Lopes vs Power - Grand Final - Spring Championship 2026 - SA 1v1

0:00 go to the spot that feels the most.

0:01 Sometimes the stage is just too good.

0:03 Also, you're like, I got to, you know, it's just so nice being here.

0:07 But let's get into it, folks.

0:08 It's grand finals here of the South

0:10 American bracket for the spring championships.

0:12 Lopez only needs a single set to win.

0:14 Power needs two.

0:16 All right, let's see.

0:18 Great start already for Lopez getting a few hits in with that serrated blade.

0:25 Okay, nice response from Power once again.

0:28 Looks like defaulting to that slower approach

0:30 to the neutral game and it's working out.

0:31 Able to get his hits in.

0:33 Tries to go for a read.

0:34 Good punish from Lopez.

0:35 I love the recognition for not going for the jump side

0:37 air on that delight and just does a falling side air.

0:40 Recognizing he gets that extra height from the pick up

0:41 and the D light across the lip of the edge.

0:43 Oh, that's a pretty critical miss from Power not

0:46 uh clipping the anti-air as Lopez also whips in response.

0:49 Gets the two-piece, gets the disarm weapon uh toss allows

0:52 Lopez to continue the star for a little bit longer, too.

0:59 Nice patience from Lopez.

1:00 Yeah, that was so nice.

1:02 Really waited specifically, I think,

1:04 for Power to dip down to a certain height as well.

1:06 Like knew that Power was spending a lot of movement jumping over,

1:09 but found the arc that correctly got Lopez the read,

1:12 correctly got him that recovery, but as I say it,

1:15 Power evens the stocks right back up.

1:18 Yeah, not afraid to let that side signature rip.

1:20 I mean, that's been such a good signature pretty

1:22 much the entire time Ember has been in the game.

1:25 It's been one that people of all skill levels have been like,

1:28 "Dang, this move's really good." And we've kept it that way.

1:31 It's one of the things that at this point,

1:32 I think, is just kind of a staple of Ember.

1:35 You don't have Ember without that bow side.

1:40 Okay, just a couple of small neutral skirmishes here and there.

1:44 What's interesting to me is that uh is Lopez is going

1:46 for the sword like pretty early in some of these uh damage ranges.

1:51 So maybe he's just trying to get these individual hits,

1:53 but Cannon was kind of the deacto weapon for, you know,

1:56 at least from respawn on.

2:00 Does get clipped up, loses the weapon regardless.

2:04 Touches plenty of time here.

2:06 Power misses the first attempt.

2:07 Lopez making it a little bit ambiguous where he's going, but it did not matter.

2:11 Great scout out by Power.

2:12 Picks up the recovery and a pretty healthy lead.

2:15 Yeah, really hard to to get in on guitars slash really what it is,

2:20 it's hard to whiff against guitars.

2:22 A lot of other weapons,

2:23 the frame data is like just slow enough that you

2:26 know a lot of times even if you see someone whiff,

2:29 you can't quite get there in time to hit them with something.

2:32 But guitars have that that added benefit where

2:34 the frame data is just fast enough that if you

2:37 whiff Power just like that can dash right

2:39 in with a silite and get a punish for it.

2:41 Of course, just nickel and dimming finding these.

2:45 I'm actually shocked that Power didn't even nare when he when Lopez was on top,

2:49 you know, like they were completely stacked on top of each other.

2:52 Didn't even take the damage.

2:52 Just wanted to try to get like a raw uh

2:55 neutral win off of like a pretty clear whiff punish.

2:58 As the dust settles though, it's last stock.

3:00 It's a pretty gentle damage lead for Power.

3:02 Gets a three-piece once again.

3:06 All right, let's see.

3:07 Once again, slowing things down here.

3:09 And I think Lopez, great.

3:11 Good start to the corner.

3:13 Good extra bit of damage as well.

3:14 Capt.

3:15 He's going to disarm soon actually.

3:16 I think with how much damage.

3:20 Okay,

3:20 couple more uh like two to three hit strings and then

3:22 you're going to get a disarm or the off stage, whichever one comes first.

3:25 Nice.

3:25 Lopez finally getting some momentum.

3:27 Forces the dodge out.

3:27 OH, MISSES THE JUMP INPUT.

3:31 OH, huge huge miss for Lopez.

3:33 But another opportunity.

3:34 Surprising to go for the D light for the punch there instead.

3:36 Opting for the end light a little bit faster.

3:38 And that has been such a reliable tool

3:42 all day today from Lowest to secure those knockouts.

3:45 His ability to come back in in games where it really

3:47 looks like he's down and out is really really impressive to me.

3:50 I mean, I was saying it's either a disarm or an off stage,

3:52 whichever comes first and then the the first off

3:54 stage that Lopez got just took the stock pretty much.

3:57 So really, really great turnaround from him.

4:00 Only two games away from just winning the tournament outright too.

4:03 That's uh that winner side advantage in grand finals.

4:06 doing such a good job of just shifting gears, man.

4:08 It's

4:09 it's quite nice to see because I was kind of getting to a point where I'm like,

4:12 you know, I think uh in a lot of situations,

4:15 Lopez would kind of jockey for stage positioning and then force power

4:19 into the corner and then kind of swing a little bit half-hazardly.

4:23 And I was kind of hoping, oh, maybe he'll kind of play to control the stage

4:27 a little bit more and force power to do something.

4:29 Yeah.

4:30 But then that final saw came around and Lopez just

4:33 immediately knew how to break his own.

4:34 He had scouted out the defensive options from Power enough.

4:37 Oh my.

4:37 Oh, I got that in hit.

4:39 Wait, that's No, there was nothing.

4:40 That's the insane.

4:42 The walls just not long enough either.

4:43 So Lopez kind of throws away first stock there with power.

4:47 Super healthy.

4:49 We've seen him do it before.

4:54 But if you're power, you're kind of like, "Awesome.

4:55 I got a freebie." Yeah, 100%.

4:57 Here, you just got to make sure that I mean,

4:58 if you play kind of the same strategy that Power's been playing.

