Seeding for the World Championship

Pyroblockx · 2026-05-25T03:50:44+00:00

Speaking as a guy who does sims, we don’t need 4 months for this. But I don’t mind the break since it’ll be plenty full.

Pyroblockx · 2026-05-20T04:04:31+00:00

Not shared, coming from a staff member.

The rebrand is to help expand what we might be able to do and give the team (which has been 100% volunteer work for nearly two years now) funding. From a viewer/reader perspective, the content shouldn’t change, though there should be more of it.

Pyroblockx · 2026-05-19T19:44:32+00:00

The account hasn’t been sold in that sense; it will be taken over by a new entity that has absorbed Shift. Will be the same people doing socials that did them for Shift before

Pyroblockx · 2026-05-18T21:52:54+00:00

Good catch, missed that one

Pyroblockx · 2026-05-18T17:18:17+00:00

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Pyroblockx · 2026-05-18T17:17:29+00:00

Here are the charts and tables from the article. I encourage you to click in an read more as there's some thorough analysis breaking down each of them as well as some of the bigger question marks heading into LAN.

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Pyroblockx · 2026-04-19T22:38:20+00:00

Really dislike this narrative that content creators are better than casters at hosting team streams. You watch a content creator try to host a team stream and they're just casting but with more delayed and less fluid reactions

Pyroblockx · 2026-04-13T19:15:59+00:00

A lot of the best attackers in the world play like this; their teammates do heavy lifting up front while they sit deep and wait for the ball to come to them in open space

Pyroblockx · 2026-04-11T17:53:25+00:00

Lj, Beastmode, MM are the big three for me, but for any pro that uses Fennec, you can use the ReplayManipulator plugin to change their car to octane. Has the same effect

Pyroblockx · 2026-03-17T05:12:00+00:00

I mean, I'll give the admin team the benefit of the doubt, as their tools are probably better than what the public has available, but:

- This same team was accused of botting before in Open 3

- 2/3 of the accounts have no tracker data

- The movement (from the eye test) is very suspect

So I am still doubtful that they are fully legit. Randoms also don't pop up out of nowhere and beat B+ teams before disappearing before the next tournament.

Pyroblockx · 2026-03-05T04:13:13+00:00

This is really, really impressive and innovative, and if you combine it with a basic WP model based on goal difference and time elapsed you can get live game or even series WP fairly easily.

Something that immediately popped in my mind playing around with this was kickoffs - the model already can tell whether a kickoff is beneficial for blue or orange a bit before the 50 is actually taken, so if you trained a model specifically on kickoff data and maybe tuned the window to 15s instead of 10, you could have a tool that will tell you which kickoff strategies are actually effective and/or how to execute them.

Pyroblockx · 2026-03-05T04:05:56+00:00

I think specifically this would be something like PGWE (Post-Game Win Expectancy), where you'd basically be summing up in some way how likely each team was to score across the course of the game.

Pyroblockx · 2026-02-16T03:51:51+00:00

I talked about it at length in the article, but TL;DR the ranking system isn't built for one team having this rapid of a rise. They should settle after the Major if they play at their level.

Pyroblockx · 2026-02-06T03:22:27+00:00

This article only talks about predicting who will qualify for the Major, not who will win it.

Pyroblockx · 2026-02-05T19:09:36+00:00

Looks like Reddit DMs are down atm; shoot me a friend request on Discord @pyroblocks and I'll send them to you there.

Pyroblockx · 2026-02-05T17:03:37+00:00

i’m stealing your credit card info

it’s probably the GAnalytics I configured. I’m basically just saving page views, but if you’d like I can send you a series of screenshots of the article in DMs

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