"all time" but let's conveniently ignore 2022 and also 2025
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"all time" but let's conveniently ignore 2022 and also 2025
Sick lineup. On paper, G2 Vit and EDG should be heavily favoured, but in such a small tournament with only 4 teams in the playoffs, feels like every team could go on a run and take it.
Feels like every region is sending much stronger contenders than in Madrid last year.
I'm not sure he'd be into it when the alternative is making content and potentially doing broadcast work. I do think he could be a great coach though.
Awesome analysis, badger252!
Hiro singlehandedly won them Fracture.
Really happy for kaajak, he's been getting a lot of shit. Hope this gives him some confidence and he can keep this up!
Jesus Christ
Nobody above silver takes headshot percentage (especially in a single map lmao) as a valuable metric to assess someone's skill.
My consistent goat
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.
Upsi
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
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