ik. I'm not mad bro, I'm just explaining a contradiction I see a lot of.

its very easy to argue actually. just play the game.

I don't think that's fair. Sideshow doesn't have that much worse takes than anybody else. Every analyst, fans, and even pro players, are bad at predicting things. Results in Val and team momentum and form has always been unpredictable. The only difference with Sideshow is that he is more open and confident in his opinions for entertainment value. People are just more in-tune with Sideshows track record because he makes a bigger show of it, but if we look back everybody has similar levels of egg on their face.

is there really tho?

APAC/China makes up half the teams dude. That's normal. People are just used to EMEA/America's domination. This is a more even spread.

Every region (except shitmea) has two teams in the playoffs rn tho. Just pretty even.

bro the format is obviously not changing. 0% chance.

almost like the regions are pretty even (minus shitmea)

nah Wolves is calling well what are you on? give em some credit.

wardell clears all these guys

don't make stupid posts like this about them and you'll be fine in a month

MAYBE 100t and NRG. But only maybe. NRG only get thru if they don't get matched against Billy, and 100t if they don't choke (they will).

Other teams are never getting through though don't kid yourself.

I don't think they'll go far, but I'd take them over MIBR or Wolves.

better than 3 am or whatever it has been

no you imagined that.

nah they exist. Lots of people are very high on him. Not even coming from a hater, I'm just ambivalent on him.

to play in big enough matches against good enough competition to be in the GOAT debate you have to be on a good enough team to get to said matches. That's just kinda how it is.

the ones that play into it are weird af. some just do it cuz they dont like showing their face tho

Because you have to purchase cat tail and blover is post-game. Main game cactus is important.

idk how connections work so it was really hard.

"propaganda" is crazy. It's just a couple of dudes and their opinions.

whole ass anime intro

I don't even really hate it. I just think it's marginally distasteful and the production and format is god awful.

never have I seen such stalwart defenders of a goddamn tournament. Are people actually being paid? Why do you guys care so much?

wait that game was fire.

asuna not even top 50

sinatraa deserved it tho.

its obviously not about how good the players are, it's for the players own good.

The format and structure of the tournament does allow for more variance though, so a team doing bad in EWC because EWC sucks is still a little valid.

salman don't know u lil bro

alright I lied, there might be TWO people actually mad here.

people aren't even that mad tbh. You might literally be the only one who's genuinely really mad here.

Jujutsu Kaisen is another anime that's all-action and mid story, but at least that one's action is actually really good. And the story tries to be interesting, even if it's poorly thought out. Mid leveling is just mid.

unfactual statement

his name has layers to it... like a—

They fell off the moment they lost derrekow

Tbf nobody really said that. They just thought he'd be mid but decent and be carried by firepower.

He was washed tho. He's just in the dryer rn, and that's fine.

In 2025 that's still considered "writing."

Are you writing Minecraft fanfiction about a sexual assault case?

Alright then...

Horrible video, but he did give credible evidence at the beginning. Definitely some matchfixing going on. His analysis was a big stretch tho. People are quick to discard the entire thing because of the bad analysis, but there is still pretty damning evidence of match-fixing.

If that's enough to forget about how well he played all year then every single player in the league is dogwater ass. They all have horrible chokes.

Qualifiers are also a big part of the tournament tho. They directly inform who plays in the main event, and if other teams or the community believes the path to qualify was bad—and therefore the qualifying teams don't deserve to be there and aren't better than the people they beat out—then it invalidates a lot of the respect you get for winning the tournament. It also makes it easier to brush it off when or if you lose.

Yea but you're asking why people are calling it a mickey right now. And the answer is that right now the tournament is horrible.

Maybe in the future it'll be bigger, but these tournaments also often rebrand and shift, and they never give a lot of forethought to these things anyway. So prob not. Either way that's just speculation and right now the tournament sucks.

Horrible format, no Lan so far, poor scheduling, horrible production, and first time the tournament has been run. What do you expect?

The first few games weren't even streamed.

Money is only one factor. I could hold a 3 million dollar money match bo1 in my backyard and it wouldn't make the victor the best team in the world.

The team did matchfix tho. The cheater allegations are the only ones that are weird.

There is definitely match fixing

Grooming is not worse than it was before. Obviously not. It's just taken a different form.

Sinatraa's case had a lot more supporting evidence than Flor at the time, including a pretty damning voice recording. The way they're handling this honestly isn't too inconsistent with how they've handled other similar cases.

I'm pretty sure Sinatraa's case came literally right before the first international masters too, whereas Flor isn't even currently playing.

fr tho they're hyping up the investigation like a crypto scam that will never deliver...

Definitely real though. Wouldn't make much sense if it wasn't, and there's plenty of corroboration.