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COPE IS STILL THE PROBLEM

By Isaac Weissman

With Relegations for the upcoming Spring SPL Split going on now, new teams have

formed in order to bid for a position at the next level. One of the teams who entered

the scene is Cope is Still the Problem, headed by, you guessed it, Copebby. So, who

are these guys? How do they play? Who is this team’s All-Star player?

We only got to see Cope’s team play in Week 1 due be published.) This team really shone in Week 1, and they

to a tough loss suffered in their first match of Week 2, but if are looking to continue into Relegations on February 12.

their Week 1 performance is any indication then this is a good Under the name “Town USA,” Copebby’s team

team. A watcher of the Challenger Cup or of High Ranking managed to place Second in NA Standings, and they did

SPL players on Twitch will recognize many of the faces we so by trying to get Cope and Mexiety ahead, while waiting

see on this team, names like Mexiety and Sops come to for Sops to come online in the late game. And you should

mind right away. Anyway, Mathew “Copebby” Irish is the watch for this team to mimic that strategy in Relegations,

team’s Solo laner, Mexiety the Jungler, Viper the midlaner, the SPL, or the Challenger Cup. Cope brought out a lot

Dalton “Balentine” Balentine (creative name) the Support, of Erlang Shen, but that will likely change with the nerfs

and Sops the Hunter. (Note: The other names are yet to Erlang Shen received in season 4. Anyway, Cope’s Erlang

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