5:03 Okay, that did KO.

5:04 It was close.

5:05 He He was He was in there, bro.

5:06 Like

5:07 they were both in the magnifying glass.

5:09 That was though.

5:09 That was a knockout for sure.

5:10 But I guess Cra just not having enough juice even with the attack stance.

5:15 Okay, there's a burn dodge.

5:16 Couldn't quite get the juice to uh move all the way

5:18 off stage when the ground pound was attempted by Lopez,

5:21 but this is a lot of good damage to try to mount a comeback.

5:26 Okay, I guess the end light.

5:30 Oh, nice.

5:32 Oh, what a wait from Power.

5:33 But that was really nice.

5:34 I love that setup.

5:35 It's kind of similar to like a tech chase there where you

5:38 you get the first hit and then you kind of just jump up,

5:40 spot dodge, wait to see what the defensive option is from your opponent,

5:44 and then just respond accordingly with the correct move.

5:46 Great way of getting that stock,

5:47 but Lopez sending the message right back with that down state on the cannon.

5:51 Yeah, you do get to kind of almost like soft option select it,

5:54 which is pretty sweet cuz you can just go into the gravity cancel as we saw.

5:57 So really clean from power.

5:58 There was a charity stock given from Lopez at the start of this game,

6:02 so don't count him out of the woods just yet.

6:09 But again, this like a little bit slower and reactive

6:12 play style that Power is going for and then he can

6:14 really burst into extended strings as he needs to has really

6:17 been working out for him despite being down in the set.

6:21 Yeah, Lopez just trying to bait out these attacks and then punch accordingly.

6:25 And it's working here.

6:27 Yeah, just to get the disarm and a brand new nuke

6:29 and what what patience from power not letting that dodge rip.

6:32 It doesn't matter though.

6:33 I think that should send too far.

6:34 Do you like Eli?

6:36 Yeah, just go straight for it.

6:38 And honestly, pretty winnable spot for Lopez.

6:41 Yeah, for sure.

6:43 Just about to enter red just in basically orange right now.

6:47 And we again we've s we've seen Loc Lopez kind of the king

6:51 of clutch in this bracket so far being able to make these insane turnounds.

6:55 Look at this side switch and breaking ankles all day.

6:58 Power just really doesn't even know how to dodge in those positions.

7:01 That's a sword that's going to be on the floor for Lopez next.

7:04 I think he just went through two cannons.

7:05 So if he's going to make the clutch going

7:10 to have to be with the blade if one can spawn.

7:12 There it is.

7:13 Gets one and still an option.

7:15 We've seen him clutch out with that one before.

7:17 The lights forces into the corner.

7:20 Can he get there?

7:21 Oh, tries to sweep it towards the other side correctly.

7:23 Still, that's a whiff punish and that's going to do it.

7:25 Power by the skin of his teeth just hangs

7:28 on able to equalize the set count at oneonone.

7:31 Yeah, I I kind of respect the attempt uh cuz we

7:33 haven't seen Lopez let that side rip kind of at all.

7:36 It's mainly been just the end.

7:37 I don't even think we've really seen the anchor come out either.

7:41 Um I just thought if anything that if he was

7:43 going to go for that that he might overshoot it.

7:44 Yeah, 100%.

7:45 You know, he kind of just stayed stationary and just side the other way.

7:48 I thought he would have dashed forward and tried to go

7:49 for it and that probably would have been the difference.

7:52 you know, it would have caught a spot dodge at least, but either, you know,

7:56 thought that maybe the maybe there was going to be a dash

7:59 in from Power or maybe just missed his dash input, who say, but,

8:03 you know, did all the work of making that game a last hit

8:06 situation considering that he gave up the stock pretty early on and so

8:11 a bit of a bummer that he couldn't make the full comeback happen,

8:14 but all things considered, still a very good game, right?

8:16 Yeah.

8:17 I mean, this is the thing about being in Winterside, right?

8:19 like you have so much uh cushion to be able

8:21 like you can afford to lose some of those games.

8:23 Like

8:24 he threw he threw that stock away early, dude.

8:26 Like it was super early.

8:27 Um and even so, he still did more damage than power over the span of that game.

8:32 Uh and 440 of it came just from the cannon.

8:36 So those reads are on point.

8:38 We'll see if Lopez can uh tighten this thing up and maybe close it out in one

8:42 set or if Power still has some gas left in the tank to force a reset.

8:47 Let's see.

8:47 Lopez starting off with the the sword this time around.

8:50 It's going to be the first weapon spawn.

8:51 I feel like he's been cooking a lot with that cannon.

8:53 Watch these dodges, though.

8:54 It's after like two or three hits we're seeing Lopez start to burn the dodge.

8:57 That one was a little bit earlier, but nobody was home for power.

9:01 There you go.

9:01 Anchor drop right off the stage to keep it safe.

9:04 Well, where are you going?

9:06 Effectively the same thing as doing a down save there, right?

9:08 You cover effectively the same area, but trying to get tricky.

9:12 You know, sometimes you just throw out that ground

9:14 pound and try to catch your opponent unaware.

9:17 Nice.

9:17 I like it.

9:18 I like it.

9:18 Okay.

9:19 Yeah.

9:19 And like you just said before, Flambo, it was like so many uh NIGs,

9:23 right, that we were not really seeing the side signature.

9:26 Uh so keep that in the back pocket now if you're Lopez and you have

9:29 this like bursty range option to maybe sneak away a stock now if you're Lopez,

9:34 but really good start for him regardless.

9:37 Gets caught on the way down.

9:39 And I like that.

9:40 I like that he doesn't s to get back to the stage.

9:42 Doesn't leave a window for him to get punished.

9:43 instead just uses his jumps and fast balls and touches the base platform.

9:48 Yeah, just a couple of stray hits here and there.

9:50 Power doesn't want to pull the trigger yet.

9:52 The S forces the disarm, forces the off stage, and forces the stock.

9:56 It's evened up.

