And the title starts now. And this crowd here at Grand Finals is ready. Grand Finals. Remember Mo has to win two best of five sub needs to win one and Muhammad light had a lot of success with this deck earlier because most of the losers bracket well in game one.
It's pro leagues.
You cannot repeat any cards. Once you use a card, you can't use it again. Will it be the Boss Bandit version? There's many versions out there with Mortar and Evo Barrel. Looking more like it could. But Berserker also shows up in a lot of those decks.
Yeah, Berserker is certainly having a coming out party here at this competition. And Boss Bandit does come in, but with a change of the barrel, usually the log fireball combo. Again, this is a best of five. You've got to do stuff like that if you
want to be in a good position down the line. Boss Bandit setting up in front of the skeleton barrel, doing some tanking for a moment. Gets the cannon off, pulled towards the King Tower, but the dash back to avoid the activation. Mohammed Light, quick on the fingers.
I like that play there by Sub, just recognizing I can activate King Tower if you make a mistake, but I know you won't, so I'm ready to go with the next spot. Great heads up play from both these guys. Sub still in the lead,
even though more damage has been done to his towers. As a note here, Sub has run these hog decks in practice a lot, but mostly going with a Tesla version or with an XCNado version. So think about some of those pieces he might be saving for this Best of Five. Definitely.
EQ is the spell of choice. I like that instead of going something bigger. I know Juicy talked about the Void spell, but I don't know buddy I don't know if that's gonna happen today it's best of five it's world finals just about anything can happen we'll see if we go there right now with two minutes away
moving into double elixir time so far pretty much razor thin setting up that cannon early trying to get to the evo cannon as soon as possible evil firecracker in play already. Nice E-Spirit plush should clean all this up. An early log!
He missed! He missed the log! He missed the log!
Sub thought that the Firecracker was gonna pop both of the barrels there because it was the Evo Cracker and he just misses the log. Got nervous. He got nervous. to open up 716 on the right tower 2099 on the top left and we are getting closer and closer to sudden death and a small thing that sub can hold on to is that there was a misplay there by mo to activate king tower firecracker evil mortar down earthquake in skellies to distract and it connects don't distract he missed the skellies subs nervous two shots in barrel to tank goblins taking for the Subs nervous!
Subs nervous!
Dude! Let's go!
Fireball, fireball, low. Yeah, fireball, fireball, low. Mortar. Mortar. the top of the hill. He's got to win five more though. He's got to win five more if he wants to hold that trophy. Here we go. Just go to drill and game. Come on, Mo. Come on, Mo.
You've already been playing it so perfectly. Come on, Mo! It's been very hard to stop all weekend. And instead, we see Barrel early on here from Sub. And Mohammed Light with the bomber. So drill certainly a possibility here.
I think Mo's using drill, yeah. Drill plus Evo Valk. And this could just be crazy bait with Wallbreakers still. Princess, the Dark Gob, the Barrel. Yeah, Mo's using drill. There they are.
Takes a little swing from the Valkyrie. the barrel. Yeah, most of the time here, there they are.
Takes a little swing from the Valkyrie. All of it shuts it down. And with Moe light looking like he's playing drill, this is going to be very, very interesting when you start working that Evo snowball into the equation, maybe using wall breakers to take the drill out
more than you'd like. Perfect fire spirit jumps. But after losing confidence in interactions in game one, will Sub be able to pull it off? And goes for the snowball on the Dark Goblin to clear.
Barry, go Barry, go Barry, go, go Barry.
Pretty much evens things up 2171 to 2133. Brilliant decision making there by Moe. Go Barry! Go Barry! Go! Go Barry! That dart's gonna die. Nice! Bad dart! Should've put it one shot to the left. Yeah, Sub's taking a bet that Log wouldn't come out in game number two and so far so good for him. You saw Moe didn't love that last little bit of interaction and as we get closer and closer to our double elixir time, he sets up with the Goblin Hut.
Sub really needs to make these double barrels, these Gob barrel evolutions cause some damage when you talk about the responses that Moe has. of the game. And I think that's what we're going to see. I think that's what we're going to see. I think that's what we're going to see. I think that's what we're going to see.
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to see. I think that's what we're going fire spirit jump and his micro is just not on right now. We've seen the hands shake on stage before. While we have the face cam, we don't have the hand cam at this World Finals. Would have loved to see that barrel go opposite side,
have the real goblins on the left hand side with the tank. Instead, pretty clean defense, 1845 to 1822. Both players doing a great job of consistently Pressuring both lanes and you see a pain off here for sub as he now puts both towers under 1900 And trying to get some princesses on the board, but giving poison value is subbed Bad dart! Bad dart! Bad dart!
