterfinal between Sebastian
• 34:28
  and and Hart, but I said that it felt like it was leery playing
• 34:33
  on both sides because they were both.
• 34:35
  And I was about to say that we skip the quarterfinals.
• 34:38
  No, no, no, no, no. I I'm talking about the
• 34:40
  quarterfinals. I'm just saying that they played
• 34:42
  so well that it they resembled leery in many ways.
• 34:46
  Yeah, well, I I do think that overall throughout the main
• 34:49
  event, it's important to see the similarity between Hearts
• 34:56
  playstyle, Leeris and Harrahs. I think the boot camp was a big
• 35:03
  factor. We talked about how they were in
• 35:05
  Paris for a week before this, just practicing in Vitality
• 35:12
  Hive. Hive boot camp, Yeah.
• 35:15
  And I, I, I think it showed throughout the entire event.
• 35:21
  Their play style was very similar.
• 35:24
  Though I would say that Leary played different than Hera did.
• 35:29
  I mostly talk from drafting sieves, some strategies on
• 35:35
  certain maps, like if you would look back at the drafts for
• 35:40
  instance, it was always things like Dorothea, Corey, Blue
• 35:44
  Whales, and maybe Handhold. It was always these three that
• 35:53
  either one of them would pick if available.
• 35:56
  That's true but that's just because again they tried to play
• 36:00
  the more Arabia meta like maps. Also I believe that Harrow very
• 36:05
  early on said that he was not a big fan of what was it, was it
• 36:09
  Loch Ness? I'm not sure.
• 36:11
  So he usually Harry usually tries to not play the water maps
• 36:16
  in in Empire Wars. But I would argue that Leary's
• 36:20
  draft was very different from everyone else in the tournament.
• 36:23
  Well. That is because he was in the
• 36:26
  band. Yeah, he was just always ban.
• 36:30
  He was banning the same sieves no matter whom he played
• 36:34
  against, except for the final. Yeah.
• 36:38
  OK. So back to the quarterfinals,
• 36:43
  the I don't know, do you want to add something to Sebastian
• 36:46
  versus heart or should we move on to it was pretty?
• 36:47
  Straightforward it was, it was very close.
• 36:51
  And again, it's one of those games, just like both Siba and
• 36:57
  Hart said, could have gone either way.
• 37:01
  I think if you are fighting in the playoffs in the main event,
• 37:05
  I think that's how you want to go down with a decider game, you
• 37:10
  know, fighting for your life. No, no sweeps.
• 37:13
  And I, I, I think probably Hart is beating himself up a bit that
• 37:20
  he didn't go further than that. But I also think that he's not
• 37:24
  too upset with the performance he's had.
• 37:27
  I I agree 100% and also Hart was actually leading 3 to what was
• 37:35
  it 3 to 2, right? No 4:00 to 3:00.
• 37:38
  And then Sebastian won the last two games so he was almost
• 37:43
  winning the set. Then Sebastian took the lead
• 37:46
  again. It's hard to feel bad for Hart
• 37:51
  because you're just, well, at least I am very excited for
• 37:54
  Sebastian. But at the same time, Hart did
• 37:57
  play amazing and he would have also deserved to be in the
• 38:00
  semifinals. It's no question about that.
• 38:02
  That's just not enough spots in a semifinal for all players who
• 38:06
  would deserve a spot to be there.
• 38:08
  And that's what the quarterfinals are for.
• 38:10
  And lucky for us, the quarterfinals were actually very
• 38:14
  entertaining to watch, much like the other quarterfinal, Viper
• 38:18
  versus Yo. So that set was won by Viper
• 38:22
  4:00 to 2:00. But there were some interesting
• 38:26
  things happening in that set. For example, in game 3YO managed
• 38:30
  to come back from a game where Viper started off killing six
• 38:34
  villages of Yo. And then in game four, Viper
• 38:39
  showed an incredible reaction by going super aggressive with
• 38:42
  Cumans against Berbers and Feudal age with Archers and
• 38:45
  Rams, very much popularizing the feudal rush, ram rush of the the
• 38:52
  Cumans. And then he beat Yo in 10
• 38:55
  minutes after, you know, yo had actually beaten Viper in the
• 38:59
  game before. I think that was that was such a
• 39:02
  cool moment to see that none of the players, even if they would
• 39:06
  lose a game or two, they would never give up.
• 39:09
  They would always find a new strategy and find a way to come
• 39:13
  back. I think overall the entire set
• 39:17
  was was solid. I liked it.
• 39:20
  It was very entertaining for the viewers as well.
• 39:23
  My only take from that set, thinking that the winner is
• 39:29
  going to be facing Hera. I wanted you to win because I
• 39:33
  think that you, Hera, can be more intense, more chaotic, more
• 39:40
  unexpected than Hera Viper at this point.
• 39:44
  I think Hera figured Viper to his core by now.
• 39:49
  Maybe it was because of years of trying to break, you know, in
• 39:53
  that top players position where in Viper was so dominating, you
• 39:59
  know, analyzing his play style. Because let's let's admit it,
• 40:03
  Viper was super dominant back in the days as well.
• 40:07
  When Hera was getting into the game and was trying to improve
• 40:10
  more and more and be a better player.
• 40:12
  Hera was looking up to Viper. He was learning from him, right?
• 40:17
  Just like very much nowadays. I don't know the up and comers
• 40:22
  are learning from her and they're they're figuring him out
• 40:28
  right now. So I expect if there's going to
• 40:30
  be a player to overthrown her to, you know, get to such a
• 40:37
  domination that's going to be such a higher level or than
• 40:40
  Hera. I think Hera is going to be his
• 40:44
  not necessarily easiest opponent, but like easiest to
• 40:47
  figure out because it's years of watching that person closely and
• 40:53
  there's few things that they can surprise you with.
• 40:57
  I don't know, maybe I'm just tripping to to think this way
• 41:00
  but but I I feel like even if in a direct match up Viper has,
• 41:07
  Viper is probably still better than you.
• 41:10
  I think versus Hera your match is better.
• 41:14
  It's the same scenario if we are thinking a tiny bit.
• 41:17
  Couple of days back to the group stages where Yo beat MBL
• 41:24
  heartbeat, yo no her, sorry Hera beat yo, but MBL almost beat
• 41:30
  Hera. He pushed him to.
• 41:33
  All of those were 3031 but then MBL pushes to a 3/2.
• 41:40
  He was the only one that actually managed to get to games
• 41:46
  off of him. It it's so nice to look at this
• 41:49
  game and how many approaches to this and how many strategies you
• 41:54
  can form and how many different play styles and mind games and
• 41:59
  all this. It's something beautiful.
• 42:02
  Yeah, I think you make a good point, yo.
• 42:07
  Maybe Hera just has Viper figured out, but I believe that
• 42:14
  Tara is also just playing like Viper, but in regards to
• 42:18
  everything a bit better than Viper.
• 42:20
  Whereas Yo, he might come up with different strategies.
• 42:26
  You know, one thing I observed while I was watching the set
• 42:29
  between the quarterfinals between Viper and Yo was that
• 42:32
  Viper was actually not very good when it came to military
• 42:39
  engagements. More often than not I felt like
• 42:42
  Viper was losing micro battles even against Yo.
• 42:46
  But in this whole set I believe that Yo was pretty much always
• 42:50
  having the military lead more military units on the field and
• 42:53
  winning the fights. Whereas Viper was ahead an
• 42:56
  economy but he he had he had less greedy strategies than he
• 43:03
  usually has. For example, in the group stage
• 43:07
  against Leary, I believe that Vibe was playing way too greedy
• 43:10
  for Empire War settings and that is something he corrected.
• 43:13
  Against Yo, he was playing less greedy and more with confidence
• 43:18
  and more trying to learn from his mistakes from the previous
• 43:23
  set against Leary. That's that's just a theory of
• 43:26
  mine, but that's something I observed while watching that
• 43:29
  set. So I was kind of confident when
• 43:31
  he was going up against Hera. Also can we just talk that Viper
• 43:38
  never walls? Yeah, yeah, I love that.
• 43:42
  But it's also bad, yeah. That that's the thing.
• 43:45
  Like. He was way too late.
• 43:46
  He lost so much momentum, so many, so many times because
• 43:53
  holes in holes, his base was just wide open.
• 43:57
  Yeah, Yeah. I think that's a very good
• 44:00
  observation. And I think there's no disputing
• 44:04
  that Viper hardly walled in all of his games and not for a good
• 44:09
  reason. I believe he because there was
• 44:11
  time to wall. There were multiple instances
• 44:13
  where it where he should have walled.
