We shall continue to discussthe chapter on Stress Corrosion Cracking. In the last class I started givingthe historical perspective of stress corrosion cracking and then we also highlighted the importance of the stress corrosion cracking for the industrialcomponent safety, how it canimpact the safety of the components. And then we looked at the characteristics of stress corrosion cracking especiallyin terms of the cracking behavior. Andabout the characteristics we said thatthese cracks are brittle in nature as compared to ductile failures happen in metalsdue to mechanical loading. Andthese brittle fractures can be intragranular type or it can be transgranular type of cracking. Of course, sometimes you can also have a mixed mode of failures it you know partly intragranular and partly transgranular cracking can really happen. In all these cases they are brittle and mostly cleavage kind of cracking they they theyappear. So, continuing on the same direction the next important thing that you would like to know is what are the factors affecting stress corrosion cracking. If you recall I have given youthe Venn diagram right, where in we discussed what is stress corrosion cracking? This is SCC the phenomena that happens and the factors involved are the metal or the material, the environment or the tensile stresses. So, if you need to understand what are the governing factors we need to understand in relation to the metals the metallurgy of the material that we used for given applications. The environment thatthe material will be exposed to and the nature of the tensile stresses. So, all these are going to govern thethe susceptibility of a material towards stress corrosion cracking. And if you start with let us start with the tensile stress. Please notice that we are not talking about fatigue or not talking about compulsive we do not talk about the torsion right we will talk about the tensile stresses. The tensile stresses acting on the material can be classified into two categories one it is applied the other residual stresses. The applied stresses are you know a process specific right what kind of load you are applying externally in a chemical reactor you know it can come out of the pressure of the reactants and products involved. And the residual stresses they reside in the material because of let us say welded component you weld it and the weld zone as you could have a tensile component and somewhere in the weld component you can also have a compressive component we have. So, there is a the residual stresses acting even you remove all the external loading or stresses onto a component ok. It could be a cold work you have done a wide drawing you have done you have done some kind of sheet metal you know formed by rolling operations it can be thermal stresses acting on the material or it can also be related to corrosion product accumulation in the system right. The corrosion product accumulation can come depending upon the situation I give a illustration you guys have some exposure to heat exchangers we have seen right heat exchanger you would have tube and a tube sheet you weld it right you weld you weld it or sometimes in expansion joint actually you know mostly it is an expansion joint right you expand it. And sometimes you know you weld on one side you know normally the weld you know where it is facing outside they weld it and this side is not welded right. So, what happens the liquid goes inside the liquid goes inside ok the environment penetrate what can happen for example, you have iron the iron can convert into water it can convert into various corrosion product another product could be iron hydroxide kept on. The volume of the iron hydroxide is more than volume of the iron and corroded right. So, volume increase can increase right. Now, there is a corrosion products here and volume increases what will happen to this tube? The tube will will dent right it could be dent it can happen at dent stresses will start acting on that ok it can be very high tensile stresses. Now, these stresses can add to the applied stresses can add to the applied stresses. So, when you consider the material against you know stress corrosion cracking you need to take care of both the applied stresses and the the residual stresses acting on the structure. Now, there is a kind of I will say concept ok I will say concept called as threshold stress below which stress corrosion cracking does not occur called sigma T h there is a symbol sigma T s for that. This arises out of the fact that if you carry out a test in the lab time to fail versus the applied stresses right you apply a stress you can conduct a simple test right I I can take a a tensile sample and I enclose it you know the cell I can take the environment here you can apply stress on the sample right. This is the environment here and I can find out the time to failure simple test ok it can do and if you notice that something like that you know you get like this. When I apply a stress it fails instantaneously right what should be the stress at which the metal component fails a metal fails instantaneously. What is stress called? Fact is stress or what you call in normal term it is called as it is called as ultimate tensile stress right. But if you lower the stress level in environment the time to failure increases right isn't it as it is lower the stress the time to failure increases and there is a there is a limit ok and there is a limit and this is called as threshold of stress flow which metal is not failing. Now, this is used in some cases you know play especially in in oil and gas industries the use is concept of that ok. But you notice that the threshold stress that we talk about is time dependent right. What do you mean by that? Suppose you you know here it starts failing so you know that here it doesn't fail what is the time you wait for right. So, generally the time is say 1000 hours or 720 hours if you wait for more it may start failing ok. So, this is not an ideal parameter, but it is used as the engineering parameter to determine the you know applicability of a particular material especially in the oil and gas industries. We come back to this later right and this concept is not used in the in the nuclear industries ok and again I will talk about it later why it is not used in the nuclear industries. But nevertheless the literature as you know you see lots of materials you know people give this as a property of course, it depends upon the environment you keep change environment the sigma threshold could change. It is not a material property alone it is also environmental property ok that I think you should you should be aware of that. Now, you know for example, I would say this is your 304, 316 and 310 something like that you know you can see that you can change if you are going to use a duplex stainless steel things can still go up and the threshold stress intensity sorry the threshold stress does not I mean remain constant for all the materials it can change. Now, this this particular thing is is is very important to understand from the concept of what happens in the stress corrosion cracking. Suppose, I apply a component and for a you know an industry application how does stress corrosion cracking really work actually? Let us look at the time with the time what things are happening what will really happen with the time right. This is the time and this is you can say extension you take a material and you apply a load you know and then exposed to the environment and you observe you see that you know the extension does not happen long time that is what it takes place ok. At a at a given load at a given a given stress applied because change if the load is if the stress is you know increasing or decreasing it could move left and right kind of thing right. If you look at here what happens is you see generally between 90 percent of the time generally 90 percent of the time for initiation for crack initiation. So, this is where crack initiates and this is where the crack propagates and this crack initiation it is a very interesting thing ok. This initiation time the initiation here involves it could be a pitting assisted pitting corrosion assisted one, it could be a caravans corrosion assisted or intragranodal corrosion assisted one, it could be selective leaching. There all can be they all called as a precursors and they are involved in the processes. A pit turns into a crack an intragranodal corrosion turns into a crack into a intragranodal stress corrosion cracking. A caravans attack can lead to stress corrosion cracking within the caravans can happen. Cerebral leaching also can happen. So, these are the factors can assist stress corrosion cracking and since these are relatively slow processes and quite a bit of time is involved in the crack initiation. So, when you talk about stress corrosion cracking control you should also understand that you can control it by controlling the pitting corrosion controlling caravans corrosion, intragranodal corrosion side releasing all the stuffs. Of course, the metal can leak just with pitting only it need not be SCC you know caravans corrosion can be standalone failure can happen, but if they are loaded and if the stress levels are beyond the threshold stress levels yes they can undergo stress corrosion cracking at a later time. So, this is a very important and a very interesting thing when you talk about materials development and materials design actually. The other thing that you like to notice is that please notice is that the crack initiate and grows and finally, it is a rupture right and this rupture is a mechanical failure. Failure of the remaining portion of the specimen or a component right. Suppose, I have taken let us say about one centimeter thick component responsible that stress corrosion crack exist up to 70 percent of the thickness and remaining 30 percent of thickness it fails by war road I come to the point later ok. So, it is not necessary that the entire sample entire component fails by stress corrosion cracking. This is very important because when you talk about investigation when you take a fail component you would not see completely inter granular cracking or trans granular cracking you will see yes there are brittle cracks, but you also see some part of sample having a ductile fracture. The ductile fracture is coming out of the fact that it is a war road failure the crack advances right means the crack advances and then it leads to it leads to finally, war road failure you know. So, you look at this here right what is this actually this one leads to ultimate tensile thing right. Yes if you if you lower the cross section you keep the same applied load the stress increases and ultimately that that particular segment leads to a mechanical failure ok can happen in practice and it indeed happens in in most cases actually ok. Now that means, that means, the two types of the two types of two types of design people talk about the design that takes into account crack initiation and the design that takes into account crack propagation right. So, what do you mean by a design that takes into account crack initiation? I simply do not accept even a small crack in the component because the metal is considered to be brittle and a small crack is there and it is going to fracture. So, there is a problem right there is a problem. So, the design that takes care of crack you know initiation account they use the threshold stress as a concept right, but those design we take care