9:57 Yeah, you know, it's funny because Lopez was

10:00 checking Power a lot with that exact same play.

10:02 Immediate dash from ground pound and Power was not falling for it.

10:06 But then Power says, "Well,

10:06 what if I do it to you?" And immediately finds the mark.

10:10 See if maybe Lopez copies the homework a little bit on the second stock.

10:14 Just gets a couple strong neutral wins.

10:17 Sarah doesn't quite connect to force the off stage,

10:18 but we'll get to swap to the cannon that has just been putting

10:21 in an astronomical amount of work throughout

10:24 every set we've seen from Lopez so far.

10:27 Can't get the side switch.

10:30 Power fights his way out.

10:31 There's the nar though.

10:32 I mean, we're seeing a lot more of these stack position nares,

10:34 which is like what you want to do when you're playing guitars.

10:37 Yeah, especially against Canon is going to have

10:39 a bit of a tougher time punishing from that position.

10:42 Disarmed now.

10:43 Lopez kind of trailing behind.

10:44 Oh, bit of a yolo ground pound.

10:47 An attempt to punish, but it's not going to hit

10:50 but Lopez just waiting for that weapon spawn.

10:51 There it is.

10:52 Power with the weapon throw to starve him out

10:53 and to get the guitars back in his hand.

10:55 That's a two for Oh man,

10:57 this spawn could not weapon spawn could not come soon enough.

11:00 Small neutral when Lopez just runs for the hills to try

11:02 to get the sword in hand and he does get it.

11:04 takes a little bit of damage and now off stage gets a second one.

11:08 Loses his stock largely in part because he ran for that weapon spawn.

11:12 I'm going to say

11:13 and now that means there's going to be another cannon queued up here,

11:16 but just getting minced apart by these guitars.

11:21 Not quite in the danger zone yet.

11:23 Huge damage for Power.

11:25 I think Power's got some good momentum.

11:27 He does lose the weapon right there.

11:28 S doesn't connect to take the stock.

11:29 Recovery doesn't connect either.

11:32 Swipes away on the weapon spawn.

11:34 Power able to touch, but Lopez cutting off every angle.

11:37 Makes it a last stock situation.

11:40 Yeah, the Fortress of Lions helping out there,

11:42 making that recovery to a stage spike.

11:44 Go ahead and close that stock out.

11:45 Otherwise, might see Power coming back to stage

11:48 to do some more damage, but Oh, nice.

11:53 Barely not enough to extend that a little bit further.

11:58 These nar are just barely poking and proddding Lopez away.

12:03 Just dissuading him from pursuing these like two, three hit strings.

12:07 And Lopez can't find more than a single opening.

12:12 Oh.

12:12 Oh, cover it.

12:13 OH MY GOSH, YOU WERE SO CLOSE.

12:15 And we got the pickup as well.

12:17 We're getting close to Dlight Nare territory as well for knockout.

12:21 One more blow and then I think it's on the table.

12:24 Yeah, next one.

12:27 Oh, what?

12:32 Why?

12:32 What?

12:32 What was the impetus to go for that?

12:35 Can Can we just see that one?

12:38 That was crazy.

12:39 Why?

12:40 To remind him to remind him that he's fighting Ember.

12:43 That's that's that that's Holy moly.

12:47 That Yeah, that one's a wakeup call.

12:49 I mean, look, I think that was Lopez's game to lose.

12:53 Are I I looked away.

12:54 Hey, I didn't He did that from like middle, right?

12:57 Yeah, that's Oh my goodness.

13:00 Got hops on that dog, man.

13:02 Oh my goodness.

13:03 Wow.

13:04 Wow.

13:04 Yeah, kind of snagged that one, honestly.

13:05 I mean, Lopez definitely having momentum uh just kind of getting, you know,

13:11 hit by the fact that Canon uh isn't all that great

13:14 at KOing off the side with just like a stray hit, right?

13:18 you know, does a great job of chaining you off

13:19 to the side with the side airs and you know, the recovery at the end.

13:23 But just raw from center stage, it's more likely to get a knockout off the top.

13:27 And on a stage like the Fortress of Lions,

13:29 that Dlight Nare was not enough to get him.

13:32 So,

13:32 for sure.

13:34 But already out the gates, Lopez with some pretty good damage.

13:37 It looks like he's not happy with how that last game went.

13:42 Going to try to channel that rage into a victory here.

13:44 getting pieced up by these nar.

13:46 There's an end light throws that endig.

13:49 Honestly, none of them have hit,

13:50 but you always have to represent it as a cra player.

13:53 Condition your opponent to trying to recover low and then you

13:55 can punish and get some side sigs or dlights off the corner.

13:58 And sometimes you just get the chump check, too, which is great, right?

14:01 So, like it is it is kind of a no-brainer to go

14:04 for that as part of your flowchart cuz like you said,

14:06 you can sometimes go gang busters,

14:08 get like everything that you want and more, close up the stock.

14:11 Sometimes it just forces them into a certain position.

14:13 And with all that said,

14:14 none of the conditioning mattered, at least for that stock,

14:17 because we just saw sword recovery pick up the first strike.

14:22 Okay, let's see.

14:24 Patience the weapon throw to break the mold, right?

14:26 Doesn't want to do anything too committ.

14:27 Oh, this is crazy.

14:28 Where are you going?

14:30 And that might be the back.

14:32 I maybe it was a bait all along,

14:34 but Power sent himself so far down there that I mean,

14:37 if you're Lopez, you can't not attempt to go for a crazy reversal.

14:41 And that's what ends up being the downfall of the cannon.

14:44 Just a really awkward weapon to try to recover from that position.

14:48 They don't find the hit.

14:51 Mhm.

14:50 Good juggles from Lopez.

14:52 Weapon throw as well.

14:53 I like the down air, but a better response.

14:55 Almost gets the down air recovery chain there.

14:59 Hold on.

14:59 This is

15:00 stage.

15:01 This is just ground moment.

