Dallas & Atlanta SPEEDRUN their way to Hawaii - Plat Chat Ep. 90

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Featuring the Overwatch League's Matt "Mr.X" Morello, Joshua "Sideshow" Wilkinson, Jonathan "Reinforce" Larsson, and Connor "Avast" Prince.
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0:00 - Intro
8:00 - Atlanta Reign qualify for June Joust playoffs
12:55 - Is the SF Shock era over?
43:43 - Dallas Fuel steamroll knockout matches
59:17 - Houston Outlaws comp choices
1:15:20 - Shanghai Dragons qualify over Seoul
1:26:27 - Diem retires
1:32:15 - Hangzhou falls flat vs. NYXL
1:45:35 - More potato: Valiant & Titans
1:51:35 - Vancouver Titans Pizza Rankings
1:55:27 - Plat Chat Pick'ems! June Joust Bracket
2:25:48 - Bren's Player of the Week

[@dogs-game-too]

Next Episode: Sideshow tries to identify the color of peppers he's eating while blindfolded

[@CrazeeAdam]

I hope this is happens tbh

[@dogs-game-too]

"Arms wet, knees spaghetti" - Sideshow

[@meatscraps]

there's vomit on his mother already, SWEATER'S HEAVY

[@marcogeorgoussis5531]

Eminem been real quiet since sideshow dropped this bar

[@dogs-game-too]

@@meatscraps A notification popped up on my phone for this while I was in class and I burst into laughter. Oops xD

[@scottclegg7213]

lol he actully said "knees spaghetti, arms wet" 1:45:08

[@dogs-game-too]

@@scottclegg7213 "Arms wet, knees spaghetti" - Avast, incorrectly quoting Sideshow

[@dry009]

Kai appreciation post: the Super bodyblock play completely overshadowed the fact that 2 seconds prior, Kai took a 2v1 against FDGod and Nero, then immediately dueled Glister won.

[@hisokamorow1816]

With no support in their back line lol

[@lifeforgod07]

That was nuts. That would have been the play of the week if they held the point

[@LieMintPyon]

dude is like a robot, he didnt succumb to pressure and it was unlucky that glister missed the dynamite

[@5argon]

Timestamp! : kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpiue42gptljZrM

[@leo.1005]

@@5argon ty

[@jordanandrews195]

Just going to drop this in, the rush equivalent of the crusty crack pipe could be “rushrooms”

[@dirtyjesus9293]

Better than whatever they came up with

[@xXxP4nc4k3sxXx]

How much would it cost to have Matt say, "Poggy Woggy" while casting an official match?

[@dirtyjesus9293]

In the June joust finals

[@coltonregan150]

Alright OWL Season is 50% done. Let's look at LA Valiant map win percent. Let's do some math. Win rate == (maps won / total maps played)*100 2021 LA Valiant went 2-24-1 giving us a 7.4% win rate. 2018 Dragons went 21-141-2 giving us a 12.8% 2019 Mayhem went 36-75-5 giving us a 31.0% 2020 Boston went 14-61-4 giving us a 17.7% Ep. 79 of Plat Chat Predictions Jaws Predicted: 8 map wins => percent of 14.2% (8-48-0) Reinforce Predicted: 5 map wins => 9.4% (5-48-0) Sideshow's 1 out of 4: 16 map wins => 25% (16-48-0) Bren Predicted: 1 map win => percent of 2.0% (1-48-0)

[@williammcconnell1212]

I forgot how stupidly long s1 was. I had my pc on 5 nights a week afking tokens. Felt like it was never off

[@boomingbob1579]

@@williammcconnell1212 mine never is

[@jordanandrews195]

This is an awesome statistic, crazy to see how things are different now.

[@briancastro6289]

I was contemplating becoming a member but then this became a pizza toppings review podcast and I was sold

[@justdave1842]

The Breadbowl: LDN vs Titans is gonna be fantastic

[@CrazeeAdam]

Might legitimately be a match of the year tbh lol

[@TheAbigailDee]

I literally will die for this

[@justdave1842]

@@CrazeeAdam idk if I'll be able to call it a match of overwatch, but it will definitely win some awards in my heart

[@CrazeeAdam]

@@justdave1842 lol. XD i mean it will be fun to watch. Hoping the boys get some breadsticks

[@MrHastygamer]

I think it is both teams last match, so it could be a battle of the winless teams 😂

[@donniedarkomn]

Atlanta's game went so good I swear i saw Kai break a smile for just a minute. A crack in the his stone facade.