of the crack propagation they use the fraction mechanics as a concept as a criteria for that right that is what they use it. Now, so, let us look at how the crack propagates again I am not going to deal with the fraction mechanics you know in details, but a bit of exposure to that is useful to see how stress corrosion cracking can affect the crack growth in any given component right. So, if if I you know what is you know what is called as stress intensity factor ok. What is stress intensity? A you know and you of course, have different modes of you know loading that you have and mode 1 of loading ok k k 1 is given by what given by y sigma and square root of pi a right you might have again you know again studied in maybe in other courses ok. And k 1 corresponds to crack tape stress intensity and sigma corresponds to applied tensile stress and a corresponds to crack length and y is a complex factor anybody requires it depends upon the geometrical factors ok it depends upon the geometrical this is a geometrical parameter. So, we are not getting into two details about it, but it is you know it is I think it is sufficient for us to get a feel for stress corrosion cracking and crack growth in a given material. Now, it is now look at here depends upon the applied stress and it depends upon the length of the crack which is related to k 1 value right. Now, you know very well that there is something called as k 1 c what is this called anybody yeah it is toughness it is a material parameter right below which a crack does not grow fracture toughness right critical stress intensity factor or the fracture toughness ok and below which the crack does not really propagate. If I carry out a test to measure the crack growth rate versus crack tip stress intensity ok. So, if I plot a is the length of the crack and so, dA by dt corresponds to crack growth rate and versus the crack tip stress intensity if I do that in a given environment of course, you will see that it goes like that. This is called as stage 1 crack growth rate it is called as stage 2 crack growth rate and this is stage 3 crack growth rate. What is special about it? What is special about it? The stage 1 and stage 2 the crack growth rates depend upon the crack tip stress intensity whereas, the stage 2 does not depend on the crack tip stress intensity. How they depends on what? So, the stage 2 that k 1 dA by dt in stage 1 stage stage 3 depend upon and so on applied stress intensity or crack tip stress intensity. Stage 2 depends on the nature of the environment ok and not on stress intensity factor. Again there are lot of you know understanding there we will not get more details about this you know those who we want to do there are good papers available and so we will not right now get into that discussion. Now, let us look at the the part and this corresponds to what? This corresponds to k 1 c and this corresponds to k 1 h c c ok. What is k 1 h c c threshold stress intensity factor for stress corrosion cracking? Please notice that if we have environment look at this plot we have environment the crack can grow at a much lower stress intensity level right much lower than k 1 c right. The k 1 c is here it grows much lower than that and in fact, this is they called as subcritical crack growth right. And you know who in the in the impressive environment you can have subcritical crack growth taking place in the material that is a disadvantage of the environment actually ok that is something is used to be used to regard. So, the people use these factors and also people use this is this is another factor and this is also please look at this here the crack growth rate now does not depend upon stress intensity and this also is used as an engineering parameter to design the life of the component. So, k 1 c c and stage 2 crack growth rate. In fact, there are designs just takes care of or uses only the stage 2 crack growth rates they do not worry about other things because if I know what crack growth below k 1 c you are not supposed to have any crack growth rate at all. Why is that the crack is growing here? Because of the environment ok. Here of course, you have a combination of quite a bit of stress intensity and the environment, but the role of environment here is much more here because see there are two things happening. The stress intensity drives the crack first of all the environment drives the crack more. When you lower the stress intensity the driving force where crack growth is decrease or increase. When you lower the stress intensity of the crack type driving force for the crack is decreasing or increasing decreasing right.  If there is no environment in this case the crack growth rate has to be almost the crack is not supposed to grow at all actually right not supposed to grow at all. So, that is that is that is the meaning of this particular plot. How how it will be without the environment actually? In fact, without the environment it will start from here only right it does not start from here it will start somewhere here only it will go from here it will start going here is not it? Without the environment the guy will start here only. In fact, this whole thing will not come into picture it will it will start going right here. Above k 1 c only the crack will start even growing or not it does not even grow the crack is there, but does not does not grow if it is less than k 1 c if there is no environment ok. So, the crack will start you know you will see in fact, it will go like this only it will go like this or like this depends upon top you know other things now ok, but it will start from here only. Yes, did I answer the question? Yes. Ok. The other parameter that also counts the stress corrosion cracking in general of material is is the ductility. The measured ductility especially on in a slow strain rate machines in a slow strain rate. I am not discussing right now strain rate test. We use a concept called a loss in please again notice all this again time dependent parameters you know if you are going to do the experiment at a very low rate very slow cooling then the ductility might even decrease quite significantly. So, it is again SCC is a time dependent process much like creep. The thing is creep occurs at a higher temperature, but here this occurs at the it can occur at the ambient temperatures. It is very similar to the creep process ok and, but happening at the ambient temperatures. SCC can occur at higher temperatures. I am not confining this to that what I am trying to see an analogy of SCC versus creep it is somewhat similar to creep it means they are all time dependent phenomena we should take into account ok. So, we we we are. So, we had some idea about. So, that means when we have this then people use a term what is called as SCC susceptibility index the term that is used and you might have if you attended the other course as I might have discussed in details is given as a parameter measured in air minus parameter measured in environment upon parameter measured in this parameter can be anything you know it could be ultimate tensile strength measured there it can be elongation reduction in area and it could not be and it can be to one call it yeah you can call it as k 1 SCC versus k 1 C yeah it is it is a k 1 C it is in air right it is in air it is in the. So, that is about the the role of tensile stresses and how the material is going to behave in terms of the you know these mechanical parameters in in in presence of the environment we saw this you know briefly what yeah from the fracture feature of that also we if you if you can recollect the we said yes it is brittle you know and you also said that you know in a in a in a in a failed sample in in a SCC whether you do it in a laboratory test or in the field you also have a ductile fracture component in the specimen ok that is happening because you know see let us let us look at like this suppose this is a noise sample right noise noise sample noise and I have the environment here and apply that the applied stress is constant you keep it like that, but as the propagates what happens the stress increases right the stress the actual stress increases on the load bearing member of the specimen right and as it moves then what happens stress can be equal to it could be k 1 C in this case in a smooth sample it can be UTS value and so the metal can fail in a ductile manner. So, the last ligament that fails would have a ductile component in the in the material actually you can see that. The next important thing that we should talk about is the environment when you say environment you know there is always some kind of general you know feeling that this specific to environment is generally that kind of you know the concept prevails and say you know to give an example stainless steel take that it could fail in the chloride medium ok. In carbon steel it could be nitrates carbonates like that you know nitrates carbonates and even fast weights. So, what I am giving is just illustration not an exhaustive list ok and you are talking about let us saycopper base alloys say the ammonia. Ammonica solution is a problem similarly when you talk about an aluminum magnesium chloride medium ok. So, there are you know some kind of you know there are experimental observations right. It appears that SCC need not be confined to specific environment. The list of environments they keep adding with the time ok. In fact, you know in nuclear industry you know that SCC is observed in stainless steels in pure water. The water quality that they use in nuclear industries is you know extremely very high quality even then stress corrosion cracking occurs. But then the time taken for SCC to occur is more, but the pure water can induce stress corrosion cracking on stainless steels at the temperatures, at that pressure and over a long period. So, the specific environment though people overall talk about it you know if you are going to be more technical I think this may not be totally correct ok. It can happen in many kinds of environments, but nevertheless environments play a significant role in terms of the life actually you know. What are these environments you say? One chemical composition of the environment right say chloride sulfates and phosphates all the stuffs to the pH of the environment. Third the temperature. So, given a broad picture right and broadly you can you can say this chemical composition and pH and the temperature they can influence the stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of the metals. Now, when you look at this broadly speaking gain let us let us look at you know our understanding of stress corrosion cracking. Right now I am not going to get into mechanisms ok. Let us look at the our understanding of the stress corrosion cracking. Now, when I apply a stress, hence a stress you have a crack a precrack is formed here. The crack grows perpendicular to the applied stress right. The crack grows perpendicular to the stress axis. Stress axis is perpendicular to stress axis it is it is a propagates you know it grows. When you have an environment the crack has to grow over the crack depth. If the crack grows for example, if the crack grows in sideways like that sideways like this the stress has to be concentrated at the crack depth. Assume that there is a huge dissolution here right. Assume there is a huge dissolution high dissolution. At the crack front the dissolution rate of the metal is very high. So, what will happen? What do you think will happen? I