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SK.wow goes home early at MLG Orlando
After being the top-ranked American team at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational the SK Gaming World of Warcraft lost both of their games at the MLG Orlando tournament.
By Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz
Jul 12, 2008 21:48
After being the top-ranked American team at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational the SK Gaming World of Warcraft lost both of their games at the MLG Orlando tournament.The 3v3 PvP team with Vance 'Serennia' Phuoc, Corey 'Glorin' Casassa and Neil 'Neilyo' Mosunic came to Orlando with high expectations after getting third place in Paris two weeks ago. Their plans were ruined by No Mods No Chance who beat them in their first match of the tournament and by Insurrection, the former Fnatic team, in the lower bracket.
The Worldwide Invitational showed that the SK team have a lot of potential, but Orlando also proved that there is much still experience to be gained - MLG Orlando was the team's third LAN event.
There is a lot of training ahead of the team. Hopefully they will have done it by the next event.
The Worldwide Invitational showed that the SK team have a lot of potential, but Orlando also proved that there is much still experience to be gained - MLG Orlando was the team's third LAN event.
There is a lot of training ahead of the team. Hopefully they will have done it by the next event.
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Time to send SK.EU to some tournaments imo :O
I were hoping for them to get a 1st and thought they would be able to do so, but choosing a paladin ruined it. Shame.
Not that Inflame was bad cuz he was very good. But yeah playing with Glorin should give them a bonus because they have had more experience playing together.
First of all i think SK loses alot of pottential when Neilyo is not playing Rogue.
He might be good with other classes, but the way he plays his class is just incredible, so everytime he is not playing Rogue SK.US just loses alot of quality and improvising.
Besides during the last 3 tournaments, Neilyo has spent more time playing other classes then actually the class he plays better.
I think SK should try to pick a stable Main Setup to play on tournaments (they definitely dont have one), since once again, they spent more time trying to counter-comp and mind guessing their opponents, instead of playing what they know best.
Just to finish, and particulary in MLG Orlando, the setup choices made by SK were just so bad, i dont know for example why they choosed to stick with Ench Shaman against Rogue Warrior Druid, glorin was more time using shield and making no pressure at all, instead of something usefull.
It was obvious they would stand no chance running that.
Serennia might have cost some games during the first round vs Orz, he went terrible as paladin.
If they would have run Holy Paladin, Resto Shaman (not hybrid) and Warrior, they could have easily win.
On the Serennia note, he is trying to prove smth .. that he is the best one out there playing whatever he wants, but it isn't so. A lot of his "wierd" comps can be countered very easily. Paladin? Gloring running around with shield shocking? Bad decisions as far as I can tell.
The last MLG was good to watch really, except Nihilum who play such a boring setup of drain teams and now it seems everyone does the same, 2 healers in a 3on3? so boring. I started watching the games yet they went on for ages so just listened, you got 2 druids and 2 priests and 2 rogues, boring as shit really considering they can drink so it just goes on and on and on because of druids being imba and the priests mana burning, this isn't the mad skills you expect when you watch a stream.
I liked watching the FDD guys last MLG when they went rogue rogue druid and won (I'm sure it's FDD) but so far this tournament has sucked bad in terms of spectating, you expect to see people like Serennia and Neilyo playing what they play best yet they play a class they just suck ass at and get raped easy when they should win.
People try and make wow alot more complicated than it is, people should stick to what they do best and not change because they want to counter comp, SK did it and look what happened, the atmosphere in SK seems terrible aswell hence why neilyo won't event alk about it and the decision making is all Serennia and it sucks, I can't see SK going far with Serennia really.
We did well in Paris without ever playing with our 3rd because we werent forced to play with a shaman in every comp (there is no shaman comp that has anywhere close to an advantage vs double melee) we only fought double melee at Orlando :( I plan to make some changes to the roster that should solve these problems and we should definately be able to re-create our success at Paris and go even further!