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I can't believe it's already coming to an end, but since we're getting to these final rounds, I'm going to really be going in. Okay, first let's take a look at him. Okay, but I'm going to go in.
I never really tell people this, but I have a birthmark on my head, right? And it changed the texture of my hair right there. Quick recap. We had this lineup, right? All these 2v2s kind of, you know, it was mediocre rounds, like nothing really that exciting, but I mean, Thailand has just been killing it. The US has been killing it. Uh, but you know, Japan and China kind of. Okay. All right. So, that's kind of where I'm standing and now we're now we're here for the top two. So, so let's see this. Let's see what's going on. Also, you can see the results aren't out yet. Okay. So, I'm I'm actually doing this like because I'm excited. Okay. Hopefully, by the end of this video, I'll put that in. Okay. Man versus Thailand. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm scared. I want Thailand to win. I can't I I can't stress it enough. I'm biased. Okay. Okay.
But yeah, that's what I thought. Oh god, it loops. It loops now. That's absurd. Oh god, bro. It loops now. That's like crazy. I don't know if we saw a version of this that um like doesn't loop or it does do the move twice, but okay, let's. This is the even bigger version from like a year ago. See how it goes back? Oh, and then it resets to like the really big one, guys. Against Daniel. I don't think you should do that. I don't think you should reuse something. This is crazy. This is crazy. If I had never seen this before, this is nuts. This is actually insane. And Big Thunder Mountain is still like my favorite, the one we just saw before. But okay, let's see what he's up against. That opener. Okay. Okay.
This was not where I was expecting this to go. A four-packet cut. It's very choreographed. Like even the camera is choreographed and synced up to the move, which I was not expecting this. I was not expecting. This is a weird one. This is a really weird move. Being able to catch a packet like like that in between two packets. That is weird, bro. That's really weird. Oh man, it looks so comfy. Which is weird because I wouldn't want this in a competition. That's a good move. Let's Let's move forward. We got Conan. Oh. Oh my god, bro. And the way he just threw the cards at the camera. That's so funny. Yo, that's so cool. That's so cool. That's actually really sick. But uh after looking at this move for a little bit, I remember that Burger uh if you don't know, I'll try to get the clip of this, but he has he has one where he angles three cards and he uses like the index finger and the ring finger or something to hit the other cards. See, that's sick. That's sick. And I mean, arguably that version is better because you can just like grab the cards out and then do it all one-handed, which I think is a lot cooler. This is crazy, though. You know, the fact that this arrangement of being able to spin a packet and it hits all of them simultaneously is it's still pretty sick. But I like the Burger version better. I think it's like more, I don't know, like it's a cooler solution, you know, like to be able to have the coordination to like hit the cards to pivot them all within one hand. I think is really cool. So yeah.
Um, I heard I heard some news about this. That's devastating, bro. That sucks. That sucks cuz I feel like this was really hard to get a take up. Oh my god. Can you Can you imagine the hours this dude spent to get hit with this? Oh my god. The disrespect. The disrespect, bro. This dude really put his entire soul into doing this, and then gets hit with this. Imagine spending like five hours filming with this. Oh my god. Oh my god. That is strategy, bro. That's strategy. So, you only need two out of three people to get to the next round. I don't know if you know this by now, but you only need two out of three. So, you know, like why even bother when you have Trent and Daniel with you? That's so funny because like the other contestants don't know who they're growing up against and it's Trent and Daniel on the other team so they all have to try really hard but then they don't know that they're growing up against a Charlie cut. Oh, that sucks, bro. And then like Daniel and Trent can just go as hard as they need to. Like Jesus, bro. Okay. Ouch.
