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Coach Crusty stream summary
■ Roster decision & KR practices
Knew about 222 lock during roster decision, and because there was sniper meta before, expected something like sombra-tracer. Haksal was a joker pick (wild card)
practiced 2 weeks in KR, wanted to prep doom reaper but scrim opponents used dps comps avoiding doom reaper
Orisa hog came up when we had around a week of practice left and looked for decent comps against doom reaper, so we made comps based on orisa hog.
Wanted to practice bastion comp but couldn't practice as our [scrim] opponents played 2 dps
KR scrims didn't help much due to playstyle. If I were to be part of OWWC next year as well, I want to go to NA early.
Could only do image training because our match opponent was shock style but we could only scrim against Chinese team styles
Couldn't hold solid practices from 10/28~day before match due to player personal or many other reasons.
■ in NA
Thought we could practice in NA but we couldn't. Teams that got here earlier already reserved internet cafes, and it was difficult to find a place to practice as we didn't have any sponsors. We had to call many places to finally get a reservation but only place we found barely supported 60 fps, we couldn't get any proper practice done.
Had to go into matches with 5 days of scrim absence and only theorycrafting
Day 1 France
Because we only had theorycrafting done and never practiced, we weren't prepared and comps got twisted
Crusty himself hated comps that day as well.
Day 1 USA
Looking at nepal, they ran shock style as expected.
8 days ago, we already talked about how bap is useless against heroes like tracer in hollywood where we almost full held but it was difficult to remember due to absence in practice.
after 1st day
Decided take direction to go for cleaner team comps
Orisa sigma zen bap mei hanzo only when they get a bastion, and the comps worked well against every team except USA
■ About comps
Haksal excels at coming up with something exquisite when sudden decision making is needed during a fight (When team goes in first, his decision making shines in middle of the fight)
Haksal doom felt uncomfortable with sinatraa style tempo where he has strong lead of the team and goes in, and I felt haksal's original position crumbling while practicing this.
Carpe baits a lot of attention, so instead of playing defensively, I thought it'd eb better to match with Architect doom as architect does a good job at making aggressive calls
In haksal-carpe comps during scrims, it felt that haksal was getting pulled by carpe (bad combi)
Aggressive when architect is on doom, defensive when he's on reaper, made comps with him play in between carpe and haksal style -> architect lock
Reason why haksal ended up playing reaper is that it seemed to suit well with architect doom when being aggressive and hero pools widen a lot when these two players play. Thought of countering strats with architect mei and haksal practiced reaper to avoid getting swaps messed up.
Made haksal play reaper during prelim to hide mei strat
■ Support lineup
Was goats meta during roster pick, so picked IDK with his aggressive style but IDK said he changed to play defensively with 222 meta swap himself. So IDK struggled himself the most.
Didn't have substitude for support, so I requested aggressive playstyle, and therefore IDK's original plays never came out
Anamo is defensive, so would've went defensive style team if Anamo was picked
Bdosin did good
■ etc
Going early and getting local practice is really important. Need sponsors
Team was only provided with plane, rooms, and sometimes 2 meals so needed to take care of everything from own money
I didn't get right team direction. It's my fault. I'm really sorry I went out with name of South Korea, I'm really sorry
Called each and every player and said it's my fault and I'm sorry
Next year I hope we get an environment where we can at least practice
I hope OWWC players could go early and practice next year
If I can help make these environments, I want to.