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Hi everybody Welcome to the Metro report I’m baz The Bard and I’ve been joined by Scott mindes how are you doing Scott I’m all right can’t feel my face absolutely exhausted other than that I’m doing all right thank you very much baz how are you yeah I’m good you’re a busy man mate

You’re a busy man you’re everywhere I am right now yeah Twitter is pinging off it’s just oh Scott’s posted again but we’re here today to talk about Fab and with and the road to National season uh we’re on week three week three’s been completed we will check out all the

Results for Ireland and the UK covering week three um but before we do that um let’s talk about the partners for the show sort like by the by the same token they do tokens for Flesh and Blood you can go and check them out and if you’re

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Shamir Samy um so fantastic player made pro tour top eight for pro tour two Baltimore yeah semi-finalist at Leo uh really good at R blade really good at Fab um also my partner in crime for all things commentary based he’s really good and I recommend going to him for

Coaching uh if if you’re looking for that kind of thing indeed uh there’ll be a link in the description to Ste fur’s video which he did some coaching with Shamir so you can check it out all right Okie K so let’s get cracking uh we are going on to these are

All the heroes performances for the road to National so far so I’ve added up all their wins uh the Red Arrows going down is if they’ve won less than they did in week one to week two if they’re going up in green they’ve won more events in week

Two than they did in week one and if it’s a gray one going left and right then basically uh they’ve won just as many as they did the week before so we can see what heroes are actually performing as this meta actually shapes up and which ones basically are just not

Cutting the mustard at the minute yeah it’s a rather interesting Dynamic this actually it looks like in general you’ve got a lot of Heroes On The Rise and that would that would be indicative I think of uh the fact well we were we were definitely the anti-

Kano week last week right we saw him come out of the woodwork in week one put on a clinic and then everyone remembers they have to respect Wizard and slowly but surely those Decks that prey on people respecting wizard When there’s less tech cards less problems in their

Way they start kind of pushing their way back up the ladder as Kano makes his way down so yeah good to see a lot of more more green arrows here than red ones yeah it shows how open The Meta is and it it shows that people are diversifying

Into classes and not actually just going I’m going to play one hero people are going right I am a I am a Bolton player I’m playing Bolton and Bolton’s like pulling in the results now I mean he did it from the calling Liverpool even like ukil Bender did it a couple of weeks

Before in an event before Heavy Hitters came out um so yeah yeah I mean it’s nice to see sort of like KO and Victor you know they’re both on 17 wins they’re both performing better than they did from week one um you know Heavy Hitters like as as has really landed and showing

How power those heroes are oh yeah for sure you take a look at this and of the the six Heroes here with 10 or more wins three of them are from the brand new set you really can’t argue with that that’s that’s uh three existing options if you

Don’t like Heavy Hitters and three brand new ones to explore if you did which is about as uh well comfortable as a metag game as we could possibly hope for heading into a pro tour indeed righty so let’s go to Ireland they had a draft uh

Gamers World in Dublin uh yeah so this is their draft a draft so you say uh two Betsy two KO two Olympia one casai and one rhar so um quite surprising sort of like only one Cai yeah this is a bit of a misleading pod I think actually this

Is about normal it’s just a little bit weird in the way it’s broken down we’re on three brutes three Warriors two Guardians which is kind of what I expect to see from most of these pods if it’s not one guardian and one extra of one of

The other ones big surprise here as you say two Olympia over over casai makes you think maybe this poll happened to open multiple copies of priz Gala maybe someone got the GLA and someone got the up the anti be the reason to kind of make the swing over but otherwise looks

Like it’s a fairly balanced draft pod and most people are going to be very comfortable with their deck righty so let’s see how the top four shapes up this is the top four okay little bit different Jonathan Jonathan shter I don’t know on casai Dave Kerr on Betsy Dylan Thompson

Uh on Olympia now Dylan um he he’s like the big dog in Ireland um if you don’t know him by now um he’s won three proquest 3es he’s won a skirmish six two Skirmish sevens and he is the current Irish Champion for Flesh and Blood uh

And then we’ve got Cole Bole on Olympia as well so yeah Dylan Dylan does get around had the pleasure of meeting them I think at Worlds this year just gone very clearly a very good player this top four is something all right um both both olympias making it through is is

Definitely a statement to their decks being quite strong which would really lead me to believe they’ve got those specializations to push them in the right direction uh but apparently all the brutes just having a bad time at the office and and not a single one making the cut which is is quite impressive

