Race to World First Recap: Day 3, The First Wall Falls

Dratnos and Tettles (and Kalamazi briefly!) are back for another day of Race to World First Recapping! Today's news is headlined by the eventual death of Broodtwister Ovinax, which lasted more than a hundred pulls before finally dying at the hands of Liquid.
The composition used by Liquid, Echo, and Method has been a continually evolving and fascinating topic, and Dratnos and Tettles go over all of the changes that were made to secure the kill for Liquid, as well as predictions for how Echo and Method may adapt to try and secure the kill on their third days as well!
Nexus Princess Ky'veza is up next for Liquid, and it looks like it may be an even tighter check than Ovinax, which was already extremely tight, being one of the earliest bosses in a raid to ever reach the triple digit pull count in modern Race to World First times!
What do you think about the Race so far? Do you think Echo and Method will take down Ovinax today? Will Liquid be able to take down Ky'veza? Let us know what you think in the comments!

[@aiganymkumisbek7309]

Kalamazi is the mvp of these recaps

[@AncroKT]

You always have to bring a warlock for your comp, someone needs to summon people/dinner.

[@thatepicwizardguy]

Award winning content creator Kalamazi once again appears. Nice.

[@balbutokaiage1667]

Day by day Tettles looks more and more like a real boomkin. Wonder when the metamorphosis will be complete

[@thebowedacious]

Love the 5am vibes, RWF is always so special

[@Shadowmoontreasures01844]

“1 frost dk 2 fury warriors and a dream” coming to a theater near you

[@muse-less]

Theres something about kalamazi in the background just trying to live his life which is such a vibe

[@dantrethekid1539]

Kalamazi in the back during the beginning of the video just looks so stressed and tired. Man wants a taco and a nap!

[@PharaohofAtlantis]

Is it too late to put my Taco Bell order in?

[@SupportTheseBands]

Poor homie in the back catching strays smh

[@cod-the-creator]

Headline needs to be insane pres nerfs inc

[@Aggrofool]

Not until mid-season probably. So many CE guilds prepped Pres already.

[@nickv3085]

Nerf flameshaper, chrono is chillin

[@Tablesitsjusttables]

Don’t really care for the rwf stuff, just enjoy the nerd comradeship. It’s like summer camp, for streamers.

[@Lecrabx]

endless entertainment from the dratnos camera angle, would it be possible as the episodes go on for you to get closer and closer and closer to the camera until the entire frame is just your eyes nose and mouth?

[@FeralKobold]

Can i get some soft cantina tacos, kalamazi? Please and thanks

[@tallguy112]

I love it looks like the box they get kept in is getting smaller and smaller with every update.

[@lims312]

Is everyone forgetting about the weekly like 10% damage buff that will be coming out?

[@Fourside__]

Liquid really is quite a bit ahead play wise. what i noticed on echo's side is their badly optimised comp, they had their maintank go frost DK and it was really easy to see Naowh wasnt comfy with it, beeing well below most other melees. even brought in Andybrew for a few pulls. all in all, bad character prep and they got alot of catching up to do.

[@virus5877]

Greatest. Outro. EVER.

[@wullivieh]

Method actually seems to be doing pretty good so far. They even have multiple people not feeling well and had to isolate a bunch of people on venue that tested positive for covid (I think yesterday on stream Sco said that 5 people were separated in a different room because of that - might be more by now I do not know). I mean the tier is probably going to go on for a while and that might catch up to them sooner or later as people will be more easily exhausted. But so far doing pretty well considering that. (Get well soon to everyone!)

[@BrianAndrews73]

I hope this doesn't end up like other races where Liquid pull ahead mid raid and then get tar-pitted by the end bosses and Echo steal it.

[@oz5150]

True. This raid tier Liquid is playing super well. I hope they win.

[@ntlinh816]

Jailer flashback 😭

[@zwabTheRealOne]

Fyraak flashback

[@thatepicwizardguy]

Especially if its because of buggy garbage or nerfs yet again. Hopefully everyone just plays the best they can and right now liquid is smashing everyone in that regard.

