Not sure. He is highly respected in the Chinese val community as he was the igl of the KONE roster back in 2022 during the East Asian LCQ that comprised of Knight (BLG), Yosemite (BLG), Ninebody (TYLOO), & Luok1ng (Trace). He was also the assistant coach of EDG during 2023 so he gained a lot of respect then. During 2024, AG was considered to be one of the weakest rosters but was able to make it to playoffs both times during Split 1 and Split 2 (where they would proceed to be single-eliminated by Trace both times).

I think he is decent, but not amazing. Good in all aspects but nothing to make you say wow JDG will be good this year, if they do well I suspect its more vivas credit than anything

I assumed Bunt was the one out because K1ra is a controller player if I'm not mistaken and x3b plays all of Sword9's roles.

i have no idea. they haven't made an announcement about his status at all so all we know is that he's not playing in this tournament

Going sword9 for X3B to igl is little confusing actually

X3B played the exact same roles as Sword9 and i have absolutely no idea who the FUCK would be igl if not him. That's my one doubt with this roster tbh because while QJC didn't look catastrophically bad I don't really have confidence in his abilities to lead