Friday Night Live @ OS #1 – Guilty Gear STRIVE Top 8

Friday Night Live @ OS #1 – Guilty Gear STRIVE Top 8

Like seriously, what’s the weather like? I I don’t know. I mean, we could check for next week. It’s getting pretty cold. No lie, actually. Like, unironically, thank God. I’m so ready for cold weather. I’m not. I don’t like the cold. I love the cold. That’s my jam. Nah, I feel like once it gets below 50, it’s like, all right, can we chill? But when it’s below 50, can you chill? Yeah, it gets colder, so it does chill. Can you not chill? How about that? Can you Can you heat up? What’s the fun of the hot weather? Sucks. It just gets hot and you can only take off so many layers. Like, you can only put on so many layers before I feel like a No, you can put on more layers than you can take off. This is true. However, at a certain point, it’s like, okay, I just want to go out to the store and get like or do my laundry. Now, I got to put on a whole suit, a whole snowsuit just to go outside. No, I hate it. No, you know what? Just be stronger. Train yourself so you have to wear less layers. I usually I usually wear shorts until it’s about 30° and then I stopped. This is fun JSAP fact. Um I actually did used to train myself for the winter. I would walk and when it snowed, it was one day it was me and my friends on the basketball team. We went and walk through Central Park the length of it like long way. Yeah. In the snow shirtless. Terrible decision. I was sick for a week. However, however, I did not get cold for the rest of the year. I was like, I’m chilling. This is not bad. Yeah, it couldn’t get worse than that. A little hypothermia takes you a long way. It does. It builds character. It does. A lot of characters. Speaking of characters, um, two players that are not Nitro Newberg, I believe they just played it off stream. It’s been a while. So, indeed. Yeah, it’s going to be Bean coming back up. That’s right. Against classified. Woo. Going to be a lot of fun seeing classified here on stream for the first time tonight. Giovana, one of those characters that a lot of people are talking about is really good after the patch. So, very exciting seeing a lot of the changes. And honestly, Giovana is one of my favorite characters to watch, particularly classified, who’s been going on an absolute tear. Yeah. Okay. There was a bunch. At first, I wasn’t sure and then you hear the gold burst and you’re like, “Oh.” Ah, yeah. Yeah. That would do it. That would do it. I hear Kai as well. That’s how I knew I heard Kai. I was like, “Okay, but check.” You hear the the white bread, the French man. You’re like, “Yeah.” Yeah. Can’t believe Kai’s French. What’s up with that? That is mad random. Unbelievable. I know. This is the world we live in. Can you believe that? He’s French. There are so many sad things happening in this world. Is he French? Where was Dizzy even born? Well, I think she’s a gear. She’s She’s 100% a gear, right? So, but like that doesn’t mean she can’t be French. That’s true. Damn. Yeah, but outside of Soul, aren’t like all the gears from Japan? Cuz isn’t that why Japan got destroyed? Like what’s up? Is that how it works? Well, that I mean Japan did get destroyed. Okay. Well, I don’t know if they are fighting. It sounds like they are fighting. Definitely fighting now. Um well the set is currently guys are fighting set is certainly ongoing. I don’t have an answer as to what’s happening presently but something is yeah they’re just playing it out right now. So we’ll be here as we’re getting all the tech stuff fixed. I’m going to try to do my best to infer Oh we are good. All right. So, yeah, classified on the back foot right now. Oh, this is when it’s quarters. Okay, so this is um this is for top eight winners. Yeah, it is. Okay, we’re already getting to the thick of it. Bean using the tight run mix, but of course, drop not used to it quite yet. Still need some time. I get it. RC on the low counter hit. Nice little combo. Nice kill. First round going to go to Bean. Yeah, Bean taking the first one. 6P off the bat brings these second hits on these dragons are catching classified a lot. But there arrow boom and a huge wall break coming in from classified here. The 2P the triple using dash remember to carry that enough to even get him 214k for the counter TK into the super. Does that do more damage now? Uh, okay. RC anyway, I believe just trying to get as much possible. And there you go. It was enough. Just barely with that 5k. Certainly a great way for classified to respond after be the first round. Here we go. The throw gim early. Gamma blade for the meaty. These recatus are connecting so well. A nice throw bean. Not going to let escape so easily. Blocked the gold burst in time as well. Nice. Right into the car. That’s going to wall break. Boom. Hard knockdown. Positive bonus on the side of Bean. You go. Post slash 2D overhead misses. Cosplay jumps out again. 2K gets whip punish into the throw. 50 meter going to get Yep. Still up by the side of Bean. 6 counter hit. Classified lead. There you go. And that’s going to be game one going to Bean. A great start for Bean indeed. D. Can we keep it up? Game two. Off to a hot start. Far slash 5 H to counter it. Forcing the burst out already. Back dash just enough. Get away from that file arrow. Just back dash goes quite a ways away. Getting out of it. You know, classified taking that offense. Get out of not RCN quite yet. And there goes the overhead. Condition that in. Now classifi stuck on the back foot here. Going to reset to the same side. Nice jump. Wall slump. Oh, actually Oh my god. Gets the wall break off the slump. Nice. Oh, 2D gets it there. And there you go. Speaking of Duty, got the most one of the most hilarious changes in this patch. They removed. Okay, so weakness of a lot of Pokemon in the game, generally speaking, is that their her box will extend as the starts coming out. That’s how it works. If you’re throwing out a punch, right? Like your arm is still coming out, right? But um for Chip 2D, they decided to not make that a thing anymore. So as his leg is coming out until it is active, there is no sending hurts. So you can literally like if you have a hitbox viewer, you can start Chips 2D and then pause it right there before the activator come out. You’ll literally just see his leg out with no just nothing there. That’s hilarious. An extension of his soul. JD, no connection. There we go. So there we have it. They counter hit him with a 2D jumping out again. This time gets the nice JH far slash 5H connects into that newly buffs enhanced 214k. I believe it’s a lot faster now. Yeah, way faster. Here we go. Hard knock down slash YC to get the spacing away. JP good ants here. Good reaction from Classify. That should be enough. And it is classified evening the score one to one now. A fantastic response indeed. Game number three. 5K, 2K, 2P. JH coming in hot. Record two. Over going to connect this time. Sets it fully without meter as well. Over going to connect again. Forcing the burst out from classified. Back to neutral. 2D gets blocked. A nice 2K. Good aggression from Bean. The spacing Bean has with his character so good. like just knows exactly where to put himself to avoid the opponent’s coach while also getting his own zone in. Burst out from both players now. Be wants to keep the corn for a little longer. Overhead not going to connect this time. JP wins. I think too short for that. Nice. Okay. Went for the reset but didn’t find much. Oh my god. Actually, never mind. I take it back. That was scary. Went for the I think the cross up this time instead of side four already. The BRC away the other side, but okay, that’s going to not hit. Does it need to punish? Wait, hold on. Oh, interesting. Yeah, actually, Alpha Blade does have a hurt box on the projectile kind of. Yeah, it’s really it’s really it’s it’s such a weird looking move if you look at how the hit boxes work. Very ugly, but being still making it work. Classified really good starter. Gio has one of the best round start options. Oh, tries to build that 50. Didn’t quite get I was going to say counter hits from Gio at round is so good because she can build 50 from a combo but just a little bit short and baited the DP off the drop combo. Nice play from classify just answering back every time being shot out a good round just got a good round right back at it. This is going to be one of our first very back and forth sets I can see as of right now. Cost going to connect alpha wave extension the classic beam pressure. Yeah, just the kicks just add up. just don’t think it’s time to they just keep coming out. If you’re not FD and you’re going to get stuck the lows just so many lows back to back to back. Nice good patience for Bean. Now the corner pressure with almost 100 meter to work with too going right into the car super. What a pick from there and it’s enough to kill too. Bean up 2-1 now. They’re just trading dominating rounds back and forth button’s got to close it out here being up 2-1. I think it’s very possible we see a game five happen here. But even with that being said, Bean doing a really good job getting that corner pressure started. The 2K connects, but not much else comes out from it. Oh no, good from Beam to get away from that enhanced fire. The B went for the super input. It’s a free punish for classifi bursting to keep the corner. Backs up a little bit, gives some space, runs right back in using chip speed. Just go in and out, but good jump by classify. finally getting away from that throw. Looking for it this entire time. Not afraid to keep looking for it as well. Hard knock down off the super situation. Being on the 50 meter has that DP, but G has those safe options against the AP. Even go for just roughly close slash showing no fear at all. Gets the counter it and classify now up around and up in burst as well for this next one. Nice. 2K2D gets in. We are going back and forth here. Beam with some really nice corner pressure. The blocks from class fight the low finally connects but there’s not much more following yet. Side swap on the enhance. Wow. Counter hit into the spiral but drops the combo. Really big drop there with us momentum, but they got a hard knock down. Had the to work with as well. Back. That’s BC on the 2K 2D. Good character knowledge by classifi gets bursted out once again. Corner from Bean. Oh, punishes the jump out attempt. Oh, but can’t combo off it. Wa! What an adjustment. Yeah, you’re dead. Absolutely is enough. The 5H going to launch be into the stratosphere. Classified brings up to a 22 and we’ve got our first game five on stream. Classified Bean the Chip Geo matchup coming to a tense climax here. 5K going to connect but not anything else. 5P from Bean. Clone not going to connect. Both could whipping a little bit there. But Bean coming out on top just for now. Rea to IV this time, but 6P to catch a punish option. A little too slow on the jump there. Now here comes the throw from Bean. Clone throw again. No, 5K conditioning with the slow mid. Oh, nice block on that overhead. 2K2D connects. God, this corner pressure so hard to deal with. Chip has a lot of options here with the Reka. There we go. 68. No hard knockdown class meter to work with. Are we going to use it? No, not yet. But just runs into the 2K instead being one round away from winner side top eight. Such a great position to be in in this tournament. But this classified wanted a little more. I don’t know. Little bit of neutral grabs now. Bean applying the pressure. Has a foot on the gas. Finds the overhead. Went for a burst fight there. Didn’t find much. Uh-oh. Wild Assault extends this combo to the corner and a wall break. Man, what a conversion. Clean. Yeah, super clean route there. Making the most out of every hit. There goes a 6P. Oh no, that’s a drop. Chip’s going to get up. Free punish for being here. Pull starter extending it. No, just drops the 5P. That’s not enough damage to get the most out of that. But still bashes his way out into the Rea Car for the hard knockdown. One interaction away, but Classif has more resources to work with than one. Can use it. Decides not to. Holding on. Holding on. YC in the air. Za. RC. J’s going to connect. Burst out from classified. 2K connects to classified. Goes in for the 2D. Give it a save. Backing up. One hit will do it. And finds it. The 2K 2D. The bean special. The spacing immaculate. And Bean will close it out. Two or 32 rather. Wow. Very very close set between those two, but Beam was able to find the path. Played the hero and moved on to the top eight. Very well played by both. Class 5 certainly isn’t done. Has some fighting to do in the loser side. But well played by Bean. You know, you said something and I didn’t make a joke at it at the time, but you said it was a good spot to be in. Be in Bean. I’m glad you didn’t make that joke in a moment. Yeah, I waited till after. I figured now would be a good time to do it. So, guess when the time was right. That’s right. The time is always right. Some may say if they’re who is some actually that this is an important important thing to know. Plus one if you’re some minus one if you’re not. We need to know why you ask. These are the questions. But the question is who’s coming up next because these top eight qualifiers are going to be coming up back to back to back. I believe I heard Dig. But yeah, no, it’s getting crazy. These, as I mentioned before, as the sets get closer, as the bracket progresses, the better players are going to be running against each other head first, head on, and it’s going to be neck and neck. This is top eight quadars. want to win these cuz getting put into that extra set to win to get to that top eight loser side. There’s some demons down there. People have people have died. Yeah, a lot of people have. And I mean, it’s such a big thing when you get that winner side advantage because then you only have to win one round to make grand finals, which is guaranteed top three, which is almost always a guaranteed prize pool. Uh so, one round versus the two that you got to win in losers. Yeah. And then if you lose, you then have to go down to losers and fight two rounds to then get a chance at it. It’s just it’s a lot to deal with. So speaking of So the pressure is absolutely ramping up. Yeah, it’s a lot to deal with. Okay, but as we’re setting up for this next one, we got ads running through. Of course, shout out Iron Grid Gamers Grove. I’ll be there. Got to love it. Maybe. I don’t know. September 20th time. Yeah, that’s a Saturday. That is a Saturday. This is Saturday. This is Saturday. Everybody’s off on Saturday. Yeah, definitely seems like NYC is very excited for 2x KO and I am very excited to see what the game’s going to look like when it comes out. Oh, yeah. No, absolutely. Got multiple locals already stacked up. FNL, of course, for those who don’t know, is going to be switching to KO at least to start. When the game comes out, we might get Strive back, but for now, we won’t. So, this is for now the last Strive tournament for FNL for a bit, but I mean, everyone’s going to be playing to KO, so I don’t think anyone’s going to be missing out on any action. Very true. Anytime soon. Who are you playing in KO if you’re gonna play? Who Who got your fancy? I mean, look, I I kind of do love Yasawo. So, I it’s probably going to end up being Yasawo. I play him in I I mean, he was my first main in League back in the day. And actually, his League VA, not 2x KO, but his League VA is the same as Johnny’s VA in English for Strive, which is pretty cool. So, he’s he’s actually gives a very similar vibe. Um, but he seems like a really sick character, so I definitely want to try him out. I don’t know cuz I haven’t played any of the betas yet. If the game has a slayer archetype character, then I’ll probably end up trying them out because that’s usually what I gravitate towards. Like I play Ogre and Yuni, Azrael, and Blaze Blueue. Uh, I do actually play Slayer and Exard uh, and a little bit of LEL, but uh, hopefully they have someone like that, but all the characters look really sick. The art the art style for 2x KO is really cool. What about you? Who do you think about playing? Good question. Um, at first I didn’t like the first alpha. I didn’t like anybody. I was like, h maybe Yas will, but I’m like, uh, but then they revealed Jinx. And he revealed Vi back to back. Yeah. And I was like, okay, Jinx looks cool designwise, and I like Okay. I usually don’t like zoners, but I like projectile zoners. I like projectile zoners that interact with their projectiles. She can like hit her little the tools that go at you and change how they work. I think that’s sick. That’s pretty cool. Yeah, that stuff is cool. Well, speaking of sick, we’ve got Tyler and Dig coming up. So, even more Gio, I know you’re sick of her, but we got more. That’s right. Dig in the yellow jacket. Bridget colors and Tyler in the yellow jacket. Giovana colors. Love to see you. Nice to set the tone here. Both slash tap does block but still plus on block there. Had the yo-yo coming back to hold down the fort. Mo going to connect as well. JSON there. Actually, no, not going to come straight to the loop. The loop. Tyler holding on. So all that burst there, but still on the back foot of Dig is horn knocked down into the classic Bridget mix. Good block of the tap dust again. Nice good corner pressure and another loop to loop. Ooh yeah, very methodical first round. Perfect as you can clearly see. That’s right. Keeping it simple, not doing too much. taking a occasional risk here and there, but speaking of risk, that five H is going to do a ton of damage here. Nice hard knockdown with enhanced spot to 4K to Shimmy. Oh yeah, nasty Shimmy. Not enough to kill, but really good spot here. You have so many options. Run up for the cool slash. 