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next mesa
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The same sources who leaked mano to philly and the previous dallas signings and fearless to dallas says jerry to nyxl and kevster to shock, so

solar bison
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Nooo

tropic herald
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If glads reunite Rascal and Birdring I have to be a fan

next mesa
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This is pretty credible

solar bison
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Jerry

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Someone sign jerry

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What happened to Rascal on London?

next mesa
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jerry to nyxl kinda makes sense I guess

solar bison
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They do need a hitscan, right?

trail perch
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wasnt Jerry offtank pre hitscan?

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Maybe theyll sign him as a flex

next mesa
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jerry is a hitscan

trail perch
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He was an offtank when they signed him, then made him a hitscan

next mesa
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bruh im following halo

solar bison
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I dont think so

vagrant jacinth
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Yeah, Jerry to xl probs

solar bison
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Aww

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Is fate better than fearless?

next mesa
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doubt

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lmfao

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but you never know in a different environment

solar bison
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I guess

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Fearless getting dropped, some team will 100% sign him

next mesa
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he's getting traded to dallas lol

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wym

noble nexus
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yeah 100% to Dallas

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didn't even get dropped they just traded him

next mesa
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honestly

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I prefer void over hanbin

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but

solar bison
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Oh

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My bad

raw ermine
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Fate might be a better orisa

next mesa
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hanbin is definitely the second best

raw ermine
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other than that no

next mesa
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like this is a top 2 tankline

solar bison
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Yeah

noble nexus
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yeah but orisa isn't good anymore

next mesa
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Fearless's orisa is decent

solar bison
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You never know the meta

raw ermine
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All tank lines should have a good rein winston orisa and ball

next mesa
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his rein might be super tier and his winston as well

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yeah idk about his ball

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honestly

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stand1 played ball

solar bison
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Yeah

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And hog

next mesa
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well fearless did play hog

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like

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in the apac finals

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did pretty good

solar bison
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A little

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But yeah, he did do good

noble nexus
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they must've had good reason to put stand1 over him tho

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idk

trail perch
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its just synergy

noble nexus
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yeah ig

next mesa
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his ball

trail perch
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maybe stand1 better played with the team on hog

next mesa
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stand1 is there ball player

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their*

noble nexus
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but I thought they looked stronger with the hog sigma using fearless

next mesa
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honestly the only way this team meets expectations

noble nexus
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surely fearless has a good enough ball to flex over if he has to

next mesa
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Is grand finals

noble nexus
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they also could have just switched MT's in and out like shock did

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the shock switched super, smurf and choi in and out looked well coordinated

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imo

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if shanghai did that with fearless hog in the upper bracket bit they would've faired better

next mesa
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perhaps

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they did come really close

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oh well

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we will neverk now

noble nexus
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yeah Sadge

karmic grotto
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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jerry

noble nexus
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if you're Jerry the only way you can go is up lol

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he might actually be on a good team

hot heart
raw ermine
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dang

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massive transfers

hot heart
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Ye ye

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Shu and moth

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Fucking huge

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Mayhem are gonna be so good next year

hidden vault
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is shu flex dps?

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fearless is gonna be ruined

noble nexus
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he's a flex support

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for guangzhou

hidden vault
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who is pelican?

noble nexus
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well he was

raw ermine
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dps from o2blast

hidden vault
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sorry i meant flex supprt*

noble nexus
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pelican was an 02 blast dps

hidden vault
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i see

raw ermine
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seems to be flex dps

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sombra tracer genji

noble nexus
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idk much about pelican since I don't watch contendies to but 02 blast are a good team afaik

raw ermine
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They won s1 of this year

noble nexus
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also what do you think shock are planning if they sign kevster?

raw ermine
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Who said that?

noble nexus
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someone else leaked it

raw ermine
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link?

noble nexus
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someone posted it a while ago

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will try to find it

hot heart
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Tbh

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I think shock need a sombra/doom/genji player

next mesa
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The same source that predicted all the dallas signing sand mano to fusion

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says kevster to shock apparently

hot heart
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Well then

noble nexus
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yeah I can't find the link at all now

hot heart
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Im gonna assume it might actually be true if thats the case now

raw ermine
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shock need a projectile

hot heart
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They do

raw ermine
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ta1yo is more hs

hot heart
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Kevster cant play a top tier doom tho

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Kevster isnt top tier

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He's good

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But not there yet

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Under crusty that would change

noble nexus
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Crusty can make anything top tier

hot heart
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Ye

noble nexus
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trust in the crust

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but atleast he can play doom to begin with

hot heart
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Thank Mr. Crusty

noble nexus
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idk what Taiyo's purpose is anymore

hot heart
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Hmm

noble nexus
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I assume he's a backup HS or a replacement because Ans or Striker want out

raw ermine
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crusty only signs players he thinks he can make top tier

hot heart
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Yeah

noble nexus
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Yeah that man has a gigabrain on him

hot heart
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Honestly if they get kevster

noble nexus
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no one is on his wavelength

hot heart
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I can see him being a top dps next year

noble nexus
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yeah plus that means they might actually be able to play reaper sombra dive

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l0l

hot heart
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When i think of kevster i think of somone with insane potential under a great coach

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And just like

next mesa
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dude now they have like 4 hitscans

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with 2 of them being able to play a bit of projectile

hot heart
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Imagine the possibilities

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Ye

next mesa
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like just assuming

hot heart
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Idk why ta1yo is on shock if they do sign kevster

next mesa
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Idk man they should sign a fullprojectile

hot heart
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Ue

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But who?

