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pearl stratus
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The SBB 4k under bubble on Volskaya too

elfin siren
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Are there any scouts out in Calgary watching the Esports Tournament tomorrow 6-10GMT?

desert salmon
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Do you guys think RunAway will still be relevant in OWL?

limber pine
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I don't know what you mean

desert salmon
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Like Vancouver Titans

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Would they be top or maybe mediocre or something?

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A lot of people put them at the top 5 and I don't really agree.

limber pine
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RunAway is still a team btw

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so just call them Vancouver

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and yes, I don't think they'll be top 5 (but definitely top 10)

earnest vigil
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cool

sullen berry
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I put a lot of weight on the culture factor for Vancouver

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Dallas fuel got it wrong but that was more of a huge struggle to match the OWL infrastructure over 10 matches per stage

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7 matches per stage will still be loads

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but they've learned well

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Vancouver

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Don't have the same experience from the get go but their mechanical skill would only take them so far when Flowervin isn't coming up to congratulate them for each map win

dim mulch
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When does open division start? <@&397922982632226816> <@&503875215227617290> <@&397922334540824577>

vivid solar
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fucked if

plucky vortex
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Google it.

mossy dagger
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Dude did you really have to ping us? Next month

plucky vortex
outer vapor
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@dim mulch Please don't ping everyone for general questions

dim mulch
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Sorry

lone hinge
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I'm from Kansas City, which team should I be a fan of?

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any KC players in the league?

pearl stratus
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I'd probably pick the team you like the most.

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And be a fan of them.

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I've heard people have good success with that.

hidden vault
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or you can be neutral to all

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it does give you a kind of a analysis point of view instead of from a fan base

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analysis point of view -- by that I mean unbaised

torpid charm
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^^^

gaunt acorn
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life's no fun if you can't hate anyone

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just root against houston and you'll be fine

torpid charm
hidden vault
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it's no fun if you get hate on right XD

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is there is rivalry between Leggo and Dray?

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or you can just root for SHD cause 1st win

gaunt acorn
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no houston is just a garbage can team

balmy wolf
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hate florida for just being florida

gaunt acorn
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they are garbage too

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but not even worth hating

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just uninteresting

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at least houston is hateable

balmy wolf
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whats ur reasoning for hating houston

pearl stratus
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There's white people on it.

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And Dray hates white people.

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It's a long term racism con 😛

balmy wolf
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figured smh

torpid charm
hidden vault
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Dray is white

sullen berry
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This makes me feel a lot better since I'm still a few levels away from silver border

west marlin
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London spitfire is best team

cerulean sequoia
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Im looking to join a ps4 overwatch team. how do i go about that?

balmy wolf
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Like professional team or like just a team in general

velvet kettle
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as a member of a tespa team

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tespa sucks

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college esports is a broken system

pearl stratus
elfin siren
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Anyone paying attention to some of the smaller ESports Tournaments taking place around the globe, like Calgary Alberta?

pearl stratus
nimble dock
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cringe

pearl stratus
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It's not the worst I've seen. He overvalues Toronto the most imo.

queen drift
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Shock & glad too high imo

balmy wolf
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@pearl stratus he's lft dont listen to him

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but for real nice

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i disagree with shd/14

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also outlaws doesnt get enough recognition for their coordination and overall team play

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"no individual skill" ???????????????

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linkzr is widely considered the best flick aim player

pearl stratus
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Yeah, I always clarify them as tongue in cheek because there's definite issues.

balmy wolf
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jake is an all around player but rawkus and spree are definitely amazing at their roles

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seagull actively avoids rawkus on zen 👀

pearl stratus
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Eh. Rawkus suffered last season, but his dad also died.

balmy wolf
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the rest i... cant really disagree with

pearl stratus
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So I'm waiting to see him playing into Season 2.

balmy wolf
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thats true, i have high hopes for him

pearl stratus
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Bani has probably had the most visual growth.

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His time on Team Canada was really fruitful.

balmy wolf
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hell yes, from toxic dps instalocker to genuinely good main supp

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bani used to be super toxic oh man

pearl stratus
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Not sure if you watched the pro pubs they did on PTR by the way, but Jake was legitimately looking good.

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His Zarya was solid, his Ashe was a bit out of nowhere for him.

balmy wolf
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be spent literally all the time in ranked shit talking dsp stanky lmao

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my views on jake are fairly controversial

pearl stratus
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I don't think Outlaws will be a top team, but I don't think they'll be bad.

balmy wolf
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i actually do like him as a dps

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hes not the best in any role, but hes like a less likeable seagull

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he can play almost any hero at a pro level and prove to be a match against experienced masters of that role

pearl stratus
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I don't think Jake is visually impactful, I think Jake is mentally impactful.

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Thats how I've always viewed him.

balmy wolf
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extremely

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he coordinates so well in games its insane

pearl stratus
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He's not going to be your fancy plays guy. He won't pop off and be clutch.

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It's indicative in the way Korea views western players too.

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Typically Koreans view smarter players as bigger threats.

balmy wolf
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he has the coordination and callouts of a main tank, the game sense and ult economy/tracking of a main support, and the aim of a hitscan player

velvet kettle
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jakerat

balmy wolf
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thats why hes done so well in team based heroes like soldier or junkrat

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anyone else playing junkrat gets countered so easily

pearl stratus
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I mean his Junkrat is a meme, but it literally fucked the #1 team in the league over, and over, and over.

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Jakes Junkrat is the 1942 Germany to London.

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Which to me is hilarious.

queen drift
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jake's mechanical skill isn't anything special

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on junk or soldier

pearl stratus
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Doesn't have to be.

queen drift
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but i dont deny hes a good player

pearl stratus
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People overvalue mechanical skill, imo.

balmy wolf
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i dont disagree

queen drift
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he's insane as an igl

pearl stratus
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I know people in Gold/Plat that have insane aim.

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Their mechanics are great.

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But they're shit at everything else.

velvet kettle
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haha

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golds

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good aim

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hahahaha

queen drift
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for a dps, mechanical skill is v important imo

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matters almost nothing for other roles

balmy wolf
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his aim is nothing special BUT its consistent

pearl stratus
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It's important, but its not the be all end all.

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If you can compensate with big brain you can take advantage of situations that don't require as much aim.

balmy wolf
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like if im being honest, in terms of pure mechanics his genji/soldier isnt that much better than your avg mid gm dps player

pearl stratus
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Like my aim is... decent. Maybe a little ahead of the bell curve, but not anything I'd be like "Woooo, you see that shot!"

balmy wolf
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but in terms of coordination

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its far superior

pearl stratus
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I just tend to outthink people so I can ambush some shit lol

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So I'll never be a T500, I know that.

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But I compensate for bad aim

queen drift
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aim is just practice

pearl stratus
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It is, but its also a tangible declining thing.

balmy wolf
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its not even required to be in gm or even t500

pearl stratus
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I have a desk job, I'm on a computer all day. My general habits aren't great, so my coordination deteriorates since I don't keep up with it.

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Which is my own fault.

