New Acend roster

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gablin

I would not trust this guy 100% but to me this seems likely
https://twitter.com/ImMineVAL/status/1608708035605852160

The roster then would be:

musashi
ALIVE
monsteerr
baddyG
Br0die

finally baddyG getting picked up
What do you think?

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I'm not sure.
Where is vakk going?

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andrewdamf

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home

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moatz

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I think cNED will leave NAVI so he can stay with his friends on Acend

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ofcourse

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bonkashi

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vakk > br0die

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patuj

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Damn this is actually pretty damn stacked tier 2 team. Musashi, ALIVE and baddyG are all good tier 2 players. Monsteerr is even good tier 1 level. And Br0die used to IGL MAD who were top 2 in French VRL so overall pretty good tier 2 IGL. Strong on paper.

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BoDork

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Sounds about right

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Reaaaally strong

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I dont rate ALIVE and brodie, the other 3 are really good.

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looks solid, havent seen much of alive, depends on if he does well or not as the entry

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Mortadelo

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Alive is not good enough for tier 1 yet, but he is definitely top 10 duelists in tier 2 with players like kamo, miniboo, purpo, bisk, 7ssk7, lauress and a couple more

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Darkhorse

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ALIVE is the by far the best duelist in tier 2 and saying he is not good enough for tier 1 is just a joke.

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Mortadelo

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Alive could maybe fit in some lower board vct teams, I wouldn't disagree with that. The best tier 2 duelist? No

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Darkhorse

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I wont disagree with you also, its your opinion and I respect that, I follow him for a long time and he is just different. I dont think comparing him to tier 2 players is fair.

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Mortadelo

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Fair enough, it's really hard to affirm who is better between players that don't regularly play against each other. I just named a lot of players cause I just can't rank em in order. For example I can't find any argument to affirm Alive is better than, jugi, purpo, lauress, miniboo, ssk yk, which doesn't make him worse, but not better either

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Darkhorse

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that's fair I also think the players you mentioned are really good especially jugi and ssk but I think they need to prove them self a bit more because in tier 1 they weren't impressive at all and in tier 2 they are not consistent and they are playing against bad teams.
I think Consistency is the biggest problem for tier 2 players.

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i would say jugi is better. masic probably aswell

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musashi and baddyg are great pickups

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Mortadelo

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If you add Monster that is an almost tier 1 core

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LouBag

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Everyone shits on TSM and G2 but raves about this team.

Then I think. Could this team beat TSM or G2?

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nope

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patuj

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wrong reply

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Mortadelo

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You can't ask G2 and TSM the same you ask Acend. It's completely different cases, once franchising was anounced, ascend was automatically a tier 2 org with no chance of making it.

That being said I do like this roster better than TSM's, and I have to see oxy, penny and Brodie but if G2 or TSM are better than this (which I doubt) it's not by a lot

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patuj

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Because these players don't have much name value. That has always been the difference maker with NA vs EMEA. Obviously NA is more stacked on paper because many ex VCT players had to downgrade to tier 2 and they don't have stupid region locks, but the difference in level isn't going to be that massive.

Guy like Musashi likely doesn't ring many belts for someone who didn't follow EMEA, but he was doing just fine in weak team in EMEA VCT just where some players from TSM, G2 etc were doing in NA. And I rate Monsteerr over guys like Dapr or Wippie etc while most non-EMEA followers don't even know who he is or how good he is.

NA just gets carried by clout factor. Many of these VCT players who now have to play in tier 2 weren't that amazing and aren't much better than tier 2 talent in region like EMEA. This Acend could definitely beat TSM or G2 and I would even favor them even tho its hard to say for now.

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DADDYg

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hekzy

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-brodie +vakk and they win ascension easy (unless parla)

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BackoxyXD

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br0die is mid igl,

maybe he has bad fire power
but he looks like give good calls

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Targu1n

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Isnt br0dy activly playing with a team atm trying to get into polaris?
Rough for his team if true since they at most had a month to try and get a new igl.

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you mean the team with l1nk. luzuh and more? yeah its a f/a team and seems fair to go to a org since hes getting payed after all any on tier 2 f/a would understand imo.

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Mortadelo

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Yeah I hope they have checked well because I’ve heard something like if you play the quals for one of the leagues you can’t really switch to a new one until next split I think

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very good roster would make them favourites for whatever league they join

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Lurker

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But you haven’t seen the other 3 teams being put up in a few days ? Lots of tier 1 players incoming!

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G2ShahZaM

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god team

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Lurker

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Hahaha!