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forest raven
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Especially with how much Surefour and Mendo straight up hate tanks

jagged crater
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envy will still be top since they have great dps players

forest raven
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imo they should have taken a page out of the book of the Koreans who play what they want

jagged crater
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if the meta goes heavy projectile, that's where envy might be questionable

forest raven
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Against MVP Infinity, nV showed a bit of struggle anytime 2/2/2 came out on either side

jagged crater
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it was interesting seeing koreans do very well on 222 during the this tank heavy meta

forest raven
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LW Red/Blue won IEM with a dps heavy lineup

jagged crater
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is it the insane korean mechanical skill that gets them above on the dps lineup?

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rather that's what they've been playing so long

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so it'd be worse if they decided to go tank just because it's "meta"

forest raven
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Korea has an innate advantage over NA and EU because of their culture, I'd say. KR is so dominating in so many esports because the players dedicate so much more time and effort and take it a lot more seriously. i.e. esports in Korea is fully televised

jagged crater
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envy's the only western team that can handle the koreans consistently

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soon, envy might not be able to handle it D:

forest raven
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That's because they have a ridiculous team cohesion

jagged crater
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main reason im rooting for envy right now

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the only "foreigners" that can take on the koreans

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and their personalities

forest raven
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Like, no other team in the world has team work as good as nV, which is why they're considered the best in the world atm

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That could easily change come next patch where the meta could become more dive-oriented

jagged crater
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mendo himself said that based on the games he's played on PTR, the meta could go strong tracer/zen

forest raven
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Mhm

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Which is good for a team like C9 with Surefour and Roolf on the team

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Mickie's essentially nonstop free publicity for Envy

jagged crater
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mickie's a great versatile player himself, can zarya, can dps

forest raven
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Yep, Envy hit the jackpot when they got him

jagged crater
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zarya didnt get touched, so she's def going to be in the meta

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she's already higher pick than roadhog currently in the meta where roadhog feels OP

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anticipating lots of fights revolving around zarya + tracer combo

forest raven
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I think Koreans also like playing fast, twitchy characters like Genji, Tracer, Widow etc. more than NA and EU players, from what I've seen of Korean teams @jagged crater

jagged crater
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they absolutely love it

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koreans highly value mechanical skill

proven musk
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I'd like to see IDDQD join NRG but I'm not sure that happens

forest raven
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I don't

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idd is a prick

proven musk
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Seems like a decent guy from his streams

forest raven
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I can't stand his stream tbh

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And there are few reasons for dropping a hitscan as powerful as him

forest raven
clever wagon
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How's NV doing? Didn't watch the Tuesday match

forest raven
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nV beat MVP Infinity 3-2

clever wagon
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Yus

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Naisu

toxic yacht
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They had a surprisingly hard time vs easybro mvp infinity

forest raven
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Everytime 2/2/2 came out nV kinda struggled

toxic yacht
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NV was a bit weak during the zen and beyblade metas tbh

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I mean, they were always undoubtedly the best in NA

clever wagon
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That's just how Koreans are isn't it? Ever since IEM GyeonGi even with tank meta patch came in Koreans still ran 2-2-2 more than 3-tank

toxic yacht
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but they struggle a bit outside of the current meta where all of them can play roles they're amazing at

forest raven
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The Koreans seem more inclined to heroes like Genji and Tracer

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They're more divey than NA and EU

toxic yacht
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which I appreciate

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fak the current meta

clever wagon
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Yeah @forest raven

forest raven
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I'm hopin for my baby boiz Mendo and Surefour to take home the win

toxic yacht
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I wonder how they'll synergize with Gods

forest raven
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Harb said they were okay during scrims

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Didn't seem too coherent as a team

toxic yacht
forest raven
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New roster jitters

clever wagon
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How long did C9 train with Gods?

forest raven
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APEX has 2k less viewers during pregame talk than WP had during its games LUL

toxic yacht
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fucking wot, my comment won't bloody edit

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fuck

forest raven
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Probs like 2 weeks or so

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Maybe 3

toxic yacht
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Maybe they're gonna try to run triple dps

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with gods on windowmaker

forest raven
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If there could be Gods on Widow, Surefour on Tracer and Mendo on Genji I'd be so happy

clever wagon
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Damn Surefour got fat

toxic yacht
forest raven
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You watching @clever wagon ?

toxic yacht
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tbh I'd rather see Surefour genji, since he's better imo, but you know, I feel like the skillgap between their tracers is larger than their genjis

clever wagon
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@forest raven yeah

forest raven
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Sweet

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I feel like Mendo's just a bit worse than Surefour overall

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Which isn't saying much

clever wagon
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Pretty sure Surefour wasn't that fat

forest raven
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Because Surefour is one of the best players in the world full stop

clever wagon
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Mendo is like C9's 2nd next to Sure4 methinks

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Idk if it's just me or

toxic yacht
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yo, kurururururweeb gankyou, you suddenly appeared out of nowhere, how long have you been here?

forest raven
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He actually got a hair cut

clever wagon
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But there seems to be very few western players play with Koreans apart from Seagull, Tviq, Taimou etc which I've seen in either their own or Korean streams

toxic yacht
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Those guys mostly played with koreans after APAC and APEX

clever wagon
toxic yacht
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since they got to scrim with koreans and befriended them

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@clever wagon ayyy, that should explain why I never saw you

clever wagon
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With different tag last time I was there I think

forest raven
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C9 is such a bunch of fuckin memers I love it

toxic yacht
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Apart from Surefour, who queued with Ryujehong at some point, most of those streamers played with koreans

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like, Taimou during APEX, TviQ during APAC and APEX, same for Seagull etc

clever wagon
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Mendo and Surefour are 2 biggest memers

