Xerxia fans in despair, come.

New ranked season just dropped and I think the whole XERXIA roster was solo queueing today.
I don't normally get mad at games or pro players, but this shit was just sad and frustrating to watch.

FANCY played super well ~ good util setups, trap plays, aim and XERXIA well.... looked like it was their first time playing together.
I'm a fan of the players (albeit, I'm a MITH fan at heart) but watching them run around like headless chickens and just have misplay after misplay ~ solo peeking, using a single skye flash to retake site, whiffing easy shots, holding util for 10 years, positioning out in the open, not covering eachother, the list goes on and I'm practically seething at the mouth lmao with what I watched today.

Absolute disasterclass.

I'm even more mad at MITH for losing to this shit. MITH looked like the one coherent team with good executes, trading and also cracked aimers and they just had to choke mannnnnnn.......................

MiTH situation is kind of similar to Vision striker all win run at Challengers Korea 2021 but lost to F4Q nd Nuturn nd failed to qualify for Reykjavik.
Unfortunate scenario

i dont want to be toxic as I still have some belief that xerxia can turn it around. but I just can't help but think about how mith would have easily been doing better with how they looked throughout the year and especially with how bleed looks weaker than a lot of us thought they were. I've been wishing that a thai team win ascension this whole year and with how xerxia has been performing, the future is looking grim to be honest. I'll still be rooting for them tho.

at least I got to see gin win something in apac I guess

i'm usually a big pacific fan but even i gotta agree watching some of these pacific ascension games, the amount of mistakes being made in this competition is astounding and the level of play here is nowhere near americas or EMEA ascension (at least some of the top teams, i don't follow EMEA T2 that closely)

this entire region has 2 good teams and 1 of them is currently at their lowest point yet (DRX, T1 still too unproven for me)

poweredjay [#5]

i'm usually a big pacific fan but even i gotta agree watching some of these pacific ascension games, the amount of mistakes being made in this competition is astounding and the level of play here is nowhere near americas or EMEA ascension (at least some of the top teams, i don't follow EMEA T2 that closely)

this entire region has 2 good teams and 1 of them is currently at their lowest point yet (DRX, T1 still too unproven for me)

you could argue similarly for EMEA.
Only 2 good teams (one underperfomed at masters) and Fut are still too "unproven"

BLJY [#4]

i dont want to be toxic as I still have some belief that xerxia can turn it around. but I just can't help but think about how mith would have easily been doing better with how they looked throughout the year and especially with how bleed looks weaker than a lot of us thought they were. I've been wishing that a thai team win ascension this whole year and with how xerxia has been performing, the future is looking grim to be honest. I'll still be rooting for them tho.

at least I got to see gin win something in apac I guess

Yea, I'm not usually toxic but this game was too much for me really. I know the players are talented but there was absolutely no solid game plan or counterstratting to FANCY, they just got bullied round after round. I think with most fans, we can agree that we didn't have high expectations for XERXIA, they're a new roster with a new coach, but they play the same or if not worse than they did for the playoffs. No confidence at all.

MITH may or may not be better, I don't know but at least I know they're confident and have solid plays. I always felt XERXIA relied too much on mechanics and gunplay (and when they can't aim well, then they literally have nothing else). Whether is a coach, IGL or team problem I don't know, but surely things can't get worse than it looked today right?... right?

poweredjay [#5]

i'm usually a big pacific fan but even i gotta agree watching some of these pacific ascension games, the amount of mistakes being made in this competition is astounding and the level of play here is nowhere near americas or EMEA ascension (at least some of the top teams, i don't follow EMEA T2 that closely)

this entire region has 2 good teams and 1 of them is currently at their lowest point yet (DRX, T1 still too unproven for me)

I agree, but FANCY really impressed me today. Even T1 teams would have a hard time dealing with FANCY today. They made some rookie mistakes at times, but overall they looked extremely discliplined, well practiced with good trap and util setups, rotating players and util around constantly and their aim was good. XERXIA got mentally boomed and lost all confidence and I think you could see at the end how heavily they celebrated a pistol win that it was practically over at that point.

kaibe8 [#6]

you could argue similarly for EMEA.
Only 2 good teams (one underperfomed at masters) and Fut are still too "unproven"

well, i'd rather not get involved in the whole "emea 1/2team region" debate, it just ends up devolving into NA and EMEA users whining about whose region is better, lol

i do see your point

bro, its more hurts for indo cause losing from taiwan

Ryukk [#10]

bro, its more hurts for indo cause losing from taiwan

actually indos shouldnt be upset they lost to taiwan but more so they played really bad today. I think boom will bounce back strong

poweredjay [#9]

well, i'd rather not get involved in the whole "emea 1/2team region" debate, it just ends up devolving into NA and EMEA users whining about whose region is better, lol

i do see your point

I just wanted to point out that pacific t1 teams are not far behind their EMEA/NA counterparts.
I do agree though that the t2 scene looks kinda bad so far.

fapcity [#11]

actually indos shouldnt be upset they lost to taiwan but more so they played really bad today. I think boom will bounce back strong

No the upset is valid. Taiwan, be they strong or not, Indo shouldve been btr than them. Some underperformed heavily
I do think they will bounce back tho

i have high hopes for TH region to win this tbh but when mith lost, idk anymore. so far scarz stand out for me. idk abt d+ tho. fancy really is prepared too. and idk what happen at ID. bleed feels undewhelming while OGT looks a lil bit better than i thought

JiangLi [#13]

No the upset is valid. Taiwan, be they strong or not, Indo shouldve been btr than them. Some underperformed heavily
I do think they will bounce back tho

Indo always has cracked aimers and cooks creative strats sometimes, but they overcook, overheat and just choke all the damn time. People have been hyping up Indo teams forever and ever but they always seem to come short.

That being said, this current iteration of BOOM has plenty of talent. Of course, I'm rooting against them since I personally don't want to see any duplicate nations teams if I can help it (XERXIA is of course an exception) and as of now, outside of XX, I'm rooting for FANCY and ONE Team.