Holy shit, Shanghai got a map off Seoul.
Holy shit, Shanghai got a map off Seoul.
I shoulda placed some bets. I had a feeling they'd get a map!
This bothers me so much. Every time we see one team running Pharah on a map she's good on she dominates the map and the team she's obviously destroying refuses to change up their comp to counter her. It happens so often it's stupid.
Dragons didn't win the overall match but holy crap are some people reacting like they did! It's really nice to see them smile for once. I don't know if Seoul was purposefully fucking with them the whole time (they have been known to do this) but if so, they miscalculated a bit at the end there. It's good for overall OWL morale anyway so fine by me. I do think not playing Fleta this match heavily impacted Seoul's abilities, though. Fleta and Ryujehong are easily their top2 in skill, not playing one of them the dps isn't as good.
I agree that Seoul underestimated them (obvious with not putting Fleta in), but I'm with you that it was nice to see Shanghai get that morale boost, even with losing the match. It also made for a great set to watch instead of the expected one-sided win.
Seoul knows how to keep the crowd excited. 4-0 blowouts are bad for business unless its an actual grudge match. They know to throw a few bones with some meat on em out there to keep the crowd hungry.
I also think that might be their strategy, though obviously nothing can be proven. Some people say it's very unsportsmanlike to "play with their food" and let other teams think they're better than they are, or straight up not play their best against other teams on purpose. But there are two ways of looking at it I guess.
Today I'm looking for Boston to get completely stomped by London in an 0-4, Philly to put up a decent fight against NY but still go 0-4 or 1-3, and Houston to roll over Florida 3-1.
Boston is probably the worst as all they currently know how to play is dive and any team worth their salt should be able to counter them. We shall see if they learned how to play anything else over the weekend...
I hope you're happy about just how wrong you are right now! This match is pretty good, look what you've done jynxing it.
Edit: Overall outcome spoiler
Spoiler: show
This is why I don't gamble lol
Just tuned in to the last 5 minutes of this. Nice one boston.
BYE KOREA
The league is fun as hell to watch right now.
Agreed, these close games are great.
Profit made an apology for flipping the bird yesterday. xQc was obviously a whiny bitch about it.
https://twitter.com/PROFIT_OWL/statu...41572497514497
Not sure if it was already mentioned, but London actually has a sign saying "x days without a C9"
https://twitter.com/JackEtienne/stat...70316479225857
They're been having fun memeing with the picture used:
https://twitter.com/JackEtienne/stat...26227110850560
https://twitter.com/JackEtienne/stat...48656244948992
Nice to see them have fun with their social media.
This is the match I've been waiting for. Let's go NY!
XQC is such a whiny little shit. He's exactly what this new generation idolizes. My generation was shit, but "Jackass" shit. This new crop...
Edit: Holy shit, that game. Excel can now sit on the throne, and they lost yesterday! This league is fucking deep!
Dallas signed AKM. Taimou must be as checked out as he sounds, think he's done with OW tbh.
It's amazing how much of a difference swapping out one player can have on these teams right now.
I bet Fusion wouldn't be losing if Poko was in Hotba does nothing!
Fusion currently up 2-0 vs Dallas. At this point I'm expecting Shanghai to beat Dallas next week.
Edit: Dallas loses KotH 2-0, so another L for them no matter how map 4 goes.