NRG revamping, building around Seagull and dummy

harsha

January 10, 2017

According to anonymous sources, NRG has decided to restructure their roster once again. While Brandon “Seagull” Larned will remain as the centerpiece of the team, NRG has also elected to continue with support Tim “dummy” Olson. The remaining four members of the team were told that management would be potentially trialling other players in order to field the best roster possible.

As of now, Carl “enigma” Yangsheng, Yomar ”milo” Toledo, Matthew ”clockwork” Dias, and Seb ”numlocked” Barton will remain active on the main roster while NRG searches for potential replacements. Though they are not definitively cut from the team, several parties are reluctant to continue playing for the organization after hearing the news.

NRG originally acquired an Overwatch roster by purchasing the team from Luminosity Gaming. On that team were Mark ”Pookz” Rendon and Daniel ”GODS” Graeser, who are currently free agents. While the roster was once considered a top-three team in North America, the team has fallen from grace, failing to escape the group stage of OGN APEX Season 1. In the wake of their failure to qualify for the Winter Premiere group stage, NRG will be attempting to find a solution to their struggles.

As it stands, the current NRG roster is:

Brandon “Seagull” Larned (DPS)
Matthew ”clockwork” Dias (DPS)
Carl ”enigma” Yangsheng (Flex)
Seb ”numlocked” Barton (Tank)
Tim ”dummy” Olson (Support)
Yomar ”milo” Toledo (Support)

However, the roster is likely to face changes in the upcoming weeks, as the only locked positions are currently Seagull’s and dummy’s. As the Winter Premiere progresses, members of NRG that are not locked in might begin to trial for other rosters.

Update: I have been informed that Seb "numlocked" Barton will retain his position on the team as well. That leaves clockwork, enigma, and milo's positions uncertain.

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Nothing against the other guys at all, but good to see they are keeping Dummy. His Ana play is on point.

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Why is Dummy locked a position, but Enigma is not? Enigma is clear one of the two best players in the team, and he is much better than Dummy.

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While I won't claim to be able to judge their relative skill levels, I also hope that Enigma stays on NRG.

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you cant really compare their skill when they play different roles, especially when dummy's role is so much more important on ana

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ana is not more important than a dps/flex player at the top levels as it doesn't matter how much you heal if the opposing team doesn't die

they're at the very least equally important

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Do we remember Las Vegas? The amount of mistakes Enigma made was pretty ridiculous.

Down vote me if you want, but getting taking over 3 minutes to get Zarya ult + getting it eaten twice by D.va, I'd call that pretty bad.

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Oh shit. Iddqd+Seagull plz

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The only one that kinda surprises me is enigma but you can make an argument against him. I feel so bad watching this team falling apart because all of these guys are my heros from tf2 but if I'm being honest with myself this is probably the best choice. I dunno how practice is going but from what I've seen there really not making it work and maybe new blood will get them going. Besides that I wish everybody on NRG the best of luck!

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are there even players available up to caliber to replace enigma/clockwork/milo that will get them to where they want to be?

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I always wanted liquid to disband so they could sneak Rapha and MESR off them. If we're talking realistically here they could pick up morte and switch dummy to lucio to focus on his calling (unless morte played lucio I haven't seen reunited in a while). For main tank they could try and see what krawnic is up to. One recommendation would be to switch seagull to a full time flex tank because he feels comfortable on that right now and put twoeasy in their. Honestly if clock could figure it out he's not a bad 76 so as long as you get a decent hog and he learned something like dva for now and wait till she gets nerfed he might be able to stick around. Just one idea off the top of my head.

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From what I've heard, Enigma is also one of the main voices on the team, aside from Numlocked. I think Seagull mentioned it in an interview but I can't find it atm

are there even players available up to caliber to replace enigma/clockwork/milo that will get them to where they want to be?

someone mentioned iddqd earlier, and also with TwoEasy having left FaZe and Skipjack departing ways with Rogue, there are certainly opportunities for others that can open up

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Oh I didn't hear about this, that's a perfect pickup!

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#11 They spoke about it in the interview with Dummy and again in the interview with Dummy and Numlocked. Basically Numlocked is the shot caller for the team fights and Enigmas was doing the rest of the shot calling. Taking care of the big picture with ult management/tracking.

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Not sure this is news at this point.

edit: I don't mean because 'everyone knows'. I mean that without quotes it isn't much above gossip.

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The reason the sources are anonymous is because I don't want to put them in compromising situations. This is standard practice in journalism.

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Yeah but it's standard practice to not write the story until there's a story to write, with quotes. You can use "a source close to the team" if necessary, it's better than nothing.

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i just waited for this to happen

tbh its time for a drastic change

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enigma is a very good flex imo, skipjack is definitely a good pick up for Reinhardt.

