EP02: Who's Winning the Cologne Major, WTF Happened to NiKo & More NA Copium!

We'll go into, I guess, a little bit more...

I guess, we won't go right into the teams.

I was telling you guys before.

What do you, so what do you guys think, I'll bunch these together, change the payout structure of the stickers, and then how are you guys feeling about the BO3s being added in, in certain stage? You guys like it, dislike it? You guys feel like it is like anything? Does this change the feeling? 'Cause at least for me, when, like, the Major happened, it was kinda getting old, like, watching teams just, like, be whatever about being knocked out in the Major.

Do you think, like, this actually solves anything or anything like that? Or is this just-

I mean-

... like, a whatever change that doesn't really mean much to the players, you think?

Anytime...

Well, I mean, I think the players love it, and I think we, we should all love it.

Anytime you make an entire stage of the Major BO3s all the way through, like, take away all the best of ones and take away that element of it, the randomness of a BO1 MR12, I think everyone in this scene has gotta be celebrating.

Especially 'cause I think it's in a good place, too.

It's not the whole thing, it's just that third stage where you get the best teams in the world.

And the Major should be the most difficult gauntlet to run.

So any time the format gets more difficult, I like that for the prestigious nature of the event as well.

Um, and, and yeah, I think, you know, we, we took away some randomness over the years, but obviously now it's, like, not having to drop down 0-1 off just some, like, random...

Uh, actually, 0-2, couldn't it be? 'Cause, like, one bad day was, was your-

Yeah

... was your BO1 days.

So I mean, you could have one shitty day and just get kind of really punished.

Um, especially for teams who are coming in cold to teams who have already been at the environment.

We already have those conversations every single stage, every single Major.

Um, now you get more chances to kind of recover and bounce back from that as well.

What do you think about the payout structure? You think, like, that's a good feeling? That's, I kind of blended those two together a little bit there.

So, like, I, I was like, I think it's huge.

I think it's great.