ro16, single elim
Sentinels
Koi
Paper Rex
Nrg
Team Liquid
100t
Drx
Vitality
Furia
Zeta
GenG
Fnatic
T1
C9
Navi
Leviatan
Who makes it to the ro8?
Imo its
Sen
PRX(copium)
100T'
DRX
Zeta
fnatic
C9
Navi
maybe 60/40 but I really believe in Vitality, they showed some promise in redbull (match against c9 was a one off, can happen to any1 as it did to c9 who lost to fokus without their best player), also I am taking into account what I believe the level of these teams will be in feburary not atm lil bro
They showed some promise in redbull
https://www.vlr.gg/161209/team-vitality-vs-cloud9-red-bull-home-ground-3-r3
That isn’t a one off, they lost 26-6
https://www.vlr.gg/161201/cloud9-vs-fokus-red-bull-home-ground-3-r1 fokus without purpo and bot illuri subbing in lol
cender twisten and molsi for me are better than any drx player other than mako but bonecold and destrian are way too bad, drx individual quality isnt great but as a team they are experienced and always tough to beat, I dont rate DRX as an elite team but they are always very solid and might be missing some firepower to be elite
I disagree, not only are stax buzz and mako all elite fraggers but the team works like a well oiled machine and has probably the most experience out of any team at the tourney. I would fully expect them to beat vitality but it would be close imo. I agree that bonecold and destrian arent exactly s tier but twisten and molsi are and they could definately take skulls. either way i would have drx as a favorite alongside fnc c9 prx and navi to win the whole thing so its not really a knock at vit
I dont think stax and buzz are elite fraggers tbh, they look better than they are because of the drx system. For me as a team and individually they are the definition of good but not great, I think champs will be their peak as a team and it was kinda of a fluke since there were some unexplainable comebacks against fnatic and fpx and those are things that wont happen again
Please rewatch all of drxs matches at champions Istanbul and then come back and tell me with a straight face that buzz and stax are not elite fraggers. You are actually tripping. The numbers of pop off and clutch moments that stax and buzz had against the world's best teams were too many to say that they are not really good at fragging. Some of those moments had nothing to do with the team's system.