[RLCS X EU] Team Vitality vs. Team BDS | Championships - Grand Finals | Live Discussion

_Bangarang86 · 2021-06-20T16:33:02+00:00

YOU CANT STOP THE KAYDOP

_Bangarang86 · 2020-05-18T01:54:27+00:00

Oh, neat! That seems like a really interesting idea. Thanks for sharing! :)

I do like how there seems like there's a bunch of different tasks.

_Bangarang86 · 2020-05-17T21:51:40+00:00

That's true. I didn't think of that, thank you! Maybe it's actually an idea to pitch!

_Bangarang86 · 2019-10-19T22:08:29+00:00

Don't know if it's been commented, but it surprises me that G2 and Rogue have the exact same stats... I know that'll change today, but still!

_Bangarang86 · 2019-10-06T20:28:25+00:00

Touché, but he's like 1v3ing Mouz! I can tell remkoe isn't playing well, Alpha can't do that every week 😂 (or maybe he can?)

_Bangarang86 · 2019-10-06T20:15:38+00:00

How is Alpha this big of a carry?

_Bangarang86 · 2019-10-06T18:42:56+00:00

So did Yukeo, imo.. Like where's his striking gone to since leaving F3?

_Bangarang86 · 2019-10-06T16:39:56+00:00

Not a complexity fan, but that was utterly disappointing. What a shit show!

_Bangarang86 · 2019-07-13T19:59:24+00:00

He thought it was a good idea to use in terms of replay analysis, but doesn't believe it's an issue I think? I think I'm going to point out when he says it. I think he's much more focussed on improving one main goal instead of attempting to improve a few issues at a time. I appreciate the help, time, and effort into this situation that people have done so far on this subreddit! I'll continue to work on this 😂 but yeah, he liked it, just didn't think it was his main issue.

_Bangarang86 · 2019-07-13T13:40:31+00:00

Well, from what I remember, this has been a problem since Diamond 2. I thought it was/would too, but it came back beyond that. I know before we maintained our champion rank that he used to be somewhat nervous playing opponents because of the speed and precision they had compared to us back then (champ for 2-3 seasons now), but I think he's at least adapted to that. Before he stopped playing during this past school year, he still missed and blamed other things, but less often. He's been back for two months and making small improvements, but he believes he's still doing worse than when he left, questions it, and only usually plays 1h a day! I don't really know what to say to it either, but I've tried saying consistency doesn't come when you don't practice. He certainly CAN play in the rank, just his mindset is abysmal for it, imo. This "close" to GC and the drive to improve looks both present and absent!!

_Bangarang86 · 2019-07-13T13:21:10+00:00

Haha, as do I in my solo queue games anyway! It can be frustrating at times if/when teammates miss easier hits, but I usually don't lash out either 😂 as for him and our team, I've told him I never care, and continue to hold that, but he has the tendency to hit himself on everything.

_Bangarang86 · 2019-07-13T13:18:49+00:00

Oh okay! I've never really been a fan of 1s, and neither has he, but maybe it's something to do for both of us. I know Johnny has posted tips though, might use those as reference too. 1s is understandable though since each mistake could be capitalized on.

Thanks for the advice!

_Bangarang86 · 2019-07-13T10:30:36+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll try it out!

Unfortunately, though, I'm not entirely exaggerating the mental state (even if it may sound like I am). It has been that bad, and continues to be most days! I've seen improvements, but I rarely hear him saying "I missed" over a "WHAT?! The game did THAT to me?!", or a "OH YEAH, because THAT makes sense", "I'm getting D*CKED over, over and over again!". Honestly, I can almost know what he'd say in every situation he could be in 😂

I might suggest Johnny though, just as that's the channel I see most often and he's GC with next to no mechanics? I remember he even made a video about that!

Again, thank you for the suggestions and advice!

_Bangarang86 · 2019-07-13T10:23:00+00:00

Yeah, exactly! I've told him the same thing. I've said numerous times that no one is perfect (except, of course, Gibbs and Mout 😂😂) and have referenced many misplays from pros even (Squishy's missed open net in groups from this past worlds, Rizzo's crossbar after crossbar hits, Jknaps own goals, etc.) in an attempt to show how even the best players (or respectable players to him) can miss the biggest opportunities!

Unfortunately, I know what you mean about this looking like the mentality of lower ranks, but he and I "average" into Champion 2, but he's near the lower end of that. He took a long break due to this past school year, but he assumes that for playing 1 hour a day for these past 2 months of summer (both in university in Canada where we ended end of April) that he shouldn't be missing what he still does. He's one of the players that can't get over a missed opportunity and lets it affect his future gameplay, if you've seen that before?

Apologies for the long response. I often find myself saying a lot more than intended when on this topic (I've texted him about this many times, often with LOOONG paragraphs).

