2025 AMER predict

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H3ENnZ

Predictions:
M80 will be the new ascension team into the league.
SEN will have the same roster as 2024 no matter how bad they do.
NRG would sign either fRoD or Potter as their coach and Demon1 will do better but not back to his 2023 self.
C9 will drop 2 of its players most likely Vanity and Moose and they would sign Stellar and someone from either OXG or DZ.
KRU will drop mta if they crash out of champions.
FUR will have a coaching staff change and they will drop Havoc or xand.
100T & G2 wont have any roster changes.
LEV will keep the same roster only if the Mazino situation is justified.
An NA team will import someone from PAC
CN will import someone from AMER ascension

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Demon1_The_GOAT

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M80 will choke again, they won't win.

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DownLoad_AimLabs

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demon1 will exceed 2023 form and'll become the goat

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PooFaceCe

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They didn't "choke" they got beat by one of the best teams in the world lmao

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H3ENnZ

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AGAIN is crazy. M80 lost to TGRD who went to prior LAN events prior and beated the best Tier 1 team at that time. And ur expecting M80 to beat them?

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catNmouse

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they’re not gonna drop MTA most likely, he was integrated at the worst time possible

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peetherium

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unless the player can speak mandarin i don't see any teams in CN importing an Americas player when they could pull from Pacific. there's also a saturation of good mechanical talent in CN so why would they go for an American alternative

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H3ENnZ

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Trust me all the little teams in china do not give af if the players speak chinese or not. TYLOO imported Fnatics old coach and FPX has autumn. If the player is good enough they will do anything

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peetherium

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Berlin translates for Autumn so the barrier is mitigated quite a bit. idk about Tyloo but I'm pretty sure the same can be assumed from the improvement they had in the 2nd split with slk as the assistant coach. the only team you could argue doesn't gaf is DRG and vookashu is a literal raid boss and bails them out of every disadvantage against the shittier teams in the region

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there were like 3 instances in fpx vs sen where u could tell autumn couldnt understand his teammates

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peetherium

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yeah and? they still brought him on primarily because Berlin speaks english and can make calls with him. they wouldn't pick up a random OCE player with no way to communicate with him at all. and yet again they would just pull a player from pacific instead of americas anyways yk?

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Pengu12

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my point is it was clearly an issue that they were willing to overlook, a lot of teams would take someone like vookashu even without comms

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peetherium

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it's an issue they overlooked because they could still at the end of the day communicate with him. Vookashu is the biggest outlier possible, and if the other teams wanted to add on their own carries they would've, but they didn't. AG stuck with their players and focused on improving fundamentals, Wolves signed a dedicated igl, NOVA simply made an upgrade, etc. The teams learned the hard way that a roster can't be made simply to be competitive off the jump with no longevity, which DRG doesn't have with their carry literally being no-comm for 95% of the shit they do

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Pengu12

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tbh I think some top chinese t2 team will sign a cracked import and make ascension

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peetherium

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now THAT is true. those t2 teams are feining for results. but even then that'll fizzle out when more local talent gets developed in like 1-2 years

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Thats why they lost

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H3ENnZ

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Exactly its not like that chinese people doesnt know how to speak english (Me personally im chinese), and we have to take english lessons through out school. So if there is someone that knows how to speak english in the team they could do some simple translations and callouts.

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yeah it's not like they're super desperate for foreign imports to where they're willing to cripple their own ability to coordinate. if Berlin somehow didn't know English they would've definitely settled for another solid Chinese player. and because the odds of a player knowing english is pretty high it's way easier for them to get foreign talent from pacific who also know english or mandarin as a 2nd language

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H3ENnZ

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I dont think there are a LOT of Mandarin speaking talents (Which are usually from singapore like nephhh) COMPARED to Korean and American talent.

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peetherium

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i'm counting hk and tw into pacific since they're a part of the ascension league, but i'm not counting them as foreign talent. that's why I say that there are a LOT of alternatives to getting foreign talent, and that it's only considered when the problem of communication is already solved; or at the very least bridged enough to where most of it is mitigated

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LEV only keeps the same roster if they win champs.

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catNmouse

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considering everyone’s contracts expire in 2024 i can see that

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Verdentta

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How does 100T not make a change when they didn't even qualify for champs??

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YamiS

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I don’t think Furia is dropping Havoc. He’s a young player and has the most potential on the team.

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alto

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verno making his way to franchising one way or another fam