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That team is stacked, looks like they can finally take down Froyo! /s

#19

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Sorry Harsha I was just trolling you

bazonga xdd

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Fuckin bully...

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RIP tf2 team

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journalists often use anonymous sources and people reading have the choice to believe it or not, this site hasn't had any false stories afaik so I don't see why you wouldn't believe it.

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Hopefully they keep Enigma too, he's always been a flexible player who also plays a solid Tracer on KOTH for them.

I also like how people are talking about iddqd, skip, even 2easy as potential pickups but nobody is talking about Talespin, lol. Dude is washed up.

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To be fair, Mickie's addition to EnVyUs after Talespin left seemed to make the team environment better for all of them

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Talespin and Seagull play the same roles :p

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Replacing Clockwork and Milo would seem like decent choices. Mainly because I feel like Clockwork has been underperforming/inconsistent and Milo does not seem to cut it either given his roles. IDDQD would be an amazing pickup. No idea who would be good to replace Milo with.

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probation, basically? seems fitting.

basically probation + hope they let the ana/d.va nerf patch roll out first. i really want these guys to succeed, maybe a non tank meta would help.

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IDDQD hinted on his stream that hes joined a team but wouldn't disclose anymore details than that. Im assuming NRG?

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I think it's a good thing NRG wants to have a "fresh" start. Their results have been bad the past couple of weeks.

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uh whats with the page formating? or is it just me ... :o

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we have reached the infamous page 2 on this new patch of overgg :o

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iddqd dropped the hint "Genji" on his stream a few days ago but that was all he said.

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In that case, NRG is possibly not the team, mainly because Seagull take that role. Not impossible of course, knowing Seagull is a master of almost all classes, it wouldn't be an impossible pickup. Sure would be sad to see the TF2 dream team torn apart, but undoubtedly understood.

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It was just casually mentioned on Seagull's stream that they are indeed rebuilding the team.

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Good, i'm glad. Saw the writing on the wall, it just wasn't working. They should fire everyone except for seagull, and in my opinion not give him final say in hiring decisions, since he's shown a preference for friendships and previous relationships as opposed to the best people for the job in the past. You need people who do not just have an fps pedigree, but are are also hungry and interested in the game, whoever they are.

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aka everyone on NRG ?

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since he's shown a preference for friendships and previous relationships as opposed to the best people for the job in the past.

What makes you think that? If he preferred friends why would he kick gods and pookz instead of sticking with them.

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Gods left, who knows what happened with pookz.

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Seagull pretty much confirmed this in his stream. Somebody asked about NRG revamping and he mentioned that indeed they were.
Has anyone thought of Talespin? I haven't heard anyone speculate about NRG picking him up.

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We already did but don't think he's a good pick because:

Talespin and Seagull play the same roles :p

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Onigod said he will join a Na team on stream, could be nrg.

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So onigod will join nrg
This is good

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he just said a na team, nrg is just my guess.

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Yea but i think he will join. Maybe he return back with his fantastic mccree and will be the main dps.
For me he can will be a perfect add to the nrg roster.

At the end dummy say something about the new roster?

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Dummy is gonna be on oversight today at 5pm PST - https://twitter.com/Thooorin/status/820149125278732288
Hopefully we'll get some more info on nrg then.

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while everyone mentioning iddqd I think vallutaja would be a better pick since reunited died, I know he's sticking with the rest of the roaster but he's a great player and maybe not toxic. (not saying iddqd is)

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Reunited the org died, not the team. They're sticking together with rubikon and sharyk.

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Keeping numlocked seems like a mistake. I've never been that impressed with his play. Skipjack is much better at rein and Winston. If he is available he seems the better choice. What happened to debett? He was good, but I have no idea what happened to him.

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DeBett did not want to drop his full time job to scrim more and travel, so he benched himself.

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Dropping their DPS players will be a huge mistake because of one meta's performance, considering if it's DPS heavy now.

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You're right, but there seems to be alot of free agents right now that can fill that role.

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Enigma, if this reaches you, I hope you know that I consider you to be one of the best individual players I've seen in professional Overwatch. Cheering you on no matter what

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Minstrel confirmed on stream that IDDQD is trying out for NRG

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Minstrel also said kruise was trying out for NRG

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Minstrel posted on MySpace that Esper is trying out for NRG

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link? Kappa

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Kruise has said on reddit that hes not trying out for NRG, Minstrels probably just trolling

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Minstrel does not know. He is saying this because TwoEasy said this, and TwoEasy made this assumption because he thinks a better hitscan player is trying out for NRG. The only one he could think of was iddqd, while NRG never outright told him a better player is trying out. For all we know, NRG simply did not want to play with TwoEasy.

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Minstrel said he knew about iddqd because of scrimming against them.

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