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Hmm

noble nexus
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I think they could probably have Taiyo transition to a projectile and make it work

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but that's a risk

hot heart
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I trust crusty

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But

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Idk what his master plan is

noble nexus
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no one does

hot heart
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So we wont know until next year

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Ye

noble nexus
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that man has his own wavelength beyond our understanding

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he thinks decades ahead

hot heart
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You just gotta see how it plays out with crusty

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You know its gonna go incredibly well

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But like

next mesa
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ta1yo got obliviated by viol2t in 1v1

hot heart
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How he goes about doing stuff you cant really predict i think

next mesa
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lmao

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It was hilarious

noble nexus
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yeah I saw that

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but viol2t is a god gamer himself

hot heart
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Viol2t is a god gamer

next mesa
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wait no by ans

weak bolt
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I dont even wanna try predict who Shock should sign until we know who is even leaving

noble nexus
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that's also not a surprise

hot heart
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I think at this point

noble nexus
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Shock are fucking flooded with good players

hot heart
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Probably one person left thats gonna leave

noble nexus
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I think super stays until atleast the 3peat

weak bolt
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For all we know, Shock could lose Moth to LAG, Smurf to SHD, Viol2t to Dynasty

next mesa
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doubt

hot heart
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Yep

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But

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I dont expect it

next mesa
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dragons already signing a main tank

hot heart
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Especially smurf

next mesa
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fate

noble nexus
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yeah Dragons are going for Fate

weak bolt
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Who knows any more, I wouldnt have put money on Dragons selling Fearless

noble nexus
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that also only leaves a whole at MS for Shock

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considering they'd still have super and twilight

hot heart
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Viol2t could happen but that all depends on what crusty wants to do with the FS role

noble nexus
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they'd need backups

next mesa
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there's rumors at least

noble nexus
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but they'd still be top tier

weak bolt
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Jerry LFT too, wtf is going on

hot heart
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Pain

weak bolt
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and MCD to Hangzhou? 😮

noble nexus
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I'm hopeful that Jerry gets a team better than Boston

weak bolt
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I dunno how to even rate Jerry. Is he good, is he ok, is he just popular because he was a meme

hot heart
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So

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I think he was average

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Nothing special

weak bolt
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Did Jerry ever play on EM? That may define his future 😄

next mesa
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I think he was overrated

hot heart
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But he was really popular in terms of memes

next mesa
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like throughout the season

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but he did do well in the playoffs

hot heart
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He had bis moments

next mesa
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in those

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2 games

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his ashe was nut

noble nexus
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he isn't bad tho and he can have some moments

hot heart
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*his

noble nexus
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if he had a better team he could shine I reckon

weak bolt
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I dont see who'd sign him

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Toronto would be like the only team I'd think, but they said they're aiming to win

next mesa
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ta1yo says

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he rotates his sens every week

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dude crusty should beat some sense in this man

noble nexus
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Honestly Taiyo should have have some sense beaten into him by Crusty after he saw his crosshair

weak bolt
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who needs sens when you have that crosshair

karmic grotto
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today is gauntlet?

plush light
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No Jerry no win

weak bolt
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Today was a date mentioned in a video mentioning Gauntlet. What it means, nobody has a clue

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Could be today they confirm a gauntlet in 2021 for all we know

trail perch
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The last gauntlet was one of the best t2 events ever

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So im hyped

raw ermine
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yeah

weak bolt
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What if, Gauntlet is used to find 3 or 4 teams to beef up the APAC division in OWL 😄

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There was that rumour a while back of them wanting 3 teams to bolster APAC tournaments

raw ermine
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So I guess NYXL haven't picked him up

loud elbow
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I’m guessing they were talking about this yesterday.

echo quest
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Moon wants fate back

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Watch fate have a better season than he did in s1

chrome cosmos
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Is yakpung even good

raw ermine
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He was meh on toronto

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but has gotten much better

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on o2

silk frost
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HOLY FUCKING WHAT

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DID I SERIOUSLY GUESS THE FUEL TRADE CORRECTLY

hot heart
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Wait

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Bro

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Lmao

silk frost
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Also if boston were money hungry pigs this year they would have SOLD jerry, not RELEASED him

raw ermine
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yeah we were all theorizing yesterday

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I remember someone guessed him

silk frost
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Listen dude that was like a week ago

hot heart
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Rheyne with the leaks

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Listen dude that was like a week ago
@silk frost yeah we don't talk about it

wanton birch
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What’s the rumour about kevster to shock ?