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@toxic yacht ye I saw some interviews the other day regarding Koreans and out of all the western players involved only Seagull came with clear explanations... because he has been playing with them for a decent time

toxic yacht
forest raven
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Illios feelsbad

clever wagon
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@toxic yacht yes

toxic yacht
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yeah, lul, all those guys were like "Nah, Koreans will never catch up" while Seagull just said "Bitch, I fucking played with them. They'll take over, lul". iirc people said the same thing about koreans in league

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and how they wouldn't catch up because they're only good in apm spam or some nonsense

clever wagon
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OW is the first game which pro scene I really try to follow but yeah I get it

forest raven
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Dude me too

toxic yacht
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me too, lul

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I couldn't get into csgo's pro scene because it was already too developed

clever wagon
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They should've anticipated more ever since the World Cup... it's so obvious

toxic yacht
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so I got into overwatch fast

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admittedly, the korean world cup team put together some of the best korean players of the scene into one fucking team. They also took it seriously and scrimmed a lot, while the other pros treated it as a break, so it's not that fair of a comparison

clever wagon
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I know, but I mean just taking them head on should raise a decent amount of concern

forest raven
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Mendo playing tank FeelsSadMan

toxic yacht
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what's gods on?

forest raven
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Hog

clever wagon
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Hog

toxic yacht
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of course

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mendo on zarya then?

clever wagon
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quad tank C9

toxic yacht
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and surefour on 76, probably

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oh fuck

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nonono

clever wagon
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3-tank for Conbox

toxic yacht
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someone kill me

clever wagon
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surefour went mccree but failed his deadeye

toxic yacht
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kill this meta

forest raven
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Quad for c9 now FeelsSadMan

toxic yacht
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end me

clever wagon
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It's because the new patches hasn't gone live

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Even though triple tank patch did like mid-tourney wasn't it?

toxic yacht
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The patch that enabled quad tank went live during apex season 1, yes

clever wagon
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See, even worse

toxic yacht
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tbh triple tank is still gonna be viable after this patch, but I hope that it also makes triple dps more viable

clever wagon
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In the very same Apex tourney

toxic yacht
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yeah, lul, and the next patch will go live during apex

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again

clever wagon
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Triple dps is indeed pretty exciting

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Got a taste of it pre-3 tank patch in competitive

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on nepal

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enemy team pretty much can't get close to the point at all

forest raven
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Gods, Mendo and Surefour all on one team

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All playing tanks

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Fucking end my life

clever wagon
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The irony

forest raven
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OSHIT

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GENJI AND TRACER

toxic yacht
clever wagon
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Oh, 2-2-2 now

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This chat is so much easier to talk in I hid the twitch chat

toxic yacht
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twitch chat is cancer, lul

clever wagon
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And put chrome side by side

toxic yacht
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no twitch chat

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no clutter, just the video

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well, I take back what I said about c9 winning

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Fu fu fu fu fuck

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fuck this meta

clever wagon
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I was hoping they would

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I was rooting for NV and C9...

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This pretty much is already looking like a rool

forest raven
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Fuckin

clever wagon
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*roll

toxic yacht
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PHARAH

forest raven
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If C9 played just four days later

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They'd do so much better

toxic yacht
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I didn't see it

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lul

vestal mortar
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I feel like C9 might have underestimated Korea

clever wagon
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Man

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Most western players do

forest raven
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They also have a new roster

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And they're still too hung up on the tank meta

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Recipe for disaster for C9

vestal mortar
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Yeah, I was hopeful C9 would be able to hold their own but that's looking unlikely.

forest raven
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oshit

clever wagon
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This is what the westerners get for not paying attention to Korea enough

forest raven
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CONBOX is playing Sombra

clever wagon
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And Conbox is playing Sombra

vestal mortar
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I love some Sombra play

toxic yacht
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ayyy, time to hit up the stream

forest raven
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Oh no wait

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He's switching

toxic yacht
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I still have 10 minutes

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FUCk off

clever wagon
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Back to Ana apparently

forest raven
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rip

toxic yacht
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why does only Tork play sombra ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

forest raven
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Because only coL has any balls

vestal mortar
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Awwwwww

clever wagon
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"MENDO ON SUREFOUR"

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Wow Caster

toxic yacht
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lul

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lmao

clever wagon
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This has become a shipping stream

vestal mortar
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Hopefully next patch there will be more Sombra

toxic yacht
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surefour's tracer is so amazing that people think of them as one person

clever wagon
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Surefour on Zarya

forest raven
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I just realised this

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Now with no KyKy

toxic yacht
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I hate this meta
I haaaate this meta

forest raven
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C9 has no reliable D.va player

clever wagon
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KyKy was DPS/flex right?

forest raven
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Which is bad for them in this first match

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KyKy was off tank

toxic yacht
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kyky was off tank

clever wagon
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Ah\

toxic yacht
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surefour and mendo are both hyperflex dps

clever wagon
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Rip first point hold

toxic yacht
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I just want to see Roolf on Zenyatta again FeelsTiltedMan

clever wagon
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GG Conbox

toxic yacht
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fuck this meta

clever wagon
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My only hope is NV

forest raven
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IT GOT ATE

clever wagon
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And even then they're still struggling so much

forest raven
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HOW THE FUCK

clever wagon
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Oh wait

toxic yacht
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THEY DOIN IT

clever wagon
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They got it

toxic yacht
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ayyyy

forest raven
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Thank christ

toxic yacht
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mendo on 76 Lewdy

forest raven
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Surefour on Zarya FeelsTiltedMan

clever wagon
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Liz is all free

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No DVa to harrass him

forest raven
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Yep

toxic yacht
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yeah, lul

forest raven
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C9 prepared for a meta that they don't play immediately

toxic yacht
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he had free reign up there

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was unconstested

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wtf

clever wagon
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They're holding themselves pretty decently thankfully

toxic yacht
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they just used nanovisor

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and they had it again

clever wagon
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MENDO DOING IT

toxic yacht
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LMAO, I LOVE THOSE ZOOMS

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yeah, lul, they go meta and start winning

vestal mortar
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HAHA

clever wagon
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Probably can combo Zarya + Hog

toxic yacht
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what a shock FeelsTiltedMan

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Misfits should learn from them Angery

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lul, gods

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missing the shot

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LOL

clever wagon
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RIP

toxic yacht
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that charge

clever wagon
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NA CHARGE

toxic yacht
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after the orgasmic shatter

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they still winning though

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๐Ÿ‘

clever wagon
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PHEW

forest raven
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WHOOO

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GO TEAM

clever wagon
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Holy shit that was scary

forest raven
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They went meta and started winning drakeLUL

toxic yacht
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well, bell just fucking rang

forest raven
toxic yacht
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I'll be going

forest raven
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AIght

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Cya

clever wagon
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Buh bye

toxic yacht
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anytimef from now

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so, yeah, I'll probably just vanish soon

forest raven
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kk

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Oh man

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I've had bad memories of Symm from the WP

clever wagon
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WP?