15:04 Yeah, it may be tough to react as soon as you see the sweat

15:06 bees to just go for like ground pound or or dare or just about anything,

15:10 but tough call for sure.

15:14 Lopez still hanging on to this gentle lead,

15:16 but we saw this one in the previous game.

15:19 Hang on, Power Scrapping now.

15:22 I mean, Lopez needs one D light, but can you find it?

15:25 Gets disarmed and Power is now going to starve him

15:26 and you just going to lose your stock just like that.

15:28 But what a response going for the grab cancelled delight toward

15:31 the top of the stage there to convert into that KO.

15:34 Pretty much guaranteed when you get a delight recovery that high up.

15:38 Insanity.

15:38 And look, Power's playing keep away now.

15:40 Really well.

15:41 How long can he hang on to this stock?

15:42 It was recovery attempt.

15:43 It's disarm.

15:44 Catches the dodge as well.

15:45 Lopez running for the hills to try to get the cannon in time.

15:48 Is it going to be just one strong hit?

15:49 Just a sair.

15:50 Doesn't even disarm.

15:51 Weapon toss.

15:52 Not going to disarm.

15:54 Recovery.

15:54 Can't get it.

15:54 And now you don't have recovery to get back.

15:56 Going to catch the landing because of that.

15:58 This is so much damage that power is loving every second of.

16:02 I mean, the gravy is just being poured all over the mashed potatoes right now.

16:06 Even if you lose the stock right now, you're not feeling that bad.

16:10 And doesn't want to let the ground pound or the down air

16:12 rip there cuz one more land in the corner should be enough.

16:14 And that's exactly what he's going to find.

16:16 I love the patient there from Lopez.

16:17 Not trying to risk anything.

16:18 He doesn't have to.

16:19 And now honestly in the light orange,

16:22 so you actually have a decent amount of runway

16:23 to work with here to try to make this comeback.

16:25 One good cannon frame could be all she broke.

16:27 Beautiful dodge on the end.

16:28 Sig, but you're whiffing that side light and that gives power an opportunity.

16:32 Oh, hang on.

16:32 Off the backboard again.

16:33 Tries to go.

16:34 Yeah.

16:34 Tries to take it door to door, but Power says,

16:36 "Why don't we take it set to set?" It's going

16:38 to be a grand finals reset here after a 3 to1 victory.

16:42 And now it all comes down to this.

16:45 Yeah.

16:45 No, I mean, I respect it.

16:46 I Lopez recognized the situation, said,

16:48 "I might be able to get a quick turnar around here." Uh,

16:51 but wasn't able to get that second down air off the side.

16:55 was able to get the first try to turn him around.

16:57 We saw the w like I got to turn this around.

16:59 But honestly, good defense from power kind of jumping back to the side there.

17:03 Really hard to cover with the cannon.

17:05 You'd have to like go for a hard read with like a side air

17:07 there and at that point you're pretty

17:08 much throwing yourself next to the blast zone.

17:10 So

17:10 yeah, I feel like that h that happened definitely twice.

17:13 But like let's see if it's a consistent theme as we go into the reset, right?

17:18 Power in front of Lopez or whatever Lopez goes

17:26 for single hit tries to extend it a little

17:28 bit further gets punished big time for it

17:30 and that's how we got to the result we have.

17:32 Power with a little bit of momentum behind him.

17:35 We have talked about this in a lot of different

17:36 games right this idea of if you're coming from the elimination

17:39 side you get so many more reps in uh before

17:42 whereas Lopez was just waiting for this set to happen.

17:46 could be a difference maker.

17:49 And honestly, I think overall just struggling more to find the knockouts

17:54 once again.

17:54 Yeah, just willing to send off stage.

17:55 And I think Lopez is maybe a little bit scared now.

17:58 Look at this.

17:58 Like as soon as he goes up there,

18:00 Power's like, "All right, I guess I'll get stuck." Yeah, cuz at this point,

18:02 I don't think there has been a single successful reversal from Lopez

18:07 to punish Power for going off stage with the ground pound, right?

18:10 So, at this point, I'm just going to keep doing it.

18:11 I'm going to do it every single time if I'm not losing anything for it.

18:14 And at worst, I don't get punished.

18:16 At best, I'm the one reversing my opponent.

18:19 It just seems like the riskreward is just so skewed in your favor.

18:22 Just go for the offstage play at that point.

18:25 And again, this damage,

18:26 every single passing hit is just so good when you're in P's position.

18:30 The macro game has just been really solid.

18:32 Sending himself off stage in places that look a little bit weird,

18:34 but just getting the reversals where they count the most.

18:39 All right, runs to the platform to get back onto the stage.

18:42 looking for that sidelight or D light opener here.

18:44 Tries to dash in next to D light.

18:46 Gets caught by Lopez's Dlight coming out a little bit faster.

18:49 Go ahead and lose that first stock,

18:50 but still pretty decent lead all things considered here for Power.

18:55 Lopez patrolling around this weapon spawn.

18:58 Power able to thread the needle.

18:59 Just jumps right behind Lopez and gets the preferred matchup I think right

19:03 now cuz those guitars have been putting in work right now for Power.

19:09 No endlight to be found, but plenty of dodge reads instead.

19:13 Just going for the recovery cuz it's so hard to punish even if it misses.

19:17 That's going to be the stop.

19:19 Beautiful.

19:19 Just patient.

19:21 Yeah.

19:21 Like it's so crazy like the mode change too of going from like

19:24 the Qar like I'm going to string together a bunch of hits for a million

19:28 damage and then like let me just play grounded for a minute and go

19:30 for a signature and then I get a KO off a side blast.

19:33 Oh god.

19:35 Yeah.

19:35 Huge amount of damage rack up there from Power.

19:38 Lopez looking kind of lost a little bit here

19:40 in terms of how to deal with these cars.

19:41 That's going to be a punch for Power as well.

19:42 Force Lopez off stage.

19:44 Didn't get the touch.

19:44 There he does.

19:45 Sneaks it in there.

19:47 Mhm.

19:50 No recovery, but yeah, plenty of runway for Power now.