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Where did people get it from

hot heart
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Apparently the same person that said mano to fusion

silk frost
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When someone said "this wasn't even the juiciest move" I said something like "yeah probably fearless" as a meme

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Yknow what I bow to Reyne

hot heart
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Lmao

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All hail prediction god rheyne

wanton birch
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What’s the twitter user?

hot heart
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Idk

silk frost
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Then I predicted it yesterday

wanton birch
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I don’t get why glads would do that though

hot heart
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Cash

silk frost
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Rheyne = halo

hot heart
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Rheyne = literally everyone

silk frost
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Why would shock want kevster?

wanton birch
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Cause he’s insane

hot heart
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Who knows

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He is

silk frost
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They have ans and taiyo tho

hot heart
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But crusty has plans for ta1yo

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So

silk frost
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Both play mostly hitscan

hot heart
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Im confused

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Eh

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Kevster has a good sombra

silk frost
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If Kevster goes anywhere it'll be Boston

hot heart
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Boston Uprising Kevster

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That sounds supremely cursed

silk frost
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Gimme another team he could go to then

hot heart
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Houstan

silk frost
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That sounds way more aggressive than I intended it to lol

hot heart
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Lmao

silk frost
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Houston maybe actually

hot heart
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Yeah

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Double hitscan

silk frost
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They have 0 hitscan

hot heart
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Theyd be insane

silk frost
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I mean kevster on the Outlaws sounds ultimately cursed

hot heart
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Yep

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Better than boston kevster tho lmao

silk frost
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Naw dude boston kevster makes way more sense to me

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Houston'll probably be like #20 next year

hot heart
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Eh

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Depending on the next pickup

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It'll set the expectations we could have for them

tropic herald
raw ermine
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its online

plush grail
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OH NO JERRY LEFT BOSTON

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PLEASE NYXL DON'T FUCKING PICK UP JERRY

next mesa
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why

viral veldt
weak bolt
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Jerry to Dallas would be hilarious, I hope for that

hot heart
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Jerry to shock to replace ans and striker

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Jerry Dps duo

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Just clone him

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Ez 3-peat

next mesa
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dallas is not settling for jerry bro

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at least bqb level or higher I bet

hot heart
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What if they just go fuck it and sign Edison

next mesa
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can he compete

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with ans

hot heart
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Or erster

next mesa
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carpe

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diem

hot heart
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Nah

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Lmao

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Hmm

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What tracer players are FA

next mesa
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they should sign diem and then sign like

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the best tracer player available

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in contenders

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like idk who

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ace

raw ermine
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Tell me what's wrong with the sentence above^

next mesa
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retired

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currently

raw ermine
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:)

tawdry hamlet
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sadge jerry

quartz cairn
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nah i think the problem is uhm

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uh

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player not capitalized

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😤

cedar oasis
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Wb nene

weak bolt
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What are these rumours that Jjonak is trialing for HZ, GZC and Dynasty lol

raw ermine
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Wouldn't be suprised if NYXL is rebuilding

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they failed to win 3 years now

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JJ is no longer the best flex support

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Mano is gone

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SBB is kinda washed

raw ermine
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I just realised Shredlock and roolf are the only canadian players in OWL

cedar oasis
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Umm

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Agilities

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Surefor

digital cloud
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was going to mention them

next mesa
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if dallas flops this year

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like

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I don't even know what to say

raw ermine
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its a curse

next mesa
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depending on the hitscan and ms obviously like on paper, I think this is the most stacked team

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so far

raw ermine
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somehow this team already lost a play after 1 day of play

next mesa
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I saw dude

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what

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really

raw ermine
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Agilities and Surefour are not in OWL currently

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"Inside source"

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really narrows it down

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at least danye is in OW

plush light
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depending on the hitscan and ms obviously like on paper, I think this is the most stacked team
@next mesa main tank?

raw ermine
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It's leaked to be fearless

next mesa
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It's fearless

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That's as stacked as you can get bb

plush light
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Right, I forgot.

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They should sign happy for hitscan

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He used to be EM

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For apex s5 trials

raw ermine
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yeah

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when he was called vesta

next mesa
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Happy was on that team for 5 games

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Obv he's super nice though

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But him being EM prob won't take factor

next mesa
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Jjonak rumors trying for different teams

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Breaking: jehong joins sbb in nyxl and wins as "old men"

lethal mango
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shouldn't the chinese english vodcast be starting now?

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for contenders

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im seeking the skins :(

cobalt spoke
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Wait

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Fearless leaving shanghai?

raw ermine
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allegedly

cobalt spoke
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Why would the best singular player on the role leave? And its and important role too.

raw ermine
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Money

cobalt spoke
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Shanghai doesnt have money?

raw ermine
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they came 3rd when expecting to come first, and when you're paying an entire rosters worth of MVPs and top level talent, 3rd doesn't bode well.

cobalt spoke
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So make the team worse?

raw ermine
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They probably don't want to

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1st is 1.5 million dollars

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3rd is 450k

cobalt spoke
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If fearless leaves Shanghai who will Shanghai pick up?

raw ermine
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well

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they have stand1

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who is ok

cobalt spoke
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He plays mt?

raw ermine
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yeah

cobalt spoke
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Is he good?

raw ermine
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he is ok

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He didn't play much cause of fearless

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played for a lotta NA contenders teams

cobalt spoke
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Shanghai cant afford to take a downgrade in the main tank role

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I know this may just sound like more shock praise from me, but the best overall main tank play comes from shock, and super and smurf will mtd stand1 when it comes down to it

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Which is why no team can afford to have a bad main tank

balmy wolf
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rumors goes fate is talking with dragons

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coach moon has worked with him before

tropic herald
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im pretty certain super just said moth to glads without saying it

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also yeah

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moon wants fate

cobalt spoke
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Moth literally just said up his new monitor at his house

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Doesnt sound very glads to me

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Also someone said that if he was gonna get signed to glads it wouldve happend already

tropic herald
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what are you even on about

cobalt spoke
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I'm saying that moth is staying on shock

tropic herald
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yeah but your reasons

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are they even reasons

weak bolt
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those reasons make 0 sense

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Setting up a monitor lol?

raw ermine
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LMAOOOOOOOO

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btw in regards to moth

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halo is highly reliable

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and seeing as this is confirmed by him to virtually be done

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I think its true

tropic herald
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mirror is on glads right?