5K going to frame trap. Caught the big mash him. So now we’re going to round three. Trade in perfect for almost a perfect very back and forth already. 5P connecting but not much to follow. But here we go. First force out from DIG. Has the yo-yo set up. 60 barely connect. Far slash getting aggressive. Dashing in. Has been dashing out, but did eventually find that far slash hit. Yo-yo scoots in. Got super aggressive and throw after the hit anyway. Yo-yo set. We’re going to get a roll here. go. Nice. What are seeing to kind of reset the pressure here, but gets nice? There we go. I being the 214K to get that guaranteed 2K punish. Now the high low begins using the the Oh, the tap does going to connect. Finally catching Tyler not blocking it. Lot two of them, but the third one. They never took the third one. You’ll never see it coming. Wait, wait. Persona record. This is true. So true. Speaking of Persona 6. Hell yeah. In the cards. Very possible. Although we got the four remake happening, too. Four remake. I heard the new one’s going to be like green theme. It’s about time. Yeah, should be pretty neat. Speaking of neat, a lot of back and forth here. First comes out from Dig. There we go. Now, here comes that knuckle ball mix up. gets the overhead. Are we going to get a low? No. Goes for this classic JD. Keeps it simple. 2K2D going to connect, but Tyler still refusing to hold that down back. Going to jump out and connect that 5 H delay into the 214K. Hard knockdown arrow resetting backing up and somehow connects a flip kick out of the corner to catch Dig on the landing. And we don’t have enough to kill, but hard knock down. No, not hard knock down rather. Excuse me. Dig with 50 meter. actually advance predicate resource-wise over going to connect the JS knuckle ball again overhead not connecting but the low will oh no here comes the throw going to connect to the yo-yo did it not in time though the super connects nice did mess up the setup there usually what you do the throw comes out and the splat will hit as the yo-yo comes back and he splats him out that way Tyler can’t burst but mist timed it a little bit and now Tyler on the plus sign here burst gone from Z who’s down around already so very scary spot can’t afford to get hit at all Oh, burst comes out from Tyler. We’ve reset to the midc screen, but 50 meter on the board for dig. 2KD finds nothing. PRC trying to get something set up here. Here comes the Bridget. Nice low. Yeah, got to eat the 50/50 5D to wall break. Basically a one-touch situation here. Dig plays the cards right. Yeah, it’s a very interesting way that Bridget has these new options with the controlling the role in terms of direction it goes. Now you have Oh wow, that was an insane dash of card slash got through that ro before you even play the mind game where you delay it or you don’t delay it. Ignoring that all together 2s not going to connect. Good throw tech from Dig deep. Great play and the yo-yo to punish the back dash. Very heads up and now we’re going to round three. Dig trying to get a two lead would be huge. Double back dash to start. Not want to interact at all. DP gets baited. Huge starter for Tyler. All right, burst comes out from DIG. Getting a yo-yo set up. Slowly trying to close the gap and find something with that 5P. BRC down. Doesn’t find very much. Spiral arrow does connect. We’re kind of counteritting back and forth here. 2D going to connect. Mo gets blocked, but there we go. Now the JS is going to hit now. Went for the blow rolls a lot there. Tyler trying to recognize it. Go for a throw or maybe a mash, but now think switching back to the high. already on top of the RPS, but Tyler still finding that hit. I believe enough of the dive should get the wall break and the kill if I’m not mistaken. Yes, you are not. And there we go. Tyler tying it up. One to one. Good adjustments from both players here. Dig has a lot of good hits, a lot of good mixups going, but honestly, Bridget’s damage seems to be, as what he’s been telling me, it’s lower than it’s ever been. So, that’s not good. Interesting. Yeah, probably from the wrist gauge change, right? Yeah, exactly. Cuz now you don’t take as much damage from low risk. You take a lot from high risk, but Brit doesn’t really crank high risk like that. She usually cranked a little bit and then got a good reward from that, but now it’s even less than it used to be. So, it was kind of spooky. So, even though D is doing so many interactions back to back, it’s just not enough. And R does not have the health, but Gio does have the damage. JD gets blocked. Yoyo Pa messed up, but yo didn’t come out in time, but the backup’s going to get caught by the 2s. The flex shield gets caught again. Nice pressure from DIG. Constant resets keeping it going. 5D connects. Big wall break. Double charge. 5D. No hard knockdown. Both players without 50 meter to work with, but that’s going to be changed real quick for Dig. Especially two kicks in a catch. Checking the run up. Dig not afraid to mash so far in this set. Shut up quite a lot. Understandably so. Tyler on the other hand has been going for franchise but not the big ones. Uh-oh. can free punish on that DP into a throw this time. Red RC, we’re extending this combo right into the corner. Big wall break coming your way. Big looking for the burst, but Tyler not giving it up just yet. Far’s going to connect. Sper connecting again catching these dash ups from Tyler really well. Scooter almost got checked by that 5k, but nice IA or ID into that. I’m bling all over my words right now. This is like blue walls up, blue RC, I back blah blah blah blah. Got to got the alphabet soup going on here. Literally, that’s exactly what it felt like just now. But uh-oh, two H into two HH going to catch Tyler moving at the last second there. That’s a sneaky little franch. People forget that Bridget does have a follow from two H. We’re not used to seeing it. You’re like, “Oh, two H. I can move now.” And you get banked by the follow. But now Bridget finally getting those damage enough to get a kill. And Dig is now 2-1. taking a little breather, understandably so. Yeah, always good to get that mental reset before you go right into the next round, especially when you’re winner side. Life is on the line. Got a yo-yo set up here. The lows connecting. Wall bounce. Oh, jump the throw, but too high to get for a punish. The curse of the super jump or whatever you want to call it. Does feel bad when you super jump a throw. You’re like, “Oh, wait. No, I didn’t mean to jump that high.” DRC to cover the far slash lift. Both players out of meter. Yeah, Tyler dashing up but just can’t seem to find the timing. D on top of everything. Huge full slash counter hit. Tyler staying firm. Still continue not to burst. Now you’re in a real iffy spot. Can’t burst at all here. I mean, just wouldn’t be the best option. JS backs up looking for a throw afterwards. not showing it when punishes the five is just a 2P. 2P and 5P usually not the best pokes, but in match tip they’re really fast and have just movement that’s just kind of unreactable. It’s pretty reliable to check. Yeah, great start for this round for Tyler. Already getting 50% of Dig’s health out going to connect or not blocked on these wake ups getting punished accordingly. But here we go. The reversal super going to go right through here. RC for extra damage. Oh, enough to kill rather. No, I No, not yet. Although that 2K does get it done. Tyler might just be able to tie this one up here. Both players going to have burst available to him this round. Here we go. 2s connecting again here. Dig has gotten the really good timings. It wouldn’t be aggressive. Wouldn’t be passion. Oh, big whiff throw. Has to burst to keep the corner pressure alive. Roger dive going to be three punish for Tyler who just stayed patient 2D into the 5 counter hit not go for wall break but instead just a hard knock down shimmy the throw but didn’t punish it just goes for the the DRC’s working out really well gets that hit and now one away from bringing it to game five but still has to make it happen bonus and just keep it simple 5k 214k going to frame trap and bring us to a game number five here hold Come on. Come on. Remember also this is winners semis by the way. This is top eight winners. That’s right. Really big reward for whoever gets on top of the set. Full slash DP going to connect. It goes in. Pull slash again. 5 H. Was the not checked. Makes some time. JD going to connect. Full combo with the 6H. Good damage as well. Actually not good damage. I forget the wrist change really does. Now I’m looking at it. That was low risk and it did a significantly less amount of damage than I thought it would. Mhm. Tyler does have a few meter on the board so will help after the wall break but Dig has a lot to work with here too. Man 100 meter with Gio grab PRC forward but gets thrown anyways. Cap ah sneaking it in. risky there as well. The yo-yo wasn’t going to come back to cover as well that time around. So, kind of gambled around on that a little bit. Here we go. Round number two. Burst gone from Dig already. That’s very big for Tyler to make that comeback. Now, the next hit’s going to really matter. And gets it with the far slash catching the back dash. Full combo, but drops the close slash. Not the end of the world here. Lot of corner pressure coming in. Tyler keeping DIG on lock. Dig’s got nowhere to go. tries to find a gap and does. Ooh, nice whip punish on the far slash with the 5k. The super will be enough to drag into the corner and bring this set to a game five last round. Tyler with the burst advantage. Dig with only 50. Far slash almost comes in the punish. Dig running up. Not wanting to be too passive, but gets thrown. Oh, the throw in looking for the shimmy. Doesn’t quite get it. Far slash almost gets punished a second time here. tap that’s blocked already. Jump the shimmy throw this time. Doesn’t go for the for the burst. Really aggressive play there. Big throw. 5P forcing up the burst. Gets the hit as well. Tyler just willing to sacrifice the GB more aggressive on defense. But now look at the situation you’re in. Going to reset for Loki. Yes, we are. JD low going to connect. Resets. JF’s going to connect. Charged up. 50 meter for the situation. Going to be BRC4. No, we’re not. We’re going to five each. Here comes the scooter. 50/50. Nothing. And the punish comes out from the yo-yo and dig winning 32 in an incredibly close set. What a way to start off the top eight for today. That was tough there. Really neck and neck set. Good decision. I mean, good patience by Dig to wait out those options. Good aggressiveness by Tyler to be on top of these whip punishes. missed a couple key ones in that last game that could have been gamechanging, but that’s just the way it is. We’re not going to be seeing the end of Talon just yet. We sent down on the loser side. Absolutely. So, not the end of the world. Still in it. Still in that fight, but DIG securing that top three spot in winner set and winners final. Yeah, very good positioning there. Very good play from DIG as well. This is a stack bracket. So, making it that far without dropping a set, kudos, you know. Absolutely. But now coming up next, we got Bean versus Nitro. Talk about one hell of a set that we get to see live here. Should be absolutely incredible indeed. The chip going up against Who’s to say? Who’s to say? I think I think Na has a wheel. Who you playing, bro? Yeah, we’re going to find out together. Hell yeah. That’s the energy you love to hear. Could be seeing a Chipmir. Could be seeing the Leo. Could be seeing the Lucy. That’s true. We need some Lucy, bro. Maybe even the Jacko. Who knows? We get the Lucy. Jacko could be coming out. I don’t know. Gio, who knows? That’s honestly the mix up we got going on. We already know Bean locking in the chip. I haven’t seen Bean play a single other character ever at any point. So, character loyalty is sometimes what you need. It’s just a game like Strive. Yeah. So many specific things that your characters can do that you can’t find quite literally anywhere else. True. I quite clearly have no character loyalty. I’m not wearing an alpha shirt. You don’t see my arm. Nope. Nope. Nuh-uh. Nuh-uh. Not me. Nope. I’m like semi- loyal. You know what I’m saying? I I’ve cheated on I was going to say you’re you’re like an open relationship with me. That’s true. This is true. It’s kind of messed up. She understands. I She’s such a sweet person. I think you’re breaking her heart. And I just think she’s too kind to tell you that you’re breaking her heart. Well, until that happens, Insane. Insane. Listen, it is what it is. The players getting ready to set up. [Laughter] Tio asks, “Who are you playing?” I just stared at him, bro. Like, don’t ruin the surprise, bro. All right, they’re locking in. We’re going to see right now. Who’s it going to be? Drum roll. Drum roll. Who’s it going to be? We’ve got old Leo. Leo. All right. The lion. Yeah. Freshly nerfed. No hard knockdown, by the way. It’s gone. No more. And misses the throw. Oh, no. Already washed. I can’t believe this. The lion cares not if he’s washed. My shoes were untied clearly. But he he tied his opponent’s shoes. They don’t hard knock down anymore. That’s true. That’s true. Insane hard knockdown. Speaking of Bean gets that with a super. Almost got back to Spirit Seed out of nice five whip punish 50 meter. Going to spend 50 of that for that combo. Wall breaking. Did he go for super? I feel like I would kill him. Maybe. It’s okay. BRC4 2K gets it done though. Oh, that was a command grab too. That’s just evil. Evil evil stuff. 2D whip punishing the 2k. Insane awareness of being there. Hard knock down, but nice far has to check the spacing. Here we go. Throw comes down looking for the DP, but Bean gets it out anyway. DP’s back. DP for DP. Back dishing away from this fight, but not enough to get away from the far slash. 5H going to wa did that JD bounce off the wall. Like what happened there? No, Leo JD does wall bounce, but it was at a weird spacing. It usually supposed to keep Leo like facing the corner instead of going into the corner. But mess with the combo. I mean this is what happens when you play 16 characters you know true get a little rusty with one or two of them white free punish for mean here that is minus enough on block 2d overhead for the pc checks for DP not showing it just yet still holding back the flash kick check the clone and the throw to get the round we’re going to round three here does have a massive burst advantage though again that one crazy now. I I mentioned it before, but now I’m seeing it in action. It’s kind of ridiculous as a poke now. There we go with the hard knockdown with the reverse. Not reverse super, but the record super instead. Hard knock down. 50 burst on the side of Nitro. Oh, 5D connects, but there’s not much of a followup there. Wall bounce. Nothing there either, but Bean does have 50 meter to work with. Here comes the pressure. Oh, here comes the wall combo. Big wall break. Not enough to kill. Massive 2D getting the back turn, but no, no combo after. That’s a huge opportunity wasted. But you are Leo back. You can still play neutral like that. I mean, I get it. If you hit a shark Oh, the deflection. Got the parry up. Oh, the alpha blade. Throws flash. Back turn. Ash backing up. There goes the back turn. P. Looking for the burst. Be not getting it just yet. JS’s burst save. Even more burst out. Oh, the Eisen. No, Eisen. The DP. Oh my god, you’re the VA of Leo. I wish. Look me, guys. There goes the throw. Clone set up. 2K 2D. Keeping it simple. Somehow back dashed away from that 5k. That was insane. Chip is a little broken. Oh, the guard point. Now we’re going right to the corner. Oh, nice DP catching out the overhead. Oh, the alpha blade. Wow, I got hit. I got hit there. Not the first victim of that setup. Really staggered pressure. Not bra just keeping it safe. Sitting still looking for something from Nitro. Not giving him anything just yet. Overhead blocked, but not the low. The low does get through. Try to TD that. There we go. Get in the flash, baby. But again, missing these hits that matter quite a lot. Getting the hits, but not the OP afterwards. It’d be going to take advantage. Taking another round here. Another good round start, but no follow up again. 