CRL World Finals | Day 3 | Clash Royale League 2025

This is the one with the eyes that likes to party Hey you, with a cute full of girls so sweet and charming Hey you, best mates with a man don't get me started Don't get me started Give me a number, or give me a sign here Send x-facts, no pictures, my I can tell your name, you think you're fine

You're cute enough for me tonight I can't even keep my plants alive So you better watch out if you wanna survive You better play nice, you better act fine Or we'll drop you boy, that's right, bye bye I take a drink, I'm moving in

Fix a stare for the power trip I'm not gonna shut down when i finally say i don't even know i don't know i don't know your name i don't mind i'll do the trace i'll do the chasing, I'll play the game. Hey you, you're the one with the eyes that likes the party. Hey you, with a cute full of girls so sweet and charming. Hey you, best dates with a mirror, don't get me started.

Don't get me started. Give me a number, or give me a sign Here's signed XX, no pictures, man I can tell you're vain, you think you're fine You're cute enough for me tonight Can't even keep my plants alive

So you better watch out if you wanna survive You better play nice, you better act fine Or we'll drop you for it, that's right, bye-bye Give me your number, or give me a sign Here's signed XX, no pictures, mom. I can tell you, hey, you're cute. Fine, you're cute enough for me tonight.

I can't eat the meat, my blood's alive. So you better watch out if you want to survive. You better play nice. Hey, you better act fine, or we'll drop you, boy.

That's right.

Bye-bye. Hey, you. I'm an expert in the party. I'm a diva. Energy up, yeah, you can't stop me.

When I step in the room, they wanna turn the music up, yeah, poppin'.

There's no stopping me. There's no stopping me. Ain't no stopping us now.

Just my face in the crowd. I'm off to the top. I'm a diva. Energy up, yeah, you can't stop me. Yeah I hit the spot and still I drop I know exactly what I want Yeah that's me just know that I'm about to show it, show it off Show it off

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There's no stopping me.

Ain't no stopping us now. There's my face in the crowd. I'm off dancing. I get myself up on the ground. Give it all that's personal. In my heart, I showed up.

When I'm wanting to, I'ma show it off. I hit the spot until I drop. I know exactly what I want. Yeah, that's me. Just know that I'm about to show it, show it off. Show it off.

Show it, show it off I hit the spot until I drop I know exactly what I want Yeah that's me just know that I'm about to show it, show it off Show it off Show it, show it off

Now summer's in the air and the sky is blue Oh oh oh oh oh You gotta feel it in your soul and watch it all come true Yes it will now While the music's loud, let's dance like there's no one watching Feel the neon glow and the speed of the day is pumping out

Now we're having the time of our lives, yeah It's only gonna get better Whoa, whoa, whoa Your eyes are burning bright Yeah, yeah, yeah Longing to that night

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Feel the ocean breeze, let's shine like we're made of star dust Faster than the sand, let's move like the wind is watching us Now we're having the time of our lives, yeah It's only gonna get better Whoa, we chase the fading sun Yeah, two hearts beat as one Whoa, you spin and then you go

Yeah, I never wanna go Now song is in the air and the sky is blue Oh oh oh oh oh You gotta feel it in your soul, watch it all come true You sing it now Now the sun is in the air and the sky is blue

Oh oh oh oh oh The sun is in the air and the sky is blue You gotta feel it in your soul, won't you? Now come true, oh yes we are now

I'm pushing the limit I'm pushing, I'm pushing the limit

I'll take it as far as I can go, so let's go, woah I'm working overtime and I do it right I never stop that grind, keep me up at night You'll hear me coming from a mile away I'm out here everyday, I didn't come to play, no I see you looking at me, I know what you're thinking

You see my phone is going off, it's always ringing Cause everybody wants a piece of me Every, every, everybody wants a piece of me I'm always on the go, go, go Never quiet and I'll make sure that you know That you know, yeah, yeah

That I'm in control I'm pushing, I'm pushing the limit I'm a boss, yeah, I'm fully in it You can't take me out cause I'm on top And I'm making it loud. I'm pushing, I'm pushing the limit. Make it fall in line by the minute.

You can't take me out, cause I'm on top, and I'm making it loud. I'm pushing the limit.

I'm pushing, I'm pushing the limit.

I'll take it as far as I can go. Now everyone knows my name.

And they know that no one else is the same. Over the last nine years, millions have entered the arena with dreams of becoming a champion. Today, three of the world's best take this stage, but only one can take the crown. Will it be Mohamed Lights? Pedro? Or sub? Glory awaits.

Greatness beckons. Who will answer the call? This is the 2025 Clash Royale League World Finals! And Championship Sunday starts... Now. Day one was absolutely electric here at the CRL 2025 World Finals at Dreamhack Atlanta. As quickly as the day is going to begin, we will already be sending two of those players

home.

Dark Oven down low, they should get on tower!

The Golden Knight's on tower, but there's not enough time! And MawLight is going to have on tower, but there's not enough time!

And MawLight is going to have to repeat a lower bracket run to be the first in ever three times world champ! He has to worry about the Golden Knight, that's going to be dashing, he's going to go hog opposite lane. The mistake with the log, you see it shake, oh my game over! Pedro reverse sweep. Fireball trying to create the connection here. Is there a mortar? Is there an E-Wiz? Can he stop it?

Oh my word. Mohamed Light holds on and wins it by 42 HP. This is looking like it's over. This should do it.

Mo Light stays alive and Sandbox's dream run finally comes to an end from the coach. It's over. It's over. It's over. It's over. It's over. This is what you want. Champion versus champion.

That is huge domination now.

Barrel on the left hand side.

GG.

Well played. It's dramatic. Oh my word. Takes it.

11-07 to 1010.

He just hit the nail in the coffin. This thing just switched on its head in a matter of seconds.

Taking the most important best of three we've seen today.

CRL World Finals starts now.

Day two of the CRL 2025 World Finals at DreamHack Atlanta had all the action we could have possibly asked for. And then some. Players did their absolute best to scrape and survive the brutal day two, which had elimination after elimination, bringing our player count from 10 down to just three remaining.

And now we have finally arrived to this glorious day,

this day three, the best day on Earth. Hello, everyone. My name is Joshua AC Sharon, and joining me is Jackson Juicywall. Look, this is going to be a fantastic day. But before we get into this action,

I do want to hear your thoughts. What really stood out to you from day two's play?

From millisecond monk abilities to subzubz's sending Moe to the lower bracket. Yesterday was filled with chaos and astounding Clash Royale gameplay, but enough about yesterday. Let's focus on the finals at hand, Josh.

Dude, chaos is the perfect way to describe it. We have so many storylines. The battle of the best friends up in the upper bracket, and then you have to worry about it. You know, there's so much money on the line. If you lose, you get thrown to the wolves.

You get thrown down to Muhammad Light, where he reigns supreme in that lower bracket.

You have to worry about that. But before we dive too deep into the upcoming action, talk to me about the format ahead. So looking at the format, you know, we started with 12 players. It's a double elimination bracket. Matches are best of three until today. For here on out, we are doing best of five duels formatting.

And if you don't know what that means, it means you cannot repeat any cards within the entire best of five. So it's gonna get really down to the nitty gritty when it comes to picking those cards in the last game. And of course, the last player standing is crowned the world champion,

taking home a boatload of cash. A boatload of cash. Let's take a look at the prize pool because there's $500,000 in total. But here we are, we're down to the top three. We don't have to worry about the fourth, fifth, sixth,

none of that matters anymore. If you go out on stage today, you lose everything, you still walk away with $50,000. But these players aren't, they didn't come here today for that. No, they are looking for that second place,

$100,000, or that first place trophy, $200,000. Yeah, we're going to be checking out the bracket up next to kind of show you guys how we got to where we are. Today, obviously the last three players we have left are Sub, Pedro, and Muhammad Light. Muhammad Light was cruising off of that, basically, first round buy, but then Sub, like I said in the intro,

sent him down to lower bracket he had to play against Ian, one of the fan favorites. He also ended up taking my Dark Horse pick out of the tournament with Sandbox. And then once again, Sub and Pedro, you talked about the storyline. These guys, they are friends, they are practice partners, and they are in the upper bracket here and once again, they have to send someone down to Moe,

ready for them.

Yeah, it's gonna be absolutely incredible. Sub Pedro and Mohamed Light, day number three of the CRL World Finals. Look, the action's gonna be incredible. The storylines are great. And you know, how do you even predict

who's gonna be able to win this? Yes, Moe is in the losers bracket, but you know, he's born for that. I really do want to see what the audience is thinking, because, you know, we get out here and we say what we want to say, but I'd like to see what everyone else is saying. And he's in the lower bracket.

How does this make sense?

Seventy eight percent of everybody here saying Muhammad Light is going to win? You know, I love this. 78% for Mo to win. I think there's a few reasons why the community is shaping up like this. Number one, Muhammad Light has done the lower bracket run

before. Number two, this is best of fives. We have never done best of fives formatting in World Finals

before.

And I think it's one of the hardest things to do to beat Mo three times.

Oh, yeah, I wouldn't want to have to go up against Mo again and again. So talk to me about this Best of Five format. What should we really be expecting? Should we be seeing new cards that we haven't seen so far today?

Are we gonna see mostly the same meta?

Yeah, I think that it's mostly going to be similar, but you're going to start to see some cards kind of take the place of others, especially when it comes to spells. I was talking with a few ex-pros beforehand, and I think there's even a chance we see Void, a spell that's almost never used,

just to fill one of those spell slots once we get to the late game.

Yeah, it should be very interesting, but let's take a look at something that is coming up with Sub and Pedro.

Yeah, I mean I'm very excited for this. You know, we've kind of coined the term of Battle of Brazil. It's going to be really exciting once again, two practice partners, two friends, same country going head to head. Let's go into the highlights here to see what happened yesterday.

I think it's the most important championship in the game. So, it would mean a lot. It would be the biggest achievement of my life. I think that's it.

There's the Vines coming in. Doesn't even need the poison.

Wow!

The Skellies take out the Doctor, and that's gonna do it.

To be honest, I'm very happy to face Sub because, for me, this year, he's definitely one of the best players along with Mohamed Light.

I also think I'm one of the best. Game over, Pedro! Reverse sweep to win it. It's going to be an amazing match,

and I'm really excited to play. Good luck, Pedro. Have a good game.

Representing the same coach. Representing the same team. Representing the same country. Best of friends battling it out in our first ever best of five at World Finals.

One moves on with a guaranteed minimum number two in the world and $100,000 check. The other is sent down to the lower bracket where Muhammad Lytle waits, seeking his third crown and making history here at CRL. Who will come out on top? The greatest battle of Brazil begins now.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Introducing first, our reigning world number four,

give it up for Cal Pedro!

♪♪ One of the biggest storylines in my opinion is the fact that they have the same coach. Yeah. This entire weekend we've been talking about Sub's consistency and Pedro's excellence in gameplay but really behind the scenes he has an incredible coach who has really put them in some incredible positions. Now they are doing it by themselves.

Yeah, I love that you brought that up. You know, picking by yourself without any help from your coach can be something that's a little bit daunting for a lot of these players. You know, a lot of them do have experience because on stage, you have to be able to do that. But at the same time, you know,

the other conversation is these guys have been practicing together a whole year. So they really kind of know each other's play styles. They know each other's habits. And there's just gonna be so many mind games that play in with this match.

And so it really does make you question, are you gonna go just real comfort in the first couple of games and then try and get cute, try and get tricky, or are you just really getting wild early on?

What would you do if you're one of these players?

Honestly, I think I'd go for comfort. Pedro, for example, I was talking with Ian's coach, Ismail, he said that Pedro is the best role giant player in the world currently, and he actually played role giant every single set against Ian in practice, and they didn't want to practice with him anymore because he was so good with it.

So I think if I'm Pedro, I'm going with that.

Yeah, and here we take a look at the graphic friend, 2Foe. And yeah, these guys are going to be matching up all the time. We've seen it this year, last year, previous year. And I like that Brazilian showdown, consistency, king. I mean, this is just going to be a brilliant matchup, and it's so hard to choose between the two players.

Both players have that different part of them. Pedro, obviously, one of the best minor players, one of the best RG players, and I mean, with Sub, what do you say about him? I mean, it just feels like every single deck,

he just knows how to play it macro and micro. There's just no tiny errors.

Yeah, I mean, once again, if you're going to be consistent, you need to be able to play every single deck to a tee. And we saw that yesterday in a minor Poison Mirror matchup against Mo. He was somehow able to win. I don't even want to understand how many games he's

played with that deck in order to make that happen.

And here we go. We should be seeing some incredible decks soon. And we should be seeing some audience predictions as well. Because look, this is going to be one of the closer battles between these two players. How do you choose? And wow, this is exactly what should be happening.

51% for Stubb. 49% for Pedro. This is exactly what I expected. 50-50 down the line. Now let's take a look at the caster predictions. And I'm wondering if we're going to see 50-52.

I chose Pedro. Now, who did you go for?

I'm not going to lie. I also chose Pedro.

We're going to see what the other casters pick as well.

Wow.

Wow.

OK, we go 50-50 with Andrew and Rich. I mean, Josh, just talk to me a little bit about why you chose Pedro compared to Sub here.

Yeah, I mean, I think I do have to give a lot of credit to just finishing second in the world in 2023. It's clear that he can do it on the big stage, and in those incredibly tight moments, he's going to be making the right decisions. Sub, so far, hasn't proven it to be able to get there yet, and

so that's the only difference between these two players. They are neck and neck.

