Everyone was tired of the farmfest era that came with the 6.52 map, 6.55 has been highly anticipated for a while now. Beta testers were working hard for months to bring the community the "perfect map." Now that 6.55 is here, there is one question, "Is it suitable for competitive play?"

6.55b was already released after a few bugs were found. Now it's time to see real competitive play on 6.55. Fnatic will be conducting a few mock drafts just for you! A mock draft is when a player or team pretends they are drafting heroes for real but this is just for experimentation and fun!

Teams will be drafting heroes on the new map, 6.55b. The amount of changes on the new map is overwhelming, enough to entirely change the gameplay and bring out new strategies. The most important changes are all the nerfs on some core carry heroes, terrain changes, the BKB nerf and much more.

The mock drafts will allow the community to see how drafting will change in the future when the new map is implemented into leagues and tournaments. There will also be a small panel of judges present during the draft to discuss which team or player has the better hero selections and why, allowing the community to understand just that much more the logic behind each team's choices.

We will also provide pre-game and post-game statements from both teams participating so you can get an idea of what goes on! After the heroes are drafted the teams will then play out the game. You can catch the game live on GGTV!

The mock draft games will implement FARM4FAME rules, however there is one change, the mode will be -Captains Mode (CM). New heroes are allowed. Good luck to the teams participating and happy drafting!

Round 1: Fnatic vs Pandemic (Saturday at 1 pm Eastern, 19:00 CET)

0:2


Pre game statements:

Fnatic.melen: Fnatic's players are very excited to play in this mockdraft. We will play a new game style. A long time ago we had to forfeit playing against Pandemic, this makes us more excited since Chu is very popular. It will be fun to watch. Hopefully we can get enough time to play two games. We have a secret, RitteR has come up with a new strategy! Good Luck Pandemic!

Pandemic-mO: I'm looking forward to playing this new version, it just seems really fun (FROM TDA's). Only imbalance I see is lycan, and with him banned this should be a good game. PS: hyhy has nothing on my admiral!

Post game statements:

Pandemic-mO: Well in the first game, we kind of knew they wanted to push from the first ban alone(pitlord) then the kotl fp we were sure so we countered with naix (free bkb), enchantress and COCO for his imba ultimate. Second game we wanted to pick meepo to be honest, but they took it first so we just countered it with mass aoe (es,lich). It also felt like there were still 20+ heroes that could have been picked that weren't. Just shows how viable heroes are now.

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Judges:

Akuryou
H2O.Stripez
Remstar