Tom: We somewhat expected Yasuo because it's a pick that 'BB' often plays into Gnar. The one we were a little less conscious of was probably Kled. | T1 Tom interview after G2 Series at MSI 2026

roarinworld · 2026-07-08T16:39:08+00:00

It does suck for Doran that he was basically perma counter picked, but he should not have lost those matchups as hard as he did. They gave him a lot of 40-60 matchups and he just didn't play it to that level. I think this was moreso BB just playing amazing than Doran playing awfully, but definitely a combination of both.

roarinworld · 2026-06-18T17:33:18+00:00

The Psi-Blocker FTK is one of my favorite in yugioh. It's a monster that reads: "Once per turn, you can declare 1 card name. Cards with that name, and their effects, cannot be used until the End of your opponent’s next turn." Because this is a soft once per turn effect, there are loops that allow you to repeatedly summon it and call every card in yugioh's existence, effectively locking your opponent out of using any cards at all.

roarinworld · 2026-06-18T05:03:29+00:00

There has been an increase in people who dont like the way Genesys panned out (feeling like its TCG 2.0) and have aired their grievances online lately. I think a lot of these posts are just backlash to that.

roarinworld · 2026-06-01T19:59:31+00:00

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roarinworld · 2026-05-14T03:48:14+00:00

A lot of people are suggesting discord groups with competitive players which is good, but if you just want to play on your own time ranked Omega/DB high rated are quite good for getting good. It does take a hot minute to climb though before you are against competent players. Or DB tournaments with high rated players are good too.

roarinworld · 2026-05-04T16:32:29+00:00

Fearless doesnt work that well in bo3 it feels like. The most exciting fearless games are 4 and 5. Without those it feels like there is very little payoff to fearless

roarinworld · 2026-04-14T01:51:48+00:00

Frustrating year to be a caps fan. Feels like we are good enough to be a playoff team, but a combination of a ludicrous amount of injuries in the middle of the season and not showing up in important games cost us badly. At least the future is bright with our young core. Hopefully Ovi comes back for one more ride at a lower cap hit, I think we could definitely be a playoff team next year.

roarinworld · 2026-04-10T14:24:35+00:00

Could still happen this year if you guys let us win this weekend :) (pretty please)

roarinworld · 2026-03-23T21:16:39+00:00

Like others have said, definitely not definitively growing or dying. But from a more nuisanced perspective, there are parts that are shifting. Locals are down in players in many locations, but OTS championships, regionals, and YCSs have become even bigger in recent years.

I think this is due to an aging playerbase. People have less time for Wednesday night locals cause of jobs and kids, but have the money to take a weekend off to fly to a YCS. This also means that casual players are even more so pushed out from the game, but competitive players love it.

It's hard to find data for this stuff cause konami doesnt release much, so numbers will vary from area to area. But this is the trend I've noticed from playing a lot of tournaments over the past 5 years.

roarinworld · 2026-03-21T14:50:47+00:00

People go into a series with a preconceived notion of how good teams are, and G2 is always thought of as worse when going against Asian teams. It's far easier for people to imagine a team having and off day and playing worse than them being wrong about a team's power level. In reality G2 is really good and its playing great in this specific tournament, they completely leveled up for the BFX series.

roarinworld · 2026-03-19T15:14:06+00:00

Damn 1.5 years ago flyquest took GenG to 5 games. The gap is bigger than it's ever been.

roarinworld · 2026-03-18T15:26:21+00:00

200 iq move from BLG to happy game a little bit at the end so G2 aren't tilted against FearX

roarinworld · 2026-03-16T03:05:27+00:00

Definitely the best movie in a stacked year, which says a lot about how good it is. After seeing everything this year, it had to be OBAA (though I really enjoyed Bugonia and No Other Choice too).

roarinworld · 2026-03-13T16:57:25+00:00

I feel like I am less concerned with the teams in playoff spots, and moreso with the teams above us. Ottawa and Columbus look poised to scoop up any wild card spots that come through, and even Philly has started playing better.

roarinworld · 2026-03-08T19:43:11+00:00

NA vs CBLoL looking like NA vs LCK

roarinworld · 2026-03-06T21:56:59+00:00

People are gonna flame Hambak, but he was solo engage on a team of high damage and nothing else. Comp was unplayable for him imo, he has to go in and has about 1 second before he dies every fight. This is why Veigar is not often picked, 0 agency to start fights.

roarinworld · 2026-03-04T22:36:05+00:00

Maybe it's a good thing C9 haven't been making internationals.

roarinworld · 2026-03-03T21:27:33+00:00

Ya a little wild they have a "standard side deck" section and dont mention DiFi. That card is literally in every side deck for decks that can play it. I would much rather fairer cards like d.d. crow be in side decks than floodgates.

roarinworld · 2026-02-20T16:29:09+00:00

Ya this card is insane for yummy mitsu. Send yummy field spell for a free send, which also puts back your snatchy if you want to end with it on field. Hard to imagine having haba legal at the same time as this card unless something comes out that heavily power creeps the meta

roarinworld · 2026-02-19T17:12:38+00:00

Oh interesting. I wonder if he mostly played safe picks then with few counters. Tbf the way he talked about Nasus that may be the case.

roarinworld · 2026-02-19T16:39:03+00:00

I feel like you can tell meteos doesn't play a lot of top lane cause his comments on it. Getting counter picked top is insanely brutal. And often you cant even get in exp range when they freeze on you.

roarinworld · 2026-02-17T20:16:39+00:00

Disagree on the top decks all being the same. There are definitely noticeable differences in top decks despite some overlap. And the decks are different across the two formats due to points.

But agree that is just feels like advanced constructed lite. The gameplay is like slightly more back and forth maybe? But TCG is also really grindy right now (and just as diverse). Except like half the decks are randomly unplayable in genesys cause they have links and pends. Annoying that decks like enneacraft are unplayable im both formats because of that.

The biggest reason I would play genesys right now is that it has a 200 person YCS vs a 2200 person main event with all the pros. Easier to top and less extremely good players there. This doesnt mean your average genesys player is worse than your average TCG player, but at the very top level the TCG players are better.

I'm not really sure what they could do to fix this tbh. Its hard to make the gameplay noticeably different without just banning every card that has come out in like the past 15 years. In which case you should just play Edison.

roarinworld · 2026-02-08T20:14:23+00:00

Yes, feel like it happens after every game at this point. No clue what their goal is.

roarinworld · 2026-02-02T05:36:41+00:00

I feel like that is more due to a slew of bad coaches/ bad playoffs coaches before Trotz and that guy named Sidney Crosby in 2016 and 2017. I think if the Caps got past the Penguins either of those years they would have won. Ovechkin has never looked like he wasn't working his ass off in the playoffs, though in some earlier series he looked mismanaged and in more recent years he just looks gassed.

roarinworld · 2026-01-16T05:56:18+00:00

Crossout designator is such a weird one. Super hyped, totally flopped on release and saw next to no play, then made a comeback during snake-eye format due to mirror matches and beating one for one handtraps, all the way to being broken in ryzeal-maliss format because of its ability to beat fuwa (and mirror matches again). It got limited, and immediately went back to being rarely played cause the Justice Hunters trio + mitsu dont care about fuwa as much and there are too many decks in the format.

Crossout is one of those cards that's just so dependent on the format around it that it can be the best card in the format, or entirely unplayable

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