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Winston B. We're going to Nani. Wait, SSG are picking Nani and banning Winston. Okay, this is a weird match.
>> Six and a half hours later.
>> Watch Point Gibralar. Why are we bringing Dallas to every dive map? This is hilarious.
All right, here we go. Upper final. This is for a land slot. Whoever wins it secures a slot to Tokyo. This will be the first NA slot given out.
Whoever gets knocked out uh here goes down to the lower bracket and they get another chance.
>> Ready for battle.
>> I get cold very easily. That's kind of my weakness. I deal with uh heat and humidity very well. Um it's just the uh the cold that gets to me. I am so looking forward to Japan just because it's it's humid and hot and I'm like yippee.
Like humidity that that's like super high. It's obviously it's uncomfortable, but >> I can deal with it.
>> Yeah, I uh I don't have much body fat, so I don't hold on to the heat or anything, you know. Um it just I just kind of uh I have very good ventilation systems. Unfortunately, all the heat leaves my body as well during the winter. So yeah, you live somewhere very wet, but it's also cold. That is unfortunate.
>> Yeah.
You don't think I understand humidity? I do understand humidity. I'm not sure what you mean.
>> Either way, Dallas Field versus Space Station. This going to be fun.
Not a lot has happened so far. This is a Mecca base. This is where you're going to see most of just the uh the default brawl compositions.
The override will activate.
>> All right. going to have Kitsu here ready to go.
You want to try and run down Kell's Romatra. They're going to get in position. Drop the Kitsu pretty fast.
Space station push forward off of this.
Hawk is going to take a lot of damage though. Trying to get away. Cops the bubble to protect himself. Chronic is not able to get the kill. Oh, catches Admiral 2% away from B. Ultraviolet trades Chronic. Now CJ just trying to keep his fellow Juno alive. Lukemino lives for now. Dallas Fuel. Both support ultimates at the ready. Kellen slow onto Lethal. Lethal still able to slide away for now though. CJ takes down Hawk. That is a solid kill for Dallas Fuel.
Dallas having first pick in the series is a massive advantage by the way. Like Dallas are are a team so dependent on map picks. Also, Space Station are using a valuable Anna ban early on. A valuable div.a ban from Dallas and a valuable Anna ban from Space Station.
Interesting.
I think I'm taken aback by yippy to humidity. Uh, it's humid in Pennsylvania where I'm at as well. I'm used to humidity, especially in the summer. It gets quite humid here. Um, it does not get as hot as Japan, but weirdly, Japan does not feel too different. It's like a hotter version of where I live almost. It's weird the climate there. Last time I was there, it was in the summer. That's like the time when everyone says it's most miserable to be in Japan. I was there and I'm like, "Yeah, it's nice."
Now, I think the humidity was a bit much how consistently high it was while I was there, but that was the only annoying thing.
Western Pennsylvania, I should uh I should specify more in the Appalachian.
Oh, yeah. I do have lived experience.
Yeah.
>> Appalachia actually has it's like technically like temperate rainforest almost technically around in those areas like I'm closer to that.
It's kind of it's not it's not a rainforest and and how you'd think of it. But yeah, um humidity it doesn't bother me. In some places I know some people aren't used to it and they they haven't experienced it much. I'm used to it.
But yeah, um >> yeah, >> I don't mind it. I [ __ ] with it. Now, here we go. Yep. We're going to go to Sanctuary. This is the classic ball sub map.
Luke Mino able to take down lethal early on.
All right, Hawk trying to live there.
Playing the anchor on point. and Sugarfree able to take down Chronic.
I like that Sugar Free is finally back on Tracer. Makes me feel a bit a bit better about Space Station's chances.
Hawk also playing a ton of Arisa lately, mostly in return to that uh has a lot to do with that diva ban, of course. But yeah, speaking of humidity, we got Wet Boy. So true. So true.
But yeah, no. Uh I'm really curious to see how Japan is like in uh in May when I go. I'll assume it's still going to be pretty hot and still pretty humid. Maybe a bit more. I don't know if it would be more humid. I don't know. I have to look into it, but spring will be interesting.
Either way, looking forward to it. I like traveling. The only reason I'm worried about the weather a teeny bit is if it's raining too much. Um, hiking may be difficult.
I might have to like buy hiking boots there cuz hiking is one of the big things I want to do. Uh, but obviously if you're going to be like trying to make your way through mud the entire time. It' be kind of tough. Kellen takes down Lethal Bear on the walk up space station. Already lost one. They're going to have to back off. Reset. Take it slow.
Take it slow. Take it patient.
>> Okay. Battlebot from Chronic over top sitting there. Space station having a rough time in their walk up.
Sunjun misses the pulse.
Uh why do different regions have such different metas? Probably because different regions don't scrum each other um because of ping. If we want to go into specifics, it's the laws of physics um that make it so that internet can't you know that the laws of physics dictate that ping must exist and therefore Oh, Ajax. Um >> yeah, mostly the laws of physics.
Um but yeah, no. Um how how do metas develop? Do we know this?
That's the big thing because if you know how meta developed, then it's it's an easy answer. It's not patch notes. Patch notes do not decide whe whether something's meta or not. Um in fact, we overreact to patch notes a lot. Um, it's mostly testing in scrims. It's just how what's working in scrims, who's scrimming who. Regions can't scrim across very much or at all because of ping. It's really it.
But yeah. Okay. Winston ban. We're going to Nani. Wait. SSG are picking Nani and banning Winston. Okay. This is a weird match.
