imo, strafing is wildly overrated and doesn't net any hit 98% of the time.

Also imo, the mixed teams I think would do well against idev teams that don't have delay on them, but as has been stated in this thread, almost every team sucks against delay really bad. I don't like to throw Endeavor under the bus here but I think they're a good example of this, as they almost lost to TURKISH WOLF after going down 1-0 and then losing to (Ammo) after. Not to discredit their placing either but that team does not have any real elite sparrers on it, the most notable one being Wick, probably. The fact that this team can run through multiple teams on mixed side with what are considered to be really good sparrers is evidence that mixed teams in general suck vs delay. We also saw this when Alumni idevice members did mixed one tournament and won pretty easily from my understanding (although I wasn't playing hardly any around that time). Dark has also notably done well as a member of Holy mixed team in the past, and teams like Deity using Dae and Eko have also found success against a lot of the field, though that was a lot farther in the past. I do wish Holy vs. Endeavor wasn't 5v3, because that would have been another data point for mixed teams vs. delay since Holy was primarily not made up of American sparrers for the first time.

An idev team that doesn't have delay I think would get run over by Alumni, Holy, or Endeavor, just cause the quality of sparrers are just worse overall usually on those teams. I think Alumni idev members would destroy everyone aside from Alumni mixed if they were to enter the mixed side.

One major advantage idevice players have is that they can avoid being caught account sharing in multiple cases to win GSTs, whereas mixed teams have been caught and punished appropriately for doing this, or they suck so bad they get run over despite the tremendous advantage they get anyways.  

tmrwgang could easily beat every mixed team except alumni lol  

GST is getting more boring every season, merge it already please.

Anyways endeavor only have two Americans as cores or sometimes three usually in the past seasons. I still see them as the 3rd best team in mixed side but they always get the easiest brackets. I wouldn’t see them sucking against delayers because they did beat 7ives mixed team which is made up of south african and pinoy guys. Ammo wasn’t actually a bad team, both Ndam and Wick are known sparers. Although I think Ndam and maybe the mexican guy or Rusty are better sparers than Wick.

Only idiots that over uses strafe, and it’s even more dumb to say ppl who over uses strafe is a disadvantage to idev players. It’s an advantage to everyone elsr, if you cannot use strafe and don’t use it for the appropriate reasons then you’re not benefiting from it.

Idev players have their own advantages too but if you can’t implement strafe to idevice players then you might as well remove strafing from the game. I use it myself but couldn’t care less tbh  

i abuse the hell out of blink as my spar style and imo pc players are ret@rded for not using strafe to their advantage. u can get so many bogus hits from abusing strafe while maintaining blink its crazy. i only really see people like skull and brandon use it on me though, like i said most pc players are braindead.  

Idev and mixed should not be combined. Until I can strafe on my phone. I don't believe its fair that idevice and mixed spar together. Infact there should be android gst since they arent keyboards. There is a reason why most esports games are separated through platforms. It has nothing to do with any "meta". There is two different gsts for a reason if you wanna spar on phone then do idev if you're a pc player do mixed simple.


I have never seen a full idev team enter mixed and get to finals or win lol. Theres mixed and idev for a reason. Not everyone was bad on their phones and moved to pc. If anything there could be a smaller tournament where every device can enter. But its always cool to have a option and i dont think people who dont consistently win mixed like alumni have any say in gst being boring tbh

Funny thing is no idev team has asked to get gst merged just pcs lol. Darks team have won the most gsts this year but they havent asked for more competition or gst to be merged reason is idev is balanced unlike mixed where theres just one dominate team. Your mixed is very unbalanced but considering how every threat is instantly reported im not surprised. idev is generally more competitive than mixed lol. Someone who doesnt dominate mixed shouldnt talk about merging lol  

imo
-mixed is insanely overrated and mobile teams would not have trouble placing
-mixed teams suck badly against delay and underwhelming players like eko are overrated because of this
-gst should not be merged regardless because of not only strafing, but certain pc players blatantly speedhack and/or toggle invincibility in even practice matches and staff are too incompetent to notice

wouldn’t want to enter a tournament where i can be spamming my sword in a direction with favorable hitboxes for a solid five seconds against an american player and they just walk into it and hit me without trading  

I honestly think the GSTs should be merged - I'm pretty sure the NGS (which will likely never actually come out) is going to merge them either way.

I think it's pretty evident that the mixed side is no way near as competitive as it used to be when most of the Alumni team can spend around a day or 2 before GST practicing and still win every time.