magnify this and here the huge uniform corrosion right it corrode so much what will happen there? The crack will blunt crack is no more sharp blunt stress concentration could be significantly reduced from that. So, what it means for stress corrosion to cracking to occur. So, for stress corrosion cracking to occur the crack walls need to be passivated the film has to be there. So, that only the crack tip the corrosion occurs the crack starts propagating along the directions otherwise the SCC will not occur. Assume that I am going to use very strongly corroding acid SCC will not occur. So, the one criteria is that the metals must passivate if they are not passivate they would not undergo stress corrosion cracking. The film has to be there in the surface and say when you take a passivation right when you take a passivation passivity depends on what you guys already studied right it depends on what it depends upon it depends on the environment it depends upon the potential and depends upon and what is this diagram called? Cooper diagram forms certain kind of broad you know indication where the stress corrosion cracking can occur for metals. So, when we when we said that the the the nitrates the carbonates and phosphates when you talk about it they are the ones that passivate the carbon steel and so, they are the ones they also promote stress corrosion cracking. If there are no applied stresses I mean they will be very happy the corrosion rate may be very small ok and because there are tensile stresses the stress corrosion cracking occurs am I right ok. So, the passivity is a a very important one. Is the passivity is a very important one? Yes, but then if you look at so, then I am going to draw this now say it is your potential the pH something like that I think I hope you know this is for iron diagram right is for iron in water. So, you have carbonates and bicarbonates right and bicarbonates you have nitrates and you have phosphates. So, these are the ones they they passivates that means, what what does it mean when you take a steel and have water and put a carbonate bicarbonate the potential of that solution automatically goes this particular place and start passivating and to phosphates it goes here in phosphates put a nitrate it goes here. So, these environments maintain certain pH in the potentials and so, these are the places where you get stress corrosion cracking happening in in these steels. People also have shown that in a polarization diagram SCC region right is a polarization diagram you see this they also found that stress corrosion cracking occurs very close to the pitting potential and very close to the active passive potential these two potential region they are happening. So, how do you imply from this? What do you imply from this? Passivity is important, but if it is going to so, absolute passivity there will be no stress corrosion cracking the passivity. So, it has to be an unstable passivity or something will should disrupt the passivity ok. So, so, the passivity disruption has to be there. So, you take a stainless steel what does chloride do? The chloride disrupts. What does oxygen do? Oxygen will take the potential towards the higher noble potentials right. You have chloride you have oxygen both of them they become they make the passive film you can see that you know there are pits and the pits they become the place of crack initiation the pitting occurs. So, the chlorides they do help to damage the film and then and when you are form a pit they become stress risers and lead to stress corrosion cracking. You know we discussed earlier that stress corrosion cracking involves initiation right and the initiation process involves we say pitting is one of the precursor event you see the pits they are responsible for stress corrosion cracking it can happen and and so, they are they are they are the problems. If this is the case they found a very nice relationship between stress corrosion cracking and the oxygen content they called dissolved oxygen versus the chloride level SCC no SCC. This we are talking about stainless steels in thermal and in nuclear power plants. So, when you use so, what how how do they how do you generate power? They use water they create steam the steam is used to from the turbine. So, the water should contain as low as chloride and the oxygen content so, that they do not undergo stress corrosion cracking it is very critical ok and you will see that the oxygen content is in the in the PBB levels ok. The chloride also is very very untraceable levels of chlorides ok. So, this are the very important things when you talk about the the material stability this is you know in in in SCC. Yes. Similarly, you also see this in the cooling waters systems the heat exchanges at the ambient temperature see these these temperatures are what these temperatures are all around about 200 to 280 degree Celsius on very high temperatures ok. In the cooling water systems the temperatures are all in the range of what? In the range of 35 to about 50 degree Celsius and you know cooling water is used you normally use the drinking water the chloride content there may be 100 ppm and 200 ppm are going to be there, but then if you are going to use chlorides and then what happens the stainless steels become prone to when you say stainless steel I mean austenitic please make this change austenitic stainless steels become susceptible to SCC above 50 degree Celsius. The other example I just give and then move on because you know there is several kind of you know cases we can discuss this illustration ok. When it comes to caustic and how we can promote stress corrosion cracking temperature carbon steel no stress relief required and carbon steel wells wells or whatever stress need to be relieved or or use stainless steels here only nickel base alloys. So, put it in a in simple terms it is necessary for us to understand the environment you know before we talk about what will be the right material when I say environment I would mean the pH chemical species temperature all the stuffs ok or to be known so, that you make right material selection. Going back we talked about let us say you know cooling water right the cooling water the temperature goes if the temperature is going to be greater than 50 degree Celsius how do the people tackle the tackle using duplex grade stainless steels use that ok. So, you could find a solution right where you cannot use it you what you do you bring down the intensity of the environment you know in boiler water you know 280 degree Celsius you cannot use duplex stainless steels. So, what happens you get it out of fluorides you can get it out of the oxygen content. So, you can have a C C in the nuclear reactors what they do in fact, they add even a hydrogen so, that the potential comes down because of the presence of hydrogen in the system. So, you can modify the environment also in order to bring down these stress corrosion cracking tendency of the metals. There are sometimes you get into a very difficult situation in the material selection it happens in the some industries like a fertilizer industry for example. The fertilizer industry say in a in a heat exchanger you use ammonia on one side and the chloride on the other side of it how do you choose the material right. If I have a chloride then I can choose a copper base alloy it does not undergo stress corrosion cracking whereas, ammonia I would go for stainless steel because it is free from stress corrosion cracking in ammonia right. But I have streams one side you know maybe in the tube let us say ammonia goes in and shell side water goes in and water has got chloride. So, how do you do that? So, what people do in this case is they use bimetallic tubes. So, these are all tubes and you have two different metals bonded actually right. One surface will have brass and inside you will have stainless steel they are bonded and so, that kind of things are being used. So, what you are trying to look at is if you know the problem you can find an engineering solution to the problem right. So, this is an engineering solution to the problem right. So, you can overcome the issue without any problems at all ok and of course, they are expensive bimetallic tubes are expensive, but that is a solution that you have so, that you can overcome the problem of stress corrosion cracking in the fertilizer industries ok. Are these bimetallic bonded together? Yeah they just yeah they bonded you can do whatever I mean it depends upon how these stream looks like right. You can have copper outside or steel inside depending upon of course, the technology that is available ok you can do that, but they are simply bimetallic tubes right. What does it mean know it is what it is right? This may be you strain the steel may be your copper base alloy yeah I will go inside this is a one fluid here fluid one here is a fluid two and so, what happens in this case I will send the ammonia outside right and the chloride containing one inside. So, I do not have any stress corrosion cracking issue at all. Any questions so far? Let me go to the next subject which is in that is it is a metallurgy of that ok. It of course, in is very difficult to cover a huge amount of things here ok and I just give a very broad outlook and move because the metallurgy that you deal with stainless steel is different from than one you deal with aluminum alloys and copper alloys so, everything goes ok. So, let us make a very broad discussion so, that you get a feel for what we mean by metallurgy in relation to the stress corrosion cracking. It could mean the alloy chemistry could mean the crystal structure microstructure when you say microstructure it means the the nature of phases nature and morphology of the phases the types of dislocation in the system grain size and the nature of the grains. So, they all can happen. Let me start with the alloy chemistry one example I will give to do that and I would take here the austenitic stainless steel or stainless steel I call it and it is stress corrosion cracking in chloride environment. Time to failure versus the percentage of the nickel content ok. You know what is the nickel content of this? 8 percent nickel almost the one we use as a workers right 304 as 8 percent nickel and its worst. Actually it is it is very difficult to separate out alloy chemistry crystal structure microstructure dislocation they are all intertwined it is it is not possible just to separate out actually you know it is not possible to do that because if I am going to add nickel and what happens the crystal structure changes from BCC to FCC. If I take if I add nickel then what happens you will see that the stacking power energy decreases. So, they are going to have different dislocation structure. So, they are quite intertwined, but still you can try to make you know you know some component of you know what really happens you know to the FCC from that perspective that point of view ok. So, the the chemistry of the alloy because you know at one point of time you said that the passivation is a very important one right. If you are going to add a very high chromium content if you are going to make the passivation very very strong then the stress corrosion cracking can come down as well actually ok. It is possible can happen you know from 304 to 360 at the some cases this they do see marginal improvement in the stress corrosion cracking of the alloy they do see that thing ok. I think we can continue in the in the next class.


