Trade Wars

Hoped Tonic would be eventually picked by some OWL team for the next season... feelsbad
gl to the team

What a questionable ult management by Gigantti... constantly trying to "turn over" lost fights instead of regrouping with ult advantage. So painful to watch.
ggs anyway

Weird QP-style agression from Neptuno... And there were moments when Fusion had support ultimate advantage and engaged poorly so they ended up losing that fights they shouldn't.

Another reddit AMA by Effect?..

Looks good.
Some minor "issues" that I've quickly noticed:
http://telegra.ph/rovergg--mobile-version-02-08

Is Linkzr completely out of this match? Is it possible that they'll bring him on one of the follwing maps?

I noticed Linkzr in NIP roster at liquipedia. Did he play for them? Any incoming changes?

Would be nice to see any top Korean team there as well.

Don't know what's behind this Rubikon-to-Boombox swap, but it's kinda sad to see this changes right after ex-Cyclone qualified to Takeover. I really hoped they'd establish themselves as a solid top-tier team with even bigger potential than eUnited, but it seems like the overal situation with team sponsorship in EU is not so great. Anyway, good luck to ex-Cyclone with searching for replacement and reaching their best shape for upcoming tournaments.

Nice to see more versatility from LG Evil. It was really solid performance at Gibraltar, especially in the end - nice teamplay and positioning. Seems like C9 need more time to become more consistent.

Any info about "sev -> Zaprey" swap?
Looks like Cypher is going to focus on the new Quake game.

Btw, Txao mentioned on his stream that he wasn't playing for COL on this tornament and Carbon Series as well. They decided to try other (NA) players because it will take too much time and risks to bring Txao in NA (to make work visa, etc).

At this moment it doesn't feels like this EU-teams' reshuffle was a such great idea. I dont know how did this affect teams in terms of improving inner 'microclimate', but recent results are really sad. Yes, probably, it's too early to make such judgements (we didn't even see new Rogue team in action), but Misfits, specifically, in my eyes didn't become next level team compating to their previous international squad. 'Soon - Tviq' exchange seemed to be pretty OK: genious tracer player was replaced by super versatile star dps Tviq, but they've also lost such a great flex healer as Hidan and moved talented Nevix (that performed great as dps) to this role and as I see this leads to decreacing of tems dps- and at the same time heal- potential. And for me, personally, it was nice to watch such a bright internetional team as their previous squad was, but you may treat this as a fanboy tears. That was so unfortunate that they haven't been invited to the first APEX season. Anyway I want to wish Misfits all the best & hope to see them in the other tournaments soon.

Hm... I thought he'd create the team with Cypher and Cooller? Didn't they scrim with ex-Reunited?