Exactly what I am talking about sub is out of sorts at the moment Bro, sub's getting nervous. Mo's up 300. Sub has not played this bad the entire tournament. The whole tournament. his interactions yesterday. Keep in mind if it's super tight as we get late, Sub will have to get on tower.
Muhammad Light does have direct spell damage. And Princess stays alive just a little longer than Moe would have liked.
Yeah, Moe has poison, Sub doesn't have anything.
And now Princess here to help clean up this gob hut. High Valkyrie to block. Beautiful stuff here from Moe.
Nice Evo Snow.
And Evo Snow ball to send everything back. Bomber to try to cover on one side, guards on the other. And does not allow the wall breakers to connect, but damage on the left-hand side is massive. Yeah, real- Down to 1221.
Real goblins do a lot of damage there. Valkyrie up high to protect against Dark Goblin. Sub turning the pressure up, building some confidence. That should go down. Final minute, triple elixir flowing.
And just going to eat some of that. No, he does not.
Last second Valkyrie. Come on. Bomber taken off the board, but does do the job against the Dark Goblin. Not only does Sub have the board, but does do the job against the dark goblin. Now, let us sub have the lead, but he has both lanes and that's going to be huge here is he can go opposite.
He can also if he has to, we can win in that right hand side. And I love what he's doing with the princesses here. Rich, you know, Mo wants to poison the right side. So make these princesses take over the board, control the board, protect your princess,
princesses
got ones on the right hand side take it down to 380 Mohammed light in trouble in both lanes poison down gives him the lead but for how long and sexual pressure pressure here from sub he cannot let Mo get back on offense needs to defend the high drill the defensive drill will it be enough? Let's fucking go! Come on Moe!
You're the GOAT!
In defense, takes a 2-0 lead.
Bro, he saved his Evo Snow for the last barrel. God, he's so intelligent. And there was three princesses and Sub stacked up all of his princesses because he knew Moe couldn't poison because Sub's also so intelligent.
Game three. Come on Moe. Game three, will this be a clear sweep in our first grand finals? Or will Sub be able to turn things around? Another big question here is if Sub goes cycle, which it looks like he's going to be doing, what does that leave him for games four and five? Right, it puts it, it's pretty easy to put him on some stuff when you get into the championship rounds,
now that we're three cycle decks down. And we see the Tesla and Log out already from the light. Sub using Mortar. decks down and we see the Tesla and log out already from some use in mortar looking like it could be a version of mortar here from sub is Moe using hog yeah he's using hog and gonna figure out what the spell power is relatively soon on both sides Moe probably has earthquake
cannon cart breaks down plenty away from that tower. Mo forced to cover those skellies and you see him going,
alright, I had to do that.
Looking like he could be going to Hog Rider. Hog Rider versus Mortar. Good little bit of pressure here from the setup on the left hand lane and now going back to the right. Tesla out for Mo. Still haven't seen what the second Evo is from sub.
Has a game for pressure and a late fire spirit. And it survives. Beautiful interaction there. So spell wise, what's Mohammed got going on here? Obviously earthquake is one you would think of, but lightning open as well. And there you go.
Lightning comes down in the back there. Mo at 2766. The one nice thing is the lightning is so expensive you can start to stack cannon carts one side. Nice cancel out, wow. You can defend your mortar a little bit more you can get a little more aggressive with mortars. Come on Moe! The thing that you're thinking about is how do I get damage on tower I need a
barrel to get through or I need a mortar to connect and those are two very difficult things to do against Moe Light. Middle Mortar picks it up with the Mighty Miner. Cannon Cart. It's getting a lot of lightning value there. Maybe trying to bait it out of Moe and he does take it. There's gonna be some big hits. The Hog! Two from the Hog I believe. Oh, it stops the second.
The bats just clutched this up. Come on! Oh, it's a big haul to from the hog. I believe oh it stops the second The battle down you will order in play fire spirit Wow Perfect timing on that fire spirit that goes down just in time Skelly Kings in both lanes evo firecracker trying to work on the defensive side mortar still at about a third health He needs his arrows to get rid of that firecracker right now. Does sub not able to do it? Mortar off the most damage in. Oh, that's a nice hog firecracker, man.
King Tower activated a little King Tower activation there. That will be helpful in the long run.
