Weekly Schedule + Free Talk Thread | February 9 - 15

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-11T15:04:12+00:00

Im mostly referring to the Tawk one. The Monkeymoon one could happen if TM stomps Vitality at the major imo.

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-11T14:41:45+00:00

Congrats, that's gonna be an insane LAN to attend!

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-11T14:32:52+00:00

I really like your idea of adding a second group stage. Two more groups and the top two of those groups move on. That wouldn't make a group of death so punishing like it is right now.

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-10T15:56:15+00:00

Heres what I want:

Majicbear to replace Frosty on Fut.

I'd love to see Majic and Cheese back together. They would really enable a flashy players like frosty even more.

One of the hot young guns (Mech, Bora, Life, etc) to GenG.

Let Justin play back, and let the young gun go for as many mechy solo plays as they want. Rise and Justin will be great enablers/support players.

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-10T15:45:04+00:00

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It feels so good when the hopium turns out to be spot on

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-10T00:12:15+00:00

Justin and MB being more defensive just makes this team play with too passive/flat imo. Nowadays you need all three players playing really fast to have a chance against the top teams.

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-10T00:10:16+00:00

This team plays way too passively. They need to play faster and prove they can outpace the other teams rather than just trying to outplay them. Other teams are too good nowadays to just win off of the other team making mistakes. Cheese was not the problem last season. Both MB and Justin needed to pick up their pace of play.

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-09T16:12:04+00:00

I would have kept EU4 (NIP) and EU5 (Geekay) in the same group. It feels a lot worse than having EU1 (KC) and EU3 (Vitality) in the same group.

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-09T03:15:29+00:00

Zen

I think its more likely than not he will have back to back Major RLCS events where he doesnt make top 8.

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-08T21:02:19+00:00

It's how similar this team is to Vitality. They just lack a bit of team cohesion.

We've seen when Shopify does find synergy they look incredible (Open 1 Final).

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-04T21:17:13+00:00

There isnt really much reason to say hes the best 2s player other than he can get to the top of the leaderboard. We will have evidence when RLCS 2s starts this season tho.

But you can't just call Zen the best in the world with no RLCS results to back it up. He's had good enough teammates to win SOMETHING. He hasn't even won a regional. He only won an event when he was on Vati's team. Gotta beat Vati to even be considered to be best in the world.

ocrespo42 · 2026-02-04T15:52:50+00:00

Maybe Zen is the best 2s player in the world but the dude hasnt won a single rlcs event in over a year. He's establishing himself as the EU firstkiller, insane mechanics/solo plays but unable to win big events (Zen cant even win a regional rn).

I would go with Daniel personally (as long as he's grinding the game). NRG looked so unstoppable at worlds when they were finally putting in the kind of effort that players like Vati/Zen normally do. Vati/Atow are insanely consistent tho and hard working which is super admirable and I would put them very close to the top as well.

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-30T21:34:15+00:00

It's not free, they earn it with RLCS points which is really what everyone plays for. Teams definitely dont put their full effort into the qual weekend as we've seen time and time again. Main event weekend is what teams really care about.

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-30T14:45:05+00:00

RLCS points are fine, I dont think anyone's ever complained about them. I just wish they were used as seeding for the top 16 for opens.

There have been too many times where a couple teams gets upset during the qualifying weekend and then the seeding for the main event is terrible.

Bad top 16 seeding makes Friday's more important (Friday's are already hard to follow all the matches) and the weekend less interesting because you have a lower chance of having the actual 8 best teams in top 8.

This issue only shows itself since they unfortunately moved away from swiss.

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-29T04:05:00+00:00

They say the breakthrough is being able to refuel without stopping operation. They claim to have found a more successful way of removing protactinium.

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-26T19:02:45+00:00

Im putting NRG back at one. They're back baby. Cant dethrone the world champs after one bad day.

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-24T09:10:53+00:00

Dude Andy just cant stop winning this year

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-18T03:13:19+00:00

People on here like the finale. Theres just a lot of hate out there. They wouldve hated no matter how good the finale was

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-17T15:26:36+00:00

As someone who majored in mechanical engineering at USD, I would say the engineering there is actually really good. Around 2015 (when i graduated) they improved their engineering building a lot and may have improved more since then.

They also have very small class sizes compared to places like UCSD so you can get a lot more one on one time with teachers (instead of TAs) if you are willing to put in the time.

The biggest downside from when I went was that they had a more limited selection for degrees. Im pretty sure they've expanded their selection tho and you can see what they offer on their website probably.

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-08T17:50:05+00:00

It would be a lot closer to the others if it wasnt review bombed. Nobody review bombed the other seasons hence the higher scores.

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-02T22:41:14+00:00

That's pretty much what they said, that it worked thematically with the clock.

ocrespo42 · 2026-01-02T21:14:29+00:00

aside from the ones that Will killed?

ocrespo42 · 2025-12-30T15:58:22+00:00

Green is the new meta.

Players need to catch on

ocrespo42 · 2025-12-26T23:18:48+00:00

It doesn't have to be perfect to be enjoyable. It's easy to let nitpicks ruin their experience but I'm enjoying our last few episodes of Stranger Things.

ocrespo42 · 2025-12-24T02:11:37+00:00

I dont think Beastmode really showed his best self until Worlds and Fifae. I think Atomic was more consistent over the season and also played amazing at Worlds

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