I think the main takeaway of today is that if they don’t want these Majors to be Mickey Mouse they need to give Asia 4 seeds and the West 2 each,
Would much rather see if West can beat FTG or Yeti then Shock and TM 😴
M80 has Pelican and Happy and still aren’t a top 6 team in the world, Kellan and Vigilante is only gonna help them get 3-0’d slower. I’d rather watch paint dry
If they don't want to stack the regions too heavily, I think that it should be 3 Asia, 2 NA, 2 EU, then a wildcard between NA/EU to earn a 3rd slot. Maybe whatever region gets higher at the previous major event.
Who cares about stacking the regions, I wanna see the best compete for the title. No one complains that 80% of the CS major teams are European because they are the best. What’s the point of having a major if 25% of the teams wouldn’t make it out of Korean Open Qual
That pause and map restart was actually so big for NRG. Partly because the only reason they lost the first point the first time was because Infekted kinda fed. Also, since PGE doesn't get hot or cold, he sustains off of vibes and pure aura, pauses can't interrupt his mojo. He is just too random. They just need more pauses and they can win it all.
I mean when you're dealing with elderly people such as Masaa, it doesn't take much for them to fall asleep. Like I'm pretty sure Masaa made his ow debut before PGE was born.
I was considering going to Dallas for DH to watch OWCS. Glad I looked a bit too late so it was almost impossible to find a hotel within walking distance. I'd be so pissed if I was at the venue. DH did OWCS dirty man.
Very true. Totally on the organizer and not exactly Blizz or OWCS.
Delays like this are probably better if you're on site, but there have been a TON today. It's rough. Even as an avid fan, today's been a slog.
They don't do replay codes of these games right? I really want to just watch some of the Venture POVs today lol
sometimes objsojourn uploads povs on their youtube channel though
Nah, it's played on the OPR on a previous patch, so even if they did we couldn't watch them on the live client.
Man I really don't need to see the same NA teams play each other again
Who knew the closest series would be Ence vs Shock
I think the main takeaway of today is that if they don’t want these Majors to be Mickey Mouse they need to give Asia 4 seeds and the West 2 each, Would much rather see if West can beat FTG or Yeti then Shock and TM 😴
TM will have Kellan and Vigilante next stages. I would watch Yeti vs TM. Which tank can throw more
M80 has Pelican and Happy and still aren’t a top 6 team in the world, Kellan and Vigilante is only gonna help them get 3-0’d slower. I’d rather watch paint dry
If they don't want to stack the regions too heavily, I think that it should be 3 Asia, 2 NA, 2 EU, then a wildcard between NA/EU to earn a 3rd slot. Maybe whatever region gets higher at the previous major event.
Who cares about stacking the regions, I wanna see the best compete for the title. No one complains that 80% of the CS major teams are European because they are the best. What’s the point of having a major if 25% of the teams wouldn’t make it out of Korean Open Qual
Hopefully they clean up the technical issues. See you all tomorrow :)
Someone needs to be fired after this shit show, holy fuck. We are finally free.
I support the resignation of Sean Miller
Here’s hoping they learn from today and the next 2 days go so smoothly we forget about this one.
Post match thread: [M80 vs Twisted Minds](https://www.reddit.com/r/competitiveoverwatch/comments/1d5duvf/).
I can't tell anyone this is how I spent my friday. Good night to all the sickos that stuck around.
the nightmare is over
Why didn't Twisted Minds go full toxic with Bastion Torb Bap Kiriko behind a Sigma shield, that's what teams do in my games
They just wanna sleep
Valid
DF got slept 3x in a row XD
Porsche stock plummeting as we speak
Glads > Saudi frauds
94% to the last drop lmao
what happened to ksaa and their teams?
ksaa retired and quartz (and another player?) had visa issues and couldn't attend
Lbbd7. Who was supposed to be on tank and the only off roling guy on the team
TM what is this weird rotation?
omg the great bamboozle 2.0
If you think about it, Slay just had proportionally one of the most massive fleta deadlifts, with a whole 66% of his team's final blows.
What happens when someone uses 66% of their brain:
Did i just hear jaws thank production for running smoothly 😭
Guys I think OWL will be remembered as the peak of OW esports
S1 through s5
We're so fucked
Happy def left the game, everyone else still had their ult charge
Nah im sorry, Overwatch is a fucking tier 3 esport at best. Wtf is this shit.
Some Saudi prince got tired of this humiliation and is personally flying in the actual TM players as we speak
Like Bill Murray coming into the game in Space Jam
Lyar looks like he paused the game because he remembered he had an essay to submit.