Good firecracker placement for Mo.
Cracker splash goes to the other side. Mo Light still has both lanes at his disposal. Maybe hog again. The light still has both lanes at his disposal. Maybe all death over time And sub setting up the skelly barrel way low And I like how Moe is just not even I'm not even gonna play with it every time that cannon carts in the back I'm gonna take the lightning value. I don't care what lane it's in
I don't care which tower is lower at least right now. Yeah, the cannon cart gets too much value so we're high in finals. Cause the cannon cart rolls most whole deck. And a bit of a stalemate for Sub.
Firecracker.
Yeah, he's got to figure out what can he do to get to the second level. He's again in a situation. All right, firecracker, firecracker! I got a shot in mighty minor bomb goes off as well. Yes, sub cannot get on offense Tesla here to block no Mighty minor to kite or distract skeleton King looking for oh nice lightning again from mo Mo the shot does get beautiful late ability and that's gonna be very little damage and
Mo goes you almost predicted me, but that one goblin stays alive
Yeah, that arrows feels like a late gasp. There is there was just one little so cute
And looking for the mortar defense one, yes early this is yeah chance effort here, bro He's literally about a flawless that'll win. 3-0 in the first set. Might of matter, ability, ability, ability, ability.
Yes, Moe, yes!
3-0 sweep! Now, maybe gonna drop Goblins in the back. Moe's looking for it, trying to find a spot for that Lightning, and there it is.
And he gets it!
Three up, three down! And he heads right back to get ready for round two.
Instantly walked off, wow.
Once cheering for him there, can he beat and stop Moe from being our three-time world champion? I mean, since we've been in teams mode, you know that no matter what the matchup is. They're always gonna root for their home. Come on Mo Sub and here we go grand finals five games at grand finals Final five games
Come on mortar or can sub take the championship home. He already messed up He already messed up sub going something fast one more time He did not like bro sub already messed up so quickly, Sub already messed up. Dude, Sub already messed up. on top of the Dark Gob, that's wasted Elixir, then he has to overspend with the minions and then Mo gets a connection. Easy fireball there. I really don't love seeing Sub go right back to a cycle deck to open things up.
I don't believe that Mortar gets there, no not with the Goblin Gang. Mortar versus Mortar. There is an activation you can pull there. And Mo's done it during World Finals. Yep. You know, it's interesting in this situation we're talking about maybe looking for Sub to go with something heavy.
He's not super great with Pekka Gob Giant, with E-Giant, with Golem. He's okay with things like Graveyard, the Lava deck, we might see him go Lava, Pekka Bridge Spam. But those big heavy ones that are usually the massive swings, not really in his wheelhouse. Yeah, and you know, I do understand
how strong they are in the meta right now, but it's always so tough to kind of place and pray, as we say when we talk about heavy decks. We always talk about outplayability with faster cycle decks, which is why is the sub continuing to go that direction?
But maybe a beatdown attempt is the way to go after the first three games didn't go your way Mo does allow that mortar to connect for a couple shots on the left-hand side so yeah are down but not out and this boss bandit should be cleaned up by that berserker yeah you saw Mohammed try to get the goblin gang down in time timed with that boss bandit reset ability but it was a little bit too far outside mortar goes ahead and connects and subs right back in this one going for a near mirror here
but obviously the e-wiz and the dark on the two very different pieces of this equation and the fireball from mo hitting that dark goblin I'd start abusing it if I was sub and then figure out a way to get the minions involved as well. And there you go, minions high, fireballs out, and there's the dark goblin.
Nice!
The way you want to see it.
I was just going to say, that's going to be so much of this matchup, Rich, is trying to get that fireball out from Moe and then abuse the other card that is best used with, or best defended with Fireball. And what a smart Skeleton Barrel up there at the top, knowing that it was gonna get taken down, and pop those Skeletons to control those Boss Bats.
Yeah, Skeleton Barrel is just such a great siege defense, you know, after its evolution especially. You talk about that double drop. It does so much damage and then your opponent sits there. It goes. Is it even worth trying to take care of the skellies? Fireball.
Nice.
Now the minions come down. There you go.
It's about work.