Well said. You know, I love that graphic. You know, best World Finals finish from Sub was fourth place last year. But really his best finish is guaranteed third place this year as well. This is such an important matchup. I cannot wait to see what decks we're going to be seeing here.

I would love to see a Me we are going to be seeing here. I would

love to see a Meijer Poison versus RG, just best deck versus best deck, and we're going to be hopping straight into the gameplay, guys. Game one, Clash Royale World Finals 2025, DreamHack Atlanta underway. A rage from Pedro just starting off right away. He's got some beat down. Once again, guys, it is best of five duels.

So we're going to start seeing a little bit of weird spells, weird combinations. Because it doesn't just matter later in the match. It matters now. Saving certain spells. And the crowd erupts with the king.

The crowd here in Atlanta is insane. Every single time anything happens, they go off and you just love to see it right here. Sub activated the king tower and then going in with the hunter behind. Monk is going to pop its ability on Pedro's end

and now a monk ability from sub but it doesn't really get that much value.

So it looks like we're just heading into a Royal Giant and Mirror matchup. Pedro opting to use the Evo Wizard, sub with the Evo Hunter. I would say Evo Hunter is a little bit more valuable in this situation, but at the same time, it's also more monk value as well.

Yeah, we're going to see the rest of the decks soon. Fisherman coming in for sub. Going to be able to clean that up very nicely with the fishermen and the guards but a second shot is going to rain down on the tower from Pedro's RG.

A perfect electro spirit to prevent all Royal Giant damage from Pedro and this is why I mentioned earlier that Pedro is considered the best Royal Giant player at the moment. I mean he just knows every single interaction but I think a big thing to notice also is the fact that Pedro has Rage. You know, if Sub does have the log for the knockback on RG and for the guards, that could be a big difference maker.

And right here, Sub, electing to go all in, gets the Evo RG right in front of the Hunter. And so the Evo RG in response, and that monk ability is brilliant from Pedro. Takes only one shot and the crowd starts to erupt. Pedro does take a slight advantage.

There is the log from Sub. Really good plays by Pedro with the deflection of the Royal Giant. And he continues to get damage as well. I would say that this log could be huge later down the line though.

And here we go, Fishisherman against Fisherman. Sub's Fisherman going to put in a lot of work. Hunter is going to be able to get a lot of damage, but the Rage plus the Vines doesn't do enough.

And Sub defends it with the spin of his teeth.

Another role, giant, the bridge. Pedro pre-placing the monk in the middle area in order to try to get the RG deflection. We will see it drop now.

And right here, RG not getting enough, gets a... Oh, doesn't get the second shot. The monk is able to place his hands on top of the RG's body and gets taken off the arena.

And another monk set up with the hunter. We're going to see another role giant in soon. Pedro trying to control it with the Hunter. We're going to see another role giant in soon. Pedro trying to control it with the Fisherman. Wow. With the deflection on the Wizard! Deflection on the Wizard from the Monk! And that's smashing on the tower!

And right here, Sub, I mean, it wasn't the best start, but so far he has been playing this beautifully. It's just attack, attack, attack.

Finally, Pedro has played an RG, it felt like we went two and a half minutes before we played an RG down. And Sub's gonna keep up the pressure, another Evo role, giant, Evo Wizards on the board with a vine, the vine, will it prevent the Monk ability from dropping?

Wait, it does get off, it is deflecting the wizard, Royal Giants is on the tower, oh my goodness, Josh! The Fisherman doesn't yank, the Fisherman doesn't yank, the RG plus the fireball, Game 1 goes to Sub! In the crowd, he's going wild, Sub, with an upset going against Petro's best deck,

and he takes the win.

Can we even call it an upset at this point? Should we be saying Sub is the favorite? Did we forget about consistency? Maybe it's just the greatest in the world. He's trying to show it on this stage and that this is a phenomenal start.

RG versus RG against, I mean, we're talking about it. He's the best RG player in the world and he goes out and dominates. Yeah, we're going to be looking at the deck right here. So the main differences here, once again, Sub has the log, better versus guards,

better for knocking back RG, and Rage, you know, it's helpful. The Vines, it's strong, but I cannot believe at the end, the Vines just couldn't stop that monk ability from popping, and don't get me started on the monk deflection splashing on the wizard and the tower.

Yeah, that was just gorgeous, beautiful activation of the ability. And what are your thoughts on the vine? Because I just felt like it didn't get enough value. It felt like he should have had the right defense. I mean, in that last moment, you know,

the wizard plus the vines, it should have been able to defend it cleanly. Instead, he was able to run away with it. Yeah, I think the vine, you know, it did the best it could. You know, obviously Pedro is trying to save more important spells from later in this best of five. Sub, I like the strategy though, as well just to use one of the two best spells of the game.

He goes with the log, he goes with the fireball, he gets a win under his belt, and now he has the momentum.

So we've been talking about it all tournament, the Royal Ghost Evolution. It feels like the strongest card in the game right now. And it makes you think, do you, when do you use it in this set? Are you trying to, are you trying to delay and force your opponent to think,

okay, this could be the game? Or do you just use it in game two? I mean, Sub or Pedro, both of them. I wanna know what your thoughts are on that.

So my thoughts right now, I'm Sub, I'm going to try to finish this best of five as quickly as possible, since he's used two of the main spells now. He wants to get this best of five done in three games to not give Pedro time to curate enough strength in the remainder of his card pool in order to make that reverse sweep potentially happen.

Okay, so you like the Evo Ghost in game number two. Yes, I would say Sub should use the Evo Ghost. If I'm Pedro, that's the mind games, that's the greatness of this game. This game is already started on the stage, we just don't know it yet.

As we hop into this match, I'm going to say, I think Pedro should

bring a good counter to the Ghost like the Valkyrie. Wow, and Sub already using the minion horde. Mortar on offense for Pedro. There's a couple different options with a minion horde deck. You can sometimes use the zap to try and get the miners to protect for your minion horde. And then you can also go a little bit slower using the arrows, try and get, it's probably

looking like it's going to be a Mortar vs. Mortar. Miner is getting cleaned up very nicely by the Berserker. Pedro going with one of his converts, another one of his converts in the Mortar. Boss Bandit variation that we saw Moe kind of bring into this CRL mini meta yesterday. Skeleton King going to walk down the lane. Boss Bandit has been one of those cards that's been very surprising.

It's just great how valuable it is. And this Mother Witch is gonna put on work on the right. And if the Boss Bandit doesn't take out the Skeleton King, we could be seeing a GG. Instead, the Boss Bandit does take it out. That could have been incredibly dangerous for Pedro.

And no dash from the boss bandit. Mortar the bridge, we have a mortar-mir matchup. Goblin gang is not getting hit by the ghost right away, and a defensive mortar from Pedro as well. So once again, Sub kind of wandering into Pedro's territory, since he has a little bit more expertise with these kind of decks.

Yeah, and right there does mess up with the royal ghost. E-Wiz a little bit delayed, And with the help of the Vines, that's going to take out the E-Wiz and get another shot. Skeleton Barrel on three elixir, and the Minion Horde is going to be able to clean that up nicely. Would have liked to see maybe a little bit different tile placement.

I felt like he could have protected

a few more of those minions.

Gang has to drop down to defend this Minion Horde. here if you're in the crowd is the Mother Witch. The Mother Witch is going to be huge in this matchup to deal with Skeleton Barrels and the Goblin Gang. Pedro, on the other hand, is going to want to use that Boss Minute, try and protect those units, and dash onto that Mother Witch.

Last card for Pedro should be the Fireball. So it looks like he's just kind of delaying, trying to figure out when he should be using it. But I mean, we've seen the minion horde to get placed multiple times, Mother Witch as well, and he hasn't used it. So it could be lightning, there's a couple different things

that he could be doing with it.

Yeah, there's the minion horde. I think it's a great call. Minion horde's super strong in this matchup.

Wow.

And the General Jerry is pushing here for Pedro. Will he be able to defend versus the Skeleton King ability versus the Evo Ghost?

Yeah, that E-Wiz putting in a ton of work, cleaning up everything very nicely. The Boss Bandit will help out as well. And a defensive Mortar, recognizing that he spent a lot of elixir and didn't get a ton of value. And yes, these Minion Hordes are fantastic.

And yeah, the Fireball is the card in Pedro's deck. This Skeleton Army does defend pretty well,

but Pedro does take the lead. Yes, Pedro taking the damage lead, Skeletic King in the back, filling up the ability from the Lost Souls of the Skeleton Army. And I like this placement by Pedro, playing the Mortar 1 tower lower,

but Sub nosy compression of the Ops lane because of that.

So going into overtime, both towers very close. And when you look at the matchup, Pedro does have a slight lead. But who do you think has the advantage?

The advantage here? I mean, it's tough. I would say maybe Pedro. He has a little bit more damage, like basically lock damage with the fireball. The Electro Wizard kind of acts as a secondary spell as well.

These skeleton barrels are so difficult to defend, forces out the defensive miner and Pedro screams into the lead. I mean, Sub just doesn't have a small spell and so every time the skeleton barrel locks

onto the tower, I mean, an Evo Skelly barrel on the tower means GG, so he has to protect.

Vines dropping, Evo Ghost as as well trying to clear this gang. He wants the Mortar connection, but the Mortars take out each other and the EvoGhost is controlled masterfully.

Good offensive pressure, didn't overextend. Motherwish to try and get one of these piggies to go on the map and Minion Horde over the middle and a defensive Skeleton Bar barrel going to clean up everything beautiful.

That minion horde is just gone.

And this is exactly how Muhammad Light likes to play. He gives the damage lead, and then he continues to use his evos even on defense. And I think Pedro's taking a lot of that gameplay from him. I mean, I love the use of the evo skeleton barrel to deal with the minion horde.

Will the general J, oh my goodness, the general Jerry barely gets taken out by the E-Wiz.

And right here, just Skarmy plus Skeleton King, Larry's in right there, Boss Bandit does clean up

pretty nicely. Mother Witch, pressure over the middles, 15 seconds left. This is an all out assault. If he defends, he wins, if he doesn't, Sub does. Wait, the Evo Ghost is going towards the tower. Ghoul's on tower. Eleven, Mortar's not helping. He takes the lead.

He takes the lead. Will Petro get the Fireball? If he Fireballs in time. Fireball, Fireball does it get there.

Fireball does it get there.

Sub gets it. Sub gets it.

And as you called it out, Sub using the Evo Ghost, trying to scream with a hot start. And that's exactly what happens.

2-0 in this opening best of five. I mean, I'm almost speechless right now. I thought Sub would use the Evo Ghost and try to scream into that lead. He has the 2-0 now. Pedro also used Log and Fireball,

one of the most key spells. Again, Pedro really kind Log and Fireball, one of the most key spells again. Pedro really kind of on his back foot and in a tough situation. Unbelievable pressure by Sub in that match in order to get that damage lead back.

And I cannot believe that that Fireball didn't hit in time, unbelievable stuff.

I mean, Sub just taking deep breaths, trying to center himself. He knows all he has to do is win one out of the next three games to confirm $100,000 and put himself in a prime position to make another $100,000 after that. Sub has to be feeling so good. And we saw RG versus RG, where Pedro is considered one of the best in the world.

Yeah. Mortar versus Mortar, where Pedro is considered one of the best in the world. Mortar versus Mortar, where Pedro is considered best in the world. I mean, Sub's gameplay today and in this entire tournament, he's turning heads.

I mean, I have nothing else to say. Let's go over this replay. Fireball dropped on the right, since Pedro didn't have any spells in cycle, and Sub knew that it was his moment to attack. He goes for the Mother Witch over the river to deal with that gang. And the Electro Wizard is trying his best,

but the Vines, and then look at this Evo Ghost. It ignores the Mortar. That was the big mistake there, trying to pull the Ghost to the middle of the map. Instead, Ghost goes towards that gang, and once again, the Mother Witches continue to spawn in the fireball, just not quite there in time. Was that the perfect placement?

That is a good point. The perfect placement if you're trying to get a spell on your opponent's tower as quickly as possible is towards the inside, towards the King Tower. I think he played it maybe a little bit further to the left side from his perspective,

and maybe with the perfect placement, it would have got there.

Yeah, we could have easily been seeing a 1-1, we don't know and it doesn't matter because Sub is now up 2-0 feeling himself as he absolutely should be. I mean just what an incredible start for Sub and you know if you are Pedro, how do you come back? You've lost with two of your best decks overall, is there anything you would recommend?

What do we need to see from him?

Man, that is a tough question, because you're right, he went with his comfort. He lost fair and square. Like that last matchup, I would say, was pretty tough for Sub. But I think if I'm Pedro, what I need to do

is really kind of think through all the practice matches you've gone and done versus sub, you know, try to understand that pattern. And you've got to try and almost snipe into a really good matchup and get yourself into this best of five.

Yeah, I love that answer because when you are faced with a deficit like this, you need a free win. You need something where it's like, I don't have to outplay my opponent three times in a row. Clearly he's playing well, clearly it might not happen. Sometimes you need to snipe, you need to go all out, you need to run one of those six spells

because you're predicting expo. Something needs to happen for him, and I love that idea.

I think going for a snipe has to be it. On the other hand, Josh, you know, if you're in Sub's position, what kind of deck are you thinking about running? What kind of strategy are you looking for in order to end this best of five as quick as possible to not give a Pedro a chance to get back into it?

Yeah, we are gonna be seeing that right now. Game three, an opportunity for Sub to get a full out three game sweep. Yeah, if I am Sub's, well actually, not if I'm his coach, because his coach can't actually

help out right now. But if I'm Sub, I'm probably sticking to something that I've used so far in this weekend. But I don't know if he's used Dark Prince. Dark Prince, not very common.