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So I just play Zarya instead.

balmy wolf
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Mechanics, Game Awareness, and Positioning

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To be GM, master one, to be consistent t500, master two. To be pro, master 3

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imo jake has game awareness and positioning completely

velvet kettle
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flow3r is a beast

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i mglad hes old enough to compete

queen drift
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eh he's declined

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peaked late 2017 early 2018 imo

velvet kettle
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dammn rlly?

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havnt seen anything on him in a while

queen drift
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he's still great

velvet kettle
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thats a shamme

queen drift
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just not as good

pearl stratus
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For the tl;dr:

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Lots of injuries, most permanent to some extent because untreated, changed aim style to avoid more.

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So Apex Flower was best Flower.

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Also.

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Libero exists.

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I think overall anyone is hard pressed to keep up to Libero.

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Closest I'd honestly call is Rascal.

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Profit would be up there too actually.

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But he's definitely acclimated more towards projectile because you don't need both when you're paired with Birdring (preinjury)

queen drift
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libero is the best dps in the owl imo

pearl stratus
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Overall I don't think you'd find many who disagree.

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He's not the best per hero. But it doesn't matter when you have a hero pool of "everything"

queen drift
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yeah

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his projectile is up there though

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i'd say his genji/hanzo is definitely like.. top4

pearl stratus
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I'm actually excited to see Libero + Flower because its a duo that could really press other teams and keep them on their toes.

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Also Libero + Flower open up a 4 DPS comp where Jjonak can take the Widow.

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So you'd get Flower Pharah, Libero Hanzo, Jjonak Widow, Meko Soldier.

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If the Rt66 Quad DPS comp stays similar.

queen drift
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havent seen meko soldier

pearl stratus
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No ones bad at soldier, its soldier 😛

queen drift
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when he's viable you can 100% be bad at soldier

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hes just consistently bad

pearl stratus
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I actually don't know what DPS Meko honestly plays. I've just seen most off-tanks rotating to the soldier on the comp.

naive zinc
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i remember the good days when soldier was actually good i used him to go from silver to diamond in one season

pearl stratus
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You still can, tbh.

queen drift
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ye but you can get to diamond with anythingl ol

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get to master too

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anything higher is eh

pearl stratus
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Like Papa Jeff said. There's no meta when you're low SR, stop whining about it.

queen drift
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haha

gaunt acorn
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statistically you probably can't

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only like 3% of players ever reach masters

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even diamond is only like 10% of players

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if you can get to diamond by playing anything, you're at least within the top 10% of players already

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for the average joe schmoe it's not feasible

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or certainly not easy

queen drift
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Yeah but at least half the players are casual, that’s being generous

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The other half can almost definitely get to dia or higher with a bit of effort, on any hero

gaunt acorn
queen drift
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Dray is plat 😠

gaunt acorn
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no

queen drift
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Yes

gaunt acorn
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no (x2)

queen drift
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Yes (x3)

balmy wolf
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a statistical majority of the playerbase plays non-comp as a main game mode

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if you play competitive often (>50 games a season) and are below diamond you have 0 excuse

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if youre below consistent 4.3k you are irrelevant in the pro scene

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general rules of thumb

mint turtle
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Idk dude

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I think a lot of low ranks play comp cause its organised qp

supple prism
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arcade and custom game modes pulls alot away

dreamy mountain
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I got rooted for Dallas Fuel way back but I'm considering swapping now that they aren't so hot

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Any other teams that are really cool? If they have good genji players that's a plus

supple prism
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i have been on phillys side

dreamy mountain
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what's phili all about?

supple prism
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but if you want to look at team info, i use https://liquipedia.net/

dreamy mountain
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Philidelphia is run by Team Liquid?

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Huh.

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oh nvm it's just a esports in general site

pearl stratus
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Philly is comcast.

gaunt acorn
ruby pendant
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Does anyone if tokens will be rewarded for watching OWL Season 2 matches?

supple prism
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probably

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it was the only reason i watched it

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and i think it brings them more profit in the long run

gaunt acorn
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yes

sullen berry
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Expect if this season delivers: OWL Token notifications arrive instantly during day one broadcast

Season oof: either none first week or just late notifications but still get owl Tokens

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Expecting a high from either day one or day two with the washed out Fuel vs Dynasty rival match

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Day two > Day one imo

ruby pendant
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ok thanks all

hidden vault
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What rivalry is there with Fuel and Dynasty?

balmy wolf
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long standing rivalry technically, between former EnvyUS and i forgot whatever team dynasty were, lunatic hai?

queen drift
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Ye

balmy wolf
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thats about a 2 year old rivalry

hidden vault
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Cause EnvyUs won Apex 1

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And LH 2 & 3?

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GC Busan = not worthy rivalry?

obtuse glacier
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Me waiting for OWL season 2 like KaplanThink

balmy wolf
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i dont remember pre-OWL esports all that much

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but envyus and LH were neck and neck

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bunny and taimou especially

pearl stratus
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Oh man.

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All of my power rankings just got fucked up by that Chengdu announcement.

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Because now you get Jiqi and Lateyoung together again, which means Chengdu's biggest flaw is really patched up.

forest raven
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Everytime envy and LH played each other envy got rekt

fleet walrus
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How do I get OWL tokens on Xbox

pearl stratus
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Its about your twitch being linked, regardless of where your twitch is from.

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Also being from a participating country.

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So if you're from Canada you have to do your math question

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Etc, etc.

pearl stratus
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@limber pine Re-evaluate Chengdu in your hypothetical list now. Mine moved up a few spots.

limber pine
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I still think they'll be bottom 8

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I think

pearl stratus
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Yeah, mine just moved up to near the top of the bottom. It's got two ? marks.

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Which is MY cohesion still exists? If yes, move things up. Coach cohesion? Move things up.

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Because you've got four MY now, if you include Rui.

queen drift
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Yikes

pearl stratus
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Old school

limber pine
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man i wish OWL would not fly by the seat of their pants

pearl stratus
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Want a bigger upset Sprite?

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Whats wrong with this picture:

lucid skiff
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isnt KSF on paris or something?

pearl stratus
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No.

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Soon went to Paris.

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Look at Karivs icon.

limber pine
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What does KariV cover that Bunny/Agilites/KSF doesn't?

pearl stratus
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Nothing. Though statically he actually was LAV's best widow.

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My guess is they just put him as DPS since they got rid of flex.

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He and Bunny would cover the full hit scan gamut though

limber pine
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will he even play?

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isn't LAV supposedly really high on IZaYaKi

pearl stratus
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I'm not sure.

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Agilities mentioned during the pro pugs that Kariv is their best Zarya (non-Space)

limber pine
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hm

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#BringBackFlex

limber pine
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who played their Zarya before?

green stump
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Don't remember...

torpid charm
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I wanna say Soon but I don’t remember either

green stump
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I think your right, it was soon

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So maybe... Space will take the role?

torpid charm
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Probably

green stump
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Or will space be their Hammond?

torpid charm
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Space really only played D.va or Hog during OWL, could be practicing his Zarya to be ready for S2 even though that role is usually done by DPS

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Fate would play Hammond I suppose?

green stump
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I dunno, i never saw fate being a Hammond player

torpid charm
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Usually the MT is the one who plays Hammond but who knows what they would be doing tbh

limber pine
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didn't fate play a lot of hammond during world cup?

green stump
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Did he? I don't remember that

torpid charm
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Yeah he did

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That’s why I said that

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Prior knowledge zenyattabigbrain1

green stump
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Did he do well? I seriously can't remember

pearl stratus
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D'va isn't going anywhere, so Space will play D'va.