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moth been duoing with mirror a lot

raw ermine
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yeah

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He left doge?

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Hybrid hasn't tho

silk frost
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what if Jjonak goes to Philly

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what if that's what the screenshot means

noble nexus
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I'm a shock fanboy and even I can tell moth is going to glads

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which I think is great

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cuz glads have never really had the best support line imo

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well not recently anyways

cobalt spoke
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Rascal leaving is inevitable

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But moth?

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Why is shock throwing the 3peat?

silk frost
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Think how expensive everyone will be

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Crusty made season 1 Boston he can make another

worldly lichen
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Go defiant

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(I really have no idea what's going on with esports rn)

hot heart
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Well if you're interested in it nows your time to learn

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Off season of OWL

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@worldly lichen

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If you wanna keep track of rumours of the OWL off season follow Haloofthoughts on twitter

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And you can watch a few OW podcasts

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My favourite is Platchat

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Maybe you'll like that

hot heart
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Wait

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Jjonak???

earnest leaf
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A new FS to seoul would be weird

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Creative was doing well

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and bdosin

sullen berry
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Jjonak might be vulnerable to a bad deal

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Since early 2020 was when they made their first trade deal with Meko

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They're not selling players to the same extent Uprising or Shock would

limber rune
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@sullen berry general kenobi?

hot heart
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So

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If shu goes to glads

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Then jjonak to GZ would make some sense

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But even then

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Arent there better options?

plush grail
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yeah nyxl wasn't top tier

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but joining a different team cause you wanna win

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joining GZ isn't it chief

hot heart
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Dh

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*eh

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Yeah as jjonak im not sure it would be good

plush grail
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or jjonak might just chase the money like meko

hot heart
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Ye probably

chrome cosmos
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I wont be surprised if jjonak leaves

high basalt
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where ever jjonak goes i go

wanton birch
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What do you think power rankings for teams will be with all the rumours and signings

cobalt spoke
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Idk yet

hot heart
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We'll know around the end of the season

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*offseason

wanton birch
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So far I’m going to have to say , Dallas is looking like they’re top three

hot heart
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With fearless def

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Then 4th is probably mayhem or Washington

cobalt spoke
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It looks like things might be more balanced next season?

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Like

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The bad teams might be less bad, and the good teams might be less good?

hot heart
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I think the good teams will still be good

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But that depends on their pick ups and who they drop

cobalt spoke
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Yea

hot heart
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For bad teams yeah

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It'll be more Balanced

cobalt spoke
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There is still alot of off-season to go

hot heart
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Like there's almost no trash team

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Just all mid tier

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And then the tier between top and mid

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And then top tier

cobalt spoke
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I do know one thing

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super isnt leaving shock

hot heart
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Like for example if the fate rumours are true shanghai are making a missplay

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And if moth actually leaves that could be bad

cobalt spoke
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True

hot heart
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But realistically all these top tier teams will stay top tier

cobalt spoke
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Fearless leaving is also not good

hot heart
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Shock Shanghai Philly

cobalt spoke
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Philly with Mano was probably a really smart move

hot heart
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Yeah

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Fearless leaving is a problem

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Idk what they're thinking with Fate

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Unless fate just pulls out a monstrous MT next year

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They just downgraded heavily

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Imagine if shock released Smurf and went for someone like Karayan

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Okay

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Maybe not that insane but relatively close

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It would fuck shock over if it didnt work out

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So im really worried for SHD tbh

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In most metas teams are as good as their MT

wanton birch
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Where are we placing the glads ?

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I’d say they are probably after Seoul and Washington

weak bolt
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If Glads get the rumour signings, they are probably 5th/6th ish. I still think their dps line could be a risk with Birdring/Kevster/Mirror

tropic herald
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Okay

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So we’ve heard Kevster to Shock as a rumor

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What if

hot heart
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Yeah

tropic herald
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Rascal goes to Glads

hot heart
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Dude

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Rascal birding

tropic herald
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Like you just have to be a Glads fan at that point

hot heart
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That would be insane

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But what does their MT situation look like rn

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Since the mano thing didnt turn out to be correct

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Who do they pick up

cobalt spoke
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You just cant stress the main tank role enough

hot heart
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Yeah

tropic herald
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Gladiators Sado pogT

hot heart
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Eh

cobalt spoke
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We've seen teams with trash dps do well but never teams with trash main tanks

hot heart
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I think fusion are keeping him

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But if they dont

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Glads sado sounds pretty nice

tropic herald
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Glads Super pogT

hot heart
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Boston Super

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Jesus Christ that sounds so cursed

cobalt spoke
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super wont leave shock

