Why EG's 10 man roster won't work

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Nachtel

This is not to say that EG isn't good, the team they currently have is incredibly good, but the whole 10 man roster thing is not going to work out for them the way they intended.

The whole point of a 10 man roster is being able to scrim yourself, be able to hide strats from other teams and prevent counter-stratting as much as possible while experimenting as much as you possibly can with no limit.

EG so far has not experimented enough, they're just playing the same standard comps as everyone else, and as a result of other teams scrimming each other against the exact same comp, they already know how to play against it. In these situations EG only loses in the end because everyone else has practice against a bunch of slightly differing styles with the same comp while EG only gets practice against one.

Their main roster is good already the way it is, they don't need to waste more resources into trying to make this backup roster work if they're not going to capitalize on its main advantages.

They denied scrims from NRG ffs, if they want to be good then they need to play against the best or try to figure out a strat amongst themselves that can challenge the best and switch up the meta.

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babysasuke

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ok

#3

Just_some_loser

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aint

#4

Cresp

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All of that 🤠

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cioccolat

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good point, but if they have the money why not?

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Danny

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EG so far has not experimented enough, they're just playing the same standard comps as everyone else

Sova on Fracture, also tf do you want from them? At a certain point experimenting becomes troll comps

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navi 💀

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mrGoudas

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navi have won the right to troll though

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Nachtel

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There's a lot of inspiration to draw from with proven results.

Take split for instance, it's only Americas that run that double duelist comp, EMEA runs raze breach cypher,

and it's not just any EMEA team, FNATIC runs that comp. Pacific is all over the place when it comes to comps, but some of those comps have managed to get close games against DRX and in one case won against them.

There's still a LOT of room for experimentation in this meta. Imagine how good EG would be if they ran exclusively EMEA comps and never scrimmed anyone else. I think that's something worth trying out.

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mrGoudas

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pretty sure fnc ran double duelist on split vs loud (daily reminder if they have breach instead of raze GF would be 3/0)

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Nachtel

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That was all the way back in Lock-in. They've been running a different comp ever since. Also yeah maybe that would've been the case lol

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rina

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“has not experimented enough”

they literally played an astra on bind yesterday which is different from the standard brim. they played yoru on pearl during lock in with a lot of cool tech. they play sova on fracture constantly.

they also don’t exclusively scrim against their other roster. they scrim against challenger teams as well.

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Nachtel

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You're using 1 example from lockin that they never used again, and 2 other isolated examples. I said they're not experimenting "enough" not that they aren't doing so at all. I'd like them to at least try an EMEA comp or something similar.

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gablin

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I think they also use the 10-man roster to practice certain aspects of the game like pistols and retakes. It's hard to organize scrims like this against random teams because they may want to practice other things or just do normal scrims. This way they can focus on their weaknesses and the 5 players who are not in the active squad don't need good practice, they are just there to exercise with the main team.

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Nachtel

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Ok this is a fair argument

#16

DELUSIONAL_POTTER_FAN

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🐔😡
Ethan played yoru have some respect one trick yoru