Just curious, do yall watch every/most games? I truly only watched sen, th and prx this year.

I WILL ALWAYS COPE, LIVE AND DIE WITH SEN

Yeah, that was hard to watch

This dude plays as if he doesn't trust his team in the slightest, taking every duel hoping to aim diff them, which leads to terrible decision making.

? Its impossible for them to make playoffs, cant make up the round diff

Roster change for split 2? LOL

s0m can play alot of agents, looked great on controller last year and was solid as duelist/flex on 2022 NRG.

Duelist - Demon1
Flex - s0m
Initiator - Ethan
Sentinel - FNS
Controller - Marved

1 Masters and Champs

2 Full splits with every team playing every team. With the way kickoff and split 1 has been designed with so little games, if you start off slow, you're essentially screwed. How is a team supposed to improve with just scrimming all day and not actually getting to play at full speed. Give teams more chances, in split 2, Furia, MIBR, GE, Bleed, KOI, GX are all still going to be shit.

Start the split 0-3? You can still end 6-4 and make playoffs for masters. More games are good

At the end of the day, no one cares about master's winners, fnatic won lock in and Tokyo but they only care that they failed at champs. 1 masters is fine

Yeah bro, I'm desperate for elo over here. I'll take what I can get LMAO

The part that I struggle with is that I feel like viper's pickrate is super high more due to map pool than her being strong. Icebox, Breeze, Bind, Lotus are all maps that are difficult to defend without a wall smoke, but I understand what youre saying

You like the change?

I concur, KJ is boring asf, w/ cypher you have funny setups and shi

Don't get me wrong, I think agent changes are needed to balance the game but why destroy agents? I hated the chamber meta as much as the next guy, but I think he should still be viable across maps. Astra isn't even played anymore. Now viper, she's even more static then ever now.

What is the point of the cypher cam change? I thought he was supposed to be a spy. "One way" cams are pointless now because now the opponent doesn't have to see the cam to know cypher is there like the A ramp cam on split or the DFM cam for market on ascent.

This is boring

Yes! and we can get sayf jett again. Fnatic let him coook!!

Depends on how you view it, if you're just talking about general player base then yes diamond and up is considered high elo. However that doesn't mean the average player baseline is "good", take every basketball player in the world for example, the average skill level is way below a highschool varsity level. So if you're better than the average that doesnt mean youre good if that makes sense.

When people say immortal up is considered high elo, they mean when you start actually getting good at the game. This probably just me yapping but I think the logic makes sense.

shiiii wasn't expecting that. FUT winning EMEA easy this year

I mean maybe take a risk, this team aint doing anything in split 2 either with the way its going

So freaking competitive

LOUD were worse than I thought theyd be

Those 3 are looking the strongest as of right now, maybe 100t instead of c9. but its looking close between those teams

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melser is popping heads again

I was skeptical because they played the 3 "worst" teams in the groups but they genuinely look insane so well drilled. Its not just the keznit show anymore

Less was frying on that role too. Maybe because they have less firepower with aspas gone, they want less to have more freedom on viper? idk its so weird

Heat and shy were such good pickups for this roster

Theres a 2 win minimum to advance to playoffs, so if 100t and lev are only teams with 2 wins then the other group gets another slot

KRU to win right? because the odds of KRU falling out of playoffs is unlikely, which is 3 L's in a row. If LOUD lose then lose to sen and the rest of the teams in alpha lose their games, I think is more likely. EG loses to NRG? Not worried about furia or mibr.

Im heavy coping and shit, but maybe because they're guaranteed to make champs, they don't want to show anything new and hoping to rely on old strats to pull through split 1 and 2. This is heavy cope once again

thats true we chocked, but apoth and jaw had a hell of a game compared to their previous series

(2021) funny enough, I learned about val from a clip of kyedae. "Shes dating the best val player in the world" comment. Looked up tenz highlights and started supporting them.

Lev 2-1 G2
LOUD 0-2 KRU (I got a weird feeling that keznit will farm today)

sayf

We've seen it all

whats funny is that riot doesn't even promote game changers at all. I wouldnt know its happening unless the players posted about it

I think you let this split/masters go. The level of play has dropped too far, either due to burnout from playing nonstop since February or other teams figuring you out. Even if they make shanghai at this level, it wont be a far run. Retool for split 2 and champs (basically guaranteed from points). Thoughts?

:(

GG 2021 all over again :(

same, that was so sad.

although lotus is heavy atk sided, there is quite alot that goes into the macro of the map compared to icebox and breeze which is just straight site hits because it's impossible to hold

whyd he choose now to play well? he just said fck sen, idc about anyone else

This is like beating a dead horse, but aspas had a monster game to barely scrap by a sen who seemed like they're having an off day. Now I wouldn't put one ahead of the other until they play again but rn I would say they're atleast equal

C9 can do the funniest thing

surely not

OP isn't talking about who's better, just who won the H2H

100T have a bunch of potential, its just the consistency isn't there. Cryo's confidence is through the roof today.

GGGGGGGGGGGGG

Getting rolled on one map, that could be a fluke but on 2 maps in a row? I think that is just being purely outclassed

From what is known now, ascension winners are in for 2 years then removed. The only teams with a permanent spot are the teams initially picked for franchising. Dont quote me on this tho