2K try to connect it into the turret, but not enough. Oh, there we go. Does combo counter it. Okay, that second one. Good block so far. The low gets in, but no real follow up there. Good blocks from Nitro, but a big throw going to put Nitro back in the driver’s seat and the overhead right into the super. More than enough to kill there. That super does so much, especially with low scaling. Here we go. Round number three. Bean trying to even out the score down on burst. Both pairs without burst just yet, but it’s going to be N getting that first right here, right now. Jumps out of the corner, finds that spot, but somehow finds his way back in. Bean really good spacing here. There goes the H boom, but not enough to get past that jump. Rea confirming into the super. Hard knock down. Tough spot for Nitro now. Little bit. Hard knock down. Bean is staying in the driver’s seat, but the DP is going to punish the overhead attempt. Sets up tight rope. 100 meter to work with. And here we go with that red RC. We are extending this combo right into the wall for the wall. Seruga. We’re going to get the kill and Bean is going to tie this one up one one to one. Now he’s going to have the wall run combos. I don’t know. Does he know? Does he know? Doesn’t need them. That’s true. I mean, they’ve been around a long time, but this is certainly a brawl here. We are fighting for every inch for the burst. Oh no, but dropped a couple again. really clean neutral on the offensive or just the convergence almost cost in the round but still that that super does a lot. Perfect round for Nitro. Has a burst advantage as well. That beta burst was so huge for Momento. 2K to check with the 2D from B to answer. Burst out from Nitro. Catches the alpha blade but not with the combo though. The 2K not enough. Bonsai gets Oh my god, what an IB. But this is the the moonwalk combo. Not enough RC from Bean to S2H. Alpha Blade going to go for the wall break as well. 6 for the break, but Nitro has a really good meter advantage. BRC, this is back pressure. Yep. Overhead. It’s blocked. Oh, what a back dash from Nitro. Stuck in the corner. Bean’s got nowhere to go. And getting hit by that DP is disastrous. Wow. Oh, man. I commend the patience by Bean to not burst or do anything with a 100 meter and burst. But Nitro just going to go for the throw to steal it out. Nitro up 2-1 now. These are the two FNL champions going against each other, I believe. Yes, I do believe you’re right. Be won the first one. Nitro won the second. Another Bian winner semis already. 2K2 connecting with the tight rope. Oh no, the mis DP going to force out a burst. Oh man, the alpha blade missed. That’s not good. DP punishes the overhead though, but a DP in return from Nitro and then the cross up. Wow, the clash with the back turn P with the 5H. Insane, but good. Bar has to knock Nitro out of the air. Quick super to get the hard knockdown, but you’re actually in a pretty bad spot. Nitro has 100 to work with back is online. YC is online. There we go. He’s YC. 2K 2D RC for the confirmed. Should be a kill, I think. Barely. Yes. Yes. Nice. Nitro one round away from sealing the deal. Moving on to win his final some face dig but bean not going to be easy to take off the throne just yet. Nice whip punish on the 2s. J is going to counter and still get the combo command grab for the command grab but didn’t find it. The low connects being extending the combo right to the super and this is a great spot to be in now. Nitro does have burst on the table but Bean gets theirs back as well. The patient starting to play that box out style. Backing up. Running back in. Back up. Run back in. There you go. Gets the throw. 2D clone. Here we go. Backs up again. Based on the 2D. Huge play there. That was so smart by Bean. All over. Perfect round to bring us to the last game. Last run again. Both sides of W. Oh, no. I lied. Excuse me. It’s 2-1. It just feels so tough. You know what I’m saying? It just feels so feels like it’s game. I mean, every round’s been so close here. And with this corner pressure. Oh my god. That overhead did not connect, but it’s fine. There wasn’t a punish on it. Although now Nitro the one keeping that combo going with a baited burst. That 2s is indeed burst safe. It doesn’t look like it, but I swear it is. Hard knock down. Really good spot by P. Got cross subs. He got everything. Goes for JD instead. Wa. Insane option. Isa goes to the back overhead. Misses it, but lands the throw anyway. A whole lot on the floor, but Nitro still picked it up. Ate it off the floor. I get it. 3-1 victory. moves on to winners finals being going to be sent down to losers quarters. Indeed, a fantastic set once again. Uh, and I’m sure we’re going to be seeing Bean doing some serious work with the chip on the loser side. U, but that is where we’re going to move here in just a second cuz it looks like we got LK going up against Juno Must Die here in just a moment. It’s going to be a good one. Yes, it is. probably going to be seeing some Bikin and ABBA on stage which should be very fun indeed. Absolutely. And and uh LK does play ABBA. Has an ABA played it for a while on launch. Has the emergency secondary ABBA as well. Probably not going to be seeing it. He’s only really busted out in the mirror. Yeah, if it’s ever come out, it’s been through the mirror. So, probably not going to see it here. But with that character knowledge, especially with both characters, you know, both characters on the screen at once, got that little knowledge advantage. But Juno is a force to be reckon with on this character. setups I’ve only seen Juno do has wins I’ve only seen Juno pull off. You know what I’m saying? Kind of a beast. Absolutely. Yeah. When you think of some of the great ABBAs, Juno was certainly one that immediately comes to mind with some crazy things. Here we go. This is losers round three. Is it losers? Losers eights. Loser eight. Okay. Making sure cuz technically it’s not quarters yet. Next round is losers quarters even though we are in top eight. Big sense. Always silly how those things work indeed. While we’re taking this break challenge, everyone coming out of course 40 entrance. Huge turn. I love the show out everyone has for this FNL. Started off as such a success and hasn’t slowed down since. Absolutely. Whether you’re here at OSNYC or watching live on Twitch, thank you so much for supporting this tourney series. We’ll have some 2x KO for you at the next FNL, which is incredibly exciting indeed. But in the present, we got some great Guilty Gear Strive coming at you because it is indeed Bikin versus ABBA in our losers round three or losers top eight. Top eight has begun. Escobar to set the tone. Playing the plus on block to Tommy there with the second hit. Got the JS but nothing after. No dice. Juno free to 5 H as she pleases. Gets it. And there goes the throw. Now the ABA pressure begins. JH going to go over the 5P but low on Jak has to do something right here right now. RC fast RC to get some of that back but you lose the pressure as a result. Nice slide to get to the H Kabari but it’s going to be didn’t react to the shock wave not getting hit. So you missed the first bait opportunity, but it’s okay. Juno low on burst anyway or low on je. They’re going to be low here. It’s a free as Kabari hit block on that one as well. But Juno getting aggressive there. Gets the rea 5H counter. Not enough to combo into that far slash too far away. Escobari setting up again here. Gets away from the 5H. 2K 6K full combo here. Jail break out for Junas die. Has to hold this mix up. No other choice. overhead. Oh, the TKO Zansen. These wall bounce combos are so sick to see. Three JDs there. Gets it done. She may be a samurai, but dear lord, she’s got that cannon. One iron, cornhide, one arm samurai. Still wall bounces the oldfashioned way. That’s right. Showing her second amendment right. Nice parry there. No jealous rage to work with for Juno, but does have burst on the table. Nice throw from Lord Knight getting the combo extended with the bread and butter BRC. We’re going to keep going with the wild assault and a burst comes out from Juno. Really a one-touch situation here. Nice. All right, they’re in the jealous rage, but that parry is going to get it done. And Lord Knight starting off with a bang. LeBron James caught safe jumping on bikin. How will this affect his legacy? Wow, interesting round start, but Juno on top it with that 6P. Here we go. Tommy again, but nice IBF this time to get some spacing. Oh, good burst to make sure that Juno didn’t get that gel stri back, but Juno Esaring under with the slide, but gets carried afterwards. Good awareness to get 2d but Juno finds that hit and now he got half that gel built. Here we go. Two H blocks. Can you get a guess? Triple guard crush. So, plus unblock here, but the over going to connect as well. Close the hit. Punishing the jump. Air grab. I don’t think it’s enough though. It’s not. No, but you do have a lot of jealous rage work for the rest of the round here. Oh, the 2K gets it done. Nice leggy. Send out the platform boot. Jeez. Early cross up. Nice. Wild to assault keeping this combo going. We’re going to the wall. He’s superhead up to work with the wall breaks. You’re going to take the damage instead. Half the health gone from Lord Knight, but still has full burst to work with. Spacing out that five mage. Not going to deal with the RPS on that wake up opportunity. Punishing the Yzan with 2K burst out from Lord Knight running in air block. They’re not going to be super minus on block. Jump out but gets punished by the 2K again here. Throw baiting with the JD but gets smashed out. So got a trade as Habard comes out. Slides through but no punish. Cross up. Yansen really good slide but still not plus enough to punish. So LK still going to get that 5P off. 5P again. Juno really playing patiently and finds the opportunity taking game number two. It’s a tie one set. These awkward situations, these panic buttons, these Escobari tether options that Elk is representing. Finding certain hits, but the spacing I’m not sure. Maybe timing the back dash kind of dropping a lot of com as a result. M too low to the ground for some of these hits the JS’s for example he’s go there usually 2k believe connects but missed it twice. Don’t call me I don’t play bon far slash two h burst out from JD to punish and send bikin back full screen. All right asari set up couldn’t find anything off the table there but now here we go stuck in the blender. Nice parry. Oh my god, the Donsai. Here we go. The classic bike 50/50. 2K going to connect. RC to check for burst. J not going to give it up though. Double 6H. Still have a chunk of damage, but no burst. No meter. J has a resource advantage. Goes for parry. Straight into the key. Super very close on block here, but goes for 6P. I think messed up was supposed to be a fuzzy setup with the JP. Big drop there by Juno. And are going to take full advantage now up around Oh my god, that Escobari catching right before Juno can get a hit in six. The antiers now forcing the offense. Oh, missed the throw on the parry. Insane. But gets there we go. Gets to the Escobari. Good reaction with that slide. Going to get a full combo as well. Hard knock down Jay. He’s applied. There we go. Bing out the parry this time. Full combo should be enough to kill. It certainly is. Oh, we get one of the coolest animations in the game. A so sick. Well played by Juno there. He’s going to slide a lot in this match up. It’s working out so far. LK is getting checking it away. That’s mattered too much, but Juno is down on that burst though. So, next hit will matter quite a lot, but gets that hit before LK does. 5H uninstalls. They get piece of piece of space. Esar get hit though. Big starter for LK now. going to reset with the Kabari. Tether off, but the mixups are still alive. Cross upon going to connect more cross up. Yo, a good block though. H Kabari Bara’s going to connect. Juno trying to check the follow up, but LK one step ahead. Here comes Atami. 50/50 time. Overhead blocked. Double overhead block. Another overhead. Nope. Going to come out. Oh, it’s dead. There’s the Escobari. And that’s a going to wall break, but still not enough to kill. Burst on the board for Juno. Goes for the install. finds a counter hit in the air and oh the bait first. That was nuts. Hard knock down. Very good spot for Juno. Bite doesn’t have the demeanor. Has the parry. He has a versus super. Are we going to use any of it though? Back to PC to the air throw. What an air throw. Wa. What a play. Crazy. What? I can’t even I have no words to explain how that even happened. The fact that CC, they covered a lot of options. Had more time to react to the overhead and air throw it. That’s so funny. I saw two the other day about air throwing the overhead on Aba. I thought I’d never see it. I I saw it today. And there it is. Nice shot to force out. No burst. Looking for it. Here we go. Juno finally getting up, but low on health. LK in a very good spot despite the situation. BRC actually outlasted the parry. The slowdown changed the properties on it, but the going to get punished. went for the second hit now. I think it’s a kill here. No wall stick. Oh no, not yet. Good block. Oh, block too. Okay, here we go. JS connected, but Juno keeping the pressure going. Not by much, but there’s the Escobari uninstalls on the overhead from the 6H. Enough for LK to get it done. And now LK is just about to take it here. 3-1 unless Juno can stop the bleeding. Close. Okay. Playing as lame as possible, which is what you have to do in this matchup. It’s fair, but there we go. Good bait. Donsai. One more hit for the wall stick. Uninstall. Reinstall. Here we go. Key super hard knockdown. Nope. 50 burst. Huge damage. What are they going to do? Go straight for the me anyway. Far side going to check that 2D. Yo, misses everything but still gets the throw. Uninstall scenario. Forced to hold the 50/50. Over going to connect on Yansen. charge does for the conversion. Double charge does RC looking for the burst. Juno not giving it up quite yet. Does it on the 6H has 100 meter to work with. Slowly trying to close the cap. Patience. What you going to do? What you going to do? J going to connect. Counter it. 2K. Oh, not overhead. It’s the mid key. Grab running all the way up. Not afraid. JH blue wall assault. Escobari on blue assault again. Overhead on. And that’s enough. LK moves on and eliminates Juno in a tense set. Very tense 3-1. An incredible set by these two, but LK will be moving on. Jeez Oats, what a set. Wow. And we are just starting our top eight. We got all kinds of crazy sets. So much more to go. We still got another round of losers eights before we can get into the top six. I know. Insane stuff coming your way. And it’s going to be New Breaker finally coming up to stream. Actually, this time for real. For real. Well, now you just jinxed it. Well, I hope not. That would suck. But yeah, Newreer going up against Classified. It’ll be exciting actually getting to see newer going up on stage. And classified, someone we saw earlier, a Giovana whose name you’ll never forget. Absolutely not. has been on a tear especially this year. 2025 has been the year of classified top eight Adam or top eight I believe was CEO I think so yeah insane stuff I remember classified when he was a weed little child and now farm and now he’s made to the big city amazing hydrate folks drink water definitely stay hydrated that’s right shout out water my favorite sponsor What do you think about it? Uhoh. No, not again. I won’t speak anything into existence, but I hope you guys are having a great night here at OSNYC. We have some incredible Strive yet to be played. We’ve already seen a lot of great sets, and there are certainly more as we keep going through our top eight. Lot of great stuff here at Friday Night Live. Live on Jay Saf’s channel. We’re vibing. Can’t believe he’s in the flesh. He’s right there. That’s me. The dude who beat you in Mario Kart. He’s right there. Direct all your hatred at this guy. Honestly, I was playing Mario Kart. I was getting I was getting cooked. I showed the clip. It was bad. Yeah. Yeah. I couldn’t even control that. No, that was not your fault. That was not your fault. Sometimes that’s just how Mario Kart is. Sometimes it does. the game just says, “You know what? I’m tired of you winning today. You’re going to lose. There’s nothing you do about it.” At the end of the day, now this is a this is a reference for only those this is a reference for some people, but there’s a poker professional. His name’s Phil Helmu and he’s a very fascinating individual to watch because he rages a lot at poker. And I guess he forgets that the game sometimes was just a bit of luck. And