[@dogs-game-too]

That's more rare than a double rainbow lol

[@reedz8078]

No yeah, he had a full on smirk at the end while Gator literally picked up Pelican and was popping off with him and Hawk. If they win the June Joust, we might even get a full smile from him, then as an ATL fan, I will have peaked.

[@ThisIs_JaDe]

The name for Rush's drug-fueled madness is defienetly Rushrooms.

[@kiefdemon1979]

You guys spoke more about the Titans pizza than the actual team.

[@gurpgork]

well i didn't expect that shoutout, thanks Plat Chat!

[@negboardperds8503]

First timmy, #1, pog

[@gurpgork]

@@negboardperds8503 fitting isn't it? to more timmys on chat haha

[@jaymar4438]

Fun fact: Gator is Avast's alter ego that he falls into whenever he grows out a beard

[@cooperg332]

That makes so much sense his alter ego is an Atlanta hater to balance it out!

[@joshuazhong2520]

Sideshow malding over pepper colors was amazing

[@joshuazhong2520]

Also Dalton's pizza is better

[@EmileGodHeskey]

Shock reach the playoff finals and we see on map 7 a bearded Ta1yo pulling out the widow

[@lincolnchildress6539]

He’s been training in the mountains for months, being known only as the Japanese man who hangs out with the shock. He’s their secret weapon, their key to victory, he is Ta1yo

[@Robin_Without_A_Y]

He rocks up onto the stage "We got you fam"

[@zerorequiem1020]

Dragons just outplayed Dynasty in every perspective in the qualifier This is the toughest year for shock ngl

[@tak3aw4y6]

@@neon8406 Worse than the first year? The team is still 7-1 in the regular season despite getting dominated in the knockouts lmao

[@neon8406]

@@tak3aw4y6 25-3 counting all the games not just June joust but that isn’t that bad so nvm

[@CrazeeAdam]

I think for Shock. The problem is,they didn't make enough upgrades. They made side or down grades. Every single other team made upgrades in some way. Like every team in the West outside of like Paris, maybe

[@CrazeeAdam]

@@tak3aw4y6 but the problem is. Despite their record. You can see the cracks. You can see many teams catching up to Shock and just really competing hard

[@Benthebeast2123]

Everyone was blaming FDGod when violet didn’t look good on moira at all

[@sebastianrodrigues1400]

To be fair, when people see FDGod getting firstpicked every fight, it's really hard for them to blame anyone else.

[@lukaslillestl-brandlistuen7269]

@@sebastianrodrigues1400 Also gotta consider lucio is the only killable character in this meta

[@sebastianrodrigues1400]

@@lukaslillestl-brandlistuen7269 Yes of course, but the casuals that watch the game don't know that, they just scream FEEDGOD because they don't really know what's going on.

[@lukavisnjic1604]

Fd is an uncarriable trash player that should be back in contenders. Any real shock fan knows this.

[@lightning_ow193]

@@lukavisnjic1604 haha

[@Christopher-hy5pu]

"Fingerling Potato" is probably the nicest things anyone said about the Titans in a long time.

[@m1nh4z28]

How the hell did they miss the chance to say the Rush Kush

[@JaziB]

lol that's pretty good but it seems like they want the alliteration

[@cycl10ps]

I think olives and green peppers are great on pizza BUT THERE IS 100000% A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GREEN AND RED/YELLOW PEPPER. You have to have some dead taste buds to not be able to tell the difference

[@elspethahola5049]

Dalton's pizza slaps

[@marozid1]

Would have been sooo funny if it ended immediately after he said "Let's sacrifice Bren to the gods"

[@ratchetst3v38]

People blaming FDGod for the shock’s loss are more pepega than Bap’s “nerf.” The number of times the Shock as a TEAM let Pelican WALK into the backline as Echo and get a pick was absurd. This is the team that figured out the Justice comp last year, adapted midmatch, and reverse swept; they didn’t attempt that this series and that is NOT on FDGod lmao

[@LiteraryOG]

You guys need to do Vancouver pizza tasting for episode 100

[@fulnaz3164]

Dallas not having hitscan makes them predictable and I agree Doesnt make them any less scarier or easier to fight against tho PepeLaugh

[@stevencampbell348]

Exactly, you know Dallas will play one specific comp, however their unpredictability comes from how they can just change their dps to counter attempts to counter an example is Doomfist to dislodge bunker.

