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In Overwatchs brief history, one team has been the clear dominant player in the competitive scene. For anyone familiar with high-level play in Blizzards shiny new first-person shooter, the name of Team EnVyUs earned a reputation for near-invincibility, racking up win after win as spring turned to summer. EnVyUss 57-match winning streak made winning look easy, but what fun is a streak if nobody ever breaks it? And thats just what happened last week.Entering their semifinal match at ESLs Overwatch Atlantic Showdown, EnVyUs was slated the favorite, as usual. Initially forming during Overwatchs closed beta, a group of friends created a team then known as IDDQD, named after a cheat code from the original Doom (sadly, one Im old enough to remember first-hand). Competing in weekly cups against more established esports organizations, IDDQD were the kings of the Overwatch beta and most of that team eventually became part of the new EnVy Overwatch team after an April acquisition. And after June, they never stopped winning.Enter Team Rogue. The Atlantic Showdowns $100,000 pot is the largest yet for an Overwatch tournament, though soon-to-be eclipsed by the Overwatch Opens $300,000 prize pool. With well-established teams at the top and a fairly static map pool in competition, Rogue adopted a strategy of training hard on less popular maps in order to leverage their natural aggressive style and create imbalanced matchups by throwing the competition a curve. And what a curve it was.The biggest curve, I believe that we couldve done and did was throwing the unusual maps towards them, said Kevyn TviQ Lindstr?m to ESPN.com. With their limited practice time leading up to the event, we felt like Assault would be our best shot towards winning as we felt pretty comfortable on it. The payloads in general were really close and couldve gone either way, but we felt like we had the upper hand when we went into the Assault maps.And thats just what happened last week. EnVyUs was just as dangerous as always, but Rogue took their aggressive playstyle right at EnVyUs, winning the first game in the little-played Anubis map, thanks in a large part to the Reinhardt play of Jonathan Reinforce Larsson. Jokingly called Rhine-force, to his occasional chagrin, Reinforces typical take-no-prisoners style of play along with TviQs unconventional choice of using Junkrat for the entire round, gave them the big defensive stand needed to take Anubis over EnVyUss more standard lineup.In the end, the match against EnVyUs came down to a showdown in Lijiang, the rubber match taken by Rogue in large part due to the usual heroics from TviQ and and Dylan aKm Bignet. In a game in which the casters attention tend to focus on the offense players, there were other unsung heroes here: Benjamin uNKOE Chevasson and Jean-Louis KnOxXx Boyer both playing aggressively in their support roles, getting enough kills on their own, which disrupted EnVyUs enough to prevent their offensive players, Ronnie Talespin DuPree and Timo Taimou Kettunen from getting much ground to work with. Not to mention the Zarya work of Micha?l winz Bignet, running up kill streaks multiple times while clinging onto single-digit health.With TviQ a member of the original IDDQD team, I asked what it meant to him to be part of the team that ended EnVyUss streak and he told me that he cant deny that it meant quite a bit for [him] to be part of the team ending their streak, especially on LAN.Beating EnVyUs didnt end the weekend for Rogue as they still had to come back after that win to play the final against REUNITED, ranked second in the world at that time by Gosugamers Elo-derived method. After a rough game two for Rogue, when REUNITED took advantage of Rogues aggressiveness and took the point in Dorado, Rogue won two to win the match 3-1, closing it out with an overwhelming final push on Kings Road to take home the $40,000 first-place prize.Whats next for Team Rogue? After a tough loss to FaZe in the winners bracket of the Overwatch Open prelims on Friday that saw them lose on Anubis, one of their bread-and-butter maps, Rogue came back to easily defeat Tornado RoX and punch their ticket to Atlanta. As TviQ told me of course we have to remake the epic matchup we had at Atlantic against EnVyUs, which also qualified for their Regional Finals. However, to get to EnVyUs, theyll first have to beat the rest of the EU qualifiers. And anyone who has ever played king of the hill knows that once youve shoved off your friends and become the new king, youve got a big target on your back. 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Louisville and Virginia are heading in opposite directions but have taken basically the same approach in their preparations heading into Saturdays matchup.The Cardinals (6-1, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) lead the nation in scoring at 52.6 ppg and are led by sophomore quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Lamar Jackson. Every week, in assessing the Cardinals progress, coach Bobby Petrino said he begins with reminding himself what his team is doing well.My dads philosophy is still there, which says `do it until they stop it, Petrino said this week, so well continue to do that, but then we want to know situation-wise, you know, what were doing in certain situations.The review runs the gamut from how the Cardinals use motion, any tendencies they have picked up in play-calling that might put a defense in position to have success to what they need to change to remain unpredictable.Virginia (2-5, 1-2) has taken a similar us-first approach all season in Bronco Mendenhalls first year as coach.Changes in the Cavaliers game plan include a switch to the 3-4 defense. Though the Cavaliers spend time studying an opponents offensive weapons, their preparations mostly focus on their own development on both sides of the ball.Were so focused on just our own execution, which theres significant lapses in consistency right now, said Mendenhall, who calls the plays for Virginias struggling defense. I mean, my point simply to the team is we have plenty to work on just within our own organization, and so my intent is to keep their focus on us, on us, on us, knowing the external environment will be talking about Louisville and their quarterback.And theres plenty to talk about when discussing Jackson. Hes thrown for 18 touchdowns and run for 16 more, making him responsible for eight more touchdowns than Virginia has scored.---Some other things to watch when No. 5 Louisville plays at Virginia:STRUGGLLING BENKERT: Virginia quarterback Kurt Benkert had his first game without an interception is last weeks loss to North Carolina, and Mendenhall said he was more insecure in the pocket, escaping.dddddddddddd The coach added that teams have had seven games of film to watch on Benkert have made the quarterbacks preparation more important, and more challenging.RUN GAME: One of the best ways to keep a dynamic offense off the field is with a productive running game, but Louisville ranks 19th nationally in stopping the run, allowing just 116 yards per game. Over the last two games, Duke and North Carolina State have averaged just 62 yards on the ground against the Cardinals defense.TAKE THAT: The Cardinals have turned the ball over 18 times with nine interceptions and nine lost fumbles, and an underdog such as Virginia can make the game more competitive by generating takeaways and converting them into points. Virginia also needs to take care of the ball and the Cavaliers have committed just 11 turnovers.RANKED VISITORS: The Cavaliers last home victory against a ranked opponent came in 2014 -- against Louisville. Virginia beat the No. 21 Cardinals 23-21, but their record against teams ranked in the top 5 is less encouraging. Their last home victory against a team ranked in the top 5 was in 2005 when they edged No. 4 Florida State 26-21.OLD SALT RETURNS: Virginia will go back to its football heyday as it honors its winningest coach, George Welsh, on the 25th anniversary of his winning national coach of the year honors. Virginia was 134-86-3 under Welsh from 1982-2000, and made 12 bowl appearances. He was the ACCs career victories leader when he retired.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org---Follow Hank on Twitter: www.twitter.com/hankkurzjr ' ' '