And E-Wiz plus Dark Prince, we could be looking at Pekka.

Yeah, Sub a great Bridge fan player. I like this. I like this idea, just to go to your comfort, play your best game. Pedro on the other hand does kind of do what I was expecting, right?

He understood what Sub likes to play, and he's brought a really nice matchup, having delivery, the evil ice spirit, and even a tank in the Skeletal King, in order to try and really get him into this best of five.

Very clean defense from Pedro, offensive rage to help out the bandit, not going to do anything. Pedro, off to a strong start in this game number three.

On the other hand, Sub has cycled his Evo Bavarium twice now, so he will have Evo in cycle soon. Pedro preemptively dropping the snowball, understanding the arrows are most likely dropping down.

It's so crazy how even in a best of five when the decks are changing in ways that we've never seen before, these two players can just predict what's going to be happening. He shouldn't have been able to predict that arrows were gonna come down,

and yet he did it very easily.

Bend at the back, last card from sub, most likely Evo Pekka. Pedro setting up on defense with a Skeleton King. Josh, talk to me here. What are you thinking Pedro's last couple cards could be and how that could influence the rest of this game.

Yeah.

I really want to hope that it's not going to be Graveyard. I'm not a big fan of Graveyard in this meta. Skeleton King does get activated. And defensive arrows right there to protect the E-Wiz. But I do not want to see – okay, perfect. I really like that idea.

And if we're going to be seeing Drill. We're probably going to be seeing Rocket. A lot of players are joining those two cards together, especially because we haven't seen him use that last card just

yet.

IceWiz trying to slow everything down. SkeletorKing tanking. And there's the P.E.K.K.A. from Sub. He wants to get both of his Evos in tandem together

in order to break through this lockdown defense from Pedro. And right here, I'm trying to figure out, this might be the first Evopeca that we've seen. We've seen a couple of Peca decks, but they tend to try and use it with either the Battle Rams or the Royal Ghosts. It's going to be interesting to see how strong this Evopeca

and how much value it can get.

Evopeca is on the board, skeleting the ability, forcing the defense, Ice Wiz splashing everything. And Pedro, you can really just tell by his gameplay. His plan is to have a perfect defense this entire match and send one rocket at the very end in order to win.

Yeah, he figured out what he needs to do. Dark Prince plus Bandit, opposite lane. We should see another set of arrows come down shortly, maybe plus the rage. There it is.

Wait, here we go. The evil ice spirit. The Pekka is now needing a lot more attention and the evil battle on the board as well.

He doesn't have enough. The minions are going to come down at the bridge. He's going to be able to defend that, but the minions are going to get a ton of value. Even with the ice spirit jumping, should be getting four swings. There's two, there's three, and no fourth. So Pedro going to be defending that as best he could.

But that E-Wiz taking out that Ice Spirit,

that is a game changer.

Yeah, that one Elixir card can provide so much value defensively. And we do see Pedro coming out with a rocket. He knows that just defending and dropping one rocket will no longer be enough, but now he's in damage, sorry, elixir deficit, will he be able to defend another onslaught from Sub?

And right here, Sub gonna go in the right lane with the Dark Prince, plus the Rage, plus the Battle Ram, everything coming down the lane. Battle Ram will get caught up by the Skeletons from the Skeleton King, and a clean defense

from Pedro, he was able to get away with a rocket rocket and just an easy, easy defense. Another rocket dropping down, tries it, the Bandit doesn't get it. And once again, going to be down six elixir. Can he make this defense happen on the biggest of stages? The minions forcing the Spirit Goblins to do the right side, allowing the Bandit to take out the Goblin Hut. And here we go. Defensive Evo I Spirit, right lane should be cleaned up real nicely.

The Bandit on offense, and there are just so many troops, it's hard to be, it's hard to pick out what's even happening. And Evil Batarim is placed at the bridge. Does he have the snowball and cycle? He does drop it down. Two Ice Wizards, a rage from Sub to try to break through, but the delivery drops into everything. And with 10 seconds left, Pedro gets one more rocket off.

Sub's pressure was not quite enough. Two seconds, one second, and that is towered down. Pedro avoiding the full on sweep. And that was just a majestic deck. I love to deck Joyce in game number three. Just give yourself a chance to have an easy matchup

and that's exactly what he did. He's able to get his confidence back. I played that perfectly, well, mostly perfectly. It was really just one mistake. He was able to recover and he learned pretty quickly on, hey, I have to play my rocket.

I have to get a little bit aggressive. I really like the awareness in that situation and a great game number three from Pedro. Man, we're doing a pretty good job of predicting kind of the play styles here. I really like that Sub went to Comfort, but Pedro, knowing his practice partner well enough, brings a super controlling deck. The evil ice spirit mistake almost cost Pedro,

but with the perfect defense, he was able to make it happen. And as we continue on to the deck here, I just want to note that the win condition from Pedro is Goblin Drill. And I think he played on offense one time,

subbed it with the Dark Prince, and he was like, you know what? Let me just play this on defense for the rest of the game and get a couple of rockets there to finish it out. Yeah, okay, so I want to know your thoughts on the Evo Pekka, because it feels like it just does not get enough value. It feels like all these players are way too smart. They know exactly how, I mean,

you're spending so much on offense to try and help out that Evo Pekka,

but it's just too easy going against some of these pros.

Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. I think that that is also something that we're going to much value because of the best of five duels. You know, we've gone through three decks now, which means three win conditions and almost six spells for both players are basically not going to be available

for the rest of the best of five. So as we continue on, we're gonna have to see these players continue to get more and more creative with the cards they're picking.

Yeah, absolutely. The champions are going to be changing. We should be seeing new champs and the Evos as well. So just so much that we just never get to see. The best of five format in this, it just creates something new, something fresh. It really is a joy to watch.

Yeah. You know, as we're thinking about what decks can be played next we've seen a lot of drill or receiving drill We've seen minor mortar. We've seen our G. I think electro giant is available for both players Graveyard potentially as well But once again the spells are one of the most important things here Josh because some win conditions cannot be played without certain spells and Supplementing their power. Yeah, the E-Giant Lightning is definitely one of those, the spell plus the big guy.

You need both of those.

You can't do anything else. You can't do Earthquake, you can't do Void. It needs to be Lightning. I could be wrong, but I feel like both of these players have E-Giant and Lightning available to them.

Yeah, I think that's correct. Could we be seeing another mirror? That would be crazy to see another mirror matchup. This is why I love casting with you, Josh. We're just sitting here, two ex-pros, nerding out on this stage. We just love to see the decksmanship, the gameplay. I'm so excited to see game four.

The question is, I mean, I'm going to put you on the spot. Okay, Okay. Do you think that Sub finishes it out here, or do you think Pedro is going to give himself a chance? Who did I even say at the beginning of the day?

You said Pedro.

I said Pedro. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think I have to change my mind. I think Game 4 Sub gets it done.

Right. Yeah. It makes sense. His gameplay versus Moe yesterday was insane. On the other hand, you know, Pedro, I did his interview. He said that it means everything to him, not only to be the best in the world, but to be the best from Brazil, from his country. And this is the match that decides

maybe both of those aspects.

Yeah, I mean, so much on the line. Can Pedro set himself up, try and get a best of five reverse sweep

game four under way

Crowd is excited Pedro the skeletons Cycling trying to figure out and he goes to one of his bread-and-butter decks miner. No rocket available for him, though, so most likely going to be miner poison.

Royal ghost for Pedro. And as soon as you see the royal ghost, the matchup instantly becomes 60-40 for the player with it. So he has to be feeling good that he was able to survive this long and still have it available to him.

Evo wall breakers plus Evo Royal Ghost and here it is, Sub getting very aggressive with the Graveyard. And we see him shake his head. This is why I don't like Graveyard in this meta.

There's too many small cards, too many easy defenses. And there's a big counterpunch as well. Minor minions on the right, Ghost on the left, trying to clean everything up. Goblin Hut does drop. Will the Wallbreakers connect with the minions cleaning up this hut?

One of them is able to make it to the tower. It could have been a lot worse. I actually really loved Sub's timing with the Goblin Hut, trying to protect himself from the minions swinging away at the Spear Goblins. And he was able to take it out, but not before Pedro

gets his tower down to 2318.

And once again, we are in a situation where Pedro has predicted his practice partner and got himself into a really good matchup. He has poison and minions for graveyard. He also has really, really solid pressure with the wall breakers evo and the ghost evo,

not to mention he's just up like 700 damage to start the game.

Yeah. So Sub quickly recognizing that the only way he can win, I mean, it has to be just with good Evo-Witch gameplay. At this point, you know your opponent has the minions, the poison, the bar barrel, the cannon. I mean, he has every answer available to him. So you need to be getting Evo Witch value

if you're going to somehow come away with a victory.

Another thing in this matchup which is so important is you need enough Elixir to go poison with your Graveyard. The one on its own is just not enough. You see the minions and skeletons just countering everything for very cheap plus counter push every time.

Yeah, and the cannon on 1% health is still gonna get one shot on top of the Ice Wizard. And here we go, Pedro gonna cycle cannons in the middle, recognizing that he can't overextend, but he can also just start playing troops.

It should be easy defense again and again.

In a perfect bar, bro, from Pedro, damaging the witch while also pulling the knight back to get the graveyard. And on the right hand side we see the evo breakers. Goblenut does defend, knight does get on tower. Sub is trying to come back and make this upset in this matchup happen.

Ten seconds left before we hit OT. And right here Pedro has a pretty big advantage. We could see a late goblenet. No we're going to instead elect to go Ice Wiz plus Bar

Barrel.

A lot of cards, but you can't really use the poison on top of the troops. So it's OK to bunch.

It's not great, but it is OK.

EvoGhost, Bar Barrel. Sub knows what's in cycle, decides not to go in for that Graveyard. Just baiting out the Evo Ghost instead. Big counter push from Pedro, but the Witch plus Ice Wiz cleans up. But the Miner, the Miner, Josh, it's always chipping away.

Yeah, these Miner placements have been beautiful, trying to protect the 1% minions and the wall breakers, just everything going Pedro's way. These minions are so aggressive, and we see a nice Gobblehut trying to be able to protect the Knight and take out those bridge minions from Pajar.

Miner once again coming in, does get some chip. Ice Wizard's down in time. And if you're sub now, you have to start thinking not only about perfect defense, but you need to attack. So he's going in for the graveyard, but the evil breakers are perfectly timed

in order to basically apply pressure. But the evil witch protection, sorry, I gotta stop.

I gotta stop. The evil witch protection is a fantastic cannon, Hyde trying to take out the witch, going to target the Skellies instead though, and that's going to be a defensive poison for Pedro and it's going to clean up everything relatively nicely, but this bridge battle is being won by Sub over and over, only 6 elixir, Pedro in a world of hurt, we finally see the offensive poison, the poison get played, and again, another defensive ghost. Skeletons, Skeletons line up beautifully, all three on the inside of the tower,

and all of a sudden, Sub is gonna storm into the lead. Pedro's trying to come back, but the Knight picks up. Will the Wallbreakers be able to connect? No, Barbarian Barrel in cycle. And with 20 seconds left, we see yet another Graveyard Poison from Sub. Now it's just RNG. Can you have the Skellies hit the tower?

We see one Skelly get on the tower and that's going to be it. 1399 able to protect, not give up any damage. We see the offensive Graveyard.

The miner gets caught. The miner gets caught again. The poison is dipping. The skeleton hits at the end! And Sob wins the battle of Brazil! How did he do that? He was down so much. The Evil Witch protected again and again.

Offensive Graveyard, the patience was brilliant. And oh my word, a 3-1 set victory. Let's send it down to the stage because we need to hear.

Before we go to the interview, I just have to say, my goodness, you called it Josh. There's one way to sub win this match. It's the Evo Witch Protection. He played that witch on the left-hand lane, continued to protect, and won the bridge battle game after game.

Now, I want to hear what Sub has to say.

Sub, you've just guaranteed yourself $100,000 and at least number two in the world.

How do you feel right now? You just won at least $100,000 and placed second in the world.

How do you feel right now?

I'm happy, I feel like I just won $100,000 in a world championship, and I'm making a dream come true. But it's not about the money, it's about the confidence, so it's more about the victory.

It's not for the money, it's for the achievement, it's the dream of my life, so I'm so glad right now. All right, talk to me about picking five different decks

here against your best friend, your practice partner, without a coach.

What was the thought process there? It's hard, but we end up working all year with a coach, so we start to have a good idea of how to choose our own decks.

So in an MD5 it's very hard, I decision, but I just pick the best of them.

Let's hear it one more time for Sun!

Woo! Woo! Woo!

Woo! Woo! Woo! And looking at the stats here for this game, I mean, I honestly really want to break down for you guys this last matchup one more time. Once again, I have to give it for Sub. I mean, he did such a great job of, you know, really just overcoming such a tough matchup.

Yeah, I mean it was perfect defense again and again, I mean predictions on the Miners, I mean, look, if Pedro just gets one or two of these Miners to connect, we're seeing Pedro's names, we're seeing his praises, we're saying, oh, it's getting to a game five, Sub had to play that absolutely perfectly,

setting himself up with the Evo Witch, trying to get multiple witches on the board, trying to get the graveyard down, where it gets weird because usually you want the tank for the graveyard. The graveyard has now evolved. Sometimes you're going the graveyard first to tank for those Evo Witches,

and we saw him win those bridge battles that he shouldn't be winning. The graveyard Skelly's getting taken out allowed him to take out the Royal Ghost, even when it was in the evolution form. It was just brilliant. There were so many different things

that he was able to see in that match.

