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Chad

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

It's a difference for them.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

I think it's just, to some extent, and this word is a bit too harsh, but I think it exposes a lot of these...

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

Tier 1, 1.5 teams, right?

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

In a sense of... And G2 is not an example here.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

They just brought in a new player, changed positions for a lot of other guys.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

Arguably should still be able to beat Sinners, but...

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

I don't think this result is be all end all for this sort of conversation.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

But I think you would see it happen with a lot of teams.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

You even see it happen at tier one tournaments when teams like Foot show up and Paravision show up and are able to sort of run the bracket and beat a lot of these teams that are more established.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

I think it's just showing that these teams aren't that great.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

And the reason for that is...

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

twofold in a way it is true that when vitality and falcons play each other it's a different sort of game than when vitality plays gamer legion or falcons play sure tai lu or whatever right because these teams and these players are operating on a much higher level their understanding of the game is super high so everything that happens on the map is

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

There's the obvious thing that's happened, but there's also the implications of that.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

They're on a band of higher understanding between that group of players and teams.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

So you know this is where the gap is, you know what the most likely reaction is, and you're trying to already be one step ahead of that.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

let's say that's how these players, there's a lot of mind games.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

Except the other guy doesn't know what his reaction is supposed to be.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

There's a lot of mind games involved in that, right?

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

But when it comes to playing a tier one team versus a tier two team, those players aren't able to operate at high of a level.

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Episode 171: GOAT Astralis vs GOAT Vitality, BLAST Playoffs, overdrive's comments on magixx IGL

Let's say things are a little bit more set for them and it's just going by the book or whatever and they're not going to...