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Rk and G25 looking in good form.  It's been a while since the star challenge and I have seen a shift in some of the teams. They have done their homework and adapted to new tactics. Rk in day 2 game 4 pulls four cars into late zone making a fort and holding out against G25.  Rk comes out on top of this engagement, let's take a closet look and see how this went down. Could they have done something different? What did they do well what can we take away from this. First off G25 is down to three members. It's the final zone and Rk has the majority of map control.  It's hard to tell what each player knows at any point. We can see a few traits that Rk & G25 have that show they are top teams and some that show they have room to grow. Rk was blessed by the zone a few times, G25 had an open feild to move threw. G25 was staying out of Rk's throwable range and it appears that both sides use up there utilities early on. One thing RK could have done was to save a few grens for the final close. When the circle starts to close they have no room to move but forward into the mini zone of grens. But I can't fault them for trying to open up the fight with a few grens either.  It keeps G25 at edge of zone and removes the risk of them moving up and throwing counter grens there way. G25 goes for a nice 1 - 2 split Sixless goes for a wide flank and takes down RkDiable and RkElusive. He is knocked by Chicrazy but a 2 for 1 trade is as good as you can ask from any player. That brings it to a 2v2 Rk has Chicezey and Perkisas and G25 has Ignix and Juicy. I would have liked to see the push from Ignix and Juicy come in as soon as Sixless got the knock on Diablo. All of Rk's focus was in Sixless direction they could have capitalized on that. They are late on the push and eat zone, however it comes down to one bullet. Here I see a mistake by Rk Perkasis he goes for a finish on Sixless? This is the last team and last circle there is no reason to flush a player that is in the open. Zone will kill him as it is closing, he won't be picked up.  His focus should have been toward the other side of zone. Perkisas is not incover so he only gives away his position. He is quick on the turn and almost knocks Ignix but is knocked in turn. Chicrazy wins his 1v1 against Juicy and then turns and fires the last shot that takes out Ignix. Both of them where one shot and that could have gone either way. It was good defense by Rk use of cover and control of the map. G25 looks good and wins all but one of the 1v1s for being at a disadvantage and coming out this close makes them look like the better team. The only thing i think they could have capitalize on was pushing up to be closer and engaging when Sixless popped up. The split flank worked and gave them an even fight but they lost by one shot. No team was fully run over and it was hard fought. RkDiablo's flank was good but he had no one close for a trade. They could have had both team members push then faint a one man fall back and keep one out there. But Sixless was already covering that part of the zone keeping a wide flank from encircling them. It did not seem Rk was ready to commit to a flank and they were not all using the cover either. G25 had an amazing overall game with control of a compound and remaining active and acquiring kills throughout the match. Gatekeeping teams coming into the zone while keeping three alive is a feat in itself. Rk held control of the top of the hill and was able to push back teams coming in. Both teams showed good control and did not tunnel vision in on one area. The eastern side was very busy, teams coming from there had to push past G25 or through an open field covered by Rk. We see two teams using the zone to build that kill counOrland propel them in the standings. These are two teams to watch and see how other teams will counter plays like this. I hope to see more of these close battles in the final circles.

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Ok so right now we have so much going on in the game it can be hectic to figure things out. But I'm going to propose some things to smooth out the logistical challenges we face as a community. First off as the popularity of a clan rises people tend to flock to join them. Thinking I will be able to compete! I'm really good? Right now as things are going with wicked gaming turnamants only one comp team from each clan is allowed into tournament season. Often this is the clans pushing for only there top players to be in the comp team. Only those on the roster of the comp team can compete. Ok good and well people can start there own clan and make a comp team. Not as easy as you would think. Most of the talent want to go to the top teams thinking they will be next on the roster if the comp teams roster is upset. Well sorry to say it's a big mess. People want an easy path to fame and working on your own is not easy. Along comes crews, at first i was against yet another additional button on my HUD. But here is where I was wrong. This is the next step in the organization. Clans have members that can then form into crews. Those crews can then sign up for turnamants and compete. I'm not sure if this is what LH Douyu & GT Douyu where but the similar names make me think so. This is very similar to the Gen.G Gold & Gen.G Black that competed in the global invitational. We saw something similar in the playoffs with LØ having two teams one with the clan name and one as TG those guys, and Rollexx was on TeamGates. We could have had LØ.thoseguys and regular LØ. Why not. LØ.Black, C9.blood any number of teams can hold there clan tag and play as a crew. We had two of the blacklist teams and even thought they didn't to the best the casters could tell them apart. With a bracket playoff system any number of teams, from every organization could submit crews and challenge the top competition. This would then foster talent, making the clans and crews a valuable resource. You need more exposure to regular players to build there experience. Joining LØ would not just mean your part of an organization but would me if you got on a crew you would compete under the clan tag. Recognized clans would then have the power to upload there logo for there crew, making things easier to recognize them and the clans success. I hope to see several crews form clans competing in turnamants. That way talent can be seen not just stuffed into the roster of a clan and kept from competing. This is my take on it pubg mobile can facilitate some things we could have some interesting results. Let me know what you think and we will see what happens.

