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Leverage Redemption Log: The Tournament Job
Look i dont have anything speculative to say about that name. There'll be a tournament of some sort. Lets get into it
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Oh no its gonna be an attempt at covering E-sports, get me 500 CC's of "how you doing fellow kids" STAT!
But seriously, these types of "emergent field of entertainment for mostly youth" episodes rarely do the research to represent their "thing" fairly or accurately.
Abusive sportscoaches exist, and there is no way the E-sports industry is free from controversy but this already feels weird in ways I cant truly 100% put my hands on.
Like this scene feels like its invoking Bao from the Golf Job, but you cant really human traffic people into E-sports Celebrity Status.
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Ok i apreciate the little Hardison Text-Rant.
Harry has decided not to hide his gamercred. (had time after the divorce, also probably a bonding-with-the-daughter thing)
Ok so i did a quick google, apparently E-sports doping is a thing?
Brock (not the pokemon guy), i think thats John Sennar or whatever? Im bad at faces and wrestling isnt my thing. But I vague-cognise the face.
See and this is where my first problem comes in: The nature of the E-sports scene is verry web-cam focussed, with a lot of its branding based around livestreams and such. Its really hard to believe he's been holding these people prisoner and forcing them to dope without anyone noticing. The writers claim that they just stole their phones but when you have webcams and constant internet access a team of a druggy and a punchy with no tech support to lock them out of the internet when they're training for a MOBA tournament and their computers have constant internet access feels like a ridiculous stretch to me. Literally all it takes is one of them using an in-game chatroom and the "kidnapping e-sports people" scheme collapses.
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Sophie states the objectives: Take down Mark, dont harm the Teams Reputation.
Goal: Get Cheating Software on the PC's (the kids can deny having downloaded anything).
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Elliot has made the team breakfast.
One of the kids (something-lion i think?) just said what I was saying: these kids have internet access, he's dating a girl via the internet and in regular contact with them.
Parker, your "hardison is always watching" sounds downright "Abrahamic god" in how creepy it is. Tone it down.
Breanna be carefull you dont get this guys ego so high he murders one of the teammates and replaces them so he can bask in the sunlight.
Breanna has got him on the hook. (also her lion-pendant has a tiny camera in the diamond) Honestly, scramble her own voice. Leak this recording. Call it a day. This is the moment we've won. The moment he said "elevate dominate" while thinking about it, thats as good as a confession and a guarantee ender of any sponsorship, while the recording makes it clear the boys werent involved. (I mean he'd rebrand a couple years down the line. Like Harry Said, but the boys go free)
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Samurai Midnight are favoured to win in the betting, (which means if we get them disqualified for cheating. The other team wins and bets pay out big time).
Oh no, Parker has discovered the T-Shirt Cannon. This is gonna be a THING.
Ah Breanna forgot one thing: This guy isnt stupid enough to break into an armored car himself. He's got goons for that.
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And Senner is unconcious from poison.
Harry has ninja-run'd the guards out of here.
And they remembered that he has a hacker on his side. (though not someone to filter the athletes chatroom activity)
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That is NOT a moba. They literally all start in a small arena-space and begin punching eathother. (I get that only havign a small digital set-piece saves them assets on whatever animator they hired for the game-stuff. Its understandable productionwise but still an issue)
Oh... He's put the AI on both sides. Kyle wants a setpiece moment, a star-maker.
He has rigged both sides so he can create a come-from-behind upset by switching the AI from assisting team 1 to team 2.
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Breanna's "by the power of gaming I hit you with a bottle" moment felt dumb, and not in a funny way.
Parker has been dating Hardison for 8 years and doesnt seem to know what a black box is.
Harry's influencer is on the run, Harry's gonna have to do play-by-play instead.
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seriously this game has an entire futuristic city modeled, but everyone spawns in a tiny arena at the centre and just punches eachother.
Huh, i didnt think about it but Hardisons Hackerpowers do allow the character to influence the plot without needing the physical actor.
Good on the writers for realising that.
So just a note, didnt them losing the previous fight but still getting a second fight imply that its best 2 out of 3? Cause if so this scene of paralel climactic victories with Elliot and the Samurais doesnt work as they're not winning so much as failing to loose.
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Sophie realised what Kyle knows, Kyle wins either way unless we prove Kyle hacked. Its not about Win or Lose its about Destroying Kyle.
Elliot tries to initiate the Rugbyteam Huddle, it was verry innefective.
Turn the game into an autobattler and have the team walk away.
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Denouement starts, Harry with the hidden camera. Obviously detoxing shakes to get remainders out of their system (switched the pills for placebos).
Parker has discovered the T-shirt cannon. Now lets hope she never figures out you can custom-order T-shirts to say whatever you want, lest she start shooting non-lethal missiles with your name on them.
Ok so like, thats definitly a Street Fighter type game now, (or perhaps tekken?)
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Final rundown, not as bad as it could've been.
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Hey y’all!
New chapter of “The Hitter’s Girl’s Redemption” is up! This time, it’s based on “The Tournament Job” where Kaira has to keep her emotions in like when the job hits a personal note when the team is tasked with taking down a corrupt esports owner.
Hope you enjoy!
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