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Winter premiere?

forest raven
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Winter Premiere

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Ye

clever wagon
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Lol I ended up not watching that

forest raven
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Nearly every time a team ran Symm it didn't work

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At all

clever wagon
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I had no idea when the tourney ran until now

forest raven
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GODS

clever wagon
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GOT THE ANAAAAA

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Naisuuuuu

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Another half to a minute wasted for Conbox, pls keep this up C9

forest raven
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YES BOIZ

clever wagon
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Nice

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Naisuuu

forest raven
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Surefour learned sureVo

clever wagon
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Pretty solid hold

forest raven
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Stand still before ulting

clever wagon
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Methinks with a DVa around like that Zarya ult should be initiated at the most hectic of times so the DVa can't pay attention to anticipate it

forest raven
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DO IT DAD

clever wagon
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HOLYSHIT

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THAT'S a fucking quick build

forest raven
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HES A ONE MAN ARMY

clever wagon
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Am I mistaken or what? Daddy Sure4 got 2 ults in less than a minute or so

forest raven
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Yeah lol

vestal mortar
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Surefour is amazing ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

clever wagon
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Fucking hell

forest raven
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There's a reason people call Surefour the best player in the world

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His hero pool is fucking bonkers

vestal mortar
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Surefour and Tviq have such deep hero pools

clever wagon
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When I think about it, I'm pretty much down to 0 people with the same language/nationality to talk about the pro scene with

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Haha

forest raven
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Where you from?

clever wagon
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Indonesia

forest raven
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Ah

clever wagon
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I'm one of the 4 people I personally know in college that got Overwatch

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And the other 3 has pretty much stopped

forest raven
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rip

clever wagon
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Back to DOTO that is

forest raven
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Well I'm Aussie

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So our timezones should be a bit close to one another

clever wagon
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doto is like the only competitive online game they play

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yeah ik like 2-3 hours apart

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Haha

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And they have close to 0 fps mechanical background

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While I had been playing CS1.6 even if not competitively since almost 10 years ago

forest raven
clever wagon
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So I can't play comp OW with them either

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While QP...

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Eh

forest raven
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What SR are you

gritty crow
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hanamura time

forest raven
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2cp ew

gritty crow
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More Symmetra

clever wagon
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Draw-amura?

forest raven
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You know it

clever wagon
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@forest raven 2671

forest raven
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Wait how the fuck

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How did Opa die

clever wagon
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Peaked at 3k, 100% soloq

forest raven
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Dude

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Same

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I'm like 2760 now tho :v

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Wow

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They just missed the gen

clever wagon
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I've stopped comp until new patch goes live

vestal mortar
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๐Ÿ˜ฎ

clever wagon
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Feeling a little burnt out

forest raven
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WEW

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Yeah same

clever wagon
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Daddy mendo doing work

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Oh shit

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Pretty good defense

forest raven
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Fuckin jfc

gritty crow
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wow

clever wagon
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FIRST POINT HOLD BOIS HERE WE GO

forest raven
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C9 HAS A GOOD HOG

clever wagon
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It's motherfucking GODS

forest raven
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DUDE ITS A FULL HOLD

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YAES BOIZ

clever wagon
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THAT TURRET

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WHO JUST GOT 15 KS

forest raven
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WHOO

clever wagon
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SOMEONE JUST DID

forest raven
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BLESS GODS AND HIS SHINY BALD HEAD

clever wagon
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BaldyGods

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CMON C9 ONLY 1 POINT NEEDED

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1 SOLID WOMBO COMBO TO WRAP IT UP

forest raven
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Even though Surefour is a better 76/Tracer/Genji what have you than Mendo, it's okay because he can be so impactful on Zarya

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And open it up for Mendo

clever wagon
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And Mendo does a solid work to clear it

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This is exactly my vision of a Tracer play tbh

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Harrass them from the farthest effective range of her pistols from safety, and jump into the fray once her team initiates

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WIN BOIS

forest raven
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FIRST PUSH

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POINT GET

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It's like

clever wagon
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Apex uses BenQ Zowie monitors right?

forest raven
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Mendo's far and away good enough to run Tracer/76 over Surefour

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With Surefour on Zarya

clever wagon
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Yus

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This is the quarterfinals right?

forest raven
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Group play

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2nd day of APEX

clever wagon
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Ah yeah

forest raven
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So CONBOX hasn't won an escort game

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Ever

clever wagon
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STOP IT CASTERS, I WANT C9

forest raven
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OH FUCK

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ADAM'S ON MERCY

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YAES BOI

vestal mortar
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Aww yes, Adam on Mercy!

forest raven
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May not be the greatest against full dive tho ๐Ÿค”

clever wagon
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C9's Adam is the Adam that got #1 rank for some time in S1 or 2 right?

forest raven
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Couldn't tell you

clever wagon
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Hm, always assumed they're the same

forest raven
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FUCKING

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GODS

clever wagon
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Man

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My climb to break into Diamond was one of the greatest times I've ever had playing OW