[@helpyaboiout1211]

Not yall overlooking the fact that Valiant winning a map knocked Philly out of contention

[@MrDecca78]

Pelican and Gator have been a sight to see! I think there is some amazing synergy there that will be critical for success in the tournament.

[@fulnaz3164]

Maybe a hot take, but I genuinely think that Twilight is a better partner for FDGod than Viol2t Also curious to see how Dallas will fare against Shanghai's double shield

[@lukeotten4343]

I agree too, it just seems that they value viol2ts shot calling or something. they go to great lengths to keep him in the game. and there's always viol2ts turn up factor when he sometimes pops off, but this meta and the previous one don't really allow for pop offs from supports

[@mikegriffiths1546]

I think that violet is the perfect partner to someone like moth as they compliment each other’s gameplay. It just doesn’t work for fdgod and violet compared to fdgod with fielder . For the same reason . So yeah I agree twilight fdgod would actually be better

[@gabeschonman9409]

@@lukeotten4343 totally agree. Interesting to see what happens for the summer showdown. Hopefully there’s a new meta that doesn’t have Moira

[@lukeotten4343]

@@gabeschonman9409 I fucking hope they ban Moira for the summer showdown

[@fulnaz3164]

Still boggles my mind that Zen of all supports is the one that got banned for this stage

[@anmimc]

Linkzr absolutely. Black olives are criminally underrated on pizza

[@palavrrrrr]

This is one of the funniest episodes in a while lol

[@iron_Will]

Josh was worryingly ready with that "sacrifice Bren to the gods" idea

[@justdave1842]

1:11:50 - you can hear Mr. X holding in a chuckle during his delivery for this line lmaooo

[@Rekcha]

Genuinely the Fuel are going to blow everyone out of the water, because no one else plays the mirror. Atlanta plays it a bit, but Atlanta seemed better on the Orisa comp

[@infamyfantasyesports6779]

Smoking the "Rush Dust"

[@spottyboi024]

And also: when Bren comes back, you guys should keep Avast on the show. He makes it so entertaining

[@koalasquare2145]

The only teams that have beaten Houston have gotten into the tournament. All 3 times.

[@donrobertin]

When you phase out briefly and it turns into a food podcast

[@torymayeux502]

Bernar did play at the Houston Homestand in February 2020 with London, by the way.

[@kwombok]

linkzr's pizza for sure, garlic is delicious and olives are great

[@TacticalWee]

The first episode of Plat Chat I send to my friends who are new fans of OWL contains an argument about the color/flavor of various peppers... because of course it does.

[@bepitrumpet]

I am so hyped for London vs. Vancouver stage 4 Toilet Bowl Grand Finals. The Breadbowl if you will.

[@jackmitchell9597]

Just realised that if Atlanta play Dallas it’ll be like a 2019 gauntlet rematch with atl academy vs element mystic

[@tristansfun]

I got GYPPED out of a T-Mobile transition this week!!!!

[@nickniehaus1763]

Avast couldn’t be more correct on his shock take. 100% spot on.

[@Surv1vor1993]

This is exactly why I subscribed; Arguments about pizza toppings. Yes I’m serious. Keep up the awesome work guys

[@enocloke24]

Reinforce is so generous , giving us 5 cents instead of 2 😂

[@Deprece]

Dalton’s Pizza destroys Linkzrs. You are 100% wrong on this Sideshow. Accept it 😂

[@iainbc]

Dalton's easily destroys Linkzrs's, no competition.

[@nikumeru]

Fuck peppers on pizza, with a cactus, every time someone puts peppers on pizza all I can taste is the fucking pepper.

[@colintudor66]

super was really hard on himself basically putting the whole Hollywood loss on himself. I don't think people were fair to FD when there was a lot lacking from the supports as a whole and the dps. Realistically the Shock just need to put a few things together to have their new players at the potential they really have, it's just a matter of them figuring it out and putting the pieces together.

[@fulnaz3164]

Green pepper slaps man, Dalton pizza all the way

[@WilleH1]

Titans segment: Finally I get to the content window!!!