Honestly yeah yeah indeed yeah it’s just like you’d have thought that one KO would have got through shall we see who makes it into the final oh that’s incredible um it is the prize Fighters themselves that’s that’s spectacular um I I’m I’m basically flipping a coin here

In terms of deciding who I think wins this given that they’re both equally likely to have equally strong Olympia decks um like I can imagine the mirror match of this one is quite fun I think based on the fact I am familiar with Dylan and unfortunately not familiar

With Carl if I have to flip the coin I’ve got to go that way and I I’ll give it to Dyan OK K Carl got one there we go on car look at you now I know who you are we can start talking about you now

You’re in my record sheet well done Carl uh congratulations for that road to Nationals uh should we see him open his gold foil yeah let’s take a peek everyone loves a gold foil oh there was me thinking it was the saber got my hopes up and everything oh yeah because the saber’s

On the table Yeah Yeah me off for a [Laughter] second I’ve seen a few C frosts opened on social media this week let’s hope it’s not another one of those it’s not oh spoilers spoilers what we got o breaking scales that’s a nice one that one’s really good and talk about

Picking one up for uh for part the mfil that one’s going to be getting a little bit better I think in the near future so great great hit yeah he did he did really well there well done kle uh let’s see how the Irish meta map is shaping up

So we have uh Steven Manning at the top on Kano and then over in Dublin Co Bole on Olympia there is one more rtn to go uh and that will be concluded next week um but let’s see who has uh qualified so far so Jack kanty Steven Manning Conor

McGrath Ty Tracy Cole Bole Dave Kerr Jonathan shto and Dylan Thompson uh Dylan would have qualified anyway cuz he’s National Champion so um they get they get an entry automatically so um yeah he can’t be having not been able to defend your title no no I we had a

Discussion about that last year when it didn’t look like it was going to happen and I think that would be the worst biggest waste going you you cannot be a national champion and not be invited back to try and back to back such a waste so good luck to Dylan with that

Endeavor hopefully they manag to pull it off indeed fifth to the 7eventh of July is um is when their Nationals are and hopefully um you guys will give me the uh give me the details and we can um say who want uh right so let’s go over to

The UK inong gaming in chelham 21 players this is the rub five koos um koos are all coming out he’s a very popular hero now um but we shall see if he makes it what do you think of this one this is quite an interesting little breakdown still happy to see this

Sprinkle of of one ofs that we’re continually commending as we go just people playing the heroes they’re comfortable on and they enjoy uh three Dory is quite a lot she’s uh I I think she got a lot better with Heavy Hitters honestly she picked up a lot of toys

Indirectly from the the other other Warrior support going around but she’s definitely been less popular than casai maybe just from uh fan favorite syndrome maybe people are just obsessed with a new hero but little little surprised to see three of them zorri is is one that’s

Kind of on the optic right now I know people think she’s got a fantastic match up into Victor uh and if Victor was the big dog last week it makes sense that we are seeing a little bit more assassin on on the waves yeah unfortunately there’s no Victor here for them to pray

On such a shame where are all the Guardians oh that’s right in a different country we don’t do that here yeah exactly there’s none there um but Dory definitely is a a really popular pick at the minute um but let’s see who made it into the top four okay James melite on

Katsu Matthew folks on casai he was an awesome casai player for um when she was in uh Blitz only uh Sam Parry on rard and Jacob Clemens makes it into another top four with Dory Still rocking that Dory there I’m very much expecting Jacob

To turn up to the pro tour with it at this point but I guess we’ll have to wait and see this is a really cool split mix of old and new uh literally in the in the ultimate Way two wtr Heroes two brand new heroes from heavy HS here as

This real real mix of of everything um yeah some great names up here uh some really interesting matchups in the way they play out as well so looking forward to seeing who made uh made the top two on this one sure shall we there we go so this is becoming a bit of

A regular matchup for finals um we saw this Final in uh dice cup um no it was sorry it was a top four match in dice Cup this one was uh but s Perry with KO versus Jacob Clemens on Dory uh I didn’t do what the

Uh s parry’s won a skirmish and jaob Clemens has won quite a few that was really remiss of me was it I wrote it all down let’s go back with the power of editing let’s go back because that’s really bad Matthew folks protour Champion Pro Tour number two in

