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Thursday, January 18th
5:00 PM EST
Patch 1.18
Winter Wonderland 2017
Maps/Stats
Map 1
Junkertown
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Map 2
Horizon Lunar Colony
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Map 3
Oasis
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Map 4
Eichenwalde
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Map 5
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Dallas Fuel
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Houston Outlaws
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Dallas Fuel
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Houston Outlaws
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Dallas Fuel
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Round 2:
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Houston Outlaws
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100%
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Dallas Fuel
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Houston Outlaws
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Okay for real though. Houston is coming off a confidence boosting game, even though it was just against Shanghai, and Dallas is practically looking at a must win game, unless they want to be facing a possible 0-4 start. I hope they are motivated by that, and not discouraged. I believe the first game will set the pace for the rest of the series; if Dallas loses on Junkertown I could see them giving up again, even if it's just unconsciously. I hope some of the teamwork they've been doing on stream (and presumably in scrims) will pay off. These two teams have already done a 3-2. I think they will again. I'm betting on DAL 3-2 HOU.
Edit: Ignore this post. I was memeing, and it was in poor taste. I'm sorry. Please refer to my real prediction at the top.
Really excited for this one. I'm not a huge fan of either teams but if I had to pick a side based on the players i like the most it would have to be Dallas.
That being said I think Houston has a very real chance of winning this since they seem to be better against teams that can't dive well. I think this might actually come down to how...effective EFFECT is...YYYEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
But jokes aside, if EFFECT is able to hard carry Dallas I'm not sure Houston has someone that can really deal with him like LAV had.
In the end I think this will be another huge 5 set match and that Dallas will win 3-2.
lol.
Kyky what are you thinking? Mickie is just a (massively overrated) dva main with a passable Zarya. If they wanted to run that Roadhog comp, why leave Taimou out?
The have to win this series already, so early in the season. Losing this would put them what, 6 games behind Seoul, make it 7 given they will likely sweep Boston.
Crazy player choice on Junkertown.
I mean, the first two sets they won 2/3 maps they put him in for (Junkertown x 2, Illios). Can't say he's specifically to blame.
If you look at the actual results, it went like this:
They lost a super-tight series to Dynasty, a great team.
They were convincingly ground out by Valiant, a very good team.
They got rolled by Outlaws, a low-mid-tier team.
That looks a lot like terrible, terrible tilt. Seagull can't be the cause of all that.
Envyus's dominance over NA has never been indicative of their matchups versus the top teams from the rest of the world.
See: Overwatch Open, Gamescom, APEX S2/3. APEX was an amazing win, no doubt, but it's been over a year since then. It should also be said that their APEX championship came with a perfect storm of everything working out for them.
thinking it comes down to over half the team being quite burned out, when it comes to overwatch, at this point (thinking, no taimou for a reason....he probably can't be arsed to give 110% at this point) and Mickie is painfully underwhelming on everything but Dva, they should have seagull play off tanks(which i always thought they brought him in for), maybe give Harry a chance as dps or something, this team needs some kind of spark of motivation.
I just don't understand what's going on with Dallas:
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what's the point of having Taimou if Effect is going to play hitscan over him, Mickie is going to play Roadhog over him and Seagull is the designated projectile specialist?
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what was the point of picking up Custa, a Zenyatta specialist if they are going to put him on Mercy (which he was clearly not performing well on) and put chips on Zen?
- what was the point of picking up Seagull if Taimou, the hitscan specialist subs in and plays Junkrat?
I'm just so confused by so many decisions that DF is making, let alone how they are playing.
At this point Dallas’s gameplan is have Effect pop off. If he doesn’t do that, and looses Widow duels, like we’ve seen today and against Valiant, they are screwed. Why Taimou wasn’t in the game is beyond me, why Custa is even playing is baffling, I haven’t seen him make a single good play so far. They aren’t running xQc on Junkertown, which is so good for Orisa, and xQc has proven himself to be a fantastic Orisa player. I have no idea what I Dallas is doing, KyKy needs to stop dicking around and actually try and win a game. Losing to Seoul is fine, even getting swept by LAV isn’t the end of the world. But losing to Outlaws is humiliating. I have no idea what Dallas is even doing anymore. They need to fix their shit and actually perform like a team and not Effect and the Streamers
Houston outplayed Dallas pretty hard on this one. I will say this though, even though the casters were praising Jake for his Genji I can't say he was hard carrying on it, just doing his job and cleaning up fight with Dragon Blade. His Pharah was also a bit underwhelming but it's pretty clear that his presence alone is a plus for the team so as long as he's not feeding I don't see a reason not to have him in.
As for Dallas they seem to have the same issue that Misfits previously. I wonder if having Seagull grind Genji so he can be at a level where they can actively use him with EFFECT and probably xQc and run dive when appropriate.
I mentioned this is my prediction but cutting down EFFECT's impact on the game was key here imo. If he can't get into your backline the rest of the team is much less threatening and I'm not sure what the solution is, but I feel like they need a few comfort comps/strats that they can reliably run.
Lastly though I can still see why Houston was able to handle Dallas so easily and imo that still pertains to their lack of a strong dive comp that they can run. To me, the next step for Houston is to get a win against a team that can dive them effectively so we can see if they are able to hang with the top teams. Seoul, London, LAV and to some extent NYXL should all tell us more about how they deal with having to play on the back foot instead of just playing with a tactical lead.
My expectations for Houston have risen, and even though I think they should make the playoffs, I'm still not sure if they're contenders for the top.
Humble, soft-spoken, team-first players will outperform cocky individualistic all-stars every time. That's why Korea always wins, and that's why Dallas was bound to burn out eventually. It's telling that Effect refused the chance to play for Lunatic Hai because Envy would give him more playing time. Dallas' players are neurotic and unable to play together despite their incredible talent. Dallas has players who get tilted. Houston has Coolmatt and Muma.
This whole analysis is stupid. Words like "neurotic" assume serious mental problems with players on the team, something you know literally nothing about. I highly doubt you are a doctor, I highly doubt you personally know any of these players. How do you know that the reason they lose is that they get tilted? You know literally nothing about their team, their mentality, how they are coached, etc. etc. etc. So assuming you do is just stupid.
Apologies. I should have used a better term. What I meant to say is that the team doesn't coordinate well which makes the individual decisions look impulsive. As for the tilt factor, Dallas won the initial fight on both control stages and on both offense and defense on Eichenwalde, but looked worse as the round went on. This doesn't guarantee that tilt was involved but it does point to tilt being a possible factor.
Have you watched some of tiamou's stream? He often sounds and acts literally like a lunatic. I'd be hardcore surprised if he is not a junkie. If he went into a proper regular workplace in that giggling-junkie state you can see him on his streams, the boss would probably send him home immediately, or even fire him. The whole guy is as much a big piece of cringe 90% of the time as only a cringy kid can be constantly high on something very unhealthy.
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