• 44:16
  And I'm not sure. Again, this is just theory.
• 44:18
  Maybe this is a fragment from, you know, earlier times when he
• 44:23
  didn't need to wall because he could quick wall like no other
• 44:27
  and he would use that time and those resources for other
• 44:30
  things. But now everyone knows how to
• 44:32
  quick wall and now it would just be a much better investment.
• 44:36
  And come to think of it, I said he was less greedy.
• 44:40
  But you know, you could argue that not placing your walls,
• 44:44
  even pre emptive walls is also a kind of greed, right?
• 44:47
  So maybe he was greedy in the end.
• 44:50
  Yeah, different type of greed I would I guess.
• 44:52
  Yeah, yeah, different type. So for me, the beauty of these
• 44:56
  two quarterfinals was actually that none of the four players
• 44:59
  showed the level of of perfection that Hera or Leary
• 45:04
  have, but they all played exceptional nonetheless.
• 45:07
  And because they weren't perfect, there was always that
• 45:12
  element of surprise, moments of unpredictability, and even the
• 45:16
  realistic chance to turn a game around despite having a rough
• 45:19
  start. And that was just very beautiful
• 45:22
  to see. But in contrast, in contrast to
• 45:26
  the next day. Well that's that's exactly what
• 45:29
  I was going to say. That's what made quarterfinals
• 45:33
  very entertaining and that's what made semi finals so 1
• 45:40
  sided. Day 43 The HMS Slandinium sails
• 45:47
  on. We've passed strange lands where
• 45:50
  the aftermath of battle show stones vastly outnumbered by
• 45:54
  their bodies. Around them, islands occupied
• 45:57
  only by archery Rangers and shores with villagers standing
• 46:02
  idly doing nothing. Regardless, the fleet grows
• 46:07
  thinner. 6 empires remain. 2 have already earned safe
• 46:13
  passage, but 4 fates remain unwritten. 4 empires who must
• 46:20
  still fight for their place at the captain's table.
• 46:23
  All right now then, Captain. Captain, Captain, The Spanish
• 46:30
  are bringing total brutal domination.
• 46:40
  The next trial awaits. May Wallalow have mercy on us
• 46:45
  all. You saw the clear gap between
• 46:54
  like, you know, I'm playing fantastic, but I have slip UPS.
• 46:58
  I know what I need to improve, but I'm a human being like any
• 47:05
  other of you. And then here's something very,
• 47:09
  very much close to perfection facing me and it showed it.
• 47:15
  So like first semi finals finished in an hour?
• 47:21
  That was so OK, so let me just say one thing about that.
• 47:27
  As you said, like both sets end at 440.
• 47:32
  Viper had no chance against Hera.
• 47:33
  Sebastian had no chance whatsoever against Leery.
• 47:36
  It was clear as day that Hera and Leery are just way better
• 47:42
  than anyone else in Empire was, but at least in the set between
• 47:48
  Leery and Sebastian there was some beauty in it.
• 47:52
  Just because seeing Leary playing aggressive and that
• 48:00
  aggressive and destroying his enemy that much, that was a rare
• 48:06
  sight. That was something I would argue
• 48:09
  not even Hera can do. So I enjoyed that set just the
• 48:16
  way you, I don't know, enjoy seeing a building collapse.
• 48:24
  It's just not something you see all the time, especially if it's
• 48:28
  done by professionals who know what they're doing.
• 48:31
  And that's exactly how I felt in that set.
• 48:35
  I I agree, I agree it was something beautiful and just to
• 48:40
  because you you say that something that I don't even
• 48:43
  think Hera can pull off. It felt like the next set I was
• 48:49
  almost trying to compete with that time and I go let me see if
• 48:53
  I can beat Viper in less than an hour, like in less than what
• 48:59
  Leary did with his semi final. Yeah, yeah, but in the end he
• 49:03
  couldn't. I think the second semi final
• 49:06
  between Viper and Hera was a little bit less 1 sided, but it
• 49:11
  was still very one sided. Viper had some interesting ideas
• 49:15
  like he was playing with the Mapuche for example, but it just
• 49:19
  felt like it's not a good way to go about trying to surprise
• 49:23
  Hera, not with a sieve like that.
• 49:24
  Even though I'm mentioning this because this might be important
• 49:29
  for the final again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 49:31
  Like again, you see Hera Hera saw that recognize like this is
• 49:37
  this is actually not a bad idea from Viper, but I feel like
• 49:43
  there's work to it and I'm going to take it and use it in the
• 49:46
  final. And it's it's funny because he
• 49:49
  even said in his discord, I was reading his thoughts.
• 49:53
  Something that I loved is that after the semi final, he went
• 49:56
  into the tournament spoilers on his discord and he kind of gave
• 49:59
  like a brief descriptions of what he thinks could have done
• 50:07
  better. Like where he thought he was
• 50:09
  shaky or he was just basically going through his thought
• 50:12
  process throughout the games. And then he said something like
• 50:18
  that, that, oh, I might need to look into this if myself for
• 50:22
  tomorrow, for the finals. Really.
• 50:24
  Yeah. Oh, that's great.
• 50:26
  Because someone said like what about what?
• 50:29
  What if Viper would have used Bolas riders against Franks and
• 50:35
  he was like, they're very solid. I might look into them myself
• 50:39
  for the finals. Like he literally said that on
• 50:41
  his Discord. And then I saw Omar Puche and I
• 50:46
  was like, oh, he's going to go ball us.
• 50:48
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 50:50
  So OK, I think we should start talking about the final.
• 50:53
  Yeah, let's do it. My friends, please welcome to
• 50:58
  the stage, the reigning Red Bull Wallalow Champion it is.
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  And his opponents? A2 time Red Bull while alone
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  champion. Welcome to the stage.
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  But I want to go through game after game because I think that
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  final was just amazing and very special to see.
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  Game one was on my favorite map, Dorothea Quarry.
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  Harry was playing this as the Tatar's, Leary as the Kitan.
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  Tatar's was expected on Harry's side, but Kitan not so much on
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  Leary's side. And I think what made this map
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  even more special was that they spawned extremely close to one
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  another. Leary had exerted super Omega
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  aggression with skirmishes and scouts, Hera played into arches
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  and Spears and then into cavalry arches and Knights in the castle
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  age. But Leary never let go of the
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  pressure and forced Hera to always stay in his own base,
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  trying desperately to defend but ultimately not being able to.
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  And Leary took the win pretty fast.
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  Too fast. Too fast.
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  I, I OK, so I'm glad you pointed it out or like you brought it up
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  that way because I was waiting to get to the final and put this
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  question. Do we think that Leary played so
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  aggressive, so military focused throughout the entire tournament
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  because he felt like he had a better chance of, of winning,
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  that he was just going straight for, for the he.
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  Because let's admit it, Livi is someone that doesn't have Hera's
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  stamina. Like Hera is literally streaming
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  every day for 13 hours. And maybe he doesn't feel like
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  playing too long and he he feels like he's playing worse or he's
• 53:52
  getting frustrated or this and that.
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  I honestly, watching the final, I felt like, you see, this is
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  Lyra. This is how he played the entire
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  tournament. Look at him going for the kill
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  and just overwhelming the opponent with a lot of military
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  perfect micro. The fights that he was taking
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  against Hera, every single time I was like, Oh my God, he he's
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  making Hera look not like Hera and then slowly starts to fade a
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  bit. Well.
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  He still played fantastic throughout the entire series,
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  but just. She did it.
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  A channel overview. I, I, I don't know, Daniela,
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  it's really hard for an outsider like me to comment on that, to
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  be honest. I, I don't think that Leary had
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  a thought like that. I don't think he was thinking,
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  oh, if these games go too late, Hera's going to win by having a
• 54:45
  better stamina because they are they are clearly on another
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  level than anyone else. And I don't think that Leary was
• 54:57
  thinking it's going to go down to game length.
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  I think it's going going to go down to pure execution.
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  And I would argue that Lira Leary that Hera had won by
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  draft. I think Hera had just a better
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  draft than Leary. Yeah, maybe.
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  I always say that in in all of these tournaments, drafting
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  itself is a huge factor. Yeah, it's it's so huge that I'm
• 55:27
  actually failing to comprehend all the little details and how
• 55:33
  players are drafting. It's, you know, back in the days
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  when all these tournaments started out, drafting was much
• 55:43
  easier to understand because we had way less civilizations and
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  we were also having snipes and all these kind of things.