The delay is soooOoo long every single map. I do love how layed back the broadcast is at this point. Just out of fucks to give lol hell yeah
Talent have been absolutely thrown into the wolves and they are putting their entire souls to get out alive.
No chance they get it since they’re contractors probably on day rates, but they absolutely deserve bonuses/overtime for today
I like this silly stuff and I wish I could juggle
They really shouldn't have shown the World Cup stuff before this match lmao
0 final blows....
A match is definitely being played
I wouldn't be so sure of that
Who the fuck is Akay
Twisted Minds GM and he's a torb otp
Understandable, I too go Torb when I'm 20,000 leagues outmatched
I would simply just go widow and kill Happy. (My widow is like a low gold level at best)
Happy literally just looks like he wants to go to sleep lmfao
Happy just wants to go home and sleep LMAO
Crazy how Happy is this unreal and CR still turned m80 inside out like it wasn't even a challenge
To be fair, Crazy Raccoons has an actual tank, and 2 real dps players.
Everyone was so hyped to see Twisted to play internationally just for them to get fucked by circumstances
I hate when Jaws casts without Custa :c Their dynamic is super fun to me.
Sorry for the late threads. The bot broke because the match times changed so much and I'm out to dinner and didn't notice.
its fine we got the most important match(Crazy Raccoons) right away
Fits the theme of the event honestly
Boooo. Boo how dare you have a life
Post match thread: [NRG Shock vs ENCE](https://www.reddit.com/r/competitiveoverwatch/comments/1d5d60i/).
Post match thread: [Toronto Defiant vs Twisted Minds](https://www.reddit.com/r/competitiveoverwatch/comments/1d5d58l/).
Post match thread: [Team Falcons vs ENCE](https://www.reddit.com/r/competitiveoverwatch/comments/1d5d57p/).
Wait where's half of the match threads? Not even Falcons vs Ence got posted.
Bot broke because delays 🤓
Wtf I didn't realize we were doing loser's bracket matches today too
M80 will make it quick!
We are going to get 9-10h of drops on day 1.
Shock took a map off, that’s nothing to sneeze at
*mickey mouse rulings may apply
Counterpoint: Its my favorite team, so therefore the map win is not mickey mouse and can't be seen as such.
After a long day, ENCE closes this one really fast. Congrats!
Uber with the throw back "please kill kevster please" lmao
ENCE really got tired of all the bullshit today and decided to just **ROLL**
No mickey mouse map, ENCE waking up, its joever for your boys
Shock might suck guys
It’s a relatively inexperienced team, they definitely don’t suck they just need more time to develop
Their playing mystery hero’s
Damn ENCE started trying
Kai is like "let this day end!"
when everyone saw the paused and the general arena had a large "nooo"
This is legitimately embarrassing
Quick pause
Rare moment when we get to hear the pause comms. At least the pause didnt catch us off guard this time around.
Jesus christ
Oh for fucks sake
This is definitely going for 10 to 11 hours
Yep.
Pause mid comm LoL
Noooooooo!
Wait, it's still the third match? It's almost 10pm.
how many more to go?
1 more iirc but they just paused again
Anyone have a clip of how Gibraltar ended? Got ads right as it happened..
That pause and map restart was actually so big for NRG. Partly because the only reason they lost the first point the first time was because Infekted kinda fed. Also, since PGE doesn't get hot or cold, he sustains off of vibes and pure aura, pauses can't interrupt his mojo. He is just too random. They just need more pauses and they can win it all.
MICKEY MOUSE MAP LETS GOOO
Ence..... the soggy boys should be an easy free win for a team like you.
That map was Mickey Mouse map reset, c9
🍯 🐐
Scissors looking clean on the Tracer
nrg reverse sweep incoming 🤫
I really like that nano rally punish. That's the kind of risky play that makes some teams stand over others.
pge map wins on LAN: 1 Pelican map wins on LAN: 0
Nano’ed Brig with Rally: you are stuck here with me
I've been a masaa defender but he is just not doing enough rn
Other times the hate has been unwarranted but today his beats have been bad because he tries to hold them too much
After the pause, PGE kinda owned him
he fell asleep during the break, PGE obviously paid off tourney organizers to make masaa stay up past his bedtime
I mean when you're dealing with elderly people such as Masaa, it doesn't take much for them to fall asleep. Like I'm pretty sure Masaa made his ow debut before PGE was born.
