in nvt vs. C9; Nvt did not play well yesterday w/ play from bige, kenma, and mac standing out as poor, but they still feel a tier above the competition; their drafts are worrisome since they tend towards strong meta picks. C9 drafted amazingly in the games i saw, and were able to craft coherent comps comprised of comfort picks, with the maps being played just being favorable for c9s pool. Def the most fun series, c9 played great.
Illidan/kael as a combo is strong but is being exposed hard in na atm when actual team building is involved. It's def not something you want to prioritize on certain maps. Sylv is finally getting her due in na. Nvt understands it by unfortunately it doesnt seem like bige is in practice with it from yesterday's games.
Aa and gfe both showed up nicely; in yesterday's games they came off as teams that actually had coherent ideas wrt playing the game when compared to cog or ts. Cog played as if they could just outskill their competition but their map/rotational play was always a step behind and they often took certain things for granted, resulting in the team they were facing being all nah you cant get away w/ that -> punish. Ts played more coherently but jesus christ they cant teamfight. Drafting from group b was more or less standard, expect udall to go for illidan always and equinox to go for sonya always. Oh also they like to play lili into illidan (tactic which hasnt worked well this tourney), so lili saw a ban yesterday, most likely shes been seeing results in scrims, im not really seeing it at all personally but i hope it pops off in today's games and i get illuminated
Ppl kind of seem like they are fearing the blinds w/ illidan, johanna has been consistently drafted along with him (though this could just as easily be them wanting to pick up waveclear since illidan has shit waveclear compared to the other popular melees/yeah get the tank with waveclear + we all know muradin is a better counter). Udall team constantly ran solo illi (he also died from ganks a decent amount), but i dont think the other teams were doing that.
Speaking of muradin, c9 did a great draft in game one of nvt vs. c9 that took advantage of the early pickability of muradin using tyrande/rex/etc/furion/kael, like muradin cant do shit against any of this. Additionally let us all pray that rexxar doesnt become op, prob one of the worst candidates in the game to become op
rooting for nvt and gfe today, hope it's good games