Yeah, and that's how he broke through in the offense. But once again, I mean, I'm going to have to watch this back later and see how many times Sub was able to catch

the Miner before it hits the tower with not only the Knight, the Berserker, but also the Barbarian Barrel. Yeah, let's take a look at this bracket. CalSub standing alone, knowing that he is gonna be waiting the two players, PedroTM and MahamedLight. We're definitely gonna give Pedro, you know, a fair bit of time. We wanna make sure that he's ready and able to perform

against MahamedLight at his best. But man, Sub, what a run he has had. He started off the day one going 2-0. Day two, he went, I believe it was two set victories. I mean, he hasn't really even played that many games. I wanna see more of Sub.

Well, actually, we're going to. I can wait a couple, 30, 45 minutes, all out.

Yeah, I mean, okay, so we talk about, you know, this match, but for the upcoming one, you know, we have Pedro versus Moe. This is really tough. I talked to a lot of different players about, you know, who might win today. We saw the community predictions earlier. I think this is kind of what everyone envisioned, right?

You know, someone is going to be sent down to Moe, and now you have to play against the best in the world when you're coming off a loss.

Yeah, it's going to be so difficult to do. MuhammadLight just, you know, when you know you're having to wait, and I mean, MuhammadLight just has to be feeling good. It feels like Pedro isn't really feeling himself anymore,

because a 3-1 against Sub, it's got to do something to your mental. I know, and Mo is just ready. And it's just very easy for Mo to take momentum as well. And he's done the lower bracket run before. The other thing to really think about, though, is, you know, Pedro, he has what it takes. He's gotten second in the world finals before.

He wants to be the best. And I'm sure coming off a loss from his friend, from his fellow practice partner, you know, he wants to beat Mo, and he wants to have another chance to go against Sub.

Yeah, it should be an exciting matchup for sure. That was a great way to start the day. I know we didn't get all five games and stuff, but I'll take four great ones, and that's exactly what we saw. Pedro, definitely want to give him a little bit of time though.

Okay, the only thing I'm disappointed about is we haven't seen Void yet. I'm waiting for a Void game five of the best of five duels. You know, there's so many spells in the game now with the addition of Void, Vines, and all of the reworks as well, but it was just so cool to see that Game 5 really pop off

with some really interesting and creative decks.

Yeah, I was going to say that I wanted to see Heal Spirit, but we actually did see that yesterday, so I don't have to wait for that anymore. Few minutes away from our upcoming set, and yeah, we're just trying to set the stage for it in general.

Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be great. I'm sure we're gonna have some highlights with four of you guys soon. Actually, now, let's go and hop into these last match highlights and wow, CRL World Finals 2025 has been a blast so far.

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Our next two competitors have come so far and they don't want the journey to end now. First up, he goes out of the frying pan and into the faro.

Welcome back, Pedro! ♪

And his opponent is no stranger to the lower bracket. Some might say this is where he belongs. Moe Hamid Light! He made a lower bracket run in 2022 when he won his first championship. Can he do it again to win his third?

Only me and Mugi have two championships, and if I were to win this one, I would have the most in history.

And Pedro comes out and does it the easy way. Two games up, two games down.

After 2024, I was eliminated in fifth place. I played and was in second place, so I think I'm missing a world champion.

I'm confident in my abilities to be able to beat him.

Be careful, because this year I'm at my maximum level.

May the better player win.

And a rematch from Stats Royale here between Pedro and Mohamed

Light.

It was actually Pedro that came out on top and ended up winning that golden ticket. My how things have changed since

then though.

A.C. coming off of a best of five beaten by his best friend going and that was just so good from rich out of the frying pan into the barrel. I love that.

And I got to imagine Pedro right now is having to do a lot of resetting while Mowlight is sitting there thinking, I can make this lower bracket dream happen again. Did you see my notes? I gave it a 9.8 out of 10. That was probably the best one that I've heard from Rich in my entire life. Absolutely brilliant. And I'm so excited for this set overall. Pedro versus Muhammad Light. Just how you drew it up when you were trying to make those brackets on day one.

How do I want to see this end up? I want to see Pedro, I want to see Muhammad Light, and we're finally getting it. Absolutely, and Pedro, obviously, no stranger to being in the top three, top two a couple years ago.

Last year, maybe not as successful now, as you guys can see this journey that they have gone on along the way right there at 2021, number two for Mo. A lot of championships in there as well, 2022 and 2024. You can see they're winning the golden ticket in the Colalis Cup. On the bottom of your screen,

you can see Pedro back in 2023. This is a great graphic, by the way. Let's just shout out here, this is a great graphic. And then of course, fifth, sixth in 2024, gets the golden ticket from Stats Royale, like we were just talking about. You guys can see Mohamed Light gets fourth place there, not able to make it to the championship there,

but it doesn't matter, we're still here with him. AC, other than just talking about numbers and decks, like we're gonna do for the next couple hours, I wanna talk to you about resetting on the big stage when you've come off of a loss. Obviously, you were very familiar in the Teams edition. Sometimes things start off well in the day, sometimes they don't. What's the best way to reset after a moment like that with a crowd like this, the response? You know, how do you temper the nerves? How

do you reset as a former pro? Yeah, I think what you do is you allow yourself to explode. You say, okay, everything went wrong. I didn't do well enough. I did this poorly. I didn't choose the right decks. I'm done, all right? This didn't happen. It's whatever, I'm on to the next one.

If you don't let your emotions out, you're gonna do it on stage. You're gonna think too hard. You're not gonna think as clearly. You're gonna get too aggressive, even too aggressive for today's, this weekend. So you just need to allow yourself to just completely be okay and start from zero.

Pedro is a little bit more of a slow-paced player than maybe someone like Sandbox. We saw Sandbox yesterday feeling that he was getting an edge over the Pharaoh and maybe gonna take the game, getting ahead of himself. I imagine that's something Pedro is really gonna have to work on here to make sure that he is calm, cool, collected as this game and match goes on. You know, just because Moe's down doesn't mean he's out. We saw him come back twice yesterday in that elimination match.

And predictions, I was just going to say, AC, no surprise here from the audience at home. Moe Light, 86% and just 14% for Pedro. AC, where did you go in this matchup?

Yeah, we don't even. OK, yes, we can have the Graphitic, I guess. Yes, I did choose Bahamut Light.

They made that, you gotta let them show it. That's true, and you guys are doing great, yep, again, again, and who did you choose? I also went Mo Light, I believe the rest of our team also goes Mo Light, it, just like we talked about, Pedro just had to show four different decks. He just lost to his best friend.

He got about, what, five to seven minutes to reset, and he's already right back on stage against the Pharaoh. And this is a very difficult spot to be in. Muhammad Light hoping that Mama Mo was able to get him a nice big breakfast today after his conversation yesterday on stage, feeling well fed, feeling well rested, and ready to go.

This is the lower bracket final of the CRL 2025 World Finals. One player will go home with $50,000. The other one guaranteed a minimum of $100,000. And of course, second place. No one wants third. No one wants second.

Everyone wants the crown. Who will it be? We're about to find out. Three players remain, two though, with only one life to give. Lower bracket finals starts now.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Fire Spirit from Mahaman Light and a Fishman in response from Pedro. After looking at the Fishman we automatically have to assume it's going to be a Royal Giant. Mahaman Light with the Firecracker as well and you got to think Hog and that's exactly what's going to happen.

Yeah, you got to think Hog and you got to think we're in a best of five seeing the Fire Spirit coupled with the Firecracker and Hog Rider. Usually the last choice on the list, well, Heal Spirit's probably the last choice on the list. Usually goes E-Spirit these days, then Ice Spirit, then Fire, then Heal. So, Molite already thinking about game five.

Should he potentially have to get there against Pedro? And Pedro could be repeating what he used in game number one, going in with another RG Monk Wizard deck. Even if it didn't work out in his first set, he clearly thinks that he's onto something with this deck. And, you know, I love the confidence.

If you're going to win, you need confidence.

And this is how you do it.

And now Pedro going to have to think about stopping that Mighty Miner as this game goes on. He's got the guards. He's got the fish boy great ways to get on top of it And of course doesn't have to worry about the reflection from the monk like he did in game one of his previous set Which basically stole it from him friendly fire if you will Both players waiting to hit ten elixir Pedro again electing to leak It's really interesting to see how he's playing a lot of these matches allowing himself to leak

when other players wouldn't. Low light even leaking a couple of licks are there then decides to cycle the earthquake. And a monk meets a cannon as hog plus guards goes opposite lane. Fishbowl gonna try to pull activate king, guards up high to pull the guards and distract get a king tower activation but something needs to get on top of that firecracker and guards we always say King tower activated but at what cost and this is a massive spend just so smart so aware as soon as the monk goes down there's a reason why

Pedro was leaking so much elixir he knew that he couldn't afford to go in and he didn't even wait till double I if you're gonna wait that long you have to continue to wait right here though This counter push can be a little bit deadly fishermen gonna yank onto the left side or does it get one more and it's not Last shot 18 24 10 33 usually don't want to go in the same lane with hog rider But when you've got that much damage done AC is there really an option to switch? And Mo decides not to with this earthquake. Yeah, it's a little bit interesting to cycle

the wizard back there. You knew that your opponent wanted to take the shield off, wanted to cycle the earthquake.

I don't know what I would have preferred, maybe to place it high, but he doesn't do that. And now the Mighty Miner plus Firecracker plus Cannon, that's going to be an Nothing there for the hog. Mightyminer stays alive. That should be tower down.

That is tower down. MoeLite takes game number one. And now Pedro is starting to feel the pressure. You can see it on his face. You drop one game in the previous set, you feel OK. You lose the set, you start the next one back to back and drop the first game. He's got to be feeling the frustration of not being able to get a

win. Yeah, having to go two sets in a row. We saw it yesterday with Sandbox. It is so difficult to go back to back. None of these players have been able to figure out a way to reset the mind completely and you need to figure something out when you're going against Muhammad Light and his coach. That was such a great opening set, and I just loved how he played it.

That aggressive hog when the monk was cycled, it's so aware, he knows what his opponent was running and how to get past it. And even right there, it feels like Pedro should always have the fisherman in cycle, always have the monk, always have the guards,

but he just doesn't. Muhammad knows when you've spent just one half elixir too much, and he just goes in with a Hog Firecracker. And just tracking that cycle so clean as he moved through that game. You saw there at the very end, knows that the RG is going to come down, coming across the bridge, gets the second cannon down just in time, gets the second Mighty Miner down just in time, gets the second Mighty Miner down just in time, which is of course going to keep the Fishman on the board.

You want that Fishman to pull the Mighty Miner away? Well, guess what? Now it can't pull the Hog away. Hog goes down the lane and a beautiful surgical attack by the Pharaoh himself to take game number one here, AC.

Yeah, and I loved your call out with the Fire Spirit instead of the E Spirit or the Ice Spirit. Spirit, it's just so clear that they've practiced so many different variations. OK, we can actually get away with Fire Spirit in this deck instead of the E Spirit, because we have the Bar Barrel, we have the Mighty Miner, we can push things back. So we don't need that reset that you often would usually need in those hog decks.

So I just love the decksmanship overall. And Moe has to be feeling great. Didn't even need overtime right there.

Yeah, and just beautiful replays there pulled by the Booth as well. You talked about the very first kind of uppercut that landed on Pedro. Does get the King Tower activation, almost baiting out that King Tower activation. Goes hyper-aggressive, Firecracker comes in late. So much damage on tower, Monk not in range to distract it. Just, what, two or three firecracker shots. Hog gets pulled to tower, guards get distracted.

Just so much spent by Pedro that did not really do anything for him other than give him a king tower activation and a lot of damage taken. Yeah, I'd love to see a player cam reaction because when he went in with that Monk on the other side, I feel like he went like, ding, I figured this out, I get to go all in,

and I'm sure that's exactly what happened.

Can Pedro reset or will the blows continue to land? Game two, lower bracket final, best of five coming your way. And that is a card we have not seen yet this weekend, I believe, the Demolisher, and that is why

we love the best of five format. There's a lot of cards in this game, AC, some of them get neglected. But luckily we have our hero Muhammad Light to fix that problem. Pedro on the other side, going to be running what we're used to so far this tournament,

Ice Spirit, Skellies, Miner, going to his bread and butter, a Miner cycle deck. You see right there, eSpirit now used here

in game number two by Molite.

And just like a lot of Goblin Demolisher decks, he is going to be running Drill Ghost, I believe gets a shot on top of the tower, and the opposing Ghost, and then gets the tower down to 2765. Demolisher not able to explode on the Ghost,

so a healthy Ghost going to need to defend.

A little ice spirit there, and Mo shaking his head. Pager up by about one. Berserker not going to be a threat. 2765 to two untouched towers by MoLite, who's had the only game without taking damage all weekend, I believe.

It's going to be incredibly difficult to do that against Miner. So if he does that again, I've got a dollar for him.

Big spender AC. I mean, they're making a lot of money. Already guaranteed $50,000. Offensive poison going to be able to take out the Goblin Hut and Pedro's offensive push going to force out the Evo snowball on defense So always a good push when you can get that Evo snowball forced out on defense

This feels like a must-win game for Pedro in terms of confidence in terms of running his comfort deck being able to have a relatively good matchup I Can't imagine he takes another loss here and then is able to bounce back and reverse sweep. So let's see if Pedro can even things up here as we take into one minute left in regulation.

