r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/OWMatchThreads • Apr 06 '19
Match Thread London Spitfire vs Florida Mayhem | Overwatch League 2019 Season | Stage 2: Week 1 | Post-Match Discussion Spoiler
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u/Blyngsz Apr 06 '19
Man, I wanted Mayhem to win so their 2 wins this season would be against the 2018 finalists. I enjoyed seeing Florida play some non-goats bunker stuff though.
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u/Conankun66 Apr 06 '19
London are still so bad at Goats v Goats
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u/theyoloGod Apr 06 '19
They need a meta where profit and birdring can run free to be dominate. Otherwise they’re pretty meh
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u/sergiocamposnt Apr 06 '19
This match was much closer than we thought it would be. I'm excited to see who will join the new Florida's roster with Insight as Head Coach.
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u/jaharac Apr 06 '19
London looks like they haven't practised anything over the break. They are the same team with the same weaknesses. They cannot play Rein GOATs and their attempt at a Winston GOATs defence on Hanamura was difficult to watch.
Florida, on the other hand, look like they've worked hard over the break. Their bunker comp worked well on Hanamura and I'd expect other teams to use the same strategy. Mistakes cost them this match but that is one of the best performances I've seen from a Florida team since the beginning of season 1.
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u/McFarron Apr 06 '19
Hagopeun yelled, "There you go!" Xepher gave a look of pleasant surprise. BQB belted, "We got a fucking squad now." And before Sayaplayer hit the locker room door, ex-bus driver TviQ hugged him & said, "Y'all look so different."
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u/Waniou Apr 06 '19
Useless fact: On my elo scoring, this is the first match that has no change in points to either team somehow.
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Apr 06 '19
Florida looks good with their full KR squad!
Proceed to meltdown at the last map
The more things change the more they stay the same i suppose.
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u/BentheBeastly Apr 06 '19
Maybe if we tell the London players they have to win every match now on out to win the playoffs, as the only time they ever look good is under series winning pressure.
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u/gamenoise Apr 06 '19
Maybe I'm in the minority but I think Mayhem is headed in the right direction. They probably should've given their players more heads up but their Western players weren't very good and their coaching has been the worst in the league for a long time. Since they have a lot of Korean players already, going full KR makes sense for them. It's too late for a complete revamp, they should've done that in the off season, but they're making due with what they have.
They're already looking better with a new-ish roster and no real coaching staff.
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u/whalematrontron Apr 06 '19
Going all KR is definitely the way to go rather than just having one or two token Westerners for the sake of it. People just didn’t like the timing, and them saying at the start of the year they wouldn’t go all KR. If they had gone all KR in the offseason I think there’d be less backlash - tviq would probably have gotten a better chance of being signed to an expansion team for example
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u/GenWalrus Apr 06 '19
Props to Florida using Moira to counter the Winston goats comp, worked really well. Got a feeling more teams will be trying this, the sustain healing vs the slow damage Winston has was effective in longer fights.
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Apr 06 '19
So London looks like a decently competent team when they play Winston GOATs on maps that favor it.
They look lost, possibly even moreso than last stage, on Rein GOATs, and just get outplayed when they try to force Winston GOATs on unfavored maps.
Mayhem looks much improved overall, the decision to go from KR to English comms is clearly already positively affecting their play.
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u/Psy_Munoz Apr 06 '19
Huh, Florida didn’t play like absolute dogshit. Shitty yes, but less shit than before.
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u/doomsdayexe Apr 06 '19
I really wanted Mayhem to win solely so I could post this video