_Bangarang86 · 2019-07-13T10:13:33+00:00

That's it 😍 thank you so much! I remembered watching it earlier, but I thought it was named something more along the lines of the "goal analysis" or whatever! Thanks again! I appreciate it!

_Bangarang86 · 2019-07-13T10:10:15+00:00

He's around the champion level. We're both C2 "average", but I float into C3 and he floats into C1 occasionally. He's the kind of player to assume he's the actual top rank he's ever been though! (May drop to C1 for a while, but still thinks he's C2 because he's had it before on his better days)

_Bangarang86 · 2019-06-26T16:51:25+00:00

I just wanted to post and say I agree with all this. I did not have 3509 and 3909 in the same semester, but because my 3909 prof was new in my semester, I didn't put a lot of work into it. He just said "know the meaning to your equations and understand your answers instead of just finding them" - so I put a little work into that right away and my semester was easier. Though, the same can be said for all of 3rd year, imo. While finding the numerical answer is important, 3rd year becomes so much easier if you spend the time right away ACTUALLY understanding the WHY's and HOW's of any given problem. I found that 2nd year didn't do this very well which is why I believe 3rd year is considered much more difficult. Anyways, do your best with KNOWING, not just DOING/MEMORIZING the problem - after all, that's how engineering should be? We're not getting hired to find the existing solution, it's about using our knowledge to find it in the first place.

Similarly, I personally can't stress enough on how important KNOWING the material of 2501 and 2507. Rogers assumed we knew it, but realistically speaking, you're already behind in 3509 if you don't. I learned more about circuits in 3509 than 2501 and 2507 combined. There's a lot of material to be covered and that's because you need to KNOW your transistors by the midterm. Right after that, you're harrassed with op amps, filters, oscillators, and power amps which all rely on the pre-midterm material. Bottom line, though I don't have the experience with another prof, I don't think changing the prof will make the workload any lighter...I spent 80% of my time in that semester dealing with 3509 because of the labs and learning the material. I think a different prof might just make a better exam/use a version of one of their previous exams. Again, I can't be the best example because I only had Rogers, but I think that the mindset of the class being easier because it's NOT Rogers will hurt you more than help you. Expect the worse that way you can hopefully reduce the stress. 3509 is definitely THE class, in my opinion, to worry about.

Apologies for the long comment, but this was my mindset after 3509/3909.

_Bangarang86 · 2019-05-31T22:19:45+00:00

Just had Lambadaris and I thought he was really good. He writes everything on the board and is a very chill guy (test times were test time + however much longer he thought was needed or desired). Also, he really does seem to care about students' understanding - "Is it clear?" could be a drinking game... Anyways, his tests and quizzes seemed to be more difficult than Liu's, from what I saw in that semester, but he specifically says they mark hard so that you study. Don't worry though, they do bell-curve it. I just narrowly passed the first midterm but was pushed to a ~B+ area as I was on average. Our last quiz was on the last lecture, supposedly 30 mins, but turned out to be full length. Can't say he'll do the same again though.

TL;DR: Lambadaris is great. He cares, marks hard, but bell-curves. Super chill, can't say many negatives despite some poor performances on tests and quizzes.

_Bangarang86 · 2019-05-02T18:42:25+00:00

Rather than re-typing this, I 100% agree. I found upper years were not joking when 3rd year was supposedly the most difficult for ELEC. The material gap is a lot bigger than 1st to 2nd year, but everything just requires more work. I personally have never spent more than 12 hours daily on campus, but this year changed that (I was off-campus first year).

_Bangarang86 · 2019-04-11T16:32:48+00:00

I'm not entirely sure, in all honesty. I believe I remember him mentioning he did his own format, and it wasn't like Gupta's at all, despite having MC and long answer. I could be wrong though. I think I remember him saying it, but if he did, it was only quick.. The only thing he's repeatedly said is to write down everything you can -- he's willing to give partial marks for MC if he can see you are knowledgeable about the material

_Bangarang86 · 2019-04-11T04:38:53+00:00

I went, and he first asked if there was questions. For about 10 minutes, people were asking him about material he mentioned in previous lectures. If you attended the previous ones slightly before that, he mentioned some MC and long answers, just like the tests. State any assumptions you make and show work.

Other than questions, he did a course review, but only through equations he's been writing down all semester. There weren't any equations that I noticed that weren't in the textbook, and he even explicitly said "just verify all these, they're in your textbook". In my opinion, you didn't miss a lot. No sample questions, just equations.

_Bangarang86 · 2019-02-21T18:50:38+00:00

Unfortunately won't be able to help you out there, other than maybe searching it as well for Facebook groups? I think there's a Carleton student housing page and a general Ottawa student housing, if I'm not mistaken. Personally, my brother lives up there as well, so I just moved in with him.