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  Now today, it's so hard to memorize the ramifications of
• 55:57
  each and every civilization with all the very unique maps that we
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  play that I feel like I just lost my ability to comprehend
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  why a player is picking a certain civilization at a
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  certain point in his draft. So this is only something that I
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  usually understand by casters who are explaining that
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  throughout the tournament and throughout the the process of
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  the set or with less and less games that are left to be
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  played, I kind of understand how the draft was was was happening.
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  So for example, in this final draft with Herron Leary, I was
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  watching the draft and there was only one thing I clearly
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  understood and that was that Leary was not prioritizing water
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  maps, whereas Hera, he had basically the best water
• 56:50
  civilizations. And at one point I felt like he
• 56:53
  was only picking another water civilization so that Leary could
• 56:56
  not have that civilization. He was kind of picking them away
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  from him. If that's true or not, I have no
• 57:02
  idea, but that's how I felt. Which is why I believe that Hera
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  won by draft. To quote Mr. Yo Water maps the
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  kryptonite of Arabia players. It makes sense.
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  But back to your point, I don't I don't believe that Leary was
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  playing aggressive and tried to finish games that quickly
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  because he because he was afraid of the stamina issue.
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  I think he was doing that because that is his strength and
• 57:33
  his style. And that's not just Empire was
• 57:37
  he does that in pretty much every tournament he plays.
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  He his games are usually the quickest out of all the players.
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  Yeah, and in those first games that he won, he also just
• 57:51
  exploited weaknesses of Hera, I believe.
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  So maybe we move on to game #2 on Thames that was Hera playing
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  as the Turks and Leary playing as the Way.
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  And that was a kind of a replay of game #1 I believe because
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  Leary just out microed Hera with his Archers, had a super fast
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  castle age time. And Leary was this time pushing
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  not only with his military units but also with his siege units,
• 58:18
  taking Hera off gold in the front and soon after even in the
• 58:21
  back of his base as Leary came in with a second group of
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  crossbows into Hera's base. And from there, it was only a
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  matter of time until Hera resigned.
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  And that time came once Leary hit the early Imperial age.
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  And once again, a very quick match.
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  Felt like Harold was denying the reality.
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  It was just like, I, I can't, I can't see this happening.
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  Like how, how am I losing this? I did everything by the book,
• 58:52
  you know, and what's happening. What's happening exactly?
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  My feelings. I was sitting on my couch.
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  I couldn't believe what was happening.
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  Because those two wins that we saw on display, those were clear
• 59:06
  wins. That wasn't a hard fought.
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  Well, it was, of course, hard fought, but it wasn't a back and
• 59:11
  forth between the two players. It was utter dominance by Leary.
• 59:15
  And there was like, I think I believe it was game.
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  What was it? I think it was this game.
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  Game #2 yeah. Where Header played on for much
• 59:24
  longer. That was actually reasonable for
• 59:27
  his situation, the game, because it was clear that Hera needed a
• 59:31
  kind of mental reset and he needed to, I don't know, get
• 59:35
  more into the groove of playing games because Leary was just
• 59:39
  completely overwhelming him. But all of that didn't help him
• 59:42
  because game #3 was happening. And Stonefront Hera with The
• 59:46
  Ethiopians and Leary with the humans, which is an exciting
• 59:51
  match up for itself. And once again very aggressive
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  play by both. Hera this time won the initial
• 59:59
  engagement with Archers and scouts, but after that Leary
• 1:00:03
  just messed up more and more army.
• 1:00:05
  And he got better upgrades in the feudal age because he has
• 1:00:09
  bloodlines. And Leary also added a siege
• 1:00:12
  workshop with a single ram. Just a reminder that is feudal
• 1:00:16
  age. But humans can do that just like
• 1:00:18
  Viper had shown in previous sets.
• 1:00:20
  And that feudal RAM. Took out not one, not 2, not 3,
• 1:00:26
  but 5 ranges of Hera in the feudal age and for the longest
• 1:00:30
  time the players had an eco KD of 0 to 00 to 0 because they
• 1:00:36
  solely focused on military engagements.
• 1:00:39
  Full well knowing that once one of the two armies would die, the
• 1:00:43
  whole game was over anyway and there was no need of killing
• 1:00:46
  villagers anymore. And that is exactly what
• 1:00:49
  happened. Leary pushed Hera back deep into
• 1:00:53
  his base, actually so far deep into his base that he had to
• 1:00:56
  take a fight that he was not going to win.
• 1:00:59
  And Leary instantly killed almost 20 words right after
• 1:01:02
  that, ultimately winning the game that was just a
• 1:01:05
  masterpiece. Yeah, I mean he was he was
• 1:01:10
  looking like Hera was doing well and holding into fighting back.
• 1:01:15
  It's so freaking easy for for humans to just snowball.
• 1:01:18
  And that is the purpose of them pulling this type of of all in
• 1:01:23
  because the the longer the game goes, the weaker they are
• 1:01:26
  compared to other sieves. Humans are in random map a
• 1:01:32
  timing sieve, where because of your bonus of getting the second
• 1:01:35
  TCS you get such a good eco and you have such an early M timing,
• 1:01:40
  you have a much larger eco earlier on.
• 1:01:44
  So those resources of course only start growing exponentially
• 1:01:50
  compared to your to your opponent.
• 1:01:52
  So of course you will have a better M timing, but now because
• 1:01:57
  you both start in the middle of future late where you usually
• 1:02:02
  would already have a big advantage, there's no point to
• 1:02:06
  just waste time trying to put a second TC.
• 1:02:09
  You have to use their other bonuses and their other bonuses
• 1:02:12
  is them being super aggressive because they have very cheap
• 1:02:16
  production buildings. So every single game everyone
• 1:02:19
  that played humans it was 2 ranges and a stable.
• 1:02:25
  Immediately you win fight the fight, you add the siege
• 1:02:29
  workshop, you see that the opponent is also adding so much
• 1:02:34
  military and you can't quite start pushing with the with the
• 1:02:39
  ram, it doesn't matter, you just go up, then you will be up
• 1:02:42
  faster because it's more expensive for the opponent to
• 1:02:46
  invest, he's going to be way slower.
• 1:02:47
  You kill them early Castle. It was just this every single
• 1:02:53
  game. I I I didn't see in the main
• 1:02:55
  event a single game where humans went to imp and of course that
• 1:03:00
  that was their main purpose. I expected a crazy aggressive
• 1:03:04
  game. I thought Hera was doing well
• 1:03:07
  until he didn't. Well, Hera is known for the
• 1:03:11
  ultimate defence, right? And he defended so bravely.
• 1:03:15
  But you, you just couldn't defend against what Leary was
• 1:03:19
  doing, especially in the Sith matchup in the Feudal Age.
• 1:03:24
  I was so excited at that point. I don't know.
• 1:03:27
  I don't know about you, it was the third game was over and
• 1:03:31
  Leary was up three O against Hera in the final.
• 1:03:35
  What was your thoughts? How did you feel about that?
• 1:03:38
  I was like, look at just just give it time.
• 1:03:41
  Give it time because I, I wanted to say that one day prior to
• 1:03:45
  that I had opened Reddit and someone was like, oh, thoughts
• 1:03:51
  or oh, another Hera Leary. Everyone was bored that oh this
• 1:03:55
  is just going to be another Hera Leary final where Hera stomps
• 1:04:01
  and. What?
• 1:04:03
  Hera never stomps Leary? That's just not true.
• 1:04:06
  Those finals are always amazing. But was like another Hera Leary
• 1:04:12
  resident sleeper. Some people were saying that
• 1:04:14
  Hera's gonna stomp, he's unbeatable.
• 1:04:17
  Some people were saying that if Leary will ever beat Hera, now
• 1:04:20
  is a chance. Like some people were rooting
• 1:04:22
  for Leary. And I did reply to one of those
• 1:04:25
  posts that guys, having watched and casted this tournament
• 1:04:30
  closely, I think tomorrow is going to be one of the best
• 1:04:36
  finals AOE has seen in a long time.
• 1:04:40
  And then Fast forward one day, lyrics of three O and I'm like,
• 1:04:45
  oh shit. Well, I didn't mean it like it's
• 1:04:48
  going to be the best. As in lyrics.
• 1:04:50
  Tom's hero, you know? Did you actually think that was
• 1:04:54
  going to happen at that point? At some point I was like, Oh my
• 1:04:56
  God, like what's happening with her?
• 1:04:59
  Like, I can't imagine that you being in Harrah's shoes.