Not by far! I dont think we will see the Powerbang himself step up to the pro scene. They had a few of the LØ roster on the squad leader boards. This will be good for the pro scene as teams settle there rosters this will move the talent around and it will let yunger players find there spot in the roster. MCL fell out of the top pro scene when there roster changed. They moved up from B to class A and where looking good but another roster change and once again the team struggled. I have yet to see a match where they looked strong since but we shall see. So when #Rolexx star challenge crew signed on with #cloud9 I was surprised but I cant blame him as well. Having a good crew is important and being able to work well as an igl you need people that trust you... It remains to be seen they have a ton of talent and I'm rooting for the cloud9 to be a strong force in the NA. They are the north American esport team. Now back to lightsout they have plenty of players in there clan I'm sure it might take a few games or a season to work out the team and get a good IGL. For me I have faith that Lightsout will be around, it will remain to be seen if they are as strong as before.

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So what can we take away from this. First all we know getting the superior angle on your opponent is a advantage. Second the use of utility can be better then trying to out aim a opponent dug in. Third in tpp use that view if they are firing dont peak into fire. Last of all dont ever underestimate your opponent. Let's get out there and make those plays. I have begun to look at maps different after this play from Baraka. It was not that I didn't do it before but now I was looking for the advantage. I hope this can open up our minds and we can become stronger as NA players. I hope too that Cloud9 gets back to form they are a great team, this tournament was ruff for them let's see them bounce back. I will be looking into as many games as possible and see what happened to the NA teams. Maybe I will try and get an interview from some of the players as well get there insite, see what was going through there minds. Open to discussion and other points I might have overlooked. In the words of HotJukes LetsGo!!!

Post analytics is always easy to see what could have been done differently. I love to see good csgo and right now Astralis has been playing some lockdown csgo. MIBR first map against North was a blow out but you can't underestimate the team from North. The adjusted and came back. MIBR was not able to string together the matches to build the economy. North was playing a very aggressive and fluid game. They shut down the likes of fallen and coldzero. With both of them struggling, Stewie2k was not able to be make the aggressive plays needed to break the North defense. North was great about playing the not the map but the opposing team. They did not fall into a default that could be easily counteracted with utilities. It will be a good game today and I hope it goes the distance. Let's see how they show up today and what kind of game is played. I will be watching the second game against north to see what really happened but for now let's just hope that they both bring there best. A loss for Astalis would be fun to see how they bounce back. But there is signs that other teams are starting to figure out the counters to the Astalis tank we have seen..

The shake up of the teams has finally shook the head of the lightsout roster. This might be good as cloud9 steps in as a team an picks up the whole of lightsout comp roster. It seams that the team that started out in Insanenation to TeamGates to LØ.. might find a home under the c9 logo. With this shake up one might ask how we will pick who is in the pro scene. I have said many times before the way that wicked gaming has set up only let's the teams that have been in the pro league to match up. No new team no matter the skill can find a way into the pro league without going through a few seasons to make it to the league. The relegation should include any team that want to sign up. We need a playoff season. So new teams or organizations as they pick new rosters can make a push for the playoffs. There should be some way of weeding out the pro noobs. Lights out has a deep roster and hopefully those guys will step up and put on a good show. Let us see, I hope to see with the move of cloud9 to the mobile scene will put some structure to the tournaments. If we are going to have a following we need something that can be followed..

