I was a fan of this team before they were even in VCT so...
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I was a fan of this team before they were even in VCT so...
Oh, I thought you were saying to change hosts like the analysts and casters and such. But yeah changing the venue location to Canada or Brazil might not be the worst
Random agent every round could be fun
When I played Overwatch a lot of how I got better at the game was by grinding a few hundred hours of Mystery Heroes just to learn what everyone does lol
oooo randomize the teams every round and round wins are tied to the individual, first to X would be a fun party mode even if you just limit it to 5v5
S1mon trying his hardest over here.
Phantasy Star Online Episodes 1 & 2 (Gamecube)
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Pokemon Gold
Dragon Quest 3
Mario Tennis (Game Boy Color)
Mario Golf (Game Boy Color)
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
Lost Kingdom & Lost Kingdom 2
Samurai Warriors 2
Ninety-nine Nights
Enchanted Arms
Halo 2
Mario Kart: Double Dash
I'll look at my game collection when I get home and pick a few more lol
EWC and Trexx are likely unrelated.
Though huge props to Trexx if he just straight up refused to participate in EWC and that caused issues for the team.
If you want an in depth look at it, Sideshow made some videos about it awhile back.
https://youtu.be/fBZjFYU-OX8?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/GIilD9qAzeA?feature=shared
Those videos are fairly long, but they'll explain everything better than I could and should provide a wealth of extra context to livefrmhollywood's post.
https://youtu.be/fBZjFYU-OX8?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/GIilD9qAzeA?feature=shared
Those videos are fairly long, but they'll explain everything better than I could.
Is this a real question? Are you truly this far out of the loop?
I would prefer it if the non-Saudi media just stopped reporting on this event
The less we talk about EWC, the better
(Except to say how much we dislike it)
Let EWC fade into nothingness
Derke
f0rsaken
trent
Chichoo
Meteor
I actually think your initial list is pretty good, but I wanted to get Chichoo in there and needed to find an IGL with the loss of Valyn. Personally a big trent fan, but it's possible riens is actually better here.
I think putting KK above Chichoo is wrong at this point, but that's the only decidedly wrong thing about this list to me. I can at least agree that all these players are in contention for top 10 spots.
If you truly think this way, why even give them the time of day? Don't watch their content, don't comment about their content, just leave and when you and everyone else who feels the same way does it, maybe they'll fade into oblivion like you want.
You have 128 first bloods in 1485 rounds.
Most of your rounds are on agents who aren't typically known for their first bloods.
Assuming you're winning 50% of those encounters, that means there are also 128 rounds where your team goes without an Omen/Cypher/Astra.
What I'm trying to say is: it's possible you're playing too far forward.
Especially if you are your team's only smoke, losing access to it first thing in the round can spell disaster for attacks and/or retakes.
You know that Platchat's top 10 list wasn't just the 4 of them. They got responses from like 10-15 people or something (they state as much when introducing it).
Also requiring them to watch every match each week on top of the casting and behind the scenes stuff they do, is wild.
Even with cutting out garbage time from every match, you're still talking like 20+ min per map, with 4 different regions overlapping you're looking at 400+ min or 6.66 hours when all regions are playing multiple times a week. And that's without giving yourself the chance to pause and take notes, write things down or just take a second to do more than a surface analysis of what's going on.
There's a reason they've been trying (and succeeding) to bring in talent who are familiar with the other regions when they talk about aforementioned regions. There's simply not enough time in the week to watch really take the time to analyze every game of every region every week.
Flor was the 3rd highest rated player in all of EMEA Kickoff... DESPITE their team losing out in 2 matches.
The second of which was against the eventual EMEA 2 seed.
I don't see a reason to hate like this.
Every one of the players you are talking about are out there trying their hardest day in and day out to be the best they can at a game you love.
Why can't you just appreciate their hard work regardless of their gender?
Filled out. Good luck collecting data, this is the hard part
D.A.R.E. worked on me growing up. I remember being in kindergarten and telling at my parents to stop smoking because of it. I've never touched the stuff and I don't plan to.
You could be right, but I hope you're wrong.
Stolen from SleepingSnorlax above:
https://youtu.be/fBZjFYU-OX8?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/GIilD9qAzeA?feature=shared
The context for EWC
Of all the companies involved with esports, I imagine Riot is not doing too bad on their own.
What a terrible decision
A sad day for sure
I will definitely will not be watching
I hope the only content I see created about this event is stuff trying to educate why we should be unhappy about it before it happens and then literally no mention of the event during or after.
It's not just Sideshow
Seems a fair amount of us here are also in agreement
Such a sad move to see Riot do this
So you're saying it's all fake news then?
Honestly, it's been a long set of tournaments and I cannot truly remember the form of every team (especially the Chinese ones, since that one ended the furthest back). I do remember enough to think that if EDG plays how they did at the start of Kickoff, they'll get rolled out of the arena... but their top form can compete with the other 1 seeds (who all look great imo). Honestly, anyone from 41-30 can probably take a series from anyone as high up as ~18-20 on a good day. And the games between the teams higher than that should all be good too. The mid table is tough because the there are a lot of teams that seem to be somewhat inconsistent.