Baltimore he’s a champion of that Nationals Champion sorry Li uh Nationals Champion 2021 rtn 2023 Sam Parry Skirmish 8 Jacob Clemens rtn 2023 Skirmish 7 proquest 4 okay so now I’ve done it properly okay who do you think’s made it into the final Scott I don’t know I mean you certainly can’t write

Out Matthew folks but for some reason I’m I’m going to have to in this spot and I’m going to I’m going to going to guess that it was Jacob and Sam just got a feeling oh my God you’re right okay right who won now this is a tough one because

Depending on who you ask this matchup is favored either way and I do have an inkling as s the list that Jacob’s playing um I he’s changed it he changed it from last he changes it quite a lot he’s been he’s been trying out things which hasn’t make that easy I think in

The dark without any insid of knowledge I’m going to say that Sam took this down okay he didn’t Jake I’m I’m B I’m batting badly this week oh no yeah yeah he he didn’t do very well against koos uh the week before at dice cup he upped

His list changed it come up with a few more tricks and um yeah took it certainly worked very ni certainly worked okay so shall we see what he opens by all mean of course you will the shout out gotta love it people are getting pretty professional now on their

Um on their gold foil Pack openings uh I’m going to have to think of a weird way to do it see if I can uh open it with a box car or something got to add some extra flare to the the video somehow it’s how sticky the actual seal

Is I think a lot of people are getting unck tight yeah Jacob certainly is traveling around a lot this season right okay yeah if you’ve got the ability certainly do and uh it’s paying off for him in Spades Bo centari saber’s a good one it’s a very

Good one those are in demand at the moment both sides are available in the pack now um and uh yeah well I mean with all the casai Fanboys and fan girls out there all the Bing combo players and the like there is H going to be a a good

Number of those Sabers being sold off to I think yeah indeed that yeah he was really happy when I spoke to him in Manis screw he was so happy with that ball and now he’s on the hunt for the other side the other one yeah right we

Are going to go to a draft in Rising Phoenix games in middleb this one is probably the most unusual pool I’ve ever seen are you ready enlighten me I’m looking forward to it oh top eight this is four bets three casai and a KO oh my God I if I were

That KO I’d be in Christmas land I think I think that’s uh that’s a very very good draft pod for you and I imagine some of these four betsies have got some number of crack ball balls in their decks it’s not not a nice place to be

When you’re in the four Guardian pod no but it’s just you just think what what what I’m just thinking was I’m not going to go Ko No matter what I’m not going to go KO because everybody else is going to go KO and then and then everybody else had the same thought

Process you know it’s uh it’s one of the Magics of drafting this set especially if you’re uh you know trying to keep yourself open and pick those hybrid cards early so that you can you can read better signals it’s very easy to accidentally train wreck a draft when

Someone passes you a really good you know like a red concast fifth or sixth and uh you think you’re you’re fine to go into Guardian well it turns out they’ve been taking all those Guardian hybrid cards and they’re about to cut you off it’s it’s it can go both ways

And uh yeah definitely not happy to be in a guardian seat in this draft B Okie K shall we see how well this KO player did let’s see oh my God okay so Duncan Watt on Cai Jake wton on Cai as well is’s a pro tour

To top eight uh that was must have been at Lil was it Lil uh no Jake was pt3 I believe in Baltimore no Baltimore was yeah Baltimore was pt3 New Jersey was pt1 okay yeah Jake Jake Jake made Baltimore top eight on as Alia uh and

Had a great time doing so so yeah Adam Collins commoner at the calling in Liverpool he won that one and he’s already won an rtn uh at eh gaming on week one and there he is again and then Adam harbinson uh who must have been getting all the good brute cards uh on

Betsy uh I mean yeah I feel sorry for the KO in this draft pod something definitely went wrong and that can happen it it’s worth saying that there’s a lot of spots in this format why casai is such a popular choice in draft and in and sealed that that she can just have

These red combat tricks and it can be correct for you to accept that you’ll block and take three sometimes and they’ve got two of them and you take six and you die out of nowhere it’s definitely a very real thing that can happen so it’s not that the you know the

Game was massively poorly played or anything it’s just a bit of a rough break for RKO and to see all of the cas Cai kind of uh putting up a fight here is is quite the Testament I’m not that shocked I I I did not expect to see many

Betsies in this top four um so if there is no KO this is this this track okay so uh top two Jake versus Adam Collins so uh Jake uh we say is a veteran of Flesh and Blood by now a very good player um helped develop the prism

