There are things in life you can’t learn through lectures, logic, or even fortune cookies. I know, it’s hard to believe; if 3, 13, 17, 24, 25, 26, and 32 aren’t my lucky numbers, than what are they!? But it’s true. There are certain things you have to learn through experience, and there’s no other way to do it justice.
Watching remix, PR0D, and AnwaR on LAN is one of those things.
I’m going to tell you what happened, and you’ll completely understand what I’m saying and still have no clue what it’s really like unless you’ve been hiding at the CPL. Actually, you probably could have been anywhere in a ten-mile radius and you would have heard them yelling. It’s that insane.
G3 played Hyper on Dust2 and quickly fell behind. Everything was going wrong for them, and Daemos was leading Hyper with a 12-1 score at one point late in the half. It’s strange to see teammates openly berate each other in the middle of the match, but that’s what we had. I don’t even like thinking about some of the things that were said, and I’m pretty sure you’d get in a fight if you said them to random people on the street. And possibly thrown in jail for disorderly conduct.
But it worked.
g3 completely changed in the second half, and it was their turn to shut down Hyper on CT side. All the jeers and criticisms about mistakes became confidence-building shouts of … something. I’d call it “joy”, but that doesn’t quite fit. Insane Ecstasy? Their play as a team had a huge increase, and Hyper just couldn’t get any momentum. They changed their setups, they didn’t fall into any defensive patterns. They were hitting shots, communicating, and their rotations were on time almost every round. It was a completely different team. The only thing that stayed the same was the volume.
Every pick brought a yell of congratulations, every call was practically a shouting match, and I don’t think Hyper was intimidated, but g3 was certainly invigorated. It’s hard to single out one player on their team, but it was certainly a sight to see.
Just make sure you're here next time, so you know what I mean.
