:D Thanks! OWL has been so hype, and the matches have been great to watch. Really enjoying analyzing these matches.
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:D Thanks! OWL has been so hype, and the matches have been great to watch. Really enjoying analyzing these matches.
Started making new Stratwatch episodes analyzing the Overwatch League. Episode 18 was a bit more of a VoD review than a real Stratwatch, so I will only be posting Stratwatch 19 as the newest episode here!
Stratwatch 19: Forced and Unforced Errors
Summary: This episode looks at errors and what types of errors exist. Specifically focusing on the difference between forced and unforced errors, this episode follows Dallas Fuel through their match vs LA Valiant and evaluates what kind of mistakes were made. This episode will answer what Forced and Unforced errors look like, how to identify them, and how to avoid them in your own individual play or teamplay.
Hey everyone! I haven't been able to get another Stratwatch put together due to time constraints, but I have always wanted to spill my thoughts about strategy and play onto a video. I hope this Series and the VoD analysis it brings, will help grow the understanding of the game.
If you have any suggestions, discussion points, or ideas for any of the analysis's please do let me know!
VoD Watch Video List: Link to VoD Watch Playlist
Misfits vs Fnatic (Atlantic Showdown Playoffs - Group A Deciders)
The 13th EU Go4 Overwatch Cup just ended a few hours ago and the VoDs are available!
Youtube VoDs are available for the August Monthly Finals for Go4 Overwatch. Below is the playlist link as well as the brackets and information
Special thank you to ESL for giving us the casting opportunity, and to Thermaltake for sponsoring the NA Go4 Series
The 3rd place decider and Finals were played earlier today and the VoDs are now available. Playlist link is the same, below will be links to the individual matches
3rd Place Decider (Bronze Match) - TU UP vs MVP Space
Finals Match - Oppa.danawa vs Rhinos Gaming Wings
Hey all! I have just started casting the Wooridongne Game League in the Korean scene and wanted to share the VoDs as well as information! The finals will be starting Thursday at 7PM KST (3AM PST or 6AM EST).
Link to Brackets and information
Link to live stream for finals
If you guys have any thoughts and suggestions with either the commentary or the production of the stream do let me know! I have had a lot fun casting this so far and the finals is shaping up to be quite the match!
Finished casting the Go4 EU Cup #12, VoDs available below!
Any thoughts and feedback about the stream/production are greatly appreciated. As well, any thoughts for Scr1be's or my casting is always welcome!
Bump - Just released Stratwatch 17! This one is taking a look at Ultimate Management
Finished casting the Go4 EU Cup #11 and wanted to link the VoDs for everyone!
Any thoughts and feedback about the stream/production are greatly appreciated. As well, any thoughts for Scr1be's or my casting is always welcome!
Casted the Go4 July Monthly finals today and wanted to post the vods!
Link to Youtube Playlist
Link to Bracket and information
Any thoughts or suggestions for my casting are greatly appreciated!
Hey guys! Just got done uploading the VoDs for the Go4 Overwatch Cup #10! Below is the link to the VoDs and bracket!
Link to English VoD Playlist Casted by RaptorZ and Scr1be
If you have any thoughts or suggestions for Scr1be or I please do let us know on twitter or any other social media outlet!
Shhh you are not supposed to let them know in these cases! ;) Fair enough though, the coordination is definitely looking spot on comparatively, even if its accidental. Would love to pick your brain when you have time, still trying to learn a lot more to give decent analysis.
Have to echo what Hexagrams said during the cast, the fact they have a team house and the backing to focus on the game every day makes a big difference. But mainly in one of the fights Hex cited their coordination being down to the millisecond between Cocco (Reinhardt) and Tailspin (Reaper) with Earthshatter and Death-Blossom. It happened on their offense for Hollywood if I recall correctly.
tl;dr Point of this ramble is I agree, but I am excited for the up coming LAN to see what other teams can do with the same no delay communications.
Episode 16 is out! Looking at Mei on Kings Row from OhNo and Team Liquid in the Atlantic Showdown.
Plx no :(
Hey guys!
Provided the secondary English stream of coverage today for the NA Regionals for the Atlantic Showdown and wanted to post the VoDs for visibility!
Link to overall playlist
Links to individual games:
WB Ro16 Sodipop vs Fnatic.OW
WB Ro8 TSM vs OhNo
LB Ro8 NRG.gg vs Northern Gaming
Episode 15 is out - more informal episode looking at the current meta, supports and of course Ana!
