Getting worked up over a casual off season pug with not even established teams, but mixed rosters who probably never practiced together is crazy ngl.
Bro's gonna die of a heart attack before he's 30
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Getting worked up over a casual off season pug with not even established teams, but mixed rosters who probably never practiced together is crazy ngl.
Bro's gonna die of a heart attack before he's 30
So once again different rules between the regions? In EMEA there was no such rule concerning the ascension teams. Weird.
Agent black my goat
It really feels like that's Bonkar's impact. Bonkar used to be a Sova/Breach main when he still played for the Swedish Guild roster, he knows how to play Sova.
With how Leo and Verno are looking specifically on Bonkar's main agents, both after having worked with him for such a long time, idk. Not to take anything away from either of them, I'm sure they would both have turned out to be insane players even without Bonkar, but they have quite similar strengths and just make very few mistakes.
Victor? His senti on NRG has always been very good
"bottom 15" bro did NOT pay attention in primary school math classes
"The decision was made unanimously by our players and coaches on the team"
I get that team chemistry is important, but it's important because it helps you win, not the other way around. These are professionals who are getting paid to win games; if winning means being uncomfortable because your IGL is criticising you, maybe suck it up or find a different job.
Not a good look on the team imo. No wonder this org has never been successful if they make decisions based on players' feelings and only hire their besties.
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Much needed update to the points system. We'll see how it plays out but I think it looks much better than last year.
Tier 2 isn't really sustainable on its own, not just for orgs but for players as well. It's only worth it if you see a clear path into tier 1.
For someone like blazek1ng, he'd need to massively improve to make the jump back. Not because he's not good enough for tier 1 per se, but the skill floor is increasing every year, orgs will always prefer younger players. He'd need to massively stand out from a large crowd of insanely talented and hungry tier 2 prospects.
Realistically he's not making it back, and I honestly think retiring is the wisest career choice.
They benched him, but he was stil under contract
Leosen 78% headshot rate, my goat. We're making it to Champs with this one
It's literally just the 4 non-damaging assists. He actually had so little impact you can compute the ACS in your head (non-damaging assist gives 25 CS, so 100 total, divided by 14 is roughly 7). Zero bullets hit.
What do you mean what's the point, do you expect them to just pull up with four players or what?
As a passionate EU fan I have to admit that this roster easily clears my entire region. They could win a 5v60 against all EMEA teams combined
Tex and Demon1 are both Americans and it would be silly to call them EU players. Johnqt played in EMEA though before moving to NA.
Blud needs to retire
Because it's literally just a bunch of friends having fun
I thought the rule that requires teams to have a sixth man was lifted after the first year of partnership? Or am I tripping?
FNC released kamyk with no replacement after 2023 for example
G2 sending this team to the tournament is absolutely vile
Who cares about 2024, stop living in the past
"Failure to comply with critical reporting requirements" makes it sound like it could be something like shady gambling sponsorships/investments that they did not properly disclose to Riot.
Yeah I can read, big daddy
Last year they were invited though. This might be (idk if true) the first time they actively qualified for an event
Least defender sided Ascent match
Yeah they had the chance to either release the duelist, or the IGL, and apparently chose the IGL.
We saw how that went for JDG.
He was on Neon on Sunset and it already started to decline tbf
Did you have to choose 60 as a threshold because otherwise you couldn't have passed it yourself?
When a team plays differently on two different days against two different opponents, has to be matchfixing
Unlucky for Magnum, seems like they were willing to run it back, but of course you can't pass up on someone like Saadhak.
I would have been curious to see if he could have improved at midrounding.
Hey in EMEA it was the same story and this time Apeks did actually end up winning.
I would be titled as fuck too if my teammate violated the rules of the game, costing us a win. It's also not that hard to just simply not use illegal tech though. Most other teams managed.
How does this affect TSM's legacy though
Yeah, he had a problem with Sacy's style of leadership. Less said he had a lot of anxiety in 2022 and partly attributed it to the way Sacy talked to him. He called it "toxic", I assume it was about Sacy being very blunt/harsh with calling out mistakes.
There's no bad blood between them on a personal level though and I have never heard of Less having problems with anyone else in the team.
Two world champions and the keloqz of Americas
Salaried??? Isn't this a random 5 stack in an open qualifier? This does not look like an org
I just think as an org right now I would overall value crashies lower than eeiu or Verno. Of course he has a lot of experience, which can be very valuable for certain teams, and he has shown insane peaks during his time with Optic, and there is some hope that he could return to that form.
But honestly, with how every single Optic player has looked in VCT in the partnership era, I'm not sure just how much hope that could be. Maybe it was just a case of worked great as a team, but the individuals just are not world class outside of that system.
Crashies hasn't shown world class performances in two years. There were some flashes, but that's just not good enough, especially since the one thing you typically expect from experienced veterans is consistency.
Eeiu has had one year in tier 1 and at least in my opinion has been a top 5 initiator in his region. Both he and Verno have clear upwards trajectories, and just don't have that baggage of two mediocre years in the current VCT system.
Of course crashies, across his career, has been the better player, but many players looked like the best in the world once and are now mediocre at best (cned, zeek, yay, marved, all of navi, etc). With how this year has been going, I'm taking promising tier 2 talent any day of the week.
I'm not saying crashies is bad, but calling eeiu a t2 player while he was performing well on a team placing 4th at a masters event is insane.
Also sorry but saying 100T's run was a fluke because they lost one match to KRÜ and simultaneously arguing that NRG was actually good and it was "a combination of things" is wild.
Eeiu was better than crashies this year. You're free to believe crashies still has more potential for next year. But eeiu was the 5th highest rated player in Americas stage 2, while crashies barely beat out Xeppaa by 0.01 rating points.
Calling eeiu a t2 player while praising crashies after watching this year of valorant is so far beyond delusional it's not even funny.
Scary to think that CGN might somehow win ascension and we might see Benny one trick Phoenix in VCT. May God have mercy on us all.
In what world is eeiu a T2 player? He actually made a LAN this year, unlike crashies.
It's easy to shake off a 13-2, 13-6 loss. There's zero stress involved. Stress is a factor in cognitive performance.
Are you seriously trying to say that when you're stressed you play the exact same way as when you're relaxed?
Just look at football teams that play in the Champions League during the week, beat the best teams in Europe, to then get shit on by some bottom table team the weekend after. Super common.
Like, nobody's saying the win is not deserved or anything, of course TU played better than Mouz in this game, nobody's denying that. But acting like circumstances have zero effect on game results is just dumb. Otherwise there would never be any upsets. Pressure, stress, mental, it's all part of the game, and if you can't handle it, you don't deserve to win; but acting like it doesn't exist is just weird.
EMEA is finished if EMEA tier 2 team loses against EMEA tier 2 team. If on the other hand EMEA tier 2 team wins against EMEA tier 2 team, there's hope for EMEA.
Huh? Of course teams' form fluctuates based on certain circumstances. Kinda dumb to pretend that playing a very long and stressful game won't have an impact on the players. Happens everywhere in physical sports, in chess, in esports.
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