On July 29 2015 09:00 amazingxkcd wrote:
So uh Nihilum dropped their roster (or the team left) and LG dropped the current roster to pick up ex-Keyd Stars.
https://twitter.com/LuminosityGG/status/626174718203314177

So uh well then

wait they just got dw and now they drop the roster? But why? Isn't the ex LG pretty much stronger than ex Keyd currently

illsick

United States1770 Posts

July 29 2015 02:07 GMT

#19043

DW is not good and LeX is a weak player and ex Keyd is going to cologne.

ex LG without an organization will be an issue with two foreign players, rip?

Faruko

Chile34173 Posts

July 29 2015 14:28 GMT

#19044

I really really want to see new nV :/

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

August 02 2015 10:38 GMT

#19045

God im so shit at this game. Sometimes i wish i could just play one game at Nova level or something to see how much ive actually improved since then because all i do is cuss myself out for being so bad playing vs SMFC / globals.

And i swear to god something fishy is going on with my game recently. Ive become the assist king, getting 8-10+ assists each game, if i could find a way to translate those into kills everything would be fine and dandy. Im not even sure if its my aim at this point because ive grown so paranoid that something is screwing up in the background.

Nimix

France1809 Posts

August 02 2015 11:42 GMT

#19046

Lack of confidence can go a long way, when you're having bad games you don't go for the head anymore and get lots of assists. Same goes if you get out aimed, you won't have the time to get the kill you'd usually get against someone closer to your level. Just practice being better at peeking and placement, and also try and have better crosshair placement and general aim. It'll come with practice and time!

waffelz

Germany711 Posts

August 02 2015 15:23 GMT

#19047

My new hobby for this semester-break: accepting friend requests of people that I wrecked in DM/casual that add me to show of their rank to me/see mine. If they are global/something along those lines, I keep them for a while and occacionally check on their games. If they dont play much competitive but rather just have the game open a lot/play casual/DM then things start to get interesting. Just found another one who seems to always queue up with friends on lower ranked smurfs when playing competitive and always gets his ass kicked.
Todays gem: a global elite with his LEM-friends just got wrecked by a stack consisting of 1 supreme, 3 LE and 1 silver-something(most likely a smurf but anyways). His final score was 13:28, with almost all of his kills coming from eco-bashs. For some reason, it highly entertains me seeing them failing and afterwards reminding them that they forgot to delete me from their list :D

Nimix

France1809 Posts

August 02 2015 18:19 GMT

#19048

They're just boosted people, I played a global dude on my LEM smurf the other day and he was awful, terrible SMFC players are also pretty common. Pretty sure they just get carried there and stop playing after a while, so that they can show off they pretend rank to their friends.

waffelz

Germany711 Posts

August 03 2015 12:18 GMT

#19049

I know. Thats why I enjoy watching them, especially if they try to pull reasons afterwards. Almost as funny as those "help, I got vacbanned but I NEVER cheated on my account"-threads.

GTR

51678 Posts

August 04 2015 03:45 GMT

#19050

so guys tsm 6th best team in the world yeah

iXphobos

Germany1465 Posts

August 04 2015 06:31 GMT

#19051

On August 04 2015 12:45 GTR wrote:
so guys tsm 6th best team in the world yeah

TSM definitely 1st best team in the world atm

Ragnarork

France9034 Posts

August 04 2015 08:11 GMT

#19052

On August 04 2015 12:45 GTR wrote:
so guys tsm 6th best team in the world yeah

That ESL ranking is pretty solid right?

Roggay

Switzerland6320 Posts

August 04 2015 10:06 GMT

#19053

To be honest, it does not even surprise me at all coming from ESL. They seem to make bad decisions again and again.

Sableyeah

Netherlands2119 Posts

August 04 2015 11:03 GMT

#19054

They bombed out APM :p Legit to me, they lost hard to a team who failed to qualify for ESL and a crazy Bulgarian frag team.

But then again, I wouldn't place NIP any where near top 6. I am a huge NIP fan. I am going to Cologne this month so I really hope they get to the finals again but it's gonna need miracles above miracles. Navi or Cloud9 reaching finals would be cool. Hmm maybe Mouz.

Roggay

Switzerland6320 Posts

August 04 2015 15:00 GMT

#19055

So, apparently, ESL are looking to extend their Dubai tournament to 8 teams, because they received so much criticism by not inviting TSM based off of their terrible ranking.

GTR

51678 Posts

August 04 2015 15:10 GMT

#19056

I wouldn't mind seeing TSM and Titan added.
There's a ridiculous 800 point gap between Titan and 9th placed CLG which would justify cutting at 8, but at this stage I don't think we should take these rankings seriously.

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

August 04 2015 15:16 GMT

#19057

the esl rankings are rubbish. They gave TSM's points to the new dignitas because TSM changed orgs, amongst other things

Nagisama

Canada4481 Posts

August 04 2015 15:34 GMT

#19058

I don't think it would've caused as much backlash if ESL didn't say it was based on some arbitrary ranking or whatever, and just invited the teams they wanted to. But then they went like "according to our rankings, TSM didn't make the cut"...

REDBLUEGREEN

Germany1904 Posts

August 04 2015 18:43 GMT

#19059

I always have been someone who constantly smurfed/changed his name and I also love different languages and alphabets so the last months I have played under a couple different names suggesting different nationalities.

The responses and racism you encounter is pretty funny and sad at the same time

Spanish name: no racism or bad remarks; some people enthusiastically spoke the 3 spanish sentences they remembered with a heavy accent
Russian name: well as expected constant racism; once I was in the middle of ukrainian-russian flame war and people were confused as fuck when I mentioned that I am german; some russians didn't comprehend that I am not fluent in russian even though I had a russian name and got mad when I didn't understand their calls
Greek name: A lot of people mistook it for russian, some recognized the lambda in the name; 2 times I got stereotypical and political remarks from germans
Persian name: First of all: Good job valve! Arab script is written from right to left and somehow your name is displayed backwards in CSGO so you need to enter it backwards in steam to have it correctly in CSGO. Everyone assumed I am arab (except 1 guy who thought it was turkish) because my name is in arab script. Pretty funny if you imagine everyone would assume you are Roman/Latin because your name is in latin script. Surprisingly no racism, just some people yelling allahu akbar when I plant the bomb.

Gonna go for hebrew next. I would expect bad stuff but I think the majority will sadly not recognize the script.