Mario Kart is kind of the same way. You know, at the end of the day, sometimes you just get Mario Karted. You know, you get double blue shelled at the finish line. It feels bad. I I crack. I can’t control it. You know, it is what it is. Such is life. Listen, cuz the thing is poker is bad luck. Plus, there’s also stakes. There’s money on the line. Well, hey, I play like my life’s on the line. Like, if I lose my set, I’m going to die. And I do that in Guilty Gear all the time. It’s how I lock in, you know? I’m never seeing my family again if I lose. But we get classified going up against Noob Recker 9,000. Um the classified chip. Oh, you didn’t know? Yeah. So, um classified does have a chip. It’s real. Uh apparently. So, cuz we’re seeing it now. I’ve seen it before and we’re seeing it now again. All right. They want do the button check. Oh, that was a button check. Okay. Okay. Okay. But watch him. Watch him still blocking [ __ ] No, I heard Gio. I heard Gio. Yeah, we we were right. You You were right. I was right. Okay. Sick. Beauty indeed. Top eight. Top eight. It’s so sick having this setup, having these stages, chilling, watching everybody get together, have fun, talk about the game. Yes, indeed. And the hype competition is nowhere near done as we are into the set for real. For real. Oh god. On god. We get to see a little bit of Giovana action. Good space for newer. Got away from the mash. Burst already gone from classify. That’s really tough to get rid of as against Jackal too. Can really lock you down in so many ways. Good spacing again. Just count out just backing up just a little bit. I don’t know if you’re seeing the minion walks back a tiny bit and says now now you got the shield command minion. It’s interesting seeing how Jacko the ball to where instead of using the like super that you think would be used for offense where you get the minions and so the gauge builds up fast offense with the sword. Now a lot of Jackos use the shield command on super instead. You see he just sticks around. He stays on the screen. You get to go for like super big gaps on your strings because as long as the minion starts attacking, they cannot do anything about it’s going to hit. Double tap does block. Can we get a third? J 2D comes out. There we go. Now classif adapted to that little backup by running up to these 2Ks instead. Fuzzy blocked entirely by Newre, but the throw going to come out before that 6P does. Tap does whiffs. Oh no, but the run up throw does get it done. Classified drawing first blood. Who’s going to draw the second bar/5 going to hit there? But it’s actually kind of awkward to see when blue when stagger moves hit because they took away that little button. Yeah, it’s visual indicator. You have to actually look at the player like kind of like hold their face a little bit. It’s hard to see. I struggle getting that first burst, too. But nice versus super going to get away from that spell arrow type jump. Oh, blocks the gold burst. Setting in minions. Get him set up. Oh, but here we go. Cloud fight going right into the super to wall break. Huge damage there. Jacko’s not the healthiest girl, unfortunately. Shimmy, but not falling for it. Trying to use the minions to just control as much space as possible. get away from that geomet like white on rice. Enhance for the car into the super is enough to kill it. It is not dragon staying alive for one more interaction. New breaker has 50 meter and burst to work with us. The 50 back steps up a minion holding all of it. There goes the wild. Here we go. Has a sandwich set up. 5D gets blocked but keeping it going here. Classified stuck in the corner. Finds a 2K 2D. Hold on. Looks like it’s spooky. Plus 30 goes the throw. Got it. Snuck out that round despite being in a pixel of health. No burst, but at least he survived for another round. Goes for the 2D cross backing up. Tries to get that enhanced foot kick with Oh, nice phase to get away from the spider. 2K2D forces out the burst. There we go. There’s the wood punish. Finally gets it. Full combo with the air route. Woo! Nest double enhance the beater, but no hard knockdown just yet. Out of 50% of your health already gone. Now you’re stuck in the corner with classified keeping you locked down. Except New Recker found the way out. Has the minion set up. They’re keeping it going here. Oh, again. Everyone’s missing their back. That spirit sees today. There we go. Here comes the super for the wall break. Not shouldn’t do that much. It’s hard to tell if the super did. Oh, didn’t even kill him. Hard knock down, but going to check that. That’s not a safe jump. Yep. RV brought assault to another and the 2D gets it done. The 2D Newreers. Wow. Snuck that one out. Got to take a deep breath after that. That was way too close for comfort. Classified Stone Cold with the face. Not much phased at all. He’s been here before. He’s been there more than once. He understands the ways. Shield command to check a mash, but they’re going to jump out. Get those minions gone. But 6 connects stopping the spiral arrow. But here we go. Nice little punch on the 2D again. Just out spacing it a little better now. Slowly working it back into the set. Half health gone for Newer but no hard knock down for the neutral. Here come 2D for away goes for the throw. Sets it up again. Same side going to connect. Not connect rather. The block but the close after Will. Same side of the JS. All these fours coming out of nowhere. 6 just flat from a mile away into the super. Shouldn’t kill, but we are see this. We can still comes out. Bit of a hero burst there from class and it doesn’t pay off as the plus unblock tap does. Sending the minion into that makes newer too close to punish there. There goes the shield command. Minions coming out. That’s why gets a hit but not enough to compliment anything special. Oh, there goes the hard. Yeah. And keeping the combo going in the corner, interesting option there. Try to punch on mash with that, but a little too slow on that to work. There goes the forward again. Cross up low to get blocked. Good job. Backs up. Get away from the dash. 2K with the jump back this time. Instead of running back, use the jump back instead. Here comes the super at least on Driver. Going to do a little bit of damage this time around. Not too much, but a hard knock down. No resources for Cloud Workers other than the flex shield. So has to be very patient here as Jacko just sets up a ton of offense. Cap dust gets blocked with the flex shield to end the landing recovery. Heads up play, but it wasn’t enough to get out of it. So Newreer is now up 20. The Jacko and her boys proving to be quite powerful here as classified needs to turn this around. Oh, nice air punish there, but a burst is going to force Newbreer into the corner. Jumping out. There’s a 2D doing a great job keeping classified locked down with the minions. Finding a grab ERC allowing the minion to set up. Nice. Yeah, good use of the shield command. Oo, a big counter hit with a 2D driver. This should be good. Boom. No, no, it doesn’t hit the wall. 2D will get the job done. New with a perfect is one around the way from moving on and sending classified out of the bracket. This is loser side, so you cannot afford to drop a set here, but good start for classified here. Going to go straight for the wall break. Charge dust. Good chunk of damage. No hard knock the positive bonus going to make up for that. Backs up. Far slash looking for the 2D. Doesn’t quit. Punish it. Got caught at the frames instead. Here comes the throw. Same side going to connect this time. It’s a losing driver again. Hard knock down the inside of Newreer. Boom. Nice. No real safe jump last time. Just going to run for the 2K 2D instead. Oh, the class with a 100 meter is a really good spot to be in for Giovana. Has a lot of defensive damage to work with those 100 meter buffs. The She-Hulk gets activated. All right, throwing out the super. Goldber heads up play because we knew that Kas was going to go for the RC afterwards. He denied it altogether, but Flashlight still sneaks in that dive kick. Super. No hard knockdown though on the wall break. He throw no meter to work with. Has to keep it nice and simple. The 2K going to connect twice there. New breaker not blocking it. Five. One more round to stay alive, but one more round will also set them out of here. Wild ass. Steerreer constant aggression with these minions. Slowly sandwiching by back in the third. Pull slash connects. Force the burst out. All right, Newrecker finding a way in those minions to get classified. Lock down. Oh, this is going to be a big wall break. Using the super getting a lot of damage at the 50 meter enhanced extra 5% I believe. No resources just yet, but it’s actually Newre with a lot there. 50 burst and almost 100 meter to work with. Gets the 2K2D on the counter. Nice combo here. Ellesian driver 50 meter for the Oi afterwards as well. Really strong spot for Newreer, but Cloudine also has almost 100 meter. A lot of options are on the table. Who’s going to fight first? The double overhead is enough to kill. New recorder taking it 30. What a game between these two. Wow, [Music] the throw. OTG did that much damage. Jacko is a little crazy when she can get going. The double overhead set up with the ID in with the J 236 K the sager kick kind of conditioned classified into thinking that okay I checked the JH with the super once surely we’re not going to do a fake safe jump again. Said I don’t care I’m going to do it again. Does it again and it pays off. Yeah. Refusing to be conditioned is sometimes the correct thing. Sometimes you just got to play that 5D chess and start winning on the seventh layer. It’s just the nature of Strive. That is the nature of Strive. So many ways to condition your opponent. Set up these crazy sets. You haven’t busted out. You didn’t bust out the overhead once the entire sneaky JP and then the throw afterwards. Dropped the combo on purpose. Those plays added up and it got Newberger to move on to lose his quarters. Indeed. Top six has been confirmed now because now we have LK Beam. On losers quarters is coming up next. On the other side of losers, we have Newreer and I believe it was Lord Knight. No, Lord Knight is up here right now. I was going to say Lord Knight’s right there. Who did No, Juno lost to Lord Knight. Notice that guys. Okay, as we figure that out, we got some hats to check now. Obviously, shout out to Iron Grid. We’ll be back in just a moment as we set this next set for you guys. All righty, folks. We are back and we are ready cuz we got Lord Knight and Bean about to face off to see who moves on and who goes home. Dip bikini. Ninja versus Samurai. Who’s got more sauce? audio’s delayed again. Oh, no. Okay. No, it’s okay. It happened earlier before, so I’m not even It happened earlier. Oh, really? Oh, so now it’s a whole new problem. Okay, more technical difficulties, guys. The unblockable install. What are you going to do? Known as the audio dynos now. Roll back frames IRL. What can you do? Me and my opponent kicks the router at the local never see my mixups. Got to hit him with the tw. Okay. Hopefully this gets sorted out soon. I’m sure it will. Sometimes just takes a second. These things happen. We did it once. We can do it again. That’s right. If you’re in chat watching at home, go out and support your locals. Please find locals. Go out and support the scene. That’s really where the FGC is at. Can’t beat a locals. Too fun not to be here watching all these great sets. Whether it’s a small venue in a closet or an amazing venue like OSMYC, you can never beat a local. Never, never, never, never. They’re sad. You’re lonely and offline like, man, I’m not having fun with this game. Put up Star G. Put up locals near me. There’s something. Oh, absolutely. Maybe if they could drive, maybe they could trip. I promise you, if there’s people there, it’s worth it. Absolutely. Maybe you can get out once a month, every so often. Just get that into your schedule and it it it pays off. I’m telling you, it pays off. There are people here. Come from so far just for FNL from Jersey. From PA. Yeah, I was going to say classified the PA rep. PA rep. I think. Yeah. LK’s deep jersey. Mhm. Mhm. All the place. Upstate New York, Connecticut. Got all the reps here coming out just for this one. Once a month bracket always. Checking the audio one more time, I believe. Making sure it’s on safe. I can’t believe Get Over Nightmare isn’t on like any music platform. It’s such a shame. It’s not. That’s kind of random. I know. I guess it’s not that one and um the the Dizzy Sin theme that they added to this game. There’s a Dizzy Versus Sin theme, I believe. So, yeah. I know Tears is in the title, but I can’t remember the name of it, but it’s also not on streaming platforms. Why does Sin have so many specific songs? Cuz he’s cool. They’re really trying to make him the main character. What other specific songs does Sin have? Get Over Nightmares is Sin versus Kai. No, it’s Kai versus Soul. Sen Kai. What? Yes. I I swear it’s Sen Kai. I swear it’s Yep. Yep. It’s Sai. It’s Sai. Yeah, man. I can’t be right today. So, they’re they’re lukeifying Sin. They’re turning Luke They’re sin into Luke from streets. They just take over. Like, this is our main character now. And everyone’s like, “Um, no.” Man, we saw Dual Rulers. Okay, I did see it. It was It was on something. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. It’s one of those shows that you can’t look at with that much of a critical eye. You just got to sit there and just enjoy what’s happening on your screen. No, sometimes I just need a a popcorn movie, you know? Yeah. Just enjoy the Ram slideshow. Yeah, that was I was literally crying, laughing at that scene. It was so good. So good. Look, at the end of the day, sometimes elf gets just blown up in the Bronx. Just got absolutely nuked. She didn’t even do anything. was like, “I’m chilling, guys.” She was just hanging out, hanging out. I mean, no, she’s like collecting intel or something and they like they hide. It was a trap. She’s like, “No, I got it. I’ll do it anyway.” It’s like satellite laser beam. It’s like, “Oh my god, I’m tougher than I look, guys. I’m okay.” It’s like, “What? H how are you not dead?” That was a gear killing laser beam and you’re like, “Part gear.” Like, “How are you not dead?” Are are the Valentine’s parties? They’re kind of They’re related to Justice, which is a gear. Yeah, I guess. Kind of. Don’t think about it too much. Honestly, I think Gears of Gear lore is so convoluted. It’s like that’s why it’s fun. It is why it’s fun. It’s one of those stories where it’s like there’s so much going on. It’s like whatever. It’s uh Soul pulls out pulls Soul pulls out pulls out a musket out of nowhere. No one asked any questions. No. Like Yeah. He just has that. He just got it. I mean, it’s like it’s another reason why I love Doom cuz like the Doom particularly the Doom Eternal lore pages are so insane. It’s crazy. Really? I’ve read I’ve read all the codeex pages cuz they they give you all the lore on everything in there. You just have to collect the pages. It’s actually insane. I don’t know how they wrote that. Somebody was on some substance we’ve never even heard of just writing the craziest thing you’ve ever read. It was awesome. It was so cool. That’s wild. I mean, the whole origin is like they they killed they killed Doom Guy’s bunny. That’s why he’s upset. Bunny. That the Yeah, the demons from hell killed his bunny. What the what the John Wick? Has anyone seen My Dog story, man? Doom came out first. Oh, just saying. This is true. What do you think about it? This is true. John Wick is actually Doom Guy. Fun fact. True. Doom guy. if he only had one line instead of zero, which just Yeah, he does have that. I was so mad I saw um Ballerina, which is the uh like the John Wick movie that’s it takes place in the same universe or whatever with uh Anna Armmes as the lead, which is awesome. It’s a great movie. Highly recommend. And they show it in the marketing. Ke Reese is in the movie as John Wick. Okay. He never says yeah once. I was like he never says it. He actually has lines. Actual voice lines. Oh yeah, he’s actually got voice lines. I didn’t know that. I thought, but he doesn’t say yeah. And I’m like, he he never gets a yeah. No. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. He gets full. All these words, but not one. Yeah. That’s right. In a world full of world full of dialogue. Be a Yeah. Got to be a Yeah. That’s right. When the plug has options. What do you think about it? Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. We’re going to go Chipotle one day and just be like, I’m the drink. Yeah. Like, yeah. What’s the name on the order? The drink. You want the bowl or tortilla? Yeah. White rice or brown rice? Yeah. Yeah. Black or pinto? Yeah. Choice of meat? Yeah. Queso? Yeah. Mom, eat them hot. Yeah. Want chips with that? Yeah. You get it. You get it. That’s right. And all of a sudden, my bowl is two stories high. Did you enjoy your burrito? Yeah. Yeah. I did get three free Chipotle entre from EVO. Three. Three. Yeah. I won one from my pool and I got two from when they like randomly dropped codes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Got two. I got one of the free ones. I was happy with it. I was I was stacked up. It was a good meal. Actually, I think it was before one of the locals that I went to Chipotle and got some. It was good stuff. Okay. Nice. Nice. I still kept I kept my car this time around. I usually don’t. I got three times. I was like, “Yeah, whatever.” I was like, “You know what? I’m keeping this one.” Yeah. Might as well. Uh it’s so funny is the the employees most of them don’t know what that is. So you give them the card they’re like a gift card. They try to swipe it doesn’t work. Like you got to scan it, dude. They’re like what? What? Try to go from like 20 to zero. Like what is this thing? They start looking at it like free entree. I’m like you went to the code. You got it in there. I’m just that guy. What is it? Up up up down down left right start. Basically it’s up down left right left right ba? Ah, okay. There we go. That is the I’m not an old head, unfortunately. Sorry, y’all. Aren’t you older than me? How old are you? 22. I’m younger than you. I’m 21. What? Yeah. Unbelievable. Yes. You’re old. I’m a I’m fossilized, dude. That’s right. I’m I’m fading away to They’re going to find you in Amber. It’s going to be like Jurassic Park, you know? They’re going to bring Jab back and they’re then they’re going to come out of the jeep and they’re going to be like, “Oh my god, they do move in hers. Don’t free him.” If they free him, they’ll find more mag. Oh no. The last thing we need more tech. They hear the grounding run. You hear the ground rumble. Doom. You hear the distance. No, he’s getting the flare. Got to love it. Souls theme rocks in this game. It is good. It’s It’s a once in a while theme for me. Yeah, it is. Every once in a while I hear come like Yeah. If I hear this too much, if I hear this too much, it’s like this is a little too much. But every so often it’s like Yeah, that’s most Strive theme. I feel like you got to be in the mood. You know what I’m saying? I’m not walking to work. Yeah. Playing find your one way. It’s just not happening. I’m too tired. I’m mad. I think about how many customers I have to deal with. Yeah. Find ways to make me like throw stuff at them. Yeah. I’m a fast near them out of the store. Meanwhile, attempt it myself has me hitting one of these, you know. It does give you that. It does. Yeah. It’s got it’s got a groovy. It does have the groove to it. It’s got a unique I like the riffs. Yeah. Guitar riffs on certain songs are just like they tickle my ear a lot. I love the part in um uh Kai’s theme. I don’t know why I’m not remembering the name of it right now. Roar the Spark. Yeah. Uh where it’s I don’t want to call it like dueling guitars, but they have the two electric guitars going back and forth with solos in the middle of the song. I love that so much. It’s so cool. Just good stuff. The guitars, they’re crazy. Stri music in general is just good. They cook. Even like the worst drive songs are just good metal songs, which is great. Yeah. They’re just solid metal songs. Like metal, you know, like every single guilt seeker song ever. Yeah. And then I get online, there’s the occasional playing Birthday Train. I’m just like at Red I am not. Noanger. It’s too relaxing song to be playing fighting against too. It’s like it’s not I don’t mind it as a song by Excel. I’m in rank. I’m trying to lock in get my DR up. I hear birthday. I’m like what is No. Yeah, I know. That’s why I just turn off start playing my own music. Just like all right, my own music. Ride of the Valkyries. My music was just all just more stri except I picked them out this time. That’s true. And I Bikin theme except you skip the first minute. Yeah, Bikin theme is on my list. It’s one of my favorite songs in the game and it just the I mean the intro is great when you listen to it on its own, but for the game to play the game with it. It’s like you don’t get to the good part. You don’t get to the sick parts like never get to it. No, but it does seem like we’re about to get to this match as Lord Knight and Bean are ready to fight one another. We’re back. Audio is synced up. The counter hits are counterhitting. The five ages are five agent. That’s four five already. Reckons in the super being starting off strong as he usually does. Hard knockdown, but you’re finding bike. It’s not the safest option. There we go. Guard cancel to get out of that clone situation. backing up, being just playing it patient, keeping that spacing. Barton’s going to connect RC. No burst coming out from LK, but drops the combo to force the RC again. Not enough to kill and one touch will do it here. And found it with the 5k boot taking the first round. That’s actually crazy low. with a 16 to check the far slash. Good knowledge on the RPS afterwards. Backing up. There we go. Parry on the two kicks. You need to get the guard cancel. Good timing by OK. You have to kind of manually time. If there’s a gap in strength, then it’s small. If you do it too early, you still get the parry, but you get the guard cancel. So, timing right to get the actual parry is really good. Oh my god. Oh my god. That y set up. Bean looks like the one taking advantage of it right now with 100 meter on the board, too. Yikes. The one backing up. Catches the jump out. Jing with the 6P. We have enough to kill. Okay. Ty combo Zarroga. Four to kill. Boom. Nice. Good start for Bean. Bean taking game one. D. Two more to move on and send OK out of the bracket. But LK not going to be an easy opponent as we get that whip punish on the five. stage the walk back very smooth playing very patient doesn’t want to run into either buttons has that scary far slash ship has those whip punish buttons oh my god nice use of the ozans connecting there we go massive combo right into the corner very risky BP there it’s going to pay off for who gets another of life. Misses the cross up conversion. Didn’t get the 2S. That would have launched into a full combo. Now Lok going to sneak out that barn slash. Now we got a round two with LK firmly in the lead. Spends the blue wall for the guaranteed combo to the hard knockdown. Reflect to get away from the JH. Now Bean has the corner, but okay going to press 2D to get out. Back dash from Bean. Both players back to the neutral now. JS working twice there. But no dice afterwards. So now Bean getting aggressive. Gets the throw. Command grab. Jumped. Almost got the air throw, but Glor going to get the throw instead on the ground. Looking for the wall break and finds it. Still has 50 meter to work with though. Gets stuck in the guard crush. Wow. Oh, the Y RC gets baited and LK is going to tie this one up. RC just in time to block that YRC. Good heads up play from Fortnite there, but now we got a one set. looking very close as things get heated up and this loser’s quarter set loses quarters to me. Insane to think about just how he plays on top as the burst comes out from El finds a 2k going right into the super for a big wall break here. Very big hit there. Now you’re up with that positive bones heart knockdown knight out of burst and meter got the guard cancel but it’s not scary just yet. Now it’s going to be with that throw combo. Tommy jump gets the same side. Caught being blocked the wrong way. Now the burst is out from both players. But now Oh, beam with the meter man. Going to use 50 for that conversion. Didn’t get killed. Oh no, the drop the drops. Oh my god, we are flying today. Yeah, unfortunately dog fighting with Chip in the air is not the easiest task. the whip just barely and being got the kill from it. Good 5k going to connect with the Gibbard or the counter hit I believe not mistaken. Now we got the Escobar pressure going to connect but not ready for the conversion on either one of those 5Ps. Big missed opportunity and now Bean gets the offense. Oh my god, nice 5K to call out the air. 2K2D JH YRC comes out from LN Knight who gets that guard cancel out. Now we get the offense to Tommy on block backing up. Kabari trains with the 5k. Nice JK. Good RC from LK on the 5D. Not going to kill, but a good amount of damage. One more hit will do it. looking for the YC but wasn’t baited in time. Is he going to get it out anyway? JD going to connect but got really greedy afterwards. 6 going to mash out and get the kill. Honestly 6D there might have been a missing but don’t quote me on that but if went for throw that was the right option but unfortunately that’s how things played out. Commander get jumped again. One night finding the way out of the corner to continue from B. Here we go. Same side going to get jumped. So no picks up there. Nice overhead and with that PRC. Oh, I don’t know if that’s coming or did that drop. Not sure honestly, but he’s still holding firm getting the clones out. Not mashing just yet. Going to respect them. He’s going to have to kill the mixup instead of the clones. Oh my god, the alpha blade in the air. And the burst bait. The burst bait. Nice. Wow. What a sequence there by Bean. Just did not let Knight move from that corner whatsoever. It is now 21 here. But don’t count out. He’s been in these situations more than once before. Escobari is already online. Five to the throw this time. Going to use the whole version to get the combo. Burst out for Oh, missing the parry, but it didn’t matter. LK was still able to get a combo anyways. Oh, found the Havari followup. Going right into a wall break here. Nice. Good kill. Incredible first round there. Barely got touched. Super clean sequences. The mixup’s working out. And now we got a round two with LK up in burst as well. Very strong position two going to hit but B not ready to invert out the JK attempt there. Big counter coming in here right into the super. LK not opportunity to burst. No wall break though. Yeah going to come out to keep the pressure. Avoid that mash and parry. Medicone again working out. just not letting the RPS of the mash or parry even be played whatsoever. Chip has that advantage with the clone hitting me. Far’s going to connect. Close out the round. We’re going to round three. Both players pretty much full burst, but Be only needs just one more round to send LK out of the brackets. And as being very patient here, runs up a little bit, but gets jumped over with that JD. Goes straight into the 5. Going to connect with the counter it, but no full combo from it. bar slash will punishing but nothing much from it. There goes the guard cancel again. Don’t want to get dark. Blue salt but oh JP not going to set anything up though. Nice back dash. Okay. LK in the corner but LK finding that JS going to PRC’s back. Yoan not finding any purchase with a PRC. There’s JP’s right into the lows. They’re going to allow B to keep his pressure up in the corners. 50 meter on the board. with the classic lock down corner pressure but gets caught by the two H. Huge hit for huge hit rather to force out the burst from Bean. But Bean still gets the hit out. Looking for the burst, but LK not getting in. There it goes. The last second where Bean couldn’t bait it properly. Kabar’s coming out. Bean looking for the opportunity. Staying patient backing up. LK can’t chase with that 2s a little too slow. Reco pressure. Good blocks. 2s Escobari forcing the the close-range combat. And there we go. Big hit on the 2K. Hard knockdown incoming. Now it’s a 50-50 time. cross up gets blocked looking for the wires. He almost baited it again. BRC to get some kind of frame advantage. Gets the throw. Are they going to kill here? And we do. LK sends it to game number five with the [Applause] What a round. One more game. Who wants it more? I can’t even tell. Both players playing out of their minds. Good back dash on the overhead taking the far smash punish. burst out from Bean very early on, but good throw to get the pressure going. Anyways, using the shadow clone, keeping that pressure going, but LK finds a JK Ozen and now has a tether set up. Nice. TK Ozansen with a red RC 5D. 5D again. No wall stick and the back dash grab going to work. LK stuck in the corner now. Forced to eat the pressure right into the super to wall break. All of a sudden, the set’s looking very even. Oh, the fast overhead red RC. Burst comes out from LK. LK looking to take this round. Back down. Tommy finds nothing there. RC JH afterwards. Cross up blocked. Cross up again. He’s playing season one champ. He’s playing season one champ. It’s season 4.78. I can’t believe it. Be one round away from closing out this set. We’re back to the alpha blade fix baby. What a parry from LK. DP from Bean refusing to give up any sort of offense, but Lord gets the parry off again. DP again from Be not afraid. Close patch comes out. Full combo here, but drops a tether. Uh-oh, the Alpha Blade start. Bean ramping up the pace. Lite can’t keep up. Full combo here into the tight rope. No hard knockdown, but such a good spot for Bean. Burst not out from LK just yet. RC. No, that’s enough to kill. Misses the parry on the guard cancel and Bean going to punish cleanly and closes out the set. A very chaotic game five, but it’s going to be Bean moving on and an unfortunate end for LK, but what a set. Absolutely incredible. A set. I mean, it it’s hard to to comment more than we already did when you got two people playing absolutely out of their minds for what they’re going to see. But now Noobreer and Tyler going up against one another. Get some more Giovana to see indeed. More Gio and more Jacko as well. Jacko apparent. There’s always one Jacko in every bracket. That’s going great. Oh yeah, there’s always one. Now it’s the new records today. There’s some always someone in there with the Jacko sneaking out some wins, robbing some people. Could see more of that tonight as New Breaker is still in this bracket. Going give it to Tyler who’s been doing really well in the GL. was in winner side top eight before losing to dig. So indeed very strong showing so far. Absolutely. Players getting set, everything getting ready to go. We have so many great sets left. I am just excited to see this set. Oh no. Hit the mic. Gotta love it. Little jump scare for y’all a little bit. Yeah, chat. Hope you guys are having a great night. You get to deal with dead voice onewise tonight because of two days in a row of concerts. So, I sound sick, but it’s just it’s just screaming system of a down for two days in a row, which is just too damn fun. I can’t I can’t not destroy my voice there and then come commentate FNL as our set is ready. I think I don’t know. You know, we’re in New York. Who knows if a butt check happens or not, but we don’t butt check in New York. It’s getting live. Loses Cortis has begun. Tyler, Newreer, Gio, Jacko, you know the drill. Here we go. Action getting heated already here as gets the sandwich pressure going. Vion attacks alive. Crowner close slash triple close slash looking for the burst. Oh my god. Tyler not giving up just yet. 2D comes out. There goes the throw. Good tech though. Look at the health differential already despite Tyler taking the offense. Has to make something happen right here right now. There he goes. 2s throw comes out. Both slash. Goldber stopping the grab from coming in. And now new so much meter. And it’s all gone just like that. But a huge counter in 5. Sega the minion throwing in for the me 2D afterwards. Sega minion again. Minions are just all over the place. Keller can’t stop him just yet. 2D comes out. RC 2P for the plus range. Y RC to get some spacing out. Are Tyler trying to hit him. There we go. Hits that one minion. Six pieces. The second almost gets the offense with that enhanced DP and huge for the pressure. But still Tyler’s in there. I beat the 2D. Tap going to connect and working slowly in. Tyler going to get the first round. incredibly close first round, which makes me think this could go a bit distance. Yeah, minions doing a great job stopping the pressure, stopping Tyler from getting in and then allowing Newreer to keep getting set up, but a lot of really big drops. Missing out some opportunities here, but hasn’t cost Newer too much just to get here. Good throw on the side of J. Now you have so many options on the offense. gets the delay ID over at JS to connect into the Elian driver hard knock down. Not the crazy situation as Jacko, but you do have no reversal super as Gio. He can just kind of go in anyway. 