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The Overwatch League |OT| So Long, and Thanks for All the GOATS! (LIVE)
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Bumper is playing much better after that first map and first point on KR.
Supposedly its going to be implemented into OWL first and then comp.
I don't get how someone can watch these two teams and think Goats is boring. The suspense and drama some of these fights create is just unreal. Here's hoping Shock pick it back up.
The narrative I see a lot is this
Bad goats vs bad goats: boring
Good goats vs bad goats: boring
Good goats vs good goats: pretty pog
Which I mostly agree with. And really, there are only three teams can give us a good goats mirror.
Eh its exciting but watching slow engages where its just a matter of who builds ults faster or who gets out of position first and gets picked isn't particularly amazing hype moments.
Any match you get in knowing you'll only see six or seven heroes played is boring in mybook, i can't really help it, it's like only 1/8th of the game is being played
This I agree with. When one of the top teams is repeatedly punishing some mid/low tier team, it's boring and repetitive. But when you have teams like Shock and Titans smashing into eachother in a coordinated and balanced dance, there's a lot of hype.
I'd consider tier 2 goats vs. tier 2 goats pretty entertaining. Tier 1 GOATS vs. Tier 2 GOATS is lopsided and boring, but I've enjoyed watching the Glads, Spitfire, Seoul, Spark, Shanghai, NYXL and the Fuel play GOATS against another team on the same tier as them
Wholesome af
Honestly, that's fair. So, the idea is an even match between teams who are at last competent at goats can be pretty entertaining. But lopsided matchups are pretty frequent
I agree. Which, to be fair, any lopsided game no matter the style, is going to be boring.
Exactly, which is the big issue with GOATS as a viewing experience. Tier 2 vs. Tier 2 isn't as high stakes as Tier 1 vs. Tier 1 GOATS but it has moments of brilliance as well as occasional divergences from GOATS that keeps me entertained. The NYXL can transcend between Tier 1 and Tier 2 GOATS play, Shanghai not really but they at least hold strong with their own style. As we saw the Gladiators and the Spark can't do that at all and get solidly dumpstered by Tier 1 GOATS.
Meanwhile I'd put Boston and Chengdu as the gatekeepers between Tier 2 and Tier 3. Boston can run competent Tier 2 GOATS at times and look competitive with teams like the Glads, the Spark, etc. and other times they bot out. Chengdu is Chengdu with all the good and bad that implies
I think he was trying to do a 5head play and pre-shatter anyone who was about to retake. It's kinda like Nenne's losing grav last stage - if he pulled it off, he would've been a god
They were close to capping so he preemptively shattered hoping to catch anyone trying to contest through the door. Didn't pan out.
Imagine how salty Shock and Titans fans would get if they enforce 2-2-2 for the second half of the season.
I wouldn't be upset at all, Stitch is my favourite OW player and I know for a fact the winstreak will end. And I think it's a mathematical impossibility for Van to be eliminated from playoffs at this point
Yeah that Super shatter definitely felt like he was attempting a hard read, expecting one or two people that had been forced out to try and quickly boost back in through the doorway to contest the point. Too bad they either waited or just rotated out altogether, so he wound up stunning some stairs and nothing else.
That was a hell of a hold by the Titans, considering they let the Shock slowly build up the first two ticks more or less for free before they started to really contest the point.
That was a hell of a hold by the Titans, considering they let the Shock slowly build up the first two ticks more or less for free before they started to really contest the point.
I need it at this point. Going to fall asleep if it's the same finals for every single stage.
Sinatraa and Moth looking genuinely worried. I know these guys have terrific mental, but if you're the Shock right now, all you're thinking is "we can't let them do this to us again."
I really hope the Shock don't let that map get into their heads, because wow that was not good.
That makes sense. Not sure if that cost them the point or not, but damn if everything didn't go south after that.
That makes sense. Not sure if that cost them the point or not, but damn if everything didn't go south after that.
This Mother's Day I've been watching OWL on ABC and explaining Overwatch to my parents.
Overwatch League: Bringing Families Together 2019
Overwatch League: Bringing Families Together 2019
Shock had that in the bag, I don't think you can come back from that offense even with a decent Point C hold
My heart is going to give up at some point, I won't be able to take another map 7 game guys.