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So much on point hooks playing Hog

forest raven
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Hog is so fun

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Yeah

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Mercy against full dive was an unfortunate choice

clever wagon
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On both sides I managed to get the pillar squishies first and foremost, almost always

forest raven
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๐Ÿ‘Œ

clever wagon
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Like S76, Lucio, Ana

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Effectively picking the ones sustaining the enemy's push

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Andd downhill afterwards

forest raven
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The dive's tearing c9 up

clever wagon
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Wow dude

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The Gods look

vestal mortar
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Haha

clever wagon
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We need to make a database of this kind of thing

forest raven
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Gods is fuckin amazing

clever wagon
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Finally doing a solid hold hopefully

forest raven
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Well CONBOX is off the dive

clever wagon
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Just need to play it safe and die as few times as possible

forest raven
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MENDAD

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GODS

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SDGDGHHH

clever wagon
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What a savior

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C9 getting some good clutches

forest raven
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CMON C9

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SURVIVE

clever wagon
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Oh shit

forest raven
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NOOOO

gritty crow
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Wow

vestal mortar
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WOW

forest raven
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They shutdown Beyblade

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Surefour got two kills

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Still lost the fight

vestal mortar
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Yeah I didn't think Conbox would complete the map when gods got that hook on the beyblade D:

clever wagon
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Does Lucio AoE has a radius or is it solely LoS?

forest raven
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It has a radius and is LoS

clever wagon
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OO

forest raven
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MENDO

clever wagon
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Mendo doing woooork

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Is he like one of the youngest players?

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Western, at least

forest raven
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Like three of the players on Immortals are 17

clever wagon
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Ic

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Then again I forgot about Mickie, how old is he

forest raven
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Also rip Gods

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I think Mickie's in his 20's

clever wagon
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MMM NAISU WIPE

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Very solid

forest raven
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๐Ÿ‘Œ

clever wagon
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Cmon C9 prove that Conbox struggles in non KOTH maps

forest raven
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Wew lad

clever wagon
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That was cruel wasn't it

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Sneaky Ryb

forest raven
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RYB YOU DARK HORSE

gritty crow
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I'm loving all this tracer

clever wagon
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THERE IT IS

forest raven
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They already have big bang again

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That turn around was fucking ridiculous

clever wagon
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This Gods-KyKy thing is temporary right?

forest raven
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I believe so

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KyKy is trialing as a coach for nV

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And KyKy has said that he wants to actually become a coach

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So who knows

clever wagon
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What I wanted to say is, C9 and Gods is starting to look pretty good

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Looks like they're having a good time there

forest raven
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Yeah lmao

clever wagon
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Me happy

forest raven
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Fuckin

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GODS AGAIN

clever wagon
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Touch the payload D:

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Lol Adam jumping in front of Mendo

forest raven
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YES BOIZ

clever wagon
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It was like he jumped in at the right time to help sustain

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LETS GO C9

forest raven
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Gods is doing so much to open up for Mendo

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Surefour too

clever wagon
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Both offtanks tbh

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THEY GOT OFF THE HIGH GROUND

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NOW'S THE TIME C9

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YEEEEEEEES

forest raven
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WHOO

clever wagon
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That was a big mistake

forest raven
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15 METRES

clever wagon
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GG C9

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YEEEEEEEEES

gritty crow
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YEah boi

forest raven
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IM GONNA SHUTDOWN SUREFOUR

clever wagon
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It was decided when Conbox jumped off high ground

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Man, my applause for C9

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Good thing they picked up their game once it was not KOTH

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Lol

forest raven
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Korean teams always seem to beat non-KR teams on koth

clever wagon
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Though to be fair, the KOTH map itself was Ilios

forest raven
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Yeah

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Illios is a shitfest

clever wagon
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Had it been Lijiang or Nepal, who knows

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Any KOTH map is a better time than Ilios shit- LoS opportunities-fest

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What's next, KongDoo vs Fnatic?

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Wait

forest raven
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KongDoo Panthera vs. Fnatic

clever wagon
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Yeah

forest raven
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Gotta rep my boi Custa ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

clever wagon
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I remembered something else and wasn't sure with the schedule I'm seeing on GosuGamers but I was wrong

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Right, regarding shorts

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Was Sombra in November or something?

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Feels too long since the last short we got

forest raven
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Yeah around there

clever wagon
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Also, I'm starting to have some good time with Widow

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eey thanks haha

forest raven
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SHe's basically 100% mechanical skill

clever wagon
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Still doing some trials on QP for her, but I'm enjoying my picks

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Not OHK 100% power shots, but good enough to do something

forest raven
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She's a very hot and cold hero

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You're either tearing shit up or doing absolutely nothing

clever wagon
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Oh shit

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the dab was at the start wasn't it

forest raven
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No clue

clever wagon
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I didn't notice when twitch chat was running rampant with "DAB DAB" something

forest raven
#

But it's fucking amazing

clever wagon
#

I think it is

#

What a bunch of MEMERS hahaHAAA

#

It's fun though

#

I haven't seen C9 on these LAN tourneys before but seeing them with Gods was fun

forest raven
#

C9 at MLG Vegas was a bit sad

clever wagon
#

It's like seeing NV starting to shine performance & atmosphere-wise with Mickie's arrival

forest raven
#

With Gods Mendo doesn't have to play tank and Surefour can rip shit up on Zarya

clever wagon
#

Yeah you know what I'm talking about

#

I'm gonna need to watch NV's first day match after thisx

forest raven
#

It's a good game

clever wagon
#

I feel like setting up the schedule in my calendar

#

I need to see this through while I'm in my holidays

#

I don't know since I don't see much of C9 before MLG Vegas

#

But I'm just saying if Gods is there to stay

#

I'd love to see both C9 and NV shine

forest raven
#

Yeah, Gods can be so good for C9

#

Good Hog player, versatile dps player

#

And with D.va on the way out, no need for a D.va player

clever wagon
#

Right, Evermore

#

It's soloq where it's not 100% pro scene, casters

#

Saw Evermore in a normal comp match for a bit the other day, maybe I saw too little but it was like... ehh???

forest raven
#

Last time Panthera played (with a different roster) they kinda got roasted

#

@wanton bronze You watchin this boi

wanton bronze
#

I'm at work boi

forest raven
#

Fuckin nerd

clever wagon
#

Lol

forest raven
#

Let's go Fnatic ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

clever wagon
#

tfw no "defense" role in most picked

#

much lol

#

What the fuck

#

NOT ILIOS

#

Goddammit

forest raven
#

rip

clever wagon
#

The memes are starting out strong

#

How do you think Fnatic was when IDDQD was around?

