dfy@ OP, if your team is struggling and you cant really pinpoint what the problem is, request a demo review of a good scrim and/or match from PYYYYOUR or bl4nk, they'd be able to give tons of feedback on what problems you might be facing as a team whether its dm, focusing targets, pushes, holds etc you'll be able to break it down much more than just getting straight outplayed on every position from a better team.
Thing is we're NOT struggling versus open and I believe that it's better to do a scrim that ends 5-2 for them than a scrim where you 5-0. I know demo reviews and we do that as well, and we all are aware of the ability to send in a demo to cyzer, b4lnk, or pyyour, hell I have most of them added so I can ask them questions. This is about us wanting something more than demos, something tangible where we can see how we stack up versus a team at the beginning of the season and see our progress versus them throughout the season. Guided along by their expertise.
[quote=dfy]@ OP, if your team is struggling and you cant really pinpoint what the problem is, request a demo review of a good scrim and/or match from PYYYYOUR or bl4nk, they'd be able to give tons of feedback on what problems you might be facing as a team whether its dm, focusing targets, pushes, holds etc you'll be able to break it down much more than just getting straight outplayed on every position from a better team.[/quote]
Thing is we're NOT struggling versus open and I believe that it's better to do a scrim that ends 5-2 for them than a scrim where you 5-0. I know demo reviews and we do that as well, and we all are aware of the ability to send in a demo to cyzer, b4lnk, or pyyour, hell I have most of them added so I can ask them questions. This is about us wanting something more than demos, something tangible where we can see how we stack up versus a team at the beginning of the season and see our progress versus them throughout the season. Guided along by their expertise.
If you find a team willing to do this, good for you. Though to me, it seems like it would be easy enough to pick up scrims above your level particularly early or late in the night when there's not much around, then get just as much out of it by watching the demo instead of finding a team that will give up time that they could be using to improve.
If your issue is not knowing what to look for in the demo, you can either get one person to help you with that, or just ask yourself these general questions:
-were our scouts buffed on mid/before we pushed?
-were our scouts with our combo when we have numbers advantage?
-did someone just fight a 1v1?
-could we have pushed faster?
-did we overcommit?
-did we engage properly uber vs uber / uber vs none / none vs uber / none vs none?
If you find a team willing to do this, good for you. Though to me, it seems like it would be easy enough to pick up scrims above your level particularly early or late in the night when there's not much around, then get just as much out of it by watching the demo instead of finding a team that will give up time that they could be using to improve.
If your issue is not knowing what to look for in the demo, you can either get one person to help you with that, or just ask yourself these general questions:
-were our scouts buffed on mid/before we pushed?
-were our scouts with our combo when we have numbers advantage?
-did someone just fight a 1v1?
-could we have pushed faster?
-did we overcommit?
-did we engage properly uber vs uber / uber vs none / none vs uber / none vs none?
I honestly don't see why people care what this team does to practice. If they want to play against better players and get rolled once per week all the power to them. There's only so much you'll learn from reviewing a demo and crap... Until you actually play better players and experience it yourself you'll only get better at watching what other people do or better at theory crafting. If your team doesn't want to do it... Fine there's nothing wrong with that either. 30 minutes or less of getting rolled by better players will defiantly prove to be a learning experience no matter what you're trying to learn. Nothing wrong with that at all.
I honestly don't see why people care what this team does to practice. If they want to play against better players and get rolled once per week all the power to them. There's only so much you'll learn from reviewing a demo and crap... Until you actually play better players and experience it yourself you'll only get better at watching what other people do or better at theory crafting. If your team doesn't want to do it... Fine there's nothing wrong with that either. 30 minutes or less of getting rolled by better players will defiantly prove to be a learning experience no matter what you're trying to learn. Nothing wrong with that at all.
There was a Sleeping Life that told me he was an IM medic 2 seasons ago. Not sure if you're the same guy
There was a Sleeping Life that told me he was an IM medic 2 seasons ago. Not sure if you're the same guy