The outccome of this match was expected but this tournament was still very eventful despite USA winning for like the 1000th time in a row. A lot happened this tournament and USA's path to victory wasn't by any means clean, it does give me hope that USA will one day be taken down.
I'm fine with this result because the journey the US took to win. They tore up Loser's Bracket but their Winner's Bracket was definitely underperforming their seed. On top of that, the matches were mostly interesting, and even when it was a sweep, many of the plays themselves were crazy to watch. Edit: They got sent to Loser's early and went on a war path. They lost 11 maps out of the 33 played in the 4 Winner's side sets, but dropped 10 maps out of the 45 played over 5 sets in Loser's.
I started playing this game in 2017 but only started following OWC last year and my god is this year so much more entertaining than the last. I can't really speak about the other OWCs since I only watched some of them through clips and highlights but this is definitely my favorite OWC to date!
@Heards how about this: Utami is not literally vaxei, but has insanely high mechanical ability and plays with higher consistency for fc on every skillset, SIMILARLY to vaxei.
I don't wanna take anything away from USA, they are without a doubt consistently the best grand finals pools team of all time. But I do wanna say I don't really like the GF pool for this OWC, I feel like the maps lean reaaaaaaaaaallly heavily on the gimmicks and there was a lot less "normal" mapping that could be a toss up. AKA a lot less hard consistency based maps and a lot more "here's a really hard pattern do it for 4 mintues", its definitely not the worst thing I'd just imagine its hard on the players who have to really grind most maps in the pool instead of having a few maps they can just do right off the gate
for pure raw consistency zero gimmicks you have NM1, NM2, HD1, HR1, and FM1. And USA won most of those or banned it (NM1). So I'd actually argue that it appears this map pool is biased towards the US because they've stepped up their consistency roster, notably with the addition of Decaten, and they have the best speed roster in the entire tournament. I'd also argue that the gimmick picks like FM3, NM3, NM4, HD3, HD2 were always about gimmick and that's just how it is, same as last year, same this year
@@saturn_illus pointed out some interesting things there, biggest difference in any GF pool will be the star bump of course to every map. We no longer see consistency maps on average star rating straight forward mapping, but wins for consistency now mean keeping up with high precision, awkward angles, or demanding and spaced flow aim. So the consistency has become “consistently harder”, thus breaks into some players’ mechanical limits.
@@saturn_illus It's hard to explain, like yes they are technically normal picks but it feels like this year more than others, most of the map picks are stuff that players have to spend way more time on than previous pools. Its not technically a bad thing but it just feels like other countries have less top players that are available to spend so much time on pools like this GF one unless the prize pool gets bigger. I mean the US basically wins every pick in the GF pool and I'm gonna be honest I don't think its because they are THAT much better skill wise, at least not 7-3 poland and 7-1 germany and south korea.
@@Loxu69 That sounds like GF pool scaling in general, obviously teams will get skill capped and have to practice more, but for a team like US who has high skill cap and floor + they practice a lot for GFs, the difference will be huge
@@DaLooseGoose11 Yea people calling Grand Finals boring just because their favorite team lost when you have players pouring their soul out into the match, commentators doing their best, mappers putting out bangers, etc. Idk man SK played really well second half and this guy here just calls the match boring, what an insult to the SK players too. We don't need toxic SK fans like you Cedric. (Btw was rooting for SK too)