#

I didn't see much pro scene before the World Cup onwards

forest raven
#

You'd have to ask @balmy wolf or @toxic yacht

#

I only got into it during the World Cup too

clever wagon
#

Ah same

#

haha

forest raven
#

I am okay with this

clever wagon
#

Hafficool should focus on Rascal first and foremost regardless of anything

forest raven
#

NA teams have always had trouble on koth

#

Yeah

clever wagon
#

Make sure he's out of the fight first out of the 6

#

3 times already now he's the last man standing out of every battle

forest raven
#

Fissure carrying

clever wagon
#

Rip

forest raven
#

That was so close

clever wagon
#

Why the hammer down waste ._.

forest raven
#

Fuckin holy shit Rascal OP

clever wagon
#

But then again

#

LoS

#

There's so few spots where Buds can take a safe position as S76 to find opportunities to kill Rascal without Rascal suppressing those spots first

forest raven
#

Yeah

#

Just Illios things

clever wagon
#

Neither Lijiang and Nepal is this.... closed

#

Fly high enough and Rascal can cover the 3 outdoor routes to keep Buds from even coming out of cover

#

Which is not the case with Lijiang and Nepal

#

A Pharah can only cover 2 routes out of 3 at most

forest raven
#

Rascal pls

#

Stop

clever wagon
#

Why not take DVa who can roam

#

Really Fnatic

forest raven
#

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ ;_;

clever wagon
#

It's at least worth the try

#

Lol what why the Overtime music

#

EVermore throwing goldenLUL

#

Call me rude but I want Harbleu or Gods face Evermore's Hog just to prove his 5k SR ain't shit

#

And that both the former are better Hogs

forest raven
#

Well it isn't

#

On their old roster nV 3-0'd them in season 1

#

Harb, Hymzi, Birdring I'd say are all better Hogs than Evermore

clever wagon
#

And also that their Hog plays contribute to the team more

#

Torb defense ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

#

Their comp don't have any solid dive stopper...

forest raven
#

Well Torb works against flankers

clever wagon
#

YES

#

Finally

#

DVa instantly taking Pharah away from joining the fray

#

Aw

toxic yacht
#

So

#

is c9 ded?

clever wagon
#

They won

#

4-1 I think?

#

Conbox only won Ilios

toxic yacht
#

ayyyy

#

fuck yes

#

ma bois at c9 did it

clever wagon
#

After Ilios things got much better for C9

#

You should watch it when you can

#

Gods-Surefour-Mendo

forest raven
#

c9 thrashed on everythign that wasn't koth

toxic yacht
#

ayyy

#

fucking yes

#

so my initial prediction was fine

clever wagon
#

Gods getting important picks as Hog, Surefour doing mad Zarya, Mendo following up wiping the rest as DPS

forest raven
#

And Fnatic is getting thrashed now FeelsTiltedMan

toxic yacht
#

gods is an amazing hog, lul

clever wagon
#

C9's atmosphere felt better than in MLG Vegas

#

Esp the Gods-Surefour-Mendo work

forest raven
#

It's like, you could tell C9 was suffering a bit because they had no D.va player, but CONBOX just couldn't get any meaningful picks even with high ground

clever wagon
#

Methinks it's also an important aspect

toxic yacht
#

I'm still sad about Gods leaving NRG

#

But at least it means that C9 can be stronk, which I'm also fine with

clever wagon
#

Also, on last map R66

toxic yacht
#

r66

#

genji?

clever wagon
#

Conbox pretty much threw their game when they're defending on extra round

#

Got off the high ground too quickly for whatever reason, got wiped

forest raven
#

Gods ran Genji, ye

toxic yacht
#

I'll have to watch it when I'm at home in, like, 3 hours

#

wat

forest raven
#

Surefour was Zarya and Mendo was Tracer

clever wagon
#

And yes Gods ran Genji in the last moments

toxic yacht
#

You have 2 of the best genjis in the world on one team

#

and you put fucking gods on genji

#

well, at least it worked

forest raven
#

Surefour and Mendo got big bang twice in 1min

toxic yacht
clever wagon
#

Hollywood defense, yeah that was mad

toxic yacht
clever wagon
#

Fnatic on the other hand is looking not so good

#

Ayyyy

#

WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THESE PICS FROM

forest raven
#

Twitter

#

Also the c9 discord

toxic yacht
#

IN HAFFICOOL WE TRUST

clever wagon
#

Also see @forest raven, this is what I was talking about

#

The atmosphere

toxic yacht
#

it's like with NV

clever wagon
#

It's just so fun seeing a team growing

forest raven
#

Yep

toxic yacht
#

and mickie fixing the atmosphere

clever wagon
#

Like NV with Mickie yes

forest raven
#

Mickie counteracts Taimou's salt

#

And Gods keeps Mendo and Surefour's personalities up

toxic yacht
#

iirc it got pretty toxic because Taimou and Tale didn't really get along

forest raven
#

Yeah lol

toxic yacht
#

then they start winning after he leaves

#

ChokeSpin

clever wagon
#

Not my place to say but Talespin did look like the type who gets tilted and salty quick

