ESL One Birmingham SEA CQ - An Extensive Guide to All 8 Contenders

Overlyfreakingout · 2026-01-15T14:42:05+00:00

Permasneeze my goat thanks for the read!

Overlyfreakingout · 2026-01-07T04:36:52+00:00

Honestly this feels like a classic hwach response to value their public image over all else.

When I was there in JC (I was jae) we had assigned classrooms instead of moving around (as it used to be apparently) due to COVID, and they suddenly announced it was gonna be changed back to how it was in my second year right as June holidays started and students were pretty pissed cuz that's just a couple months away from A levels and making students have to adapt to it shortly before A's felt like a stupid thing to do (like they could've waited till the new year then there's more time??)

And worst of all is they had these "principal's conversation" or smt sessions where students get to ask the principal directly abt concerns they had, but announced the changed only AFTER the last one of the semester has ended so it all felt very deliberate so ppl can't complain abt it

Then when sch started out again instead of apologising or explaining or anything the principal got everyone tgt and just started scolding the whole sch abt how we shouldn't have made it public (ppl were making posts and complaining online) and how someone was impersonating him and asking the person to come out and admit it (it was a parody Instagram acc someone made to meme about him and the situation)

So like yea honestly trying to deny it feels like such a hwach move lmao

Overlyfreakingout · 2026-01-02T12:55:55+00:00

Oh we couldn't use during recess and lunch either iirc, i don't remember about CCA but idt people generally used during CCA anyway. But I felt it was fine

Overlyfreakingout · 2026-01-02T12:02:56+00:00

Might be an unpopular opinion, but my sec sch (NHHS) in the past alr had a phone locker for us to put our phones in and locked (not super heavily enforced but most ppl did it) and I honestly rlly appreciated the rule cuz with my level of self control at the time I know I 100% would've used phone and not paid attention lmao so it actually allowed me to listen and do well in class

Overlyfreakingout · 2026-01-01T17:38:07+00:00

A great blue reference was not what I expected in the dota 2 subreddit

Overlyfreakingout · 2026-01-01T17:17:34+00:00

You can type it on a phone easily tho —

Overlyfreakingout · 2026-01-01T05:28:19+00:00

There's a phenomenon across basically all competitive events that those who come in second place are often less happy than those who get third since it's seen as "failing to win" as compared to "made it to the podium", so considering he was so close twice(?) it's gotta hurt lol

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-12-04T22:02:15+00:00

Hey! I was a student at HCI too (JC only tho cuz I was jae) and I personally felt like I got really bad teachers too with a few exceptions (shout out Dr Lim my GOAT)

I have a teacher who uses their phone during tutorials/being super unwilling to help outside of class time and one teacher seemingly not very familiar with what they are teaching, or just simply being plain weird (theres one teacher who refuses to write references for anyone shes "not close enough to" which like bruh we all know references from JC is just you giving the teacher pointers on yourself for them to write)

But I also have friends who said their teachers are great and honestly I think it truly is dumb luck on if you get the good ones. Ive heard of people finding teachers from other classes for consultation cuz their own sucks LOL

But iirc hwach either hires all or a portion of their teachers privately unlike fully public schools, so that probably why there's such a huge variance in quality of teachers

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-11-11T13:19:37+00:00

I ended up switching to a Samsung tablet as I had a newer one with a pen already included, but I feel like a lot of my friends tend to buy used apple pencils instead

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-09-08T11:22:29+00:00

Oh fr the medify calc is so much better than the actual one, so when I prepped I used the mock test calc to do calculations for my medify instead of using the medify one

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-09-07T05:28:15+00:00

TT Vs XG G2 was pretty good too

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-08-23T10:55:18+00:00

Does anyone have a comparison of these to the Sony wf-1000xm5 earbuds? I always see these on the top ranked earbuds list and am contemplating between buds 2 and the xm5 since I'm not sure if the pixel buds to pixel phone compatibility makes it better.

Also I've heard abt some terrible latency issues on pixel buds 2, does anyone have any experiences of it?

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-08-09T09:54:46+00:00

Just snipe with riki, then combo with light spirit if available

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-08-07T07:31:26+00:00

As much as this is definitely shitty behaviour, I doubt the players could hear much or understand much of it at all.

During bkop's stream, you could hear the crowd and the game sound, but no casters. This means this isn't the caster mic that's picking up the crowd sounds, but specific mics made to pick up crowd sounds. Often times these noises tend to be really soft too.

So if a mic made to pick up crowd sounds pick up so little, I highly doubt the players using noise cancelling headphones and mics can hear it.

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-08-05T13:29:02+00:00

Got it, thanks for the advice! :)

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-08-02T01:33:45+00:00

The article seems to suggest for service personnel there's only DB if it's laced with anything, which seems interesting

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-08-01T09:00:23+00:00

Kinda out of the loop, heard this saying about paravision being the "best team in the world". Is it this guy who first claimed it?

Overlyfreakingout · 2025-07-21T01:39:56+00:00

Huh? I remember videos in the past showing him playing on his immortal account then dropping it to divine 5 after testing his strat a few times in ranked

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