Good player with lotsa potential, and he plays a lot so he'll only get better in time. Needs experience.

I don't remember xipo lol but gl anyways

Each player has responsibilities at high levels. The pocket is looking for openings, the medics maintaining uber advantages and calling out support comms, the demo creates openings or defends disadvantages etc. If your scouts are in a position to flank then they can call a push to sandwich them etc. It's situational but for most teams there's always one main caller who calls things like rollouts etc. As for pushing it's pretty obvious after a while when you're going to be pushing and usually it's the medic or pocket calling that.

The main calling should revolve around the combo it depends if the demoman is a heal heavy demo or not. The game is played around ubers not sticky traps. Plat is an exception and i'm pretty sure tyrone main calls for LG. Demomen can surely have great supporting comms but as a whole it should come from the medic or pocket. But at high levels everyone is calling something that's what open players don't understand. If you have an advantage on the flank, then your flank calls. If there's an uber advantage then your medic calls. If there's a position where your fragging classes out number theres, or your damage is better then your pocket/demo can call. All depends.

The aftermath of losing powah. The powah is goneeeeee! :(

It's sad because you guys are a great team and with just a bit more experience together and maybe a roster move or so, you would be fine. I think rr is best at roam soldier you just needed another scout to compliment justin.

ya seriously lan lives at stake and we can't even watch.. gay

Anyone know why? Kalkin/Killing?

If ESEA no longer runs lan we should find a new league. No sense in paying to play when they don't reinvest into the players welfare to at least SOME degree.

Actually we beat you before you got powah, with sting. Jesus is right. You guys are a great team without him but with him you're obviously much better. That's all I was saying.

http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=match&id=2726360

I don't really care who gets who I like the competition it wouldn't be fun steam rolling everyone. Kappows team is good with or without powah. Anything can happen in the playoffs look at last season with randos perfect record. It really comes down to the maps since each team has certain play styles suited for each map.

Oh and arizona.. Mike is just roster riding. He played this week because Arcs car died and couldn't get the cheap mexican mechanic out there for 2 days (where he was stranded) so he had to stay at a motel.

I'm pretty sure they knew from the beginning he wasn't going to LAN which is why mo0se was backing up and going to fill in for him if they made it. That was just an example though. Picking up justin was ideal because he's a similar player.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not hating on powah or nNn he's a great player and they're a great team. I understand the modesty powah but you instantly made them 10x better last season when you joined you're a pretty amazing player.

It just seems like people manipulate the system to keep the same circle jerks consistently flowing in invite instead of letting real teams who have been together step in and give it a shot who are actually hungry to continue moving up.

It's not hard to see which teams shouldn't be in invite and which teams deserve to be there. As far as having "experience" top IM teams play invite teams all the time in scrims and what not. It's really not far off from eachother - you win some, you lose some. The only teams who usually consistently dominate the rest of the pack are Mixup (obviously) and LG. As for the rest you'd want a team with stability and a solid core who are going to suffer through the tough times and continue working through it. Not these mutt invite teams being thrown together 2 days before the invite poll comes out to hope for luck and make it to LAN. Otherwise a month before the season ends they disband yet somehow keep the roster alive to redo the same exact thing the next season. Get "real" hungry teams in invite not just invite caliber pug teams.. That's the point of this post.

Lets look at nNn. Before they picked up powah the previous season in IM they were the 2nd, maybe 3rd best team. Then with powah they win IM and go invite. Half way through their semi successful invite stint powah leaves because he can't go to LAN. Why play in the first place? Now he's going to join kappows team in IM and give them a better chance to make invite as well and do the same exact thing all over again. Sorry but to me that's just stupid. Kappow had a solid team without powah they should've left the roster as it was. He's basically a temporary high level merc sand bagging lower divisions.

And this is why you need to be careful on who you recruit onto your team.

3rd wheel is NEVER a good idea. You don't want to get stuck in the "friend" zone. Make it clear that it's a date.

Literally the dumbest and worst map i've ever played. I'd rather play standin or warmfront every week of the season than play this map once.

ESEA PLEASE Change this map.