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Chapter 1: What is pickleball and why are the hosts talking about it?
Do you park next to me? No, Loki does. Yeah. I agree.
It does.
And I'm sore, so I'm fucking hobbling down the stairs.
Why are you sore? Huh? Why are you sore? Pickleball, man.
We went to play pickleball last night. Oh, yeah, you were fucking a part of it, huh? From 6.30 to like 9.30.
We don't play around, man. We go. I only got five games in.
After the third one, I was fucking dead.
That was exactly how the first time went. Just games, games, games. Three hours. Great workout.
Very good workout. Is it like some of y'all are playing over here, some of y'all are playing over here, or is it just... Couldn't wait for that to happen. The last two times we've went... 2v2s, right?
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts compare basketball players and teams?
Hit me in the corner. Bang. Bang.
Bro, that would be so tiring. Well, I mean, that's acceptable nowadays, you know, for the big man to step behind the three and just launch that shit. Back in my day, if you were tall and you were... You got to go paint.
You stay your ass inside the fucking paint. Yeah, no, for real, though. Like, that was pretty much kind of the rule, like, when I was growing up. Yeah. Like, if you got the size, you got to go paint. If you were tall...
You wouldn't even. They assigned. You could have been the next fucking lamello ball. Six foot four in fucking middle school point guard.
So fucking good. If you're up, you only get one three in a game. One shot. If you got to be up, though, and you get one three, you miss it.
It'd be like a center scoring in an NFL game. And then they take you out if you miss it. If a big man threw a three up.
Not necessarily. There's some centers that could shoot.
Now, back in my day. Oh, back in the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When basketball was good.
We're done with the 90s, man.
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Chapter 3: What are the recent Call of Duty League results and challenges?
There just wasn't any, like... I mean, you're playing AG, your former teammate.
There's got to be that killer instinct. It's a hype match. Get on the field.
Yeah, we got to beat AG.
We got to prove why we made the change. Instead, we came out with, like, oh, yeah, we made the wrong change. Yeah.
Period.
It was bad.
It's true.
And obviously, like, everybody knows AG's talent. Everybody knows, like, how great he is at the game. And for us to obviously make the change again... and then this happens. I mean, the change needed to happen. Of course, of course, of course. But still, nonetheless, man, that's got to be something that we, I don't know.
All I know is that I woke up today, I saw that the standings, and we're seventh. One away from not being able to go to champs for the first time in 20 fucking years.
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Chapter 4: How is the upcoming Halo event structured and who is participating?
They don't make it to Sunday. Sunday's only, I think, four teams. Yeah, it is, I think. To the top. No one really cares that much about Friday and Saturday Halo.
Friday Halo is tough just because you know pretty much every single outcome. Saturday gets better, but also it's like...
I mean... Saturday, there will be a few good matches.
Yeah, like, unless one of the top teams get upset, it's like, okay, they're probably all going to move on where you think they're going to move on. The semifinals matches on Saturday are good, though, usually. Dude, I'm trying to get some circulation. Because it's like Optic versus FaZe or Optic SSG.
Or like Optic DSM or something. Yeah. But then, like, Optic would just win.
Yeah, it'll be a 3-0, and then you're like, okay, well, that match was boring, thankfully, because it's us, but... Yeah, Sunday Halo is... Sunday Halo is... What I'm there for.
Cool.
And Saturday semifinals.
Yeah, you just don't really see, I don't know, you just don't really see TSM or Cloud9 on like the days where obviously the viewers probably fucking double, triple on Sundays.
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Chapter 5: Why are tier lists controversial before esports events?
In any event, for over a decade... In every event for over 20 years almost, there's never been somebody that's... No, there's been a couple haters. In person? Yeah, a couple. What? Who? What'd they say to you?
I mean, I don't remember specific situations, but there's always people that... There's always a couple that... They'll yell something from afar, and then... To be honest, they'll probably... Actually, I was going to say they might feel bad about it afterwards. Because shit like that might seem funny, and then... You're like, 20 seconds later, you're like, that was fucking stupid.
Why did I just yell that at him? Dude, you know what's great? They're fucking such gremlins. I don't even know if their brain works like that.
I see it as like part of the thing, right?
That has to happen.
You could be the nicest person.
There's always gonna be people that... I get it.
Again, that's why it doesn't bother me. The only time I get bothered is very specific instances. But when they're talking shit about me, let them be liars, man. You know what I'm saying?
Let them be liars. I would rather get hated on than no one say anything. Because once no one says anything, you're like, fuck.
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Chapter 6: What is the current state and competitiveness of the Halo scene?
Yeah, but that's a boat ride. I was in the air.
And there was no turbulence. Planes too. I mean, you've seen me on planes when...
Yes, I have. When I've been drinking. I don't like it. I'm sitting there like this. I mean, I've definitely felt sick before.
Bro, I was like this in my seat. I swear to Christ himself. Blasphemous to those who, I'm sorry. Take a Dramamine. But, bro, I was like, we were about to land. We were like maybe 20 minutes from landing, and this fucking pilot kept doing this.
I hate when you can feel the plane slow down and it's like, ooh. It's like you're snapping back into re- I literally identified.
Oh, I know what you mean. I feel like it's stopping midair. Yeah. Like hard.
But your body feels it? I hate that.
Bro, I've never ever in my life of traveling have I ever felt car sick. I'm like, what the fuck? I identified immediately what was happening. I'm like, oh my God. I grab my bottle of water. I drink. And I'm like this. And I'm like...
He puked up, but swallowed it back in.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts reflect on esports rivalries and public trash talk?
Buzz gets along with everyone but one dog in our neighborhood.
I don't know that that's a fuck with him.
I can't even.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. True, true. Yeah, I can't even. No, I'm excited for Miami. I'm going fishing with legendary Scott Martin. I mean, I've known him for over a decade. It's the first time we're fishing in, like, Maybe two years. So I'm excited to fish Okeechobee. I haven't fished Okeechobee in maybe two years.
Fish with me and Hector on Wednesday morning.
Tomorrow morning? No, Wednesday morning in Florida. Oh, I thought you were saying tomorrow. That's why I was confused. Go catch a nice eight pound bass. It was in the watch party chat and you asked everyone but me. And I thought you were talking about tomorrow morning. Because you said Wednesday morning. So I said he was down. I was like, I might be down.
Then you were like, yo, what about you, Riley? I'm going to put Mark and Zen on the spot. That's why I thumbsed it up. Like, thanks for the invite. Because I thought you were talking about tomorrow. That's why I didn't care. I didn't respond to that. I'm like, oh, it's one of those things. Well, then you texted me and you were like, you coming to Miami? And I was like, I don't know.
But I thought you were down.
Man, Mark and Zinn are so lame.
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