BIG TSM fan here. Just checked out stats over last 30 days. Guess who was the literal bottom of the list :(
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TSM
ACS 138.4
KD 0.71
HS% 18
i was watching the jasonR VOD review of TSM vs ABX, and he really didn’t care for Hazed’s use of Cypher utility. That may not mean much, but I’d like to see Hazed on controllers. IDK what they will do, though. Should be fun/interesting to find out their new comps, though. Apparently Drone has been scrimming sentinels.
I could geek out over TSM scenarios and Cutler bashing all day.
In response to the ppl who want to drop Drone, no. He’s our most consistent player. He had hella questionable decision making against ABX, but so did all his teammates. I’m down for them to switch up roles/agents, but Drone shouldn’t be the one to go yet. Cutler, though, hell yeah he’s detrimental to the team.
yeah they’ve needed change for a while. since failing out of stage 1 challengers 2, imo. maybe dropping cutler would be enough, maybe not. perhaps Drone is a huge chemistry issue that we don’t know ab behind the scenes. perhaps Wardell’s teammates feel like he baits them as an “opping Jett.” perhaps the team doesn’t respect Hazed as an alpha IGL. perhaps subroza doesn’t add anything to the team as a Skye player, even though he’s good on that agent. it’s fun to think about, but i don’t trust management to make the right changes since they haven’t even dropped Cutler yet.
TSM peaked in First Strike and has been downhill since losing the Grand Finals to 100T. It’s like a mental slide that they can’t overcome with their current members. Losing to XSET in Stage 1 Challengers 1 was a surprise at the time, but ultimately wasn’t world-ending. Losing out in Challengers 2 and then going 0-4 in Challengers 3 Main Event was the breaking point. All of Stage 2 has just been the nail in the coffin.
not only that but steel and nitro both call and they dont consistently bottom frag at all, s0m top frags on astra, gmd top frags as igl omen, Shahzam igls on jett/sova and always plays well, Dazed was top fragging for T1 a lot recently etc etc etc
It's never an excuse and that type of thinking is archaic nearly never valid