Deck that uh Rob Katen went on to win battle hardened uh Liverpool and Adam Collins who is the new blood on the on the Block uh he’s doing well common a win winner rtn winner uh this must been one heck of a final I can imagine yeah

Both these players are a very very high caliber um I find it hard to bet against Jake the baker waron but I’ve been wrong every time so far so we’re going to go for Adam assuming that I’m wrong again damn it yeah you don’t bet against Jake

Jake’s really really good at and blood that makes sense mate you did really well last week you uh yeah yeah I I got a balance my ranges I can’t always be ban above average okay we’ve got a gold foil uh no the gold foil wasn’t open sorry gold fo

Wasn’t open Jake kept that this is Cole’s judge pack oh okay so some goodies in here as well though plenty plenty to look forward to sing blow would be a good one less of a good one chains of eminence is a Miss I’m going to use the

Word a Miss in this case not not particularly Stella hit but hey you never know in the future it’s a generic card maybe it finds a home somewhere MH uh that’s his second one he opened his first at eh gaming no uh yeah eh gaming in York well you just you wait until

Chains dominating living legend and you might be make some money off of those let’s go to prot Tech games the lovely Lee Dalton up in Stockton On’s 22 players uh looks like this is where the aelas go um used to be really Brute used to be have a lot of players for

Brute up at prot te um and guardian because Chris Sween is up there um but yeah um for is Al was a bit of a surprise when these um when these numbers came in yeah I know a few people made their way up Protek way and uh they

Wanted to test out some as Alia math and thoughts before they took it off to to the Pro Tour or at least to see whether they they wanted to take it off to the Pro Tour so not that shocked to see them turning up in numbers I had a feeling

That one of the events this week was going to be going to be full of them um happy to see Protek getting a an rtn here um I I do miss Lee quite a lot I don’t get to see him anymore sadly but I’m glad to hear it’s all going well up

There Fab wise for for all these folks right let’s see how the top four go so Misha senin uh on Victor Jude fiser on casai uh so he switched from drine Gone to casai uh Rob Kon uh battle Harden calling Liverpool winner Skirmish season 6 two Skirmish season 7 two

Skirmish season 8 a proquest for well 2022 top eight and numerous yeah yeah uh he did uh the PTI event at UK Nationals 2022 and he did the PTI event at uh UK Nationals 2021 uh so no no also also got my number just Rob doesn’t matter what

We’re playing what the matchup is or what it looks like I I am dead in the water as soon as we sit down it’s a it’s a great great great problem for me to have he’s did he’s done three Pro three three proests now sorry three rtns um

Different hero each time so he play makes sense um obviously he’s got a proor coming up I imagine he’s just fleshing out his options trying different things and seeing what feels good so and then we have Kevin Appleby on aalia okay so uh let’s see who is in

The final right Jude fiser on casai versus Kevin applebe on aelia it’s a really interesting match up actually I don’t have the pleasure of having played this one all that much um my instinct would be that casai can often be left a little bit sad with too many cards if

They’re not able to block out dominated attacks so my gut is going to have me leaning towards Kevin on his earlier here okay you are correct well done mate one you’re off the block well done we’re on we’re on the Block we’ll take that yeah righty uh H this is the gold

Foil take a cheeky peek oh no not not a hexag I mean it could be worse it’s a majestic it’s it’s it’s better than a random bog standard common but in terms of Majestics it is the Miss it’s not not the one you’re looking for at least not right now until

They give us that sweet sweet flail support at some point in the near future and I’m sure it’ll be uh very very good indeed one day it’ll be good uh if you want to check out a game that has a hexago in it dice Cup round one for the

R1 that I did um uh Ryan Jackson he’s got a hexago so you can uh check out what it how it actually plays uh Cole’s done his judge pack do you think he’s going to get another chain of eminence it’s only fair right you need to complete that play set you can’t be

Having two cold foil chains of eminence that’s the worst number to have apart from maybe zero Teck Aon okay that’s actually not too bad that’s a yeah better than the better than the uh adjudicator stuff for the most part and uh definitely I I got a feeling the these cold foil Heroes the

Vinet the teos and that have been tucked away in these judge packs they’re going to be rivaling iander in price uh once the decks are playable and in demand uh it’s a good good hit and we I think will age well assuming the tech Aon does as

Well yeah uh right Dyson Des Canterbury so Southeast now uh 22 players uh Victor Guardians are popular here um but a whole host of smattering of single Heroes um I don’t know if they’ve had a new influx of uh of um players but like ad Dasio Tech leoson