hey everyone welcome back to figure fantasy so this is a december edition of the tier list plus we have two new figures that just dropped so without further ado let's move on to our tier list okay so we start off our tier list with tier c as you can see um in this tier list i've named them because most of you guys i'm sure do not memorize all of their names and um as you can see there are also letters before their names they're you know they're their position types so riko for defender midori for vanguard um ophelia for militarist and rioma for militarist okay so let's start with tier c so let's start with rioma rioma um they are um riomas basically your starter uh ranged figure um deals a lot of damage but that's just it so he is at tier c ophelia as well um not not really a good damage dealer for a militarist um not significant damage really to take you guys even to the midgame so that is why she is at tier c and also for midori for vanguard um not enough survivability not enough damage firmly that is why she is again at tier c and the last tier is going to be riko so riko i've used riko for a while uh when i was starting she is going to kind of bring you through pve content for a while but definitely um she's going to taper off because she doesn't have enough survivability survivability although she is good as a tank or sorry as she's good as a tank but and also she taunts but that that's just it so nothing really special of these four for tier c let's move on to tier b so for tier b we have here um they are usable but definitely there are better um figures than these guys so aketshi also known here as uh your uh what do you call this he is really known for your ignite resist resistance so the he decreases the resistance of ignite for your enemy so he might have a place in roster but not really as your mainstay for arena arena has ignite as well um for a specialist not too much damage on her and next is awi awi i think is the most usable here for tier b but she's very situational she thrives on certain situations that sometimes there are actually better um figures than her but again she's usable um i think or one or two um what do you call this one or two content in the game but not that much so shield she has she boosts health and i think she boosts damage as well but it's not really enough and she's not used that much next is going to be yamazaki yamazaki what can i say about this guy he looks cool but doesn't really pack a punch also survivability is a question um and uh he's only good for attacking the back line if if you want to you know kill the healers or the ranged figures at the back he that is his specialty but aside from that i don't think he is going to be your man moving forward especially for mid game and for late game next is going to be zuzumi she is a vanguard she actually carried me through early stages of the game together with riko i like her because she has summons but and also she attacks multiple you know multiple enemies for her ultimate but again late game she doesn't deal that much damage anymore so eventually you'll be you'll be replacing her so i don't think you're gonna go with her guys if you are in the middle or late stages of the game already so last is going to be sanada sanada is is not really fit for a defender um i think he is kind of mixed between a vanguard and a defender not really your typical tank so again but he's classified as a defender so again he's not really going to bring you where you want to in the mid game so next tiers a s and s s are definitely the ones that you are going to be using more frequently um take note guys awi is or might be at a but again she's just border lines between a and b so i put her at b for sure so next is going to be tier a so a tier a will start with the right so we have um sanny which is a helper sanny has a frost resist uh the frost resist for the enemy so that you could frost them or freeze them more she also has healing and she has aoe um a not really aoe but multiple damage to um your enemies on the other that she can be good actually in pve content for camille um in terms of what he brings his kit is very difficult i think to pull off because of the lock lock meaning camille easier guys camille lock is um your enemies cannot move so it's only movement that that is restricted but they can still attack you if they're they're ranged so again he has limited use that is why he is at a okay next is going to be re re um for a militarist is good for single target also good for for multiple targets but she if if you only have one target definitely much better for her so you could concentrate all her damage on one target um she really specializes in bosses and um that's it so but again if you bring her with bosses if you don't have zanta cane yet um re is a very good substitute if you don't have zanta so next is going to be zau you zau you um i think um increases create of adjacent figures also has heal and um i don't know not great i think it's it's a it's attack speed so um not too much um to brag about um just your regular healer and um his kit overall there are better healers than him definitely um next to his left is going to be yuna is a vanguard yuna one of the best burst um vanguards that i've seen um can really take down crucious if she you know has that burst in play um but again she is very limited to her burst attack for her ultimate that is where she shines and she her survivability is is it's kind of average actually so you can still bring her if you don't have the others at tier s and tier ss you can definitely bring yuna with you um as your vanguard next is going to be asteroth asteroth for a defender not really in that category he he is kind of mixed between a defender and a vanguard he definitely has lifesteal but and also transforms into a dragon but that's just it um he's he's kind of confused whether he's a vanguard or a defender so but he still has is still useful as long as you level him up but again um for his rarity he's difficult to level up that is why he is at a next is going to be alfred so alfred transforms into it into a demon um his his damage is is okay it's kind of good his survivability is what i'm questioning he requires i think at the three star uh peach he's good but you know the the the levels before that um he is very thin as paper when it comes to being vanguard and survival device okay and our last four tier a is going to be vasily vasily is one of the top three tanks that i you know i'm recommending the top two obviously are in s or s and ss but vasily is really a decent tank stun um very tough as a tank as well but again he lacks the the the versatility of his kit than his two counterparts that are in s and ss okay so let's move on to rs um tier so for s tier let's start again with the right so we have that new figure that we have been raving about which is uh zantha uh she's a specialist but she does pretty much a very big chunk of damage especially if it's only one target and especially if it's a boss so try to build her up um preferably you bring her up up to two star peach or three star then you will get the best out of her and also try to put level her skills up to at least level two then you're good to go so zantha kane one of i think you could actually put her side by side with zalora and they would be perfect for bosses next is going to be harriet harriet is also a specialist so harriet um aside from her summons she has she does blind and she's a very good utility she summons her summons frequently uh as they explode and she summons them again and she's really a good support to have on your team um long range as well so um aside from the one that has summons so you have um to zoomie she's going to be arranged and she is going to be more survivable in continuously summoning four figures or summons okay so next is going to be vazarwin so vazarwin is um a militarist so she's ranged tremendous damage for aoe frost as well and what can i say she clears the board usually when it comes to minions on the board and um she does she deals frost uh damage as well and next is going to be lubu he's going to be here so also a militarist so lubu specializes in single target and also adjacent figure damage um very good in in single target and also in mobs next is um you have here sakura sakura has definitely the one that i like from her kit is silence and she also boosts the attack of adjacent uh what do you call this adjacent figures that is why she's good to be paired with zanta kane if you have them both um it's definitely a recommendation that you use or you put zanta in the vicinity of sakura next is going to be macko so macko is one of the top three healers for me um aside from irrixia of course to her left so macko uh one of the quickest healers that i've seen she rotates her heals fast not it's it's it's not a bunch she she doesn't she she doesn't give much but again the frequency of heals that she gives is what i like about her sometimes i would pair her together with zephyr so that they could give all the or they can alternate their heals um in my team so next is going to be irrixia so again another um favorite pairing with zephyr uh irrixia is actually um known for her share health so once she shares health especially for pvp or for you know against bosses she is really really difficult or your team is going to be difficult to be defeated but again using irrixia in the team has its own drawbacks especially if one has lower hp then that certain figure dies early but again the shared health gives everybody a a more you know more survivable in a certain battle or a search in a certain matchup okay so next is going to be usuki which is going to be your specialist so usuki here has blue hair this is actually a picture from the japanese server in our game he is actually in red hair so usuki i've seen a combo with usuki and vazerwin and both of them really deal a lot of damage um usuki also has uh frost by the way and it really is good in crowd control and the last in s tier is going to be crucio so he is going to be your second to your second best tank crucio has lifesteal um he is also very tough um deals a lot of damage as well to enemies in front of him and again he's very survivable he is just bested by the other defender which is in tier ss and i think you guys know who it is so let's proceed to our tier ss so again for our tier ss so here they are here is the cream of the crop um first to your right is going to be vanguard yuyna so yuyna has dual dual is like taunt and it isolates a certain match up and has damage reflect and deals really massive damage i still don't have her and i really would love to have her on my team which is really hard to hard to get but again um for those who have her you're lucky guys because i like the way her sculpture looks and i like the way she does battle um when she's on the field okay so next is going to be specialist uh iranz um has energy and health restore um is good especially if you want to make sure that one of your tanks is going to be alive for a long time so really focuses on one figure to to restore health and restore energy and uh once you just once you find a way to protect her and she doesn't die the defender in front or the vanguard in front won't won't die as well and will all will really survive with the buffs and the heal the health restore that she gives them so next on her left is going to be a militarist with which is zarola so all of you are familiar with zarola so she is she is really one of the best um dps figures in the game she's good for single target she's good for multiple multiple targets in a single row what can i say uh the so far nobody can compete with her in the dps in the game so one of the best dps figures that we have in the game next is going to be um um a helper with is zung zung zuj zung i'm not sure if i'm pronouncing his name right but he is zung liang so he is here he is also one of the newest um figures that we have so he does healing reduction for your enemies boost critical rate absorbs lethal damage and shield so he gives he absorbs lethal damage for the whole team to take note not only for himself and after that gives them a shield that is why he is really going to be good if you have him you have copies of him please do use him i think he's going to be good in pvp as well gonna be a headache for your enemies that is why he is going to be ss so um you know surviving little damage is one of the things that um is a strategy in this game and this guy has built in for all of your allies okay next to his left is going to be zephyr so zephyr