What did I just see, bro? That was weird. That was really weird and gigantic. And that deck looks fresh. Like that is a new deck he's doing that with. It looks like very much like a Vin cut. God, bro, is it weird that like Pineapple and Vin did like the same move? They're not the same move. Sorry. It did like something very mechanically the same, similar. That is a That is a monstrosity. I mean, I don't even know what to say, bro. This thing is just a lot. Maybe the closer is just a little bit, you know? I don't even know what to say, bro. This was just like a weird thing to watch. Man, that's that's pretty nice. But I think the fact that I just saw the Vin move and I watched it for like a good 10, 20 minutes and then I'm watching this one. I don't know why it's just like not hitting the spot. But like it's it's really crazy. It's really crazy. But this whole like thumb cut situation and this thumb cut over here with like just one packet holding it together type of thing with like I I know there's like a lot of variables going on, a lot a lot of like this stuff when you have like two of these going on. I feel like it's very easy to just like carry out something in between, you know, and Vin just did the slidy thing and he's been doing that for like a year or two. And then now we're seeing it with this fella. I don't know. I don't know how to feel about that. Like it's really cool. It's gigantic. It's crazy. But yeah, and this split is really sick. I like the idea of like splitting it off like that. But it went into something I'm very used to. Pretty nice, bro. That's pretty nice.
Okay, this took a long time to film. Oh [ __ ] Oh my god, bro. Whoa. Whoa. Bro, it just automatically wants to stand up and Oh my goodness, bro. Oh my god. I don't know. Like that's pretty crazy, bro. That's pretty crazy. That's pretty genius, too. Like, oh yeah. My god. Like the way it sets itself up. That That's crazy, bro. That's crazy. Oh god. Oh god.
Okay. I honestly I just want to see what the comments say. Lots of bangers in here. The can opener decided to drop the move of the century. Oh god, bro. Trying to pull the lazy group up. Okay. It's all about can opener. It's all about can opener. I hope we see one judge vote for can opener. Just one. Like just as a joke. But like just one of them because it's obvious. You know what I mean? But like it'd be funny. It'd be funny if everyone accidentally voted for can opener thinking everyone else was going to whatever, bro. You get it. Yeah. This is insane. Well, let's come back to this because we still have China versus USA. So, yeah. Okay. Get in here. Holy [ __ ] Whoa. Whoa. This might Oh my goodness, bro. That's like one of the Wow. This is like the coolest thing I've ever seen. Nah. Nah, that's wild. Yo, this is like one of the best competitions as of like these past few years. So I don't even know what like initially I was like I don't think a lot of people are joining like this and that monster even the first like rounds like the qualifiers I was like h you know I don't think it's going to be that crazy but then yo Ray Chan I don't think anyone's gonna beat this right? I don't think Luke can beat this. Okay, some XCM. Yeah, you know, low key like not to hate on Luke, I'm not trying to hate on Luke, I'm just saying like the meta right now, I think the XCM style, it's dying for me now. It's dying for me. That's crazy though. That is crazy though. I I I just saw I Okay, like you have to realize I just saw this. I just saw this. I can't like I can't just go and be like, "Yeah, that's really cool, too." Like this is just Oh my good. And the way he closed it. I just realized the way he closed it because he has every other card upside down. So then, oh, look at that. Look at that closer, too. I didn't even like really acknowledge that. See how I'm going back to that move and analyzing it again before it's just simple. It's impactful. It's crazy, but you know what? We got Looney Ghost. I like that. I really do. I really do. Dude, this guy just took the wind out of my sails, bro. This is just so sick. This is just so sick. I mean, okay, this is really cool, too, bro. This is really cool. The thing is, I saw Looney saw Looney do this. Oh, we all saw Looney do this. This was how we got it. This is really sick. This is really sick. But, um, you know, doing it all in one hand is pretty dope. But the setup is two hands, so it kind of like doesn't, you know what I mean? But with two cards, I don't know how to feel, you know what I mean? It's not that crazy of an addition considering I I really like this more than the other one because it takes less setup. And to me, this mechanic is really cool. You know what I mean? Like you're not just like uh going like loosening your grip and and like holding it harder. It's more like a which is cool. I I like that more.