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Smurf cant leave shock

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As long as super and Smurf are a constant other main tanks will tremble in fear

hot heart
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Not from smurf

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Just super

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And his almighty genji

weak bolt
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Watching the Shock comms video from finals, their English is pretty crazy. I think any player could join that team

hot heart
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I genuinely couldn't distinguish smurfs voice sometimes

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Really good english

weak bolt
#

yeah even the quieter players when they do speak, use great english

plush light
#

Super is gonna replace rascal at flex dps

weak bolt
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Shock should just get the wallet out and buy Fleta

worldly lichen
#

Wait wasn't Jerry on the defiant?

raw ermine
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No

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Boston

weak bolt
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I'm curious, do we think there is a chance of S4 owl without Jjonak next year?

plush light
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Jjonak is washed

raw ermine
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He might go to another team but leave it entirely? Idk

vagrant jacinth
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Yeah I think he'll still be around next season

weak bolt
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I'm thinking more if another team trials him but doesnt actually want him. Do nyxl try drive his salary down to a much smaller amount

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Find a new team or take 50k per year situation

vagrant jacinth
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If nobody picks him they'll probably try

hot heart
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Tbh

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Jjonak needs good coaches

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Like

plush light
#

Jjonak is like aimgod but a little better

hot heart
#

Really good coaches

#

And needs to change it up

#

Jjonak is like aimgod but a little better
@plush light in that his bap and moira are horrendous yeah

#

His ana is still pretty competitive

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His zen can be feedy at times

#

He needs to step it up

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And change it up

plush light
#

His zen and ana are A tier

#

How does one be bad at Moira?

raw ermine
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It's a positioning and choice making character rather than mechanics.

balmy wolf
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jjonak is still top tier

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the core is dead tho

raw ermine
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His bap is poor

plush light
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Jjonak is bad at bap

raw ermine
#

I love how nyxl still have 3 players from the original roster and one signed a few months in

plush light
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With the new changes he might get better because it makes his primary fire used more

balmy wolf
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his coaches were shit, idk how he hasnt gotten better at him

#

but either way a team getting jjonak is a win for them

next mesa
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Yes

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Jjonak def staying in owl my guy

hot heart
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Ye

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So what seems more attractive to someone like jjonak

#

HZ or GZ?

weak bolt
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GZC probably have the more potential, but more roster slots to fill as well

tropic herald
#

HZ already got MCD

hot heart
#

Jjonak on another team just sounds so weird

#

Like your in a parallel universe where everything is normal but jjonak is on a team that isnt NYXL

vagrant jacinth
#

It do

#

Weird to think of him on another team

hot heart
#

Ye

vagrant jacinth
#

Same with mano tbh, him being on Philly feels strange

weak bolt
#

NYXL currently has 0 players on their roster officially

vagrant jacinth
#

They going budget?

weak bolt
#

Mandu was the only one contract, and that ended

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Rest are all Nov 13 renewals now

hot heart
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Provide budget

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Either that

weak bolt
#

I reckon they're going budget, or at least a lot cheaper. Probably cutting salaries by a lot

hot heart
#

Or going half good players

vagrant jacinth
#

That's what I'm thinking

hot heart
#

Half budget

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Or something

weak bolt
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I think if they weren't cutting costs on the good players, they'd have renewed already

hot heart
#

Yeah

weak bolt
#

but you can probably heavily reduce cost of sbb, libero, jjonak. I don't think any of those 3 are really vital to the team

vagrant jacinth
#

Exactly

hot heart
#

I think libero would be a good player to keep

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Sbb would be decent too

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Leadership is really important

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But tbh sbb cant keep up anymore

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So idk

weak bolt
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They were likely on big contracts for 2020 to keep them around for homestands

#

I bet sbb sold lots of jerseys, tickets to fan greets etc. That's less needed now

hot heart
#

Hmm

#

NYXL Probably go for contenders talent

vagrant jacinth
#

Solid point tbh

hot heart
#

And maybe fill a few spots with OWL FA's

#

How budget are NYXL going

weak bolt
#

They also probably know, SBB/Anamo etc wouldnt get on a team elsewhere

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So would take a pay cut to keep on the team

#

I highly suspect all of them were told "We're not going to renew you, but we'll offer you this lower rate. You can either go find another team or accept it".

vagrant jacinth
#

Wonder how xl fans feel

next mesa
#

honestly dude

#

SBB could totally go to dallas to be their tracer player

weak bolt
#

Latest rumours I saw for him was Florida was a possibility, but then people say he wants a mixed roster

hot heart
#

SBB goes with xzi to a team lmao

weak bolt
#

Looks like some news from Chinese region soon

hot heart
#

Why do i have the feeling this is going to be huge

weak bolt
#

Possibly news on Diem/Eileen, or Team CC I guess

hot heart
#

The whole of Team CC gets picked up by defiant

#

Imagine

tropic herald
hot heart
#

O

tropic herald
#

L

hot heart
#

Pain

#

Anyway

#

I know neither of them

#

Leave Jimmy dps line

#

Leave jimmy

#

Best duo name

#

Leave Jimmy alone

weak bolt
#

What about Jimmy and Jerry

hot heart
#

The J's

#

Lmao

weak bolt
#

Jimmy, Jerry and Jjonak

hot heart
#

Triple J

weak bolt
#

on Justice

hot heart
#

Oh god

#

The Jjjjustice

weak bolt
#

dont forget Jjanu

hot heart
#

Ffs

#

The Jjjjjustice

weak bolt
#

Casted by Jake and Jaws

hot heart
#

The Jjjjustice Casted by The Jj's

#

And were out of names with that start with a j

#

I cant rest now

#

Lmao

weak bolt
#

Probably more but I started to struggle

#

Im trying ot work out who Team Cat are

hot heart
#

Probably some Chinese contenders team that did subpar but have decent dps

#

Or contenders trials even

#

Idk

weak bolt
#

I dont see them anywhere on Liquipedia, but its sometimes slow on name changes

#

oh found them, Formed Sept 7th 2020

#

Searching for Jimmy comes up with someone called Xargon

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and Kaneki appears to be a Pharah/Sombra/Tracer/Brig player