The weather where I live is just randomly generated. It's been randomly generated lately. Um, we had a set of days where one day it snowed and uh, sorry, one day it was 70°, so 70 Fahrenheit, and then it was snowing the next day.
Genuinely, it was like a high of 72.
a high of 72 and then the next day it was snowing.
Western Pennsylvania is a a place All right.
>> Well, here we go.
>> SSG. Uh, Juno break. You're playing that willingly into Anna.
Why? I guess they don't really have much choice. The Lucio's band, they gave first band to Dallas, huh?
What is Christopher cooking with this?
>> Like, we're just trying [ __ ] at this point.
>> Yeah, CJ gets one.
>> Yeah, I don't know what to think of this.
Nice, Suzu.
Oh my goodness. Sugar free. Hold on.
Are you prepared?
Unironically, I think life of her Anna is good in first point defense here.
Um, against a div.a comp against what?
I don't I don't see I don't see your vision. I'm so sorry.
You're just you're just going to have to keep giving space and es keying >> and and what's your anchor? What's anchoring for you? Cuz you're just going to get lost. You're going to you're going to get shoved into the room.
What's the plan when you get shoved into the room?
Yuri, also I think I got a request for this Yuri back a while ago and I like got it ready. But yeah, um you don't get into the room, you drop down, so you drop mid. You give the high grounds to the attacking team. They've fully cleared it and you lose the fight because you have no space. Then use life to get back up. How do you get back? How do you How do you How do you push the space? You have no aggressive power.
Life comps can only play second. You can't retake.
You can only play second. You can only stall. You can't retake space.
Why are ster and aren cats? It's necessary.
>> Hold on.
I I'll add the new Yuri.
You have diva yourself, but their div.a has more support than your div.a. Your div.a can't solo retake.
>> No, I I don't think you can.
Um, as a climber and hiker, I can give you some advice for boots and clothing.
I can't take anything with me to Japan.
I'll have to buy it in Japan locally.
So, if you are experienced with Japanese brands in Osaka, let me know. Otherwise, not too useful. I'm sorry. Um, I don't I don't know if any advice is really going to be of assistance really.
I'm not I'm not going to be able to have room to bring anything. I'll probably not bring anything back with me as well.
I won't have room. So, I'll probably have to like leave it there. I don't I don't know if I'll buy anything for hiking just cuz it's not going to be viable for me to bring things.
But yeah, um I'm not an inexperienced hiker um as well, but if I buy gear, it's going to have to be low.
But yeah.
>> All right. Push with Admiral Rally.
Sunjun's going to get marked out there.
Oh, what a pulse from Sunjun. Actually pretty solid.
>> Sugar-free counter pulse.
Well, Space Station have actually been somewhat successful here. This has worked. I mean, they they've done what they've needed to do. I'm impressed, honestly. The fact that they made it this far. I guess they do have the Diva.
They got rid of the Winston.
Why can't you bring things? Um I'm just not going to have space for that to bring things and bring it back. Um that's not going to be a thing.
So yeah, it's it's very unlikely that I'll be able to buy like new boots or whatever. If I absolutely need them, I'll get them and then leave them there.
Um, but I'm not going to be able to take anything like that with me.
It is not going to be essential items that are necessary enough for me to bring them. Fact is is I'll just do everything in my tennis shoes if I need to. That's what I'll do.
And I'll just wear decent clothes.
It's not like I'm climbing up a mountain.
I don't need 10 pounds of gear.
Well, I might climb up mountains. Just not not the kind that you're climbing climbing or of hiking up them. But yeah, um uh Japan is not as strict as New Zealand in terms of the uh the biocurity stuff.
New Zealand is just different.
It's not like that in uh in Japan.
I don't think there'd be any issue bringing uh boots or something.
I know New Zealand has like an hour of screening or something you have to go through like a whole thing. No, it's not not the case. But yeah. Um >> is it cheap for US tourists to buy things in Japan? Not as much as it used to be, but um Japan is cheaper. Yeah.
It's a matter of what can fit in what I'm bringing, what I'm packing.
I'm only bringing one checked bag on the way in. I'll probably get a second check bag there and like check two bags on the way out if I want to buy stuff and whatever else. Um, but I'm going to be minimal packing. Absolutely minimal packing.
I didn't think any place would be cheap for tourists if they get tourists. I mean, it's kind of hard to be more expensive than the US. I mean, it's so funny. Like, everyone's like, "Guy, like, you have to be ready for Stockholm. Stockholm is so expensive."
And I go there and I'm like, "It's US prices."
like bum ass like US suburbs prices.
>> No, it's not.
>> Uh I won't be renting anything though.
Not my type of thing. Um no, I'm not doing Mount Fuji because Mount Fuji is not climbable in May. Unless you're doing winter uh winter gear. You have to be able to winter climb with [ __ ] full gear. I'm not doing that. Um, yeah.
No. Uh, Stockholm is just normal prices for me. In fact, uh, buying things at convenience stores and stuff was cheaper. Uh, grocery prices were generally cheaper is what I found um with with a lot of items. Um, yeah, eating for four in Japan can sometimes be uh be significantly cheaper than eating for two in the US as well. Uh, the prices eating out in Japan is one of the big things. It's the the prices are incredibly good.
um like to eat out in the US I regularly pay >> um you know if you're going to a decent nice place $60 $70 for two people you know especially with the with the tip of course added on um but yeah it's a lot of I've had a few dinners that reach $80 90 like if I go hot pot like hot pot can be that expensive. Um yeah, so Stockholm was kind of like again Europeans are so funny to me.
I I love when Europeans try and be like no it's so bad here. It's the funniest [ __ ] imaginable. It's so funny. It's so bad. So come so expensive. Shut the [ __ ] up.