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Fate is probably the best Hammond in the League from what we know now.

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I don't think, unless there's a much larger shake up to D'va, Zarya will be played by anyone else than DPS and/or (sometimes) a specialist.

slow walrus
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thoughts on pacific/atlantic showdowns and the gauntlet? I'm a little disappointed by the huge time difference between the gauntlet and the other two events.

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OWL ends in late august with the main season and the post season is likely in september though. So I guess it's not that long of a wait

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but where does the world cup fit into that schedule then? November??

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for reference gauntlet is in october vs. the other two events in late may

pearl stratus
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Rumors were abound that the world cup was going away.

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Also World Cup is pretty much always Blizzcon for finals.

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So yes.

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Saturday, November 2.

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Which is when Blizzcon is.

slow walrus
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huh. WC not profitable enough? I've always loved it myself

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They're bound to have some premium overwatch event at blizzcon no matter what right so idk what they would replace the WC with especially now that it has so much history

upper niche
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@pearl stratus 'League sources'? It was announced during the launch broadcast that there'd be four days of preseason matches.

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@slow walrus I wish Atlantic/Pacific would fuck right off. It's such a bullshit American way of running leagues - and yeah yeah, I know Blizard are an American company, but they need to pull their heads out of the sand and look at why no other country in the world runs leagues like that.

pearl stratus
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It doesn't matter either way. None of the countries actively matter.

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Started in the US, most major investment is in the US.

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You emulate where your money is. Its easier for fewer to adapt.

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Just remember - Nothing matters as much as money. In basically everything you do in life.

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All the lofty what ifs equivalate to toilet paper for wiping your ass with if you can't financially back it.

slow walrus
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@upper niche I'd imagine blizzard would change it if there was an actual esports scene anywhere else but it kind of legitimizes contenders bc they did the same thing with owl. Not saying I neccesarily like only having 2 divisions, but this was better for contenders imo than it was bad

pearl stratus
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Contenders is actually more set up like English Football.

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In the relegation cycle.

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Etc, etc.

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But its unlike English Football

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In the fact EU matters the least.

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Poor EU ladder.

balmy wolf
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signing up for Soulja boys eSports team when it's up

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it's gonna happen bitches

sullen berry
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Don't be stupid, he would never!

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(crosses fingers)

gloomy tapir
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Leggo sign up

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Ez clap

south pelican
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I wonder who XL2 will pick up now

runic creek
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Anyone know how much season 2 buy ins for a league slot was ?

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I know it was rumored to go to $60mn but I never saw a confirmed amount

sullen berry
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as with season 1, they vary by region

runic creek
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Oh did not know that it varied by region in season 1..

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What team paid less than 20mn? Almost every team other than London Seoul and Shanghai were/are NA right ?

sullen berry
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Activision Blizzard will price expansion slots for the Overwatch League between $30 million and $60 million as the company continues to negotiate with prospective buyers, sources familiar with discussions for those spots told ESPN.
runic creek
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Ah ok, thanks for the help

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appreciated

sullen berry
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huge gains for the pacific

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better chinese representation this season strikes slightly better regional spread: 13x US/Canada, 5x China/Korea , 2x EU

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I don't see this being converging until people are okay with the culture clash, which has been an issue for players and less the orgs

sullen berry
karmic grotto
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....

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NA And eu boring

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look what asia has

torpid charm
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Tutu is amazing

balmy wolf
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chinese teams deserve more

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they got hoed

pearl stratus
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Technically 1x EU.

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You have London, but not really.

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It's a US company.

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A US owned, Korean played, Team is the best team in the EU.

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And people wonder why EU representation is so low 😛

hidden vault
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Still waiting for a completely chinese team

pearl stratus
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You mean Chengdu?

gaunt acorn
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^

pearl stratus
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The Korean Power Rankings are even more interesting, but all over the map.

limber pine
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they're certainly less consistent with the other rankings

pearl stratus
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Yeah, I wonder how much bias goes in there.

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Shanghai jumping to #4 has got to have more to do with KDP than current Shanghai.

limber pine
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yeah Shanghai making the playoffs isn't that much of a reach, but putting them higher than Vancouver, LAV, and LAG is...interesting

pearl stratus
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Above Vancouver was most interesting to me.

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Not because of other teams.

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But because Runaway always had the better match up over KDP

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So why wouldn't that translate to OWL for them?

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It seems counter intuitive to how they'd view it

limber pine
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

pearl stratus
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Not surprised they rank Shock so highly, from a Korean point of view most of the issues with the team we're replaced with really well known talent from KContenders.

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rip Super and Sleepy

torpid charm
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:~O those rankings

tranquil dock
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Will xqc be in overwatch league 2019

limber pine
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no

pearl stratus
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@balmy wolf How do you feel about the T2 changes btw?

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For those out of the loop Blizzard announced a gigantic change to Contenders

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3 New Tournaments, 2 Regional and a Gauntlet Tournament.

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They're all LAN, and some are inter-regional.

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Which means massive exposure.

limber pine
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!schedule

somber yewBOT
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Overwatch League Schedule for Stage 1 Week 1
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green stump
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@pearl stratus this is a great change to t2 but it's still not enough yet...

pearl stratus
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It's the best they'll get with garbage viewership though

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Contenders gets less viewers than cleavage.

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Till it gets more, its not really worth more.

green stump
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True enough but if you don't promote it more, you won't get more lol the vicious cycle

pearl stratus
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Eh most people just don't care because its such a noticeably lower level, too

green stump
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You mean skill wise?

pearl stratus
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Yeah, migrating OWL viewers to Contenders is a hurdle

green stump
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Some regions are pretty good like korea for example, but others have very little in the entertainment value

pearl stratus
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I only watch China, personally.

green stump
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But na and eu barely have much in the star potential or personally

pearl stratus
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I have no NA talent I think is worth really tracking right now minus maybe... Dogman and Elk.

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Eu would be Logix and Davin, and beyond that just kind of whatever.

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China has entire teams I enjoy tracking like T1W.

