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Florida Mayhem might actually get a map or 2 off of Philly to be honest. Anyone who knows Pro-Overwatch since its early beginnings understands how Sayaplayer is awfully scary to play against. To me, anyone who picks up Sayaplayer just has an upgrade in general, can you imagine if SayaGod was in NYXL for control point with Libero? My goodness, if one thinks Carpe is a pain to deal with, Saya is 10x scarier.
For the people who just tuned into OW esports scene when OWL started, please do not sleep on Sayaplayer, you could tell when NYXL was playing against him, he was a sore. Once he gets synergy with the team and alongside aWesomeGuy, I could assure you, Florida has basically just upgraded their team to a whole new level, however for now, I am keeping low expectations of Florida as they do not have the synergy just yet.
My score would be 3-1 Philly.
I agree that i don't think Florida will win this match but take a map or two and then next week, with more practice time with Saya and Awesomeguy, they will be an even bigger threat. Saya had what? 2-3 days with them before the match against NYXL and he did great. Give aWesomeGuy some practice time and he will be a scary tank in OWL.
The synergy part about Florida is always concerning to me. Before Saya/aWesomeGuy, their dps duo seem to be doing fine(Logix stepping up big time, and TviQ going either close to APAC mode or "WTF is he doing!?"-mode). I don't want to say that their tank(Cwoosh/Manneten) and support(Zuppeh/Zebbosai) duos are bad but they seem to always have either a bad or a good day in terms of play and communication.
I didn't watch the whole match against NYXL, only the Route 66 map since i had nightshift at work(EUFeelsBadMan), but Zuppeh and Zebbo went both support ults at the same time alot while they were defending!? That's not ok! Things like that worries me for the team going forward in the stage/season.
They been a team for so long(Misfits) and they still can't get their shit together sometimes. Is everyone on Florida gonna have a good or a bad day before the match? PRACTICE CONSISTENCY you damn, wonderful dorks!!
... and play Zappis more since i love that guy!