Guild Wars 2

And the rockets red glaaaaare! The bombs bursting in aaaair! Gave proof to the night! That our flag was still there! Oh say does that star spangled banner yet waaaaaave! Oh the laaaaand of the freeeee! And the home of the brave!

And to Chaith!
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Commence the drama frands!
Nerf celestial
nerf thief!
Nerf Engi!
Nerf Ele!
EU > NA!
NA > EU!

PS: http://www.twitch.tv/jebrounity/b/595930973 for the video of the finals! Credits to Jebro and Chronick for being EEESPPOOOOOOORTTTSSSSS

Good job NA! you threw off the shackles of European super pro esports oppression so that all can be free to esports!

Well done Abjured! Some seriously close games, especially the last one.

Well played TCG, better luck next time

Well done! Some close fought games with mistakes on both sides. Congrats Abjured and GG’s TCG!

Can’t blame Abjured, really, it was about money after all.
TCG shown that they can get up from bad streak and face cancer comp in hands of top players. Now I’m offically and fully a fan
That is if I won’t quit, which I should do, after the stream, comp, dev attitude etc, lack of content etc… goes on and on…
Too bad i’m addicted
Oh well, i guess i’ll be fan of TCG then, even if they lose

Congratulations to Abjured!

Some very close and exciting matches.

GG WP also to TCG.

Congratulations to Abjured!
now pls nerf ele/engi celestial ty

ty for winning abjured I will gladly accept that 500g from helseth

EU WAS always inferior. About time that NA gave EU the taste of their own medicine, which is abusing cheese.

I’ll never forget how EU used cheese comps vs. Hman’s Warrior and Caed’s thief and then called it skill.

Just mechanically inferior players who depended on class imbalance, that’s all EU did for the most part.

Anet please show Chaith’s victory speech! Chaith after your speech and award acceptance, please turn towards the camera very suddenly and raise one eyebrow!

GG abjured, great effort considering it wasn’t even their full team that won the qualifier.

Now Aanet can you finnaly nerf cele engi and ele now that WTS is over.

What did each team play?

Grats Abjured!
I guess TCG was pretty impressive too.

GG abjured. Awesome games. Thx to jebro for secure the stream

The absolute best tournament final of GW 2 to date. Every game was close, both teams on edge, sick plays and 1v1s from both sides.

Also, Jebro and Chronick absolutely killed it on the cast! Best GW 2 casting duo in the game.

Friendly Petition to fly Jebro and Chronick to cast the next WTS together!

LOL NA for the win! Going to enjoy my finisher a little more now

NANA NANA NA NA next time EU :P

Congrats to The Abjured.
Great job by Anet and all those involved in putting all this together.

Malchior.5042:

The absolute best tournament final of GW 2 to date. Every game was close, both teams on edge, sick plays and 1v1s from both sides.

Also, Jebro and Chronick absolutely killed it on the cast! Best GW 2 casting duo in the game.

Friendly Petition to fly Jebro and Chronick to cast the next WTS together!

Perfectly said

Sizer.2654
I accept any bets vs any team in the WTS, up to maximum 3186gold. If your interested in betting against TCG and losing your money, please contact me ! We would have to organize a middle man that we trust such as jebro or blu and give them small cut from the earnings.

Kappa

Thanks for putting on a good show boys.

Congrats Abjured, well played TCG.

landi.2681:

Great job by Anet and all those involved in putting all this together.

Pls.

Malchior.5042:

The absolute best tournament final of GW 2 to date. Every game was close, both teams on edge, sick plays and 1v1s from both sides.

Also, Jebro and Chronick absolutely killed it on the cast! Best GW 2 casting duo in the game.

Friendly Petition to fly Jebro and Chronick to cast the next WTS together!

Yeah also want to give shoutout to Jebro and Chronick who were clutch today gj guys. Also TCG great match fun to watch you all play. #respect

Yeah shoutout to Jebro and Chronick for doing what Grouch/Arenanet should have done in the first place. Nothing beats seeing things live.

Some really good games, GG Abjurd.

+1 for TCG being able to do so well despite the comp disadvantage though.

Aenye.2390:

Can’t blame Abjured, really, it was about money after all.
TCG shown that they can get up from bad streak and face cancer comp in hands of top players. Now I’m offically and fully a fan
That is if I won’t quit, which I should do, after the stream, comp, dev attitude etc, lack of content etc… goes on and on…
Too bad i’m addicted
Oh well, i guess i’ll be fan of TCG then, even if they lose

+1
TCG > World

I wonder if the outcome would be different if TCG made room for a necromancer or two

They played good just didn’t rotate well enough they were dominating game 4 but lost it idk how.

I +1 Chronick and Jebro. Less Blu and his sizerwhalecam.

Anyone got a link to vod for the finals, the one i found was only eu vs china 1 and na vs china 2

Vapour.7348:

I wonder if the outcome would be different if TCG made room for a necromancer or two

Mhhmm. I wouldn’t say 2 but definitely 1. More NA teams are starting to have Necro’s and the world is pulling back the wool from their eyes. Time for people to start seeing how awesome Necro’s are. The problem and reason why people think (the ones who do) that Necro is trash and shouldn’t be played; is because they suck at it. Necro is a higher skill cap and 90% of players just get rekt in the class because they are no good at playing it. It is one of the more superior classes hands down. Just needs to be played correctly (Aka, not MM trash).

Vapour.7348:

I wonder if the outcome would be different if TCG made room for a necromancer or two

They needed to sacrifice a pawn in the case of Temple, aka Stillness
:)

Their comp was at a disadvantage in a 5 point split on Temple, and Sizer was consistently taking advantage of the Abjured’s over aggression in rotating. Fighting over 5 objectives prevents rotations from occuring at all, which eliminated that advantage.

