I haven't watched a modern tetris tournament in a long time, and my jaw is on the floor after seeing this. I remember watching cz back in 2020 when he first became a top player and was basically a really fast triple rotater. The timing, the game awareness, the b2b, and the downstacking he showed in this set are miles beyond anything I've ever seen before. You are insane cz, this a thoroughly deserved tournament victory.
Barely an S rank newbie but I learnt so much from watching this match. I always wondered why sometimes my PPS and APM are higher than my opponent but still end up losing and I finally realise from watching CZ that countering (downstack) and setting up the board for defense is really important. There's something about the change of pace CZ does which is so surreal to me because I have never thought to pause and watch what the opponent does/is going to send. Going forward Ill have to practice look ahead and using more than just the first preview. Real lightbulb moment for me from the commentator 12:10 - 12:23 .
I'm U rank, and I also relied on machine gunning to win against my opponents. I finally realized why I lose despite 2.2pps vs 1.6pps and higher apm. It's the downstack and the vs score that really makes the difference between battles.
It’s literally killing 3 birds with one stone when you counter like CZ does. You downstack into a better board state (when you have CZ level vision), clear your incoming garbage, and send garbage all at the same time while your opponent just used his whole board and has no downstack opportunities given the Tspin singles CZ finds to send jank garbage. It’s actually so inspiring to watch
@@heroesofwarbyjonny1374 yup there are 2 players in high u who go around 1.5pps, one of them has even been x rank, and they'd beat a 2.5pps sdpc spammer in ss any day
@@gavrolux409 I’m U and have played against X ranks that mirror my stats at around 75 apm 1.8 pps and I won’t be able to get a single game. I’ve beaten X ranks that play 2.5pps with 90 apm avg. Playing tactically can for sure make or break you
Yeah, imagine if someone sends sdpc and the other person survives. Second player has a chance to send a 30 spike with enough skill and rng, while the other player is left almost defenseless
Like I know cz is already ridiculous, but can we take a moment to appreciate how much pressure blaarg gave out at 5:13? That's scary even to cz and diao.
@@sebastianbal1008 in terms of offensive stacking, i think kazu beats out diao for sure, since diao's offense mainly relies on his speed. I'd argue that kazu has better stacking than blaarg too, but controller is somewhat of a downside
@@sebastianbal1008 come on, outclassed? honestly i think in terms of stacking, kazu is the number one player out there. its just his ridiculous misdrops that stop him from beating pretty much everybody in the game, and its a controller issue.
Absolute dominance from CZ. Blaarg didn’t play too bad but he still seemed like he had no answers to CZ’s defense Also, winning 11-3 while sending less lines is the most CZ thing ever
with my limited tetrio knowledge, this cz guy seems like the mkleo of this game. completely undefeatable, uncontested best, but people are still able to go toe to toe with him. impressive stuff
I loved this set so much. theres just so much to talk about spoilers ahead obv 1:50 Blaarg gets a 16 B2B 3:49 Cz survival and crazy counterspike (and blaarg almost survived that) 4:46 just a casual 32 spike 5:10 Blaarg survives and keeps an 18 B2B through the downstack, then immediately after cz does some insane misdrops and insane recovery 6:40 another casual 14 Blaarg2B, and then the entire round is just some crazy cancels and survivals 7:49 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 8:55 cz asserts dominance 9:16 Blaarg survival 9:55 Blaarg survival again 10:56 spike into counterspike into counterspike into 28 spike into cz survival 12:34 more blaarg survival 12:56 cz calmly sits at the top of his board and completely cancels a 22 spike 13:34 Blaarg goes 13 B2B that can finally take out cz 15:16 28 spike and Blaarg survivaln't then cz gets bored and shows he's been holding back the entire time 15:40 I love this sequence. Blaarg finally gets off the 4 wide, does nothing and cz goes a nice 15 B2B, then Blaarg does a defensive midgame pc that doesnt help and he gets a full board of garbage even with how one sided this was its still probably my favorite grand final. these guys just get better, and then you think they can't get better, and then they just keep getting better
1:55 there was a pc with LZO, if you place the L upside down vertically, then z spin and O skim i can see why they didnt find it in the heat of the moment lol
@@eric9901 no, it requires a Z piece! i mean im assuming you already know this, just in case though s is the green piece and z is the red also if you want i can show u the solution, if u just sit there and look for a while youll find it easily though
It’s a t spin double setup called a cut copy. Once you know the basic shape, it actually can be pretty easy to spot, even if it looks intimidating at first.