And a Max are all here in the lineup to play yeah yeah I I you know first of all shout out to uh Dyson Destin here this is a pretty incredible looking metag game with all these one ofs but specifically shout out to that dashio player because I love that deck to bits

And I cannot get it to work so fair play to you for being the brave soul to take you into this room and I really hope you did well with it it’s the uh it’s the overpowers and the so you can get your boom grenades off um but sadly it’s more the running

Out of deck problem that tends to be an issue a lot of the time but sadly dashio didn’t make it uh Wallace on Victor Finley Shephard uh runner up at Battle hard and Liverpool um with Bolton and he beat Matt Rogers yeah beat Matt Rogers at the calling in Birmingham so he does

Very well on Bolton uh Callum Young on lav and Tom Jones on aelia so quite quite a spread is good to see some uh some Monarch support in here as well again very happy to see Bolton finally putting up some results a little bit more as Al

Also good in my books so uh I look forward to seeing how this one broke down and uh who made the final yeah considering how lv’s performed outside of the UK she hasn’t really made it into top fours um just yeah she’s a she’s a

Real mix bag is levia I think the deck is actually quite good right now but it is competing for the same kind of tournament Equity as KO uh so you need to pick your battles and and have your reasons and to be fair an uptick and Illusionist is certainly a heck of a

Reason to play laev instead there’s a a whole lot more actual sixes in that deck so good to see her right so final Finley sheeper on Bolton versus Tom Jones on aelia this is uh quite the matchup in general obviously Finley’s an incredible Bolton player at this point has put that

That to work time and time again but I do not believe that aelia is a matchup bwin wants to see um and so I am going to go with uh the the singing specialities of Tom Jones here in this case It’s Not Unusual Foria to be B to

Be Bing you are you are correct nice one well done Tom well done uh should we see a gold foil open this is yeah oh he says I’ll push the button there we go yeah give him give him the bullseye braces go on that’s the one we want to

See that’s that the third time we’ve had that question this week you got all these new new golf for your winners who don’t know what direction they’re facing let’s take a flip okay that that’s no that’s okay is at least one of the ones that does see play periodically as opposed to the

Chest or something um so yeah we’ll take some take some IR high gaet it’s got a soft spot for that one it’s done some good work for me in Icelander in the past so not not not too bad he can even bling out you common a deck with it look

All right you can that is a legal game decision you are allowed to make skywood fire games in lowestoft uh let’s go there now so this is east coast we’re in Norfolk um uh so this is pretty spread as well loads of singles again uh and 17

Players yeah good to see this um I am not massively familiar with skywood fire uh but this looks like a really sweet meta game and it looks like uh a lot of these players probably had a lot of fun uh cool to see just the only Heroes that

Are being played as two ofs here being Lev in India um so yeah good stuff it’s weird because um traditionally uh like Norfolk way is all brutes so um it’s just like okay where are all the brutes gone um there are three there but um yeah I thought there

Would have been more than that um but let’s get on to the top four top four is Matthew Smith on katsu Michael kums on casai Quan Chan on fi and Nick Walsh on darthia so another night a really good little mix here yeah two ninja two Warrior Taylor’s oldest time this one um

Been playing these matchups for a while and good to see these Heroes still getting the licks in with the best of them yeah uh let’s get on to the finalist Michael kums uh on casai and Quan Chan on uh fi I didn’t have any information on any of the players so um

I haven’t forgot it this time they they are just all new players to me i’ love to see it this is a really interesting matchup I know uh a lot of people are singing the Praises of fire right now I’m not entirely sure I agree but uh

It’s good to see there’s some confidence there he not a popular pick though at the minute no it’s not it’s not and people are definitely not uh getting their play Test games in against fire maybe as much as they should um I do think however Valiant Dynamo stands to

Be very good against Phoenix flame uh and so I it’s hard for me not to to side with casai here okay and it was indeed Michael kums congratulations well done for winning that one ping it back congratulations Michael there is no gold full video I’m sorry everybody but I do

Know what he opened and he opened a cker ragam muffins hat oh rager muffins is a good one for all those sweet sweet Kano players who once they have bought their eye over over a video have nothing else to spend their money on so you can uh

You can C certainly grab them for for a Golfo rager muffins good one yeah was really good pull okay so uh this is the biggest one of the weekend and I was here recording this is my local um uh and it was yeah I was really really good