Um, okay. Oh. Oh, dude. This is cool. This is cool. Yeah. Oh my god, bro. That is nice, bro. I don't know. This is This is getting rough. That's so sick, though. And he does it like three times in a row. That's That's no joke. That's no joke. I think that closer was an accident. I'm not going to lie. I hate to call that out. I really do. But like low key like wait, look. He catches it all the way on the edge and then it pivots backwards. You know what I mean? Not I hate being this nitpicky, but I'm just saying, bro. I'm just saying. He did it three times in a row, though. Like, can we really deduct points for that? Bro, this is tough. This is tough. But like I don't know. Also, this used a little bit of momentum. You had to throw it up a little bit. I don't know. This is tough. I I I feel like it should be clearer to me. I don't know why it's such a a difficult decision. Let's get in here, though. Oh. I don't like that part. But this is really cool. I wish we had a better angle of the rest cuz I see the bubbles sliding around and the idea of like bubbles sliding around in a cut is really dope. But then just flinging off a packet that really killed that really killed the vibe, bro. You really killed the vibe with that. But yeah, you know, it's pretty dope. Th this whole first sequence is really cool and it should have been filmed better. You can't see how amazing that really was. But yeah, that the flop. We I don't I don't like the the flop. Oh, okay. Okay. That's how you That's Yeah, that's how you do that. That's how you do that. If you are ever wondering how to do that, that's how you do. That's a good cut, bro. I'm really happy with this cut. I feel like that's that's how I need to talk about it. I love that slow opener, too. Like he didn't even. This is flow. This is flow. This is also what Daniel was doing with like he had a really good performance with with his cut. Yeah, this this performance aspect like I didn't realize how much it mattered, but like I'm seeing it now. I'm really seeing it now. Like yeah, man. Bro, that's so nice. It feels really casual while being a pretty crazy move, which I love. Like, I don't know. Like, you also got to keep it chill while doing something crazy. You know what I mean? Because at the end of the day, it is just a deck of cards. So, you got to be like, But I'm chilling, though. I I love the geometry, especially near the end where like you have that weird half-square shape on the arm and then like it goes down into this weird other pattern like a little staircase pattern thing like yeah, that but it's like 3D, you know what I mean? Like it's going two planes. That's really nice.
So this takes this and we said we said this takes this. So this is the only decider. Okay. So Eric Eric versus Looney already did this though, bro. But what I'm feeling currently is that this is not as unique of a movement as this is because having a card like falling like this is is not easy to do. And the fact that it's like it's such a quick movement like you got a it's like a little reaction time test going on. I think that's really sick. I'm gonna give this to Eric and I'm gonna give this to Koa. And we already said what's up with this. This is Ray Chan. Dude, Ray Chan blew my mind, bro. Blew my mind. And usually I don't like this pivot stuff, right? Like I'm like, "Okay, yeah, you you hit an angle with it." Okay, but this was genius. This was genius. If If I had to make improvements on this move, I probably would have tried to make it so that the four cards fit better into a structure. Following that because it's just kind of there. It's just kind of there in your other hand. But it's it's still cool. It's still very cool. Like it's like a tool in your other hand that you use to spin cards. I don't know. I really like that. But let's go back. We said the US wins for this. All right. Very slim, very close. This last round was only the only one that was like easy for me to decide on. Never mind. Okay, whatever. Okay, but let's go back to Japan versus Thailand because I didn't make decisions. I think with this I think with this I forgot who the judges were. I'm not going to lie. Okay, let let's look at who is who right now. I wonder if Sprat is like happy about this being utilized because it's like he did the spring and then with like a card rolling off of it and then we had the double like confetti Destiny thing. I bet I I bet he's happy about that. Like he's set a good influence. Maybe he'll vote for it because he's really happy. I don't know. Uh, man, Zooie. Okay. I I think this versus this. I I think that's got to win. I think out of these two, I think that's got to win. And then [ __ ] this, bro. Okay, so they obviously have that. And then you think Daniel wins this just because of how smooth it is and then like we've already seen this and this is a lot of unique mechanics. I think I think I just spelled it out. You know what I mean? Like I think Daniel has that and I feel like Trent should have that. It's hard, bro. They're all like massive packet cuts. This is so funny, bro. This is so funny. This is so funny. Um, also I like the fact that this cut is concise. Like it's mindful of my time because this takes like 20 minutes to watch and this also takes like 20 minutes to watch. This is straight to the point and like has that good impact that I'm looking for in a competition. This has a lot of impact, but it's also just like I don't know. It's a lot of setup and then a lot of cleanup after this and then like I'm kind of done watching it at that point unfortunately. Right. So, it's not concise. This is good. This is good. I think this is what I want to watch. You know what I'm saying? Like this is what I gravitate towards watching. This is something I'm going to go back to and watch this. I'd rather watch Thunder Mountain. This I'd rather watch this one. I'd rather watch this move. A lot smoother of a take also. And then look at this. Like way way better flow. That's cool, bro. That's really sick. And it feels a lot more like developed and chill to watch this. Just like I don't know this flipping thing right here. It's just like okay. You know what I mean? Like we already knew he could go back and forth and all that. So I think I think Thailand takes this. I think Yeah, I think Thailand has to take that, but we'll see.
