Wrap Up
The lack of matches meant the rankings stayed pretty static this week, but there is a lot to look forward to coming up. Hopefully we see some closer games this week

Matches Of The Week

130 ms vs Waddle R Us https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=match&id=7728212
(This was supposed to happen last week, I’ve left my wreite up of it in.) This is a great match for many reasons. For one we will get to see Thaigrr “farm IM noobs” but also it will put Waddle against a team with the raw DM of any other top IM team. If they can’t contest a team that is basically an all dm pug team then their chances of beating a team with both good dm and good coordination look bleak at best.

Casted by me @ https://www.twitch.tv/saamaas, this match should be happening after Waddle R Us play The Pound. I would expect it to start around 11 EST on Tuesday.

Waddle R Us vs Every Villain Is Lemons https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=match&id=7728225

This will be another test of Waddle. I expect them to be able to take this match but not without a fight put up by EVIL. Look for percy and troopo to put up big nummbers for EVIL and phorofor, safrix, and cloudmaker to do work for Waddle. This should be interesting because I see Waddle being a team carried by their combo and EVIL being the opposite.

The TF2 update means that one of the two matches I was interested to see the result of didn’t end up happening, and the other match I wanted to see saw spamfest and co. piledrived into the dirt and left there to die. Luckily there was one match that didn’t go the way I thought it would as Not Around Bears embarrassed moon in a match that left me wondering who ever let Dagger into invite.

#1- Running From Mustard https://play.esea.net/teams/85721
Scout:Blues
Scout:yimi
Roamer:Rekuso
Pocket:Deathy
Demo:mustardoverload
Medic:Skye
As embarassing as dropping a round to YipYapper is, I’m not willing to move this team down based off one lost round on gullywash. In a surge to try to stay on his own team, Mustardoverload is currently both top damage and fragging for his team. Considering it was two rolls on gullywash this probably doesn’t say much besides that he didn’t try to spawncamp his own last, but still, good for him.
The pounders(s): Mustardo
The dead weight: Too early to say

#2- mae and the meyymeyys https://play.esea.net/teams/144649
Scout:vari
Scout:ex
Roamer:glider
Pocket:froot
Demo:mae
Medic:meyy
They faced somewhat tougher opposition this week than mustardoverload but until I see these teams start to play others in the top 4 I’ll be sticking to my current rankings (provided they don’t pull a moon and lose to a team not even on my radar). Their first two stomps saw froot and mae taking a lion’s share of the damage and frags much like 8K (i’m not typing out that shitty team name every time I need to mention them) as is to be expected in Gullywash rolls.
The pounders: Froot, mae
The dead weight: Too soon to say

#3- dunheon defendershttps://play.esea.net/teams/130977
Scout:demoted
Scout:catface
Roamer:megaboy
Pocket:Kryptonite
Demo:mc
Medic:exile
While their second match is delayed by client issues, match #1 saw them dispatch of a weak Jaguar Fiend team with relative ease, dropping a round to what I can only assume was elite demoman play out of one of the most experienced players in the division. Beyond that, their combo killed a lot and damaged a lot because it’s a roll on gullywash and I feel like a broken record at this point. Catface also got some kills so go catface
The pounders: it’s a roll who cares i’m just feeding egos at this point
The dead weight: huck

#4- 130 ms https://play.esea.net/teams/119535
Scout:Thaigrr
Scout:bunnymonster
Roamer:aim
Pocket:blew
Demo:sandblast??
Medic:lee
I’m moving this team up for two reasons. 1: Moon is apparently much worse than I could have ever imagined, and 2) No one else seems like they can contest a top 3 team. With their roster shakeup putting Thaigrr on roamer, aim on demo and sandblast on scout this team should be a little stronger, thanks to aim having any clue how to play a combo class and sandblast being at least equal to Thaigrr on scout. Aim on roamer has never been super impressive and Thaigrr knows how to play the class even if he is on 100 ping. This team still hasn’t scrimmed and if they keep that up I don’t see them beating anyone above them but the raw skill is definitely there.
The pounders: Thaigrr
The dead weight: idk they haven’t played a match yet all I know is Thaigrr won’t be the dead weight