hot heart
#

Huh

#

Never heard of them

#

Hmmm

weak bolt
#

Are they like the Chinese equivalent of Team Doge, just a bunch of randomers formed to make some cash with no real org

hot heart
#

Has the team won anything?

weak bolt
#

Chinese open division S4 - 1st

#

2nd in Contenders 2020 CN Season 2 - Week 3. Lost to Team CC

hot heart
#

So they're pretty decent

weak bolt
#

They made nearly $6k in earnings, so arguably just as much as Houston Outlaws

hot heart
#

OWL team money pog

#

Wonder where nenne goes

#

Hmm

#

Diem and nenne to fuel

weak bolt
#

Honestly i feel that combo would work pretty well

hot heart
#

Yeah i mostly think rush could do nenne some real good

earnest leaf
#

Fuel has so many options for hitscan

hot heart
#

And they cover tracer meta

earnest leaf
#

Inb4 jerry to dallas

hot heart
#

Honestly id say erster could be huge

#

Like

vagrant jacinth
#

Ffs the Washington JjjjjusticeZaryaLUL

hot heart
#

Dude has an incredible mei

#

And a really good tracer

#

And a really good hanzo if i remember correctly

weak bolt
#

I'd kinda low key like to see Erster to Shock. Give him some of that Crusty loving

hot heart
#

Dude

#

If erster goes to shock

#

Honestly could see him being MVP next year

#

Or some shit

#

Erster under someone like crusty is insane

vagrant jacinth
#

Anyone know anything about kaneki/Jimmy?

hot heart
#

Almost unfair even

#

Nah i dont

#

Someone has to tho

vagrant jacinth
#

Fair

weak bolt
#

Not sure anybody outside of the Chinese contenders scene would do really

vagrant jacinth
#

Plat chats right, what we gonna do if there's no chengdu zone next season

hot heart
#

There wont probably

#

But when ball meta comes

weak bolt
#

I'm sure we'll find a team to fill that void

hot heart
#

Aka ameng meta

#

We'll see some them do well

weak bolt
#

Paris to sign Cloudy and go for the Rein in your backline strat

hot heart
#

Im really interested in what defiant is gonna do

#

What if they go all out

#

Well they kinda cant since well

#

Everyone thats top tier has a team

#

Or is basically in final talks

weak bolt
#

Defiant are weird. They looked like they wanted to go big, but then either didn;t have as much money as they thought, and in a panic, re-signed Logix

hot heart
#

See

#

I wonder if they'll do what valiant did

#

And pickup a great coach

#

And budget players

#

Or less known players

weak bolt
#

Question is, is KDG really that good

hot heart
#

I think he's good

#

But

#

He isnt at that top level of coachinf

weak bolt
#

I reckon that Philly roster last year could have achieved the same by self coaching

hot heart
#

Yeah honestly philly had the pieces

#

They were always gonna be a top team

#

But

#

I still attribute some of that success to KDG

#

Tho that playoff run was disappointing

weak bolt
#

I reckon Toronto will end up signing 1 or 2 star players, and filling the rest with nobodies

hot heart
#

Yeah

weak bolt
#

Then around half way through the season, they'll ditch half the roster for more

hot heart
#

That or just mid tier players

#

Like last year

weak bolt
#

I could honestly see them doing something like signing Sado, then pairing him with Mcgravy

hot heart
#

See

#

I could see them signing mcgravy

#

Sado Probably doesnt go to defiant

#

Mcgravy doesnt have many offers probably

silk frost
#

Apparently heres current rumors:
-Jerry to NYXL
-Jjonak trials for Hz, Gz, and Seoul
-Glister to Justice
-Kevster to Shock
-Fearless to Fuel
-Shu to Glad
-MCD to Spark
-Sado to Glads (RUMOR)
-Aztac to Justice (RUMOR)

hot heart
#

Who's Aztac?

#

And is he good?

raw ermine
#

Korean contenders support player

next mesa
#

he's korean

#

he can't be bad

raw ermine
#

Actually he is on loan to wgs armament from uprising academy

#

Not true. Remember Persia?