#

Right

#

Reminder that C9 is the home to my resident weeb Mendo

#

With Surefour getting poisoned slowly

forest raven
#

Hah

#

Surefour was a weeb long before Mendo joined

clever wagon
#

Oh shut

clever wagon
#

Anyway that concludes the 2nd day

#

C9 was solid, Fnatic struggled

forest raven
#

Yaes

clever wagon
#

Wait what the fuck

#

So NV first round was also Ilios

toxic yacht
forest raven
#

Yep

clever wagon
#

This shitty map picks omg

#

Canceeeerrr

#

@toxic yacht holy fuck that's an ancient version of the game

toxic yacht
#

yeah, lul

#

that was beta something something beta

clever wagon
balmy wolf
#

Yup

clever wagon
#

Well idk

#

I mean

#

He tried to roast Taimou and NV went and won 2 tournaments in a row

#

And also

toxic yacht
#

aKm was right though

#

At the time, Rogue were clearly the best

clever wagon
#

I'm an outsider, yeah, but NV looked better then they have ever been

toxic yacht
#

Then the patch happened, lul

clever wagon
#

aKm?

forest raven
#

dps for Rogue

toxic yacht
#

Oops, I thought that your link was something else

#

Hek me

#

That's what I get for being on mobile

clever wagon
#

Oh lol

toxic yacht
#

Basically, back before Tale left and the patch, Rogue were the best in the world. After going through the first phase of Apex without a single loss, they got to chose their next opponent. aKm chose NV and publicly roasted Taimou on stream while he was in the room by saying that they were the best team in the world and that NV were only the best in NA. Taimou could only be like "He's right, I guess" although he was visibly triggered

#

I thought that you linked that video, lul

clever wagon
#

Well, I don't know of this at all tbh

#

I didn't follow anything between the world cup and a bit of Vegas

#

What made Rogue the best in the world?

toxic yacht
#

Oh, okay, that explains it. Envy then went ahead and beat Rogue, which was amazing

#

Rogue became super well known after they won ESL back at gamescom. Basically, NV was on a 57-0 winstreak, so everyone thought that they'd take the whole thing. After Rogue lost to ReUnited during the group stages and went to the lower bracket and were matched vs NV in the semis, everyone was 100% sure that they'd lose. Rogue went ahead and beat them, then had a rematch with ReUnited during the grand finals and won. During the ow open, they lost to misfits in the EU finals, and misfits then again, beat Envy.

#

Rogue then won APAC, a chinese tourney where they invited a few western and korean teams

#

Rogue then beat Lunatic Hai, which was the best Korean team at the time

#

Lunatic Hai also beat Envy during Apex

#

So pretty much everyone agreed that they were the best at the time

balmy wolf
#

Then they chose Envy to play against and then the patch FUCKED them

forest raven
#

๐Ÿ™ based patch

balmy wolf
#

I wonder who the patch will fuck this time

forest raven
#

It won't fuck C9

#

It'll make them better

toxic yacht
#

It definitely won't fuck Misfits

#

Go Misfits, go

clever wagon
#

Wait so Mickie came in mid-Apex S1?

forest raven
#

Yup

clever wagon
#

Ahh

#

Lol

#

That says a lot tbh

toxic yacht
#

Yeah, Tale ditched them mid tourney

clever wagon
#

Has NV won anything before Apex?

balmy wolf
#

Yes

toxic yacht
#

Rogue chose NV because they knew that Talespin was kill

balmy wolf
#

Everything

#

They won everything

#

Up until the Atlantic Showdown

#

Because they were an EU team

#

In NA

toxic yacht
#

Lul

clever wagon
#

"was kill"?

toxic yacht
#

They won everything until Rogue happened

#

Lul, sorry for my terminology, "left"

clever wagon
#

aKm chose NV because he knew Talespin was leaving?

toxic yacht
#

They knew that Envy had Visa troubles (Mickie) and couldn't practice AND because Tale was leaving

clever wagon
#

Ah

#

Hah

#

And Lunatic Hai also beat NV when Talespin was around?

toxic yacht
#

So yeah, it was a bit of a dick move

#

And it backfired hard

clever wagon
#

That's beyond "hard"

toxic yacht
#

Yeah, LH beat Talespin NV

clever wagon
#

It's a dropkick on the face

forest raven
#

Haven't seen nV play LH since Mickie came on board

clever wagon
#

So like

#

Rogue, esp aKm, is a dick for that

#

Talespin also decided to leave, regardless of what shit he has with Taimou

#

Yet NV ended up winning the whole tournament with Mickie who literally came in mid-way

#

That's way beyond a "hard backfire" lol

#

Both to the dick aKm and Talespin

balmy wolf
#

tbh I wouldnt want to play with Taimou either

forest raven
#

tbf Taimou is also a prick

#

^

balmy wolf
#

so I dont blame talespin

clever wagon
#

Well, we'll see

#

I mean

balmy wolf
#

Taimou wrote a response saying that he doesnt act like he does on streams in a team envrionment

#

but i doubt that

clever wagon
#

Look at NV now

balmy wolf
#

He was probably triggered when he read Talespins post

#

lul

#

"Taimou... has good aim"

forest raven
#

autistic nigerians

clever wagon
#

Not defending anybody, I just never saw Taimou outside of NV

forest raven
#

nV's definitely gonna be weaker come patch time

clever wagon
#

I mean with how NV looks after Mickie, and if it holds... who knows

forest raven
#

nV has yet to play against LW Blue or Lunatic Hai

balmy wolf
#

Also

#

What the fuck happened

#

How did Kongdoo Panthera beat fnatic 3-0

#

What the fuck

forest raven
#

Dude idk man

#

It was bad

#

Rascal, Fissure and Evermore dominated

clever wagon
#

Mostly Rascal

#

But Fnatic was questionable too imo

forest raven
#

Buds tried so much

balmy wolf
#

Where the fuck is Iddqd

clever wagon
#

I mean Evermore was nowhere near best NA Roadhogs we all know

forest raven
#

Being toxic by himself

clever wagon
#

It was mostly Rascal doing things

#

First map is also fucking Ilios, again

forest raven
#

@balmy wolf nuC9 rolled though sureVo

clever wagon
#

With how shit the LoS was Buds had a hard time against Rascal going Pharah

balmy wolf
#

Wow they rolled Conbox?

