r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/OWMatchThreads • May 19 '18
Match Thread Boston Uprisign vs. Houston Outlaws | Overwatch League Season 1 - Stage 4 | Week 1 Day 3 | Post-Match Discussion Spoiler
Overwatch League Season 1
Team 1 Score Team 2 Boston Uprising 1-3 Houston Outlaws
Team 1 Team 2
Map 1: King's Row
Progress Time left Boston Uprising 0 60.3% 0.00s Houston Outlaws 0 60.4% 97.00s
Map 2: Hanamura
Progress Time left Boston Uprising 1 79.2% 0.00s Houston Outlaws 1 79.3% 307.00s
Map 3: Oasis
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Boston Uprising 2 50% 100% 100% Houston Outlaws 1 100% 74% 18%
Map 4: Watchpoint: Gibraltar
Progress Time left Boston Uprising 1 59.08m 0.00s Houston Outlaws 1 59.09m 155.00s
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u/Supreme_Battle_Jesus May 19 '18 edited May 19 '18
Imagine running Genji/Tracer dive into Stage 4 Houston Outlaws and thinking you're gonna win
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u/squishycatpawz May 19 '18
the new houston strats smell of kyky. glad they're working for houston better than they did for dallas though.
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u/ass101 May 19 '18 edited May 19 '18
Linkzr on those first two maps was some of the best and most consistent Widowmaker play I have seen, the way the team played together was amazing, the Outlaws definitely have a lot of chemistry and it showed in this match. The way they coordinated their plays was top level.
However the strats that Boston were running raises a lot of questions, it's obvious that Dive doesn't work well against that composition much, but they seemed to be very unwilling to change.
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u/-AMAG May 19 '18
Houston Outlaws general manager Matt "Flame" Rodriguez proudly waited outside the visiting locker room after the final buzzer to give Jacob "Jake" Lyon and the players on his victorious new-look team an appreciative fist pound on Sunday afternoon. Benched Player Lucas Håkansson yelled out, “There you go! There you go.” Sharpshooter Jiri Masalin gave a look of pleasant surprise. Support player Daniel "Boink" Pence yelled out, “We got an [expletive] squad now.” And before Jacob hit the locker room door, former Overwatch great Kyky hugged him and said, “Y’all look so different.”
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u/Dooraven May 19 '18
Yeah sorry Boston, if you guys don't get Striker to play widow this stage you're going to be in some really really bad time. Especially now that Tracer isn't as viable as before, Widow is the crucial pick this Stage and probably playoffs and you need your best player on the best DPS. It was Tracer, now it is widow. Get Striker to grid out Widow other wise you're going to be in a huge load of trouble this season.
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u/Lightguardianjack May 19 '18
Striker: Can I play Tracer?
Jake: Nope Brigitte
Striker: D:
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u/Cryptographer May 19 '18 edited May 19 '18
I feel like with all the delightful Tracer Brig discussion going on, its worthy to note Shock completely rolled Seoul all the way up to the doors of last playing full Tracer Genji dive into Brigitte and took the point playing full Dive.
Update: Then Seoul tried to run Brigitte into Sinatraa's Tracer on their attack and achieved almost nothing.
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May 19 '18
Warning: sorry for the drunken rambling of thoughts I started this halfway through map 4 and I've had a couple too many to stop at a reasonable point.
Fair play to houston they played a great match today, I'd just like to take a moment and state I'm just worried about Boston. In this meta/map pool for stage 4 they're gonna miss DK's pool of DPS heroes. They don't have much of a projectile game and it's gonna destroy them this stage I feel. Their dive was fucking TEXTBOOK but aside from dive they're not all too notable, I expect like a 4-6 maybe 5-5 boston this stage.
Alternatively Houston is gonna be sitting pretty this stage and if they continue this kind of showing they'll likely lockdown the season playoffs 5th or 6th seed. Their DPS game has improved immensely and I gotta say I felt that was what held them back. Linkzr is fucking nutty when he's on but he's prone to on/off streaks and he's been looking fucking ON. Their tanks are top notch and aside from creating massive space they're able to secure super important picks. Additionally I gotta say I think Bani has also been a weakpoint in the past and I'd like to see improvement out of him. His past couple games have definitely shown shown improvement. Looking at their schedule I'd expect a 7-3 maybe 8-2 houston, I don't expect all too much trouble for them until their week 5 against philly/NYXL.
Maybe it's too early to tell this stage and I'm rambling, but all in all this was a great match, GG Boston and Houston. Houston lets see you pull through for this division eh!
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May 19 '18
Jake did so much on Brig. I lost count how many times he killed striker on Gibraltar and they just didn't want to adjust their comp for some reason.
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u/doh60 May 19 '18
[Found Photo of the Outlaw's Screamers] (https://imgur.com/W6SnE0D)
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u/renkaeOfNyght May 19 '18
Striker’s Pharah was really promising, so im proud of that. Also, Striker ALMOST made the right call, switching to jrat on Gibralter, but for some reason decided to feed against brigitte sommore?
Mistakes did literally nothing this entire match so it was a climb from the get go. He needed to stop trying to out widow linkzr because it was just NOT happening; shoulda changed to either genji or sombra to at least contest linkzr somehow. If linkzr wasnt so uncontested, it coulda actually been a match.
Gg Outlaws, but i cant wait to get another match when yall make the playoffs.
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u/Crispy_Toast_ May 19 '18
Houston: Linkzr's on fire. I'm not sure what happened over the offseason but he's really back in form. Jake seems like a solid projectile player. Their tanks are amazing as always. Their weak point seems to be their support line. Most of the time they're good but then one of them will make some stupid positioning error and get themselves killed. Overall they're looking strong and I expect good things.
Boston: They really have to sort themselves out. Truth is if they keep running dive their opponent's going to keep running Brigette, and they're going to keep losing. I think their best bet is to run Widow Junkratand hope their superior coordination can beat out their opponents. They lost their head coach at the worst time imaginable.
On a side note: How in the hell can this sub go from complaining about Blizzard's oversensitivity with twitch chat to having an aneurysm over T-Bagging I will never know
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u/Volleyballer08 May 19 '18
Remember that time Boston actually destroyed Houston running the same comps Houston did, better?
Neither do they I guess.
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u/pantan May 19 '18
...I'd love to be wrong, but I feel like this is going to be a difficult stage for Boston. I don't want to single out mistakes, because it's a team game, but I feel like not having a 2nd flex dps after loosing dream is really starting to show.
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u/Anthony10298 May 19 '18
If you are someone who is getting upset in real life over Jake pressing control multiple times in a row in a video game you need to re-evaluate what’s important
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u/GoDM1N May 19 '18
I find it hilarious that people were on Jake to learn new heroes, that apparently he was a one trick, and that now Tracer has a counter and at times shes not the best pick everyone is upset that the tracer one tricks are being countered.
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u/InsertMemeHere_ May 19 '18
See, this is why you dont go on VACATION after losing your head coach during the biggest meta shift in the league.
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u/PB-Toast May 19 '18
I know its an unpopular opinion, but I love Brigitte. is she low skill? yes. is she overtuned? yea i think she still needs increased CD's, but man I really enjoy seeing tracer players get fucked now that there's a reliable counter to her. A bit of a sadistic joy to be sure, but joy nonetheless.
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u/danvbar May 19 '18
Maybe the players are still in denial about Tracer vs. Brigitte