i wonder who did that first +back to back?

idc edg should not be on there china is still way off of being competitive

k

aspas

fuckers choked a clearly winnable GF for korea
went fucking 3-3
lost to T1 of all teams looking like dogshit
and then eliminated DRX, allowing T1 to qualify

it's 2024 and T1 is still qualifying. LIKE HELLO???

cryo played raze at sao paulo and he was doggy

Zest is better than lakia but i want to keep lakia in🗿

from what it looks like rn it should be a toss-up between DRX/PRX/GENG
but pacific (especially t0rmi) gonna find a way to choke it anyway

funny that people only mention the "oh but they have so much footage on them from madrid" when it's about SEN
footage is not an excuse to lose to evil geniuses and get diffed by qck

yeah there was a time where they scrimmed a ton against edg and iirc also nrg

do u guys still consider him even like top 5 in duelists?
just curious to see how people see him.

Toss-up. DRX PRX and GENG could beat each other on any given day. As long as all three make it to Shanghai I see no problem.
I'd like a 2-0 for DRX though, I wanna see my goat MaKo go in as favorites for once.

4-1 record speaks for itself
mako will touch ardiis and make him feel very uncomfortable

this is not only a fact, but also really good news for EMEA
NAVI being the best of emea would mean that DRX would make EMEA their dogs
so it's a good thing that there are genuinely good teams in EMEA like fut and bbl that can actually compete at shanghai

this is what i tell myself whenever drx starts trolling

who decided to put this game at the same time as sen v loud😭

uh oh😨

is what every sen fan will say when they lose this map

no off game makes qck look like aspas
sorry sen fans

only if you split it with cboomer

yall have devolved so bad that this moron french fuck is actually starting to become based.
reflect.

cuz champs 22 was just that much better in comparison

i was gonna hate for putting copenhagen 22 first but then i realized that all the masters events were kind of mid in general
champs 23 should be higher than 21 though.

0/8

unless it turns out kru is the best team in the world americas is looking pretty inconsistent

geng should've closed it out true, they choked hard
madrid was their best chance SO FAR

but shanghai odds are undeniably even better

if they don't win shanghai
with geng, drx, and prx looking they could beat each other depending on the day and EMEA/Americas looking so weak
top 3 teams in the world are literally pacific
SURELY

i thought zekken was supposed to be competing with aspas?💀
bro lookin like qck out there

wtf they just did 💀

unironically sign him though, a lot of teams could use him rn

i considered putting everyone on the old optic core as an HM but i feel like f0rsaken and saadhak are clearly above them

ties given to players who are debatable to avoid bias

1. aspas (the goat)
2. leo/less/mako (undeniably best of their role)
3. alfajer/chronicle (consistent demons but never the best of their agents)
4. jinggg/yay (greatest players of one agent)
5. nAts/TenZ/demon1 (considered the greatest, but only for a moment)

HMs: f0rsaken, saadhak
the only thing that should be debatable is whether f0rsaken/saadhak should've been on the main list.

geng/prx/drx can all beat each other just depends on the day

The fact is that "game changers" events will never be taken seriously, because they:

1. aren't playing to eventually compete at the highest level
2. have a game quality lower than that of tier 2

Frankly, it doesn't matter what "gimmick" events that they pull, nobody will care either way.

not a hot take, emea is ass rn

bstrdd unironically

also note that mako was the best dedicated controller player during both masters berlin 2021 and champs 2021, he's been a demon since the start of VCT

holy w

jinggg was never the best duelist in the world? he was the best raze (even this can be contested for jawgemo) and arguably the best spacemaker.
aspas, demon1, jawgemo cleared jinggg overall at the end of 2023

fuck

womp womp

"miniTenZ" gawk gwak gawkgwa gkwagkwagawkgwakgwakgwakgawkgkwa

0/8

We dropped Zest and Rb for this? We kept termi for this? Surely MaKo deserves better?
I still can't wrap my head around dropping Zest--every role issue in DRX was made when Zest got booted.
Now we've lost the actually promising rookie of the team, and we're keeping Foxy9.

DRX is so cooked.

i don't want to see termi

fair, but be fr SEN and VS were both arguably better than 100T at berlin

Aww mustard! Come on man, now don’t put no mustard on that you need to put a little season on that thing! WHAT! Man come on get that pepper off there! Come on somebody come get this man! Come on now, come on get that pepper of there, that’s just too much doggone pepper. I dont wanna see this no more

damn, maybe they should've just not qualified for madrid then, since nobody cares about masters events :(
surely dfm are just cooking for champs? smart.

at the very least we can agree that this was a dumbass thing for sarah to say