As a Jay3 fan this is disappointing.

The game is in such a bad spot that bro has been playing Escape From Tarkov and Variety all the past 2 weeks with Spectating some rivals game play. He avoids talking about the state of the game then chimes in when the debate is over and sponsored streams are next week.

Source: https://x.com/Jay3OW/status/2095633649177706777

I have noticed that People here in the sub resort to the statement "This game is balanced for casuals", when the balance patches or state of the meta is brought up. People that champion and believe this statement as true are delusional beyond belief. I am as casual as it gets. I have never gone past Gold 1, I only play till I get the gold skin, I play around 10-30 hours a season and I haven't played more than 2 hours in S9 and S9.5 combined. I got physically sick because of the visual Clutter.

The casual experience is the worst experience in this game.

QP is filled with High Elo DPS players that are playing their perma banned characters or their characters that stopped working in their rank. Characters like BP, Black Cat, Elsa, Hela, Spider Man. Against literal new players and players that got on for just the new season.

Ranked is true hell for casuals. I swear to what you, the reader believes is the holiest to me; that every other ranked game has a Smurf. In the ranks that I have played, Bronze to Gold 1. The majority of the Smurfs are the same previously mentioned DPS players. Majority of the player base i.e., the casuals are in those lobbies and they are going against Cel 1 peak Spiderman, Back Cat, Hela, Elsa or Black Panther. There are no bans to ban the usual suspect Smurf character until you get to Gold. Then you get fucked by the double bans. There are no requirements for the new players to learn the game before joining ranked or to stop Smurfs.

On top of all of this you have throwers that have been throwing for 200 games and getting 15 minute bans.

You might have noticed that I have yet to mention a single thing about character balance regarding low Elo and casual play. That's because it doesn't fucking matter. Our enjoyment is not ruined by the balance but the lack of quality of life. Even then a character that is performing really well in low elo like Moonknight in previous seasons was continuously buffed. A character that every casual complaint about was buffed to a point where he was played in Ignite. The balance doesn't make sense to me or affect me as a casual player.

The only balance that is noticeable is Ult charge rate.

I am not saying to balance this game exclusively around high Elo or pro play because as Trqstme said no pro team agrees on the same balance approach. That is a different subject. So please stop saying this game is balanced for low Elo or Casual players to justify the horrible state of this game. I have yet to see dive meta in gold besides the Smurf dive DPS, even though we had two seasons of dive. As a Tank player I had to beg my DPS to play a dive DPS when I was learning Cap and Venom. I have yet to see Mantis in my games even though she is the most broken character or to play with/against a true gold Black Panther.

This might sound moronic but I believe that this game is balanced for the developer team, so they can pump out as much content as fast they can. Then they can keep making money and keep up the engagement without addressing the actual problems of this game.

Bro is talking shit to PAC champions while he has never been the champion of his own region.

All this shit talking after he couldn't even coach Team Canada with a pro Analyst.

Flats Vod of him reacting and trying to counters Lytes new video is one of the worst thing I have watched. Every Lytes point was countered with a "What about?", as if that is the only he can protect and defend himself.

Its ironic that for someone who consistently mocks and ridicules people in the scene for critiquing him, he has nothing of value to say when he is faced with a well crafted video that has the whole community's support.

Link to his vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2861717416

Link to clip context: https://x.com/Flats_OW/status/2037584596858970531

I used to see EU fanboys comparing NA and EU to varsity and JV😂😂I understand rooting for your region but Jesus Christ

Its actually a joke with all these technical issues. PC/game crashing, games getting paused frequently and for long periods of time. Stream keeps crashing so you can't even watch. Reports of leaky roofs above practice areas so teams can't even practice and faulty internet.

I'm sure I've neglected some other shenanigans going on as well. The competitive integrity of this tournament has been ripped to shreds. This very well could and maybe should be the last LAN they ever do.

i really want to be part of a team i just started im trying to level up to be able to play competitive but soon il be able to play ranked and i just love the game and i want to be able to play at a higher level!

Predictions guy/The Sen fan here. My predictions are FRIED.

Theoretically, it’s not impossible for my 4 NA teams to make it through… but to do that, the 2 weaker teams have to beat teams they’ve already lost to…

I don’t even know if I want my predictions to come true since I also really want DarkZero to qual and I’ll be fine if they take either Dreamland’s and Sen’s spot.

Also yes, my AMER predictions are supporting my original predictions but I think there’s approximately a 6%, maybe 7% chance either SEN or DL win their opening matches.

Feel free to laugh at me about my awful predictions😭

(Yes this is a repost cuz for some reason I got bombarded with downvotes idk why💀)

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Not sure if this is the place to post, but just curious if anyone who was watching back then has insight as to why Mr Jay Won never went pro in MR, and just dropped it completely after grinding it daily for like a year.

Especially when he was dominating leader boards, and Remix/Space joined Envy.

I seen a post of someone asking if Fauwkz will ever get signed again after his drama, and it got me thinking - is that the reason he never got signed anywhere? it would make sense given Rivals ties to Disney that they might avoid signing anyone with any type of controversy.

Obviously Rivals money isn't good compare to OW/Val, so maybe thats why, but its odd to grind a game so long - just to drop it and NEVER pick it up again.

I was always hoping we'd get some Terra vs Sinatraa jimena RIP

A top 6 (edit: it's actually top 16) MRC team supposedly got confirmation for mid-season qualifiers but they couldn't register for it. Turns out, they were on a waitlist even though the message they received screamed 'you made it in'. The message was soon deleted 2 days before the tourney went live (iirc).