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Who just do weird shit.

balmy wolf
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@pearl stratus incredibly in love with the changes

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LANs always pull far higher viewerships over just online tourneys, this is a great stride in a good direction

pearl stratus
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Gaunlet is basically World Cup 2.0

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But arguably better

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Because it keeps out existing pros.

balmy wolf
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officially submitted my request to join soulja boy's esports team for overwatch btw

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request and resume

karmic grotto
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Erster 175k

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Atlanta

balmy wolf
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gonna crank that on these fools in contenders

karmic grotto
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The question is

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How much is Dafran worth?

balmy wolf
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not as much

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dafran doesnt have as much scrim experience as the other pros nor does he have a very... decent track record

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selfless was a joke up until the last tourneys before his ban

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he does have a solid PMA attitude and godly aim but imo not the best nor close to the best in the series

karmic grotto
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He could have potential tho, alot

balmy wolf
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he's been grinding ranked for a year, the rest have been in legit scrims/professional teams for the last year

karmic grotto
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But yeah, that ban

balmy wolf
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he 100% does have potential

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but not the time to reach it

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thats the only issue really

karmic grotto
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It's a bit late?

balmy wolf
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very

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everyone else has tested and tried every possible comp and playstyle for their hero pools

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aon too of hundreds of hours

karmic grotto
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In scrims

balmy wolf
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hes just pretty much played soldier/tracer in t500 games

karmic grotto
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Oh man, no wonder he's busy these days

balmy wolf
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yeah he knows it too

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also i should add

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this is in no way a negative feeling towards dafran

karmic grotto
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Yeh

balmy wolf
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i like the new dafran genuinely, he knows as well as anyone else in pro/semipro leagues that hes got a lot of ground to cover

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but he's got quick legs

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time to see how quick

karmic grotto
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His late streams

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I notice a change in his playstyle scrimming

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Like, the mistakes he makes, he makes them alot less now and his positioning has improved

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You're correct, let's see how much he can adapt before OWL starts

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Cause now, he's scrimming against other OWL and every scrim is worth something to learn

pearl stratus
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Also his mental state probably impacted his pay.

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Because he's still a risk.

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People tend to factor stuff like that in.

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Like Logix, for instance, talking about turning offers down.

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Unfortunately he took two weeks off due to homesick/depression.

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Which will impact his next signing.

balmy wolf
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dafran has immense potential and i truly do wish he can reach it

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also yeah its the reason xqc gave up on getting into owl

pearl stratus
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I personally think Atlanta should restrict his streaming once the season starts (or he should) to help it.

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Doing both at once will be a test for him if he tries to.

balmy wolf
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yeah xqc is good but has no pro experience at that level so he underperformed heavily during owl

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and dafran's streaming honestly can go both ways

pearl stratus
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He also overloaded his schedule. He was streaming for the same time he was scrimming.

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You mentally can't keep that up.

balmy wolf
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it can be seen as a de-stresser since he generally has fun during his streams

pearl stratus
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Also diet, but thats huge.

balmy wolf
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or it can be seen as a stresser since its added workload

pearl stratus
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I mean I'm not saying get rid of it, but restrict it. Let him stream for like 2-3 hours on nights he's scrimmed. Don't overload the brain

balmy wolf
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i mean tbh xqc and dafran are in the same boat

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theyre entertainers by heart, not competers

pearl stratus
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This time around more than his contenders bs I'm getting competitor vibe from Dafran more than entertainer.

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For one reason.

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Both xQc and Dafran maintained a bunch of their channels by toxicity - whether its the desk slam, the freak out, the trolling, etc.

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He's done a good job ditching that.

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Whereas we all saw what xQc did 😛

balmy wolf
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yeah i have high hopes for dafran

karmic grotto
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That's why Dafran doesn't stream as much as he did, only when he has free time

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There were days he streamed for like 30-45 mins

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He's taking his state and scrimming seriously

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So I hope he will be fine and grow his potential more each day

pearl stratus
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Btw.

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Please note: There will still be a LOT of GOATS played. Like a LOT. It'll will most likely decline as the season goes on but teams have been practicing for months, a ptr change doesn't suddenly mean the meta will shift instantly. Don't freak out and set your expectations properly.

worn falcon
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I mean we had a LOT of dive last year

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i think i can handle GOATS

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

slow walrus
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🦀 GOATS IS DEAD 🦀

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but honestly yeah goats will stick around until some super big brain analyst comes up with a comp that can destroy it

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and it'll probably still be very meta on control/potentially assault maps

limber pine
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goats will probably be like old-dive: you'll run it most of the time until you need a map- or counter-specific comp

slow walrus
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goats is pretty cool honestly but I'm gonna miss seeing players like carpe and pine just click heads all day

limber pine
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agreed

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I've said that here before: I don't mind Zarya's, but having dps players on Brigitte kills me on the inside

slow walrus
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ironically brig is a dps

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she used to be even more dps with her stun combo

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yeah I liked what dallas did where they had seagull go on dva and mickie go onto brig

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it also worked really well for them

upper niche
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I really really want to see Boss come out in OWL ;D

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lol, Carpe and Pine on Brig.

Man, they really just need to nerf Heal-stacking already and be done with it.

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second healer on a target only does 30% healing. third does nothing. Done. Sorted. No more triple-healing. Ana gets a slight nerf (due to anti not being as useful) making Mercy a more viable pick.

slow walrus
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@upper niche but how would you decide how brig heals stacks with heal/sec like mercy's? an instant heal vs. heal over time wouldn't cancel very much

balmy wolf
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i dont see what the issue with dive was

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its the most coordination-reliant composition

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i still perferred dive over double sniper/moth meta zzzz

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seeing pros coordinate a dive is genuinely interesting. in dive you choose which hero you want to kill and in goats the enemy that makes a mistake is the one that dies

upper niche
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@slow walrus does it matter? They can define a system for handling it, keep it consistent. What it is doesn't esky matter. People will cry regardless of what they decide.

balmy wolf
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@upper niche the healing isnt what makes triple support on goats broken

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it's the cc

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well at least its not the stacked healing

upper niche
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No, but the inability to out-damage targets would make them vulnerable.

balmy wolf
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thats not why goats is broken tho

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putting your changes would barely change the outcome

upper niche
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In Goats you're basically clustered in a small area, but still have the ability to out-heal shit like sustained Junkrat and Pharah fire combined - including the splash damage.

balmy wolf
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zen always keeps orb on rein, ana heals up dva/zarya, and brig just heals the other healers and herself with passive

upper niche
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Uhh, no, it would massively change the outcome.

balmy wolf
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i play goats in a 4.3k team

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i know how to play goats

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trust me

upper niche
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No you don't, you make that claim all too frequently 😃

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And we don't trust you 😃

balmy wolf
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who's we? 😃

upper niche
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Really? That's your argument? "He defined a group of people he didn't give a specific explanation of"? Jesus fucking christ.

balmy wolf
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you seem fun at parties, its ok ill let you pretend

slow walrus
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I love it when you try to have a reasonable discussion and people like akashra come out with the personal attacks 😃

upper niche
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@slow walrus He made a claim that he's made frequently which is known to be bullshit. It kinda kills any credibility when his argument was based on "X, therefore I'm right"

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And then tried to just completely ignore it when called out.

slow walrus
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the correct response is not to flame him my man

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just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them wrong

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stacked healing nerfs would make burst damage the best in the game

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which it already is

upper niche
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It's not about disagreeing, it's about disagreeing but claioming that the reason what I've said wouldn't work is because of his rank, like... what the fuck, even if he weren't lying, what he's claiming just isn't accurate at all. It would basically reduce around 50% of the healing that goes in to GOATS comps, which is what makes them so viable to begin with.