Another high Goblin Hut. We're seeing a lot of these players realize quickly on that you need to be doing that. You need to be applying pressure. And right here, it's just Evo Ghost Battle Royale and there the Goblin Demolisher does make it to the tower and we're gonna see if the Demolisher takes it out in time and we're I mean we're seeing why Muhammad

Light loves this card. Yes he hasn't played at this tournament but he does use it quite often and he's just so skilled with it. I believe Riley was running a deck with Magic Archer and Goblin Demolisher. He made a video about it a few months back, couple months back, talking about how Goblin Demolisher is still very, very strong. No one's really been using it at all this weekend and definitely putting in some work right now.

And right there, one of the Evo Skellies staying alive, but the Demolisher going to explode on top of everything and take out all the troops. Evo Ghost over the middle and it will not splash on top of the towers until it gets frozen. I believe it splashed on top of the ghost. Drill goes into the right here, 20, 71 to 24, 18.

Evo snowball comes down late bar barrel to clean up. 18, 97 remains on. Pedro's bottom right tower is his minor. Chips away, shovels away to an even 22, 22 top left for Mo. Minute 47 remaining here in overtime. Beautiful ghost right there, you're allowed one or two

and this could be a pretty scary offensive push. Evo Ghost still not coming alive. Snowball on offense and a good defense from Pedro. And Evo Skelly's gonna work down the lane. Can't imagine we'll have another Evo Skelly moment, but we're all here for it.

Goes high and in the middle with the Miner, hoping the Miner can tank for the right-hand side but on the right side the ghosts are breaking through right there good e-spirit there's one full ghost one of the ghouls that snowball on defense and he's gonna be able to protect his tower ghost and what looked like that could be game over instead Muhammad light just defends beautifully like always completely unfazed on the player cam there was

Muhammad Light, AC. I thought we were going to have a blow open moment if you will there in terms of this game and Mo Light quickly silences that. Evo Snowball back in cycle. And right here Demolisher going to explode on

two of the minions, Offensive Poison and that was an extra shot. I believe that was a ghost, I'm not, I believe that was a goblin, couldn't exactly tell, and that tower is now down to 1193. Mo on the left tower, Drill on the right,

Pedro trying to make anything happen, ghost on the right tower of Mo, but Mo is heavily in the lead. 30 seconds left, needs to figure something out, these e-spirits are beautiful gonna jump across everything and I mean I just don't exactly know there's one minion minion almost do it

there

1245 13 seconds left one of the miners going to town he's gonna be able to get the tower low needs to defend it evo snowball forced out 975 bottom left 911 top right Pedro now in the lead with three seconds remaining. Poison's in. Poison gets it and Pedro able to come back in the final moments and that's exactly what he needed to do AC. He shouldn't have been able to do it. Muhammad Light I mean he controlled the entire game four minutes

fifty seconds I mean four minutes and fifty seconds of the game I was thinking Muhammad Light wins it. The final 10, Pedro. And it felt like he was completely off the rails defensively there for several dozens of seconds there in that final minute.

Defensively and offensively. Yes, he had no opportunity. The Evo goes from O, it was dominating the map. The Evo Skellies got no value. Every time he plays it, he's getting offensive poison pressure, so it doesn't do anything.

But somehow, someway, Pedro, once triple elixir hit, I mean, that's the thing about these fantastic RG slash minor players. They have such a quick understanding of the game. You know, a lot of people are gonna struggle once it hits triple elixir, because you have to make

so many more decisions. These players are so smart that Pedro, he can outplay in the triple elixir against anyone, including Muhammad Light.

Muhammad Light burns, the Goblin Hut burns, the Evo Royal Ghost, Evo Snowball, Poison. These are all cards that have been used so much this weekend, AC. This was kind of a, I don't want to say, you know, go all in type deck,

but this is definitely one where Mo would like to have taken a W. Yeah, just unfortunate. Let's take another quick look at deck number one. And this is where it all started well for MuhammadLight. We thought he was going to be able to jump to a 2-0 lead after this. It was the Hog Firecracker that really won him the game. It was just a brilliant job.

And you know, Pedro really responded well. After losing the opening set, and to be able to come back it's just it says so much about Pedro. Yeah absolutely and you know what that's really really what he needed confidence wise as well when you talk about how rough that first set was against sub now coming into mode drops game number one comes out with his bread and butter to reset things now we're at a one-and-one best of three

obviously a lot of cards are out now for both players, but this is a great moment for Pedro to reset the balances and try to take this set.

I mean, it really does feel like all the momentum has shifted. At one point we were thinking, okay, Muhammad goes to two-oh, you know, Pedro's lost five out of six games instead. Now it's just four out of six games.

It could be anybody's match. I'm just so impressed with the resilience from Pedro. It is so difficult. And I feel like it's very clear to the audience, but I just, I need to reiterate it. It is so difficult to come back in these moments.

There's something about even when like two people are spectating you in game and you're like, I don't know who's watching me, but this is embarrassing for me. Now you're talking about being in front of a room of hundreds of people that are hanging on every move you make, every misplay, every moment of greatness. There's explosions in the room here.

So you have to imagine that pressure is just absolutely insane. And they have both calmed out. You can see Mo locked in here. Pedro finally looking like he's got a little bit more confidence under his belt as we're about to hop into game number three in our lower bracket final.

Shout out to the crowd here. Shout out to the people that dressed up at Dreamhack Atlanta for our CRL 2025 World Finals. We love seeing you guys here. Make some noise as we're getting ready for game number three.

The only difference between having two viewers and panicking and losing that game is that the next game I'm only gonna have zero viewers. And so all these players, or all these spectators, they're gonna be wanting to watch. It doesn't matter if you lose two in a row.

You gotta watch, you gotta see what is happening here.

Here we go, game number three, lower bracket finals. 2025 World Finals.

Let's go.

Looking like maybe even a Mortar Mirror matchup. Ice Wizard to respond to the Mortar, minions to help out. And the Skeleton Barrel almost explodes

on top of the Ice Wizard.

Should get a shot.

Yep, that's still going to be a shot. Wow, just in time. And Pedro looking like he's running the deck that Moe created while Moe was running the deck that has been very popular here on Ladder. And that is a big spend by Pedro.

That ability is going to clean things up, get some good damage on tower. Yeah, zapping away, killing the Berserker, gets the tower down to 2391. It's a very close game. Ice Wizard once again defending these mortars, and the Cannoneer is going to take it out just in time.

Getting the tower down to 2107. 2391, 2107 in a mortar matchup here. It's very interesting that Pedro has played a lot of mirror wincon matchups in these best of fives. Started out with Sub going back to back, now here with Mo, game three.

135 left. And both players just kind of stalling waiting. And here's the push from Muhammad light and forget stalling forget waiting.

He's going all in and boss bandit there.

He was too slow.

But that ability should get a decent amount of value once again as the boss bandit turns around does not dash to the doctor and the doctor untouched crossing the river got to spend even more does Pedro 1957 2066 the only grace he has is the fact that the cannon ear tower starts with less HP evo skeleton barrel trying to take out the minions and that's exactly what's gonna happen and Muhammad like doesn't have a lot of elixir ice wizard gonna be

forced out we have the fireball he does that should be a lot of elixir. Ice Wizard gonna be forced out. Does he have the fireball? He does! That should be a lot! Oh! Perfect gang there from Moe, knowing how this deck is built, considering he's the one that made it popular this weekend. And right there, Evo Skeleton Barrel, going to be able to lock onto the mortar,

take it out completely. Minions in response, and a defensive mortar forced out as well. With how expensive that boss bandit is and how it dashes all over the board, not really a great distraction for an opponent's mortar. So Pedro forced to use a mortar of his own defensively.

Goblin gang at the bridge trying to take it out in time and that's exactly what's going to happen. Defensive arrows. It doesn't matter that the mortar is out. You still need to take care of the Goblin Gang. High E-Wiz takes out the Skeleton Barrel perfectly. And here is another push from Pedro.

This is just push after push.

Offense against offense. Barrel gets in front of the E-Wiz there. Boss banned in. Cannonier, excuse me, Cannon Cart plus Cannonier doing a good job cleaning everything up. Dashes to the wrong side. side and I don't know if that was an overspend by Pedro we'll see if he can

defend here yeah I felt like he didn't really get all that much value from those activated abilities skeleton barrel popping on the right side minions plus the doctor on the left and you need something here to clean up this mortar he was distracting enough his mortar will distract cannon cart comes down never what you want to see when you're running mortar.

And right there we should see an ice wizard come down and that's exactly what's going to happen. A pretty healthy mortar on the left side and it's going to force out a defensive Goblin Gang but not before he gets two shots and not before it allows Mahamanlite to get aggressive again. Another mortar down. Berserker to distract but should get pulled out of range in just a second. No it does not. Mortar comes down just in case for Pedro to play some defense. 1828, 1628 separated by 200 HP. That mortar will

take the lead on the left-hand side if it's left undefended by Pedro. Wow and again Muhammad Life forgetting about the mortars just going in aggressive with this Goblin Stein and it's gonna set himself up for another Evo Mortar on the left. Oh, what skeleton barrel. Evo Mortar almost locks again.

Pedro gets his defensive mortar down just in time. Goblin Gang going to distract for one shot, going to need something else for the next. Goblin Gang on defense with the help of the Ice Wiz. No damage. IceWiz no damage and again Goblinstein on the left getting aggressive as he can be. Sometimes the best defense AC is just a whole lot of offense and that is exactly what Moe's trying to do here.

Pedro really could not take that Skelly Barrel drop. He takes the damage, he takes some damage from some of the Laries as well. 1787, 1321, 20 seconds remain. At this point, MuhammadLight can defend and win out. The Skeleton Barrel does pop. The Ice Wiz does come down too low. 10 seconds left to the time. Can he get back to Fireball? Evo Barrel's in.

Fireball. Log.

Arrow's got down.

What are the Skellies? But Moe still wins it. Moe still wins it.

What are the Skellies?

30 HP. 30. Mo still wins it, what a discovery! 30 HP! 30, 23 HP! An insane nail-biter between MoLite,

who now takes the advantage, 2-1, in this best of 5. MoHominLite would have been sick. That one singular skeleton, the cannoneer, it knew its job, it knew its priorities. I gotta take that little guy out, does it exactly that way. And Muhammad now leads two to one.

You know, sometimes people talk about mortar players being brain dead, they just drop everything at the bridge, everything behind their mortar, in front of their mortar, defend, defend. The aggression and the defense from both of these players was absolutely mesmerizing for that entirety

of those five minutes. Two very different looks here. AC, the advantage, hard to say.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, this matchup, it was just who can play it that tenth of a percent better. I mean, that was just wonderful to watch. We see the same evolutions, the same concept of a deck, but then the surrounding cards.

I mean, Pedro using what Muhammad Light brought to this tournament at the very beginning. Muhammad Light recognizing, okay, you know, if other people are gonna copy me, I'll just use what's been in the meta, what's been the staple that we've seen so far.

That Ice Wizard put in so much work, got it perfectly timed most of the time, but not all. And Mama Mo locked in, ready to support her son to try to get that third title and make CRL history. What an incredible back and forth in that game. AC, so excited to see what the rest of this set has in store for us.

And that was just, you know, you talk about one more fireball.

Yep.

One more skeleton barrel dropped. How about one more fireball. Yep. One more skeleton barrel drop. How about one more log in the entirety of five minutes? Not able to find one moment to get an extra fireball on tower, Mo never giving that much value. He was locked in, Pedro was on the right side that entire game, but never able to get that extra 23 HP

that he needed to steal that game. And now we find a moment where Pedro, back up against the wall. the first time in his career. He had the number three HP that he needed to steal that game. And now we find a moment where Pedro back up against the wall. He has got a sweep Mohammed

light for this next couple games, or he'll be sent home world number three. World number two back in 2023. But that ever elusive championship still out of reach. Can he do it? Game number four. Pedro's life on the line.

Let's go.

Applause

Muhammad Light opting to go quick cycle minor. One of the most intimidating ways to see your opponent start. Seeing Mo play a bunch of cards and a miner.

IceWiz snowball Evo, bomber, in support of his Skeleton King. Mo going straight control here. Imagine we're going to see a rocket. There's the log.

Can he do what Pedro did to sub in the last set? Yeah, and I could be completely wrong, but I'm thinking Mo has a great matchup. The Dark Prince always going to be able to clean up the drills very nicely. Bats get on top of the tower and these little small mistakes, these tiny little errors are going to add up quickly. The rockets at the very end of the tower, and these little, small mistakes, these tiny little errors are going to add up quickly.

The rockets at the very end of the game, knowing Mo, he can cycle three rockets in 20 seconds, so you need to get that damage advantage,

and so far, Mo starting off strong. And if Pedro also has the rocket, and it's constantly defended by the Delivery or Dark Prince, that rocket is nullified. AC, obviously you get the damage on tower, but the idea is to also take out the troops

so you're not making too large of a negative trade. And Molite has all the answers.

Log plus Delivery, and really plus Evo Tesla and Dark Prince. I mean, half the deck is a hard counter. He can go with an early Log because he has so many options. The Skellies even can be a hard counter. Skellies plus log, defending very nicely. Pedro just struggling right now.

Yeah, Pedro probably trying to do a whole lot of math in his mind to figure out how on earth do I play through this matchup. Moe on the other side has the luxury, as you said, AC, of a phenomenal matchup. Mo on the other side has the luxury as you said AC of a phenomenal matchup so many responses all he has to do is do what he does best play those Tesla's send in the minors and defend better than anyone else in the world.