• 1:05:06
  He's down 3 O in the final. You know, a lot of people are
• 1:05:12
  rooting for Levi. A lot of people are rooting for
• 1:05:15
  Harrah's St. to stop, which I'm not going to rent a whole lot
• 1:05:21
  more about it, but it doesn't quite make too much sense to me.
• 1:05:24
  Like I understand rooting for Leary because you want to see
• 1:05:29
  him being as competitive and playing as the same level with
• 1:05:32
  Hera. I 100% support that and I would
• 1:05:35
  like to see that happen. And I wouldn't want to have
• 1:05:37
  just, you know, just one person stomping everyone else.
• 1:05:40
  But Hera works the hardest. So for me as a person, I can
• 1:05:45
  recognize hard work. I think everyone that worked
• 1:05:48
  hard for something in their life can recognize that Harry is a
• 1:05:52
  hard working person and he puts passion and dedication into
• 1:05:55
  this. I don't want him to just lose a
• 1:05:58
  final like that because something's up with him or he's
• 1:06:01
  not feeling well or he's not playing his best.
• 1:06:03
  I if he loses, I want to see him playing his best versus someone
• 1:06:07
  that just plays better. And it was feeling like that for
• 1:06:11
  the for the entire series, not just for the three games.
• 1:06:15
  Like Liri played impeccable yesterday and when Hera started,
• 1:06:19
  you know, to to come back and to win the game.
• 1:06:21
  So I was like, yeah, yeah, this is what I'm talking about.
• 1:06:23
  Like, I, I want to see them fight.
• 1:06:25
  I want to see this going to game 9.
• 1:06:27
  I, you know, and you know what, I'll, I'll bring this even
• 1:06:33
  further and, and say that I wanted to watch the final
• 1:06:36
  because I was watching the interview and the draft before
• 1:06:39
  and everything and I was tearing up with the orchestra and
• 1:06:43
  everything. I was like, Oh my God, this is,
• 1:06:44
  this is amazing. This is the next level of
• 1:06:46
  production. I want to be able to just watch
• 1:06:49
  the event to enjoy it. So like I send my my viewers to
• 1:06:52
  Red Bull and I just open mouth watch that final.
• 1:06:57
  And he was super good and I, I was happy with that.
• 1:07:02
  But the downside is that I was actually available to read the
• 1:07:07
  chat as well, and it was heartbreaking because, man,
• 1:07:11
  everyone was a Leary fan the first three games.
• 1:07:13
  Like, yeah, Leary, our champion, our hero, the chosen 1, the
• 1:07:18
  underdog. And then hero starts to starts
• 1:07:22
  to win and suddenly Leary's not our hero anymore.
• 1:07:26
  Leary's this weak person that just throws games left and right
• 1:07:31
  and is just a quote pathetic and Oh my God, reading those type of
• 1:07:36
  comments, I'm like, so you're not actually supporting Leary If
• 1:07:40
  you're like calling him pathetic now you you literally just one
• 1:07:44
  hair and to lose. It's.
• 1:07:47
  It was. Heartbreaking.
• 1:07:49
  You, you got to do it like me. I'm watching in my living room
• 1:07:53
  on my TV. There's no chat, there's
• 1:07:55
  nothing. That's just me and the pro
• 1:07:57
  players. They are playing solely for me.
• 1:07:59
  Nobody else is watching that and I'm enjoying all of it.
• 1:08:03
  And there's nobody making it bad for me, especially not a weird
• 1:08:06
  toxic chat. Yeah, you see, this is where I
• 1:08:09
  go wrong. Like I'm I'm a chatter, I have
• 1:08:11
  to have the chat open because like sometimes if there's
• 1:08:15
  serious things to cast or not to cast to to follow or like to
• 1:08:20
  discuss about the game, like I like to get into those
• 1:08:22
  discussions. If there's a meme, I like to see
• 1:08:25
  the meme. I like.
• 1:08:26
  I don't know someone that idiot was saying that something like,
• 1:08:30
  Oh, shut the hell up with the Loch ones and Hey, Guang, no one
• 1:08:34
  knows what those are like correct me.
• 1:08:36
  I'm so much. It's like, what do you what do
• 1:08:40
  you mean? What do you mean?
• 1:08:41
  No one knows what those are? Anyway, it was yes seeing the
• 1:08:47
  the negative comments. Well, the the bigger the game
• 1:08:50
  gets right, the worst chat is going to get.
• 1:08:54
  That's just in the nature of things.
• 1:08:56
  Yeah, well, OK, I for one, I firmly believe that Leary's
• 1:09:03
  going to take it. I was also, I was rooting for
• 1:09:06
  Leary. I was not rooting for Hera.
• 1:09:08
  Not because I don't like the guy.
• 1:09:09
  I was rooting for Hera back when Hera wasn't winning games
• 1:09:13
  because I felt like he's the up and Comer and I want him to
• 1:09:16
  dethrone Viper. And you know, after for a couple
• 1:09:20
  of years I was very happy and I was glad that, you know, the guy
• 1:09:24
  I was rooting for when he was no one is actually the best player
• 1:09:27
  of the world. But now I'm I need something
• 1:09:30
  new, so I'm rooting for Leary. And it's not I can understand.
• 1:09:33
  Not rooting against terror. I'm rooting for Leary, for my
• 1:09:37
  personal storyline. That's it.
• 1:09:39
  Yeah, exactly. And there's absolutely nothing
• 1:09:41
  wrong to to support to support Leary.
• 1:09:44
  But I mean, he's playing against harem and don't call him but.
• 1:09:48
  This play gets fucking. Hera.
• 1:09:52
  You know, if I was Hera, I would have been devastated those three
• 1:09:56
  initial three games. I would have been dead on the
• 1:09:59
  spot because he I wasn't just, you know, beat in a tug of war
• 1:10:03
  that was going to the full time, almost score, win, whatever.
• 1:10:07
  He was destroying me in each and every of those three games.
• 1:10:12
  Exactly that. That's what I that's what I
• 1:10:14
  started to say at some point. And then I started with my other
• 1:10:17
  Ram ramble that if you are in Harrah's shoes and you're down
• 1:10:23
  03 and everyone is like cheering for Larry, come on, kid, you're
• 1:10:26
  doing it. And like you're there on the
• 1:10:30
  stage trying to figure out, OK, where do I go from here?
• 1:10:35
  I would be, I wouldn't find the motivation.
• 1:10:38
  Like I would be just super down. I was like, OK, it's it's three
• 1:10:42
  games for me to win now I need to lose.
• 1:10:45
  I need to win five games. So it's a best of nine.
• 1:10:51
  There's possible a maximum of six games remaining if well, not
• 1:10:59
  not really, no, he basically needs no Larry could have won,
• 1:11:04
  could have won an extra game. So like, it's the it's the
• 1:11:07
  maximum of six games remaining and you need to win five of
• 1:11:13
  them. There's almost no room for
• 1:11:15
  error, yeah. Suddenly after he was being
• 1:11:19
  cleft. Where do you go from there?
• 1:11:22
  Well, I would go to the toilet. I would just tap out Gigi.
• 1:11:28
  Right friend? Good for you.
• 1:11:30
  Yeah, especially in front of 3 1/2 thousand people in that in
• 1:11:34
  that arena and hundreds of thousands of people watching
• 1:11:37
  that event. But Hera is built different.
• 1:11:42
  He he had a mental reset, he activated his guard mode and he
• 1:11:48
  came back with mentals made of steel.
• 1:11:52
  So game #4 was glacis, Hera with the Romans, Leery with the
• 1:11:57
  Spanish weird pick by leery and also one that had an obvious
• 1:12:02
  strategy that also the cast has pointed out very quickly.
• 1:12:05
  And Hera was of course knowing what leery had to do with that
• 1:12:09
  civilization. So that's where I felt like, OK,
• 1:12:14
  this is going to be the game where Leary's trying to bait out
• 1:12:17
  a good civilization out of Hera while he's just wasting his
• 1:12:20
  Spanish. Even if he loses, it doesn't
• 1:12:22
  matter much. I you know, my actual thought
• 1:12:26
  when I saw that match up was Leary's going to lose this and
• 1:12:29
  Hera's going to take a win. And I was very happy that Hera
• 1:12:32
  would at least take one win out of the set.
• 1:12:35
  He would not go down 5 O and Hera would get what he wanted,
• 1:12:41
  which was to lose, you know, the first time he loses an STA
• 1:12:45
  tournament that would be on a grand stage in a grand final,
• 1:12:48
  not in some other part of the play offs.
• 1:12:51
  So it was the best of all worlds.