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I mean even just using the example figures I gave, it would drop a comp like Ana+Moira+Brig from being able to heal what, nearly 180hps to around 110 max.

slow walrus
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that's what you should have responded with instead of "uhh, no it would massively change the outcome"

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you gave no evidence

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so he increased his ethos

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by giving himself credit

upper niche
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pft, not really.

slow walrus
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and you chose not to believe him instantly because why?? according to you, "even if he weren't lying, your point would still be valid"

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so why do you need to tell him he's lying

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that's just toxic

upper niche
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When you go around trying to look cool and edgy by refferring to Mercy as "moth" and have to resort to telling others your rank like that somehow bolsters an argument based on raw numbers, your credibility is dubious at best to begin with.

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Because around here, there's too many wankers who think "I'm plat/diamond/masters/gm/whatever, therefore I know more than you". It's a fucking stupid attitude that needs to be wiped out.

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You playing any particular rank doesn't mean shit. It doesn't immediately mean you know more than another person. Regardless of where they play.

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And if you have to fall back on that kind of unverified claim just to try to 'win' an argument, well fuck.

slow walrus
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I would disagree. There's a good reason why most hiring t3/t2 teams require a GM+ peak to be a coach

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and if you wanna say the entire system is wrong that's your prerogative

upper niche
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Uhh, that's different logic though.

balmy wolf
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not really sure where the lying accusation is coming from

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but aight

slow walrus
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^

balmy wolf
slow walrus
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huge hero pool diversity wowow

balmy wolf
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ive spent a decent amount of time here

upper niche
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So lying, or exaggerating? Which do you prefer?

balmy wolf
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coaching, helping, community games, podcast

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and im on a college league for overwatch that placed #15/477

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i dont like flexing but ill do it when needed

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now then

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@slow walrus I'm looking forward to New metas tbh

gaunt acorn
#

how is this related to esports

upper niche
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@gaunt acorn Goats 😃

balmy wolf
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nyxl will have the most heavy change bc their best players are on very non-goats heroes, except jjonak

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whereas teams like outlaws or philly have more diverse hero pools

slow walrus
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yoo @balmy wolf my college team placed 68th!!

upper niche
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I wonder how much of NYXL's late-season performance was inability to change vs sandbagging. I mean sure, the latter is what everyone accused them of...

slow walrus
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Washington Bsports

balmy wolf
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ayyy nice lad, we might not play against each other this league but hmu scrims and such

slow walrus
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ah 78th nvm

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lol we're a ~3k team so idk that it would be super fair but it's cool to meet another tespa player outside of my team

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fair doesn't really matter but I wouldn't want to waste your time with a scrim you can't learn as much from

balmy wolf
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if anything feel free to hmu if you need a ringer or even just some tips

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our B team got placed against ASU in the beginning of the preseason

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that was fun to hear in our server

slow walrus
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yeah we went up against NUES OW A and B early in the season and A crushed us B was kind of a close match haha

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our A team was 4th at some point but they made a paladins team and focused on that bc there was actual scholarship money behind it :sad:

balmy wolf
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all of our money went into overwatch thank god

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hots got cancelled FeelsSadMan

slow walrus
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UW gives us no money for esports we literally just have a student run organization (which receives minimal funding) and a lot of good players

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when will we be accepted

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prob never

balmy wolf
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tespa itself is being defunded by blizzard

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125k winnings to 25k

slow walrus
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hopefully they have plans and aren't just abandoning collegiate ow bc there's a good amount of money to be made

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not by players but by making an NCAA league and making a bigger deal out of it

upper niche
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Surely they'll put more money in to Contenders the way it's going.

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I mean, if they want it to survive, they'd have to... right?

slow walrus
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contenders =/= tespa , I'd argue that they could get so much more following and brand value out of collegiate vs. contenders

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the viewership potential is larger bc college students and alumni will be more likely to watch and root for their own team, even if they don't play overwatch. No one is going to watch contenders who doesn't play overwatch

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I'd also argue that it would be good for players, because you can get a degree before you go to owl or whatever in case OW sinks to obscurity or "overwatch 2" isn't a smash hit/another game comes and takes the spotlight

velvet kettle
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isnt jayne a masters player

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who just peaked gm a few times?

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also tespa is complete trash

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i wouldnt even consider it pro league whatssoever

slow walrus
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He reliably gets all of his accounts up to GM

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the only time he's masters is because he decays a lot

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bc he does mostly other things than playing the game while streaming

velvet kettle
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ive seen him in both gm and masters so ik hes capable of being gm

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just dont watch his streams at all

balmy wolf
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tespa players actually get paid unlike contenders lul

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i am very conflicted on jayne

velvet kettle
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excuse me what

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i was on a shitty tespa team

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i aint get paid shut

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shit

balmy wolf
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the actually good ones get scholarships

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UH gives us schols

velvet kettle
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ahh

balmy wolf
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ASU, maryville, UoT get full rides

velvet kettle
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thats what you mean

balmy wolf
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(by that i mean they give us checks so barely any of us actually use it for schols)

velvet kettle
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lmao i wish my team consisted of more than 1 diamond 2 plats and a buncg of <golds

balmy wolf
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its a matter of scouting and actually making yourself known

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we basically had 1 mass email to students in regards to clubs/tryouts

velvet kettle
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i got myself banned from my team because i wanted out

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lmao

balmy wolf
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modern problems require modern solutions

velvet kettle
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i faked a toxic ban notification to be boosting

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and got my captain to believe it

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then we had an eboard meeting where like all the captains of all the teams had to vote me off n shiz

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hopefully none of them are active in this discord

balmy wolf
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im barely qualified

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i have the minimum # of credits needed to be considered a full time student

velvet kettle
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i need to fix my grades tbh

balmy wolf
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i found a loophole in tespa

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you dont have to be an undergrad to be allowed into tespa

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i already graduated but im finishing my minor, so technically i qualify

velvet kettle
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can u be an alumn?

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i

balmy wolf
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even though im in grad school, the tespa admins approved my application to join

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and so did the uni board

velvet kettle
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lmao

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nothing can stop someone from acct sharing tho

balmy wolf
#

even better part is academic schols cover most of the fees for the minor anyway

velvet kettle
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what could they do about it?

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itll be like the whats that fake egirl

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ellie?

balmy wolf
#

so my uni is essentially paying for grad school

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lol yeah

velvet kettle
#

ellie 2.0

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the shitty tespa version

balmy wolf
#

emma

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ill do it

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@slow walrus before i forget

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about jayne

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I really genuinely do like his vod reviews and guides on ranked players

velvet kettle
#

emmie the new ellie

balmy wolf
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But I personally do not think he can coach effectively for a high ranked Tier 1/2 team

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This is 100% personal opinion full disclosure

velvet kettle
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i can coach for a tier 4 team

balmy wolf
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I really do appreciate his videos (and have used him personally for scrim vod reviews)

velvet kettle
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if they are diamonds or plats

balmy wolf
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I coached some masters team bc they were some weird rich kids and paid a lot of money without checking actual coaching prices

velvet kettle
#

oh yea btw wasnt this confirmed an aniemr reference

balmy wolf
#

no clue tbh

velvet kettle
#

well i just help out low elo players

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on like 2 members of the two teams for my school even care about getting better

