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xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

A TURGID FATSO posted:

Cruise looks dope as gently caress. It might be the new Agency. Empire reminds me of de_facade, which I liked a lot, although maybe not as close quarters. Tulip looks like a COD map, but I could see it being fun. Coast... eh, I'm not so sure about this one, but we'll see. Royal looks like you could stick it in DoD and it wouldn't look out of place, which could be a good thing.

I don't like cruise so much after running around in it. A lot of the big open areas are closed off by invisible walls and fences, so you can only run down a ~15 foot path down the middle.

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xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Rosh posted:

Now if C9 can win we'll be able to watch 4 NA teams go out in groups at the NA Major. A full quarter of the field!

Edit: Although I think they said Renegades actually lives in NA now, so extra :lol:.

Their org has been putting them up in a hotel in Vegas with a dedicated practice room for something like 9 months now.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

real dilemma posted:

VP really blows right now, vamo tempo storm

brasil is king

Byali is 1-14 at the half.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

real dilemma posted:

jesus christ their discipline is so beautiful

Watching LG retake the B site on overpass is a thing of beauty.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Despera posted:

holeeee poo poo

I was going to say something about LG overcoming fnatic's individual skill with teamwork, but then FNX had to go and do that.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011


Doing the coop Phoenix compound ones on hard mode is pretty fun. The problem is doing all the trash missions to unlock then.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

MF_James posted:

^-- CT smoke is huge, jungle I would say is next important. Also, if you have a molly, hitting either stairs or under palace makes taking the site a lot easier. If you're tunnel you can molly stairs pretty easy by banking it off the wall, and under palace you just toss from tetris, or down the ladder hole if you're palace guy.


I should probably perfect my CT smoke, but I'd also like to learn how to smoke spindles/construction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBFLR3zFeec

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

The Ferret King posted:

What's the orange-ish stick thing on the side of their monitors?

Holds your headphones.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Photex posted:

What a day of setup, I hope everyone enjoys the stage and stuff tomorrow everyone worked their balls off

Headed down to Columbus now. Should be a good time.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

fyallm posted:

A shirt went right over my head =(

This t-shirt cannon is hilariously weak. Barely reaches the concourse level.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

https://imgur.com/Wpg2yXN

Sums up fnatic today. (men's room in the arena)

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Photex posted:

my chest collapsed from the force of the cheers in the stadium i'm posting from beyond the grave. it's pretty hard to sit behind Adren and s1mple and not cheer every AWP shot with everyone.

I'm on to you man. Every team sitting in the red booths has won so far.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Waltchelg posted:

For some reason I went into today trying to believe in CLG. That last series hurt so much.

I'm going to be waking up earlier so I can actually get a solid seat in the middle of everyone tomorrow.

I'm going to try to get a seat in the middle section. Not being able to see the player screens from the sides kind of sucks.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

real dilemma posted:

The crowd seems very anti LG which is surprising to me

Only the vip seating right next to the casters. The other side of the arena is even louder for LG.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Up Circle posted:

who is the favorite for liquid lg? lg?

Whoever sits in the red booths.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Hiko 2-14 on T side cache.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Photex posted:

the line for the pins is hilariously long right now.

There's an mlg guy telling everyone in line to leave because they already counted and only have enough for the first 1000.

Literally wrapped around the entire arena 3-4 wide before that.

xsf421 fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Apr 3, 2016

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Katana Gomai posted:

Purchases were capped at 3 per person in Cologne (which everybody got, of course) and they sold them in 4 batches of 5000 each (Saturday and Sunday, mornings and afternoons) iirc. They didn't check your ticket or anything but I doubt many people stood in line more than once. I'll definitely try to get some again this year, I love those stupid things and selling the keys paid back my tickets several times over.

We got one for free with entry, claimable Friday and Saturday. Sunday they're selling off whatever is left at three per person. Line must have filled within seconds of the doors opening, I got here 3 minutes after and it was already done.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Thorin hasn't let anyone else say a word in this entire veto process.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Bohemian Nights posted:

Seeing the swedish talent on godsent I just can't understand why the gently caress NiP went with fukken Pyth of all people

Apparently Pyth brings excessively good vibes to the team.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Rosh posted:



Had a team that communicated and a much better match this time (although I still can't get the mic on my logi g35 to work in CS:GO). Dropped a 30 bomb, had an ace at the end of our CT side, and ended up at Gold Nova 1. I think the last time I was playing MM regularly last year I was up around DMG or so.