• 1:12:53
  Leary would win. Hera wouldn't go down 5 O, he
• 1:12:56
  wouldn't be swept and he would get the lose that he wishes for,
• 1:13:00
  which he very much deserves more than any other person in the in
• 1:13:04
  the in the whole scene. That was what I was thinking.
• 1:13:07
  But that was just the beginning of something bigger, much bigger
• 1:13:12
  than anyone expected. So in this game, Leary chose
• 1:13:16
  chose to open with heavy water and try to secure the middle
• 1:13:19
  passage. This is the map that you were
• 1:13:21
  talking about earlier, right? With the middle passage that
• 1:13:24
  that is open where people would always build their castles to
• 1:13:27
  defend that spot. Which is exactly what Leary did,
• 1:13:29
  because he wanted to get to that castle and get into
• 1:13:32
  conquistadors together with manganos.
• 1:13:34
  However, Hera went into crossbows and he had a very
• 1:13:41
  short window of of of opportunity, and he took that
• 1:13:45
  window without hesitation. He found a way into Leary space,
• 1:13:50
  wiggling down his initial numbers of conquistadors, and
• 1:13:53
  then he masked more crossbows and microed against up to three
• 1:13:59
  manganiels of Leary at the same time in a way that's only
• 1:14:04
  possible with 0 ping, while he was booming behind it,
• 1:14:08
  ultimately getting way ahead of Leary after three losses against
• 1:14:13
  Leary. To have the mental capacity, the
• 1:14:17
  nerves, the coolness to go into these intense micro fights and
• 1:14:23
  actually winning them in an impressive way that wow, I was
• 1:14:28
  suddenly my thoughts changed. I was like, maybe this isn't
• 1:14:33
  over. Maybe this isn't just the, you
• 1:14:35
  know, one win for Hera that he deserves so much.
• 1:14:39
  Maybe this is the beginning of a big comeback.
• 1:14:42
  I want to say about the game that as soon as I saw the sieve
• 1:14:45
  match up, I thought to myself there is no way, if there's
• 1:14:50
  congs on the field for for Romans to do anything about it.
• 1:14:56
  Yeah. And I know that, I know that's a
• 1:14:58
  hard counter, but Romans with their economy, they should
• 1:15:02
  always win on that. I feel, but I think I think
• 1:15:05
  where the games where the game went in Harris favor was with
• 1:15:09
  that crossbow raid when he just like committed, yeah, lost a
• 1:15:12
  couple of the crossbows committed, killed the galleys
• 1:15:16
  and didn't just went straight into Libra's base and killed
• 1:15:21
  like what 7 bills, something like that.
• 1:15:26
  The way I saw Hera migraine his one group of Archers against 3
• 1:15:34
  manganiels in the same spot. I was shaking.
• 1:15:38
  I was like, OK, he's back. It's like Oh my God, what did I
• 1:15:42
  just watched? Yeah, how do you do that in game
• 1:15:46
  #4 after being down 03 I don't get.
• 1:15:48
  And I think it was the same game when he had started to add
• 1:15:52
  squirms and he was migrating them like the same group of
• 1:15:57
  skirms. You have a a big group of skirms
• 1:16:00
  and I guess you put them into two different control groups,
• 1:16:04
  but you also put them into a different like, I don't even
• 1:16:08
  know if it's possible to do that because he was moving them all
• 1:16:11
  at once. But then when they would stop
• 1:16:14
  and shoot, half of them were shooting, half of them was
• 1:16:16
  resting. And then when the the half that
• 1:16:19
  just shot was resting, the other half was shooting.
• 1:16:22
  So you basically have like scrim shooting at all times.
• 1:16:26
  And I was just looking at that mesmerized.
• 1:16:28
  I was like how the hell is he doing this?
• 1:16:31
  Well, he uses two different control groups and he has just
• 1:16:34
  the perfect timing for it. I've seen YouTube shorts of him
• 1:16:38
  doing that countless times actually.
• 1:16:39
  Not with skirms but crossbows, but it's still the same.
• 1:16:42
  It is something that only he does because he has the APM and
• 1:16:47
  the precision to do that. You know, whenever I try to use
• 1:16:53
  my skirms and signal down a certain unit, what I usually do
• 1:16:57
  is I shoot once and then I want to when I want to finish that
• 1:17:01
  and shoot a second time, I I'm just .2 milliseconds too fast
• 1:17:07
  and it completely resets my scrums.
• 1:17:09
  And they don't shoot, they just stand there.
• 1:17:11
  They're like and they didn't throw their Spears.
• 1:17:13
  And then at that time, usually my enemy kills me.
• 1:17:17
  I don't know how he has that timing of the shots precisely in
• 1:17:21
  his muscles, but he does and it's amazing.
• 1:17:25
  Yeah. OK so come back time game #5
• 1:17:28
  Hensholt this is the game where Hera plays as the Mapuche.
• 1:17:31
  He took Viper's idea and he perfected it going for the the
• 1:17:35
  Kona unit. For Bolas riders, the.
• 1:17:40
  Sorry, sorry Bolas riders. Yes, the Konas are kind of bad.
• 1:17:43
  That's why I'm I, I stopped. Yeah, you're right.
• 1:17:48
  Yeah, thank you. Against Lyrius Franks, and it
• 1:17:51
  turns out that was a great idea. Mapuche and Franks are being
• 1:17:55
  played on Hensholt because there's so many berries to take
• 1:17:57
  and Mapuche also benefit from longer lasting resources, I
• 1:18:00
  believe, or whatever it is. So that was just that was just,
• 1:18:06
  I don't know, comeback time, I guess, and it wasn't the end,
• 1:18:10
  right? Game number six on Volpine.
• 1:18:12
  Hera playing as the Byzant teams, usually very defensive
• 1:18:16
  civilization, Leary as the Georgians who should be very
• 1:18:19
  aggressive. And it's this game.
• 1:18:23
  Tell me if I'm wrong, but it felt a bit like both players
• 1:18:26
  actually decided to take their foot off the pedal and slow down
• 1:18:29
  a little bit because this game went until the Imperial age for
• 1:18:35
  once in the sit. Well, it went it went in the
• 1:18:42
  Imperial age for one of them because the other one lost their
• 1:18:44
  TC to a castle. Oh, oh, yeah.
• 1:18:48
  So OK, So what happened was actually Leary wasn't in a bad
• 1:18:53
  spot, right? He was expanding on that map and
• 1:18:58
  he he was expanding to a place that Hera scouted and he castle
• 1:19:02
  dropped that spot, which wasn't too big of a problem for Lee
• 1:19:06
  because he just, you know, took his wills, went somewhere else
• 1:19:09
  and he expanded into a different direction.
• 1:19:11
  And he also secured that place with his own castle, so all is
• 1:19:14
  well. But then he went into the
• 1:19:16
  Imperial. He researched the Imperial Age,
• 1:19:18
  but he accidentally researched it in that very TC that was
• 1:19:23
  previously already cast dropped by Hera and that denied him the
• 1:19:28
  Imperial age timing. Was that I didn't pay full
• 1:19:32
  attention, but was that the last TC he had built?
• 1:19:36
  No, I don't know. No, no it can't be because he
• 1:19:39
  was on the other side already I believe.
• 1:19:41
  Because usually when I I always use select all TCS to research
• 1:19:46
  something and usually the the way it works is that if I have
• 1:19:49
  like 4 TCS I always just like press space which is by select
• 1:19:53
  all TCS and and Q vils by all times.
• 1:19:56
  But sometimes I don't have enough food to to produced from
• 1:20:00
  all of them. Or like maybe I'm just clicking
• 1:20:03
  select all TCS and I'm pressing only three times on on the
• 1:20:05
  queue. So most of the times the last
• 1:20:08
  seat that I built is the one available to queue up attack or
• 1:20:13
  something. So if I want to go AMP and I
• 1:20:15
  click select all TCS, it almost always goes to the last TC
• 1:20:20
  built. Maybe that's what happened, I
• 1:20:23
  don't know, but it's it was devastating.
• 1:20:26
  You could clearly see his reaction when he realized that
• 1:20:31
  he wasn't going up to him and he re had to cue.
• 1:20:33
  He had to re cue that and that put him back so much right.
• 1:20:36
  He couldn't get into elite manaspa in time.
• 1:20:38
  He couldn't research helps in time and Hera was going for
• 1:20:42
  heavy camels and skirmishers and there was just no way for Leary
• 1:20:46
  to win that game. After that, Hera tying up the
• 1:20:48
  series 3 to 3. So with that, it's basically a
• 1:20:55
  best of three. Yeah.
• 1:20:57
  What do you do? You go to Rampart.