5P checking the minions. Doesn’t want them to come out, but Newreer checking with that 2K2. Perfect round. Tyler already starting off very strong here on this round, but now burst is on the table for Newreer. Newrecker is down 50% of their health though. Tough spot to be in. Big throw coming in here. Tyler trying to keep the pressure on. 2D not connecting. Spiral arrow connects and the baited burst going to allow Tyler to take the first game with a nice perfect to finish it off. Tyler with a very clean second two rounds. Those two rounds are really nice. Adjustments at Newer’s pace very quickly there as you get another SP with the counter burst out from Newre doesn’t want to hold any of the damage that was going to come up understandably. So 2P comes out but again whipping on the soccer kicks now. Tyler noticing taking full advantage. Nice super to wall break. Possib bonus Gio never something you want to deal with as Tyler taking another life. Here we go. Good far counter to get things started. We also for the hard knock down. Stay up a bit of a safe jump there. Two from the screen. 2D to punish this 5 spiral arrow forced the burst here to not hold any more of that damage. 5k to dash. On with the throw. Jay going to connect again here into the super. The open worst game the mixup are on. But can we actually pick up the round this time with the wall break? We can. Yes, we can. All right. Rare Jacko wall break from that super. You don’t see the Elian driver doing that very often. Pretty RNG. Yeah. RNG obviously, but it’s kind of hard to tell. I was going to say it feels that way. Doesn’t sell very hard to send very far. Holy damage, Batman. Whoa. Built the 50 but didn’t get the super to connect. Bra patient almost got that 2K with the 2D with punish but unfortunately now you got to hold the jacko pressure on the side of Newcast so many combines 5D is an option yep blocked it full slash blue assault 5D again didn’t see the second one coming and I do not have enough to kill because blue assault scale so heavily now wow off the JS nice avoidant to get away from that 5K New Breaker evens out the score one to one. Tyler starting off very aggressive in this game. Number three and it’s going to work out because forced to burst. Good kill on the minion going to connect to counter it here. New breaker can’t set anything up this time around and now has a huge advantage. Hard knock down. Oh, nice. The geoclassic dash in and grab gets the round done. Big perfect for Tyler. Huge at that K2D counter there. She’s going to combo throw going to work out as well. Oh, little shimmy there. Forced up the fuzzy jump. New Dreer not blocking as all that cool as a result. Oh, but here we go. trying to get the offense started, but a gold burst comes out from Tyler. PRC, what a round. Oh my god, that was nasty. VP to ant here from so far up. Understood that he was close enough to Jacko there to get the pickup and the air combo into the super for a good chunk of damage. And Tyler with that clean diversion is now 2-1 here. But New Breaker is already on the offensive for game number three. First comes out. Tyler has to keep all this pressure in the corner and we are doing the install. Back throw in. Minion shield super is out. Not lie, not anymore. It’s over now. Close to the plus frame. Double close throw. OTG. Not enough to kill. Oh, whip grab PRC and that fast PRC. 2K2D getting that minion set up and allowing Newreer to take that life. Now it’s a round two. Tyler backing up with the far slash. Newreer waiting it out for the punish. TD going to connect this time, but misses the 6H. Big drop, but still maintaining the pressure. Tyler getting hit. 2D going to work out this time again. Shield command for the extended pressure. Now the offense is so hard to master because those minions are going to come out and hit anyways and you pretty much have to respect majority. Three minions out. Look at the ch damage. Look at the risk. Look at everything that’s going on. How do you even keep up? Look at the risk going up. It’s almost maxed out. But Tyler still gets that hit. Last second as this might kill. And it did. Oh my god, it did. Wow. We’ve got a game number five. The leftover risk paying off. The wrist changes showing them full effect that Super did so much as just a pure reversal. 22 last game, another game five in this top eight. Nobody can hold their ground. Two four just yet. Burst already gone from Tyler who’s now stuck holding jack pressure with the huge miss on the soccer kick. Could have set up a new vigny super again. But no, now you’re out of burst. Both players stuck with no burst. But look at the meter on the side of New Breaker build so much. And the counter close is going to be huge here. [Music] Oh my god. Big wall break for a ton of damage there. RC were extending the combo. Stuck in the corner. 2K 2D connects with the wall bounce. We got a minion set up. 5D gets blocked, but a red RC going to allow this pressure to continue as Noob Recker. Just one life away from moving on to the next round and sending Tyler home. Tyler, no. Big drop there. Huge missed opportunity. It’s not the end of the world. Still got some damage off. You’re up in burst as well. Up in meter backing off. Does not want to deal Gio at all. And it pays off as we get that hit on the 5k. And now the blue also to extend. Looking for the 50 meter build. Gets the throw. And now the 50/50. JF’s going to connect again here. Theian driver with the wall break and positive bonus. Newreer is in a fantastic position here. The burst is on the table for Tyler. Oh, going right to the alian driver. Talon burst. I think this kills wall break and he got it. Newer moves on on a three two victory. Yet another close tense set here in our top eight. Banger sets back to back to back. Newbreaker survives the Gio and moves on with the Jacko. Very good showing. barely getting a chance to breathe here because these things are really going back and forth. But we’re going back up to our winner side now because it’s going to be DIG going up against Nitro to see who is going to get that grand finals advantage, which considering how close these matches have been, I think that’s damn near essential in this tournament. Yeah, absolutely. You cannot afford to not have that extra life to give up. You have more time to get your download. You don’t have that pressure. these pressure against such high caliber players here in New York. It’s It’s different. Yes, it certainly is. It’s different. But now, of course, the mixup. Who the hell is Who the hell is Nitro playing? I I have no idea. Are we going to see the Leo? Cuz I I I mean, the Leo is looking good. It is. It is. Yeah. Or maybe we see the Lucy. I don’t know what we’re about to see. I don’t know. There’s going to be something. But who do you pick into Bridget? That is the question. That’s a good question. Unless Dig pulls out someone else, too, which probably won’t happen. But no, Dig used to have the backup Sin, but Sin kind of got uh he got He’s not doing great right now. He’s got his legs chopped off. Yeah, the elk hunt doesn’t really do as much as it used to. So, not at all. No more full screen low count combo starter. He lost it. Oh, hell yeah. Here we go. Winners finals is ready to go. We’ve got Nitro. We’ve got Dig on. Hey, what does that say? What does that say right there? On who? [Laughter] That’s not what I expected to see at all from Dig. The Sin coming out not just not believing in I guess Dig Leo or Dig Leo just might not be what he wants to play with Bridget. So has the Sin for the backup. You lost so much as Sin in this match. The combo utility is just gone. However, Sin does have those fundies to work with. Just basic simple pressure. Has the back. That’s BRC that Dig very much knows and loves. DP comboing, but misses the 6H 2D RC. Nice. That’s the pressure. 2K right into the 2D, but Jigs able to 2D. PRC. PRC. Nice throw from Nitro. blocked but the DP baited full cover. He had a burst that you were so dead not to get. Good punish by Nitro already on top of it. Knew that D overhead and the overhead going to close out the first round. Let’s look at Spooky. I don’t know. Big starter but no hard knock anymore. Thank god they still alive. 5 pressure. Oh sh nasty confidence in the H boom. Hard knock down. So much damage. Oh my god. Wow. 5P. No, the close slash instead going to check. I believe S went for so against Leo 5P as a big cap. You can 6P it. So at the very least get out of the pressure. You’re not punishing him. At least you’re just like I don’t want to hold that. Get out. Yeah, but Leo can just close slash you and you die. And now already going back to character. So the character I thought Big was going to go with the beginning. I don’t think they even playing him that much. I think I think it was definitely worth a try, but yeah, sometimes you just got to bring out the tried and true character, especially with a new patch. Only, you know, a week since a new patch. Sometimes it’s hard to get used to the changes quickly 2K 6K and baited the DP. Oh, nice bait on the DP. Force out. Mhm. N trying to play a little mind game with the super delay, but Big was not even planning on interacting anyway. But speaking of non-interaction, nice burst bait. Not going to get a hard knock down. Got to get anything actually. Round dive free punish from that high up. Nice basing and the whip air throw for the next combo extension. The back turn kicks too much. The lion is too much to handle. Nitro gets the first round in game number two. A two Ali would be absolutely massive here, but DIG can hold his own. But what a 2D. Got past the 5D. The Lion cares not if he gets nerfed. He’s still here to win. But a nice throw from D going to allow pressure to get started except for the Eisen PC trying to get stuff set up and does with the low 2K2D setting up a yo-yo for some nice OI pressure. There goes the J. JD again. Good blocks from Nitro. Jumps out now. You’re in a good spot, but the DP again dig all over it. Can we get a good extension? No, we can’t. Roger dive the other way. Oh no. Not to stay completely still into a 6P the other way from DIG back to BC. Shimmy no match this time. Good 2K to check. RC is not enough to kill looking for the two. Oh 2K is going to connect but no 6K to convert. And there’s a big chance at a kill there as Dig. Can we get the P on the jump? We can’t. The fact that down BC 2K going to mash out. Very scary mash as well. But magic got greedy with that back turn canceling the throw. Now we got a round three looking a lot better as an option. Back dash 5 H to punish set is out. Punishing the fireball is going punishing again with the Roger dot. They’re playing a very slow game. Slowly with the health kind of have to do in this match which sucks. Good throw tech off of the stare down there. That was insane. 2K 2K of a reset here, but actually not going to hold it at all. Good. Nice XP. And here we go. Right into the super to wall break. Massive damage coming in here. The Leo special going into another super. Here we go. Restart the same situation instantly here. Five here versus going to be close again. It’s the throw bit JD. Disgusting. Just a little bit. Disgusting. Lornet up 20 now. They going straight into the third game now. 2K 6K. Good IVs. The DP gets invaded already. Very early burst from DI is gone. So you get hit by Leo. This could be your doom. There goes his white 2S. Double 2s. Yo-yo set not checked just yet, but Nitro slowly moving forward with it. There goes the yo-yo PRC. The yo-yo connectedness. And now we got a full combo here. Nice reset. Yo set again. Connect before Nitro could block. Nitro’s got a lot of meter to work with and burst, but that TRC All right. YC back trying to take the pressure back. Oh, nice 5D going to connect. Burst gone from Nitro here who just stays back just trying to play around the yo-yo. Gets a few hits in and now the burst is gone though from Nitro who’s staying in the neutral and back turn. Can’t reflect that. He gets all on the way back though. Oh, there he goes. Overhead throw misses throwing. Nope. Go slash guard. 2s going to connect RC. Do we have enough to kill? We do not. They’re going to reset one more time. 2s ro gets punished. Oh man. No. There’s DP out. Best to get around this fight. Good awareness from DIG to sneak past those active frames. And now we’ve got a potential first game on the board for Dig. Good start on the round. Such comes out. 2S 2 H2 H. Motion dig. Not showing the DP just yet. Still holding it. Tap. Probably wanted to throw there to K2D. They’re both staring each other down, but a huge 2S is a great starter for Leo here to get not command. Insane option there. Too hh runs up. Oh, the command throw. No, RC again. Oh, oh no. Super RC cross up. overhead. Oh, the overhead. Oh my god. I cannot believe these plays that Nitro’s making right now. Double command grab. I mean, I get the final, but like kind of insane. I don’t know. Big hit on the 5H. The combo started for DIG as well. Rolls on in. Double roll. 2K 2D not checked. 2K on the empty roll there. Got a little low with it. Resetting throw. Nice throw. Balls flat. 5K from the break. Okay. Great situation. No hard knock down, but you have such a good health team now. 2D free punish. 50/50 again. Goes. Oh my god. Nice TP. 5K dash for the combo. Burst out from Nitro. 5H misses. Just barely double duty. Nice. Good DP. Oh, nice DP out. Uh-oh. Throw. Uh-oh. The kill. Oh, with the yo-yo. Oh no. Wow. Damn. That was a crazy transition. Yes, it was. That was kind of sick. But here we go. 2-1 in favor of Nitro, but Dig is on the board. I’ve seen him make these comebacks once or twice. Can he do it three times? 2K2D going to connect. Nitro not blocking over the yo-yo. Yo, going to punish the 6P. This is so tense. wise. I can’t even say anything. Ah. Oh, there we go. Burst comes out. No one has it. Just waiting. Goes for the guard point. Doesn’t find much. Oh my god. God, the patience from both these players is insane. Blows get blocked. Nice. The late 2s caught. Nitro not moving there. Oh, misses the 28. No one punished though. Double. Oh, back dash. Insane. Reed got around that throw and now Dig got the wall stick. There we go. There we go. Okay, we’re back. Dig is certainly not out of the fight yet. Tech. There’s a 2D. You got the back turn. Back has connected from that far with punishing. Full combo back turn super much damage. Cold slash. No went for the throw mate but dig going to DP out anyway. Good shimmy to grab but it wasn’t enough. No hard knockdown 2K into the glow slash on the reset on hit caught dig moving. And now we’ve got a round number three. Nitro one round away from moving on to grand finals winner side. Zig not going to want to get that perch so easily. Delay rope past the 5P overhead on the knuckle ball. Here we go. Another knuckle ball. It’s a safe jump. No, but did miss the first bait. SOS 2K close slash 2s. Was all gets checked by the DP. 2K 6K. Oh, the grab. That’s not good. God, look at this damage. Throw tech 2D 2D gets blocked out of the corner. Here we go. What? Tapped us. What? Looking for the burst. Not going to get it. There it goes. 50 m Leo. It’s tough to deal with. The 2D is there. And it comes out. No RC. Oh, the DP. Got a yo-yo out. So scary for Z. You cannot make a single mistake here. Look at the resources that Nitro has to work with. 2K. 2P. Oh no, the 2D X. Don’t burst. Don’t burst. Oh my man, what a set. What a set. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my word. Whoa. Nitro sneaks that one out. That’s 3-1. That was the closest 3-1 I’ve ever seen in my life. Man, I was at the edge of my seat. I I bet D has beating himself over going for sin game one. Oh, that sucks. Got to believe in the main. Got to believe fighting for every inch and that’s that was insane. That’s all I can say. That was insane. Wow. Definitely one of my favorites so far. One of my favorite sets to watch. But now we’re going back down to losers semis. Now at this point in the bracket, it’s winner stays. So, whoever wins this next set on stream on the stage going to stay on fight the next person, fight the next next person until we are finally at grand finals going to face Nitro. Yeah, that’d be Nitro six times. Yikes. Yikes. I don’t envy that. Although, if I were in that position, I would I would only be three rounds because I would lose. I would I would just lose all three. I mean, let’s let’s be honest here. My my little elf ain’t going to do enough. Yeah. Enough. Not enough for the line. It’s going to eat you. No, the line’s too powerful. He’s going to what? He’s gonna eat you. The lion. It’s a lion. He eats you. I don’t like that. He’s going to maul you. I don’t like that either. It’s gonna Why can’t we be friends? Lions aren’t very friendly. Yeah, but they could be if we tried hard enough. Have you ever tried? I mean, when you raise them from like birth sometimes, I’ve seen stories of people like being friends with lions, but they like raise them from like birth like from the beginning. You can’t just run up to a wild line like, “Yo, what’s up, bro?” Like, “Dab me up.” Take your hand. He’s gonna meet your dad with like a bite. And I mean, Leo wrote the dictionary. That’s pretty cool. Well, what? He wrote the dictionary. He wrote the dictionary. Yeah, I believe so. In the Striveor, he wrote He wrote He’s writing a dictionary. He’s writing a dictionary. He wrote the dictionary. I think it’s both. I don’t know. How does that work? He’s got something going on with a dictionary. I know he’s a book. I know just taunts the book. Yeah. Well, I mean, he talks about it a lot in in Exard, too. Yeah. So random. I know. So random. He’s just doing things. He’s just doing He’s completing side quests. The lion The lion cares not. Not one bit. No. The lion carrier is not about your ratio. Believe we’re checking audio again. Always good to be safe before we get going with everything that we got going on here. I’m looking. I’m trying to see what their faces are saying. Doesn’t look bad. Uh-oh. Beans. Pointing. That can’t be good. No. Pointing is never good. [Music] Negative penalty. Listen to the banger song. Okay. Looks like we figured it out. Cool. All right. Well, that seemed to be fairly quick. Glad we’re getting used to this now. We’re doing what we can. So, here we go. Next up, Bean Newreer. Bean trying to defend that to get a second FNL win. But Newreer kind of a dark horse so far. Oh yeah, that Jacko has been putting in a lot of work this bracket and we’ll see what it can do here. This is uh loser semis despite what the scoreboard tells you. Can’t trust what you see on the internet. Never. You can trust us. Oh, nice 2D. Oh, the burst comes right out. Same jump from the out pressure. Double close up going to connect. That’s a lot of damage. Wow. Hold on. Resetting 2Ks. 2Ks. Oh, nice counter hit in the air. Very aggressive. Boom. Wall break. No hard knockdown though. Want the 360 advantage, but not for long. Does run just all right. Run up and throw. Real if it ain’t broke. Good chase on the back up with the minion pickups. They got a full combo. We got the tight rope combos. Yeah, we do. Okay, comes out for the wall break. 