Would also be nice to see some sparrers such as Comyt (who extremely overrates himself since I don't think anyone even thinks he's good anymore) get bodied after playing the whole season on an alt (just like he gets **** on in practice by plyers that spar for around an hour or 2 every 3 months). Since he already uses excuses such as "my controls got stuck" maybe he will be able to top some mixed events such as Exalt logging off mid spar after getting flawed because a girl was waiting for him outside.  

if gst has different brackets for devices then so should normal sparring

if normal sparring brackets are one (which they are) then gst should be too  

Guys, comet might be onto something. He got bodied in idev gst by BoobyMiggba so i mean maybe mixed isn't that much different. Hell, apparently he's the greatest USA idev ever so if D tier DoT subs are ****ting on him i guess gsts should really merge.  

@Fp4 Looks like most people want the merged gst. So might as well just make it 64 teams 1 tournament? Let’s see the actual results over predictions, cause prediction is prediction and who said Alumni is gonna use their usual mixed line up? i think they'll come up with new hyper team to take on any type of enemies.  

glad i got some feelings out of someone who tried to call me bad after beating me literally one time and then gave me a huge streak of mvps. eko, you’re not even a top 20 delayer in guildspar, but it’s good to see that some people never change and you still want to pretend you’re good. really brings me back to the days of you siderooming for rating then throwing all of your points towards me after i called you out on it. for some reason you thought you had a chance that day? then creating a new account to sideroom a 10-1 ratio, i guess it got you an alumni spot, but i see through it. you have never been anything special in spar and still are practically useless whenever i face you, just hugging the top left corner and c-sparring with zero mixups. the alumni mobile delayers have always been miles ahead of you. mixed delayers are overrated, same thing goes for korean winter, doll, etc. i have nothing against these guys but they are all painfully overrated when compared to other delayers entirely because they participate in a mixed gst where players are much worse in general against delay.  

Once? hahaha. You literally gave me around 7 MVPs in a row when you were gsing on Spirit tag. I ran to the top left every single spar and beat you by 3-4 hits where you eventually lag out and start to teleport around the arena. Your style is the same thing every spar, run to a corner, get bodied, run in a straight line with blink and hope you get a hit. Westbrooks video shows how well it works for you when you go up against sparrers outside of your league. The exact same thing happened when you tried to 1v1 skull in gs, he used blink against you, completely **** on you and your excuse was just "??".

And it's not just guild spar, even in single spar, you will lose to me (as usual) and drop a new excuse - for example the last time you lost 3-0 to me in the mixed room you said "lol dont get happy im on dorm wifi". It's ok man, I understand that you want to keep up your ego but you are honestly just trash, nothing wrong with that. The fact I haven't even consistently sparred in the last 4 years except for GST and still beat you should be an embarrassment for someone who holds themselves so highly.

The funny part of all this is that I'm not even the one with this god complex, I've never claimed to be the best or spoke about myself that way before. You've literally never taken my points before so I have no clue where that is coming from, but sounds as realistic as the stories that mikva comes up with (even though the loser chased around me and dae for 2 years straight begging to get into Deity or to let him win some spars vs either of us so he can get onto the leaderboard).

Regardless, your comments don't bother me at all, you're just a joke to me and I love seeing drama on the forums again. Too bad it's not a player that is actually relevant in the spar community though  

never 1v1ed you within the past year and would never 1v1 skull in gs because he "blinks" against my heavy sword spam without anyone actually hitting him, so i'm not sure if you believe what you're typing or if you're pulling the dark/westbrook classic of typing nonsense and hoping it lands  

don't really care for whatever rivalry you two have, but calling skull a hacker is as laughable now as when Sith tried to get that witch hunt rolling 2 years ago, if not more  

Posted by Fulgore

don't really care for whatever rivalry you two have, but calling skull a hacker is as laughable now as when Sith tried to get that witch hunt rolling 2 years ago, if not more

not saying 100% that he hacks but if he doesn't then he has some very lucky lag spikes and either way i wouldn't want to waste my health against that in a guildspar is all i'm saying. just dismissing the "you 1v1ed skull and got bodied" claim, but i think what he is referencing was a moment where i was 2v1ing him and he strafed downward, got stuck against me, spammed movement, somehow didn't take damage, and walked away without dealing damage to either of us. this is probably the "??" he's bringing up since i typed "lol" right after it. not sure how taking zero damage = getting bodied though.

"The exact same thing happened when you tried to 1v1 skull in gs, he used blink against you, completely **** on you and your excuse was just '??'." being the exact quote by eko.