• 1:21:02
  You go to Rampart, Hera and and see Hera was playing as the
• 1:21:07
  Vikings, which is probably something people did not expect
• 1:21:10
  on Rampart and Leary was playing as the Burgundians.
• 1:21:14
  Yeah, started off again super first of all, I I hate
• 1:21:19
  Burgundians on that map. It has to do with MBL abusing
• 1:21:23
  them 3000 thousand times. So yeah, when I saw rampart 1
• 1:21:29
  and I heard a cast a casters like kind of thinking what are
• 1:21:33
  they going to go into? I was like Oh no, Burgundians is
• 1:21:35
  in the draft. I gotta say that I felt like
• 1:21:42
  that game is going to go super late for some reason from the
• 1:21:48
  first minutes of it, like they were kind of killing some vils
• 1:21:53
  here, killing some vils there. Hera looked kind of dead at some
• 1:21:58
  point, but it's so easy to look dead.
• 1:22:02
  But I'm like, if he's dead, why, why?
• 1:22:04
  Why can't he Lewis just to finish him all?
• 1:22:06
  Like why is he not dying if he's dead dead, you know, like
• 1:22:09
  everyone's saying, like, oh, Harris trying to come back like
• 1:22:14
  it. It was looking like Leary had a
• 1:22:19
  very clear advantage in that game, especially maybe early at
• 1:22:24
  one point at one point, and I was by by this time I just took
• 1:22:31
  the I I was so tired first of all, from all the the casting
• 1:22:35
  from previous days. I said I OK, I was watching open
• 1:22:39
  mouth gaming up to this point. I was like, oh, my back's
• 1:22:43
  hurting. I went to bed, I took my laptop.
• 1:22:47
  I was watching the games and my husband was next to me and he
• 1:22:52
  had his work laptop. So we were like, he was kind of
• 1:22:55
  with one eye working and one eye watching the finals with me.
• 1:22:59
  And it was like minute 25 or something.
• 1:23:04
  And he said something like, oh, I, I think Leo is going to win
• 1:23:07
  this. Or like casters were also saying
• 1:23:09
  that the Harrah's kind of dead. And I said something like, oh,
• 1:23:13
  my wild bet is that this is going to go to the score limit.
• 1:23:18
  And after saying that, I slowly laid my head on his shoulder.
• 1:23:23
  I fell asleep. And then from time to time, I
• 1:23:28
  was woken up by AT-90. And and they've like, I would
• 1:23:32
  kind of like a distant dream. Hearing them yell at something
• 1:23:35
  like Oh my God this is insane. I.
• 1:23:39
  Wake up like 30 minutes later and then my husband says like
• 1:23:43
  you are right, it went to the score, score, you know, a score
• 1:23:48
  at the timer. And I'm like, Oh my God, who won
• 1:23:51
  Hera? I was like, Oh no way.
• 1:23:53
  So I actually have to rewatch it.
• 1:23:54
  I don't know what happened. No, If you don't mind, let me
• 1:23:58
  tell you what. Happened.
• 1:23:59
  Absolutely. So up until that point that you
• 1:24:02
  mentioned, when Leary had a clear lead, that was because
• 1:24:05
  Leary checked into Cavalier, he was going full Cavalier and Hera
• 1:24:09
  had tacked into crossbows and Leary took some great fights
• 1:24:12
  against those crossbows. I saw up to that point, yeah.
• 1:24:16
  And the tension gets higher and higher because Leary was closing
• 1:24:19
  in on Hera's base, right? So that's probably when you put
• 1:24:23
  your rest of your head on your husband's shoulder and started
• 1:24:26
  to fade away because then something happened.
• 1:24:29
  It was obvious that Leary was going to win.
• 1:24:32
  So Hera did something that was amazing.
• 1:24:36
  The castle. The castle he took like he took
• 1:24:40
  like 15 to 20 villages from his economy and he placed the castle
• 1:24:44
  in the midst of Leary's space ranging 2 TCS I believe, and
• 1:24:49
  most of his economy. And that was just a wild, wild
• 1:24:55
  thing to do there, there that was so risky.
• 1:24:58
  But it went up because Leary saw it way too late.
• 1:25:02
  And all his army was trying to kill and finish off Hera on the
• 1:25:06
  front, right? He had nothing to deny that
• 1:25:08
  castle because he was just too late and noticing it.
• 1:25:11
  So that castle actually went up. And that point was a turning
• 1:25:15
  point because now Hera had a way to come back.
• 1:25:18
  He split Leary's base up into multiple sides, and he bought
• 1:25:23
  himself enough time to start disrupting Leary's, Leary's
• 1:25:27
  equal from time to time. But it's not like he was
• 1:25:29
  defeating Leary at all, it's just that gave him another
• 1:25:33
  chance. So the game goes imperial age
• 1:25:37
  and there's countless race from Leary as well as Hera.
• 1:25:40
  Both of their bases are basically open field.
• 1:25:43
  There was not a single wall. There was nothing that was just
• 1:25:46
  castle after castle after castle.
• 1:25:48
  And Cavaliers trying to raid. And Hera ticking into halabs as
• 1:25:52
  well I believe. And Oh my God, it close to the
• 1:25:55
  end, Daniela, there was an epic fight that was Arbalists and
• 1:26:01
  that was halves and Leary having skirmishes and and paladins, and
• 1:26:08
  that fight was clearly won by Leary.
• 1:26:12
  Leary took that fight. It wasn't I I didn't know who
• 1:26:15
  would win, but Leary came out the winner.
• 1:26:17
  He had a great scorer lead, even though he the score was closing
• 1:26:21
  in before that. But then that gave him a score
• 1:26:24
  lead that was great. So both of them built up their
• 1:26:27
  armies one last time and they took another fight and that
• 1:26:32
  fight went into Hera's favour. And that was a fight I believe
• 1:26:37
  that Leary just didn't have to take.
• 1:26:39
  I don't know why he took it, but he took it and the score went
• 1:26:44
  into the favour of Hera and there was no recovery for for
• 1:26:47
  Leary. And that's how Hera won the
• 1:26:49
  game. I was, I was devastated for
• 1:26:54
  Leary. I couldn't believe it.
• 1:26:56
  What have we also so, so much better to go to game now.
• 1:26:59
  I I mean, it's so super impressive that Hera came back
• 1:27:04
  to with the freaking five, yeah. Well, this wasn't the last game.
• 1:27:10
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This wasn't the last game, yeah.
• 1:27:12
  I I this week I saw the last game after Yeah which?
• 1:27:16
  OK, so you did see the last game, you didn't fall asleep
• 1:27:18
  again. No, no, I was locked in.
• 1:27:22
  Yeah, so. Locked in in Loch Ness.
• 1:27:25
  Yep. Game #8 Hera with the Armenians,
• 1:27:29
  leery with the woo. And I don't know how you felt
• 1:27:32
  about that, but when I saw the civilizations, I was scared.
• 1:27:36
  In my opinion, Hera is by far the best Armenian player in the
• 1:27:41
  world. I believe he's the only player
• 1:27:43
  who really figured out the civilization, and that's because
• 1:27:47
  he's infamous for playing champions with them and actually
• 1:27:49
  taking it to champions early imperial age.
• 1:27:52
  Yeah, so I had no hopes for Leary to win this game.
• 1:27:57
  OK. But like again, I would like to
• 1:28:01
  see the draft of that. And if you give me two seconds,
• 1:28:05
  I actually have Hera Leary final Tarana, Tarana, give me the
• 1:28:10
  sieve draft. And I'm looking at this and I'm
• 1:28:13
  opening Leary's and I see there's no, no, Hera had the
• 1:28:21
  first picture of videos. OK, then what the hell were the
• 1:28:23
  people in the the chat talking that Leary would have been
• 1:28:28
  better with Dravidians? Because I was agreeing with
• 1:28:30
  that. Like yeah, if he has Dravidians,
• 1:28:32
  why the hell didn't he play Dravidians?
• 1:28:35
  Well, chat has has no idea because he didn't have
• 1:28:38
  Dravidian. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:28:39
  OK, if I think. Leary lost the draft.
• 1:28:42
  If I see Armenians versus Wu, I think OK, Armenians clear clap
• 1:28:48
  there. If I see Armenians versus
• 1:28:51
  Dravidians, it could go either way earlier to Armenians.
• 1:28:54
  But if that goes late game, I actually think Dravidians are a
• 1:28:58
  counter to Armenians both on water and on land as well.
• 1:29:02
  Well, I'm really bad at judging Dravidians on many maps.