Yeah, I' I've paid $90 for hot pot before. That was like the expensive premium, but still. Uh that was in Chicago, Chinatown, so a bit more expensive, but yeah. Um, normally hot pot for like two people, you know, be in the $60, $70 range.
>> Normally, >> factoring EU wages versus US wages, look at your rent compared to US rent.
Look at your healthare cost compared to our healthcare costs. The the the the moment the moment you you you think about that, it's cooked. Shak mentioned, was I there? Not for that one. That was the dinner I did with Chay.
Um, but yeah. No. Uh to be fair, Switzerland is pro actually horrible. So, US city basically.
I assume it's just like California prices maybe at worst.
Yeah, Switzerland can be bad. I've heard that. But also um you have to keep in mind your rent and your and your healthcare is significantly cheaper if not you know for healthcare non-existent. Um yeah my pet peeve is the Americans who act like people from other countries aren't allowed to complain cuz the US is worse.
Um I I think I think my thing is more so when um when people try and tell me it's so bad here and it's like no it's not. I think I think it's just it's just it's like I don't know because it's true.
But yeah, um the rent is crazy.
I think like I where that comes from is I've talked a lot about how um if things in the US worsen a lot, I'm going to go to Germany most likely if I can. That's one of my main options because I know a good bit of German. German will be the easiest language for me to master by far. Um, I took several years of it in high school and in uni. Um, am I great with it? No. Am I will I be very efficient in learning it? Yes, cuz my grammar is good. My vocab isn't there.
And people are always like, "No, Germany is so bad politically and this and that." I'm like, "No, it's not. It's not >> like it's it's just perspective. But I think it's the perspective. It gets on my nerves the littlest bit.
>> But yeah, um, Germany is not that bad.
Germany is fine.
Is Tracer flexer main support? This is an amazing question. Um, personally, I think Tracer is more of a tempo support, but that's just me.
>> Germany is also humid, FYI. Amazing.
Awesome.
>> It's great. Perfect.
But yeah, >> what Would yang be considered a hit scan DPS? Um, >> we will have >> on Tuesdays. Yes.
OC, is there language learning techniques you like that aren't brute force? Just consuming a ton of language media or is it brute force? Uh, the best language learning technique that you can use is to uninstall Duolingo, uninstall most other language learning apps and just download [ __ ] ANI >> and brute force it.
and watch media in the language without subtitles and listen >> and then do more Anki and then listen and then look at uh textbooks for grammar and also uninstall Dualingo again if it's somehow reinstalled itself on your phone like a [ __ ] plague to this earth.
Overclock from lethal.
I love how little Mray is being played right now. It gives me so much happiness.
It's so pleasant. I love how I've just I've just stopped talking about the game. It's Nani. Like, do we really need to be talking about Nani right now?
Like, is that important? Like, we have Hawk on Hazard, Helen on Ram. Like, >> I don't know. Is Duolingo really that bad? Yes, it is.
>> Genuinely, it's just it's just not good for it's not good for learning languages.
It's it's it's a good way to pretend and make you and make yourself feel like you're learning a language. Um, but yeah, what makes it bad for learning? There are so many [ __ ] reasons. Um, and and many educators have have given plenty of reasons online. I won't speak on that.
You can just do your own research at that point. It's not a good learning tool, though.
It's it's a it what it is is it's something for people who are too lazy to put the effort into actually learning a language. So they want to try and and and that's really what what the target audience for Duallingingo is. The target audience for Duolingo is people who don't have the motivation to open a textbook for the it's for the people who don't have the motivation to like download an Anki deck and get started with that. It's for the people who aren't serious about learning a language but still want to learn a language.
They're the that it it is an app designed for for the group of people least likely likely to succeed in learning a new language.
>> Thank you Wolf Spells for the sub with Prime.
How hard is it to become in pro to become pro in Overwatch? Uh, first of all, I wouldn't recommend it, especially not in this stage of the game. But if you really wanted to do it, uh, you know, I'm going to give I'm going to give another hot take right now, chat. Going pro is not hard. Going pro is not hard. I know other people have given the same take in in other forms or other like um other ways, but going pro in anything really is not as hard as you think it is because 99% of the people do not put forth the effort to actually go pro in the first place.
Like everyone's like 99 99% of people fail. It's not really true cuz 99% of people don't even try in the first place. So like here's the thing. Most people are unwilling to fulfill the prerequisites to be a pro player. And it's [ __ ] miserable to be one. Why? Cuz you don't have a life.
You're going to play a [ __ ] ton. You're going to vaude a [ __ ] ton. You're not playing the game for fun anymore. You're playing the game to win solely to win.
If you're still playing it for fun and you think and and and the only way you can you can shift it to still being fun is if you find winning fun. Winning must become your fun. The game is no longer your fun. You need to play hours, hours, hours. You need to give up time with your friends, with your family. You need to give up the possibility of maybe having a girlfriend. And if you get do get one, you might need to quit. You might need to end your career there early. You're going to get paid basically nothing until you're at the very top.
There are so many reasons to not do it.
There's so many reasons to not do it. Um >> but yeah.
I don't know. I mean, most people most people will not put that effort in.
And the the only the only players who it is worth it for is the collegiate people, arguably. If you're getting free college for it, makes sense if you're a kid who's happens to be good already.
But if you're like silver now and you want to be and and you want to go pro and especially if you're already in uni >> or you're not in the US, there's no reason really >> unless unless you're that passionate about the game. But although a lot of people might feel like they're that passionate about the game, you're not.
