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How LightsOut has helped to build the sport.

Lightsout success is a big deal. Just looking at the numbers Powerbang has following him on YouTube is amazing. This is good for the community and if not for PB and his troop we would not have as vibrant of a fan base built this fast. I know that PB was the first youtuber that I watched when I picked up the game. People have mixed feelings for his gameplay and preferences. I have played a grip full of games myself and I don't agree with all his opinions. That aside I must say that what he has done has been good for the Pubgmobile community. Some of the best players have carried the LO banner at one time. His group has been a hotbed for the development of the game. LO has given other teams a competitor and helped their fan base grow as well. The success of LO is directly related to the success of the game as well. We see several good rivalries develop and grow in tournaments. If not for the exposure of the LO comp team and their streamers we would be a much smaller community. Now we have Wickedgaming joining the team and his fan base, that is a huge deal as well. If you love Lightsout or think that they are overrated and fallen from the top we half to seen the good they have done. This is why I think it is important to see a successful Comp team that does well. I hope to see LO at the top in the final circles battling out against C9, RK, G25, UR, SoM and other teams that have obtained top players.  Zootay needs to put a team together soon get them, smooth operating. We are seeing some top talent and a some pro teams develop. I must admit as one side note the fact that PB and his band of teammates have set up streaming. He has been able to support his guys, they have built a following and source of income. I just hope that they focus on refining there comp team and don't get sucked into the stream life. It can hard to switch from entertainment to a comp mindsets. Running comp scenarios is often not as exciting and can be dull as your not going to hunt players down. We don't see high numbers of highly successful pro PC players with a large stream following they often will not stream practice sessions and choose to focus on one or the other. I'm not saying you can't do both its possible I'm sure. I just know it takes a large amount of dedication to be a pro player and just as much to be a streamer. This is my only concern with the LO roster as I see them building their streams. I hope there comp roster is allocating time for practice to run scenarios. We need good rivalries and lightsout has the roster to be one. It just remains to be seen how they perform in tournaments as we have more people hungry for the exposure and prizes.

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If it Is BROKEN can it become a thriving Esport

Growth is good and updates bring change, some for good, sometimes they create shifts in how the game is played and break it. There was a recent PC update that changed the recoil and bullet spread on the UMP9 that made the gun a lethal easily handled weapon. In the terms of gamers “this is broken.” People hop on the broken train way to often without thinking of the effects. The glitch on mobile back in the day where either bullpups or the micro Uzi made your footsteps inaudible while crouched. This created an unfair advantage that any player no matter the skill could exploit. Luckily this was fixed in a later patch.  When Shroud was asked why he did not use the UMP9 he answered it's way to easy and takes no skill I play this game because of the guns mechanics that reward skilled players. This is a paraphrase. But I agree and back this statement up. I think as a player who has put time into the game I want to be rewarded for that. Right now with all the glitches and bugs that is not always so. One stands out at the present, It has become to easy to pick up a M4 and laser players across the map using the 6x. When a player no matter there skill can use a gun to dominant it removes the reward of becoming skilled. It makes it a who sees who first. Yes it still takes some skill but a lot less then it should. Stuff that breaks the game gives an advantage to players no matter there skill level. The game should reward those that put time in to become better. Guns that pose more skill like a Kar98 should reap higher rewards. One of the reasons they removed lvl3 helmets from world spawn on PC. To make it a gun that is worth mastering.  If it takes two shots to down someone you might as well carry a SLR. Just like having rifles outperform DmRs makes that whole set of guns non relevant. That throws off the balance and diversity of the game. I hope the Devs fix these bugs and make the game well rounded. It's what sets pubg apart from other shooting games. The difficulty makes it worth mastering one reasons hardcore mode I feel should be a pro tournaments default. The pro scene should be a step above. If we settle for a broken game the meta becomes M4 and 6x or AUG, spray and pray. As a avid watcher and player I feel that when something becomes so op it makes the game one dimensional. That is not why I like playing or watching pubg. Variety, the depth of gun mechanics, the fact that if you work hard at bolt actions you can have a dangerous one shot advantage but it takes time and skill. As I want the pro scene to grow I feel glitches and bugs in the game hinder the progress in the development of a solid pro scene. We don't want a broken game and even though it can be fun it makes it boring. Those people with influence should be using it to build a fair, balanced and skill based game. There is a reason that some games don't have a pro scene if anyone can be amazing it then it removes the wonder. No one wants to watch a bunch of people eat one hotdog but make it a contest and now it becomes interesting. I want a contest not a game based on the luck of who sees who first and if I can land on the gun that's broken.  The time it takes to develop skill should be rewarded, not erased by a glitch somehow introduced into the game with a new update. Pubgmobile you can do better! We as a community need to hold them accountable if we pay for a pass that equals the cost of a console game we should see improvements. Bugs needs to be fixed if we want to have a competitive and thriving esport.

