Dec 3, 2022
i'm sick and should be sleeping right now. instead i'll be staying up until tomorrow and watching women play silly block game
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i'm sick and should be sleeping right now. instead i'll be staying up until tomorrow and watching women play silly block game
flashbacks to my liveblog of mint maids [beloved]
They got bored! Come on, what else are you supposed to do during the breaks? @gardenergulfie
[ ID: A full-body drawing of Joel, False, Martyn, and Ren during MCC 19. Joel, Martyn, and Ren are in maid dresses. False is in a butler's outfit. Ren is laying flat on the ground with his legs and arms held straight up. False is sitting on his feet and hands. Joel is standing on False's knees, leaning backward slightly. False is holding Joel's arms to keep him balanced. Martyn is doing a handstand behind Ren. He is bent backward with his feet resting on False's shoulders. End ID ]
Mint Maids were actually strangely iconic. I guess this is what happens to teams with good chemistry and a chaotic fandom? Lmao?
Like, we have the maid bit, then Ren calling Martyn “very very sexy” or whatever, Joel popping off, all dying to Wilbur’s bomb in SkB, general chaotic Christmas energies, Dogwarts flashbacks in SG, comedic dialogue (Ren excitedly saying he heard a ding in HiTW and Joel deadpanning “That was False”)— this POV is damn good. Just a happy fun POV. What a great end to the year :D
SIR
I am amazingly late but CONGRATULATIONS TO @inthelittlewood AND ALL THE MINT MAIDMISTLETOES! The most stylish team by far.
Have some Mint Maids Mistletoes from MCC 19! :D
A (critical) love letter to the Mint Maids!
Alright obviously I'm disappointed in how low the mint maids placed especially with all of the predictions putting them in 9th BUT regardless of their result they were SUCH a fun team...
This might be a very unpopular opinion but i really hope this sets a precedent for bringing back hermit-adjacent teams without a "carry", obviously some of the best players can be very sweet and encouraging such as pete, H, fruit and illumina, but false, ren (and co.) have proved time and time again that they are very capable - obviously this MCC wasn't the best example to show but there were some potential factors as to why they did not manage to overcome the expectations:
The maids were clearly not taking the competition aspect too seriously - martyn was promoting the charity (go donate!), not much strategy was discussed prior to each game. HITW also had a LOT of conversation even while some of the teammates were still alive.
The lack of practice - of course false had a mini practice stream the day prior but it seemed like the team had not planned out their mode of attack prior to the event and even though the team had great chemistry it seemed like most of the decisions that they made as a team were improvised/unplanned. False also MASSIVELY underperformed in HITW, the entire team in SOT, Grid Runners and Build Mart, False and Ren in TGTTOS - we've seen very strong showings from their past appearances and we know they're capable of more, even though they...
...lacked a clear leader! The leader doesn't necessarily have to be a top player, they just have to call the shots. We've seen glimpses of martyn and false showing great leadership in survival games and skybattle and that's what helped them survive and place as high as they did.
Martyn's weird monitor thing! Definitely a smaller factor as it only affected 1 of the 4
Thus, I am a firm believer that the mint maids could have done better IF they were in the right mindset to do so - from the point of view of competition, bantering about "wooo let's go 7th place pov" from the very start isn't that great, but yes obviously I love them for it. False and Ren generally struggle with confidence in MCC even if their company is very light-hearted anyway.
Someone on here made a great point about ren and false sacrificing their own individual pointage for the sake of the team which makes them fantastic team players and their low individual scores for this event are extremely misrepresentative of their value on the team. The only thing that was lacking was a working synergy with the rest of the team - in spite of everyone's great chemistry with each other, it's clear that they needed some practice as a team - Joel and Ren had never been paired in MCC before, Martyn had only teamed with FalseRen once. Refer to my lack of practice argument
Either way, it's super nice to see the senior mint maids in their prime, obviously I'm very happy to have chosen to watch them live as my POV of choice - it just was and is frustrating to see comments about them as if they had no chance at all to succeed just because they don't have fruit or pete "carrying" them. They came under 2000 points under the 8th-place team, and they obviously underperformed like hell. Team the hermits with scott and shubble maybe! Or kara and jordan! Martyn and joel 2.0! The possibilities are endless!