#

What an achievement

clever wagon
#

They did 3-1

dusty surge
#

Was there a different tournament I missed?

forest raven
#

APEX

dusty surge
#

When was this?

forest raven
#

Currently there's the Winter Premiere and OGN APEX

clever wagon
#

Apex S2 finished 2nd day today

#

Zunba was in Conbox right?

dusty surge
#

Sigh... What happened to the stream announcements? :(

forest raven
#

@balmy wolf idk how good CONBOX is, but even in the meta with D.va being really valuable, C9 performed remarkably with no reliable D.va player

toxic yacht
#

Oh yeah, I'm back, lul. So, yeah I agree, dick move from aKm, but it makes sense

forest raven
#

And this was the only match for them where D.va will be good

clever wagon
#

And Conbox did use DVa more than C9

forest raven
#

Liz just can't into 76

balmy wolf
#

Conbox isnt really good

toxic yacht
#

Basically, NV were one of the strongest teams in apex s1

balmy wolf
#

They had Zunba but that was really it

forest raven
#

DoA said they were a mid tier APEX team

toxic yacht
#

Rogue wanted to win, so taking out NV when they were weak was the best course of action

#

But roasting Taimou like that really wasn't necessary

#

Ima look for the video

forest raven
#

@balmy wolf What does AF Blue have besides Arhan

balmy wolf
clever wagon
#

It was unprofessional

balmy wolf
#

But if it is

#

Then they're a pretty shit team

clever wagon
#

So much for him "considering what he does as his career"

balmy wolf
#

I'd roast taimou any chance I get

#

fuck that guy

forest raven
#

Because with Mendo, Surefour and Gods all on the one team, idk how well Arhan will be able to perform

balmy wolf
#

They have Recry iirc

#

unless he moved in the switch around

forest raven
#

What does he play

balmy wolf
#

He was playing Mei a lot last time I saw him

forest raven
#

AF Blue's current roster is Mano, Rud, Recry, Arhan, adam, AMON, and DongHyun

#

According to Liquidpedia

balmy wolf
#

I only know recry arhan and I think Donghyun

forest raven
#

Donghyun's a support, apparently

balmy wolf
#

He also plays Hitscan dps

#

Recry

#

that is

forest raven
#

AMON's support, adam's tank and Mano's flex/support

#

Rud is dps

toxic yacht
balmy wolf
#

timestamp it u fuk

toxic yacht
#

19:55

#

Read u fuk

balmy wolf
#

timestamp it

toxic yacht
#

Thanks

balmy wolf
#

u fuk

toxic yacht
#

I'm on mobile

balmy wolf
#

timestamp it

winter pier
#

what's special about that clip?

balmy wolf
#

It's where Rogue picks envy i guess

balmy wolf
#

Everyone says Sombra is lousy but watching e-sports for the last few days I've seen her been used 4-5 times and haven't seen, widow, bastion and junkrat used at all and pretty sure no (or at least less than sombra) zenyatta, mercy, winston or Hanzo either. Everyone seems to think sombras one of the weakest heroes so why is she picked a fair bit?

#

Just because she is used doesnt mean she isnt lousy

#

She's only used for her ult

#

Like mercy

dusty surge
#

She's hard to use.

#

Give it a few more weeks/months. She'll start seeing more and more use.

#

Especially with the hack buff

toxic yacht
#

#TrustInTork

pseudo sail
dusty surge
#

pls

#

don't spam that in multiple channels. :/

jagged crater
#

i dont even know what the NGE caster names are

#

just call them left, middle and right guy

balmy wolf
#

yep

#

same

toxic yacht
#

the middle guy

#

everyone hates him

#

it's kind of hilarious

jagged crater
#

๐Ÿ˜ฆ

#

they're no zp+hex but they sure get a lot of hate from twitch chat

#

but twitch chat is twitch chat

toxic yacht
#

yeah, lul

#

I do believe that a lot of the hate is unwaranted

#

but I'm also not a big fan of the casters tbh

jagged crater
#

they def lack the experience and game knowledge of the good OW casters we currently have

toxic yacht
#

especially the middle guy, he has a bit of a hard time keepign up with the game and has very basic play-by-play analysis (oh, look, this team has so and so many ults is all it basically boils down to) and he also has weird phrasing

#

but yeah, I get it

jagged crater
#

I GET IT

toxic yacht
#

casting games, especially one as chaotic as overwatch is a bit hard

#

LMAO

#

especially if you don't have that much experience

#

so I'll give them a chance to get better

jagged crater
#

OW is a pain to cast just from a spectator perspective

toxic yacht
#

also, "K Y B" instead of kyb

#

I'm sorry, but what the fuck

#

he also siad that kyb is from finland

jagged crater
#

the not-so-good casters tend to read the killfeed too often

toxic yacht
#

I expect casters to have basic knowledge of the players, lul

#

didn't he watch ESL?

#

that was, like, the second biggest western overwatch event, so he should be familiar with kyb

balmy wolf
#

These casters suck

#

Hopefully it wont be them at PAX

jagged crater
#

remember when CSGO casters tried OW? Was not well received

toxic yacht
#

anders and semmler?

