You are underestimating the team of the best Brazilian player and one of the smartest in the world, Vikings went 3 months without playing just studying Gambit, Saadhak and Sacy are psychopaths and have studied them a lot, Vikings will prepare a strong anti-strategies for tomorrow, Shahzam said that Vikings smothered Sentinels in scrims and Vikings beat Gambit and Liquid as well.
Watch this: https://youtu.be/Wdn2srOB73M
Heat is a Jett main. It's easy for him to stand out.
Sacy is extremely impactful any match he's in, clutches a lot, is much smarter than the average pro player and has great aim as well. Even though Heat is insane, trust me and other brazilians here: Sacy is just better overall.
I agree with the last part of your comment, Gambit is going to be hard to beat.
I dont know, man...
gtn and frz are just not at the level of this game. They need at least one main duelist to play the game, otherwise it becomes too hard.
Sacy and saadhak are excelent support players, they would be a great addition to any brazilian team, but they need someone that plays better to be supported.
My heart is saying: VKS is going to win
My brain: they are going to lack an operator and entry fragger again.
I'm sure with Sacy and Saadhak they have a strong understanding of the game and how they want to play it, but the team has too many weak points to contest the the top imo. The strongest teams at this event are incredibly well rounded with nobody in particular "weighing them down" like Liquid, or Gambit, and when they play a team that has a few stragglers I feel they will get targeted and exposed. Hope they can prove me wrong but just how I see things ending up
Spot on. You could say the same about Vivo Keyd IMO.
I believe a team like this, where 2 or even 3 players perform great, can at least make playoffs, but a well rounded team will always have the advantage in general. We all know: no player will invariably have good performances. So when there's 5 extremely consistent players that can compensate for each other, that's when you have a strong team.
I think v1xen had a horrible day, but he is fairly consistent. He would carry his vorax team to playoffs consistently only playing brimstone.
Even before Keyd, i always thought that any team that wanted to be considered a brazilian superteam would have to have him. If you look at him vs KRU in the last masters, he was solo carrying the team while heat was injured.
I dont know about jhow, though. He is decent, he had some important moments at breeze, but we have other sentinels like Khalil, Saadhak and Pancada that are way better than him.
I agree that Sacy and Saadhak are absolute demons on the server, both mechanically and intellectually, but I don't feel the same about gtn and frz. They are supposed to be the duelists of the team but their impact leaves a lot to be desired. Statistically, gtn was better than Fisker, but if you saw the match, Fisker had a lot more impact; Fisker was dashing in, creating space for CR, and attempting to win duels. frz on the other hand was kind of a non-factor and even got diffed by neth and Munchkin.
Gambit will exploit the lack of urgency from gtn and frz, and i don't know if they'll be able to control the game from there.
I completely agreee.
We know that gtn and frz probably give something out of the game, maybe they are very good team mates, but that is just not enough to play at this level. I think Sacy and Saadhak can do so much better.
They could be so much more, that is why this bothers me.
Sacy we dont even need to talk about how good he is, but the impact of saadhak is underrated, he is captain and igl of the team and he is managing to create tactics to make a team go consistently to international events. Imagine having to consider yoru, just to make your team enter the B ascent bomb site. They also considered putting Sacy as jett so they could have a better entry fragger. Also he has good mechanics and does his job as a sentinel at a good level, not nats level, but ok level.
Sutecas is not bad, he does his job pretty well and we do not have that many controllers at brazil, so i would maintain him. But we need new flex/duelists on this team.
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