And right there overspending with the log you see him slightly frustrated he knows that that wasn't the best play and it's weird it feels like Mo has gotten more nervous in this game knowing that he has the matchup knowing that he should be sending himself To the upper to the he had to the championship game if he plays it perfectly It's a really good point that you make there. It does seem like Moe is just a little bit like I have this match There's the rocket we're talking about Dark Prince shield comes off great counter push coming in both lanes now bats plus miner to the left

Nothing there for the bats. There's the ice whiz. Maybe a late delivery here as the Dark Prince connects. No, a skeleton king comes down. And now a rocket out from Mo on the right-hand tower, taking the lead by 1,100. Three seconds away from overtime, and Muhammad Light just controlling this game entirely.

Set himself up so beautifully with this matchup. Skellies do come down. Rocket will get a little bit of value.

I just...

There's just no way. There's just no way. 600 HP separating the two players. Another Rocket going to come down.

Does it catch the Ice Wizard?

It will.

And so this Miner is just going to chip away. A scene. It's a little early, but that shot right there from the rocket may have been the nail in the coffin here for Pedro. 651, two rockets away is MoeLite from another Grand Finals at CRL World Finals. Snowball not taking off the shield, so it's going to provide an easy defense for the Dark Prince. Delivery going to come down, 455 HP with the help of the rocket, you're going to get down to 84.

Plus the Dark Prince. That's it!

Plus the Dark Freak, it's over! Mohamed Light! Five World Finals in a row! Two championships under his belt! And now, returning to the Grand Final stage is the greatest of all time!

The best matchup that you could hope for after playing through a nail-biter of a Game 3. M0light does it again. We didn't even tell him that he needed to snipe. That was never the plan. All he has to do is get 50-50s. It just feels rude to get that kind of matchup in Game 4.

And you talk about coaching, and I know that Alan's out there screaming so we're gonna shout him out as well. That is what you want the best coaches in the world for. The most important game of your career for Pedro and you come into the worst matchup of your entire tournament. Great job there by Mo and Ian. AC, I am gonna make you do the impossible task of figuring out any way to do any better than Pedro did.

Okay. So gameplay-wise, what I would have done. I'll stop you right there. There's no way. Yeah. There's no way. I thought what he did was great. I thought he was trying to get in Evo Snowballs he was trying to do everything possible there's just too many options the skellies plus the dark Prince plus the log those three in tandem you're not ever getting past Mo we've been talking about that drill send in

the drill send in the rocket send in the Evo snowball when you have that many responses it really doesn't matter so Pedro's run comes to an end it starts the first round. It's a really hard game to play in the first snowball when you have that many responses, it really doesn't matter. So Pedro's run comes to an end. It starts with

the first round by. He goes to over Lucas X gamer, then takes down Adriel 2 to 1, one of the hardest tasks of the entire tournament then gets beaten by his best friend sent to the

lower bracket, then just like that sent home by the goaded the crown. It's a great opportunity. Great opportunity for Mo Light, and then there were $200,000 to one $200,000

in the crown to the other sub

versus Mo Light in a potential back to back grand finals. So that has to be feeling pretty good, though. I feel like you're not really all that worried. You know, you know, Mo Light is great. You know he is. But really what he showed today and what M0light, I mean it was 3-1, 3-1.

So, you know, there's nothing that he did that Sub didn't do as well. And so I feel like that has to be a pretty good sign for Sub. The only man to beat M0hamedLight this entire weekend is the one he's running into in the Grand Finals. As we talked about before, Stats Royale was this place where M0 ran into someone, you know, in Pedro. into the game. It's a rematch there. Sub is obviously ran into Mo many times in their career favor is always gone basically to Mohammed light

sub trying to re write the script and my goodness, if you didn't catch all the action Check out this crowd, just absolutely wild. The best we have ever had. I am so pumped for day two and day three.

What is up Atlanta?

CRL Finals Atlanta, dream hat. Energy of the crowd, the commentating, just awesome to be in the same room as all these other class players.

We're Spirit Goblin, we're back at it.

I'm a barbarian and I'm a Wizard.

Yeah, I'm the King Tower and she's the Princess Tower.

It's Halloween, you know, why not dress up?

Oh yeah, we both love the game.

It's super lovely, it's my first time here in the World Finals, I love it. The crowd, the atmosphere is amazing, it's amazing. No, we're from New York.

We're from Missouri. I flew out from LA. I couldn't resist and I'm glad I did.

It's been going great.

A lot of great competition, a lot of great games.

I really like seeing a lot of E-Giants.

Game over.

Pedro doing what E-Giant does.

All these guys playing at the highest level.

This is why we had to make the trip. you know? DreamHack is Clash Royale's event, for sure. We are just a few minutes away from crowning the next Clash Royale League World Champion. So who better to be with than the first ever solo world champion, back 2017 CCGS, Sergio Ramos. Sergio, you've seen Clash Royale go through so many phases. What's it like being here with this crazy crowd in Atlanta?

Man, this is just great. A lot of people here. I love it a lot.

Well, we've seen you grow up. The first time we saw you on stage, you still had braces. And now you have a beard. What's it like growing up with Clash Royale

the way you have?

Man, this is just insane. I started playing Clash Royale when I was like 15, I think. Now I am 24, I'm about to turn 25. Just insane. I didn't think I was going to play that much, but I don't know, maybe I will turn 50 and still playing.

Who knows?

Games you play for a lifetime. That's the idea. Sergio, speaking of crazy, we are getting very close to another finish, to another championship. And we just saw an absolutely wild best of five, an absolutely wild one after that.

And now we come up to our finale, Sub and Mohamed Light, I gotta put you on the spot. Who do you have for the 2025 World Championship?

Man, it's so hard to say. Like, Moh, for me he's just like the best player ever. He just like, he's so talented. He's those like, discipline, he plays, I don't know, a lot, like 10 hours per day, a lot. But Sub, I don't know, a lot, like 10 hours per day, a lot. But Zoop, I don't know, he's just great,

but if I have to say something, like if I have to pick, I would say Mo.

Well, there you have it, the first ever solo world champion picking Muhammad Light. We'll see in a few minutes who is the 2025 world champion.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!

Woo!

Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Hundreds of millions have tried, only two have succeeded. Thousands of hours of training have led up to this moment. He sent Moe to the lower bracket yesterday. Can he win again? Everyone, give it up for Cal Sum! He's a man who needs no introduction. He is going for his third Clash Royale League World Finals title. Round of applause for Mohamed Lai! He made a lower bracket run in 2022 when he won his first championship.

Can he do it again to win his third?

Only me and Mugi have two championships and if I were to win this one, I would have the most in history.

But there's not enough time!

And Mowlight is going to have to repeat a lower bracket run!

Sub gets it done!

Since I already faced Sub and unfortunately I lost, I'm going to figure what went wrong and find an alternative strategy that can work. I trained a lot, I dedicated myself a lot, I analyzed a lot, especially against Mohamed, who is a guy who is two-time world champion,

so he has to prepare more.

And that's it.

May the better player win.

And history is upon us.

Either a first time, three time world champion

or the first ever Brazilian world champion. And Rich, we're back on the desk for Grand Finals once again. It's so great to be here. This is one of my favorite moments you and I get to have every single year where we get to commentate the biggest moment in Clash Royale, and how does it get any bigger than this with the skill level we've seen from these two?

Mohamed Light is putting it on the way we know that he can in the lower bracket run, and on the other side of things, Sub has been just, we've known how good he is. He has the most monthly finals appearances out of anybody here without that number one. And today he has the chance to make that number one happen

for the first time as a world championship. And he got second twice, you know, being the underdog, everyone had doubts about how good he actually was. Well, you got there on points, but you didn't win an actual monthly final. You didn't get it through the LCK and I talked to Sub you know when we sat down for an interview and he said he loved that.

It showed his consistency. He thought he was the strongest player. He was able to do it all year long which we know it's all about that mental fortitude, that perseverance. You get on this stage you never know what's gonna happen and Sub has played through adversity all year long. Well and that's the big thing we've seen from Sub that might be the most important skill he has is that he has played so well under pressure.

Anyone can make big, great plays, playing at home on your couch when there's nothing on the line. But doing it in front of these many people, the level of micro he's had, the decision making he's had, it has been world class. Eighty seven percent of us were wrong yesterday. 100% of the casters were wrong yesterday and Sub upset the world.

Can he do it again? One thing left to do on that to do list, and that is to beat the greatest in the world in one best of five, because he does have a life to give. But we all know getting in an upper bracket grand finals reset against Muhammad Light is not where anyone wants to be. It just brings so many problems into your head.

You go, hey, I had it right there. This cushion, this feeling of maybe it's all gonna be okay. The security blanket goes away, and it's just you, your device, and the guy across from you. That gets scary. And honestly, you get that deep into the deck pool,

and you have to start innovating what you want to bring out, when you want to bring it out in the second best of five. And we just saw Alan pick apart those decks from Pedro, especially in that final game. When you look at that matchup, I mean, that's a 90-10. That's a 100-0 matchup. And that is all Sub wants to avoid in this next best of five. And of course, you mix that deck picking with some of the traps

that Mohammad was laying during that game. And you're just GG, well played, good luck next year. And that's such a great way to put it, as the traps that Mo laid. Let's see what the audience said about this Grand Finals. Were they swayed by the great plays from Sub? He gained a percent or two. Two percent he gained after pulling off

one of the greatest runs in CRL World Finals history. He gets two more people out of 100. Well, let's go ahead and take a look at what we've been doing here and my prediction. I don't think anyone's surprised. I'm going Mohamed Light.

Again, it's hard to pick against him. We've said this a million times. I'm not doing it here at the World Final. Yeah, I really don't. This is the one where I could go either way, but I also went with Mohamed Light. And I truly believe if we do have a reset, then it's 100% towards Mo Light.

We all went Mo Light across the board on the casting desk. But I've been wrong a lot this weekend. all along yesterday when they faced off for the first time in that 2-1 win by Sub. And that's been the big thing is the noise here has not mattered to Sub at all. He's tuned it out so well. He's been calm every time I've seen him in the hallways, at the hotel, here at the convention center.

He's done a great job of putting those blinders on and staying focused on the task. And that's what he needs here today to beat Mo. Such a great thing to point out. Every time you run into Sub, you don't know if he won or lost. He's just the same. He's consistent, like he's been all year long. You and I have always been people that celebrate

the emotionless players on stage because of what it brings when you don't get your emotions involved in matches like this, in moments like this. And both these guys are nails when it comes to nerves. And you see there what we're playing for, the crown. Only one can wear it. Who will be the 2025 Clash Royale League World Champion?

Sub Mohammed Lights, $200,000, and the title starts now. And this crowd here at DreamHack is ready in Atlanta. They want to know who's the greatest. And Mohamed Light had a lot of success with this deck earlier. See him going back to the well in game one. Curious which version it's going to be.

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.

Muhammad 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 going to 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. Evo Firecracker in play already nice E-Spirit plush should clean all this up. An early log! An early log and Moe saw it! I think 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. That's a pretty big gap to open up 7 716 bottom 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 onto is that there was a misplay there by Moe to activate King Tower with the firecracker.

Evo Mortar down. Earthquake in. Skellies to distract. And it connects! The Skellies don't distract! The skellies are out of position! Two shots in, barrel to tank! Goblins taking for the barrel,

Bossman on the left-hand side. Moe Light has blown this wide open! And now he just sits back, doesn't make a mistake, and rides out these two minutes to a game one victory. First fireballs in, Moe's all smiles right now. Sub doing anything that he can.

But this is swimming upstream. Ice skating uphill. Earthquake trying to break through. Hog's not going to get it. Fireball puts Mo into the winner's column. Game one for the Pharaoh. Beautiful stuff there.

He's got to win five more, though. He's got to win five more, though. He's got to win five more. If he wants to hold that trophy subs got to bounce back in Game two. Major mistakes from sub, and that's

the nerves of the grand finals, and we talked about that that he had been so comfortable here so far have been a good doing a good job of staying calm of not's been nailed all year. That's what we were talking about. The king of consistency. His micro his macro has been perfection. All year until this moment right

here. Absolutely brutal stuff. Earthquake really didn't get going very much in Mahatma Gandhi. He's been a guy that's been nailed all year. That's what we were talking about. The

king of consistency. His micro his macro has been perfection all year until this moment right here. Absolutely brutal stuff. Earthquake really didn't get going very much, and Mohammed did a great job of not really giving the opportunities to try to break through against the mortar with the earthquake for those odd pushes. We saw the primary defense being, oh, the Electro Wizard mixed

with some other pieces, and that ended up doing the job well enough that Mo didn't ever really seem in trouble during this first. Yeah, and you can see right there in this replay, the Firecracker Evo not popping both the barrels causes the late log, early log, excuse me.

And then you see there, the skellies. Sub knows where to play those skellies. Anywhere higher than that is a good place to play them. I know what he be able to do it. But somewhere higher than that is a good place to play them. I know what

he's trying to do. He's trying to get all three on one side to walk away, then come back to the goblin to just distract a little longer. You got to do it perfectly, or you just got to

do it right. You know, you can't go and making we were talking to Eric Benimu about fancy move and you try to do the sure thing. And he says you always go sure thing on stages like this. Yeah, I mean you gotta simplify the game and just execute. And now you gotta go back and say, hey, I thought I had it in a good spot in game number one.