[@Pisslowstomper]

LFG LIQUID

[@Maddawg1984]

Kalamazi is the Man

[@hanzle]

Tettles you need to get a sick fade and trim your beard and you will look dank

[@sombrego2260]

I sure hope the taco bell was yummy

[@doomsday_72]

Crazy thing about ovinax is it’s all insane execution strategy doesn’t really matter outside of comp at this point you just have to squeeze every bit of damage

[@chiefputty]

Tettles, tell us again how raiders have it so much easier than Mplusers getting max ilvl gear.

[@painfullyavarage4316]

I think for nexus princess they will have to eat one mask explosion at the end, the blaze lines in the intermission are already hitting for 60ish percent of someone’s health and with a 150% damage amp it’s just not survivable. I think if you stack like every personal and raid defensive you can maybe live the initial explosion where as you are certainly dead if you give her the 150% damage amp

[@venaseph6314]

guy who had to count 20 four times in his head was "good at math in school", sheesh

[@entropycat]

Tettles should look at the camera more often

[@imotje]

Kalamazi making my stomach growl

[@ramezshkifi]

as a fellow beared gamer visit ur barber dude needs a whole lot of side trims and fixing

[@potato7794]

Here's a take: don't nerf the bosses at all these bosses should be balanced around max gear not to make the boss killable

[@raymondandsweetheart7150]

As I type this echo best pull is 9.23%. There going crazy about a nerft. I believe there strat is not right. The need double dragon healing and h priest.

[@jakuboledzki6499]

Broodtwister turned out into a wall man. I feel beter wiping on him on heroic for 20 pulls before killing him XD Still, it costed my guild a lot of our weekly raid time. Nexus Princess Heroic went down in 3 pulls after so that was better.

[@TheOdMan]

Have anyone else had a weird feeling since even before the race started? For me it feels like Liquid is so much better prepared this race, it was just a strange hunch I had watching things leading up to the race, and now that the race has started I feel the same way. I might be wrong ofc, it's just a feeling I had and not really based on anything 100% factual, it just seems Liquid is having the time of their life and playing great. I'm usually rooting for Echo since I'm from Sweden, but last race and this I've just taken to watching a lot of Liquid content and cheering for them instead, last race it didn't work out, maybe this time!

[@zwabTheRealOne]

Echo have had HR trouble. Things like that tend to have a destabilising effect.

[@zwabTheRealOne]

Echo have had HR trouble. Things like that tend to have a destabilising effect.

[@bobbilling1075]

Warlock dad

[@dflowers6771]

inb4 they will have 10 dks by the time they hit ansurek

[@nicolasvondru8556]

Dratty seems a bit tipseyy here 😂

[@Sadistichippo]

Let’s gooooo

[@Ghrolz]

I mean, all the money they make on RWF. They could have bought you a half decent camera to record this! it's wild how much better Echos coverage is quality wise. Also I predict Method to win 😂😊

[@themInterwebs]

Echo has the tech but liquid has the personality’s, I’ll choose scuffed with good vibes > high quality bad vibes

[@-dubu]

This isn’t liquid coverage, the liquid coverage is much higher quality than echos tbh because they have a permanent venue. This is just dratnos after dark

[@MrBonoso]

Seems like Echo is just doing splits to gear up further while they have Liquid figure out Ky'veza

[@niqkwhite595]

Stop touching your beard

[@glennjackson100]

Hot take. This is Methods race this time !! I feel. I believe.

[@chocobolord_]

I think Method will get second place thie race, they are doing great!

[@glennjackson100]

@chocobolord_ think they are kicking back off on mythic in the next half hour. They absolutely are doing amazing this race. Will be good to see them take it!

[@wullivieh]

They actually have multiple players not feeling well and have a bunch of people on venue separated because they tested positive on covid. I hope everyone is getting better soon, but considering all that, they've been doing crazy well so far! They also seem to have had the better hunch on the tank setup seeing how they went into 2 bdk right away, which both Liquid and Echo eventually yoinked (I mean they might have considered that sooner or later anyway, but still Method was the first guild to commit to that).

[@grl02]

Dratnos sounds hella annoyed

[@DieLawnCT]

First?