#

Lol

hot heart
#

Dude

#

Holy FUCK did he completely leave my memory

digital cloud
#

isn't Roar korean

hot heart
#

We dont talk about rOar

cedar oasis
#

Did fissure quit overwatch?

plush grail
#

wdym roar

#

who's roar

hot heart
#

I think he's LFR

#

*LFT

#

But im not sure

#

He def hasnt quit overwatch tho

#

To my knowledge

silk frost
#

Aztac is very solid

#

Probably like #3 or #4 contenders flex support

next mesa
#

fissure didn't quit

silk frost
#

Behind like 1987, mcd, and idk who else

next mesa
#

we dont know if hes LFT because his twitter is like private

weak bolt
#

At least we should get some more info next week, with Fri being the extension deadline for a bunch of other contracts

vagrant jacinth
#

Glister to justice would be PogChimp

next mesa
#

decay doe

vagrant jacinth
#

Someone pick up my boy babel

plush light
#

Gister to mayhem

#

Glister plays better flex than bqb

#

For things like doom and tracer

cloud latch
#

glister yaki pog

silk frost
#

Babel to Boston pog

hot heart
#

All of sf shock to boston

potent meteor
#

I dont honestly watch much esports but it sucks watching everyone leave. Overwatch is like 5 years old now so people are gonna stop joining the esports because they get good at the game but the game will die within a year and a half or so and need to switch to another game.

#

Ik the game isn't dead but I think in roughly a year in a half it will start declining or already have been. I haven't been keeping track but I see more esport players leaving rather than joining.

#

.

Do they get bored of the game or what?

raw ermine
#

Some go to other games

#

some are just washed

#

This year was tough cause of the pandemic so lots of people got dropped

hidden vault
#

yeah teams are trying to "save" money

hot heart
#

Tbb

#

*tbh

#

At this point in OWL

#

Its go big or go home

#

You have to spend big money

noble nexus
#

I mean hopefully by the time OW2 comes out they aren't restricted to streaming on youtube

#

cuz twitch had so many more viewers

#

and youtube sucks ass

#

also when OW2 comes out OWL will almost definitely get a lot more popularity

hot heart
#

Tbh

next mesa
#

They have a contract @noble nexus

#

exclusively youtube

hot heart
#

Yeah

#

Must've gotten a huge fucking bag for that

noble nexus
#

yeah but surely they didn't sign a multiyear contract

#

then again they'd have gotten a bag for multiyear

next mesa
#

they signed multiyear

#

iirc

noble nexus
#

yikes

#

when it was on Twitch normal midseason games had more viewers than the finals when it's on youtube

#

shit's rough

next mesa
#

what a fucking nutty team dude

worn falcon
true hound
#

probs just trolling again

raw ermine
#

they are all memeing

#

Super yelled at him on twitter for saying that

vagrant jacinth
#

Profit the goat

next mesa
#

that was 2 days

vagrant jacinth
#

Yeah he did lmao

worn falcon
#

yeah, but i dont know if he was meming or something

#

instead he flexing his rank 1 and 2 in support

raw ermine
#

^TLDR: Follow your favourite casters on social media and they're more likely to be re-signed by OWL.
Idk if its true or not, but in case it is follow them

#

caster/Analysts/hosts

digital cloud
#

I dunno, looks like just an uber appreciation thread

#

also, most of the casters are top tier

#

I miss monte and doa though, despite how crap monte is as a person

raw ermine
next mesa
#

ryujehong dude

#

good man good man

digital cloud
#

imagine getting copyrighted for music, the thing that entirely revolves around using assets in the public domain

#

I suppose we can sue people for listening to music they haven't bought when someone plays it in public too

#

well, that aside, can he get back on twitch eventually?

next mesa
#

probably yeah

weak bolt
#

He may struggle, twitch support is pretty awful

digital cloud
#

reminds me of Youtube support

#

they are so corporatist in both places

vagrant jacinth
#

Hope uber comes bacc

#

All the casters really, I like em all

weak bolt
#

Uber will be back. They're just contracted during the season, so free lance during off season

wanton birch
#

I swear , if glads disappoint again next season cause their main tank ......

#

They better be signing someone good

silk frost
#

rumors say sado

wanton birch
#

At this point I don’t know if I want to believe the rumours XD

#

Kevster to shock better not happen

weak bolt
next mesa
#

the fuck

#

jjanu dude

wanton birch
#

Odd

raw ermine
#

hmm

#

I think is probably a mid-season signing thing

wanton birch
#

I would have thought jjanu mag would be pretty good

next mesa
#

jjanu is still

#

really fucking good my ugy

#

his sigma is just slightly lacking

wanton birch
#

Maybe they sign him on a new deal ?

weak bolt
#

Can't blame him for asking, there may be oppurtunities he prefers

#

like Seoul still need an OT right?

next mesa
#

yes

weak bolt
#

Spark may potentially consider him an upgrade over QoQ. Can't blame him for seeing what choices he has

#

ESPN Esports let go of a bunch of their journalists, wonder if any get involved in the OW scene now

silk frost
#

Piggy?

raw ermine
#

piggy is leaked to houston

silk frost
#

fair

#

meko justice then?

weak bolt
#

I think in all likelihood Jjanu stays at justice, he's just checking what he can get to boost his salary

silk frost
#

beast on a contender's team tho???

