Hey all, long time no update! The regular season for ESEA and CEVO are just about to end, and while we are taking the #1 seed in CEVO-A playoffs (with 3 FFWs out of 8 matches…), we probably won’t be making the ESEA-O playoffs, and with a little luck will finish the season exactly .500 
Which is a little disappointing, as we had to give up 3 matches without a fight due to roster issues and forfeits. We played our ashville matches with only a day’s preparation, but now with those out of the way we’re scrimming badlands in order to finish off the season strong, playing carnal gaming and the terribles next week.
Regarding CEVO playoffs, you can check out the newspost here, which also includes a link to the future brackets. 2 matches per week, with viaduct, gullywash, and coldfront being the first 3 maps played. There are a bunch of decent teams that are set to make playoffs as well, most notably Dinosaur Bones/Team Explosion, who forfeited to us on freight I believe to focus on their ESEA matches, which are both on Thursday (match day for CEVO as well). Natures with yaug seems to be the other team to beat in playoffs. Apparently, winning CEVO-A means we get a chance to go up against a Valve team, so we shall see if we end up with that chance
Sad but true. We’ve always had to drop CEVO a few weeks in, never actually completing all of the matches. As of 2 days ago, this seemed to be the case yet again. ESEA would be a serious drain on us, having to play 2 matches a week already. Since CEVO and ESEA have different map rotations, this also means extra scrims on different matches. Given that half of us start school soon (or have already started), we were looking at a serious time commitment that not all of us were 100% about.
On attack, we run a standard A push, with heavies going to C. If we get a pick early on, we camp the spawn to buy us a little more time. Our scouts then go through connector after capping A (sometimes with Biz, our roamer), and wait for our call for the gun to go down at B. I uber luuser through the door closest to the shady side of B, and wait for him to take down the gun, and then I run along cliff towards the sunny side, where Synthos will be waiting to pick me up. We then rotate around to the rock by the front door, and our scouts hopefully come in and clean up the sniper/engy and any other people still hanging around. Luuser hopefully follows me as we all rotate around, and biz or synthos has to be up on the roof asap.
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