2K 2D with punishing that 2K insane cross up blow did not torch out but the throw back into the corner will do just the same thing. Hungry to work with Ober going to connect RC should kill. No problem. Yep. Yes indeed. Perfect round. Bean quickly adjusting to Newreers’s play style. 2K from Newreer going to get things started in this round three. Good start already. It burst out from Bean, but Bean now has the corner. But good defense from Newreer getting the throw. Big sandwich with the minions. Oh, that was such a big miss. That was the game. You cannot make those mistakes against Bean. Now the pressure is on. Burst out from Newer on the counter 2D. 2K connects, but the minion does not get grab. That’s not good. Cross gets blocked. Red RC were trying to extend the combo here, but a Y RC going to stop it in its tracks. Nice. Oh, looking scary. Super trying to stay away, but Venus is now in that. Got that close range combat going over. I going to connect. Not going to kill, but scary situation. Going to get the wall break. No hard knockdown, but now Newer actually has the 50 meter advantage. What are we going to do with it? Nothing. Just backs up, tries to set a minion. 5 connects, but not anything special for the double. 2D closes out game one. Newreer, hold on. Hold on. Look at spooky. Jump out from Bean. Burst gone from Newbreaker already. Big 6P. Great starter and got the wall. Great start for Bean. It’s the closest OTG. Kind of lose a bit of ulti there, but they’re still close enough to keep the offense going. Wall run over. Boom. Nice. Good kill. I’m so glad that that move actually has a use now. Yeah, it’s pretty cool. It does way more damage than the other ones. It’s like, okay, now I don’t it’s not a troll super anymore. Hit him with the knowledge check. Oh, nice DP going to connect to the super damage. Not too much, but the hard knockdown is going to work out well. Hubber has no reverse options to work with at all. Not even YRC now has it. BRC comes out. Cross up. Blocked. Good job. First one to block that one today. 5 H. But there we go. Recker hitting the same side again. Be got caught. Back dashing on the way. 5 t right away. Not too much damage. He also lose the corner pressure. Now bean has a 50 meter to work with. He’s forward. Free check on the DP. Always again. Oh my god. Wait a minute. Oh, this season one chip player still mixes the oldfashioned way but doesn’t get the kill or the whip punish. What’s going on? Oh no. Hold on. OTG is above. Oh my god. What is going on? New breaker is still alive. One round away from a two- lead. 5K 2K 2D going to connect. Newer getting impatient over gets 6. Good check. Big counter hit coming in. Believe it or not, that 5 H was plus on block cuz of the minion interaction. Does that connect? I Yes, it does. Wow. Good hit confirm there. Save jump time and got it. Nice burst out, but it’s such a tough situation. Minions out, alpha blades in, gold precision. Now you have the positive bonus and get the throw. Newreer is up 20 on Bean. Hold on. The Jacko is putting in the work. Newreer on the verge of a three here to move on and fight DIG in the losers final. Command grab. There it is. You’ll never see that again. G blade coming out. 2K2D counter it. Looking for the burst. Lubber not giving it up. And they got to hold this super though. Hard knock down. Going to be iffy spot to deal with only burst to get out of overhead comes delay as a counter hit. And now Bean fighting back. Got a perfect big response indeed. All right. Okay, burst force out right at the beginning of the round from New Recker. Bean stuck in the corner. Here comes the pressure. Two minions out. They’re starting to dissipate. And now Bean is the one in the driver’s seat. Pushing new record to the corner and through the wall. Nice super set in the otter. Hard knock down with only YC to work with. Newreer in a tough spot being connected. The cross up combo into the 5k. Hey, New a little too impatient. And now Bean is slowly working the comeback. Down one, two. But I’ve seen him do it before. This is how you stop the bleeding. Slow and steady work, but Burst comes out early for Beam. New Recker also expends theirs to get out of the corner. That Tudi is great sending it out with Reckless abandoned the cross up into the command grab. Wow. He’s just doing whatever I am tonight. I get it though. got to bust it out but hasn’t worked out but still got the wall break anyway despite that. Here goes the empty throw. Give another command grab. It’s coming. Oh, the top does block though. Good reaction. JD going to randomly hit there. Get a wall bounce. All right. Calm down. 5k going to get stuffed out by that 5k for the minions. They jump incoming. Here’s the sandwich. Oh, nice. That’s so much damage. Oh my god, that is so much damage. Wall break. I don’t even know. No. No. Too far away. That’s enough. It is. Yes, it is. Wow. Newre with a perfect one round away from beating. Bean is sending them home. He’s going to have burst available. So is Newrecker in just a second. Here we go. Here’s the corner pressure and a massive wall break for almost half of Newer’s health. 2K 2D. Here we go. Looking for these TDs, but Newer responding with a 2D of their own. Both versus, but be is the one with the 100 meter. Can kind of get aggressive here, but Newbreaker stuffing it every single time. Minion kick. There we go. Minion on the back side of who kicks it out with the 5k. And now he’s got pressure. Cross up. Gets avoided with the back dash for the 2K 2D. Going to catch anyway. Same side of the JS. We have enough to kill the other. Yes, we do. And ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got a game five. We’re going the distance in the loser semifinal. Only one stays on the stream and the other goes home. Who wants it more? Yet another game following this top. The non-stop action. Both players playing at their absolute best. But another 2D. Bean is just abusing that buff. I get it. He He read the pass notes before this set. I’ve never seen so much 2D in my life. Here we go. 5k throw gets tech 2K with punishing. JH somehow crossed up. Newer walked out. Didn’t know it was going to work out like that though. Back throw from Bean who goes in with a commando again. The back dash tap the 5D on Bean bringing it back. One round away from a reverse sweep. Actually crazy work. Speaking of sweep, got the 2D connecting the JS. New breaker not blocking. Uh-oh. 68 for the wall break. Positive bonus. Not even five. Six isn’t around. Sending a 2D. Three 2Ds. They’re coming out all over the place. RC for the burst. Newreer not giving it up. Still looking for it. Tapped up. Oh my god. The 5D. What are we doing? Burst call from Newer. Is this the dagger? Hold on. Hold on. What the he going to connect? Hold on. Newer’s got 50p. And it’s D. Nice. Completes the reverse 3 0 and moves on. Wow. Incredible set by those two competitors. Shout out to Newrecker. But it’s going to be Bean who’s going to be moving on with a fantastic reverse 3 0. Actually insane. Moving on and staying on the stage cuz now we’ve got losers final. It’s going to be Dig coming up to the stage next. Bean dig Bridget Chip. I don’t know. I think that’s probably what we’re going to see here. Bean’s kind of on fire. That was a crazy comeback. Yeah, reverse three is the momentum you want, especially when you’re staying on the set and going right into the next person. That’s the type of momentum you need. Feeling good. Feeling good. Feel like a beast. Absolutely. Bean more like beast. Oh my god. I don’t know. It’s looking good. I mean, Van always starts to set off so slow and methodical and like game five, he pulls up like five command grabs, six alpha blades, like and his opponent’s just so confused. It’s like you’re not used to seeing it from being just bust out five in a row. You’re just like, “Huh?” Like, it’s just the mental stack is insane. Sometimes it just takes some time to get the downloaded and then once you get it, you go. He dares to enter the We’re set up one more time. Just making sure everything’s nice and ready so we don’t got too many delays as we get into our top three. We’re almost there. Two sets to go, but no shortage of action. That’s for sure. It’s going to be bangers. You haven’t got the memo yet. New York City is kind of elite. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Fist bump is in. The opponents are not checked, but we’re still ready to go. Losers final is underway. Bean staying on. Dig coming up to challenge. Only one will move on to face Nitro. Who’s it going to be? I swear I be before top eight, read the patch notes, saw what they did to DD, and just said, “All right, man. He was not doing this at the start.” JS connected 2K on the low roll. Here we go again. Oh, nice backrow. moves the corner pressure. Overhead gets blocked. But there we go. Bean found the gap and took full advantage to get a wall break here. The low red RC. Here’s the wall run combo. Up you go. Bean does got it. Does got it. The air DP after do a little trolling. 2D going to train with a far slash. His butt is ridiculous. Oh, he uses the lecture to cancel the landing lag. Nice. The alpha blade 2D with punishing. That but is just so it is yet to lose interaction. That’s all I’m saying. Hard knock down on the wall break. Same jumping in. Yep. IBFD, but not going to get away from the pressure just yet. Over going to connect RC for the damage. Double alpha blade for the combo. Not enough to kill though. Boom. and two. Yeah, nice 2D. Yeah, it has no her It has no her box. There is no her. Look it up. No her box. It’s gone. It’s crazy. They took it away. Where did it go? Where did it go? I cannot believe every single Who did they give it to? Who did they give it to? It is It is not loss interaction. It’s doing everything. It’s paying Bean’s taxes right now. DP gets baited, but no punish. Reck low instantly there. RC looking for the burst. They not give me enough. Here comes the 6. Oh my god. I cannot like this is again again. Oh my god. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, Bean is patched in. I can’t believe it with the super. Can we get a 2D counter? Somebody keep track, please. Yeah, we got to see. We got to know. 2s going to get blocked with over and after going to connect though, but didn’t get a combo from it. Was a little late on that 2K. Still pling the yo-yo. Rolling in. Fakes it out. Be staying patient. Double jumps out, but look at the risk. It’s cranking up. Two on the counter. Big damage. Charge dust. Oh, missed the 5, but got a deep. Oh, that’s enough. Good lord. Bridget does no damage. [Laughter] 2D again from 2K 2D. Rea 2K close slash. Hold on. The pressure’s going. Oh, air. Where you going? We’re resetting. Clone goes out. DP though. Ding. Not afraid. 2K 2D from D. Hold on. Safe side. GS. Brea overhead. Locked 2K2D clone gets jumped over though. Pressure’s not over though. You’re not out just yet. Bar/ 5H bar/ Rea bar slash from Dig though. Wild assault. Close flash. Two H resetting with the yo-yo from Oh my god. Duty again. Here comes the tight rope combo right into this. Not a super to wall break, but 100 meter on the board here for Bean. Great spot to be in. Oh no, for dig. I got confused understandably. So big far slash. Can we get the burst out? There it is. Oh, you got a nice interaction. 2D going to win. Far slash checking 2D again. 2D. Another 2D blade. 2D. Oh, the jump scare. Rea low. Ka lacking. Bead is up 20 now. Dig needs to reverse 3 0 here. 2D again and just not afraid at all. Just sending it. Her boxes are dig in the past. The future is now. Another one. Close slash burst out from dig. Yo-yo set. But now you got to deal with aggressive bean. He’s not stopping. He wants the corner. He got it. Another one. 2K throw gets teched. Far Scooter. That’s a punish. There we go. Finds a cross up going right into the tight rope. Going coast to coast here. All the way to the corner. He’s going super for the wall break. Hard knock down. Not that much damage, but big not much to work with on this next interaction. JH tap does whiffs. No punish though. No RC. RC super late and that’s going to cost you. Resetting with the low again. Knuckle ball mix incoming. Two H counter. That’s big. Not enough to kill actually. You got to reset. Yep. JS YRC forces the situation back to neutral. In comes the rather super set incoming. Didn’t get the combo. 63 being one round away from grand finals of Face Nitro. 2D double 2D 6P the neutral. Oh, come here. Go again into the air throw sending in the shadow clone. Oh my god, he’s on another 2D. Oh, Be trying to look for the burst, but D choosing at the right spots. Resetting baited the DP all over it. There’s the burst. Ches the burst. Dig with 50 meter. Red RC finds a hit. Uh-oh. 2s going to connect but not into the two H. B chase a life. Over gets blocked and punished. We have enough to kill. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Hold on. It’s not over yet. It’s not over till it’s over. And Dick starting off with the pressure. Rock the baby. Let’s go. The baby has been rocked. 2K slump. Yep. Here we go. Tap Don into the super hard knocked out. Not the kill. Bean has burst. Are we going to use it? Are we going to use it? Not yet. 2K 68 and got through with the RC. Dig stays alive with the perfect. Hold on. Get that water. Hydrate. Get a ways to go. Two more wins straight to get to back to grand finals. Get to get back against Nitro. 2D 2D again. Why not? Burst comes out from D. Hey, if it doesn’t have a hurt box, get it out there. Get it out. What a It has no hurt marks. I’m sorry. You’re going to see a lot more of 2D today. Right. Super comes out breaking the wall knockdown. Stage jump incoming. There we go. Goes for close slash IB just in time. Overhead delayed to hell back. Going to be enough to get a kill I believe. Yes, it is. Bean once again one round the way responding to digs perfect with a perfect of his own. All right, burst comes out from Bean. Slowly close to the cap, but gets hit. Triple jump. Oh, triple jump, but D just keeping the space. Doesn’t want to deal with that. Backs up again. Same thing again, but this time being only doing one jump. Gets the D. The me move. Good. They all got jump scared by a falling dish. I don’t know what that was, but it’s okay. Nick St in it. There goes the JD going to catch him back there but not enough to combo. Bar came out and said a close slash Y from Bean. Hold on. Pixel in a dream. D trying to keep the zoning alive. And there goes the 2P. No burst from either player. Very important round start here as being just gets aggressive with the 2K 2D again. Cam Blade comes out, jumps a close slash. He didn’t run into a 5B, but there it goes. Throw comes out from Bean. 2D clone action. Go again. You see a third. Whoa, the soul read all over it. Zeroga. That’s not going to kill, but it’s going to be a hard knock situation. Just point blank though. Alpha blade is possible. There it is. Oh my god. Oh, another blade. Shiron DP through it. That’s 2K. Shutting off the signal. Bean closes it out 3-1. Wow. Insane set right there. And just like that, Bean staying alive. Look at Nitro staring down from above. That was crazy. But here we go. That was hype. That is indeed our final set of the night. Only one will win. And this is a fascinating set because it’s both of our Friday Night Live winners. This is true. Friday Night Live champion number one. Friday champion number two. Who’s going to be number three? Only one will be able to say they’ve won the most out of anyone. And as we know, this is going to be the last stribe event for FNL for the time being. So that’s right. This is There’s no run back out of this. This is it. That’s right. This is it. We got a rank set here. First to two. First to two. FNL wins. Takes it out. That’s it. Speaking of ranked, shout out all my vanquish. Any vanquishers in chat tonight? I played three ranked matches. That’s it. Any placement matchers in here? Any any any places in chat? Who’s still in tower? You know where we’re at? We’re at Oh, it’s NYC. Meet me on floor seven. Anyways, because it’s time for grand finals bean nitro. Are you ready? Heaven or hell? Who’s taking this one? Two West versus 2D. Who will win? Internally, it’s 2D. Phone coming out from Bean. 2D again. 