um our top healer um you know heals gives energy um two of the most important things that we need in this game to be competitive and she gives them to her team so again if you guys have zephyr you have one of the best healers and um and supporters of the game so again what can i say this girl you know was one of my first um figures when i started and and i've never looked back you know i've been using her since the start and she is really good and to round out our ss is going to be yoko so yoko um she is vanguard the one that intrigues me about yoko is her ghostate so with increased attack speed she can be very very good okay so again um what can i say for yoko one of the best uh what do you call this one of the best vanguards that we have her ghostate actually extends up to seven seconds which also gives her immunity from lethal damage and prevents her from dying so again it would be difficult to kill her and her damage is actually good as well um before i proceed to the last ss sorry i i missed one slot on this side so the last one for tier s we'll go back down below is going to be zhaoyun zhaoyun one of i think i've been i've been using him from the start so um one of the best mili figures with a shield absorbs a lot of damage has lifesteal has very good or fast attack speed so what can you say he sometimes you know he sometimes clears uh what do you call this the what do you call this the big three if he's on that team and he's the only one left he sometimes clears off that stage all by himself so what can i say about this guy um my only problem with him is if he cannot recover enough of his lifesteal then he gets killed but if he does consistently pull off his shield in lifesteal then he survives that well okay going back to ss our last ss is going to be megan so megan one of the best um or the best defenders that we have aside from how good looking she is especially with her new skin in terms of hp is he she has tons of hp and she casts that ultimate and ultimate grants her a shield so sometimes even if she has a shield she casts again so that it could be you know if full again so if you built her right and if you you know if her her shield is that big you cannot really you know you cannot really um pierce through her defense or go through her defense she's going to be a wall for you guys and sometimes or most of the time she's the last woman standing in my team so i've used her i she's currently in i think four star in my team and really a hell of a tank so that is it guys for our tier list so hope you guys had a you had a good time while i was uh rambling through the tier list um if you have any questions or suggestions or comments please put them down in the comment section below for now as of the play test since soft launch up to december these are my assessments of each of them uh based on actual usage and also gameplay okay guys so thank you very much for staying this far so um uh please subscribe to my channel if um you haven't subscribed yet because this helps my channel a lot also guys do not forget to click the bell icon if you if you want um to be updated on every video that is coming from my channel and take care guys stay safe this is the warden and i'm out of here


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Hey friends and welcome to my channel. I am Yoshida and this is Norris Cove. Today I'm back faith-planning. Y'all I kind of totally missed the whole month of October. It wasn't that I didn't want to. It was I was so busy with the shop and everything but I really need to do my faith-planning so I'm a little behind first started on Friday. So I'm using some washi tape. You guys know I love my washi tape right? So let me just take these pages out. I just want to jump in. I don't want to be long-winded. I was editing my budget video and I'm like girl you was long-winded. So I'm gonna ignore these little colorful things over here on the side and if I didn't mention for the month of November we and when I say we you guys myself if you want to join in and Anika over at Anika's Creative Plans we're studying balance and I really wanted to participate in last month's faith-planning. I just couldn't get around to it and I just I wanted to keep some content up on my channel and just doing two planners which is working for me. So I'm just gonna kind of change this around and you know what I think I just thought about it this is from the homebody and I whipped out colorful boxes in one kind so I may just use my homebody book to decorate this and as before I was using my mini my happy planner mini to do my faith spread and the reason that I like to use that is because it's small enough it is horizontal and I can write in it maybe for 2020 we may step it up a little bit but this is something that I can just bring to my bedroom and playing in which I didn't do before so I'm gonna finish these washy strips on here and then we'll be back my homebody sticker book here I just thought I would just keep kind of everything the same and we're doing the fourth through the tenth so I'm gonna take some of these little flowers and just add I've used these flowers before so if you see them yes I've used them before I use them in my happy Nietzsche Fobonichi so I just want to add a few of these just to give it a little I know y'all like what is your dog always parking so I'm just gonna add a few of these little flowers here and to me they're like even though they're little light and color is still a little fallish and I just felt so kind of like not naked but like I needed to faith plan I mean you guys the planning community has done so much for my life because I get ideas that I never thought of I learned you know so much just different things in general I want to wipe this out but I want to put like a little box here make the day great right here make this day great I don't know I want to put something here which it was like this says embrace what is good but I want kind of feel like I need to put something behind there and I know I can find something to put behind the I just gotta here's a nice little box I think that'll do this box here and it looks like it fits it perfect and that way if I want to write in it I can still write something there embrace what is good and then I'm gonna put down maybe something that was good and I'm gonna cut this and y'all that's what I love about the scriptural writing is that you don't need a lot of deco you just need it to kind of be able to function that's too much on one page let's have this come out of here like that now I'm gonna add the dates and my memory cooking book is over here somewhere yeah I need somebody to come and just overhaul this room with me oh my god there's so much stuff I was looking for a little person this lady has on her rope and I can't I think it's all melanin I think that's where these come from they don't have a name on them now and she looks like she got the Bible in her hands a cup of coffee and her role y'all this room I'm telling you we're gonna have to pray over it since it's a lot going on over there I'm gonna use her over here I don't know why I've been kind of hoarding her but I'm gonna stick her here what should I put her at the bottom hmm yeah I'm just gonna put her here there she goes and I may get cut off so I'm gonna do my date I know what dates it is but I'm gonna do my date covers off camera because I really gotta kind of dig through them so let me see yeah I'm gonna do my day my date covers off camera I'm gonna fill in the scriptures also because of the scripture boxes that I want to use they're like this I don't think any of them really go but let's try green let's just try it shoot I'll put those over here so I know the scripture we'll just use green I'm afraid I'm run out let me put that here like that a little pink we'll do a little pink here I like it kind of clean and just kind of writing in the scripture but it's all to the good but I'm so excited to be getting back to my scripture writing because a lot of things were happening when I was doing it you know good thing good positive things so I am definitely all for that so they more worry less okay let's get this little tiny one here it says let go and let God you know that's oh we'll put that right there to top so we're back we're back face planning thank you Jesus we're back okay so this is what I have I love it it's so cute again I will put the big dots on off camera thank you all so much for watching tuning into my channel if you're new and you're enjoying the content that you are getting please do me a favor hit that subscribe button hit that notification bell so that you notified whenever upload content and I look forward to seeing you in my next video also leave me a little feedback in the comments section I enjoy conversation with my subscribers you guys sometimes we just have good conversations especially when I did the budget video I enjoyed hearing the budget giveaway I enjoyed hearing everyone's take on why they budget and we had some pretty engaging conversation so do me a favor and leave me a comment in the comment section I return and talk to all my subscribers so I'll see you all in my next video bye


The Philippines Coast Guard said on November 11th it would maintain its regular supply missions to troops stationed on a disputed atoll in the South China Sea even though it expects more Chinese vessels to be sent to the area. The Philippines regularly sends supplies to a handful of troops living aboard an aging warship that was deliberately run aground on the 2nd Thomas Shoal in 1999 to assert Manila's sovereignty claims over the atoll. China claims almost the entire South China Sea, including the 2nd Thomas Shoal, and has deployed hundreds of vessels to patrol their Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Jay Tariela told a news conference the Coast Guard will still carry out the resupply missions despite our limited number of vessels and despite the increasing number of Chinese vessels they are going to deploy. The Philippine Coast Guard convinced once again the China Coast Guard's unprovoked app of coercion and dangerous maneuvers against illegitimate, local and routine Philippine rotation and resupply mission to a union shoal. It has put the lives of our personnel at risk. They were successful in completing the mission despite attempts by five Chinese Coast Guard ventals and 28 Chinese maritime militia boats to recklessly harass, block, execute dangerous maneuvers in another attempt to illegally impede or obstruct a routine resupply and rotation mission to BRP Cheramato. Philippine Coast Guard goes still. You have the commitment of our Coast Guard that we're still going to carry out this dangerous mission despite of our limited number of vessels and despite of the increasing number of the Chinese vessels that they're going to deploy. We believe that we don't want the Chinese government to still continuously argue that they have the total control of a union shoal. With our capability to maintain our presence there with the ribs that we deployed and the ribs also of the armed force detour teams that they deployed, it showed that we still have the control of a union shoal.


Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Account and welcome back to the channel. EA just continues to change everything about this team of the season. Now we're only one day away as Live Toss starts tomorrow. But we've learned some more information and news yesterday that shakes everything up even more. Are we having a new schedule for a team of the season this year apart from all the changes that EA have already made? Yeah, we're going to talk about that today because there was an unexpected vote dropped yesterday. And it might tell us a little bit more than you think. Also we had interesting SBCs yesterday with tradable Team League packs of probably prices are moving and the full team of the Toss live cards has been leaked. We got to talk about that and how it's going to impact things today and tomorrow on Friday. If you're excited for it today drop a thumbs up and subscribe if you're new. Let's cover yesterday's Wednesday content on FC24 starting with the player SBCs. They keep loving these pundit pick SBCs guys. Yesterday we had Crystal Palace, Adam Wharton, center midfielder SBC. He's got long ball pass and press proven play style plus. It's a decent card.  He's got a lot of nineties in there. Good passing, good dribbling, good physical, solid defending, even decent pace. Medium, high work rates, five star weak foot. It's only 50,000 coins. If you have some if you need somewhere to put I guess some 84s, 5s and 6s since this is an 86 rated squad. Maybe the 87s as well. You know, it's there, right? It's just kind of there.  Obviously, I was stoked with the Vannevin last week as a Spurs fan. But if you're not, then it's just kind of like, okay, there we go. Now the bigger SBC was yesterday EA actually did it guys. They dropped the 81 plus tradable team of the week upgrade. This is the first time that we have had tradable team of the week supply in an SBC pack the entire year. And yes, it is 81 plus. So some of those informs from earlier on in the year are packable from this and they're no longer extinct on the market. Some of the evils that have made team of the week's extinct. Now those team of the weeks are actually viable off the market because of this SBC, which is a good thing about that. The problem with this SBC though is it's 85 rated, which means it's 31,000 coins to get done. And you can only do this SBC one time before it expires next Wednesday, which now we're kind of envisioning that maybe this will come out every single Wednesday. You'll be able to do it one time to get yourself a tradable team of the week card. Yes, you could say there is a reason to do this. You could pack and bop it. You could pack messy. You could pack a high rated inform. The likelihood of that though guys is very, very low. Now with this tradable supply, informs have dropped, but not really a lot because I think most people realize that, okay, yes, it's bringing some supply in, but at the same time, it's only one time per week that we can do this. Informs went from about 21 to 22,000 coins yesterday and right now they are 19K. So they are down a little bit and they could drop a little further today, but they're not like tanking and they're not discard 10,000 coins price because that SBC is only repeatable one time. You can only do it once and then it goes away basically for the week. So that's why informs aren't exactly mudded. So if you've been missing out on an older inform card that you've wanted for your team or for an evolution, check the market because they might be available now. Now the next question is do we need to invest in informs as they're about 19,000 coins? And for me, if informs got down to like 15, maybe 17,000 coins, then potentially I would look to invest, but they're going to have to keep putting out good SBCs. I know team of the season is going to start and we're going to have more SBCs and they'll probably still keep requiring team of the weeks. So there could be an investment opportunity here, but they need to go a little bit lower. The team of the week prices do for me to want to feel confident about investing in those right now. Now yesterday, we also had road to the final madness guys big day of Champions League yet again yesterday. And we have to fit this in because some of these upgrades are coming in very soon. Kimmich is getting a plus one and Tony Cruz is getting a plus one after Byron moved through and so do rail Madrid after yesterday's games. So GGs, if you had either of those guys, their cards are getting upgraded on Friday. Along with winners from Tuesday and the winners from today's Europa League and Conference League matches. Now on the flip side of the coin, you've got players like Gabriel Jesus that are down horrendous. Gabriel Jesus was a 1.1 million coin card yesterday. Even one as high as 1.6 and now is down to 400,000 coins. It's about time this card came down in value. I mean, guys, I don't know. This card has never been worth his price the entire time he has been released in packs. I'm just being completely honest for a first touch plus and relentless plus striker. Yes, the stats are good and his other play styles are solid as well. But I think now he's a reasonable price. And some people actually might be trying to get their hands on a card like this because they can actually afford it now. So Jesus is down. Of course, Gavardi ol is down as well because city losing right 110,000 for Gavardi ol. He was a 600,000 coin card. That is just what happens when a card gets knocked out. That's crazy that that card is only 110 K. But only one play style plus. Does he have to anticipate? He does not have anticipate still a decent card though. So that's one thing to kind of watch out for. Speaking of the upgrades coming in hot hopefully today. Hopefully today, guys, we get that buy and upgrade 89 dire going to a 91 and he will fit into the evolution. Showdown winners boost and he'll able to go. He'll be able to go to a 92 rated card as does Mukiella and Mukiella was upgraded. This is why we're hoping that Eric Dyer can be upgraded pretty fast because Mukiella already got upgraded yesterday. This card, especially if you put him into the boost looks absolutely freaking insane. So Gigi's if did Mukiella Gigi's if you did dire because both of those are getting the plus two for the wins and those showdowns are getting upgraded. So that's one thing that I'm looking forward to with dire using him in champs, qualities today on Thursday. So that's kind of the biggest news from inside of the game with the upgrades kind of relating to the UCL and Champions League. Now, let's move to the big news guys. Yesterday, there was some leaks beforehand for content that we were going to get our first team of the season vote. And then after the content drop, it actually happened. We had EA tweet out and their website allow us to start voting on Bundesliga team of the season. It seems really random. They were voting on team of the season out of nowhere, right? Last year, we had votes for Community Tots, Prem, like almost every single league of Tots we were voting on. And this is now just the first vote that we are seeing. What why is this the first vote? What about Premier League? Because does this mean that Bundesliga team of the season is going to be the first week of Tots? I want to get into that here in a second. Here's one thing that I noticed. Obviously, you've got a decent set of goalkeepers, midfielders and attackers. I think it's a very good representation of who's involved here in those particular parts of the pitch. But for the defenders, it is like all lever cues in which to be fair is deserved. There's no Bayern defenders here in the defense. There's no Hummels, which a lot of people were feeling like he should have been fit into this vote as well. If a player is not in the vote, there still is a chance they could get a Tots moments card, whether it's an SBC objective or I think potentially impacts. I forget how they did the last year. If the moments cards were players that were in the voting that didn't get in or if it was just other players in general. This was my team of the season, Bundesliga vote guys. I voted just like a different team of the year off of a, I want to use these cards meta, not who deserves it. Yes, Openda, should he be in there over Girassi? Probably not. I loved Boniface from Future Stars. I totally want that card again. Javi Simons and Mousyala are always cracked. Same with Virts. And I was like, you know what? Let's try Slaughterback and Ta. I almost put in Simakan, but I put in Ta over him. He's like, you know what? That's going to be a really good center back card if he gets a Tots card. And then Frimpong and Grimoldo, I think are lax to get in. So there's definitely from this vote, a lot of players that are lax, but there's a lot up for grabs as well. And once again, reading the terms and conditions, voting begins yesterday and it ends on the 21st of April. So basically it ends early Monday morning for most of us in our time zones. And it says the final Bundesliga team of the season selection will be determined by a combination of EA and Community Votes. So here's the thing. If the voting ends on Monday, April 22nd, are we getting Bundesliga team of the season before Premier League team of the season? That is the biggest question right now. And while we can't actually answer that yet, assuredly 100%, it does seem odd that we are getting a vote for this before we would get a vote for Premier League Tots, right? We always know that it goes Community Tots, then Premier League. Well, this year, we're replacing Community with the live Tots cards. But then I think we still expected Premier League Tots to be after that. But is that actually not happening? I want to look back at last year real quick, guys, because EA still has the website up from FIFA 23 team of the season. And I think the voting timeframes on this might actually tell a different story, although the whole thing is still unknown. Last year, take a look at this. Last year, we had the vote for Community Tots on April 10th, and it was open for three to four days, kind of like this vote is as well. It closed on April 13th, and then Community Tots didn't actually get dropped in the game until April 28th. So it was almost, not quite, but almost two weeks of time from when the voting ended until we actually saw the cards in the game, right? Actually, it was two weeks last year. Then for Premier League team this season, the voting started April 17th, ended April 20th, and we got the cards May 5th. So there was a large gap between when we got the vote and when we actually got the cards in game. That could mean, number one, that if there's going to be that large of a gap this year for Bundesliga team this season, then we could have Premier League Tots before Bundesliga, and it would go live Tots, Premier League, and then Bundesliga. And it could happen that way. But if it's not going to be that way, and if EA is going to get these votes calculated, turned around really quick, since this is the first vote, so then after live Tots, we would have Bundesliga team this season. That's also something that seems plausible as well. Here's what I think is going to happen. If we are getting a Bundesliga vote, and if it's going to go off of last year's timeframe, I think there actually might be Premier League team this season still, but we just haven't got a vote on it, and they're just going to release a Premier League team this season without us voting on it at all. That's the only logical thing that I can see right now, unless they're going to take the results of this Bundesliga vote, turn it around really fast, and have a Bundesliga Tots squad the week after, so basically a week from tomorrow. Because again, live Tots is first, we're kind of looking ahead in the future, right? Live Tots is first, it's all kind of the discussion right now around what is next. So I don't think it's been confirmed 100% by anybody, but that is one thing I wanted to point out to you guys, and let me know what are your community Tots votes, or your Bundesliga Tots votes, rather, I want to know who you guys are voting for, who you guys want to see in. This does definitely give me excited for team this season, man, like seeing all these players down here, the potential for the votes. There's a lot of great midfielders. Daniel Malin getting in here for Rich from Stuttgart, right? He had the crazy fantasy FC, SPC as well. Even some of the strikers, like can you imagine Undav, he'd be cracked. Fuel Krug, Wind from Dortmund, even Marmus, like so many of these guys would be so good. That's the fun about team this season voting as well. So that's kind of the big news yesterday in regards to the schedule of things. It's making us think that is for sure.  