Okay, so I'm going to wait for all the results to come in. Okay, guys, the results are in. Let's see what happened. Okay. Okay. Okay. What do we think? We think I from what I remember, we said um I guess Thailand and USA is what we've been saying. >> Why? You guys don't get it. You guys don't get it. We were supposed to get Daniel to move through every round because we needed to extract every move we could out of Daniel. We could have gotten another double barrel type of move, but instead you guys screwed it up and you Dude, it it wasn't even that good. Let's see. Okay, let's see what they voted on. Um, wow. Oh wow. I was kind of saying like Vin had that nice kind of cut and it was tough. It really was a tough decision cuz I was like h like you know four packet cut. I get it. I get it. But dang, bro. You're supposed to vote Daniel. Wow. Trent won his round though. Trent that's the that's the part where I was like h I don't know like what's about to happen but like yo that's crazy. Okay. Okay. Okay. Dimitri go half and half, bro. Come on. Why going halfies, bro? Wow. See, Zusy knows what's up. Zusy knows what's up. Get Daniel through, bro. Get Daniel through. I really do not care about anything else in this competition. I'm kidding. I'm I'm really kidding. Uh, no one even joke voted for can opener. I'm a little bit ashamed. Not even a half vote. Not even a half vote. Dang, bro. Dang, bro. No, but if I'm being real, like the Vin move we kind of saw before versus Daniel's very unique mechanics. I was I would have been happy. I would have been happy with the Daniel thing. I really would have been like like even if it wasn't Daniel. Let's just take that out of the equation. I'm I'm joking. If we take it out of the equation and we really saw if we really saw this cut. Let's just look at it again. Right. Okay. Took me 20 minutes to watch that, by the way. Sorry, that's just loud as hell for me. I kind of Okay, I kind of get it. I kind of get it. Man, that's sad though, bro. That's kind of sad though. I really Dude, Daniel, please like stick around. Drop a solo video or something. Please, bro. Even with the moves you did in the competition, just like reuse them. Give us a nice video. We just need something from you, bro. Please. And I agree. I agree with this vote. Trent had that in the bag. I was just afraid from what y'all did last round. That's really why I voted the way I voted. I was like, like, wait, wait, what was the votes again? They were like, it was like almost half and half. And I was like, there's no shot. Yeah. This this right here. I was like, what? So then I was like, "Oh yeah, like you know, he might not have a chance here because like someone did a cut or something, you know." I was like, "Oh, that's a big cut that, you know, Vin already did." Now that's just insane, bro. Ah, bro. That's so I was I'm really invested still, but like I was really invested in this fight in particular. This one had me on the edge of my seat. Damn it. Look at Trent over here being nice. GG. Say no, bro. Fight back. Say [ __ ] y'all. Get us back in there. [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm kidding. Okay. Okay. Okay. But damn, bro. I'm actually like this kind of sucks, bro. I always look forward to what Daniel and Trent had to drop, bro. They were dream team. All the votes for Vin. Like it was pretty crazy of a move, but like dude, he put that in Daniel's competition. He put that move in. Okay, we already talked about this, but I just really can't believe it, bro.
