1) OWL has been a huge success, and that’s not an arguable point. It has blown past initial expectations and is currently in the expansion process, with slots going for $30-60 million dollars. A decline in viewers thus far this week can be linked to the fact that a) today is not a game day and b) we’re in the break…

Are you asking at this point? Or still too busy trying to make points that miss their marks?

0/2! Nice try though.

So, again, you go into irrelevant comparisons and dodge the questions. Cool, at least you’re consistent.

Do you know why him turning 18 is a big deal? Or why player pickups are a big deal? Evidently not. So, before you offer an opinion on them, educate yourself.

You’re so very incorrect. There are major conversations to be had around all of them.

God forbid we focus on the eSport in a section supposedly dedicated to that! That would be RIDICULOUS.

They’re hungry for clicks, hungry enough that they’ll neglect real OWL stories to focus on this.

xQc definitely overreacts at the outset but 31% crit accuracy is high enough that it’s fair to assume a player is hacking. xQc does not handle it well, something that shouldn’t be surprising considering his total lack of social skills, but the assumption at its core is reasonable if we’re just looking at the numbers.

Pocketing as a term has always referred to a healer focusing all of or most of their resources on an individual player, often a character with high DPS potential, who is the pocketed individual.

Blizzard is sanitizing things way too much, especially in Contenders where the audience is going to be, generally, much older than the OWL audience. Apparently they’ve also banned monkaS from Contenders Twitch chat as well as censoring out the words “suck” and “lmao.”

Huh? Geguri is absolutely from a T2/T3 team. ROX won a total of two maps at APEX. The only team that she had any shot of realistically making it onto was Boston because they looked beyond established T1 talent. Being one of Shanghai’s best still means very little relative to the top players in OWL.

Jiqiren, of age, Lateyoung, of age, YangX1aoLg, of age, Sky turned 18 in February, creed was of age, only leave doesn’t have a birth date listed.

No problem! Happy to spread information. Here’s a video of MY playing Lunatic-Hai, a team that was consistently in the conversation for best team in the world. This video is part 1, just follow it along!

My personal recommendation would be to all-in on the Miraculous Youngster players still in Overwatch and to focus on Chinese players because this Chinese-Korean mesh sounds like a language clusterfuck. I think they’ve got two on Team CC, Shanghai’s academy team, and if those players can display their previous form…

They’re really not. Part of the problem from the outset for Shanghai was taking substandard individual players instead of taking the top talent available. Their players are really good in that they’re like the top 0.01% of the playerbase but they’re not really good players relative to the true top players in OWL.

This is a huge deal. Worth mentioning that RUI was Miraculous Youngster’s coach before coming over and was a big part of Shanghai’s improved performance of late.

Just ban her from OWL play. They were happy to ban her from Competitive for two months, do the same for this stage of OWL.

That’s cool and everything but their match record was still 10-0.

Coaching is a huge deal. That’s where the strats come from, that’s how problems are identified and fixed, that’s how rosters are evaluated. There’s a great degree of responsibility on the player too but coaching is a huge factor.