Uh the videos will be coming out uh this video comes out Tuesday and then all the other videos will come out sort of like Wednesday through to Saturday uh Mana screw in Northampton 29 players now you said there has been an uptick in the amount of Dory players and a popularity

Five ders one was decimator the rest were kind of like a hybrid yeah the hybrids are mostly what I expect there’s a few folks FKS who are on hard hard decimator but the common conclusion seems to be that you don’t need to be um the the the decimator plan

Can be kind of played as a sideboard switch package and be good enough in the matchups that you want it without dedicating all your main deck space to it I do think that deck is very popular at the moment and people think it’s got a very good matchup spread against the

Room uh so I’m really not surprised to see too many of it here uh KO showing up in numbers um yeah all of this makes a lot of sense um congratulations to the RH in the max you’re the ones that only really surprised me here in any capacity

And I hope you managed to pull off a miracle uh RAR was George Roger and he did he did well uh the max was Ben Troth I got a video of his as well um he he basically in rounds two and three he went full Nitro mechanoid and absolutely stomped on uh his

Opponent uh so I got him on uh for the next round on camera he pulled KO and he went he said to me he’s like I’m really sorry Barry I can’t play netro mechanoid into this matchup I’m afraid no he he cannot it turns out getting your mechanoid AR smashed or smashing

Performance is really bad and you you you cannot take that risk in the face of brute so I yeah bit bit of a shame to lose your big flashy finish but hopefully he did all right yeah uh Victors didn’t do very well at all um in

This one right but shall we see who did go on let’s take a peek shall we Okie K Ben Westmore on katsu he won a skirmish seven George Roger on um uh RAR so three time three times proquest 3 two rtn 2023 UK National Champion

2022 uh heish um uh he won an rtn uh back in 2022 um so well done heish uh on Bolton and Noah Hicks Skirmish 6 Skirmish 7 rtn 2024 in church of the D20 um I a phone call with heish sort like the day before

The event sort like um you know and I asked him I was like why aren’t you taking Bolton you know Bolton’s doing really well and he said to me he’s like I’ve already sleeved it and I’m good to go so it was just like right okay um

Always been a bit of a Bolton fan boy has the lovely a shison brown who always gets mad that no one uses his full name so I’ll make sure that I do um also he does have a UK Nationals top eight from all the way back in the Stone Age so

We’ll give that to him as well but this is a really really good mix of Heroes here at the top um potentially some quite lopsided matchups though so I’m kind of curious as to how this one broke down as well uh heish played Noah and Ben played George yeah

Interesting so if I had to Hazard a guess here I’m going to assume that Kano did the nasty to bolon um katsu and Rhino’s a heck of a lot closer though uh I I do think if I had to guess it’s katsu but I’m hoping it’s not okay this

Is the first time I’ve asked you made it into the final here we go right yeah you have okay we we’ve pulled it right back that was a b bonus there you go right there we go we take those that would have been bad if You’ have got it

Wrong okay right katsu versus uh Kano oh now this match Up’s really tough see it’s it’s just like koos kanos and katus it’s just like oh my God and Cai there we go certainly a good mix of uh the serial brand Heroes top of top of the

Heroes all the ks um this is a toughy this this matchup really does depend in my opinion on who has built their deck and how and whether or not Ben decided that Kano was a real deck heading into this event um I am gonna Hazard a guess

That he didn’t and I’m gonna give this to Noah Noah is a phenomenal Wizard player absolutely phenomenal uh you can see his games that I recorded versus uh haish but sadly he did not win and Ben took it it was a good game um no he’s

He’s such a good Wizard player um yeah so I got him in the top four in the final um the the game where he played versus in the top eight versus Jakob Clemens was absolutely unreal it it was just unbelievable um that was really really good that one I I enjoy some good

Uh good Kano versus good Warriors um as well but yeah I I’m not surprised to see this the katsu Kano matchup is genuinely quite interesting it usually comes down to how both players have built their decks and it’s probably fair to say with Kano doing so well week one it’s not

Completely off people’s Radars and uh to hear that katsu took it down is not massively shocking uh Ben only had ab2 um ab2 will do the job uh for sure so it’s a whole whole lot better than looking at ab1 at least yeah indeed um

But yeah Ben played the played a cork it was very cat and mouse so uh congrat ulations Ben well done fantastic win um and a man of screw local it’s always nice when your local wins your wins your event is it so um I mean there someone