Watched the counter strike finals in Chicago.... not knowing much about it but I have been trying catch up on how things work. Its success with building a player base and a fan base has been successful. Besides the players that play the game. Keeping a game alive you must build a player base that will grow beyaond those that play it. Not everyone plays soccer or football. However they do have college teams and no surprise how this helps them keep a significant fan base. Csgo has made counter strike's multiplayer game a success.. I started watching pubg and the PC tournaments. Most matches I found after the fact and post stream. One thing I have noticed is that there is not really a season to follow no relegation to set the tone for a season. The build up to big tournaments is not well published... now I'm not in the know so maybe i am wrong. I find that csgo is much easier to follow. What pubg needs is a structured season that can be followed. With this I feel some kind of arcade style face off would be fun. The head to head battles from teams.... seeing team liquid vs faze dropping in a section of a map in a high loot populated area like pochinki.... or military. Now it's just a few thoughts but I feel that in some ways we need to have the fan base built.

So I seen people throw there ideas at this. Most stand by, claw is the only way, pros do it. In steps #Rollexx..... He is arguably one of the best thumb players out there and he only uses thumbs. As far as I know and I can understand from his hud. Let's break down how and where this whole claw thing came about. Wait this is only my opinion and a breakdown of how I feel the progression has happened. I remember the old console games on N64 the controller used only thumbs and In mostly a 2d world it was adequate. When 3d games where first coming out I was not on a console I was behind my gaming PC playing couterstrike on the schools lan. I played the solo games like wolfenstein, half"life even played out the quake games.... they where awesome. But all those where on PC and I used all my fingers to control the game. Halo was my first xbox game and I was hooked on the story. Being a scifi buff I loved it. Yeah I was limited by a controller but I soon I learned what later I would understand is claw. Disclaimer the controller was made to fit in the hand and not cause fatigue!!!! Using the index fingers to fire and aim was helpful and made the gameplay seamlessly interactive. You half to train your brains memory and muscles to act together to become efficient. When games came out on phones and tablets and they made the heads up display and able to customize the mobile game world was birthed. Games like critical ops soon gained popularity off the back of csgo and other first person shooters. The fast pace and action soon evolved a gameplay control style we now know as claw. Where you use your index or several of your fingers to control actions. I have played critical ops and after jumping back from pubg it felt stiff and wonky..... one of the main reasons is no gyro control witch is wat I use.(Reference; https://www.boston-technology.com/mobile-games-gyroscope-accelerometer/ ) If your not familiar with the basics of gyro then read this article I placed above for better understanding. I know there are plenty of people that have swapped over from the CO side to pubg. That's something I dont care to address here but I can say that if you are going to get good at CO then learn claw. It is the way it runs now and what the high skill players have adopted. Claw gives you several advantages and if you nor sure look them up this is not a pro article for claw. With pubg mobile the gyro is a advantage that makes the gameplay smooth and frees your thumbs to make those plays. Now claw players are always able to be more mobile and playing with gyro will make your aim easier. At the end of the day it boils down to what you learn and how you play the map. Claw players have a slight advantage up close, you can always use tactics to mitigate the style and class of player. In summary claw will make you a better then average player and if you get good you will can become a real threat on the battlefield if your just wanting to have fun thumbs are fine. If you want an extra advantage then turn on gyro and crank that red dot sense up to like 250..... some day I'll post a pic of all my HUD and senses. Being comfortable with your controls is the biggest advantage and learning those reactions is key.