#5 -Waddle R Us https://play.esea.net/teams/144170
Scout:RockMonkey
Scout:Link_1012
Roamer:phorofor
Pocket:cloudmaker
Demo:safrix
Medic:tiptoes
I’m putting this team above Paradise Cafe because they didn’t get rolled 5-0. I dunno maybe I’m wrong but I don’t wanna put a team that can’t get a round off meyy in 5th so now this team is in 5th. They haven’t played a match yet so their games versus 130 ms, dunheon, and EVIL should be telling of their skill level.
Players to watch: Phorofor, Cloudmaker, Safrix
The weak link(GET IT?)s RockMonkey, Link_1012

#6- Paradise Cafe https://play.esea.net/teams/81951
Scout:Stochastic
Scout:Spamfest
Roamer:yosh
Pocket:june
Demo:Max
Medic:Radeon
Well, they solidified their roster with the addition of Yosh on roamer and with that pickup in hand they went into their match against meyy and got completely manhandled. I don’t know exactly what happened, it was gullywash and june has never really been a ‘skilled’ or ‘capable’ or ‘not bad’ maincaller, which could be rough, but if they want to succeed Yosh should probably just perma snipe.
The pounders june almsot had 300 dpm i guess?
The dead weight: everyone, you got rolled 5-0 get your shit together

#7- Every Villain Is Lemons https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=match&id=7773599
Scout:Percy
Scout:Troopo
Roamer:Retardo
Pocket:Daffodil
Demo:Campy
Medic:fabulous
They rolled matches on gully. I’m tired of saying the same thing in every writeup so just go up to any of the other teams whol rolled on gully and swap the names out for these guys. Interestingly Troopo top fragged in one of their matches but jesus who the fuck cares did you see the video of Retardo and Lucrative going off on each other. If you somehow haven’t check it out.Reflecto, if you’re gunna yell at your tryouts at least try to be correct? No, lucrative should not be jumping away from his combo to take high groundwhile you and your bot scout decide to feed and someone else is staying at last while you try to push out, and Luc, doing sub 250 dpm as pocket may not be the best time to bring up the fact that you’ve played over 150 matches on esea.
The pounders:who
The weak links: cares

#8- Not Around Bears https://play.esea.net/teams/110264
Scout:Zacice
Scout:Ed
Roamer:Mostlybacon
Pocket:Morin
Demo:RDJ
Medic:Differ
In an upset that falls somewhere between ‘shocking’ and ‘just depressing’ NAB comes out of nowhere to take down moon, a team who I thought would be far, far better. I will say I feel justified in calling Keith overrated after he dropped a 13-16 K/D, and dagger put on a truly gut wrenching performance going 6-22. Enough of harping on the negative though, Not Around Bears was carried by an amazing roamer performance by Mostlybacon, who top fragged in the server, as well as great demo play from RDJ. Everyone on Not Around Bears pulled their weight for the most part and I’m excited to see how they fare against some of the teams I think are still better than them. Hopefully I’m proven wrong.
The pounders whole squad tbh
The dead weight: Dagger (i know he’s not on this team but come on man I needed to say again that you gotta step it up)

shittiest superhero ever

damn no reflecto interview

could do well in IM if he practices his rollouts

it had a 100k tourney rofl

http://www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments/19005-dreamhack-summer-2016-paladins-founders-tournament

fucking kill me tbh why can't tf2 get this shit

http://www.teamfortress.tv/post/646893/pugchamp

i dont think he cheats in scrims or matches anymore

he still cheats in mm

he used to cheat when they would alias and scrim open teams off irc. i remember him leaving random stickies around and they would det as soon as you got within radius

but there's no way you cheat and drop 280 dpm as demo on gully

would you really tho

you lost to alder

I just went on the forums and found this: https://forums.tf2center.com/topic/12112-tf2c-adblock-problems/

So if you have Kapersky that's the problem

played this a while ago and i'm glad to see they continued their business model of stealing overwatch characters.

it was actually pretty fun until they raped it with shitty updates i don't know what state the game is in now tho.

the biggest difference is that gameplay isn't focused around funneling 12 people into a choke and if the game kept building off that it'd be really fun

ironically dogshit videos are still dogshit

dallas servers have been fine for like a year now

every year this reminds me how much i miss cbear's casting :<

what happened to ur brain that it doesnt work like a good brain?

if u stop now u may still have hope. dishsoap used to be the retard who showed up to esea pugs and wouldn't leave even though he was terrible so everyone hated him and on top of that he had the ugc logo as his profile picture. i didn't hear anything about him for like over a year and now he's like a mid or high open demo i think i even picked him once