ARC 6 peaks in performance with new coach

harsha

July 11, 2017

A rebrand and support addition were not the only changes made to North American team ARC 6 — a week before the BEAT Invitational, the team decided to trial ex-Misfits coach, Peak. In an effort to strengthen the support staff of the roster, management decided to reach out to the coach as a trial member.

Jerkkit and Kitta reached out to me after looking into the coaches in their Overwatch scene, and I happened to be at the top of the list. So, after an interview with them, they were confident that I was going to be worth a trial and so I started working with them the day after.

Peak implemented his system for the team immediately and to strong results. The team claims to have felt improvement during every single day leading up to the BEAT Invitational, where they placed third. Despite a relatively rough match against Immortals in the lower bracket finals, ARC 6 had an incredible performance against Rogue, taking the French conquistadors to the brink by jumping out to an immediate 2-0 lead.

With all said and done, the team decided that Peak's style and approach to the game meshed well with the rising stars on ARC 6, and management offered him a permanent position. When asked about his thoughts on the results of BEAT, Peak had this to say:

I am proud of the guys and the staff for getting that close, because we're hungry for that thrill more than ever! To win you first have to lose.

The ARC 6 roster is as follows:

Derek "zZa" Johnson (DPS)
Dante "Danteh" Cruz (DPS)
Indy "SPACE" Halpern (Flex)
Félix "xQc" Lengyel (Tank)
Scott "Custa" Kennedy (Support)
Brice "Gingerpop" Breakey (Support)
Emanuel "Peak" Uzoni (Head Coach)
Jeremy "Jerkkit" Wong (Life Coach/Team Manager)
Pirin "Kitta" Singapan (Strategic Analyst)

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They definitely played much better than usual. Custa also seems to be a good addition.

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Watching their games in BEAT, the support duo looks really good. Gingerpop looks to be a strong Lucio, transitioned well, aggressively defensive with good mechanics. Custa has slotted into the Zen role admirably, easily fitting back in. They look to be the next team to contest the big guns in NA.

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OK Harsha, I'll give you points for the pun but only because I like you...

On a serious note, hopefully we get more tournaments to see these guys in sooner rather than later. They've been on the rise before but a bigger sample size to see if they can maintain this consistency would definitely not be a bad thing.

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weird that they are getting a coach when xQc apparently said on stream that they won't be practicing for some time due to the lack of tournaments

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Maybe they wanted to secure him before he possibly could have become unavailable.

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http://i.imgur.com/joKlkOL.jpg

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Haha don't Jerkkit wong.

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I wanna like Arc 6 but xqc is so hard to like that it makes me not want to root for the whole team.

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He seems to be trying his best to "reform" and I'd say it would be a shame to miss out on the team itself just for one part of it.

I've never been a huge fan of him but you have to admit that their matches were entertaining and that has to be worth something imo.

Edit: Also, they have the relatively new 1-2-3 flag meta.

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redditor spotted

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I started liking Arc 6 because of xqc. He sure is a polarizing personality. Although he is trying to reform and yesterday in his stream he was yelling at the screen telling everyone how marketable guy he is. For real though he is really nice and he interacts with his viewers really well

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The life coach will still probably help out xQc more...

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https://clips.twitch.tv/SpoopyInquisitiveJaguarFreakinStinkin

This clip made me love xQc, he's a straight baller. Idk why people in Overwatch get their panties in a twist over people who aren't bland, polite personalities. Give me some rivalry, banter, and passion any day.

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I don't dislike banter and shit talking most of the time. I think the clip of him talking about Selfless after the Dafran ban was suspect at best.

It wasn't going to bring any flavor to competitiveness at that point and was pretty much just a free sucker punch imo. I'm a big fan of banter when it's to generate competitive hype, whether ppl see it as much is up to them, but sometimes ppl are just dicks for no particular reason and I don't see the usefulness in that aspect of it.

Other than that I can fully understand that he's really passionate, cant truly fault him for that imo.

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custa so underrated its crazy.

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