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rest dgaf

balmy wolf
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i coached a lot here, id like to think i wrote really effective guides in the #old-gameplay-advice pinned messages for all ranks

gaunt acorn
#

it's a clear anime reference

balmy wolf
#

one of them went to OD

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and actually did considerably well for a high plat

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his 2.8k team actually almost beat a 3.6k team

velvet kettle
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o poop i got ice cream on my mouse

balmy wolf
#

was really genuinely happy with that

velvet kettle
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but thats nice

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if only my tespa team was able to beat a team of silvers when i had 26kk gold damage at 10 mins

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and silver dammage was 5k

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literally closest game of my life

slow walrus
#

yeah jayne is honestly a great coach imo like he's blunt and he expects players to drop their pride/egos and just accept what he has to say. Pretty funny guy too

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When I tried to coach a team jayne-style I got backlash bc I was being "too harsh"

balmy wolf
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i can be both

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ive had a lot of like silvers and golds come for coaching and asked what they can do better to rank up and i appreciate that attitude so i give extremely detailed timestamps and whatnot with different scenarios and comps

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then you have diamonds with that "i can be gm, validate me" attitude that just ticks me off so i tear their vod down bit by bit and if they disagree destroy them in a 1v1 and then continue onwards

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theyre usually just tracer or genji one tricks so i just genji or soldier into that and its ez

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jayne has that perfect balance

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he gets the expectations of the people he wants to review and judges their attitude and responds with an appropriate tone

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someone wants to be pro but understands they have a long way to go? jayne will be constructively critical and overanalyzes so that they get every bit of info properly

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some 4.2 gm thinks hes owl tier and acts like hes one? (jayne will catch on with "retards" thrown every 4 seconds in chat) jayne will tear him down and make him feel like a gold playing

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with that i feel like he would fit well in his role as assistant coach but in terms of raw coaching i personally dont feel like he can do owl

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his contenders track record is.. subpar to say the least

upper niche
#

Problem with 90% of coaches (hell, people in general giving opinions on clips - hell, just look at the pathetic /r/[c]ow is at times with it), and you see this so much from Jayne, is their advice is often "you shouldn't have done this" or "you should have done this" - but they don't take in to account factors A though F which the player did and was the reason they made that decision. They're gods at throwing stones and not thinking shit through, and that's where it gets annoying listening to them.
It becomes more and more true the further down they try to critique.

slow walrus
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would you say Jayne did well coaching team canada or was that mostly bc the team was so skilled?

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@balmy wolf

upper niche
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@slow walrus I woke up and OWC was over lol. They put the games in shitty timeslots for us 😦

slow walrus
#

idk where you're at but I'm in seattle so I get all the prime time pacific owl and owwc slots haha

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that's unfortunate tho

upper niche
#

Yeah, they cater to the NA market :/

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I'm still really eager to know how the hell they plan to handle the OWL2019 scheduling which they've been completely silent on, given that what was it, 11% of OWL2018 games ran on-time with 2 hour timeslots... and now they have four matches in 90 minute timeslots. We're gonna see broadcasts run 3 hours over.

gilded peak
#

Maybe have 2 games at once?

sullen berry
#

I dunno

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Shorter more frequent ad spots?

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They were 5 minute breaks with 3 mins of player results between maps and 20 minutes during halftime?

desert salmon
#

I play two games of comp and I get soooo tired. I can only imagine how it must be like for pros

pearl stratus
#

Direct quote is easier.

balmy wolf
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@slow walrus i would say the team was already stacked as hell

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he didnt do a "bad" job coaching

sullen berry
#

And he was reactive, did you see how they used Team china's Strategy against Team UK and shut them out of podium position?

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Stacked roster helpes with the execution

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Which I wonder how Washington will stack up with WizHyeong sounding pessimistic about their performance in scrims

karmic grotto
#

Aren't scrims made to improve current state of the team?

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IF the team is new, its no wonder they need to synergize with each other

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same with all other new teams

forest raven
#

Scrims have proven to be absolutely meaningless since 2016

karmic grotto
#

if scrims are worthless, what is the deciding factor in a team?

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personal skills and game sense?

gaunt acorn
#

they aren't saying scrims are worthless

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they're saying wins in scrims are as good as worthless, if you can't translate those wins to real matches

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if scrimming itself was worthless nobody would waste their time scrimming

karmic grotto
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i thought so. cause maybe the underpowerforming teams can do much better under pressure in owl

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you never know

balmy wolf
#

wins in scrims are not worthless wtf

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a complete stomp of the enemy team is actually detrimental, because then you acquire bad habits

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a close game, whether win or loss, is the most beneficial

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also as for team canada in owwc, they did scrim and frankly imo the scrims didnt help them in terms of strategy it helped them in terms of synergy

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callouts, who is shot caller, order of priority lf shots, preferred rendezvous retreat areas (most important), etc are all determined via scrimming with a new tesm

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these are things that are usually determined by players themselves rather than the coach

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so im hesitant to call jayne a "bad" coach because i truly think hes a good coach, but in the owwc scenario he didnt contribute much as the team was stacked as hell already

outer sorrel
#

if you can't translate those wins to real matches

balmy wolf
#

all scrims can be translated to real matches if its a close game

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win or loss

#

every single one

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also that was to draw not dray

#

please dont interject into a convo you dont know about

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@desert salmon its different tbh

#

ranked is far more energy draining than scrims

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in scrims you have a team that already knows how you play so well that they dont really rely on callouts, whereas in ranked theres the chances of throwers and toxicity and unfortunate leavers

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not to mention a loss in a scrim doesnt lower your sr

#

2 hours of comp leaves me FAR more drained than 2 hours of scrims

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im ready to go agane afterwards

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you can tell from how most supports hates grinding ranked but are happy with playing 8 hours of scrims a day

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custa, dhak (rip), nomi, bani, boink, etc

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bani was borderline chat banned for toxicity lmao and in owl hes super nice

sullen berry
#

Linkzr saying bani or bunny was so clippable.
Some of the Pro pug matches themselves had some shining moments

balmy wolf
#

linkzr is so chill, i love watching him play

pearl stratus
#

Hm. YXL isn't looking half bad.

#

He's stacking with Jiqiren and Lateyoung on ladder right now.

#

They're on Korean Ladder too, so a real one.

#

Zarya needs some work but the three of them have instant cohesion, which is nice.

#

Maybe Chengdu won't be absolute bottom after all.

obtuse glacier
#

R\woooosh

viscid citrus
#

If anyone is interested in joining a server that creates OWL fantasy leagues, go ahead and pm me

limber pine
balmy wolf
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lets see if he responds to me

pearl stratus
#

I asked if he was happy that Leave wasn't eligible for OWL so he didn't have a team he knew he'd lose against.