2D again. 2D again. There we go. Close. That’s the catch rate. Counter hit. Boy, you can’t you can’t cancel that. Bean. Read the patch though. I’m sorry. Got the Oh my god. Hard knock down here. Positive bonus on the side as well, but Nitro on the back foot now. Back dashes. The safe jump. Can’t do that against Chips. Far slash going to connect. counter it into the back turn. Oh not what you like to see. Rea looking for it. Oh my god. Nitro does not want to get hit at all. Checking with so many 2Ks. But now Bean with another hard knockdown. What are we going to do this time around? Nitro has 100 to work with. Cross up to get around the super to cover being an RC up for 2KD. And that should be enough to kill here. Yes, it is. No, it’s not. Ah, okay. Hey, that was spooky a little bit. What a first round. That’s how you know it’s going to be a tense set. Back dash 2D working again here. The taxes are paid in more ways than one. Here we go. Being getting the not hard knock on the positive is going to be great as well. Nice DP over the rift grab. Not what you want to see. Cross up attempt gets blocked. PRC and we baited that burst. Nice 5D forces out a burst. Oh, big 2D from Nitro. Forcing the burst from Bean this time. Trade on the 2D. 2D for 2D. They going banan for ban. Oh, there goes the close on the shimmy. Shimmy up the kill. Absolutely don’t even need the super. That turn has closed that one out. And now we’ve got a round number three. This is game one. It’s already this close. Good check on the clone. 2K for 2D. That’s going to be advantage for Bean on the trade. 2K again. Backing up. 2D again. 2D again. 2S2 H. Alpha Blade. It’s a super. Nice. Alpha Blade. Out. face the DP. Leo DP can out space. I can’t believe this. What? Oh my god. Sons to Rog to beat the throw. It is enough to kill. What an option. Um all right. I mean, yeah, he had the meter to cover. If it gets blocked, you have 50 meter, I guess. Yeah. Okay. 2D. 2D again. 2D again. 2D again. 2D again. All right. Didn’t work out this time though. Going to get the hit. Oh, no. I lied. It did work out. Gets tagged. There goes the DP from Nitro. Cross up over looking for the burst. But parry what? Okay, there goes the back dash throw from Bean. Clone coming out 2D. Oh, interrupting the Duty with the far slash. I I don’t know. I can’t keep up. This is crazy. This is crazy. Oh, the PRC tries to find a JP and doesn’t through the 2D. Did I see that right? Nice use of the shadow clone to take that one. Another 2D whip punch in the two this time. Jay is going to hit the counter hit there. Coming out from Nitro down around. That’s really tough to be in. Three sonic booms and there goes the guard. Guard point on the pit there going to connect but being still doing an offense connecting the cross up into the combo this time getting the full one into the super hard knock down full burst as well. Only 50 meter for nice to work with. We do have back options but are they good though? Just goes for the raw eyes of Storm not believing in the safe jump. Double close slash don’t get tech 2D to RC. DP from DP right back. Can we get another one? No. going to connect 2D going to get whip punish and that’s actually enough. There’s punch unblocked. Oh no, not enough to kill and the DPED and grabbed. And now Bean is up to zero. Hold on. Can we get a reset this early this quick? Are we going to see it? Oh no, there we go. 2D. Good start for Nitro, but a good back dash again from B. Not afraid to press them buttons on wake up. 2D going to get whip punish this time. N getting used to that. pacing a little better this time around. Alpha Blade gets hit out by that 2K whiff throw for the extra combo. And there we go. A nice combo for a lot of damage. 2D going to win the 2D. 2D versus 2D. Oh, the shimmy working out again. But now that’s the comment of two is too small there. Super delay on the Rea was looking for the DP, but Nitro staying nice and still right into my loving arms. Thanks for the throw. And now get it up around looking for the two he almost would punish it. That’s so ridiculous how that move works now. Back dash wanted the throw but didn’t quite get on the chase. Now being squeezed the offense going even longer. Connects the overhead at Rea. Didn’t combo from the low either. That was just a pure mix up. Nice. Good shield. Oh, what a back throw incident. You’re stuck dealing with Leo. Back turn stance. Not good. Not fun. Boom. Huge damage. Huge damage as well. We have the 5P. We have the close slash. Goes the close and gets back dashed. Steam just not afraid to step back out and they’re working. So why would you be double overhead gets blocked into the eyes of Storm? There goes the 2D. The Lost Flash on the Pierc, but being not gone for it. Goes the 2D again. First out from Bean. Watch out situation. And there it is. Nitro staying alive here, preventing the reset for one more game. Still needs that one win. There goes the throw to set the tone. Cross up blocked and now the jump block even with the first. There’s the far slash connected into this fight. 5H connected from a mile away there. 2D 2D connected with the 2D. Who’s got the better 2D? I don’t know. Nice. Good use of the tight rope to force Nitro into the corner. Overhead not connecting. 2K2V does tries to bait out a DP but is able to get the wall break. One touch situation. Wow, what a 2K into nothing. All over that option. not afraid to just play that mind game and it’s working out despite getting thrown the last time on the 2K being just stuck with the layer one. It’s working out so far as we’re now up around and being with the wall breaks. Not even 5 seconds of the round is very close to resetting this bracket. 2D it’s a clone 2D again the far side gets the second one though. Uh-oh. Nice. Gets the throw. both players have so much meter to work with. You’re seeing the whip grab and then PRC back to not allow any punish to happen. Oh, and that whip grab gets punished. There’s a burst. 2K 6K burst gone from Bean. Wants the corner for a little longer. Needs one more hit to secure the reset. Back dash away from the 5K. Looking hungry for it, but who’s hungry? It’s the close slash from Nitro. Keep grease in the back pressure to counter it on the S. That’s almost the kill. Bane loses the lead off that Oh, that’s such a tragic way to go down. That’s almost a reset. But now such a big win for Nitro on that round cuz now you’re one away game five. Super the momentum EP from Bean. 5K gets punished from the back dash. Red blocked. No RC though. Nitro gets the back turn offense running away. How did that hit? Ew. 5k throw gets teched. 5k 2D 2D from Nitro though. Here comes the back turn pressure. Over gets blocked and back. That’s the way the new spacing from that Leo nerf really mattered in that interaction. Over gets blocked. Portable JP. Throw gets jumped. Both players cannot open each other up. And there goes the DP. DP. Hold on. I want to DP back. Hold on. Nitro almost. on the command. Not kill the blocks. Oh my god. Oh my god. Still not dead. We got a reset. We have got a reset. Bean getting the 31 to bring it to the grand to both sides on the losers. So no more sets can be dropped. Close flash to us. Gamma blade gets DPD. 2D trade, but that’s better for Bean. Another DP from Nitro. Oh, nice DP. DP again. DP back. They’re going for 2D. Who wants it? Who wants another DP? Wild DP again. The DPS is ins corner and a massive wall break for the super, but Nitro’s got first. Hard knock down time. Cross up going to connect. Full combo. The burst going to send bean to the mid screen is looking one here. Far class going to connect into the rea. This is absolutely going to kill as Bean looking very strong on the reset. We’ve got a round number two. Bean up the first round of the reset. 50 burst to work with as well while Nitro has none. But there goes the 2D. We did not see a 2D coming chat. Surely. Oh my god. at 60% of your health gone and one combo. Good luck. Another one into the back turn. Going to reset for more mix up over at block. It’s over again. They’re not ready for the second one. Jumping over to 2D with a perfect round. Nitro fighting back. 2D again. 2K going to connect. Full combo here. 2K 2D. Oh, the same side. On the same side. Now we’re extending right to the corner but not enough to wall stick to bait something. Doesn’t find it. The cross up grab. Oh, but DP going to stop the backurn stance and you bait a DP. That’s half dust combo extend with the alpha blade and the baited burst into the Zairoa does this kill. RC. It’s there we go. B the first game of the reset. And now Bean has officially taken the lead in this grand finals. Here we go. 2D for 2D. They keep trading lows for Lowe’s, but Nitro getting the first one to connect. So now being out of burst crossup gets blocked. 2K going to connect to this fight. Oh, the throw gets back dash. And now 32 punish. Not the worst punish in the world, but it’s going to be mix up time because he got that tight rope set up. Same side back at BC. Good punish from Nitras. Going to do a full combo with a slow down to 5H. Turbulence wall stick. No, he doesn’t get it into the throw. Nitro. Uh-oh. Cross up. Where you going? Nitro now the lead for this game, but not in the lead in the set. Needs another round just like that. But a 2D getting blocked. The closeup punishes not what you want to see. has to burst early despite being up around guard point to get around that JD though. Five coming huge. Go for the wall break. A lot of damage. Here we go. Big hit for Nitro now. Close flashes in. But the throw from Bean getting aggressive. Delay on the Oh, almost got caught by that 2D back turn gets punished by the far slash there. Takes for the break, but no hard knock down. Both players without resources just yet. But now the positive going to come in clutch for Bean here. 5KD overhead’s locked back. Wall run. Yeah, there we go. Get it. No, it’s the kill. We get the kill. All right, hold on. [Music] Round three. Whoa. Alpha play to get around the throw. I can’t keep up. They’re fleeing the layer number 89. Oh, the 6P. The safe side low. Oh, by the burst comes out from Nitro. Oh, Bash just called out in the back from 2K. Whoa, the RC to chase the chase. Where you going? The moon marking up the kill splat. We got it. Oh my god. Oh my god. What a route with the 5T to close it out. We are one and one on the grand finals reset. This is absolutely insane. If y’all OS y’all are joining this grand finals, let me hear y’all. Make some noise. Thank you. Thank you very much. We appreciate y’all. Oh, there we go. Big hit for Nitro. Hard knockdown with the back super burst is already gone. The damage already stacking and the throw. Throw. Nitro is taking no prisoners right now. All trading 2Ds. Here we go. First force out for Nitro early. Go for the Sonic. Oh, almost. That was crazy. Tight rope set that up. Finds the cross up. Here we go. Going right to the corner and has enough meter for the super. Big wall break coming in here. That positive bonus going to be very significant if being can take this round because that means burst will be online next round. Alpha Blade were extending right to the corner with this onroga. Not up to kill. There’s going to be a hard knock down. We’ve seen Alpha Blade here before. And there it goes again. 5K to check the 2D sniping out of the air. Dean clearing into round three once again. This is such an important round here for Momentum. Everyone’s backing up now. We’re in back turn neutral. 2D versus back turn. Who’s going to win it? They trade, but that’s Spanish for Dean. DP out from Nitro. 2K 2D back turn. Oh, the mash from Dean. Not afraid to check that. And a nice wall break coming in. the first huge form there. Can we get the kill? It’s on the ro. Oh no, same side. Resetting again the connect. Oh. Oh my god. What a counter hit. First comes out. Gone. Bean has the advantage. Can control the pace here. He has the recolo. Has the 2D. Goes for Nether. Goes for throw instead. And throw again. Oh, the blade. Bean clutches it out. Is now up 2-1. Champion versus Chami, but only one can be the undisputed FNL champion. Bean one round away from securing that title. CK2D getting it started early, but a DP going to stop Fiend’s pressure with Crash. Oh, what a DP again. stuck in the corner, but a nice back throw going to put Nitro in the corner now. Nice closing gap with the PRC. Burst comes out. Neither player has access to it, but Bean does have a lot of meter to work with here, but a DP comes out. Oh my god, the fight be catches out the overhead. The double close slash wire see from bean runs over the 2kd catching nitro standing up here toss one again one again holding a corner but nitro ease with the BRC to get out of there despite the pressure that be was putting on slowly boxing out but now both are in the middle 52k gets split punished oh my god these footsies are crazy ah okay good push RC’s enough and it is nitro survives the onslaught of kicks and is still in it. One run away from bringing it up to game number five. 2K2D again from Dean. Chase S going to connect. Tightroppe combo. There we go. It stuck in the corner now though. Super to wall break. Stress is a factor here. Indeed it is. But Nitro probably going to hold on up rounds. Just want to give it up too early. There goes the flash kick. 2s into a whiff. 2 H it’s still a thing believe it or not 2S 2K2H rather 2K 6H into the wall break no hard knocks down both players piercing forward with punch RC with a full combo bead is one round away survive chance for Nitro non-stop pressure the clones the 2D they don’t stop the force slashes going for keeps the corner but Nitro’s on the right spacing and timing the jump by every time [Applause] first gone from Nitro can’t make another mistake blocked but oh the two the after hold on why RC cross up smart play by is still the quarterback token with it again. Oh my god. Wait, hold on. It’s not over. Delaying. Super delaying. Looking for the jump. The gambling blade beats it though. Over connecting this. Is it enough? Is it enough? It’s not. It’s not for Nitro. PC. the T. Oh my god. And Bean takes it in a close preset and he’s your SNL number three champion. Give it up for Bean. Wow. Absolutely incredible set. Talk about an absolutely incredible tournament. An insane run from Bean. What a set. Wow. Bean showing up again. No pre-reg jump scare everybody. And I’m here and I’ve got no Tyro. I’m still going to cook. Wow. And proceeded to do just that. actually a little more terrible than last time. Had the left rights down. We saw the combos. We saw the combo combos. They were there. They were fun to see. And now that 2D, that new 2D ridiculous. We saw that a lot. That was putting in the work. That’s for sure. Absolutely. But that’s going to be the it for our bracket tonight. I hope you guys had as much fun as we did. But that’s going to be it for us. I’m Jav. You can follow me at my Twitter and Twitch both at the same tag. You’re already here if you know that. But obviously One Wise, what you got for us? I’m One Wise. I love commentating. I love streaming. You can find me One Wise on Twitch, One Wise 1306 everywhere else. I host a Guilty Gears drive weekly online on Sundays. So, if you’re ever interested in competing, check that out. We have a hell of a league with already a $650 prize pool, 4hour league final. We have some absolutely incredible tournaments there. Also, fun LL cosplay photos on the Instagram. Go check those out. But thank you all so much for being here at OSMYC for Friday Night Live. It was an absolute pleasure being here. Can’t wait to see you guys next month for some 2x KO. It’s going to be a lot of fun and we can’t wait to see you there. Have a good night. Peace. [Music]

Date: 8/29/2025

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