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G25 VS RK GAME 4

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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LO out of top5 form or poor synergy costs the team a 1st place prize pool.

Excuses are the sign of poor insight on what really happened. But let us take a look at what happened and what went wrong. The meta is changing and teams are adapting to the game. Teams are become battle hardened and not as easily run over.  LOhotjukes tweeted our synergy was not on and that's why we placed 8th in the omlet arcade 10k final. Ok man I'll take it, I have been hearing that you are calling yourself IGL and if that's the case then that means your taking on the responsibility for the plays made by LO. In game leader makes the calls to push, retreat, when to rotate, when to flee and comes up with strategy to outsmart your opponent. If your babysitting your teammates and manage what they are using you don't trust your teammates. If there is no trust them you are going to be hard pressed to outgun a team that has synergy. Before you set foot in a tournament you should have all of the rules of engagement and roles established. That said let's take a look at two engagements one In game three and four. Game three day one, LO is in south Georgopol west of the south six stack. They are engaged by GlobalElite at first LO thinks its GS. LOousider9k is at a broken half wall scouting the houses and the team is watching GE movement. Outsider9k retreats to a house and gets tagged up. You can tell they are playing defensive thinking its GS and they are playing it smart. But here is where things change and the strategy changes. LOmLucifer gets a knock onto GEsniper and that's when we hear a call for a push.  They dont think that GE is a threat at all. Big mistake, yes they are not a top ranked team but this is not there first game. Next we see GEMrBBC take down Hotjukes and Ousider9k as they push through the open, full send. No cover, no nades/ smoke no cover fire just plane run at the house where no one was knocked. You can hear on the coms hotjukes call, push them. They come out on top of this fight and Lucifer and Cgut are able to finish the team but at the cost of two players. Feels bad and costs them a higher place finish. Was this a good call or was it outsiders fault for not getting the knock on MrBBC. It's hard to say but they had plenty of tools and pushing in the open is a rookie mistake and something you see on stream not in a tournament. You get punished for things like that even if it's a less skilled team.

Ok let's compare this to DmZ game four day two and how they pushed on LO. Outsider9k gets knocked and they go for the revive Lucifer goes for a defense position by the wall, good play as far as I can see. However here is where DmZ opens up the game with some nades and knocks Lucifer. To me it seems they are just fishing seeing what they can get. After this knock we see hotjukes full peak the veranda not respecting DmZChavi and pays for it. Now it's in favor of DmZ 4v2 they push the stairs and Cgut gets the full brunt of three people shooting and Outsider9k is overpowered by the rest of the team pushing in.  What allow DmZ to have such an overpowered push is Hotjukes peek into the veranda. If he would have lean peaked and got knocked i would have nothing to say in that regard but this kind of behavior shows a lack of respect of the opponents skill and a poor defensive mechanics. You'll pay if you underestimate your opponent at higher lvl gameplay. These are mistakes a top 5 team should not be making and in both cases small avoidable mistakes cost the whole team. If Hotjukes did not get knocked and instead they held the top of the stairs this engagement would have panned out differently for sure. I can break down several things that LO could have done differently but I'm sure they have reviewed and worked those out themselves. If you want to be consistent then there is certain things that half to be eliminated from your gameplay. Pushing with no cover, full body peeks, underestimating lower tier squads, not hiding after getting knocked, pushing the side that has no knocked teammates, not falling back when overrun. Being caught up with no contingency. Things I feel top teams half to do well to stay in the top. Individual skill has nothing to do with how well a team works it just helps the team when you can work well. You play how you train and if you don't train then you play like your in a regular game and you get slapped. I want the Lightsout guys to do well but so far in the transition I have seen some poor performance from them as a team. I know that they can do better but if all they want to do is stream and have fun then it will show when they meet those teams hungry for the prize. It's not just these games but several that they showed poor performances in. For a 10k turny that they had time to prep for there should have been a way better showing. Gank was out due to lack of a playerpin the final match.  One of the biggest rivals disqualified and you show up in 8th. You can use excuses now but making recognizable and avoidable mistakes there are no excuses for that. I hope to see a hungry LO next time. LETS Gooo.

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The Clan/Crew turnout.

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.

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Is lightsout out of lights?

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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Here is a simple bracket set up that I think would work for pubgmobile. Now for a simple breakdown of how I think this would work. First we would need to open up matches for multiple teams from larger organizations like #LØ, #Blacklist, #InsainNation, #cloud9 and any teams that would like to compete.