I am a fan of TCG’s comp, they can win if they play near perfect, they just needed to make less mistakes.

Glad NA took this one finally ^.^

Grats boiz. Especially Chaith and Toker!

Gratulations Abjured and TCG,

you sure must have had a lot of fun in china. Enjoy the money.

Well played!

Grats to NA for taking the win. I’m not salty even though I lost a bit of in-game gold. TCG has been dominant for so long, and NA’s win will do good for the overall scene and hopefully push other teams to evolve. This will only mean better and tighter competition in March for the next WTS. Mah body is ready for the next stage of espawts.

To be fair, it should have been 3:0. In the second game, with a solid lead and no threat of losing it anytime soon, Abjured chased Helseths portal escape from keep with 3 man, failed to kill him and gave a free cap to Denshee, which then remained in TCGs hands for the rest of the match.
Mistakes were made, but the way better team still won the overall finals.

Thank you Abjured, now there will be even more teams play such lame comps.
That’s the most awesome thing which could happen …

Any links to the match ?

Here’s a link to the WTS Finals Abjured vs. TCG. Unfortunately it’s from the Chinese perspective with Jebro and Chronik voice over.

Congrats to Abjured! Both teams were awesome though and I really enjoyed all the matches, they were hard fought and not one-sided at all!

I also wanna join in thanking ChroNick and Jebro for stepping in and saving the day. I know we could’ve all watched the Chinese stream or waited for Blu to upload the replay, but live with two enthusiastic commentators and the chat exploding in OMGWTFBBQs with every clutch play is infinitely better! Just goes to show, we don’t need glitz, dancers, and boy bands for esports, we just need to watch it live in the company of other people who are passionate about the game. That’s what makes it a sport: your fellow fans!

With the won of Abjured the last hope in “non-bullkitten-comps” is gone.
That tournament officaly showed us how comp>skill i mean wtf OE died to Helseth in 1v1.
By the way NA still scrubs.

New compname: EEEEW (T)

it’s kinda stinky ^^

I think it shows how tournaments with real prize structures can encourage players in all three regions to start taking things seriously and trying their best.

CALLED IT.

SHOUT OUTS TO EVERYONE THAT DOUBTED ME!

NA>EU 4 LYFE.

Are there any higher quality VoDs up? Maybe without missing large parts of games?

Know whats funny,

I was in multiple games yesterday, I noticed the pvp buff, wasn’t sure if the WTS tournament was going on and I asked a lot of people when the WTS is going to happen, like what day what time, etc.

Nobody had a clue about when the WTS was going to happen.

Goes to show AGAIN the marketing team for GW2 is slacking.

…. I actually wanted to see it live too.
If this game isn’t esports, if you had low twitch views less than 3k (on main twitch channel) like you always have, its not per say the streamer’s fault, this is an official GW2 tournament, its the GW2 marketing department fault.

I was looking forward to watching this tournament, but the way the marketing team of GW2 operates, I have to literally go out of my way to figure out when the dang thing happens. I even come to the forums and active member on it and I still didn’t know the exact time.

There’s a lot of slacking going on if you ask me. They need to hire some proactive managers to get those developers and marketing team start doing there jobs at the highest level possible. Not a, we gonna release a piece of crap and fix it by whoever complains type matchmaking/patch/new system, and a I’m going to send a tiny message some random place about the WTS (not gonna bother with getting more of the target market, just want whoever I have already and those who look intensely to figure out when its actually going down), after that, going to go eat me some donuts and sit back and watch some Netflix.

Annoyed that I didn’t get to see this, and I actually had time off and was able to watch this, but…. NOTHING, no communication to me about when its going down.
Was in game yesterday, saw the buff, actively was on forums yesterday, YET I didn’t see or hear or even nobody I asked knew WTS was going down.

See the pics, I asked, none of them knew, I asked in hotm as well, nobody knew.
Now I just realized reviewing those pictures angrily because I missed the WTS due to bad GW2 marketing team, that it does say WTS at top right.

Funny, I never even noticed that stuff yesterday because that’s like a spam area, nothing but a bunch of spam up there, the only thing I really pay attention to is the daily. I don’t really pay attention to that LS or spam area.

They should have sent you a mail, even that is spam area. They should have had some major thing dead smack in everyones way saying WTS and what time its going to be and where. They should have made it spam across peoples screen as they first enter into the game. They should have made a sticky on the PvP forums about it. They should have informed you on the forums and made you click an okay button to show that you know its going on before you can do anything on the forums.

So many things the marketing team could have done, but they didn’t. They didn’t ask themselves HOW BAD DO YOU WANT GW2 to be successful. Obviously by there show of how bad they want it, they didn’t want it bad enough.

Kenadas.9680:

With the won of Abjured the last hope in “non-bullkitten-comps” is gone.
That tournament officaly showed us how comp>skill i mean wtf OE died to Helseth in 1v1.
By the way NA still scrubs.

I support NA but I still recognize and respect EU’s talent.

Americans usually unleash their true potential if the incentives are significant enough. Both teams did exceptionally well but I guess NA wanted the 1st place cash pot more

Great job Celestial’s!

@Uber they actually did have a message that was displayed where your monthly and dailies are displayed. If you clicked it, it would take you directly to twitch which had the time and date posted.

Rym.1469:

Great job Celestial’s!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Both teams had the same amount of celestial amulets! Get good son!

Wahoo! Bye frands!