[–] [deleted] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Slacks is a real life friend of mine. He gets a lot of shit because of his voice, but I can honestly no one deserves their success more. He's driven, he helps out anyone he can, and he does a lot for the community. It's a shame he (and multiple others) were overlooked for TI invites.
As much as I enjoy Slacks' last two videos, he got the history of the team at TI4 wrong, so I just want to correct that. Newbee were the big dogs just behind DK although some would argue iG, it was Vici Gaming who surprisingly came out on top of the group stages (check out these predictions on 2p and the reddit pre-TI4 thread which I'd say were pretty good predictions given how the last few tournaments went at the time).
This video makes them seem like underdogs, when really they were a huge threat and actually had a seriously disappointing group stage and even had to do the tiebreaker to make it to the main event. I remember being super excited that Titan was going to knock them out of the main event, but then Newbee won 2-1 and then Newbee just beat everyone in the Bubble bracket to make it to the upper bracket of the main event. Newbee actually were really bad against the Western teams because they barely left China before TI and I think the only time they played vs western teams was in WPC. And the only western team they met in the upper bracket of TI4 was EG who preferred the to sit back and let Arteezy or Mason farm for a while and was not a good match up for Newbee's death ball strat.
TL;DR Newbee weren't the underdogs in TI4, they fared badly vs western teams in the group stages but got their shit together later
Such a good video from Slacks! How does he even find out half this stuff?!
On a more serious note, I hope NewBee get their shit together before TI, at the moment I think they're just going to get wrecked by everyone else in the tournament. The Eastern scene as a whole feels quite weak at the moment. Will be interesting to see how far Vici, LGD and iG manage to go.
I also don't think they came quite as 'out of nowhere' last year as people are saying. If anything Vici were the big surprise, managing to surpass both DK and iG to get to the final and not dropping a single game in the group stage.
[–] elsombrero ago
These videos are great, but this Newbee one is kind of wrong... They weren't a bunch of no names/noobs before forming Newbee.
[–] Sagittary [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Now that voat is back up I can post more =P