lost 1-3 tonight
not rolled. a battle. the kind of loss you remember.
we had moments. real ones. just not enough of them.
i looked around after the final fight, counting our casualties
then i see it
my teammate opened Terraria
TERRARIA
brother we just got our hearts ripped out and you're mining for ore
i'm not judging the coping mechanism
i'm judging the timing
the answer to a hard loss is never away from the game
it's back in
every mistake i made tonight is sitting in a VOD right now waiting for me
i'm not going to sleep without understanding it
the queues are open
ranked wont remove the pain but it'll dull it
Think the Blobz way.
my tire valve stem snapped while i was filling air
stood there staring at my flat tire
can't drive on that. can't do anything.
then i looked up
tire shop, right there, right next to the free air machine i was already using
help was already there before i even needed it
that's EXACTLY how a lucio cares their hitscan
you're holding an angle you have no business holding
but you're still there
still standing
because your lucio was already there before the fight started
speed boost. boop ready. positioned to peel the second something goes wrong
you're not surviving that angle alone
you need someone who shows up before you even know you need them
the best supports don't react to mistakes
they're already there before you make them
Think the Blobz way.
my flex support cancelled scrim a week ago
told me he couldn't make it
i rescheduled everything around it
found the vods to review instead
restructured the whole block
today he messages the group
"bro i thought we had a scrim"
mandatory triple blocks until further notice
he did this to himself
i'm doing it for the team
Think the Blobz way.
failed my Roman history exam
well. found out two weeks after
scrims ran til midnight
exam was at 9am
walked in
flow state. locked in. filled the bubbles. moved on
walked out
thought "probably did alright"
then didn't think about it again
not once
two weeks went by
got it back yesterday
68
class average was 84
felt something for about 5 minutes
then started thinking about queuing ranked
here's the thing about pressure
i can't feel it on a Roman history exam
not when there's a scarier thought living in my head every single day
the ceiling
a 68 doesn't scare me
a plateau does
Rome wasn't built in a day
every railgun shot you've ever seen was thousands of hours before it
every clip that made your jaw drop was someone who decided what they were building and didn't look up from it
didn't care what they failed along the way
some things aren't worth the anxiety
and some things are worth every bit of it
Overwatch is my Rome
Think the Blobz way.
she told me she needed more of my time
i said i have scrims at 8
she said "you always have scrims"
i said "i know"
she asked me to choose
i sat with it for a second
genuinely considered it
then remembered i hadn't watched my VOD from last night yet
she cried
i felt bad
then i opened the VOD anyway
i wasn't choosing Overwatch over her
i was choosing the person i'm trying to become over the person i was comfortable being
she wanted me present
i was present
just not there
every missed date was an 8-12
every ignored text was a comp game
every "why do you care so much" was proof she didn't understand what this was
she needed someone with more time
i needed someone who understood i didn't have any
we were both right
no breakfast until i VOD
no sleep until i study
Think the Blobz way.
comms win games in Overwatch
the right call at the right time changes everything
i've built my entire game around it
"i hope you die in real life"
thank you
but this is a terrible call
no location
no timing
no method
WHERE am i dying
WHEN am i dying
are we kiting or are we committing
what's the trigger
what are we waiting for
a good comm gives me everything i need in one sentence
yours gave me nothing
if one of my players made this call we'd be in the lab immediately
the VOD would already be pulled up
we'd be fixing it
information without execution is just noise
next time give me something to work with
Think the Blobz way.
enemy team paused the scrim
someone disconnected
we didn't stop
no "breaks"
we pulled up the VOD
fixed our positioning
talked through the win condition
the pause lasted 4 minutes
we didn't waste a second of it
that's the difference between a team that wants to win
and a team that's HUNGRY to win
when the game is paused, your mind shouldn't be
when the game resumed they felt it immediately
we knew exactly what we were doing and why
they were just reacting
nobody's coming to hand you a pro career
not a pause
not a disconnect
the only thing that stops us is the final scoreboard
and even then we're already thinking about the next one
Think the Blobz way.
@Winstonplayer1 ngl you spend 90% of the game ragebaiting ur own team in map select + ingame instead of trying to win, shameless and hypocritical to act like you ever want to win. active blight on ladder