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Join Date:Posts: 13476
The final was insane, probably the best series I've ever seen (only seen 1 or 2 others that have come close).Faze beat Optic in 2 best of 5s to take the Championship.I'll throw up some videos when they come online, it's absolutely well worth watching.
The big story of the night for me though is how well Aches played for Faze with his atrocious injury. He put his hand through some glass the night before the final day, here's his hand after coming out of hospital
And after the final:
So Faze taking the championship means that Aches is now the single most prolific COD player of all time with 19 tournament wins, having now passed Teepee on 18. Right now, it's basically undeniable that Aches is the single best player out there. Censor has also risen hugely in everyone's estimation, it was kind of a running joke that Censor had no thumbs, but he was possibly Faze's best player this weekend, certainly more consistent than Apathy or Slasher. Slasher was a very late pick-up by Faze, after Aches basically insisted that Neslo be dropped shortly after they picked him up. Turned out to be a great decision on Aches's part.
As for Optic, second place is not what they hoped for but it's a decent start. I couldn't pick out any one player who did badly for the team, some have their doubts about Formal but I would think it's unfair. The team is currently Nadeshot, Formal, Crimsix and Scump. Basically 3 out and out slayers and one objective. If Formal didn't try to fill-in as an objective, the team would be woefully unbalanced. It's not something he's a natural at yet, but it'll come to him over the course of this game I expect.
Outside of the final, Envy's performance must be somewhat of a disappointment. They finished 5th overall, being 3-0'd by both Optic Gaming and Team Kaliber (who finished 4th) on Sunday. Although it's not a bad result, it doesn't live up to their early promise that they showed in the first couple of weeks in this game. Prophecy (The EU org. with NA players) had a fantastic run, for a team put together at such short notice. They could well be described as the 'leftovers' from all the roster changes, with Ricky, Parasite, Legal and Fears filling their team. Interesting that every one of these dropped players out-placed the team they were dropped from.
Finally, my own personal 'I knew that would happen' moment - Moho's Team Fear achieved nothing of note, despite picking up Neslo and Dedo. They only played one match on-stream (vs. Elevate), in which Neslo carried the team. Moho did not look nearly good enough to be playing in the league this year, although I feel bad for how far Dedo has fallen in the space of a month. He's gone from winning the E-Sports World Cup in France with Evil Geniuses, to dropping out of MLG Columbus in the 2nd round of the Losers Bracket.
The next LAN is I believe UMG Orlando, just around New Year's.
MLG league starts I *think* on the 8th of this month, and the teams taking part will be -
Optic Gaming: Nadeshot, Scump, Crimsix, Formal
EnVyUs: Clayster, Merk, Jkap, Nameless
Denial: Zooma, Saints, Replays, Attach
Optic Nation: Proofy, Karma, Mboze, Teepee
Justus: Enable, Mochila, Classic, Slacked
Team Kaliber: Sharp, Loony, Goonjar, Theory
Faze: Censor, Aches, Apathy, Slasher
Prophecy: Parasite, Ricky, Fears, Legal
Noble Pro: Killa, Study, MiRx, Spacely
Rise: Diabolic, Pacman, Chino, Whea7s
Aware: Sender, Happy, Accuracy, Lawless
Automatic Reload: Burnsoff, Miyagi, FeLony, Blfire0 -
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Only really follow it when I notice somebody I used to play with is playing so didn't watch it this weekend, how did it look though? Ghosts was basically unwatchable but Bops 2 was very entertaining, thoughts on this?
It's the fastest paced COD so far, and there's even more kills than Blops 2. 40 kills is pretty standard, 50's are impressive and 60's are possible too.
Hardpoint is terrific, it works extremely well with the boost jumping. What's interesting is that you really can't just L-trigger a doorway/hall anymore. Everybody boost jumps around corners and if you're trying to pre-aim without moving, you're dead. In competitive, it can either be great viewing or pretty crappy. It was great in the OG - Faze series, it was terrible in the ON - Prophecy series. Proph got a tonne of flukey caps on the first side, it wasn't competitive. Time will tell.
Uplink takes a lot of getting used to, but it's grown on a lot of people this weekend. There's a lot of talk about nerfing the passing element, but what I really want nerfed is how much extra health the person holding the ball gets. They practically become juggernauts. Also, the maps need to paired down, Comeback has to go really. After the next patch it'll probably be fine.
If I had to get rid of one game type, it would probably be CtF. It's hard to reconcile the slow, methodical nature of the gametype with the fast movement of gunfights. At the very least, the Ascend map should go.
SnD kind of has the same problem as CtF, but it's getting better as time goes on. It was hard to watch when the game first dropped, but the players are learning where to break cover and how to flank and such, it's getting better. I think the snipers really need a buff, that's all.
Overall I'm loving watching it (you can probably tell
), can't wait to see more tournaments. If Columbus was anything to go by, it'll be even better than Blops. MLG's production values are always on the up too, Rambo and Mr. X are excellent additions to the analysis and commentary teams. Pity about Benson though. The only long wait of note was during the finals when the hotel got DDos'd, but that was only 45 minutes, and after that they didn't do any adverts. I believe viewer numbers peaked during the finals at 205,000, not sure if that's a record or not but it's very good numbers for COD. Not quite as good as CS:GO (>400k) but it's promising. 0 -
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Anybody ever been to or is thinking of going to Gfinity? I'm 99% sure I'll make the trip. There's a few pros I'd really love to meet, and I'd like to meet some other fans too. Never actually been to London before though
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it's not all roses, I'm sweating my balls off 
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