Out of the Blue

Had an interesting gaming experience yesterday, as I was playing some Heroes of the Storm with a couple of buddies and they decided to play as Cho'gall because we were going to play one more game before we got off. They'd done this a couple of times before, and the outcome of the two of them in one hero was not usually optimal, but it was always comically entertaining. We got in a game and immediately noticed that we're against a five-player premade team, and the names were all strikingly familiar: MFPallytime, Hengest, KiyeBerries, Rurikhan, and Koala. Unless someone had made up a team of theme imposters, we were playing against the TGN Squadron, full-time game streamers. I'm actually a big Pallytime fan and view Squadron streams all the time, so I was skeptical this was actually them since they usually do group games for fun as custom matches with their viewers, but it turns out they were trying something a little different, and this was real. Quickmatch comps can easily be mismatches because of blind hero picks, and we were certainly being 1000% more tryhard about this than they were, but we are still very proud to say we pulled out the victory! Not only that, but they spent a lot of the match singing the praises of our Cho'gall, with Hengest at one point calling them "best Cho'gall player NA" and wondering if they queued all the time as that character and practiced (nothing could be further from the truth). I did my part dishing out some damage as Lunara, though based on our comp part of the game I was relegated to the role of off lane-soak during the objectives, so I missed out on some of the prime action. I killed Pallytime a couple of times, and he did at one point say "I'm not going to be able to grab Lunara unless she makes a mistake," but I think that was more about the character's movement than me taking him to juke city (as it turned out, his only successful pulls on me came as part of cc chains). All in all this was a huge thrill for a gamer nerd. :) You can see the match in this recording of the stream, it was the first game they played. Hey Squadron... anytime you want a rematch, just let us know! :)

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Cutter wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 11:51:
I don't understand any of what you said, Blue. It's all Greek to me.


MOBA-speak.

I haven't played a MOBA since Warcraft3. I also feel disconnected from the gaming community at large.
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