NA scenario formed by tier 2 players who failed at CSGO who got tired of being beaten by Brazilian teams, since LG and Immortals moved to their region in 2016 we get the most spots for all championships.
Underestimate our country that it will be delicious to see TenZ's tilt when they hear “Jumping double from Frozen” again
True, Brazil works miracles in any sport in the investment/achievement ratio, we almost have no money to do anything and we are always fighting over the heads because our people are very hardworking, obviously the EU will always tend to dominate and be the best region, that's where the money and has 4x the population of BR and many more teams
I genuinely think brazil has a bigger chance than Team liquid and less so against Fnatic. hear me out..
Vks- they have a SicK in the form of frz. that guy is insane on any agent I have seen him. when I watched him play Skye, perfect flashes. now phnx he is insane. This is a different vks , from picking yoru and finding 0 value out of it to now. Now I am actually convinced they are contenders for the title.
Think about this would liquid have qualified if kryptix and soulcas had not peaked at the right moment? which is more likely the other 3 in liquid playing insane or them playing bad? probably the latter one(history).
But on the other hand i think NA has a very good track record playing against aggressive teams, which is why everyone thinks brazil actually is, I don't think so I earlier thought vks was just a budget EU team but now they have actually shown some depth. i think they have good mid round ideas sick defense setups but the thing is I have never seen them against another tactically deep team which is my only reasoning why I just won't say brazil won't win it all. If the second-team si Furia 0 chance of beating NA or EU. if it was sharks could beat TL.(basically i am very biased against Liquid even though I love the org.)
I know how trash nuturn trust me I watch too much Korea due to my timezone
1-Sentinels
2-Fnatic
3-Team Vikings
4-Team Liquid
5-Version1
6-Furia/Sharks
7-KRU eSports
8-X10 eSports
9-Crazy Raccoons
10-Nuturn
I agree in parts with what you said, I just do not understand this fixation that many have for Sentinels, they played horrible games in this qualify with Sick and Dapr having to carry hard in most of them, they almost lost to T1 which is a team too bad, they took 2-0 from Andbox and BBS, do you really think they have a chance against VKS who only lost twice a year and at times that were worthless? Watching the games you notice how perfectly coordinated they are, there are not even silly mistakes, and I'm sure they classified themselves by hiding a lot, because I've seen games in which they brought much stranger compositions and stomped the game, I am very optimistic for the title, I can't see NA with all this strength, I think Sentinels has a lot of problems and that will be evident in Iceland.
Furia is the best team individually in Brazil, and they never lost to worse teams than them, it is very difficult to fight against Furia, I really think they can go far in the tournament, but for sure VKS will do better. If Sharks qualifies I think they can beat any team, they are very experienced players and they don't make silly mistakes, but I don't think they can win the championship.
Furia is individually good but when they go against utility heavy good teams, which is like every team in EU and V1 in NA particularly Astra, but one thing is they have been able to counter viper smh which is very unique, but I might be reading way too much. They do what they do the best, but very readable :).i don't think they have a chance
I'm just gonna talk about Asia slot because they're a wild card
In my opinion it's NU > X10 > CR
If CR still use Omen like they did in Japan Qualifier they don't stand a chances against other Asia Representative
Meanwhile i think NU stronger than X10 due to the fact that they don't drop a single map on KR Qualifier but X10 drop a single map on every opponent in SEA Qualifier
But if CR makes a surprise then i'm happy to be proven wrong
NU >>> CR > X10
NUTURN Is strong, they have peri & solo ( oldschool korean legends from cs 1.6 ) and 3 sick young talents ( Lakia, Suggest and allow )
CR won 2x times in a row Absolute Jupiter, they have munchkin from Overwatch and in my opnion 2 of the best young talents from JP ( zepher and Neth )
I dont know much about SEA region but I never seen anything from SEA at fps, only person I know is BnTeT who plays CSGO
FNC was running troll comps in that match (like triple duelist Split) and almost still won. BR might not be the best region or have the best way to play but I think that the pace of BR could surprise their opponents and ruin their play, leading to wins for BR even though they might not be as good. It's more a ranking of who will win rather than who is the best.
1 - Liquid
2 - VKS
3 - Sentinels
4 - Fnatic
5 - Sharks
6 - Nuturn
7 - Version1
8 - KRU
9 - Crazy Raccoon
10 - X10
It's hard to put the TOP4 in order and all of them can beat each other. Sharks won a map against VKS and other 2 was really close. Version1 just got stomped by SEN. I think VKS > SEN so Sharks > Version1. Nuturn has 3 excelent players from cs 1.6. KRU is a really good team. I didn't saw much of Crazy Raccoon and X10.
Off of backchat with Sacy and saadhak I am inclined to rate LATAM higher than I otherwise would. As such:
European teams are the most balanced with absurd talents at all roles and BR are the others that might qualify as having absurd talent across the board, with Sen/LATAM and V1 being behind those. As such I place those teams above the others. I also believe that EU’s way of playing the game is the best, with the caveat that BR and NA might be able to turn up the tempo enough to beat EU, but I generally think that the team play along with the skill will carry EU and BR to the win. KR could beat people with absurd team set plays but I don’t think skill matches up enough to mot have 3 players just get skill diffed regularly by any player on the top 7 teams.
Anyways this isn’t coherent as a result of mobile and lack of sleep, I might try and justify my points more in the near future but idk yet.
I agree, as Saadhak said, we know that Brazil is very talented and has a strong power with the rifle, but surely Europe and NA have greater investment and infrastructure and this can limit the evolution of our scenario, but I really think that Vikings is one of the favorites for the title, whoever thinks the opposite and does not study them properly will take stomp
Now I can rank:
1 - Fnatic
2 - Liquid
3 - Sentinels
4 - Vikings
5 - Kru
6 - V1
7 - Sharks
8 - Nuturn
9 - X10
10 - Crazy Racoon
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