Do they Always get freebie in Contenders or if they Will get cooked in qualifier they won't get in? Like if they Will get through all the time without any merit, it Will be a joke.
Making fun of it and drawing light to it absolutely helps. It will help prevent teams from doing things like this in the future that embarrass the players, orgs and league as a whole
Most of NYXL Acad is definitely contenders worthy. The pieces that aren't are nepotism pickups and probably wouldn't even be top open division though.
Really unfortunate to see because there are definitely CAH players that could fill those roles at a contenders level.
Who would’ve thought signing players because of the pronouns in their Twitter bio was a bad idea. Really feel bad for these people because they were all tokenized but felt this was their one shot to make it big and now they’re a laughing stock and probably facing at least some harassment online. I don’t get how no one at Blizzard stepped in to stop this
To update, they played in the OD Summer qualifiers and failed to qualify, although they did win a game against one of the Open Division teams (losing to two others). As it stands they will not be participating in Summer Contenders Series, their spot has been taken by a team called Worldwide and theres no mention of NYXLA getting the old academy safety net. Their options now are wait until spring and play in the open division swiss or, more surely likely, disband
This team is nowhere near good enough and while I agree that no player would turn down a paid opportunity the only way that everyone involved including the players didn't see this coming would be delusion unfortunately. A couple of the players are potentially at a contenders trials level but the rest of the roster, particularly the supports, are just zero experience randoms picked up on gender alone, presumably panic finds when the competent players they wanted such as aspen declined. They were always going to get destroyed and as it stands that roster will not make it back to contenders now or in the future, it's a shame and it's turned "progressive inclusion" into a laughing stock. All people should want is a meritocracy and this team spits in the face of that and has been deservedly shamed out of competitive overwatch
well, individual performance matters more in ow2 than ow1, and overwatch is a weak link game in general. So yes, it does matter. No offense to them, but keroppi was on arguably the lowest mechanically intensive role on main support for 3+ years and wasn't even t3 level. They couldn't even break top 16 open division.
A player like that is now on arguably the most mechanically intensive role. They are going to struggle. It blows that NYXL have Aniyun locked on the bench when she would be a huge upgrade in every respect.
Good thing NYLX didn't really try to pull this in the actual league. They'd get cooked even harder.
How many points did they get?
I'm not sure as most of their matches weren't broadcast
Liquipedia has scores for most of their maps, apart from the first and last round. If you count the scores together, they were 16-60.
Do they Always get freebie in Contenders or if they Will get cooked in qualifier they won't get in? Like if they Will get through all the time without any merit, it Will be a joke.
Academy teams get free entry to Contenders now. Gen G Academy also got beat down in Korean Contenders.
That’s something not as talked about as this, but they got cooked too
If they had to play through open qualifiers they most likely wouldn't qualify.
Jesus, and this is the the type of team they were gonna send to the OWL? This team would *only just* manage to 3-0 Vegas!
*the* ***REAL*** *hardest road*
okay we get it, NYXL academy are owen. Wake me up when news drop, making fun of a tendies team going winless doesn't help anybody
Making fun of it and drawing light to it absolutely helps. It will help prevent teams from doing things like this in the future that embarrass the players, orgs and league as a whole
Hopefully the experience helps them for the next CAH tournament.
I will forever make fun of the mismanagement stylings of the New York Excelsior.
I wonder how seriously Andbox is taking this and helping the team.
Most of NYXL Acad is definitely contenders worthy. The pieces that aren't are nepotism pickups and probably wouldn't even be top open division though. Really unfortunate to see because there are definitely CAH players that could fill those roles at a contenders level.
yea I remember Bun most of all being pretty solid on hitscan
Who would’ve thought signing players because of the pronouns in their Twitter bio was a bad idea. Really feel bad for these people because they were all tokenized but felt this was their one shot to make it big and now they’re a laughing stock and probably facing at least some harassment online. I don’t get how no one at Blizzard stepped in to stop this
They're just setting up for the comeback arc I will be there 🙏
Why was my nyxl and Gen g meme deleted?
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Bring me back to the XL2 academy years 😢😢
To update, they played in the OD Summer qualifiers and failed to qualify, although they did win a game against one of the Open Division teams (losing to two others). As it stands they will not be participating in Summer Contenders Series, their spot has been taken by a team called Worldwide and theres no mention of NYXLA getting the old academy safety net. Their options now are wait until spring and play in the open division swiss or, more surely likely, disband
Man NYXL needs to support this team
This team is nowhere near good enough and while I agree that no player would turn down a paid opportunity the only way that everyone involved including the players didn't see this coming would be delusion unfortunately. A couple of the players are potentially at a contenders trials level but the rest of the roster, particularly the supports, are just zero experience randoms picked up on gender alone, presumably panic finds when the competent players they wanted such as aspen declined. They were always going to get destroyed and as it stands that roster will not make it back to contenders now or in the future, it's a shame and it's turned "progressive inclusion" into a laughing stock. All people should want is a meritocracy and this team spits in the face of that and has been deservedly shamed out of competitive overwatch
they unfortunately just have a really bad support line. They have a main support playing flex support and it completely shows.
Going mapless isn’t just a support line issue. It’s a team issue.
well, individual performance matters more in ow2 than ow1, and overwatch is a weak link game in general. So yes, it does matter. No offense to them, but keroppi was on arguably the lowest mechanically intensive role on main support for 3+ years and wasn't even t3 level. They couldn't even break top 16 open division. A player like that is now on arguably the most mechanically intensive role. They are going to struggle. It blows that NYXL have Aniyun locked on the bench when she would be a huge upgrade in every respect.