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.>

#

Whose stronger: An entire country of leaves and maple syrup or one chinaboi.

balmy wolf
#

he replied!

supple prism
#

neat, now how do i get past plat

limber pine
#

sweet now I know @balmy wolf 's reddit account

balmy wolf
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isnt it attached to my discord

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oh shit it isnt

#

oh well now you can see my avg 2 posts a year

balmy wolf
#

OOOOOOOOOOOO

lapis tartan
#

hey I am just recently trying to get back into ow after a long time away. I am very interested in the pro scene but I don't know the teams, if anyone knows where I could start to learn more about the teams, people, league in general, that would be great!

green stump
#

@balmy wolf ohhhhhh snap it's happening!!!

balmy wolf
#

@lapis tartan ok ill give a brief overview

#

In general with Overwatch esports, there's 3 tiers

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Tier 1 - Overwatch League. The BEST of the best. Aired on ESPN with real sports.
Tier 2 - Contenders League. Right underneath OWL. These guys you can barely tell the difference from OWL in terms of raw gameplay. There's more teams and are more open in terms of open tryouts (like my tryout for their NY Contenders team in my picture above) than Overwatch League, which is more for closed invites/team acquisitions

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Tier 3 - Open Leagues. These are anyone who are trying to make a name for themselves in any tournaments that aren't regulated by Blizzard. The most easily recognizable one is Open Division, directly sponsored/hosted by Blizzard. The winning team of Open Division moves on to become an official Contenders team (there's 3 OD seasons a year). Alongside OD you have college leagues (I'm in that), general tournaments (like in #tournaments), and general teams just looking to improve

lapis tartan
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thanks!

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Are the grizzlys contenders?

balmy wolf
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There's also the World Cup, it happens once a year and has closed tryouts and usually contains members from OWL and Contenders

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I believe so

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If you mean the Toronto team then yes

lapis tartan
#

montreal i think

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With spirit

balmy wolf
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well somewhere in canada

#

yeah thats contenders

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@green stump slasher and i might be put in the same tryout MegaMonkas

lapis tartan
#

Is the Atlanta team new cause i didnt see them on owl season 1

balmy wolf
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Yes they're new

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Each season has new teams coming in

lapis tartan
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Ok cool im East coast and Atl is closest

balmy wolf
#

ayyy

lapis tartan
#

Im thinking about what team to be a fan of

balmy wolf
#

also playoffs are kinda complicated

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good explanation tbh

lapis tartan
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Oh wow thanks yeah that was concise

balmy wolf
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also in general in terms of choosing a team

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this is 100% personal opinion

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if you dont have a team representing your area

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find players that you enjoy watching/seeing

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for example im houston outlaws because im a houstonian

lapis tartan
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Who won the first season

balmy wolf
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are they the best team? not even close imo

lapis tartan
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Lol

pearl stratus
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Point of note: There are rumors of no more World Cup, so don't think too hard about it just in case.

balmy wolf
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but i love watching each and every one of them playing and i really love their community involvement

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going to watch parties in downtown houston was so much fun, and they all recognized the college players so i explained a lot of the plays and it was incredible

pearl stratus
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Actually the Houston thing is fitting right now. Because they're a pretty bad to meh team, but like your standard professional sport they had teams they were just a good match for.

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Like London, who ended up winning Season 1.

balmy wolf
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And yeah London won s1

pearl stratus
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But still went 0-4 against Houston.

lapis tartan
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How is Atl looking so far

balmy wolf
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i have a lot of personal grudges with london teammates

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theyre so toxic in ranked

pearl stratus
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Atl is kind of..

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Really no clear indicator.

balmy wolf
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atl is controversial

lapis tartan
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Ah damn

pearl stratus
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They have potential, but potential doesn't mean anything.

balmy wolf
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  1. they have a LOT of extemely talented individuals
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imo kodak would be a better aggro zen than jjonak and dafran is THE best soldier

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i am very comfortable in saying he is the best soldier

pearl stratus
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There's really no way to actively judge any new teams, because synergy and the organization itself plays so heavily.

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The only expansion team you can even really have a clue on is Vancouver, since its Runaway.

balmy wolf
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@lapis tartan They are stacked imo

pearl stratus
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But Runaway also hasn't had to play in a league like this.

balmy wolf
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stacked = lots of good players

lapis tartan
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Yeah and usually you stick with ur home team even if they suck

balmy wolf
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yep yep yep

pearl stratus
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I still don't think Atlanta is stacked. Their DPS is meh af.

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Not going to change my mind.

balmy wolf
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basically atlanta has a lot of good individually skilled players but not many of them have much experience in terms of professional play

lapis tartan
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i love watching spirit but grizzlys arent owl so

balmy wolf
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dude dafran and nlaaer are fucking insane in ranked BUT i have no idea how they are in pro scrims, when i say stacked i meant individually skilled tbh

lapis tartan
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well that’s good at least

balmy wolf
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i cant wait to see tbh

pearl stratus
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There's never been a situation where you'd want to run double hitscan again minus Widow + Tracer.

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And neither of them are a good Widow lol

balmy wolf
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nlaaer is a widow main tho

pearl stratus
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Not a good one.

balmy wolf
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i would argue like

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hesbbetter than babybay but worse than linkzr

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which... isnt saying much

pearl stratus
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I mean thats the thing with Widow, because stats are misleading for it so its awkward.

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Do you know, by stats, who the best Widow is on LAV?

balmy wolf
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i go based off of pressure

pearl stratus
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Because its Kariv.

balmy wolf
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i can tell he knows where to put the most pressure in terms of sight lines, kinda like kephrii (except aggro)

tawny sigil
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when does season 2 start

balmy wolf
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isnt there a command for that

lapis tartan
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Next month right?

balmy wolf
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!schedule

somber yewBOT
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pearl stratus
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I've just never seen Nlaeer put on a performance worthy of me thinking he was good enough for OWL.

balmy wolf
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feb 14th

pearl stratus
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Now if they'd picked up say... Davin instead of Nlaeer?

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Different conversation.

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But LNL was probably cheap.

tawny sigil
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on valentine day

balmy wolf
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either he popped tf off in try outs or they value his consistently average performance

pearl stratus
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(Not for Widow, for overall dps)

balmy wolf
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lnl WAS cheap

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trust me

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they even considered letting me on

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and im a low college player lmao

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they just wanted the $$$

pearl stratus
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Yeah, which is why there's a bunch on ATL.

balmy wolf
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it sounds mean but ..

pearl stratus
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I'm pretty sure ATL ran out of budget quickly.

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And an okay hitscan for a cheap pricetag was okay.

balmy wolf
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dude have you seen ajax's performance??

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👎

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he got killed mid beat drop 3 times in ONE MATCH

pearl stratus
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Dogman carries the support on Academy.

lapis tartan
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Guess time will tell with Atl

pearl stratus
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Flat out.

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With a full backpack.

pearl stratus
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And Dogman still has his own issues, the youngsters on the team show that they're still learning often enough

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But its usually only when they're under pressure.

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Which few teams put them under.

balmy wolf
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dogman 🙄

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dude there was some drama recently in contenders talk

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appaently bis called out a decent amount of them for win trading/boosting

pearl stratus
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I was actually pretty disappointed this last season of Contenders. Not that many people (who hadn't been in OWL) really looked like viable pick ups.

balmy wolf
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contenders in of itself last season was meeehhhhhhh

pearl stratus
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For NA.

balmy wolf
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its still meeeehhhhhh

pearl stratus
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China has a lot of decent looking pick ups.

