Easy 7/9 gratz to them.
Easy does it
To be fair this is the first time since OCE servers that we've been underrepresented in the rankings, even this early in the race, despite having consistent instance server issues for every raid release. Since OCE servers were made a thing in WoD OC guilds have been more competitive with US guilds than US guilds are with EU. An OC guild got US first Imperator Mar'gok, had 3 guilds in the top 10 for BRF, 2nd and 5th in HFC, skipping EN, an OC guild got US first Helya and OC got US 2nd and 4th in Nighthold.
So depending on what you consider competitive and realistically there are two (three if you count Asia) different races, the US (including OCE) race and the EU race, the EU are like male runners and the US are like females, some females can run faster than some males BUT the best male runners are going to beat the best female runners. In conclusion, yes, OC guilds have definitely been "competitive" since getting their own servers but maybe the top OC guilds are getting tired of the consistent issues with our servers on raid release and less and less give a shit.
On the topic of OCE. This is the first tier there has been no truly hardcore guild in existence in the region. Ascension hasn't existed since Legion and Entropy died after Nighthold. The server issues are probably why you aren't seeing a few of the more decent guilds as high up but thats why theres not even 1 guild very high up like earlier as well.
They were streaming all the progression and they will still stream from now on.
They will stream from 2PM GMT+8 which about one hour later.
Here are some links for the stream from Alpha(concerning the connection):
Mage: "w(w)w.panda.tv/hd/wow2017pve.html?roomid=307528&"
Ret Paladin: "w(w)w.zhanqi.tv/topic/wowsg/124395"
There are also kill videos down the page.
I like when the race is close enough that streaming guilds reach the boss that the top guilds are still trying to kill. Makes the end of the race so much more interesting to watch.
BDG went back to their 3-4 day a week playing? Kinda sad, I liked having a new player in the top.
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Also Invective 4/9 mythic. Will they finally step into the forefront like they promised?
The direct link for the World 4th Maiden video is here. I suggest closing all other tabs before watching that video because it looks very resource intensive somehow.
See here for my own Mage solo (and sometimes other classes too.)
And also see this document for my efforts at listing solo kills of every class. Please do not hesitate to message me if there is some kill I have failed to record.
And Alpha is streaming Mythic Avatar Progression now here! Just wiped ~88%.
Disclaimer: it's at least 60% strategy-talking, which can be boring or deadly boring depending on your tolerance for Chinese.
Disclaimer 2: Close all other browser tabs before watching stream.
See here for my own Mage solo (and sometimes other classes too.)
And also see this document for my efforts at listing solo kills of every class. Please do not hesitate to message me if there is some kill I have failed to record.