That's not a bad thing, but those types of duelists need someone to do the 'dirty job' for them. Like EG era Jawgemo.
Without such a player, the game can become rather stiff and slow. I think that's one of the reasons for slow tempo of tier 2 Japanese games.

dude I didn't rank them, I just don't think they're on the same level just because they played one close game. And since the teams are so close and the rankings are relative, there could be a lot of teams between small differences. For me its hard to predict even who will go to the playoffs.

I haven't seen a Japanese duelist with the same aggressive and sacrificial playstyle as Dep. Meiy is too, but he demands a lot of init skill sitting. Most Japanese duelists are half-baiter style like Demon1, Saya, and meteor when he were duelists, and Syouta is one of them, so it would change the whole playstyle of the team.

SPG won not once, but twice, and in the final, despite so much tech pause and the world's most biased L crowd, they won. Persia said the crowd was so loud that SPG had to switch their Fade comp to Skye temporary measure on site.

DRX's “ruthless attrition” strategy feels right, and they will one day be able to build a team of five flashbacks. Maybe as soon as next year. With so much talent stacked up, dropping players who don't make a quick splash in Tier 1 is understandable.

Well, I don't know what the future holds, but the buyer is weirder than Riot selling the broadcast rights. If someone offered to buy you a rock for $100, why wouldn't you sell it?

Selling broadcasting rights at a fixed price is a good business. It's even better in regions where the value per viewership is low, like SEA.

gyen's ranked stats don't look very good. I'm not one to judge players by their ranked games, but since we don't have any yet, that's the only way to evaluate him.

I have no idea who gyen is, but jinboong and akame have a similar rating record to meiy in tier 2. ART is probably the best possible Japanese IGL,his game feedback is different from the typical japanese team's 'Nice try' culture.

It really has nothing to do with that, it's just a name that mobugi, the team's CEO, chose his favorite Spanish phrase Sin prisa pero sin pausa seemed to fit the players cuz they were very young.

What exactly does “Obvio cabron obvio” mean? SPG's Twitter account was all over the place. I thought they were spam accounts, but they were real fans of SPG.

Surprisingly it seems that there are quite a few Spanish speaking fans just by having funny Spanish names.

T1 literally burns through $10 mil a year on their LOL team. Even if they give their Valo players the best treatment in the industry, it's peanuts to them.

Gen.G also spent $7-8 mil this year on LOL, and they could spend as much as T1 for a year if they had to. However, they are not a large company owned org, so they tend to be extremely cold in their player evaluation.

Coach Solo was asked by a Korean commentator on commentators YouTube channel if he thinks all members of Gen.G will re-sign, and he replied, “Well... I'm not the one paying them,”

European dudes are less resistant to accepting sports teams with no or few homegrown players as your own.
(Nevertheless, in the case of LOL, rumor has it that In LEC, Teams has different sponsorship sizes when has French/Spanish players versus Eastern European/German players).
In Asia, on the other hand, nationality is much more important. No offense, This is not to say that they're all nationalists, but "Asia" is just a way of referring to a bunch of linguistically and culturally disconnected countries.

thx finally

Assuming that national teams are formed for asian games, indo seems a bit scarier because they have a lot of players with great careers and name value. If Thai players play well next year, things might change.

The pace of progress in SEA is impressive, but the gap is relative. You guys have to scour the countryside hoping boys with the fast click speed gene will show up to build your team, while we have large industrialized factories producing killing machines.

Brofeld is pretty good, It's strange that CGZ didn't qualify last season even with him, hyunmin, and DH.

this dude seems to be making the same mistake really repeatedly

Well, it's clear that jingg has a brainless playstyle, but at least he's quite good at neon.

jump peeking to see the operator and then dying with just plain dry peek with neon is literally awful.

