Every single spar thread I've seen that has de-railed has had Thallen involved . Not saying that he's responsible (or the opposite) but god damn it's like he's a 100 watt bulb and all the moths come' a buzzin. Do moths buzz?
You don't need to practice for gst team to get better ... Half of them use stupid vpn and other proxies to delay in spar so now it's really a competition of who can delay the most ... Not one winning team now a day has a team with out any delayers
but i agree, the delay teams are getting out of control. don't know how certain people can still support them and call them skilled players. actually i do know but i'm not about to de-rail the thread.
I don't have a prediction, but I hope a worthy team with skillful, modest(not Thallen) players wins. I don't like people with that big of an ego, even if they can somewhat back it up.
this whole thing where everyone is now claiming that everyone else uses a "VPN" (implying that delay makes you better?) is probably one of the stupidest things that has ever plagued the sparring community
1 or 2 scrubs tried this in the last Mixed tournament and got rocked, there's really no point in pretending it's a problem or passing it off as any excuse for losing