19:52 So every single aerial Oh, that's even a disarm, too.

19:55 That's huge for Power.

19:56 Yeah, next Enlight's probably going to be

19:57 met with a jump gravity cancel delight.

19:59 And if he gets it, might put Lopez within a danger zone.

20:02 Here it is.

20:03 No.

20:03 patiently waits on the ground.

20:06 Lopez just looking for some type of agency in this game.

20:09 It's a small whiff punish, but Poweres their way out.

20:15 Recovery barely not enough.

20:17 Yeah, I mean, this is this is really just looking like I was going to say

20:20 Qatar Recoveries is very much going to be close to the top blast zone now.

20:24 Nice pack.

20:25 Lopez gets one.

20:27 All right, it's doable.

20:28 I mean, this has happened like four games in a row now, Flambo,

20:31 where it's like Lopez is so far behind on last stock,

20:33 but we're like, he can do it.

20:34 I don't know.

20:36 This one I'm a little bit I don't see the vision as much.

20:39 Yeah, I mean, the N picks it up.

20:40 I think uh Power just did such a good job of racking

20:44 up the damage that it was like if you can hit him,

20:46 bro, I think I think you just win, right?

20:49 Whether it was Enlight, whether it was snare, you know, side air,

20:52 everything was just kind of pushing toward a knockout

20:54 at that point cuz he had just done all the damage prior.

20:56 I think that's one of the reasons guitars are so great.

20:58 If you're playing guitars and you have a lead,

21:01 you can really just play to rack up damage.

21:04 You can just say, "I'm not going to do anything but float and do falling n."

21:08 Yeah, you play you get to you get

21:09 more time to play like super reactive for sure.

21:13 And that was definitely the power show through and through.

21:15 580 damage dealt versus 363 damage on the side of Lopez.

21:21 I mean, power was just in the driver's seat all the way through.

21:25 Yeah, we'll see if, you know, this goes a little bit differently.

21:27 I mean, Lopez has had a really hard time getting momentum going.

21:30 I think even in the past like what, four or five games now,

21:34 uh we've only seen like one or two instances of where the cannon has

21:38 really been able to pop off and even then it has not led to a

21:41 Yeah, he he gets the like he gets the long

21:43 strings like occasionally four or five hits or or whatnot.

21:46 But to your point, like you had said earlier,

21:48 the cannon as a weapon is not really finding

21:51 these individual KOs that meet the blast zone, right?

21:56 So yeah, I think early chang I'm surprised that that was maximum range, man.

22:09 That when I tell you that dog got hops, man.

22:13 That's what a long jump to go ahead and close out that first

22:16 do power looking like might be able to just do a run and just,

22:20 you know, get the reset and then go into the 3 0 combo here.

22:23 Lopez can't figure it out.

22:24 I mean, that weapon throw breaks up that D light combo that Lopez was going for.

22:28 And we still have a decently sizable lead.

22:30 I mean, catching that but getting back to stage.

22:34 Oh, that was a bit greedy with that recovery there,

22:36 but manages to get back to the ground.

22:39 We'll see if he adopts the play style that you were talking about as well.

22:42 Looks like it's a little bit grounded,

22:43 but these Nares are just tacking on incremental damage every single time.

22:49 Okay, not the hugest lead, but a lead nonetheless.

22:51 power doing a great job.

22:52 I mean, playing with punish, you know,

22:54 be tricky with movement and then come in punish with a dash in sidelight.

23:01 Lopez.

23:02 Yeah.

23:03 And of course, you set up the flowchart cuz it's the right thing to do,

23:06 but Lopez looking for an answer.

23:10 Power just a two-piece.

23:11 Can't quite jump catch the jump.

23:14 And I like these kind of like soft reads that Power goes for, right?

23:18 Tries to follow up the string with the recovery.

23:20 If it doesn't hit, he's in a spot that's hard to hit.

23:23 Comes back out.

23:24 Yeah, they're not like super committal, which is nice.

23:26 And then you can just go for these signatures.

23:28 This is just really impressive.

23:30 Like three or four stocks he's taken have just

23:31 been doing a sig in the middle of center stage.

23:33 You know, Lopez is is probably genuinely thinking what the dog do.

23:38 Like I don't know what the dog is doing right now,

23:41 and I'm losing stocks to it every time.

23:43 I hit by the the guitar side, the the bow side.

23:52 trying to play grounded and Power is just making him suffer for it.

23:56 Mhm.

23:57 Chase dodge up.

23:58 I mean, nobody is there though.

23:59 There is just no follow up for Lopez.

24:01 And like you said, Power is making it really difficult to be hit.

24:08 Okay.

24:09 Little bit of a step back.

24:10 Tries to go for a signature if Lopez gets greedy and takes the stage too early.

24:13 But he's going to enter edge slip now.

24:14 This is two exclamation points.

24:15 A third one.

24:16 I I can't believe that missed.

24:17 Yeah, I honestly thought Power was going to go for the side sig there.

24:20 Uh just because he had represented the before and I thought

24:23 that was going to be the conditioning to say don't jump.

24:26 Thought Lopez was going to go try to grab

24:27 to the stage grounded and get caught by the side.

24:29 But Power I think went one Yomi layer too far,

24:33 but it shouldn't matter all too much at this point.

24:35 Kind of in a similar situation where he's able to land an Enlight or a Dlight.

24:39 That recover is going to set up for the knockout.

24:41 Weapon gets picked up.

24:42 Lopez threw his away importantly.

24:44 So there's not going to be a spawn for a second.

24:45 Favorable position.

24:46 gets the sword big

24:49 off the ground bounce and it's one game away for Power to somehow

24:54 swing this from the elimination run all the way to a gold medal.

24:58 Yeah, I mean he's he's looking pretty good.

25:01 I I don't even really know what to say.

25:03 I feel like Power is just kind of outclassed so far.

25:06 Has been struggling to find these knockouts.

25:09 I mean, looking at these replays, right, in his power center stage side, boom.

25:12 Right.

