Pay for premium and your Open fees. Everyone is comp worthy in open.

Ah yes Halloween! The time of year I spot the children with brown paper bags to give out large handfuls of candy mixed with Ice-Cubes. As the ice melts the weight of the candy rips the bag open and children cry further down the block.

Chaos is coming.........

Eric Adams -- ManOwaR

Metal Ballad-----------https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLrfzWNyIDM

Real Metal--------https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2zkPqg-75g

ManOwaR concert in 2011 was an epic event. Far more intense than all the Pantera and Metallica concerts I have attended.

What are you skeptical about? My post? or the doctors opinions?

Let me drop some knowledge in this thread to erase myths. My own parents told me when I was younger about playing video games with the lights off and how it is bad. My parents and yours are wrong again.

I manage one of the top rated Ophthalmology (eyes) institutes in the county. Seeing this thread, I asked 2 of our top doctors about playing video games with lights on or off. They both assured me, it is no negative effect at all on your eye sight in any way if with lights are on or off.

Have fun in the dark gamers.

No roamers yet :(

There is a difference between giving a reason for a loss and making an excuse for a loss. He rightly laughed in his face for saying the team was"not experienced and only 3 months together". Give me a break, each player on that team has tons of experience.

Could b4nny have done nothing at all? Sure he could have but making excuses is a way of talking shit, so I don't have any problem with his reaction at all.

That is a typical reaction after someone says "we only played together for 3 months" as an excuse. I would have laughed in his face too.

What were they supposed to do, give him a tissue and rub his vagina because he was "crushed" from a loss?

Fantastic. My lunch time at work just got incredibly better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qrwON1-zE

The best metal instrumental
Metallica - Orion

My Day 1 opinions, hyped for day 2

Danger Dogs:

They are obviously this I-series invite division punching bag. The 6th spot needed to be filled by some team but they clearly belonged in the Open Groups. They barely defeated Windtunnel in the 1st playoff round to advance. They will not get past Lower Round 3.

Reason Gaming:

With the exception of the match against DD, Reason is the only team in the division to have not finished off a worthy team before hitting the time limit. (DD does not count) Yes, the competition is at the highest level but the lack of finishing teams and winning rounds speaks to a team chemistry problem. I hate to point at any players but kaidus has under performed in every single match. His damage and frags have been consistently low while heals have been high. A possible reason for this is the even worse performance of Forsaken. This dude was hyped beyond belief before this started, still waiting on it. If forsaken and kaidus fix whatever is going on, Reason will begin to roll teams. If not, knocked out in Lower Round 4.

Ascent:

Just like watching this past ESEA LAN, Ascent puzzles me. If Ascent was a professional athlete, they would be described as a "streaky" player. For a few minutes, they will seem amazingly in sync then for a few minutes seem totally lost. Against teams at this LAN, its a short lived way to play. rando is an amazing pocket and the strongest player on the team. He is also eating an average of 40% of the heals but I don't see the equal damage numbers. Either the team isn't supporting the strongest player enough or he isn't playing up to standards. Either way, if that gets fixed, Ascent will start winning maps and could go as far as the Lower Round 5 but beyond that may not happen.

nerdRage:

A monster team that is balanced and flexible enough to hit you with almost any tactic. Would not surprise me if they won the whole tournament. TEK was a force on the 1st day that no team had the answer for but Starkie is the play maker this team revolves around. It was a bit unfortunate to see NR play Froyo on Viad. I feel NR can matchup better on a 5CP map. I look forward to the possible best of 3(or 5) between these teams. It would be a shame if they don't meet again when it all counts in the playoff bracket.

TLR:

They played day 1 perfectly and should not change a single thing. They were my pick to be in the finals with Froyo before the tourney started so I am not that surprised. Alfa made some huge plays, especially on Gully vs Reason. All the talk about him being a downgrade from shadowburn is rubbish. While shadowburn is a great player, he is just a very flashy roamer in my eyes. Alfa is a very consistent player who gives the team flexibility with his sniping. In the end, that combination may be more valuable for TLR than a few airshots in a frag video.

Froyo:

So the obvious odds-on favorite to win the whole thing and for good reason. Coming into this, Ash was the only question mark on the roster. To be honest, he has played very well but is still a big question mark because the important games are ahead. That said, it doesn't matter what Ash does because b4nny with 0 ping, 300 health and a pocket medic looks unstoppable. The rest of the team, especially clock and ash are simply playing aggressive off him perfectly. I can see Froyo possibly dropping a map to any of the other top 4 teams but what I can't see them doing is dropping 2 or 3 maps in the finals. Froyo will win the tournament.

Danger Dogs literally belong in the open bracket. As such they had to fill the 6th invite spot. Still a shame Immunity or mixup were not around to fill the invite division with 6 teams capable of beating each other. Still, 5 out of 6 is not bad.

doubtful at best. Still cheering for them

IMO these two teams are the most evenly matched in the whole tournament and should give us another awesome set of matches. Can't wait to wakeup at 5am and watch.

TLR to win this match, lose to Froyo in Upper Final, then face nerdrage again in the Lower Finals after Nerdrage knocks out Reason. Heard it here first

Group stages are for warmups and seeding. Everything that happened on Day 1 means nothing.

From this match forward is where you prove everything. Froyo may have rolled Reason in the group stages but I think this match is going to be a war. Nobody wants to slug it out in the losers bracket.