Clockwork usually doesn't work against no light, though. Sudden death overtime. Muhammad light with a fairly solid lead. 1570 on the left hand lane. 1728 on the right hand tower for Sub. And I was just going to say, I'd love to see a high Dark Goblin there, but almost walking towards the other side,
now maybe giving some value here. And just continue to chip away in both lanes. We talk about the things that Mo does very well. It's early dual lane pressure. And the interactions with the Boss Bandit, definitely going in Mo Light's favor, at least in this instance. the feeling more and more like it is lightning I feel like subs last card is
fire sets up on the right hand side for no maybe arrows elixir last thing that sub can have happen is to go down four in a row arrows yeah there and sub once again just finding an incredibly difficult time breaking through maybe you heard us talking about how that other deck doesn't work very well, but this one really struggling to get on tower And arrows one mode just 30 seconds of defense he needs to get a mortar lock He can't win with spells, but just not as long as mo doesn't let the mortar lock He's gonna win cuz sub doesn't have any big spell. And another mortar down for Sub, 18 seconds remains.
He needs that mortar to connect and then some, and there's just absolutely no way.
Yes, the bomb panning!
Oh wow.
On the right hand side, boss bandit breaks on through, Barrel's gonna drop down, Sub. Four in a row. Come on Moe! in a row! He has two lives to give in his 2025 run.
Chat. Feels like he's facing off.
This is disgusting, bro. How good he is. Four in a row.
I couldn't agree more.
Chat, four in a row.
Seems to be feeling it. And Mo knows history is on the line.
The first ever.
Dude, that's the goat dip. Champion. That'd be a nice title to have back home finals coming your way
Let's go chat. Let's go
fireball and bar barrel and he was all out for Mohammed and He goes minor Oh Royal giant verse minor and might sub be doing the same Oh, Royal Giant versus Miner. Royal Giant versus Miner.
I think Mo has spirit Tesla
He's got so many ways to reset and stun and control that Royal Giant does take a royal ghost shot and Moe goes All right, you can have that first thing in four games Moe has just really sub is viewed as being pretty good with Royal Giant. Come on, Moe We haven't seen him play it a lot in competitive the more cycle more cycle heavy stuff he's been doing. We saw him do great with it against Pedro earlier today so I like that he's going back to something that did work. Mo already recognizing all right I know what I'm up against I'm gonna just get a Tesla down try to get towards Tesla evolution. Good luck
breaking through
Most defense with this deck is perfect today fishermen. It's gonna be hard to break through for some This is like most best deck ever is minor rocket It's his favorite deck
The tension in this room right now Andrew yesterday We said we said it, I can echo it right now, is there's hundreds of people behind us and you could hear a pin drop. Waiting, hanging on bated breath to see, will the GOAT be the first ever to repeat the first three time?
Or can the Cinderella story of Sub continue on?
Come on, Mo.
First Royal Giant. I just don't know how you're gonna break through how you're gonna beat the cycle Tesla's are out early nice guards to protect the fisherman logs and ice spirits oh my oh my indeed you know Tesla's okay actively I mean look at that that's just one of those things where you're like I don't even care about playing my Evo Tesla preemptively. Dark Prince! Look at that. That's just one of those things where you're like, I don't even care about playing my Evo when you're not on offense.
I just need to, just SimCity as we call it. Buildings down, always gonna have that second building ready. You have another RG, I have another Tesla. Guards off the board instantly. Lead is for the moment for sub 2713 to 2668. From the top right of your screen down to your bottom left. And now sub gets aggressive at the bridge.
And hyper aggressive at the bridge. Log plus E-Spirit to clean up the guards and I was gonna say should get a shot but there's that evil eye spirit we were talking about just so many ways to control this game the only way to win this is for an evil royal ghost to cause problems on subs and that's what sub needs to have happen how can I make the evil royal ghost make most spend more
than he wants interesting moguls i'm very happy to take that tower damage sir thank you yeah we saw him doing that the other day throwing this rocket on top of the cycled rg in the back evo ghost cycled in the back for sub. Nice Ice Spirit placement. Nice delivery. Perfect defense again. Might just rocket that RG. I can't because of the wrong Ghost. I can't. It's getting the tower! Nice! Come on Mo flawless him 21 46 27 8 or 26 27 one minute remains in
overtime low Tesla here that's gonna give some fireball value you almost feel bad for him just like you did for Pedro. There's just no way to break through.
Good log, get that tower damage.
Royal Giant to the right-hand lane. Trying to force Expenditure out away from his weak side tower. Evo Ghost goes into the guards, maybe to add pressure in both lanes, cleaned up by the delivery and log. Molite looks more locked in
than we've ever seen him before, Rich. Delivery on top of the Hunter,
the Ghost and the Archie, nice.