Day1 through day4 could be played on Sanhok 4 matches would be fast and fun. This would keep the game time short around 80 min of gameplay. Longer with getting all the players into the lobby. Each day we would only allow one team to represent a organization. A team LØ could have 4 teams enter one for each day. At least until we have a enough teams that want to play. 4 days that is 80 teams or 320 players... this opens it up to anyone in the public wanting to play or make a tournament team.

Day5 & 6 would be to sort the bottom 10 teams of days 1- 4 (top 10 teams from these matches would move to the lower brackets A&B.) For these games they could play Erangal 4 matches

Day7 & 8 would be much the same as day 5&6 this would sort out the upper brackets. Here the top 10 teams from each day would move to the upper bracket. The teams that are the best should find there way into the upper bracket. The bottom teams left over will move to brackets A&B

Now we have three brackets, one with the top teams that played well. Bracket A and B full of teams ready for the comeback. For these matches I think a three and three will work best. Three Mirimar and three Erangel. Each bracket would play one day, on a weekend. Top bracket would get there choice of day they would like to play.

Now we are into how we move to the playoffs. The top bracket advances the top 10 teams to the upper playoff bracket and the bottom ten from the top bracket will move to the bottom playoff bracket. The top teams from bracket A will move to the upper playoff bracket. The top teams from bracket B will move to the lower playoff bracket. I feel with some adjustments this would make for interesting and exciting gameplay and worth watching

We need a more fluid game and the ability for players to make a team and make a run for the playoffs. I think with this kind of format we would expand the amount of skilled players and develop a stronger meta.

Days dont need to be consecutive and the upper and lower brackets could be split between two streamers. Wicked could take day 1&2 and The7Wrold others. I think that this is something we could adjust the brackets to build a better playoff. Need to get this into the community and build a better pubg pro scene. I think this would promote the pro scene and keep the pro players with new teams and fresh ideas.

I look forward to ideas and what we can do to build a strong competitive environment.

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Cloud9 vs BRK Baraka game1

What happend? This was team vrs team and minimal third party. Cloud9 was dismantled by mainly BRKBaraka. Lets ask, was this luck? Let's go back and watch the gameplay. Im doing this so we can learn, I'm not saying I'm better or that they are bad. In the top competitive scene the margin error shrinks and you can pay for the smallest of mistakes. In the heat of things it's hard to know what's right but looking back we can learn and do better in the future. For reference watch game one https://youtu.be/al6bbptk_dw 2h23min in. You can find the full day on the official pubgmobile YouTube channel. When cloud9 went to storm the compound BRK held. just northwest of ruins and north of the church. Cloud9 was shot up, most players where still close to 75 health. But what made Baraka so affective in this instance. He was able to down and finish three of the four from the shack. The angle he held from that shack was strong and let's take a look at what he did. Watch the replay and you will notice something fundamentally different from what he was doing and what cloud9 tried. BRKCaveira was hiding in the shack and if he would have waited for his team to engage he would have had a prime position to attack on C9's flank. However he started the engagement and was able to get the knock onto C9karnage, C9Rollexx was able to trade back onto BRKCaveira. Look at his position he silhouette himself in the doorway making it easy for C9Rollexx to aim at the door take an easy trade. Compare that to when Baraka moved over to the shack and took up defense. He was in and out of the shack trying to keep his teamate from getting flushed. Once he took damage from C9Cotto and noticed there position in the feild he fell back into the shack and prefired the angle. Exposing the smallest amount of his body narrowing the target box. Giving cloud9 a very small target to hit. Letting them move into his sights rather then him move out of cover and win in an aim battle. In this position he made one of the sickest plays of the game. At this point we have a one for one trade C9karnage is down and BRKCaveira is down in the shack with BRKBaraka. With the third person view BRKBaraka can see C9Cotto and C9Sam's movement in the feild. Here is where things begin to break down for Cloud9. Let's acknowledge there was a third party firing at C9Sam and C9Cotto in the feild witch might have been a reason they pushed to move in closer to the compound. C9Sam moves in for the revive, C9Cotto literally the top fragger in NA moves to attack. C9Cotto is at the top of the charts for squade kills do not sleep on this guy he is dangerous.

