First and foremost, I want to congratulate ORNG on some amazingly fun and exciting matches. It was a true pleasure to be playing such amazing players at PAX. I know Tage got the mvp, but i want to point out that ROM did an excellent job at keeping his dps up and kiting when aimed.
Overall, it was by far one of the best experiences I ever had and want to thank Arena Net for creating such an amazing game and hosting a wonderful tournament.
Didnt watch but just saw the result here. Glad oRNG won and really glad as they are all good guys and good players.
Dont forget there are 3/4 other teams in eu at this level. Maybe abjured suffer with no competition.
Also playing necro vs the eu meta isnt viable, and that is probs why they lost. Hard to do nething vs shout warrior/dps guard/thief who arent terrible as a necro unless your team are carrying you.
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Great games. I really enjoyed watching. The comebacks between oRNG and Abjured were nail-biters. Dankening looked really improved since the WTS qualifiers and China had a good showing too.
Huge congrats to oRNG. First 3 games were some really fun games despite them being so frustrating when losing by so few points. We had lost moral as a team by the 4th unfortunately.
Tage 100% deserved the MVP too. He’s not the greatest english speaker but he was super awesome the little he did speak to me. And of course likely the best guardian GW2 has seen.
Anyways, congrats again oRNG!
What a good sport, this Phantaram. That’s how most Americans are, tbh.
thats the exception, not the norm o.O
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OMG the casters, not pointing on ROM stealing chief on forest, not even reacting to tage using shelter to completely negate the nade spam in choke point during the last game, come on ….
Yeah. I think the only reason you don’t see other people pointing this out is most people are used to the bad shoutcasting. I really wish someone stepped up and took it more seriously. It would make this game much more watchable in tournaments.
It’s just so strange how the shoutcasters literally never call out anything that happens in the actual fights. They didn’t say a word while Abjured was getting wiped off-point. Instead, they just call out things that everyone can see on the minimap or health bars, which don’t need to be clarified for viewers.
A lot of this has to do with the way Anet’s protocol works. They can’t just talk about anything.
We all know how much goes on in TPvP. They have to keep it generic and simple for those who either never played the game, or is new to it like most PvE players. People may not know about class specific skills too.
When there were big plays, we felt that through the shoutcasters. I thought they did a great job.
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big love to all the participating teams. i really enjoyed every minute of this tournament. especially seeing heaven and earth losing after the great first round against the dankening made me kinda sad, but then again dank were a worthy opponent for all the other teams. except abjured maybe, since they apparently know them too well. all the teams showed nearly flawless gameplay, from focus res to precise cleaves, it was all very picturesque.
gg and a big thank you to all the teams that participated in this tournament and the qualifiers for keeping up gw2 pvp and giving us spectators a really awesome time!
that svanir steal tho.... i nearly ripped off the armrests of my chair........
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Wow. Quite surprising that the Abjured dropped every single game vs oRNG. I don’t think anyone was expecting that, I personally thought it would be the opposite. I think Abjured needs to be less overconfident and really look into their rotations and teamfights. I think Phantaram especially needs to focus on being more in the teamfights and supporting DPS instead of being 1v1 hero, and Nos just needs to position better. I think the way that Abjured plays vs NA teams kind of spoiled them, they aren’t used to teams that really know how to fight their team comp.
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Huge, huge respect to ORNG, they played fantastic.
To people jumping on the anti-abjured bandwagon though; you have to appreciate that 3 out of 4 of the matches today were come from behind victories. If you think there’s problems with Abjured’s comp or roster, you’re delusional. Abjured made mistakes, and they lost for it.
I’d go so far to say that the Orng comp was actually inferior. The reason they won was amazing teamwork, and critical clutch plays. I think Eurantien called it actually: What beats Abjured is perfectly played zerk pressure. Orng wasn’t perfect today, but they had enough moments to throw Abjured off balance.
OMG the casters, not pointing on ROM stealing chief on forest, not even reacting to tage using shelter to completely negate the nade spam in choke point during the last game, come on ….
Yeah. I think the only reason you don’t see other people pointing this out is most people are used to the bad shoutcasting. I really wish someone stepped up and took it more seriously. It would make this game much more watchable in tournaments.
It’s just so strange how the shoutcasters literally never call out anything that happens in the actual fights. They didn’t say a word while Abjured was getting wiped off-point. Instead, they just call out things that everyone can see on the minimap or health bars, which don’t need to be clarified for viewers.
A lot of this has to do with the way Anet’s protocol works. They can’t just talk about anything.