Episode 14 is out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFuHv7clo4&feature=youtu.be
Tried my hand at a patch analysis video + put some thoughts out there about Ana. Any feedback is greatly welcome as this is my first video of this nature and I would love to do another with the next patch!
Link to start of patch analysis
Summary: First patch analysis video I have done. Looked at the recent patch that got dropped 7/18/16 introducing major changes for Dva and Zenyatta, as well as adding Ana to the game. After sometime of playing the patch on PTR, on live, and watching some competitive play I felt ready to put my thoughts in a video.
Episode 12 is out. First look at Numbani in the series.
Compiling the English casts for today's ESL GO4 EU Overwatch cup so it easier to find. If you know of other vods please do comment them for visibility.
If I missed anything let me know!
Also always looking for more feedback on my casting!
Changed the number this time!
Episode 11 is out! Another how to improve individually episode focusing on positioning.
Most likely. I watched the series off and on while editing the video, but it was a very tense and good series. I am sure there is something to extract. I especially recall the Numbani push by NGR being very cutthrout and effective. But off the top of my head I do not know what I would highlight in specific. I will be studying the games today, I will start with this one! ;)
This is for Go4 Cup #4. I just failed at renumbering the title. I apologize for this greatly!
Compiling the English casts for today's ESL GO4 EU Overwatch cup so it easier to find. If you know of other vods please do comment them for visibility.
Top 8 After today:
1 260 MisfitsGG
2 177 OWKings.com
3 170 2sTroNk
4 160 ANOX
5 100 Creation eSports
6 80 Team Hybrid TM
7 75 Prets
8 65 Triple V - veni vidi vici
If I missed anything let me know!
Also always looking for more feedback on my casting!
Compiling the English casts for today's ESL GO4 EU Overwatch cup so it easier to find. If you know of other vods please do comment them for visibility.
If I missed anything let me know!
Also always looking for more feedback on my casting!
Thank you for your time! I really enjoy breaking down Overwatch, and glad the series is useful! :D
I am very excited to continue it. Also cannot wait for the replay client! Please blizz gif demo client.
Compiling the English casts for today's ESL GO4 EU Overwatch cup so it easier to find. If you know of other vods please do comment them for visibility.
If I missed anything let me know!
Also always looking for more feedback on my casting!
I really appreciate the feedback! I think I need to start doing more practice runs than I already do, or just something to have my ideas more clear as I start recording. Either way the more things I have to think about to improve on the better, so cheers!
Also I really enjoy thinking about how people play games, or why they do what they do. I have a lot of fun with series specifically and it is nice to know they are enjoyable to watch! :D
I think that effects a few of the topics I cover but not all of them. When it comes to strategy dissections themselves (which this last one is kinda of that, but more so geared towards the conceptual side of mechanics on defense), it will have to be noted. The Goggles and Glasses video, for example, will be 100% out-dated strategy content wise if that does become the standard. However some concepts I think could still be extracted, like once you have won fights in KoTH setting up soft contains, is something that should always be good to know.
I hope this ramble above answers your question. If it didn't ill try to tl;dr : Yes on the content and analysis strictly related to hero choice, but concepts will still be useful to know from the "2x hero meta", if that's where the scene moves from and we never have 2x heroes again.
Thank you for your time and question. I hadn't directly milled over this in my head till now.
Episode 6 is added to the episode list. Release this morning.
Hey guys! Wanted to compile the English casts for today's ESL GO4 EU Overwatch cup so it easier to find. If you know of other vods please do comment them for visibility.
Community cast featuring mainly OWKings, but Quarters between Prets and Other Team.
Khaldor as well did some casting for it but he has it so only subs can watch vods. If they get uploaded to his youtube and I missed them, please let me know.
If you guys are looking for additional film or if you played and are looking for the vods.
Here is the SuperStarLeague VoDs (Update: all vods uploaded and in HD now, sorry about the time it took).
Thank you to SSL for letting me cast! Hope you guys enjoy the games!
It is my pleasure. I really do enjoy trying to figure this stuff out and I am glad they are beneficial watches. I am always open to topic suggestions, or any kind of feedback!
Thank you! Glad these are useful/insightful. I will definitely try to, and hopefully improve the editing/rambling!
Introduction
Startwatch is analysis I do every week/bi-weekly, breaking down strategies, tactics, and concepts used by professional players to better their opponents. I hope break into their logic and thoughts, and bring them to aspiring competitors or current competitive players.