Here is where I will stop and look at what they could have done. Yes it is easy to see in the video they needed to eliminate the threat from the shack. But what could they have done? What do you fall back on when you know you have good gun skills? C9Cotto goes for a kill, he is a gunslinger. I have been killed by him in game and it happened so fast, I was left wondering what happened, was I just in a match? Lol But dont forget BRKBaraka is no slouch at gun skills, all these teams at the #starchallenge are close to the same level that's why they are there. What can trump gun skills? Position, Position, position, iQ, usage of cover and utility. Before the next seconds happen lets ask ourselves what they could have used. Utility count off, flash I'm sure no one had a flash. Why because I have yet to see one used in NA tournaments. However a flash could have been used for sure. Grenade? For sure, C9Rollexx must have had a grenade or incendiary, Cotto could have covered the front of the shack while C9Rollexx threw in a gernande. Smoke? Instead of smoking themselves they could smoke the shack and obscure his view making room for C9sam and C9Cotto to move in safely. That would open up the ability to strom the shack go for a trade out or use nades to kill the occupants while one covers the opening killing anyone trying to flee.

Back to reality, Baraka takes out Cotto and Rollexx runs in front of the door getting downed as well only C9Sam and C9Karnage are left up by the jeep. Let's step back and take a look at how this happens. Cotto took on the guy in cover from an open feild. Once again let us not forget about the third party from the east by the castle on the hill. Cotto would have needed to hit all his shots they both where close to similar health. Rollexx was safe behind the shack but made a push with low health as well. Once again those shots would need to be perfect because he was tucked back in the shack and not silhouetted in the door. Once again Baraka used the angle to create cover. Baraka made the advantage, they all moved into his hitbox and he did not half to track them. Now let's take note C9- Cotto, Rollexx are out flushed, karnage is being revived. It's now a three vs two and BRKCaveira is only downed. Caveira gets picked up by Baraka and goes for a push.

I dont know if this was tactic or accident or on purpose but Baraka uses Caveira as bait and as soon as Sam goes for the kill, baraka once again fires right at the angle C9Sam is peaking from. One thing to note here is Baraka is open in the doorway but he is just prefireing the angle Sam was peeking from. Sam can see this in TPP and should have realized it. Why he peaks I can only guess he thinks he can win the fight but there is a wall of 7.62 coming his way and he gets the knocked. Once Caveira went down all he needed to do is wait for the reload from Baraka. Or a well placed grenade in the shack. Baraka is doing all the work. In the mean time C9karnage makes a killer flank and takes out the other two BRK members flushing one of them. The last one v one Baraka vs Karnage is nothing to write home about. Its plain karnage was low health and Baraka landed the Ak shot. He fired at the door Karnage was unlucky. But in the end I feel all the work Baraka did he deserved the win. We learn or we win and C9 was taken to school. There is a lot of ways this could have played differently they gave it there all but my personal feeling is that Baraka took the better position. Used angles to his advantage. Used the prefire and let the enemy walking into the shot. That's not gun skill that is game iQ, using the tools he had and the cover to his advantage. He knew one was down and Rollexx was out there, he knew Sam made the move to the Jeep he saw Cotto he had a ton of information. C9 where focused in on the shack. If his teammates would have flanked after Rollexx and Cotto where downed it would have been over much sooner. Sam was mid revive the push from baraka from the shack and the other two members on the flank would have been super OP.

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!!!

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Can MIBR take down Astralis

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..

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The shifting lights....

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..

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Why the success

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.

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Claw vs Thumbs the debate

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.

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Pubg the desync fix

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?

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Just an idea.

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.

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The lazy play killer.

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.

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CSGO the final takeaway.

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

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7worldsGaming Turney

just finished watching a #PUBGMOBILE #7WG turney was some good stuff as usual our boys #Gankstars showed up to play, good rotations and well placed in there matches 2wins if I'm not mistaken. Let's talk #LightsOut I see they now have new members and now team gates is a thing of the past I presume. Hopefully we will have this team swapping slow down and we have some kind governing happen. What LØ has always suffered from is not skill but being consistent. team gates was stronger but had a very predictable rotation coming from novo.... they lost out in this heat to there car being blown up in the first round. Rookie mistake the more cars the better and here is the reason why. Although mad max battles are fun to watch they are very low on being successful. Most pro players can aim well enough to shoot a car. A whole team can smoke a car without reloading. It's around 45 to 50 shots from your standard 5.56 rifle. One car sends the whole team to the lobby. Two cars half your team, three cars you have a chance if the first car is a scout that they will be reloading as you pass or you divert. Four cars you will only lose the lead car with one player and the rest can divert. The last game they pulled up in two cars but they did not jump out and clear there surroundings. It cost them the game as Vsg just pounced and blasted them. Pulling up in the last circles you need to have cover either from your own cars or hard cover. On a hill they stood no chance and it was a bad call to stop.... go watch some of the stream first game they went out early the last game they pulled up on a hill like noobs. Let hope our boys at LØ learn and get better. #powerbang get to that coaching. Lol.

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