25:13 And you're just you're just caught and it's a fast sick.

25:15 you know, I'll give it up both.

25:18 But

25:18 and then that time ending it with a down sig.

25:20 Uh which like I knew there was going to be a sig there regardless.

25:23 Um and then kind of down sig if you do

25:25 like if you do a charge side sig or down sig,

25:27 they kind of cover similar things there.

25:29 Um but it's looking rough, you know.

25:33 Dude, I I I really don't know what happened between set one and set two, right?

25:36 And I think we see this so often in grand finals resets,

25:39 but in the opposite direction where it's like

25:41 the player who comes from elimination side wins like dominantly,

25:46 right, and gets the reset.

25:47 And it was like it was a 3-1.

25:49 Like it was pretty it would be pretty dominant for Power.

25:52 But then in the reset, the person who was in winners usually like locks in

25:56 hella, right?

25:57 And they're like the whole thing.

25:59 Yeah.

25:59 But it feels like the reverse has happened and Power was like,

26:01 "Why don't I stay locked in and you stay completely unlocked

26:05 and like we'll just keep doing this until the tournament's over."

26:08 And I think the like other part about it too is I think the weapons

26:13 that Power has in his arsenal are just way easier to be consistent with.

26:18 Sure.

26:19 Right.

26:19 You know, uh bow the the game plans stay fairly consistent.

26:24 The punishes are also pretty consistent, you know.

26:28 and you have a lot of soft reads that you can

26:31 go for that even if you're running kind of the same flowchart.

26:34 The consistency is going to feel about comparable

26:37 and then maybe you'll have those games where

26:38 you like really get to pop off but at the bare minimum you get stuff like that.

26:42 On the other side though Lopez cannon is a very read heavy weapon.

26:46 If you're not getting the reads you just going to show in your gameplay.

26:51 I mean even the edgeguard flow charts I

26:53 would say if we really want to dissect what's

26:54 going on like Lopez going for the N6

26:56 with the sword also that's a timing read like

26:59 you are waiting for them to come up

27:00 and it's like power usually has not been getting

27:03 caught at least in this second set

27:04 by that as often that's probably a huge difference maker too

27:08 and Lopez hasn't been able to get any endig on the cannon

27:12 any side either we did see one down sig I think

27:14 in the first set but the signature kit has been pretty much

27:18 a non-issue for power and even when it comes down to the glide attacks,

27:22 you know, has been at best able to string some damage.

27:25 Oh, and he chokes there.

27:26 Accidentally does not touch the wall there.

27:29 Is forced to recover.

27:31 Power recognize the scenario and gets a free edge guard

27:33 as a result at this point where you're at tournament point.

27:38 Making mistakes like that does not spell.

27:40 Yeah, I mean, there was a small little head bunk there as well.

27:43 So, on underneath the bottom side of the stage,

27:46 not what you want to see for sure.

27:47 I mean, Lopez did take the first lead of uh this reset right now,

27:52 but just like that, Power swung the damage

27:54 right back in his favor and propping him up.

27:58 Oh my gosh, that recovery was so close to top last zone.

28:03 Second one.

28:04 Waited for it.

28:04 Just did not have enough time.

28:08 Oh my gosh.

28:08 And the step backs as well.

28:09 Lopez is just swinging at ghosts right now.

28:13 pretty decent job with the juggles here,

28:14 but you see Power is happy just getting these end lights.

28:19 One of them was going to give him the recovery.

28:20 Just a matter of time.

28:21 Yeah.

28:21 I mean, and like you said, he can afford to wait, right?

28:24 Like, cuz even if he loses the stock here,

28:25 a recovery will find its mark eventually.

28:28 And whether it's recovery with guitars or now he's going to have,

28:31 I think, the bow cuz I don't think he primed another guitar.

28:35 Yeah.

28:35 So, he does have bow here.

28:36 It's just like a matter of time before we go to one stock a piece.

28:38 So, it's about damage mitigation now as Lopez hangs on to this lead.

28:42 Even the side air, I think, will probably send at this point.

28:45 There's the recovery we're all looking for.

28:47 Finally finds the mark here.

28:49 Now, Power one stock away from being the Springs Champion.

28:54 Lopez, this is you have to do the reverse 3 0 from this position.

28:59 We'll see if he can make it happen,

29:00 but so far getting pieced up by these cars still, but does have the off stage.

29:05 The was the uh return to stage option of choice to try to clip Power,

29:09 but gives a little bit more respect now.

29:10 Gets the recovery.

29:12 A little bit more damage.

29:12 Just the dare into Nare.

29:15 Oh, that's a huge miss.

29:17 Power can't connect it to more than a three-piece though.

29:18 Gets the dodge that he's looking for.

29:20 Lopez makes it back towards center stage.

29:22 Recovery, finds it off stage.

29:23 Here's the s going way, way high.

29:26 Punish.

29:26 Oh, that recovery.

29:28 That's a disarm.

29:29 Next recovery.

29:29 We talked about it.

29:30 It will eventually find its mark.

29:32 So Lopez has to find that KO first.

29:34 Yeah, Lopez needs a burst option here to cut through the extra

29:37 amounts of damage he would need to get otherwise normal conversion.

29:39 And that's an opportunity.

29:41 OH, HE NO.

29:43 OH MY GOSH, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CEREBRAL.

29:46 Delight recovery is name of the game here for Lopez.

29:48 If you can find that Dlight, go for the NIC power.

29:50 Doesn't go for the left.

29:51 Lopez has to win at this point.

29:52 You have to win after after doing all that conditioning.

29:54 DON'T LET IT END LIKE THIS.

29:55 DON'T LET IT END LIKE THIS.

29:57 OH, ENDLIGHT.

29:58 Oh my gosh.

29:59 Tries to go for the N there.

30:00 The endless not going to be enough in the corner.

30:02 maybe can get the edge guard enough.

30:04 Such deep breath and light.

30:07 This is insane.

30:09 Lopez is so nervous.

30:11 This is his tournament and light is enough to do it and he stays in the game.