Now I have to kinda go back to the drawing board in game number two. And I'm very curious to see if he at some point goes back to that graveyard deck that we saw in his previous matchup. He's been running that in practice a ton. That was not an accident that he played like that

with that deck. I'm very curious to see if we get into game four, game five, if that ends up being a thing. He would have loved to have that in game one, to be honest. Running into that cannon here, tower, been able to lock things down with the poison,

clean up all those swarmy troops, the way that the dice fall as Sub is sitting here resetting for game number two. Got to have a memory of a goldfish after a game one like that. Not really much of a nail-biter, more of a beating. Yeah, well now we look at this. E-Wiz out, Barbarrel out, Fireball out, Log is still open. Let's keep an eye on it with Sub staying in sort of that cycle area. Where does he go next? Does he go into cycle? I think maybe he wants to drag it out a little bit later,

but that's where he plays comfortably. And, you know, you still have some things. I'm wondering, is there some version of drill or bait? He goes here early. You know, I think that I'd love to see sub kind of do what Pedro did, the way that he's been playing in the last couple of weeks. You know, he's been playing

really well.

He's been playing really well against a lot of teams that go maybe minor wall breakers, things like that. I think the way that most been playing drill just go to drill

in game two.

You've already got an advantage.

You've already been playing it

so perfectly. It's been very hard to stop all weekend and instead we see with the Bomber. So, Drill certainly a possibility here. Drill plus Evo Valk. And this could just be crazy bait with Wallbreakers still. Princess, the Dark Gob, the Barrel.

Wallbreakers high 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 Wallbreakers 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. And that's going to get some good damage. Bomber getting tanked for.

And Mohammed Light pretty much evens things up, 2171 to 2133. Brilliant decision making there by Mo. Nice shot here from the princess at the bridge by Sub. Probably not going to get many more of those throughout this game. 1965, 2171.

Sub in the lead by a hair, and probably wishes that that Dark Goblin stayed alive, Rich. Yeah, Sub taking the 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 at 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. Whether it's just making things played awkwardly by Mo, getting things out of cycle for his offensive pushes. Evo Snowball takes the Valk back. And there we go.

That's exactly what I was talking about. If you're going to defend that way, you have to have the perfect 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 Sub. Dark Goblin dropped in the poison.

Oh, boy.

Rich, this is exactly what I am talking about. Sub is out of sorts at the moment. Snowball pushes, forces some more drops to cover, but damage done. 1558 on the right-hand side. And Sub, still in this fight, has got to lock down 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. Dark Goblin also.

And now Princess here to help clean up this gob hut, High Valkyrie to block. Beautiful stuff here from Moe. And the Evo snowball 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, down to 1221. Real goblins do a lot of damage there. Valkyrie up high to protect against this princess. Valkyrie on the other side to protect the dark goblin. Sub turning the pressure up, building some confidence.

That should go down. Final minute, triple elixir flowing. And just gonna eat some of that. No, he does not. Last second Valkyrie. Bomber taken off 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 gonna be huge here as he can go opposite but he can also, if he has to, he 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. Goblins on the right hand side, take it down to 1280. Mohamed Light in trouble in both lanes. Poisoned down, gives him the lead, but for how long?

Pressure, 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?

That's enough! Mohamed Light, brilliant in defense, takes a 2-0 lead. Insane pressure from the Brazilian. Starts recognizing the stack, the princess is late. Knowing Moe has to go poison right-hand side. And then the last second defensive drill, you see him go, that was pretty smooth.

I mean, that was as smooth as it could be. And you saw two things there that we talk about maturity at the end, is, you know, we talk a lot about how you don't want to have to use the Evo snowball on defense. It means you're not getting that offensive damage.

He used it to buy himself enough time to reset. And then the drill on defense as well. He knew, hey, you cannot get directly on my tower unless I let you. I have the lead. I'm locking it down. It's so easy to lose a game when you feel like things are going your way. You're in the lead. You can race to the finish line. Mo holds for pause, recognizes, like you said, I need to reset.

I need to slow things down. I need to spend my elixir defensively. I've already got the lead. As long as he doesn't get more damage in, I will win this. And that's exactly what the Pharaoh does and takes 2-0 lead here in our first upper bracket grand final, excuse me, our grand finals here. And this is where Sub needs to figure out

how to quiet that little voice in the back of your head. The one that starts saying, Oh my god, I don't know if I can do it. Am I ready for this? Can I work my way out? That voice has to be strangled and buried at this exact moment. And you know, you could start to see it in his gameplay as that game kind of evolved.

You could see him getting better with his micro interactions. You could see him kind of understand what was going on all across the board in a macro sense. sense, but the problem is he just gave up too much too early on. Molite saw it, he saw blood in the water, just like a shark, he goes after him relentlessly. And then he goes, okay, Sub, you started to clean some stuff up, let me now slow down, as you said, reset, play some better defense, and it was just beautiful stuff here from

the Goated One. Yeah, I mean, he took care of business as you expect, and now we get into this real question as, hey, if Sub is gonna win in this first best of five, he has to win in the championship rounds, in game four and game five. And we talked about this in the best of threes, where you're looking at kind of that rhythm of,

typically it's gonna be one cycle deck and a couple of big, or one big and two small. And in this case, he now has three ahead of him, and he's gone cycle twice. Yeah, and that control deck, that Dark Prince, Tesla, Miner, Rocket deck

is just lurking in the wings, if you will, knowing that it's gonna be near impossible other than getting another Miner control deck basically against him to defend that. Or maybe that's when you bring out Graveyard, right? It maybe just fares a little bit better. Obviously, drill the worst case scenario, but at least maybe if you can minor,

you can meet him in damage, you can go that control against each other, or you can get graveyard in, you at least have a way to get more damage on tower than those drills that were completely useless in the last set.

I love that you used lurking for that minor rocket deck because now that Moe's, we've seen the rhythm he can get into it. It feels like it's about to call sub at home and say, what's your favorite scary movie?

And honestly, if I'm sub,

I got to be scared of that deck because Mo's got two lives to give and it covers so much because it just relies on him doing what he does best. Mohammed light, which is defend and just get minors out. Here we go. Game three. Will this be a clear sweep in our first grand finals or will sub be able to turn things around? Other big question here is if sub goes cycle, which it looks like he's gonna be doing What does that leave him for games four and five?

Right, it puts 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 for mo light Looking like it could be a version of Mortar here from Sub.

And...

Gonna figure out what the spell power is relatively soon on both sides. Cannon Cart breaks down plenty away from that tower. Moe 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. Good little bit of pressure here from Sub 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

As a game for pressure and a late fire spirit and it survives beautiful interaction there action 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 27.66.

The one nice thing is the lightning is so expensive, you can start to stack cannon carts one side, Skelly's, Skelly King the other. You can defend your mortar a little bit more, you can get a little more aggressive with mortars because you have the cannon cart there that can break down, but 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 Mo Light. Middle Mortar picks it up with the Mighty Miner. And Cannon Cart. He's getting a lot of lightning value there, maybe trying to bait it out of Mo, and he does take it. But these are going to be some big hits.

Two from the Hog, I believe. Oh, it stops the second. And now the Mortar down. Evil Mort mortar 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 board no damage in

You should expect a little King tower activation there that will be helpful in the long run Fire cracker splash goes to the other side mo light still has both lanes at his disposal sudden death over time still has both lanes at his disposal. Sudden death overtime. 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 Cart's 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, 90 seconds remain in overtime. Game 3, Grand Finals. I don't care which tower is lower at least right now 90 seconds remain in overtime game three grand finals

And a bit of a stalemate for sub Yeah, he's got to figure out. What can he do to get to the second level? He's again in a situation and that firecracker is gonna. Oh, I'm dating here It does get a shot in mighty minor bomb goes off as well. And Sub cannot get on offense. Tesla here to block? No.

Mighty Miner to kite or distract. Skeleton King looking for it. And a perfect lightning again from Moe. But a shot does get in. Late ability and that's going to be very little damage. And Moe goes, you almost predicted me, but that one goblin stays alive.

Yeah, that arrow feels like a late gasp there, as there was just one little ghostly skeleton there. And looking for the mortar defensively as Mo goes lightning early. This is a last chance effort here for Sub. He's got to win the game with this push. He's not even going to get to the push. Moe Light trying to break through an ocean of Goblins,

and still Moe Light's hog gets on tower. Moe has to get to that lightning. That's a lot on the left-hand side, a lot on the right-hand side. And going for the block is Sub. Now maybe going to 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. Sub standing on stage, still wondering what happened. An onslaught.

Three up, as you said, and three very quick down from the Goated One. That's one of the things about this deck that I find is very difficult to do, is when you're playing against someone that understands a macro matchup,

it's so difficult to get damage on tower. If their deck is defensive at all, you are relying strictly on them to make a mistake. And that's not something Molite does. At least the boss bandit version forces you to make mistakes because of how strong it is, how much damage it does.

But this is all cards that have just been in the game for a very long time, very controllable, and sub not finding a way to break through once. Well, in two games in a row where he kind of forces himself, it's tower or die, right? And game number two didn't have anything

to get direct damage on tower. Game number three, he just has the arrows. And those arrows will do something, but you're not gonna get much there at the end. So you start getting deeper in that game, you start falling behind, and you start panicking.

You start trying to make big time plays. And we saw a few times he got a lot of pressure. He's got a lot of pressure. He's got Mohamed under pressure, but Moe was just so comfortable. So ready sitting back there, and he used

it to just press the advantage to get that win and just nothing for three games here from sub just felt like he was on his back foot the entire time Mo had his number from the

get go. And in case you're new or unfamiliar with our format, wondering maybe why this is not all over. We are now in our grand finals reset. There are at most five more games in the 2025 season of CRL and Mowlight is looking for that third title. Man, if I'm back there and I'm sub, I am just going through everything I've ever done,

looking at something. Do I need to get off the decks that I've played so far? Do I need to get off the decks that I've played so far do I need to completely change directions keep in mind we saw three cycle decks back to back to back yeah and Mohammed light was just covered covered got your decks I've picked them out based off what just happened just chill don't think about it don't think about what just happened, just chill. Don't think about it. Don't think about what just happened.

Do everything that you can to reset. You've played this game for tens of thousands of hours. There's nothing you can learn right now in five minutes that's gonna change anything. He just needs to get back to his gameplay. You're talking about, there was desperation moves

over and over, micro mistakes over and over. He just needs to lock down and slow down. You know, there's the Moe Light effect of playing too passively, but there's also this new effect of, all right, I need to get hyper aggressive.

And it works a little bit. We saw it with Sandbox yesterday, but this is still Mohamed Light. He is going to be able to, as we talked about, reset like he did in that game too. You've got to be able to get some damage in and then reset the pace. You can't run away with it against him. Well, you know, the other thing to think about that could be good for sub here,

and it kind of goes against Jose V's style as a coach, is just go for a hard matchup. Go for that hard counter, go for something that's a big swing, and try to get one game under your belt, and just get on to those next few with an advantage. That's really, really hard to do.

And I know they're back there working on something. And as they're back there working on that, let's take a look at what just happened in our first grand finals.

One more to go. the the the the so ♪♪ ♪♪

Rich Slayton here with the two-time and defending world champion, Mohamed Light. Tell me about this year for you and how you view coming into World Finals.

This year I think it was probably the most difficult year for me because I think I did not do as well as I did in previous years and hopefully I can defend my title this year.

You and Mugi have traded off world championships but you have a chance to be the first one to go for three and back-to-back. Does that change how you view things at all? Do you feel the pressure of that mounting?

It's coming into this event, we both have two World Championships. I hope I can win my third one.

Some people, maybe most people, consider you the greatest of all time in Clash Royale. What does that make you think and what do you think sets you apart from everybody else?

It makes me happy that there are some people who consider me as the best in the game. At the same time, with that, it comes a lot of high expectations from people, which can be difficult to manage sometimes.

You are rapidly approaching a pretty big number, the first person to ever hit $1 million in total prize money from Clash Royale. Do you ever think about that number? That's kind of crazy from a game you play on your phone.

To come to this day and think about that, it's really amazing, because I never thought I'd come this far, honestly, this game, so it makes me really proud and happy of my work throughout the years, and I'm hoping for more.

You might be the most well-known name in Clash Royale worldwide. Is there anything you'd like to say to your supporters, people watching at home?

I'd like to thank everyone for supporting me over the years, especially my family, my mom, my brother. I love everyone, and hopefully I can make everyone supporting me proud this year.

Thanks a lot, Mohamed. And I know I speak for everyone when we're very excited to see what you do this weekend.

Now, hopefully I can win. I'll do my best.

Two mics and a third potential for a translator.

Okay.

This last match, the telestration here is going to be huge. We're going through game two, about the last 20 seconds to really break down for you guys what exactly happened. So number one here, I just want to say three princesses on the board, insane control from Sub. And the idea here is to bait out the poison. But Mo, he's got the expertise. He understands that he has to play poison on the right-hand lane in order to basically continue to get that damage, right?

But these princesses are stacking up. The Goblin Barrel's flying in. The Valkyrie here cleans up really well, as well as the Bomber, and then he gets the poison down. And I like what Sub is doing. Once again, the three princesses,

but also the Dargob and Wallbreakers attack trying to pressure Moe to make him a stake but that is what it takes to be a world champion. He gets the defense done after dropping that poison and what a match, what an ending, what a reaction from Moe as well.

He played it really, really well. Really impressive stuff all around. We're getting another matchup for you guys set up so I can break that one down for you as well as we're waiting for Moe and Sub to continue to prepare for the final best of five of the day. And we are hopping straight into this game.

So much pressure in the right hand lane. I really like what Sub was doing though. He made everything he possibly could happen on this left side attack in order to apply pressure. And then the big question that you guys are probably wondering at home,

why is Moe not playing this lightning on this tower? And lightning, it hits the three most healthy troops in its radius, which includes the tower. So he knows that Sub is ready and trying to deflect this. First with a bat, and while Sub continues the dual aim pressure, he is continuing

to basically play troops by his tower in order to try and deflect that lightning. But Mo hits two spear gobs and gets the final hit on the tower to clutch the match. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Andrew, Rich, is there anything that you guys have to say about what we've just seen?

