I live in London, I hope C9 sign me, I leave the point in OT all the time!

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Smex has an outstanding Soldier, so they should be able to deal with pharmercy far better than Russia did. Shouldn't worry about flexibility either, everyone has a really deep hero pool, Mikey's is probably the largest. Think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

I look forward to seeing the team compete at Blizzcon then :)

From what I've seen in the Overwatch pro scene so far, GBR will win this on the back of Kruise on Genji unless Belgium have a Pharmacy strat or an underrated Genji . The ability of Genjis to win team fights with blades or even just dash resets is frightening and Kruise has improved so much with and without blade, as seen at contenders. Plus the coordination between Boombox and Kruise from EUnited will hopefully being us some nice trans-blades. Don't know much about the rest of the GBR team I'm afraid, although I did see them lose a closely run scrim on Lijing against Russia, but we all know about teams that win in scrims right XD. If the latest patch is live at the event (which I think it will be, correct me if I'm wrong) then Spree Zarya with Logix tracer will create some scary big bangs. I'm a little worried about the flexibility of the GBR team though, I've only ever seen boombox play zen and Kruise play genji. Should be an awesome game though either way.

Regardless of how NRG the team has performed, Seagull's intelligence and experience are incredibly rare. If you've watched him stream, the way he talks and thinks and explains the game demonstrate that with the right roster, the strategies and synergies they could create would be at an insane level. Not to mention he has great mechanical skill. My impression was that Seagull was frustrated by the way one-tricking was rewarded in the game, as well as possibly the fact that coordination was not taken as seriously in the west as it was in Korea Although this seems to be changing, the west in general seems focused on funded the best individual fraggers, as shown by the obsession with building around dps players, instead of the lunatic hai approach of building around tank and support synergy to create the space for dps players to shine. This was best demonstrated in Apex season 3, with how whoru was replaced entirely by Gido halfway through and after a little while they looked as good as before, in not better. Also demonstrated by immortals when they picked up Kariv and Fate, transforming their team, even with the same dps.