Just takes a few more moments of defense from Mohamed Light, we see the little smile. Five in a row.
Back to back to back to back to back.
Game wins.
After doing it to Pedro.
This is just excellence, bro. He might actually 6-0 Sub in Grand Finals.
Beachless.
Oh my God, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run. Last game. If Mo wins this, he's world champion. Sub's using E- using a giant I think God or excuse me you see you the gob cage come out and Moe nod maybe he's going to the recruits yep could also be going piggies keep going piggy zappies bro royal recruit makes me think to the skies or no maybe lava zap certainly does feel that it's lava seen him run it's lava Oh, maybe Lava! It's Lava! It's Lava!
Moe's using Log bait, Sub's using Lava. This is it, chat, if Moe wins this, this like this call of the world You know sub is feeling the pressure and you have to have your micro interactions Absolutely dialed to keep up with this deck that Mo's running especially when you get to triple And the curse comes out defensively Damage in both lanes for Mohammed now. He pressures the right-hand side And Valkyrie doing a great job cleaning up that royal ghost evolution
Mo's off to a really good start guys
The question is rich a lot of times when we talk about going to the skies going with lava hound there has to be a Moment where you sacrifice damage or a tower usually to get your lava on the most smiling make your opponent make mistakes elixir wise so you get the advantage as you can see right now only about one elixir up a couple thousand HP down yeah that's up that's a really tough one and now that we know that it's gonna be this is a spell No big spell Obviously you have to contend with the vines mo has zappies for lava
That's so good that flying machine stack a couple flying machines start abusing them And the goblins on tower. Oh boy that has to come down defensively. There's that one raker I'm gonna get a double on the left hand side and it's over can feel it it's over Moe's the champ it's over dark goblin to say it's just in range the fight and the vines and Moe knows you can see it on his face greatness the spell power there's no over with the zappies and with the six to zero and he did it he did it got his hands on his head and
what a perfect curse we're in sudden death overtime sub hanging on by itself can't even lava help because if he lava house most gonna spam him from being the first ever three time wall breakers my word wall breaker and the vines comes in cycled on the left hand side 36 HP one more vines three titles and here we go. Goblin Barrel, Vines. It's gonna be it. Vines hit. Muhammad Light, three-time world champion. He's been the best in the game for years but now it's undisputed. The reigning back-to-back three-time world champion.
The Pharaoh's done it again.
There's his coach, Jack.
Will there ever be another like him? I don't believe so. That man right there is one in a billion.
Him and Allen, so much work over the years. And he does it.
Let's go down to the floor and hear from your world champion.
Ladies and gentlemen, what a moment we have just witnessed. Oh my goodness. This is the most dominant World Finals, Grand Finals that we have ever seen.
One more time, I want to hear in the crowd, finals, 3-0 in the reset upper bracket finals. Fantastic job, three-time world champ. Muhammad Light, take your crown. Lift it up, Show the world! Ha, ha, ha! One more time for the greatest player in the game for years. Now there's no arguing. Three titles, two back to back.
What does it feel like to be truly the undisputed greatest player in the history of Clash Royale?
I'm hungry right now, so I want to eat.
Mama's got food for you down there. You can see she's ready. Maybe you can buy dinner tonight. You've crossed the million dollar line in mobile esports. We've talked about that a lot, but more so, I want to know the decks, the play. You guys were unbreakable.
Rich called you Thanos up on the desk. Talk to me about picking the decks and the plays in the Grand Finals. He could never break through.
This is something that me and Alan worked throughout the year. For example, I would solo practice against other pro players. So I would basically pick my own decks and also play, you know. So I practiced a lot and I worked really hard on the deck picking aspect of things and I'm very proud that it paid off, especially in this final.
Was there any moment where after Sub sent you to the lower bracket yesterday that coming into the Grand Finals against Sub, were you hoping maybe it was Pedro or were you wondering if maybe Sub had your number after what happened yesterday?
No, the only reason he be beat me was because I was hungry.
But you're hungry right now! You've been working with Alan for a couple years now. Talk to me about what this coaching relationship means to you.
Holy aura.
Well, I love Alan. He's an amazing coach. He helped me practice a lot, and he taught me everything he knew pretty much so we can succeed together. Similarly to Julesy last year the same method and it worked twice in a row for me so I'm very grateful for both Julesy and Alan for the great work with me.
The greatest of all time and his coach Alan The greatest of all time and his coach Alan
three-time world champion Mo Light!
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