Who doesn’t have a local I have to disagree got to go got to go play travel maker at other people’s game stores it’s the most fun you can have we’ll show you a traveler later uh right okay so uh this is the gold foil uh this is that

Stunning baz the bar play that underneath as well look at that indeed exceptional branding there a chain of eminence everywhere God it’s like oh it’s so miserable I’m so sorry to all you chains owners that’s maybe that’s you deposit them with me I will take them off your hands at no

Charge but maybe you could swap it for a tech L aom with um K and then he’ll have Co have a play set complete his set maybe maybe might be a to arrange something right but this is uh Ben’s gold foil uh recorded by heish from push the point let’s take a peek

Oh okay Mage Master boots is is not too bad actually this is one that does c play it’s good common uh I got a soft spot for me for me Mage Master boots as well uh Robin the mjor shoes from the Kano is slightly rude though uh so yeah

Do keep that one in mind in the future yeah they uh yeah they had a they had a deal going with that one so they kind of split what was going on um so nice uh right okay so let’s see how the met a map Shape Up This is what they’re

Looking like so a nice spread no no real hero is is dominating any area what we’ve seen in the UK before like we saw sort of like in Sweden it’s just like Bravo Fest um it’s just like yeah it’s so diverse it’s absolutely brilliant yeah it’s good mix I’m really happy to

See uh just the the room looking diverse I I made an appearance on a different podcast this week which we yeah I’m not going to go into in too much detail but they ask the same question as to whether this metag game was going to stay this

Way and whether we’re in a Utopia or a dystopia and and I I don’t think it’s going to stay this way after after protor Los Angeles I think once we’ve kind of got a a real tier four event screwed on The Meta will tighten up around around most countries uh so I’m

Really enjoying this influx of diversity uh before that happens it’s been really cool to see yeah as a as a of a of a more casual player I think it’s brilliant it’s like pick pick a deck and play it and and you you know you can stand a good chance of

Doing well um I think as a as a highend competitive player is probably a lot harder because you just like you want to HED your bets against a certain a certain deck and build your build your deck to play against either the the top deck or I I agree I think quite hard

It’s a Minefield um yeah I think this is better for the game in all I think open meta games are very fun they allow a lot of a lot of brainstorming Brewing people to leverage their skills kills um but if you’re preparing for an event like a protour you’re going to be having

Headaches right now there’s so many permutations you don’t really want to be leaving your uh your protor chances up to the gem Lottery and I think that’s going to push a lot of people towards the decks like Dash like KO that are just consistent powerful game plans don’t really care what their opponent’s

Doing um to try and mitigate some of that variance a bit but we will have to see yeah the the thing is that we have seen is the top players are always still Rising no matter what the meta is like like we’ve seen Rob make it into the top

Four making it into the top eight Jacob Clemens Sammy braan they’re all there you know all making it into the sort like where it matters um and that’s really sort like Testament to how good they are um right so uh that’s the north of England so uh let’s get on to the

Midlands and again another spread um yeah there’s no one class dominating at all um casai is kind of like she’s picking up the wins in the draft that’s for sure um and then uh I have to wonder how much of that comes down to the death match Arena leaderboard and the fact

People really want that alternative art CNC that you’ll get for for winning one of these events on the right hero uh she’s definitely up at the top of that leaderboard right now and I’m starting to wonder the more I see her come to fruition not only might she be the best

Deck in the format but we’re getting a lot more Fork asai pods as people desperately try and score themselves that bonus prize for winning an RN as well got be in it to win it is that what it is yeah well I say you know what

Honest to God I think that that special art CNC might be worth more than some of these gold foils so a lot of people that are out there grinding for prizes it makes sense that they’re trying to draft the hero that they think is most likely

To score that extra that extra EV if that’s what they care about yeah yeah indeed uh south of England uh then we’ve got aelia in Canterbury um Dory and casai again oh I didn’t underline the uh didn’t underline the shops it’s bit silly uh over to London uh area so bad

Moon Cafe and dark sphere um Kano is no longer picking up the hits um I think kano’s got two and nelia’s got two now they’re the they’re the they’re the biggest hitters really that we’ve got for sure yeah yeah wizard definitely on a bit of a Down swing but we know how

This cycle goes at this point you’ll get another week or two of them on the down swing and then everybody will think he’s gone away again and the cycle repeats indefinitely that’s that’s uh that’s how Kano goes he should do well at Pro Tour then shouldn’t he uh right I may or may

