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ESEA Invite Season 15 Preview

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Tery_

October 1, 2013

Introduction

Welcome to another season of ESEA Invite. Similar to the end of Season 12, the Invite of the past season has been scrapped away and a fresh new Invite was put in place. Many new players / faces and not many returning rosters. With the recent change to a 9 team Invite, we have High Rollers Gaming (now iT) and Classic Mixup returning, while the rosters of Root Plus Six and Top Guns (now Show Me the Monet) have undergone some massive changes. Knight of Grillz (now Below Average), Sal's Canal (now WELOVEANIME), and 6cuties (now 6cuties) hopped into Invite from IM, while brand new rosters Watch This and Lost in Translation are the last two teams. It's much too early to do anything like official Power Rankings, but instead we will take a glimpse at each team in alphabetical order. We'll also include a (very) loose Power Rankings at the end, along with some numbers and players to watch. Once the season begins and progresses the Power Rankings articles will return. Anyways without further ado, let's start!

Below Average

Roster

[Scout] Chaaz^
[Scout] SureShot
[Pocket] Paddie
[Roamer] Shootist
[Demoman] Ctrlfmuffin
[Medic] Eldritch

I guess since Grillz isn't active they can't be Knight of Grillz so the name change was appropriate. The second place IM team finds themselves in Invite alongside other IM teams who made the jump while keeping Paddie, SureShot, and Chaaz from last season's roster. Eldritch played a sliver of Invite Medic under the Don't Trip flag, and Ctrlfmuffin Demo'd for past iterations of Down to Pound with Topshot and ukm. In terms of what to expect from them, I'm not entirely sure (but that goes for nearly all the new teams anyway). What makes this more cloudy is the fact that they've mainly been playing against iT and the results are what you would expect. But they have also exchanged some close games with other move-ups, although I think they're on the weaker end of the new Invite. As with the other new move-ups, it'll be a close fight and a learning process for them to establish themselves in the lower end of Invite.

Classic Mixup

Roster

[Scout] Enigma
[Scout] Squid
[Pocket] Platinum
[Roamer] TLR
[Demoman] Seagull
[Medic] Harbleu

Classic Mixup took second place for two straight seasons, but this iteration is looking to break the cycle. This team could also be called

shlaner

8 Frags – +

Well written

spadez

3 Frags – +

so many new faces

reqqy

3 Frags – +

good read

Wills

0 Frags – +

Looking forward to an exciting season!
Great write-up

f_blue

1 Frags – +

Nice summary, looking forward to the season.

Jopperstaluf

2 Frags – +

go 6 cuties!!!

2 Frags – +

Thank you for this Tery.

Hype

Thank you for this Tery.

Hype

ckap

2 Frags – +

6cuties to win invite

pharaohyhwh

5 Frags – +

the fight for 4th place should be intense.

#10

jodd

3 Frags – +

great job, tery. looking forward to this season.

#11

rr-

7 Frags – +

just curious, but why are there 2 invite previews :o and imo mixup should be 1 right now, they're pretty damn good, besides that i liked it.

#12

Tery_

5 Frags – +

More content the better, right? I just really wanted to keep writing and when I asked Enigma about it / proofread he didn't say to not do so. If he doesn't want me to then sure I'll stop but yeah.

#13

chive

2 Frags – +

Nice job. It was definitely a great read.

#14

Turin

0 Frags – +

Go mix^ team soldier! (I just noticed that not 4/6 but 5/6 of these guys are LAN soldiers)

#15

Loronix

3 Frags – +

im not on root+6

#16

Mangachu

-5 Frags – +

loronix out weeble in i think

#17

pharaoh__

3 Frags – +

we play granary 4 times?! what?

#18

shrt

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Five teams will play one map four times throughout the season while four teams will play one map three times. The first and last week of the season will be played on the same map, ensuring the greatest level of map consistency.

[quote] Five teams will play one map four times throughout the season while four teams will play one map three times. The first and last week of the season will be played on the same map, ensuring the greatest level of map consistency. [/quote]

#19

Oblivionage

0 Frags – +

Good read. Going to be a very interesting season this time around. I didn't really enjoy watching season 14 for some reason

#20

Hellbent

Momentum Mod

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pharaoh__we play granary 4 times?! what?

vote it out
vote it out

[quote=pharaoh__]we play granary 4 times?! what?[/quote]
vote it out
vote it out

#21

2sy_morphiend

0 Frags – +

Hellbentpharaoh__we play granary 4 times?! what?vote it out
vote it out

voting anything not gullywash

my sides

[quote=Hellbent][quote=pharaoh__]we play granary 4 times?! what?[/quote]
vote it out
vote it out[/quote]

voting anything not gullywash

my sides

#22

Hellbent

Momentum Mod

-4 Frags – +

i play soldier therefore i love gullywash
but hate granary

figure out that logic

i play soldier therefore i love gullywash
but hate granary

figure out that logic

#23

Ggglygy

14 Frags – +

VS MIXUP ON COALPLANT AND VIA

STEVEC'S RAW DM WILL SHINE

VS MIXUP ON COALPLANT AND VIA

STEVEC'S RAW DM WILL SHINE

#24

JDMYoshioka

6 Frags – +

watch this vs Mixup first match aww yeah.

#25

Thufir

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shrt Five teams will play one map four times throughout the season while four teams will play one map three times. The first and last week of the season will be played on the same map, ensuring the greatest level of map consistency.

I still don't understand why that has to be a thing.

[quote=shrt][quote] Five teams will play one map four times throughout the season while four teams will play one map three times. The first and last week of the season will be played on the same map, ensuring the greatest level of map consistency. [/quote][/quote]

I still don't understand why that has to be a thing.

#26

TheStig

0 Frags – +

WELOVEANIME AND 6 CUTIES !!!!!! congrats!

#27

LKincheloe

0 Frags – +

And what exactly was wrong with my idea of playing Badlands twice, again?

#28

Khaki

-1 Frags – +

I don't understand, did justin's team just outright steal the name Watch This from the quake live CA team?

#29

Fog

4 Frags – +

KhakiI don't understand, did justin's team just outright steal the name Watch This from the quake live CA team?

Clockwork uses that bind all the time

[quote=Khaki]I don't understand, did justin's team just outright steal the name Watch This from the quake live CA team?[/quote]
Clockwork uses that bind all the time

#30

Devon

3 Frags – +

GgglygyVS MIXUP ON COALPLANT AND VIA

STEVEC'S RAW DM WILL SHINE

and yours?

[quote=Ggglygy]VS MIXUP ON COALPLANT AND VIA

STEVEC'S RAW DM WILL SHINE[/quote]

and yours?

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