30:16 My heart is beating.

30:17 I was freaking out because we were talking about the cannon signature, right,

30:20 of covering the high angle and it took like six games,

30:23 but we finally got there, right?

30:25 Isn't that crazy?

30:26 cuz Sidra does have that unique aspect to her where she

30:30 does cannon and she is actionable

30:34 before the cannonball has actually disappeared.

30:36 And so you get to bait people there like we saw Lopez do.

30:39 He throws out the cannon and SIG immediately does

30:41 Dlight at the end of it cuz you know obviously

30:44 from the other side of that you see the cannonball

30:45 like well I'm not going to jump into that.

30:47 Gets caught by the Dlight and then goes

30:48 for the N and it just barely doesn't knock out.

30:51 Oh my gosh.

30:51 It was games and games of conditioning and it's like dang,

30:54 you finally got if it if it netted the K.O.

30:56 I would have lost it.

30:57 But like still Lopez is in this set now.

31:00 Could it be a reverse 3?

31:01 I'm not sure.

31:02 Power still just needs one singular game to be able

31:05 to close out this South American bracket for spring champs.

31:08 But Lopez with a little bit of fire underneath him now.

31:11 Yeah, we'll see.

31:12 I mean, quite a change of scenery here.

31:15 We'll see if that works out.

31:16 I mean, honestly, you know, I think these bigger stages seem to be working out

31:19 a little bit better for Lopez than they have been for Power.

31:22 So, maybe want to keep that going.

31:27 Okay.

31:28 And this is the thing about these like kind of awkwardly spaced

31:30 platforms where it's like Lopez can shark underneath a lot of them.

31:34 It's really hard uh for Power to be able

31:36 to come down because these are such so high up.

31:39 Yeah.

31:39 Hard to come down.

31:40 Also hard to punish right if you're on that platform.

31:42 He's throwing an air makes it a little

31:44 bit more awkward to come through the platform.

31:47 That was a big slide charge.

31:49 Yeah.

31:49 Right.

31:50 I mean, cuz on a stage like this, even

31:52 if you're not netting the knockout outright with the cannon,

31:55 if you're able to send your opponent far enough to the side,

31:58 you're going to end up spending enough resources,

32:00 especially with these small walls that you're able

32:02 to cover a lot with that slide charge down.

32:05 Lopez looks like he has a little bit of momentum, a little bit of spunk back.

32:09 See if he can keep this one.

32:10 maybe force another game five.

32:15 Power calls the drift right back in.

32:17 Clips it with the signature to even this one right back up.

32:19 But Lopez is hanging on to a decently healthy lead in terms of damage.

32:25 And I love the spacing from that, too.

32:27 Power knew exactly at what moment Lopez was going

32:29 to try to counterattack and just space that side stick preemptively.

32:33 If he's going to be able to continue playing like that, I

32:35 have no doubt he'll be able to make the comeback damage wise.

32:37 Let's see if Slopez can kind of slow him down, make that game five happen.

32:40 Y that sword away as well.

32:42 Burn the dodge.

32:42 Power recovers over the stage, but Lopez doesn't get too much of a punish.

32:46 OH MY GOSH, THE three-piece unarmed into a gracious weapon spawn.

32:50 That's crazy.

32:52 Heaven's chosen one.

32:55 Let's see.

32:56 Oh, huge opportunity.

32:57 Big damage.

32:58 We might I think we're going game five, Flambo.

33:00 It's looking like it if things continue the way that they have.

33:04 Let's see.

33:06 Ooh.

33:09 Okay.

33:09 ground.

33:10 Oh, doesn't Okay, we'll take it though.

33:12 Build a bear.

33:12 Yeah, it was just barely inside the stage,

33:14 so it got you the ground bounce instead of just the stock off the bottom.

33:20 The side again.

33:21 Power so good at finding those and the longlasting active frames

33:25 of that signature is also able to catch the spot dodge.

33:27 Only the second part of that sig hit and that's all power needed.

33:31 Yeah, these signatures have been a big difference maker.

33:33 previous game that Lopez was able to win.

33:36 Power hit zero signatures and I think we've been pointing it out.

33:39 It's basically been getting a stock every time they hit.

33:45 Wow, good movement around these platforms.

33:47 Power doesn't have a lot here.

33:48 Has it for the dodge goes up misses up

33:50 on the 50/50 was either going to dodge in or delay it.

33:53 Listen, keep this in mind.

33:54 This is still Lopez's tournament right here.

33:57 Anything could happen.

33:58 S doesn't connect.

34:00 N doesn't connect either.

34:01 This is super scary now if you're Lopez.

34:05 Power starting to creep their way back into it.

34:07 It could be a power creep though.

34:09 Weapon toss doesn't find anybody.

34:10 OH, FINDS THE RECOVERY.

34:11 IT'S A DISARM.

34:12 ONE MORE RECOVERY.

34:13 EXHAUSTED.

34:14 NO.

34:14 Sweat beats from power.

34:15 Throws this away.

34:16 Gets the weapon starve into Lopez.

34:18 And it's just basically a signature away.

34:20 IS IT GOING TO BE HE FINDS IT?

34:22 IT'S NOT ENOUGH.

34:24 Dodge should be back here.

34:25 Burns it.

34:26 Doesn't catch the landing.

34:27 Oh my god.

34:28 Lopez.

34:29 One recovery from Lopez is all it takes.

34:30 One hit from power to win the entire tournament.

34:32 Oh, just switches the side.

34:34 Reverses the situation.

34:34 Lopez doesn't want to press a button yet doesn't come through.

34:37 POWER DOESN'T PRESS A BUTTON YET.

34:38 AND THAT'S NOT ENOUGH EITHER.

34:40 WHAT?

34:40 And Lopez has no weapon.

34:41 HE'S UNARMED.

34:42 YOLO.

34:43 WHY ARE YOU RUNNING LIKE THAT?

34:44 THIS IS CRAZY.

34:45 NO HUGE PUNISH ON THAT SIDE STICK.