Not have stuck my claim on that one in an article coming out this week I I think I think kano’s going to show up and I’m I uh I’m looking forward to seeing him do so nice okay so uh let’s see um these are all the people that

Have qualified for Nationals uh Jacob Clemens and Noah Hicks and Sammy have all uh have all qualified three times it’s in the alphabetical order I’m not picking uh who should be top all right so um I mean if you want to break the alphabetical order clearly you’ve just

Got to win three of them or four you know and then and then then you get to the start of the list so come on folks few other people in here that’s definitely capable of winning four of these things get out there on the last week and just lose your entire weekend

To uh claim leaderboard dominance yeah indeed so um yeah it’s um it’s nice when you see multiple people or a person win multiple events um but it didn’t really last year it only really happened with like um I think it was George Roger won three of them so it’s just like you know

I mean it it’s um people people are let’s be honest there is a reason for that too obviously with gold foils joining the uh the rtns this time around there is less of a reason to scoop your friend into top four when you’re playing for something that’s got some real value

To it so we seeing people play their games and really go to the limits in the finals try and earn those big prizes yeah I think there’s less um there’s less people skipping um you know because they’ve automatically qualified they just go okay I don’t I don’t want to

Enter because it’ll upset my ELO you have seeing the top players enter regardless um because yeah because there’s gold foils on the line so I promise I’m not skipping from my ELO I just can’t get to any of them so you know it’s thankfully my ELO is good

Enough I probably will qualify anyway but uh but you know it’s it’s definitely not a a conscious decision and I think that’s the case for a lot of players this season as you say these golf oils are worth going out there and chasing yeah uh let’s go over let’s do a recap

Of Sweden so uh it is a guardian meta over there um they love the victors their Bravos um yeah and doing really really well well done even draft we’re not having anything that isn’t a big hunky man like it’s just no that’s all we get all we get in Sweden you better

Be ready for Guardian if you’re heading out that way righty uh these are everyone who qualified for uh Nationals now I said about a traveler um Peter brass is from Norway so uh he made a comment on the last video saying I’m not from Sweden I uh I saw the comment and there

You go goes to show you that we really are a World Travelers game and there are these people that will hop across to a foreign rtn and uh and qualify for their own Nationals while in another country which I think is just exceptionally cool so yeah fair fair play to you p and

Congratulations on the qualification we had Javier do it for um for UK last year went he went home to Spain at see family and he and he just joined an rtn and and you know he qualified and he’s like oh wow cool qualify for the UK brilliant um

Well done great I think it’s a fantastic part of what makes makes Fab so fantastic to kind of see people pop it across and being in different parts of the world and still taking the time to play this game that we all love while they’re away it’s it’s really really

Cool okay so one last week to go okay so this is um this is where we’re covering uh Fanboy 3 so hopefully you’re going to be at Fanboy that’s the plan yeah yeah I mean I I will be there this time I I I’m making sure I get to play at least one

Of these things this season whether or not I will be appearing on bass’s graphic is an entirely different problem uh because I want I want that CNC so I guess I’m going to try and draft Cai and that might go really well that might go really badly we’re going to have to wait

And see you’ll be you’ll be fighting Liam for the Cai cards um be much of a fight is it let’s be honest uh he he’s he’s definitely got like a side deck down to a down to a te at this point so I might be in trouble George Jones is um

Is no slouch with casar either so um yeah he’s doing no I’ve got I’ve got the wrong friends for this one really haven’t I yeah uh so uh dice Saloon down in Brighton right on the south coast uh the venue uh southwest coast in Devon um and the double header in Scotland Highlander

Um games in Dundee and then mock in the hole has got a draft and they’re putting on a flurry of prizes again um I would have thought that this would be the highest attending uh rtn of the season um and then we have the Gathering in limmerick for the last time like the

Irish uh Community can qualify for their Nationals absolutely nuts event going on up at marks in the whole uh when I’m done at Fanboy if I start walking I might make it um but it’s uh it’s a heck of an event and again if you if you’re

Anywhere near the neck of the woods I recommend going and playing it’s worth your time yeah uh I had the pleasure of talking to Jamie at calling Liverpool and he’s a really nice guy um yeah and all of the staff that MOX in the hole when you go to the events really really

Friendly um so yeah and and it’s showing how much they’re fostering the community up in in in Scotland for sure they’re doing really really good right um without further Ado thank you to everybody uh I I say this every week but really I can’t do this without you my

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