they looked good. most importantly, individually. strats are obviously not the best, but i believe they can easily do better in that department. roster looks good.
mistic back to being the top 5 smoker. enzo very decent. keiko doing really good. jamppi is jamppi. nats is nats.
hope they can do something much more significant this year, and have an actual impact in the international events.
i better not see yet another year of wasting nats on an average roster
I don't actually subscribe to the Mickey mouse theory. Teams want to win, it's just braindead fans who use that to finish a teams results.
Team liquid looked mid, didn't say they looked bad.
It's the nature of their losses that has me saying that, not the results themselves.
they don't have a duelist that can take over matches like other top teams do. Keiko was often one of the weakest on the team, not even saying he's a bad player.
They lost alot of rounds by trying to force their way through chokes and just got gunned down in utility and bullet storm blenders.
As you mentioned they had close maps with teams that would be considered middle of the pack next year, sans them mopping the floor with Sen on haven.
How is the above not indicative of a middling team?
Liquid threw so many rounds they shouldn't have lost. It was really frustrating. So many times they would just snowball to losing rounds. That 5v3 postplant vs Sentinels on Split was the biggest throw I've seen in a while and summed up their short comings pretty well IMO. Looked a lot like classic Liquid even though its almost new roster.
But overall outside of Sunset that looked like ass from team to individuals, they looked decent and first event for this roster. In couple months they could be much better. Even Sentinels has changed a lot from their first games. I also think guy like Keiko was choking a bit maybe due to pressure missing smoke/dash with Jett etc.
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