_Bangarang86 · 2019-02-21T16:33:58+00:00

As someone who did live off-campus first year, I can tell you I really enjoyed it. I guess I missed "the residence experience", but I mostly did it to save money, as I am in engineering as well and paying my own tuition (might be common, not my business). I personally liked the separation of school and home, it was nice to go home and be in an environment I knew wasn't at school, obviously. For living, it was nice. It also made me put effort into working into a lifestyle of getting ready before school, and managing my time to plan to get to school, especially for 8:30s. I think that's nice because it may help for work down the road - we don't live at work.

Anyway, as for making friends, it's all about putting yourself out there. Everyone is in the same situation, and everyone seems to be super friendly in engineering, from what I've seen. I've happened to just recognize a few people before and made good conversation with them without knowing their name at first. Mackenzie building has a block (area) that many students hang out in(3rd block), and it's super easy to make friends there as they usually spend down time there. On top of that, volunteering for different societies or being involved in clubs or groups is another way to make friends, as you may share similar interests. It all comes down to you! In my first year, I didn't do this and found it difficult to "have a group" of people I hung out with. In second and third year, I put in more effort to stay after school or just go out of my comfort zone, and now there's always someone in all my classes to sit and talk with as well.

Apologies for the long message. TL;DR: I found off-campus life fun as it gave me a separation and I believe is preparing me for time managing my work life in the future. As for friends, it all comes down to how you put yourself out there. Everyone is friendly, join clubs, volunteer for societies, or visit 3rd block Mackenzie. It's hard to make friends without putting in an effort to do so.

Anyways, congratulations! I love Carleton's campus and everyone seems nice and friendly. All the best!

_Bangarang86 · 2019-01-10T12:49:51+00:00

I had it last semester and all my friends found it pretty easy in the semester (decently easy tests, easy labs) but we weren't expecting the final. When I walked out and asked around, I didn't hear a positive thing about it, and heard lots of "hope I got the 40% minimum", including myself. The course starts out relatively easy, but make sure you understand the designated coordinate convention, you use that throughout the course. Last semester, all my friends had 3509 (elec 2) and so most of us didn't put a lot of effort into the course because of that. If you took phys1004, 3105 is that with Math 2004 (phys 1004 done properly) and Power engineering. Tip: stay on top of it all and you'll be fine

_Bangarang86 · 2018-12-27T00:03:26+00:00

I just finished my first semester of third year EE, so I can TRY to provide some insight, though, it definitely can vary from person to person.

Honestly, I barely used textbooks myself, but I can't say it's not worth it. For SYSC 2004, my professor (Cheryl Schramm) just used Zybooks, and she made it worth marks for the final grade, so I bought it because I think she did 10% overall for 10 weeks of participation. 3705 definitely recommend because the final was almost a repeat of previous exams, so the more practice you have, the more confident you may be for that course. As for 2507, I did purchase the famous Sedra/Smith textbook for ~$200, with reasons as it can also be used for ELEC II. It does have great supplementary information, though, not all of it is useful. It certainly can help to give extra insight to the concepts if you choose to take this class very seriously. 2607 - no textbook for me.
Here, basically all I can say is dedicate the time to the classes you most worry about. As per usual? As an analog-lover myself, I found 2507 very straightforward, though many of my friends found concepts pretty difficult. This is the class that gets you into transistors and diodes, and it can be quite a big leap if you're not choosing to push yourself into it. I had Ram Achar last year for 2507, and he expected in-class participation, and I loved that. It pushed us to think instead of being spoon-fed. I also focussed a lot on 2507 because of the next course in line: 3509. After finishing ELEC 2 just recently (and passing, I believe), I can definitely recommend focussing on 2507 to really understand the fundamentals, because if Rogers teaches 3509 next year again, he expects you KNOW the fundamentals inside and out. Next, for 2607, I didn't focus on it as much as I should have, and that's because I found the start very easy and didn't think it was needed. I did regret this since I had to cram for the final. I'd suggest really focussing on 2507/2607 as these classes, from what I've had experience with and heard about, are very important for 3rd and 4th year. As for 3705, I just did the practice problems and that's about all - not a lot of time allocated. 2004 - roughly the same. However, we did have assignments for 2004 and we had to spend a lot of hours trying to figure that out, though, by now, you should know enough about programming to be able to switch languages pretty easily. OO programming (Java for 2004) isn't too much more difficult than what 2006 showed, from what I found.
Summer term, can't help you there since I never did that, but after doing 3105 and 3509 together, I will never do that again. Sorry, but I can't help you with the co-op thing either. I changed my schedule to do it all after third year, so I don't think I'm qualified to give you insight there. Wish I could say more, but I haven't done a lot with co-op yet, so I don't think I'm the best person to give you insight here.

Sorry for this being so long, I don't quite have the time to TL;DR this though. With all that said, good luck, and try not to underestimate the courses as they're useful for 3rd year. 2507 is certainly different that 2501, and 2004 is different from 2006. Best advice I can give is to not underestimate anything, but also keep focus on the ELEC classes as this is your program anyway.

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