• 1:29:09
  I usually underestimate them, but that's just because I suck
• 1:29:12
  at playing them. I'm just so bad at having those,
• 1:29:15
  you know, utilizing those timing bonuses that the Dravidians
• 1:29:18
  have. So I usually underestimate them.
• 1:29:21
  Dravidians were one of the best services in this entire
• 1:29:23
  tournament. That is for sure stats wise and
• 1:29:26
  from their win rate. So so you're right.
• 1:29:28
  But once again, I think Lewis did a great job with the woo
• 1:29:33
  because his strategy was to win water early, which theory wise
• 1:29:39
  is usually key on this map. But, and that's apparently what
• 1:29:42
  the whole of Reddit is saying, but it turns out once again, not
• 1:29:46
  if Hera is playing as the Armenian.
• 1:29:48
  Because this is something Hera does often with the Armenians.
• 1:29:51
  He is usually going for champions.
• 1:29:55
  Early imperial age overwhelms the enemy and then reclaims
• 1:30:00
  water. And Armenians are excellent on
• 1:30:03
  water, right? But this time it was even worse
• 1:30:06
  because he, I think it was intentional for Hera to let
• 1:30:10
  Leary have the water because he was busy collecting all of the
• 1:30:13
  relics. He had all of the relics which
• 1:30:15
  are 6IN totals plus the one that the Armenians get when they
• 1:30:18
  built their first monastery. What is it?
• 1:30:21
  Fortified church? So he had 7 relics and over the
• 1:30:25
  course of the game, I don't know if you realise, but he had
• 1:30:28
  collected almost 10,000 gold with those 7 relics.
• 1:30:32
  Yeah, that's crazy. It's it's really good to go for
• 1:30:36
  relics Leon like here. I played that map really well
• 1:30:41
  and I would like to say prop Soliri because he held,
• 1:30:45
  especially later on, way better than I expected.
• 1:30:49
  I I think he might have had chances to push that to a score
• 1:30:55
  limit if he would have fought harder for water, but he seemed
• 1:30:59
  like to not be bothered with it. And here I came back on water
• 1:31:02
  and again, like I said, a lot of times water gives you a lot of
• 1:31:05
  score, so. It does, but he couldn't.
• 1:31:08
  He couldn't fight back on water because he had massive wood
• 1:31:12
  issues and also gold was running out for him and he had no rest.
• 1:31:15
  Yeah. Absolutely, absolutely.
• 1:31:16
  But then that's why I'm saying like you, you have to invest
• 1:31:19
  more earlier on into into into into watrons.
• 1:31:25
  He had luchuans as well. And well, you can't just make
• 1:31:28
  like 2 luchuans how he had because like parents gonna even
• 1:31:32
  convert them or something. You have to fill that pond with
• 1:31:35
  with the you have to wall the sides and buy yourself time.
• 1:31:40
  Yeah, he he failed to wall the sides.
• 1:31:42
  Yeah. Wall the sides, invest a lot
• 1:31:45
  into water, so you make sure that your opponent can come back
• 1:31:50
  onto water because that's a way to starve your opponent off of
• 1:31:53
  resources on that map because all of them are next to the
• 1:31:56
  water. So you're ranging everything You
• 1:31:59
  have Lotrons. He didn't utilize the matter.
• 1:32:01
  Lotrons are first of all my favorite unit in this game, the
• 1:32:07
  best siege on water as well, just because it's so hard to get
• 1:32:12
  close to them, even because they can even micro.
• 1:32:15
  They shoot arrows too on top of that projectile.
• 1:32:19
  So it it's not so easy to fight against them.
• 1:32:22
  But I mean, Hera was just converting at some point.
• 1:32:24
  He's low chance and he was using him in his favor.
• 1:32:28
  So yeah. Yeah, but you know what?
• 1:32:31
  You know, it was, it was so cool to see because we at least I
• 1:32:38
  even in this defeat of Leary, it actually ended in a great and
• 1:32:43
  epic way. It didn't just end by heroin,
• 1:32:46
  water and Leary running out of gold.
• 1:32:48
  It didn't end with the timer. There was an epic fight at the
• 1:32:53
  end that it and it was so epic that it's actually once again
• 1:32:58
  something that we didn't see very often because usually we
• 1:33:01
  have more eco units than we have military units.
• 1:33:04
  But that at that point, both Leary and Hera had 130 military
• 1:33:10
  units each and there was 100 HP champions and Leary had his
• 1:33:17
  trash units. And the last thing that happened
• 1:33:20
  in this game, and with that in the entire tournament, was 250
• 1:33:25
  and even more military units collapsing on one another.
• 1:33:30
  The castle will crumble, the Hussars come over.
• 1:33:33
  One big fight, potentially for Leary.
• 1:33:38
  He's known for a while, Dave. He doesn't want to accept it.
• 1:33:40
  It's understandable. He's so good.
• 1:33:43
  He is so, so good. But throughout his career, while
• 1:33:47
  he's been amazing for 10 years, there was always been a champion
• 1:33:51
  just in front of him, just running through the competition
• 1:33:54
  and taking the 1st place final fight here.
• 1:33:57
  Will Hera take the crown again? I think he will down three O 5
• 1:34:02
  wins in a row potentially for Hera.
• 1:34:05
  Leary takes this fight, he continues to play and here comes
• 1:34:08
  the GG. Maybe the reign of Hera
• 1:34:12
  continues. He is your Red Bull Londonian
• 1:34:15
  champion, yes, unbelievable, just unbelievable.
• 1:34:20
  What a turn around to turn it around after you lose those
• 1:34:25
  three games to claw your way back.
• 1:34:28
  Doesn't feel possible at times. Amazing for Hera.
• 1:34:32
  I feel for Leary, as does everyone.
• 1:34:34
  But this is what competition does.
• 1:34:36
  This is what competition's about.
• 1:34:39
  And congratulations to Hera. The most incredible comeback, an
• 1:34:42
  Age of Empires 2 history. And of course, it's none other
• 1:34:48
  than Hera. Hera came out as the winner.
• 1:34:58
  He defended his title with that fight and with that set and it
• 1:35:03
  was probably the greatest Age of Empires two event of all times.
• 1:35:08
  It was fantastic. I actually wrote on my Discord
• 1:35:13
  earlier that we're going to record the podcast today, so I
• 1:35:19
  actually have a question from the chat if we can take it
• 1:35:22
  before moving on to the production.
• 1:35:24
  It's related to the series. Nice.
• 1:35:29
  One SEC. If this was hidden cup so Larry
• 1:35:33
  didn't know it was Hera he was facing, would anything have
• 1:35:37
  changed? That's such an interesting
• 1:35:40
  question, but I believe it wouldn't have changed anything
• 1:35:44
  because usually the players know who they play against.
• 1:35:47
  Especially by the final. I think by the final.
• 1:35:49
  Especially the. Final, I feel like everyone
• 1:35:51
  expected OK, this is Leary versus Hera and I think they
• 1:35:54
  they would have known each other as well, but you.
• 1:35:58
  Know maybe in earlier stages maybe, maybe one of the two top
• 1:36:03
  players like Leary and Hera would have actually had been
• 1:36:06
  kicked out or at least had suffered some defeated.
• 1:36:09
  Like maybe MBL would have been able to defeat Hera in that
• 1:36:12
  group stage set if he hadn't known he was playing against
• 1:36:17
  Hera. So maybe it probably would have
• 1:36:19
  changed something in the first round.
• 1:36:21
  But T9, even T-90 usually knows after the first round who is who
• 1:36:27
  and the players must do so as well.
• 1:36:30
  It's an interesting thought. OK, so let's wrap this up.
• 1:36:38
  I already said to me this was an amazing event.
• 1:36:43
  It was probably the greatest Age of Empires two event of all
• 1:36:45
  times. And it's not just because the
• 1:36:48
  games were so great. It's it's also because of the
• 1:36:51
  production and how everything came together.
• 1:36:54
  So Riley as the host, in my opinion, he was an absolute
• 1:36:58
  beast from start to finish. He, he walked us through that
• 1:37:02
  show that that production in a such a professional way.
• 1:37:07
  That is just, I'm just so happy to see that for Age of Empires 2
• 1:37:11
  that we have those professional people working for these kind of
• 1:37:15
  events. I love the comedy.
• 1:37:17
  I love the bits that he did and the others did.
