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probably cuz they stalemate all the time and need to deal with spies ;)

I don't doubt they play pubs all the time. Wonder whether they've ever played competitive though.

you also won invite so you came into this tournament as a major favorite regardless of scrims. Besides that, neither of the teams who had to deal with a day of shit scrims were eliminated by you anyway.

Besides that, I think the more important point is

I'd like to add a few subjective pluses.
1. Looser feeling around commentary. See: https://clips.twitch.tv/esportsarena/StrangeOryxPanicBasket
Loved the occasional little jokes as long as they didn't interfere with commentary at all (like when the reverb came back while Truktruk was in the middle of trying to describe something). I think the occasional bouts of caster bias could be categorized under this as well; so long as they're not shouting angrily when something bad happens to their team I don't see a problem with casters making their opinions clear. It's endearing and makes them feel more like people, which in turn makes the stream more fun. Soccer commentators have gone far beyond what I think is acceptable but it fuckin worked for them

2. Quick fixes to the hud when things went wrong. Obviously it'd be better if things didn't go wrong at all but that's incredibly difficult to achieve when everything is by a 3rd party. I remember sometimes during in-season matches the clock would go out of sync due to a pause but the cameraman preferred to let the clock be wrong for a few minutes rather than let the audience see the console while he takes a second to hud_reloadscheme, but here, everything that went wrong got fixed within a few seconds. I was impressed.

There were a few negatives as well, but the main one for me was the quality of the camerawork itself. I think Tino did everything humanly possible for one person to bring us the best viewpoint, but there was still a lot of good moments that were completely missed. Add one or two people onto the camera crew and I don't see why those issues can't be completely fixed. I'm also assuming LAN STV works the same as online STV? If there are several minutes of delay between the actual action and it getting replayed on STV, I don't see why we would ever have to miss a good moment.

All in all the stream quality was really high compared to the last few LANs I've seen. Few delays, excellent interviews, actual analysis (the desk at i58 should have been renamed to the meme desk), and I'm sure the team view during the matches was a positive. Good stuff.

There was a new maps pug group in NA a few months back but they stopped. Tough to get people interested every week, I guess.

giv koth_bagel

I doubt that has a major influence though. I know I ignore everything in the host section unless I'm pretty much out of anything else to do.

I don't really get why there's a problem with Kaidus coaching them in between games. I was definitely put off when he was actively maincalling for them, but just telling them what they did wrong seems totally reasonable.

yay tino

sizzler brings the choices that ive been looking for. give me the RIGHT TO CHOOSE, they offer me much more. by offering traditions, yet changing with the time. choices and selections.. choices and DIRECTIONs.. choices that can CHANGE THE WORLD. SIZZLER

fuck you froyo USA USA USA USA US AUS AYUHG SUASYSAUSA

se7en may not be able to get into the venue at lan because the door says "push" XD

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jt v froyo hype

i just realized that the bug which broke the game clock during pauses appears to be fixed. idk who did that or how late i am but god damn thank you

i need a montage of truktruk saying "edging off"