You're not.
You got to be willing to do it for years.
every single week for years.
Constant scrims, constant VODs, constantly playing the game.
Kellen, wait. Big boop.
>> Gaming for Hope is a pretty good deterrent, honestly. Yeah. I mean, Gaming for Hope is interesting. He's an interesting dude. That's all I'll say.
Oh, yeah. Content creation is um is the best thing you can do. If you want if you want to do anything video game related professionally, content is going to be your best possible path to success.
>> Um yeah, >> I might be crazy, but aside from getting burnt out, I would and do actually enjoy that. Will you three years from now? You see, here's the thing. You can think now I can put everything towards this. I can play every day. I can do this. I can do that. Are you willing to do that every week, every month, every year? How long are you willing to do that? How how long are you willing to sell that much of your life away when your peers are probably still making more than you and work less than you?
Like eventually how much are you willing to sacrifice?
That is the question.
And there's no guarantee of job security or anything else. It's stressful as hell.
Do it for uni. I've said this before.
Get get yourself a scholarship. That's great.
>> But Don't go pro in this game.
You can always become a caster. No, don't do that either. Don't rely on getting talent. Getting talent and becoming a caster is so hard and they want to stick with the same people.
Perma, I mean, for me, the idea of becoming a caster even in my position and like actually casting OWCS is near impossible.
And I've been told this. I mean, I I straight up had someone tell me at one point, "Yeah, if you have any hope of like casting for like OWCS or anything in the future, give up.
>> That's not happening. They're sticking with the same people."
>> Straight up got told from some and and and someone who who who is involved with those things and it's like just give up.
And and and the only reason they said that, it wasn't them trying to be mean to me or anything. It they they said that to other people as well. It's not specifically about me. It's it's just the fact that the the those lineups don't change either.
>> Is it like this for every game? I'd say esports in general is about >> the most unstable thing.
>> Hi there.
is charging.
>> But yeah, no, casting OWBCs, even for someone in my position, basically impossible. I was told, give up. That's not happening.
There's basically zero chance. Maybe in 5 10 years in a different esport, if you're lucky, if you're in the position where you're friends with the right people.
It's the position that only opens up when it's a different game. That's what it is. And even then, you have to be friends with the right people and know the right people and have the right experience. But you don't get the experience cuz you didn't get the cast the previous game you did. I'm not going to have any professional experience even if I get involved in a new game or whatever else. And most likely the same people who have been in the industry for a while are are just going to get the job. And that and that's how it is in esports.
>> Isn't that how it is for normal jobs, too? Um, normal jobs tend to have benefits, um, livable pay, and job security.
And usually you'll stick with that job more than one stage or one season.
Did we get a draw? Man, Nani is a time.
Well, deleting the predictions, opening predictions for next map.
Awesome.
I'll stick to enduring my 9 to5 and just participate in community tournaments.
Yeah.
Yeah. That's for the best. It's fine to appreciate a game and play it for fun, but I would recommend doing that, you know, like that's that's the thing you do. Watch Point Jibralter. Why are we bringing Dallas to every dive map? This is hilarious.
Brrigen Sim, man. Like, what is going on? Why are we Why are we going to Jivy?
Even if you beef up the prize pools for Overwatch, it doesn't matter. Doesn't change anything.
But yeah, I don't know. But yeah.
OC. What is the best Yuri?
Uh, there's plenty of good Yuri out there.
Oh, right. Okay, I need to add the new Yuri that I wanted to add to it.
Hold on.
This one was requested, I think. I don't I forget the ship name. I don't know what this is. Can we identify this Yuri ship?
I was requested to uh to put this one on the wallith.
Okay.
Yes, there you go. I think that I think that's a that that's a cute one.
We can put them here.
I love drinking just straight milk.
>> I love my protein drink.
Can we add Walter White? No, no, very kitty coded. I I'm just now realizing that is kind of catgirl coded.
I wasn't even thinking about it that way, but I um Yeah, that's funny.
Literally 1984. My bad.
Uh, Jialter, Jialter, Jialter, Jialter, Jibby, Jibby, Chronic Widowmaker, Sugar Freeze on Tracer. Thank goodness. So, we're just going to play Diva versus Winston and hope for the best. And we're not even going to play We're gonna play Sge, too. Is this not just a terrible [ __ ] draft for Space Station?
Okay, chat. I genuinely do not know what's going on in Christopher's mind.
Like, I am intrigued. Like, okay, I'm to the point where I'm not mad anymore. I just want to know what the idea is behind like forcing the maps that should be bad for you. Like, what is the concept here?
Like, I don't understand.
Chris realizing coaching is not the way trying to become a content creator.
>> Oh my goodness. Is Chris actually not coaching? I thought he was. He He He was on interview yesterday. or are we just memeing? I just think it's so funny.
Like, Lethal doesn't want to play anything but Sojurnn. And this is the one place that's like not good for that.
Like Sojurnn isn't very good here. Like you should play Freya against Winston.
And of course, right when I say that, the Winston kills the the SoG.
Twitch had the watch to earn drops thing on this stream. Am I going crazy?
Okay. Ultraviolet CJ both have >> katsune.
>> Why is that just in your pocket? We kind of need it a lot.
It comes in handy.
Okay, Kellen up top. OCZ is going to love this one cuz I just spent the entirety of Nani like [ __ ] off and not talking about it.
>> Both draws this stage I was so locked out of the game that when it happened I just like looked over and I'm like, "Oh, okay. We drew."
>> Chronics is chilling up here.
>> Oh my goodness. He got one. Do not provoke me.