#

wtf is going ON

raw ermine
#

Guess he is gone

weak bolt
#

Beast was playing on Oddysey or something last month yeah. Can't blame him, keeps him active rather than just LFT

raw ermine
#

American Tornado, AKA Tier-2 drama alert

weak bolt
#

I do love how AT blatantly just memed the BH name

raw ermine
#

yeah lmao

next mesa
#

hey nerds

raw ermine
#

yeah

#

reunite fusion uni?

plush light
#

No

#

Zacharee is in valorant

raw ermine
#

not all of them

#

just the bad ones

#

Bernar, CarCar

#

Whoru

#

get Na1st instead anyway

weak bolt
#

Wait, Toronto sign beast again? Ok they’re going budget too

#

Also lol at Aero going to coach faze in valorant

next mesa
#

apparnetly not

#

Aero himself was like

#

damn this dude knows things even I dont know

weak bolt
#

Aww shame, would have been amusing

raw ermine
#

lmao

digital cloud
#

imagine Aero throwing games for his players in another game

raw ermine
#

"IM COMING FOR YO CAREER LOMBARDO"

worn falcon
#

Aero for Faze, Valorant team

digital cloud
#

well Faze in valorant is sort of like the fuel

#

they are better than the tier 2, but trash compared to the rest of tier 1 lol

raw ermine
#

Even with Corey babybay and some random csgo dude they can't win

next mesa
#

Isn't corey apparently like not that good

raw ermine
#

yeah

#

It seems all the good snipers in OW are trash

#

Saya, Corey, probably other ones

next mesa
#

Apparently saya inconsistent

#

His team is doing pretty good though

true hound
#

cause val is a brain game

#

not as much of an aim one

#

for OW hitscan players, it’s a heavy aim and brain game that plays far different than a tac shooter

digital cloud
#

saya is on omen

#

he isn't on this game's equivalent of a dps, so I think him being "inconsistent" makes some sense

#

he isn't always in a position to get frags

#

not sure what is up with faze though

#

I am hoping personally they just need experience

raw ermine
#

They need a lack of Zachary "ZACHAREEE" Lombardo and Shane "Rawkus" Flaherty

digital cloud
#

Rawkus and zacharee are actually not so bad in Valorant

#

they and babybay are probably roughly on the same level rn

#

Corey and Marved are the top two

raw ermine
#

thats concerning if Corey is one of the best

true hound
#

did y’all see this

#

Imagine if this was true - Jjonak to dynasty, Shanghai with Viol2t

raw ermine
#

whoa

#

Jinmu leaves hunters rip

#

I feel like seoul doesn't need those players

#

creative+bdosin is fine

#

and fits is excellent

tropic herald
#

Holy

#

Fate Void LIP Fleta Viol2t LeeJaeGon

#

Jesus

#

Damn

noble nexus
#

that's mad stacked

#

but I'm just not sure how well Fate will do on shanghai

tropic herald
#

moon wants fate

#

so there will be somethign

noble nexus
#

yeah hopefully

#

Moon really do be trying hard for Fate so he probably has his reasons

#

Moon is almost as gigabrain as crusty

#

and that's a lot of brain

wanton birch
#

is it time for glads to give up on dpei ?

tropic herald
#

tbh

#

fate was good this year

#

just you know

#

he was on a mid table team

noble nexus
#

I felt like Florida was really good

#

they were mid table but they were putting up fights

#

against like shock and shit

next mesa
#

that was def a successful season for florida

raw ermine
#

I still think kuki deserved COTY

balmy wolf
#

they actually had a positive record this time

noble nexus
#

I wouldn't have complained if he got COTY

#

that was a great season for them

raw ermine
#

He took a last place team to 5th?6th? with 2 player signings

#

granted, they were both really good

tawdry hamlet
#

Toronto going to blow ass next season bet

#

I can't possibly fathom a good roster unless they just pull a fuel and pick up everyone's leftovers with large amounts of money

#

Mr. Logix and beast are barely upper mid tier on their own

#

And they dumped agilities flushed

#

They could always pick up people like dogman or paintbrush I guess but that's still nothing great

raw ermine
#

yeah

#

idk why we need beast

#

maybe he becomes good under KDG?

#

Maybe alarm told him the secrets to coaching him?

tawdry hamlet
#

Maybe so, seeing the widow 1v1s just exposed how meh logix is, like he's above dalton and chex but far below top tier hitscan

#

I guess he's like ksp tier

#

Hopefully they actually do okay

#

But with so many teams stacking talent Idk who they could pick up that'd be any good

#

I am sure they can pick up some na free agents like danteh or something to just make them good

#

But I wish agilities stayed he was solid dps

noble nexus
#

danteh got resigned by outlaws didn't he?

#

yea he did

tawdry hamlet
#

Oh yeah I forgot that

#

Nice

#

Good for him, another season of losing THE OmegaLUL

next mesa
#

yeah honestly

#

logix is kinda bad

#

like compared to the rest of the league hitscvans

tawdry hamlet
#

He's good at being better than his teammates lmao

#

But nah he isn't bad he's upper mid definitely above chex and dalton but not amazing by any means

#

I think apac hitscans in general are just far more consistent

#

Idk why

true hound
#

ur bad levy

#

logix is god

tawdry hamlet
next mesa
#

no he's not upper mid bro he's like bottom

#

like he's not bad obviously

#

but the hitscan role is just stacked

#

wait lemme get that list

#

Idk man I don't put him above like fits ans bqb carpe heesu jerry decay edison happy striker sbb xzi birdring lip diem fleta ksp

#

you can argue with like, maybe jerry and sbb

noble nexus
#

yeah logix is overrated

#

he's pretty good