I love this matchup. Let's see if Sage can deny Ballista's executes or if the polish guys will be able to keep rolling their playstyle.
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2 of the most creative EU teams, cool matchup. If Heretics do have a solid game plan like in First Strike, there is no room for a surprise. But I don't think they are that much good right now, so they are vulnerable as any team. It might give Ballista the chance to do Ballista things. Expecting a close game, especially in Ballista's map. If the game goes to decider, anything can happen.
the entire "6man roster" thing is very obviously just a niesow phasing out type deal. they are going to quietly retire him in the next few months and hope that nobody noticed what actually happened in the online only era of Valorant.
or maybe it's just a coincidence that a man accused of cheating in at least 3 other separate games and banned in some as well who has real life ties to one of the most infamous cheat makers ko1n and who has been dropping +30 K-D series is only ever playing a game when someone on the team is physically injured. who knows.
I've clarified it many times, niesoW has a really hard irl situation and wanted to focus on that. But ofc we still want him to play, so currently he just plays a couple maps, allows him to spend more time focusing on irl stuff instead of scrims.
Not to mention he literally played the whole week for Lowel when he had a finger infection.
Idk why its so hard to imagine that someone might want to focus on real life instead of esports.
if you knew the irl situation he had, you wouldn't be saying stuff like that. I'm not going to say, because its not my place to spread his life details to idiots accusing him of cheating.
He was monitored from before the team began, all the way through First Strike and probably still is.
No one from the anti-cheat department is even remotely suspicious of him, but I'm sure you know better than all of them and their anti-cheat analysis tools
Well at least niesoW knows that he's so good at what he does that people think that he cannot possibly do it without cheating :) Hope everything gets better for him! Also these people make no sense. They take esports wayyyy too seriously and think that esports matter more than the players lives(like when MIBR fans sent numerous death threats to Leaf for "cheating" or when the T1 owners and staff got death threats for benching Faker in LoL)