34:47 That should HAVE BEEN THE TOURNAMENT.

34:49 AND LOPEZ manages to force the game nine.

34:54 I don't know.

34:56 I'm a What is this?

34:59 That's called nerves, dude.

35:00 He ran and went.

35:02 HE DID.

35:02 HE DID A RAN UNARMED SIDE.

35:04 That should have just been a side response

35:06 from Power and the tournament should have been over.

35:08 But he definitely choked because he was like,

35:11 "There's no way that just happened,

35:13 right?" Like he he could not believe his own eyes because there is no

35:17 reason here that Lopez should have been able to make this go the full distance,

35:21 but yet here we are.

35:23 We were saying Lopez is clutched out

35:26 in like these weirdly miraculous moments throughout

35:29 this entire bracket and I'm mostly just talking about that one game versus C.

35:34 But now this is like what if we're

35:36 we're living in the Twilight Zone this upside down Shadow Star as well, right?

35:40 Oh my gosh.

35:42 Wow.

35:42 And it all comes down to this folks.

35:44 The South American champion will be determined on Western

35:48 Air Temple a game five off the reset.

35:51 Power was up 200 and Lopez has the opportunity

35:55 to win this tournament with a reverse 3 0.

36:00 Let's get underway.

36:00 I mean, this is absolute cinema.

36:03 Yeah, nothing's more heartbreaking as a competitor

36:04 to get that far that close, right?

36:06 One hit away from winning the entire thing and then losing.

36:09 And I kind of don't want that level of anguish for power.

36:12 But on the other side of things,

36:13 if you're Lopez to make the complete reverse run, right?

36:18 They both have traveled long distances to get here,

36:21 which is the scary part now, right?

36:23 Like Lopez has uh barely scraped by on two games.

36:27 Importantly though, Lopez started out with first strike.

36:30 He started out with the stock advantage in both of those.

36:32 So, want to see if maybe the same pattern pres persists in this game

36:36 cuz if power takes first stock here and then can run away with the momentum,

36:40 it could just be a done deal.

36:41 Oh, the weapon door doesn't hit.

36:43 We could down see here.

36:44 We could represent down air in the corner as well

36:46 trying to bait something by that dash and then just

36:48 doesn't pull the trigger but wait side air weapon throw

36:52 force to dodge and doesn't even have to worry about it.

36:55 Looks like we're going to get the first do here.

36:56 Power in a great position in this game number nine.

37:00 So this is what led to power winning games one and two, right?

37:03 Like you had already said, especially with with a a heavy Qar player,

37:07 you're like, "Okay, I can be willing to take trades.

37:09 I can be willing to just kind of like nickel and dime,

37:11 get my chip damage in, and then eventually the recovery will find me.

37:14 Uh, with Power kind of having priority now,

37:17 especially with Lopez not getting the KO there.

37:19 Power has a lot more opportunity to just add on incremental damage here.

37:24 Oh, can't believe that Enlight doesn't hit.

37:25 That's going to be the stock there.

37:27 And honestly, a decent amount of damage racked on from Power.

37:31 Probably would have liked to have gotten him a little bit closer to the orange,

37:33 but all things considered, in a good spot.

37:35 gets a beautiful weapon spawn that leads

37:38 to that conversion to the down sig as well.

37:40 And now you start fishing to start sending Lopez off stage.

37:44 Okay, gets one there.

37:45 Second one doesn't connect.

37:46 Wait, Lopez is going absolutely off ground pound potentially.

37:49 Goes for it.

37:50 Doesn't wait.

37:51 This is There wasn't a lot of movement left from Power.

37:54 I'm pretty sure Lopez still in the advantage though.

37:56 Tries to cover the high angle.

37:57 He's still in advantage state which is crazy.

38:00 This is tight battle, man.

38:01 Unarmed to it.

38:04 has to burn the dodge and you just cover it with a gravity cancel breakdance.

38:07 There's no other route of recovery.

38:09 I'm losing my mind right now with Lambo.

38:11 What What did this set turn into?

38:13 Power, wake up.

38:14 Wake up, Power.

38:15 Wake up.

38:17 Fight back.

38:18 Power.

38:18 Fight back.

38:19 Cuz Lopez, he's fighting back now.

38:21 And you know, cuz my thing is Lopez is he was on the winner side.

38:26 I'd argue Power has had to do more work to be here.

38:29 And so I want him to bring it as close as he possibly can.

38:32 Lopez might just end it.

38:33 It's It's looking like he wants to be done.

38:35 He does not want the tight the close quarters

38:37 games that he had in games three and four.

38:39 He wants to win with a stock to spare.

38:42 And Power moving like he going to lose his stock on the next hit.

38:46 Hold on.

38:47 Nice recovery.

38:48 Switch up his last game.

38:49 Lock in, baby.

38:50 Lock in.

38:51 Oh my gosh.

38:52 Fight back.

38:54 Okay.

38:55 Power could get a string.

38:56 Same could be said for Lopez.

38:58 tower defending this weapon versus Oh my gosh.

39:02 No star.

39:04 This is crazy.

39:05 I hit.

39:05 I can't believe I hit.

39:06 No weapon though.

39:07 Lopez running away trying to find it.

39:09 Power.

39:10 Nice.

39:10 Oh no.

39:11 Chase dodge on the follow.

39:12 Doesn't want to be recovery now though.

39:15 Yeah, Lopez needs one opening.

39:16 Has to be careful.

39:17 Could be a raw recovery.

39:18 Could be a grab delight.

39:19 Power has to be so careful.

39:20 Look at the movement.

39:21 Just narrowly away from these hit boxes.

39:24 THROWING OUT THESE AIRS.

39:25 GET CAUGHT BY THE TENTACLE.

39:27 DAVE JONES LOCKER WITH YOU.

39:30 OH, AND he sent him to the seven seas.

39:32 Lopez is going to be the South American champ off a reverse 3 0.

39:37 Are we serious?

39:39 How many games has he been able to successfully

39:43 just whip out that when it mattered the