We all know how much goes on in TPvP. They have to keep it generic and simple for those who either never played the game, or is new to it like most PvE players. People may not know about class specific skills too.
When there were big plays, we felt that through the shoutcasters. I thought they did a great job.
Come on now. That protocol doesn’t stop Blu from doing amazing job. Kaelaris is not 24/7 GW2 shoutcaster and he’s relatively new, so it’s understandable. But Jebro, no offense, it just… he doesn’t see a lot of things and it’s not rare that when he does see them he misinterprets them. I don’t want to be a kitten towards him, but that’s the way i see it.
OE is not a snob and he answered my random engie questions on mapchat like 2 yrs ago. He admits he’s not a good sportsman but the guy is very approachable in-game
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Congrats guys, the oRNG -Abjured games had some insane plays, very nice advertising for this game. Also the production of the show was miles ahead of china’s from what I’ve seen.
Especially nice were the short introduction vids. I have found 3 of them in the vod, but can anyone tell me where the dankest introduction is located at?
Great games. I really enjoyed watching. The comebacks between oRNG and Abjured were nail-biters. Dankening looked really improved since the WTS qualifiers and China had a good showing too.
I am 99% certain they were not. Jebro was using his actual live account and had all his contacts logging in and out, you could see it in the first game when his chat was up, indicating they were playing on the live servers.
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congrats oRNG! i liked to watch this- i hope the game will get more attention after HOT hits- the tournament games are really thrilling and fun to watch imo
Congratumalations oRNG! Much esports!
To Abjured fans: They still won thousands of dollars playing this tiny game with its tiny scene and noncompetitive game mode! Looks to me like everybody’s a winner here! Except the Asians!
I would like to congrats all team.
Plenty of suspens…best advertise for the pvp scene
I would like also to congrats phantaram for his respectfull behavior while this time he didn’t win….this is the quality of great champions.
This WTS was crazy. Those matches were basically non-stop fighting and the turn-arounds were just… O.o. Well fought on all teams and it was interesting to see how each team compo played out.
One thing to note is that when you’re a thief, a meditation guardian can pose problems. When you’re a condi Necro OR anything else condi, a shout warrior can pose problems. oRNG had both a medi guard and a shout warrior, and abjurned had a thief and a condi Necro. Whether the Abjurned had a condi engi or condi Necro, the outcome would have likely been the same.
Both teams are excellent – can’t wait to see moar!
I think they’d see a huge improvement if they just replaced Nos. He’s just not good. Being bad at positioning as a necromancer is being bad at necromancer. Maybe they can bring Ostrich Eggs back, since they clearly did better with him.
Nos’s positioning may have not been the best, but you need to understand the synergy between instant cast burst. He was forced into melee fights because DPS guard and a D/P thief automatically puts him on the defensive.
He is presented with 2 choices: kite AWAY from his teammates OR run onto the point where his teammates could provide heals for him. Having Ostrich Eggs on the team may not give the Abjured the advantage since Oegg’s playing style is reckless to say the least. DPS Guard and D/P Thief annihilate any Cele class. The only reason why this doesn’t happen on NA is because 1. Tage is a god ( I love you Tage) 2. NA has little team coordination due to volatile relationships.
Nos’s positioning may have not been the best, but you need to understand the synergy between instant cast burst. He was forced into melee fights because DPS guard and a D/P thief automatically puts him on the defensive.
He is presented with 2 choices: kite AWAY from his teammates OR run onto the point where his teammates could provide heals for him. Having Ostrich Eggs on the team may not give the Abjured the advantage since Oegg’s playing style is reckless to say the least. DPS Guard and D/P Thief annihilate any Cele class. The only reason why this doesn’t happen on NA is because 1. Tage is a god ( I love you Tage) 2. NA has little team coordination due to volatile relationships.
I don’t think that’s how it played out. He was focused so easily by melee because his positioning was bad. Yes, it’s very likely he would have had to run into melee at some point to get support from his teammates. But he always made it easy for the melee classes by literally running into their range at the start of every fight. That’s pretty much all you can do wrong as a necromancer.
In respond to “But he always made it easy for the melee classes by literally running into their range at the start of every fight,” Thief has roughly 1800 melee range with Signet and Steal (a daze + a fear skull), and DPS Guardian has 1200 range instant teleport. I don’t think any Necro enjoys getting Ring of Warding’d and gets gassed by blackpowder (Fear Mark, Chill Mark, etc gets blinded) while panic strikes proccs.