>> Going to spawn to heal on Widow.
What a time. Kellen, kill Sugarfree.
So, Christopher, I would like to know what the plan is now.
I would like to know what the reasoning for this is.
Why hasn't anyone been playing Freya?
I mean, I don't know. Lethal could lethal is just a Sojun one trick basically is is the situation. Chronic is playing Widow cuz you can play Wall of Death. That makes sense.
like play playing playing the Freya against Winston is the one time when Freya is good, especially right now in this meta cuz on high ground maps you're going to see D.Va. Freya is not good into D.A. but like Lethal can, but Christopher takes them to the map where they can't play Freya.
Like they they have the non Freya player.
I don't get it.
The Chris [ __ ] copy past is a classic actually.
>> It is a bit of a classic. I think I think we do need to make that a command.
>> Yeah, we can.
Okay. A little bit of pressure on Kellen there. Taking a lot of damage. Can Dallas hold this? I mean, the Widowmaker has no space. Pulse bomb aimed at Kellen.
Yeah. Okay. Space station make it through first. Just barely.
It's a little bit longer.
It's the full name, but still peak.
I love how everyone likes the exclamation point sered. That is kind of a legendary one.
CJ Kitsune at the ready.
All right. Sunjun chasing down the Lucio. The tracking kind of goes wild.
>> Oh, hi.
All right, bomb.
>> All right, SSG, they have a better chance of actually fighting back on second point. Second point, the Div.a versus uh Winston matchup is a bit more even. They just need to aggro beat and run down Chronic. If they can aggro beat with Admiral here and and win this, it's it's it's doable. It is doable.
Chronic kill sugarree. Well, now it's not very doable. They have to leave.
That kind of sucks.
>> Who decided to kick Chronic and CG off of SSG? It's not kicking. It's off season. Their contracts expired. They could go anywhere they wanted.
um they weren't kicked off of SSG.
>> Every player on SSG had their contract expire for most part. Every single team had all their players contracts expire so the players could go anywhere.
It's esports a little different than traditional sports. I know offseason means basically every team every team shifts except for like some of the absolute best. Like a team staying together is really rare.
pocket behind chronic.
>> Not Chronic. Sorry. Duh. Or no, he did.
Yeah.
Kitsu Dallas. I think they're going to stable here. Sugarfree does get CJ. Hawk goes.
Wouldn't it be beneficial to keep a team together to build synergy? Uh, less so in esports.
um the value of players shifts drastically and that causes a lot of a um a lot of issues in terms of keeping teams together. Uh in traditional sports, the rules don't tend to change every month or two um like they do in esports where a new hero is added, a new thing is added, balance is changed. So like a really good div.a player could just be rendered useless for an entire season the moment D.Va gets nerfed and and and that just stays that way. Uh the value of players shifts quite a lot. The skill level of players shifts quite a lot. Um who who wants to play with who changes quite a bit. If you're not on the winning team, you usually want to try and build a better team that can win. Um so it doesn't really work out that way where teams stay together for synergy.
Some teams do somewhat stay together in that sense. the sometimes the core of the team stays together, but they switch out a few players. Uh it's just dependent on so many factors, but usually the only teams that stick together are the top teams in each region. And even then, that's not a guarantee.
SSG defense, it's going to be uh Kiri Wuang. Really? Okay. They're going to play Widow.
Is GK still around? They're an EMA team now with a completely different roster.
The whole switch room in Korea really stresses your point. Yep. Falcons, a high performing team in Korea, still lost their best player.
They go all over the place. The off season is just a contract hell.
Contracts in esports don't last long because it's high risk high risk for the orgs as well. players are signed for uh sometimes as short as one stage and the longest they get signed is usually a season.
Getting a season contract is is kind of a massive break. It's a ma it's massive and that only happens for partner orgs.
How differently do you think this match would go if you swap Kellen and Hawk? Uh I mean that's a good question. I don't I don't know if I could really answer that. I don't know how Hawk and Kellen would work differently with the different squads.
That seems really strenuous. Constantly having new teammates and moving teams.
Uh why do you think I was telling and saying don't go pro in Overwatch? It's not like going pro in traditional sports. You don't stay with the same team for years and years. That's rare.
That's rare. And that only that mostly happens with the most stable and largest of esports. And even those esports have a lot of volatility compared to to traditional sports.
Staying with an org for two to three years is like the rarest thing.
>> Okay. Pressure on Kellen inside of the room. I'm going to pop the primal to live.
Go back behind. Kill lethal. Nice. You get rid of the soge.
Now you leave. You chill. Live. Live.
Live. Dallas want to play for their Kitsu next. Kell's going to drop in pretty fast cuz he's relying on this Kitsu now. Nice. Yep. Kitsu to respond to that uh Tidal Blast. Title Blast was actually pretty good bait for the Kitsu.
Yeah, they kind of baited that out a little bit, didn't they? Kelen still takes down Admiral now.
uh Kuffa just didn't get picked up and I believe Kuffa may have um he was either right about to finish college uh or uni or like he was finished and I think he might count as an import now which also made him a bit less valuable as a prospect but yeah um yeah Kafa just didn't get an offer. Oh, thank you Riley CS for the 100 viewers. What's up?
That's wild.
How's it going? Oh my goodness.
>> Hi. Hi. We're talking about esports stuff.
We've got the final match of the day on for OWCS today. It's Dallas and Space Station. This is for uh actually a land slot. This is a pretty important match.
Whoever wins this goes to Tokyo. Whoever loses, they still get another chance.
They go to lower bracket. They play tomorrow. But welcome everyone.
