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Every CPL raises more questions then it answers. Can NoA ever be consistent? Is coL this good? And why is no one talking about EYE? Can the Americans truly claim bragging rights? Every CPL raises more questions then it answers. Can NoA ever be consistent? Is coL this good? And why is no one talking about EYE? Can the Americans truly claim bragging rights? Questions are easy, answers are not. NoA has proven one thing, they are not consistent. Nollelva and last Summer CPL proved this team may never be. Watching this team all weekend, the answer lies with two guys; Shaguar and Method.  One side of that sword is the talent; obviously some of the best AWP and rifle work of any players in the World. But the other side of that sword is the hot and cold play by which they live. Just look at pre-CPL LG LAN. From ice cold group play, including a loss to coL, mibr and GamerCo, to rallying on bracket play day to win the whole thing. Anyone who watched the matches on that Sunday during bracket play saw how effective Method was, the same has been true at this CPL Winter for Shaguar. His play with an AWP has been critical. Even at this CPL, Method and Shaguar dictated the tempo for the rest of the team. The single match lost by NoA so far in this event, featured both sub-.500 FPR’s, the only time that either did that all tournament. But neither has been anywhere near this effective during the low period of this team’s past 6 months. Could the lack of CAL-I action both Shaguar and Method normally find between CPL’s be the cause of their ineffectiveness? It seems plausible considering both could have become complacent with the 2nd place finish they had at last Winter CPL and without CAL-I matches to force practice they were left unprepared for the following 6 months of match play. If NoA is to be a dominate team on the World scene, they’ll need to solve those inconsistency problems. The question also must be raised about this team if they can’t find consistency. Can they survive another down period like they had these last 6 months? With the reputations of Element leaving teams and the lack of interest Naikon showed at some points; I’m not sure they could survive a down period of similar length and ineffectiveness. Prime Content Sorry, but you must be a Prime member to see the rest of this article! Additional topics include coL's upstart performance, what EYE has done, the role of other American teams in the event, and where SK.swe really sits among the crowd. Get Prime Now |
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Honestly though, just Prime the whole thing, that's a pretty gay way of doing it. I haven't bought Prime yet and probably never will.
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LoL, the article isnt good enough for me to want to go ahead and do that. Sorry :/
Are you on weed or what ?
The day when Shaguar and Method get close to elemeNt´s talent AND be as consistent will NEVER EVER be... period!
its also not a true statement to say that players like element are always consistant. every player on NoA has had some up and down games. one thing that i was struck with was how EYE had a couple players on the upper end of their teams scoreboard, NoA's players were quite close to each other.
Anyway, the part saying both Shaguar and Meth0d are just more talented than the 3 others seamed pretty arrogant, especially coming from an american...
Listening to your shoutcast though, you were really making an effort to emphasize everything good that Method and Shag did, while often overlooking equally good or sometimes better play from the Norwegians. One example would be Shag nailing a routine AWP shot on the first map and you more or less crediting the whole round to him, while not giving any mention to one round when Element enters the site and drops 3 of EYE in 3 seperate 3/4 bullet bursts to the head, all about 10 seconds apart.
Don't forget that Element and Xeqtr have both won CPL's in the past, so I don't think Method and Shag are the all star team carriers you seem to be making them out to be (moreso in your cast than this article).
#14 agreed, everytime shag or 'mikey method' hit a shot you would just hear "OOOOOWWWWW and .... DROPS ...."
Coming to the whole 4K thing, midway got a lot of unwarrented abuse by the brits for correctly calling them overrated.They proved midway right by turning in probably their worst performance at a cpl?I only watched the coL v 4k game but from what i gather Mangiacapra and Goodfella are the only ones capable of playing for the big bucks in that team, despite the other guys being skilled - they just dont cut it at the top.
Suprised at NoA finally getting it together and XeqtR turning in arguably his best cpl performance.Very solid throughout and all the NoA guys were impressive and well deserved their win.
I called 3D to win last CPL and called them to win this one.Damn u 3D , making me look like a fool, like a fool i tell u! How they didnt finish off Rival/Gamerco i dont know.They have played them enough times on nuke , on lan aswell as online recently to know how to get terrorist rounds off em.Playing to rivals strengths by continuously running strats inside rather than working outside where they usually enjoy great success.Maybe the new round time played a part.Things werent helped by Sal having a real stinker on day2 and if 3D had stayed in the upper bracket who knows how things could have played out.
On a side note Hanes is something else to watch play.His movement is insane and great to watch.Very entertaining.
As somebody else has pointed out, the use of cpl_fire is a joke as its a bad map and de_cbble should have been in there instead.
Great job by TsN as always, GEEGEE
-> Statistics wise Xeqtr and Element were the top 2 players for NoA (using gamesense) . Make your own conclusions.
And wow, that was some pretty lame thinking with the "read the second half of my hastily written article - IF you pay for Prime!"
No.
1. don't write an article for the sake of writing it. That's basically what you did here. You needed something for your prime users and so you wrote w/e came to your mind, even tho it was complete rubbish.
2. Don't support your fallacious theories with false information. eg: Shag and method have more skill than the other three players. Gamesense has xeqtr and element with higher kill ratios than shag or method.
3. If you think writing one paragraph (badly written) will entice people to buy prime so that they can read more of the badly written article, then you're wrong. You'd be better off just making the whole thing prime.
This is in no way a personal attack on your site. I really enjoy it. I just thought that this should be said. :D
i was just about to say that i twas nice to see an article that wasnt prime and then baam! the prime thing
and whoever said method was inconsistent is legally retarded
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sweet, and very g@y
Yes, this article was hastily written (last night, late, I believe), but the points later become very interesting. Any prime readers can likely testify that the 2nd half is better than the first.
Anyhow, if you like the idea, say so. if you'd rather have Prime articles be all prime, say so. Don't say "not buying it" - we're not pushing for Prime sales on this one, we're trying a different format.
Ethier pay your 4 dollars or month or something, as much money as you'd spend on mcdonalds in one day let alone a month you overweight geeks$^@*^$
As for bragging rights? Because of what? I still fail to see an American team in the final since 3D those many years back as well as the huge ommisions of European teams with SK, spiXel, TAG and a weakened Titans team. Showings from these teams may well have pushed the teams below Rival well and truely out of the top10. The world does not end at American shores.
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