just when you'd think it couldn't get any worse

ngl if I was any of those players I would just be happy to get a spot in tier 1 at all, given their reputations after their last team(s)

ill be honest, I haven't heard of sylvan before, is he like the next Karon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3fxPulAuo4

they cooked so hard with this move

I think Chet and especially FNS are unlikely but the other 4 are possible.
But the thing is I think all 4 is unlikely, I'd assume they want to continue with at least some of the talent they picked up this year

https://x.com/chetsingh/status/1844921204362314222

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7RmLrAlqCs

oh wait it ended
icl I paused it and just started watching netflix 😭😭😭

add FNS getting diffed by sagemommy to the list 😭😭😭

I don't have that kinda patience 😭😭😭
oh well

https://i.imgur.com/usluXPv.png

only made it in like 2 seconds so maybe made some oversights

ngl the post about servers made me curious, I already have an NA account at level 11, how long would it take to get it to LVL 20 so I can play ranked?

I'm not saying it's the only thing holding you back necessarily, but given you've played 80+ matches I can defo say you can work on your mechanics, so that's what I would make my first priority.
imo you could theoretically throw every other round but if you have good aim and movement at least half the time you can hit gold/plat if you leave a large enough sample size (i.e. if you play enough, which I think you do). It's good to hear you say that you think you're mechanics are better than they were before, in that case just keep on working on them and you should be good.

I knew from your second post (I didn't see the first)

not very secret now are you

play rb's 1hp clutch at max volume, I'm sure they're going to stop in awe

EG is his best bet I think

95??? wow are you in AB or smth

Yeah I'll admit it's a luxury and I completely get it if I seem spoiled by that take. I'm lucky enough to get 10 ping on London 15 ping on Paris and 25 on Frankfurt

https://i.imgur.com/94Tklke.png
thats my ping to NA, I've heard some people from EU queue to radiant on NA servers simply cuz of how toxic people are in EU, so I might try play comp eventually

this is the realest take on SEN I've seen

maybe it's a grass is greener on the other side type of thing, but I really want to try US servers (with low ping, anything past 30 is completely unplayable for me since I'm not used to it). Clear comms, chiller attitude. It feels like in EU if you don't constantly read the minds of your teammates you'll piss someone off, I swear 90% of the time you can just be doing your own thing playing your site and someone just randomly picks a fight with you because they died on the other side of the map pushing for no reason.

I mean this is a tradeoff you just have to make with any roster that has great players, you can only have one perma duelist. Demon1 is still gonna have his aim if he moves to primarily smokes. Demon1 has already shown a lot of promise on the smokes role. You don't have to look far to see mechanically talented players doing well on smokes (TenZ)

Also as #6 mentioned, Demon1 is great but I think his style is fundamentally mismatched with Neon and Raze

aspas leaving isn't confirmed yet, so I'd hold out hope until there's at least a substantiated rumour indicating that he's going somewhere else

crazyguy, he dragged my goat yay in to some beef that had nothing to do with him (allegedly)

I think LEV has the potential either way, and I am taking the bet that Sayf IGL will end up working in my pred (The odds are against him but if he lets his ego go I think he could defo do it), but yeah if they keep cender I would be a lot more confident in my pred

I can't believe our species used to go out and hunt animals with sticks and stones to stay alive

T1 is cooking this off season I think they'll defo have a great year

imo: LEV vs VIT
say it now and let's see if anyone gets it right when the time comes

don't let this distract you from KOI demon1 guys

Aspas likely stays imo, best option for the team and him (now that BLD has fallen through)

yeah xeus is verbal with FUT I believe

No one can, but no one can say they wouldn't've either. imo they would've gotten first seed in that group, meaning they would've been in a better position than liquid when it came to playoffs. Liquid ended up going home 0-2 in playoffs

If they won that 4th map against Liquid in LCQ they could've went on to make a run at Champs, they were looking real good during that LCQ. A deep run at champs would've probably meant they survived in one form or another. 😭😭

I would've liked cender since he was an igl, but kicks is still a decent player, he's not bad at all but on paper he will defo be outshined by the others imo

(please happen 🙏😭)
(even better bring in El Diablo too🙏)

oh shit I didn't even think of that, yeah that makes sense
hopefully Leo is doing better by the start of the season

Interesting, I wonder why they can't get kaajak yet

Before rumours were for M8 but I think that's no longer possible, I've also seen him linked to APK so I think that's most likely atp

This is a very good analysis, I think it also explains why EMEA really felt left behind this year (EMEA's style has historically been to play slow take info and play over controlled space), the only team which really didn't as much was heretics, they leaned way more into the 'pug style' than any other EMEA team and thus they were the only EMEA team to do well this year. The only teams that managed to pull off the old style was G2 and Champs Fnatic imo, but both fell short eventually.

Yeah I saw this too, I think it sums it up pretty well. I always disagreed with people when they said his raw aim was completely bad this year, but at the same time you can only say 'he's the IGL' up to a certain extent when looking at his performances.
I want to see him put himself in to more pivotal situations, sure at first it might not look good, but as time goes on hopefully he will gain experience and become more comfortable.

im eating all your fish

the name of the event is kind of ironic no

just for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xWJ0FSgJVE

honestly I don't see him that much, maybe like maybe 1 in 3 games?

damn

I would've fw this but nAts seems super happy on liquid... for some reason. So I couldn't see him leaving, even if it were to join fnatic.

I get they might've wanted a different style, but at that point I'd play around with the roles before doing something as drastic as cutting him. It seemed like alfa was more than willing to play duelist if asked to. Afaik Derke is open to learning new agents, he did it for Yoru and I'd expect him to be able to do it with Neon too.

Honestly the main explanation I can think of is: money. I have no idea what the original source is but I saw in a spreadsheet that FNC was having some severe financial issues, and maybe that meant a pay cut for Derke. If the leak about their financial issues is true, imo this is the most likely explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuB2NeKL7NI&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F

I still don't know why Derke was dropped. There's no bad blood between him and the players (at least publicly), and the players/mini have alluded to it being a management decision and not Derke (this could be wrong though). The only plausible explanation is that this was decided long before the end of the season, but even then I don't get why they would make the decision.

But... I would be lying if I still didn't think he was a downgrade from Derke, at least in the short term.
I really hope he can prove me wrong so I can eat my words but on paper those are my honest thoughts.

imo he proved him self this year, I think he's capable of holding his own on this roster