I don't think ken is anything either, and also I think it's hilarious to discuss future potential of Import, but I just wonder if you'd say the same thing if he had a JP flag in front of his nickname lol

xccurate is likely to remain a streamer for T1. iZU said he's going to Japan with the T1 squad. His wrist injury hasn't healed yet, and T1 usually guarantees streamer contracts to players who declare a break.

Hellnah, of all the matches I've ever seen in my life, this is the most egregious example of the Japanese team's inability to attack. Not just this map, but all of maps 1 and 2. Something we haven't seen from Riddle.

The level of this game is far from high, and it's just dizzying because it's constantly going on. There's no tension at all.

Why?

If they didn't like the salary offered by the GENG, there's no way the DFM can catch them.

It can be argued that BME got what they shouldn't have gotten, but at least they didn't take SPG's place. SPG got what they deserved.

In fact, he was shunned by Japanese tier 2 teams due to his toxicity. However, Akame has always called Art a good igl, and I've also heard rumors that Jinboong is quite fond of Art. From a Korean perspective, he might not be seen as very toxic. Cultural differences.

Art is a good choice, I don't think he's any better at game calling than Stax, Munchkin, or even rookie Francis, but he has one very important advantage : You can't easily imagine a Japanese guy getting in someone's face and pointing out their problems directly. Art does.

From Riot's perspective, there's nothing strange about that, because starting next year, SEA will be one region. There will be no distinction between MYSG and INDO teams.

SPG has beaten BME twice. Not once. Anyone would be annoyed by this situation.

Giving both teams equal rights is odd. Riot arbitrarily removed Bleed's right to remain in Tier 1 for another year, so why not arbitrarily give someone an advantage? Riot should consider doing something like giving SPG priority in relegation defense.

If it was a real “super rich org,” Riot wouldn't have kicked them out. Can you imagine T1/GEN getting kicked out? BLD had severe stability issues and were reportedly judged before Champs.

I think the Duelist/Sentinel spot in APAC Tier 1 is full. He was one of the highest paid in the Pacific, so I don't think he's going to try to go to Tier 2. In his long career, he's already made a lot of money. If he doesn't get a satisfactory offer, maybe he will retire.

They've won 16 straight games since the current roster was assembled, never losing a game. Legendary run.

T1 can spend more money than all of your shitty SEA teams combined. Of course, that money is almost spent on completely useless things.

With the rumors of their wage arrears and their involvement in cryptocurrencies, they're probably not rich. Or maybe they were rich and then suddenly weren't anymore. Many crypto companies that invested in esports orgs during the esports boom during COVID have gone bust.

Or maybe their asset prices will go up again and they won't have any problems with their finances.

Did you know that Tier 1 Korean teams are bigger than NA org? T1 and GEN literally pour $10 mil into their League of Legends teams every year. DRX is considered a relatively small organization, but in 2022 they spent over $5M. They will spend for valo very much less, but they're big enough.

1 SEA viewer is not worth the same as 1 East asian viewer.

He had only one day and prepared a ton of countermeasures to SPG's rush tactics. SPG had a slightly better trade kill ratio throughout the match, but BOOM had a lot more first kills.

Why not SPG

So funny coming from the asshole who bash SPG more than anyone else, lol

The only variable is the roar of the crowd. The two teams are not one level apart, but two or three or more levels apart.

At this level of practice, RID should have banned Abyss the first time. The other maps are more playable.

BME is definitely much more prepared in Abyss.

Well, they're just afraid of Abyss, but we don't know if they actually suck. BOOM has a record of 2-1 (1-1 for AE) and FS has 1-2. RDL hasn't played once.

There hasn't been a single Abyss match at APAC Ascension. it's been banned from every match because no team wants it.

On the other hand SPG is really good on Abyss. They've played 3 set on Abyss in the playoffs alone and won 3. 2 times against NS and 1 time against DK. Even in this Ascension, they haven't banned Abyss single time. They just forced their opponents to ban that map.

Welcome, BLD grumble.

Well bro, after all massive shitposting, I'm going to run away when my team loses too, but usually we don't lose as much as the Indians.