[@chinchinlam7769]

I love how the thumbnail is Matt's big face 🤣

[@kimpoirier236]

Houston fans and NYXL fans suffer in solidarity this week

[@kimpoirier236]

Shock fans are not invited to the grieving sessions, you guys got two championships, don't be GREEDY

[@Chriz1307]

Daltons's pizza sounds ok

[@bhtony9758]

Me rewatching this after the first day, seeing that Matt predicted the 3-0 with Dallas and Shanghai

[@wiggxns]

shock last year had 1 play making dps, and one “passive” dps. they had 3 playmaking tanks, and they had 1 playmaking support(2 including twilight, i see twilight like he can be aggressive and also be passive). they needed moth to be the glue of the team. now they have 2 “play making” dps, 3 playmaking tanks, and 2 playmaking supports(3 including twilight). they have NO “glue”

[@brandenaugustine1782]

Philly looked much better week three after getting EQO back (granted an easy schedule) but they only dropped one map all weekend. I am excited for Summer Showdown with EQO and Astro back in the picture

[@TroyEvan94]

yay, Avast is back pepeW

[@eckroattheeckroat4246]

dude, "they're tripping on 'Rush'rooms"

[@ArcasCorricol]

you guys need to partake in the lori lsd along with the moon marijuana, crusty crackpipe, and rush root

[@anachronismic]

here to say you definitely can taste the difference between green bell peppers and other bell peppers, not sure about if between red and yellow/orange though.

[@diegofernandez7989]

Hey guys! Love the content, one thing i really really want you guys to do is rate philly fusion as if they were in na, where would they place? That’s an interesting topic i think. Anyways keep up the good content!

[@konsweber7712]

To be honest as an Outlaws fan the Match against Dallas was just so disappointing. I didn't expect them to win but like their stubborn refusal to play the Meta Comp the way it is intended was just rly weird. When they ran the ball stuff on Anubis second point they even looked pretty good but like their refusal to adapt the way they need to reminds me of a Houston Outlaws I thought was a thing of the past. But then again consodering the Meta and the hero pools I am not too disappointed in a 3-1 showing.

[@joshdick9758]

The problem with Houston was not playing Jake and Jjangu especially Jjangu. Dreamer sucks

[@daveathor]

As a pepper enthusiast, I can confirm that Sideshow is 100% correct.

[@Padarik]

The fact that josh hates green pepper on pizza makes me sad :( I love veggie pizza and green pepper is a staple for me

[@nritsch]

It even compliments meat on pizza well, very good with sausage.

[@gummostump4217]

IMO the sweetness of more ripened peppers doesn't play nicely in cooked dishes like pizza.

[@simonhughes7200]

This stage for Seoul hurt

[@TheNerd]

Adding to the San Francisco discussion: it's simple and you guys answered it in discussions last year already: SFS lost a couple of important players and coaches which is the reason why they struggle and they "just" have to fill the gaps and find themselves again.

[@zzFuzzy]

All peppers are good and green peppers on pizza is great.

[@TimeintheMarket]

Nobody laughed at Reinforce's fingerling potato joke but it was pretty good.

[@samh8641]

I didnt know that Kai was KSP until today. I was wondering why they werent freaking out at this monster rookie like crong.

[@ninjudd808]

Let’s get a pallet check! Blind taste test

[@ciragis7827]

Zoning Reaper scary

[@jadenrules100]

Johnny was right about Kev to LA!!

[@4T0N3GoDofTheSuN]

In NA, every top seeded team for the monthly tournaments lost their knockout matches so far... is that a coincidence?

[@muffinman4519]

linkzr’s pizza is literally s tier, i’m with sideshow here

[@seeryeven]

Just gotta say, Kurt does such a good job on these

[@epilouge]

He does 99 things perfectly. But I can’t stand whenever in the power rankings segment when the guys are still discussing he feels the need to constantly move stuff around. The mouse, the positions, sorting out the undefined teams at the bottom. It annoys the living hell out of me

[@morro3527]

1: Linkzrs Pizza 2: Daltons Pizzs 3: Pizza Pizza

[@phoenixcoggin6311]

Linkzr's pizza is goated

[@landenthe70s]

How do i get a membership cant find it. Can you show at the end of the video how to? I think if some people arent used to you tube or something it would be helpful to show.

