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! :)