Tots live cards, right? EA confirmed on the loading screen that the leaks were true. Campaign launch, they get team this season cards with the live arrows at the top. The club wins two games in the next four. They get a plus one overall. And if the club scores eight goals in the next four games as well, they get another plus one with all those domestic league games starting this Friday tomorrow actually. So if there's any live cards that are coming out with games tomorrow, that might be something to keep an eye on. Now, here's the kicker. We have the full entire leaked team, guys. This is a massive team of players. Now, it does include SBCs and objectives according to footscoreboard, but this is the whole entire team, right? We got the Modric, the Bruno, the Romero, the Klaus, all those big names. But then it also just looks like there is going to be so much fodder with this team, guys. A lot of people are looking at this leak and saying, Nate, this looks very mid. And I don't want to be opening my packs for this. I want to be saving for the future real team of this season, whether it's Prem, whether it's Bundesliga, whenever that will start. Well, we know when it'll start, a week after tomorrow. But I kind of agree with that. This promo team does look kind of mid. Again, the stats are a prediction. That is one thing we have to remember. But I think the stats are probably going to be close because I think the people that are creating this graphic are actually thinking through, okay, these are live Tots cards that are live and they have to have a little bit of room for upgrades, like we've been talking about all week. So I don't know if SoboSly is going to be 93 rated or 94 rated, like a team of the season version of his card would probably be if he were to get a real Tots card. He might be 91 at most 92 to then give him that potential to go up to 93 or 94 with the upgrades. But guys, a lot of fodder and a lot of people are like, no, Nate, I'm not opening these packs. A lot of people are like, wow, did EA figure out a way to ruin team this season already? And it's kind of just all based off of the hype. They are Tots cards. They will be boosted up. Hopefully weak foot skill move upgrades. Hopefully double play styles. I don't know about the inclusion of the three play style pluses. I don't think that all the cards that come out are going to have that maybe a couple of the cards tomorrow. We'll have three play style pluses. That's something that we have literally no idea about now. Maybe we'll learn something a little bit more about that. But since that's the case, I'm looking at my pack save right now and I'm like, I think I'm not going to open as many packs. Now I will say all of my packs that are e-figs like I have some 82 times 10 e-figs packs. They're kind of hiding in behind. That's the only problem right now is that those are hiding. I do think I'm going to open those. And maybe even some of the like 583 plus defenders packs and midfielder's packs that I have saved up from objectives. I think I'm going to open those. But my big packs, 87 times 4, 82, 20, 85 times 10. I don't think I'm going to open too many of those just because I think I want to save those for the real team of the season squads. So we'll talk more about the live Tots team tomorrow and how I think that's going to be impacting the market tomorrow on Friday. But one thing to think about as we're heading into Thursday today and how this looks kind of mid, right? People are already starting to suspect that with this looking as mid as it is based off of the leagues that some of the market might start to rebound and climb back up in prices because people are going to see that new team and be like, yeah, you know what? I'm just going to go back out and buy the cards that I want to play a weekend league for Tots rewards. Those cards will be playable for and packable through rewards. So there will be gameplay demand this weekend. And let's be honest. It is the beginning of the season. So there's hype regardless. I'm watching the top tier most rare meta cards on this market right now guys because I'm not saying they're going to rebound back and go crazy high in price. I'm just saying there's a potential that come this Friday night after content, especially with the weekend league delayed start. I think that's going to impact things. We'll talk more about that in tomorrow's video as well. I'm keeping a close eye on the market because it just feels like there could be some cards and there's going to be a lot of opportunities to buy cards, whether it's the most recent go lasso players, some of like the full birthdays, maybe even a team of year. I just think there's going to be an opportunity where we could see the market rise up a decent amount late Friday night after people see the new cards that come out, maybe open some of their packs and then it will depend on the SBC content too. But I just feel like we might be a little underwhelmed by the cards that we will get. And if that is the case, the rest of the market could go up. So it's just kind of an early call and early kind of thing that I'm seeing and how it could play out depending on how the cards look. That's the only thing we don't know right now about those live Tots cards. We don't know their stats. If EA somehow juice them up and the pack weighs high, then it might be a different story. But as of right now, we feel like we kind of know how it's going to go down. The promo itself looks just average. The cards themselves are probably not going to be that crazy high rated and that's going to hurt some of the hype on this game for them. So before we get to that, we'll talk a lot more about that tomorrow as well. What's today on Thursday? Of course, Division Arrivals Rewards. I had Division 2 first time of the year actually grinding out rivals this season. D2 Rewards. I'm hitting those today. I mean, to be honest, I'm saving most of the packs, right? The 86-4s or something like that for Division 2. I will open the other packs though so I can get more rares and non-rares to which I can put into the 81 plus player pick. Craft into the 83 times 10s, continue to save those. I think I do have one 82 times 11 that I can finish off as well. Just try to get, again, that low level grind continuing on the menus of this game. Make sure you're doing the daily play. It's a very important thing to do as well. And all the other objective packs. A lot of those objective packs are tied to warm-up series under the Live tab and they're not out for forever. Like, I know the cup is still around, but I even think it would be smart to get the cup done even though it's still out for another week. Try to get that cup done. I'm looking at myself saying this. Get it done this week or today if you can before Weekend League starts. That way, once Weekend League starts and there's Tots cards to play for and rewards, you can focus on that and then arrivals this next week. So I'm going to try to get the cup done today. And then, of course, people playing champs, qualifiers today. There'll be a lot of that going on. There's no award today or reward for the Tots daily login. Today's going to be Day 7 of 8 on Friday. Tomorrow we'll all get an 84 times 2. Other than that today, guys, it's probably going to be a bit slow. Thursdays always brings marquee matchups. So I wouldn't expect a lot to be happening there except for maybe a few people opening a couple of packs here or there. One thing we're looking for tomorrow is where the exchange is going to go. The exchanges are all expiring. I hope they just get rinsed and refreshed with maybe a nice Tots dynamic here on the badge. And then I hope they add in some new exchanges as well. But we have no idea at this very moment, guys. We'll see if we get leaks today. We'll see if we get any news and information about what Tots Live is going to bring with SBC's objectives and the like. I'm mostly a liquid apart from lazy listing some cards on my transfer list. We have about, I don't even know, like 8.3 or 4 or something like that million. And we are ready for team of the season to be here. But let me know your comments down below in the comment section. I want to hear what you're thinking about those leaks, how the team looks to you. Are you excited for tomorrow or have the leaks kind of put you off, right? That's the bad thing about leaks sometimes. We get excited for a promo-like team this season. But then we see the leaks like that and it just kind of bums us out. Maybe we'll be surprised by EA. Who knows? But if you enjoyed the video today, drop a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. I will catch you guys in the Twitch stream today. That link's down below in the description as well. If you want to watch us live, play the game, chat it up and then enjoy the menus. You can click that link there. But I'll see you guys in the video tomorrow at the very least. I've been Nathan Buttekeman. Peace.


The Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA, has won that it won't hesitate to will the big stick against any boat operator who violates the rules and regulations guiding the waterways. The general manager of the state's waterways authority, Oluwa Adami Lola Immanuel, maintained that LASWA would remain committed to providing adequate support to improve boat services while training boat ferry crew. A correspondent love Iku Koyadaku reports. Water transportation is often described as cheap and forms a part of public transportation system in Lagos state. But as popular as this point of transportation seems, it is still considered by many as unsafe. This is the major reason for the convergence of stakeholders in the waterways transport system in Lagos. What this training is going to help do is going to even help prevent, you know, possible incidents on the waterways and of course equip the operators with the necessary skills and knowledge they should have of navigation on the inland waterways. So we're very, very excited about this. The waterways today in Nigeria, a case study of Lagos State, we could see that a lot of areas are having losses regarding safety and security, especially of passengers. However, the ultimate that should be for the boat operators is to be on the safety force of the passengers, secondly, is every other thing to be added. Members who operate in the transport sector of the Nigeria economy, they belong to the informal sector. And with the statistics available nationwide, over 60% of the economy is informal. Here in Lagos State, for example, almost 70% of the economy is informal. So we constitute this formality and if we are doing this to build capacity, to stimulate growth, we are in a way contributing to the economy, not just of the state but at the federal level as well. Oluwadamilola Immanuel is a general manager, Lagos State Waterways Authority, last one. He says the Lagos State government is living no stone unturned in ensuring safety on its waterways. As an authority, we will have a carotter who will never explain what a river carotter is. I will also have a steep approach. I will support you in every way I can as a regulator, but at the same time, if you break the rules and regulations of the waterways, I will not support you. Representatives of Inland Waterways and NIMASA take the trainees through the rules of the waterways. They must have an equipment on board that they are able to respond if there is fire on board that vessel. They also have an equipment on board we call an OAS. If they are moving and suddenly happen to their engine, their engine break down, the OAS is a wooden pad that they can use it to manually navigate the vessel until they get a rescue. Anybody they cut on water that is not due to license will face the full route of the law because it means that you are not fully equipped to do that job you are doing and you put other people's life at risk in that process. They attributed the cause of mishaps on waters to untrained boat operators who were unperturbed about safety measures coupled with poor search and risky measures. Love you Kukuku Yedugun. Plus, TV News. Don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


