New York Excelsior vs. Los Angeles Gladiators - Stage 2 Playoffs - FINAL

General Discussion
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VS.
#5 New York Excelsior
  
#4 Los Angeles Gladiators
5-2 +14
  
6-1 +10
12-2 +30
  
9-5 +11

Results of this match do not affect overall standings.



Final Score

 
 
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Victory!
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  • Each Overwatch League Stage 1 Playoff match continue to play until a team wins 3 maps. If there is a draw, neither team will be awarded with a map win.
  • In the Stage 2 Playoffs, teams choose the maps to play from the Stage 2 Map Pool (see Stage 2 summary).
  • For the starting map, the team with the higher seed will select the starting map for the scheduled map type. The lower seed will select to whether attack or defend.
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Click here for a summary of changes in Stage 2
  • Baptiste is eligible for play.
  • Overwatch League has switched the order of the Assault and Hybrid maps to reduce the likelihood that a match is decided part-way through the third map as draws are more likely on Assault.
  • Stage 2 will play on patch 1.34.0.1 (Baptiste Release). The current live version of the game is patch 1.35.0.1 (Archives 2018).
  • The map pool has replaced two of the three maps from Stage 1 of each map type. Here’s the map pool for Stage 1:
Map 1
Map 2
Map 3
Map 4
Lijang Tower Paris Blizzard World Junkertown
Oasis Hanamura Eichenwalde Watchpoint: Gibraltar
Busan* Temple of Anubis* King's Row* Rialto*

*Asterisk refers to maps that appeared in Stage 1.


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  • The Atlanta Reign, Paris Eternal, Toronto Defiant, and Washington Justice will join the Atlantic Division.
  • The Chengdu Hunters, Guangzhou Charge, Hangzhou Spark, and Vancouver Titans will join the Pacific Division.
  • All teams will play a 28-match schedule this season, down from 40 from the 2018 season.
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  • The prize pool for the 2019 season is $5 million, up from $3.5 million in 2018.
  • Stage Playoffs Prize Pool (for each of Stage 1, 2, and 3):
    •Winner gets $200K
    •Runner-up gets $100K
    •3rd and 4th place teams get $50K each
    •5th through 8th place teams get $25K each
  • Season Playoffs Prize Pool:
    •Champion gets $1.1M
    •Runner-up gets $600K
    •3rd place team gets $450K
    •4th place team gets $350K
    •5th and 6th place teams get $300K each
    •7th and 8th place teams get $200K each
  • The map pool for each stage has been expanded to 12 maps.

    • For more details see the official 2019 Competition Rules here.


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inb4 nenne whiffs another grav for all to see

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Gladiators is gonna win today.

I love NYXL, but they’ve been pretty bad in stage 2, and they constantly have choked during stage playoffs in the past.

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WATCH ME NENNE WATCH ME WHIFF LUL

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Have NYXL won a playoff? I can’t remember but they usually choke. I want Gladiators to win.

Edit: They won 2… duh… but it always seems like they could be playing better.

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2/2 on playoff predictions so far. LAG wins this

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In case you missed it, Gladiators cross-city rivals the LA Valiant announced a 3 for 1 trade with the Mayhem org earlier today.

Joining LAV = McGravy, Shax (from Mayhem Academy), FCTFCTN (from Mayhem Academy)

Joining Florida = Fate

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Today I learned Soe is the size of a small child.

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I was so close to 2/2 but I fell to peer pressure. I should just trust myself more.
I’d pick gladiators and Titans. Though NYXL has something to prove they don’t really fit well into this meta’s playstyle.

After that its Shock sweeping Hangzhou
Titans 4-1 Gladiators

Shock 4-2 Titans

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Since they are talking about the Shock, I will say that I watched the Overwatch World Cup from 2017 team USA vs South Korea. Sinatraa is even better on Tracer than he is on Zarya, and he was always pushing the spawns with Tracer like he does with Zarya.

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Having my pizza delivered for my pleasure while I watch Nenne throw the game away again.

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Is it just me being sensitive, or should the announcers try to stay a little more neutral in their commentary? The xylophone was obviously in jest, but it’s almost every single pre-game they spend it laughing at one team or another. It’s really odd to see imo.

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They have won the Stage 2 and 3 playoffs of 2018.

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poor fate… :rofl:

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I am a Houston fan. They are brutal towards my team before every single match.

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The Wrinkled brain Bren v the Smooth brain Soe and Sideshow

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ah would u look at that. Shock conveniently dodging both NYXL and titans AGAIN in the playoffs. on top of having the easiest league play in stage 2 ever. People who rate shock more than a #3 team is so severely biased its not even funny

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yo bendubz, do u only appear on the forums in wyomingmyst’s posts?

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Gladiators have had a very good stage this time around and while NYXL has had a better stage, many of those games were kind of shaky. I’m giving it to Gladiators but its going to be a huge struggle.

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Soe’s still bigger than my friend, who in the interest of privacy, I call Smallheart…seriously, I’m 6 feet tall, she’s 4 foot 6 at best. Soe is probably taller than my friend.