OWCS Hot Takes

Best player at each hero in 2025 poll: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Make sure to type in the player as it appears on Liquipedia. Be mindful of capitalisations and numbers. Your vote will still be counted either way, it just makes my life easier.

NA = nearest airport

People gotta stop saying “of all time” when they’re clearly talking about right now. Yes I’m talking about people calling Youbi and Quarts the best non Korean players oat. Just disrespectful to players who have had such great longevity like Kev and Astro.

Stalk3r and Shu to TM will create a new gap between EMEA or (ME) and the rest of the world

Convinced that if we had an EMEA super team made up of Quartz Kev Ziyad FunnyAstro Sirmajed (ig?) they’d easily dominate the Koreans all year. But every top player is already on a decent or muhh team, and when they face the Korean super teams, they still struggle a lot.

Kev must play in NA, he can’t hang with top tier FDPS in EMEA. In two years he played 7 stages in EMEA and only won a stage.Other than that one Backbone, Youbi and Secio smoke him everytime. He needs to play against competition he can handle like Xomba, Rocket, Zr7 and Sugarfree

Fuel and disguised will destroy NA as a region next stage. NA does not have enough talents for 6 major teams(TL, SSG, GK, NTMR, Fuel, Disguised) to co-exist

VP> all of NA

Rupal is best fs after Shu and fielder

Hot take, Blizzard shouldn't nerf Sym. I want to see if a team like Falcons can learn the comp and be better at it than TM or AlQad. I want to see if a team like CR or OA can figure out a way to beat it.

There is still Genuine talent in Na that isn’t top 4, Sakura and Teamz have shooters and tanks with good individual skill ceilings. Xomba Xten Ryan Astro zeb are all sleepers

Leesoomin should be the highest demand import player for NA/EMEA

If Quartz can humiliate CR and Falcon with the sym ban on dorado. Can we stop giving the USA team any chance against Saudi in the World Cup.

If Quartz and Youbi were both American/NA, they would undeniably be considered the greatest (non-Korean) duo in OW history. That’s not even a hot take at this point.

Nobody should give a singular fuck about arguing for which region is better or NA “proving” themselves. Too much discourse about how affordable regions with better esports infrastructure shit on a broke region who struggle to keep/develop talent. We all know KR and EMEA r better