Yeah I 100% agree. If your coach isn't adding anything to the strategy when taking a time out and it's just to give the players a second to reset and think of something themselves, then you need to find a new coach for timeouts. If the current coach is good for the team they can be general manager or something and sit in the box with the coach during the games if they still feel that's necessary, but at the tier 1 level you gotta expect more from the (strategic) coach during a tac timeout.
I don't have the clip, but I believe there was a post made on reddit or X or whatever with a translation of what he said. Which more or less amounted to having issues with how the coach handles time outs. Usually he didn't say anything productive (in Meteor's mind), only stuff like "____ you need to focus". And Meteor expanded saying that that kinda feedback doesn't matter during timeouts. When a timeout is called he it's because they're struggling and they need a real plan. Even telling them B seems weak is not the same as "Go B". Give the players a plan because you can see everything, don't just tell the players to lock in or focus. I believe Meteor at one point was even like "Is this what you guys have been using your timeouts for all this time?" just frustrated and confused.
I mean I'll throw my name in to win just in case, but I (and the rest of the audience) would be VERRRY surprised if they missed it.
Wait EMEA is starting a Bo5 at 9pm? that's lowkey crazy.
Those two are def the favs for Americas but neither are truly a lock. I'd give G2 ~85% for top 2+ and SEN ~70% probably. Honestly it all seems to be a crapshoot, so many of the Americas teams seem good one week bad the next or vice versa.
Nearly all of my Spike Rush hours are from before Swift was a thing. I enjoy Swift as I get to at least pretend I'm playing real Val while also not being locked into a 40 minute game. Also enjoy that people usually don't just give up and leave in a Swift because the game is short enough to just finish it out. Two accounts, one is level 500+ the other is <50.
Edit: FWIW I play on NA East server, so it seems VERRRRRY rare to run into a Rito employee.
For all this talk about wanting coaches who can adapt better on the fly, the thread creator sure hasn't proven they can do anything other than stick to what everyone is calling a sinking ship... Which in itself is a skill, but man, try to take some criticism with grace. Attacking the scene like this will get you nowhere. Even if we look back on this 5 years from now and see that 100+ page docs are the way of the future for coaching, you're not going to see the benefits of it when everyone refuses to work with you due to your nature.
I desire for 100T to win
NRG can do well later in the season
But for now I wanna see 100T take it away
It doesn't have to be something that you think would be important to anyone else.
It could be spending time to make a gift/come up with an idea for a gift for a family member and being proud of how it turned out, making the travel/school sports team, sticking up for a friend that's getting bullied, passing a test that you studied really hard for, finally hitting [insert rank here] rank in some game you play, controlling your emotions when you were upset even when it would have been considered normal for you to have lashed out, or even just "I'm really proud of [insert family member here]"... Or just something little that you do everyday that nobody even thinks of, but you make a point to do... like say "good morning" to your parents every day, never lie to a friend, properly capitalize everyone's name because you learned that a friend of yours didn't use capitalization when they wrote about themselves because they felt they weren't important enough to warrant it but you wanted to make sure everyone felt they were important enough to you to warrant properly addressing them in case someone else was also secretly feeling the same way (speaking from experience here if you couldn't tell). It could be anything, but it has to be something you did. If you fought for your decision to switch schools, then yeah, that's great... But if your family just moved or your parents decided it for you, I think the switch itself would not be something you could be proud of. In that case it would just be something like, my proud of my connection with my parents which was close enough to have them realize I was struggling at my old school and so they researched and enrolled me a new one that I'm doing great at.
What is the one thing that you are most proud of in your life thus far?
Oh wow. I wasn't expecting that to be the reason. I thought they hit a money wall or something, but yeah this makes sense. Perhaps it means DSG will pick up a roster in another region.
This is pretty awesome. Amazing work.
Well it helps that that one country has twice the population of all of Europe combined, and still has more population than Europe combined with MENA.
The guy saying "south NA" is trying to clown on others' mental abilities? Stay in school kid.
I tried setting up a twitter yeeeeeears ago when my girlfriend and I thought it would be a good idea to sign up. Didn't know much about how to use it at the time since all we were really used to was Facebook where you can friend people. For some reason Twitter was slow at updating and we couldn't see each others accounts right away. We thought there was a problem of some sort and so I deactivated my account, intending to recreate it in hopes of that fixing the problem. I read 7 of the 8 warnings they gave me at the time of deactivating and decided to continue. The 8th warning was about not being able to use the same user name as the deactivated account. I never went back. While there have been plenty of times I would have loved to join or promote a raffle of some sort for a company/content creator I liked, I'm really glad to have dodged the bullet of the hellscape that Twitter has become.
I'm certainly not in the shape I was in back in high school, but I'm far from unhealthy somehow.
I don't eat fruit. Never really liked any of them.
I can deal with bananas (preferably with pb and chocolate on them)
And I used to vibe with apple sauce a bit growing up (preferably with a bit of cinnamon sugar).
But I can't remember the last time I had a fruit
I've never had a berry or melon or anything like that that I've liked
So when I moved out I stopped eating them lol
That Agent does in fact look like a new cast member. Cool find.