If nothing else he's insurance against someone getting ill. Having a sub flex player at least lets you play if someone isn't well enough to on a given day

The only slight hope for Dallas is that NYXL aren't quite as dive heavy as some teams. Pine will often run the McCree, and they play roadhog comps as well. That being said, they are just the better team all around. Will need a miracle from Fuel to take a map here, let alone the win

He must be ill, I see no reason why you'd ever bench him, least of all for a match like this

Can we call that a c9? They should have won that last fight if they'd played point

He hasn't been great recently. He seems disconnected from his supports, and I don't think he managed to remech once after using self destruct on the last two maps

Maybe SoftWhisper has a second account

I do think it's 60% the meta and 40% something else. They've never been a strong dive team, and managed to get away with it by exploiting other teams not being as polished on the dive as they could be. However most OWL teams have been built around dive comps, so are inherently better at playing it. Fuel picked up xQc to fill the gap, but he got himself suspended. I'd imagine now they've written this stage off and are practicing to dominate the next stage.

At least I hope so.

Watching Dallas is like watching a gold level game right now. No co-ordination, no shot-calling, and no focus-fire. At one point I think every member of Fuel were doing different things

Honestly dinoflask phrased Jeff perfectly when he said 'Went to the forums, made my IQ drop'.

Finally a team runs a Sombra against the protect the president comp, and it was one of the most effective first point holds for a while.

I think that's the first time Logix has actually gone off like that in his whole LAN career

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https://twitter.com/Mendokusaii/status/958901010604306432 Unfortunately probably not

Please stop

I know people are already complaining about the next meta, but it's 100% going to be better than double-res Mercy meta.

I believe so yes, the rest of this stage will be played on the Mercy patch

That's a PogChamp

RIP Kruise Battle Mercy

True, although this now potentially frees up CrusaDa to go back on Lucio, and he's a pretty nutty Lucio as well

It makes little to no sense, I think they want numbers so they can say 'Look, we're like real sports', but in reality they serve no functional purpose.

Be interesting to see what other teams they invite. I know very little about the NA T2 scene, so unless a couple of other Academy teams announce their rosters in the next couple of days. I've no idea who's likely to play.

This could actually be close. Eagle looked decent towards the end and Orgless looked like they had a couple of weaknesses. I'm still going to give them the edge, but could be 2-1

Those Guys with a clean 2-0

I hope we get to see the continuation of Taimou vs Carpe. Going back to APEX it's been fun to watch those two go against each other.

There's a difference between nepotism and picking up the best players you can. If you're only signing people because you like them, then yes, that's not good, but scouting the best players from non-OWL teams (who will normally have buy-out clauses) is how most teams will build. The only exception will be if a team without an org gets picked up in it's entirety

He plays pretty much all hitscan at times on his streams, but I think mostly plays widow cos it's the flashiest and what people like to watch

Just remembered this from a couple months ago

I really don't care about Kephrii

That's some PogChamps right there

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I think taimou will move to a sub role, potentially focus on becoming a specialist on 1 or 2 heros, with AKM being a starter alongside effect

Boston deserved that win 100%. No flexibility from Dallas really. Effect was doing his best to hard carry and Seagull and Mickie had moments, but their Orisa/Hog comp doesn't really work on 2CP and Control Point

Whoa was that an actual c9?? They completely forgot the point was there

I think he's either got an OWL mid-season signing, or an academy team spot. There's no way Gigantti drop him without reason

Edit: https://twitter.com/zappisow/status/956990876668059653

Fusion are just better than the Dragons. Shanghai have looked improved and even managed to sneak a map from Dynasty, but I don't think they're good enough to beat Philly. Will be 3-1 or 4-0 if Carpe and ShaDowBurn are as good as they were yesterday

I keep reading Orgless as Ogreless, and then I imagine Kruise desperately searching for Shrek

I'd agree if chips looked comfortable on Mercy, then have Harry for the zen role, but he really hasn't. His valks have been underwhelming and he seems to get caught out of position a lot. I'd say sub in seagull maybe, but then you're running into synergy issues again, which they seem to really struggle a lot with.

I think a lot of it comes down to scrimming with too many perturbations to establish good comms, so maybe with xQc not screaming for a few weeks they'll be less variables, and better results, but only time will tell

Both Uprising and Fusion have Koreans on their roster

I caught that sneaky edit to change koreans to europeans, unfortunately still doesn't work as both teams here have europeans

Because previously they have agreed with the punishments. Presumably this time they didn't think it was severe enough, so they added on to it.

Fury has twice used self destruct to re-mech after a fight has already been lost on just this first half of the map. Seems like there's some kind of communication issues there

I'm getting used to Semmler's casting, but I really wish he wouldn't try and hype up everything that happens. A widow shooting at some tanks isn't worthy of the same hype as a headshot on an ulting Mercy in a clutch overtime push would be. I think he's getting better and I'm sure he'll develop more

Okay can we get some kind of moderation going? This is supposed to be about overwatch, not name throwing and the like.

I think you missed the point of my post. Individually, mistakes were small, and they're playing against one of the best teams at capitalising on that. Just because a game was a stomp doesn't mean huge mistakes were made, the two aren't necessarily correlated. You could have a super close game were both teams make massive mistakes throughout.

Spitfire were very good at capitilising on even slight positional mistakes, leading to easily won team fights. In the current mercy meta, team fights get dragged out so long, you generally don't get that many individual fights, so 3 or 4 small mistakes (that get punished) in a row can make a game very one sided.

I hope this clears up what I'm trying to say, I'm not saying it was a close game, but rather that small mistakes are what makes one-sided games more often than big mistakes.

I'd say T1 teams make very few mistakes in general and easily punish them in other teams, T2 teams make small mistakes that get punished by T1 teams, then T3 teams make bigger mistakes that get punished by T2 teams.

Almost all Overwatch games come down to small mistakes to be honest. What separates good teams from bad teams is the number of these mistakes they make, and also their ability to punish these mistakes on other teams.

I'd like to see Fuel try a lineup of Cocco, Mickie, Taimou, Effect, Chipshajen and Custa (apart from Control where they could use the Lucio). You have the maximum original synergy of the EnVyUs roster, put chips on Zen, Custa on Mercy.

They seem to be struggling with managing too much talent and not really focusing on having a consistent squad.

Just projected, the actual rosters will be updated when the maps are played I believe

6 Mercys. Every map is just one team fight, and overtime lasts forever

That was a beautiful dive to open up the 3rd point on Oasis

I'd be very surprised if ENCE win, but then again anything is possible. Shows how close the EU Tier 2 scene is right now

Kyb's been an absolute beast this series