Okay, let's see what the US and China votes were. Okay, we still got some fans of the XCM going on. We still got some fans of the XCM going on, but I agree with the Ray Chan vote for the most part. Uh, Eric, I agree with this Eric vote. I agree with this Eric vote as well. It was difficult. But again, Looney did all that. That was like two days ago I made the first part of this video, by the way. So, I'm kind of like I forgot what I said. And Koa once again, just five out of five. Just [ __ ] killing it. Just killing it. We all knew that was going to happen. This I kind of predicted that too. I was like, I don't know. This XCM is getting a little bit a little bit tired out, but let's see. You know, I'm I'm saying all of XCM, but like that encapsulates a lot of stuff. Like, he could probably pull something really cool for the last round. But yeah, let's look forward to the the last round. USA versus Japan. This is going to be a tight one. I feel like I feel like where are we at right now with this? I thought we were kind of running out of moves maybe by now. Um, I think they make a video now. The two teams that bring the most hype and fun lost. Wait, really? I don't know about China. Thailand for sure. But dude, okay, man. Bro, this is I'm I'm still looking forward to what's coming. I think they have like full-on videos now from what I'm hearing. Like it's like a three-minute video for like each person I guess approximately gets a minute. Do we think it's USA? I don't know. I feel like I feel like Conan is very hit or miss, you know, very hit or miss cuz it'll be like he pulls out some single cards and then I'm like, yo, you know, it's not that cool. Pineapple. I swear I've seen the Pineapple cut. The one we just saw. I swear I've seen that one before from him. Like, but either way, it's kind of like a washed-up move, like mechanics-wise. I've seen all of that. I'm not saying it's not cool. I'm just saying like we've seen all that. Oh, Trent know how hard you work. Okay. Oh, I'm actually like so Wow, dude. I'm upset. I'm upset. But this is I'm not even like trying to cope. Like I am excited for Japan versus USA. This is still going to be like mad tough. This is huge videos on the way. Like it doesn't just go like one move, one move, one move again. This is like videos. So it's going to be a big deal. I think we're going to have to wait a while for that one though. So, dang. I dude I really do wish I had more to say, but like USA. You think if you give these guys a whole minute, you really disperse and let the XCM marinate? Eric and Koa have just had really good variety throughout the whole competition. Like that last cut was really nice from Koa and then obviously he had the double Destiny confetti thing and then Eric had that really nice cut and then he did a single card thing after. So like and these fellas these fellas are wild. Like they really do have like a lot of crazy material going on. I feel like Vin is really good at like working on things he already has. So things are going to feel familiar and they're just going to kind of grow and get more difficult. You're going to see like a harder version of those moves. Conan again, hit or miss. He's he's very hit or miss. Pineapple, I kind of feel the same way about him. Like he's kind of hit or miss. He's kind of hit or miss, but I don't know much about this dude. He kind of he kind of just pulled up on us. What do we How do we go about the Pineapple? Um and Pineapple. Okay, let's kind of see what's up because let's use old moves because I'm kind of unsure. He's got a nice camera, I will say. So, these videos are gonna come up real fun to watch. I'm going to say it like these these Charlie type moves, they aren't the coolest, bro. They are not the coolest. Not the most memorable. He did have that single card thing he pulled up with in the first round, but so I have hope. I do have hope. But um from what I'm seeing, you know, I mean this isn't like his best work obviously, but like man, just put Trent and Daniel back in, bro. That video would have been fire. I'm so biased right now. My bias is really showing, but I'm just saying, bro. Like, I'm I'm not judging the competition. I don't I can be biased. Okay, that that was pretty cool, but like he should have kept going. If he looped it around like twice, like that would have been cool, but he didn't. He just went once. So, it was just like two smear fans with a card going on it essentially. He could have done the same thing with