I want to improve this series through-out the summer and beyond. I really enjoy analyzing and breaking down competitive play. If you have feedback about the ideas or logic within any of the episodes, or thoughts on content in general, please let me know.
List of Episodes
Stratwatch 1: Protect the President
Stratwatch 2: Goggles and Glasses
Stratwatch 3: Hollywood Defense
Stratwatch 4: Importance of Individual plays in Strategies
Stratwatch 5: C9's Gibraltar Defense
Stratwatch 6: Shutting out the Offense (GFE's Hold against TL at Agents Rising
Stratwatch 7: King of the Hill in 1 Hero Limit
Stratwatch 8: How to improve Individually: Part One
Stratwatch 9: Kings Row: Defending Point A and Streets Phase
Stratwatch 10: Gibraltar Offense: Breakdown of OGInvitational and Alienware Monthly
Stratwatch 11: How to Improve Individually (Part 2: Positioning)
Summary: This episode will continue the series Improving Individually and look at the core mechanics of First Person Shooters that you will need to work on mastering to improve your game. This episode in the series will focus on positioning, what is it? What is good positioning versus bad? What does having good positioning do for you? And how do you improve your positioning? The series of How to improve Individually will continue alone with other episodes of Stratwatch, and I will be covering Tempo next.
Stratwatch 12: Numbani Analysis
Summary: This episode is the first one to look at Numbani. The focus of this episode is on the current comps most commonly seen on Numbani, how to defend on Numbani, and how to break Point A. This episode is a bit more informal, and a lot of the ideas and concepts covered in this episode can be applied to other maps!.
Stratwatch 13: How to Improve Individually (Part Three: Situational Awareness)
Summary: In part 3 of the self-improvement series we take a loot at the idea of situational awareness. What is it? What does good situational awareness provide to a player? and how can one improve their situational awareness? This episode aims to answer these questions and provide insight about game sense/situational awareness.
Stratwatch 14: 2CP (Assault) Map Analysis - Temple of Anubis
Summary: We finally take a look at 2CP maps (assault game type) in Stratwatch. These maps have been a contentious subject in the community due to the quick swings of tempo. But with the addition of the time-bank setup, teams have started to pick them more in competitive events. I hope this episode helps shed some light on the theories of the map, the compositions reunited to defend and attack, as well as why these maps can feel imbalanced.
Stratwatch 15: Ana in the Current Meta: 3 Support Composition
Summary: In a recent match from the recording Evoks ran a pocket Ana strategy that I wanted to look at through the lens of the current meta. In this episode I hope to cover the idea of why the 2/2/2 meta is so galvanized, where Ana could fit in the current meta, and analyze a high skill competitive match that used Ana. I hope this episode helps shed some light on these topics as the format this time around was a bit more informal.
Stratwatch 16: Mei on Kings Row: Analysis of Team Liquid and OhNo from the Atlantic Showdown
Summary: In the NA Regionals of the Atlantic Showdown there was plenty of different heroes picks seen. There was a revival of the Pharamercy combo, there was play of Junkrat and - most importantly for this episode - Mei was a seen in multiple games on Kings Row. In this episode I hope to breakdown what makes Mei a good pick on Kings Row point A, how to effectively use her, what it looks like in contrast to the standard defense, and how to deal with Mei.
Stratwatch 17: Ultimate Management
Summary: In this Stratwatch I tried to tackle the concept of Ultimate Management. There are many layers to this, and the goal was to at least cover the following parts of it: What are the categories of Ultimates, what is good Ultimate Management, how does this effect the individual, how does this effect the team, and how is Ultimate Management different for the offense and defense (with the latter logic sometimes applying to King of the Hill). I hope this episode helps drive more discussion and analysis into Ultimate Management as I strong feel this is a core layer to strong Overwatch play!
Stratwatch 19: Forced and Unforced Errors
Summary: This episode looks at errors and what types of errors exist. Specifically focusing on the difference between forced and unforced errors, this episode follows Dallas Fuel through their match vs LA Valiant and evaluates what kind of mistakes were made. This episode will answer what Forced and Unforced errors look like, how to identify them, and how to avoid them in your own individual play or teamplay.
First highlights I felt were worth uploading
Excuse the editing. Used this as an excuse to learn for other videos.
I was able to cast ESL's first EU cup for Overwatch and thought it might be prudent to post the VoDs here for people to see. Bracket/info for the curious
I am always interested in criticism and feedback about my commentary if you have any. Feel free to PM me or just comment.
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