So EG get the freest group in Champions history, NRG get FNC and two bottom feeders, which is free as hell even if they lose to FNC, and Loud get DRX and NAVI (who were actually decent at Champs, hell even TL clear Zeta/Billy Billy and all the teams in EG's group).

Optic at Reykjavík had KRÜ and Xerxia in their group. In Copenhagen, it was KRÜ again and Guild (with Koldamenta and Russ btw). At Champs it was Boom and Zeta. Sure they lost to some mid ass teams but those groups couldn't possibly get any freer.

Now there are three NA teams in a four team bracket with a 50/50 draw and some people call it rigged because the wrong two NA teams are playing against each other? Actual schizophrenia.

NRG will be SENt home unfortunately

In contrast to NRG of course, who were very consistent in 2023

They just did the exact opposite of last year. Instead of signing washed up ex-CS stars, they signed promising tier 2 players and actually tried to build a coherent team with a clear philosophy, no egos, and also a good caoch.

Mistic was the free agent from EMEA with the most international experience by far, both Enzo and he are definitely more expensive than players like marteen/tomaszy or miniboo

I feel like unless they make a run at one of the international tournaments, Emil is definitely getting nervous up there. But we'll see how this year goes for TL

I'm Sayf's cousin and work in a data center in Qatar. I can confirm that Mohamed Salah paid me many, many moneys to make Kmao's PC go stinky mode (that's what we call it in the biz)

Average Bri*ish "person" when he sees more than 3 sentences at once (that's more than he has ever written in his life so it must be chatgpt)

This is considered a good scoreline for an NA smurf

Right, and I'm the delusional one

Losing to a bad team is more embarrassing than losing to a good team. What's delusional about that?

Calling your opponents shit after losing to them is just dumb.

Remember, every time Bilibili loses, NRG's 0-4 only becomes more embarrassing

No point guessing before the bracket is drawn since there's a 50% chance NRG play Loud if SEN or MIBR win play-ins (etc)

After watching the past few EU matches, I had lost all hope that EU could be competitive internationally this year, but Cloud9 revitalised me. vanity always has my back

-zin is just an informal diminuitive, no? So "Cauanzin" just means something like "Lil Cauan"

N4rrate couldn't do this in NA because he didn't have a squad of 4 cracked EMEA players around him.

skill issue

cNed doesn't play for KC unfortunately

Try holding mouse1 and moving right (like you're selecting text), it works for me. Definitely not the intended way to scroll, but it does work

Edit: Shift + scrollwheel should also work. But you gotta click on the table first

Thanks for the impressions

This is vlr dot gg dude, impressions aren't just worthless, they're embarrassing

When PRX got Monyet, we said obviously he won't replace jinggg 1:1, nobody can, but he'll be more flexible. And now they just put him on Raze only anyway? I don't know about that.

Well played by Gen.G though

Because prior to 2023 they thought this calendar was a good idea (they gave their reasons for it), and because they plan these schedules a long time ahead, they couldn't change the 2024 calendar in time (specifically, changing the calendar would mean re-negotiating every single advertising contract. they sell advertising slots for specific dates and times, so it's quite inflexible). Major format changes in global sports always take at least 2 years before they respond to feedback.

Like I agree the schedule is shit, but it was clearly planned before 2023 and before they received negative community feedback.

My bad bro, gotta do what you gotta do for those upvotes

Bro just support the teams you like and if they don't win, move on with your day.

Can't believe GE put S3xture on an off role do Botssi can play duelist

75-35 💀

Yeah because 100T didn't play a team comp with 18 flashes

He was saying he's laughing all the way to the moon rn

His Gekko kinda clean, no?

Does he need to? Can Demon1 play any duelist other than Jett?

Yeah but it's a new IGL, we don't know what their Bind looks like. FNS calling was absolutely critical for their success on Bind.

And even last year, NRG wasn't great on Bind, they lost a lot of Bind games.

Bind is their best map

Bro knows something we don't

michaelisupsetisupset

Top 4 in NA maybe, but not in Americas

Keiko > Sayf

Yeah, the reason being Guild and Gambit weren't accepted into franchising.

Two time thing, actually

no it's bo3 unfortunately

I didn't watch much of Champs because of time zones, but the attack half on Split against EDG (the game they barely managed to win in OT) was just such an IGL diff, he outcalled EDG so hard in that game. Still got close because EDG's attack was also pretty good but Redgar could never

D3ffo also went crazy on LAN and saved them a lot of attack rounds tbh (like the knives ace against 100T on Ascent)

TH Madrid home crowd buff incoming?

Wait he can play in Madrid already?? Holy, imagine TH in front of home crowd, would go hard

https://www.vlr.gg/173223/team-heretics-vs-karmine-corp-champions-tour-2023-emea-league-w1

https://www.vlr.gg/183947/team-liquid-vs-karmine-corp-champions-tour-2023-emea-league-w2

https://www.vlr.gg/183953/team-vitality-vs-karmine-corp-champions-tour-2023-emea-league-w3

I think they meant a team with a full Korean roster. T1 is Korean, but not all of the players are.

Nah, T1 clears because they have 6 players (Rossy is twice as tall as everyone in Asia)

I feel like it was always gonna be random and they just communicated it poorly

What happened moatz? Is it because you're a diehard EU fan?

I think in the middle of the EMEA qualifiers for Berlin 2021

lol i didn't even look at that, i was just looking at the patch

yeah for sure, he was definitely a good jett back in the days