I have no idea what my numbers are in the American index / scale / whatever, but imagine the worst possible eyesight you can, now double that. That's my vision.

We need a few more teams for Open..

Agreed with Alder on karova's group. They seemed fairly strong when I rang for them and will definitely be at the top this next season.

Who'd they pickup? Haven't seen much out of them from Sizzling lately but haven't checked logs.

Borrowing trip's list from the S19 thread.

1. hawaii beach vacation
2. Dino Riders
3. MAD LUX GOLD
4. Subspace Emissaries
5. Pizzagon eSports
6. MAD LUX BLUE
7. Satan Take the Wheel
8. Wu Tang Club
9. Muffin Men
10. I AM NOT BILLUSTER
11. Cloud 9
12. SYOPS TF2
13. Mumble Robots
14. Night Owls
15. Pinoy Boys roster
16. Animus roster
17. Aluminum Croissant (???)
18. Seendio roster (???)

If there's a good KOTH map out there, replace Metalworks / Sunshine for 6 CP / 2 KOTH.
If there's a good 5CP map out there, replace Viaduct for 8 CP.

SpaceCadet is one of the best all-around-package of a Soldier / teammate you will ever find in this game. His age belies his heart, which is young: he wants nothing more than to compete at high levels and have teammates that feel the same way. He has a good eye on various problems that may surface within a team, no doubt a testament to his experience. Performance-wise, he is extremely consistent. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen a poor game out of him (but don't we all have those days?) and not enough hands the number of times he's salvaged a beefed push with a Medic frag or spree. Despite that. Space is always working on ways to improve, whether through honing his DM, or talking to his Pocket / Scout teammates on how to better position himself and go for plays / support. As a veteran, Space truly cares about the team aspect of the game, and I wish that more younger players could adopt that mentality. When in Mumble, Space brings laughter out-game and collectiveness in-game to the table. Like he said: no drama, no toxicity, no bullshit. He might curse himself out when he underperforms or messes up a play, sure, but he never lets anything get inside his head. Ever. If he's playing poorly, all he does is hype himself up and attempt to reverse that around, and will enforce his teammates' heads out of the gutter when they feel down as well.

If I was building a team for next season, I would want this beautiful man on my team. Hands down one of the best PEOPLE and TEAMMATES I have ever played with, and I'm glad I got to spend 1.5 seasons with you, SpaceCadet. I wish you nothing but the best of luck, and keep on going.

Did I mention he has a hot wife?

Fragged by Ryugawa returns.

Shiki, Shiki, Shiki. When I first met him and karova in prospects of forming a team together I didn't really know what I was getting myself into but man. Shiki's dedication is off the charts, and he will be spending hours upon hours to improve his already solid aim. On top of that, he is always pushing himself to not only experiment new plays but pushes others to be at the very best they can be with critiques, reviews, and the like. I've given / watched Shiki take monstrous ubers and put on strong performances this season, and it's a damn shame he didn't get his chance to play in playoffs but shit happens (hope you get better Internet back home). I felt that on Blanc he never had his moment to truly shine or standout but that was due to the haphazard Mumble coordination we had throughout the season between trying to have a Pocket or Demo maincall. I have no doubt that if on a team with a veteran caller (or if he himself rises to the challenge) he could (read: will) be an extremely dangerous Soldier in IM next season.

Also loves his salad (excellent) and anime (questionable).

Good luck, Shiki.

Hello all. Blanc Esports is unfortunately finished and I'm no longer interested in leading or rebuilding the team, especially with registration coming so soon and having no concrete information regarding promotion(s). I'm looking to click on some teammates as they click on some enemies. I want to be part of a stable team that can handle both criticism and losing in stride, because that's how you improve as players and as a team. I don't mind if you're passive or aggressive, I'm just interested in being in a Mumble with 5 other enjoyable people who care about learning, reviewing, and improving. My schedule is a little all over the place for this week and next, but I'm always messaging people / teammates as soon as I know what's happening.

Relevant Team History: S13-S15 Chilling in North Korea, S18 Blanc Esports

Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Terywj/
ESEA: http://play.esea.net/users/492086

Thanks.

This team was one of the new teams last season that surprised me early on in the preseason. Keeping a core member of players will certainly make them stronger in S19. Good luck!

S H O U N I C B O Y S

I've only heard good things from karova about his buddies over here. CyanSnow is a solid Scout and Dat_Indubitably impressed with his Medic play last season. Good luck boys.

Good to see more returning teams. Best of luck in your search.

There are 13 surviving IM rosters. A few of these teams / rosters will get promoted into Invite, and a few more are speculated to be dead or dying (Meat Market, Champagne and Cocaine, etc.) There were only 5 teams in Open that won a playoff BO3 (forfeits exclude you from the list). If they promote all the non-dead playoff rosters that would be an automatic 12, ignoring the few that may die (bound to happen). We should at least be able to have an IM with 16 teams.

Hopefully we get promotion info soon so we have a better picture of IM.

Will always utilize the fattest advantages.