jagged crater
#

yea

toxic yacht
#

they were at the ow open iirc

#

people weren't a big fan of it, lul

jagged crater
#

ddk did some as well

toxic yacht
#

monte and doa were received with open arms though

#

ddk? I'm not very familiar with the csgo scene, could never get into it

jagged crater
#

monte and doa def did their research before going straight to casting OW

#

altho it wasnt perfect, they still miss the occasional reflects or dva ult eating

toxic yacht
#

yeah, they definitely did. They also have the added bonus of coming from lol, which shares a lot of elements with ow

balmy wolf
#

Anders and Semmler did well enough

#

Better than these guys anyway lul

toxic yacht
#

fucking zp and uber etc regularily miss shadowburn deflecting ults

balmy wolf
#

ngl

#

Everyone misses those

#

literally everyone

#

Ults getting eaten/deflected

#

everyone always misses them

toxic yacht
#

I mean, I can forgive missing an ult get eaten

jagged crater
#

those could be hard to catch when there's so much chaos going on

toxic yacht
#

it's hard to catch that

balmy wolf
#

Its like the easiest thing though

#

OGON GO POGONOVSTI

#

nothing happens

#

how can you not see that

jagged crater
#

as a player, i notice it pretty quick

#

i hear the sound queue, dont see a graviton

#

that's all there is to it

toxic yacht
#

but when a team that wasn't even close to a graviton has one, and there is suddenly a graviton sucking up all of the enemies, something probably happened

#

like, during FaZe vs Rogue on hollywood

#

shadowburn deflected 3 ults

#

they caught it once

balmy wolf
#

Rememeber when FaZe was a top team?

#

and now they're at the bottom with C7

toxic yacht
#

FaZe vs ReUnited, ShaDowBurn deflects Unfixed's Blizzard to secure the win

balmy wolf
toxic yacht
#

missed

#

oh god, fazebadman

balmy wolf
#

I cant see how casters miss these things

toxic yacht
#

Just when I changed my name to "FaZe TheSojum"

#

they kick twoeasy

#

and become shit

#

I was about to update my flair to FaZe on the comp subreddit

jagged crater
#

kicking twoeazy had to be an internal/personality issue

#

no way they would kick him due to lack of performance

toxic yacht
#

it had to be

jagged crater
#

he carried multiple times

toxic yacht
#

twoeasy was the most consistent player on the team

#

but from what I gathered on twitter even the faze roster was sad about his departure

balmy wolf
#

Watching his streams the last few days

#

Definitely internal issues

#

Dude is perma tilted

toxic yacht
#

it looks like, I see no other logical reason to kick him

#

it may be the permatilt

#

like, it had to be internal, lul

jagged crater
#

i didnt watch the apex games today but looks like mendo did great

clever wagon
#

I've been hearing from some that twoeasy gets tilted easily

#

idk

toxic yacht
#

he tilts extremely easily on his streams, at least

#

every time I tune in he's permanently tilted

#

actually, FaZe as a whole tilted really easily

jagged crater
#

i try not to compare stream personalities with pro personality

#

iddqd for example, on stream he seems like a nice guy but i've heard he's gotten a bad rep internally

toxic yacht
#

oh lul, his bad rep has spread all around the scene

#

lel

jagged crater
#

:]

toxic yacht
#

by now the moment you mention iddqd it's associated with "dick"

jagged crater
#

mendo is toxic meme

toxic yacht
#

oh lul, the mendo is toxic meme fucking vanished

#

now everyone loves him

jagged crater
#

yea, he seems very positive and well spoken in the interviews

toxic yacht
#

yeah, definitely

clever wagon
#

He's more well spoken than some NA players themselves

toxic yacht
#

he has one of the best interview personalities in the scene imo

#

and he's just 18

#

๐Ÿ‘

clever wagon
#

He's pretty good for his age

jagged crater
#

good turn around for mendo

#

he was stuck streaming because he couldnt join a team supposedly due to his "toxic" personality

#

but since joinning c9, he's been a great posititve player

toxic yacht
#

yup. Back before I was familiar with him I also kept hearing of his shitty personality

#

but he may potentially have changed in that time

#

maybe he matured a bit

dusty surge
#

Maybe he was a toxic piece of shit that grew up?

toxic yacht
#

he's still really young

balmy wolf
#

Mendo is gay af

toxic yacht
#

mendo and surefour otp

jagged crater
#

young up and coming talent are known to be pretty toxic but they could turn around after some experience

toxic yacht
#

it's kind of funny, Taimou of all people is the one who was complaining abotu his worth ethic

balmy wolf
#

I dont think IMT are toxic

#

And they have three 17 year olds

toxic yacht
#

Snow from method also doesn't seem toxic

#

at all

balmy wolf
#

That dude is great

#

Remember him at LAN?

#

That hair

toxic yacht
#

his hair is glorious

#

but yeah, method pretty much disbanded

jagged crater
#

honestly dont know much about IMT since their personalities havent gotten much exposure

#

i know grimreality plays one of heck of a mccree tho

toxic yacht
#

all their members are spread around different teams. I'll miss them

balmy wolf
#

Agilities Genji and Grim's McCree

#

Godlike

jagged crater
#

i think grim was the grilled cheese dude

#

back in world cup

balmy wolf
#

the what

jagged crater
#

i mean ow open

toxic yacht
#

I'm still not sure what you are talking about

jagged crater
#

goldenboy interviewed grimreality and said grilled cheese was his favorite thing to make or something

balmy wolf
#

Grimreality wasnt at the OWopen though..?

jagged crater
#

i dont even remmeber the tournament

#

it was several months ago

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first IMT lan tournament

balmy wolf
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Oh wait

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They were

toxic yacht
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woah, I completeely forgot

balmy wolf
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They were Sodipop

toxic yacht
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yeah, they were theer

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sodipop

balmy wolf
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Totally forgot

toxic yacht
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but seriously, I'm watching c9 vs conbox right now

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Gods' roadhog is ๐Ÿ‘Œ

balmy wolf
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All my favourite teams are dying, dead or doing crap

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why ow

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why

jagged crater
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what happeend to NiP?

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havent seen them in a while

toxic yacht
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NiP is EU

jagged crater
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The progenitors of the tank meta

toxic yacht
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Everyone is trying to kill EU, apparently

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no tournaments for NiP to participate it

jagged crater
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EU has been falling behind lately, tho partly due to the EU shuffle among the top teams (misfits/rogue)

toxic yacht
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and no, NiP wouldn't go to that 5000โ‚ฌ tourney that veineless went to