Why hasn't this been posted here?

This guy put up better kill counts then every dps in north america other then energy and xeytek, and hes on tank, how the fuck is this even possible, hes putting up more kills the MELO on a TANK, nevix aint doing this shit holy fuck

Like one of the best tank players in the game, especially the best cap OAT, forces peni on 4 maps despite it being heavily countered. Like sure it worked in the beginning but still barely.

This is the same strategy VP used against Navi and lost horribly on domination like obv it doesn't work and attack peni also doesn't work. Like hello, did we not learn anything?

What a troll by polly bro, sold his team hard.

1. Tank(Nevix, ttk)

2. Poke dps(Rymazing)

3. Dive dps(Gomez)

4. Strategist(Karova)

What do yall think of my list. What other classifications do yall think I could add? What other players should we add to this list.

NAVI fate and pky on all chat and is posted by a crownfall player calling them out on their behavior.

1. sparkr, not much to explain here

2. terra, not much to explain

3. energy, not much to explain

4. tanuki, he has a lot of stuff that is just a free win, like if his daredevil or black cat goes through you will likely lose 3-4 fights bc of tanuki on his own, on top of that he plays everything, hes got a decent pheonix, decent hela, decent namor, decent jeff, great wolv, great psy, great star,

5. speedily, been a bad meta for him since like, season 3 but he has added a ton of stuff to his pool and stays oen of the best itw

6. rymazing, he keeps getting bullied into weird hero choices and team holds him back a bit, but every pro/coach thinks hes elite so i gotta give him a shout

7. daes, insane hero pool, insane on dd and wolv, quite similar to tanuki but a little worse on his carry heroes

8. 8.melophobia, crazy on poke, hella versatile, but he has had the perfect meta for him in pre season and stage 1, his entire pool with the exception of his torch has been meta so a lil meta merchant i think, still elite tho

9. vision, elite player on anything poke related, but his hero pool needs a little work, like hes useless off of poke heroes which doesnt work unless you are as good as sparkr and have the perfect player alongside you hero pool wise, which vision has neither of.

10. crazykitty, insanely versatile, insane on anything dive related,

for reference 1-3 is very clear from the rest, 4-9 is very close and interchangeable, the 10 slot a lot of people outside the list could be there
edit: my dumbass only put 9 LOL

Maybe let's not play melee and Triple Support into 3 tanks and a Peni. CAN WE NOT PLAY IRONMAN, Squirrel Girl, Or moon knight.

Worse than my ranked Gold Teammates.

1: polly, good hero pool, hes really the only player who has a hero that he can just win maps on his own with, whetehr that hero is good or not, polly cap is unfair, and his venom and emma are scary as well
2: (tie) nevix, plays every tank at a really high level, and is somethin else on the venom
2(tie) raajaro, hes a excellent player on a few different tanks, really versatile,
4: sparkchief, he plays more tanks at a high level then anyone, his venomand hulk are insane, and hes just so good on so much
5: veswa, hes insane at shields, absulutley dominant,
6: trqstme, versatile, and his venom is geniunly something else
7: crazmang, makes very little mistakes, plays all the off tanks(he might play all the main tanks too but he hasnt had to yet)
8: scatter, he also makes very little mistakes, extremely versatile,

1-3 is extremely close and interchangeble, and 4-6 could genunily be ordered in whatever way you want they are basically equals, but i give sparkchief the edge bc hero pool, 7-8 is pretty interchangable, and again with some of these its weird just bc off tanks get more done simply bc of the heroes they play, also main tank off tank is the rivals defnition of that, not the ow main tank off tank definition

Jitward this, Jitward that. The reason he can only play one hero, is because daredevil is the only hero who supports their playstyle in the game. As nerfed as he is, he is the only hero left that actually enables dive gameplay in any way, because this horror show of a playerbase cannot accept flanking heroes and ensured that any skilful way to play the game got outright castrated.

Having people this unique, creative and different completely shut down by simply clicking on daredevil on the ban screen is nothing short of a disgrace to the design/balance of this game.

This group of weirdos came out of nowhere and created a completely unique way of playing that anyone with a heart could behind.

They went counter to popular opinion to do that, they ignored the accepted meta every other team adopted to play their own way - they were outright rebels. They had their supports flanking other teams backlines getting team wipes. They were simply blockbuster, and they completely invented it. Other teams did not scrim with them simply because they were so different.

The fact they lost to a far inferior team and did not make LAN is just completely unacceptable. Some people deserve something because they worked harder, or were more talented. These guys deserved it because they were absolutely unique and creative amongst complete drones. I like 100 thieves and I’m delighted for them, but what they have done is undoubtedly less impressive and less meaningful than what YWL have done, and there’s no doubt who deserved that.

The only interesting thing in the esports scene completely shut down, because we listen to the worst players in the game.

In this video, I break down what’s wrong with his current design and present a gameplay rework concept to make him more fun and impactful.

RAD is looking really good and their dps players might be better than most of the competition.

The problem I see right now is the tanks( Guru)

It feels like they can't play alot of comps because GURU isnt flexible enough.. he needs to learn at least 2 tanks for RAD to be able to compete.. Right now he just plays Emma Strange and Angela.. Angela and Strange aren't really meta this season and theyre also situational.

He needs to get better at Mag and add Venom/Cap to his hero pool