sen 2-1

fpx were fucking angry after losing map 1 huh

fair enough

was expecting it to be happy, but this is also interesting

i wouldn't call them by far the favorites, i think it's an even split between them, fpx, heretics

they've looked really fuckin good since adding trippy, kinda makes me wonder how much sentinels would improve with a coach

yeah, mixwell is cracked but his aim isn't what makes him so good

because xset are a better team than tsm lmao

spanish casters in pretty much every game are amazing

imo spanish, korean and french is the holy trinity of esports casting languages

that defuse was illegal dear god

for anyone that missed it: https://clips.twitch.tv/AnnoyingAveragePineappleChefFrank-EInW-PTFcMRGxXAU

astra seems super fucking cool, excited as hell to try her out

now pls yoru buffs

yeah otom's been liking yoru

i really like the idea of the agent, i just wish he was a bit more viable so we'd see him a bit more

his chances of qualifying aren't great but that doesn't mean he won't try

the OP literally listed the populations of those places as their main argument

brax-AZK-dicey-TenZ-POACH would be fun

he said he'd be open to return to competitive once LANs are a thing

and now masters reykjavik has been announced so he may return

i really wanna see jady

i'm an fpx fan but the dude is insanely good, and only 17 years old which is wild

did the math (took numbers from liquipedia)

the total worldwide prizepool for stage 1 is $985 789

HOWEVER

this is missing a few tournaments that don't yet have prize money listed on liquipedia, namely North America Masters 1 (we can sort of assume it's the same as EU, which would be $150 000, but it's not included in the math), Korea Masters 1, SEA Masters 1 and all 3 of the Japan Challengers prizepools (oddly enough, they have the Masters prizepool listed

so basically, around 1,1-1,2 mil worldwide for stage 1

no numbers for stage 2, 3 or champions yet

it should absolutely not be based off of the population of the region, that isn't a good argument

take LoL as an example, south korea has a population of 50 million, yet it was the strongest region for most of the games existance and still is the second strongest despite being smaller population-wise than almost all of the other regions (in fact, i believe out of the 12 regions in LoL south korea, despite having one of the biggest playerbases, has the second smallest population (smallest is oceania))

what it SHOULD be based off of imo is the size of the playerbase and the skill level of the teams (though this is hard to judge, obviously)

i think the best route would've probably been to have 2 spots for eu, 1 for russia 1 for turkey with 12 teams total. brazil, na and eu each getting 2 would be entirely fine, it's the fact that russia and turkey get lumped in that's the problem especially since the teams from those regions aren't likely to beat out the top of the top of eu, meaning they get no representation at all meanwhile teams from arguably weaker regions get a spot at masters

i don't have a problem with brazil having 2 seeds, but emea having only 2 is too little since it's 3 regions compressed into one

also, iceland is such a sick setting for a LAN event, it's kinda cool especially since it would never happen under most circumstances

super hyped for a lan event, but... why do south american teams get more total spots than emea? makes no sense

iirc that was the original plan, but they've reduced it down presumably because of covid