Ovedius

So you decided to listen to a tiny part of what was a 6 hour VOD review, decided that you didn't agree with 2 things that I said and are now using this as evidence to say I don't know what I'm talking about.

1. For the most part, you are right. Calling it a mistake was probably the wrong choice of words and execution could have been better. I still, however, believe going for the baron was the safer and better play. They already had all of the vision set up and given G2 were starved of vision, they would have been forced into an extremely unfavourable fight. Instead, they chose a path that gave G2 the best opportunity to come back into the game because they could attack from the flank. At the end of the day, this is why I call it a mistake, but as I mentioned maybe that was the wrong word, it's pretty open to interpretation.

2. I'm extremely confident he was planning on flashing the ult, however neither you or I can say for sure. I thought the flash was ...

Decided to post game 3 first as I felt this was the game most fans were interested in being reviewed. One mistake from Fnatic led to another and G2 could mount the comeback. Pretty great game imo!

Analysis shouldn't be based on results, it should be performance. The way G2 currently play is unlike any other team in the world. The thing people need to appreciate is they've gotten better since MSI. They're more efficient with their time, they don't skip steps when setting up for objectives and they know how to use a lead very well. They have their own weaknesses but I don't think they're so severe that they are easy to punish.

hahahahahaha what a legend

FeelsBadMan

I've cast 4 EU finals and the MSI final. Only 1 of them went 3-1. Every other final was a 3-0. I'm not optimistic xD

Funnily enough every semi-final or third place match I've cast usually goes to 4 or 5 games, more often than not being 5 xD

If you're talking about the Fnatic series, I'm convinced it was game 4 or 5 of their best of five. Because I remember staying up late to watch the whole series. I'm super convinced it was the bo5.

No haha, he apologised like a day later because he realized how harsh he was, but it was valuable feedback and whenever you see something new in draft, know that because of this story I will always talk about it!

I think he's definitely gotten softer over the years. Having the always happy and wonderful wife that he does, it doesn't surprise me that some of it rubbed off on him eventually ;)

Thank you!! Messages like this mean so much to us! Thank you again and again :)))

It's about damn time imo

Thank you so much for watching! I appreciate it a lot

Sometimes a different path calls to me. One cannot always rely on the path of Darkness my friend.

We can make it happen.

Honestly, a lot of it just comes from studying soloq picks. We watch pros streams, we check their soloq accounts and we make educated guesses.

Sometimes pros will share some secret picks with us, to give us more time to prep for them incase they show up, however we try to avoid talking about them in any capacity unless there is a way for the public to see it or the champ has already been played somewhere.

The world isn't ready. Yet.

Sure, so there are two points here.

1. The sentiment I garnered form my own social media was that fans believed SKT were back in peak form and were on track to win the whole tournament. After watching their play, I strongly disagreed with this sentiment, which is why I used strong language. I've come to now realize that sentiment is not widely spread among all fans, therefore it comes across as me calling them a weak team, which I ultimately don't think they are.

2. However, I do think they have mid game issues which occur in many of their games. Namely, their reluctance to play on the offensive when in a gold advantage, they often skip steps in their set ups for objectives and they have a strange obsession with contesting every baron. These were mistakes that Damwon even recently punished. In week 10, Damwon 2-0d SKT because of a number of things that I mentioned above, and even agaisnt Sandbox we saw similar issues, yet Sandbox seemed to just collapse i...

I will never forget the day Trevor yelled at me about Urgot.

It was my first split at the EULCS. I was casting a game with Pira. Urgot top lane was locked in. Coming into the cast, however, I had a goal with Pira that I wanted to focus on mid lane and how the matchup dynamics worked. As a result, we tunneled super hard on the mid matchup and barely talked about the Urgot matchup. This frustrated Trevor because he believed that anytime there's something new and exciting, that should always be the primary talking point because it's what the fans wanted to hear. After the cast, he was very frustrated, even more so that I knew he was going to get a kill at level 2 and didn't set it up.

It was the most disappointed he's ever been in me.

The problem with the word exploited is it makes it sound like they're a garbage team. I used it because the impressions I got when I tweeted that Damwon should 3-1 SKT was that fans believed SKT was back to being the best in the world. A lot of other fans seem to feel this is not the case.

Aside from that, I believe their mid game issues are obvious enough that they can be exploited. Namely, their reluctance to play on the offensive when having a gold advantage, often skipping steps in their objective set ups and a strange obsession with contesting every drake. These are all things that I think will hinder them from winning worlds if they continue to play like this. Top EU and LPL teams can and will exploit this in my opinion. That's not to say I believe they are a terrible team. I still believe that their early game is very strong, the Clid/Faker duo seem to be performing at a high level and Teddy is once again popping off.

If they do refuse to scrim other teams, ...

At worlds in 2018, I was in a room with a number of casters, and we were talking about prep. Somewhat out of nowhere, Deficio said that he thought I was the hardest working colour caster at the event and had done a great job. It's hard to describe how much that meant to me, but I genuinely felt like I'd only go up from there.