Thank you so much for the raid.
Beat down from Luke Mino. Walking forward. Got to pocket the cast here.
One fight away. Dallas, they can take this map. I don't know why Space Station picked Gibralar. It was really confusing against the Winston. It's very interesting.
Ultraviolet finds Luke Mina. Okay, Space Station. They're holding on just barely.
>> All right, Hawk.
Yeah, to give even more background for the people just coming in, Dallas big Winston team. Jialter the map we're on.
Big Winston map. Space station took us to Jialter.
They banned Brig. So I I it's confusing.
The Brig does make D.Va better. So they're basically relying on Div.A dive beating Winston dive, but it's pretty close. It's pretty even and lethal. Not very good at like Freya, which is the big counter to the Winston comp. So, it's um it's interesting.
Dallas had to replace their support recently, right? No, that was Liquid who had the uh support player who said something they were not supposed to say.
That was the root ball situation.
Um yeah, Liquid uh surprisingly won their match today pretty easily. Um they still had a bit of trouble, but it was still a three. Oh, pulse still lands. Dallas, they're going to go up, too.
We also had a draw on Numani a moment ago. That was interesting. Well, SSG, this is your final chance. Kira ban from Dallas.
Ram ban from SSG. It's just me. Zary.
Well, neither team really wants to play Zarya. Maybe a Damir.
I honestly don't know.
Maybe Ma could be pulled out here.
There's a There's so many things you could play here. Like Juno Hazard.
Hazard be fun.
I can see that being played.
Uh when can I pick Hazard over Div.A and comp? That's a bit too broad of a question to really answer. Um because that's going to depend on what each team is playing, what part of the map you're on. Like again, it's it's one of those questions that's going to depend on too many factors. There's no broad general answer for you there as to when you should pick Hazard.
You're going to have to look at individual situations and choose whether okay, do we think Hazard's going to be good here or not? Um yeah.
Oh, they're doing this. Wait, wait. This is real. This is real. This is not bait.
Oh my goodness. This is real. They're going to go They're going to go Reinhardt. May. I thought they were going to do the Sim, but no, they're going to do the May. I don't like the May as much, but I guess Sunjun is not much of a Sim player. Huh.
You know, there's something oddly satisfying about watching a team play a Reinhardt comp against Christopher's team.
There's something oddly satisfying about that. For those who don't know, Christopher coached like the most famous Reinhardt onetrick team, um, Spitfire.
So, having the Reinhardt company played against them is is really quite funny.
That makes it like extra extra fun.
We'll see if Space Station can beat it.
I see the vision. This first point is where it's going to be the best cuz it's really kind of close quarters.
Oh yeah, Chronic Sge clip was incredible. That one was really, really nice on Blizzard World to close it out.
Kind of unreal.
>> And that one was genuinely impressive to me because like, you know, a lot of clips where you get 3ks, 4ks are just cleanup. like they look impressive, but it's just you happen to get the kill credit. Like that like that that that battlebot right there wasn't too impressive. It was just kind of thrown it out like it was kind of right in front of Lethal's face. Um but that those kills from like Chronic and that SGE clip like he genuinely just carried the fight like that was just that was just a straight fight went off of that.
Okay.
How do they get emil every fight? It is quite fast charging. I mean, again, like the alult is one of the better parts about it. Did Hawk just feed? Yeah, Hawk just straight fed. I He must have gotten slowed and just like he didn't react fast enough to the Reinhardt running him down in the May. Oh, Kellen >> kind of gets hit with the pulse bomb combo there. Flip for Dallas, though.
That's exactly what they need.
>> Yeah, we have a raid just in time for peak overwatch. This is kind of peak overwatch right here.
My goodness.
Is Cass for the Tracer? Uh, >> I wouldn't say Cass is necessarily for the Tracer here. Uh, a lot of the cast is simply because when you're playing cast comps, you're usually playing to like pocket him and run him around. And it it just so happens that like playing this Lucio and the Reinhardt and the Reinhardt perma shields him, it's the perfect opportunity for the Cass to be pocketed, right? When you play Cass, you have to just center around him. This is this is just a good comp for Cass. Uh, we've always seen like quite a bit of cast and Reinhardt comps as well. I'd say it's more of just synergy in the composition itself. It It does work to make the Tracer's life harder though, I will say. So, it it he does uh have that function.
>> Like something Sugarfree could do is potentially go venture or something, but I know Sugar Free probably not up the not up his alley.
Oh, wait. The shatter the doom for contest. And that is first point to Dallas. They needed that first point with his strat. They got the first point. That's good.
>> Awesome. Nice.
Okay, >> Admiral going to have beat space station beating into this. You can't you can't be too impatient. Battlebot was way too early from lethal. Oh, we're just making silly mistakes cuz we're getting caught up.
Space station. That's not good.
How bad is a stagger after cap on flashoint? Not too bad. I think respawns are a bit faster right after the cap happens for next point. And and and there is time before it unlocks, so you're kind of fine.
>> Okay. Yeah, aggro beat. You push in, you kill Chronic. Chronic is your main target if you're like aggro beating.
Maybe if you can get CJ's Baptiste as well, it's solid. But yeah, Dallas just have to play slow. Charge in.
Okay, window just to pocket the Reinhardt. Now we have a little bit of window duel across the map. They're going at each other.
May for the zoning as well. May alult is really hard to use, by the way, in this matchup. It's not super useful. That's another reason why I don't like the May a ton.
Yeah, normally you'd see more of the sim be played instead of the may.
Oh, Sanjun.
Okay.
Well, there you go. A bit of good me gameplay there.