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Hell the entire T1W org should be picked up as an Academy team.

balmy wolf
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dude i still feel bad about the shd team

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i remember reading all that shit about china getting hoed

pearl stratus
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Wait Shanghai itself or Team CC?

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Team CC got fucked by the World Cup.

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Because so many of them looked so good.

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OWWC left a huge power gap in Chinese contenders, actually.

balmy wolf
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im gonna try to find it but apparently the players that got on the shd team werent the ones who were supposed to join

pearl stratus
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Oh way back when.

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Yeah no.

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That was a U4 thing, well known.

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IT's why China didn't support the team, and were accepting of them bringing in Koreans.

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The only person who deserved to be on original Shanghai was Diya, arguably.

balmy wolf
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im so happy they picked up geguri

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she deserved the owl spot

pearl stratus
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All of their pick ups have made sense.

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The Korean power rankings actually put them at #4.

balmy wolf
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ngl i thought she was cheating too

pearl stratus
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Which is o.O

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I'm excited to see how Chengdu evolves now that they fixed their tank problem.

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They've got arguably the worlds best Hammond too, and I really think we're going to see Hammonds role blossom soon.

balmy wolf
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i cant find the clip of geguri cheating

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or the alleged cheatng

sullen berry
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Because she didn't lmao

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At least all I remember of it was this wasn't something the players involved really had a recording of her hacking

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Some Lijiang map they got tilted and reported her for cheating in ladder

sullen berry
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@gaunt acorn

gaunt acorn
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thanks

balmy wolf
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alleged cheating

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ngl i thought she was when i saw the clip until she proved it won't

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wrong*

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it was a clip from a tourney where it legit looked like she aim locked

hidden vault
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(I know it was a bug) but is it possible to actually do that kind of flick?

balmy wolf
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wrong clip

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geguri's clip looked like aimbot

slow walrus
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it's circulating as a gif now but basically it shows in slow motion her aim moving back and forth between her ally, her enemy, and another enemy like spot on

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either way it's just bc she's insane and not bc of any hacks

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blizzard cleared her and she did a live stream that was verified by a news source as being hack free

balmy wolf
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she has an incredibly high sensitivity

balmy wolf
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best overwatch league season two color scheme?

jagged crater
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spark pink obv

balmy wolf
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xd

gaunt acorn
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toronto is pretty sleek

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atlanta is basically scuffed toronto

jagged crater
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feel lioke too many teams are getting too similar

gaunt acorn
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i like vancouver now that i've seen it on skins other than junkrat & ana

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but i mean i am from vancouver and already liked canucks colours

jagged crater
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ofc there's only so many color combos you can have, but there are so many red blacks and blue reds

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hunters looks very generic

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like right in between fusion and mayhem

balmy wolf
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yellow tho

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like one of genjis skins😂

jagged crater
balmy wolf
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washington justice sounds kinda lame lol

jagged crater
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for justice

balmy wolf
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pharah loves justice lol

gilded peak
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Korea Contender Finals is in 30 minutes, right?

gaunt acorn
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yes

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if you're ever unsure, just check over.gg @gilded peak

gilded peak
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Sweet

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Thanks

muted inlet
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I wonder what's the original Team GOATS think about the Overruse of their comp?

supple prism
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or how it was improved from the original

balmy wolf
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theyre fully aware of what theycdid

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they moved on to OWL lmao

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like Gator

gilded peak
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Boo, was hoping Goats would lose...

tawny sigil
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lol they broke the trophee

supple prism
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yea

tawny sigil
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cheap shit

supple prism
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they just got it and intantly break it

tawny sigil
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took .1 second

supple prism
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can you imagine breaking a trophy like the Stanley Cup? lol

gilded peak
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LOL, I just had to exit the stream... damn

supple prism
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well they did have like 9 people all grab it at the same time

jagged crater
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Blizzard even cheapened out on the trophy lmao

tawny sigil
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its about cutting cost!

gilded peak
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Well, I guess they literally did cut it

tawny sigil
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spend millions on all that shit... but the trophy make sure its some quality dollar store stuff

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cant even afford real metal

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love the randomly generated clip name

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deserving

mossy turtle
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Anti goats is easy if you got an insane sombra and ash. 😃

gilded peak
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Which reminds me, which update were they playing? Before or after the Brig nerf?

mossy turtle
#

You all looking forward to owl s2? I’m kinda anxious with all the new teams

tawny sigil
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too many teams... i watched like 95% of last season

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not gonna be possible this time

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5 match a day 4 days a week

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wish there was a match rating system so i could watch the entertaining match later on

hidden vault
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Who is america's best widow?

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Sintraa? Babybay?

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And no please do not tell me it's Kephrii or Mr 14

tawny sigil
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well linkzr was on an american team, i dont think he is american though

gilded peak
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Linkzr? Or that other dude, but I think he was from France

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and I forgot SureFour was Canadian

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I don't think I ever remember watching Sinatra play Widow.

hidden vault
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Linkzr is finnish

gilded peak
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I'm honestly gonna be burned out on OWL S2, was a bit burned out with the amount of matches there was in the first season. Especially when there were few matches that ended ~9:30 pm

tawny sigil
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they expect you to follow 1 team

balmy wolf
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Lol never change reddit
Got downvoted for saying Geguri is a low-tier offtank and for saying Mickie's Brig wasn't the best in the league

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It's basically a case of "why are you booing me I'm right"

tawny sigil
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facts dont matter in these lands

gilded peak
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Mickie's Brig was the beginning of when everybody found out how OP she was.

tawny sigil
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emotions > facts

surreal lichen
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Just bored but any black people in OWL?

balmy wolf
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Mickie has always looked really good as a pioneer of a hero, but then looks mediocre once everyone else catches up and gets better

gilded peak
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Hmm, 1 or 2? I know one of the new teams have a black player, I think?

balmy wolf
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Idk Kodak kinda looks black

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He kinda looks like Obama

supple prism
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snow?

balmy wolf
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Snow isn't in OWL any more

supple prism
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oh

gilded peak
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The new guy from Ghunzo Charge, I think

balmy wolf
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Oh yeah Kyb

rancid hound
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Fantasy League: Ladies of Leek Love is live 😉 offline draft date TBA message me for a inv link and password

eager karma
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heh?

rancid hound
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It's a fantasy OWL league

eager karma
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whats that?

rancid hound
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Draft a 10 man roster of players, then put 6 in each week. Points are given for kills and ults used and taken for deaths

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scoring is explained here

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Whoever wins the league gets the title 'biggest pp' and gets to meet my mom

eager karma
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lol

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and every1 can join it or not?

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and do you need a hole team ?

rancid hound
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I think up to 10 people

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there are site wide drafts on winstonslab for a week by week basis tho

hidden vault
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@balmy wolf don't worry about reddit

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Why do you think Mickie is a bad Brigitte and Geguri a low tier tank?

balmy wolf
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I never said Mickie was a bad Brig, I just said that there were others better than him.
And Geguri always seemed to lack in peeling for her supports when they needed it. Then again Geguri was in a less than optimal situation and we can hopefully see her prove people wrong in S2.

balmy wolf
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hes like a solid brig

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not bad not amazing but consistently above average

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even in ranked games

supple prism
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the hell