I'm gonna keep this brief, but I just have to ask, what in the block is going on with Lego Master Builders this season? Actually, I'm pretty sure the show's called Lego Masters, but I've been calling it Lego Master Builders for seasons now that I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna inevitably keep saying that. Let's continue. The hit Fox show hosted by Will Arnett is on its third season. We catch them when they go to Hulu a few days later and we're about three episodes deep. And I have to say, my family's basically checked out. The show was fantastic in season one and two. You had these very talented creative builders coming up. Teams of two would compete against each other until there was only one team left standing. Every week we would join them in some crazy competition where they had to build either the tallest building imaginable or hang something off the side of a wall and hope it stays up. The builders themselves had different styles to them. They were from every walk of life. They were fascinating people with even more fascinating building approaches. I'm a big Lego fan myself.  I like to go off of the manual. I like someone else making those decisions for me, but man, do I appreciate skill when I see it. And some of the stuff these creators were coming up with in those first two seasons blew me away. I watched this show with my family of three, my wife, my 10 year old son and my 13 year old daughter. We had a blast. Every Sunday we woke up. I'd make a big pancake breakfast. We'd sit down with Will Arnett and the fam for about 45 minutes and be fully engaged. At the end of every episode sans the first one, a team is let go. Why is no one let go on the first episode? Well, as Will Arnett said, this show is a little different. Now we fast forward to season three and things have changed a lot. Now I do know that this show was affected by COVID so things had to be shaken up. There was a Jurassic World episode that was very ill timed. The movie came out months back and now we have Chris Pratt running around doing some lame jokes. It was just weird. It was out of place. But let's really break down the problems I'm having this season. For starters, the show seems to be falling into that same bull crap that most reality TV shows do where they go for character over quality. And by that I mean this season every person that's on here seems to have a really big gimmick. Whether it's the firefighter crew or the paramedic crew or the Canadians or the influencers, the incredibly awkward mother daughter son who dressed the same and things are kind of weird between them. It's great to have variety but it's clearly coming at the cost of talent because the stuff they're building this season is so far below the standards we've come to expect in the past. And not only that, all of these teams are so one dimensional, it's comical. For instance, the firefighters for the first episode built a firefighter cross symbol thing. It doesn't look good. It's very sloppy. So of course they won. What? Almost all the other builds were better. But I guess because they were firefighters and they built a firefighter theme, that was all it took. On the second episode, you guessed it, more fire, this time buildings that were very rudimentary looking and a dinosaur that didn't look like a dinosaur and didn't function. The goal of the episode was to have a functioning thing and the brontosaurus is like crash, just laying there on the side of a building. Just embarrassing. And it's not just them. The paramedics, always paramedic theme. The influencers, always influencer theme. That's like me going on to the show and every episode just doing movie stuff. Like I have other thoughts in my mind. I have other ideas. Why is it so simplistic? Why is it so lame? Another thing in past seasons we got a lot of these cool illustrated renditions of what the builds were gonna look like. We spent a lot of time with the teams focusing on their structures and how they were gonna make things work, divide their time between each other. Who was the brains? Who was the brawn? And so on and so forth.  Barely are we focusing on the builds themselves. They rarely do any sort of fun animation after the builds complete. We see the final product. I don't know what is going on with this show but it's miserable in comparison. It's a poor cosplay of what it used to be. Will Arnett's still having a good time. The judges however, kind of seem like they don't wanna be there either. They don't have much to say anymore. Maybe because even they know that the stuff they're looking at is pretty low tier garbage. The couple that got let go on the last episode built something that I honestly think my 10 year old boy could. It was painfully bad and it's not like it was much worse than some of the other builds. And the conspiratorial part of me thinks they picked characters that were characters and nothing more. The quality dipped because they had to find the unique voices. Those that stood out and could put on a performance. Not just build well. And it's come at a price. My entertainment. Oh and as far as our family goes, my son's checked out. He doesn't watch it anymore. He goes and plays like Dragon Ball Z on the PS4. My wife and daughter are miserable with it now. They don't even want, they wanna fast forward to the end. That's just sad.  Do better. I wanna hear from you though in the comments. Are you having the same issue? Are you watching this show? Are you excited anymore? Leave it below. Like the video if you had a good time. Maybe think about subscribing if you haven't as I post tons of movie and TV show content each and every week. Would love to have you brick around. You got it. All right, I'll see you next time.   There's a $1 tier, a $5 a tan. It goes up there a ways. It's for support. I do this show alone. It's a hobby. It's a passion project. I got a full-time job. Wife, kids to feed, pancakes to make. It'd be nice if you could show some support there. I'd really appreciate it.


Good morning cyber traders. Happy Monday everybody on the first day of the pay period for June. Good. See you all Good morning. All right. Good morning to you mark Brian Casey good to see you Albert Jean everybody and welcome new trial members We know we have a lot of guys that started on Monday Hope you guys are gonna have a fast new seat belt because we're gonna have a lot of fun This is where you can actually see where people's other than us Do make money and trade on their own remember it's all about you not about us Remember you doing this as a career. We're just here to teach you how to stop losing money Not just to make money, but good to see you all just make sure you talk to education advisors Before we get started and go through some of the watch list because so far this morning. We had a great day Great morning. I'm sorry with the Jenta already the GNCA that thing early bird gets the money You know eight eight to twelve. I mean come on guys You've got if you went to eight and nine your day should be over ready on a thousand chairs And you can see it stock was a hundred eight dollar stock stock got literally destroyed, but I made a big big comeback We'll talk about that in a little bit, but before we do that upcoming events. Just remember we have traders talk every Tuesday live Q&A strategy sessions with Josh basically go over all the lessons and Talking about some old things that went over the week and you know kind of more or less Just answer your questions in detail There's if we got open house and then we have a big event with traders corner coming up All right, let me go out there and share my screen with some of you here. Let me just give me a second here I had to change monitors There we go. All right So as that's coming up a Couple of stocks. Let's just go over what we talked about and what happened on Friday and TNX was a really nice mover you could see that was probably One of the early bird winners right there stock were from 25 to 2850 You could see that right there up here on the top left-hand side great great pop right there Some of you guys did really well GPS and that's not the thing that's in your car That is gap gap got crushed But had a nice little dead back dead cap bounce remember when it comes to Stocks that make dead cap bounces as long as not a pharmaceutical stock, you know Sometimes these things come back and as spot as spot was just here's a stock that you know another $160 stock literally just got And that's like the high highs I'm gonna change it to a daily But that stock just had a really nice pop in pre-market buck 60 all the way to 260 another big winner Couple of people did well and we'll do a couple of shoutouts really quick. Let's do a shout out really quick for Neil H He made a $1.15 on The the GN the GNCA so already that's this morning So let me just give him a let's give him a round of applause That's isn't a great Neil to start the morning that way It's just awesome and then You know it may be a couple of them right made a couple of them made 71 cents and made another was a 69 cents That's amazing great great great love it. Well congratulations, and I know a bunch of you guys also did pretty well on the stock Listen, gent GNCA is not your typical level one stock is extremely volatile now It was fun this morning when I had a little bit of a shake right here. Let me just fix this time clock right here Get a little bit better of you, but right here around that 830 was probably the best I was I was logged in around 7 30 this morning I had it up there early this morning was at 7 and You could have chased there around 8 when it did a little shake right there It wasn't that terrible but then I had that last minute pop and then build nice little foul still flag around 9 o'clock and Let me tell you I was looking at my level 4 see orders everywhere just getting executed But anyway, I would put a pillow pulls on her right now I would stay away from it because the stock is extremely volatile. Let's just see what happened It opens up give it five minutes. There are a couple of the stocks though, which I like a little bit better Let's start off with this CY CY right here. Oh, yes the buyout right here. So guys scratch that one Don't get caught in a buyout. How do you know it's a buyout? I don't even got to look at the news You could just see what the stock it did from the previous clothes O-T-L-K this one. I like a little bit better the stock very inexpensive not a lot Stock also good little pre-market trade right there from 250 went to 310 a little bit more controllable If you look over here on the level 3 look at that. I want to talk about an iceberg order When's the last time you saw a 236 Thousand share seller at 310. Oh, what do you know?  Hey, that's why we do what we do and that's why we love this job Telltale windows right there on the right. So guess what stock ain't going anywhere until it breaks that resistance And you know what that could happen if that happens this stock could really take off Remember the stock took a big hit, but that's got to get through that big big big iceberg order out there Some of you probably never seen that before, huh? Hey, you know was also great the LK now listen LK has been a really nice swing trade. This is Starbucks Competitors a Chinese Starbucks Stock went public took a big big hit. It's been doing great, but let me tell you the stock's really not a day trade I tried a day traded. I got a hit a couple of times very minimal I want to do a swing trade on it and you know what remember when you swing trade You always do five ten times less versus day trade, but this stock is not really a day trade Be very very careful. They got some nasty shakes in it typical You know IPOs like that we saw and then one last one I want to throw in a watch list DMP. I this one right here also huge winner on Huge winner, but now she's backing off pretty big right here down 41% look at that We had a stock went from $2 up to $5 you wake up this morning now. It's back down to $2 talking about a Short squeeze. I mean that's what looks like to me, you know So that's why you know you always hear me saying the room We trade these stocks got to be really careful when they go up really really fast, you know Because they come down twice as fast. So, you know what gotta be careful when you deal with these stocks So anyway, not a lot of stocks on a on a on a Monday morning, which is perfectly normal Listen, if you just got the GNCA you should be done. I mean it is gorgeous here in New York A lot of cold as I was a great weekend, you know what if you made your money This is what it's all about. It's a part-time job. You can go home and now you don't have to even stick around for the to open If you just got those two nice little two winners But if you didn't don't worry about markets opening up There's always a whole list new stocks that are coming out now regarding about like I said earlier We have a lot of new people that joined the cyber group room. We just got three things We have to tell you look listen and learn it's our three famous L's and make sure you took the education advisor And then most importantly make sure you watch those videos. We know what you're gonna say when you first get in there Like wow, it's very interesting. I'm confused. I thought I knew what I was talking about trust me You haven't seen nothing yet. So, you know But remember a lot of people want to trade doesn't mean they should and you do it right or don't do it at all So you got to have the right tools to sit back and have some fun in the meantime everyone. Good luck today Happy trading you see something say something. It's Monday. Don't get too cocky Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays always the best days But but so far we're starting off the month on a good note. All right guys anything. I'm missing I did not call out before we go and get ready for the open Anything missing I think we pretty much got them all nope. All right, so You know and then like I said, I'm still keeping an eye on that uber trade. So we'll see we'll see how that works out All right, everybody. Good luck. See you back at 2 30 for the afternoon meeting. Let's go out there and try to make some Money right trade safe