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Re: MLG vs BTB Game 4 casted by u4iX and Mollypop
Posted By: Louis Wu <halo@bungie.org>	Date: 5/24/12 1:53 p.m.
In Response To: Re: MLG vs BTB Game 4 casted by u4iX and Mollypop (Apirishin) : I've enjoyed the commentary, and I also watched Assault's POV when the link : to it was posted last week. Thanks for putting everything up. BTB is my : favorite playlist, but high-caliber gameplay is rarely found in BTB MM. : I do think it's a bit undeserved, however, that many people seem to be giving : a lot of credit to the Wake Up team in terms of them establishing better : sightlines or having a better/easier time of finding power weapons. : They've played games on these maps dozens of times! They knew where : everything was! : The MLG guys had never played on these maps before, or at least these : specific variants. How in the world were they supposed to know where camo : spawned on Trident, or anything else for that matter? : Seeing how Wake Up was in a position to know exactly where to go/rush on : each map right off the initial spawn, it's impressive that the MLG guys : did as well as they did, even in the games they lost. : If they play again, I'll be interested to see how the MLG guys do having now : played the maps before. I still think the games will be close, but at : least this time one team won't have any kind of "knowledge" : advantage. I feel like this was aimed directly at me, since you actually used some of the wording from my front-page post. Absolutely, Wake Up had the advantage in map awareness. That was my point, in fact! They were able to hold their own against a team of pros (even win that Trident game), despite being outclassed in sheer slaying ability - I thought it was a great example of how CRITICAL that knowledge is. That team is actually quite good - maybe not pro-level, but way above average. Without the map advantage, they'd have lost. (And one or two games will NOT fix the disparity; if you watched the actual stream of these games, you'd have seen that the MLG guys warmed up by running around these maps, looking for powerups, testing jumps, etc. It might have been the first time playing these maps - but it wasn't their first time ON these maps. Adding one more game won't come close to the dozens, maybe hundreds of games that Wake Up has played on each.)

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MLG vs BTB Game 4 casted by u4iX and Mollypop	CyReN	5/24/12 11:53 a.m.
Re: MLG vs BTB Game 4 casted by u4iX and Mollypop	Apirishin	5/24/12 1:19 p.m.
Re: MLG vs BTB Game 4 casted by u4iX and Mollypop	Louis Wu	5/24/12 1:53 p.m.
Re: MLG vs BTB Game 4 casted by u4iX and Mollypop	Apirishin	5/24/12 2:38 p.m.