would you care about winning a league where banny wasn't in it? let's say iT plays CEVO exclusively, watch this either does the same or takes a season off, and you guys play ESEA exclusively.

how many seasons before that gets incredibly boring? One?

god damn blink double-downed on lunacy about thirty consecutive times

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took a while to get going but the quarterfinals and on were pretty cool

didn't they announce a "fix" for the crossbow healing soldiers with the equalizer a while back?

b4nny to roam
ruwin to scout

seems pretty logical to me

so shrugger moves to the more pocket role or HRG will have both scouts on the flank?

compromise and have two 15-20 minute halves.

I think halftime is very important. Not just to allow a team to regroup and briefly talk strategy, but also to force teams to switch sides. Mirrored maps like Viaduct play different depending on which side a team is on, Granary wasn't balanced for a long time, etc.

amazing the drunken/belligerent cast still managed to describe the action better than VTV1's "OOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!" screams every time anyone rocket or sticky jumped.

a little early to be championing them, no?

although they've looked pretty impressive in the group stage, no doubt

neat

1. HRG
2. Epsilon
3. Broder
4. Infused
5. iM?

It's been a year since i46, but that LG v. Mix^ game was 1-0 that was extremely back-and-forth, no? As in, both teams had multiple failed pushes on last? That's a starkly different story than the HRG v. Mix^ match last weekend, with you guys basically "attacking" last for seemingly an entire half. It's not exactly desirable, either, but to me it's a more desirable result of a low/no-scoring half.

I don't think anyone would disagree that gullywash is highly stalemate-y. It's the most unconventional 5CP map with the biggest chokes pushing second and a highly constricted last. But I think it's disingenuous to state that seeing just the mix^ v. HRG match is what caused this outcry. The game was fundamentally different. Scouts had fewer big plays, and were far more often playing heavy or sniper. Roamers didn't have much to do. Even on open maps in open games (e.g. Process), it was Pocket+Soldier+Heavy to make plays, in my view.

FWIW, I personally think viaduct was a improved with the QF and I wish Killing would reconsider the QF ban and allow it exclusively on KOTH maps right now (assuming something like that is possible in the ruleset).

i hope the irony of the QF being banned due in large part (imo) because of its inclusion in S14 isn't lost on everyone.

wat