Feel free to join the gold nova goons group, we're all terrible. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/GNFU

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Loving Life Partner posted:

Is there any way to get into a group for silver elite/master level comp games? The steam group seems to be kinda dead and Mumble is empty? Where da goons at?

EDIT:

Can someone with group invite invite me? whatevermj@comcast.net thanks!

http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791452090745/members

Just ask people in the group of they want to play.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Nova group has queued with people down to like silver 3, I think you'll be alright.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

fennesz posted:

It's true up to a point. Occasionally you expect someone who is low to not peek again or to save and when they don't it can really throw you off.

At GN1, if you throw a smoke, someone will rush it with a p90. It's like cause and effect.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

UWBW posted:

My perspective is probably super skewed by playing it in Casual so much. It's a fun map for deathmatch, though, all sorts of fun places to hide.

Competitive cs_Italy is the most t-sided thing in the game. I play office from time to time, but Italy isn't even worth queuing for.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

A TURGID FATSO posted:

Good lord are the casters for ECS bad. Bardolf and DDK have absolutely zero, zero charisma or chemistry. FaceIT really needs to do something and get some better casters, because this is just excruciating to listen to.

They're usually good, it's just that they're the only casters faceit has, so they've been doing matches all day and want to go to bed. They really need to hire some other casters for NA.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

A TURGID FATSO posted:

lol freakazoid still sporting that C9 jersey while getting raped by LG.

C9 still hasn't released him from his contract.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Jeza posted:

Just imagine having bet on Liquid and watching them go to OT with a 12 round lead. Incredible.

And then win the first 3 of OT, and never win another round through OT2.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

sterster posted:

I have now come to understand the power of a molly. I've got a set strat for entering Mirage A site with ct smoked. Molly under porch then work stairs/jungle with flash(s). Got 2 kills in 1 game from the molly. I don't know why but it's just clicked.

Also want to point out that ninja is loving dumb spot. I looked right at it to check it. Stared at it even. Got owned by a guy with a negev who had tucked him self in it and was looking away.

I prefer our strategy of never playing mirage again. (exxon)

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

https://twitter.com/KevinKnocke/status/733095921454473216

Looks like Valve is unhappy with WESA. ESL Cologne losing it's major status.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

:frogsiren: Liquid picked Nuke as map 2 in e-league:frogsiren:

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Flumbooze posted:

I hope they won't gently caress people over with trademark stuff on YouTube (montages and full games). It's nice to be able to watch full games on YouTube whenever you want.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK7CPGf74Fpes6kKLMuAdBg

They're actually uploading them to youtube themselves, along with a lot of the short clips they made.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Jeza posted:

reddit sez: lied on german visa. may get travel ban to schengen area, i.e. most majors.

oops

They're saying he tried to use some shady company to get a 5 year EU visa, and the company forged German employment documents to establish German residency.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

ArfJason posted:

ya, i think the benefits come more from a psychological standpoint, especially how people are used to certain resolutions and changing would throw them off

A lot of people do it because that's what pros do, and clearly if you copy the pro config, it'll make you pro.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

henne posted:

I thought the game had built in spec camera locations for most areas of the map. Also i think places like ELEAGUE could easily afford it and I think the random tv viewers would appreciate it as its closer to how sports are normally viewed. Its hard to appreciate the individual skill in playing the game unless you play, i think high angle 3rd person would make the tactics and coordination more apparent to the random viewer and that would be more easily appreciated.

Eleague does this for some of the more complicated smoke executes, like on mirage or train A site.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Famethrowa posted:

Why does anybody give Thorin money to do anything? I don't know anyone who seems to like him.

13 year olds on reddit absolutely love him.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Photex posted:

gotcha, as much as I love s1mple and his impact plays I would have preferred to see the main line up and how they performed at the major.

Hopefully we'll see them at Columbus next year.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Jeza posted:

Glare/Eye Strain I guess? Is your work sponsoring you to get prescription Gunnars?


Because if so, this is cursed Scandy socialism in action and the sign of the end times.

I can get a free pair of Gunnars every year through my work vision insurance, but like hell am I voluntarily wearing glasses again.

xsf421
Feb 17, 2011


There's been a lot of rumors about them dropping out of esports entirely after they had to sell their league of legends team.

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xsf421
Feb 17, 2011

Photex posted:

never fix nuke.

Echo fox's terrorist pistol round had me laughing so hard. I didn't even realize you could plant for toxic.

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