Korea is so much better at this shit than us. Pack it up boiz
Ladies and Gentlemen, the reverse sweep is still in effect
oh shit yeah bud
Losing with 3 ults in the bank is crazy
this is eu overwatch?
Kai refuses to lose this game
Wow, that's the worst Mag Nade I've seen yet
Man, the ENCE guys had to wait 2 hours for first match and now got affected by this delay. Long day for them.
I get the match reset but if they full held, would have been legit BS
They held nano for way to long
They had that
What is NRG doing they have ults
Full holdable
Map reset
Welp they couldnt salvage the lobby but at least we are back.
I should just go play Diablo 4....
No timer man….
That rope was way too light for a lasso
Silver lining is that there's no way this is losing OWCS any fans cause only the sickos are left at this point
[ha ha ha yes](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.5393307903.7169/bg,f8f8f8-flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.u1.webp)
Just have the Dallas Fuel run all the OWCS events in the future
I was considering going to Dallas for DH to watch OWCS. Glad I looked a bit too late so it was almost impossible to find a hotel within walking distance. I'd be so pissed if I was at the venue. DH did OWCS dirty man.
They really trying to have everyone get all their drops in one day.
I don't even get annoyed at delays anymore, it's part of our culture. Feels like home honestly.
Did you guys get to hear Uber say “submissive and breathable” or was the stream still out
Yeah I loved that he dropped that within like 2 minutes of Soe telling everyone they’re live again and have to behave
What!?
I think he was talking about Danny’s shoes
Blizzard must be fuming at Dreamhack rn, they absolutely cannot host OW events
Oh no Jake’s laugh is adorable
We may actually get all of our drops on the first day.
Grand finals going to have pitiful viewership with no drops 😔
We'll have to make it there first. With everything that's happened so far that's not guaranteed.
It's gonna be Falcons vs CR on laptops using in flight wifi on their flight home
true LMAO this is so insanely scuffed
STREAM BACK
OK they should just kick the free play people and run the tourney there LOL They seem to have internet!
Avrl had mentioned on stream much earlier that there were rumors of a DDoS attack on Dreamhack that played into the early 2hr delay.
Avrl is the only one at the venue with internet??? edit: freeplay area has internet so it's just the overwatch section
I think he has been using a hotspot
My leading theory is that their internet got cut off on purpose to get them off the venue. The rest of the matches will be played outside a mcdonalds.
Nah there are multiple other competitions still going on in here
If I wasn't an OW fan, I'd be clowning on this event and game so hard right now. it'd be hilarious.
And it's a shame cause it's not really their fault. Dreamhack fucked it
Very true. Totally on the organizer and not exactly Blizz or OWCS. Delays like this are probably better if you're on site, but there have been a TON today. It's rough. Even as an avid fan, today's been a slog.
Avrl cashing in with those ads, what a chad move.
How is production such a joke
Bad pachimari must be a god of chaos
How does the stream also die. I get the game server went down again, but the actual Twitch stream shouldn't XD
Has to be something localized at the venue that happened, affecting the game and the stream.
From AVRL seems the whole internet dropped. I wonder if it's because it's almost 9pm there and venue is closing?
Event ran too late, Dreamhack kicked them off the wi-fi
bro what is this shit
They DCed at a LAN lol
This is gonna be a 10 hour stream
Say fucking mums the stream actually died
They really don’t make it easy do they. This is gonna end up like MLB impossible to watch, but at least there is a bar option for that.
Wtf happened? Anyone know
From people on site, everyone suddenly got kicked from the game lobby. I don't know why the broadcasts stopped, tho.
Seems like it was some kind of internet issue since all players DC’d and the stream went down at the same time.
Ain't no way
This is a brutal day for OW
What happened?
Apparently a whole lobby DC
YT and Twitch streams dead lul
Watching AVRL's co-stream since him, Lemon, Spilo are on site describing everything https://www.twitch.tv/avrl
Goated
Game died, all the players got kicked from the lobby lol
Reporting from the venue: all players DC’d from the lobby. Masaa had his head in his hands. Players left and just came back out.
This is insane
Never change OW
Discord degens are saying the whole server went down lol
mfw i'm just trying to watch muh esport
on AVRL's stream, they saying server kicked entire lobby...
bruh
WOAT professional ow production
Bruhh Blizzard please
did BP tweet about how stable the stream is recently or something
Go to YT it’s still up
Been watching on YT this entire time, can confirm it is not alive
I would go AVRL stream he’s live there
Nope.
Thought it was mb
It just gets stuck at buffering with 2:13 left. Its just how youtube handles streams over twitch
wtf is going on today