two smear fans. I don't even understand. Get Trent in here, bro. He wouldn't have done that. Uh, but okay guys, I think um, damn, I feel a little bit defeated. I don't know if you guys feel the same, but like [ __ ] I was really rooting for Thailand. I was not expecting it to be off of Daniel's votes and not Trent's. I mean, can opener did what he could, okay? Like, he was keeping y'all above water, but like, dang, bro. I can't believe Daniel like, dude, I'm kidding. Oh gosh. Daniel, who told you to do a four-packet cut, though? Tell me, Daniel. Daniel, I You're one of my You are my favorite cardist, Daniel. I will say that. You are my favorite cardist. Why is my [ __ ] broken? You are my favorite cardist. I think you are. But if you keep pulling up with four-packet cuts in a competition, you should keep doing competitions. If you keep pulling up with four-packet cuts, this is going to be a problem. It's going to be a real big problem. You should have pulled up with this ISO, bro. I don't know. Gosh dang it, Daniel. So handsome. Can't even be mad. Can't even be mad at you. Dang it, Daniel. Four-packet cut. Are we serious, bro? Are we serious? And he's already deleting stuff off his account. I can tell. He's about to delete double barrel. He's about to delete this. Why is my [ __ ] broken? Why is everything lagging? Was fun while it lasted. Good luck to the finalist, bro. This is so sad, bro. Please put Daniel back in. I'm literally begging. God dang it. Dimitri, you too, bro. Zusy, are you joking? Guys, just get it. He slipped up once. He slipped up once. Forget about it. Forgive a guy, man. Sometimes a brother wants to do a four-packet cut. Gosh dang it, y'all. Y'all really going to get on him for the one time he slips up and does something fun for once. He just didn't want to spend three hours on camera, bro. Let a brother breathe. Let him do Let me Let him hit that. Look at this. I didn't have to spend 20 minutes watching it. [ __ ] bro. I could really go on and on about this. I'm I'm not going to lie. I've been sitting here for like 20 minutes just droning on about how much I want Daniel and Trent to go through. Can we just get a three a three finalist like with Fontaine trials? Can we do that again? Okay, y'all. Y'all genuinely made a mistake with this. USA versus Japan. At least it's not Japan versus China. I am going to say that. At least it's not that cuz like USA has been really fun to watch. And then Bro, I get it. I get it, bro. Let me Let me show you what Japan does. Let me show you what Japan does. Japan does Hold on. I got you. Some of this, some of that, some of that. Add three of these in. Open up as many packets as possible. Log that. Some of that, this, this, this, that. That's what Japan does. And it's not fun to watch, bro. It's like I'm literally learning nothing. Like I'd rather look at this new four-packet cut and be like, "Oh yeah, it's like it's like all these cool little things going on. Y'all should have taken the time to sit down with this and really digest it like I did. Daniel, I'm really sticking up for you. You really messed up with this. Okay, I went a little off the rails at the end. I apologize, but like it's going to be USA versus Japan now. And I think USA I think USA probably got it because the thing is with Conan and then they just released a few moves before the competition to advertise their plastic cards. So I think like you know it's probably kind of limited as to what their move supply is and who knows about the US. So, I feel like sprinkling in the XCM and all that is going to work out pretty well. Yeah. And I feel like they'll all meet up. I I feel like they're pretty passionate enough to maybe get a pretty good video going, but but yeah, I'm still having fun with this. I I wouldn't be so invested if I was not having fun. So, okay. But like, hit the subscribe button, hit the like button, links in bio to cards, and I recently did a project with Square Up Cards. Uh, they invited me on to Cardry Academy, and I help give advice to people. And I mean, honestly, it's crazy having Dom and Connor in a group with a ton of cardists. 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So, it's pretty sick and we can all learn off each other instead of kind of dismissing each other and then, you know, trying to get in contact with one person. Like, we can all use one discussion platform. So, that's nice. Uh, I think other than that, y'all take care and I'll be looking forward to this top one.