my issue role-wise is the only player who has an initiator i actually find to be good is beyn on scan specifically
i didn't like what they tried with mako, foxy9 obviously already tried and failed, and flashback's flash is kind of mid to me
i think they had a window to pick up yoman, ditch flashback or fuckc9(probably foxy9 which is a shame because he's a demon), and really lean into the rebuilding and experimentation period that this year has kind of weirdly turned out to be for drx
that window will open again in the off-season, but i wish they did it after dropping stax instead
i think watching them what im seeing is not a team that had a bad game, or bad couple of games, but a team that regressed from their split 1 form, and I do not back them to turn that into a net improvement by before champs
with respect to them experimenting now, unfortunately they're putting themselves at a pretty serious risk by doing just that - they finish the season against talon and dfm which I think will put them 7-3 to end the season, below talon who would be 8-2 in the scenario where they beat drx
leaves them in a single elim game against one of rrq, ts, or geng, and im not sure which of those i back them to win, if any

prx g2 was pretty bad on prx's part, but given that a) G2 is a solid team, and zeta is... not, and b) PRX have already demonstrated they're capable of playing at a very high level, so i wasn't put off in the way i was by ge
like they legit just walked around like they were discovering new areas in an open world shit was crazy
i cant understand for the life of me how a team can fundamentally understand any map that poorly, let alone one as simple as sunset

i am not legally obligated to watch every team or give a shit about how they play
I have similar rules for giantx, mibr, and team liquid(though this one i tend to break purely for the entertainment factor)
not sure if you were referring to a specific map at shanghai(guessing 100t-th?), but most of the teams at shanghai id already watched outside of DRG and understand the level they are capable of/average at, while that was my first experience with GE(and let's not pretend they do deserve my viewing lol most people have better things to do than watch polvi whiff awp shots) so i had no baseline
but i watch most games and i definitely watched the rrq
as for drx i honestly hate how the roles have shaken out for drx and it looks to me like they don't like them either lol
and yes, the concept of teams playing well below their perceived ceiling and still running solid teams close being a good thing is absolutely true! but this is a team with a significant roster change and role changes to how they were set up at stage 1(that I don't think had a good reason to change outside of stax purely just not liking igling), so there is only so much truth to that concept
i did not watch map 3 against PRX but imo they played tragically bad against them on split, a map i honestly think they could have beaten PRX on in their stage 1 form

watched them play sunset against zeta since i was up and had nothing better to do, and i became physically ill
never watched them since
the way they played the map legitimately looked like they'd never played or seen footage of sunset before, as if they had no idea how to even interact with the map, let alone understanding the win conditions of sunset or picking a comp to help them meet it
then they played icebox and zeta picked the jett double flash comp, but it looked like they just picked it because it was what sen played and they just won a trophy, rather than it playing to their strengths or understanding the underlying ideas of the comp

my brother in christ i watch every pacific game that does not involve zeta, ge, or bleed

nobody's performance while igling has somehow found a way to be even worse... bro is walking into his teammates breach stuns

10/10 correct, W list

they played like SHIT in those two maps to RRQ mate

demon1 clears the fuck out of alfa last year sorry
nvm u edited him in mb

i think youre looking for archiveofourown.org not vlr.gg homie

https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/1998/champions-tour-2024-emea-stage-1

nothing about leo was a miracle

but lev isnt?? we really do just log on to say things on here

allat + elite clears your favourite player

life is too short to give a shit about what people think about your music taste bro enjoy the joy and whimsy of life and song and dance

they are going to lose to 100t and eg at a minimum. both teams are clearly better than lev
also i think furia could stand a solid chance they were lowkey cooking

lev are NOT beating 100t

how many dogshit kingg calls will it take for us to finally realize lev are terrible

"i want some seniors too" is such an adorable thing to say if it werent lowkey sad

turned off his invulnerability

gigabyte laptop with a corsair mouse and shitty logitech headset
housing eating up my salary so no wooting yet

they asked for woots rating not cn0d

1.49

jdg dont throw massive number advantages challenge

its generally disadvantageous but not impossible

being forced to split up those two is so tragic, that rare atom team would lowkey be top 2 in china

that sounds right, just didnt realize they were both korean/koreans qualify as imports in chinese league
it makes sense just never clicked in my head

having that flash is just so goated

wait import rule restricts them from being on the same team??? its so cooked

someone wake up DRX

sacy's pure initiator utility is better than n4rrates

some chinese team gotta get off their ass and collect the entire old RA squad so they can actually challenge for top 3 in china, or at least pick up yoman and stew and maybe ValAnalysis?
jdg kinda did it but they forgot yoman along the way somehow

nobody's contesting that eg could beat nrg, they certainly could, but current nrg are still not a "top team"

demon1 won a champs on chamber bind

how tf is loud gonna get there

they lost to koi man... if you literally watch them play the video game it is extremely clear that navi fnc and kc are much much better teams

lowkey, i think Tokyo might be too high purely by virtue of them only winning due to EG throwing Split in UF
everything else about that tournament was dominant for FNATIC but EG probably should have beaten FNC on that first Split match, and if they did it would have probably been EG's tournament(pearl and fracture would have been played, no lotus or bind, they were also still better on ascent at the time - map pool of pearl haven fracture split ascent would 100% be a win for EG)

this guy said vitality for emea... we really are just saying things now

from what i understand not publicly, but the company he literally founded investigated the allegations internally and are dropping him like a tower of plates being held by a clumsy server, so i'm inclined to believe theres more than just smoke

goat of hockey is Connor McDavid and only casuals and flames fans will disagree
also federer over djokovic is a bit crazy

"very few chances" are you an AI or something? their final two games are against GE and Bleed while Secret have to play GenG.... if T1 beat TS they're basically guaranteed to make it

"if"

if T1 beat TS they're favoured to make playoffs, they play the shitters and TS have only GenG to play

average scoreboard watcher take

this team would genuinely win fucking everything

they should have done this from the beginning and ive always said this

??????????

he is a terrible igl lmfao please turn on your monitor
and as a player, tex is clearly better

that was the story management put out, but theres a lot of conflicting evidence that indicates they were lying and loud were shooting mazino's body "for nozwer" in their comms vid

there is a ping on the bomb that he has to aim at
also the map tells him where to aim at

doubt kingg/mazino were mad, they were the reason nzr got kicked