it's even crazier how Optic had so many close games and matches with the most broken agent ever. LOUD winning champs with barely using chamber that year and FPX slightly using it.

And what about that attacking side calling on Lotus? Every round they won on Lotus was a close round and the same on Sunset, every round they lost on both maps was flawless or 3-4 alive, and the whole team went negative both maps across. Let's look at g2 vs nrg, that's the real test.

You are acting like FNS and NRG weren't down 3-11 on CT side... Let's also not look at Lotus which they allowed a double sentinel comp get 8 rounds(not even accounting for the fact they won both pistols).

the general community won't respect Boostio for what he said but Nadeshot and the pros will. Vocalizing and putting pressure to get something is so common in the real world, this will only push 100T and the team forward.

out igld by billibilli

but even icy wasn't doing good in tier 2/3 for say, he just performed very well in the trials and fit well into the G2 system.

look at EG?

nepotism :/

budget roster where she wasn't allowed to get any good picks she wanted. I assure you if she gets the NRG, 100T, or SEN budget she will easily make it to every event

He gets put on terrible roles and then dropped because of bad performances that his team caused. I don't get how this is fair at all, I get dropping Marved because bro was in TS with FNS at 4 am before his do-or-die game against 100T, but this just sucks for Demon1

yeah I wonder if the maps are 1 sided or not :D

old jett lol

they're going to give 4 devour/dismiss for the buff, pretty fair tbh

would be a Demon1/yay hybrid

tex>Less come on

They said they had a very busy year last year and complained about it

that's what I'm saying... I get that it wasn't the same roster but coaches control the roster...

NRG 2-1 MIBR

Close games 13-11, 10-13, 14-12

Look at all iterations of Gen G roster

every team Lmapuddy has been on has failed, I don't know how he is coaching fnatic but boaster sees something in him. Gen G started getting success after he left the team, which says a lot. And lots of question marks recently about Fnatic since Lmapuddy has joined.

💀 💀 people were hyping up the nerd street lcqs like crazy back then

The second event was a good event, it was LCQ for the main Nerdstreet winter tourney

Shahzam wanted sean gares and boot camps but got neither of those(till the end). It is still impressive af how SEN won the first masters compared to how other teams during his time(100t, Fnatic) had lots of coaching structure with boot camps. Also all the uncertainty about if tenz will even stay on the team

boostio doesn't like his oppers on raze

btw it is also clear they have 0 practice on lotus as well if they were forced into the split pick tbh. People don't talk about NRG having such a limited map pool only playing into jett only Demon1 maps.

nice

SA*

thoughts on the phoenix breach setup on NRG?

Victor - Phoenix
Crashies - Breach
Ethan - Flex
Demon1 - Controller
Marved - Perma Viper

I feel like it suits their contact playstyle very well, also with this comp it is structured to set up the viper and secondary controller which Marved and Demon1 are capable of.

kevin durant vibes

You should've seen how much he was grilling TenZ in 2023 when he was dealing with Kyedae's situation, being sick, and all of the hate he was getting. It's all clout, if he cared about showing flaws he would have videos made on ardiis, yay, and Asuna last year but he didn't.

Yeah they didn't want to get paid 5k a month...

These people just need to leave America but they can't last a second outside their online communities

Lakia ?

everyone is so privileged man...

I was wrong

Congrats on beating 2 players that got auto-eliminated in tier 2 last year, 1 player that haven't played a match in 1.5 years, and a franchise player with <0.8 rating last year.

EG 2-0
13-11
13-11

prophet

acting like crashies wasn't having any luck in tier 3 na cs

true I wouldn't be surprised if every comp becomes the same again toward masters. I can easily see the loud split comp and leviatans bind comp being used by everyone by the time of masters.

First time in a minute that every team has a unique comp for every map(from what we've seen so far). Outside of breeze and ascent, every team has had a unique comp for each map.

yeah but I feel like they should've switched comps instead of using afreecatv comps. Sacy can play all initiators pretty well

if Pancada joins back the team it has to be : -TenZ + Pancada

maybe you're right, but you're just weird

they just ran out of skye flashes, sacy burned 2 in like 30 seconds every t side round.

he's just baiting, don't give him attention and he will post less. Most people on the site look at pro players as objects not human

bulking with the 0 day split

crowd treating him like a make-a-wish kid

Close games OT, saying Gambit didn't prep at all is answering for them. Saadhak only started popping off toward the end of the year even still but even then was not enough to say Saadhak was a top igl in 2021.

keyword: "almost". Fnatic almost beat Sentinels in the first masters as well(all games were OT) same with Envy against Gambit.

tbf xeppa had such a bad series that game and honestly wasn't his usual self which sucks. I still think an IGL is only just as good as their duelists/team. Shahz was the greatest IGL when he had the best core 5 at the time, same with Redgar. This year will prove if Saadhak is a good IGL or if he just had the perfect pieces and everything worked in harmony.