>> Ultraviolet putting in the work there in the map. And that is a flip for space station.
>> Uh Sugarree's been on sim all season. It's been confusing seeing Space Station try and force sim comps. That has been a thing. Uh but yeah.
Sunjung got a kill with the ice block thing. Got ultraviolet. Chronic zoning.
I like that. Kellen over to Div.A. Yeah.
Again, the Reinhardt gets worse once you're out of first point. So, the fact that they're swapping makes sense.
They don't want to push the limits of the comp a bit too much.
>> Wow. Okay. Nice sugar.
Beats out from Luke Mino. Is that worth it? Only two players. Probably not. That may have been a bit of a throwaway for Dallas Fuel.
Okay.
Going to mirror the Mray. I agree with that in the div.a mirror.
>> Oh, yes. We had a draw. That's how it's mapped for.
Can see up here. Bonnie was a draw.
>> All right.
>> Yeah, Emmery here is fine. Oh, we're going to continue to adapt the compositions. Lukemino going over to Brig. Are we going to keep the May and go Brig? Oh, we're going Brijuno.
Oh, yeah. No, I mean that would be better than Bap Lucio, wouldn't it?
Yeah. Yeah, >> Sunjen will probably swap.
>> We'll see what Sunjun can get with this alult. It is so hard to use though. Just a defensive alt to deal with the beat.
Actually, perfect timing on that though.
They actually froze Hawk. Actually getting value out of Blizzard is wild.
still doesn't get a kill, but you know, if you're going to get value out of it, that's about the most you can get.
>> Yep. The sunshine swap then. Oh, we're not going to mirror Tracer. Not even against the Bap Lucio. Okay.
>> All right.
Let's see. Uh let's see what this results in.
uh lethal early battlebot.
Almost hit those >> battlebot now from Chronic. Push back in the re-engage. We'll see how effective this is. Good damage onto the Baptiste and onto the Lucio.
Uh Chronic just needs to live now. Oh, Sugar Free. Good followup on that damage. Now Sugarfree looking for another onto the Juno, but the Vendetta forces him away for now. Kellen very low going to be forced to rem. This could be disastrous for Dallas Field. They're going to use the rally as well to protect Kellen in the rem. Luke Mino holding the line here, but going to have to back off a little bit in the face of that window. Sugarree in the right spot at the right time looking for the pulse onto the brrig. misses the pulse, but still finishes off with Nino now looking for the Juno alongside Hawk helping him out. The dive is effective. Hawk finishes off. Uh CJ with those missiles and that's going to be another fight win and uh potentially the point for Space Station. Sunjun a bit of a later respawn. Your Vendetta is going to be your easiest touch, meaning that's not an option and your Diva is your second easiest touch. Luke Mino is going to go Lucio just a touch.
This could work. Hold on. Oh, no. Just Just to help us speed it a spawn. Oh, we're not going to touch. We're not going to touch. We're not going to touch. We're just We just given up on it. That's fair.
>> That's so fair.
>> Orbital ray from CJ. Beaten response from Admiral. Everyone on Dallas just trying to stay within the confines.
Battlebot now from Lethal. Okay, Kellen putting pressure on him. There is the uh sundering. Nothing for Central.
And Lethal with that killing to CJ is going to close out the fight in favor of SSG. So SSG in pretty good position postured to win this map even after struggling with the Reinhardt at first.
Uh >> oh.
>> Putting Kellen through absolute torment right now.
Okay, Sugarfree with the pulse.
Is he going to find anybody?
We will see.
Window down.
>> Oh, that was a nasty kill. Lino is going to come in here with the aggressive rally.
Get pulled by Sugarfree. Perfect pulse.
Yeah, that's it.
Kellen with the div.a bomb kill though.
That's Aura.
Wow, Sugarfree. Nice. Completely foiled the plans there with the with the rally engage. Beautiful stuff. Space Station 3-1.
We're going to map five. Who you got winning this map? Honestly, I don't really have a prediction for this map.
I'm really not sure. Predictions are still open though if y'all want to predict. I don't know though. I mean, you have Cass and Ball Bands.
Yeah, Dallas are going to pull out the Winston.
Pretty clear why they picked this map. I mean, their intentions are not hidden for sure. Casban means lethal has to play Sojurnn, which is totally fine with Dallas. Is it if it's going to be diva dive versus Winston dive, I'd lean towards Dallas winning.
We got the robot. Go.
All right, Kellen's going to take a bit of poke. Back off. Heal up a bit.
Playing for Nano. Faster you can farm Nano, the better. Chronic's going to take a good damage. Fine for now.
Engage. Soft hit from Kellen. CJ, I like this angle from behind. And it's risky though cuz you're not healing Kellen as much. But this flank, you're going to get recall out. Leave. You're good with that damage. Now Chronic's going to wrap around. We have another person on this angle. Nobody's checking this on space station. Like nobody's marking this.
Like we just have a Sojurnn sitting back here for fun. Slide away. Is the Kira going to go back there now? Yep. CJ's going back. Oh, gets hit with the rail.
TP's away.
Kurana is aggressive, but ideally this composition should be better at attacking the backline and especially lethal Sojurnn. So, it's a matter of playing as aggressive as you can. A good offense is a good defense basically is the idea. But the aggro beat, yep, the Anna gets run down. That's the risk you're taking.
The fact that Space Station built beat faster than Dallas could go for their first nano engage is a little uh depressing, though.
All right, progress. That's what I like.
>> They're supposed to be able to farm nano faster than space station can build their alts for neutral.