I mean, the biggest question for me is in that game that we just saw the last replay with with the lightning, you know, that mortar deck juicy, that deck, how do you break through in that in those moments, you know, you got the Skeletal King, Cannon Cart, the Barrel, but nothing's getting on tower.

Right, no, it's tough. I also like what you said about Mo not messing around with the Cannon Cart, is every time it dropped down, he's just lightning off the board repeatedly. I think the best way to break through in that situation

is to kind of do what he did, you know, apply pressure with the mortars. It's your biggest asset when you're going up against the lightning version of the hog deck instead of EQ, but unfortunately, sub's defense just wasn't enough with most continuous pressure with the hogs in that right-hand lane.

And we saw all those lightning block attempts. We saw the bats out there, a five-piece troop. Of course, you saw a gang out there, that six on top of it. But then, of course, the Gob's not able to pick it up as he went for two and one on the outside. Thanks, Juicy. We really appreciate the extra insight there as we get some time for our championship, the final five,

the last gasp here to see if you can be a champion. And it's Sub with the entire nation of Brazil behind him. We've seen the booth over here. There's a booth that's had about somewhere between 6 and 55 Brazilians in there throughout this entire time. I know everyone's cheering for him there.

Can he beat and stop Mo 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, always going to root for their home guy in sub. And here we go. Grand finals, five games at most. CRL 2025. Will we see it the first ever three time? Or can sub take the championship home to Brazil? And sub going something fast one more time.

And he did not like losing that dart goblin so quickly. And there's a mortar connection to open up the game. I mean, that is already a horrible start for Sub. You talk about not letting the Mortar lock on the Skellies. Dark Goblin comes in, it's the closest unit. Mortar goes to the closest unit that's in range,

gets 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.

There is an activation you can pull there. And Moe'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, you know, place and pray, as we say,

when we talk about heavy decks. You know, we always talk about outplayability with faster cycle decks, which is why you see 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 Sub not down, or 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 Sub's right back in this one. Going for a near mirror here, but obviously the E-Wiz and the Dark Goblin, two very different pieces of this equation. And the Fireball from Moe 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, just the way you want to see it. That's going to be, 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 going to get taken down

and pop those skeletons to control those boss bands. 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 and goes, is it even worth trying to take care of the skellies?

Fireball in. Now the minions come down. There you go. Clockwork. Clockwork usually doesn't work against Moe Light, though. Sudden death over time. 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 on 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 mode does very well It's early dual lane pressure and the interactions with the boss bandit definitely going in mo lights favor at least in this instance 1570 2084 game one of our upper bracket grand final reset. And you see with the lead right now, he's comfortable to go defensive mortar

and just be the one controlling. Still trying to figure out what that last card is from Sub, feeling more and more like it is lightning. Evo Mortar sets up on the right hand side, final minute, triple elixir. The last thing that Sub can have happen

is to go down four in a row. Dark Oblon gets a snipe there. And Sub once again just finding an incredibly difficult time breaking through. Maybe you heard us talk about how that other deck doesn't work very well, but this one also

really struggling to get on tower. And arrows once again. Yeah. Makes sense, but just not ideal, Rich. 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 as another thing on the right hand side.

Boss bandit breaks on through barrels going to drop down sub four in a row to his opponent and only two lives to give in his 2025 run. Feels like he's facing off against Thanos.

I am inevitable. I couldn't agree more. He's got a great shot. He's got a great shot. He's got a great shot. He's got a great shot. He's got a great shot. He's got a great shot.

He's got a great shot.

He's got a great shot.

He's got a great shot. He's got a great shot. be a nice title to have back home. You got to wonder what Sub is thinking about here. You know, I talked about some of his deck pool. He's pretty good with bridge spam decks, lava. We saw that graveyard be played really well.

We haven't seen much in the way of Mega Knight decks and Mega Knight can be good against all of the cycle stuff that Mohammed has been playing. Curious to see if he does break away from the cycle comfort and go to that sort of second level of his deck pool. I mean, it just feels like they have tried to throw everything at the wall here against Mo and nothing is sticking.

Nothing is breaking through. I mean, again, we talk about the excellence that we've seen from Sub all weekend long, all year long. And right now it feels like Mo is almost toying with him out there on the battlefield. Yeah, this is a difficult spot. And especially when you think about the level of comfort

that Mo already has with deck picking. When you think about this phase of it, right? We talk about the nerves when you're actually playing the game itself. But the nerves in this period, when you're trying to go through,

remember your progressions, you have your sheet in front of you and make those choices. The confidence level that Mohammed Halite has when he's making those deck picks here, Sub has certainly been in this position many times, but it's a little bit different and you're trying to make that choice

that's the do or die choice. I feel like the decision fatigue, the lockout must be so difficult. Yeah, I mean, absolutely. the best way to do it. And that's why I think the breakout must be so difficult. Yeah, I mean, absolutely. Because

again, you're trying to anything that you can, and we know how important that is. I mean, infamously we talk about. I mean, Mo could have already maybe been a three time

champion. Had he not picked wrong on stage brought the wrong piece of paper. Yeah, right. Well, it seems like thing about your coach, especially online, is they can sit there and make those unbiased, objective decisions without feeling the heat of the room and the lights and the crowd and the moment.

I want to see Sub do two things. I want to see him pick a deck that has direct tower damage.

Yes.

I want to see him pick a deck that can go all the way to triple and then make a big downhill push and force Muhammad Light to play defense. I want to see him go back to Graveyard, I think. I like that you were bringing that up earlier. I really don't wanna see him try drill because of how bad he could match up.

I don't wanna see him try to go in a, you know, I would be more okay with a minor off, if you will, than I would a drill situation. But I would like to see him go maybe to drill. Game two, grand finals coming your way.

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Fireball and barb barrel and E-Wiz all out for Mohamed, and he goes minor.

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And might Sub be doing the same. ♪ It feels like Mo is just going to control, control, control again. I think sub is hearing you Rich, I think he's going to try to go a little heavier, go RG. I think Mo is just right back to defending, cycling, Miner's on tower, he's got the guards, he's got the Evo Ice Spirit, he's got the log, he's got so many ways to reset and stun and control that Royal Giant.

Does take a Royal Ghost shot and Mo goes, alright, you can have that, first thing in four games. Generally Sub is viewed as being pretty good with Royal Giant, we haven't seen him play it a lot in competitive compared to the 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 my Tesla evolution. Good luck breaking through. Guards are gonna give a lot of trouble to that fisherman. The tension in this room right now, Andrew.

Yesterday, 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?

First Royal Giant.

I just don't know how you're gonna break I mean, you're going to have to be a little bit more careful with your first Royal Giant. First Royal Giant.

I just don't know how you're going to break through how you're going to beat the cycle. Teslas are out early. Guards are always there to protect the fishermen logs and

ice spirits.

Oh my.

Oh my. Indeed. 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 when you're not on offense. I just need to, just SimCity, as we call it. Buildings down, always going to have that second building ready. You have another RG, I have another Tesla. Guards off the board instantly.

Lead is for the moment, four subs, 27-13 to 26-68. 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 Evo I-spirit we were talking about. Just so many ways to control this game. The only way to win this is for an Evo Royal Ghost to cause problems on Sub's end. That's what Sub needs to have happen. How can I make the Evo Royal Ghost make

Mo spend more than he wants and Moe goes 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 And I like that delivery going to that inside in the hopes that it would go back and help doesn't do it here gets taken off the board. And now this is what you're talking about.

Can the Evo ghost do a little work this case? Not going to give him much and most still gets the damage on the RG and the tower from the rocket. 2146 278 or 26. One minute remains in overtime. Low Tesla here. That's going to give some fireball value.

Ha ha ha, just...

You almost feel bad for him, just like you did for Pedro. There's just no way to break through. ♪ 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. Just 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. What can you say?

I'm speechless.

There's no way to break through. There's no stopping that man right now. You need a miracle. You need divine intervention.

I don't know if we'll find it here. You need divine intervention. I don't know if we'll find it here.

Somewhere, Sub has to find inspiration, courage, and the will to battle back. I mean, you talk about this matchup, Rich, and, you know, you gotta think about that deck because Mo's been so dominant with it. But what do you do? Do you just run, are you hoping that you run it against him in a mirror match? I don't know if I want to be in a mirror match against Mo with that deck, so Sub tries to go back to

what worked against Pedro here. You know, you're leaning on the strongest card in the game in the Evo Royal Ghost. Royal Giant's been very strong this weekend, but there's just no way to break through. You've got the Ice Spirit, the Evo Teslas, Teslas cycled over and over and over, controlling the board,

making sure that Royal Ghost can't do anything. Did the delivery to clean up everything piling up at the bridge. The Log plus the Ice Spirit. Everything is just so clean. Absolutely brutal. Then you go back to game one. Moe made this deck popular

this weekend. He swaps out the log for the bar barrel in a best of five. Sub goes princess instead of cannon here. Just doesn't even have a chance. And I'm telling you right now, the last thing I want to see out of sub with the bar barrel on the log gone is going to bait. We saw him do it. We actually saw the exact same sequence happen the other day. I asked him about it.

He went to bait once Barbarrel and Log were gone. He got the win against Mohammed, knocked him down. You have to know, you have to believe that Alan and Mohammed Light are prepared for that eventuality, and they have something cooked up very specifically to cover bait in this exact situation.

Go for broke.

Go for, I'm telling you, maybe go, you know, Rockets out, obviously, maybe bringing Lightning in as Moe, Light, and Allen, but you've got to think of maybe going Graveyard with Vines and Poison. Stop thinking about saving

and just start thinking about surviving. That's, I mean, that might be the most perfect thing you could have said here. Don't save, just survive.

And

so I have to wonder what he's looking through. We saw him last match. He ran that graveyard deck with success, ran bridge spam. Didn't come out very well for it against Pedro. I mean, maybe go to the skies. I don't know.

We haven't seen a lot of lava. It's had medium success. He's a pretty decent lava player. He's a guy who can play lava. I mean, I think some of the concerns there are what spells are left.

But at this point, you can't have concerns. You just have to go, go, go. And here we go. Muhammad Light on the precipice of history. Can Sub stop him? You see there his biggest rivals of Sub, Pedro and Mo Light. He was able to deal with one of them today.

The other one, giving him a lot harder time. Gob, or excuse me, you see the Gob Cage come out and Mo nod. Maybe he is going to the skies.

Yep.

Could also be going piggies. Could be going piggies, could be going piggies-zappies. Zap makes me think to the skies. Zap certainly does feel that way, we have seen him run royal hogs pretty well, but zap would be a strange choice. And Moe going with this very popular bait deck on ladder.

We'll see if he's going to rock the Rascals or if he's got a different trick up his sleeve. I like this call from Moe though, because you know Sub is feeling the pressure and you have to have your micro interactions absolutely dialed to keep up with this deck

that Moe's running, especially when you get to triple.

And the Curse comes out defensively.

Damage in both lanes for MoeHobbit. Now he pressures the right-hand side. And Valkyrie doing a great job cleaning up that Royal Ghost evolution. 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 board, or you have to make your opponent make mistakes elixir-wise so you get the advantage. As you can see right now, only about one elixir up,

and a couple thousand HP down. Yeah, that's a really tough one. And now that we know that it's going to be no spell, no big spell, obviously you have to contend with the vines. But if you can keep that flying machine, stack a couple flying machines, start abusing them.

And the Goblins on tower. Evo Zap has to come down defensively there. Zappy's stunning, gonna get a double connection on the left-hand side. And the crowd can feel it. Dark Goblin to snipe, just in range. And the vines!

And Mo knows! You can see it on his face!

Greatness!

The spell power, there's no way to deal with the zappies and with the Dark Goblin. And the barrel goes in! Mo's got his hands on his head. And what a perfect curse. We're in sudden death overtime. Sub hanging on by a thread.

112 HP separates Mohamed Light from being the first ever three time. Oh, my word. Wallbreaker. And the vines comes in cycled on the left hand side, 36 HP, one more Vines, three titles. And here we go, that is going to 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!

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Will there ever be another like him? I don't believe so. That man right there is one in a billion. Him and Alan, so much work over the years.

And he does it.

♪ Let's go down to the floor 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, give it up for Muhammad Light! 3-0 in the lower bracket 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! One more time for the greatest of all time, three-time world champion, Moe Light! Moe Light, you've been called 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 in the plays in the grand finals. He could never break through.

This is something that me and Alan worked throughout the year, where, 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 beamed 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.

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 Allen for their great work with me.

The greatest of all time and his coach Allen, three-time world champion Mo Light! Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Yeah! On behalf of...

Just want to get final thoughts from our cast and crew here. AC, how are you feeling about this incredible weekend? I mean, come on, the crowd has been incredible. The gameplay has been incredible. This was an amazing weekend. Anytime you get to be a part of history,

it's a great moment in life. And we just witnessed history here on stage. I'm just happy to be here, happy to be here with all of you, and happy to witness the greatest moment in CRL history. Juicy, final thoughts?

I just want to say, a lot of people have come to me and asked me, what does it take to get on this stage use this man as an example even though he's been at the top for two years I spectated this man practicing every single day he is a legend and he

deserves it. This has been such an amazing event we're so happy you all could join us and we're excited to see you again next year. Thank you, everybody. One more time for your champion, Mohammad Light.

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I'm working overtime and I do it right.

I know I'm not the only one.

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I know I'm not the only one. I know I'm not the only one.

I'm working overtime and I do it right.