[@polycrystallinecandy]

It's not like Shanghai haven't played Lucio Moira before. Last year before grand finals playoffs, Sombra Reaper Lucio Moira Winston was meta and Shanghai were the best team on that comp. The only difference is they don't have Fearless this year, but the rest of the team can definitely play that comp.

[@walkerriley3545]

I also feel better about glads because they have ONLY lost to shock and Dallas all season

[@astrolonim2032]

We were malding at you and we were RIGHT josh atlanta 3rd place as expected

[@jason_ityk]

Green peppers are very different than the others taste wise.

[@wedelson7767]

I feel like it should be the "Rush roids" cause when he hits the sauce his team gets stronger not worse.

[@lilgohan]

They're taking Rushrooms lol

[@NaruBrilu]

I kinda have to agree that this may very well be the end of the shock era. They would have to win (or at least get to the playoffs) for these last 2 stages and ofc win the final grand finals. The question is whether it is still shock dominance era imo, which i think we can say it no longer is anymore. If they only win the grand finals and manage to three-peat (which still would be crazy) i dont think u can still call it the shock era. These 2 things can b mutually exclusive, the shock could very well maybe still get the 3-peat and it can also no longer be called the shock era (bcuz other teams have caught up and they no longer are as dominant as they once were) If seoul ended up winning last yr would you have called s3 of owl the year seoul dominated? Or is it just bcuz there was a huge meta shift for the final playoffs and gesture and profit decided to pop off... they got kinda lucky with the cards that got dealt

[@nritsch]

Sp9rkl3 for player of the week. The man dominated as Doomfist in a meta no one else plays him on *Junkertown*.

[@Zlurppa]

Linkzr pizza is cracked, this is not normally

[@tymunster]

the rush juana

[@AaronJohnstonJPN]

I always wondered something about the double elimination brackets in OWL. Coming from the FGC (Fighting Game Community), the Grand Finals has to see the Winner coming from Losers Bracket having to reset the bracket by winning two best of 7 series essentially if they want to win it all. I get this would not be possible in OWL because of the potential length and mental boom for players. However, the team that wins all their games into the Grand Finals, the only perk they get right now is they play 1 less game (3 instead of 4). Is that enough of a reward for being the best in the tournament heading into the Grand Finals? Would something crazy like the team heading into the Grand Finals from the Winners Bracket having to win 4 maps and the team coming from the Losers Bracket having to win 5 maps provide that extra little reward for being the best that tourney? Any other ideas out there? Mainly just curious on what other people think on this topic. Cheers!

[@Doogie2K3]

OWL doesn't do bracket reset because a BO7 is like three hours long. It was tried in DOTA and everyone decided it was too much, for players and viewers.

[@Schmidtkt1]

Dalton's pizza. C'mon Sideshow, pepperoni and green pepper works so well together, it's a classic. Plus, I'm personally just not a fan of olives in general. The real debate though: pineapple on pizza, yes or no?

[@JaredisAMPED]

Dalton has the superior pizza

[@aallotar2526]

The pizza segment was so enjoyable but thoroughly boomed me... (Edit: Matt and Avast are correct, Dalton's pizza is far better)

[@hujanair2]

gladiators tilted at junkertown like custa said they were nervous. regardless of what the results are, i was worried there for dallas because of that torb pick in junkertown. glad dallas solved the issue in hitscan maps :') one more thing, as a dallas fan since they were envy in apex... i found it entertaining that people are now either scared of the fuel / analysts keep doubting them. and i'm just glad we're out of the cycle of misery and not the laughing stock in OWL anymore, i love my team. imagine if next year, xzi comes back and pine plays. That's double hitscan for ya.

[@drkirbkennethkirby7634]

The Rush drug would just be Speed. Get with it, already

[@damiencheung3380]

New channel: Plat Chat Pizza

[@bearbear6253]

The rush reefer. Patent pending

[@andrewmorales2986]

Linzer's Pizza claps cheeks!

[@senor135]

i think there needs to be more matches each week / month. 4 matches seems like so little. is it to accomdate covid, player health, team prep time, caster availability...? just scheduling? too many teams now? why is it so few now?

[@gayberniesanders]

Kevster showed up to LA an hour ago

[@hitzbasic_4005]

i wanna see papa johns vs titans