• 1:37:20
  I love the way that the DLCS have been promoted for the
• 1:37:24
  sponsors for, for World's Edge. I loved how they implemented the
• 1:37:30
  crowd reactions in between games and during the games that we
• 1:37:34
  could actually hear the crowd whenever something was happening
• 1:37:36
  during the game. It was much better than than in
• 1:37:39
  all the previous events before I was I, I felt like I was almost
• 1:37:43
  sitting inside the crowd myself just because of that.
• 1:37:47
  So. It was.
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  Amazing. Work.
• 1:37:49
  It was an absolute impeccable production.
• 1:37:53
  I fully agree with you. Everything was smooth.
• 1:37:58
  They were so high, high quality. I I want to give a special shout
• 1:38:03
  out to first of all to everyone because they they did this
• 1:38:09
  special event for us the the host, the casters.
• 1:38:12
  I want to give a special shout out to to Dave.
• 1:38:14
  I talked about this on stream as well casual casting on his
• 1:38:18
  channel. Dave is such a different person
• 1:38:21
  at time from the professional land commentator that they've
• 1:38:28
  gets into at a land event and for some reason, especially this
• 1:38:32
  one like he homie was impeccable from start to to finish it.
• 1:38:36
  It was really nice to see him doing so well and he he was
• 1:38:41
  funny, energetic. He was his casting was STR Plus
• 1:38:47
  I don't know hats off to him because they took off their hats
• 1:38:50
  at the end as well. Honestly, all the casters did a
• 1:38:54
  very good job, but I don't know, maybe I'm by swords Dave because
• 1:39:00
  we're we're friends as well. But yeah, Dave's a fantastic
• 1:39:06
  commentator. He he really stepped up his in
• 1:39:08
  game this tournament. And overall, my, my general
• 1:39:13
  feeling is that usually I do love casting land tournaments on
• 1:39:18
  my channel, but I think it, this was the first land tournament,
• 1:39:23
  first a we a Siri event that I felt genuinely sad that I wasn't
• 1:39:30
  there. Like I, I didn't have this with
• 1:39:33
  any other land before. Like I, I wouldn't care too much
• 1:39:38
  like, Oh yeah. Well, another land event.
• 1:39:40
  Commentators, commentators and gassers are going to be there.
• 1:39:42
  And not like, I don't know, maybe not even as a commentator,
• 1:39:45
  but just just their part of the crowd.
• 1:39:49
  I, I don't know. I don't know why, but it was
• 1:39:53
  just that feeling that I got to. Well, now I know why.
• 1:39:55
  I know why. I absolutely know why.
• 1:39:58
  I mean the life orchestra, the, the, the, the amazing venue, the
• 1:40:05
  level of the games, everything was just perfect, more than you
• 1:40:08
  could ever wish for. And I am so envious of all the
• 1:40:12
  people who. Like I love you guys, but also
• 1:40:15
  like how dare you go there And I don't, I didn't get to.
• 1:40:21
  It's my own fault. I I should have been there.
• 1:40:23
  Yeah, definitely. I'm.
• 1:40:25
  I'm very jealous. I do not agree that I felt like
• 1:40:28
  all the casters did an amazing job.
• 1:40:30
  But I do agree that Dave was the very best.
• 1:40:33
  I think his performance was absolute, absolutely amazing.
• 1:40:37
  I think so too. I think he was the best of them
• 1:40:39
  all. By far, yes.
• 1:40:42
  So 109,000 viewers. I had that number as well until
• 1:40:49
  I just opened Reddit. Apparently is over 110.
• 1:40:53
  It was 100 and 116,173 here. What a number?
• 1:41:03
  I mean, I don't care actually. I just want a great production
• 1:41:08
  and a great event, but I'm happy that the number is so high
• 1:41:11
  because this probably means there's going to be another Red
• 1:41:13
  Bull and God, I really want another Red Bull and I don't
• 1:41:17
  want to wait two years for it. I want it next.
• 1:41:18
  Year I want it now as well and I want to go like I I will buy
• 1:41:22
  this to the next one. I'm not missing another
• 1:41:25
  opportunity. My question is, and I saw a lot
• 1:41:29
  of people asking this question as well as throughout the social
• 1:41:32
  media, throughout discords, through our Reddit.
• 1:41:35
  How how do you top this like? I don't know, I don't care.
• 1:41:41
  You don't need to top it. What a friend that was was there
• 1:41:47
  messaged me this morning kind of highlighting how how his weekend
• 1:41:52
  went. And he said something like,
• 1:41:56
  wait, where, where was it? I don't know.
• 1:42:00
  I, I can't find it right now. He said something along those
• 1:42:02
  lines, the lines of, oh, I was talking with a friend and I
• 1:42:05
  think they will have to hold the next one in the Colosseum or
• 1:42:07
  something to to top this. And yeah, I mean, even the
• 1:42:12
  viewership numbers. You say that you don't care.
• 1:42:15
  I think it's Microsoft, unfortunately kind of only
• 1:42:19
  cares. Feels like they only care about
• 1:42:21
  this nowadays. But I think it's even double
• 1:42:24
  than the peak that they had before.
• 1:42:26
  That might be, but I'm not sure if Microsoft needs it to be
• 1:42:31
  better than the last time. It's not that you did need to,
• 1:42:34
  but of course like. Well, they're happy.
• 1:42:37
  Of course I would be. I'm just saying that I don't
• 1:42:40
  think they necessarily need to top it.
• 1:42:43
  I just think they want, they probably strive for an
• 1:42:49
  experience that is close enough to what they had in London.
• 1:42:55
  And I mean, how do you measure it, right?
• 1:42:59
  People are going to be grateful and happy for these kind of
• 1:43:02
  events and they were grateful and happy in the events before
• 1:43:06
  and now they got an even better experience.
• 1:43:09
  And maybe next time it's going to be a like marginally worse or
• 1:43:13
  marginally better. Who who really cares and nobody
• 1:43:16
  counts as long as everybody agrees on it was a great event
• 1:43:21
  and viewership is good and, and, and high, pretty much everyone
• 1:43:26
  will be happy with it. And you know, for for Red Bull,
• 1:43:30
  they do not make money off this. They, they will never make money
• 1:43:36
  of this. But that is part of their
• 1:43:38
  marketing structure, right? They are not doing these events
• 1:43:40
  to make money, like to get back what they invested into it.
• 1:43:44
  This is marketing. They want their brand to be
• 1:43:47
  associated with the best events, of course.
• 1:43:50
  And that is why they're doing it.
• 1:43:51
  And they are succeeding with it. So amazing job.
• 1:43:54
  Yeah. Fair enough.
• 1:43:58
  All right, Daniela, we've talked way longer than I expected.
• 1:44:04
  Between 30 and 60 minutes. Sounds good, Chris.
• 1:44:07
  Yeah, but you know, you were so excited about the games and I, I
• 1:44:11
  was really excited by you being excited because you shared my
• 1:44:14
  excitement. Now we shared it with everyone
• 1:44:15
  else and I hope people enjoyed our episode.
• 1:44:18
  Honestly, this episode is was perfect today and for for my
• 1:44:24
  heart and and peace as well. I've been having some issues
• 1:44:28
  with the Redwood chat yesterday and there were some things that
• 1:44:32
  got me quite down. And then afterwards I discussed
• 1:44:36
  them on my discord with my community as well.
• 1:44:40
  And it's the same kind of things that bring me down at every
• 1:44:43
  single line event is to to see some the behaviors of some
• 1:44:47
  people, which it kind of discussed me, but we've kept
• 1:44:50
  this super positive and I'm going to leave it at this note.
• 1:44:54
  I just mentioned this as a, you know, thank you for making my
• 1:45:01
  day brighter with your excitement and, you know, with
• 1:45:05
  the good highlights of the of the event.
• 1:45:07
  And well, the event itself is not responsible for those
• 1:45:12
  comments or the negativity in chat.
• 1:45:15
  But yeah, so some things just bring us down sometimes.
• 1:45:19
  Yeah, but not us. We are living on a good note.
• 1:45:23
  Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and your
• 1:45:25
  insights with me. It was a pleasure as always.
• 1:45:27
  Daniela, you're. The same for me.
• 1:45:30
  Thanks for the listeners to stick with us for all this time.
• 1:45:33
  I hope you had a great event as well.
• 1:45:35
  And now we're leaving you to play some major vampires to
• 1:45:38
  yourselves. With an amazing Maple, bye bye.
• 1:45:43
  Bye, bye, bye. Yo ho.
• 1:45:49
  Here to see directions O rain shine walls of light in the.
• 1:45:56
  Cribs and rain the snow yo on. And low to the royal.
• 1:46:03
  Oh, we go. When the rain jumps, straight to
• 1:46:06
  London town we go. Unto Red Bull.