I wonder if they'll ever bring the owl recolors during matches. Um, as far as the information that I have, that's never going to be brought back.
And also to do that, they would have to start playing everything on OPR again like they used to. um which would mean replays wouldn't be accessible to the um the public anymore unless you had an OPR account and they would h otherwise they would have to bring uh back like the replay viewer which I don't think they're willing to put the dev resources toward oh my god Kellen almost got everyone could have been a beautiful clip but still this is good enough but yeah as far as I know the the recolors are not coming back why are we bombing I guess he lives Okay.
>> Was it harder to tell what was going on when commentating? No, that wasn't the issue. No, the issue is the fact that they're not willing put to put the resources towards it and the staff is much smaller. They don't have the they don't have the money that they want to put towards uh keeping that operational, keeping that going. It's a budget thing.
It's a budget and practicality thing for the staff they have now and for the budget they have now.
Kitsune from CJ.
>> Okay. A little easy to kite for space station. Oh, we messed up the slide up to high.
>> Unlucky.
>> Okay, overclock. Ultraviolet finds Sunjun. We're going to drop into the div.a. That is an interesting decision actually.
And we kill the diva. Huh.
>> That worked.
>> Did require a bit of care, a bit of help.
>> Oh, it gots a That was so close to being a perfect bubble from Kellen to save both of them, but the the bubble just didn't didn't catch it. Yeah, Kellen almost saved them, though. That was like almost a peak bubble.
>> Unfortunate.
the players seeing default skins and the spectator seeing team skins was a fancy bit of work. Yeah. Um it's definitely interesting.
It required them playing on OPR though.
Like that wasn't something that was built into the base game, so they have to play an OPR if they're going to have the the team colors and all those features.
Do you think Anna Wuang would work better?
>> Uh, CJ is not much of a Wuang player.
>> So, no.
>> I think CJ's best off on Kiri.
Kitsune. Nice. You get the Kitsune out with that nano jump.
We back away. Interesting decision to play so defensively from Kellen, but Sunjun does find a kill with the pulse bomb there. Re-engage to stop a cap from Kell. Bit of a wasted bubble, but was fine.
>> Hawk is gone.
>> I do think Anowiang is fine here. It's just for Dallas Fuel and their hero pools. I I don't think it's the um I don't think it's the play. And I think Anakuro is just fine.
>> Okay.
Lethal overclock at the ready.
All you got to do is bait. If you're Dallas now, you don't want to push too hard here. You keep your Anna alive.
Good [ __ ] Hawk is low already.
>> Lethal low. gets the beat from Admiral.
You're going to kitsu now if you're CJ probably here in a moment. Uh Liquino backed into a bit of a corner. Lelen's going to pop the primal. Go after the SGE. Find the SGE. Are we going to Kitsu stable?
There's the Kitsu stable. It's a bit late. Is it going to be okay? I think it should be fine. Definitely pushed it a little bit on CJ's end, but I think that's fine.
Oh, Ko jump scare. Ultraviolet was standing there like hoping Kellen wouldn't notice him. Would Freya not be the play for Lethal?
Unfortunately, that's not a thing that Lethal knows how to do. Lethal will play Cass. Lethal will play SGE. Lethal will probably play nothing else ever. Maybe Lethal will pull out an Emmery, but even then, like Lethal kind of just wants to one trick SEG, and that seems to be the case for Space Station in general. Yeah.
Um, that's how it's been. Is Freya good?
Yeah, Freya would be [ __ ] amazing for Lethal here. Is he going to do it?
Probably not. I mean, he he he forced Sogge on Jialter. If you're willing to force Sge and Jialter, >> yeah, >> they're doing anything but playing Freya.
It's a bit of a bad matchup for SSG because, you know, Lethal not wanting to play Freya makes Winston so much better.
Is chain landing usually picked for when the bubble gets burst down too quickly?
>> Uh yeah, that can be one of the reasons why sugar to back away.
Getting ready for the pulse. You want to pulse the Anna here. Get rid of that nano.
Nano Winston, you build primal off that.
>> You're going to want to do it soon.
Yeah, Sugarfree wants the kill now. Oh, too late. Sugar-free. Push forward.
Overclock. Nano Winston.
Nice. Yep. You build the primal off of that. Play life. Come down. Oh, I I I like the defensive jump into the aggressive jump here. That's pretty good. And that allowed for a kill into Admiral as well. That was very wellrefined Winston gameplay right there. That was good.
All right, >> Hawk kind of under a lot of pressure here. Hawk gets another pulse bomb out of Sunjun. Two in a row. Chronic. What is Chronic doing to them? Genuinely, did he get a Did he get another collateral?
>> Yeah, >> the dive mirror. Like I said, Winston comps are just better in the dive mirror unless unless the div.a comps do certain things to adjust.
>> All right. Close to Kitsu Dallas to give their on a high ground. They're going to bait. They're not going to push into this space. That's good. Sit high. Sit high. Bait. And you see space station are like, "Huh, we don't really want to push this, do we?" It's a really awkward spot to put Space Station in. Dallas Fuel are not going to push at all. They don't need to. They don't need more distance, you know? They don't They don't need to get more progress. They just need to sit here and AFK and force Space Station to come at them while they have high ground. It's all you got to do. Take it slow. Take it patient. Now Space Station are trying to set up their dive. They have the Tracer the whole way in behind. Sugar Freeze in the right spot. There's a touch on cart. It's going to be the diva. Oh, it looks like Dallas actually decided to push into them and Kell gets the kill. Yet another good primal and now the nano overclock.
That's it.
There you go. Dallas Fuel are going to Tokyo.
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