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Shakeups with Street Hoops

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Tery_

July 22, 2014

Not a single match into the new season and we already have our handful of roster transactions to talk about. Street Hoops were coming off an interesting offseason. Duwatna had left them for Froyotech, while ninjanick was picked up to the Medic position (not sure on the order but seems insignificant). Cozen, despite being filmed stating he was staying with the team had left the roster, only to come back days later to Demoman in duwatna's absence. However, cozen would leave once more, this time departing for XTS (TheFragile having stepped back for personal reasons).

With the Demoman position vacant again, deadbolt has shifted himself over to Demo, and the team picked up cyzer (last seen briefly backing up for Classic Mixup) to Scout alongside paragon. Cyzer returns to Invite after spending 2 seasons playing Demo in Open / IM with Budsquad, and is a Scout of eMg / qXg / LG / HRG fame, who will no doubt be looking to clash Scatterguns against players like enigma and clckwrk again. Deadbolt is no stranger to Demoman either. Before he aspired to be Scout partners with his twin brother, he was a Demoman main in the waters of UGC 6's Platinum. Deadbolt also has experience with the class in Highlander, playing Demo in Highlander Platinum against some of the best Highlander teams in NA.

Street Hoops have now been stolen from twice. Duwatna, who dunked on kids at LAN, joined Froyotech, while cozen, who was really, really good at staying alive and milking ubers, is now with XTS. Not only were both players key components of the Street Hoops force, they're each now on LAN teams - their primary rivals coming into this season. 20b has their work cut out for them. Dealing with so many roster changes bouncing off each other in quick succession will be hard to rebound from. Hopefully, this is the last series of roster changes that Street Hoops will ever have to go through in this surely competitive season. We'll see how this new brand of 20b fares tonight in their match against Wood Pig.

Street Hoops Esports

Scout: paragon
Scout: cyzer
Pocket: grape
Roamer: ash
Demoman: deadbolt
Medic: ninjanick

Moy

16 Frags – +

quick succession will be hard to rebound from

I see what you did there

[quote]quick succession will be hard to rebound from[/quote]
I see what you did there

Tery_

12 Frags – +

MoyI see what you did there

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

[quote=Moy]I see what you did there[/quote]

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

hithere

-35 Frags – +

I want to see how Paragon now has to adjust to playing an aggressive scout role, IF Cyzer will reprise his role as a passive scout.

I want to see how Paragon now has to adjust to playing an aggressive scout role, [b]IF[/b] Cyzer will reprise his role as a passive scout.

park

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TheFragile left XTS D;
gl to cozen though!

loljk

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This only confirms the suspicion that every match up and down the standings will be massively significant in determining LAN spots by the end of the season.

zilly

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cozen is incredible

kaiserReg

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How will Deadbolt compare to other Invite Demomen? I've never actually seen him play the class so I have no idea what to expect.

universe

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have they tried cyzer demo deadbolt scout

dango

40 Frags – +

If harbleu could do it anyone can do it

#10

iFY_

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only seen deadbolt play hl demo
I wonder how he will transition

#11

Fox

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yeah i'm really interested in how fast he can transition his experiences from plat hl demo to invite 6s demo

i wonder if 6s would be easier because you have less things to really harass you (a constant pyro/spy/wrangled sentry gun presence), but it's probably going to make up for it in players that can consistently kill you

yeah i'm really interested in how fast he can transition his experiences from plat hl demo to invite 6s demo

i wonder if 6s would be easier because you have less things to really harass you (a constant pyro/spy/wrangled sentry gun presence), but it's probably going to make up for it in players that can consistently kill you

#12

TheFragile

RGB LAN

17 Frags – +

spac3TheFragile left XTS D;
gl to cozen though!

I'm still on the roster, just backing up. I'll explain more later this week.

[quote=spac3]TheFragile left XTS D;
gl to cozen though![/quote]

I'm still on the roster, just backing up. I'll explain more later this week.

#13

MGEMike

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reillyIf harbleu could do it anyone can do it

harbleu couldn't do it

[quote=reilly]If harbleu could do it anyone can do it[/quote]
harbleu couldn't do it

#14

Bomber

8 Frags – +

cyzer (honorary hooper)

#15

dingo

9 Frags – +

Foxyeah i'm really interested in how fast he can transition his experiences from plat hl demo to invite 6s demo

i wonder if 6s would be easier because you have less things to really harass you (a constant pyro/spy/wrangled sentry gun presence), but it's probably going to make up for it in players that can consistently kill you

my only demo league experience was like 3 ugc plat matches b4 invite

[quote=Fox]yeah i'm really interested in how fast he can transition his experiences from plat hl demo to invite 6s demo

i wonder if 6s would be easier because you have less things to really harass you (a constant pyro/spy/wrangled sentry gun presence), but it's probably going to make up for it in players that can consistently kill you[/quote]
my only demo league experience was like 3 ugc plat matches b4 invite

#16

cage-

21 Frags – +

we can tell

#17

Stimpack

3 Frags – +

sildeezyCyzer the 18th Best Scout in Invite

[quote=sildeezy]Cyzer the 18th Best Scout in Invite[/quote]

#18

dingo

12 Frags – +

cage-we can tell

http://puu.sh/an5SO/ce1dc81275.png

fuk wit me bish

[quote=cage-]we can tell[/quote]
[img]http://puu.sh/an5SO/ce1dc81275.png[/img]
fuk wit me bish

#19

dummy

23 Frags – +

youve never even destroyed an object in an invite match

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