not even a fnc fan but they lost to bbl in kickoff last yr and then made two gfs...

ill take my shot

emea: 1. TL, 2. VIT, 3. GX
americas: 1. G2, 2. NRG, 3. MIBR
APAC: 1. DRX, 2. PRX, 3. T1
china: 1. EDG, 2. DRG, 3. JDG

lowkey probably true, he sounded insanely confident in his farewell video that he would be playing against heretics, usually players leaving say something about them being open to offers or being like "maybe ill play you again someday"

aespa nmixx enhypen

aspas to zeta, japanese derby to determine who's the best duelist in the world between aspas and meiy

not a huge call but i said t1 would beat g2 in the finals of bangkok before the event started

meiy is going to drop 200 kills in the finals of masters santiago

my goats DETONATION FOCUSME will be back with a vengeance and win it all

cool idea

team of the year - prx (think you need to win something to be here and they had more consistent success than the other two winners)
region of the year - pacific
international run of the year - wolves (nrg is the more obvious recent pick but i think they had slightly more hype and belief than wolves did)
regional farmers - sorry g2
comeback team of the year - fnc
disappointment of the year - probably edg

2025 mvp - f0rsaken? (this one is quite tough)
ROTY - kaajak no question
coach of the year - mini (prx turnaround was insane)
comeback player of the year - crashies
awper of the year - something
igl of the year - valyn

GG cinema final, nrg played great

same for nrg, this site is always insufferable :)

i think it would be the greatest but maybe not the most entertaining, first two maps were boring to watch and there is still potential for stomps on these last two maps
g2 t1 and edg th were more entertaining (for now)

fr, i dont like either team but it would be such cinema if this went 5 maps

nah this is the worst gf and im the biggest fnc hater, there's just nothing exciting about this

im here :) there's one

lowkey i think if they let him lean fully into the yoru secondary duelist role, he would be t10, he's really smart about his yoru util

boaster legit accidentally headshot someone to win a round for fnc, kajaak got the timing of his life walking up cat, fnc also had these moments this game

nah the mibr game had some lucky moments from nrg but you can’t take anything away from them this map, nrg just played well in those moments

masters 1 seed 4...

its still 16 i believe, the tier 2 teams qualify to stage 2 playoffs and i imagine it works somewhat similar to this yr where they have to make top 2 or 3 in playoffs to get to champs

still there

i think they meant each day gets another team into masters 1 (so the final three days of kickoff will each qualify one team), i doubt they can run triple elim in 3 days

yeah but this is a problem in any music industry i think, american pop and rap is also oversexualized and its silly to pretend that there arent a lot of fans who are minors
i think kpops bigger problem is oversexualizing their own idols who are minors
anyway i still love kpop bc the music and dances are incredible but i can see how terribly the industry is operated would push people off of it

jid so valid

i would never trashtalk mibr, aspas was the first player i watched play, broke my heart watching the draw and seeing one of them have to go down to lowers right away

heretics fans do not accept you, aspas is the goat dont disrespect greatness

lol

fun fact, the loser of the upper final hasnt won the lower final since masters madrid
aka loser of nrg fnc is not getting second

drx 2-0 mibr, i think drx is really good on mibr's best maps (abyss, corrode, haven) and mibr will be feeling the heat after the game today
th 2-1 prx, no justification for this just pure copium

mibr are not going to ban abyss so...

depends on how they win, if they have a strong showing against fnc/in grand finals, its fine
if som hits another right click classic headshot through smokes...

nah im still favoring fnc tbh

the curse might be conflicted now, if heretics lose to prx tmrw then one of mibr prx cant make top 3, and obv if mibr lose tmrw the curse is broken
idk what happens if heretics and mibr win and then heretics lose to mibr again, do they first and third at the same time?

that play gave me an aneursym

who are you talking to here? those people are on twitter not vlr

fair, i have no problem with any of the nrg players as well either, they all seem very chill

idk why i have no desire to see nrg win
i like s0m but the rest feel like insert generic white boy, i dont think i would feel particularly happy for them if they won idk

i think map pool wise this is the worse matchup but prx are more volatile and more prone to imploding so who knows

heretics are too scared to play abyss as well though, whoever gets the first map ban might just decide the series by forcing the other to ban abyss

i think op meant the 1st/3rd loss curse

think its just you, 99% of trash talk in pro games is to get your own team hyped up

these repliers are prob the same ones who said heretics would get rolled in groups

much better chance of beating fnc i think, heretics permaban abyss and are probably around the same level as fnc on most of the other maps (except lotus)

nah trusttttt
in all honesty, heretics permaban fnatic's current best map, its doable

exactly, i honestly feel more confident in them winning their next match than against gx, momentum on their side now

i think there's a chance, heretics are a very momentum-based team and even though this game was close and heretics absolutely wont win their next game if they brought out this form, i think the win here will lead them to play much better next game

idk about that, woot yoru...?
if he does well ill eat my words but he doesnt fit the style of a yoru imo

heretics didnt lose to prx so no

had to watch it back since i didnt process it at first but... did leaf net valyn in that final round????

i was more referring to shanghai and seoul, where they did a full and then almost full lower bracket run to the finals