With the newest patch fixing some of the significant desync problems in the game I think there is hope for the mobile version as well. I know that there will always be peekers advantage. Witch it should be in some ways. That feeling you get when you get gunned down even when your behind cover is the worst. IN ANY GAME.... But with this move I think that it will help with the quality of game experience. I think to make things interesting and this is just my idea. They could venture into a four seasonS for Erengale that would be a fresh take on the original map. Think a thick blanket of snow across the map and slippery roads. snow machines instead of motorcycles, we can have chains on some of the cars. Drifts of snow up to the second floor of a house. Make some places where the cars will get stuck. For me I like the erea that pubg is in. Keep it retro build on the maps and make it interesting. I am glad to see some life out of the team at pubg I hope they have them a bonus who ever figured that out. I know that such a complex game it can take time to fix things and really get things rolled out. If the mobile version has taught us anything it is that the rolling out of updates fast does not make sense or good gameplay. There has been so many problems with the mobile game and it makes sense. They are always working on the next update or skins the fixes are just not coming till the next update. Then when that drops it has all it's own bugs... Our best hope is that as they start to stabilize we will see a stable game with seasonal insintives and changes that add quality of life. If anything we have to many in game stats leader boards and stuff in the main game HUD. I would like to see a simpler game and have some of the achievements and royal pass things be in a link. I even like what @sprEEEzy said about making FPP into the competitive settings only. Like then arcade mode that's is out on the Chinese vrs. I would be willing to give up auto pickup and all the rest. The shot signals and footsteps on the map for fpp. Maybe I'm crazy but I like the challenge. Tpp is great for messing around but I find people play a much slower game and camp a lot more. But now I'm rambling and my main point I must come back to slow down pubg yeah you might lose some impatience players but make the game better take some time and make this game competitive make the game smooth. Then let's bring in the new content. Four weeks a beta can you really fix all the problems in that time?

How would you like to have a four on four option with a small arcade section for relegations have a first to seven or something.... Pochinki, Yasnaya, north and south gorge, military complex. I feel like this would give a competitive aspect to helping teams practice as well as teams going head to head for scrims. Could make a leader board and have the results posted. Give LO and Gank, WC a chance to have bragging rights to who has taken the most wins. I only named the big city areas cause of loot density and the fact that it would be interesting to see. Right this would help the lower level teams practice against better players in a four on four. This I feel would help the teams get to another level. Right now with the maps we dont know what will happen if there will be high tier players of if we have 50 bots.... let me know what you think and if you would use this as a custom room.

In most shooter games the trade out is an important idea for successful gaming. Yeah if you can kill everyone else good for you. However if the other team understands this basic skill, you are not able to shoot two players at once. In #PUBGMOBILE I have been running across a lot of players that have become lazy. The Enemyahead marker has made players lazy and not lern lingo or callouts for the map. The angles to cover your teammates and to split up other teams to gain the one on one has been lost to just sloppy lazy play. People are relying on skill which some teams have plant of. But what sets a team apart is how they work together. Taking an area of the map a teams priority should be to gain control of information set up to cover the angles and find out proximity of other players. Why gain control of infermation is first is beacause that tells you where you need to be set up at. Second come cover angles. That's for the defense. Third is to figure out the proximity of targets, ie how close is the next team. Notice how looting is not on this list. Because looting is not that important to keep you alive. Your teamate will know what's there just ask them for what you need. Back when this EnemyAhead was introduced to pubgmobile I thought it was a good idea... im not saying it dose not have a use. I later saw it put up on PC and to my surprise #shroud was not pleased. Now after playing for a while if get why. It to easy to not listen and just ask them to mark the enemy. If you dont have coms then by all means it's a useful tool. When you play you should be only feeding information not asking questions. Those questions slow down the process. As a team you should have the lingo down and what you use should be understood by your teammates. That's why #gankstars work so well in the north gorge area. They picked a place on the map and have learned all the angles and have all the callouts they need. They stay calm on the coms and only feed infermaton. Not come pick me up. They say I'm down and I'm safe. Done. There teammates know what this means. #sidrocplays if you like other topics covered of have questions, comments, criticism please let us battle it out.

Watching the finals of the #CSGO turny. #cloud9 and #Astralis match was noticing the way they use smoke gernandes and the molotovs. They will often push through a smoke to find players. In pubg the smokes are used often on your self to get the rez. But as the comp teams learn the play styles we have more people shooting through the smokes. In one turny I saw a team get shot out of a car and the team pushed up on them. They smoked themselves for a revive but the opposing team pushed through and shot them through the smoke. My point is that in #PUBGMOBILE we are at a point that some players use smokes just for cover for your team. When you use a smoke chain to move, you use up a lot of utility to move. Instead smoke the enemy. Second floor throw it in and obscure there view make them show themselves in the window. This opens up for a nade throw into the window. First floor if your pushing into the house send them inside the bottom floor. If you are just pushing up to the house through it on the outside and then push to the hard cover near the house. I'm going to drop a video on some gameplay and some alternate smoke tactic. Try and show what I mean. Send me feedback and how u use smokes and what you think they are least used for. #sidrocplays